{"id":375274,"date":"2026-10-16T23:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/375274\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T23:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:46:10","slug":"political-insiders-break-down-n-y-gubernatorial-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/375274\/","title":{"rendered":"Political insiders break down N.Y. gubernatorial debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The candidates for governor, Republican Bruce Blakeman and incumbent Democrat Kathy Hochul, faced off in their only debate of the election cycle right here on Spectrum News 1 on Tuesday. The debate, co-moderated by our own Susan Arbetter and Errol Lewis, featured some heated moments and a lot of policy.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Lesswing, a Democratic strategist who served as an advisor to Hochul, as well as worked on Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin&#8217;s campaign, who currently serves as senior vice president and head of Albany at SKDK, and Bill O&#8217;Reilly, a former advisor to New York City politicians including former State Senator Roy Goodman and currently working on Republican Saritha Komtireddy&#8217;s campaign for attorney general, joined Capital Tonight to give their insight of the debate.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792194370_325_nys-capital-tonight-time-graphic-promo960x540jpgjpg.jpeg\" class=\"hashed-image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-fifty\" alt=\"\" img-data-wrap-text=\"false\" img-data-editing=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The candidates for governor, Republican Bruce Blakeman and incumbent Democrat Kathy Hochul, faced off in their only debate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[204,202,19662,38490,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,112,87,200],"class_list":["post-375274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-capital-tonight","tag-capital-tonight-interviews","tag-capital-tonight-staff","tag-decision-2026","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-politics","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375274","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=375274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}