New York Gov. Hochul defeats GOP candidate Bruce Blakeman, will face pressure to cave to DSA in second full term

Gov. Kathy Hochul sailed to re-election Tuesday — beating back a Republican challenge from Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman — and declaring “this is how we take back our country.”

Hochul’s victory was called just as polls closed at 9 p.m. by The Associated Press, and soon after Mayor Zohran Mamdani heaped praise on her at New York Democrats’ election night party at the Hilton hotel in Midtown.

“She has embraced new ideas,” the socialist mayor told the crowd, as he lauded his odd-couple “partnership” with the moderate Democrat, who cruised to a second, full four-year term.

“She is navigating lawlessness for mass federal agents intent on rolling back our rights,” Mamdani railed, “Cruel budget cuts to Medicaid and SNAP by Republicans who only care about making the rich richer, and threats to the free infrastructure that powers our economy.”

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