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Lifelong, career Democrat in New York endorses Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin.
Former New York state assemblyman and “lifelong Democrat” Dov Hikind threw his support behind Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin, who is campaigning to be governor of New York, arguing that only Zeldin can “save our state” from the “disastrous” Democrat governor as well as the “rampant” crime and “tanking” economy.
Hikind, who served as assistant majority leader in the Democratic-controlled state legislature, recently announced his support for Zeldin, a Republican congressman from Long Island, claiming it was preferable to casting a vote for “the disastrous Kathy Hochul.” He says he is “sick and tired of rampant crime and the Democrats’ hurtful economic policies.”
On the latest episode of his eponymous YouTube show, Hikind called on fellow New Yorkers to take advantage of the “historic opportunity” next month to “defeat the radical policies of the Democrat Party” in New York.
Despite being a longtime Democrat, Hikind warned that without change there would be “no future” for the residents of New York state.
“I’m not speaking as a lifelong Democrat, but as a concerned New Yorker who knows that if we do not make change to our leadership, there is no future for our kids, our families in this great state,” he said.
Claiming that Gov. Hochul “has failed us on every single level,” Hikind stated she is “hiding” from crucial issues.
“You can’t even find her, she’s hiding,” he said. “Does anyone have any clue where she is on the most important issues?”
Hikind, a renowned Jewish rights activist and founder of the advocacy group Americans Against Antisemitism, argued there is “no choice” but to support Zelden for governor of New York.
“Things cannot continue as they are because if they do, you and I both know that there is no future in this great state of ours, and Lee Zeldin is the answer,” he said.
Hikind concluded by suggesting the issue is beyond political affiliations.
“This is not about being a Democrat, Republican, independent — it’s irrelevant,” he said. “We need to vote for the person who will make a difference, who will save our state — and that is Lee Zeldin.”
A new poll from Tuesday revealed Zeldin is within “striking distance” of Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) in New York’s gubernatorial race as crime is ranked as voters’ top issue heading into election day.
In the final weeks of the gubernatorial race, Zeldin is running just four points behind Hochul, who takes 50 percent to the Republican congressman’s 46 percent, the Quinnipiac University poll shows, with a margin of error of +/- 2.4 percentage points.
This represents a major shift in favor of Zeldin, as a Marist College poll released last week found the Republican behind by ten percentage points. Likewise, days ago, election analysts at RealClearPolitics moved the race from “Lean Democrat” to “Toss-up.”
Most significantly, Zeldin leads Hochul, 57 percent to 37 percent, among swing voters, and he leads upstate New York voters with 52 percent to Hochul’s 44 percent.
In deeply liberal New York City, Hochul leads with 59 percent to Zeldin’s 37 percent.
In August, Hikind blasted Gov. Hochul for “trying to score political points with the progressive flank of the Democratic Party” after she used a Holocaust education event to attack Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/10/20/fmr-dem-ny-assemblyman-dov-hikind-endorses-lee-zeldin/