NY Gov. Hochul was frolicking on Buffalo Bills stadium grass as candidates she endorsed fell to far-left
She got buffaloed.Gov.Kathy Hochul-backed candidates largely got slaughtered in Tuesday’s primaries by a murderers’ row of Democratic Socialists of America insurgents — raising questions over how much political sway she holds after selling out to Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his “tax the rich” comrades.On primary day, Hochul was notably checked out – instead of hitting the campaign trail, she was sprawled on the grass of the new Buffalo Bills stadium, hobnobbing with the team’s billionaire owner Terry Pegula as the DSA swept.“She controls the levers of government, the state party infrastructure, and has a proven ability to win statewide.
But Mamdani has demonstrated that there is growing political value in being perceived as an outsider willing to take on the establishment,” former Democratic state Sen.David Carlucci told The Post.The moderate Hochul — who symbolically leads the state Democratic party in New York and controls a vast and powerful fundraising network — formed a tenuous political alliance with the socialist firebrand Mamdani after his meteoric rise in last year’s mayoral election.But Mamdani has done little-to-nothing to back Hochul’s preferred candidates.
He instead endorsed a slate of DSA and progressive congressional and state legislature candidates in direct opposition to Hochul’s picks – who floundered in Tuesday’s primaries.Follow live updates on Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s socialist agenda and the latest in NYC politicsNot only did high-profile Hochul endorsees such as Reps.Dan Goldman and Adriano Espaillat get cut down by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s preferred picks, but even the candidate she endorsed — Karen Hoak — for her home Assembly district in Buffalo lost to DSA candidate Adam Bojak.Another ally and endorsee, state Senator Jeremy Zellner (D-Erie) got rocked by WFP-backed progressive assemblyman Jon Rivera (D-Erie).
Zellner anointed himself to the seat when it was vacated by now Buffalo Mayor Sean Ryan.“The ...