As New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul moved across a political conference in Puerto Rico over the last few days, the unlikely pair did so largely in tandem. Yet that wasn’t enough to completely tamp down the inevitable political tension between the 34-year-old democratic socialist and the 67-year-old moderate Buffalonian.

Throughout the annual four-day Somos conference , Hochul and Mamdani appeared at the same events four different times. When Mamdani was added to an event hosted by District Council 37 and state Attorney General Letitia James, Hochul adjusted her schedule so she could stand beside the man who is currently the biggest celebrity in the Democratic Party. In turn, Mamdani took time to address the roughly 1,000 invited guests who attended Hochul’s

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