Gov. Kathy Hochul and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries have in recent days pushed back on broadsides from the president, a former New Yorker.

Zohran Mamdani became the Democratic candidate for New York City Mayor Tuesday, bolstered by a coalition of younger and middle-class voters across Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn. The decisive win comes ahead of the first competitive general election in New York City in more than a decade.

The New York Times editorial board urged Democratic voters in New York City against supporting mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. With only five years under his belt as a state assemblyman, the board wrote,