Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin on Sunday blasted former President Bill Clinton for making light of his stand on crime during a rally for Gov. Kathy Hochul, saying the comments indicate how much the two Democrats “care about your life and safety.”
“Yesterday, @BillClinton and @KathyHochul were laughing and joking about recent subway crimes,” the Long Island congressman wrote on Twitter, sharing a video of Clinton speaking on the Saturday rally in Brooklyn.
“This tells you all the pieces that you must find out about how little they care about your life and safety. The countless victims of rampant crime don’t think it’s funny. All of us deserve higher,” said Zeldin, who has hammered Hochul on rising crime rates of their closely watched gubernatorial contest while climbing in recent polls.
The previous president and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer were among the many high-profile Democrats who turned out to support Hochul throughout the rally in a last-minute push before Tuesday’s midterm elections.
Talking to supporters, Clinton mocked Zeldin’s anti-crime message.
“Lee Zeldin, he makes it sound like Kathy Hochul gets up every morning, goes to the closest subway stop, and hands out billy clubs and baseball bats and everybody gets on the subway. Doesn’t he?” the previous president said smiling as the gang chuckled.
“While he,” Clinton said as he puffed out his arms in a body constructing gesture before exclaiming “Huh!”
Clinton’s goading of Zeldin’s stand got here a few days after his wife, Hillary Clinton, also downplayed the Republican challenger’s anti-crime message.
At a rally for Hochul in Manhattan on Thursday, the previous first lady and senator from Recent York said Republicans like Zeldin are pushing messages about crime to scare voters.
“They don’t care about keeping you protected,” Clinton said on the rally at Barnard College. “They wish to keep you scared.”
She claimed that while Republican candidates raise numerous questions on crime, they supply no answers.
“I see … ads about crime every 30 seconds,” she said. “No solutions, but just numerous really fearful, scary pictures and scary music.”
