Gov. Hochul Kathy Hochul referred to as New Yorkers who vote for Republican Home candidates “anti-American” and “anti-women” — a smear that sparked furor throughout the Empire State and past.
“Should you’re voting for these Republicans in New York, you’re voting for somebody who helps Donald Trump and also you’re anti-women, you’re anti-abortion and mainly you’re anti-American,” Hochul stated on MSNBC Saturday.
“You simply trashed American values and what our nation is all about — time and again.”
However Republicans stated it was Hochul doing the trashing — and even Democratic strategists stated demonizing a big phase of voters as anti-American was not useful to their candidates.
“That is about as useful as a extreme migraine. It’s by no means a very good factor to establish a big phase of voters as un-American,” stated ex-Democratic Rep. Max Rose, who’s aiding Democrats in Home races.
“Kathy Hochul doesn’t signify a majority of Democrats — wherever,” stated Rose, who served one-term representing Staten Island and elements of southern Brooklyn.
State Republican Occasion chairman Ed Cox fumed, “She’s smearing a minimum of one half of American voters and all Trump voters.”
Rep. Mike Lawler (R-Hudson Valley) advised The Submit, “Governor Hochul has as soon as once more disgraced herself and the state of New York by calling supporters of among the most bipartisan members of Congress ‘anti-American.’
“It’s shameful and improper and reveals precisely how a lot of a partisan hack Kathy Hochul actually is. She should be voted out in November of 2026, however solely after Republicans maintain the Home because of our New York GOP delegation.”
He famous that his Democratic opponent, ex-Rep. Mondaire Jones, didn’t seem with Hochul when she was within the seventeenth Home district within the Hudson Valley Saturday.
Upstate Rep. Elise Stefanik, chair of the Home Republican Convention, referred to as Hochul the “worst governor in America” after seeing the clip.
And state Conservative Occasion chairman Gerard Kassar stated he was “amazed” in a scathing rebuke of the governor.
“It demonstrates why she is so unpopular,” Kassar stated. “Her assertion is asinine.”
Republicans stated the assertion is so offensive that it seems to be as if Hochul is angling for a job in a Kamala Harris administration, if the vice chairman wins, as a result of it actually isn’t a plus for a re-election bid in 2026.
A Siena Faculty ballot launched final month confirmed that solely 36% of New Yorkers gave Hochul a positive score, whereas 51% seen her unfavorably.
A decade in the past, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo caught flak for saying conservatives have “no place” in New York.
“Who’re they? Proper to life, pro-assault weapons, anti-gay — if that’s who they’re, they don’t have any place within the state of New York as a result of that’s not who New Yorkers are,” Cuomo stated in 2014.
Hochul’s camp had no quick remark to the criticism.
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