Anyone who thought that Governor Hochul. Hochul, the organ grinder’s monkey, would perhaps moderate Zohran Mamdani was sorely mistaken. Hochul is all in on Mamdani’s taxation policies. What wealthy individual would want to invest or live in New York City at this point? The message is unmistakable: they won’t keep bankrolling a city that treats them like suspects and shakes them down at every turn.Expect the once Big Apple to go bankrupt before Mamdani is done.
New York isn’t just losing residents—it’s bleeding the very people who pay the bills. The exodus of wage earners is at record highs, and the old hedge—keeping a pied-à-terre while earning elsewhere—is collapsing. The message is unmistakable: they won’t support a city that treats them like suspects and robs them blind. Close the second home, cut the ties, and move on. What was once a world capital risks becoming a monument to a once great city.
Celebrating: “When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich. Well, today, we’re taxing the rich.” The plan will allow New York to tax second homes that are not the owners primary residents. It will certainly be one more reason to encourage the wealthy to wash their hands and find another market for their real estate investments. Fox News: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani celebrated a proposal to tax luxury second homes owned by the ultra-wealthy, a plan expected to generate at least $500 million annually. Earlier in the day, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul unveiled a pied-à-terre tax on luxury second homes in New York City valued at $5 million or more, allowing the city to impose an annual surcharge on ultra-wealthy nonresidents. The proposal is projected to generate at least $500 million annually, according to Hochul.
Mamdani is celebrating because he effectively pushed Hochul two or three steps further left, yielding to socialist mayor’s agenda. New York Times: Another factor in the proposal’s favor is that it is not being considered as a stand-alone bill; Ms. Hochul intends to include it in the state budget. Under that scenario, the tax proposal will not be voted on separately. It will instead be largely hashed out in closed-door negotiations between the governor and the leaders of the Senate and Assembly. That will make it harder for the tax’s opponents, including the Real Estate Board of New York, a powerful industry group, to lobby effectively against the proposal.
Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani have reached a deal that will add a new tax on luxury second homes in New York City in an effort to reduce part of the city’s budget gap.
The tax would apply to one – to three-family homes, condominiums and co-ops worth $5 million or more and owned by homeowners with a primary residence outside the five boroughs, City Hall said in a press release.
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With the 2026 midterms fast approaching, seven intense Democratic primary contests are taking shape across the country and highlighting divisions regarding the future of the party.
As Democrats look to reclaim control of Congress after Republican gains in 2024, several key battles could play a decisive role in determining the party’s chances at earning a majority in either chamber.
In California, the race to replace Governor Gavin Newsom is heating up, with a matchup between former Democratic Rep. Katie Porter and current Rep. Eric Swalwell taking center stage.
Porter opted not to seek reelection to her House seat in 2024, instead running for Dianne Feinstein’s open U.S. Senate seat. She finished third behind Democrat Adam Schiff and Republican candidate and former professional baseball player Steve Garvey. She is now mounting a statewide comeback with a bid for governor.
A series of videos showed Porter lashing out at a reporter during an interview and berating a staff member, opening the door for another Democrat to enter the race. California Rep. Eric Swalwell stepped into the breach in November, positioning himself as the candidate that will be a “fighter and protector.”
The two, however, risk splitting the Democratic vote, as California uses a top-two open primary system. All candidates appear on the same ballot and the two highest vote-getters advance to the general election, regardless of party. A recent poll showed how the intra-party fight between Porter and Swalwell is benefiting Republican candidates.
Dem CA gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter seen shooting death stares at her staff during a Zoom meeting after they messed up her lighting.
“I need the lights off… the bright lights… I need you to turn these off. These, that are killing me… Not that dark.”
An Emerson College poll from December shows two Republican gubernatorial candidates, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco and former Fox News host Steve Hilton, in a virtual three-way tie with Swalwell. It’s possible that if Democratic support doesn’t coalesce around either Porter or Swalwell, voters in the deep blue state could be choosing between two Republicans in the general.
