The governor said Sunday there is “so much speculation” about her decision regarding the New York City election, but noted “the bigger question” is what voters want. She also said she votes in Buffalo and is “not in New York City.”<\/p>\n

“Listen, it is up to the voters, and there should not be outside influences on this decision from the White House on down. Let the voters of New York decide,” Hochul said on Fox News Sunday with Shannon Bream<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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<\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>“But my job is whomever is the mayor of New York, I need them to work with me to make sure that we continue to be a company that prizes and celebrates people’s success, that we want to make sure people, all people feel welcome here, that we protect the Jewish community, the business community feels that they can thrive here, and we start creating jobs and making sure our streets are safe. Those are my priorities,” Hochul said.<\/p>\n<p>The governor also said the next mayor will “have to work with me” and concluded, “We’ll see what happens.”<\/p>\n<p>Hochul’s dodge on whether she will endorse Mamdani comes as she is up for reelection next year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3795418\/mamdani-challenges-trump-to-televised-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>MAMDANI CHALLENGES TRUMP TO TELEVISED DEBATE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mayor Eric Adams, seeking reelection this November as an independent candidate, insisted on Friday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3795603\/eric-adams-to-stay-in-new-york-city-mayoral-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he will remain in the race<\/a>, ending recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3794495\/trump-meddling-nyc-mayor-race-cuomo-mamdani\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">speculation that he could drop out<\/a>. The sitting mayor is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/state\/3780028\/mamdani-outraises-cuomo-adams-combined-latest-fundraising\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trailing behind the other three candidates<\/a> — Mamdani, independent candidate and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa — in the race.<\/p>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3791092\/trump-economic-improvement-right-track-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> responded to Adams’s commitment to stay in the race at a press conference, saying the only way to beat Mamdani is for the Democratic nominee to face one opposing candidate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hochul defers NYC mayor endorsement, says voters decide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2483474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ap-mamdani-and-hochul.jpg?1757254183&w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651,538],"tags":[13348,8433,56552,41802,5894],"class_list":["post-2483473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","category-washington-examiner","tag-endorsement","tag-hochul","tag-mamdani","tag-nyc-mayoral-race","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ap-mamdani-and-hochul.jpg?1757254183&w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2483473"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2483477,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483473\/revisions\/2483477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2483474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2483473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2483473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2483473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}