NY-GOV: Delgado Drops Out of Democratic Primary for N.Y. Governor
Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado announced on Tuesday that he was suspending his primary campaign for governor of New York, clearing Gov. Kathy Hochul’s path to the Democratic nomination as she campaigns for re-election.
Mr. Delgado had been running to the left of Ms. Hochul, who persuaded him in 2022 to leave his House seat to become her No. 2 after the resignation of her original lieutenant governor. Mr. Delgado repeatedly butted heads with Ms. Hochul, and declared his own candidacy for governor last year.
But at the State Democratic convention in Syracuse last week, Mr. Delgado failed to meet the threshold to qualify for an automatic place on the primary ballot, meaning he would have had to collect 15,000 signatures to earn a spot. He also failed to win the backing of the progressive Working Families Party, which declined to make an endorsement.
Both developments left him without a base of support for his campaign.
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