Ex-Obama aide: ‘Insane' to think Cuomo better than Democratic socialist
During a Tuesday episode of 'Pod Save America,' Pfeiffer said support for Cuomo from the Democratic Party establishment 'is really unforgivable.'
'Like this isn't — you're not doing it for another good Democrat,' Pfieffer continued. 'You're doing it for someone that the entire Democratic Party leadership, including the president of the United States at the time, wanted to resign from the governorship because he sexually harassed 11 women, he abused his power, involved in this nursing home scandal, and everyone's getting behind that?'
'You would rather — the idea that we are more scared about a democratic socialist as the mayor of New York, than Andrew Cuomo, with his record of corruption and sexual harassment, is insane to me,' he added.
State Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, who is a democratic socialist, has seen his star in the mayor's race rise in the last few weeks as he has battled it out with Cuomo in the Democratic primary, which takes place Tuesday
Mamdani was found to be almost even with Cuomo in the Democratic primary for mayor and went past him in the final round of a ranked-choice simulation in a poll released Monday.
Cuomo, however, is still coming into Tuesday's race as the likely favorite and recently nabbed an endorsement from influential Congressional Black Caucus member Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.)
'Shocker that the pod people continue to show the world that they're out of touch and don't know what they're talking about. Five DAs looked at that discredited AG report — which a judge has ruled as hearsay — and they found not there,' Rich Azzopardi, a Cuomo spokesperson, said in likely reference to a report from New York state Attorney General Letitia James (D) that found the former governor 'sexually harassed a number of current and former New York State employees.'
'As far as the nursing home situation, Biden's DOJ IG investigated and found that it was Trump appointees who corruptly misused DOJ resources to go after New York because it was campaign fodder in the 2020 election.'
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