Kathy Hochul should have been riding pretty high last week.
Fresh off an Election Day that boded extremely well for Democrats heading into midterms (not to mention her own reelection campaign) next year, and having actually endorsed uber-celebrity Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani unlike some of her centrists peers, Hochul could have just schmoozed at this year's Somos confab in Puerto Rico. Sure, she's not 100 percent aligned with Mamdani's agenda, but they've both been clearly telegraphing universal child care as something that will get done next legislative session, giving them both a huge win.
But the thing about Kathy Hochul? She doesn't really like letting a good thing last.