{"id":1702606,"date":"2022-10-19T15:19:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T19:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1702606"},"modified":"2022-10-19T15:19:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T19:19:42","slug":"why-lee-zeldin-will-win-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-lee-zeldin-will-win-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Lee Zeldin Will Win In New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Fwhy-lee-zeldin-will-win-in-new-york%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=1702606&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>New York Republicans are not by nature an optimistic people. This makes sense given the last time anyone with an \u2018R\u2019 after their name won a statewide election was two decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>Just a month or two ago, the politicians, pundits, flacks, and pollsters here were all saying the same thing about this year\u2019s race for Governor: Incumbent Democrat Kathy Hochul was going to win and Republican challenger Lee Zeldin had no chance. This was not so much based on polls, though they looked bad for Zeldin, but also on raw registration numbers dominated by Democrats. But things have changed. Now most of those same folks are saying, at least behind the scenes, not just that Zeldin can win, but that he will.<\/p>\n<p>As a mid-October chill graced the air in Union Square in Manhattan a decent sized group of sign wielding Zeldin supporters milled around the gazebo shaped subway entrance. In a few minutes the candidate would be there, before the cameras with his running mate, former police officer Allison Esposito and there was but one subject on the agenda: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/all-of-ny-a-gun-free-zone-controversial-anti-gun-legislation-takes-effect-in-new-york\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime<\/a>. Murders on the subway, a father killed in a hotel lobby during visiting week at Marist College,\u00a0even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/twin-daughters-of-ny-gov-hopeful-lee-zeldin-hide-as-shooting-unfolds-outside-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a shooting just 20 feet from Zeldin\u2019s own house, where his children were<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As he spoke, his volunteers flanked behind him, a crowd grew, listening at first, nodding and grunting their agreement at the dangerous turn New York has taken, and eventually loudly cheering at promises to end soft on crime bail reform laws and implement a crime state of emergency on day one. One woman pleaded with him to fix things so she and her family can feel safe again. Her tone was a frustrated mix of exasperation and hopelessness. The candidate sought to reassure her.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Zeldin is not an imposing figure. The best way to describe him may be as your friend\u2019s dad from when you were a kid, you can almost hear yourself saying, \u201cHi, Mr. Zeldin,\u201d and him intoning, \u201cHello, now let\u2019s get in the van. Seatbelts.\u201d He is no-nonsense and matter of fact.<\/p>\n<p>He doesn\u2019t have the aggressive, sometimes annoyed attitude of a Ron DeSantis, or the aw shucks, fleece-vested warmth of Glenn Youngkin. He is something different, and in a sense something very New York. He\u2019s not particularly ideological, he just wants to get things done.<\/p>\n<p>The race to defeat Hochul for the Governor\u2019s office first entered the national news cycle back in July when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-republican-congressman-and-ny-gubernatorial-candidate-lee-zeldin-attacked-at-campaign-event\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zeldin was attacked on the campaign trail<\/a> by a drunken man with a small blade. It came at a point when Democrats were ramping up their fears of Republican-inspired political violence, but those same Democrats seemed to think nothing of a sitting congressman and gubernatorial candidate being literally assaulted on the stump.<\/p>\n<p>It was the crack in the door that the GOP needed, and now in October, Zeldin has shrunk a 20-point lead down to 4 in some polls.<\/p>\n<p>The response from the Hochul campaign to Zeldin\u2019s rise in the polls has been slow and stunted. Following the national playbook for Democrats, her pitch and TV ads focus on two things: Abortion and alleged Republican MAGA extremism. There are some reasons it\u2019s not working. <\/p>\n<p>Talking to voters in New York two different issues come up time and again, crime and inflation. Nobody really thinks Zeldin will ban, or even significantly curtail abortion access in New York, in fact he\u2019s promised not to. As to MAGA extremism, there\u2019s just no real evidence of it in either Zeldin\u2019s record or demeanor. He doesn\u2019t spend much time talking about Trump, though he got the Donald\u2019s endorsement, he\u2019s policy first, last and only \u2014 and right now, economic and crime policy issues are the last thing Hochul wants on voters\u2019 minds.<\/p>\n<p>The growing confidence in Zeldin\u2019s prospects have a lot to do with Hochul\u2019s inability to find a winning issue to campaign on. She still holds a slight edge in the polls but it\u2019s trending badly for her and there is a frightening harbinger looming across the Hudson River. <\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s shocking election in New Jersey where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/republican-jack-ciattarelli-leads-democrat-phil-murphy-in-the-new-jersey-governors-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democrat Phil Murphy came within a percentage point of losing<\/a> a race that most polls showed him leading by 8 to 10 points has to look perilous to New York Democrats. In that race, by the time anyone knew it was really so close it was too late. With three weeks until the election, this is not the case in New York this year.<\/p>\n<p>A Zeldin win in reliably blue New York would be a national bombshell, but maybe it shouldn\u2019t be. In 1993 with crime surging, Gotham elected Republican Rudy Giuliani to clean it up. Two years later, the GOP seized the Empire State\u2019s governor\u2019s mansion with George Pataki. The question really is whether things have gotten so bad that New Yorkers are seeing red<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Republicans are not by nature an optimistic people. This makes sense given the last time anyone with an \u2018R\u2019 after their name won a statewide election was two decades ago. Just a month or two ago, the politicians, pundits, flacks, and pollsters here were all saying the same thing about this year\u2019s race &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890508,"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-1702606","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","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702606","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=1702606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}