New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has endorsed Zohran Mamdani within the New York mayor’s election.
Hochul, a Democrat, backed Mamdani in a New York Instances opinion essay printed Sunday night.
“Prior to now few months, I’ve had frank conversations with him,” Hochul mentioned within the essay. “We have had our disagreements. However in our conversations, I heard a frontrunner who shares my dedication to a New York the place kids can develop up secure of their neighborhoods and the place alternative is inside attain for each household.”
Hochul mentioned she made “it very clear that our cops ought to have each useful resource to maintain our streets and subways secure. I urged him to make sure that there may be sturdy management on the helm of N.Y.P.D. — and he agreed.”
The endorsement comes simply days after Mamdani, a state assemblymember and the Democratic nominee for New York mayor, vowed in a Instances interview to apologize for an announcement he made on Twitter in 2020 calling the NYPD racist. Hochul mentioned at a information convention final week that an apology was so as.
Mamdani’s deal with the price of dwelling is welcome, Hochul mentioned Sunday, and she or he additionally needs him to battle the rise in antisemitism, help companies within the metropolis and resist any doable makes an attempt by the Trump administration to take over metropolis streets with federal brokers and the Nationwide Guard.
“Zohran Mamdani and I’ll each be fearless in confronting the president’s excessive agenda — with urgency, conviction, and the defiance that defines New York,” she mentioned.
In an announcement Sunday evening, Mamdani thanked Hochul.
“I look ahead to combating alongside her to proceed her observe report of placing a refund in New Yorkers’ pockets and constructing a safer and stronger New York Metropolis the place nobody is compelled to go away simply to allow them to afford to lift a household,” he mentioned.
