Gov. Kathy Hochul took a jaunt to GOP gubernatorial challenger Bruce Blakeman’s Long Island home turf Monday — swiping back at his attacks as a bombshell new poll showed the race tightening.
During back-to-back appearances in Nassau and Suffolk counties, a rattled Hochul cast a Blakeman campaign mailer that blamed her and socialist New York City Mayor Mamdani for “sky high taxes, rising utility bills and out of control crime” as pure fantasy.
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