Just north of Sacramento, another competitive race is emerging to fill Democratic California Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s congressional seat, after she announced she will not seek reelection ahead of the 2026 midterms. Pelosi has represented the San Francisco area for 20 terms and has served twice as Speaker of the House.
Pelosi served as a key foil to the Democratic ‘Squad’ while serving as speaker, and her exit opens the door for the far left of the party to consolidate more power. Neither candidate vying to replace her carries the experience of a longtime political tactician like Pelosi, and both boast far more progressive policy platforms.
California State Senator Scott Wiener, who has represented much of San Francisco in the state Senate since 2016, has announced his candidacy for the 11th congressional district.
Wiener previously authored a 2019 bill aimed at reducing certain sex offender registry requirements in the state, calling the existing policy “blatant discrimination against LGBT young people regarding California’s sex offender registry.”
Creepy California State Senator Scott Wiener held a pumpkin carving event for children with drag queen shows
His staff then allegedly assaulted an independent journalist who was filming it
Wiener initially said he would not challenge the former speaker for her seat, yet he announced a campaign shortly before Pelosi revealed she would be retiring. He explained that the move was necessary after Saikat Chakrabarti — former chief of staff to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and co-founder of Justice Democrats — launched a self-funded bid for the seat, reshaping the primary dynamics, according to a CNN report.
Chakrabarti had announced his challenge to Pelosi earlier in 2025, campaigning on a progressive platform that includes Medicare-for-All, affordable housing, and higher taxes on billionaires.
The former chief of staff had previously helped orchestrate Ocasio-Cortez’s 2018 upset victory, played a key role in drafting and promoting the Green New Deal, and worked on Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign — experience he now highlights as central to his political credentials.
On the East Coast in Maine, a heated Democratic Senate primary is underway between establishment party candidate and current Maine governor Janet Mills, who has the backing of the Democratic political machine, and “working-class” candidate Graham Platner. Both are aiming to unseat current incumbent Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins.
Mills, if elected, would be one of the oldest freshman senators at 77 years old, and is currently under fire for supporting taxpayer-funded health care for illegal immigrants and defying President Donald Trump’s executive order to prohibit men from competing in women’s sports.
Platner, a political first-timer who has become a progressive darling, is angling his campaign around Democratic populist policies like Medicare-for-All, labor protections, climate action, and anti-corruption reforms.
He’s been drawing large crowds, even as he faces controversies over past social media posts and a tattoo that resembled a Nazi symbol which he had covered up.
In Maine, another significant race is unfolding in the state’s 2nd Congressional District following Rep. Jared Golden’s surprise announcement that he will not seek reelection.
Before Golden bowed out on Nov. 5, State Auditor and former Secretary of State Matt Dunlap had already launched a primary challenge on Oct. 6, criticizing Golden’s moderate record and his frequent alignment with Republicans. It marked the first primary challenge Golden had faced since 2018.
Prior to ending his campaign, Golden released polling indicating that he had the best shot at holding the seat for Democrats — and his exit suggests Democrats will have to dump a lot more money into the race than anticipated.
In that poll, Dunlap was trailing former Republican Maine Governor Paul LePage by 10 points, according to a NOTUS report.
Dunlap is not the only Democrat trying to replace Golden. Jordan Wood, a former chief of staff to Katie Porter and vice president at End Citizens United, initially launched a campaign for Collins’s Senate seat, but shifted to the race for the 2nd Congressional District on Nov. 12 shortly after Golden announced he would not seek reelection.
He comes to the race with Washington experience and is significantly younger than the 61-year-old Dunlap.
The first-time candidate has centered his campaign on economic issues affecting working families and already has a $1 million war chest from his Senate campaign.
Down in the Longhorn state, Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett announced her run for Republican Sen. John Cornyn’s seat in the final hours of the filing period. Her entry into the Democratic primary roiled the party, with former Rep. Colin Allred suspending his campaign and opting to run for a North Texas congressional seat against an incumbent Democrat.
