Anyone surprised at this?
The New York City Mayor has going back and forth against his Governor from the jump…
DeBasio is them limited so he’s gotta be thinking of his next job…
Cuomo is getting tackled over the coals right now…
But if he keeps his job he’d be a formable person to displace….
Mayor Bill de Blasio has been talking to his inner circle and union allies about running for governor, and sources say he is growing increasingly confident he can win.
“I fell out of my chair laughing — he is honestly thinking about it,” said a former senior adviser. “Because of all this Cuomo s–t, he is feeling bold.”
Hizzoner played coy all week when asked if he was eyeing his embattled rival’s job. “The future will take care of itself,” he said, grinning, when a reporter posed the question on Thursday.
The public comments are not only intended to rile Gov. Cuomo — but behind closed doors, de Blasio is openly talking with advisers about running against him in a 2022 Democratic primary, multiple insiders said. De Blasio is term-limited and leaves office at the end of this year, while Cuomo can seek re-election to a fourth term in November 2022.
The discussions come as Cuomo faces two widening probes — a state Attorney General inquiry into sexual harassment allegations from at least three women, and a federal investigation into his administration’s alleged cover-up of COVID-related nursing home deaths.
With Cuomo’s blood in the water, the mayor’s team has reached out to the big labor unions to gauge support, including District Council 37, which represents public employees; the Local 1199 SEIU healthcare workers union; and the 32BJ Local SEIU, which reps building workers, sources said….
Note….
Cuomo STILL polls WAY ahead of DeBlasio statewide even with his current troubles…
image…CNN.Com
Hmmmm?
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday refused to directly say whether he thought Gov. Andrew Cuomo should resign amid a torrent of sexual misconduct allegations.
“I’ll say it my own way,” Hizzoner said at his daily press briefing. “I just don’t see how he can govern effectively when fewer and fewer people believe him. I think there’s more information that’s going to come out that makes it harder and harder.”
De Blasio’s comments echoed ones he made Friday about Cuomo’s growing sexual harassment and assault scandal — even after Senate Majority Leader Andrew Stewart-Cousins called on the governor to resign over the weekend.
The mayor repeatedly dodged questions on Cuomo’s potential resignation, only going as far as saying, “the situation in Albany is very sad.”…
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De Blasio isn’t running for governor, his popularity is so low in the city he wouldn’t sniff the governors mansion, he isn’t liked on the Island as well, and forget about upstate, they would crucify him up there…Next candidate, cause Cuomo isn’t going to get out of this one in the sense it won’t get him elected for another term…Sexual Harassment scandal and Granny Scandal that does it for him…I don’t know if he will resign, but I do know he won’t run again…
Right Now?
I’m calling Cuomo to wiggle ANOTHER 4 years……