The Brooklyn Democratic Party’s annual Breakfast Election Fundraiser on Monday was a jam-packed, energetic event, bringing in prominent electeds from all corners of the city in support of the Harris-Walz presidential ticket.

The powerhouse gathering at Junior’s Cheesecake continued to be a morning must-go for NY’s top politicians, but this year’s breakfast was buoyed with the consequential Presidential  Election less than fifty days away. 

The prominent roster included Brooklyn Dems Party Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, the Party’s leaders, Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, Borough Presidents Antonio Reynoso and Mark Levine and a bevy of state senators, assemblymembers, councilmembers and more. 

With the crowd standing around breakfast booths, Party Leader Bichotte Hermelyn introduced guest speakers who echoed her calls of Brooklyn’s political prominence and stressing unity.

“Trump presents an existential threat to Democracy,” said Gonzalez.”We need to do everything we can to get out the vote and get Kamala Harris into office.”

With Democratic control of the House and Senate also on the line, the Brooklyn DA rallied for support of fellow Brooklynites: Sen. Chuck Schumer to maintain Majority Leadership and for Rep. Hakeem Jeffries to become Speaker.

A breakfast building unity against ‘‘the existential threat”

Shouting out to the crowd over pancakes and coffee, Williams joked how he’s called out many of the electeds in the crowd, then shifted to “the serious existential threat,” asking all Brooklynites to “put aside our differences until Nov. 6.” 

Reynoso also noted that “it’s harder when you have all this diversity. There’s different opinions, different walks of life. It’s harder when you are the one diverse party to get things right, but that’s what we do and that’s what Kamala is doing.”

As the leader of the largest Democratic County Party in the nation, Bichotte Hermelyn boasted that “Brooklyn is the cornerstone of New York State” and “the place to be if you need to be elected.”

Former President Bill Clinton and President Joe Biden are just a few who stomped in Brooklyn to boost support during the 2022 elections.

“We even have Queens in the house,” Reynoso pointed out with Assemblymember Jenifer Rajkumar, Councilmember Lynn Schulman and State Sen. John Liu, along with Sen. Jessica Ramos (a mayoral aspirant) sharing online that “the diversity of the Democratic Party was on full display yesterday at the @bkdems post-DNC breakfast.”

Barrier breakers fighting for equality 

Also serving as a rally cry to spur support was Trump and Vance’s false claims against Haitians, which Bichotte Hermelyn, the first Haitian American and Black woman to lead a county Party, said were “absurd, disgusting and dangerous.” 

Ramos, a barrier-breaker in her own right, added that “we’re unified against attacks on our Haitian neighbors.”

Plenty of pols in the most diverse borough stood in solidarity and pledged action. That action for the Brooklyn Dems is notably extending beyond the borough this year, with bus trips going to support key battleground Congressional races in New York, and Kamala Harris in the swing state of Pennsylvania.

“Let’s keep building on the momentum of the DNC to move Brooklyn and our nation forward,” Bichotte Hermelyn concluded. “With your support, we’re not going back.”