{"id":1727890,"date":"2022-11-07T06:30:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T11:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1727890"},"modified":"2022-11-07T09:18:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T14:18:30","slug":"ny-post-editorial-board-hochuls-running-on-fumes-in-her-desperate-final-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-post-editorial-board-hochuls-running-on-fumes-in-her-desperate-final-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Post Editorial Board: Hochul\u2019s Running on Fumes in Her Desperate Final Hours"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fny-post-editorial-board-hochuls-running-on-fumes-in-her-desperate-final-hours%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=1727890&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/WDH_9702_copy.1-e1667508389573.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>New York is so deep-blue that Gov. Kathy Hochul might yet pull off a narrow victory on Tuesday, but her campaign is visibly running on fumes and focused exclusively (and <em>lamely<\/em>) on imploring the Democratic base to bother voting. <\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s doing mostly indoor events, largely in the city (where early-voting turnout has been conspicuously low) staged by party regulars and in union halls. The sparse turnouts are alarming party leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Challenger Lee Zeldin, meanwhile, is holding huge and <em>happy<\/em> outdoor rallies \u2014 and continuing his practice of visiting crime scenes, such as the site of Thursday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/03\/homeless-man-serial-rapist-busted-for-west-village-attack\/\">horrific rape of a woman jogger<\/a> on Manhattan\u2019s West Side, allegedly by a vagrant with 25 priors who police are also eyeing in two previous rapes.<\/p>\n<p>The day of that rape, coincidentally, Hochul was \u201crallying\u201d in a room on the Barnard campus with Hillary Clinton and Vice President Kamala Harris, aiming to fire up young women with two of the Democratic Party\u2019s worst campaigners. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see . . . ads about crime every 30 seconds,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/03\/hillary-clinton-accuses-gop-of-using-fear-tactics-at-nyc-hochul-rally\/\">Clinton railed<\/a> of the supposed GOP campaign of fear. \u201cNo solutions, but just a lot of really fearful, scary pictures and scary music.\u201d Solutions? Zeldin has an extensive anti-crime strategy, from firing district attorneys who won\u2019t prosecute as the law commands to fixing the disastrous criminal-justice \u201creforms\u201d that Hochul pretends she\u2019s already fixed.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the event was mostly about the nonexistent threat to abortion rights in New York, plus the \u201cendangered democracy\u201d warnings that even <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/02\/maga-republicans-may-have-dems-to-thank-for-their-wins\/\">Democrats don\u2019t really believe<\/a>. None of the powerful women addressed female New Yorkers\u2019 fears of sexual and physical violence \u2014 well-grounded fears, as the West Side rape proves.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>As of course does the case of Keaira Bennefield, the young Buffalo mom who police say was killed at the hands of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/01\/ny-man-sprung-on-no-bail-in-facebook-posted-beating-guns-down-wife-cops\/\">her abusive husband<\/a> after he was freed from jail without bail. Hochul\u2019s cold comment on that preventable horror: The <em>system<\/em> failed. Yes, the one she runs. <\/p>\n<p>Remarkably, the gov has also done multiple appearances on MSNBC, a network viewed exclusively by the Democratic base. But while Al Sharpton\u2019s show was certainly a safe place to slam her opponent, she had little to tell his viewers about anything she\u2019d done for <em>them<\/em>. Then again, Hochul <em>has<\/em> no answers for voters living in inner-city communities racked by crime and violence. <\/p>\n<p>Her campaign even got Bill Clinton from cryostasis to do a Brooklyn event. Yes, the guy who signed Democrats\u2019 1994 crime bill that every Dem from President Joe Biden on down now condemns. And even Bubba admits, \u201cThere is too much crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And now Biden himself is due to show Sunday in Yonkers. His ratings aren\u2019t <em>as <\/em>underwater here as nationally, but even the Dem base wants him to retire in 2024: Will his whisper-shouts and fantasy \u201cmemories\u201d get them to the polls? Get set for a long aimless anecdote about tough Irish women . . .<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>In another desperate gimmick, a new Dem-promoting <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZackFinkNews\/status\/1588226483423780866?s=20&#038;t=oAW9_4QwqGmdswgJq_S4GA\">ad pairs<\/a> Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James \u2014 who\u2019ve spent next to no time campaigning together \u2014 as \u201cwomen who are making history.\u201d Its telling tagline: \u201cTish James and Kathy Hochul are showing up for us. Now we have to show up for them.\u201d Is \u201cmaking history\u201d by simply holding office as a woman (a black one, in James\u2019 case) really an issue for New York women concerned not just about crime but also their shrinking buying power and their kids\u2019 learning loss?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just that Hochul is finding it tough to preaching to the choir, she\u2019s finding it tough to  get the choir to show up. Democrats, like that group of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/03\/why-democratic-latino-supermarket-owners-support-lee-zeldin\/\">Latino supermarket owners<\/a>, Queens Councilman <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/31\/zeldin-will-provide-the-leadership-ny-is-missing-from-hochul\/\">Robert Holden<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/31\/why-nyc-democrats-are-backing-republican-lee-zeldin-for-governor\/\">other minorities<\/a>, are defecting to Zeldin.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul\u2019s problem goes far beyond cold denialism on crime (blaming judges; blaming \u201cthe system): Her \u201cpositive\u201d message boils down to bragging about handing out hundreds of millions in subsidies to fund a billionaire\u2019s football stadium and a microchip plant while ordinary taxpayers struggle with rising food and gasoline prices.<\/p>\n<p>She is, as one wag put it, a hardboiled egg without salt \u2014 tasteless, bland and hard to swallow, even for the loyal Democratic base. And she\u2019s basically given up on convincing independents, a solid quarter of the electorate. <\/p>\n<p>Her campaign is about <em>nothing<\/em>. If Zeldin wins, he has a clear mandate on crime and the economy. If Hochul wins, we guess that\u2019s a license to . . . keep up the pay-to-play?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York is so deep-blue that Gov. Kathy Hochul might yet pull off a narrow victory on Tuesday, but her campaign is visibly running on fumes and focused<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1727893,"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":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1727890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"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\/1727890","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=1727890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1727893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}