{"id":372418,"date":"2026-10-13T23:04:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T23:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372418\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T23:04:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T23:04:41","slug":"kathy-hochul-bruce-blakeman-ny-governor-debate-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372418\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathy Hochul, Bruce Blakeman NY Governor debate: Live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opting for the front door.<\/p>\n<p>GOP gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman entered the NY1 studios through the front door of Chelsea Market on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.6;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\"  data-modal-image=\"41319545\" width=\"944\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bruce-blakeman-blows-kiss-chanting-144928418.jpg\" alt=\"Bruce Blakeman blows a kiss to supporters at NY1 studios\" class=\"wp-image-41319545\"\/>GOP gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman blew a kiss to supporters as he arrived at NY1 studios ahead of the New York governor debate. J.C. Rice for NY Pos<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to be the governor for all the people,&#8221; Blakeman told reporters before describing himself as a pro-choice, common-sense Republican.<\/p>\n<p>The Nassau County executive then turned, then, to the crowd of screaming fans \u2014 chanting &#8220;Blakeman&#8221; \u2014 as he entered the market and blew a kiss.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul, however, snuck in the back entrance with her SUV and detail without leaving her car. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opting for the front door. GOP gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman entered the NY1 studios through the front door&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1626,2132,426,5309,57,9,11,10,13895,2134,58],"class_list":["post-372418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-bruce-blakeman","tag-democrats","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-live-blogs","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-ny-governor-election-2026","tag-republicans","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372418","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=372418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}