Politico reports that at a Hamptons fundraiser last Saturday, Cuomo told his well-heeled supporters that, contrary to all available evidence, he could win the New York mayoral race as an independent—because he was likely to have the implicit support of President Donald Trump.
The imperative of defeating Mamdani justified the new coalition Cuomo is trying to create of his die-hard loyalists (who are Democrats) with Trump Republicans.
Some of that latter group might be tempted to back Curtis Sliwa, the actual GOP nominee in the race. Cuomo told these donors, “We can minimize [the Sliwa] vote, because he’ll never be a serious candidate. And Trump himself, as well as top Republicans, will say the goal is to stop Mamdani. And you’ll be wasting your vote on Sliwa.” Cuomo went on to emphasize that he’d be a mayor who could find common ground with Trump:
I do blame people who chose not to vote for Kamala. I really do. Blood on their hands.
This should have been the easiest fucking choice and they blew it.
Totally agreed. But do I blame them? No, I fucking get it. They need to own that they contributed in some way to what’s going on, but that doesn’t mean I don’t get it.
So do you want to blame them again next time, or would you rather kick D in the ass so they stop running the 2016 and earlier playbook?
I’m not voting for R-lite again, and for whatever small degree of difference there is between the two, I’m not voting 2016-era-D again either.
It’s their job to show me they support my values, not my job to convince myself they do, then hope I’m right. I’ve been voting that way for decades and I’m done with it.
Conservatives and centrists already elected modern Hitler. There’s no bigger bogeyman to hang in front of us next time. It’s time for D to be actual opposition. Time to stop ignoring progressives except to blame them for their own failure to evolve. Time to admit they’ve got a lot of people still in power who haven’t been able to relate to most of the electorate for thirty years, and many of them are in those positions because of nothing but internal power brokerage and politicking. Otherwise D better hope there’s enough non-crazy R and conservative D left to keep them in power on their own, if they still plan on winning elections fair and square. The pool of people who are about done with the old ways and the oligarchs isn’t shrinking, it’s getting bigger.
I blame them. Blood on their hands. I don’t pretend to understand any reasoning behind it besides pure ignorance.
Choosing blame over change is a time honored establishment-Democrat tradition so I get it. You do you man, some people find that more comforting anyhow.
Identifying the problems is how we come up with solutions. I can’t control who the winning candidate campaigns alongside, but I can convince people that the enemies of the DNC are all of our enemies. Being confronted isn’t likely to change the person on the receiving end but it certainly makes onlookers think about their own stance.
We need to reform the electoral process and there is only one way to do that: remove as many GOP from office as possible. Volunteer for the DNC. If your candidate loses the primary? Doesn’t matter, Republicans are worse.
You are trying to treat the symptom, not the problem.
If the candidate who supports 90% of your values doesn’t support your values in your eyes thatd your problem. If people would rather let somebody who supports the opposite of their values in than the 90%, that’s our problem.
Good day.
Let’s face it, half the people on here are more likely to believe memes from conservatives than the complete vote histories available online to all.
It’s everyone’s job to be informed on issues before voting.