With the mayoral primary just weeks away, Mayor Bill de Blasio is going on vacation while his presumptive Republican rival is on the campaign trail. But Nicole Malliotakis's latest policy announcement was overshadowed by questions about her support for President Trump. NY1's Lindsey Christ filed the following report.

Republican mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis said President Donald Trump should have spoken out more strongly against white supremacists and Nazis.

But when asked if she regretted voting for him, she said this: "Look, I am going to agree with him on some things and disagree on other things. When I disagree, I'll say it."

Malliotakis was asked Monday morning about the president's refusal to condemn white supremacists involved in a deadly march in Virginia last weekend. 

"He should have called them out, and I agree with his follow-up statement that we should denounce it all the time, whenever it occurs, and we should join in a bipartisan effort to do that," she said. "But yeah, he should have called them out."

Monday afternoon, Trump issued a new statement denouncing the hate groups. But Mayor Bill de Blasio's campaign immediately seized on Malliotakis's comments, sending out an email asking supporters to decry the state assemblywoman's support of the president.

The presumptive Republican nominee for mayor also faced questions about one of her supporters, hedge fund manager Dan Loeb. He's under fire for a Facebook post saying state Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins is worse than the Ku Klux Klan for not supporting charter schools. 

"I'm glad that he apologized," Malliotakis said. "But what I will say about Dan Loeb is that he has put his personal resources and time to make sure that a quality education is given to children in this city, most of whom are minority children. He's done more for minority children in terms of giving them a quality education than our mayor has."

Malliotakis was on the steps of City Hall presenting a 12-step plan to help New Yorkers with serious mental illness. 

"These are the ones who are not receiving the type of resources and treatment they need under the mayor's Thrive NYC plan," she said.

She describes the plan as a road map, and it is missing some key details, including any estimate to how much it might all cost. 

With the primary a month away, de Blasio headed to Rhode Island for vacation Monday evening.