Gubernatorial Candidate, Rep. Lee Zeldin of NY, talks about the shooting that happened outside of his home last night related to gang violence; a bullet fell 30 ft. from his 16 year old daughters who were sitting at the table doing homework. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
If you want to be a part of the program, uh, one of the closest races that nobody really saw coming in terms of polling is in the state of New York.
Now, I made this promise to you after what we saw with Glenn Youncan winning by such a large margin in Virginia last year.
And while we paid a little bit of attention to the gubernatorial race in New Jersey, we didn't give it anywhere near the attention that it ended up deserving, because had we done so, I believe that the Republican would have won and Murphy would have been thrown out of office.
And it's just people weren't paying attention to it.
The polls didn't pick up on it, and it was somewhat frustrating.
That's not the case in New York, as Republican Lee Zeldon is now a point and a half away from the current governor, Kathy Hokel, according to Trafalgar.
Uh this race has tightened up dramatically in large part because of all the incidents of crime that we've that you know we've been highlighting on a regular basis on this program.
For example, there was an incident that took place in New York that I don't think most people even know about.
Um and this was a horrible, horrible, you know, situation where you know you it goes to the heart of no bail laws.
There's no bail, no defund dismantled mentality is killing people.
Now, up near Buffalo, New York, you had a woman shot and killed uh last week.
They identified the woman, her last name is Hudson.
She was killed while sit while sitting inside of her vehicle, 8 30 in the morning where she lives.
She was pronounced dead at the scene.
She was killed in front of her children, sitting in the backseat of her vehicle, and it happened Wednesday evening.
Buffalo police put out a wanted notice for a 45-year-old by the name of Adam Benningfield.
The homicide unit is looking to question him as a person of interest in the homicide.
And anyway, police identified this person as possibly armed and dangerous.
Uh on September 28th, it turns out, Hudson and Benefield were married but separated.
They were inside of their home when uh Benefield allegedly had punched and kicked Hudson, according to court documents.
So he was arrested.
He stands accused of taking her cell phone to stop him from call or stop her from calling the police.
Anyway, arraigned, one count, third degree assault, two counts, fourth degree criminal mischief, one count, second degree menacing, one count, second degree unlawful imprisonment, one count of second degree harassment.
So what is New York State do?
They do what they always do.
They let them out because of the no bail laws that represent New York.
Now, it crime is now on pace in New York to set another record on top of last year's record on top of 2020's record.
And it keeps going through the roof, and it's happening all over the country.
I mean, I saw over the weekend 22 shot in Chicago over the weekend, 22 shot in Philly over the weekend.
We're getting record crime, violent crime in every city across the country, because the Democratic Party has embraced the this insanity of defund, dismantle no bail laws.
Well, this weekend, if you want to talk about an issue really coming home, it's Republican candidate Lee Zeldon has been out there trying to get this governor to open up her eyes and see what she is allowing to happen, what's happening all over the state of New York with record violent crime uh unfolding every single day in every single subway.
The New York police department was defunded a a billion dollars, and then she she steadfastly clings to these no bail policies, and this is the net result.
This poor woman killed in her driveway with her kids in the back of the car by somebody who should have been in jail.
It's that simple.
Anyway, over the weekend, uh GOP uh candidate for governor Lee Zeldon said crime actually hit right close to home, and I mean really and literally close to his home on Sunday afternoon.
Anyway, the shooting was in broad daylight, 220 in the afternoon yesterday.
It's on Long Island in a in a town called Shirley.
It's it's a middle class neighborhood.
You would think a normal normally a safe neighborhood.
Anyway, Zeldon said his two 16-year-old daughters were inside the home doing their homework, shots fired right outside of this of of the former congressman and gubernatorial candidates home.
And he had just finished himself and left the Bronx Columbus Day parade in in Morris Park when the shooting happened, his daughters had to lock themselves in the bathroom that called 911 to their credit.
Lee Zeldon is with us now.
This is happening every day.
We're setting one record after another with violent crime in New York and your governor, the woman that you're running against, wants to go on a l a gun listening tour.
What's that gonna do?
Well Kathy Hokel's New York has more high profile crimes being committed day after day after day.
