Lt. Gov. Delgado says he will run against Gov. Hochul in 2026

📅 Published: August 16, 2025

📰 Source: newsday_com

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Filings released this week show Hochul had $17. 4 million on hand to Lt.

Antonio Delgado’s $82,674 as of Tuesday.

The reports, which cover January to mid-June, are the first since Delgado began campaigning.

Hochul has a record as a prodigious fundraiser, and incumbent governors usually have a big edge in financial resources over challengers so early in a race.

But Delgado’s underdog campaign attracted a few donors who previously contributed to Hochul’s campaigns, state Board of Elections records show.

Delgado is a former upstate congressman whom Hochul chose as her lieutenant governor and running mate in 2022.

But Delgado broke with Hochul on some issues and called for a more progressive agenda.

Now Delgado seeks to be the state’s second Black governor after David A.

Paterson, who ascended to the seat from lieutenant governor when Gov.

Eliot Spitzer resigned in 2008 amid sexual harassment accusations.

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