State Sen. Jessica Ramos — one of the fiercest critics of mayoral frontrunner Andrew Cuomo — will endorse the ex-governor Friday morning, effectively ending her struggling run for the seat.
The progressive Queens senator will throw her weight behind Cuomo at an 11 a.m. event at the District Council of Carpenters Headquarters, her campaign confirmed.
The backing is a sharp about-face from her critical public criticism of the former governor, who resigned in 2021 amid a series of sexual harassment allegations.
“People may want to be courteous to Cuomo’s face but they don’t forget the people he sent to die, the women he touched or the people he left in our streets needing mental health care and housing,” Ramos, 39, wrote on social media in late March.
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