Boy, does Andrew Cuomo think his donors are suckers: Over the weekend, he reportedly told a well-heeled Southampton crowd that no less than President Donald Trump is going to provide him the votes to become New York’s next mayor.
How?
By ordering New York City Republican voters — who always do what they’re told, right? — to forget about GOP nominee Curtis Sliwa and sitting Mayor Eric Adams and vote instead for the “Luv Guv” to save us all from Zohran the socialist.
We find it hard to believe Trump would back Cuomo and even if he did, the president will find it a hard sell to convince New Yorkers to back the guy who signed bail reform and Raise the Age into law, as well as those infernal “congestion” tolls.
Not to mention his nursing-home death toll, his fracking ban and other crazy, costly “climate” policies, nor an ethical swamp of self-dealing that was his decade as gov, capped by his $5 million deal to “write” (that is, illegally have his staff produce) a book about his pandemic “leadership.”
And Trump certainly knows better than to try to make city Republicans swallow all that.
Perhaps Cuomo has deluded himself into thinking otherwise; more likely he’s just playing the rich crowd for chumps, figuring they have no clue how street-level GOPers (or Trump!) see anything.
The ex-gov probably also thinks he earned that Emmy (since taken away) that Trump-haters handed him for his COVID press conferences.
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What chutzpah, by the way: Just weeks ago, Cuomo was bragging about how as mayor he’d practically move to DC to fight Trump; suddenly the prez is supposed to trust this snake?
Abandoning any semblance of principle to cozy up to rich donors may have helped Cuomo win past elections, but the voters do learn from experience — and the experience of being governed by cynics like Cuomo is exactly why so many Democrats opted for Mamdani in the primary.
And why few Republicans will back the ex-gov in November, no matter how they loathe Mamdani’s vision.
Nobody, neither fat cat nor small donor, should waste a dime on this loser.