you can see it there, 50% to 46% for hochul. that gap closing in a deep blue state as crime remains the hot topic. zeldin says he ll kick the manhattan d.a. right out of office for not doing his job and is trying to tie hochul s soft on crime policies to the rise in violence across the state. last night governor hochul talked to our local fox affiliate here in new york and answered several questions about her new crime-fighting initiative and addressed a controversial comment she made during the debate when she said she did not understand why crime is so important to her opponent. i didn t mean i didn t say crime was important. that s a mischaracterization. crime is very important. people are concerned about it. there s a lot of fear out there. but for that to be extrapolateed because i don t know why i are have to keep telling him why it s so important, it s because i already know. reporter: neil, she says she s running like an underdog as her lead windings, she s just
gubernatorial candidate nan whaley. we did reach out to governor dewine, we ve had him on in the past. by the way, we have reached out to governor hochul in new york to get her on. hope springs eternal. anyway, very kind of nan whaley to join us,. thank you for coming. let me get your sense of the issue you think will define it for ohio voters that you hope to clinch. neil, it s good to be on. what i see across the state of ohio, frankly, is the freedom being lost in this tate by mike dewine s extreme action around the 6-week with abortion ban that happened 7 hours after roe fell. and we ve seen the impact that that has already had like a 10-year-old girl who was raped in columbus that had to go to across state lines to terminate her pregnancy. when the governor was asked about her, he doubted she existed and she was probably lying. when columbus police arrested her rapist and he confessedded,