Democrats have been wondering what has happened to their party. 
Why is it that Donald Trump has been elected twice in a three-election span? Why is it that the Democrats are currently riding in the 20% range with regard to their popularity in American life? Where did Democrats go wrong?
When you look at the public figures who are being put forward by the Left as the most salient, the most important, the most brilliant thinkers, the people who need to lead the country, they are all from Manbun McSoy Boy’s neck of the woods.
All of them.
The AOC self-congratulatory Democratic Socialists of America wing of the Democratic Party — people who have barely held a job, with a huge percentage of them getting a college education on the dime of their parents, the vast majority of whom are white — are taking over the Democratic Party.
The luxury beliefs that are held by white, college educated liberals are at complete odds with reality. For them, it’s all about values signaling. &#8220;Do you need to even work, bro? Who cares about your work, bro? Your job? Your community? Your safety?&#8221;
What really matters is that you&#8217;re holding the right lawn sign.
For the Democratic Party, it has become all about sounding off. It&#8217;s all about the performative. It&#8217;s all about the “resistance.”
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One of the things that has truly broken the country is the primary process in both parties, but largely in the Democratic Party. That primary process, which says that the most motivated Left wingers are going to decide who the nominees are, has completely skewed the nature of American politics.
Thus, there is a brand new poll showing that the new frontrunner in the New York Democratic mayoral primary is not Andrew Cuomo, the disgraced former governor who&#8217;s now running for mayor in New York; it’s a person named Zohran Mamdani, according to a new poll by Public Policy Polling. (Mayor Eric Adams, who was a Democrat, is now running as an Independent.)
Who exactly is Zohran Mamdani? A state lawmaker from Queens, an open democratic socialist, one of these privileged, highly educated people who is completely disconnected from real life. He is the son of a Hollywood director and a college professor at Columbia University. He’s 33 and never held a real job.
He believes there should be city-run <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@zohran_k_mamdani/video/7447528235836902686" target="_blank" rel="noopener">grocery stores</a>, because the problem with grocery stores is that they operate at a profit motive. He’s a full-scale Bernie Sanders nut case. He said, “We will redirect city funds from corporate supermarkets to city-owned grocery stores whose mission is lower prices, not price gouging. These stores will operate without a profit motive or having to pay property taxes or rent, and we&#8217;ll pass on those savings to you.”
That&#8217;s not how things work. The Soviet Union tried to operate “stores without profit motive.” You know what ended up happening? Misallocation of resources. What ends up happening is shortages, because the profit motive is what determines how to control supply, what to bring into the grocery store and what not to.
“We have to make it very clear that people cannot eat words,” he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K7HDuoJ0MQ">declared</a>. “People need to have actual food. People need to have actual houses to live in, people need to have actual schools that they can go to. And I think it&#8217;s so critical that this journey into understanding the way in which we should relate to power, this journey and understanding that it is socialism that we are fighting for, is a journey that should begin as soon as possible for every single person in this country and this world.”
How radical is Mamdani? He said in 2020 that the New York Police Department — this was in 2020, while the riots were going on — should be removed from high-crime areas.
These are luxury beliefs. These are beliefs that nobody who actually lives on the ground in New York City holds, except for white libs and their allies. Mamdani isn&#8217;t white, but his voting base is predominantly white.
The New York Times even asked him about his voting base and the fact that they&#8217;re predominantly white, saying, “The polls show you&#8217;re doing really well with younger, whiter, more progressive voters. Why do you think you&#8217;re having a harder time with voters of color, who seem to be supporting former Governor Cuomo?” 
Mamdani suggested it was because the vast majority of New Yorkers had yet to tune in to the race. He said the polling obscured Asian New Yorkers, who were not listed as a category.
That’s not why. The answer is, as I’ve said, because the luxury beliefs that are held by white, college educated liberals are at complete odds with reality.
In 2020, Mamdani called for defunding the police. In February 2024, he was screaming about Israeli genocide while wearing a keffiyeh.
This is the guy who&#8217;s on the verge of becoming mayor of New York City, the most populous city in the United States. This is how off the rails the Democratic Party is.
Mamdani is a representation in human form of the Omnicause, the leftist agglomeration of grievances in one giant cause.
The question is not why people like Mamdani exist. We know why: They&#8217;ve been turned out by the university system, by a far-Left in this country that is taking control of the commanding heights of American popular culture and education and the media.
Name one political difference between the obnoxious Swedish woman child Greta Thunberg and this obnoxious American manchild now running for mayor in New York.
You can’t.

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Days after being endorsed by fellow democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Zohran Mamdani is leading former Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor for the first time, according to a poll released on Wednesday.
The <a href="https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000197-6195-da2a-a9bf-6fbd7abe0000">poll</a>, conducted by Public Policy Polling for Democrat Justin Brannan&#8217;s city comptroller campaign, showed Mamdani leading the primary 35% to Cuomo&#8217;s 31%, within a margin of error of 4.1 percentage points. The survey of 573 likely Democratic voters was conducted on June 6-7, one day after AOC endorsed Mamdani.
The results indicate that the primary has effectively narrowed to a two-person contest between Mamdani and Cuomo, with no other candidates breaking double digits, despite endorsements from a plethora of top New York Democratic officials.
