Stefanik rips Hochul for endorsing raging antisemite Mamdani while accepting award from pro-Israel organization
Republican gubernatorial candidate Elise Stefanik ripped into Gov.Kathy Hochul Sunday night for endorsing “raging antisemite” Zohran Mamdani for mayor as she accepted an award from a prominent Jewish group.“We know we are at a tipping point when the most important city in the world elects a raging antisemite, defund the police, tax-hiking Communist as mayor,” Stefanik said during the annual gala of the Zionist Organization of America.She alleged that Mamdani vowed to arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and said his “family history and political ideology is steeped in sympathy for suicide bombers and terrorists.”“A mayor who said Hamas should not lay down their arms.
A mayor who campaigned with the unindicted co-conspirator of the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing that killed New Yorkers.This, from the person who will lead a city with over 1 million Jewish people.
And this mayor was endorsed by none other than the weakest and Worst Governor in America, Kathy Hochul,” Stefanik raged.Rep.Stefanik, the House Republican Conference chairperson, received high praise at the event in the Ziegfeld ballroom from billionaire Miriam Adelson, whose late husband, Sheldon, founded the Las Vegas Sands casino and resort company.She vowed not to stand silent while the mayor-elect and members of the Democratic Socialists of America “spew hatred” toward Jews.“At the very moment that New Yorkers were looking for strength and moral clarity, our weak Governor Kathy Hochul, the Worst Governor in America, showed weakness and endorsed the jihadist for Mayor.
She propelled him to this office, putting every Jewish New Yorker at risk,” Stefanik said.“The truth is she threw New Yorkers of this great city under the bus all because of her abysmal polling,” she added.Stefanik said she is waging a moral fight in her bid for governor, not just an economic one against New York’s high taxes and spending.Tackling antisemitism, she said, is a core element of her camp...