Zohran Mamdani is unraveling New York’s Democratic Party, and Republicans are ready to pick up the pieces.
The state’s three most important leaders — Gov. Kathy Hochul, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins — have now all endorsed the 33-year-old leftist for NYC mayor.
They’re opening the floodgates for Mamdani’s extreme agenda to take root across the state.
But standing in the way is Jay Jacobs, the party’s state chair and a sworn enemy of its socialist wing.
He bluntly rebuffed the prospect of an endorsement: “I reject the platform of the so-called ‘Democratic Socialists of America’ and do not believe that it represents the principles, values or policies of the Democratic Party.”
Nassau County Reps. Tom Suozzi and Laura Gillen likewise r