Overview
- Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman used the Viktor Frankl podcast to outline his 2026 gubernatorial agenda, emphasizing Jewish community protection, public safety, and economic changes.
- He promised aggressive enforcement against violence and intimidation of Jewish New Yorkers, said he would fully back police, and said he would use gubernatorial authority to intervene if cities fail to maintain order.
- Blakeman called New York’s cashless bail policy a failure that creates repeat offending and said he would seek to reverse parts of criminal‑justice reform to tighten pretrial release rules.
- On the economy he proposed lower taxes, reduced energy costs, incentives for business investment, and an end to certain state spending for undocumented migrants as ways to keep families and employers in the state.
- The podcast appearance builds on targeted outreach by Blakeman as his campaign presses to convert a recent tightening in polls into donor and voter momentum ahead of summer finance and filing deadlines.