As the left grapples with a presidential candidate who has difficulty completing full sentences and was just slapped with a sexual assault allegation that the staunch feminists in the #MeToo movement have chosen to ignore – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has emerged as a fantasy pick to supplant Joe Biden and beat President Trump in November.
Cuomo has received heaping praise over his response to the COVID-19 crisis – holding near-daily briefings as New York now has the most infected residents in the United States – with just under half the country’s cases and deaths. His broadcasts have become somewhat of a Democratic counterpoint to President Trump’s daily appearances, according to Bloomberg – which notes that unlike Biden (whose own briefings have been more ‘old man shaking fist’ than action), Cuomo can take action.
Cuomo was U.S. housing secretary in the Clinton administration and is the oldest son of beloved Democratic New York Governor Mario Cuomo, who dallied with running for president in the 1980s and 1990s. As if that wasn’t enough of a Democratic political dynasty, Cuomo, 62, was once married to a Kennedy. -Bloomberg
As Bloomberg notes, the hashtag #PresidentCuomo was trending on Twitter last week as rumors of a Cuomo nomination swirled on the left – including from MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, who called him “president of the coronavirus response,” and NYT columnist Maureen Dowd. Cuomo has also made regular appearances on his hot-headed brother Chris Cuomo’s CNN show where the two have traded brotherly barbs to inject levity.
Networks even preempted a Biden speech last week to broadcast one of Cuomo’s briefings.
Betters at online oddsmaker PredictIt even have Cuomo neck and neck with Bernie Sanders! (I-VT)
To top it off, longtime New York political player, Jim Larocca – who worked with Andrew when his father Mario was the governor, recently wrote in Long Island newspaper Newsday that Democrats should swap him for Biden, Bloomberg reports.
“The governor is displaying a real measure of passion about the subject, compassion for the victims, and humanity about the impacts,” wrote Larocca, adding “The contrast with the president’s behavior could not be more pronounced.”
That said, experts on the Democratic nominating process say a Cuomo run is a pipe dream.
David Adams
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