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Nixon Hopes For Big Primary Day Upset Over Cuomo

By Karen DeWitt | September 13, 2018
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ALBANY, NY (WSKG) – Thursday is primary day in New York, and the biggest race is between Democratic incumbent Governor Andrew Cuomo and challenger, actor and education advocate, Cynthia Nixon.

CUOMO/NIXON CAMPAIGNS

Cuomo, who leads Nixon in the polls, spent the days leading up to the primary at several Get Out the Vote Rallies, where he railed against President Trump and what he says is his “extreme conservative philosophy.” He told supporters that a vote for Cuomo is a vote against Trump.

“Stand with me against this President,” Cuomo told the crowd. “Let’s show him that his nonsense doesn’t sell here!”

In three events in Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse, Cuomo did not mention his opponent Cynthia Nixon once.

Despite the governor’s attempt to, in public, ignore his challenger, Cuomo’s campaign has been spending over $8.5 million in recent weeks on TV ads and paid posts on social media. The state Democratic Party, which Cuomo controls, sent out a controversial mailer to Jewish voters falsely linking Nixon with anti-Semitism. Nixon regularly attends a synagogue and has Jewish children.

Nixon, who has run a grassroots and social media campaign, with the help of the progressive Working Families Party, released a television ad in the final days of the campaign, highlighting her support for single payer health care and ending mass incarceration of African Americans. She compared her background to that of her opponent, saying New York is “a place where the daughter of a single mom can defeat the son of a governor.”

Nixon said Cuomo is ignoring pressing problems in New York, including the decline of the New York City subways, economic malaise upstate, and corruption within his administration. Several former associates of Cuomo, including his former closest aide, have been convicted of bribery and bid rigging.

And Nixon believes the polls are wrong. She said they did not predict previous insurgent victories by democratic challengers from the left.

“The polls right now are not capturing the new progressive voters and the hunger for real change,” Nixon said.

Cuomo, in his camping literature, touts  passage of a phased in $15 minimum wage, partial paid family leave, gun control laws, and free college tuition.

Polls across most of central and northern New York are open from noon until 9 p.m.

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