Democrat Kathy Hochul has become the first woman elected New York governor, winning the office outright that she took over last year when former New York governor Andrew Cuomo resigned.
She defeated Republican US Representative Lee Zeldin, an ally of former US president Donald Trump who ran a campaign focused on fear of violent crime.
“Tonight you made your voices heard loud and clear. And, and you made me the first woman ever elected to be the governor of the state of New York. But I’m not here to make history, I’m here to make a difference,” Hochul told supporters on Tuesday night.
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“I have felt a weight on my shoulders to make sure that every little girl and all the women of the state who’ve had to bang up against glass ceilings everywhere they turn, to know that a woman could be elected in her own right and successfully govern a state as rough and tumble as New York,” she said.
Hochul, a Buffalo native, had been expected to win in a state where there are more than twice as many registered Democrats as Republicans. New Yorkers have not elected a Republican as governor since former governor George Pataki won a third term in 2002.
However, Zeldin made the race competitive, closing in on Hochul in the final weeks and appearing to spur her to speak more about public safety.
“It’s been a battle where we’ve been focused on ideals. We’ve been bringing our message without apology or regret,” Zeldin said at his election night party on Tuesday.
He took the stage before The Associated Press had called the race.
Hochul’s formidable campaign fundraising allowed her to buy TV ads portraying herself as a defender of abortion rights and describing Zeldin as “extreme and dangerous” because of his ties to Trump and his vote against certifying the 2020 US presidential election results.
As a nod to the history Hochul hoped to make as the first woman to be elected New York governor, she appeared at a rally days before the election with US Vice President Kamala Harris, the first woman to be elected to the country’s second-highest office, and Hillary Rodham Clinton, the first woman to be a major party’s presidential nominee and New York’s first female senator.
Hochul is among eight women who have won statewide elections in New York, a group she initially joined when she was elected lieutenant governor in 2014. She became the first woman to serve as governor when she took over for Cuomo.
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