President Trump is punching his ticket for Republican Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman’s “normal Nassau” reelection campaign, as the Long Islander prioritizes public safety for locals.
At a thunderous kickoff rally in front of hundreds in Massapequa Monday — the room shook during the Pledge of Allegiance — the Long Island pol said he’s got a powerful friend in Washington backing him for four more years.
“I spoke with President Trump, and he’s very enthusiastic. He told me that if I needed anything or any help, he would be happy to give it,” Blakeman, 69, exclusively told The Post regarding his November faceoff with Democratic Nassau County Legislator Seth Koslow.
“I’m sure I will ask him. I’ll take him up on it.”
Blakeman, who was first elected in 2021, added that he hoped his campaign could emulate the energy of Trump’s September rally at Nassau Coliseum — a campaign stop where he vowed to save New York — which was more raucous than an Islanders playoff game.
His top priority, the pro-police county executive said, is maintaining Nassau’s recently earned rep as being named the safest community in America by US News and World Report last August.
The new moniker comes as a result of Blakeman’s hardline stance against illegal migrants and other criminals breaking the law. That tone was something repeated throughout Monday’s rally by Blakeman backers, including Peter King, the popular ex-congressman from Long Island, and Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor Joseph Saladino.
“We’re going to make sure that illegal migrants who committed crimes are given to ICE and taken away,” Blakeman told the audience inside an American Legion post.
Earlier this month, Blakeman brokered an agreement with the Trump administration that allows Nassau law enforcement to join forces with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to help arrest and deport illegal migrants who are found committing criminal acts.
“Everything’s about protecting criminals, I want to protect the people that elected me,” he said.
At the kickoff event, Blakeman doubled down on his executive order in 2021 barring Nassau County from becoming a sanctuary county, saying it “was the right decision to make” for residents’ safety.
And he pointed to the arrests of a Honduras illegal migrant in November who allegedly raped a five-year-old girl in Westbury and a Mexican national who was accused of running a sex ring at Long Island hotels in the Uniondale area days ago.
“I’m going to hire more cops, and I’ll hire more corrections officers … we’re going to continue to make this the safest county because if it’s safe, people will come here,” he said. “They’ll come here to live. They’ll come here to shop. They’ll come here to do business — and that’s what we want.”
Blakeman — involved in Long Island politics since 1993 — also emphasized keeping youth sports exclusive to their respective biological sexes, particularly for female athletes.
“Girls came to me, and they said, ‘Look, it’s unfair to compete against biological males,’ said Blakeman, who enacted a transgender athlete ban for girls’ sports in Nassau last summer.
“It’s unsafe. It’s dangerous. And, by the way, we want our privacy back in our locker rooms. And you know what? It’s just common sense.”
Blakeman also touched on quality-of-life issues and efforts to “keep taxes down” through economic prosperity — but added that the county needs “to do the little things” like “making sure that our roads are smooth” and fixing potholes.
And he proclaimed to rallygoers that Nassau has gone back to its “American values” over the past four years after the nightmare and unrest of the pandemic.
“We needed to get our county back to normalcy,” Blakeman told the crowd. “We had to become normal again.
“We had to use common sense. I wanted a normal Nassau.”