Crockett will go up against State Rep. James Talarico, a former middle school teacher and Presbyterian seminarian.
Talarico’s campaign platform is based on his fight as a state representative leading the “fight against the billionaire mega-donors and puppet politicians.” He says he is now running to fight against “corruption” in Washington and “win back power for working people,” according to his campaign website.
Crockett’s entry into the race threatens to take a potentially competitive state off the table for Democrats. She has expressed that she has no intention of trying to win over Trump supporters and is running on an unabashedly progressive platform, compared to Talarico’s left-populist agenda. Yet her loyal left-wing base makes her a strong contender to win the primary.
In fact, Crockett is seen as so toxic that Republicans reportedly goaded her to run so they could better protect the seat.
The National Republican Senate Committee (NRSC) began testing Crockett’s name in internal polling in July, as first reported by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The results showed her leading a hypothetical Democratic primary. In the months that followed, the NRSC quietly encouraged Crockett to enter the race, a push that ultimately led her to join the Senate Democratic primary at the last minute.
GOP insiders believe either the incumbent Cornyn or Attorney General Ken Paxton would breeze to victory against Crockett, allowing them to save valuable resources for other races throughout the country.
In Massachusetts, Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton, is making generational change the centerpiece of his campaign against incumbent Sen. Ed Markey. Moulton argues that Democrats need new leadership after the 79-year-old senator’s nearly half-century in Congress — Markey would be 86 at the end of another term if reelected.
Moulton, a 47-year-old former Marine, previously beat incumbent Rep. John Tierney in 2014 and voted to block Democrat California Rep. Nancy Pelosi from becoming speaker of the House in 2018, according to a Politico report.
Moulton has faced backlash in his overwhelmingly blue state for tacking to the center. He suggested that his party’s recent electoral setbacks were tied to its stance on allowing transgender girls to compete in girls’ sports, according to a New York Times report.
His comments prompted his campaign manager to resign, drew a public rebuke from the state’s Democratic governor, and even led a Tufts University political science chair to threaten to stop sending students to intern in his office.
Markey — often viewed as more progressive than the moderate, reform-minded Moulton — has indirectly rejected claims he is too old to run for reelection, highlighting his alleged energy, fresh ideas, and commitment during crises like the government shutdown.
Following mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City, Democrats are now turning their attention to holding the governor’s office in the Empire State.
Incumbent Democrat New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, who previously served as lieutenant governor under former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and assumed the governorship in August 2021 following his resignation, is running to maintain her residency in Albany.
She made a late appearance alongside Mamdani in his mayoral campaign, publicly throwing her support behind him and pointedly snubbing Cuomo, who had launched an independent bid after losing the primary to Mamdani.
Hochul is facing a primary challenge from her own lieutenant governor, Antonio Delgado, who launched his bid in an effort to unseat Hochul in June.
Delgado spent three years in the U.S. House before Hochul tapped him in 2022 to serve as lieutenant governor, making him the first Latino to hold statewide office in New York.
In a video previewing his announcement, he appears speaking to New Yorkers across the city while calling for “universal health care,” “universal pre-K,” and pledging to fight “the Trump administration’s attacks” on deep-blue New York.
Although Hochul and Delgado began their tenure on good terms and were elected to full terms together, their relationship has cooled as they diverged on key issues, even as the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) has signaled its full support for Hochul heading into the 2026 primary.
Delgado’s public divergences with Hochul began to surface most clearly when he urged President Joe Biden to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race. After the election, he reinforced that message in a New York Times op-ed calling for the Democratic Party to change direction, concluding with the line: “A new path is both necessary and possible, but we will not chart it with the same politicians telling the same old stories. We are ready for the next generation.”
