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Good morning.It's Thursday.We'll look at why plans for an AirTrain to La Guardia Airport have been dropped and with them, the promise of beating the traffic with a 30-minute ride on mass transit.Image Credit...Peter Foley/EPA, via Shutterstock Don't expect to take a train to your plane at La Guardia Airport.

New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul will win a first full term in office, CNN projects, defeating Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin and making history as the first elected female governor of New York.Hochul's victory keeps New York Democrats on track to maintain their now nearly two-decade-old winning streak in statewide elections.

If Democrats lose the House, the blame will lie with New York Democrats  and their refusal to embrace the left wing of their party, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) said in a new interview.Though Democrats performed slightly better than expected in this election, the party still has a lot to lose if Republicans win the House, which they are poised to do - a scenario that Ocasio-Cortez could have been avoided if not for New York Democrats' utter hostility toward progressives and the abolitionist movement during this campaign season.

It looked like it was over.Non-campaign affiliated poll takers and pundits said the truth: the effort to elect the first woman New York governor might fail.The campaign was a mess to all apparently but those on the deep inside.The television ads bland, flavorless, emotionless.The streets without a piece of campaign literature tossed to the ground.

When the New York state Legislature drew a congressional map in January that reapportioned the state's congressional seats, Democrats rejoiced because they believed the move would allow them to add three new seats to their party's ranks in the U.S. House of Representatives.While Republicans held just eight of New York's 27 congressional seats, Democrats thought that by redrawing and packing some of them with Democrats, they would make those districts more competitive, building on their razor-thin majority in Washington.

Clockwise from top left: Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Stacey Abrams, Wes Moore, Tina Kotek, Maura Healey, and Kathy Hochul.All are 2022 candidates for governor who would make history if elected.Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images; Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images; Mary Schwalm/AP; Anthony Behar/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images U.S. politicians are supposed to represent the entire public, but the majority come from a group that makes up less than one-third of Americans: white men.