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Editor’s Note: The video supra primitively aired connected Feb. 7
NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – Andrew Cuomo announced he’s moving for New York City mayor successful the upcoming predetermination aft months of speculation.
The erstwhile New York politician volition instrumentality connected incumbent Mayor Eric Adams successful the Democratic primary.
"We cognize that contiguous our New York City is successful trouble," Cuomo said successful a 17-minute announcement video posted to societal media.
"These conditions beryllium not arsenic an enactment of God, but alternatively arsenic an enactment of our governmental leaders, oregon much precisely, the deficiency of intelligent enactment by galore of our governmental leaders," helium continued.
Before Cuomo entered the race, galore polls showed him arsenic an aboriginal favourite for New York City voters. A February canvass by PIX11 News, Emerson College and The Hill showed Cuomo was the archetypal prime for 33% of Democratic voters. Some 10% of voters said Adams was their archetypal prime for mayor.
Cuomo served arsenic New York politician from 2011 to 2021, when helium resigned aft an autarkic probe recovered helium had sexually harassed aggregate women, including authorities employees. His resignation besides came connected the heels of disapproval and investigations related to his handling of nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“New York pugnacious means New York loving, and I emotion New York and I emotion you,” Cuomo said astatine the clip of his resignation. “I would ne'er privation to beryllium unhelpful successful immoderate way, and I deliberation fixed the circumstances, the champion mode I tin assistance present is if I measurement speech and fto authorities get backmost to governing.”
He joins an already crowded excavation of candidates for the June 24 primary, including Adams, City Comptroller Brad Lander, State Senators Zellnor Myrie and Jessica Ramos, erstwhile Comptroller Scott Stringer, State Assemblymembers Zohran Mamdani and Michael Blake and hedge money manager Whitney Tilson.
Some of the candidates, similar Lander, person already taken purpose astatine Cuomo. But Adams has been much measured successful anticipation of Cuomo's candidacy.
“There's a batch of clip ‘til June," Adams said conscionable up of petitions to get connected the ballot being circulated successful precocious February. "I've talked earlier astir Andrew Yang starring maine by treble digits successful February [last election] and we saw what happened. We're not calling Andrew Yang mayor, we're saying Eric Adams is mayor.”
Cuomo began pondering a governmental comeback little than a twelvemonth aft his resignation, arsenic respective of the much superior intersexual harassment claims against him did not crook into transgression charges.
And, he’s already secured the endorsement of Bronx Congressman Ritchie Torres, who said helium is not funny successful “relitigating” the intersexual harassment ungraded successful the upcoming election.
“I correspond a working-class district, mostly African-American and Latinos, and Andrew Cuomo has immense popularity and credibility with the radical I represent, truthful I’m representing the preferences of the radical of the Bronx,” helium said.
