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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer choosing to endorse New York City Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani at this stage in the race would demonstrate "weakness," Democratic commentator Kavian Shroff told Fox News Digital.

With less than two weeks until Election Day, the New York Democrats have yet to endorse Mamdani's mayoral campaign, despite the self-identified democratic socialist securing the party's nomination over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in June.

"It would show a level of weakness that they were bullied into this endorsement," Shroff said in an exclusive interview, arguing that Jeffries and Schumer endorsing now would no longer move the needle and backfire on more moderate c

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