He later deepened the divide by calling for New York City Mayor Eric Adams to resign, even as Hochul adopted a more measured approach. The split over Adams prompted spokesperson Avi Small Hogrebe to issue a statement underscoring that “Lieutenant Governor Delgado does not now and has not ever spoken on behalf of this administration.”
These tensions — driven by disagreements over party loyalty, political strategy, and generational change — ultimately led Hochul to remove most of Delgado’s staff and resources, underscoring the widening rift between them, according to a Politico report.
Over the past year, Delgado has gone from a somewhat reluctant lieutenant governor to a political outcast who is no longer on speaking terms with Hochul.
Polls show the Republican frontrunner, Rep. Elise Stefanik, performing slightly better against Delgado, though neither matchup appears to be particularly competitive.
Recent special election and off-year victories for Democrats have the party convinced they’re looking at a blue wave in the 2026 midterms. Even if they are able to regain the majority in Congress, the tense fight between progressives and moderates and younger and older candidates threatens to severely bruise the Democrats in the process.
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With only a week to go until several American states and localities hold off-year elections, perhaps the biggest surprise is the ascent of little-known New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani (D), an avowed socialist who looks like a shoo-in to become the next mayor of New York City. The leftist elements of the Democratic base are ecstatic about Mamdani’s candidacy: a minority candidate who not only shares their every radical belief, but who has also proven a talented retail politician and a competent rhetorician (the Titanic disaster of “Harris 2024” is still fresh, after all).
“Mamdani will almost certainly be the next mayor of New York. He has undoubtedly captured the attention of large swaths of the media and political elite,” wrote left-wing political analyst Lakshya Jain. “But there’s just one awkward problem for those seeking to copy the Mamdani magic: Outside of NYC, Zohran Mamdani is not popular. … The reality is just that the voters who know of him simply do not like him.”
Jain brought statistics to back up her conclusion. Although Mamdani remains less well-known than other prominent Democrats, his favorability rating sits at -24% among voters who do have an opinion. That’s worse than California Governor Gavin Newsom (D), former Vice President Kamala Harris (D), and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). The only politician more disliked than Mamdani is Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), largely because his leftist base soured on him after he voted to keep the government open earlier this year.
But this nationwide disapproval of their chosen candidate has only made young radicals in New York City more determined to back their chosen agent of radical transformation. At a Sunday night rally, 13,000 impassioned supporters jeered down New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D), who endorsed Mamdani with chants of “tax the rich.” Despite a lengthy record of promoting abortion and opposing Donald Trump, even she isn’t radical enough for them.
The same crowd gave a different reception to Ocasio-Cortez, whose 2018 election inspired a generation of young, restless, and radical progressives to seek public office — as long as they have the right skin color; anything but “white” will do. For the devoted adherents of Mamdani, Ocasio-Cortez is the “OG.”
So, what message did Ocasio-Cortez deliver to this adoring, but decidedly leftist, crowd? “We must remember in a time such as this, we are not the crazy ones,” she declared. “New York City, we are not the outlandish ones. New York City, they want us to think we are crazy. We are sane.”
Even the utterance of such rote concedes that the issue is a contested one. Radical leftists in New York City want to be reminded that they aren’t crazy because many people throughout the rest of the country (or even the state) believe that they are and aren’t afraid to say so. Radical leftists in New York City want to be reminded that they aren’t crazy because their ideas are so radical that they are insecure about their own sanity.
This is a good sign. Underneath the university propaganda and mindless zealotry of youth, Mamdani’s most radical supporters nevertheless retain some vestiges of conscience and self-consciousness, which whisper in their quiet moments: maybe it is crazy to abolish law enforcement, rich people, and the Jewish people.
In Mamdani’s mind, these three issues are all related. In the month before the October 7, 2023 terror attack against Israel, then-state Assemblyman Mamdani shared his thoughts on “international solidarity” with the Gazan cause that oozed anti-Semitism. “When the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, that boot has been laced by the IDF,” he insisted. “We’re in a country where those connections abound, especially in New York City, you have so many opportunities to make clear the ways in which that struggle over there is tied to capitalist interests over here.”
