Jesse Watters: Hochul was OUTCLASSED

[0:02] It's a little hot. [0:03] Hello, everybody. [0:04] I'm Jesse Waters along with Emily Campagno, Jessica Tarlov, Dana Perino, and Greg Gutfeld. [0:09] It's 5 o'clock in New York City, and this is The Five. [0:19] Can New York still be saved? [0:21] Republican Bruce Blakeman giving the Ayatollah of Albany a good pantsuit-sized whooping last [0:26] night over her failed liberal policies at the only governor's debate. [0:31] Kathy Hochul basically had one line, a noun, a verb, and Donald Trump. [0:35] And Bruce Almighty took her to task. [0:36] You are the president of the fan club for Donald Trump. [0:41] It's absurd how adoring you are of him. [0:44] My gosh, you stood on a stage screaming at the top of your lungs, we love Donald Trump. [0:50] We like to talk about Donald Trump all the time because you don't want to talk about your record. [0:55] I'm talking about my record right now. [0:57] It's a record of misery and failure. [0:59] The highest taxes, utility rates, they're 70% higher than the national average. [1:04] And just a week after ICE agents shot the left's new Maryland dad, you know, criminal illegal gangbanger, [1:10] Oswald Bell-Gall, Big Bruce didn't let crazy Kathy get away with the fact that it was her [1:15] sanctuary policies that created the conditions for the shooting. [1:19] I oversee over 500 policing agencies in the state of New York, over half a million arrests every year. [1:26] That's not how you conduct yourself. [1:27] ICE is out of control. [1:29] It's out of control in Nassau County. [1:31] Kathy, it never would have happened but for your sanctuary policy. [1:35] You have invited criminals to come into our state and prey on our communities. [1:40] The reason why that happened is because of you, Kathy Hochul. [1:44] And the OG failed New York liberal, Bill de Blasio, getting taken to school by Dana over ICE. [1:51] What was reckless or violent about what ICE did? [1:54] Okay. [1:55] What we know is repeatedly it's been the same pattern with ICE. [1:58] And I said Minneapolis because the same thing with a vehicle. [2:01] We saw this in Texas. [2:02] We saw this in Maine. [2:03] Use of force that does not conform with what law enforcement does. [2:07] And now we find out there's a five-year-old kid in that vehicle. [2:09] Oscar Belgaard with a machete had the five-year-old kid in the car. [2:12] I'm not saying he's a good guy. [2:14] He was terrorizing his neighbors. [2:16] I think. [2:16] It would never have gotten to that point if New York officials co-operated with ICE. [2:23] I don't think, no. [2:23] No, wait a minute. [2:24] This is a bigger problem. [2:27] They never want to admit the sanctuary policy caused it. [2:31] And also, I should, what I should have said back to him was that if you are a law enforcement, [2:36] including ICE, if a vehicle is being used and you think you're in danger, you are justified [2:41] to take action. [2:43] So there was nothing reckless or violent that was done by ICE in that situation. [2:46] One thing that really bothered me about that interview, and I wish I'd had time to press [2:49] him a little bit more, is, of course, they're defending, they're not, de Blasio was not defending [2:55] Oscar Belgaard as an individual. [2:56] But he was saying ICE is in the wrong because writ large, over the course of time, in all [3:01] situations, ICE has been terrible. [3:04] That's how he tried to paint it. [3:05] And he was talking about the people of New York wanting ICE not to terrorize neighbors. [3:12] I'm like, wait, who do you think was terrorizing the neighbors? [3:15] Belgaard was terrorizing the neighbors. [3:16] They said so. [3:17] And like, who is going to stand up for them? [3:18] And then I asked him, what do you think of Mayor Momdani saying that Oscar Belgaard is [3:22] the real New Yorker here? [3:23] And he goes, you know what he said? [3:25] He said, oh, I don't know anything about that. [3:28] And to me, if you're going to come on and you want to talk about these stories, you should [3:32] know the full story. [3:33] Yes, Mayor Momdani said