Could a ‘Draft Cuomo’ Movement
Be in the Democrats’ Future?
National Review,
by
John Fund
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
3/25/2020 4:51:02 AM
Democrats are publicly talking about “contingency options” for their July convention in Milwaukee in case the coronavirus persists in being a public-health threat. But privately, some are also talking about needing a Plan B if Joe Biden, their nominee apparent, continues to flounder.
Some Democrats are openly talking up New York governor Andrew Cuomo, whose profile has soared during the crisis, as a Biden stand-in. Yesterday, a Draft Cuomo 2020 account on Twitter announced that “Times have changed & we need Gov. Cuomo to be the nominee. Our next POTUS must be one w/an ability to lead thru this crisis.”
Charles Pierce, the politics blogger for Esquire magazine, wrote a piece headlined
Reply 1 - Posted by:
FunOne 3/25/2020 5:27:58 AM (No. 357065)
Joe Biden is like a pitcher unable to find the strike zone.
Being on the other team, I hope they keep him on the mound.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
paloalto 3/25/2020 5:52:43 AM (No. 357078)
The Dems can either stick with a guaranteed loser/sacrificial lamb like Biden and write off 2020 completely or go for a governor like Cuomo or Gavin Newsom. The notion of Hillary or Michelle Obama parachuting in at the last minute to save the election is impossible now. Every citizen will demand to know, "Where the hell were you during the crisis???" Of course Cuomo or Newsom or some other Democrat governor will lose, but the Dems might be able to get out enough voters to save some Congressional seats. And the Democrats will blame the crisis not the candidate for the loss, making the 2020 candidate first in line for 2024.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 3/25/2020 6:21:54 AM (No. 357095)
All this fumbling around trying to find a viable candidate makes them look even more ridiculous. How many did they start out with? 20? And they still can't come up with one? They look amateurish.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
NancyD 3/25/2020 6:29:20 AM (No. 357100)
Cuomo also enacted a "no bail" policy in NY where criminal can commit all kinds of crimes and the police bring them in and the gov't lets them out immediately. It's a free pass for the bad guys. Ny'ers hate it.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 3/25/2020 6:36:41 AM (No. 357103)
I keep hoping that Hillary! will come charging out of the woods, her head in a wine box, to bigfoot another 'Rat disaster.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 3/25/2020 7:06:28 AM (No. 357115)
What about Bernie? I’m not sure his bros will buy Cuomo.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
janjan 3/25/2020 7:37:57 AM (No. 357151)
Democrats flock around shiny things. Cuomo cleverly inserted himself into this mess and got a lot of media attention. No one outside of New York cares about New York but you would not know that from the media fawning. We are not all setting our alarms so we don’t miss his press conferences. I watch New York from afar with a horrified look on my face.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
jinx 3/25/2020 7:44:45 AM (No. 357155)
They might put Cuomo on the ticket with Biden and if they win, Cuomo will be ready to take over since Biden obviously won't be able to do anything. His dementia is getting worse.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Daisymay 3/25/2020 7:53:36 AM (No. 357172)
That's the only reason I could fine for letting Cuomo drone on and on and on every day. Why give him that Air time unless you had another motive for doing so. Everyone knows Joe isn't going to make it to the finish line. He looks like a good wind could blow him away. He can't remember where he is or why he is there. He is NOT fit to run this country. So, in walks Cuomo who's dearest wish has always been to run for President. Now, he can try it without even worrying about the Primary. It's all but over. He just needs to go to the Convention and give a strong speech and the Dems will grab him and throw Joe overboard! Easy, Peasy!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Historybuff 3/25/2020 7:59:39 AM (No. 357191)
Andy created the slogan "Vote for Cuomo not the Homo" when his father was running for mayor in NYC against Ed Koch.
Andy had just a few problems when he was gifted a cabinet position in HUD.
Andy appointed the Morland commission to root out corruption in NYS - and when they found corruption and it pointed to him, he disbanded the commission.
Andy outlawed 10 round magazines in NYS, then found out he had outlawed the State police firearms.
Who would vote for the winner of the Chico Marx look-a-like contest?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
rushie 3/25/2020 8:15:19 AM (No. 357206)
Everyone now sees how bad Biden is but I think it is purposeful to keep him campaigning and acting like he will be the candidate. I think not too long before the convention, he will announce he is too ill to continue and the Dems will elect their “real” candidate at that time. Of course, that will be a big fight if it happens. PIAPS has never left the scene.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 3/25/2020 8:18:38 AM (No. 357211)
I knew it!!! I said a few days ago this was the scheme in progress and why he was on Fox endlessly. It has all been a public relations campaign for him to snake out Biden and has nothing to do with CV.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Venturer 3/25/2020 8:38:25 AM (No. 357240)
I believe this is called."Going from Bad to worse".
