Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman blasted the state GOP boss for saying there’d be no primary for governor – warning the race could turn into a Kamala Harris-style “coronation.”
Blakeman, who’s eyeing a run for the nomination, had harsh words for Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox who threw his full support behind upstate Rep. Elise Stefanik as she launched her gubernatorial campaign last week.
“I don’t know who appointed him the king of the Republican Party,” Blakeman said of Cox as he kicked off a speaking tour across the Empire State at the American Legion in Massapequa.
“But I can tell you this, we are not going to have a coronation like they had for Kamala Harris in the Democratic Party. That’s not what the Republican Party’s about.”
Harris, the former vice president, was q

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