{"id":31486,"date":"2025-11-07T02:19:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T02:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/31486\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T02:19:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T02:19:38","slug":"gops-bruce-blakeman-eyes-run-for-ny-governor-after-red-wave-win-on-long-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/31486\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP&#8217;s Bruce Blakeman eyes run for NY governor after red wave win on Long Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman said Wednesday he will weigh a run for governor \u2014 one day after his convincing red wave <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/long-island\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">re-election victory on Long Island<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will be meeting with a group of leaders across the state in the next couple of weeks about whether I should run for governor,\u201d the Republican told The Post Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Blakeman flirted with the idea of running for governor previously, but his focus shifted to getting re-elected county executive.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37585981\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/nassau-county-executive-bruce-blakeman-114723455_4486fc.jpg\" alt=\"Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman speaking at a podium with other men and American flags in the background.\" class=\"wp-image-37585981\"  \/>Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman said Wednesday he will weigh a run for governor \u2014 one day after his convincing red wave re-election victory on Long Island. James Messerschmidt<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, upstate <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/02\/us-news\/stefanik-woos-all-star-campaign-team-to-take-on-hochul-sources\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik<\/a> has already assembled a campaign team to take on Democratic incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Stefanik\u2019s expected entrance in the race had seemed to clear the field, but Blakeman said he\u2019s giving the governor\u2019s race a look.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I feel there\u2019s support, I will consider it,\u201d Blakeman said. \u201cThe path to defeating Gov. Hochul starts on Long Island.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/tag\/kathy-hochul\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hochul<\/a> is \u201cwildly unpopular\u201d on the island and is more vulnerable politically than she was in 2022.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37585985\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/103025-ny-governor-kathy-hochul-114488726.jpg\" alt=\"New York Governor Kathy Hochul speaks at a podium with Rev. Al Sharpton behind her and shelves of bagged produce in the background.\" class=\"wp-image-37585985\"  \/>Blakeman said Hochul is \u201cwildly unpopular\u201d on the island and is more vulnerable politically than she was in 2022. Matthew McDermott<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer association with Zohran Mamdani will hurt her,\u201d said Blakeman, noting Hochul\u2019s endorsement of the democratic socialist mayor-elect of neighboring New York City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know I will win if I make the decision to run,\u201d Blakeman said.<\/p>\n<p>Blakeman said he got a congratulatory phone call from President Trump Tuesday night, who was thrilled that he and other Republicans won re-election in Nassau County in contrast to big Democratic wins in the city and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>State Democratic Party spokesman Addison Dick said of Blakeman\u2019s gubernatorial aspirations,\u00a0\u201cElise Stefanik\u2019s campaign is flopping before it even starts as she draws a potential primary challenger.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman said Wednesday he will weigh a run for governor \u2014 one day after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1626,3677,9,11,10,2134,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-31486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-bruce-blakeman","9":"tag-governors","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-republicans","14":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}