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For the longtime Manhattanite, running against New Yorks political leaders is a mix of opportunity, muscle memory and method.
By ANNIE KARNI 08/16/2018 05:22 PM EDT
Even in the West Wing, all politics is local.
President Donald Trump raised in Queens, made in Manhattan in the past week is finding his latest targets back home, turning New York political leaders into liberal punching bags that offer him familiar and useful foils ahead of the midterm elections.
Its an old political playbook attack elite, liberal New York, and the heartland loves you but its also personal for Trump, whose relationships with some of New Yorks political leaders go back generations.
On Monday, the president deliberately attacked New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is fighting for his third term, as a presidential wannabe. He told attendees at a fundraiser in Utica that Cuomo once promised he would never run for president against him and then urged him to get in the race. Oh, please do it, Trump goaded. Anybody who runs against Trump suffers.
Trump then quickly capitalized on a nuclear-level gaffe from Cuomo, who in a speech on Wednesday noted that America was never that great, tweeting that Cuomo was having a total meltdown!
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saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)Cuomo is not a person I admire. I do not live in NY, let the voters decide. Sometimes it IS a difficult bridge to cross.
pwb
(11,275 posts)Coumo knows it and said it. It's great only for the rich. Little paid time off from work, jobs that don't pay a living wage, no healthcare for all, no bullet trains, bridges and roads falling apart, wealthy ownership of most media, opinion is called news, more people are killed by guns in a year than died in all the Vietnam war, food is poisoned with chemicals. Yea we are not so great .
The military industrial complex has taken away our ability to be great. Just what are we so afraid of? I would say we are fair.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)And we are going downhill fast. Six more years of Trump and we'll barely be recognized as a first-world nation.
ffr
(22,670 posts)What next, Oregon? Ooooo!
Fuck you tЯump! And fuck you conseяvative enablers!