If you were to highlight the highest profile crimes of the last week or two in New York, you would think that we are highlighting all of the top high profile crimes from the last year or two.
That's how much is happening right now.
Yesterday my daughters are just sitting in a kitchen table doing their homework and shots got fired, they're hearing screaming when they were locking themselves in the bathroom, what was most dramatic was that they thought that there were individual the individuals who were right outside were trying to get in.
They thought that they were getting targeted.
One of the bullets landed thirty feet from where they were sitting the two people who were shot were laying down on the ground about ten feet from where they were sitting inside of the house.
This I couldn't get possibly closer to home.
The last press conference that I was doing on Friday, I was in a place called Morris Heights in the Bronx because there were four subway knife attacks over the period of about ten hours on Thursday.
I didn't think that the next time that I'd be standing in front of crime scene tape, I'd be standing in front of crime scene tape in front of my own house.
You pointed out this case near the Buffalo area where three people are now three kids are gonna have to grow up without a mother because of this cashless bail law the judge did not have discretion to weigh dangerousness to keep that husband detained.
I'm told that the woman who was shot and killed not only was telling people he is going to kill me, I was told that when she died that she was wearing a bulletproof vest.
So if you want to hear an argument be made yeah for for the need for Castle's bail for the need to repeal the the less is more act the Halt Act needs to be repealed that our corrections officers are being assaulted since that went into effect on April first there's all sorts of different pro-criminal laws that they have passed.
The highest profile one is Castle Spail and then you have DAs refusing to do their job and this refusal to back our men and women in blue the streets of New York, the subways have all become less safe and Kathy Hokel isn't doing squat about it.
You know I'm I'm I'm watching this one has to consider and I don't know the circumstances surrounding the shooting they've been a little vague in terms of details uh but you are a high profile politician uh one has to wonder is it just a mere coincidence that the shooting took place right in front of your home.
I was told by Suffolk County law enforcement yesterday that they do not believe that I was being targeted that our home was being targeted.
We do not know who the shooters were we do not know motive last update that I received they were still working on all of that.
It appears like Suffolk County law enforcement is taking it as seriously as it gets to try to get to the bottom of it.
Two people when we came home well the Suffolk County police are really good people.
I've got to give them a shout out they they really they're a top notch police department.
They do a great job, but there's got to be a little suspicion in their mind that you could be a target in this.
Yeah, and they're definitely taking that aspect very seriously.
The Suffolk County PD has been in front of my house.
I'll tell you, after the July 21st attack, this isn't our only incident here on the campaign trail.
As you know, and we've spoken about it on air on July 24th, I was giving a speech just outside of Rochester, got attacked on stage, and we sent a letter to Kathy Hochul requesting a detail from the state trooper, this from the state troopers, and she didn't agree to it.
I got to be honest, when that guy came at you with what was a blade, if you had not on your own acted as quickly as you did, and you grabbed this guy's wrist and you pushed it back and you held him long enough that other people could assist you, I honestly, if that was headed right towards your carotid artery, you could have bled out right there.
had to act quickly, and fortunately there were a bunch of people there, so that right after I grabbed the guy's wrist to gain control of what he had in his hand, uh, it didn't become any worse than than what it was, and within hours he was released on Castle's bail.
It was only when the feds get involved about a day and a half later that they arrest uh this guy on federal charges, and the only reason why they can charge him on a federal charges is because I'm currently a member of Congress.
Uh so we we we've seen what I mean I was talking about the last week or two.
I mean you had the Maris dad who gets shot and killed visiting his uh son at family weekend up in Maris College, he's from Long Island and an accountant, this green goblin gang showing up on the New York City subway attacking people unprovoked.
The the axe man at the McDonald's on Delancey Street in lower Manhattan takes an axe out of his backpack and he's swinging it at tables and walls and customers released on cashless bail.
The person in Howard Beach, the woman who got attacked by someone who had murdered his own grandparent, violated parole in August, and his parole officer was not able to keep him detained because cat because Kathy Hochel signed this Less's More act, so they weren't able to lock him up, and now this woman is battling for her vision.
She may not have eyesight anymore.
We're talking about incidences from the last couple of weeks, not the couple last couple of months or years.
