Hello and welcome back to Podforce One. I'm Miranda Devine. Today on the podcast, we're joined by

New York gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman. Bruce Blakeman, thanks very much for joining Podforce

One. My honor, Miranda, thank you so much for having me. I wanted to ask you, are you a masochist?

A Republican has not won in New York for 20 years.

What makes you think that you can do it?

Well, first of all, as I travel around the state, the one thing that becomes apparent is that most people in New York are miserable under Kathy Hockel's leadership.

We are the most overtaxed, overregulated state in the United States.

We have pro-criminal laws that favor criminals over victims.

So I feel very encouraged that people want that change.

They want a governor that's going to care about them.

They want a governor that will put New Yorkers first.

They want a governor that will make them Yorkers first. They want a governor

that will make them happy again because they're not very happy with Kathy Hokel. I love that as a

slogan, make New Yorkers happy again. That's right. I mean, cost of living is very high. And I think

you've got a plan for energy because, I mean, there is talk that there'll be blackouts

in New York this summer because the climate policies of the Democrats have basically run down

all the fossil fuel power plants that are going to close down and there's nothing to replace them. Well, you know,

Kathy Hokel has this green energy scam that she's imposed on New York that produces very little

energy. It costs billions of dollars. And guess what? The rate payers are the ones that are,

they're the ones that are putting the bill for this. So, for instance,

if you take a look at your electric bill, 30% actually goes for energy. The rest of the bill

goes for taxes, excessive delivery costs, and the green energy scam mandates. So I can cut

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