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Nicki Minaj and Kathy Hochul Feud Over New York Governor Race

4 sources · updated 2026-10-29
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What happened

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul told reporters that rapper Nicki Minaj should “get outside and get offline a little more” and “stop going to Trump rallies, it’s kinda poisoning your mind,” after Minaj posted on X calling Hochul an “evil woman” and urging voters to back Republican Bruce Blakeman in the gubernatorial race. Minaj, who was raised in Queens, tied the attack to Hochul’s May 2024 remark at the Milken Institute Global Conference that “young black kids growing up in the Bronx who don’t even know what the word computer is,” and wrote that Democrats should forfeit Hochul’s seat because she “did not denounce evil when she had the chance” and “will not escape God’s wrath.” Minaj has recently campaigned for Republicans and Trump-backed candidates, including urging young voters in September to “vote red” and planning to travel on Air Force One to a Trump rally in Michigan.
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Unpacked

Left-leaning coverage presents Hochul as scolding Minaj over Trump rallies and notes only that she was answering a post. Right-leaning coverage is simply more complete: it reports Minaj had just called the governor an "evil woman" and tied the blast to Hochul's claim that Black kids in the Bronx do not know what a computer is. A reader of only The Hill would not know that post was an attack on Hochul's own words. Right-leaning coverage opens on Minaj urging New Yorkers to back Bruce Blakeman and on Democrats forfeiting Hochul's seat. Left-leaning coverage opens on the governor telling the rapper to get outside and skip Trump rallies. The same Hochul quote is the entire left-leaning story and a later reply in the right-leaning one. Did Hochul answer the Bronx computers remark, or only Minaj's rally-going?
Bottom line

The Hill has Hochul saying Trump rallies are poisoning Minaj's mind and never prints the "evil woman" attack or the Bronx computers gaffe that started the feud.

The receipts — 4 facts one side's coverage lacks
  • Minaj called Hochul an "evil woman" and said the Democratic Party should forfeit her seat contextin NY Post · absent from left-leaning coverage
  • Hochul told Minaj to get "offline" as well as to get outside official statementin The Hill · absent from right-leaning coverage
  • Minaj asked how Black people and Christians dared vote for Hochul and told them to vote Blakeman contextin NY Post · absent from left-leaning coverage
  • Blakeman called the Bronx remark reprehensible in their debate after Hochul accused him of palling around with white supremacists contextin NY Post · absent from left-leaning coverage
The Left View
Left-leaning coverage, represented here by The Hill, frames the episode as Hochul rebuking Minaj for attending Trump rallies and spending too much time online, quoting the governor’s claim that those rallies are “poisoning” Minaj’s mind. It presents Hochul as answering Minaj’s post and does not develop Minaj’s charges about the Bronx comments, her appeal to Black and Christian voters, or her endorsement of Blakeman.
The Right View
Right-leaning coverage, represented here by the New York Post, frames Minaj as going “scorched earth” on Hochul, quoting her as an “evil woman” and a “vile wicked curse of a woman” and her demand that Black people and Christians refuse to vote for her. The Post presents the blast as a reaction to Hochul’s Bronx computer remark—which Blakeman had called “reprehensible” in their debate—and to Hochul staying “silent on harm being caused to the innocent,” while noting Minaj’s turn as a vocal Republican surrogate.
Our Take (balanced)
Hochul’s strongest argument is that Minaj’s hostility reflects Trump-rally and online immersion rather than Hochul’s record; the evidence is her own quoted language that rallies are “poisoning” Minaj’s mind and that Minaj should get outside and offline. Minaj’s strongest argument, as carried on the right, is that Hochul’s own Bronx comments and alleged silence on harm to “the innocent” make her unfit—grounds Minaj treats as enough to back Blakeman and tell Black and Christian voters they “dare” not support her. The central unresolved tension is whether the attack is a warranted response to those comments and Hochul’s record, or a partisan conversion Hochul attributes to Trump rallies; neither side’s account independently settles which explanation is primary.

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