After several reelection challengers have dropped their bids to personal best favorability ratings, things are looking way up for the once-not-so-popular Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY).

Hochul is clearing the field in her mission to win back Albany this fall, knocking another candidate out of her way this week, with Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado (D-NY) dropping his bid to challenge her. Delgado, Hochul’s only prominent Democratic challenger, became the second big hurdle to fall before election day — Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) being the first.