Biden stumps for Hochul in New York ahead of 'most important election in our lifetime'

YONKERS, N.Y. — President Joe Biden appeared with Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul on Sunday, urging voters to turn out to vote in the final days before an extraordinarily close election cycle.

“New York, you have two days to make sure the rest of New York knows the good that they have in Kathy Hochul,” the president said as he addressed a crowd of supporters at Sarah Lawrence College, referring to the moment as an “inflection point” in the nation’s history. “Two days until the most important election in our lifetime.”

Recent weeks have seen high-profile Democrats flock to New York, an unexpected battleground state on Election Day, which is Tuesday. Slipping polls have left Hochul in a tight race with Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin, and at least a half dozen close congressional races in the state could help determine which party maintains control in Washington.

Around a thousand people gathered on the college’s south lawn to hear the president and governor speak. Zeldin took his campaign Sunday on a daylong flurry of rallies across upstate.

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Biden Assails Zeldin on Crime as Republican Gains Ground in NY

Bloomberg) -- President Joe Biden criticized New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin’s record on crime, the very issue Zeldin has used as a cudgel against Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul.

At a rally Sunday for Hochul in Yonkers, New York, Biden pointed to Zeldin’s vote in the US House, where he currently serves, against his sweeping pandemic aid bill that included law enforcement funding. He also lambasted Zeldin for opposing a ban on assault weapons.

“If a politician won’t stand up to his party’s leaders to keep cops on the beat and won’t stand up to the NRA and get assault weapons off the street, do you really think he’s going to take and help your families keep safe?,” Biden said, referring to the National Rifle Association.

Biden made the last-minute stop to boost Hochul, who’s facing an unexpectedly tough re-election bid in one of the nation’s most liberal states after Zeldin surged in the final days of the campaign.

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