Hochul endorsed Mamdani in a New York Times opinion essay published Sunday evening.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has endorsed Zohran Mamdani in the New York mayor’s election.

Hochul, a Democrat, backed Mamdani in a New York Times opinion essay published Sunday evening.

“In the past few months, I’ve had frank conversations with him,” Hochul said in the essay. “We’ve had our disagreements. 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.”

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    15 hours ago

    Knowing America and past American history … someone’s going to conveniently suddenly die or be assassinated

    Whenever conservative America or corporate America or wealthy America can’t get their way … someone usually suddenly dies in inexplicable ways. Then we’ll kinda sorta maybe hear some half truths and bits and pieces of the real story in a podcast or book 20 years from now.

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      10 hours ago

      I don’t think so. Its just not necessary. Especially in a city like New York, there will just be a Capital Strike to make sure Mamdani fails at everything he tries. Then they’ll blame socialism.

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    14 hours ago

    Is this because the senior Democrats have figured out some other way of getting rid of him, so she can afford to look like she’s with the people, risk free? Or am I being too cynical?

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        7 hours ago

        And she’s already being primaried by her own lieutenant governor, who’s focused on some of the same issues as Mamdani.

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      I mean…

      You have people endlessly bitching that dems aren’t endorsing him. Then they do and people still bitch?

      I don’t think there’s a lot of value in presenting people with a no win situation.

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      Well, it’s either because the fascists promised to take care of it or she realized NY might just vote for him as governor next.