CITY HALL -- Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis expressed regret over voting for President Donald Trump during an editorial board interview with the New York Daily News on Monday.

The Republican nominee against Mayor Bill de Blasio said that wishes she wrote in Sen. Marco Rubio instead.

Malliotakis (R-East Shore/Brooklyn) chaired New York campaign operations for Rubio in the 2016 presidential primary but ultimately voted for Trump. She told the Daily News she had "mixed feelings" about that vote.

"In hindsight what I really wish is that Marco Rubio was the Republican nominee. He wasn't," Malliotakis told the Daily News. "I voted for the person who I thought would shake things up."

If she could vote in a re-match now, she said, "I'd write in Marco Rubio...I'd write in Marco Rubio so that I could tell you I voted Marco Rubio."

De Blasio's campaign has tied Malliotakis to the president, calling her a "pro-Trump Republican." Staten Island was the only borough Trump won last November and he is unpopular across the rest of the city.

Malliotakis said that she'd "take every vote I can get in this race" when asked if she'd welcome a vote from Trump himself.

She also noted a few issues where she disagreed with Trump, including his pledge to build a border wall.