{"id":278031,"date":"2026-06-25T17:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278031\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T17:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:28:09","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-new-siena-poll-shows-hochul-widening-lead-in-race-for-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278031\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | New Siena Poll Shows Hochul Widening Lead In Race For Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A new Siena College poll shows Gov. Kathy Hochul expanding her lead over Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman in the race for governor.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Hochul now leads by 20 points, up from a 16-point advantage in April.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The poll shows voters largely sticking to party lines\u2014about three-quarters of Democrats say they\u2019ll support Hochul, while roughly the same share of Republicans back Blakeman.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Pollsters say Hochul holds a three-to-one lead in New York City and has widened her advantage in the downstate suburbs.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Upstate, however, the race is much tighter, with Hochul and Blakeman virtually tied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new Siena College poll shows Gov. Kathy Hochul expanding her lead over Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-278031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278031","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=278031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}