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President Donald Trump<\/a> and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani are not on the ballot next year, but they are smack in the political spotlight in New York State’s 2026 race for governor.<\/p>\n

Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik, in her first interview after declaring her candidacy for governor on Friday, linked Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul to Mamdani<\/a>, the 34-year-old socialist state lawmaker who won election on Tuesday as New York City mayor.<\/p>\n

“Kathy Hochul endorsed him and bent the knee,” Stefanik charged in an appearance on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends,” as she pointed to Mamdani, who she claimed is “a raging anti-Semite, pro-Hamas communist who wants to raise taxes.”<\/p>\n

Firing back, Hochul’s campaign branded Stefanik “Sellout Stefanik” in a new social media account and in a new video, as it aimed to anchor the GOP challenger to Trump.<\/p>\n

FIERCE TRUMP HOUSE ALLY JUMPS INTO EMPIRE STATE GUBERNATORIAL SHOWDOWN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“Sellout Stefanik is Donald Trump\u2019s number one cheerleader in Congress and his right-hand woman in his war on New York: gutting healthcare, jacking up costs with expensive tariffs, and cutting funding for our police, schools, and hospitals,” Hochul Campaign Communications Director Sarafina Chitika argued in a statement.<\/p>\n

And Chitika claimed Stefanik “is trying to bring Trump\u2019s chaos and skyrocketing costs to our state. While Stefanik puts Trump first and New York last.”<\/p>\n

Politics is larger and louder in New York<\/a>, the nation’s fourth-most-populous state, and that’s definitely the case in what’s expected to be a competitive and combustible battle for Empire State governor.<\/p>\n

SOCIALIST SHOCKWAVE: ZOHRAN MAMDANI STUNS NYC AS VOTERS HAND POWER TO DEMOCRATS\u2019 FAR-LEFT FLANK<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“There’s a lot of dynamics at work here. You have Donald Trump. You have the Mamdani factor,” Lee Miringoff, director of the New York-based Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

Republicans have been working to make Mamdani \u2014 whose June Democratic mayoral primary victory over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo<\/a> and nine other candidates sent shockwaves across the nation \u2014 as the new face of the Democratic Party, as they aim to paint Democrats as far-left radicals.<\/p>\n

That effort has only increased since Mamdani’s general election victory earlier this week.<\/p>\n

“You have an aggressive campaign by Stefanik<\/a> that is trying to paint Hochul into a corner,” Miringoff said<\/p>\n

REPUBLICANS AIM TO LINK VULERNABLE DEMOCRATS TO MAMDANI<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Trump, a native New Yorker who now calls Florida home, lost blue-leaning New York by 23 points in his 2020 presidential re-election defeat.<\/p>\n

Four years later, Trump made major gains in New York in 2024, as he won back the White House, trimming his deficit in the state by 10 points.<\/p>\n

But following Tuesday’s elections in left-tilting New Jersey<\/a> and Virginia, where Democrats won both state’s gubernatorial races by convincing double-digit margins, Miringoff said:T “Trump’s so-called realignment of 2024 is very short-lived, based on this past week.”<\/p>\n

It has been more than two decades since a Republican last won a New York gubernatorial race. The last was former Gov. George Pataki\u2019s re-election in 2002.<\/p>\n

But Hochul<\/a> could face a tough re-election fight.<\/p>\n

A former lieutenant governor, Hochul took office in 2021 after Democrat Andrew Cuomo resigned amid multiple scandals.<\/p>\n

She defeated then-Rep. Lee Zeldin by just over six points in 2022 to win a full four-year term. But Zeldin’s showing was the best by a Republican gubernatorial nominee since Pataki won re-election to a third term in 2002.<\/p>\n

And Hochul, a moderate Democrat from Buffalo, is facing a primary challenge from New York Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado, in a very rare move by a lieutenant governor to primary challenge a sitting incumbent.<\/p>\n

But Stefanik may not have the Republican nomination to herself.<\/p>\n

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, a Trump ally who was re-elected this week, may be eyeing a run for governor, GOP sources in New York confirmed to Fox News.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-mamdani-front-and-center-empire-state-battle-between-hochul-stefanik <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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