{"id":1730909,"date":"2022-11-08T23:48:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T04:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1730909"},"modified":"2022-11-08T23:48:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T04:48:05","slug":"new-york-governor-kathy-hochul-holds-on-against-republican-lee-zeldin-projection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-governor-kathy-hochul-holds-on-against-republican-lee-zeldin-projection\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Governor Kathy Hochul Holds On Against Republican Lee Zeldin: Projection"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fnew-york-governor-kathy-hochul-holds-on-against-republican-lee-zeldin-projection%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=1730909&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>Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/kathy-hochul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kathy Hochul<\/a> (D-NY) survived her first election as governor of the Empire State on Tuesday night, besting GOP Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/lee-zeldin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lee Zeldin<\/a> (NY) in a race that continued to tighten against the Democrat\u2019s favor, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DecisionDeskHQ\/status\/1590200595801333761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">projection<\/a> from DecisionDeskHQ.<\/p>\n<p>Though it looked like 64-year-old Hochul would have an easy ride to victory as the incumbent Democrat, concerns over rising crime and sky-high inflation moved the race to a toss-up in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Hochul was not a traditional incumbent \u2014 she wasn\u2019t elected to the position of governor, but took over for disgraced Governor Andrew Cuomo after a sexual misconduct scandal led to his ouster in August 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Zeldin, 42, during the campaign routinely highlighted what he called failed Democratic policies responsible for the raging crime wave in the state, specifically in New York City. The tactic seemed to tighten the polls in his favor, despite Hochul\u2019s focus on social issues like abortion.<\/p>\n<p>One of the early moments that seemed to contrast the pair on crime policies was in July, when Zeldin was attacked by a blade-wielding man during a campaign stop in Rochester. The attacker, identified as 43-year-old David G. Jakubonis, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/alleged-attacker-of-republican-congressman-released-from-custody\">released<\/a> mere hours after his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter being charged with a felony for last night\u2019s attack, the man who tried to stab me was instantly released back onto the street due to New York\u2019s insane cashless bail law. We MUST repeal cashless bail in New York!\u201d Zeldin tweeted at the time, captioning a photo of the thwarted attack.<\/p>\n<p>Jakubonis was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/lee-zeldins-alleged-attacker-arrested-for-second-time-faces-federal-charges\">arrested<\/a> days later on a federal assault charge.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After being charged with a felony for last night\u2019s attack, the man who tried to stab me was instantly released back onto the street due to New York\u2019s insane cashless bail law. We MUST repeal cashless bail in New York! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7pMpulaOoJ\">pic.twitter.com\/7pMpulaOoJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lee Zeldin (@RepLeeZeldin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepLeeZeldin\/status\/1550533346324664324?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And in October, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/twin-daughters-of-ny-gov-hopeful-lee-zeldin-hide-as-shooting-unfolds-outside-home\">shooting<\/a> broke out outside the Zeldin family home while his two twin daughters were inside by themselves, hiding in a bathroom until the gunfire ceased.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot surrender any street anywhere in the state of New York to criminals,\u201d the gubernatorial hopeful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/twin-daughters-of-ny-gov-hopeful-lee-zeldin-hide-as-shooting-unfolds-outside-home\">said<\/a> following the shooting. \u201cI want to see our law enforcement in charge of all of New York\u2019s streets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zeldin hit the same <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/absolutely-crushing-kathy-a-fiery-zeldin-comes-out-swinging-over-crime-in-debate-against-hochul\">tough-on-crime<\/a> note during the pair\u2019s debate, while Hochul zeroed-in on gun laws, despite the state having some of the strictest gun laws in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKathy Hochul believes that the only crimes being committed are crimes with guns; you have people who are afraid to be pushed in front of oncoming subway cars, they\u2019re being stabbed, beaten to death on the street with hammers,\u201d Zeldin said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTalk to the Asian American community and how it\u2019s impacted them with the loss of lives, Jewish people targeted with raw, violent anti-Semitism on our streets \u2014 it just happened yet again,\u201d the Republican continued. \u201cWe need to be talking about all of these other crimes, but instead, Kathy Hochul is busy patting herself on the back, job well done. No, actually.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now,\u201d Zeldin said, \u201cthere should be a special session\u201d to \u201coverhaul cashless bail and these other pro-criminal laws with zero tolerance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NY Gov. Kathy Hochul&#8217;s plan to address the spike in violent crime? More gun control. <\/p>\n<p>Congressman Lee Zeldin has other ideas. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QlJ0T4Uz2F\">pic.twitter.com\/QlJ0T4Uz2F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/townhallcom\/status\/1585048013294403586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hochul during the debate painted Zeldin as too conservative for deep-Blue New York, specifically when it comes to abortion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re the only person standing on this stage whose name right now \u2014 not years past \u2014 that right now, is on a bill called \u2018Life Begins at Conception,\u2019\u201d Hochul <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/25\/nyregion\/takeaways-hochul-zeldin-debate.html\">said<\/a> of Zeldin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is a frightening spectacle,\u201d the Democrat added. \u201cWomen need to know that that\u2019s on the ballot this November as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hochul refused during the debate to name a single restriction on abortion she would support. Notably, abortion is legal is some cases until the moment of birth in the Empire State.<\/p>\n<p>The incumbent also refused to move on her harsh stance concerning COVID vaccine mandates, telling fired unvaccinated New Yorker health care workers she\u2019d \u201cdo it again\u201d with regard to the vax mandate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) survived her first election as governor of the Empire State on Tuesday night, besting GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin (NY) in a race that continued to tighten against the Democrat\u2019s favor, according to a projection from DecisionDeskHQ. Though it looked like 64-year-old Hochul would have an easy ride to victory as the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":1730912,"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-1730909","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\/1730909","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\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1730909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1730912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1730909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1730909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1730909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}