In what can only be described as a political circus, New York Governor Kathy Hochul was humiliated onstage at a rally in Queens over the weekend while attempting to endorse far-left socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. The event — absurdly titled “New York Is Not for Sale” — quickly devolved into chaos as Hochul was shouted down by angry progressives chanting “tax the rich!” and mocking her for mispronouncing Mamdani’s name.
The heckling was relentless. As Hochul awkwardly tried to deliver her speech, the restless crowd repeatedly interrupted her with chants of “Do something! You’re the governor!” forcing her to stop mid-sentence several times. At one point, she simply gave up and muttered, “Alright, I can hear you… You want to see Zohran or not?” — an admission that she had completely lost control of the audience she came to support.
One conservative commentator summed it up perfectly on X: “Wow, this is rough. Hochul is speaking at the Mamdani rally, listing Trump ‘overreach,’ and the crowd is heckling her nonstop. She mispronounced Mamdani’s name, and now they’re chanting it back at her. Brutal.”
The spectacle highlighted the deep fractures within New York’s Democratic Party — a party that has veered so far left it now eats its own. Hochul, already struggling with low approval ratings and widespread criticism over New York’s crime and tax crises, was booed by the same radical activists she’s been pandering to for years.
Her speech, drenched in tired anti-Trump rhetoric, only made things worse. “Right now, our city, our state, and our country are under attack by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington,” Hochul declared dramatically, as the crowd groaned. She went on to accuse conservatives of “taking a wrecking ball to our values,” but it was her own supporters taking a wrecking ball to her credibility.
While Hochul was booed off stage, socialist icons Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were welcomed like rock stars — a clear sign of where the Democratic Party’s heart now lies. Sanders, preaching his usual class warfare message, told the crowd, “The polls suggest Zohran is in the lead, and that is great. But do not underestimate our opponents. They have a huge amount of money, and they are spending it right now.”
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez — ever the socialist cheerleader — took things a step further, comparing Mamdani’s campaign to a national fight against “authoritarianism and right-wing extremism.” She bizarrely dragged former Governor **Andrew Cuomo** into the mix, blaming him for what she called an “eroded bygone political establishment.”
The rally, billed as a unifying moment for New York progressives, ended up exposing just how fractured and unstable the left has become. Hochul, once seen as a steady hand in Albany, was reduced to a punchline by the very activists she has spent her career appeasing.
Meanwhile, conservatives had a field day watching the chaos unfold. “You couldn’t script it better,” one New York Republican strategist joked. “The governor gets booed by socialists while defending socialists — and the media still wants us to believe Democrats are the party of stability?”
If Friday’s debacle proved anything, it’s that New York’s Democratic machine is eating itself alive. The radicals are running the asylum — and even the governor can’t control them anymore.