Turning police brutality into a blood libel against Israel? Anti-Semitic tropes about Jews being greedy capitalists? Connecting hostility to the state of Israel with hostility to Jews in New York City? What more could he say to disqualify himself from becoming mayor of America’s leading city in two short years? What more could he say to endear himself to leftist radicals? What more could he say to sound crazy?
Mamdani’s campaign is clear-eyed enough to recognize that their Muslim candidate with a history of anti-Israel advocacy is struggling to reconcile New York’s sizable Jewish population. This weekend, they launched a new campaign ad which specifically targets — or which they hope will target — Jewish voters. The ad featured four rabbis seeking Mamdani’s praises: three women and a transgender-identifying male.
If that didn’t seem desperately cloying, the Mamdani campaign also managed to make it weird. The trans-identifying rabbi he featured goes by the name Abby Stein, an Israeli native who was thrown out of the Biden White House’s LGBTQ Pride party for heckling the first lady about Palestine — then wrote about it as if such misbehavior was a badge of honor.
The reason why Ocasio-Cortez has to reassure leftist radicals that they are not crazy is because they remain committed to the transgender ideology, which is at odds with God’s word, at odds with human biology, at odds with every society throughout time, and increasingly at odds with contemporary American opinion. The simple truth of the matter is that God created every person as male or female (Genesis 1:27), and no amount of mental, hormonal, or surgical gymnastics can change that fact.
Mamdani’s campaign pressed this sore spot in its closing argument to voters, eliciting a shriek of pain that went unheeded as another hallucination in the asylum.
Of course, the Left’s embrace of transgender ideology is not limited to Mamdani, although he may be one of the most visible, personalized examples of it. Just across the Hudson River, as Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.) is locked in a close contest for New Jersey’s governor’s mansion, one of her top supporters has also gone out of their way to promote transgender ideology. Next week, the New Jersey Education Association will host an event for teachers celebrating drag shows to “ignite creativity in the classroom” because “drag is what education is all about.”
It’s comments like this that provoke the most backlash and skepticism to leftist ideology from normal Americans. It’s comments like this that set the stage for radicals to need the mental reassurance. It’s the people saying things like this who then also need to hear: “We are not the crazy ones. … They want us to think we are crazy. We are sane.”
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The Biden State Department has seemingly ignored mounting evidence of China running influence and intel operations from its diplomatic posts. And national security experts and China hardliners say Americans shouldn’t expect the administration to take action anytime soon.
Linda Sun, a former high-level official under Gov. Kathy Hochul, was arrested on Sep. 3 on allegations of acting on behalf of China’s government at the direction of the New York Chinese consulate, adding to a growing list of allegations of Chinese influence activities. The State Department has several tools to deter Beijing and Chinese consulates from such activities but has not taken any visible measures to do so, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“There is a range of things the State Department could be doing… The least they could do is to reiterate the warnings of the previous [Trump administration], and where they see need of it, improve upon the warnings of the previous administration,” Steve Yates, a senior fellow at the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) and former national security official, told the DCNF. “That hasn’t happened, and I don’t expect it to happen now.”
Yates pointed to an example where the Trump administration shut down a Chinese consulate in Texas in 2020 over concerns that it was a hub for espionage and influence activities. The Biden administration has not closed any of the four remaining Chinese consulates located across the U.S.
Sun was accused of using to position to alter public statements to read as favorable to Beijing, block Taiwanese officials from meeting with New York officials and help smuggle foreign nationals into the U.S. using falsified immigration documents — all in exchange for bribes and gifts from the Chinese consulate, which coordinated with her and provided her guidance in committing the alleged crimes, according to Sun’s indictment.
Sun is not the only alleged Chinese operative in New York’s political orbit who has been arrested for their involvement in espionage or influence activities. The DCNF previously found that Lu Jianwang, an alleged Chinese spy who was arrested in 2023, had a long history of mingling with Democratic New York Rep. Grace Meng, who herself previously praised the Chinese Communist Party’s “leadership,” according to a separate DCNF investigation.
