NY AG Letitia James says ‘We are prepared to fight back’ in feisty press conference with Gov. Hochul after Trump wins presidency

New York Attorney General Letitia James vowed to “fight backmost again” arsenic she and Gov. Kathy Hochul treated President-elect Donald Trump arsenic nan force successful a divisive post-election property convention Wednesday.

A defiant Hochul announced she formed an “Empire State Freedom Initiative” to hole to conflict “policy and regulatory threats” from nan incoming Trump administration.

The Democratic politician said she’s prepared to activity pinch Trump, but spent overmuch of her clip talking astir readying for governmental and ineligible war.

New York Attorney General Leticia James vowed to “fight backmost again” successful her first comments aft Donald Trump won nan presidency. Paul Martinka

She and Gov. Kathy Hochul each but framed President-elect Donald Trump arsenic nan force during a feisty property convention Wednesday. AP

“You effort to harm New Yorkers aliases rotation backmost their rights, I will conflict you each measurement of nan way,” Hochul said during nan property convention astatine her Manhattan office.”

She treated Trump’s triumph — he won some nan electoral and celebrated ballot nationwide and performed much powerfully successful bluish New York — for illustration a funeral.

“New Yorkers will persevere complete nan adjacent 4 years,” she said.

James, meanwhile, said her agency had been “preparing” for a imaginable 2nd Trump administration.

“I americium fresh to do everything successful my powerfulness to guarantee our authorities and federation do not spell backwards,” she said successful a statement. “Together pinch Governor Hochul, our partners successful authorities and section government, and my workfellow attorneys wide from passim nan nation, we will activity each and each time to take sides Americans, nary matter what this caller management throws astatine us. We are fresh to conflict backmost again.”

Republicans blasted Hochul’s dual property convention arsenic bizarre and counterproductive.

“Hochul is retired of her mind,” said authorities Republican Party president Ed Cox.

“This does not thief New Yorkers. It’s dumb and bizarre,” he said.