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
MDConservative 3/25/2020 8:42:06 AM (No. 357249)
Don't discount a "moderate" third-party that is acceptable to all the politicos.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 3/25/2020 8:51:19 AM (No. 357264)
Pulling a switcheroo will completely undercut the whole primary process since Cuomo has zero delegates. If they want to dump Biden the Bernie Bros will be next in line.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
jacksin5 3/25/2020 9:19:14 AM (No. 357291)
The Media and now even the Dem rank and file are grabbing onto Prince Andrew Cuomo like he's the last lifeboat to leave the Titanic.
Curiouser and Curiouser.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
stablemoney 3/25/2020 9:32:10 AM (No. 357309)
Cuomo is a fool, so would be a place that Democrats would turn.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 3/25/2020 9:46:27 AM (No. 357337)
I'm in agreement with #16. This completely--and blatantly--wipes out a lot of people's votes (maybe half the country?). Do any of the Dim voters care?
And by the way, at some point the next Dim "Messiah" will rise, and then we're going to be in deep doo-doo. Count on it!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
bubby 3/25/2020 9:55:55 AM (No. 357355)
Gov Cuomo doesn't believe America was ever great, has no interest in making America great so why vote for someone like that? Unless you're a Democrat or part of the corrupt msm who hate America and want to destroy it as founded. Well good luck with that. At least Gov Cuomo isn't senile like creepy Joe!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
marbles 3/25/2020 9:56:09 AM (No. 357356)
August 2018 , Cuomo said " America was never that great". It's on video. The NY state senate cheered , CHEERED, when late term abortion was passed and the Empire State Building was lit up pink. Don't think that if Cuomo was the candidate these things would not be used.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
nina584 3/25/2020 9:57:22 AM (No. 357357)
The national review will campaign for Cuomo as good never Trumpers. Bunch of losers they are !
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Arby 3/25/2020 10:02:35 AM (No. 357365)
Cuomo looks good now because in the valley of the blind the one-eyed man is king. To know him, however, is not to love him. See the course, "Corruption 101."
Let's all pray for a Trump landslide in November, the regaining of the House and the expansion of the Senate majority. Then we can get some big things done.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/25/2020 10:21:28 AM (No. 357397)
Yeah, that's the ticket, Dems. Pull in the mouthy little dictator who had a wall built around his house but is against walls on the US border. Let's do it based on a Twitter opinion.
Then again, a homeless bum off the streets of San Francisco makes more sense than a crooked, crazy old career politician from Delaware who doesn't know where he is most of the time.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 3/25/2020 10:29:25 AM (No. 357405)
Is this an Operation Chaos type story? Late entries have never succeeded. That will include Andrew Cuomo. The Democratic nominee will be Joe 'Befuddled' Biden. He won because everybody else on the Democratic side was actually worse than him which says alot. The Democrats have been weak on issues for a few decades now, and it shows. Identity politics will only carry them so far. Likewise the media can cover for them only so much. They have to show they can govern competently and honestly, and they have failed on both counts.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/25/2020 10:30:28 AM (No. 357407)
Just as a reminder, democrats do not care about the voting process or even the law. They do not care if the person is Blackbeard the Pirate or Idi Amin. Their only goal is to get a democrat in office so the corruption may live on.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 3/25/2020 10:47:17 AM (No. 357426)
Can't argue against success. Trump will beat anybody the Leftists draft or nominate. They've been exposed as the odious rats they truly are.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
starboard 3/25/2020 10:53:28 AM (No. 357436)
Big mistake for Cuomo to think he can beat President Trump. He will lose and then go down as a loser. Besides, he has a lot bad baggage from the past. Remember him saying .... America was never that great.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
chiller 3/25/2020 10:53:56 AM (No. 357437)
As for Cuomo, he decided months ago DjT was too popular to challenge and lose. That won't change. It's 2024 for him.
Newsome might be stupid enough to play the role of savior for the Ds.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
bighambone 3/25/2020 10:59:26 AM (No. 357443)
All Cuomo has done in contemporary New York City fashion has bloviated and complained that the virus pandemic that is spreading across the country, and about President Trump at the snap of Cuomo's fingers not immediately distributing 325 million effective diagnostic test kits around the country for a virus that was unknown more then a couple of months ago, along with Trump not immediately sending 30,000 hospital ventilators to New York City when the entire Federal inventories of those ventilators in the FEMA stockpile for use across the entire country is about 20,000 with about 4,000 of those already being sent to New York. On top of that Cuomo yesterday said that all the other States should send their ventilators to New York and that after the pandemic is over that New York will return them to the owning States. What is 5he chance with a spreading pandemic that the other States are going to send their hospital ventilators to New York? Cuomo has also used his bloviating sessions to introduce two of his adult daughters to the country.
