Almost immediately after Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado posted his gubernatorial campaign launch video on social media, endorsements came pouring in. Not for him, though. Instead, Democratic elected officials raced to support Gov. Kathy Hochul, his boss and the incumbent he’s now trying to unseat.

Delgado has been laying the groundwork for his expected run for governor for several months, at least since February when he announced he would not be on Hochul’s ticket next year as her lieutenant governor. But his relationship with the governor had begun deteriorating long before then, and his aspirations for higher office certainly predated his decision not to run for reelection as someone else’s No. 2.

Delgado has started to make inroads with the left wing of the Democratic Party in an apparent b

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