Nassau County Leader Slams N.Y. GOP Chair for Endorsing Stefanik

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman slammed New York GOP Chair Ed Cox after his endorsement of Rep. Elise Stefanik as the state’s Republican challenger to Gov. Kathy Hochul.

Speaking to Spectrum News on Wednesday, Blakeman said Cox “hasn’t won. He’s lost virtually every race as state chairman, and maybe he needs to look at his playbook and maybe get a different playbook.”

In November, Cox endorsed Stefanik, saying the upstate New York representative “is a unifier and a party builder with the brains, the guts and the resources to win statewide next year.”

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