ALBANY - NYGOP Chair Ed Cox released the following statement following Far Left Democrat Blake Gendebein’s emergence as the Democratic nominee in New York’s 21st Congressional District:

“Republicans are thrilled by the selection of Democrats of radical Far Left Blake Gendebein, who not only supported Joe Biden’s open border policies, but also bailed out illegals from ICE. Gendebien viciously claimed that local correctional officers ‘don’t have much self-worth’ and disparaged local North Country children as not having ‘practical independence and an ability to think.’

“Far Left Democrat Blake Gendebien even castigated hardworking North Country workers as ‘awful‘ people who ‘drank too much.’

“This radical Far Left Democrat is a longtime major donor and groupie of leftist, gun-grabbing, Taxin’ Tedra Cobb, a supporter of Kathy Hochul, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and a public supporter of Biden’s inflation policies, which devastated NY21 families.

“Democrats didn’t do their homework when they selected Blake Gendebien and his catastrophic statements. Republicans will easily hold this seat in the upcoming special election, because the North Country is unquestionably Trump Country.”