Mamdani, 33, elected to the State Assembly in 2020, has positioned himself as a leftist alternative to Cuomo&#8217;s more moderate brand of Democratic politics, campaigning on free public bus fares, free child care, and city-run grocery stores. The self-described democratic socialist has yet to present any realistic plan to pay for these programs, which would <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/27/zohran-mamdani-policy-pitches-new-york-00369756">require</a> roughly $10 billion in funding for an already cash-strapped city.
Mamdani&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nycs-mayoral-race-takes-sharp-turn-putting-muslim-socialist-neck-and-neck-with-cuomo?author=Nathan+Gay&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=10&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=NYC%E2%80%99s+Mayoral+Race+Takes+Sharp+Turn%2C+Putting+Muslim+Socialist+Neck-And-Neck+With+Cuomo">rise</a> in the polls follows his effective use of social media to promote his platform and strategic partnerships with other far-Left Democrats. His campaign has capitalized on Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s <a href="https://x.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1930601722193334611">endorsement</a> to build momentum ahead of the June 24 primary.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a once-in-a-generation leader who has led the fight for working people in Congress. 
In 2018, she shocked the world and transformed our politics. 
On June 24, with <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a>’s support and this movement behind us, we will do the same. <a href="https://t.co/cRJI1dUTzG">pic.twitter.com/cRJI1dUTzG</a>
&mdash; Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1930601722193334611?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;When you run a disciplined, grassroots campaign relentlessly focused on an agenda to address the crises in working people&#8217;s lives, these are the results,&#8221; Mamdani spokesperson Andrew Epstein said. &#8220;New York City is so close to turning the page on the corrupt politics of the past and winning a future we can afford.&#8221;
Cuomo&#8217;s campaign has disputed the poll results, with spokesperson Rich Azzopardi <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/11/zohran-mamdani-climbs-to-top-of-poll-leading-andrew-cuomo-00401594">telling</a> POLITICO that their internal polling shows the former governor maintaining &#8220;a consistent double-digit lead for more than three months.&#8221; The Cuomo spokesman complained that &#8220;the only polls showing this trend line are paid for by Zohran Mamdani Inc,&#8221; and, &#8220;It&#8217;s not lost on us that Politico is the only NYC media outlet that continues to take these outlier polls.&#8221;
According to POLITICO, the poll methodology might have slightly favored Mamdani, as 61% of responses came from text messages rather than landlines.
The former governor has recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cuomo-says-hell-spend-eight-years-in-washington-fighting-trump-if-he-wins-nyc-mayors-race?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Cuomo+Says+He%E2%80%99ll+Spend+%E2%80%98Eight+Years+In+Washington%E2%80%99+Fighting+Trump+If+He+Wins+NYC+Mayor%E2%80%99s+Race">sharpened</a> his attacks against Mamdani, questioning his &#8220;thin resume&#8221; and ability to lead New York City&#8217;s complex government. Cuomo maintains 42% support among black voters, while Mamdani showed the strongest appeal with white and Asian voters.
Ranked choice voting, which will be used in the Democratic primary in two weeks, was not simulated in the survey. However, a recent Emerson <a href="https://emersoncollegepolling.com/nyc-2025-poll/">poll</a> showed Mamdani performing better in later rounds of ranked choice voting than in early rounds by picking up second-choice votes after other candidates are eliminated, which could indicate an even larger lead than the PPP poll suggests.
In ranked-choice voting, voters rank up to five candidates in order of preference, and if no candidate receives more than 50% of first-choice votes, the last-place candidate is eliminated and their votes are redistributed based on voters&#8217; next choices until someone wins a majority.
Incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, running as an independent this cycle, has been far behind both Mamdani and Cuomo in general election polling, and is reportedly <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/05/30/us-news/eric-adams-quietly-tries-to-rally-nyc-republicans-to-run-on-gop-line-or-back-his-independent-mayoral-bid-as-politicos-grew-fearful-of-socialist-zohran-mamdani/">courting</a> Big Apple Republicans for support. Adams, who made an <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/22/adams-and-homan-deepen-partnership-law-enforcement-ice-00305221">alliance</a> with Trump border czar Tom Homan earlier this year, moved to open an ICE office on Rikers Island and cooperated to indict 27 alleged Tren de Aragua members.
Cuomo and Mamdani will face each other again in a debate Thursday night, where Cuomo is expected to continue highlighting Mamdani&#8217;s limited government experience and the fiscal impact of his policy proposals.
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Former New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he would focus his attention on fighting the Trump administration and spend &#8220;eight years in Washington&#8221; if he wins his election for mayor of New York City.
In a piece published by <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/03/cuomo-reportedly-under-probe-by-trumps-doj-wants-to-organize-dems-nationally-00381794">POLITICO</a> on Tuesday, Cuomo, 67, revealed his strategy to use the mayoral office to push back against Trump&#8217;s policies and campaign for Democrats to retake the House. Cuomo, who resigned from his position as governor over allegations that he sexually harassed numerous women, is being <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/justice-department-probe-takes-aim-at-andrew-cuomo-amid-his-nyc-mayoral-bid">investigated</a> by the Department of Justice for allegedly lying to Congress over a report that covered up the number of COVID deaths at nursing homes during the pandemic.
