WATCH: New York Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Rep. Lee Zeldin Attacked With Knife

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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, the Republican candidate for New York governor, was attacked by man with knife at an upstate event Thursday but was uninjured, his campaign said.

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Zeldin was giving a speech when a man climbed onstage and appeared to begin wrestling with the congressman, said Katie Vincentz, a spokesperson for Zeldin’s campaign.

A video of the event in Perinton posted on Twitter showed the man appearing to grab Zeldin’s arm and the two fell to the ground as other people tried to intervene.

“Thanks to the swift action of several brave eventgoers, the perpetrator was subdued,” New York GOP Chair Nick Langworthy said in a statement.

Zeldin, an Army Reserve lieutenant colonel who has represented eastern Long Island in Congress since 2015, is a staunch ally of former President Donald Trump and was among the Republicans in Congress who voted against certifying the 2020 election results.

He is challenging incumbent Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul this November.

(Attack occurs at minute 57:50)


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lipa99
lipa99
1 year ago

thank you Mr Biden , Nancy Pelosi, Hochul and all DemocRATS – we the people will take back NEW YORK and AMERICA from the Socialists and make America SAFE AGAIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

freedom is not free
freedom is not free
1 year ago

the attack is at 57:45

permiegirl
permiegirl
1 year ago

Messages seeking information from the Monroe County District Attorney’s Office were not immediately returned, and phone messages were left with the county’s emergency dispatch.

anonymous
anonymous
1 year ago

Welcome to every day life !!! You don’t like what someone say’s or how they look , you harm them !!!

Bennie Thompson
Bennie Thompson
1 year ago

Liz Cheney must subpoena him to testify at the January 6th lynching.

Bubbie
Bubbie
1 year ago

No information about the attacker other than he was a veteran and may have been drunk. His motives are unknown.

freedom is not free
freedom is not free
1 year ago

Anyone still remember another “lone wolf” attack on the rep congressmen?
They are at war and have been for a while. The same goes for jihadis. It could be a lone wolf, or organized antifa, BLM, or ballot fraud. It’s on all fronts and one of the reasons democrats enabled lawlessness.
Violence can only be met with violence or submission there is no middle ground anymore. Eventhough Zeldin may mean well, the democratic processes lost all meaning once the ballot box permanently failed in nov 2020 and fascism set in on jan 6th.

Phineas
Phineas
1 year ago

Odd attack. Curious to see who this guy is.

John doe
John doe
1 year ago

The “tolerant” left

Enough
Enough
1 year ago

While democratic socialist are allowed to threaten the lives of republicans or anyone that disappointed with them and get away with it. This will continue. Nancy and chuck are worrying about republican protesters but it’s their followers doing the attacking

permiegirl
permiegirl
1 year ago

greats

permiegirl
permiegirl
1 year ago

Great

Enough
Enough
1 year ago

What the socialist press hasn’t called this a publicity stun to get attention yet

Open Minded
Open Minded
1 year ago

We haven’t heard from Poupko in a while

No Pinchas
No Pinchas
1 year ago

Zeldin wasn’t in the act with his shiksa.

Triumpinwhitehouse
Triumpinwhitehouse
1 year ago

Look at the rhetoric of the liberals now he’ll claim mental illness. Democrats whom aguda loves equal anarchy

Liam K. Nuj
Liam K. Nuj
1 year ago

Gotta love that “reporter” from Freedom News (?):
“He may have a gun or MAYBE EVEN A KNIFE!”