Speaker 1: Listen, all you New Yorkers, you can't taxi. This is
Speaker 1: the 77 WABC Minicast.
Speaker 2: My dear friend Bruce Blakeman. Bruce, good Wednesday morning, buddy.
Speaker 1: How are you? We're doing great, Sid. We've had a
Speaker 1: wonderful trip. We've been to a lot of different places,
Speaker 1: met a lot of different people. The story's the same
Speaker 1: wherever you go. People are miserable under Kathy Hochul. They
Speaker 1: want change. They want good jobs. They want prosperity, lower taxes,
Speaker 1: lower electric bills, safer neighborhoods. So everywhere I go, it
Speaker 1: could be in a city. It could be in a town.
Speaker 1: It could be in a rural area. Everybody feels the same,
Speaker 1: and that's why we're going to win.
Speaker 2: I think so, too. And, of course, your lieutenant governor, Mr.
Speaker 2: Madison County, the great Todd Hood, he's with you every
Speaker 2: step of the way. He knows those cities, those towns well.
Speaker 2: those neighborhoods very, very well. So you got a good
Speaker 2: little tour guide there, Bruce, as you make your way
Speaker 2: towards that Northern part of the state.
Speaker 1: Well, we just spent three days together and Todd's a
Speaker 1: great guy. We become really good friends. Uh, he's not
Speaker 1: only a running mate, he's a friend of mine. Uh,
Speaker 1: we share the same values. He's got, you know, a
Speaker 1: great wife, Kelly, great kids. He's got grandkids. And, um,
Speaker 1: He looks the part of a sheriff. He's a big guy,
Speaker 1: about 6'4, 265. But one of the nicest people you
Speaker 1: can possibly imagine. And yeah, he's showing me around a
Speaker 1: lot of rural areas up here. He tells me stories
Speaker 1: about working on the dairy farms. So we're having a
Speaker 1: really good time. But you know, Sid, there's so much
Speaker 1: poverty in this state. It's really, really something that I
Speaker 1: have to correct as governor. We've got to bring business
Speaker 1: into this state. We've got to build our economy. We've
Speaker 1: got to make this a vibrant place where young people
Speaker 1: want to grow up here and raise a family. So
Speaker 1: we have a lot of work to do. And as
Speaker 1: I ride along the southern tier, you know, we're sitting
Speaker 1: on one of the largest natural gas reserves in the world.
Speaker 1: And I'm talking about real poverty. And on the other
Speaker 1: side of the border in Pennsylvania, where they're allowed to
Speaker 1: drill that natural gas, well, they're living in prosperity. They're
Speaker 1: driving brand new Cadillac Escalades on that side of the border.
Speaker 1: On the New York side, they're driving around in 25-year-old
Speaker 1: rusted-out pickup trucks. It's not right. It's our natural resource,
Speaker 1: yet we're not able to use it because Kathy Hochul
Speaker 1: has this green energy scam where she's scamming all of us, investing.
Speaker 1: I've been driving through the state. We have these large
Speaker 1: wind turbines. Sid, none of them are spinning. It's like
Speaker 1: it's a joke. Then we have solar farms that have
Speaker 1: been under snow for four months. They're not producing any energy.
Speaker 1: People are making billions of dollars off of us, and
Speaker 1: Kathy Hochul's getting millions of dollars in political contributions. It's
Speaker 1: not right. We've got to end it. We've got to
Speaker 1: build our economy, and we've got to bring our energy
Speaker 1: supply up so it brings our costs down.
Speaker 2: Couldn't agree more. I want to get back to Kathy
Speaker 2: Hochul in a second. So I defend you all the time.
Speaker 2: Nothing you needed because you're doing very, very well. Your
Speaker 2: campaign is doing great, and you're going to win. But
Speaker 2: every now and then, somebody comes up. I know you
Speaker 2: hear this too, Bruce. So does Peter King, okay? I'm
Speaker 2: not breaking news, but Like Sam Antar. You know that guy,
Speaker 2: Sam Antar. We'll let it to Eddie Antar. So he's
Speaker 2: on Twitter.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: He goes, you know, poverty and you got black neighborhoods
Speaker 2: are not doing very well in New York. Some of
Speaker 2: these Latino neighborhoods. And every time I see a Bruce
Speaker 2: Blakeman commercial, they're white people. Where are the black people?
