The New York Governor’s Race Just Got a Lot More Interesting

Photo: Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for (BAM) Brooklyn

Lieutenant Governor Antonio Delgado’s abrupt announcement that he will challenge Governor Kathy Hochul in next year’s Democratic primary defies all the usual rules of political timing and calculation. Normally, politicians wait for a relatively quiet news cycle to announce their campaigns in order to gain maximum public attention. Instead, Delgado is asking us to think about the 2026 primary when most of the state’s donors, strategists...