Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman (R) is betting his experience leading one of New York\u2019s most populous counties can pave his path to the governor\u2019s mansion.<\/p>\n
Blakeman is trying to win a statewide race in a Democratic stronghold where no Republican has secured such a victory since 2002. And he is trying to pull off this feat while touting the double-edged sword of an endorsement from President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
A longtime fixture of New York politics, Blakeman has spoken of his direct line to Trump, but said his campaign will focus more on local concerns, such as addressing cost-of-living issues …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman (R) is betting his experience leading one of New York\u2019s most populous counties…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":472609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[3789,5229,37635,111604,161797,85786,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,28119,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,29826],"class_list":["post-472608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-abortion","tag-america","tag-bail","tag-election-campaigns","tag-gender-identity-discrimination","tag-leasing","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-student-athletes","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-wind-energy"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115785435928465206","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472608","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=472608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}