NYC GOP Chairs back Michael Henry to challenge Tish James

ALBANY – The five GOP bosses representing New York City are getting behind a candidate to take on indicted State Attorney General Letitia James next year, The Post has learned.

Michael Henry, who is challenging James again after an unsuccessful bid to unseat her in 2022, is now able to tout the backing of the five Republican committee chairs representing the five boroughs.

“He understands what New Yorkers are facing and will not bow to political pressure or partisan witch hunts,” Brooklyn GOP Chair Liam McCabe said.

Henry, a commercial litigator, received 45% of the vote when he ran against James in 2022 — “the best showing for a Republican in decades,” McCabe said, adding Henry “has traveled to all 62 counties meeting voters face to face.”

Henry had around $275,000 in the bank as of the end of June. He plans to take advantage of the statewide campaign finance matching system that matches small dollar donations.

“As an attorney and as a leader, he represents the kind of common-sense, law-and-order approach this city and state need. Letitia James has failed New Yorkers. Michael Henry will not,” Staten Island Republican Chair Michael Tannousis said.

Henry seized on Tish’s bombshell fraud indictment, saying he wouldn’t “weaponize” the law for politics.

“New Yorkers deserve an Attorney General who will enforce the law fairly, not weaponize it for politics. Together, we are going to restore justice, integrity, and accountability to the state of New York,” Henry wrote in a statement.

Henry has also already received the backing of North Country Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who says she will be running against Gov. Kathy Hochul at the top of the ticket race for governor next year.

“Letitia James has turned the Attorney General’s Office into a political weapon instead of a force for justice,” said Bronx GOP Chair Mike Rendino.

Queens GOP Chair Tony Nunziato and Manhattan GOP Chair Andrea Catsimatidis also signed onto the endorsement.