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Posted on 04/16/2017 5:56:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Immediately following Hillary Clinton’s stunning defeat against Donald Trump in November, many in the Democratic Party suggested the DNC failed because it chose a well-connected, corrupt, establishment candidate in an election cycle that heavily favored political outsiders. Consequently, many in the Democratic Party called on DNC leaders to find and promote candidates that could better represent middle-class working Americans.
However, the early front-runner in the 2020 race to be Clinton’s successor, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), seems to fit the establishment mold much closer than the kind of candidate you would expect a party to pick that’s looking to win over (or win back) voters in the Midwest.
Cuomo, like Clinton, has deep political ties. His father, Mario Cuomo, served three terms as the governor of New York, from 1983 to 1995, and Andrew has served in government for most of his professional career, going all the way back to the 1980s.
Cuomo, unlike many in the Democratic Party, has managed to avoid taking sides in the DNC’s war between the establishment-Clinton wing and the populist-Bernie Sanders wing. On one day, as the Washington Post recently reported, Cuomo might be found schmoozing with top establishment Democrats. On another, he’ll give a speech touting his Excelsior Scholarship program, a newly passed plan praised by Sanders that gives students from families earning less than $125,000 per year access to a public college in the state without being charged any tuition (so long as they don’t leave the state within four years).
“He’s running. It’s pretty clear,” said the University of Maryland’s Robert Koulish to the Washington Post, adding, “Maybe he’ll present himself as a progressive who gets things done.”
A February report in Politico also suggested Cuomo is setting himself up for a strong run in 2020.
“But New York operatives, state lawmakers and long-time associates see the 59-year-old governor as carefully laying down markers for his future, whatever it may hold, after Hillary Clinton’s unexpected defeat,” the Politico report reads.
“The cornerstone of that argument, and the way Cuomo sees himself as different and potentially more viable than more obvious 2020 prospects like Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Sherrod Brown or even home-state Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has always been that Cuomo gets done what other politicians—usually legislators—simply talk about,” reported Politico.
“He reminded us what presidential sounds like,” Al Sharpton recently told the New York Observer. “I’d have to see who was in the race, but right now whoever’s in would have some catching up to do.”
“I don’t want to be the first one out there, but I can’t make it more clear: I cannot think of anyone at this time who is better qualified,” Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) said of Cuomo.
Cuomo may seem to have the inside track with some political insiders, but a March Harvard-Harris poll showed only 3 percent of the more than 2,000 registered voters surveyed said they think Cuomo should be the Democrats’ top candidate in 2020. Sanders received the most support, at 14 percent, but he’ll be 79 years old on Election Day in 2020, making it highly unlikely he could capture the nomination.
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Ohhh noooooo Cuomo
Despising Cuomo is easy; voting him out is another matter entirely.
Is Mooooochelle still ashamed of her country, now that bunghole Barry is out of power?
A Cuomo/Wiener ticket. “Democrats” are that dumb.
Black and Hispanic voters want a person of color at the top of the ticket. The person to watch for the Dems in 2020 is Sen. Kamala Harris from California.
Have the Dems forgotten there’s an election in 2016?
Fax me some of whatever you’re smoking.
Sideshow Bob?
This cartoon needs her “Why aren’t I 50 points ahead” quote.
Isn’t Cuomo a crook?
It was a Kennedy - gave her a good beating then accused her of cheating on him...
...his late teen years was troublesome for his dad. Mario had to call in a lot of “favors”
to keep him out of Rikers
Does anyone like him?
Whoever it is, seems perfect to appeal to all branches of the nutzoid dems.
Who is it?
Transgender would be even better
” Fax me over some of whatever you’re smoking”
LOL!
All joking aside, of all Democrats, Cory Booker scares me most. Consider the following:
1) Trump won WI, MI and PA all by less than 1%. One of the key factors for Trump in those 3 states was black turnout in Milwaukee, Detroit and Philadelphia was way down. If Trump would have lost all three states, Her Thighness is our POTUS right now. Cory Booker would get those black voters back at the polls.
2) Like 0bama, Cory Booker is a charismatic inner city crook who knows how to BS. He is slick and well spoken enough to make enough mushy middle white voters feel safe enough to vote for him. And no, they havent learned a damn thing from 0bama. 0bama left office with a 60% approval rating and still remains mostly popular today.
3) The GOPe is blocking the Trump agenda. The issues that swayed enough blue collar Democrat voters to vote for Trump and put him over the top in WI, MI and PA are not being dealt with. Trump unfortunately got played by Paul Ryan and they failed to repeal 0bamaCare. Now we are stuck with 0bamaCare. The GOPe Senate is blocking the funding for the border wall, so no wall soon. Trump backing off on tax reform and wants to work with Schumer and Pelosi on it. Then what happens with trade remains to be seen. So if 2020 rolls around and 0bamaCare is still wreaking havoc, the wall remains unbuilt and taxes are still out of control, millions of Trump will have no problem going over to the young, well spoken, charismatic black man who makes them feel good.
I’m telling you, watch out for Cory Booker, he is dangerous. Like 0bama he has a good chance in 2020, especially if Trump fails.
“Isn’t Cuomo a crook?”
Of course he’s a Democrat
They lost thousands of local seats and many governorships as well as both houses of congress and the White House under Obama. They can’t afford to repeat that.
YES !
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