Cuomo’s game plan for Dems: Get things done, fight Trump
NEW YORK — In a year awash with liberal challengers aiming to retire establishment Democrats, Andrew Cuomo was an obvious target.
A consummate insider, Cuomo is the son of a governor who ran his father’s campaigns and served as a U.S. housing secretary and state attorney general before being elected governor twice. He’s a prodigious fundraiser who rakes in plenty of corporate campaign cash.
Yet Cuomo was able to quash an insurgent primary challenge from Cynthia Nixon on Thursday by packaging the power of the establishment while embracing the positions of his rival — a blueprint that could offer Democrats a path forward as the party looks to confront Republicans and contend with fissures within its own ranks.
Cuomo dismissed the idea that established Democrats are in danger of being tossed out by young, leftist candidates. He called the congressional primaries that produced a surprise victory by Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a “fluke,” and noted he won her district by a large margin.