{"id":65685,"date":"2025-12-09T15:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T15:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/65685\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T15:44:08","slug":"donald-trump-reacts-to-friend-challenging-key-ally-in-new-york-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/65685\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Reacts to Friend Challenging Key Ally in New York Race\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">President Donald Trump weighed in as Bruce Blakeman has thrown his hat into the ring to challenge Representative Elise Stefanik in New York&#8217;s Republican primary for governor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">Blakeman, an attorney who the New York Post describes as a &#8220;longtime&#8221; Trump friend, has served as the Nassau County Executive since 2022. He also previously served as a commissioner for the\u00a0New York-New Jersey Port Authority. Stefanik announced her bid for governor in November, and has been seen as a key ally of the president in Congress. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">\u201cHe\u2019s great and she\u2019s great. They\u2019re both great people. We have a lot of great people in the Republican Party,\u201d Trump said when asked about the race. The president also said he&#8217;d &#8220;think&#8221; about endorsing in the race, but didn&#8217;t voice support one way or the other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">This is a developing story and will be updated with additional information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump weighed in as Bruce Blakeman has thrown his hat into the ring to challenge Representative&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4022,1626,153,2659,424,862,9,11,10,7059],"class_list":{"0":"post-65685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-bruce-blakeman","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-election","12":"tag-elise-stefanik","13":"tag-governor","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-news","17":"tag-republican"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65685","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=65685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}