In a post on Truth Social, President Donald Trump on Saturday afternoon endorsed Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman for governor of New York \u2013 calling him \u201chighly respected and very popular.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBruce is MAGA all the way and has been with me from the very beginning,\u201d the president wrote. He predicted that Blakeman would \u201cwin the big November Election\u201d against Gov. Kathy Hochul, who defeated former Long Island Congressman Lee Zeldin in 2022. Zeldin is Trump\u2019s EPA administrator.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am blessed and grateful to have the endorsement of President Donald J. Trump,\u201d said Blakeman in a prepared statement. \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<\/p>\n
Gov. Hochul held a double-digit lead over both Rep. Elise Stefanik (49-30%, 20% undecided), who left the race earlier this week, and Blakeman (50-25%, 21% undecided), according to a new Siena Poll of New York State registered voters released on Dec. 16. <\/p>\n
Gov. Hochul’s campaign spokesperson Sarafina Chitika released a statement: <\/p>\n
\u201cDonald Trump endorsed Bruce Blakeman for one reason: he\u2019ll put Trump first, New York last, and leave families to foot the bill. Take it from Trump, Blakeman is \u2018MAGA all the way\u2019 \u2013 he cheered Trump\u2019s expensive tariffs that jack up costs for New Yorkers, ran Nassau\u2019s safety-net hospital into the ground, and stayed silent when Trump slashed nearly $200 million from the NYPD. Blakeman should have learned a lesson from Elise Stefanik: MAGA sellouts don\u2019t win New York, and they sure as hell don\u2019t end up in the governor\u2019s mansion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a post on Truth Social, President Donald Trump on Saturday afternoon endorsed Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34169,1626,34168,9,11,10,896,2304,8841],"class_list":["post-76811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-blakeman","tag-bruce-blakeman","tag-nassau-county-executive-bruce-blakeman","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-president-trump","tag-trump-pardon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76811","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=76811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}