To all the commenters here that are piling up on Mamdani without actually doing the minimum amount of research. Doesn’t it seem odd to you that he would advise Ossé not to run and try to convince others not to support him? Instead of reacting with your guts and defeatism, use your head. That’s what I did because it was tickling me.

This source was shared in another comment: https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2025/11/chi-osse-congress/409723/

In an online vote, roughly 52% of eligible members of NYC-DSA’s Electoral Working Group voted against endorsing Ossé’s congressional campaign. In total, 1,205 DSA members voted, with 626 voting against the endorsement and only 555 voting in favor, with 24 abstaining.

Clearly Ossé’s bid for Jeffreys sit is not that widely supported. Those are NYC-DSA members voting!

Mamdani argued that DSA should focus on achieving the affordability agenda that he and DSA had successfully campaigned on during the mayoral race, instead of focusing on launching a likely doomed primary campaign against the most powerful Democrat in the House.

OK, that makes sense to me.

But some within DSA questioned Ossé’s commitment to socialist organization – which he only recently joined – and were reluctant to back him when he seemed to have no realistic path to victory

I don’t follow NY politics closely so that’s an interesting bit of info.

The whole article is well worth reading rather than commenting on the headline of a newspaper that never quite liked Mamdani to start with.

What I get out of this, Jeffreys needs to go but Ossé is not quite the candidate to unseat him and the focus should be on delivering results for NY rather than running expensive doomed campaigns. That’s a far cry from the defeatism of seeing a treasonous Mamdani. It’s either simple thinking or an agenda to split support before he’s even in the Mayor sit.