{"id":372969,"date":"2026-10-14T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372969\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T15:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:00:27","slug":"hochul-blakeman-face-off-in-new-york-gubernatorial-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372969\/","title":{"rendered":"Hochul, Blakeman face off in New York gubernatorial debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) &#8211; New York\u2019s gubernatorial candidates faced off in a debate Tuesday night hosted by Spectrum News1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Current Gov. Kathy Hochul and Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman met in New York City for their first and likely only televised face-off before next month\u2019s midterm election. The two answered questions about President Trump, affordability, immigration and taxes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe\u2019ve delivered the largest middle class rate cut in 70 years. That\u2019s why we\u2019ve delivered over $10 billion in energy rebates and inflation rebates and rebates to help people pay their bills,\u201d Hochul said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cUnder Governor Hochul, we are the highest taxed state in America. Our utility bills are 70% higher than the national average, and because of policies like cashless bail, people feel unsafe in their own communities. As governor, I will cut taxes. I will cut your utility bills in half,\u201d Blakeman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Election day is Tuesday, Nov. 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The debate happened almost three weeks after a pair of polls showed differences in leads for Hochul. Siena\u2019s poll had Hochul with a 9-point lead over Blakeman. One from Quinnipiac University showed a wider gap, with Hochul leading by 19 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWNY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) &#8211; New York\u2019s gubernatorial candidates faced off in a debate Tuesday night hosted by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-372969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372969","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=372969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}