A new poll says that Donald Trump has a higher favorability rating in New York than sitting Governor Kathy Hochul. That finding popped a lot of eyeballs wide open in surprise; is the GOP candidate for President actually more popular than the Democratic governor of a deep blue state, and if so, how is that even possible? Democrat strategist and former Cuomo secretary Melissa DeRosa appeared on 710 WOR’s Len Berman and Michael Riedel in the Morning program and said there’s a simple explanation for why the poll results are actually quite easy to believe.
“I think that exposure is not Kathy Hochul’s friend,” DeRosa told Berman and Riedel. “I think the more people see her, the less they like her. I think people respond to leadership, they respond to a lack of leadership, and we are now three full years into her time in the governor’s office and I can’t point to one signature accomplishment. The sentiment on the direction of the state is the worst it’s been I think something like twelve years, since before Andrew Cuomo took office in 2010. I think that people want to know that the people in charge in that particular role as an executive are there to get things done, and they don’t feel confident in her to do that, and so time has not been her friend.”
When Andrew Cuomo’s name came up, DeRosa said her former boss doesn’t want to replace Eric Adams as mayor but did admit that could change if the embattled Adams is abruptly forced out of City Hall. “There are a lot of people in the governor’s ear right now saying, ‘You know, look, you are a manager, you are an effective leader, this city is on the brink.’ He cares about public service. He wants to do the most good for the most amount of people. I think, you know, in a certain situation, could I see that happening? I sure could, but I think we’re nowhere near there yet.”
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