Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer declined to explain why he has so far refused to endorse Zohran Mamdani , who resoundingly beat former Gov. Andrew Cuomo to become the Democratic candidate for New York City mayor.

“I know him. We have had a good relationship in the past. And we had a good meeting two weeks ago, a very long meeting with a lot of serious questions,” Schumer said Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union . “All I can tell you is, I’m going to continue talking to him.”

“What’s the holdup?” anchor Dana Bash asked the senator.

“I got to continue talking to him, and that’s what I’m going to do,” Schumer said, declining to say anything more. That has been Schumer’s running line in recent weeks when it comes to Mamdani.

"All I can tell you is I'm going to continue talking to

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