New York (EFE) .- United States Vice President Kamala Harris and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton supported New York Governor, also Democrat Kathy Hochul, in an election event this Thursday. a much tighter race than expected to maintain his position in next Tuesday’s elections.
Hochul took office last year after Governor Andrew Cuomo resigned on sexual harassment allegations and confronted Republican candidate Lee Zeldin at the polls.
In recent weeks, polls suggest that Zeldin – with a campaign focused on the problem of crime – is close to Hochul, despite the Democrat initially starting with a comfortable margin.
Hochul, the first woman to rule New York, was accompanied today by two of her party’s leading female figures at an event held in Manhattan to try to promote participation in next week’s elections in the city’s major Democratic bastion.
In addition to Clinton – who lives on the outskirts of the Big Apple and was a two-time Senator of that state – and Harris, New York Attorney General Letitia James, another influential progressive figure, also attended the rally.
The protection of access to abortion in the state, after the sentence approved this year by the Supreme Court, is one of the axes of Hochul’s campaign, which used today’s act to encourage women to vote and protect their rights.
At the event, held at Barnard College, Clinton recalled the recent turnaround of abortion in the United States and said that Hochul’s opponent Zeldin and Republicans in general want to “turn the clock back. on human rights “.
Democratic concern for New York ahead of this election has become evident in recent weeks, with President Joe Biden having traveled to the state on more than one occasion to promote some of its most popular measures.
The concern comes not only from the race for governor, but also from New York’s representation in Congress, which with a new electoral map in the state has created several highly contested seats.
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