Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman (R-Atlantic Beach) has new wind in his sails after an internal poll shows him trailing Governor Kathy Hochul (D-Hamburg) by just nine points in this year’s gubernatorial contest.
Hochul has held consistent and large leads in the official polling from the Siena College, recently taking a twenty-point lead in their March survey.
The poll shows Hochul capturing 52% of the vote to Blakeman’s 43%. The nine-point margin is only about three points more than in 2022, when then-Congressman Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) almost upset Hochul in what turned out to be a marquee race of that midterm cycle.
Conservative pollster McLaughlin & Associates in a memo called the results “ominous” for Hochul, adding that the results “provide a path to victory for Bruce Blakeman.”
Politico New York was the first outlet to report on the results, which was then shared to City & State and The New York Post.
