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Cuomo insisting that progressives aren't making inroads in the state government, after almost all the IDC candidates lost their primaries, and his increasingly cranky belligerence is something.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...w-york-progressive-democrats?CMP=share_btn_tw
Now we go live to the Governor....
Cuomo was fighting back against another narrative that has taken hold in the party: that the upset win by New York’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic socialist who knocked off the powerful representative Joe Crowley, set off a domino effect in primaries around the country, including upset wins by progressives running for governor in Georgia and Florida and for a congressional seat in Massachusetts.
“Where was that effect yesterday? Where was it?” Cuomo asked.
Instead, he said the win by Ocasio-Cortez in Queens in June was merely “a fluke”, explained by the timing of the vote which resulted in low turnout.
The statewide primary this week, by contrast, saw a spike in turnout, and Cuomo bragged that he got more primary votes than any governor in history.
“That is a wave,” he said. “On the numbers – not on some Twittersphere dialogue where I tweet you, you tweet me, and between the two of us we think we have a wave. We’re not even a ripple.”
Cuomo won despite a series of missteps in the closing days of the campaign, when he drew criticism for a mailer sent out linking Nixon to antisemitism, which his camp and the state Democratic party were forced to disavow
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...w-york-progressive-democrats?CMP=share_btn_tw
Now we go live to the Governor....