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 trounced the Queens native, 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.
“I don’t understand it. It’s disgraceful,” a party insider said.
But Monserrate said Meeks would have faced pushback if he recommended a Mamdani endorsement.
Mamdani does have backing from some of the borough’s major political figures, including Queens Borough President Donovan Richards and state Sen. John Liu, with the latter facing backlash from some of his Jewish constituents for endorsing the Israel-bashing legislator.
Other elected officials and district leaders are quietly backing Cuomo or staying mum, and so the party organization sat out the race, party sources said.
Meeks personally never endorsed Mamdani and is more interested in Queens’ role to help elect the new City Council speaker, sources said.
His son-in-law, James Johnson, is a faith-based outreach coordinator for the Cuomo campaign, sources noted.
Meeks declined comment to The Post.
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.
The Staten Island Democratic Party also has been tied in knots over the mayor’s race.
The island party endorsed Cuomo during the primary.
But the party chair Laura LoBianco Sword endorsed Mamdani after he won the primary, saying he was the party’s nominee.
Then other district leaders in the party objected, and she stepped down as leader following the backlash.
The island party, now headed by Assemblyman Charles Fall, has not endorsed nominee Mamdani.
The party committees in Manhattan, Brooklyn and The Bronx have endorsed Mamdani.
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