Desperate Dems are sprinting away from hapless Kathy Hochul

Kathy Hochul, the accidental governor, is lucky to be running for reelection this year.Because in any other national environment, she’d be in big trouble.Hochul only ever ascended to her current position because her predecessor, Andrew Cuomo, was driven from office for the same reason most high-profile Empire State Democrats eventually are.Were it not for his sexual misconduct, New Yorkers would never have promoted the hapless Hochul.Now that she’s in the big chair, though, she’s a heavy, near-perennial anchor on her party’s ticket.The proof is in her fellow Democrats’ backpedal away from her; recent days have seen multiple candidates stiff-arm the governor.First up in the “Chuck Kathy Under the Bus” line was Blake Gendebien, Team Donkey’s nominee to succeed Rep.Elise Stefanik in the 21st congressional district.In a radio interview last week, Gendebien refused to say whether he supports Hochul or her Republican challenger, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, in the gubernatorial contest.“What I support is anyone that will help the North Country be absolutely successful,” he dithered, prompting his host to needle him for being so squirrely.He might not have admitted the reason for hiding his allegiance in the moment, but he already had at a September “Health Activist Town Hall” during which he observed that Hochul “is underwater, she has a negative net-favorability, for whatever reason.

I don’t know why that is.”“She has certainly worked hard to provide funding and opportunities for as many communities as she possibly can,” he lamented — from behind closed doors, of course.Cait Conley, Rep.Mike Lawler’s Democratic opponent in the 17th district, followed up on Tuesday night at a Putnam County VFW.She opted for a piledriver that made Gendebien’s cold shoulder look positively inviting.Moments after Lawler slammed New York’s sorry business environment and declared that “We need a new governor, Kathy Hochul has got to go,�...