New York Republicans are eying a big red target.

GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik pounced all over Gov. Kathy Hochul’s support of Big Apple mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani as conservatives warned the Democratic leader’s ties to the avowed socialist could sink her re-election hopes.

The upstate Republican congresswoman ratcheted up attacks on Hochul just hours after Mamdani was elected the next mayor Tuesday — catching the attention of some moderate Democrats who fear Hochul’s embrace of Mamdani could damage down-ballot Dems running for office next year.

Stefanik, who is considering a run against Hochul, ridiculed her counterpart after the governor’s upstate hometown, Hamburg, witnessed the local GOP emerge victorious in races Tuesday night.

“They know Hochul left them behind, threw them under the

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