Asked how he would &#8220;handle working with the president while potentially under criminal investigation,&#8221; Cuomo replied, “I would spend eight years in Washington — go to that U.S. Conference of Mayors, go to the National Governors Association. [Trump&#8217;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.”
“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.”
Trump, whose second term in office will end in less than four years, has <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-medicaid-were-not-touching-anything">promised</a> that Republicans are &#8220;not touching anything&#8221; when it comes to Medicaid benefits, adding, &#8220;All I want is one thing. Three words. We don&#8217;t want any waste, fraud or abuse. Very simple — waste, fraud, abuse.&#8221;
Cuomo has also faced scrutiny over an order he issued as governor in 2020 requiring New York nursing homes to accept patients even if they tested positive for COVID. In the interview with POLITICO, Cuomo described the DOJ investigation as &#8220;laughable&#8221; and &#8220;purely political nonsense.&#8221;
According to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), there is “overwhelming evidence” that Cuomo knew about an audit that undercounted COVID nursing home deaths in New York by 46%. A report from New York Attorney General Letitia James also found that Cuomo&#8217;s nursing home policy &#8220;requiring nursing homes to take in patients from hospitals who had COVID-19 and were stable enough to be discharged had likely contributed to the loss of life,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/cuomo-undercounted-nursing-home-deaths-by-as-much-as-50-report-finds">ProPublica</a>.
Cuomo initially claimed that he was not involved in the report that undercounted COVID nursing home deaths, but now he says that he doesn&#8217;t recall reviewing the report, according to POLITICO.
“My thing is, I don’t recall. There’s no incorrect statement in, I don’t recall,” he said.
The former New York governor is currently leading in the polls to replace incumbent NYC Mayor Eric Adams, a registered Democrat running as an independent this election cycle, but Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani is receiving <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nycs-mayoral-race-takes-sharp-turn-putting-muslim-socialist-neck-and-neck-with-cuomo">surging</a> support and cutting Cuomo&#8217;s lead in the Democratic primary, according to a PIX11/Emerson College poll released last week.
In the poll, Cuomo stands at 54.4% to Mamdani&#8217;s 45.6%, a massive swing from late March when Cuomo was ahead 38% to 10%.

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Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani surged to within single digits of disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary race, according to newly released polling.
According to a PIX 11/Emerson College poll released earlier this week, Mamdani, a 33-year-old Muslim from Queens who is a state assemblyman, trails Cuomo 54.4% to 45.6% after 10 simulated rounds of ranked-choice voting, a notable improvement from late March when Cuomo was ahead 38% to 10%.
“Cuomo has led in the polls since early 2025, but Mamdani has surged, gaining 23 points and winning second-choice votes nearly 2-to-1, cutting Cuomo’s ranked-choice lead from 12 points to 9 points,” Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling, <a href="https://emersoncollegepolling.com/nyc-2025-poll/">said</a>. &#8220;With four weeks to go, the question is whether Cuomo can run out the clock, or if he needs to win over second-choice voters to hold off Mamdani&#8217;s momentum.”
Cuomo maintained his strong lead in the early rounds of ranked choice voting in the poll, with Mamdani only closing the gap in later rounds.
In ranked-choice voting, voters rank up to five candidates in order of preference, and if no candidate receives more than 50% of first-choice votes, the last-place candidate is eliminated and their votes are redistributed based on voters&#8217; next choices until someone wins a majority.
The ranked-choice voting system appears to be working to Mamdani&#8217;s advantage, as, according to the poll, he continues gaining ground by picking up second-choice votes after other candidates are eliminated.
Per the Emerson report, “35% of voters support former Governor Andrew Cuomo on the first round of the ballot, 23% support State Rep. Zohran Mamdani, 11% support Comptroller Brad Lander, 9% former State Rep. Scott Stringer, 8% City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, and 5% State Senator Zellnor Myrie.”
“Cuomo’s strongest support comes from black voters (74%), voters over 50 (66%), and women (58% to 42%),” Kimball added. “Mamdani leads among voters under 50 with 61%, and holds an edge among white voters (57% to 43%) and college-educated voters (58% to 42%).”
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Cuomo’s campaign maintains that the Emerson poll is an “outlier,” with campaign spokesman Rich Azzopardi <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/state/3425895/zohran-mamdani-andrew-cuomo-new-york-city-mayor-race-closes-gap-poll/">telling</a> the Washington Examiner that the ex-governor “is the consistent and overwhelming frontrunner in this race.”
However, Mamdani has effectively formed strategic alliances with other left-wing candidates in an effort to block the 67-year-old former governor&#8217;s political comeback and consolidate his base.
Mamdani called on his supporters to <a href="https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2025/05/how-much-did-zohran-mamdanis-call-action-help-adrienne-adams-fundraising/405674/?oref=csny-skybox-lander">contribute</a> to rival progressive Adrienne Adams&#8217; campaign in order to help her qualify for matching public funds in a slight against Cuomo, aiming to pick up second-choice votes after other candidates are eliminated.
In a hypothetical general election matchup, the poll shows Cuomo performs better against Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, with Cuomo winning 44% support compared to 35% for Mamdani if he were the Democratic nominee. Sliwa is the founder of the Guardian Angels and lost the 2021 mayoral election to current New York Mayor Eric Adams, a registered Democrat running this cycle as an independent, according to Emerson College Polling.
