{"id":322183,"date":"2026-08-15T19:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T19:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322183\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T19:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T19:02:20","slug":"how-could-n-y-governors-race-impact-congressional-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322183\/","title":{"rendered":"How could N.Y. governor’s race impact congressional races?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The race for governor is continuing to heat up midway through August as are multiple congressional races in New York that could help determine control of the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

With a Siena Poll this week<\/a> showing the race for governor between Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul and Republican Bruce Blakeman perhaps more competitive than some would expect, it\u2019s raising questions about what turnout in the governor\u2019s race and the final margin could mean for those down ballot races.<\/p>\n

On Friday\u2019s show, Capital Tonight discussed Democrats\u2019 reaction to the poll which showed Hochul leading by 10 points over Blakeman among likely voters \u2014 a month prior she had led by 20 points but among registered voters \u2014 and how campaigning and fundraising in the governor\u2019s race could impact congressional contests in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The race for governor is continuing to heat up midway through August as are multiple congressional races in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[206,295,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,112,108,87,200],"class_list":["post-322183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-albany-capital-region","tag-jack-arpey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-ny-state-of-politics","tag-ny-state-of-politics-blog","tag-politics","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322183","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=322183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}