Brooklyn City Council Member Chi Ossé, who recently joined the Democratic Socialists of America, has filed to challenge Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in next year's primary election.

The news comes after Ossé neither confirmed nor denied last month that he was weighing trying to unseat Jeffries from the left. At the time, Ossé said it would "take a very dire situation in order for me to even consider spending the rest of my 20s in DC.”

However, on Monday, he said, "It seems like we’re in a dire situation," in a social media post that appeared to confirm his decision to run.

"The Democratic Party's leadership is not only failing to effectively fight back against Donald Trump, they have also failed to deliver a vision that we can all believe in," Ossé told Axios in a st

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