Posted on 11/05/2025 5:05:54 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
NEW YORK — Andrew Cuomo’s political career is ending where it began — with a failed mayoral race.
Nearly 50 years ago, Cuomo served as an informal adviser to his father’s unsuccessful City Hall bid. Decades later, he is once again on the losing side. While 1977 was only the start of Mario Cuomo’s storied political life that included three terms in the governor’s mansion, his son’s arc — and a New York political era — is closing.
“The politics that made New York what it is today is musty, and if there’s one thing that you feel when you’re on the streets of New York is that young people feel like their time has come,” said Howard Glaser, a former Cuomo adviser. “There’s a lot of Andrew fatigue.”
The moderate ex-governor, 67, was trounced Tuesday night by 34-year-old Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist who is seen as a generational political talent — poised to remake New York’s power structure in the years to come. It’s a political hierarchy Cuomo himself unquestionably dominated for a generation — through what critics have long maintained was a mix of fear and bullying.
His attempted comeback — launched less than four years after he resigned in disgrace following sexual harassment findings that he continues to deny — was rejected by Democratic primary voters in June and by the broader electorate Tuesday. In both efforts, he portrayed New York City as a gloomy hellscape overrun by crime and racial division. He stoked voter fears that the election of the far-left, anti-Israel Mamdani would exacerbate antisemitism across the city. And Cuomo insisted that only he had the managerial expertise to lead Gotham’s sprawling bureaucracy, police force and public education system.
It was a message...
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His career isn’t finished. His next move is to open a chain of nursing homes.
Good
I personally cared far more for ending Cuomo’s political comeback than a socialist commie becoming NY Mayor.
Mamdani will simply fail and be forgotten. Cuomo could have been a future national threat if we had let him back onto the stage IMO.
He had a shot at president until under he went all Dexter on the elderly.
He could always start a law firm with Spitzer and Weiner.
The next time he kills a granny, he could go to jail for it.
I guess he’s a moderate to pollutico. To normal people there’s barely a dime’s worth difference between what he did and what mamdani wants to do. Cuomo’s a radical leftist, murdering, sociopath. This is a win/win cuomo’s gone and this clown will be an object lesson in socialism for all the world to see, going into the midterms.
Hard to believe that in a city of 8 million people those were the only 2 that demonicRATS had to choose from.
While I want this to be true, Cuomo is a nepobaby grifter. He's only famous because his dad was a Governor. Politics is all he knows and all he has. He'll weasel his way into another political grift.
He could still introduce the plague into nursing homes.
Maybe yes. Maybe no. I think Cuomo will attempt to get elected or appointed in some other capacity. He may decide to reassess after the mid terms, or seek some honorary position for now. the way Rahm Emanuel served as Ambassador to Japan during Biden’s 4 year masquerade. Andrew Cuomo still has the fever for holding political office in some manner. He may even “humblely” offer his services to the Trump administration, as some kind of lobbyiest.
Same here. I couldn't understand anyone, even President Trump's pushing Curtis Sliwa to drop out. It wasn't Sliwa's fault that he won the Republican primary for Mayor. It was the Republican State Committee, who allowed him to run unopposed. If anything, President Trump should have attacked the State GOP Committee for their failure to find more viable, and electable candidates.
Cuomo was never the preferred, or better of two evils. He is evil. He murdered thousands of senior citizens, then claimed he was following CDC guidelines, which never recommended sending Covid-infected people to nursing homes. He signed the Bill giving illegals driver's licenses, and likely helped murder even more people on the roads of NY State and elsewhere. He mandated Covid shots for all State healthcare workers.
And besides all that, he deliberately misused billions of State tax dollars on government projects that never came to fruition. The latest was his purchase of lights for NY City's bridges, to the tune of $100 million. Those lights were never installed, and the whole shebang sold at auction a couple of months ago for $25.00. That's just one one example of his wasting State tax dollars, and his life-long corruption.
Well at least something good came out of this election
Something like 90% of the registered voters in NYC are Democrats. Curtis Sliwa might have been the most viable candidate the GOP has left there. He brings a New York personality and a clownish visibility that makes for good TV.
That would be a good point, but the NY State GOP has endorsed life-long RATS like Bloomberg to run for Mayor as a Republican. They just aren't looking hard enough. I'd like to know how much Bloomberg paid them to be on the primary ballot as a Republican in 2001. The GOP also let another life-long RAT Herman Badilla, who had changed to Republican in 1999, to run against Bloomberg in the 2001 primary. Prior to Giuliani being on the ballot for Mayor, there never were term limits for the office of Mayor.
The first time Rudy ran, a referendum was put on the ballot to limit Mayoral term limits to two full terms. Bloomberg served three, despite that referendum vote, only because the City Council bypassed voters and gave it to him. He'd changed to an Independent by then. Prior to Bloomberg leaving after his third term, another referendum was put on the ballot to return the term limits of Mayor to two consecutive terms only. It passed overwhelmingly, but hey!! RATS can change the rules whenever they want without the voters approval. They already did it, and no one was held accountable.
He was as unelectable for President as his old man was. Too many skeletons in the closet for both of them. When Andrew Cuomo was HUD Secretary in Clinton's cabinet, $130 million went missing, and has never been accounted for. And he was never held accountable for the billions he wasted on State projects that went bust. People went to prison over it at the time, but had their convictions overturned later. Cuomo used State taxpayer money funding projects to pay back his big donors. If the projects fell through, which plenty did, nobody cared, and he wasn't going to be held accountable for any of them. But some people got rich on those bad deals because none of that money was ever returned to the State's coffers.
He’s a mass murderer.
Everyone know he’s a mass murderer running for office to keep his ass out of jail, just like Hillary.
He needs to be Nuremberg’s.
Trump had to get off his ass and stop trying to get Nobel peace prizes, and fixed and secure of the elections.
It’s pretty hard to overcome the stigma of having ordered thousands of old people to their deaths. That’s the legacy that he’ll take to his grave.
It’s politics in general, the good people don’t want to run, so the candidates don’t match the electorate.
This is our biggest problem. We got stuck with the choice between a turd sandwich and a giant douche.
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