Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman is set to announce his bid for New York governor on Tuesday \u2014 facing off against Rep. Elise Stefanik for the GOP nomination, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n
Sources said Blakeman will formally declare his candidacy on Tuesday morning, following weeks of speculation over whether the Long Island pol, a longtime friend of President Trump, would take the fight to Stefanik, a prominent White House ally.<\/p>\n
\u201cBruce will focus on making Empire State more affordable and safer while putting New York first,\u201d a source said.<\/p>\n
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman speaks in Massapequa on Nov. 13, 2025. Dennis A. Clark<\/p>\n
Speculation has been swirling over whether Trump will weigh in on the race and endorse a Republican nominee in next year\u2019s primary to face off against Democrat incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul.<\/p>\n
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman speaks in Mineola on Nov.24, 2025. Dennis A. Clark<\/p>\n
Asked if he\u2019d support either one of his allies, Stefanik or Blakeman, on Monday, Trump stayed neutral.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s great. He\u2019s also great,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
NY Rep. Elise Stefanik announced last month she was running for governor or New York. Hans Pennink for the NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, I\u2019ll think about it,\u201d Trump added when asked whether he would endorse either gubernatorial hopeful.<\/p>\n
\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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman is set to announce his bid for New York governor on Tuesday \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":434138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,22807,22808,91675,5371,5248,7834,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-434137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-bruce-blakeman","10":"tag-elise-stefanik","11":"tag-governors","12":"tag-kathy-hochul","13":"tag-metro","14":"tag-nassau-county","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkcity","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-us-news","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}