Lee Zeldin takes lead over Kathy Hochul in key New York gov race: poll

Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin has nudged out Democratic rival Gov. Kathy Hochul in New York’s closely-watched gubernatorial race — just a week out from the election, a new poll shows.

The tough-on-crime Zeldin is now leading the progressive incumbent governor by 48.4% to 47.6%, according to the Trafalgar Group poll released late Monday.

Only 4% of the likely voters polled said they were still undecided on who they wanted to elect as the Empire State’s next governor on Nov. 8.

The Hochul campaign declined to comment on the latest poll and a Zeldin representative didn’t immediately respond to The Post.

The poll comes as Hochul, who is seeking election to the seat for the first time, was slammed for suggesting that Americans’ rising fear about crime was manufactured by “master manipulators” in a national “conspiracy.”

She also accused Zeldin and other Republican critics of being “data deniers.”

Lee Zeldin
Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin is leading Gov. Kathy Hochul by 0.8, according to a new poll released late Monday.
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Kathy Hochul
The Hochul campaign declined to comment on the latest poll that showed her rival take a narrow lead.
Matthew McDermott

“Now we can all see what’s causing the panic in Camp Kathy. Her internal polls are showing this same massive momentum swing and she is flailing her arms in the surf trying to keep above water,” Councilman Joe Borelli (R-Staten Island), spokesman for a pro-Zeldin super PAC, told The Post. 

“In the past week, we’ve heard her shift positions on crime, yeshivas, charter schools, bail, and probably her favorite ice cream flavor, too.”

The Trafalgar Group poll
Zeldin is now leading the incumbent governor by 48.4% to 47.6%, the Trafalgar Group polls shows.
The Trafalgar Group

GOP state party Chair Nick Langworthy added: “New Yorkers are fired up and ready to take our state back. People from all political persuasions are about to deliver a reckoning to Kathy Hochul and show her that the only ones in denial are the tone-deaf Democrats who have destroyed New York. Change is coming.”

The Trafalgar poll of 1198 likely voters, which was conducted between Oct. 27 and Oct. 31, had a margin of error of 2.9%.

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