Left-wing Brooklyn City Council Member Chi Ossé neither confirmed nor denied the possibility of challenging Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in next year’s party primaries, following a report that he is privately weighing to do just that.
“All I have to say is that it would take a very dire situation in order for me to even consider spending the rest of my 20s in DC,” the 27-year-old Ossé said in a statement to Axios, which first reported that he is discussing the possibility of running. The council member declined to expound upon his statement when asked by amNewYork in City Hall on Thursday.
