{"id":354315,"date":"2026-09-23T05:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T05:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/354315\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T05:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T05:30:25","slug":"debate-date-set-for-new-york-governor-candidates-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/354315\/","title":{"rendered":"Debate date set for New York governor candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, left, is challenging Gov. Kathy Hochul.\"  width=\"880\" height=\"579\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790141425_660_.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press file photos<\/p>\n<p>         Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, left, is challenging Gov. Kathy Hochul.<\/p>\n<p>The candidates for New York governor have set a date for their first and only debate ahead of the November election.<\/p>\n<p>Incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul and Republican challenger Bruce Blakeman will face one another on Oct. 13.<\/p>\n<p>Spectrum News announced the date Tuesday. It&#8217;ll be broadcast live on the network&#8217;s affiliates across the state, and on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the candidates for state comptroller will debate Oct. 1.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney general candidates will take the stage on Oct. 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Associated Press file photos Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, left, is challenging Gov. Kathy Hochul. The candidates&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-354315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354315","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=354315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}