NY-GOV: Mamdani declines to immediately back Hochul's reelection after she offers him coveted endorsement
After Gov. Hochul finally endorsed him for mayor over the weekend, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani declined to immediately return the favor Monday by backing her own reelection bid.
“My focus is on November,” Mamdani, a democratic socialist, told reporters when asked if he would endorse Hochul for a second term ahead of her 2026 reelection battle. “And I’m excited to have the governor’s support in that fight for November as we make it clear that that we can put the days of City Hall and Albany being at war in the past.”
Mamdani’s dodge came a day after Hochul, a moderate Democrat, formally endorsed him Sunday after declining to do so for weeks. Hochul’s endorsement put pressure on other top New York Democrats to back Mamdani, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who have so far declined to offer support for the mayoral front-runner.
The move by Mamdani to withhold immediate support comes as Hochul could face multiple intense political battles next year.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/15/mamdani-declines-to-immediately-back-hochuls-reelection-after-she-offers-him-coveted-endorsement/
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More clickbait nonsense by the ny daily news
And unlike the NYT, NYDN still has a city desk.
Are you confusing it with the Murdoch rag the New York Post? Both newspapers do have "New York" in their names, and that can be tricky for some people.
Oh, OK.
But the references are all so ... in the past ... old.
There's nothing wrong with focusing on those two. Lots of people like pop stars.
they would probably choose this.
How many emojis does that get?? 
I noticed the news of his billionaire wedding at his parent’s compound was not posted about much here, probably because most ordinary people don’t get 3-day weddings at their parents “compound.” There was masked security, good times.
Did you read that article about Taylor Swift? Will her wedding be as lavish? Three-day celebrity weddings seem to be normal now. One day for the meet and greets, one day for the ceremony, and the third day for the after parties. That takes a lot of money, though.
You used the word "tabloid" as a noun, and then skipped right over its definition as a noun and instead posted the definition of "tabloid" as an adjective. That's what the "adj" means. Your post used the word as a noun.
Here's the definition of "tabloid" as both a noun and an adjective from your source:
noun
1: a newspaper that is about half the page size of an ordinary newspaper and that contains news in condensed form and much photographic matter
2: digest, summary
tabloid
adjective
1 of, relating to, or resembling tabloids especially : featuring stories of violence, crime, or scandal presented in a sensational manner
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tabloid
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Using AI can be so tricky! Your *source* says that the NYDN attracted customers 106 years ago (that's even older than the facebook meme) with sensationalized stories about crime and scandals, but it has evolved won Pulitzer prizes for serious journalism.
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And finally, The decontextualized snippet from Wiki appears to be describing a type of journalism rather than a newspaper format, and the result of the cropped, partial quote is "a tabloid is a type of journalism..."
Is your Wikipedia mid-sentence snippet from the section about a specific subset of tabloids, the red top tabloid? The NYDN is not a red top tabloid.
See also: Red tops
Red top tabloids, named after their distinguishing red mastheads, employ a form of writing known as tabloid journalism; this style emphasizes features such as sensational crime stories, astrology, gossip columns about the personal lives of celebrities and sports stars, and junk food news. Celebrity gossip columns which appear in red top tabloids and focus on their sexual practices, misuse of narcotics, and the private aspects of their lives often border on, and sometimes cross the line of defamation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabloid
Gerald R. Ford and Marie Antoinette did not have much in common, but being misquoted cost both of them their jobs.
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Mr. Ford, on Oct. 29, 1975, gave a speech denying federal assistance to spare New York from bankruptcy. The front page of The Daily News the next day read: “FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD.”
Mr. Ford never explicitly said “drop dead.”Yet those two words, arguably the essence of his remarks as encapsulated in the immortal headline, would, as he later acknowledged, cost him the presidency the following year, after Jimmy Carter, nominated by the Democrats in New York, narrowly carried the state.
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/28/nyregion/28veto.html
and he declined to endorse the Democratic nominee for president.
I'm not sure why anybody is surprised by this latest turn. It was to be expected.
And you know what? He was a politician in 2024. He was running for his third term.
Oh, please indeed.
when he didn't endorse the Democratic nominee for president?
Did he endorse Biden-Harris in 2020 when he was running for State Assembly or did he follow the DSA resolution prohibiting the endorsement of the Democratic nominees?
