Democrat Strategists Express Alarm Over GOP Gains in New York Ahead of Midterms

Some Democrat strategists have expressed alarm by recent Republican gains and warned incumbent Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul could be defeated next week.
New York has not elected a Republican candidate for governor in decades. An aggregate of polls from RealClearPolitics shows that Hochul’s alleged lead over Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) has shrunk in recent weeks, coming as Zeldin has repeatedly targeted Hochul and Democrats for what he said are their soft-on-crime policies—prompting Hochul to declare herself the “underdog” in the race last week.
“I’m worried. I think every Democrat should be worried,” Rich Azzopardi, founder and principal of Bulldog Strategies and a former spokesman for Andrew Cuomo’s administration, told The Hill….}