New York’s lieutenant governor, Antonio Delgado, announces run against his boss, Kathy Hochul
New York’s lieutenant governor, Antonio Delgado, announced on Monday that he is running for governor, setting up a Democratic primary battle against the sitting governor, Kathy Hochul, who selected him for the job as her deputy.
In a campaign video posted on YouTube, Delgado introduced himself to voters as “a hip-hop artist, a congressman, a man of faith” with working-class roots in upstate New York and his desire to provide “transformational leadership”.
“Listen, the powerful and well-connected have their champions,” Delgado says in the video. “I’m running for governor to be yours.”
Delgado gave up a House seat in the Hudson valley to become lieutenant governor to Hochul, a post Hochul herself held until Andrew Cuomo was forced to resign as governor and she inherited the top job in 2021.
Hochul narrowly won a full term in 2022 in a race against Republican Lee Zeldin, a former Congressman who is now head of the environmental protection agency.
Delgado has refused to rule out a primary challenge against Hochul for months and earlier this year said he would he would not run for reelection alongside her.
He broke publicly with the governor on two fights within the Democratic party over the past year. In 2024, when Hochul was a campaign surrogate for Joe Biden, Delgado called on the then president to drop out of the presidential race.
Earlier this year, Delgado called for New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, to resign when it became apparent that he had cut a deal with the Trump administration to have his indictment on federal corruption charges dropped.
Hochul, who had the power as governor to depose Adams, chose not to do so.
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New York’s lieutenant governor, Antonio Delgado, announced on Monday that he is running for governor, setting up a Democratic primary battle against the sitting governor, Kathy Hochul, who selected him for the job as her deputy.
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Senator Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s senior Democrat, released a social media video on Monday in which he seemed to taunt Donald Trump for supposedly being too “chicken” in negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program.
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Senator Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s senior Democrat, released a social media video on Monday in which he seemed to taunt Donald Trump for supposedly being too weak in negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program.
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Schumer, a staunch ally of Israeli leaders who oppose any deal to lift sanctions on Iran in exchange for that nation’s commitment that it will not build nuclear weapons, seemed to be responding to an Israeli journalist’s report that Trump’s negotiators, Steve Witkoff and March Rubio, might be open to letting Iran enrich uranium for civilian purposes.
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In the video, Schumer referred to rumors that the US might agree, in “a secret side deal”, to let Iran proceed with low-grade enrichment, similar to the level agreed on in the Iran nuclear deal struck during the Obama administration, which Trump pulled out of during his first term.
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Invoking the phrase “Trump always chickens out”, or Taco, Schumer said, “If Taco Trump is already folding, the American public should know about it
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Although the international Iran nuclear deal struck by the Obama administration in 2015, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, was regarded as a huge success for diplomacy by many Democrats, it was strongly opposed by Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and by some pro-Israel Democrats, including Schumer.
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In 2015, Schumer voted against the deal.
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New York’s lieutenant governor, Antonio Delgado, announced on Monday that he is running for governor, setting up a Democratic primary battle against the sitting governor, Kathy Hochul, who selected him for the job as her deputy.
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In a campaign video posted on YouTube, Delgado introduced himself to voters as “a hip-hop artist, a congressman, a man of faith” with working-class roots in upstate New York and his desire to provide “transformational leadership”.
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“Listen, the powerful and well-connected have their champions,” Delgado says in the video. “I’m running for governor to be yours.”
n Delgado gave up a House seat in the Hudson valley to become lieutenant governor to Hochul, a post Hochul herself held until Andrew Cuomo was forced to resign as governor and she inherited the top job in 2021.
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Hochul narrowly won a full term in 2022 in a race against Republican Lee Zeldin, a former Congressman who is now head of the environmental protection agency.
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Delgado has refused to rule out a primary challenge against Hochul for months and earlier this year said he would he would not run for reelection alongside her.
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He broke publicly with the governor on two fights within the Democratic party over the past year. In 2024, when Hochul was a campaign surrogate for Joe Biden, Delgado called on the then president to drop out of the presidential race.
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Earlier this year, Delgado called for New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, to resign when it became apparent that he had cut a deal with the Trump administration to have his indictment on federal corruption charges dropped.
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Hochul, who had the power as governor to depose Adams, chose not to do so.
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Prosecutors in Milwaukee charged a man on Monday with four felonies for attempting to frame an undocumented immigrant he is accused of assaulting, by sending forged letters in the immigrant’s name with a threat to kill Donald Trump.
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The handwritten, forged letters were mailed to Wisconsin’s attorney general, Milwaukee police and US Immigration & Customs Enforcement (Ice).
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WISN-TV, an ABC affiliate in Milwaukee, reports that a criminal complaint alleges that Demetric Scott admitted to investigators that he wrote the letters threatening to kill the president in the name of Ramon Morales-Reyes, whom he was previopusly charged with assaulting.
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Among those who fell for the hoax were Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, who released a statement praising immigration officers for arresting Morales-Reyes on 22 May, one day after the forged letter was received by an Ice field intelligence officer.
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“Thanks to our ICE officers, this illegal alien who threatened to assassinate President Trump is behind bars”, Noem said in a press release. Her department also released an image of the handwritten note to news agencies.
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