Kathy Hochul endorses Zohran Mamdani

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Kathy Hochul just denied Israel’s right to exist, legalized prostitution, voted to throw open the jails and defund the NYPD, and said New York should be a socialist city.

By endorsing Zohran Mamdani for mayor, the governor has backed all this and more, embracing an antisemitic radical in a stunning act of political cowardice.

Oh, she claims in a mealy-mouthed New York Times op-ed that she has had “frank conversations” with Mamdani. She says we “discussed the need to combat the rise of antisemitism urgently and unequivocally.”

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Same with quality of life. “I emphasized to him my belief in keeping and attracting businesses so that New York remains the center of the global economy,” Hochul writes. She does not say what Mamdani answered. Perhaps because Mamdani doesn’t believe in capitalism and doesn’t care if New York remains the center of the global economy?

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So why, after months of criticism, is Kathy Hochul becoming a fellow traveler?

Because she’s terrified of the far-left, and worries what will happen to her poll numbers if Mamdani is elected.

Hochul shames herself in the endorsement, writing, “Public life is an extraordinary privilege. It should never be about power for its own sake, but rather always about making the lives of others better.”

Yet that’s exactly what she’s doing here. In the past few months, she has claimed to disagree with Mamdani on almost every major issue, yet now decides to betray the people of New York for her own career.

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