Donald Trump is not going to rescue Andrew Cuomo – Latest News
Boy, does Andrew Cuomo assume his donors are suckers: Over the weekend, he reportedly instructed a well-heeled Southampton crowd that no much less than President Donald Trump is going to present him the votes to grow to be New York’s subsequent mayor.
How?
By ordering New York City Republican voters — who all the time do what they’re instructed, proper? — to neglect about GOP nominee Curtis Sliwa and sitting Mayor Eric Adams and vote as an alternative for the “Luv Guv” to save us all from Zohran the socialist.
We discover it onerous to consider Trump would back Cuomo and even when he did, the president will discover it a onerous sell to persuade New Yorkers to back the man who signed bail reform and Raise the Age into law, in addition to these infernal “congestion” tolls.
Not to point out his nursing-home death toll, his fracking ban and different loopy, pricey “climate” insurance policies, nor an moral swamp of self-dealing that was his decade as gov, capped by his $5 million deal to “write” (that is, illegally have his workers produce) a e book about his pandemic “leadership.”
And Trump definitely is aware of higher than to strive to make metropolis Republicans swallow all that.
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Perhaps Cuomo has deluded himself into considering in any other case; more doubtless he’s simply taking part in the wealthy crowd for chumps, figuring they’ve no clue how street-level GOPers (or Trump!) see something.
The ex-gov most likely additionally thinks he earned that Emmy (since taken away) that Trump-haters handed him for his COVID press conferences.
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What chutzpah, by the way in which: Just weeks in the past, Cuomo was bragging about how as mayor he’d virtually transfer to DC to battle Trump; abruptly the prez is supposed to trust this snake?
Abandoning any semblance of precept to cozy up to wealthy donors could have helped Cuomo win previous elections, however the voters do be taught from expertise — and the expertise of being ruled by cynics like Cuomo is precisely why so many Democrats opted for Mamdani within the major.
And why few Republicans will back the ex-gov in November, no matter how they detest Mamdani’s imaginative and prescient.
Nobody, neither fats cat nor small donor, ought to waste a dime on this loser.
