Hochul argues Zohran Mamdani would be best candidate to ‘stand up’ to Trump — as she defends shock endorsement in NYC mayoral race

NY Post ^ | Published Sep. 16, 2025 | Haley Brown and Matt Troutman

[Freeleesy]

She’s standing by her Mam.

Gov. Kathy Hochul defended her shocking endorsement of Zohran Mamdani, arguing Tuesday the socialist mayoral contender is the best candidate to fight Donald Trump

[Paladin2]

She is a traitor.

[Freeleesy]

As usual NYP has it right

[HYPOCRACY]

Yes he is. He will fight Trump by making his birthplace a living hell. If Elise Stefanik manages to be the next governor she can fire Mamdani.

[Salman]

This tells me Mamdani was the choice of the DNC leadership all along.

[lgjhn23]

Birds of a feather, two peas in a pod....
They’d make great cellmates as long as they weren’t allowed to breed.

[P-Marlowe]

Standing up to Trump is obviously more important than serving the citizens of New York.

Frankly I hope he wins. New York deserves him.

[cross_bearer_02]

Socialists gonna socialist. What else is new?

[hanamizu]

“...the socialist mayoral contender is the best candidate to fight Donald Trump...”

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So, fighting the President of the United States is the chief job of the mayor of New York. Makes sense since the state’s attorney general’s main campaign promise was to destroy the Trump family and all of their works. Apparently, New Yorkers, both city and state, have made Trump Derangement Syndrome an election asset. How very sad for them.

[beethovenfan]

Trump can handle this communist.

[joshua c]

i think this is a good thing

the dnc has gone full open commie

they have been for awhile

but now they are taking off the mask

[vivenne]

Her endorsement is her kiss of death for Gov.

[vivenne]

How can she fire him?

[HYPOCRACY]

The governor of NY can fire the mayor of NYC.

[shelterguy]

“””” He will fight Trump by making his birthplace a living hell.”””””””””””””

And President Trump can stop giving him federal dollars. Let’s see who wins that fight.

[frank ballenger]

A stereotype of a typical shady politician who sells out voters if the grifting shifts the other way to give her more campaign money and cash for favors.

Deciding to go with the Commie but looks for sympathy by mentioning how strongly she disagrees with him at the same time.

Voters got tired of that by the 1950s and certainly don’t like it in 2025.

But....this is New York.

Sorry to all the apologists who said “But Frank, you should know NYC is different from all of us in outstate New York where we are sensible and good.”

[mass55th]

I thought Letitia James was the RAT’s best hope to fight Donald Trump.

[mass55th]

"Frankly I hope he wins. New York deserves him."

Sad to say, I hope so too. Registered RATS deserve him. Self-loathing Jews that consistently vote Democrat, deserve him. I hope the whole NYPD and FDNY walk off the job if he's elected.

[vivenne]

The Gov can fire an elected Mayor?

[lgjhn23]

Read an article somewhere (not sure it’s true) that Kirk’s killer was given, part or all, of $50K, and it’s speculated that he used those funds to procure transportation, weapons, everything he needed, etc. That money alledgedly came from a subversive outfit that has direct ties to this communist jackass running for mayor as well as horse face AOC, (occasional Kotex). IF true, and either one had anything to do with funding Kirk’s murder in any way, they need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.