Governor New York’s Cathy Hockle took an important step to win maturity on Tuesday, easily dodging a pair of energetic primary challengers and less than a year after she unexpectedly took office. I have solidified my position as a top Democrat.
The runaway victory by Hokul, the state’s first female governor, is a tough general election contest against Congressman Lee Zeldin, a conservative parliamentary ally of former President Donald J. Trump, who defeated three Republicans. It will be the stage. A gritty race for the nomination of his party.
Hochul will be competing in the November contest with a deep structural advantage. She has the power of the governor’s office and a flood of campaign accounts, her party enjoys the benefits of more than two-to-one registration, and the Republican Party hasn’t won the entire state in New York since the governor. George E. Pataki secured the third term in 2002.
However, warning signs for Democrats and New Yorkers across the country flashed red, raising the mood for rising crime and soaring housing, gas, and food for the week, and both parties are active even in deep blue New York this fall. I was preparing to run as if I could. ..
The general election contest has spread far beyond New York as a result of two recent groundbreaking Supreme Court rulings that ended federal rights to abortion and reduced New York’s ability to regulate firearms. I promise to make an impact. The state has long been a safe haven for abortion and has one of the most restrictive laws governing firearms, which Giuliani and Giuliani disagree with and can try to change if either wins. ..
As the fight looms, voters in the Democratic primary on Tuesday cast themselves as a steady guardian of the state’s liberal values for the last few weeks of the campaign, Hokuru, a middle-aged incumbent. I chose. An orator who has been successful in other races.
“We are about the decades of progress we have made here, whether we are Trump’s cheerleaders running for Governor of New York or Judges appointed to Trump in the Supreme Court. , Right-wing extremists can’t retreat us. The court. ” Mr. Hokur told his supporters at his victory party in Tribeca, Manhattan.
Symbolically standing under the glass ceiling, delighted Hokur added that he stood “on the shoulders of women for generations” in an effort to win the governor first.
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Hochul planned to return to Albany soon. So she called the state legislature for a rare special session in response to a Supreme Court ruling that invalidated the state’s gun control law a century ago.
The race was called by the Associated Press 25 minutes after the vote in New York was over.
Hochul won 67% of the Democratic primary and 55% of the expected votes were counted. Leftist New York City Public Advocate Jumaan D. Williams won 20 percent of the vote. Congressman Thomas R. Suoji, a medium-sized long islander who ran an aggressive hostile campaign focused on crime and tax cuts, won about 13 percent of the vote.
Democratic voters have also rewarded Hokul’s carefully selected vice-governor and running mate Antonio Delgado for surviving a vigorous challenge from progressive activist Ana Maria Alkira, who has allied with Williams. rice field. Suoji’s running mate, Diana Reina, was also scheduled to finish in 3rd place.
Former Hudson Valley congressman Delgado resigned in the face of federal bribery charges by Governor Lieutenant Brian A. Benjamin, just a month after Hokul backed him for a law change. I swore to. Ballot.
His victory was the second major disappointment of the night for progressives. Progressivists have seen Alkira as the best shot in this year’s state-wide office victory. Ultimately, she was unable to overcome the enormous financial and institutional benefits that helped Mr. Delgado cover television and radio with advertising.
Primary elections in other state-wide elections — US Senate, State Attorney General, Comptroller, and Vice-Governor Republican candidates — were not contested.
Voter turnout has fallen slightly across the state, especially compared to 2018. Combined with President Biden’s slumping approval rating, Mr. Hokur’s newness to a relatively new office, and strong Republican performances in Virginia, New Jersey, and Long Island last fall, Democrats get enough numbers. Was done. There are several sources of concern when they pivot towards the general election.
“Lee Zeldin is a wolf dressed in sheep, so Democrats shouldn’t take this for granted,” said Isaac Goldberg, a Democratic strategist in New York who isn’t racing. “He will appeal well to his fellow suburbs who do not know how correct he really is.”
Zeldin, 42, defeated Andrew Giuliani, who had far-right support based on his connection with his former boss, Trump, and his father, Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City. Mr. Zeldin’s vote was 44%, with 75% of the expected votes reported.
He also defeated Harry Wilson, a corporate turnaround specialist who burned more than $ 10 million in his own money on his campaign, and Rob Astorino, the party’s 2014 governor candidate.
The victory was the victory of the state’s Republican establishment, which threw money and support behind Mr. Zeldin early on — a young Army veteran with a track record of winning tight races in eastern Long Island complaining about independents. Betting that you can appeal to your Democrats Republicans need to shake in New York to pave the way for victory.
Zeldin sought to direct the campaign around bipartisan concerns about public security and inflation, opening the southern layers of the state to hydraulic fracturing of natural gas, overturning the state’s cashless bail, and coronavirus vaccines. Promised to abolish the requirement of. Too little to restore public safety.
“It’s not just a red wave. It’s a common-sense wave that reaches everyone in every county, every region, and the whole state,” Zeldin said in a victory speech at Baldwin in New York. So, to both his conservative foundation and the Asian-American, black, Latin, and Jewish voters in New York City who tend to vote for democracy.
“In November of this year, the one-party rule ended in New York, Kathy Hochul was fired, and Albany’s common sense and balance were restored,” added Zeldin, who took the stage to DJ Khaled’s sound. All I do is win. “
However, the Democratic Party has already taken a more conservative position on Mr. Zeldin’s guns (Mr. Zeldin once said he opposed the Red Flag Act in New York) and the right to abortion (the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the Roe v. Wade case last week). Celebrated), and all, his hug of Mr. Trump and the January 6, 2021 vote are to overturn the outcome of the presidential elections in major Swing states.
Since the state legalized abortion, Republican candidates who oppose the right to abortion have not won the top office in New York for half a century.
For Hochul, 63, Tuesday’s vote was the first major test of election power since Cuomo unexpectedly came to power last August when he resigned as governor in the face of sexual harassment.
Mr. Hokuru from Buffalo, who belongs to a party controlled by Democrats in New York City, has been struggling in a relatively ambiguous situation for nearly six years as a member of the Western New York State and as Deputy Governor of Mr. Cuomo.
She moved quickly and established herself as a political force as a ruler, leaving little doubt that she was a leading candidate for democracy. With the support of almost all major Democrats and trade unions, she raised $ 34 million in bail, spent a lot of money on television and glossy mail, blacks and progressive legislators. , And struggled to balance the concerns of New Yorkers who fear crime. This spring, a series of minor changes to the state’s bail law.
She had to withstand the offensive criticisms of Mr. Suoji on the right and Mr. Williams on the left. She claimed that she did little to deal with rising house prices and crime, and portrayed the governor as another creature in Albany’s corrupt facility.
Polls also showed that Mr. Hawkle’s decision to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on taxpayers at the new Buffalo Bills stadium was not particularly popular with voters. Similar to public security concerns, the deal could resurface this fall as a matter of campaign.
But in the primary contest, at least that wasn’t a problem. Hochul’s victory margin and coalition were very similar to what he sent Cuomo to Albany for three terms. Northern bases in Albany, Buffalo and Rochester. And between blacks and Latin voters in New York City.
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