House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) says New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is going to have to smooth things over with congressional Democrats after backing several progressive candidates who ousted incumbents during Tuesday’s primary elections.

Asked if Mamdani’s endorsements were making him “enemies” with Democrats in Washington, D.C., Jeffries told CNN that he and Mamdani “strongly” disagreed over his primary picks ahead of Election Day.

Now, according to Jeffries, the mayor has serious “work to do in terms of the conversations that he’s going to have with members of Congress moving forward.”

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    Oh where’s that big tent at guys?

    Well, its right here in my pants after seeing those awesome primary results.

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    Maybe it’s Jeffries who has some serious work to do in terms of the conversations that he’s going to have with American voters moving forwards.

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    I just wrote letters to both Jeffries and Schumer telling both of them to throw their full support behind the candidates who won or resign

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      Most likely, it won’t do much; a drop in a bucket.

      But enough drops can fill a bucket, and enough letters can at least bog down their mail handlers, send a message and hopefully get on their nerves.

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    Is Jeffries getting whitening therapy or has he just been dead long enough for that pastiness to set in?

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    “work to do in terms of the conversations that he’s going to have with members of Congress moving forward.”

    Hilarious that he’s so worked up about a fucking mayor… Like what is Congress going to do to a mayor if he doesn’t want to talk to congressional members?

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      I’d argue that Jeffries is the exact opposite of a DINO. He’s literally the minority leader. He is exactly what establishment democrats want. And that is the problem. He’s not a DINO, because he’s literally the face of the party. Democrats are simply too far right. And Mamdani is doing his best to drag the Overton window back to the left, even with the establishment democrats kicking and screaming.

      But also, Mamdani wasn’t born in the US, and is therefore unable to run for president. Nor could he be in any seat that is in the chain of succession for the spot of POTUS. So for instance, he couldn’t be VP, the speaker, any of the presidential cabinet members, etc… Because all of those are potential future presidents, so allowing him to be in one of those spots would cause a constitutional crisis if he is the only one remaining and is ineligible.

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        I don’t think the rules of succession state he can’t be speaker of the house. If it came to it he would be skipped over for the next in line

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          According to The Constitution we should have been having a Constitutional Convention every few years (3 years? 4? 5? 6? Who knows) so maybe we should make up for lost time.

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        We have a rapist in office, who is almost certainly a Russian asset. Why should the rules selectively apply to Mamdani?

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        That’s not the bar. You have to be a natural US citizen. You can be born outside of the US with US parents and you would be a natural citizen. Ted Cruz was allowed to run despite being born in Canada because his parents were US citizens. It’s just one of the many reasons the whole Obama birth certificate thing was stupid. Even if he was born in Kenya he still would have been eligible because is mom is a US citizen.

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          You can be a natural-born citizen if you’re born in another country to parents who are US citizens. Mamdani’s parents weren’t US citizens, he wasn’t born in the US, and he is not a natural-born citizen. He is a naturalized citizen, which is a different thing, and he is ineligible to run for president under the current US Constitution (which I guess technically still exists?)

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    Welcome to actual democracy, fuck face. Jeffries is an embarrassment. You want your shitty candidates to win? Put up better candidates. Mamdani isn’t a congressional rep. He can do whatever the fuck he wants and Jefferies can cry about it to Israel, his true ally.

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    DNC leadership is pathetic. They have the most popular political leader in the country standing right alongside them and they can’t even support the guy, all because they lack the spine to tell their Israeli paylords to suck nut. Fucking corpo leech cowards.

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      They’re not cowards. They know exactly what they’re doing. Mamdani doesn’t play ball with their established process. He is a threat to their paychecks and control. Mamdani just indicated to all of them “You might be the next one to lose your job if I decide I want someone else in your district”.

      They are not cowards. They are strategists prioritizing their own wants above that of the voters and human decency

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        They are strategists prioritizing their own wants above that of the voters and human decency

        Right, that’s what we said. Cowards.

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          you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means

          Greed and selfishness aren’t a form of cowardice, as far as I’m aware? To be cowardly, there must be a thing you are afraid of, the fear of which is preventing you from doing something you want or feel that you need to do

          Don’t let them off with just being scared. They’re selfish and amoral

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              No, it’s really not, and you give them too much credit by saying that.

              Greed for these people is about having the biggest dick in the room. It’s about superiority and “winning”.

              It’s far more distasteful than fear

              EDIT: And furthermore, having fear doesn’t make you a coward. Cowardice is, again, when there is something you want or think you should do but you refuse due to fear of something.

              They just want to be rich. Even if it’s fear of poverty, that’s not cowardice.

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    he has to apologize for being aligned with what voters want? isn’t that, as political scientists call it, the whole fucking point of democracy?

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      You of course know that america isn’t really a democracy. It’s a republic by design. And of course what it is in reality is a whole nuther something.