{"id":228332,"date":"2025-09-15T09:03:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/228332\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T09:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:03:17","slug":"hochul-endorses-mamdani-for-nyc-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/228332\/","title":{"rendered":"Hochul Endorses Mamdani For NYC Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 New York Gov. Kathy Hochul endorsed Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor Sunday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/14\/opinion\/hochul-endorsement-mamdani.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in an opinion piece in The New York Times<\/a>, presenting herself and Mamdani as allies against President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew York needs leaders who will put aside differences, stand up and fight back against Mr. Trump,\u201d Hochul wrote, expressing particular concern with the president\u2019s tariff hikes, public assistance program changes, federal funding cuts and threats to take over the city.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul also noted that, \u201cAnyone who accepts his tainted influence or benefits from it is compromised from the start.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Mamdani and I don\u2019t see eye to eye on everything, and I don\u2019t expect us to,\u201d Hochul wrote. \u201cBut I also believe that New York State and New York City are at our best when we stand together against those who attempt to tear us apart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The governor also repeatedly referenced the need to make New York City more affordable.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani thanked Hochul on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m grateful for the Governor&#8217;s support in unifying our party, her resolve in standing up to Trump, and her focus on making New York affordable,\u201d he said in a post on X. \u201cI look forward to the great work we will accomplish together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The stunning success of Mamdani, a 33-year-old self-described democratic socialist, in the race for New York City mayor has exposed divisions within the Democratic Party as it struggles to repair its brand more than half a year into Trump\u2019s presidency. Hochul\u2019s endorsement is the latest sign that Democratic leaders who had been skeptical of Mamdani\u2019s liberal views are beginning to consolidate around him.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani, who is leading in the polls, has not been endorsed by some prominent Democrats, including Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, the minority leaders in the U.S. Senate and House.<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, the other candidates in the mayoral race \u2014 former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, incumbent Mayor Eric Adams and Republican Curtis Sliwa \u2014 have intensified their criticism of Mamdani over his platform and past statements ahead of the city\u2019s general election in November.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani soundly defeated Cuomo in the Democratic primary. Cuomo has since relaunched his campaign as an independent. Adams, a Democrat, skipped the primary to run as an independent in November. Sliwa ran unopposed in the Republican primary.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 New York Gov. Kathy Hochul endorsed Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":228333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-228332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115207510605799487","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228332","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=228332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}