Just watching this, and I interviewed the woman that you're talking about in the New York City sub subway, she's definitely looks like she's gonna lose eyesight and one eye, may lose eyesight completely in that.
I I mean, I I train in mixed martial arts.
I mean, I could not believe she was even able to pick herself up after that brutal, vicious beating.
I mean, she was being kicked and stomped on and punched and beaten with with a level of of cruelty and and evil I can't even describe, and when I watch it, I'm like wincing on this poor woman's behalf.
Had you know one guy come over and try to distract the guy, and then he ran because he he probably didn't have the means of defending himself.
And it's just sad.
There's no there was nobody there to help her, nobody there to protect her, nobody there to jump in and save her, nobody.
And he shouldn't have been on the streets.
He violated his parole in August, and because of this new law called Less is more, that the pro officer wasn't able to detain him.
And the people who are in charge of Albany right now, they feel like they haven't gone far enough in passing their pro-criminal laws.
They want to pass a law called the the Clean Fleet Act.
They want to wipe out the criminal convictions uh to to give people their their second start.
But you know what?
That that's information is needed if you want to hire somebody for your place of employment, you want to rent to someone before they move into uh an apartment or something that you're renting out to somebody.
Maybe you want to go hire a babysitter.
There's information that people want to know to make sure you're doing your due diligence and you have the right people in the position.
So they actually feel like they haven't gone far enough.
In New York City, they attacked qualified immunity for law enforcement.
Now they want to do that statewide.
Uh, and meanwhile, you have these DAs who they they refuse to enforce the law.
And it day one, Alvin Bragg comes in and he says in his day one memo, he's not going to enforce all sorts of laws across the board, including something like fair jumping.
And you think, ah, well, the person just doesn't have to pay a couple dollars.
That's justice.
And uh that that's fairness.
But the problem is is that now you have someone feeling a sense of entitlement when the prosecutor puts out that memo.
So when an officer tries to stop him and say, You can't go uh you can't jump at fair, the 16-year-old in the New York City subway system who was just released three days earlier on a violent uh robbery.
Police aren't even gonna bother with them because they don't they know they're not gonna have the backup and the support.
Well, what happened was he he got into a fight with the officer.
The all he's using maneuvers on the officer that the officer used on the 16-year-old, these same people, these Democrats would be wanting to lock up the officer.
But the 16-year-old goes in front of the judge and was asking to press charges against the officer, and then, oh, by the way, after the whole thing was done, instantly released right back out on the street.
I played that video on TV as well, and it was sad to see I I practice self-defense and and I'm I'm a student of the arts.
It was so obvious and evident to me that the police officer in that case, this this kid is wailing on this officer.
And the officer was just basically playing defense and just blocking, you know, the shots that this guy was taking.
Clearly at an opportunity to fight back.
An arrest on camera, especially if somebody is resisting or fighting you, is never going to look pretty.
It's not going to be something that you're going to say, wow, everyone came out looking good here.
That's just not reality in terms of a street fight.
Listen, I'm glad I'm glad you and your family are safe, and uh I hope this was not uh in some sense, I hope it wasn't connected to you know some organized plot against you and your family yet again.
Is the governor gonna give you and your family protection?
She she hasn't called since this incident yesterday.
Of course not.
She has not approved the request for the state police detail that was sent to her after the July twenty first attack on stage.
Uh she she just really needs to go.
We have just four weeks left, and we need everybody everywhere across America doing everything in your power to save this country, save your local communities, save our state.
We have an opportunity to to fire Kathy Holkel and N1 Party rule and restore New York to glory.
The only way this happens is for Kathy Holkle that be fired Tuesday, November 8th, and I'm all in, and I am definitely not in this to come in second.
All right, Lee Zelden.
Glad you and your family are okay.
Sorry about all you've been going through, and we're gonna follow the race closely.
Thank you for being with us and glad you're okay.
Thanks all very scary times out there.
All right, 25 till the top of the hour.
Thanks for being with us.
800 nine four one Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
So we have said that we're gonna look at every state, every race, every place, everywhere, and now we're seeing that a lot of these races that people weren't looking at two months ago, and we have been, are now uh now tightening very, very uh nicely for the Republicans.