Meanwhile, incumbent Mayor Adams, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/eric-adams-back-in-nyc-mayor-race-as-an-independent">running</a> as an independent, would receive just 10% support against Cuomo but would climb to 15% against Mamdani.
Mamdani, elected to the State Assembly in 2020, has positioned himself as a leftist alternative to Cuomo&#8217;s more moderate brand of Democratic politics, campaigning on free public bus fares, free child care, and city-run grocery stores.
Mandani&#8217;s campaign celebrated the results of the poll, <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/05/28/us-news/surging-mamdani-cuts-cuomos-lead-in-democratic-nyc-mayoral-primary-to-just-single-digits-poll/">stating</a>, &#8220;Andrew Cuomo has hit his ceiling, while we&#8217;re nowhere near ours,&#8221; per The New York Post. Mamdani himself posted on X, &#8220;We&#8217;re now 8 points away from sending Andrew Cuomo back to the suburbs.”
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We&#8217;re now 8 points away from sending Andrew Cuomo back to the suburbs. <a href="https://t.co/yFfhKZkg3C">https://t.co/yFfhKZkg3C</a>
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1927838351874248869?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/05/27/us-news/zohran-mamdani-makes-up-ground-in-nyc-mayoral-race-but-still-cant-topple-cuomos-lead-poll/">adds</a> that ranked-choice surveys released by other pollsters, including Mamdani’s own polling released on Tuesday, show Cuomo defeating the democratic socialist by significant margins.
The Emerson poll was conducted with 1,000 registered NYC voters with a margin of error of +/- 3%, and the ranked choice voting simulation included 500 Democrats, excluding undecided voters, with a margin of error of +/- 4.3 percentage points.
The primary election is scheduled for June 24, with early voting beginning June 14.

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Disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY), who resigned amid twin scandals regarding his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, is now the subject of an investigation undertaken by the U.S. Justice Department.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/us/politics/andrew-cuomo-investigation-doj.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on Tuesday that the investigation had begun about one month earlier, and that it stemmed from his order mandating that nursing homes in the state of New York accept patients regardless of whether or not they&#8217;d tested positive for COVID-19.
The times cited two as-yet-unnamed &#8220;sources familiar with the matter&#8221; and said, &#8220;The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation of Andrew M. Cuomo, a front-runner in the New York City mayoral race, after Republicans accused him of lying to Congress about decisions he made during the coronavirus pandemic as governor.&#8221;
A Justice Department spokesperson reportedly declined to comment on the situation, citing a policy against discussing ongoing investigations either to confirm or deny their existence.
Cuomo is currently leading the Democratic field going into the next New York City mayoral election, and his spokesman Rich Azzopardi claimed that the investigation was politically motivated.
&#8220;We have never been informed of any such matter, so why would someone leak it now? The answer is obvious: This is lawfare and election interference plain and simple — something President Trump and his top Department of Justice officials say they are against,&#8221; Azzopardi said, arguing that Cuomo had &#8220;testified truthfully to the best of his recollection about events from four years earlier, and he offered to address any follow-up questions from the subcommittee — but from the beginning this was all transparently political.&#8221;
The investigation was opened by the Washington, D.C., U.S. Attorney’s Office when Ed Martin was still serving in the position on an interim basis. Jeanine Pirro has since been appointed to the role and her office will spearhead the investigation.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said after a hearing in June of 2024 that he had seen &#8220;overwhelming evidence&#8221; that Cuomo had been part of a 2020 audit that undercounted COVID nursing home deaths by 46%. He was referred to the Justice Department for what were termed &#8220;criminally false statements.&#8221;
The news comes just weeks after the Justice Department dropped a case against current Mayor Eric Adams — who is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/eric-adams-back-in-nyc-mayor-race-as-an-independent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">running for reelection</a> as an independent — over concerns that it had been a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-judge-dismisses-corruption-case-against-nyc-mayor-eric-adams" target="_blank" rel="noopener">political prosecution</a> undertaken by the DOJ under former President Joe Biden.

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Anyone who went to COVID.gov on Friday hoping to find information about where to get their 10th booster was in for a big shock.
The website, created by the Biden administration to spread information about vaccines and other government COVID policies, now <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-true-origins-of-covid-19/">redirects to a page</a> explaining how the coronavirus originated in a Chinese lab.
&#8220;LAB LEAK: The True Origins of COVID-19&#8221; walks readers through the pandemic&#8217;s origins and exposes Dr. Anthony Fauci and other government officials who attempted to discredit the now-vindicated lab leak theory. The website explains how the coronavirus likely originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where a group called EcoHealth &#8220;used U.S. taxpayer dollars to facilitate dangerous gain-of-function research.&#8221;
Democrats and the mainstream media long dismissed this theory as a &#8220;conspiracy&#8221; and actively pushed a different narrative.
“&#8217;The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2&#8242; publication — which was used repeatedly by public health officials and the media to discredit the lab leak theory — was prompted by Dr. Fauci to push the preferred narrative that COVID-19 originated naturally,&#8221; the website says. &#8220;By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasn’t.&#8221;
&#8220;The American people deserve to know the truth about the Covid pandemic and we will always find ways to reach communities with that message,&#8221; a senior Trump administration official told Fox News.
