Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin reached out to New York’s Democratic voters Monday throughout a pre-Election Day rally at which he highlighted his tough-on-crime message.
Talking exterior a Bronx subway station the place a rider was stabbed within the neck Sunday morning, Zeldin stated, “New Yorkers of all walks of life are uniting as New Yorkers to take again our streets, to take again our subways.”
“Folks have stated: Sufficient,” he stated.
“This isn’t about Republican vs. Democrat. That is about all of us uniting.”
Zeldin — whose surging marketing campaign has pressured President Biden, former President Invoice Clinton and different Democratic bigwigs to stump for Gov. Kathy Hochul — additionally stated voters within the deep-blue Empire State “will not be monolithic.”
“You may’t simply paint someone who's a registered Democrat and say as a result of they're a registered Democrat, that implies that they're simply going to vote one explicit approach — that they don’t assume for themselves, they don’t have their very own concepts, their very own imaginative and prescient,” he stated.
“And what they really need is to see motion.”
Zeldin repeated his criticism of New York’s controversial bail reform regulation and endorsed Democratic Mayor Eric Adams’ proposals to give judges the ability to lock up harmful defendants and to roll again the “Elevate the Age” regulation for legal accountability.
“He’s proper,” Zeldin stated.
“All of us must work collectively and that would be the first name on Wednesday morning — to Mayor Adams — as a result of now we have to characterize our mutual constituents.”
Zeldin summed up by saying voters would go to the polls “with a breaking level on this state and a ardour and a need to save lots of the state.”
“This present course doesn't work. Kathy Hochul shouldn't be getting this job completed,” he stated.
“I look ahead to doing every little thing I can to make the streets of New York safer, to make our subways safer, to verify we're rolling again pro-criminal legal guidelines, we're firing weak district attorneys who refuse to implement the regulation and make it possible for we're again on our women and men in blue.”
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