Democratic candidate for governor Jumaane Williams is confident he can appeal to a broader base of voters as he runs to be the top executive in the state.

The current public advocate, who just won re-election earlier this month, noted that while there may be cultural differences among New Yorkers across the state, the issues they want solved are profoundly the same.

"Affordable and income-target housing may look a little different upstate than it does downstate, but it’s still affordable housing. Transportation, access to education and health care and good-paying jobs that pay for many of those things are really similar,” Williams said on “Mornings On 1.”

“All over the state, people have been looking at Albany for the lack of being able to help with those things for a really long time,” he said.

As Williams goes up against candidates that include Gov. Kathy Hochul and state Attorney General Letitia James in the Democratic primary, he said there’s something to be learned from the Republicans.

“The Republican Party has done something better than the folks who call themselves Democrats like myself. They’ve run toward and embraced a vision. It seems that folks like myself who call ourselves Democrats have been more about who we’re against and what we’re not, as opposed to embracing a vision of who we say we are, and voters have responded to the authenticity of a vision,” Williams said.