Zeldin, a Long Island congressman and perceived front-runner, has made a point over and over again in the three TV debates that Astorino can’t win elections and claims he was a failure as Westchester County executive. Andrew) Cuomo on when nobody else would (in 2014) because I knew he was a corrupt thug, and unfortunately we have the Lee Zeldins of the world who were enabling him, voting for him and with him.” “I’m not giving up my fight to save New York and turn it around,” Astorino said in an interview Wednesday evening with POLITICO amid a final barnstorming tour. He’s running for the Republican Party’s gubernatorial nomination in Tuesday’s primary, and he is convinced that he can change the state - with its high taxes, corruption scandals and crime problems - for the better. Rob Astorino is undeterred by his stretch of election defeats: losing a run for governor in 2014, then his re-election as Westchester County executive in 2017 and then in 2020 for the state Senate.

Former Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino participates in New York's Republican gubernatorial debate at the studios of Spectrum News NY1 on Monday, June 20, 2022, in New York.

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