QUEENS DEMOCRAT PARTY SNUBS OWN ASSEMBLYMAN ZOHRAN MAMDANI - REFUSES TO ENDORSE HIM FOR NEW YORK CITY MAYOR

Cites Growing Concern that Socialism is hijacking the Democratic Party.

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October 2025

The Queens Democratic Party leadership has snubbed one of its own — refusing to endorse Dem city mayoral nominee and borough Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani before Tuesday’s election.

“We have a lot of Democrats in Queens who do not support Mamdani,” Democratic district leader Hiram Monserrate told The Post of the local party chapter, which held its annual pre-election gala at Antun’s restaurant last week — and mayoral contender Andrew Cuomo’s campaign literature was instead seen at many of the tables.

“There is a reckoning occurring in the Democratic Party. There is a growing concern that socialism is hijacking the Democratic Party,” Monserrate said.

The Queens party had endorsed Cuomo during the Democratic mayoral primary in June, but Mamdani beat the Queens native - due to Brad Lander's immersion in the contest as a "spoiler" , forcing the ex-gov to run in the general election on an independent line.

Rep. Gregory Meeks, the party chairman, and the Queens organization have since declined to endorse Mamdani, the front-runner and nominee who lives in Astoria, in the general race.

But Monserrate said Meeks would have faced pushback if he recommended a Mamdani endorsement.

Monserrate is part of a group fighting the sex trade along the borough’s Roosevelt Avenue corridor — dubbed “the Market of Sweethearts” — and took issue with Mamdani for previously supporting legislation to decriminalize prostitution.