Governor Kathy Hochul pulled out all stops at a Brooklyn rally on Saturday as the number of days before the governor’s race and her lead in the polls slipped to single digits.
The governor was accompanied by representatives from unions including former President Bill Clinton, Mayor Eric Adams, US Senator Chuck Schumer and local communications, service workers and hospitality unions in a last-minute bid to inspire voters in New York City – whose votes Could decide the outcome of the race.
“What a big turnout this whole election can be in Brooklyn,” Clinton told the crowd at City Point on Saturday afternoon.
The former president spoke of Hochul’s achievements since he last took office – including “implementing a nation-leading plan to halt climate change by creating jobs, paid family leave, protecting reproductive rights.” To protect our democracy and crack down on illegal guns.”
Recent polls show the governor leading the Republicans claimant Lee Zeldin between four and eleven points in polls—a difference too close For the comfort of party leaders. New York State has over 7 million registered Democratic voters – compared to only 3 million registered Republicans.
nearly half Registered Democrats The state lives within New York City – with over 1 million in Brooklyn alone. Hochul kicked off campaigns in Manhattan and Westchester counties over the weekend, with local politicians joining them or holding separate rallies and vote-out events around the city.
“This is the moment we have been waiting for. We have a governor who is authentic, he is real, he is one of us,” Adams said at the rally. “She doesn’t come from an ivory tower somewhere.. It’s time to take the ball home. Whenever we needed Kathy Hochul, she was there for us.
Any time he calls on Hochul for help – whether it’s for help bolstering subway security Sunset Park Attack Or to protect women’s right to choose what happens to their bodies, they are there to step in, he said.
Hochul — stepping on stage after Adams, stumped for Schumer, State Comptroller Tom Dinapoli, and more — celebrated his family’s union roots and the union’s contribution to New York.
Hochul said that the unions—and the women who worked to secure women’s suffrage in Seneca Falls, and those leading the riots in Stonewall to secure the rights of gay New Yorkers—helped Zeldin and other Republicans to make that progress. Have fought very hard to allow erasing.
“It’s on our watch to put out that torch… that’s what’s on the ballot on Tuesday,” she said. “Because we are facing an opposite … there has never been a big difference between us and them.”
Hochul and his supporters pointed to Zeldin’s “extremist” votes in the House of Representatives on Saturday; Congress member voted last year against Authenticating the results of the 2020 election.
Nearly 400,000 people have voted early in New York City as of November 5, and hundreds of thousands are expected to vote on Election Day Tuesday. Hochul encouraged the people of Brooklyn to vote — and asked his friends and neighbors to do the same.
“I ask you: will you stand by me when we call out white supremacists and hate?” He asked the crowd on Saturday. “Will you stand by me when we stand up against extremism and those who deny elections?”
“No one is tougher than me,” she said on Saturday. “I like to be underestimated.”
