{"id":123142,"date":"2026-02-04T21:47:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/123142\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T21:47:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:47:19","slug":"kathy-hochul-picks-ex-nyc-council-speaker-adrienne-adams-as-running-mate-in-2026-governors-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/123142\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathy Hochul picks ex-NYC Council Speaker Adrienne Adams as running mate in 2026 governor’s race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gov. Kathy Hochul\u00a0on Wednesday tapped former City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams to run as her No. 2 in the 2026 governor\u2019s race.<\/a><\/p>\n

Adams will join Hochul on the ticket as the lieutenant governor candidate \u2014 just weeks\u00a0after the longtime progressive Queens Democrat finished her term leading the Big Apple\u2019s legislative body.<\/p>\n

\u201cAdrienne and I are no strangers to rolling up our sleeves and getting results for working New Yorkers,\u201d Hochul said in a statement after The Post first reported the highly anticipated LG pick.<\/p>\n

Gov. Kathy Hochul\u00a0on Wednesday tapped former City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams to run as her No. 2 in the 2026 governor\u2019s race. Matthew McDermott for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cTogether, we\u2019re going to continue investing in public safety, bringing costs down, and making this state a place where all families can thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hochul picked Adams, who is not related to former Mayor Eric Adams, after other potential running mates, including Queens Borough President Donovan Richards and state Sen. Jamaal Bailey (D-Bronx),\u00a0snubbed her requests to join the ticket<\/a>,\u00a0The Post previously reported.<\/p>\n

Hochul\u2019s current lieutenant governor, Antonio Delgado<\/a>, is challenging the incumbent leader of the state from the left in the June Democratic primary.<\/p>\n

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman<\/a>, the all-but-likely Republican gubernatorial nominee, has yet to select a running mate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Adrienne Adams will join Hochul on the ticket as the lieutenant governor candidate \u2014 just weeks\u00a0after the longtime progressive Queens Democrat finished her term leading the Big Apple\u2019s legislative body. Leonardo Munoz<\/p>\n

Council Speaker Adrienne Adams is speaking at a podium, joined by union leaders holding signs. William Farrington<\/p>\n

Hochul threw shade at Blakeman for his close relationship to President Trump<\/a> as she made her LG announcement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAs Donald Trump attacks this state relentlessly and Bruce Blakeman bends the knee before him, I need a fighter in my corner who\u2019ll stand strong for New York families,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The governor, who has been in office since 2021, said Adams worked to make housing more affordable and invest in children while also standing up \u201cto anyone who seeks to harm our city.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAdrienne and I are no strangers to rolling up our sleeves and getting results for working New Yorkers,\u201d Hochul said in a statement after The Post first reported the highly anticipated LG pick. Matthew McDermott for NY Post<\/p>\n

Delgado, a former House representative, has\u00a0tapped failed socialist Buffalo mayoral candidate India Walton<\/a> as his running mate.<\/p>\n

Hochul, along with state Attorney General Letitia James, had previously encouraged Adams to toss her hat in the mayoral race last year<\/a>, but her candidacy never gained much traction.<\/p>\n

She became an afterthought as current Mayor Zohran Mamdani and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo ate up most of the votes in a Democratic primary last June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Kathy Hochul\u00a0on Wednesday tapped former City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams to run as her No. 2 in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[446,19092,426,57,9,24,55,54,56,13895,58],"class_list":["post-123142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-adrienne-adams","tag-antonio-delgado","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-ny-governor-election-2026","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}