NYP: Hochul’s ‘hot mess’ campaign has NY Dems worried as Republican Zeldin surges
State Democrats are panicking as Gov. Kathy Hochul appears to be blowing the race against Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin in solidly blue New York amid worsening polls, fundraising scandals and campaign messaging misfires.
They also worry about her campaign’s refusal to focus on concerns that New Yorkers care the most about, like crime and the economy, heading to the Nov. 8 election.
“You’re saying, ‘Abortion, abortion, abortion.’ That is going to leave a bad taste,” a Democratic insider told The Post.
“It’s the economy, stupid,” the source emphasized, borrowing the famous tagline fed to then-candidate Bill Clinton by campaign strategist James Carville in his 1992 upset of incumbent President George H.W. Bush.
Yet key supporters say Hochul is still locking herself in a “bunker” amid a barrage of attacks from Zeldin over rising crime, inflation and alleged pay-to-play with campaign donors.
“Her campaign seems like a hot mess on the best of days. All they know how to do is use people like ATMs,” another party ally said. MORE
I think Lady Vampira will only have the dust to bite unless the dems pull out and play the Big Cheat card.
She always looks like she’ll do well on Halloween night. Maybe her next career should be acting (hardly!) in horror movies.
Hmm, Cruella de Vil meets Tammy Fay Bakker. Yep, I see it now.
She knows it’s already in the bag.
“Blowing the race!” Sounds like kamalalala ding-dong is running her campaign!
Pretty sure that HOKUM HOCHUL’s kickbacks from illegal drug smuggling, her vicious jealousies and pettiness, her approval of open-air illegal drug use, the escalating violence she promotes and advocates, her repugnant racist attitude towards black-brown-ethnic folks, the conspiring with an impotent inadequate insecure mayor who sold himself to Joe Biden’s plantation shackles, her recently exposed pay-to-play conspiracies, the widespread favoritism towards money contributors and much, much more which greatly effects this VIOLENCE-ADVOCATING CUOMO CLONE HOCHUL and stamp her permanently as “loser”.