New York Gov. Hochul formally endorses Zohran Mamdani for NYC mayor

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Source: ABC News

September 14, 2025, 10:32 PM


New York Gov. Kathy Hochul formally endorsed Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Sunday night, writing in an opinion piece that she is "confident that he has the courage, urgency and optimism New York City needs to lead it through the challenges of this moment."

"In the past few months, I've had frank conversations with him. We've had our disagreements," Hochul wrote in the New York Times. "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. I heard a leader who is focused on making New York City affordable — a goal I enthusiastically support."

Hochul said she and Mamdani had discussed policing, combating antisemitism, and New York's economy, and that it was important to her that New York's next mayor "would not be someone who would surrender one inch to Donald Trump."

"Zohran Mamdani and I will both be fearless in confronting the president's extreme agenda — with urgency, conviction, and the defiance that defines New York. And we must never allow Mr. Trump to control our city like the king he wants to be… Zohran and I don't see eye to eye on everything, and I don't expect us to," Hochul wrote. "I will always reserve the right to disagree honestly and to argue passionately. But I also believe that New York State and New York City are at their best when we stand together against those who attempt to tear us apart," she said.

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Link to ENDORSEMENT (NYT, no paywall/gift) - Kathy Hochul: Why I Am Endorsing Zohran Mamdani

[rubbersole]

1. When he said there shouldn't be billionaires it surely got me paying attention.

Because there shouldn't be. Especially when corporations are people and money is speech.

[SSJVegeta]

2. Wellp. This race is all but officially done.

[Mawspam2]

3. Hochul's "endorsement" now means spit.

[Scrivener7]

4. I don't think that's true. It will siphon off some Cuomo votes. And it's nice that at least one of the

leaders in my state is giving an official endorsement to the candidate who is clearly the choice of their relevant constituents.

Jeffries took an opportunity this weekend to dis yet ANOTHER fellow Democrat, Chris Van Hollen. So, yes, Kathy's move may be late, but it is still better the ones who won't take their thumbs out of their asses.

I'm wishing and hoping for viable primary candidates right now.

[Prairie Gates]

13. It tells us definitively that her political operation thinks he's going to win easily

She has her own race to run and would not endorse him if she thought there was any chance for any one of the Three Stooges.

[Emile]

5. Are we a party who rallies behind our nominee or not?

Democratic leadership needs to step up and endorse Mamdani.

Are we a party who rallies behind our nominee or not?
“We have a Democratic nominee. ,” Ocasio-Cortez

[yardwork]

6. A lesson learned better late than never.

[riversedge]

8. Agree.

[Queso Delicioso]

7. About damn time.

[Clouds Passing]

9. Came to her senses

[Passages]

10. Reading the writing on the wall is a good thing.

Mayor Adams may drop out, possibly.

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11. As the wind blows

Times and things are changing. The old guard is about done.

[moonshinegnomie]

12. hes the democratic nominee of the largest city in the country

if schumer or jeffreies wont endorse him thats part of the democrats problem.
if they wont endorse the clear choice of the majority then they have no business being part of teh leadership of the democrats.
Hochul gets it,its time schume and jeffries get with the new reality