{"id":76807,"date":"2025-12-20T23:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/76807\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T23:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:21:08","slug":"trump-endorses-bruce-blakeman-for-ny-governor-a-day-after-gop-rep-elise-stefanik-dropped-out-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/76807\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump endorses Bruce Blakeman for NY governor \u2014 a day after GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik dropped out of race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump backed Nassau County Executive <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/15\/us-news\/nassau-exec-bruce-blakeman-believes-countys-school-emergency-alert-tech-should-be-statewide-after-brown-university-shooting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Blakeman<\/a> for New York governor Saturday, a day after <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/19\/us-news\/gop-rep-elise-stefanik-drops-from-ny-governor-race\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) announced her stunning withdrawal from the race<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBruce is MAGA all the way, and has been with me from the very beginning,\u201d the president posted on his Truth Social account, in his first endorsement since the dramatic development in the Republican primary.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37983745\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/president-donald-trump-speaks-reporters-112191630_263618.jpg\" alt=\"President Donald Trump speaks with reporters alongside Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman.\" class=\"wp-image-37983745\"  \/>President Donald Trump backed Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman for New York governor Saturday. AP<\/p>\n<p>He called Blakeman, a longtime friend, a \u201cfantastic guy\u201d who will \u201cwin the big November Election\u201d against <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/16\/us-news\/hochul-holds-strong-lead-despite-half-of-new-yorkers-wanting-a-new-governor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gov. Kathy Hochul<\/a> (D-NY).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am blessed and grateful to have the endorsement of President Donald J. Trump,\u201d Blakeman said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump is driving down gasoline prices and slashing the cost of prescription drugs. Securing our borders has made America safer. President Trump loves New York and we will be partners in making New York safe and affordable,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37983746\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-washington-dc-stefaniks-confirmation-114499368_019237.jpg\" alt=\"Rep. Elise Stefanik testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on her nomination to be Ambassador to the United Nations.\" class=\"wp-image-37983746\"  \/>NY Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik dropped out of the race for NY governor Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Trump said \u201cwithout hesitation\u201d that Blakeman \u201chas my Complete and Total Endorsement of the ONCE GREAT STATE OF NEW YORK\u201d and said Blakeman \u201cWILLNEVER LET YOU DOWN!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s unequivocal praise came after he spoke highly of both candidates for the previous two weeks \u2013 and could serve to discourage any further primary drama, after Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) left the door open to taking another look at the race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to take a little bit of time before I comment further as to what I may or may not do,\u201d he told CNN in the minutes after Stefanik\u2019s shock Friday announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Lawler had earlier endorsed <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/20\/us-news\/how-trumps-divided-loyalties-sapped-stefaniks-campaign\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stefanik<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump backed Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman for New York governor Saturday, a day after Rep.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1626,153,10332,9,11,10,87,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-76807","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-donald-trump","10":"tag-endorsements","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76807","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=76807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}