Cuomo's 2020 Ambitions Are Bad News for New York
According to Gov. Cuomo, a Donald Trump presidency could bode poorly for the Empire State.
“Normally an election is about who we elect,” Cuomo said Sunday in Buffalo. “This election is about who we are. In truth, Trump is un-New York. Everything the man stands for is the exact opposite that this state stands for.” If that’s true, Trump left New York standing on its head Tuesday.
“Experience suggests that Cuomo’s worse angels will tug him further left as the Trump administration takes shape. ”
Trump will take office in January leading a unified Republican government with a base in that vast swath of flyover America that love-hates New York for the sheer bloody sport of it. So where does that leave New York? Where does it leave Cuomo?
To begin with, Cuomo was simply being his usual rhetorically preposterous self on Sunday; he does this often and with great enthusiasm.
Trump is actually an authentic New Yorker — a brash, overreaching son of Queens County who placed a big bet on himself and came up a winner. What could be more New York than that? Plus, in so doing he cleared a plausible path for Cuomo to...
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This piece was adapted from City Journal Online
Bob McManus is a contributing editor of City Journal. He retired as editorial page editor of the New York Post in 2013 and has since worked as a freelance editor, columnist, and writer.
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