Crain's New York interviewed Manatt's Bruce Gyory, a senior advisor in the firm's Government & Regulatory Policy division, on the challenges that the New York Republican slate faces in the statewide general election.

Crain's New York reports that the Republican challengers are taking on better-known, better-funded incumbents in a blue state that grows more Democratic with each election cycle.

Gyory said that a Republican needs about 60% of the vote upstate, 30% in New York City and 57% in the suburbs to win statewide. "That is an enormously difficult thing," he said.