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   From: kamala@harris.helped   
      
   CHICAGO – New York Gov. Kathy Hochul embarrassingly referred to Vice   
   President Kamala Harris as the “first president of the United States” in   
   her speech to delegates at the Democratic National Convention Monday —   
   before blasting former President    
   Donald Trump as a “philanderer” and “felon.”   
      
   “Are you ready to elect the first president of the United States?” Hochul,   
   65, began her remarks.   
      
   The Empire State leader then argued that Harris and her running mate,   
   Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, share the values that define New Yorkers, namely,   
   “grit,” “determination” and “compassion” — while Trump, who was   
   born in Queens, does not.   
      
   “Donald Trump was born a New Yorker but ended up a fraud, a philanderer, and   
   a felon,” the Democratic governor said in her remarks at the United Center   
   on the opening night of the Democratic gathering.   
      
   “He wasn’t raised with the New York values I know,” Hochul charged.   
   “He never had to worry about childcare costs, groceries or rent. He never   
   had to worry about anything – or anyone – but himself.”   
      
   “Trust me, America, if you think you’re tired of Donald Trump … talk to   
   a New Yorker,” she added. “We’ve dealt with him for 78 long years.”   
      
   “And New Yorkers are sick of it.”   
      
   Hochul then attempted to make a joke about Trump moving to Florida upon   
   leaving the White House.   
      
   “So it’s no wonder he had to flee to Mar-a-Lago … Sorry about that,   
   Florida,” she quipped, to muted applause and laughs.   
      
   “Trump hasn’t spent much time in New York lately, except to be convicted   
   of 34 felonies,” Hochul continued, referencing the guilty verdict in his   
   Manhattan hush money trial earlier this year.   
      
   “And that’s just fine with us. Because New York’s motto is: Excelsior:   
   Ever upward. And Trump takes us ever downward,” she said.   
      
   New York GOP Chair Ed Cox released a statement ahead of Hochul’s appearance   
   at the DNC, which accused the governor of running the Empire State into the   
   ground.   
      
   “Under Kathy Hochul and one-party Democrat rule, New York is the highest   
   taxed, least business-friendly state in the nation,” Cox wrote.   
      
   “Crime is on the rise across the state thanks to radical Democrat DAs and an   
   illegal migrant crisis that Kathy Hochul and ‘Border Czar’ Kamala Harris   
   have allowed to spiral utterly out of control,” he continued.   
      
    “Productive citizens are voting with their feet as New York continues to   
   lead the nation in outmigration. Kathy Hochul’s New York is a disaster and a   
   cautionary tale for what failed governance looks like in this crucial election   
   year.”   
      
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   So Hochul demonizes people for having been successful. Trumps pop built   
   himself a real estate business and his son Donald took it to the next level   
   with hard work, grit and determination.   
   Hochul should listen to Trumps speech in the Bronx. The people were cheering   
   when he told them they could do it too.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2024/08/19/us-news/gov-hochul-calls-kamala-ha   
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