Lu was allegedly helping operate an illegal Chinese police station in New York City — which the FBI raided in 2023 and was eventually shuttered — that spied on and intimated critics of the Chinese government and was linked to a China-based law enforcement unit that specializes in extraditing Chinese citizens. Chinese operative Chen Jinping was arrested alongside Lu in 2023 for his alleged involvement in the police station.
Lu had received an indirect request from New York’s Chinese consulate to help counter a protest of the Chinese government in 2015, according to his federal indictment. He was also present at a protest against Taiwan in 2023 that was partially orchestrated by the consulate, according to National Review.
“China has an extensive spy and infiltration network in the United States,” John Lee, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and former national security adviser in the Australian government, told the DCNF, noting that New York politicians who have potentially interacted malignly with Chinese operatives should face legal consequences. “I would like to see the federal government publicize these infiltrations and condemn them openly and frequently to alert Americans at all levels of government that this is occurring.”
The State Department, tasked with overseeing U.S. relations with other nations, can take a number of steps to deter Beijing, such as by confronting and issuing warnings to China’s U.S.-based consulates or issuing public condemnations, experts told the DCNF.
In certain cases, the State Department could even expel a diplomat from the U.S., a significant move that would likely be met with an equal response from Beijing. But experts told the DCNF they feel there has been an alarming lack of action from the State Department on the matter, even though the department has an annual budget of over $80 billion. and approximately 70,000 employees domestically and abroad.
“The State Department appears to be doing everything it can to downplay this situation and avoid retaliation from Beijing,” Michael Sobolik, senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council, told the DCNF. “Deterrence is just as real in diplomacy as it is in the military realm. The State Department is signaling that it is unwilling to make it painful for Beijing to influence U.S. politics for its own gain. That’s a mistake, one that will leave us vulnerable to future predations from the Chinese Communist Party.”
Hochul said last Wednesday that she had asked the State Department to expel Huang Ping, the highest-ranking diplomat at China’s consulate in New York, given that he frequently coordinated with Sun, according to Politico. However, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters later that day that Huang did not need to be expelled because he had already left the U.S. at the end of August as his term had ended.
But Huang was seen in New York and serving in his post as of last Thursday, according to public records. China’s Embassy in the U.S. confirmed to the DCNF in a statement this week that Huang is “performing his duties as usual.”
The State Department told the DCNF that diplomats usually have 30 days at the end of their term to leave the U.S. or seek to change their diplomatic status.
“It is possible that they just didn’t do the due diligence to see what was going on. They accepted a talking point that wasn’t fact-checked and took it out publicly. That’s malpractice on their part, but you have to judge whether that’s major malpractice or a little screw-up,” Yates told the DCNF. ” I would think that it’s a degree of laziness on the part of the State Department. There’s also a degree of defensiveness on the part of this administration, which doesn’t want to escalate this because it is an embarrassment to them and an embarrassment to the government of New York.”
Broadly, the Biden administration has faced questions for its handling of U.S.-China relations in recent years, with some critics arguing that Beijing has failed to respond to diplomatic pressure and continues to attempt to undermine the U.S. through a variety of methods, including cyberwarfare, election interference, domestic espionage activities and drug trafficking.
Though New York has become a focal point for China’s influence activities, its malign influence extends well beyond the state and into the rest of the country, director of the China Policy Initiative at AFPI Adam Savit, told the DCNF.
“Unfortunately, New York is only one of many hotspots for CCP spying activity in the U.S.,” Savit said. “In many cases, the federal government has acted too late, or not at all.”
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Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota called on Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul Friday night to pardon presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump “for the good of the country.”
A jury in the notoriously blue borough of Manhattan convicted Trump on all 34 counts Thursday in the falsified business records case brought by Democratic District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Phillips took to social media, where he directly requested that the New York governor step up to the plate and pardon Trump.
