Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Helped consolidate the party left
Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins
State Senate leader
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie
State Assembly leader
NYSUT (NY State United Teachers)
Teachers union
32BJ SEIU
Property-services union
DC 37
Largest NYC municipal union
Democratic Governors Association
National party committee
EMILY's List
Backs pro-choice Democratic women
Attorney General Letitia James
Statewide elected
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries
House Democratic Leader
Albany County elected officials (nearly 100, incl. Albany Mayor Dorcey Applyrs and County Executive Dan McCoy)JUL 17
Bloc rollout at Albany campaign event framing Blakeman as a "mini-Trump"; Rep. Paul Tonko appeared as surrogate.
Manhattan/UWS Democratic officials (BP Hoylman-Sigal, CMs Brewer & Abreu, AM Rosenthal, Micah Lasher)JUL 13
Campaign press release July 13: Manhattan BP Brad Hoylman-Sigal, Councilmembers Gale Brewer and Shaun Abreu, Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal, and former AM Micah Lasher (running for NY-12) endorse Hochul.
AFM Local 802 (musicians)JUL 8
Cited NYC Musical and Theatrical Production Tax Credit and Empire State Film Production Tax Credit.
Actors' Equity AssociationJUL 8
Cited Broadway tax credit and arts-nonprofit funding.
IATSE District 10JUL 8
Cited film/TV tax credit expansion ($800M cap) and COBRA premium assistance for entertainment workers.
Entertainment unions (Actors' Equity, IATSE District 10, AFM Local 802)JUL 8
Endorsed Hochul citing the Broadway tax credit and the $800M film/TV tax-credit cap expansion.
New York State AFL-CIOJUL 1
Umbrella labor federation (~2.5M members); came hours after TWU urged the federation not to endorse her.
Bronx elected officials (Bronx delegation)JUN 30
Bloc endorsement incl. Bronx BP Vanessa Gibson and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.
CWA District 1JUN 29
Communications Workers of America District 1 (~145,000 workers) endorsed Hochul, Adrienne Adams, and Letitia James.
Laborers' International Union (LIUNA)MAY 15
Construction-trades union endorsement.
New York State Democratic PartyFEB 6
~85% support at the Feb 6, 2026 state convention
NYC Mayor Zohran MamdaniFEB 5
Cited collaboration on universal child care
Rep. Ritchie TorresAUG 20
Had been a potential primary rival