NY-07: Nydia Velzquez Gives Mamdani a Warning as She Endorses a Successor
Representative Nydia M. Velázquez has a word of warning for Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor she just helped to elect: Back off city politics.
Tension has quietly been growing between the two Democratic allies for weeks over who should succeed Ms. Velázquez in Congress as she retires after 32 years representing parts of Brooklyn and Queens.
But Ms. Velázquez pushed it into the open on Thursday in an interview with The New York Times, when she formally endorsed Antonio Reynoso, the progressive Brooklyn borough president, as her successor, and cautioned the new mayor that his decision to campaign for Assemblywoman Claire Valdez, a fellow democratic socialist, could drive a wedge through the coalition that put him in office.
“Honeymoons are short, and people need to pay attention to the work at hand,” she said, when asked if she had any advice for Mr. Mamdani.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/nyregion/nydia-velazquez-antonio-reynoso-mamdani.html
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