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Yahoo
08-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Cuomo will run on on independent ‘Fight and Deliver' ballot line in general election
Andrew Cuomo plans to run on a second independent 'Fight and Deliver' ballot line in the general election for mayor, regardless of whether he wins the Democratic primary. 'It's an insurance policy,' a source close to the former governor's campaign said. A second ballot line would help Cuomo win more votes if he wins the nomination in the June 24 primary and the left-wing Working Families Party runs a rival Democrat — Zohran Mamdani or Brad Lander — splintering the Democratic vote. If Mamdani wins the Dem nomination, Cuomo could try to win as an independent candidate, just as incumbent Mayor Eric Adams is attempting to do. 'This November, in addition to securing the Democratic nomination, my campaign will work to build the largest possible coalition and secure the biggest possible mandate,' Cuomo said in a statement Tuesday. 'We will be responsive to those who want to support my candidacy, but who would like an alternate way to do it, by starting the Fight and Deliver Party to appeal to disillusioned Democrats, as well as to independents and Republicans,' he said. 'It's a smart move,' the source said. The Cuomo backer said Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa is going to get at least 30% of the vote, and Adams could get at least 10% as an independent candidate. Cuomo's rivals threw brickbats at his bid to run on a separate ballot line in the general election. 'Andrew Cuomo is scared. After entering this race with 100% name recognition, he's run a sloppy and secretive campaign, using ChatGPT to generate fake policy proposals, failing to qualify for matching funds because he can't follow instructions, and spending most of each week hiding from the press and the public,' said Mamdani, the state Assembly member from Queens and democratic socialist currently polling second behind Cuomo in the primary. 'The MAGA billionaires propping up his sinking effort know his real record: attacking unions, defunding hospitals and public transit, and empowering Republicans in Albany. That's why they support him. Cuomo is a Democrat in name only, and after the June primary, he won't even be that,' he said. Adams, who is foregoing the primary to run on his own independent ballot lines ('EndAntiSemitism' and 'Safe&Affordable') in the general election, also took a swipe at Cuomo. 'Isn't it strange now that Andrew wants an independent line,' he quipped. 'It doesn't even seem like he's running… he's just going through the motions. Going to churches and tweeting it out.' Attorney Jim Walden is also running as an independent candidate. — Additional reporting by Craig McCarthy
CBS News
06-05-2025
- Politics
- CBS News
Andrew Cuomo to run for NYC mayor as a Democrat and on an independent ballot line
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced plans Tuesday to run on an independent ballot line regardless of whether he wins the Democratic primary. Cuomo has always been one to play political chess 20 moves ahead of the next guy, so in what some might call an attempt to checkmate his opponents, he's forming the "Fight and Deliver Party" so he can be on the ballot whether or not he wins the Democratic primary. Cuomo says it will be a way for disillusioned Democrats, Republicans and independents to vote for him. "This November, in addition to securing the Democratic nomination, my campaign will work to build the largest possible coalition and secure the biggest possible mandate. We will be responsive to those who want to support my candidacy, but who would like an alternate way to do it," Cuomo said. "He's duplicating what I'm doing," Adams says His opponents are fuming, especially Mayor Eric Adams, who will run on two independent party lines. Adams says Cuomo is just a copy cat. "He's obviously, all he's doing is looking at Eric Adams' playbook, you know, and I hope you guys are gonna be as critical of him now that he's duplicating what I'm doing. You know, you know, he follows my housing plans. He follows my mental health plans," Adams said. The move can be viewed as an insurance policy. Cuomo is currently ahead in the polls, but his opponents have yet to unleash their ad campaigns attacking him. He still has to attend two debates where the strategy of the people running against him will to attack the frontrunner. How he'll hold up when seven people attack him remains to be seen. The attacks are already starting. Brad Lander called him a "DINO," or Democrat In Name Only, and Zohran Mamdani says the move shows Cuomo is scared.
