The new governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, is unlike her predecessor Andrew Cuomo in many ways. She doesn’t go out of her way to alienate and bully fellow Democrats. She’s more willing to negotiate with the Left. She’s not a sociopath.

But the Left — progressives, socialists, and various advocacy organizations — is finding that Hochul is not the clean break from the former occupant of the governor’s mansion that her reputation suggests. She has raised more than $20 million as she seeks a full term in office, hoovering cash from the same real estate and Wall Street elites that gave so generously to Cuomo. Lately, she has been attempting to weaken the sweeping criminal justice reforms passed several years ago, disingenuously tying the partial end of cash bail to a crime spike that is ultimately national in scope.

How to work with and against Hochul, a more genial operator, is a central question for left-leaning Democrats in the state legislature. Meanwhile, the Working Families Party (WFP) is hoping to apply pressure on her by running Jumaane Williams, the New York City public advocate, in the gubernatorial primary. The WFP is also supporting the prominent nonprofit leader and activist Ana María Archila against Hochul’s lieutenant governor, Brian Benjamin. In the June primary, the governor and lieutenant governor will run on separate ballots, allowing for the possibility that Hochul could be on a ticket with Archila in the general election.