Hakeem Jeffries still retains approval after meeting Zohran Mamdani

After meeting the leader of the mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, the chief of the minority, the representative Hakeem Jeffries, Dn.y., published a lukewarm declaration through a spokesman for the meeting and did not approve the candidate of his party.

Mamdani, an assembly of New York State and self-proclaimed socialist who promised to revise New York and launch new massive government programs, was approved by progressive politicians such as representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Dn.y., and Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT.

Although he won the Democratic Party’s appointment to former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo by a large margin, Mamdani has not yet been approved by the main party leaders, Jeffries and Senator Chuck Schumer, Dn.Y.

Jeffries and Mamdani met in New York for about an hour on Friday.

After the meeting, the journalist of Politico Nicholas Wu published a declaration Jeffries spokesperson, Justin Chermol, who called him “constructive” but included any mention of approval.

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Zohran Mamdani, on the left, arises for the mayor of New York. The chief of the Hakeem Jeffries room is on the right. (Kyle Mazza / Anadolu; Kevin Dietsch)

Chermol said that “the meeting between the leader Jeffries and the deputy Mamdani was constructive, candid and community focused, with a particular accent on affordability.

“The leader Jeffries and the deputy Mamdani discussed a variety of other important questions, including public security, the increase in anti -Semitism, the gentrification and the importance of resuming the house in 2026.”

According to Chermol’s declaration, the two “agreed to convert soon, alongside other members of the delegation of the New York Congress and some high -level community leaders”.

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The Democratic candidate at town hall Zohran Mamdani speaks during a rally at the headquarters of the hotel and game trades in New York on July 2, 2025. (AP photo / Richard Drew)

Mamdani is considered by many to be a controversial candidate, partly because of his socialist policy proposals and his strong criticisms of the State of Israel. Mamdani, who is Muslim, refused to say if Israel has the right to exist as a Jewish state and his initial refusal to condemn the expression “globalize the intifada”. However, he recently began to distance himself from the sentence.

Jeffries told journalists on Thursday, “as was the case with each high -level approval decision that I have made in the past, I have a conversation seated, then I take it from there.”

The meeting with Jeffries comes after Mamdani’s recent visit to Washington, DC, where he attended a breakfast organized by Ocasio-Cortez and got involved in some of the most powerful players in the party. Since then, he has obtained the representative’s approval. Ro KhannaD-Calif., Who is a classification member of the Armed Services Committee of the Chamber.

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The candidates for the town hall of New York Zohran Mamdani, Eric Adams, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa. (Getty Images)

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Mamdani presents himself to dislodge the current mayor of New York, Eric Adams, who presents himself to a re -election as an independence. He also faces Cuomo, who presents himself as an independent, and the activist Curtis Sliwa, who is the candidate of the Republican Party.

Rachel Wolf of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.