that Belgaard is the New Yorker here. [3:37] And so I do think that Bruce Blakeman, pressing Kathy Hochul on that last night, was reminding [3:41] people that the issue that, yes, brought President Trump back to power and winning the presidency [3:47] had to do with these issues of security and dealing with the fact that we have the worst [3:52] of the worst that are still embedded in our society because of years of an open border [3:56] policy. [3:57] And now it's going to be very difficult to try to get them out. [4:01] And I think that it's obviously a very tight race. [4:04] It's an uphill battle for any Republican. [4:06] But New York has had Republican governors in the past and the state was better off for it. [4:10] Yeah. [4:10] Hochul was outclassed last night, Jessica. [4:13] What do you think her biggest accomplishment has been? [4:18] Her biggest, like, straight-up accomplishment? [4:21] I think that she talked about housing policy, that she's gotten YIMBY versus the NIMBY of Suffolk [4:28] County with Bruce Blakeman defending the fact that home prices in Nassau County have gone up [4:34] over 40%, which I think exposed him to... [4:37] Wait, what is her biggest accomplishment as governor? [4:41] Building this housing. [4:42] What housing? [4:43] The affordable housing. [4:45] Where? [4:45] Like, all over the... [4:47] Rent is going up like crazy here, and there's no housing. [4:51] Nothing's been built. [4:52] Well, that's not true. [4:54] And she talked about it last night in the debate, and I thought it was Bruce Blakeman's weakest point [4:59] where he was going to, I have created wealth in Nassau County because housing prices have gone up 40%. [5:06] But that squarely is why people don't like life right now, because it's too expensive. [5:12] He's not thinking about young families that are trying to get on the property ladder. [5:15] He had no answer for what's going on with inflation, 3.7% in this report. [5:19] And standing shoulder to shoulder with a very unpopular president is a choice that other Republicans [5:25] don't want to do nearly as often. [5:27] And look at how Mike Lawler is running. [5:29] Yeah, but he doesn't have anything to do with inflation. [5:31] You could argue that her shutting down power plants and pipelines caused much more inflation. [5:36] That's why this is a close race. [5:38] It was close with Lee Zeldin four years ago as well. [5:41] But that was a red year. [5:43] This is going to be a bluer year than it was in 2022. [5:47] So I think that Kathy Hochul will win. [5:49] I think that it will be a slim margin for a deep blue state. [5:53] But she's having to run essentially two campaigns. [5:55] She has to have an upstate campaign. [5:57] That's why you have the data center moratorium that's going on there. [6:00] And there are voters all over the country in conservative states that want that to happen. [6:03] In Ohio, in Texas, she's delivered there. [6:06] And then she will also be rallying with Mayor Mom Donnie before the election on November 3rd. [6:10] She'll cut a deal with the data center people so they pay them off like everybody else is doing. [6:15] I like Bruce Almighty. [6:16] I hadn't really seen a lot of him before. [6:18] But last night, I thought he was pretty sharp. [6:19] It was awesome. [6:20] I can answer the question about what her greatest accomplishment is. [6:23] It's causing the biggest stampede in history. [6:27] I mean, Oklahoma Sooners move over. [6:29] You know those people who are obsessed with Trump and everything out of their mouth? [6:32] Like at some point, they just have to say something about him. [6:34] I'm subjected to it a lot because I am from the West Coast. [6:37] I go there often. [6:38] It is exhausting. [6:40] But it's even more exhausting to be the constituent of someone like that. [6:44] And that's what Kathy Hochul is. [6:45] You know what parties when, like, you can tell the person that everyone hates [6:48] because everyone is fleeing their conversation or, like, relieved when they get out of it? [6:52] I mean, that is what New Yorkers have done under her