President Donald Trump joined Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman in Syracuse on Friday for a campaign stop ahead of November’s election.<\/p>\n
Large crowds piled into the OnCenter\u00a0for the\u00a0event, with crowds also outside protesting.<\/p>\n
Trump took\u00a0to the podium about an hour after landing to throw his support behind Blakeman and fellow Republicans running for office in the midterm elections.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s great to be back in upstate New York, just a short distance from the beautiful shores of Lake America,\u201d Trump said. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The two brought up several issues Friday night, including immigration, crime and economic policies.<\/p>\n
“Kathy Hochul and the radical Democrats have turned New York into a national embarrassment,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n
“We’re going to elect a Republican House and a Republican Senate, stop the Democrats and the communists. We’re going to do a number like no one’s ever seen; they have a big surprise coming.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Blakeman took to the podium before and after Trump arrived.<\/p>\n
He also took aim at the state of the economy in New York state and Gov. Kathy Hochul’s\u00a0handling of immigration enforcement; this in light of the recent shooting by ICE agents of an immigrant without legal status\u00a0in New York City. \u00a0<\/p>\n
When it comes to that situation with ICE, Hochul said she spoke with Trump, expressing her frustration over the incident.<\/p>\n
Hochul also has pushed back on Blakeman’s support for the president, especially in terms of economic policy following the ongoing impacts of tariffs.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s crushing New York businesses,\u201d Hochul said earlier this week in Erie County. \u201cI just left a meeting of business owners. They don\u2019t know what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
The rally also featured other some political candidates, Anthony Constantino, who is the Republican candidate for New York’s 21st Congressional District, hoping to succeed Elise Strefanik, and Kailee Buller, who is running for New York’s 22nd Congressional District against Democrat Rep. John Mannion.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump joined Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman in Syracuse on Friday for a campaign stop ahead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[206,295,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,112,108,87,380,200],"class_list":["post-369922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-albany-capital-region","tag-jack-arpey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-ny-state-of-politics","tag-ny-state-of-politics-blog","tag-politics","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369922","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=369922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}