All those in attendance at a Sunday campaign function for New York gubernatorial hopeful Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., hoped to see Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, but the preferred Republican ended up canceling.

Zeldin is on the lookout to wrest the governorship from incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul, and the $25,000-for every-particular person party was predicted to be a significant fundraiser. Now the congressman’s crew is figuring out a further doable chance to have DeSantis be a part of them on the marketing campaign path, the New York Submit reported.

"An unexpected tragedy pressured Gov. DeSantis to reschedule his excursion to New York," Zeldin spokeswoman Katie Vincentz instructed the Put up. "While we’re rescheduling with Gov. DeSantis for a later day, tonight’s fundraiser will commence and is expected to raise practically a million bucks."

WHD News reached out to the DeSantis marketing campaign for a lot more information, but they did not quickly answer.

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Rep. Lee Zeldin attends a press meeting on Might 20, 2021, in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Photographs)

Hochul lately joined the ranks of Democrats outside the house Florida leveling attacks at DeSantis and his point out.

"I just want to say to the 1.77 million Jews who phone New York home: Thank you for calling New York property. Really do not go wherever or to one more point out. Florida is overrated," Hochul reported when signing a Holocaust training bill previously this month. "I should not say this, but glance at the governor. It commences at the major down."

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Hochul’s remark came after California Gov. Gavin Newsom took out a television advertisement that ran in Florida in July, in which he informed Floridians "independence is below attack" in their condition. Additional lately, Newsom pledged to contribute $100,000 of his campaign’s income to the campaign of DeSantis’ Democratic opponent Charlie Crist.

Gov. Ron DeSantis addresses a joint legislative session, Jan. 11, 2022, in Tallahassee, Florida. (WHD Picture/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

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DeSantis fired again at Hochul on Friday, telling WHD News’ "Unfiltered with Dan Bongino" that she and Crist "are representative of this leftist state of mind that they do consider the conservative fifty percent of the state are correctly next-class citizens."