New York Attorney General Letitia James spoke at a rally for New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Oct. 13, marking her first public appearance after being indicted on federal fraud charges.
The event, in the city’s Washington Heights neighborhood, also included remarks from New York Liberty guard Natasha Cloud and the television personality and podcaster known as The Kid Mero, kicked off the final stretch of Mamdani’s campaign ahead of the Nov. 4 election.
She is expected to make her initial appearance in a federal court in Virginia on Oct. 24. If convicted of the felony charges, she would automatically relinquish her office under New York law.
“You come for me, you got to come to all of us,” she said as the crowd cheered. “Every single one of us. We’re all in this together.”
James said she supports Mamdani because he shares the same values she does, adding that the Democratic Party’s mayoral candidate is someone who understands the need to change “the way that we do politics in this city.”
“I see the courage that is embodied in Zohran, and that’s why I am supporting him,” she said. “He is a leader fighting for a better future for this city, and he, like me, knows what it’s like to be attacked, to be called names, to be threatened, to be harassed.”
Mamdani is running against former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who runs as an independent candidate after losing the Democratic primary to Mamdani in June, and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa. Democratic Mayor Eric Adams withdrew his reelection bid on Sept. 28.
In the years before Trump took office, James pursued a civil case against The Trump Organization that accused his real estate business of artificially inflating its assets to secure more favorable bank loans.
