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New York Governor Kathy Hochul leads Republican challenger Lee Zeldin by 10 percentage points, according to a new Marist College poll.

The two candidates for governor in New York are doubling down on their priority issues in the race: crime and abortion.

The state’s crime rate is once again an issue in the New York governor’s race after two teenagers were shot on Sunday outside the home of the Republican candidate, Lee Zeldin.

The Republican candidate for governor, Lee Zeldin, who has made the rising crime rate an issue in his campaign, saw gun violence hit close to home on Sunday, when a drive by shooting left two people injured in his front yard.

The Democratic Party in New York is reaching out to independent voters on the abortion issue, sending mailers that paint Republican candidate for governor, Congressman Lee Zeldin, as holding unacceptably “extreme” views.

A new poll from Siena College finds Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul ahead of her Republican opponent, Lee Zeldin.

The Republican candidate for New York governor, Lee Zeldin, said even though he is opposed to abortion rights, he would not make big changes in the state’s abortion rights laws. But his opponent, Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul, isn’t buying it.

With about six and a half weeks until Election Day, the two candidates for governor of New York still have not agreed to a single debate.

New York’s Democratic Party leaders are criticizing a fundraiser to be held Sunday by the Republican candidate for governor, Lee Zeldin, with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

With a little less than three months until Election Day in New York, Governor Kathy Hochul is comfortably ahead of her challenger Lee Zeldin. But as Karen DeWitt reports, in a volatile political climate, nothing is for certain.