Cuomo Says He’ll Spend ‘Eight Years In Washington’ Fighting Trump If He Wins NYC Mayor’s Race | Eastern NC Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Zach Jewell.

    Former New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he would focus his attention on fighting the Trump administration and spend "eight years in Washington" if he wins his election for mayor of New York City.

    In a piece published by POLITICO on Tuesday, Cuomo, 67, revealed his strategy to use the mayoral office to push back against Trump's policies and campaign for Democrats to retake the House. Cuomo, who resigned from his position as governor over allegations that he sexually harassed numerous women, is being investigated by the Department of Justice for allegedly lying to Congress over a report that covered up the number of COVID deaths at nursing homes during the pandemic.

    Asked how he would "handle working with the president while potentially under criminal investigation," Cuomo replied, "I would spend eight years in Washington - go to that U.S. Conference of Mayors, go to the National Governors Association. [Trump's] cutting Medicaid. Medicaid is not a blue-city, blue-state situation. That is in every state. That is a lot of red Congressional districts. And he could lose the House on cutting Medicaid if you organized it and got it moving."

    "You're going to have to be a spokesperson, advocate, organizer," he added. "This is what Medicaid means in Mississippi, this is what Medicaid means in Texas. ... And you organize that, they don't have a lot of Congressional seats left to lose."

    Trump, whose second term in office will end in less than four years, has promised that Republicans are "not touching anything" when it comes to Medicaid benefits, adding, "All I want is one thing. Three words. We don't want any waste, fraud or abuse. Very simple - waste, fraud, abuse."

    Cuomo has also faced scrutiny over an order he issued as governor in 2020 requiring New York nursing homes to accept patients even if they tested positive for COVID. In the interview with POLITICO, Cuomo described the DOJ investigation as "laughable" and "purely political nonsense."

    According to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), there is "overwhelming evidence" that Cuomo knew about an audit that undercounted COVID nursing home deaths in New York by 46%. A report from New York Attorney General Letitia James also found that Cuomo's nursing home policy "requiring nursing homes to take in patients from hospitals who had COVID-19 and were stable enough to be discharged had likely contributed to the loss of life," according to ProPublica.

    Cuomo initially claimed that he was not involved in the report that undercounted COVID nursing home deaths, but now he says that he doesn't recall reviewing the report, according to POLITICO.

    "My thing is, I don't recall. There's no incorrect statement in, I don't recall," he said.


    The former New York governor is currently leading in the polls to replace incumbent NYC Mayor Eric Adams, a registered Democrat running as an independent this election cycle, but Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani is receiving surging support and cutting Cuomo's lead in the Democratic primary, according to a PIX11/Emerson College poll released last week.

    In the poll, Cuomo stands at 54.4% to Mamdani's 45.6%, a massive swing from late March when Cuomo was ahead 38% to 10%.

poll#218

Now that President Trump is picking his cabinet and immediate staff to insulate him from the poor judgement of the Bureaucratic Class, while moving quickly to transition this Constitutional Republic unto a wise and sustainable direction: What is your immediate impression as to how our nation will prosper?

  We are headed toward a Golden Age in America's self-governed society.

  This will all wind up in a clustered mess since Trump is a Fascist, and thought to be the second coming of Adolf Hitler by our best journalists.

  This is a time where critical days lay ahead, where only wise and responsible decisions must be made to sustain US.

  I generally do not pay attention, but expect only the best to occur ... and that is what I always expect.

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poll#177

Considering the irrefutable fact that the Left /the Democratic Socialists, beginning in March of 2020, employed the repetitive use of the Covid Pandemic as a political cudgel to wrest a presidential election, where their candidate rarely left his basement, from a frightened and beaten down citizenry of this Representative Republic: What does your knowledge NOW, in hindsight, aid in your understanding of the motives of the Authoritarian Left?

  The "Left" cares about all Democratics, so it was imperative that we do whatever it took to elect a lifelong politician to become that Democratic Socialist to forever change US.

  Pandemics are serious business, where our leaders must use wisdom and practicable efforts of all that serve to protect the public from not only the pandemic, but these ignoble usurpers of the Left.

  I lost almost everything in the Covid Pandemic, and I want justice; a justice where only the truth prevails, and the rampant fraud that is now legend is remedied.

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