Meet Bruce Blakeman, the NY pol taking on Dem Gov. Hochul — who started campaigning at age 7, served as Nancy Reagan’s driver

Source: New York Post

Long before Bruce Blakeman became New York’s gubernatorial candidate for change, he was a lowly college kid tasked with driving Nancy Reagan around. The Nassau County executive’s first real political gig — as a volunteer for Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign—  unexpectedly landed him in proximity to the fiercely protective soon-to-be first lady. “She liked and trusted me,” Blakeman told The Post in a recent interview.