DON'S NY FANS: GOV'S THE FOOL
Outrage over Hochul’s ‘clown’ crack
Politicians from across the state reacted with outrage Friday to Gov. Hochul calling supporters of Donald Trump “clowns” after his Bronx rally Thursday, which drew a diverse array of supporters.
Hochul made the remarks while bragging to CNN’s Jake Tapper about her confidence in President Biden’s electoral prospects in the Empire State.
“I’ll tell you what won’t make a difference at all, Jake, and that’s for Donald Trump to be the ringleader and invite all his clowns to a place like The Bronx,” Hochul said.
It didn’t take long for the governor’s opponents on the right to rip what they saw as yet another example of Democrat elitism, on par with Hillary Clinton’s notorious “basket of deplorables” comment made during the 2016 election.
‘Want something better’
“Oh [Hochul] first you say conservatives shouldn’t live in NY, then you say blacks don’t know what a computer is, now you call half the country ‘clowns’ . . . your disdain for voters is matched only by your ability to put your foot in your mouth,” Rep. Michael Lawler (R-Rockland) posted to X.
“She needs to actually take some time to talk with her citizens,” Trump ally Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) told Fox News’ Kayleigh McEnany. “They are people that work hard every day. They are people who have toiled in the misery and some of the misery that frankly does occur in New York and they want something better.”
New York Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar told The Post that he believed that Trump was more familiar with the area than Hochul.
“He has probably spent more time in The Bronx in his life than she has spent in her life,” he said. “You want to talk about New York City and make comments like that? Maybe she needs to spend more time outside of her ivory tower in Midtown Manhattan.”
A statewide Sienna College poll earlier this year showed Trump with roughly the same amount of support amongst Hispanic voters as Biden.
“Kathy Hochul is just upset that President Trump is pulling crowds in her state that she could only dream of; and Democrats are in disarray because Americans, including Hispanics and blacks, are waking up to the fact that Joe Biden and the Democrat Party have been using them for votes and ripping them off for decades,” a spokesperson for Trump’s campaign told Fox News Digital.
Biden easily carried the Empire State in 2020 with just over 60% of the vote.