Another Republican might be throwing their hat in the ring for the race for New York governor in 2026.<\/p>\n
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman was at the state Capitol in Albany on Thursday as part of his statewide tour.<\/p>\n
Blakeman said after winning his reelection bid for county executive last week, business and community leaders called him and urged him to enter the race for governor.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
This comes nearly a week after U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik launched her gubernatorial campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Stefanik has already picked up numerous endorsements from Republicans around the state.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Blakeman said if he gains enough support, he’ll jump into the race.<\/p>\n
“I’m making my decision not based on what professional establishment politicians tell me to do,” Blakeman said. “I’m going to do it based on what I think is the best thing for the people of New York and the best thing for my party.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Blakeman said he hopes to make a decision in the coming weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gov. Kathy Hochul is running for her second full term and is facing a primary challenge from Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another Republican might be throwing their hat in the ring for the race for New York governor in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[109,116,19662,257,9,24,11,10,49,12,112,87,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-38892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-app-local-state-politics","9":"tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","10":"tag-capital-tonight-staff","11":"tag-central-ny","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-new-york-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-news","16":"tag-new-york-state","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-ny-state-of-politics","19":"tag-politics","20":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38892","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=38892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}