{"id":135425,"date":"2025-08-10T22:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T22:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/135425\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T22:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T22:31:11","slug":"ny-gov-kathy-hochul-slights-zohran-mamdani-in-live-tv-reality-check-hints-she-may-not-endorse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/135425\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Gov. Kathy Hochul slights Zohran Mamdani in live TV reality check, hints she may not endorse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gov. Kathy Hochul slighted mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani<\/a> in a live TV interview Sunday \u2014 signaling she may not endorse him in the election even after he praised her \u201ccourage.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe still have many differences,\u201d Hochul said, keeping her distance from her fellow Democrat during a Fox News Sunday interview<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t know how you whitewash that away.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fox host Shannon Bream had read a statement from Mamdani effusively praising Hochul for sparring with President Trump and Republicans over redistricting fights that could dictate who controls Congress.<\/p>\n

Gov. Kathy Hochul hinted that she may not make an endorsement at all in the New York City mayoral election during an interview Sunday. Tomas E. Gaston<\/p>\n

Mamdani said Hochul showed \u201ccourage\u201d and was \u201cmeeting the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIs the feeling mutual? Is Mamdani a good choice\u201d [for New York City mayor], Bream asked, sparking Hochul to bring up their \u201cmany differences.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe can agree with me and many people agree with me and I think it\u2019s not just Democrats who say, \u2018New Yorkers stand up for our rights.\u2019 We do that,\u201d Hochul said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re fighters. I\u2019m a mom from Buffalo. I guess they\u2019re not used to taking on a mom from Buffalo.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hochul, who is seeking re-election next year, has come out against Mamdani\u2019s proposals to hike taxes <\/a>by $9 billion on millionaires and corporations in the city to fund his affordability agenda of subsidized child care, fare-free bus services, housing expansion and government-run grocery stores.<\/p>\n

Hochul with Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and Mayor Eric Adams at the Dominican Day Parade on Aug. 10, 2025. LP Media<\/p>\n

Those taxes need sign off from the governor and state lawmakers, who also are up for re-election in 2026.<\/p>\n

Despite the apparent snub, Hochul did say she agrees with Mamdani\u2019s focus on tackling New York\u2019s high cost of living and making both the city and state more affordable for residents. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s many areas of disagreement,\u201d she noted. \u201cBut also there\u2019s areas of alignment including affordability. His election touched a nerve. And people said, \u2018you know what, we\u2019re just not getting ahead.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani praised Hochul for having \u201ccourage\u201d and \u201cmeeting the moment\u201d in her battle with Republicans over redistricting. LP Media<\/p>\n

She claimed that President Trump\u2019s policies, including imposing tariffs<\/a>, have not helped.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a sense that we need some change now,\u201d Hochul said.<\/p>\n

Hochul then hinted she may sit out the race and not endorse Mamdani, who is running against two other Democrats running on independent party lines \u2014 Mayor Eric Adams and ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whom she served with as lieutenant governor. She took over as governor when Cuomo resigned as governor amid sexual misconduct accusations that he denies.<\/p>\n

Adams and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo are running against Mamdani as independent candidates. LP Media<\/p>\n

\u201cI already worked with two different mayors. I\u2019ll continue to work with whomever the voters want me to and I\u2019ll make it work out. I\u2019m not going to go to war with the 8 million residents of New York I also represent,\u201d the governor said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy job is to calm things down,\u201d Hochul said. \u201cLet\u2019s see what the election results are. But people have to recognize that the candidate for mayor [Mamdani] has also touched a nerve and we need to respond to that. I\u2019m aligned with him that we need to find ways to make life more affordable for New Yorkers.\u201d<\/p>\n

It wouldn\u2019t be the first time Hochul stayed on the sidelines during a high-profile mayoral showdown.<\/p>\n

In her native Buffalo in 2021, democratic socialist India Walton defeated then-sitting Mayor Byron Brown in the Democratic Party primary but Brown, a moderate, continued as a write-in candidate.<\/p>\n

Hochul stayed out of the race, and Brown won re-election <\/a>in a landslide in November as the write-in candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Kathy Hochul slighted mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani in a live TV interview Sunday \u2014 signaling she may…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":135426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5371,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5341,80,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-135425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-kathy-hochul","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-us-news","25":"tag-usa","26":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115006844799091080","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}