“Donald Trump is a serial liar, cheater and philanderer, a six-time declarer of corporate bankruptcy, an instigator of insurrection, and a convicted felon who thrives on portraying himself as a victim,” Phillips wrote on X. “@GovKathyHochul should pardon him for the good of the country.”
“You think pardoning him is stupid? Making him a martyr over a payment to a porn star is stupid. (Election charges are totally different.)” Phillips wrote in another post. “It’s energizing his base, generating record sums of campaign cash, and will likely result in an electoral boost.”
Politically, Trump appears to have benefitted significantly from his conviction as the Republican candidate’s campaign announced a major fundraising haul of $54.8 million and counting by late Friday. As Democrats and left-wing media outlets pounce on referring to Trump as a “convicted felon,” the former president has effectively rallied support by branding himself a “political prisoner.”
Hochul appeared to suggest that pardoning Trump is off the table as she made clear her support for the verdict in a statement released Thursday.
“Today’s verdict reaffirms that no one is above the law. In preparation for a verdict in this trial, I directed my Administration to closely coordinate with local and federal law enforcement and we continue to monitor the situation. We are committed to protecting the safety of all New Yorkers and the integrity of our judicial system,” the statement said.
Phillips is not the only congressman calling for Hochul to pardon Trump. Republican New York Rep. Nick LaLota, who represents New York’s 1st Congressional district on Long Island, wrote on social media that “the best way to unwind” Trump’s conviction is for Hochul to “immediately announce her intention” to pardon the former president.
Phillips suspended his own 2024 presidential campaign in early March after President Joe Biden easily swept all Super Tuesday states.
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President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, visited Crotona Park in the Bronx, New York, on Thursday, May 23rd, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. EDT to highlight the horrendous effects Joe Biden’s disastrous presidency has had on New York’s economy.
A rally for former President Donald Trump drew a large crowd at Crotona Park in the Bronx Thursday night.
NY1 reporters on scene said the turnout was in “in the thousands.”
What You Need To Know:
Trump in 2020 won only 16% of the vote in the borough, which is considered a Democratic stronghold. Trump used a recess in the Bragg’s sham trial to campaign for support in his presidential bid.
In his speech, Trump criticized the current state of the city. “Sadly, this is now a city in decline. Throughout my life, I’ve seen New York through good times and bad, through boom times and crime waves, through market crashes and terrorist attacks. But I’ve never seen it quite like this,” Trump said.
The former president said he could “make New York City great again,” while touting his prior accomplishments in the city — such as helping build Wollman Rink in Central Park and the Javits Center — as a real estate developer.
“Don’t worry, it gets positive,” Trump said. “Remember, we’re all winners. We’re going to win so big we’re going to make it [New York City] bigger and better than ever before.”
Democrat politicians had previously voiced opposition to Trump’s stop in the Bronx, calling it a political stunt. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said it was a “fundraising tactic” in an interview on “Mornings on 1” Thursday.
Bronx Congressman Ritchie Torres said, “The only place in the Bronx where Donald Trump has any place being is Bronx Criminal Court.”
In an interview on CNN Thursday, Gov. Kathy Hochul said New York will never support Donald Trump for president. “We know him better than anyone, and that means we understand what he’s all about,” Hochul said. “If he wants to spend his time doing these made-up, fake rallies pretending there’s support here, be my guest.”
Politicians from across the state reacted with outrage Friday to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul calling supporters of Donald Trump “clowns” after his massive Bronx rally Thursday, which drew a diverse array of supporters.
Hochul made the remarks while bragging to CNN’s Jake Tapper about her confidence in President Joe Biden’s electoral prospects in the Empire State.
“I’ll tell you what won’t make a difference at all Jake and that’s for Donald Trump to be the ringleader and invite all his clowns to a place like the Bronx,” Hochul said.
Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) said Thursday on CNN’s “The Lead” that former President Donald Trump is wasting time in New York, which is “solidly behind Joe Biden,” while the president is “out there winning over the rest of the battleground states.”
Host Jake Tapper said, “So Donald Trump, former President Trump, he’s holding an event shortly in the Bronx in an effort to attract voters of color, Latinos and African-Americans. Historically, a loyal voting block for Democrats, especially African-Americans but the truth is this is, this is a sport, this is a politics of margins. What more to Democrats need to do to solidify and mobilize their base?”
Hochul said, “Well I’ll tell you, what won’t make a difference at all Jake, and that is for Donald Trump to be the ringleader and invite all his clowns to a place like the Bronx. New York will never, ever support Donald Trump for president. We know him better than anyone and that means we understand what he’s all about is just for himself. So this state will go solidly behind Joe Biden for president as it has in the past.”
DONALD TRUMP IN THE BRONX, NY: “It doesn’t matter whether you’re black or brown or white or whatever the hell color you are, it doesn’t matter. We are all Americans.”
BREAKING: Local Bronx officials already estimate the crowd at Trump’s rally to be between 25K – 30K. The number is growing exponentially. The capacity was 3,500
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00The Geller Reporthttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngThe Geller Report2024-05-25 15:14:202024-05-26 07:33:58HISTORIC! Trump Storms the Bronx, Over 30K at Trump’s Bronx Rally, NY’s Bluest County
New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D-Planned Parenthood) is ostensibly a Catholic. When she was sworn in as governor in August, the Leftist Catholic America Magazinenoted that she thanked her “big Irish Catholic” family, but her real religion was suggested in the next sentence of the America Mag report: “Her immediate family sat in the front row, wearing masks and spaced slightly apart.” Of course they did. For the secular, pro-abortion Left, the political agenda of the day is much more than just an array of policy imperatives and goals: it’s a holy faith, to be believed fervently and spread among the unenlightened masses. Hochul provided the latest example of this Sunday in a speech at the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn, where she preached her new gospel of faith and redemption coming at the point of a needle: the unvaccinated, she said, “aren’t listening to God and what God wants.”
Hochul spoke to the congregation as if she were a true believer, but given the likelihood that Hochul doesn’t actually share the faith of those who attend the Christian Cultural Center, her speech is less of an evangelical display than it is a nauseatingly condescending masterpiece of pandering. “God,” Hochul proclaimed, “let you survive this pandemic because he wants you to do great things someday. He let you live through this when so many other people did not and that is also your responsibility. But how do we keep more people alive?”
How indeed? Every religion is in one way or another a story of loss and gain, of sin and redemption, and the prophet Hochul’s new religion is no exception: she offered the Christian Cultural Center a parody of Christianity in which the coronavirus is the original sin, the vaccine is the means of redemption, and the vaccinated are the grateful saved community. “I prayed a lot to God during this time,” she claimed, “and you know what – God did answer our prayers. He made the smartest men and women, the scientists, the doctors, the researchers – he made them come up with a vaccine. That is from God to us and we must say, thank you, God. Thank you. And I wear my ‘vaccinated’ necklace all the time to say I’m vaccinated. All of you, yes, I know you’re vaccinated, you’re the smart ones, but you know there’s people out there who aren’t listening to God and what God wants. You know who they are.”
Hochul’s story is resonant of conversion stories down through the ages: I once was lost but now I’m found, I was wandering in sin and desolation but now – hallelujah! – I have seen the light and gotten the vaccine! Hochul continued her Christian parody by making her claim to be none other than the Lord himself, sending out His followers with the good news of salvation: “I need you to be my apostles. I need you to go out and talk about it and say, we owe this to each other. We love each other.”
http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.png00Jihad Watchhttp://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngJihad Watch2021-09-30 04:59:332021-10-07 20:17:47Hochul’s New Religion: God Gave Us the Vaccines, and He Wants Us to Be Vaccinated
