{"id":374238,"date":"2026-10-15T21:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T21:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/374238\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T21:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T21:34:09","slug":"mamdani-bashes-blakeman-in-video-supporting-hochuls-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/374238\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani bashes Blakeman in video supporting Hochul’s re-election"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor Mamdani bashed<\/a> Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman in a video released Thursday in support of Gov. Hochul\u2019s re-election campaign as he ramps up his vocal support of Hochul in the last stretch of the race.<\/p>\n

The video was the first substantial move the mayor \u2014 who boosted his own profile during last year\u2019s mayoral campaign with playful, grabby short-form social media content \u2014 has made for Hochul\u2019s re-election bid<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the clip, Mamdani, holding an apple in his hand as a prop, slammed Blakeman for his support in cutting Medicaid and support for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and he praised Hochul for working with the city to address a multibillion-dollar budget gap and her work towards universal childcare.<\/p>\n

\"MayorMayor Zohran Mamdani and Bruce Blakeman. (New York Daily News; AP)<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019m voting for Gov. Hochul. Cause she\u2019s the real deal for New Yorkers,\u201d Mamdani says in the video, tossing the globular fruit, now half-eaten, behind him. \u201cAnd Bruce Blakeman? He\u2019s a bad apple.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mayor did not make mention of Blakeman\u2019s association with President Trump \u2014 a frequent line of attack for Hochul.<\/p>\n

With the election day just 19 days away, polls show Hochul with a strong lead against her Republican challenger. However, turnout among Democrats could present a hurdle, as the city\u2019s competitive races were largely decided in the June primary. To that end, a push from Mamdani, who spurred record voter turnout among younger New Yorkers, could be helpful to the governor.<\/p>\n

Mamdani, asked about the video at a press conference on Thursday, said he was \u201cexcited\u201d to make it: \u201cAnd I\u2019m looking forward to being out there with her on the trail in the weeks to come,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Blakeman accused Hochul and Mamdani of pushing \u201chigh taxes and high utility bills\u201d in a statement responding to the ad.
\u201cHochul and Mamdani can\u2019t be trusted,\u201d he said. \u201cI support universal childcare for working parents, but why would any common sense leader pay for childcare for someone who is not working?\u201d<\/p>\n

While the governor and mayor have numerous ideological differences, they\u2019ve forged a fairly strong partnership in his first ten months in office. She\u2019s committed $1.7 billion in new funding over several years to establish free 2-K in the five boroughs and pushed through a tax on second homes that\u2019s expected to reap the city hundreds of millions every year.<\/p>\n

\u201cGov. Kathy Hochul actually fights for working families in New York,\u201d Mamdani says in the video. \u201cWhen Bruce was busy \u2014 or actually, Bruce wasn\u2019t that busy \u2014 Gov. Hochul was helping us close a $12 billion budget deficit in New York City.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Mamdani bashed Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman in a video released Thursday in support of Gov. Hochul\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2659,267,9,11,10,692,12,87],"class_list":["post-374238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-election","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-politics","tag-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374238","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=374238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}