Hope lots of people keep asking him about why covid patients kept getting sent to nursing homes that were not prepared to care for them back in 2020. He was looking so good with those daily updates until it became clear they were avoiding or downplaying that question.
This guy is a form of cancer.
Failed at being governor, and now he wants to tank the duly elected mayoral nominee for the Democratic party by attempting to split the liberal voting block in NYC. Meanwhile, Trump’s buddy corrupt Eric Adams is doing exactly the same as a favor to his buddy in the White House.
There needs to be a poster on every street corner in NYC explaining this.
Preferably with pictures of both Cuomo and Adams photoshopped into the clowns they are.
Reminds me of Jill Stein running in 2024.
They’re getting money to cause chaos because why not?
I didn’t realize Jill Stein lost the 2024 Democratic primary.
Great, I hope Sexual Predator Cuomo, Crooked Cop Adams, and Xenophobic Vigilante Sliwa continues their campaign so they split the idiot votes.
This screams “I am corrupt as fuuuuuuuck!!!” so hard…like that time that Bob Dole got Elizabeth Dole elected from a state she didnt live in so he could get lobbyist access again after losing the Presidential election.
So no rallying behind the candidate then, eh?
What a shocker.
He is a spiteful little ball sack.
VoTe BlUe No MaTtEr WhO!! 🙄
John Fetterman
Fuck Cuomo and honestly fuck the Democratic leadership to and fuck Democrats in general.
Blue no matter who right? You bunch of hypocritical assholes on par with Republicans.
Blue no matter who right?
In this case there’s a better Dem to vote for. But yes, if the option is a Republican or a Democrat, I will 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000% vote blue no matter who. I’ve seen enough treason from Republicans to know to default blue if it’s blue or red.
Yes, Dems have to get flushed, but other than that, this is fantastic news, this is another hubristic blunder by narcissistic political demagogues.
This will guarantee some level of split vote from the people that were going to vote for Adams again or some Republican challenger, whoever that was going to be. And there will be a lot of brainwashed median voters who have no clue what’s going on just hear the facebook warnings that Mamdani is going to enact Turbo Gay Muslim Socialism that will force everyone to stand in breadlines to get their gay muslim rations.
Careful now, remember both sides are NOT the same!
/s
They aren’t.
And only an idiot would say so unironically after everything we’ve seen.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of idiots on Lemmy.
Diddler shitsack Cuomo
All these years later and he still doesn’t understand that no means no.
No one’s said it, yet, but this is the best comment on this entire post.
He is quite desperate to be a mayor. Maybe try a smaller town.
Pawnee?
Could someone explain what’s happening to a non-american? I was under the impression that this Madmani gentleman had already won the mayoral race. Are they having another election for something else??
In addition to what the others said here, it’s worth knowing that despite all the manufactured contention around this race, Mamdani is heavily favored to win no matter who else enters the final race. The news and youtubers love to find the edge-case weirdos and hype up the drama around it being “BATTLE OF THE CENTURY” because our country’s brains have collectively oozed out our ears.
We have elections over who will be the candidate for each party called Primaries. Mamdani won the primary for the democratic party.
Cuomo is now saying that although he lost to Mamdani in the primary, he’s going to run independent of parties.
This is pissing people off for a few reasons.
One of the biggest reasons though, we’ve had years where we were told to, “Vote Blue No Matter Who” because undeniably the republicans are worse. Now that an actual leftist won their primary though, Cuomo (a long time democrat) is now spoiling the vote by running independently.
This is following a billionare stating he’ll give millions to anyone who has a shot of beating Mamdani.
It definitely appears Cuomo would rather have a republican win than to let a leftist win.
If he couldn’t even get enough votes to win the democratic primary then how is he a threat as an independent, how many people are gonna vote for an independent
Doesn’t take too much for the spolier effect to screw the whole thing up!
Can there be multiple independents? As in, those who got neither the dem or rep nominations, but still want to run in the general election, do they all end up on the general ballot, or will ll they have to face each other in a semi-primary first?
Yes, and they are not required to run in a primary because those are run by each party (being independent means you don’t have a party to begin with)
There’s no limit (AFAIK) to the number of candidates on the ballot, but there is a deadline to file and that deadline has passed. Cuomo had preemptively filed as an independent candidate in case he didn’t win the primary (I think Mamdani did this too), but had not publicly stated whether he would use it until now.
In some places in the US (I’ve never lived in NY, so I’m not sure if it applies there) when you file as an independent candidate, you have to produce a petition with a certain number of signatures with your paperwork.
This generally limits the number of crazy uncles who can appear on the ballot.
A couple months ago I ran into a guy collecting signatures for Cuomo by Atlantic center (a major transit hub in Brooklyn). I was just like “why?? Why are you doing this??” But sadly I was in a hurry and didn’t have time to engage with him very long
Mamdani won the primary election. In the US parties don’t choose their candidates for elections (in b4 “but superdelegates!”) like you see in other electoral systems where an internal party committee selects a candidate list. So this election was determining who was going to be the Democratic candidate for the actual election.
But New York has some weird fusion laws that allow people to run on multiple party lines so Cuomo, even though he lost the Democratic nomination, can still run in the general election.
It should be noted that parties can choose their candidates without an election if they really want to, but it’s not a good idea if they want a chance to win. See the most recent presidential election for an example.
That’s true. Presidential elections are a little different given the primaries are technically only for convention delegates bound only for the first vote. There’s also instances where the party picks in the face of a candidate death before the primary or general, such as in Minnesota in 2002.
This was a big development in US politics that happened more or less due to fallout from the Vietnam War. Look at the map of the 1968 Democratic primaries and 1972 Democratic primaries. After the catastrophe that was 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago—driven by the drama around LBJ’s late departure, Hubert Humphrey being despicable, and the hope and ultimate assassination of RFK, and the lack of responsiveness to the anti-war movement, there was a serious push to move the process from one controlled almost entirely by party officials to a more democratic, if still party-official-directed process.
Parties don’t choose candidates other than the presidential election, which they could change the rules, but in the aftermath of 2016 presidential election, the Democratic Party have changed the rules and have since forbidden superdelefates from voting the first round and haven’t changed it since (as far as I know). If the first round fails to gain a 50%+1 majority, then superdelegates can participate. (I think republicans still have superdelegates tho) For non-presidential primaries, primaries are run by the states, governed by state laws, not a party’s rules. Anyone can just register as either a Democrat or Republican and run.
The main powers of a political party is not vote tamering, votes themselves aren’t actually being tampered with (for the most part), they just have unlimited funds to buy propaganda to make their status quo candidates have more support.
So, he’s going to divide the Rightwing vote.
He can be the third party where his wife and me are having sex and hes the cuck
