New York Gov. Kathy Hochul joined Chris Hayes on his show following the Mamdani-Trump love fest in the Oval Office, where the president kicked Rep. Elise Stefanik to the curb.
“Political casualties of today were Elise Stefanik, the New York member of Congress, who has announced she will be running against you for governor,” Hayes said. “And part of the reason is that she has, out of the gate, basically tried to tie you to Zoran Mamdani. She’s also keeps calling him a jihadist, which I personally find really gross, bigoted, and objectionable.”
“This was, he was asked about that, and he swatted it away,” Hayes continued. “He said he doesn’t seem that way. I want to read you her statement today after the meeting.”
The tweet read, “We all want New York City to succeed, but we’ll have to agree to disagree on this one if he walks like a jihadist, if he talks like a jihadist, if he campaigns like a jihadist, if he supports jihadists, he’s a jihadist, and he’s Kathy Hochul’s jihadist.”
“Do you have a response to that?” Hayes asked.
“She’s full of shit,” Hochul said. “I’m sorry. I mean, she really is. I mean, this is such an extreme position, such an extreme position.”
“She’s even more extreme than Donald Trump,’ she continued. “I didn’t think that was possible, but she succeeded in proving that today. She’s out-MAGA’d Donald Trump, the founder of the MAGA movement.”
