NEW YORK – New Yorkers voted this Tuesday in midterm elections with uncertainty about who will become the next governor, as Republican candidate, Lee Zeldin, could take over from current governor, Kathy Hochul, in a state traditionally democratic.
Nora Killoran teleworked this Tuesday, a business day in the United States, to be able to vote smoothly at a West Village school, where she filed her bulletin for Democratic Party candidates.
Drinking coffee in hand, she says she wasn’t “worried” about the outcome of the election until three weeks ago, when a new candidate started “gaining momentum”, referring to Zeldin.
“We have had Republican governors before, but they were not what we consider far-right or right-wing movements. And I feel the GOP candidate this time is more to the right than our previous Republican candidates,” the woman writes, television producer.
There were also undecided voters at the gates of the polling stations, as is the case with John, a 40-year-old man who decided to leave the governor’s box blank.
“I haven’t seen Governor Hochul do anything. And I think it’s partly because he felt like he had his hands tied before this election, but I don’t know if he’ll do more if he wins. But I hate Zeldin because he doesn’t want to admit that (Donald ) Trump lost the election, if it weren’t for that I would probably vote for him because of the crime, since there is no way he can change the abortion rules in New York “, observes the New Yorker before entering the dungeons of a church to vote.
Insecurity, the economy and abortion – in June the Supreme Court revoked this right at the national level – are the issues that most concern the voters who will go to the polls on Tuesday.
In addition to choosing who will be the next governor of the state, New York elects its representatives to Congress on Tuesday – where there may be surprises in nine of the 26 seats, according to Cook Political Report -, its attorney general and other positions.
Although there is movement in the different polling stations, it has nothing to do with the lines of several hours of waiting two years ago when the Americans had to choose their next president and the general atmosphere on the streets has just changed. . affected by the elections.
