New York City's crime crisis has taken center stage in the highly contested gubernatorial race between Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul and Republican challenger Rep. Lee Zeldin, but former Clinton pollster Mark Penn says the tragic killing of a young mother blamed on Hochul's soft-on-crime policies could be what gives the win to Zeldin.
Keaira Bennefield, 30, was fatally shot in front of her children at about 8:30 in the morning on Oct. 5, less than 24 hours after her estranged husband was released from custody without bail for allegedly beating her.-- More...Mark Penn slams Hillary Clinton's 'condescending comment' toward voters: I wouldn't 'talk down' to them
Former Clinton pollster and adviser Mark Penn weighs in on the role crime is playing in the New York gubernatorial race between Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) and Rep. Lee Zeldin (R) and a 'condescending' comment from Hillary Clinton.