watch. [6:57] So let's look at those numbers. [6:59] Almost a million New Yorkers have fled, taken with them $1.4 billion in adjusted gross income [7:05] and almost $12 billion in annual state and local taxes. [7:10] And the 1% here, the top, shoulders almost half of the state taxes. [7:15] But she's spending $8 billion on illegal immigrants. [7:19] She's forgetting the New Yorkers here. [7:21] That's the problem. [7:22] Her being anti-Trump and her hatred of Trump has totally eclipsed her being pro-New Yorker. [7:27] So when we vote, when you talk about quality of life and, like, why everyone hates their life, [7:32] I mean, I just, I hate the feces on the streets. [7:34] Absolutely. [7:35] I hate that it floods every time it even sprinkles. [7:38] I hate the smell of the sewers. [7:40] I hate the homeless encampments everywhere. [7:42] I hate the danger. [7:43] I hate covering the stories of people in real loss and pain, [7:46] getting stabbed and shot and shoved into subways. [7:49] And then we're told that we're supposed to mourn that Oscar getting shot [7:53] instead of the NYPD detective getting stabbed 10 times. [7:57] I mean, this is ridiculous. [7:58] In fact, we can't articulate one positive thing that she has done [8:01] other than threaten, who is that annoying DA? [8:04] Bragg? [8:05] Yep. [8:05] And then didn't even follow through with it. [8:07] I mean, I would think actually Libs would be upset with her [8:09] because she wouldn't even acknowledge the federal tribe on Long Island [8:12] that begged her for some type of titling. [8:14] She's actually done nothing other than be anti-Trump. [8:18] So, look. [8:19] Yeah, we could use an Indian casino out in the Hamptons, great. [8:22] I was just saying that to my friend. [8:26] Anyway, I want to try to go, I want to see if there's a way [8:29] that I can persuade somebody like Jessica. [8:32] I think that everybody can pretty much agree [8:35] that Hochul is not a great candidate. [8:39] Electricity bills rose 60% under her, which is insane, [8:44] or state spending ballooned, far past inflation, taxes, as you said, state high. [8:49] The green rules kept energy expensive. [8:51] You have cashless bail, which she is for. [8:54] You have soft rules on criminals, which she is for. [8:57] Sanctuary policy, which we already have been through. [9:00] All of these things point to the fact [9:03] that she's prioritizing the wrong people. [9:06] It's not the citizens, it's the suspects. [9:09] If you want a metric on quality of life, [9:11] it doesn't have to be human feces. [9:13] It's that our toothpaste is still locked up. [9:15] Are things getting better if your toothpaste is behind lock and key? [9:19] So what I'm thinking, Jessica, because I did this myself, [9:23] set aside the partisan reflex to support your side. [9:26] Pretend there are no sides, [9:28] which I did with Andrew Cuomo over Curtis Sliwa. [9:31] I was like, I could go Republican, [9:33] because I am a Republican, [9:34] but I actually think that the city would benefit from Cuomo [9:37] over Mamdani or Sliwa. [9:40] So the practical question then is, [9:42] another term of something you know, [9:45] which is a failed approach from Ockel, [9:48] is that really preferable to a competent, [9:50] moderate Republican alternative [9:52] whose priorities align with all of our acute problems? [9:56] This isn't a choice of extremists. [9:59] You know, this isn't socialism versus MAGA. [10:01] This is just some kind of moderate pro-choice Republican, [10:06] an old school Republican from Nassau County, [10:08] which is like the size of three states. [10:11] So you have to ask, like, [10:12] what concerns you as a New Yorker? [10:15] You know, is it politics, really, [10:17] or is it your family? [10:18] Budgets, crime, store lockups, [10:20] walking to and from school, [10:23] energy bills, homelessness, drug addiction? [10:25] In all areas, you have to admit that we are dissatisfied. [10:29] These things aren't getting better. [10:32] So if you're going to take a risk, [10:34] why is Blakeman a risk? [10:36] Is he Hitler? [10:38] You know, is he