Bruce Blakeman says Brad Lander would be ‘a camp guard in the concentration camp’ for Nazis

The GOP nominee for N.Y. governor later said Lander, who’s running for Congress, would have been a “collaborator” with the Nazis. Both candidates are Jewish.

Bruce Blakeman, the Republican nominee for governor of New York, on Thursday largely stood by his comments this week that Democratic congressional candidate Brad Lander would have been a camp guard in a Nazi concentration camp.

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In a Newsmax interview Wednesday, Blakeman called Lander, who won Tuesday’s Democratic primary in New York’s 10th Congressional District, antisemitic.

“Even though he’s Jewish, this guy would be a camp guard in the concentration camp if he could,” Blakeman said of Lander, New York City’s former comptroller.