The de facto head of the New York Democratic party is finally on board with the Zohranaissance.
On Sunday night, Governor Kathy Hochul endorsed the 33-year-old winner of the Democratic mayoral primary in an op-ed in the New York Times. "Affordability has long been my top priority as governor, and it is the No. 1 concern I share with Mr. Mamdani," Hochul wrote.
"Mr. Mamdani and I will both be fearless in confronting the president's extreme agenda—with urgency, conviction and the defiance that defines New York," Hochul continued, before taking an oblique shot at the two candidates in the race who would benefit most from President Donald Trump's meddling—Mayor Eric Adams and her former colleague Andrew Cuomo. "And we must never allow Mr. Trump to control our city like the king he wants to be. Anyone who accepts his tainted influence or benefits from it is compromised from the start."
Hochul's op-ed is not a stirring call to embrace Mamdani's platform—three separate times, she mentioned that the two "don't see eye to eye on everything."