{"id":129159,"date":"2026-02-10T19:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T19:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/129159\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T19:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T19:54:11","slug":"democratic-challenger-ends-primary-bid-for-ny-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/129159\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Challenger Ends Primary Bid For NY Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK CITY \u2014 Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado is suspending his campaign for New York governor, leaving Gov. Kathy Hochul to run unopposed in the Democratic primary in June. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve decided to end my campaign for governor of New York,\u201d Delgado said in a statement. \u201cAfter much consideration, I\u2019ve concluded that there simply is no viable path forward. And though my campaign has come to an end, I fully intend to do all I can in our effort to build a more humane, affordable and equitable state that serves all New Yorkers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Delgado picked former Buffalo mayoral candidate India Walton as his running mate in the primary.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul chose former City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams as her running mate, and have been picked as the Democrats\u2019 candidates in the 2026 gubernatorial election. <\/p>\n<p>Delgado was chosen as Hochul\u2019s lieutenant governor in 2022. He had announced his intentions to run for governor in June 2025. <\/p>\n<p>Hochul has not commented yet on Delgado&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK CITY \u2014 Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado is suspending his campaign for New York governor, leaving Gov.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-129159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}