Posted on 07/07/2017 4:16:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The governor of New York suddenly looks like the kind of take-no-prisoners pol his party needs. With one catch.
NEW YORK — The scene is unfolding in the shabby headquarters of the Hotel Trades Council just off Times Square in the late spring of 2017, but it’s not hard to imagine the speech somewhere in the Rust Belt in 2020, with a Democratic nominee trying to reclaim the Upper Midwest for his party.
“The truth is the middle class is under attack. The working families are under attack,” Andrew Cuomo bellows, his tough-guy accent coming in a little thick. “Middle-class wages are behind where they were 20 years ago. Think about it. All the pundits on TV say, ‘We don’t understand why there is such anger and anxiety.’”
Standing before a crowd of unionized hotel workers several hundred strong, the governor of New York rails against Republicans for feeding workers like them a lie all these years. He speaks to them like he alone understands what they have been going through, watching wages disappear while the rest of the country gets richer. “It’s the labor movement that built the middle class and it’s the labor movement that’s going to have to rebuild the middle class in this country,” he thunders. He has the room, completely.
Cuomo is a big-name politician who has long seemed an extremely unlikely national candidate — until now, when suddenly he’s seeming like a very likely one. In theory, he is here to ceremonially sign a bill that would allow union members to deduct their union dues from their state taxes, but it’s clear what he is really doing today is waging a bigger argument against President Donald Trump.....
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Cuomo could beat trump - if only he had a pink pony.
They are sending up trial balloons.
Most of NY state can’t stand the guy. If it weren’t for NYC he wouldn’t stand a chance. But NYC has the population and the left wing makes up the bulk of NYC.
He seems popular to the press and also to the geography challenged who don’t have a clue how big and RED NY state really is. But really, outside the NYC metro area he is well hated. (And it’s clear he hates us too.)
Andrew Cuomo is a putz.
East coast mentality. Boy, do they have another thing coming. No way would the rest of the country fall for him except maybe CA and WA.
Cuomo couldn’t even beat a red light.
Author must have spent the holiday in Vegas .
Go back a couple of years and see all that was said about Donald Trump. We underestimate this guy at our own peril.
besides wanting to Outlaw your car, eliminate Electricity and Raise Taxes on everything under the sun,including the sun itself, what exactly is the democrat platform??
Andrew Cuomo Could Beat Trump … If Jesus comes back before the next election. . .and that could be possible.
Run Andy! RRRRUUUUUNNNN!!!!
The dems will run a white guy from a swing state and a minority female for veep.
I predict Terry McAuliffe-Kamala Harris.
Of course the head of the dnc is Hispanic, Tom Perez...so they have most of their base covered.
Talk about wishful thinking.
These imbeciles just fantasize and write anything to see if it will stick. I feel so bad for most in Upstate New York.
Listening to ‘little Andy’ speak is like listening to a second grader give a book report.
Nonsense....Andrew Cuomo is a dead governor walking.
Does he honestly think that after the shady passage of the NY SAFE Act that he stands a snowball’s chance in hell in flyover country?
They’ve become delusional. They really believe it.
Cuomo is a thug who failed to launch. He tries to act tough, but comes across as just a moron.
More specifically he’s a white male. The Dems are not going to nominate a white male.
Bwah hah hah hah hah!!!!
During last year’s campaign season, didn’t Clintoon and her ‘RAT supporters say that they WANTED to run against Trump? Sometimes you need to be careful what you wish for.
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