Carl Paladino is joined by supporters at the Capitol in Albany this morning during the first of four stops Paladino will make across the northeast stretches of the state.

Paladino: 'Don't talk to me about polls'

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ALBANY -- Maybe it was fitting that Carl Paladino opened one of his final days on the campaign trail this morning on the steps of the State Capitol in a driving wind storm amid drops of rain.

"This is the scene of the crime," a supporter shouted during his brief speech.

"We're going to hose this building down," Paladino responded.

As he entered the final stretch of the governor's race, the Buffalo businessman spent the early part of his morning bashing Democrat Andrew Cuomo on everything from the state budget to what he calls a "selective" prosecution record as attorney general.

And he continued to try to highlight polls that showed him losing the September GOP primary, which he won by 26 points.

Several new polls show him losing Tuesday, but Paladino insisted he is very much in the hunt to beat Cuomo.

"Don't talk to me about polls," Paladino said after a couple dozen supporters, including tea party backers, turned out for the first of four stops Paladino will make across the northeast stretches of the state.

The Republican did not back down from comments he made the previous evening on Long Island, where he described Democratic U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand as the "little girl" of Sen. Charles Schumer.

"She does exactly what Schumer tells her to do. So she is his little girl," Paladino said.

 Paladino, with state GOP Chairman Ed Cox accompanying him, suggested again that research into his life has been deeper than anything Cuomo has experienced.

"There is nothing, nothing, that everybody doesn't know about me now," Paladino said.

"I made mistakes," Paladino said of his run over the past six months. "I'm human just like everybody else, and I think I've showed people that. But I also showed them I think we have the substantive message."

Cuomo will be in Cheektowaga this afternoon, making a stop at the Creekside Banquet Facility on Union Road at 4:30 p.m.

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