Kathy Hochul Hammers Trump on Involvement in NYC Mayoral Race: ‘We Are Not F*cking Selling Out This City’
Kathryn Wilkens Sep 5th, 2025, 4:00 pm
Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) hammered President Donald Trump’s involvement in the upcoming New York City mayoral race on Friday, telling Politico’s Jeff Coltin , “We are not f*cking selling out this city.”
Hochul’s statement comes after news broke that Trump reportedly offered two candidates in the race — incumbent NYC Mayor Eric Adams and Republican challenger Curtis Sliwa — jobs in his administration with the hope that a two-candidate race might boost the chances of Independent candidate Andrew Cuomo .
Cuomo was easily overshadowed by front-runner Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic Primary earlier this