{"id":557,"date":"2025-10-14T03:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T03:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/557\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T03:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T03:31:08","slug":"new-york-ag-letitia-james-gets-standing-ovation-at-mamdani-rally-in-1st-appearance-since-federal-indictment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/557\/","title":{"rendered":"New York AG Letitia James gets standing ovation at Mamdani rally in 1st appearance since federal indictment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Letitia James, New York’s indicted attorney general, spoke at a campaign rally for mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani in her first public appearance since the Justice Department\u00a0charged her with bank fraud<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

James, a longtime foe of President Trump, received a standing ovation from thousands of supporters attending the Democratic nominee’s event Monday night at the United Palace Theater in Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n

James did not mention Mr. Trump by name, but remained defiant in her remarks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I will not bow, I will not break, I will not bend, I will not capitulate. I will not give in. I will not give up,” James said. “You come for me, you gotta come through all of us.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Letitia<\/p>\n

New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks during an event for New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, in New York.<\/p>\n

Olga Fedorova \/ AP<\/p>\n

James was indicted<\/a> on one count of bank fraud and another count of making a false statement, stemming from a house she bought in Virginia. She dismissed the charges as\u00a0“baseless”<\/a>\u00a0shortly after they were announced last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At the rally, James wasted no time appearing to take aim at the president.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I won’t give up and I won’t give in. So we have no time to linger and focus on pettiness and revenge. We’ve gotta press on, press forward, continue the journey, claim the victory … and so I fear no man,” she said.<\/p>\n

Mamdani<\/a>, the Queens assemblyman who won the Democratic primary, has been a champion of James since the beginning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“For years, you have fought the good fight for New Yorkers, and now it’s our chance to fight for you,” Mamdani said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Letitia<\/p>\n

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks during his election campaign event, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, in New York.<\/p>\n

Olga Fedorova \/ AP<\/p>\n

Mamdani maintains a double-digit lead<\/a> in polling over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa, who did not appear on the campaign trail Monday. But all three candidates did release statements<\/a>\u00a0Monday praising the Israel-Hamas peace plan and release of hostages.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for James said her campaign for reelection next year has raised about $1 million since her indictment, mostly from new donors.<\/p>\n

James is scheduled to make her first appearance in a Virginia federal court on Oct. 24.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Letitia James, New York’s indicted attorney general, spoke at a campaign rally for mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[153,398,9,24,56,63,65,64,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-letitia-james","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","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=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}