New York's Democratic leadership offers tentative support for Zohran Mamdani

[RandySF]

Even in a race against a 33-year-old leftist Democratic nominee, New York City Mayor Eric Adams might not have the institutional backing he’s hoping for come November.

Already, less than 24 hours after Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani’s stunning victory in the mayoral primary, several establishment Democratic heavyweights like Gov. Kathy Hochul, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer are signaling they may back the democratic socialist in the general election. Even Brooklyn Democratic Party Boss Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, a longtime Adams ally who’d jumped ship to former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary, endorsed Mamdani in the early hours of Wednesday morning, asking people with reservations to “put them aside in this moment and come together.”

“I think it shows that this is one of the dominoes to fall and others are going to come,” Democratic strategist Yvette Buckner said of Bichotte Hermelyn. “At the end of the day, everybody likes to be behind a winner.”

Many institutional power-brokers – including party bosses, prominent electeds and labor unions whose power didn’t really matter in the primary after all – are looking at their choices. They can get behind the talented and jubilant Mamdani, who despite his leftist politics and lack of experience is the clear choice of the primary electorate. They can wait to see whether a very deflated Cuomo decides to make a go of it in the general election. Or they can go back to the moderate, scandal-scarred incumbent mayor after largely abandoning him for Cuomo. Having already jumped on the Mamdani train, electeds like Attorney General Letitia James, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Nydia Velázquez, and Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso know where they stand.




https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2025/06/new-yorks-democratic-leadership-offers-tentative-support-zohran-mamdani/406311/

[Bluestocking]

1. Even if he becomes mayor of nyc

He does not represent the future of the national democratic party unless we don’t want to win the White House. Given the demographics of nyc he should squeak out a win.

[MadameButterfly]

2. i hope NYC does not have to limit itself to a candidate who would win a national election

but can choose one in alignment with it's more liberal demographics and unique needs.

In a race against a governor who was forced to step down for actions that are relevent to any future office, and a mayor who is so compromised by his own crimes he has to do Trump's bidding, Mamdani should prevail. I wish, having been rejected by the Democratic Party, Cuomo and Adams would go away.