Weiner, the convicted perv whose own career crashed amid sexting scandals, said it was “inevitable” that the nation’s leading Democrats in Congress — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries — would eventually back Mamdani.
“At the end of the day, people like Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, they are going to have to endorse the nominee of their party [Mamdani],” Weiner said Sunday on “The Cats Roundtable” radio program on WABC 770 AM.
“I think it’s inevitable,” he told host John Catsimatidis of the two lawmakers from Brooklyn.
Some moderate Democrats who detest Mamdani’s views will not endorse him — but Schumer and Jeffries as party leaders can’t avoid the spotlight, he said.
“Some people can stay on the sidelines, and I think you’re going to see a lot of people do that. but the leaders of the party, which Chuck and Hakeem are, are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea,” he said.
“They’ve got the Democratic Party, who’s now chosen their nominee,” Weiner said.
Top Dems like Schumer and Jeffries have been dragging their feet on endorsing Mamdani to avoid harming moderate members of their party in the 2026 midterms, Weiner opined.
“The reason Chuck and Hakeem have been so slow to endorse Zohran is because they don’t want to harm their moderate candidates all around the country, which are the ones they need to take back the House and Senate,” he said. “That’s a political question for them.”
Republicans are already trying to link their Democratic rivals to Mamdani in this year’s municipal elections across the Empire state.
Weiner also predicted that Mamdani, as the Democratic nominee, will win the mayoralty.
“Unfortunately, or fortunately … I think we’re going to have Zohran Mamdani as the mayor in New York City,” he said.
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Catsimatidis noted that two other Democrats are running as independent candidates in the November election — incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who didn’t run in the June Democratic primary, and ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who lost badly to Mamdani in that race.
But Weiner dismissed their chances at winning while running on independent ballot lines in the general contest.
Weiner attempted his second comeback, running for a City Council seat in District 2 on Manhattan’s East Side in June, but lost badly to Assemblyman Harvey Epstein.
Weiner’s downfall began in 2011, when he resigned from Congress after admitting he’d sent salacious selfies to at least six women.
He then saw his comeback campaign for mayor in 2013 go down in flames when it was revealed he resumed the pervy activity using the pseudonym “Carlos Danger.”