Our Revolution Blasts Schumer and Jeffries for Siding With Donor Class Over Working Families in New York Mayoral Race
“They’re so captured by their megadonors that they’d rather abandon their own party’s nominee than risk upsetting the moneyed elite—even while Donald Trump is busy trying to prop up Cuomo’s failed campaign”
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the wake of reports that Donald Trump is meddling in the New York mayoral race to prop up disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo, Joseph Geevarghese, executive director of Our Revolution—the nation’s largest grassroots independent political organization—released the following statement blasting Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for refusing to back Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani.
“Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are siding with the billionaire-backed status quo in the New York mayoral race,” said Joseph Geevarghese, executive director of Our Revolution. “They’re so captured by their megadonors that they’d rather abandon their own party’s nominee than risk upsetting the moneyed elite—even while Donald Trump is busy trying to prop up Cuomo’s failed campaign.”
“Schumer and Jeffries aren’t acting like opposition leaders, they’re acting like gatekeepers for the donor class,” Geevarghese continued. “Their betrayal makes clear they care more about power and campaign cash than standing up for working families. Zohran Mamdani doesn’t need their blessing, but their cowardice is yet another damning indictment of their failed leadership.”
Ahead of Mamdani’s landslide primary victory this summer, Our Revolution endorsed the Queens Assemblymember and urged its more than 430,000 grassroots supporters across New York City to back him as their top choice on the ballot. Now, with the general election approaching in November, the group is mobilizing its supporters once again to help elect Zohran Mamdani as the city’s next mayor. The group will be launching twice-weekly phonebanks open to New Yorkers and volunteers across the country. Additionally, Our Revolution NY has is activating organizing teams on the ground in all 5 boroughs, canvassing the streets, knocking on doors, and having one on one conversations with general election voters ahead of the November election
Our Revolution Executive Director Joseph Geevarghese is available for comment on the New York mayoral race and the broader fight to realign the Democratic Party with working-class voters. To request an interview contact: media@ourrevolution.com.
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Our Revolution is America’s largest grassroots independent political organizing group, born out of Senator Bernie Sanders’s 2016 presidential campaign. It focuses on mobilizing communities, electing progressive champions, advocating for progressive policies, and transforming the Democratic Party to serve people, not corporate interests.