New York Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin announced this week he will run for governor to defeat Andrew Cuomo as leader of the Empire State. He is the first Republican candidate to announce a challenge to the scandal-ridden Cuomo.
Zeldin is a strong ally of former President Donald Trump who has served four terms in New York’s 1st District in eastern Long Island. The Congressman made his announcement during a live interview on “Fox & Friends.”
“I’m running for governor of New York in 2022,” Zeldin announced on the program. “We are going to win this race.”
Zeldin’s campaign website adds he will “bring the kind of relentless, fighting spirit towards helping to save our state that Andrew Cuomo only reserves for multi-million dollar self-congratulatory book deals, cover-ups, abuse and self-dealing.”
Fox News reports Zeldin met with the former president last month at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. The meeting took place as Trump allies have been quietly garnering support for the congressman. Zeldin previously served as an attorney and officer in the U.S. Army Reserve.
The news comes the day after Andrew Giuliani, son of former New York City mayor and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, stated he was also considering a run for governor.
With Cuomo refusing to resign and already preparing for his reelection campaign to serve a fourth term, the news is a welcome relief to many New Yorkers seeking new leadership. Cuomo has been the topic of multiple scandal accusations, with his own party leaders calling for his resignation.
A total of 10 women have now come forward with accusations of sexual harassment involving Cuomo. The accusations are now part of a state investigation. Cuomo’s problems also include a federal probe regarding nursing home death statistics during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Others have blasted the governor for his overreach regarding COVID-19 restrictions. The state kept students home from school for a year. Many businesses were shut down for so long they have closed. A Facebook survey announced this week that New York led the nation in small-business closures during the pandemic, alongside neighboring Pennsylvania.
Zeldin described the state’s problems well in his campaign statement: “The New York that was once a magnet for the world’s best and brightest is now forcing its own to leave under the crushing weight of skyrocketing taxes, lost jobs, suffocating regulations, and rising crime resulting from dangerously liberal policies.”
The congressman is ready to Make New York Great Again even if he can’t make the changes he would like in Washington. It’s about time the Empire State had some conservative leadership to turn back the blue tide overwhelming its citizens.
Despite Cuomo’s past victories by wide margins, the time is right for one of the nation’s leading states to lead well. With a true conservative governor at the helm, Dr. Fauci may be right in a way he did not expect: The nation might start getting back to normal by the end of 2022.
It’s my thought that maybe important ‘changes’ in leadership on the state level is what is needed to effectively change politics in Washington!! Watching Governors stand up against unfair policies and EO orders from Biden, to benefit their citizens is heartening and reassuring! Thankful to these people for their support and concern. You’re a credit to your constituents!!!
IT’s UP TO YOU NEW YORK NEW YORK ! Bring on Governor Lee Zeldin and get rid of SIKKO Andrew Cuomo !!!
I so agree Pat Dyer. He should not be able to decide to stay or leave……he needs to be made to leave! He is a lying stinking piece of S—! He is just a horrible person and so darn cocky! He needs to be brought down a few pegs!
Cuomo must be indicted before the election. First for the nursing home scandal. Second for his sex offensives. Third for the people who lost loved ones in the nursing homes to sue him and the State. This will crush him.
If “they” were seriously going to implicate this murdering narcissistic rapist it would’ve happened by now. Nothing will come of any of theses allegations. WHY?!
He’s a democrat, when did you last see a democrat tried for ANYTHING?! If he was a Republican, he’d be in solitary confinement we speak. Andrew Cuomo won’t be touched. This’ll all be swept under the proverbial rug and he’ll walk free as if nothing happened……. yes, they talk like he’s in trouble, but again, a democrat, nothing will come of it
Pissed — you are exactly right — if he was going to be gone — he would be gone by now. If he was going to be indicted for anything — it would have happened already. The murder of 15,000 elderly should have been enough to indict,convict and throw away the key after he was behind bars. He and his advisors should all be put away for a long time. But as holds true in our lilly white(choke,choke) political system– this is all nothing but garbage talk and they know if they talk long enough — it will just fade away and the American people(as they have proven many times) will just forget about it and it will not surprise me in the least if the new yorkers reelect this premeditated murderer even without ALL the voter fraud and election corruption the demonrats are known for.
It is really sad that he has not been charged with anything, because he did murder 15,000. He is another really EVIL man that just wanted to make President Trump look bad, it just didn’t work.
Thank God that Lee Zeldin is going to run for NY Governor. He is going to have to work really hard like President Trump had to do, because there is so much that is going to need cleaned up.
Then try to educate your fellow citizens with the information as they will not see it on liberal news.
George, yes he’s a killer of the elderly. He owes the people he killed and their families. Just a nasty low class citizen. He has never done anything for Ny. I agree he needs to be sued for everything he has stolen from so many.
He is a scumbag ruining the USA as we know it. Just like the entire left agenda to ruin snd sensor and turn us communistic/socialistic so we can have an emperor like China’s Moe. I am sick of censorship and we need to regulate the biased media. We should shut fown google, twitter and facebook sicial medias that censor our 1st right.
this tyrent should be remove from office now ,replaced with next in line now when ,then elect some one else
I’m all for him and Andrew Guilani for Governor time to get this ass clown out of office he has ruined New York Now we need a strong Republican to get NYC back to being great again
His voters, of course, will declare the whole thing a Republican plot and call for the arrest of his accusers. The Media will eventually rise to his defense. They’ll declare his accusers opportunists and if it ever got to court the Red Judges that infest our legal system would just decree him innocent and jail his accusers.
In the Democrat Party mass murder and sexual predators are acceptable as long as the perp is a big name Democrat. Anyone else is expendable and frequently suicided.
i rad omewere that europ has decided that 7500 would be sufficient to declare it genocide, cuomo killed 15000 what does that tell you
It is my sincere hope that New York will get a Republican Governor. I am from Long Island and I can
attest to the fact that Congressman Lee Zeldin would be a perfect choice for Governor. He has been
a strong supporter of President Trump and his leadership would be a welcomed relief for New York.
Cuomo and the Democratic party have destroyed the State. It’s time for much needed change.
Let’s make “New York Great Again”!!!!
I would like to know when he is going to be impeached or go to jail. What’s taking so long, he has continued to do damage to NY.
Go Zeldin!
Hope the New Yorkers are sick and tired of being drug around by the Dems and will go Republican this time..
Only way a republican can win New York is by being honestly about everything! Democrat union members will do anything to destroy this state! You seem it over Cuomo four years as Governor! Liberal only care about themselves and their pension fund! But let New York become a SOCIALIST STATE! Their pension funds gone out the window to illegal immigrants! By the way you nutshell don’t leave town after you retired! You created the problem the last twenty years! Stay there and enjoy it!
Maybe its time for The people of New York state to take
matters in their own hands…….
The Republican candidate will have to do a lot of heavy campaigning to overcome Comrade Cuomo and the Democrat machine in downstate New York. And with the current budget allocating thousands of dollars to illegal immigrants which, in effect, is meant to buy their vote, it will be a tough row to hoe. Of course, one of the first pieces of legislation that has to be presented, regardless of which party wins, is to put term limits in place. Two terms of Cuomo was enough, three is untenable, and four … well, let’s just say we might as well say “goodbye” to New York being the Empire State and say “hello” to its becoming the Welfare State.