{"id":1735817,"date":"2022-11-12T06:05:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T11:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1735817"},"modified":"2022-11-12T06:33:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T11:33:25","slug":"lee-zeldins-gubernatorial-bid-created-wins-for-republicans-across-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lee-zeldins-gubernatorial-bid-created-wins-for-republicans-across-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Zeldin\u2019s Gubernatorial Bid Created Wins for Republicans Across NY"},"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\">20<\/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%2Flee-zeldins-gubernatorial-bid-created-wins-for-republicans-across-ny%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=1735817&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/zeldin_crowd-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Despite Lee Zeldin\u2019s bid to unseat incumbent New York Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul being unsuccessful, the Republican\u2019s candidacy created significant inroads for other GOP candidates across the Empire State, and could turn out to be the unsung savior of the House majority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Zeldin, who <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/g116N#selection-2813.43-2813.67\">conceded<\/a> to\u00a0Hochul on Wednesday after running one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/Cvgt7\">closest<\/a> gubernatorial races in New York in 20 years, acknowledged his success in helping other Republicans win in the Empire State \u2014 which amounted to 11 House seats for the GOP, including flipping the one held by Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) Chair Rep. Sean Maloney (D-NY).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Republican gubernatorial nominee also said on Twitter that Republicans were able to flip four congressional districts in the Empire State, breaking the Democrat supermajority in the state Senate and receiving the most votes of any GOP nominee in the state since Nelson Rockefeller.\u00a0He declared, \u201cTeam Zeldin put in the max effort every day and has no regrets. It was such an honor to lead this year\u2019s ticket.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"a8d-pre twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We flipped 4 NY Congressional seats, broke the supermajority in the State Senate, and received the most votes of any GOP candidate since Nelson Rockefeller. Team Zeldin put in max effort every day and has no regrets. It was such an honor to lead this year\u2019s ticket. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bpOTFBrh9F\">https:\/\/t.co\/bpOTFBrh9F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lee Zeldin (@leezeldin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/leezeldin\/status\/1590525036628127744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Zeldin reaffirmed what he said in an interview with the <em>New York Post<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/09\/lee-zeldin-has-zero-regret-after-losing-to-gov-kathy-hochul\/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&#038;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&#038;utm_source=NYPTwitter\">explaining<\/a> that his campaign was able to create victories for other Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were running as one-team, one ticket,\u201d the\u00a0Island congressman\u00a0said.\u00a0\u201cI helped to bring out their voters, they helped to bring out my voters. That\u2019s what happens when you are all working together on these campaigns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>As Republicans won eleven of the U.S. House<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/09\/republicans-win-at-least-10-ny-seats-in-bid-to-retake-control-of-house\/\"><span>races<\/span><\/a><span> in New York \u2014<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/midterm-election\/2022\/11\/09\/republicans-sweep-all-four-long-island-house-seats\/\"><span>including<\/span><\/a><span> four on Long Island \u2014 one of the most\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/11\/09\/republican-mike-lawler-defeats-democrat-campaign-chief-sean-patrick-maloney-u-s-house-race-new-york\/\"><span>significant upsets<\/span><\/a><span> to the House Democrats was when Republican Mike Lawler defeated their party\u2019s top campaign chief, Rep. Maloney, in New York\u2019s Seventeenth Congressional District, even after one of the main Democrat super PACs threw over half a million dollars<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/10\/27\/republicans-double-down-sean-patrick-maloney-dccc-decides-help-chairman\/\"><span>behind<\/span><\/a><span> the congressman in a last-ditch attempt to save him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">The New York Republican chairman\u00a0Nick Langworthy, who won in his\u00a0Republican-held Twenty-third Congressional District on Tuesday, labeled Zeldin reenergizing the party as a\u00a0\u201cherculean effort\u201d and noted,\u00a0\u201cLee built a coalition of voters, the likes of which we have not seen in a generation, who want safe streets, economic freedom, and a voice in their kids\u2019 education.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Langworthy added:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>That does not change with the election results and Kathy Hochul and the Democrats in charge would be wise to get out of their liberal bubbles and start working to create a state government that represents all 19 million residents.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m enormously proud of the race Lee and our entire Republican ticket ran. While we came up short, this was the first time in 20 years we had a competitive statewide election, and that is no easy feat in dark-blue New York against a sitting governor who spent $50 million in special interest money to keep her seat.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/10\/31\/worried-democrats-scramble-to-save-kathy-hochul-in-new-yorks-governors-race-as-republican-lee-zeldin-surges\/\">reported<\/a> last month that\u00a0the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) had to scramble in the final weeks of the campaign to save Hochul and down-ballot Democrats, dumping money into the race after not planning to spend anything in the deep blue state.<\/p>\n<p>The DGA formed a super PAC in the final weeks of the campaign, as polls showed ominous signs for the Democrats, to pump the airwaves and launch a get-out-the-vote effort to save Hochul and down-ballot races.<\/p>\n<p>Zeldin received at least 2.66 million votes, more than Gov. George Pataki (R) and the highest since Gov. Nelson Rockefeller (R).<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at <\/i><a href=\"mailto:jbliss@breitbart.com\"><i>jbliss@breitbart.com<\/i><\/a><i>\u00a0or follow him on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\">Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Emma-Jo Morris is the Politics Editor at Breitbart News. Email her at\u00a0<\/i><i><a class=\"c-link x5l\" href=\"mailto:ejmorris@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">ejmorris@breitbart.com<\/a><\/i><i>\u00a0or follow her\u00a0<\/i><i>on\u00a0<a class=\"c-link x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmmaJoNYC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite Lee Zeldin\u2019s bid to unseat incumbent New York Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul being unsuccessful, the Republican\u2019s candidacy created significant inroads for other GOP candidates across the Empire State, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1735820,"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-1735817","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\/1735817","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=1735817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1735820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}