Chi Ossé, a rising star on the New York City Council, filed to run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in Brooklyn, putting a progressive challenger squarely in the path of one of the Democratic Party’s top national figures and highlighting simmering ideological and generational divides in the party.

“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 said in a statement to Axios. “These failures are some of the many reasons why I am currently exploring a potential run for New York’s 8th Congressional District.”

The 27-year-old represents New York City’s 36th District, which includes North Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant.

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