When Elise "Elsie" Stefanik announced that she was running for Governor of New York in 2026, we figured that she'd seen some polling numbers that convinced her that Democrat Kathy Hochul was vulnerable.
After all, Elsie had just come off a humiliating non-nomination to be Ambassador to the United Nations, so surely she was looking for some way to save face — and pave her path to either Secretary of State in the last two years of the Benedict Donald administration, or just build her national network for a Presidential run in 2028.
But now, a new poll from the Siena Research Institute shows Hochul beating not only her Democratic primary opponents, but Elsie in the general. Elsie would win the Republican primary, but go on to lose to Hochul in the fall by double digits, 47 percent to 24 percent.
Poor Elsie! How simply frightful! How humiliating! How delightful!
Okay, it's one poll. But it's encouraging to see Hochul so far out in front this early. It means that she should put the pedal to the metal immediately, take nothing for granted, and — as Benedict Donald would say — obliterate Stefanik once and for all. Hochul has been making some smart moves lately — holding events in the North Country against Trump's billionaire bailout bill, and, of course, zipping down to New York City two weeks ago to defend Brad Lander in salty terms. Looks like she knows what the assignment is. We cats cheer her on, and we PURR.
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