The first of two debates occurred on June 7th….
Governor Kathy Hochul, who got the promotion from Lt. Govrenor with Andrew Cuomo quitting under pressure for sexual misdeeds came under attack from the left and the middle…
From my point of view?
She is unimpressive….
I base my view on her response to the Buffalo mass shooting…
At the presser for the incident she went political , unlike the others in front of the mic who addressed the situation they had just responded to…
Poor form….
Democrats Long Island Rep. Tom Suozzi and New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams only have a remote chance of pullinbg ahead of Hochul, who should have clear sailing for being voted in for her own four year term staying as the Empire States’s first Women Governor…
The first debate between New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and her Democratic primary challengers offered two opportunities: First, a chance for Hochul to go on offense, a mode she has publicly resisted after taking over from her famously combative predecessor.
Second, it was also a platform for Long Island Rep. Tom Suozzi and New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams to seize a breakout moment — something to shift the dynamic of the race in which Hochul holds significant polling and fund-raising advantages.
At the end of the hour-long debate Tuesday night hosted and broadcast by WCBS-TV, neither of those things happened.