Speaker 2: Where are the Latino people? Where are the. So I
Speaker 2: got to be honest. OK, I haven't paid attention to
Speaker 2: every commercial yet. that I've seen from you. I notice
Speaker 2: them a lot in the morning because I do watch
Speaker 2: Fox News, and they're great. And I love the AI
Speaker 2: stuff you do with Mamdani and Hochul. But I have
Speaker 2: heard that complaint once or twice that not enough other
Speaker 2: people outside of whites in your commercials. Is there any
Speaker 2: credibility to that?
Speaker 1: First of all, it's complete nonsense. And second of all,
Speaker 1: I have a commercial running right now. If you watched
Speaker 1: the Yankee game last night, it was running on the
Speaker 1: Yankee game. where Kathy Hochul said that black kids in
Speaker 1: the Bronx don't know what a computer is. Can you
Speaker 1: imagine what a racist comment that is, how she's denigrating
Speaker 1: young black people? So not only am I calling her
Speaker 1: out for that, I'm explaining how I've made every neighborhood
Speaker 1: in my county safe. I've made every person in our
Speaker 1: county more prosperous. regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, lifestyle, abilities.
Speaker 1: I've gotten a record number of African-American votes for a
Speaker 1: Republican because they trust me. They know that if I
Speaker 1: give my word, I keep my word. When I said
Speaker 1: to the moms and dads in Roosevelt, New York, which
Speaker 1: is a predominantly African-American and Hispanic and Latino community, that
Speaker 1: I would finally build the park that every other politician
Speaker 1: had promised and never delivered, I got it done in
Speaker 1: less than a year and a half. And it's the
Speaker 1: most beautiful park that we have in the whole county.
Speaker 1: I have done things in the African-American community like this
Speaker 1: week on Monday night. I'm bringing in Florida. OK, I
Speaker 1: brought in boys to men. I have increased and spread
Speaker 1: out the type of entertainment that I have in my
Speaker 1: summer series. We had Ja Rule. I did this because
Speaker 1: I wanted everybody in my county to know that we
Speaker 1: were going to celebrate every culture and every community. And
Speaker 1: the fact is Kathy Hochul saying that black kids in
Speaker 1: the Bronx don't know what a computer is, that tells
Speaker 1: you what her opinion is of black kids. And I'll
Speaker 1: assure you one thing, Sid, and I guarantee this, there
Speaker 1: is not one 12-year-old black kid in the Bronx that
Speaker 1: is worse on a computer than I am. So they're
Speaker 1: a lot better than I am. They know what a
Speaker 1: computer is. So yes, we actually have a commercial up
Speaker 1: right now. And listen, they're not paying attention. I was
Speaker 1: with over a thousand Dominicans on Saturday night. I got
Speaker 1: an award at the Miss Dominican Awards. pageant. They had
Speaker 1: a pageant for celebrating women in the Dominican community that
Speaker 1: achieved very, very, very admirable things and great things and
Speaker 1: women of stature. And I was on Dominican television, probably
Speaker 1: over a million people in the Dominican Republic and the
Speaker 1: United States were watching that program when I received it.
Speaker 1: So I'm out in every community. I'm everywhere. I'm meeting
Speaker 1: with a bunch of pastors this morning. I'm having breakfast
Speaker 1: with pastors here in Buffalo. Then I'm meeting with union leaders.
Speaker 1: Then I'm going back to Long Island and taking care
Speaker 1: of business there for a couple of days. So we're
Speaker 1: out and about. We're everywhere. We're in every community. So
Speaker 1: anybody who's criticizing me for that is not paying attention.
Speaker 1: Look at the AI that I have. Look at the
Speaker 1: social media that I have. I featured a black child
Speaker 1: who came home and he said to his mother, I
Speaker 1: got an A on a test. She looked at his
Speaker 1: report card and said, son, this says you had a B.
