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With Election Day looming, Gov. Kathy Hochul combined politics with her favorite team – bringing Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to a bar in Astoria to watch the Buffalo Bills.<\/p>\n

Hoping that her left flank is protected, Hochul was cheering on her favorite sports team at Murphy\u2019s in Queens Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Though early vote totals are hitting record levels statewide compared to 2022, Democratic-socialists Mamdani and Ocasio-Cortez are trying to push younger voters toward her<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want New York City to be successful. I want New York State to be successful. These are the people that are gonna help us get there,” said Hochul in an interview.<\/p>\n

On whether he will pressure Hochul to raise taxes next year in Albany to pay for child-care programs, the mayor instead steered the conversation toward Hochul\u2019s reelection.<\/p>\n

“When the governor and I walk the streets of the city, we hear from New Yorkers who are staying in the city because of universal childcare,” said Mamdani.<\/p>\n

“The governor and I have discussed everything leading up to Tuesday at 8:59 p.m. and then we know we will have the other person to speak to from 9:01 p.m. onwards,” he added.<\/p>\n

All also have their eyes on national races.<\/p>\n

Responding to infighting between Michigan Democrats — Rep. Haley Stevens endorsed Republican Mike Rogers over fellow-Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in the competitive Senate contest.<\/p>\n

“Abdul El-Sayed is very clearly the leader that we need in this moment, and I don’t think that it’s worth the distraction. I think that people want to hear from people who are focused on them,” Ocasio-Cortez said.<\/p>\n

“The choice is whether or not you want to fight for working people like Dr. Abdul El-Sayed has been running on, or whether you want to provide additional oxygen and amplification to a candidacy of someone who wants to cut Medicare further,” added Mamdani.<\/p>\n

The governor is also pushing back that some votes for Democrats aren\u2019t an embrace of their party – but more of a rejection of President Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“It’s about who are the other leaders governing this state that I can roll up my sleeves and get really competent for New Yorkers? And that’s what I have here,” said Hochul.<\/p>\n

Earlier Sunday, the governor campaigned on the Upper West Side with elected officials and at least one congressional hopeful, frequenting some Manhattan diners.<\/p>\n

She then ended her day on the other side of town with City Council Speaker Julie Menin on the Upper East Side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Election Day looming, Gov. Kathy Hochul combined politics with her favorite team – bringing Mayor Zohran Mamdani…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[109,116,25,8889,9,24,49,12,56,112,108,63,65,64,87,27,200],"class_list":["post-391028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","tag-app-top-stories","tag-bernadette-hogan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-state","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-ny-state-of-politics","tag-ny-state-of-politics-blog","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-politics","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391028","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=391028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}