Opinion | Trump Looms Over the New York Primary to Face Kathy Hochul

Brooklyn, N.Y.

“Kathy Hochul is in over her head,” says Rep. Lee Zeldin, the presumptive—but far from nailed-down—frontrunner on a slate of Republican candidates vying to become governor of New York. In his view, Ms. Hochul, the state’s Democratic governor, is also “pandering to a far-left base that feels that Albany doesn’t tax and spend enough and isn’t pro-criminal enough.”