In an act of political alchemy, voters turned the blue ground of the Empire State purple on Election Day 2022. After the closest gubernatorial race in two decades, New York gained a national spotlight as one of the bright spots for Republicans in a midterm election that dashed months of high expectations. Representative Lee Zeldin’s strong showing helped flip four congressional seats red, forming an integral part of the GOP’s narrow House majority. But in the end, Governor Kathy Hochul will remain in the executive mansion for four more years, with her fellow Democrats enjoying supermajority control in the state assembly and senate. Voters thus continued the existing arrangement in Albany, while simultaneously repudiating it elsewhere across the state.
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John Ketcham is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Adapted from City Journal's winter 2023 issue.
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