Lee is good for New York. Best shot is probably for Governor.
Have to look a little more into his background.
“Lee is good for New York. Best shot is probably for Governor.”
Zeldin is by no means a staunch conservative, but he would be a fine Governor for NY (probably the best we can do, of anyone who would have even a snowball’s chance). Hochul is brutally unpopular, but overcoming the automatic Democrat vote in the NYC ghetto, other upstate ghettos, and deteriorating suburban areas is practically impossible. In recent years it has been *totally* impossible.
The last Republican to win any statewide office in New York was George Pataki.... 22 long years ago.
Since Governor is a far less important office than U.S. Senator, Republicans are sometimes able to (i.e. are “allowed” to) win gubernatorial elections in hard-left states. Like Vermont, Maryland, Massachusetts, etc.
It can be permitted because a GOP Governor, with a veto-proof Democrat legislature holding the true power in the state, is merely an impotent figurehead — who, along with his equally impotent party, can be conveniently assigned blame by the media and other Democrats when things go sour in the state.