Some of Mamdani’s far-left allies want to primary Hakeem Jeffries and other NYC Democrats

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/politics/hakeem-jeffries-zohran-mamdani-democrats-primaries

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  3. “Far-left”, duck CNN!

    This is the type of mainstream propaganda that has completely destroyed an integrity of news agencies. While the far-right has taken over and enacts actual fascist agendas with the help of billionaires, the big medias agencies like CNN start calling people who identify as “democratic socialists” as “far-left”. The false equivalence is sickening.

    There’s very little actual radicalism in the left of America. Utilizing democracy to advocate for BASIC social policy, like healthcare for all (something most other major countries have), is not “far” anything.

    Meanwhile, those on the right have attempted to assassinate the president multiple times. HAVE successfully assassinated Democrat leaders and their families, along with some more failed attempts. Actively build military and policing to forcibly enact their dehumanizing agendas, while also ignoring court orders to stop. While wearing masks and failing to identify, etc, etc.

  4. Primaries are how we exercise democracy. It makes it harder for lobbies to get settled in. More places the lobby has to diffuse money too. Some of Jeffries conservative neoliberal friends hate them

  5. As a matter of policy, I don’t agree with everything Mamdani says or stands for, but as a matter of shifting narratives and empowering the majority of Americans, outside of AOC and Bernie he’s the only one to do it with any clout.

    If the democratic establishment would rather implode than take on Trump over Mamdani they need to be voted out with great prejudice. 

    It’s insane that they’re letting these assholes speedrun fascism because they’re offended by someone who speaks common sense within their OWN PARTY.

  7. Far left how? Just because moderates are shifting far right doesn’t make any American progressive far left. If anything it makes them actually center left. 

  9. Life-long, straight-ticket Democratic voter here. I guess wanting candidates who aren’t useless, corporate-owned losers makes me “far left.”

    P.S. Liberals need to wake up and realize that corporate-owned media entities like CNN and the NYT are not their side. You can be informed without giving these Republican psy-ops your attention.

  10. “We need a manhattan project to find the left’s answer to Joe Rogan! Also, we’re existentially terrified of the mildest social democrats endorsed by podcasters like Nick Mullen!”

    Yeah, primary them all.

  12. Cool, do it. MAGA did this exact thing. There’s a reason that the Republicans have the younger more active and energetic party (not counting the corpse they have as president). After they were crushed two elections in a row by someone their base thought should have been barred from ever running because he was black they primaried everyone who wasn’t the most extreme version of the party.

    Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t but even when it didn’t work it scared the incumbents so much they bowed to the right to avoid having it happen again. A big issue with the left is that everyone recognizes we have too many old out-of-touch politicians unable to respond to their base but so few people actually get involved in politics at all and fewer vote.

    Every seat should be primaried. Run every Millennial and Gen Z person you can find and convince to run for something. Even if it’s just the head of the school board. Things will never change if the only thing people do is sit around and complain on social media and occasionally go to a protest with a goofy sign and a bad attitude.

    Yes there will be push back and yes the people in those positions will fight like hell to keep their cushy 6 figure jobs where they get to eat steak and work less than 100 days a year, but they’re unpopular enough that they’ll likely lose as often as they win and those who win will be aware that they can’t get by on just sitting around and coasting on name recognition and local papers endorsing them.

  14. Why are we ever ok with non-contested primaries?

    That’s how you introduce new people and ideas. Doesn’t mean the challenger should always win, but that’s the best way to get more people involved.

  15. Fuck yes!!! Get rid of them and send a message to the DNC. David Hogg was right. If you aren’t fighting for us, then get out of our way.

  17. Jeffries is an insufferable coward and needs to be primaried. Absolutely terrible leader. We can not be lead by AIPAC puppets if we want any chance to defeat republicans

  20. it’s ironic that the same sort of policies that FDR ran on are now considered “far left”.

    fuck this timeline.

  22. I was wondering when someone was going to try and primary Jeffries. And as you can see, this comment proves that even I’m fed up with the Dem leadership and the establishment in general. It’s just that despite the party’s flaws, they still warned us about the fascism if Trump were to win, so it isn’t fair to hold them responsible for why we’ve gotten here. And the evidence can’t get any more crystal clear that the Supreme Court is far more responsible than the Dems for why we’re in this mess.

  24. Good. We need accountability on the left. If that means accountability through fear of being primaried, well, I’ll take it. Then we can begin to fight for accountability on the right.

  26. EVERY democratic politician in leadership should be primaried. They have let us down too many times.

  27. while i love the pearl-clutching framing from cnn as though anything even a bit to the left of feckless centrism is scary “fAr LeFt,” please do. jeffries has all the charisma of moldy styrofoam and is just a pelosi cutout completely beholden to monied interests. to say he’s ineffectual as a leader is to say that trump is merely a bad president.

  28. Yeah, and they should be primaried. They also share some of the blame of why we have Trump 2.0.

  29. Far-left? Lemme know when we’re putting CEOs in prison, until then learn how words work.

  30. > “Far-left”

    CNN is Fox News. CNN is Fox News. CNN is Fox News. CNN is Fox News. CNN is Fox News. CNN is Fox News. CNN is Fox News.

  31. People realizing – wait
    So I can pay taxes and have free busses

    I can pay taxes and have affordable child care

    I can pay taxes and have stable rent??

    Take good long look at who thinks this is bad.

  32. Free buses and wanting Israel to stop killing everyone makes you far left now?

  33. Click bait bullshit.

    ‘Far left’ like he’s a fucking communist. Idiotic. Do better CNN

  34. “Far Left” to refer to Mamdani’s platform is fucking insane and honestly just shows how far right the Democrats and the liberal propaganda machine are willing to move just to appease their billionaire owners. The leash is getting tighter.

  35. Mamdani isn’t far left. Calling people like Bernie and Mamdani far left is part of what got you in this mess.

  38. Don’t threaten me with a good time CNN. Also like 60% of democrats want new leadership. So don’t try to frame this as just a “far left” thing

  39. Please primary every spineless democrat who let Trump get away with a single policy.

  41. “far left”? He’s just actually left, not mild right like 90% of the democrats

  42. “Far left” meaning mainstream in Europe and Scandinavia. LOL.

  43. The Overton window in this country is fucked.

    Imagine wanting to actually fucking HELP TAX PAYERS AND NOT BILLIONAIRES

    Is far left radical

    Fuck this country.

  44. 1) they’re left, not far left

    2) they should do this to every Democrat that stands for the status quo

  45. Nobody gonna mention the “far left” in the title? He’s just solidly Left. No Far about it.

    If CNN was around during the OG workers rights issues, they’d call the concept of a weekend Far Left.

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