The Brooklyn Democratic Party has reversed course and is backing Gov. Kathy Hochul’s reelection bid again, days after withdrawing its support over concerns about her selection of former New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams as her running mate.

A spokesperson for state Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, chair of the Brooklyn Democratic Party, told NY1 Friday that the re-endorsement came after having “really productive” conversations with the governor and her team.

What You Need To Know

The Brooklyn Democratic Party initially withdrew support from Gov. Hochul over concerns about her choice of Adrienne Adams as running mate

Party chair Bichotte-Hermelyn said the decision was about downballot risks, not personal conflict with Hochul

Hochul introduced Adams Thursday at the state Democratic Party convention in Syracuse

The ticket has already received endorsements from Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Attorney General Letitia James and major labor unions

In a statement, the party said its executive committee was “prepared to move forward in unity and support Governor Hochul in our shared efforts to win back the House and ensure Democratic leadership remains strong across New York.”

“We expressed our concerns, and while continued discussions are necessary to build and strengthen relationships, we understand that the only path forward is together,” the statement said. “Today we head into the state convention as proud Democrats committed to strengthening our Party.”

The reversal came a day after Bichotte Hermelyn appeared on “Inside City Hall,” expressing doubts about Adams’ ability to attract voters in the upcoming midterm elections.

“This is not about beef with the governor, nor is it any beef with her pick,” Bichotte Hermelyn said. “This was about a downballot risk, and it was about a change in processes, and actually consulting with the largest Democratic county in the whole entire state, that typically delivers the votes for statewide and citywide election. That was a concern that changed the minds and the votes of many of the members in the Brooklyn Democratic Party.”

She said that there had been “hopes that the running mate would be a Latino, a Latino male in particular.”

“Brooklyn is a very complex and very diverse borough, where in the past four years we lost four seats — we lost three Assembly seats and one Senate seat, and there have been concerns in terms of making sure there was a strong partner, a strong running mate,” she said. “So many of the members were a little bit concerned given that they were not quite confident that this particular ticket would help gain some of the seats that we lost in the past.”

“We’re looking to get Congress. We’re looking to get Hakeem Jeffries to be the majority speaker,” she added. “And you know, many of us want to make sure that, in order to do that, we need a very strong, strong ticket that would turn those voters our way.”

Bichotte Hermelyn went on to criticize Adams’ prior mayoral run, saying, “The concern is that [Hochul] picked someone who barely made 40,000 votes across the city of New York when she ran for mayor, ranking five and not even getting the support base of her own county and her own county leader. So, it was just really surprising, to many, that the governor had decided to go with someone who people are concerned may not attract the voter base that we need to get to the level of turning some of these districts on a congressional level as well a state, an Assembly level, to Democrat.”

Hochul introduced Adams as her new running mate Thursday to kick off the state Democratic Party nominating convention in Syracuse.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, New York state Attorney General Letitia James and prominent labor unions and state leaders had already endorsed the Hochul-Adams ticket Thursday.