All the momentum now seems to be moving towards Republicans as we get closer to the midterms, only twenty-nine days away.
For example, uh General Bull uh Bullduck in New Hampshire, he's within the margin of error in that Senate race against Hassan.
That's a winnable race.
Ron Johnson has pulled away from Mandela Barnes.
Uh Oz came down from c came up from a double digit deficit, and and now it's a dead even race.
That's a winnable race, and the more people learn about Fetterman's radicalism, the more they don't like him, and the less likely it is that he can win that seat.
Never mind the fact that he can't talk, but that's a separate issue.
J.D. Vance is holding up nicely in Ohio.
Uh we've got Ted Buddh is is continues his small but growing lead in in North Carolina.
I'm not worried about Tim Scott.
I'm not particularly worried about Senator John Kennedy.
I'm not particularly worried about people like Rand Paul.
Uh then you have Eric Schmidt's doing well in Missouri.
I think he's gonna win his race.
Adam Laxalt seems to be ahead in the great state of Nevada.
Uh Blake Masters had a masterful debate against Mark Kelly the other day.
I would expect now that race is gonna tighten and with Carrie Lake now w winning pretty decisively over her opponent.
Uh I think I think both the gubernatorial and Senate seat are are definitely trending red in Arizona.
Then we're looking at Joe O'Day.
He might have a chance in in Colorado, and we're looking about Tiffany Smiley, maybe taking out somebody in this case, like Patty Murray.
And Lee Zeldon, I mean, i th this is a neck and neck race in New York, according to the polls.
Another race that uh has caught our attention uh is the Gretchen Whitmer race for governor in the state of Michigan.
Uh Tudor Dixon now has been coming on strong in spite of tens of millions of dollars in negative ads being thrown against her, and and Whitmer is doing a typical hide in my basement Joe Biden campaign.
You know, meanwhile, uh Tudor Dixon has been all over the state, Opening, you know, public ask me anything town halls.
The media ask me anything town halls.
Uh Gretchen is afraid to go out and face the voters.
Uh she won't answer question about uh questions about her extreme lockdowns.
She has her own nursing home problem regarding COVID, as Andrew Cuomo had.
She's had crushing economic policies, cost the state of Michigan eighty thousand jobs uh under Whitmer and her lockdown policies.
I mean, it ended up being a disaster for the state of Michigan, and a lot of small businesses just happen had to close as a result.
Uh a full one third of Michigan businesses were forced to close at least temporarily.
Well, a lot of those businesses are never opening up again.
The state is down nearly a hundred thousand jobs versus pre-pandemic levels.
According to a July 2022 study, Michigan was in third place in the nation for the most job losses since the pandemic.
Uh the price of gasoline statewide in Michigan is now four dollars and seventeen cents a gallon for regular unleaded.
Uh that is uh a lot more than the national average.
And of course, she she doesn't want to answer a question and she doesn't want to debate.
But in spite of all that, Tudor Dixon has given her a run for her money and seemingly came out of nowhere.
Uh Tudor, we wanted to get an update on your race.
What's going on?
Well, it's very interesting right now.
As you said, the polls are very close, and we know that people are frustrated with this governor.
You talked about the gas prices.
Gas prices higher in Michigan than we're seeing at 40 cents higher than the national average.
And Gretchen Whitmer has said nothing about the gas prices.
She had the opportunity at one point to have a gas tax holiday.
She vetoed that, but that's no surprise.
She's vetoed more bills than any governor in the last 70 years.
And if she had her way, we would have had a 45 cent gas tax on top of what we are at right now, and she's still trying to shut down a pipeline in the state of Michigan, which would raise gas prices even higher.
You're absolutely right when you say that she is the progressive left.
She is in a primary right now.
It's against Gavin Newsom.
Just so we're all aware, she wants to go to higher office, and she's going to be as extreme far left as possible to make sure she gets there.
So people have asked me in the state, you wouldn't do the things that Gavin Newsom is doing.
You're not going to ban gas-powered cars, are you?
That's what they're concerned about when they see Gretchen Whitmer and where she's headed, because they already can't afford to put gas in their cars, and now they're afraid they're going to be told that they have to buy a 40 or 80 or 100,000 vehicle that they just can't go to right now.
