New York City mayoral front-runner Andrew Cuomo has vowed, if elected, to lead the fight against President Trump, insisting he’ll “spend eight years in Washington” in a bid to help Democrats retake the House.
The former governor told Politico he planned to wage the national campaign against the Trump administration — even though the 2024 presidential election marked the closest New York has ever come to turning red in almost four decades.
“I would spend eight years in Washington — go to that US Conference of Mayors, go to the National Governors Association,” Cuomo said as he detailed his anti-Trump strategy if he’s elected to run the Big Apple.
Cuomo, who is reportedly embroiled in a Department of Justice probe over his handling of nursing home deaths during COVID, noted he would home in specifically on Trump’s planned Medicaid cuts.
“He’s cutting Medicaid. Medicaid is not a blue-city, blue-state situation. That is in every state. That is a lot of red congressional districts. And he could lose the House on cutting Medicaid if you organized it and got it moving,” Cuomo said.
“You’re going to have to be a spokesperson, advocate, organizer,” he added. “This is what Medicaid means in Mississippi, this is what Medicaid means in Texas … And you organize that, they don’t have a lot of congressional seats left to lose.”
Cuomo made the remarks after being asked what leverage he believed he’d have against the White House if elected.
