Overview
- Ossé, 27, submitted Federal Election Commission paperwork and filed a statement of organization for "Chi Osse for Congress" through Katz Compliance to run in New York’s 8th District.
- His team launched an ActBlue fundraising page, converting weeks of speculation into an active campaign operation.
- The New York City council member is a recent Democratic Socialists of America recruit and a political ally of Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
- Mamdani has privately discouraged the challenge, according to Axios, as he seeks to maintain ties with establishment Democrats.
- Jeffries has remained noncommittal in public comments, and the NRCC seized on the filing to cast Democrats as divided.