Blistering Bruce Blakeman ad features AI-Hochul being truthful about her New York: Want some crack?

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman has released a blistering new ad featuring an AI-generated Gov.Kathy Hochul being “truthful” about what her reelection would look like, going after his rival on everything from affordability and crime to illegal immigration.“This is what Kathy Hochul’s New York really looks like,” Blakeman wrote on X Tuesday in a post accompanying the video, while pledging to cut taxes, restore cash bail and make New York safe and affordable again.The 60-second spot features a Hochul facsimile walking and talking against the backdrop of various familiar New York locales, boasting about everything from raising taxes to soft-on-crime policies.“We provided luxury accommodations for illegal migrants in beautiful hotels just like this,” the AI-Hochul says from a digitally generated lobby of a hotel where a line of immigrants totes luggage and wait to be served at the front desk.“And we raised taxes by $8 billion for the programs that matter, like free healthcare for sex workers, and lucrative no-bid contracts to the politically connected,” she continues, walking through a city park lined with benches occupied by sleeping homeless people.The ad hit Hochul on increasing energy prices statewide, showing the governor’s digital doppelganger strolling through a hilly expanse dotted with wind turbines“Thanks to our hard work, we’re leading the nation giving foreign companies energy contracts, which means your energy bills go up, but I get invited to all the best donor dinners now,” the fake gov says, appearing at a computer-rendered formal reception smiling and clinking glasses with a group of older men wearing tuxedoes.“We’ve raised tolls and fares more than 20 times, because the best way to fix traffic is to ensure regular people can’t afford to drive or take the subway,” Hochul’s AI avatar says while crossing a highway overpass.

“And we ended cash bail so that we would stop punishing people who commit brutal crimes...