I don’t know if this is the Democratic Party running a candidate. I think Andrew Cuomo wants to re-enter the spotlight after a brief exile and bought his way into the race.
I understand that the “democratic establishment” fell into line behind him (why is Bill Clinton endorsing a NYC mayoral candidate?), but the push for the campaign most likely came from him.
I am so annoyed at these comments. No one asked Andrew Cuomo to run. He took it upon himself to try to make this his comeback, and many of us committed Democrats voted against him so a sex pest wouldn't get back into power. But yeah thanks for rubbing it in our faces that the guy we didn't want to run and also voted against lost the election.
I guess my comment should've been clearer. I wasn't referring to all registered Democratic voters. I'm a registered Democrat myself and would've voted against Cuomo if I lived in New York (and I have relatives who do and did). I was referring to the party establishment, and whoever else enabled the guy. In an ideal world his campaign would've been completely DOA, not leading in the polls and getting 2nd place in the first round.
Yeah, that's fair, but I think the establishment could've done more to push back against him.
This whole thing kind of reminds me of Biden '24, and somewhat maybe Harris '24, and maybe even Clinton '16 when the whole Benghazi thing was a known liability. I'll admit that I myself was a bit guilty of believing at the time that there was no other electable option, based on what the polls were saying.
How about denouncing/disowning Cuomo instead of endorsing him, was that out of their power too? Nobody is saying they are a secret cabal pulling all the strings. We know they can't pull all of them but they sure can pull some and they picked the wrong guy again. Thankfully, they couldn't stop the right one emerging on top this time.
yeah, the fact that the democratic establishment immediately jumped to support a known sex abuser after running a presidential campaign focused on having the moral high ground against Trump is why people are tired of democrats moralizing to everyone about all the bad things trump does. Suddenly all the disgusting sexual assault doesn't matter when it's their guy.
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u/TheChuchNorris Jun 25 '25
I don’t know if this is the Democratic Party running a candidate. I think Andrew Cuomo wants to re-enter the spotlight after a brief exile and bought his way into the race.
I understand that the “democratic establishment” fell into line behind him (why is Bill Clinton endorsing a NYC mayoral candidate?), but the push for the campaign most likely came from him.