{"id":391686,"date":"2026-11-03T04:27:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T04:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/391686\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T04:27:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T04:27:03","slug":"democratic-strategist-and-queens-gop-leader-talk-races-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/391686\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic strategist and Queens GOP leader talk races to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 690,000 New Yorkers cast ballots during early voting, which ended Sunday ahead of Election Day on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The early voting total was lower than last year\u2019s mayor\u2019s race but nearly 60% higher than the governor\u2019s race four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Kathy Hochul and her Republican challenger, Bruce Blakeman, are making their final case to voters Monday before polls open Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic strategist Jesse Lee and Rusat Ramgopal, executive director of the Queens Republican Party, joined \u201cThe Rush Hour\u201d on Monday to preview the races to watch in the midterm election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 690,000 New Yorkers cast ballots during early voting, which ended Sunday ahead of Election Day on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[25,9,24,12,63,122,124,123,380,27,200],"class_list":["post-391686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-app-top-stories","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391686","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=391686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}