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| | On Nov 1, it was reported that a coalition of mainly [[Latino]] supermarket owners reportedly, show support for Zeldin.<ref>Breitbart News @BreitbartNews ([https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/status/1587551087225372672 Nov 1, 2022]):<blockquote>A coalition of mainly Latino supermarket owners in New York City are reportedly showing support for Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin after having endured rampant shoplifting.</blockquote></ref> | | On Nov 1, it was reported that a coalition of mainly [[Latino]] supermarket owners reportedly, show support for Zeldin.<ref>Breitbart News @BreitbartNews ([https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/status/1587551087225372672 Nov 1, 2022]):<blockquote>A coalition of mainly Latino supermarket owners in New York City are reportedly showing support for Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin after having endured rampant shoplifting.</blockquote></ref> |
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| − | Despite losing to Dems. Hochul, Zeldin did performed very well in the traditionally blue state NY, due to his focus on crime and a sizable Orthodox Jewish population. | + | Despite losing to Dems. Hochul, Zeldin did performed very well in the traditionally blue state NY (pundits attribute much of it for his focus on crime), encouraging the GOP:<ref>David Feedlander, [https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/11/zeldins-loss-is-making-new-york-republicans-ambitious-again.html How Zeldin’s Loss Is Making New York’s Republican Party Ambitious Again], ''NYMag'', Nov 10, 2022.<blockquote><font size=1>...after focusing relentlessly on crime, Zeldin took advantage of a Hochul campaign that didn’t realize exactly how tight of a race it had on its hands until an internal poll showed her under 50 percent and the Republican within four points with just three weeks to go. |
| − | <ref>David Feedlander, [https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/11/zeldins-loss-is-making-new-york-republicans-ambitious-again.html How Zeldin’s Loss Is Making New York’s Republican Party Ambitious Again], ''NYMag'', Nov 10, 2022.<blockquote><font size=1> | |
| − | after focusing relentlessly on crime, Zeldin took advantage of a Hochul campaign that didn’t realize exactly how tight of a race it had on its hands until an internal poll showed her under 50 percent and the Republican within four points with just three weeks to go. | |
| | And now New York Republicans say they see a path forward to end their long years in the wilderness... | | And now New York Republicans say they see a path forward to end their long years in the wilderness... |
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| | As results come in, New York appears to be an outlier, one of the few places where Republicans performed better than they did in 2020. The GOP looks set to make major gains in the State Legislature, ending the Democratic supermajorities in both houses in Albany, and may flip enough congressional seats in New York alone to retake the majority, especially since a special master, and not the state Democrats, drew the redistricting lines... | | As results come in, New York appears to be an outlier, one of the few places where Republicans performed better than they did in 2020. The GOP looks set to make major gains in the State Legislature, ending the Democratic supermajorities in both houses in Albany, and may flip enough congressional seats in New York alone to retake the majority, especially since a special master, and not the state Democrats, drew the redistricting lines... |
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| − | The reasons, strategists on both sides of the aisle say, are manifold. For one thing, New York has a large population of Orthodox Jewish voters. Those voters swung hard against Democrats over issues like Israel and religious education, which may have contributed to the surprising loss of Sean Patrick Maloney, the head of the Democratic Campaign Congressional Committee, in a seat just north of New York City, and to the defeat of Democratic state legislators in the same area.</font></blockquote></ref> | + | The reasons, strategists on both sides of the aisle say, are manifold. For one thing, New York has a large population of Orthodox Jewish voters. Those voters swung hard against Democrats over issues like Israel and religious education, which may have contributed to the surprising loss of Sean Patrick Maloney, the head of the Democratic Campaign Congressional Committee, in a seat just north of New York City, and to the defeat of Democratic state legislators in the same area.</font></blockquote></ref><blockquote>The GOP looks set to make major gains in the State Legislature, ending the Democratic supermajorities in both houses in Albany, and may flip enough congressional seats in New York alone to retake the majority, especially since a special master, and not the state Democrats, drew the redistricting lines... |
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| | + | The reasons, strategists on both sides of the aisle say, are manifold. For one thing, New York has a large population of Orthodox Jewish voters.</blockquote> |
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| | Post Nov 2022 midterm elections, pundit:<ref>Jim Hoft, [https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/good-news-lee-zeldin-taking-calls-replacing-hapless-ronna-mcdaniel-blew-two-landslide-elections/ Good News. Lee Zeldin Is Taking Calls About Replacing Hapless Ronna McDaniel After She Blew Two Landslide Elections], Gateway pundit, Nov 14, 2022.</ref><blockquote>Lee Zeldin probably helped save the House (hopefully at the time of posting it) by bringing four new Republican congressmen-elect across the finish line.</blockquote> | | Post Nov 2022 midterm elections, pundit:<ref>Jim Hoft, [https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/good-news-lee-zeldin-taking-calls-replacing-hapless-ronna-mcdaniel-blew-two-landslide-elections/ Good News. Lee Zeldin Is Taking Calls About Replacing Hapless Ronna McDaniel After She Blew Two Landslide Elections], Gateway pundit, Nov 14, 2022.</ref><blockquote>Lee Zeldin probably helped save the House (hopefully at the time of posting it) by bringing four new Republican congressmen-elect across the finish line.</blockquote> |