Posted on 09/14/2025 6:37:17 PM PDT by Libloather
Gov. Kathy Hochul endorsed lefty Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani for mayor in a bombshell Sunday guest essay — after her camp tried to keep the candidate at arm’s length through the campaign.
“The question of who will be the next mayor is one I take extremely seriously and to which I have devoted a great deal of thought,” Hochul wrote in a New York Times Opinion piece published Sunday night.
“Tonight I am endorsing Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani,” she said.
Hochul’s likely endorsement of Mamdani was first reported by The Post earlier Sunday evening.
Before her official endorsement was announced, the governor said she had “frank” discussions with Mamdani, but confidently landed on endorsing the lefty candidate despite their “disagreements.”
“In the past few months, I’ve had frank conversations with him. We’ve had our disagreements,” Hochul wrote in the guest essay.
“But in our conversations, I heard a leader who shares my commitment to a New York where children can grow up safe in their neighborhoods and where opportunity is within reach for every family. I heard a leader who is focused on making New York City affordable — a goal I enthusiastically support,” she said.
Among the talking points the governor said she discussed with the mayoral frontrunner were affordability, ensuring strong leadership “at the helm” of the NYPD, and “urgently” tackling the “rise of antisemitism” across the five boroughs.
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Bring on the godless Marxist communism shithole to New York.
Quickly. No debate. Let’s get it over with.
Madman I needs to go big and spend everyone else’s money fast.
Wreck that city. Hurry up.
After that nobody will talk about this communist nonsense again.
This is a gift from Obama Clapper etc.
Such a shining example of stupid.
Got to keep the power . . .
“Guy appears, almost out of nowhere, with a message that is the opposite of everything the country stands for and seemingly overnight becomes the overwhelming favorite to become mayor to the largest city in the United States.”
It certainly was a WTF? moment for me. Maybe this results from a demographic shift by flooding the city with Muslim invaders, but they shouldn’t be able to vote (theoretically).
I agree with you. The chances of Sliwa winning are slim. That was not my point.
Sometimes you need to take a stand and do the right thing regardless of the odds.
Imagine an election for New York City mayor and the Republicans did not even field a candidate. How embarrassing would that be? Curtis ran unopposed in the primary.
Sliwa had to know the deck was stacked against him, and he entered the race anyway. For this, he deserves our support.
I am not going to cut Trump any slack here.
She has said publicly that she doesn’t care if all Republicans leave the state. She wants everything that Madmanni stands for.
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