A Republican Tries to Beat the Odds in New York
A Keith Wofford victory in the attorney general’s race would be an upset—and a blow to the ‘resistance.’
Not since 2002 has a Republican won statewide office in New York. Keith Wofford, a 49-year-old African-American Harvard Law grad who is running for attorney general, just may be up to the task. His candidacy is a long shot in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2 to 1, and an Oct. 1 Siena College poll had him 14 points behind Democrat Letitia James. But then Mr. Wofford’s entire life has been a long shot.
Mr. Wofford grew up on Buffalo’s gritty East Side, where his father held a union job at the local Chevrolet...