{"id":376322,"date":"2026-10-18T16:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T16:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/376322\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T16:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T16:30:07","slug":"up-close-with-liz-cho-democratic-incumbent-hochul-republican-nassau-county-executive-blakeman-vie-for-ny-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/376322\/","title":{"rendered":"Up Close with Liz Cho: Democratic Incumbent Hochul, Republican Nassau County Executive Blakeman vie for NY governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse ouIFx uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \">Up Close with Liz Cho airs Sundays at 11:00 a.m. on Channel 7, WABC-TV in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitness News UpClose &#8211; 10\/18\/26<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, October 18, 2026 4:01PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">NEW YORK CITY (WABC) &#8212; With early voting already underway and Election Day approaching, New York&#8217;s gubernatorial candidates are making their final pitches to voters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Gov. Kathy Hochul and Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman appeared on &#8220;Up Close&#8221; on Sunday, where they outlined their priorities and made the case for why they should lead New York for the next four years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">During the interviews, Eyewitness News anchor Mike Marza asked each candidate what they hope to accomplish if elected. Their responses focused on their competing visions for the state&#8217;s future as the campaign enters its final stretch.<\/p>\n<p>Up Close with Liz Cho airs Sundays at 11:00 a.m. on Channel 7, WABC-TV in New York City.SUBSCRIBE TO THE UP CLOSE PODCAST<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/podcasts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Discover more podcasts from abc7NY here<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">WATCH: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Up Close on our Connected TV apps for Fire, Roku, Apple TV and Android TV.  Click here to learn more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">RELATED: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/upclose\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch more episodes of Up Close<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WABC-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Up Close with Liz Cho airs Sundays at 11:00 a.m. on Channel 7, WABC-TV in New York City.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[138413,9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-376322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-138413","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\/376322","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=376322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}