{"id":1690637,"date":"2022-10-15T19:23:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T23:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1690637"},"modified":"2022-10-15T19:23:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T23:23:57","slug":"another-governors-race-in-a-deep-blue-state-moved-to-toss-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/another-governors-race-in-a-deep-blue-state-moved-to-toss-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Governor\u2019s Race In A Deep Blue State Moved To \u2018Toss-Up\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fanother-governors-race-in-a-deep-blue-state-moved-to-toss-up%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1690637&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/poll-finds-republican-lee-zeldin-neck-and-neck-with-kathy-hochul-in-governors-race-in-deep-blue-new-york\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lee Zeldin<\/a> (R-NY) has closed the gap in the polls on Democratic Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/kathy-hochul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kathy Hochul<\/a> in recent weeks, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/new-york\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York<\/a> governor\u2019s race was moved to a \u201ctoss-up\u201d Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2022\/governor\/elections-map.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to RealClearPolitics.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent change comes just a week after the polling data aggregator moved the race from \u201clikely Democratic\u201d to \u201cleans Democratic.\u201d Hochul led Zeldin by as many as 24 points, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2022\/governor\/ny\/new_york_governor_zeldin_vs_hochul-7749.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">polling<\/a> from August, and another poll in September showed the governor up by 17, but new data suggest the Republican candidate has remarkably made it a competitive race in deep blue New York.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur race was just moved to TOSS UP by RealClearNews!\u201d Zeldin <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/leezeldin\/status\/1581347412463214593\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">celebrated<\/a> in a tweet on Saturday. \u201cWe have just 24 days to go until we FIRE Kathy Hochul &#038; save our state. It\u2019s not too late for Hochul to come out of hiding &#038; do multiple debates with me across New York, starting immediately!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New York makes the second governor\u2019s race in a heavily Democratic state that has moved to \u201ctoss-up\u201d in recent weeks. Last month, the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/oregon-governor-race-moves-to-toss-up-pointing-to-possible-historic-gop-win\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">moved<\/a> its Crystal Ball rating for the Oregon gubernatorial race from \u201cleans Democratic\u201d to \u201ctoss-up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New York\u2019s move to \u201ctoss-up\u201d comes a week after a Trafalgar Group poll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/poll-finds-republican-lee-zeldin-neck-and-neck-with-kathy-hochul-in-governors-race-in-deep-blue-new-york\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">indicated<\/a> that the race is neck-and-neck. One of the biggest reasons Hochul appears to be lagging among her own party and Zeldin is surging is the growing problem of crime in the state. Trafalgar Group chief pollster Robert Cahaly told The Daily Wire last week that crime is overwhelmingly the top issue for New York voters. \u201cIt\u2019s the only state we\u2019ve seen crime exceed the economy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>As Zeldin mentioned in his tweet, the Hochul campaign has not agreed to more than one debate that the governor wants to hold just two weeks before the election. In return, Zeldin refused to debate Hochul at all if she would not agree to more than one, meaning New Yorkers might not see the two gubernatorial candidates on stage together at all before the election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am rejecting Kathy Hochul\u2019s offer to one single debate at the very end of October,\u201d Zeldin said during a virtual press conference, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/new-york-elections-government\/ny-election-2022-hochul-zeldin-debate-20220922-5pjbvksczjf53eg5leu4c54uqm-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to the New York Daily News. \u201cI believe that it\u2019s important for Kathy Hochul to come back with an offer to do multiple debates in multiple parts of this state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not playing along with her games, I am not going to be playing along with this strategy that is an insult, disrespecting the voter of New York,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Rigolizzo contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) has closed the gap in the polls on Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul in recent weeks, and the New York governor\u2019s race was moved to a \u201ctoss-up\u201d Saturday, according to RealClearPolitics. The most recent change comes just a week after the polling data aggregator moved the race from \u201clikely Democratic\u201d to \u201cleans &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1690637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/another-governors-race-in-a-deep-blue-state-moved-to-toss-up","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1690637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1690637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1690637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1690637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}