{"id":139428,"date":"2025-08-12T10:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T10:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/139428\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T10:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T10:29:12","slug":"gov-hochul-only-leads-rep-elise-stefanik-by-this-much-in-hypothetical-new-york-governor-matchup-siena-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/139428\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Hochul only leads Rep. Elise Stefanik by this much in hypothetical New York governor matchup: Siena poll"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALBANY \u2013\u00a0Gov. Kathy Hochul leads Rep. Elise Stefanik by just 14 points in a hypothetical matchup for New York Governor, according to a Siena University poll released Monday.<\/p>\n

While still a hefty lead, it\u2019s the smallest gap between Hochul and a potential GOP challenger since then Rep. Lee Zeldin trailed Hochul<\/a> by only 11 points just three weeks before the 2021 general election. Hochul would go on to win by only 7 points.<\/p>\n

\u201cStefanik can highlight that more than a year out from a potential match-up, Hochul\u2019s lead over Stefanik is only 14 points, 45-31%, down from 23 points in June, and that Hochul doesn\u2019t hit \u2018the magic 51% mark,\u2019\u201d Siena poll spokesperson Steven Greenberg said.<\/p>\n

\"KathyGov. Kathy Hochul suffered from another month of underwater poll numbers, according to the Siena University poll released Tuesday. Tomas E. Gaston<\/p>\n

The poll results come as Stefanik has seemingly consolidated the GOP field should she pull the trigger on a gubernatorial run following Hudson Valley Congressman Mike Lawler\u2019s official exit from the race<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n

Stefanik also had some other bright spots from the Siena poll. <\/p>\n

She eked out a few points over Hochul among independents, 35% to 32%. Stefanik also won among suburban voters \u2014 those from Suffolk, Nassau, Westchester, Rockland and Putnam Counties \u2014 41% to 39%. Zeldin had similarly been leading among the two constituencies in October 2021.<\/p>\n

\"EliseNorth Country Rep. Elise Stefanik trails Gov. Kathy Hochul by 14 points, according to a Siena poll released Tuesday. Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n

A fifth of those polled weren\u2019t familiar with Hochul or Stefanik.<\/p>\n

\u201cStefanik clearly has room to grow with voters \u2013 either positively or negatively. While 49% of voters say they are very or somewhat familiar with her, 46% are not very or not at all familiar with Stefanik,\u201d Greenberg said.<\/p>\n

Hochul, once again, suffered from underwater favorability ratings this quarter.<\/p>\n

Respondents rated her 42% favorable to 44% unfavorable. The Democrat has had negative favorability ratings in nine of the last 10 Siena polls.<\/p>\n

Asked if New York is on the right track or heading in the wrong direction, 41% said \u201cright track\u201d as opposed to 45% who said it was heading in the \u201cwrong direction.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY \u2013\u00a0Gov. Kathy Hochul leads Rep. Elise Stefanik by just 14 points in a hypothetical matchup for New…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":139429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,22808,5371,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,54608,5227,9641,83375,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-139428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-elise-stefanik","10":"tag-kathy-hochul","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-ny-governor-election-2026","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-polls","20":"tag-siena-college","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-us-news","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}