There is time for leaders like Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the top House Democrat and a New Yorker, to intervene if they want to. While the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee rarely interferes in open primaries, there is a tradition of less direct maneuvering to boost preferred candidates and edge others out. The leader’s allies argue that the competition will strengthen their nominees and brush off concerns that Democrats will be short on funds. “Leader Jeffries has no plan to endorse in any Democratic primary in New York,” said Christie Stephenson, his spokeswoman. “He is confident that whoever emerges in these competitive districts will be strongly positioned to defeat the extreme MAGA Republican crowd.”

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Persons: Hakeem Jeffries, Jeffries, Michelle Hinchey, Laura Curran, Tom Suozzi, George Santos, —, ”, Christie Stephenson Organizations: Democrat, New Yorker, Democratic Congressional, Mr, Democratic, PAC, New, “, Republican Locations: New, Hudson, Nassau County, Long, New York, Torrey Pines, Calif