NY Gov Hochul identifies areas of alignment with Democratic socialist Mamdani

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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul – as soon as lieutenant governor beneath Andrew Cuomo – stated Sunday she has recognized "areas of alignment" with democratic socialist New York Metropolis mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani.

"Fox Information Sunday" host Shannon Bream requested Hochul if she supported Mamdani, who's now working in opposition to Cuomo and others, after noting how the candidate praised her for hosting Texas Democratic lawmakers who fled the state to discourage a GOP redistricting plan.

"We nonetheless have many variations. I do not know the way you whitewash that away," Hochul stated. "He can agree with me, and many individuals agree with, and I feel it is not simply Democrats who say New Yorkers rise up for our rights. We try this. It is what we're hardwired to do. We're fighters. I am a mother from Buffalo. I assume they are not used to taking over a mother from Buffalo, maybe."

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Gov. Hochul stated she aligned with Zohran Mamdani on affordability. (John Lamparski/Getty Pictures; Spencer Platt/Getty Pictures)

"There's many areas of disagreement, but in addition there's areas of alignment, together with affordability," the governor added of Mamdani. "You already know, his election touched a nerve. And other people stated, you already know what, we're simply not getting forward. And the Trump insurance policies that had been promised to carry individuals up, scale back prices, not contact Medicaid, guarantee that tariffs create jobs, none of that occurred. So there's this sense of we'd like some change now."

As governor, Hochul stated she's labored with two completely different mayors of New York City already, and she or he'll proceed to "work with whomever the voters need me to, and I will make it work."

Andrew Cuomo – Kathy Hochul's former boss – is working as an impartial in opposition to Democrat mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani within the November election. (Getty Pictures)

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"I'll make it work out as a result of I am not going to go to struggle with the 8 million residents of New York that I additionally symbolize, so my job is to calm issues down," Hochul stated. "Let's examine what the election outcomes are, however individuals have to acknowledge that candidate for mayor has additionally touched a nerve and we have to be attentive to that. So I am aligned with him that we have to begin discovering methods to make life extra reasonably priced for New Yorkers."

Hochul assumed the position of governor after Cuomo stepped down amid a number of controversies and she or he was later elected to a full time period.

New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams is working for re-election as an impartial. (AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

After a June Democratic mayoral main loss to Mamdani, Cuomo joined incumbent New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams as one other impartial candidate working within the common election.

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Adams and Cuomo have traded barbs about which ones ought to drop out earlier than November to higher the possibilities of a Mamdani defeat.

Danielle Wallace is a breaking information and politics reporter at Fox Information Digital. Story ideas will be despatched to danielle.wallace@fox.com and on X: @danimwallace .