Blake’s offering a safe harbor from Zo’s red wave.
Republican gubernatorial hopeful Bruce Blakeman decried the stunning socialist sweep by Zohran Mamdani-backed candidates during Tuesday’s primaries, casting it as another failure of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s leadership.
“The Hochul-Mamdani lunatic wing of the Democrat Party has made it less affordable and less safe to live in New York,” he said in a statement late Tuesday.
Mamdani’s slate of far-left congressional and state legislature candidates — including firebrand Darializa Avila Chevalier — dominated their primary contests against moderate Democrats.
The wins showed Mamdani’s influence over the Democratic Party writ large, and raised fears among establishment pols that his Democratic Socialists of America faction is gaining power.
Blakeman, who serves as Nassau County’s executive, extended an olive branch to disaffected moderates.
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“I’m asking common sense Democrats to join our cause to save New York from the socialist, anti-American Communists and restore normalcy to our state,” he said.