New York Gov. Hochul Touts ‘Abortion Rights’ in Rally Days Before Election

News Analysis
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul gave an impassioned speech at a rally at Barnard College on Nov. 3, in the course of which she repeatedly portrayed her Republican opponent in the Nov. 8 gubernatorial election, Lee Zeldin, as a MAGA-style Republican extremist who seeks to roll back so-called hard-won rights in the areas of reproductive freedom, voting, civil rights, and gun control.
References to an issue of overriding concern to many New Yorkers and to Americans in general, namely violent crime, were almost entirely absent from Hochul’s 12-minute address.
Hochul, who was never elected to her current position but ascended to the governor’s office from her role as lieutenant governor, when then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned amid numerous allegations of sexual harassment, spoke before an enthusiastic crowd on the campus of Barnard College in Manhattan’s Morningside Heights neighborhood….}