{"id":390328,"date":"2026-11-02T00:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T00:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/390328\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T00:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T00:58:10","slug":"hochul-stumps-with-mamdani-and-aoc-during-buffalo-bills-nyc-watch-party-ahead-of-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/390328\/","title":{"rendered":"Hochul stumps with Mamdani and AOC during Buffalo Bills NYC watch party ahead of election"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul stumped with Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a> at a Buffalo Bills watch party in Queens Sunday during the last weekend of her campaign, saying the divisive pols \u201cwant to be with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hochul was all smiles as she campaigned with the two progressives<\/a> at Murphy\u2019s Sports Bar in Astoria, and insisted the support of the two controversial lefty figures wouldn\u2019t turn off moderate voters ahead of Tuesday\u2019s gubernatorial election.<\/p>\n

Gov. Kathy Hochul was all smiles as she campaigned with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Mayor Zohran Mamdani at Murphy\u2019s Sports Bar in Astoria on Sunday. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cThey want to support me and I\u2019m grateful to have such a broad base of individuals with different perspectives who are joining our coalition to make sure Democrats win big,\u201d Hochul told reporters.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The pair of Democratic socialists kept mum as they left the bar 20 minutes ahead of the incumbent governor, with exiting patrons describing the establishment as half empty in the pols\u2019 presence.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the place we come for the games, but this\u2026 no,\u201d customer Jose Rodriguez Jr., 39, said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey want to support me and I\u2019m grateful to have such a broad base of individuals with different perspectives who are joining our coalition to make sure Democrats win big,\u201d Hochul told reporters.\u00a0 Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n

He and his girlfriend left the spot as the politicians campaigned.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re just going to go find some other place where we can watch the game,\u201d Rodriguez said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Democratic governor, who is expected to beat challenger Nassau County executive Bruce Blakeman<\/a> Tuesday, insisted to reporters that she\u2019s taking the final days of the election \u201cso seriously\u201d as she left the watering hole.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hochul insisted to reporters that she\u2019s taking the final days of the election \u201cso seriously\u201d as she left the watering hole.\u00a0 Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m taking this so seriously because what we do here in New York will have an effect on the future of this country,\u201d the incumbent said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She also added her hopes to see a Democratic sweep ahead of the midterm elections in order to \u201cstart taking back our country.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m taking this so seriously because what we do here in New York will have an effect on the future of this country,\u201d Hochul said.\u00a0 Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we make Hakeem Jeffries our speaker, all of a sudden we can just put up a firewall up there and stop the insanity and start taking back our country,\u201d Hochul said.<\/p>\n

Tuesday\u2019s gubernatorial race has received national attention<\/a>, even leading to the Queens-raised President Trump calling Hochul \u201cthe worst governor in the history of New York State.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s been a disaster, and I can tell you that Bruce has been a friend of mine for a long time,\u201d Trump added at a rally on Saturday, where he implored New Yorkers to vote for the Republican challenger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Gov. Kathy Hochul stumped with Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a Buffalo Bills…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[878,5340,426,57,46937,9,56,13895,63,65,64,58,82],"class_list":["post-390328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-alexandria-ocasio-cortez","tag-campaigns","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-metro","tag-midterm-elections-2026","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-ny-governor-election-2026","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-us-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390328","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=390328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}