{"id":375375,"date":"2026-10-17T01:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T01:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/375375\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T01:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T01:50:11","slug":"state-senate-gop-chair-borrello-optimistic-about-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/375375\/","title":{"rendered":"State Senate GOP Chair Borrello optimistic about midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Could Senate Republicans prevent Senate Democrats from achieving a veto-proof majority in the upper chamber this election?<\/p>\n<p>State Sen. George Borrello tells Capital Tonight that he\u2019s optimistic, despite President Trump\u2019s sagging poll numbers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Borrello is the chair of the Senate Republican Campaign Committee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Democrats need a single Senate seat to regain a veto-proof majority; they already have a veto-proof majority in the Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, Capital Tonight spoke with the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee Chair Shelley Mayer. It was the GOP\u2019s turn on Capital Tonight on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792201811_656_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":"Could Senate Republicans prevent Senate Democrats from achieving a veto-proof majority in the upper chamber this election? State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[204,202,38490,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,112,87,201,200],"class_list":["post-375375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-capital-tonight","tag-capital-tonight-interviews","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-susan-arbetter","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375375","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=375375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}