I'm getting weird Youngkin/McAuliffe vibes from this race now. Probably nothing but will have to watch on election day.
Luckily NY is much, much more Democratic than Virginia. But there’s no doubt that Hochul is running a horrible campaign and Democrats have dramatically overreached when it comes to crime and covid restrictions.
So you think Eric Adams would have won this race by much more then?
Nah, Adams is a joke at this point.
Democrats have two problems.
One, they are not running a campaign. I see Zedlin ads constantly, and they are pretty good (fear-mongering about crime, but also presenting him as a moderate and humanizing him by including his children). I only just saw my first Hochul ad yesterday, and it was basically the “Trump is bad message” that reeks of desperation. Hochul and NY Democrats have absurd amounts of money so there’s really no excuse for this.
Two, basically everything in the state is worse than 4 years ago. Democrats got their supermajority and used it to shut down public schools, pass a lot of activist nonsense, and do corruption. There is not really an affirmative case to be made for 4 more years. On the issues that people actually care about, they are silent. Meanwhile Hochul today mused about putting schoolchildren back in masks.
I am still voting straight ticket D because I’m not a sicko, but it’s hard to really advocate for more of this.
OK but Adams is more moderate on crime and COVID restrictions, and obviously did very well with the non-white vote. Seems from an outside perspective at least like he checks all the boxes you claimed were missing for Hochul. What makes him a "joke?"
