Scott had the most electorally impressive for a blue state, but he's a bit of anomoly.
Zeldin would be my pick. Like others have said, it was more about Dem underperformance than him overperforming, but at the same time, Dems did a terrible job at making people know how far right Zeldin was. There's no reason an election denier and anti-abortion R should've gotten anywhere close to 47% in New York.
There are 100M females and 100M minorities and 100M white men and the white females vote D in blue states and R in red states that's why Rubio won by 20 and Vance won by 6 but in 24 white females are more likely to vote D even in red states because it's higher Turnout, that's why Brown has a better chance and Beshear than Ryan Incumbency, but no questions asked Scott and SUNUNU have a hanner lock on White females, but Cooper and Josh Stein and Andy Beshear in red states have the white female vote