CNN’s Dana Bash pressed the senator on what’s keeping him from giving his approval to Mamdani’s run, prompting Schumer to again say he will keep talking to Mamdani. Bash asked if a possible endorsement hurting the Democratic Party and its chances in the 2026 midterm elections plays a role in Schumer’s decision.<\/p>\n

“I’m going to continue talking to him, Dana. You can ask me again,” Schumer said on CNN’s State of the Union<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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<\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) slammed Hochul’s endorsement of Mamdani, writing on Saturday that it caused <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EliseStefanik\/status\/1969406127872811428\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">“a catastrophic freefall of the NY Democrat Party.”<\/a> Stefanik is widely speculated to run against Hochul in next year’s New York gubernatorial election, one of many major races in the midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/beltway-confidential\/3815450\/stefanik-mamdani-bill-prevent-netanyahu-arrest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>ELISE STEFANIK STANDS UP TO ZOHRAN MAMDANI’S DANGEROUS AND RADICAL POLITICS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not every Democrat is rallying behind Mamdani, however, with New York State Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs saying Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/state\/3814493\/new-york-democratic-party-chairman-jay-jacobs-not-endorsing-mamdani\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he will not endorse his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-arizona-state-rep-issues-call-to-withhold-states-electoral-college-votes-to-joe-biden-due-to-significant-evidence-of-fraud\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Arizona State ... Issues Call to Withhold State's Electoral College Votes to Joe Biden Due to Significant Evidence of Fraud\">party&rsquo<\/a>;s nominee<\/a>. Jacobs, who is Jewish, said he “strongly” disagrees with Mamdani’s views on Israel and does not believe the Democratic Socialists of America align with the Democratic Party’s values or policies.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), a Mamdani endorsee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3808752\/mamdani-endorsements-new-york-stir-up-democratic-divisions-socialism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> his party will “come around”<\/a> to Mamdani, calling the Democratic nominee a “very smart, funny, and humane candidate.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schumer dodges Mamdani endorsement after Hochul backs him<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2489230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-collage-up0zv4bkg-1758480279047-e1758480960971.jpg?1758466569&w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[13348,56552,5894,4411],"class_list":["post-2489229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-endorsement","tag-mamdani","tag-politics","tag-schumer"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-collage-up0zv4bkg-1758480279047-e1758480960971.jpg?1758466569&w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2489229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2489233,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489229\/revisions\/2489233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2489230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2489229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2489229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2489229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}