Gov. Kathy Hochul joined the YES on Affordable Housing campaign to canvass morning commuters and urge support for Proposals 2 through 5 on Monday, November 3, 2025, at Lexington Avenue and East 86th Street in New York, N.Y. James Keivom

On a chilly October night, Gov. Kathy Hochul stepped onto the stage at Forest Hills Stadium beneath a banner emblazoned “Freeze the Rent.”

Though she holds the most powerful office in New York, her remarks at Zohran Mamdani’s rally were swallowed by chants of “Tax the Rich!”

On Thursday, at the Democrats’ Somos confab in Puerto Rico, she was met with the same chorus.

Having spent her governorship under the shadow of an unpleasable left, Hochul now faces a new threat from the right: Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik , who announced her campaign for g

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