It’s 3 weeks from election day and things in New York are getting little interesting…
(Not Much Really)
Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul is running her first race to BE Governor on her own…..
She got the promotion to Governor after Andrew Cuomo quit….
Republican Rep. Lee Zelden has never even been close in the polls …
He’s still double digits out …
But you know the media…
Horse races are their way….
Zelden has been in the news about crime stories….
Some guy went at him upstate (He’s from Long Island)
And recently two people turned up shot in front of his house….
He is little chance of pulling off a win….
But he’s trying…
And making the news….
New York HAS had Republican Governor’s….
But that was back in the day when Republicans could dance in the middle, something almost impossible in the Trump age….
The governor continues to have a commanding lead in New York City, where she is beating Mr. Zeldin 70 percent to 23 percent, and among women as well as Black and Latino voters, according to the poll.
Mr. Zeldin, for his part, gained the lead in the city’s suburbs, where he is now beating Ms. Hochul 49 percent to 45 percent, after trailing her by one percentage point last month. He also increased his margin in upstate New York to four percentage points, up from one percentage point in the last poll. He has improved his name recognition, even if most voters continue to have an unfavorable view of him.
Despite the modest gains, Mr. Zeldin would have to make much larger inroads across the map to cobble together a winning coalition. The state’s electoral landscape is stacked against him: Democratic voters outnumber Republicans two to one in New York.
And though Mr. Zeldin is receiving significant support from Republican-backed super PACs pumping money into the race, he appears unlikely to surpass Ms. Hochul’s sizable fund-raising advantage.
The governor has maintained an aggressive fund-raising schedule to help bankroll the multimillion-dollar barrage of television ads she has deployed to attack Mr. Zeldin.
But Ms. Hochul, until very recently, has mostly avoided overtly political events such as rallies and other retail politics in which she personally engages with voters. Mr. Zeldin, in contrast, has deployed an ambitious ground game, touring the state in a truck festooned with his name and a “Save our State” slogan…
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