Gov. Kathy Hochul is seeking a full, four-year term after she first took office last August. Her Republican challenger Lee Zeldin, a Republican congressman from Long Island, is making a race of it. Here's where the candidates stand on key issues.
Zeldin, meanwhile, says he would cut taxes. In fact, he says he wants to pursue what he, including by eliminating the estate tax and cutting income taxes across the board — regardless of a taxpayer’s wealth.
Hochul has made Zeldin’s Jan. 6 votes — and his general support of Trump — a major piece of her campaign, featuring it in television advertisements that have been in near-constant rotation., Zeldin defended his votes against certifying the two states’ results, which had already withstood numerous court challenges by that point. He said his vote was based on objecting to various COVID-era changes made to the two states’ voting rules.
Hochul also signed into law a series of reforms to the absentee ballot application and counting process, the latter of which is also being challenged by state Republicans. The new canvassing process requires local election officials to inspect and prepare absentee ballots for counting prior to Election Day, a move meant to speed up the counting process.Of the many clear divides between the two candidates, this may be the clearest.
, which would make it a crime in most cases to provide an abortion to a woman more than 20 weeks from fertilization, with exceptions for rape victims and if the woman’s life is in danger. He also currently co-sponsors theHe opposes the state’s current abortion law — and,, said it should be “rolled back,” particularly as it relates to the broad health exemption for late-term procedures.
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