He’s trying to get people excited about it.
Andrew Cuomo is running for a third term. We think those things are transferrable to the governor’s race,” says Nixon’s campaign strategist, Rebecca Katz. She focused on big, bold progressive issues. “There’s a woman who challenged an entrenched incumbent. Now, though, he’ll be pressed to declare where he stands on more radical policy ideas, like abolishing ICE, which Ocasio-Cortez and Nixon both advocate. Lately Cuomo has been taking more steps toward the left, on everything from legalizing marijuana to banning plastic bags-and seen social media promptly dismiss those moves as pandering attempts to outflank Nixon. But he has made tortured alliances with state Republicans and been careful to keep much of his economic agenda in the ideological center lane. The 60-year-old Cuomo does indeed have major progressive achievements in his record, including legalizing same-sex marriage in 2011. Although the governor is seen in many corners of the state as a progressive, he doesn’t get enough credit for it.” How much can any incumbent rely on their political network, given what we saw yesterday in Queens, the tight race in Brooklyn, and even what we saw in Maryland with Ben Jealous?. There is a desire by a number of New Yorkers, not just Bernie Sanders supporters, to have newer blood and younger blood.
“It portends this larger question about how strong the anti-establishment vote is going to be this fall. “The Ocasio-Cortez win has to be a little scary for the governor,” says Basil Smikle, a former executive director of New York’s state Democratic Party. Freshly emboldened by Ocasio-Cortez’s victory, it is aiming to make him the next big upset victim. Despite the fact that Cuomo has a mostly liberal record, and has been pushing back against Trump for the better part of two years, much of New York’s left sees the governor as cynical and inauthentic. That episode no doubt prefigured the tricky dynamic Cuomo faces in the wake of 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s surprising win over 56-year-old incumbent congressman Joe Crowley in a Democratic primary yesterday. “I am a woman seeking to control her health and her choices, because as a New Yorker we are one community, and the New York community is composed of all of the above.”Ĭuomo’s ham-handed woke routine inevitably sparked a very funny Twitter meme: “I am the rat in the subway, I’m the weird brown liquid pouring from the apartment upstairs.” “I am an incomprehensible New School philosophy thesis.” “I’m your hell, I’m your dream. New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, called a Sunday press conference to reiterate his order that state lawyers would help the suddenly stranded. Nine days into Donald Trump’s presidency, hundreds of Muslim travelers were stuck in airports, caught up in a hastily decreed travel ban.
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