Speaker 1: And he goes, mom, I swear I got an A.
Speaker 1: Call the school. She calls the school and guess who
Speaker 1: the principal of the school is? Kathy Hochul. And Kathy
Speaker 1: Hochul says, well, your son did get an A. But
Speaker 1: little Cindy got a C, so we wanted to make
Speaker 1: him feel good, so we averaged it and gave both
Speaker 1: a B. So the black woman says to Kathy Hochul, well,
Speaker 1: isn't that socialism? And she says, yes, it is. So
Speaker 1: I'm in every community. I'm going to be a governor
Speaker 1: for all people. I love it.
Speaker 2: I love it. See, that's why it's important though, Bruce,
Speaker 2: that you're on this show every week, because guess what?
Speaker 2: New York one channels, two, four, five, and seven, even Newsmax.
Speaker 2: They're not going to tell the people all this. On
Speaker 2: this show, you get to tell the people, look at
Speaker 2: this commercial. Look what I said. Look what Kathy Hochul said.
Speaker 2: So this is where the real Bruce Blakeman, I should say,
Speaker 2: comes alive right here every week with me. There's also
Speaker 2: a big breakfast tomorrow I want to make you aware of. Because,
Speaker 2: talking about the Latino community, Ruben Diaz loves you. I
Speaker 2: told you this. I called him. I cold-called Ruben Diaz,
Speaker 2: brought you up. He said, my community loves Bruce. We're
Speaker 2: voting for him on two lines, the conservative and Republican line.
Speaker 2: They've got a big prayer breakfast tomorrow morning with A.L. David,
Speaker 2: who's now the new General Counsel of Israel. Christians and Jews,
Speaker 2: this alliance, over 100 ministers. All that taking place at
Speaker 2: 9 o'clock tomorrow morning. So that may be a stop
Speaker 2: for you. I don't know. Ruben Diaz.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll take a look at it and look at
Speaker 1: the schedule. But Ruben Diaz is a great leader. He's
Speaker 1: a devout Christian. He's got good morals, good values. He's
Speaker 1: a great American. And those are the people that I
Speaker 1: want to associate, people that love America. You love America.
Speaker 1: I don't care what race, religion, ethnic group you are.
Speaker 1: I don't care how you live your life. I don't
Speaker 1: care what your abilities are. If you love America, even
Speaker 1: if we disagree on policy, you know, see, that's the
Speaker 1: problem I have with the current Democrat regime. They hate America.
Speaker 1: Zoran Mandami never says a good word about America. You know,
Speaker 1: I remember when we had Daniel Patrick Moynihan, we had
Speaker 1: Mario Cuomo, Hugh Carey, Ed Koch. even Bill Clinton. I
Speaker 1: disagreed with them on policy. But one thing I knew
Speaker 1: about those Democrats, they loved America. This new regime hates America,
Speaker 1: and that's my problem with them. It's true.
Speaker 2: By the way, you left out one great Democrat whose
Speaker 2: wife clearly loves you, Frank Lautenberg.
Speaker 1: Oh, Bonnie Lautenberg is terrific. Frank Lautenberg. You see, Frank
Speaker 1: Lautenberg and I would probably disagree on a lot of
Speaker 1: different things. But I always knew Frank Lautenberg was a
Speaker 1: man of ethics, a man of high moral values, and
Speaker 1: a man who loved America. So I knew when he
Speaker 1: stepped foot on the floor of the Senate that his
Speaker 1: heart was in the right place. I can't say that
Speaker 1: about a lot of these modern Democrats. And I'm very
Speaker 1: proud to have Bonnie's support. And since Bonnie came out
Speaker 1: and said she was going to support me, I've had
Speaker 1: Democrats call me constantly and say to me, Bruce, we're
Speaker 1: going to back you. We're going to make a financial contribution.
Speaker 1: We're going to get our friends to vote for you.
Speaker 1: Every day a Democrat comes up to me and says,
Speaker 1: I'm a lifelong Democrat. I've never voted Republican before in
Speaker 1: my life. I'm voting Republican this year. My party is insane.