The website makes the case against various government COVID recommendations, including mask mandates, lockdowns, and social distancing.
&#8220;There was no conclusive evidence that masks effectively protected Americans from COVID-19,&#8221; the website states. &#8220;Prolonged lockdowns caused immeasurable harm to not only the American economy, but also to the mental and physical health of Americans, with a particularly negative effect on younger citizens.&#8221;
It devotes an entire section to &#8220;New York Pandemic Failures,&#8221; which explains that then-Governor Andrew Cuomo and his administration &#8220;worked to cover up the tragic aftermath of their policy decisions in an apparent effort to shield themselves from accountability.&#8221;
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In addition to Cuomo, the website singles out Fauci for claiming that the coronavirus &#8220;just sort of appeared,&#8221; and notes that Biden granted Fauci a &#8220;full and unconditional pardon&#8221; shortly before leaving office.
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All of the information on the website is &#8220;sourced from the House Oversight Committee website, a Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability in the U.S. House of Representatives.&#8221;

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Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) announced on Saturday that he is throwing his hat in the ring to be the next mayor of New York City.
The announcement from Cuomo comes after he was forced to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-andrew-cuomo-to-resign" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resign</a> in 2021 over allegations of sexual harassment from roughly a dozen women — which he strongly denied.
&#8220;Today, our New York City is in trouble,&#8221; he said in his announcement video. &#8220;You feel it when you walk down the street and try not to make eye contact with a mentally ill homeless person, or when the anxiety rises up in your chest as you&#8217;re walking down into the subway. You see it in the empty store fronts, the graffiti, the grime, the migrant influx, the random violence. The city just feels threatening, out of control, and in crisis. These conditions exist not as an act of God, but rather as an act of our political leaders, or more precisely, the lack of intelligent action by many of our political leaders.&#8221;
He championed leftist causes, including gun control, &#8220;LGBTQ&#8221; rights, green energy, and touted achievements like the renovation of La Guardia Airport.
Cuomo spoke at length about the city&#8217;s crime problems, saying that Democrats who championed the &#8220;defund the police&#8221; movement needed to stop.
&#8220;We must acknowledge the simple truth that they are just plain wrong, deadly wrong,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They set us back, and we must now return to actually fighting crime.&#8221;
He said that the city needed a significant increase in its police force and needed to show more force in the subways to stop the crime problem that has plagued the public transportation system in recent years.
Cuomo spoke out strongly against anti-Semitism that has erupted in recent years, but, unlike more woke Democrats, did not mention anything about Islamophobia — a sign that he is appealing to more moderates and maybe even some more conservative voters in the city.
The most shocking moment of the video came when he touted his response to the coronavirus pandemic, claiming that he &#8220;led the country&#8221; despite his widely criticized response, including his nursing home scandal.
&#8220;Did I always do everything right in my years of government service? Of course not,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Would I do some things differently, knowing what I know now? Certainly. Did I make mistakes? Some painfully, definitely, and I believe I learned from them, and that I am a better person for it, and I hope to show you that every day, but I promise you this: I know what needs to be done, and I know how to do it, and I will give it my all to get the job done, and it will get done.&#8221;
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Our city is in crisis. That’s why I am running to be Mayor of New York City. We need government to work. We need effective leadership. <a href="https://t.co/a0vVYRF4iP">https://t.co/a0vVYRF4iP</a> <a href="https://t.co/JIrhD1Edqs">pic.twitter.com/JIrhD1Edqs</a>
— Andrew Cuomo (@andrewcuomo) <a href="https://twitter.com/andrewcuomo/status/1895891752864924012?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2025</a></blockquote>

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One of the women who accused former New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment has dropped her lawsuit against him.
Charlotte Bennett was the second woman who came forward with accusations against Cuomo. Cuomo’s attorneys, Rita Glavin and Theresa Trzaskoma, sent out a statement claiming Bennett’s decision to drop her lawsuit amounted to an admission that her claims were false.
&#8220;Ms. Bennett&#8217;s decision to drop her baseless lawsuit should be viewed as a complete capitulation and a desperate attempt to avoid being confronted with the mountains of exculpatory discovery – including contemporaneous texts and videos that the AG’s office never obtained – that completely refute her claims against Governor Cuomo,” the attorneys <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/former-new-york-state-governor-andrew-cuomos-sexual-harassment-accuser-drops-federal-lawsuit">said</a>, per Fox News.
&#8220;After falsely smearing Governor Cuomo for years, Ms. Bennett suddenly withdrew her federal lawsuit on the eve of her deposition to avoid having to admit under oath that her allegations were false and her claims had no merit,” they continued. “If New York State does give in to her public pressure campaign and settles, it will not be on the merits and should require the public release of all the evidence so that New Yorkers finally know the truth: Governor Cuomo never sexually harassed anyone.&#8221;
Bennett was represented by Debra Katz, the woman who represented Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser Christine Blasey Ford. Katz released her <a href="https://katzbanks.com/news/katz-bennett-ny-case-statement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">own statement</a> on her law firm’s website.
