Jones told WNYC’s Brian Lehrer he wasn’t attacking the Democratic governor in an interview reported last month.
Democratic congressional candidate Mondaire Jones on Tuesday denied once again that he was attacking New York Gov. Kathy Hochul when he expressed his desire for a Democratic governor who is a “political animal” — before using an expletive to describe the alternative — in a recent interview that spotlighted his race against Republican incumbent Mike Lawler for a swing district in the Lower Hudson Valley.
Jones is running against Lawler, a moderate Republican, to represent the 17th Congressional District, which is considerably less Democratic than when Jones was first elected as its representative in 2020. It is seen as a critical piece of Democrats’ bid to retake control of the U.S. House, and possibly Congress, this November.
In the New Yorker piece published last month, Jones said former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo — whom Hochul succeeded after he stepped down following a series of sexual misconduct allegations — would not have stood idly by a redistricting process that sent Democrats into political disaster in 2022.
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