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Cuomo: Democrats Reacting Too Slowly to Trump
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2:41Now PlayingAndrew Cuomo, the front-runner in New York’s Democratic mayoral primary, said raising taxes on the city’s wealthiest residents would cause an exodus to states like Florida and Texas.
“You elect a socialist who tries to give everything away free, doubles the taxes on the wealthy, and the wealthy say, ‘That’s it I’m gone,”’ Cuomo, the former governor of New York, said in an interview on Bloomberg Radio on Monday. He also said Democrats lost the 2024 election by not appealing to voters. and now react too slowly to Trump.
Touting Experience
In the interview Monday, Cuomo criticized his own party for becoming “disconnected from the kitchen table issues.” He said it wasn’t so much that President Donald Trump won the election, but that the Democrats lost by not focusing on jobs, mortgages, public safety and other issues affecting everyday life.
He accused Trump of sowing chaos with his immigration crackdown in Los Angeles so that he could appear to be the leader who reestablishes order.
“The flipside is OK create chaos in LA, create chaos in New York, create chaos in Chicago,” Cuomo said. “Pretty soon you create chaos in the nation, and that’s bad for the economy.”
Cuomo is pitching himself to voters as an experienced government official who can manage New York City’s problems — from crime in the subways to a universally acknowledged affordability crisis. He touts his achievements as governor, including the much-lauded renovation of LaGuardia Airport and the opening of the Second Avenue subway line.
Cuomo’s lengthy government service comes with significant baggage, too, even beyond the sexual harassment allegations that previously derailed his career.
Trump’s Justice Department is investigating whether Cuomo lied to Congress in public testimony last year about his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic in nursing homes. Cuomo said in the interview that the investigation is “a joke.”
As governor, Cuomo signed into law new pro-tenant rent laws that he now says he regrets. And in 2019, he approved bail-reform legislation that some law enforcement officials and district attorneys say have contributed to the city’s post-pandemic spike in crime.
Cuomo’s competitors have repeatedly pointed out that the former governor lived outside the city for decades until recently, when he starting renting an apartment on Manhattan’s East Side.
But despite those criticisms and high negative favorability numbers, Cuomo has been the front-runner in every poll since before he even entered the primary.
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