&#8220;Mr. Cuomo has used these legal proceedings to punish Ms. Bennett and others who reported his sexual harassment, and to cause more harm to her, all at the expense of New York taxpayers,&#8221; Katz wrote. &#8220;In dismissing the federal case we thus hope that our client will be able to resolve this dispute and finally be made whole for all the damage Mr. Cuomo and his agents caused her.&#8221;
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Bennett worked as an executive assistant and health policy adviser in Cuomo’s administration before he resigned in November 2020, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/now-its-two-second-woman-claims-cuomo-sexually-harassed-her" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. She <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/27/nyregion/cuomo-charlotte-bennett-sexual-harassment.html?action=click&amp;module=Spotlight&amp;pgtype=Homepage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The New York Times in February 2021 that Cuomo began harassing her in the spring of 2020. Bennett told the outlet that Cuomo would ask her questions about her sex life and whether she was monogamous in her relationships. She claimed he also asked her if she ever had sex with older men.
Prior to the spring of 2020, Bennett said Cuomo had asked her about her dating life, but she “saw him more as a father figure” and didn’t think anything of it.
But on May 15, 2020, Bennett began to see things differently when, she said, Cuomo kept asking her about her love life and seemed to fixate on her, saying she was the victim of sexual assault. A few weeks later, Bennett said, Cuomo began asking inappropriate questions about her love life.
“He asked me if I believed if age made a difference in relationships and he also asked me in the same conversation if I had ever been with an older man,” Bennett told the Times.
The first woman to accuse Cuomo, Lindsey Boylan, made her allegations on X and finally detailed them in a post on Medium a couple months later, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woman-who-accused-andrew-cuomo-of-sexual-harassment-finally-details-allegations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> at the time.
The Westchester County District Attorney’s office also investigated two other allegations of sexual misconduct against Cuomo but decided <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/district-attorney-no-charges-against-cuomo-over-sexual-allegations-despite-credible-evidence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not to charge</a> him despite “credible evidence.”

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A House panel investigating the COVID pandemic referred former New York Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/andrew-cuomo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Andrew Cuomo</a> to the Justice Department for investigation on Wednesday over “multiple criminally false statements” he allegedly made to lawmakers.
Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) made the criminal referral, alleging that Cuomo lied to the committee about his handling of COVID. Specifically, Wenstrup <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/covid-select-refers-former-new-york-governor-andrew-cuomo-for-criminal-prosecution/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that Cuomo lied to House lawmakers about his knowledge of a report that was used to defend a New York policy that placed COVID patients in nursing homes.
At issue is Cuomo&#8217;s statements to lawmakers about his knowledge of a New York State Department of Health <a href="https://health.ny.gov/press/releases/2020/docs/nh_factors_report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from July 6, 2020. The report was used to explain an <a href="https://skillednursingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/03/DOH_COVID19__NHAdmissionsReadmissions__032520_1585166684475_0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">earlier policy</a> put forward by the state telling nursing homes they could not deny admission to people who had a confirmed or suspected case of COVID.
Under Cuomo’s policies, there were around 15,000 COVID nursing home <a href="https://apnews.com/article/cuomo-covid-pandemic-nursing-home-deaths-6fb16b6239e0da7d49ae0dd8b99987c3">deaths</a>, which was a much greater number than the figure first reported by New York. According to House investigators, Cuomo lied to lawmakers about his role in reviewing and editing the July 6 report and lied about discussing other aspects of the report during an interview with lawmakers on June 11.
“Mr. Cuomo made multiple criminally false statements, including that he was neither involved in the drafting nor the review of the July 6 Report. Documents establish that statement to be false,” Wenstrup <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2024.10.30-SSCP-Referral-of-Andrew-M.-Cuomo.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> to the DOJ. “Mr. Cuomo also testified that he did not have any discussions about the July 6 Report being peer reviewed. Documents show that statement to be false. And Mr. Cuomo testified that he did not know whether the July 6 Report was reviewed by persons outside of the NYSDOH. Documents again demonstrate that statement to be false.”
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Cuomo spokesman Richard Azzopardi <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/30/nyregion/cuomo-crime-covid-hearing.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied</a> all allegations of wrongdoing.
“This taxpayer-funded farce is an illegal use of Congress’s investigative authority,” Azzopardi told The New York Times. “The governor said he didn’t recall because he didn’t recall. The committee lied in their referral just as they have been lying to the public and the press.”
Wenstrup said that witnesses and documentation evidence backed up his panel’s assertions against Cuomo.
“Andrew Cuomo repeatedly lied to Congress, and he must be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.” Wenstrup said. “This deliberate and self-serving attempt to avoid accountability for the thousands of lives lost in New York nursing homes during the pandemic will not stand.”

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Rumors are swirling that ex-New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who resigned in disgrace three years ago, may run for mayor of New York City.
Cuomo has long told insiders he wouldn’t run for the position because he didn’t want to run against current NYC mayor Eric Adams, POLITICO <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/26/cuomo-mayor-adams-indictment-00181288" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The two share a similar base of moderate, black Democrat voters.
But Adams was indicted this week, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyc-democrat-mayor-eric-adams-charged-with-bribery-fraud-acting-as-foreign-agent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, charged with bribery, fraud, and acting as a foreign agent. He faces up to 45 years in prison if convicted on all counts.