the devil? [10:39] No, he's a suburban Republican [10:41] who basically ran, [10:43] created one of the safest counties in America. [10:46] He didn't raise property taxes. [10:48] He fixed the budget. [10:50] And like I said, he's pro-choice, [10:52] which, you know, should, like, [10:54] remove a lot of resistance [10:55] from most of these Emily Listers. [10:58] He's no interest in culture wars that I can tell. [11:01] He's added police. [11:02] He wants to cooperate over getting illegals, [11:05] violent illegals, deported. [11:06] He opposes sanctuary cities. [11:08] In short, he's pragmatic, [11:10] old-school, Republican, [11:12] focused on three things, [11:13] taxes, energy, and order. [11:15] He's literally exactly what a liberal would want [11:20] if you divorced yourself [11:21] from the loyalty of your party [11:23] and transferred that loyalty to us, [11:27] your friends, your family, yourself. [11:30] You deserve better [11:33] than what the party is giving you. [11:36] Like, we come here every day [11:37] and we complain about the things [11:39] we see on the street, you know? [11:41] And if it were a Republican, [11:42] I would be the same way. [11:43] I'd be going, this guy's a jerk. [11:45] All I'm saying is maybe, you know, [11:47] if this were an election in Alaska or Arizona, [11:50] I get it because it's not going to affect you. [11:52] But this is going to affect you and me. [11:54] So why don't you do me a solid? [11:56] Like, I come here every day as your friend. [11:59] Why don't you admit that, you know what? [12:01] What could you lose? [12:05] What could you lose with a moderate, boring Republican? [12:08] I can't imagine a better sell than what I did. [12:11] No, I think it's great. [12:12] And, you know, you're going to see a lot of people [12:14] that take you up on that. [12:16] And you didn't even mention the exodus of Jewish voters [12:18] from the Democratic Party. [12:20] Are you talking to you personally? [12:21] Oh, I know what he's doing. [12:22] But I'm not accepting the kindness [12:24] because I will say this. [12:25] And I think that it is important. [12:30] Bruce Blakeman. [12:31] Is a communist Nazi. [12:33] No, of course he is not. [12:35] I'm not saying that he is. [12:36] He is. [12:37] He's just a boring Republican that we're largely used to. [12:41] But he's pro-choice, Jessica. [12:43] Yeah, as much as this will surprise you, [12:45] I don't wake up every morning only thinking about abortion [12:48] and access to abortion. [12:50] I do think about, though, I get it. [12:53] I believe, though, in the importance of having [12:56] sanctuary city policy to protect people [12:59] who are not committing crimes. [13:00] I do believe in not having cuts to health care. [13:04] And Kathy Hochul has fought against health care cuts [13:07] and made sure that there is more funding for people who are on Medicaid. [13:10] I believe in needing blue state governors [13:13] to push back against this administration. [13:15] Just give it a shot. [13:16] What do you got to lose? [13:17] You don't want to lose anything. [13:19] You can lose things. [13:20] People can lose their health care as a result of this. [13:23] Who? [13:23] Who? [13:23] Who? [13:24] Who? [13:24] Illegal aliens? [13:26] Come on, think about your family, Jessica. [13:28] Think about your family. [13:29] You know what makes me so mad about Hochul [13:32] is that she's made me kind of like a mean person. [13:34] Today I was in this, I took the train [13:36] and then I was walking from one place to the next. [13:38] And in the subway, this guy is just sprawled, [13:41] like lying, like asleep on the thing. [13:44] And the workers are walking, the pregnant ladies walking by. [13:47] And I'm like, I used to be a very compassionate person. [13:51] And now I'm just mad. [13:52] But that's also not Kathy Hochul. [13:54] That's being angry at Mayor Mondani about it. [13:56] It's the attitude of how they govern. [13:59] That is true. [14:01] Well, we don't. [14:02] Bruce Almighty, give him a chance. [14:04] Go, Bruce. [14:05] Coming up, why does Kamala laugh like this?