{"id":21878,"date":"2025-10-29T22:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T22:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/21878\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T22:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T22:10:08","slug":"rep-tom-suozzi-backs-andrew-cuomo-for-nyc-mayor-snubbing-democratic-party-nominee-mamdani-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/21878\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Tom Suozzi backs Andrew Cuomo for NYC mayor, snubbing Democratic party nominee Mamdani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Democratic U.S. Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/?s=Tom+Suozzi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tom Suozzi<\/a> has officially endorsed former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/politics\/2025-mayors-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">New York City mayoral race<\/a> after <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Tom_Suozzi\/status\/1967543930846650392\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">previously indicating<\/a> he would not support the party\u2019s nominee, Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n<p>Suozzi, a centrist Democrat representing northeastern Queens and parts of Nassau County\u2019s North Shore, said he shared Mamdani\u2019s concerns about affordability but \u201cfundamentally disagreed\u201d with the candidate\u2019s proposed solutions, even as top Democrats, including Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/politics\/hochul-mamdani-fights-trump-threats-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kathy Hochul<\/a> and House Minority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/politics\/hakeem-jeffries-endorse-zohran-mamdani-mayor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Hakeem Jeffries<\/a>, backed Mamdani\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/suozzi-backs-cuomo-nyc-mayor-mamdani\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at amNY &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tRep. Tom Suozzi backs Andrew Cuomo for NYC mayor, snubbing Democratic party nominee Mamdani &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Democratic U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi has officially endorsed former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the New York City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2302,107,80,314,14565,11171,9,12,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-21878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-2025-mayors-race","tag-2025-nyc-mayors-race","tag-andrew-cuomo","tag-assembly-member-zohran-mamdani","tag-congressman-tom-suozzi","tag-endorsement","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21878","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=21878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}