That indictment may have changed the game for Cuomo, who resigned in 2021 following allegations of sexual misconduct by nearly a dozen female staffers. But with Adams’s legal troubles, some insiders are suggesting Cuomo may run for mayor.
“I think he’s going to run,” Chris Coffey, a former adviser to ex-Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Andrew Yang’s 2021 mayoral campaign, told POLITICO. “He was probably going to run no matter what, and a weakened, or out-of-the-race Eric Adams is a better bet for him.”
Cuomo also reached out to New York business and labor leaders last year to gauge interest in a potential mayoral run. But his spokesperson, Rich Azzopardi, says that’s not going to happen.
“Governor Cuomo has spent a lifetime in public service fighting and delivering for the people of New York — that said, the speculation is premature as Governor Cuomo believes Mayor Adams is entitled to due process,&#8221; Azzopardi told The Daily Wire.
But, POLITICO reported, Cuomo’s political team is trying to create an aura of inevitability, even after the ex-governor testified before Congress about his disastrous COVID policies, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/andrew-cuomo-to-defend-nursing-home-covid-policy-as-congress-demands-accountability-for-13000-deaths" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Shortly before he testified, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released a report that found Cuomo “edited” a state report that minimized the deaths that occurred in New York nursing homes during the pandemic, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/andrew-cuomo-edited-report-that-minimized-covid-deaths-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“They [Cuomo and his then-staff] want to assert that that order is exactly the same as the federal CMS, which it is not,” Rep. Marc Molinaro <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/06/11/us-news/cuomo-grilled-by-house-panel-over-nys-covid-nursing-home-deaths-dont-see-a-lot-of-remorse/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “The state order says, ‘You shall take back individuals and you cannot deny them solely on the basis of COVID,’ which left them no option but to accept individuals that we knew would cause risk to the other patients.”
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“Andrew Cuomo was attempting to shift blame for what was a clear directive,” Molinaro continued. “When they identified and knew that the order was causing great loss, they subsequently cooked the books to suggest that the numbers of those who died in nursing homes were much less than we knew.”
His handling of COVID is not the only baggage Cuomo would carry in a mayoral election. He ultimately resigned after multiple female staffers, including former adviser Lindsey Boylan, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woman-who-accused-andrew-cuomo-of-sexual-harassment-finally-details-allegations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> him of sexual harassment. Boylan claimed in 2021 that Cuomo sexually harassed her “for years” and that “many saw it, and watched” and that she “could never anticipate what to expect: would I be grilled on my work (which was very good) or harassed about my looks.”
“Not knowing what to expect what’s the most upsetting part aside from knowing that no one would do a damn thing even when they saw it. No one. And I *know* I am not the only woman,” she continued. “I’m angry to be put in this situation at all. That because I am a woman, I can work hard my whole life to better myself and help others and yet still fall victim as countless women over generations have. Mostly silently. I hate that some men, like @NYGovCuomo abuse their power.”
Boylan is now speaking out about a potential Cuomo mayor candidacy, saying, “There is no fight I will not take on if this monster thinks he can slime himself into power once again.”
“It already is retraumatuzing (sic),” she said in a post on X. “Frankly it never stopped being traumatizing legally because he never stops abusing. But he didn’t just abuse his women staffers. New Yorkers, Andrew Cuomo abused you too. He abused you with his constant lies, bullying, and self-promotion. For years.”
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— Lindsey Boylan (@LindseyBoylan) <a href="https://twitter.com/LindseyBoylan/status/1839639006008508562?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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According to a new report, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo “edited” a state report that minimized the death count in nursing homes from COVID-19.
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, which will interview Cuomo on Tuesday, said Cuomo’s office made “demonstrably false” statements while engaging in a “cover-up,” the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/09/09/us-news/cuomo-aides-knew-nursing-home-mandate-would-be-great-debacle-helped-gov-edit-report-that-deflated-deaths-house-covid-panel-finds/">reported</a>.
In June 2024, Cuomo blamed federal and state health officials for the nursing home directive. “They [Cuomo and his then-staff] want to assert that that order is exactly the same as the federal CMS, which it is not,” Rep. Marc Molinaro <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/06/11/us-news/cuomo-grilled-by-house-panel-over-nys-covid-nursing-home-deaths-dont-see-a-lot-of-remorse/">said</a>. “The state order says, ‘You shall take back individuals and you cannot deny them solely on the basis of COVID,’ which left them no option but to accept individuals that we knew would cause risk to the other patients.&#8221;
“Andrew Cuomo was attempting to shift blame for what was a clear directive,” Molinaro continued. “When they identified and knew that the order was causing great loss, they subsequently cooked the books to suggest that the numbers of those who died in nursing homes were much less than we knew.”
On March 25, 2020, the New York Department of Health issued an advisory that stated nursing homes had to accept residents returning from hospitals whether or not they had a diagnosis of COVID-19. The <a href="https://skillednursingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/03/DOH_COVID19__NHAdmissionsReadmissions__032520_1585166684475_0.pdf">advisory</a> stated:
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During this global health emergency, all NHs must comply with the expedited receipt of residents returning from hospitals to NHs. Residents are deemed appropriate for return to a NH upon a determination by the hospital physician or designee that the resident is medically stable for return.  Hospital discharge planners must confirm to the NH, by telephone, that the resident is medically stable for discharge. Comprehensive discharge instructions must be provided by the hospital prior to the transport of a resident to the NH.
