In front of Lee Zeldin, a candidate for governor of New YorkLong Island home on Sunday, two men were shot.
According to the Suffolk County Police Department, there is absolutely no link at all between the event and the congressman.
Zeldin, 42, gave the first details of the shooting in an interview with the New York Post a few hours after it occurred.
Mikayla and Arianna, his twin daughters who are 16 years old, were finishing their homework at the time, he said. They weren’t hurt, but Zeldin said they were a bit “freaked out.”
Zeldin told the journalists that they heard the gunfire. Boom! They went upstairs and went into the bathroom. He said that his daughters had called 911.
As part of Zeldin’s campaign to succeed Democratic Governor of New York Kathy Hochul, who is presently in office, the couple was allegedly at an event in the Bronx.
Zeldin, a congressman for eastern Long Island, said that Democrats were too indulgent with offenders and too zealous in enforcing safety laws intended to fight COVID-19.
According to the Shirley, New York, police, they are investigating a shooting that occurred close to Saint George Drive West. The two victims’ states of health remain unknown.
According to a statement from Zeldin, “the two people who were shot were laying down under my front porch and the plants in front of our home.”
I believe they have been sent to neighborhood hospitals, he added. They are unknown to me.
The conservative said, “Crime has virtually made its way to our front door,” just like so many New Yorkers.
Zeldin took advantage of the chance to praise his daughters’ brave actions, stating, “After my children heard the gunshots and the screaming, they rushed upstairs, locked themselves in the bathroom, and swiftly dialed 911.” Diana and I are really happy with them since they dealt with every matter immediately and effectively.
Zeldin has been the victim of violent crime twice in the public eye. While giving a talk in Rochester, New York, in July, a drunken Iraq veteran approached Zeldin.
Republicans and right activists immediately attempted to blame Democratic supporters for the event, although David Jakubonis, the assailant, subsequently told police that he had no idea who Zeldin was when he approached the stage.
According to a recent poll, Zeldin was just two points behind Hochul in the fight that should have been lopsided in the deep-blue state.
In September, Zeldin sought a probe into Hochul’s suspected unethical dealings.
In 2021, Hochul’s administration will spend $637 million on 52 million Covid-19 Carestart tests. California made an identical purchase at the same time as New York, but it cost 45% less, according to the Albany Times Union.
According to the story, Hochul’s choice to buy the item via the company of a campaign supporter is what drove up the price. Contrarily, California had direct communication with the manufacturer, AccessBio.
In a survey released by the Trafalgar Group on Thursday, Hochul, who took over as governor in August after the disgraced Andrew Cuomo resigned, received 44.5 percent support.
The survey found that Zeldin, a fan of the late president Donald Trump, had the backing of 42.6% of respondents.
Larry Sharpe received around 3% of the vote, while about 10% of voters are still undecided.
Larry Sharpe received around 3% of the vote, while about 10% of voters are still undecided.
The survey, which has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9%, is among likely New York voters.
Between September 30 and October 3, the survey was conducted.
While Hochul’s campaign made an effort to portray Zeldin as being too reminiscent of Donald Trump, Zeldin has adopted an approach used by other Republicans running in the fall election and played up high crime rates.
But according to NY1, Zeldin’s campaign staff admitted in September that one of the GOP candidate’s advertising included footage of crimes being committed in California, not New York, and that some of the New York content was from before Hochul’s administration.
Hochul, though, served as Cuomo’s deputy governor until Cuomo’s departure over sexual harassment allegations.
Another Zeldin commercial claimed Hochul had awarded no-bid contracts to political backers, characterizing him as “more more corrupt than Cuomo.”
The early voting period for this election begins on October 29.
Despite the close result, Zeldin’s prospects of winning the governor’s mansion remain bleak.
In other recent polls, Hochul seemed to have a sizable, double-digit advantage.
Additionally, New York chose its last Republican governor when Gov. George Pataki was elected to a third term in office. Since that time, the state has had four Democratic governors; scandal-plagued Eliot Spitzer and Andrew Cuomo were the two to step down.
FiveThirtyEight estimated on Friday that Zeldin’s chances of victory were less than 1%.
In order to market himself as a candidate for law and order, Zeldin’s campaign staff published a video showing an assault that happened in California but disguised it as an incident that happened in New York.
The narrator of the commercial says, “You’re looking at real violent crimes captured on film in Kathy Hochul’s New York.”
Additional video data revealed certain occurrences that happened before to Hochul’s election as governor last year. The commercial was defended by Zeldin’s staff, who said that despite a typo, the message was unmistakably conveyed: violent crime is out of control.
After receiving his party’s nomination in March, Army Reserve lieutenant colonel Zeldin told a gathering, “This is a fight for the heart and soul of our state.” I’m running to make it seem as if the people are once again in control of their government.
He has focused his campaign on lowering crime at a time when polls indicate that it is a big issue for many people.
“It’s about restoring order, it’s about supporting the blue,” Zeldin told convention attendees before adding, “This is a rescue attempt to rebuild our state that will be successful.”
He pushed for a law enforcement bill of rights that would ensure police officers’ ability to defend themselves.
He has threatened to roll back many criminal justice reforms, including a 2019 law that outlawed cash bail and pre-trial incarceration for the majority of minor and non-violent felonies. The Democratic-controlled Legislature implemented several modifications in recent years.