They're also concerned that they won't be able to heat their homes because she's talking about shutting down a pipeline and forcing the cost of heating their homes to go significantly up.
We know that her policies, what she's been doing in the state over and above COVID, but her lockdowns were horrendous.
And that has really turned people against her.
If we can get our message out, and I I thank you, Sean, for having us on, because these are the moments where people get to hear that there's an alternative.
And we know that the conservative media is getting a lot more play these days than the radical left because no one's interested in hearing that everybody should be paying more for for gas so that we can push you into an electric vehicle.
But that's where the radical left is going.
I watched this weekend.
I read somewhere that they had spent 30, 40 million dollars already in negative ads against you, and and you're still, you know, now pretty close to the margin of error in this race.
And that's a lot of money, so obviously they're afraid.
Has she agreed to any debates, or is she just going to run a campaign from her basement bunker like every other Democrat?
We do have a debate this Thursday night.
I'm very anxious to get to it.
She wouldn't do it before absentee ballots went out, but we're anxious to get to it Thursday night.
And you're right.
She spent um almost almost 25 million dollars in ads, she and her allies, but but that's just in uh general.
They have to be is she is she only agreeing to one debate or is there gonna be others?
Or are there going to be others?
Two debates.
Well, I'm just gonna give you some unsolicited advice.
Have her answer for her record.
Her record is one of the worst of any governor in the entire country.
And once if when people see that, they're gonna watch that debate.
They're gonna watch both those debates.
And if people see that you're a fighter for them, you're gonna win.
Yes, you brought up something key when you talked about what Governor Cuomo did with nursing homes.
Gretchen Whitmer, when Governor Cuomo stopped, she doubled down on that.
We have We still don't know the number of seniors that we lost during the pandemic.
We still uh watch, we look back and think here we were shut down, being told not to go to Florida, and there she jets off on a private plane to have a weekend away in Florida.
These are the things that she should be held accountable to, but also the energy costs.
Well, by the way, she was also caught like Gavin eating in a restaurant while nobody else in Michigan was allowed.
And her husband was uh putting his boat in the water when that was not allowed either.
That's right.
And not only in the restaurant, in the restaurant with no masks on, pushing tables together, partying and thinking that it was just all fun and games.
They are they were so arrogant that they even posted it on social media that they were all out together, twelve at a table with no masks.
I mean, how can you be that arrogant?
It just goes to show that these lockdowns, they didn't believe in them themselves.
Were they really willing to risk their lives?
This was all about control.
We know that now, and we're going to hold her accountable to the fact that we lost more small businesses than any other state.
We are looking at a situation where we've lost nearly a hundred thousand jobs.
The state of Michigan is really decimated.
When you go from town to town, you see clothes signs in windows in all of our small towns.
People are wondering what the future is.
They the culture of Michigan has changed by the businesses that she has closed down because she forced them out of business, and she hasn't been held accountable to that.
Oh, what about education?
What she keeps saying that she's the governor for education.
She shut our kids out of school longer than almost any other governor, and now we've received our reading scores back and had a nearly sixty percent failure rate across the the state for third graders this past year.
By the way, congratulations, you're doing better than New York.
I gotta give you credit.
That's you know, I mean, you can't screw it up.
We spend more per capita as a country than any other industrialized country with the worst results.
How do you how do you how do people keep their jobs when sixty percent of third graders can't pass a standardized test with uh when when only forty percent can pass it?
I had a reporter say to me today, but do you think you're being unreasonable saying every third grader should read?
Don't you think there are certain cases where third graders, certain third graders won't be able to learn to read?
And I said, Tell me which ones you think shouldn't be able to read.
Give me a good example.
Well, let me ask you this question, because you kind of came out of nowhere.
Um I first heard about you from somebody that uh was friendly with Donald Trump uh that that is supporting you and your campaign.
And you came out in the primary and came out gangbusters and you've been barnstorming the state.
Um what made you want to get into this?
You know, I have four daughters and I come from manufacturing.
My dad had a steel foundry in Michigan, and I've seen how business has been crushed by this governor.
And it's been interesting as I've gone around the state and I've sat down with our small business owners, they all say, You really get this.
