Two Supreme Court rulings shock New York Governor’s competition on Sunday as the Democrats and Republicans made final proposals to voters who were at the center of a new national debate over guns and rights to abortion. Gave.
On Sunday morning, all three Democratic candidates for governor instigated the Black Church of Harlem and Queens, the Pride March of Manhattan, and the street corners of the city, condemning the ruling and promising a positive response.
“We will pass a law on Sunday that we cannot bring weapons into this church,” the governor said. Democratic front runner Kathy Hokul assured the congregation at the Greater Allen African Methodist Episcopal Cathedral in New York, Jamaica, Queens.
“I don’t want those guns on the subway either,” she added. “I don’t want them in the playground. I don’t want them near school.”
Republican candidates primarily praise both rulings and stick to other messages that both abortion rights and gun control appeal to popular states, raising inflation and crime rates in New York. I attacked Mr. Hokuru for the reason.
However, in at least one episode, it was difficult to avoid the problem of abortion. Former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani hit his back on a grocery store employee mentioning abortion on Sunday afternoon while campaigning for his son Andrew on Staten Island. He said he was.
“What he said was political was,’You’re going to kill a woman, you’re going to kill a woman,'” Giuliani said. Roe v. Wade Wade on Friday.
Police who did not confirm the abortion statement said the suspect had been detained but not charged. The young Giuliani wasn’t at hand.
The front, which was portrayed months ago in a race interrupted by violent tragedy, like the racist attack at Buffalo’s supermarket in May, was plagued by concerns about quality of life. It was just as lively and frustrated.
Only this time, the battle was fought behind a recent Supreme Court decision on the right to abortion and New York’s ability to regulate firearms. The ruling seems to have given the Democrats a new sense of urgency by injecting fresh power into the race.
Hokul, the state’s first female governor, put both decisions at the heart of New York’s weekend hopscotch, spending $ 35 million to support access to abortion and recalling lawmakers to Albany next week. He emphasized her decision to hold a special legislative meeting. The judge’s decision to overturn 100-year-old New York state law limiting the ability to carry hidden weapons.
Hours after the Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade case. On Friday, Governor Wade competed to protest at Union Square in Manhattan, promising thousands of New Yorkers that New York would become a “safe harbor” for abortion under her leadership.
Hokuru and her running mate, Vice Governor, at her show, which stands in the founding of the state’s Democratic Party. Antonio Delgado also ran through a powerful Democratic representative. Mayor Erik Adams campaigned with them in Brooklyn on Saturday, and Congressman Gregory W. Meeks was the chairman of the Queens Democratic Party who encouraged her to put together a more diverse campaign, and she was her church on Sunday. I took him to.
“I don’t tell who to vote for,” Hokuru made fun of in Jamaica. “You are not supposed to do it in the church.”
Some voters said they were already impressed.
“So far, I’m happy with what she’s done,” said Shirley Gist, a 74-year-old retired linguistic pathologist who voted early on Saturday for Mr. Hokuru. “If it’s not broken, don’t fix it.”
Jumaan D. Williams, a public advocate to the left of New York City, and Congressman Thomas R. Suoji, who runs to the right of Mr. Hokur, appeared at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem on Sunday and opposed.
“”I am a common sense Democrat. I’m sick of the far left and sick of the crazy right, “Suozzi said in his remarks, devoting himself to Adams’ crime-fighting plan, promising tax cuts and improved public education. .. He knocked on Mr. Hokuru for accepting support from the National Rifle Association in her past campaigns — her affiliation she has denied since.
Williams did not explicitly mention the Supreme Court’s ruling, but nevertheless held responsibility for the footsteps of democratic power structures.
“”To be clear, this time democratic leadership has failed, “he said. “They failed to act.”
Still, it wasn’t clear if the attack was enough to turn the tide against Hokul, who spends millions of dollars on advertising more than either major enemy and holds a big lead in polls. In fact, some Democrats predicted that the opposition to the Supreme Court’s ruling would only help Mr. Hokuru, a moderate from Buffalo who just took office last summer.
“What can the two democratic challengers do?” Said the former governor. David A. Patterson. “They have to sit and watch, kind of, because they can’t oppose it.”
He predicted Hochul’s comfortable victory. “When people are confused, they tend to vote more practically,” he said.
The Democratic Party will also decide on a candidate for vice-governor on Tuesday. Delgado has received sufficient institutional support, but from Ana Maria Alkira, a progressive activist working with Williams, and Diana Reina, a more moderate Democrat running with Suoji. Faced with two active challenges.
The winner will face Republican and longtime New York City police officer Alison Esposito.
Republican competition for the governor has become much more intense — full of slander, increased contempt, and sharper policy differences between candidates. However, few polls were available, most of the candidates were still struggling to establish name recognition in the primary, and even the state’s most connected Republicans were worried. ..
“I don’t know what this will be,” said John J. Faso, a former Republican and candidate for governor of the party in 2006.
With Giuliani and Harry Wilson on the heels, Republican-backed presumed front runner Lee Zeldin will tour northern New York on a campaign bus over the weekend to strengthen support in areas that normally shake him. And said. Party primary.
“Now everyone is at the limit,” Zeldin told a small crowd of about three dozen in an industrial complex on the outskirts of Albany. He promised to rehire those who were dismissed for refusing vaccination and to dismiss the Manhattan District Attorney, who became a Republican punching bag.
Another candidate, Rob Astorino, spent Sunday shaking hands with voters on the long beach promenade of Long Island.
Moderate Wilson, who supports the right to abortion and has established himself as an outsider in centrist politics, has few direct campaigns. But he covered the airwaves with more than $ 10 million in ads, filling Zeldin as a political insider for flip-flops.
Near Albany, a completely different message was delivered by Andrew Giuliani. Andrew Giuliani was orbiting the Lebanon Valley Speedway on Saturday night with a ram pickup truck that adorned his face. He was happy to associate with his ex-boss Donald J. Trump. “You like that guy, right?”
Giuliani, 36, a frank critic of abortion and a proponent of firearms, spent most of the three hours on the Speedway on Saturday night, reminding voters of MAGA status.
The cheers from the crowd suggested that he was among his friends.
Wendy Dominsky, 52, a retired nurse who volunteered for the event for five hours from Youngstown, New York, said she volunteered for the event with the American flag on her tank top. .. “Flat out flip-flop liar.”
Even if he didn’t say so, she had little doubt about who the former president would support. “Giuliani represents everything that Trump represents, and everything that we represent,” she said.
The report was contributed by Jay Root, Jeffrey C Maze, Diana Rubinstein When Grace Ashford..