No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the NH solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19. NHs are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission.
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In the fall of 2020, speaking to Finger Lakes Daily News, Cuomo defended himself from the charge that his policies caused more deaths from COVID in nursing homes, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/10/02/andrew-cuomos-latest-nursing-home-deception/">reported</a>. In response to a question about the issue, Cuomo blamed the federal government, attacked Florida&#8217;s state government, claimed that New York “flattened the curve effectively,” and said, “It just never happened in New York, where we needed to say to a nursing home, ‘We need you to take this person even though they’re COVID positive.&#8217; It never happened.”
New York State has reported &#8220;more than 6,600 nursing home COVID-19 related deaths,&#8221; Finger Lakes Daily News reported, &#8220;but that number is likely much higher since New York does not include residents who initially contracted the virus at a nursing home but died after being transferred to a hospital.&#8221; State Senator Tom O’Mara co-sponsored a bill requiring the Department of Health to provide the accurate death toll from those in nursing homes. &#8220;He said many believe that number could be twice as high,&#8221; the Daily News noted.
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The outlet asked Cuomo, “Governor, you said earlier that you lie down at night and you can sleep knowing that you saved lives. What would you say to New York residents who lost their loved ones in nursing homes due to your mandate back in late March regarding sending COVID-positive patients back to nursing homes?”
“Yeah, I would say, first of all, that’s not why they lost a loved one,” Cuomo protested. “Your premise, the premise of your question, is just factually wrong. People who were lost in nursing homes were lost because that’s where the virus preys. The virus preys on senior citizens. The virus was introduced in this country in Washington, state of Washington in a nursing home. That’s who succumb to this virus, are immune-compromised senior citizens, and they’re predominantly located in nursing homes.”
“Number two: you look at the nursing home deaths in this state; do you know what number we are by percentage before you made that statement? We’re number 46 out of 50 states,” Cuomo boasted. “And we had the worst problem, and we’re number 46 in terms of percentage of deaths in nursing homes.”

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Former New York Gov.Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, will testify before Congress next week regarding his response to the COVID pandemic.
Cuomo will be questioned publicly for the first time on September 10, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic said in <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/breaking-former-new-york-governor-andrew-cuomo-to-testify-at-public-hearing-on-september-10/">a press release</a>. The press release said Cuomo would be questioned “about his Administration’s issuance of unscientific guidance that forced New York nursing homes and long-term care facilities to admit COVID-19 positive patients.”
On March 25, 2020, then-Gov. Cuomo’s office issued a <a href="https://skillednursingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/03/DOH_COVID19__NHAdmissionsReadmissions__032520_1585166684475_0.pdf">mandate</a> requiring nursing homes in New York to accept COVID-positive patients on short notice, whether they were equipped to isolate and care for them or not. The policy led to nearly 13,000 nursing home deaths – or about 14% of New York’s pre-pandemic nursing home population, according to a <a href="https://www.empirecenter.org/publications/the-states-revised-nursing-home-death-toll/">report</a> from the Empire Center, a non-partisan think tank.
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The Cuomo administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nursing-home-deaths-in-new-york-were-massively-undercounted-new-york-ag-finds">undercounted</a> the deaths by including thousands of nursing home patient deaths with hospital deaths since the patients had been transferred to hospitals before they died.
In a thread <a href="https://x.com/COVIDSelect/status/1830914951499690140">posted</a> to X, the subcommittee said that it had privately interviewed Cuomo about his nursing home policies and that he was “shockingly callous when discussing New York’s nursing home mortality rate.”
&#8220;…let&#8217;s say there&#8217;s a 3,000 [deaths] differential, 2500. Who cares? What difference does it make in any dimension to anyone about anything?&#8221; Cuomo reportedly asked, according to the subcommittee, which will be releasing the transcription before the former governor testifies.
Also during that interview, according to the subcommittee, Cuomo claimed he was unaware of the March 25 mandate until a month after it had been issued. He then reportedly claimed that nursing homes had “an escape valve” and were not actually forced to admit COVID-positive patients. He then said his only regret was that nursing homes were “confused” by the mandate, before clarifying that he didn’t “accept the premise that they were actually confused by it.&#8221;
“Andrew Cuomo owes answers to the 15,000 families who lost loved ones in New York’s nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Committee Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-OH). “On September 10, Americans will have the opportunity to hear directly from the former governor about New York’s potentially fatal nursing home policies.”
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“During closed-door testimony, Mr. Cuomo was shockingly callous when pressed to explain discrepancies in nursing home death counts, repeatedly deflected responsibility for the nursing home directive, and most egregiously, showed little remorse for the thousands of lives lost,” Wenstrup added. “A true leader owns up to his mistakes and takes responsibility for wrongdoing. That is not what we saw from Mr. Cuomo during his term as governor nor during his transcribed interview. We hope that during his public hearing next week, Mr. Cuomo will stop dodging accountability and honestly answer the American people.”

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