Cuomo has been in office much longer than Trump has been the President, and apparently as far back as the Obama era had the chance to purchase tens of thousands of hospital ventilators for New York and did not take up that offer. Cuomo has found no cure for the virus and it will be “fool’s gold” for the Democrats to hand Cuomo the Democrat nomination for President as a result of his bloviating sessions, an action that would make the Democrat State level caucuses and primaries irrelevant.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
DVC 3/25/2020 11:00:35 AM (No. 357446)
All the NeverTrumpers, Dems and RINOs are hoping for Cuomo. Clearly this is why Fox has been wasting that daytime TV airtime on the far leftist Cuomo. Paul Ryan now has influence at Fox and he's about as NeverTrump as they get.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
coldoc 3/25/2020 11:05:46 AM (No. 357452)
I left my birthplace state of NY in 1968 and never went back. Mostly because of people like cuomo.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Historybuff 3/25/2020 11:08:41 AM (No. 357456)
Here's an idea:
As the US NAVY hospital ship COMFORT steams into NY, let it pause in the Narrows and sound it's whistle. It should do that once an hour on the hour, until Andy says "America IS great." Then it can proceed.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Red Ghost 3/25/2020 11:09:52 AM (No. 357458)
Don't be fooled America! This guy is a dope and could only get elected in a state just like far-Left New York. His father, Mario the Pious, laid the groundwork for Fredo's brother to take over the reins when old enough.
Randy Andy never ran for ANY local elected position before being handed the state's A.G. position (elected, but no real challengers) and then helping himself to the 56th governorship of the Empire State after the path was cleared for him. Think about that. He paid back dad's memory by re-naming the Tappan-Zee bridge after him.
Before screwing up HUD, he ran the homeless program in NYC under Mayor David Dinkens, the local precursor to Obama on the national level, i.e. elected while being black and guess what? The homeless situation got worse!
This guy couldn't organize a three pony parade with a one-man band. He's being pushed on television locally every day in response to Trump's national health update and all he does is cry that NY .... under his own leadership since January 2011 --- is not prepared for a health emergency. Really? And how does he step up and take charge? By finger pointing and whining. He has squandered NY's $150 billion annual budget on helping criminals and illegals and then proudly signs the most radical abortion bill in the USA where a child may be aborted for as long as it "remains in the uterus". We're in deep doo-doo because of him.
Biden can take the convention --- have his party --- and then be removed "for health reasons" and then the Dem party leaders from the 50 states get to pick a replacement for the election!
Brace yourselves.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
bighambone 3/25/2020 12:43:52 PM (No. 357610)
Cuomo has not solved the corona virus pandemic in New York. All he has done is complain and attempt to shift the blame on others outside of New York.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
DVC 3/25/2020 12:50:54 PM (No. 357623)
I can see one good thing here....I'll bet that Trump, being from NYC, and very familiar with NY politics and politicos, knows where a good number of Cuomo 'skeletons' are buried, and could dig them up or have a friend dig them up at the appropriate time.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
DEnforcer 3/25/2020 1:11:12 PM (No. 357659)
Saw his news conference this morning. At first he sounded presidential, but then he droned on and on way past the point of lucidity. Sounded more like a long-winded Baptist preacher, "We're close to each other on the sidewalk, we're close to each other in the grocery store, we're close to each other in the park..." On and on with this phrase. Hey Gov, we get the point. We're close to each other all the time, particularly in the over-crowded Big Apple.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
skacmar 3/25/2020 1:39:14 PM (No. 357694)
Cuomo is just the latest Democrat media darling being used to glorify Democrat "accomplishments" and any possible thing that the President may have missed. Outside of New York City, Governor Cuomo is not that popular in New York!
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 3/25/2020 6:33:00 PM (No. 358007)
As a bitter clinger "stuck" here in fly-over country (Minnesota), I watch even FOX News in the morning as they are breathless to tell us of the huge crisis in New York. We sit here and think...ha...isn't that interesting? The "most important city in the world" appears to be run by total ninkapoops who could care less about the people of NY than on polishing their own egos and image! Now we are going to bring this corrupt governor in to pinch hit for Joe Biden? I didn't think America worked like that? We had primaries...people voted...now the RATS will nullify all those votes with their "SuperDelegates" at the convention? Wow, just wow!!! Trump will rout the mayor, by the way. Shhhhhh...don't tell them...we here in the midwest won't even visit NY! Why? Culture? Yea...K! Great stuff coming out of Broadway these last several years, no? NY Philharmonic? Can't go to a concert anyway...so...nope! Will just sit and watch the show. NY people are often portrayed as being super tough...well...let the tough begin! Button down your chin straps people because your Mayor is going to take you for a ride!!!
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
franq 3/25/2020 6:57:20 PM (No. 358025)
I had to do a double take this morning. From the distance I saw the break room TV, it looked like Krauthammer was on.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Penney 3/25/2020 7:06:33 PM (No. 358033)
Cuomo?!? ....Must be a joke!
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