Andrew Cuomo hints running for a fourth term

[President Johnson]

Many Atlas Democrats won't like it.

Cuomo 2022? Governor hints at running for a fourth term

ALBANY -- When Gov. Andrew Cuomo held a high-priced campaign fundraiser in Manhattan in mid-March, it was unclear why.

Was it a quiet event for a potential presidential run or some other race the third-term governor might be considering?

On Friday, Cuomo hinted at the reason: He simply might run for a fourth term.

The campaign cash "was raised by state limits, so it wouldn’t be applicable to run for a federal race," Cuomo said Friday on The Capitol Pressroom, a public radio show.

Asked if that meant he will run for a fourth term, Cuomo initially laughed and then said, "Well, it’s state money raised for a re-election. So yes."

So a fourth term?

"Well, I did a fundraiser for a political committee that would fund my re-election effort," he responded again.

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Full Article on Democrat Chronicle


Yeah, go Andy! I'd strongly support him, even though I hope for Kathy Hochul to succeed him as first female governor of New York.

I wonder who from the (probably far) left primaries him that time just to get crushed yet again.

[President Johnson]

Damn it, out of all the things why couldn't THIS have been the April Fools Day joke?

The article is from March 29

[President Johnson]

He should run for President, and someone like Bloomberg should run for governor

He’s better than Cynthia Nixon or deBlasio, but that’s a low bar

I agree he should run for president. Bloomberg is too old, even though I like him; Kathy Hochul would make a fine governor. She would succeed him anyway if he successfully ran for president (maybe he eyes 2024 because he thinks Trump will win again).

[President Johnson]

Dibasio should challenge him.

A New York City mayor has not been elected Governor since 1868

DeBlasio would lose by at least ten points, if not more. Unless Cuomo gets a major scandal or me too etc., which quite frankly I don't see.

[President Johnson]

I hope Cuomo somehow doesn't run again. And I'm saying this with a neutral opinion of the dude. I don't particulary dislike or even hate him, but neither I am a fan. 3 terms is enough for any gov. Let someone else run.

I mean, I don't like the guy, but if the people want to keep re-electing him, then it's their prerogative as to whether 3 terms is enough or not.

Yeah, New Yorkers got the decide this. My bet is King Andy will easily win again over a left-wing challenger in the primary and sweep the general election. However, I'd also like to see him appointed Attorney General under President Joe Biden (if not Doug Jones) and elevating Kathy Hochul to the governorship. As much as I like Cuomo, I want to see her in this chair. 2026 may be too late for that, even though we have governors older now than she would be upon taking office then.

I wonder if he's intending to run for Senate in 2022.  Schumer will be 72 at that tmie; I wonder if he has privately hinting of retiring.

No way, Cuomo is an executive guy. I doubt he has any interest in a senate seat. As I've said in another thread, if the governorship isn't the last high office he occupies, it will be president, vice president or attorney general. I think Chuck Schumer will be a lifer.

[President Johnson]

Given the way the 2020 Democratic Presidential race is devolving, is it not impossible that Cuomo could still be a candidate?

We have a frontrunner (Biden) who looks OLD, has his memory questioned by other challengers, and now has media buzz about his living son and Ukraine.  We have Liz Warren who will not answer the question about one's taxes going up when she is asked about her Medicare for All plan, and while it may well be true that "hard working middle class families" will actually have more disposable income under her plan in the aggregate, some of those folks won't, and some will have worse coverage than they have now.  We have Bernie Sanders who isn't really a Democrat and who strikes me as more of a 1970s Eurocommunist every day.  We have the identity politics nitwits (Booker, Harris, Castro) who all ride buses where the wheels are about to come off over their outlandish statements.  We have Beto, who is a pandering idiot.  And we have others who aren't going to be nominated.  All of these people have run campaigns which, to date, make them vulnerable to Trump in the General Election.  The key to beating Trump was a broad based coalition with a moderate platform, and these folks have ne'er well made that impossible.

The only candidate that would CLEARLY (if nominated) beat Trump are Sen. Amy Klobuchar.  If he were not gay and married, I would put Mayor Pete in that category as well, but how being gay and married will play with the electorate in the end at the Presidential level is, at this point, an open question.  It's not 1972, but it's an "X" factor.  Klobuchar is, in my opinion, the most electable Democrat of the lot against Trump, but seems to get no traction.

So it seems that what the Democrats need to do at this point is Airlift a candidate into the process.  Cuomo is the kind of candidate for that; he has gravitas, he hasn't been soiled by the early debate hogwash, and while I certainly don't like his abortion policies, it won't kill him in battleground states.  From a political science viewpoint, the Democrats appear to be working hard to blow the 2020 election.  Trump ought to be a candidate that will be easy to oust from office, but these folks just can't resist self-indulgence in the way they go about seeking the Presidency.  Airlifting a Cuomo into the process is a way to undo that; he's the hero coming to the rescue.  I believe that the Democrats are in need of this kind of play, but it seems to be hard to convince them of that.

I don't see Cuomo getting in and Biden out. If Cuomo entered because Biden somehow flops before the primary voting begins, I would enthusiastically support his candidacy (probably the only one on this forum). Andrew Cuomo is a skillful, experienced and stable politician, who can get stuff done and deliver results. And he's a strong debater; as the nominee, he would moop the floor with Trump. If Joe Biden becomes president, there is a good chance he will be appointed attorney general or chief of staff. And he would be an excellent choice for either.