Yeah, because I lived it, and I see how her policies are destroying the future that we have here, and those four little girls of mine, I want them to be here.
I want them to be have their families here.
I want them to enjoy our beautiful beaches and go skiing in the winter and stay near me.
Because this is an incredible state that is at a crossroads with a governor who doesn't care about the state.
She cares about her own career, and she's willing to destroy a state to be able to be considered the most progressive politician in the country to try to get to Washington, DC, to the point where she's even bringing Chinese corporations in and giving them taxpayer dollars to try to prove that she's as progressive left as possible.
That there was this moment where I I had heard Donald Trump say, uh, they're not trying to get to me, they're trying to get to you.
I'm just standing in the way, and I thought, who's gonna stand in the way of this now?
And it was just a moment where it was a calling.
I I'll see what I can do.
I'll stand up.
You know, this is what America is all about, having people come in and serve for a time and then step back out.
That's what I want to do.
You know, I I wish it's the only reason I support term limits.
I I always thought it would be better if if the Americ American public were just informed and make the right decisions.
That's a I always say it's a bad idea whose time has come, but um the more we bring people in from the outside, I think the better off that we are.
People that are not part of the system, people that are not career politicians.
But so many of these people in Washington, I can tell you this, they go there with no money and they end up coming out millionaires.
And you ask yourself, how did that happen?
Because they're not paid that much money.
And for other people, they go there, they serve their time, and they're giving up, they're sacrificing a lot.
Like, for example, in the case of President Trump, he sacrificed hundreds, if not billions of dollars that he would have made had he not decided to run in 2016.
And all they want to ever do is, you know, fixate focus on him, even to this day, and he's been out of office two years.
So and look what's happened to the country in the interim.
It's not been good.
Anyway, Tudor Dixon, um, we appreciate you being with us.
If people want to learn about your platform, where can they find it?
Check me out at tutordixon.com, T-U-D-O-R-D-I-X-O-N.com.
Thank you so much.
All right, Tudor Dixon, gubernatorial candidate against Gretchen Whitmer.
That would be a nice upset.
That would make me very happy on election night.
Quick break right back.
We'll hit the phones next.
800-941 Sean, our number if you want to be a part of the program, and uh your call's final half hour coming up as well.
Let's get to our phones as we say hi to Aaron is in Texas.
Aaron, how are you?
Glad you called.
I'm good, Sean.
Thanks for taking my call.
Thank you.
Um I just kind of wanted to talk a little bit about you had a caller that called in and was talking about uh Social Security and and things of that nature, money going in.
I don't really see that with the Democrats the way that they try to control everything.
You don't have to worry about Social Security because there's not gonna be any.
They want everybody on a social system where basically you go to work and they're gonna be.
Well, they're just actually demagoguing social security.
They're lying and saying Republicans want uh want to get rid of it, eliminate it, eliminate Medicare.
They're just lying.
It's not true.
Now, both are heading towards insolvency.
That we're gonna need an intervention in some way, and and I would bet it's gonna happen in uh our lifetime.
Yes, sir.
Uh also I kind of see that if uh if the Republicans don't take it this uh this go around, I don't see that uh I could guarantee you that they're gonna go after the filibuster and they're gonna look to pack the courts.
That'll give them the complete control of everything.
And we'll be that's phase two.
If they if we don't win this midterm, at least uh if we don't win it, and they win both the House and the Senate, it's over.
Court packing, done deal.
End of the legislative fist filibuster, done deal.
Uh Democrats, DC, statehood, done deal.
All of that, all of these power grabs will happen.
Say goodbye to your second amendment rights in the process.
They will go full hardcore, authoritarian, radical left.
And if you think five, six dollars a gallon gasoline's high, uh, wait till you're paying ten, because that'll be the net result.
They will not back off their radicalism, they'll double down on it, and they will look at it as a referendum and a seal of approval from the American people.
So your your admonition, your warning is absolutely correct, as dire as it it is.
Anyway, appreciate the call, my friend.
God bless you, 800 941 Sean.
If you uh want to be a part of the program, we'll check in with Joe Concha, the media aiding and abetting and contributing to the Democrats more than any one group, uh, letting these people hide in their basement bunkers.