Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks during a press conference at Staten Island University Hospital Community Park on April 27, 2026 in New York City. Getty Images For one clue as to why Gov. Kathy Hochul’s favorability rating is at its lowest point in a year, look no further than at her lame comments Tuesday on Bruce Blakeman’s meeting with President Donald Trump. Her challenger is “going to keep kowtowing” to the prez, hissed Hochul; “Blakeman’s groveling at Trump’s feet — getting his marching orders to jack up costs,” echoed a spokesman. By contrast, when she met Trump, she boasted, her goal was to “try to find a way to get [federal] money turned back on.” Huh? How is that not “groveling”? And what a coincidence that Trump in that meeting pressed her to greenlight a natural-gas pipeline — which she soon did just that. That is, she got her “marching orders” to bring down costs — because that’s what the president’s program is all about.…