New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) said over the weekend that those who vote for Republicans are “anti-American.”
Hochul’s made the extreme remarks, which come just days ahead of Tuesday’s presidential election, during a Saturday interview on MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation” with Al Sharpton.
Sharpton asked her about a joke that an insult comedian made at Trump’s rally in the state last week which Hochul claimed was “so painful.”
“You do not think in this great country that you we should have leaders who either say this themselves or will tolerate it at one of their rallies,” she said. “I think this rally backfired on him.”
She said that the incident helped her make the argument that New Yorkers should not vote for the Republican Party.
“It gave me a chance to tie the Republicans running in these seats, the incumbents, closer to Donald Trump,” she said, adding that she wanted to “remind everybody, if you’re voting for these Republicans in New York, you are voting for someone who supports Donald Trump and you’re anti-woman, you’re anti-abortion, and basically you’re anti-American.”
Former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) slammed Hochul on X: “Quite the closing message from the so called campaign of joy: If you don’t vote Democrat, you are Nazi, Hitler loving, anti-American garbage.”
Zeldin’s remarks come in response to Democrats and the media trying to portray Trump as a Nazi during the final days of the campaign and President Joe Biden’s “garbage” insult that was directed at tens of millions of Trump voters.
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Quite the closing message from the so called campaign of joy: If you don’t vote Democrat, you are Nazi, Hitler loving, anti-American garbage. pic.twitter.com/pbz47BSOwO
— Lee Zeldin (@LeeMZeldin) November 3, 2024
