{"id":2648,"date":"2025-10-15T00:17:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/2648\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T00:17:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:17:24","slug":"zohran-mamdani-endorsed-by-brooklyn-pastor-who-previously-backed-andrew-cuomo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/2648\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani endorsed by Brooklyn pastor who previously backed Andrew Cuomo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Democratic mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani picked up an endorsement Tuesday from a Brooklyn pastor who previously supported Andrew Cuomo in the race for City Hall.<\/p>\n

The Mamdani endorsement from Bishop Orlando Findlayter, whose congregation is in East Flatbush, could help Mamdani make inroads with Black, socially conservative Democrats, a constituency from which he\u2019s had some difficulties securing support.<\/p>\n

\"BishopBishop Orlando Findlayter endorsed Zohran Mamdani for mayor Tuesday. (Evan Simko-Bednarski<\/p>\n

Findlayter was seen as instrumental<\/a> in lining up African-American support for ex-Mayor Bill de Blasio in the 2013 elections. In an appearance Tuesday afternoon with Mamdani, the pastor said he\u2019s backing him this year in large part due to Mamdani\u2019s commitment to make the city more affordable.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew York City is an expensive city. Frankly it is a city that we can\u2019t afford,\u201d Findlayter said in an appearance at Medgar Evers College. \u201cThat is one of the many reasons I am standing here today to throw my full support behind Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani to be the next mayor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"GatheredGathered faith leaders lay hands on and pray for Democratic mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani in Crown Heights Tuesday. (Evan Simko-Bednarski<\/p>\n

Mamdani, who\u2019s polling as the favorite to win the Nov. 4 election against Cuomo and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, said he was honored by Findlayter\u2019s nod and added that he believes he will \u201conly succeed in City Hall at building a more affordable New York City, at restoring the peoples\u2019 trust in a democracy, and in making our city worthy of the great people who call it home, if I am surrounded by great leaders and advisors myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"MamdaniMamdani speaks in front of Medgar Evers College in Crown Heights Tuesday after being endorsed by a consortium of Black faith leaders. (Evan Simko-Bednarski<\/p>\n

Findlayter endorsed Cuomo\u2019s bid in the June 28 Democratic mayoral primary that Mamdani won by a nearly 13% margin.<\/p>\n

Cuomo\u2019s now running as an independent in next month\u2019s general election, polling as the runner-up to Mamdani.<\/p>\n

In a statement co-signed with dozens of other faith leaders, Findlayter had said during the primary that he was backing Cuomo because his \u201cleadership reflects the values we hold close: uplifting the marginalized, fighting for equity, and building a city where every person has the chance to thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked for comment on Findlayter\u2019s Tuesday announcement, Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi noted some community and religious leaders who previously supported Mamdani have now come around to backing Cuomo, including Fahad Solaiman<\/a>, a Queens imam. Azzopardi also noted the ex-governor was last weekend endorsed<\/a> by more than 70 faith leaders from all five boroughs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democratic mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani picked up an endorsement Tuesday from a Brooklyn pastor who previously supported Andrew…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1252,80,98,100,99,302,3280,9,24,63,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-2648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-2025-election","9":"tag-andrew-cuomo","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","12":"tag-brooklyn-news","13":"tag-city-hall","14":"tag-mayoral-race","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648","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=2648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}