Support From Black Voters Lifted Hochul Over Zeldin For The Governorship
While Zeldin’s law-and-order campaign made inroads among once-blue Asian, Jewish and Latino voters, black voters were Hochul’s bulwark in southeast Queens, downtown Brooklyn, Harlem and parts of the Bronx, the analysis found. Hochul garnered an astounding 90 percent or more of the vote in many of the city’s predominantly African-American and Afro-Caribbean areas — the same working- and middle-class voters who propelled Mayor Eric Adams last year. “Oh, absolutely. Oh, sure the black community elected Kathy Hotchul governor,” said state Rep....