Bill Clinton Endorses Andrew Cuomo for New York City Mayor

[demmiblue]

Source: NYT

Former President Bill Clinton will offer a last-minute boost of support for former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo by endorsing him in the New York City mayor’s race on Sunday, the last day of early voting.

Mr. Cuomo worked in the Clinton administration as the housing secretary, and the former president’s backing, as well as a taped robocall providing his support, could help turn out older voters in the tightening Democratic mayoral primary on Tuesday.

Mr. Clinton will use the robocall to tell voters that he hired Mr. Cuomo “because he knows how to get things done” and that they had worked together on homelessness and on improving “communities that had been left behind.”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/nyregion/bill-clinton-endorse-cuomo-mayor.html

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I can’t post what I think about this.

[Easterncedar]

1. What's he getting for it, I wonder?

[Polybius]

50. A better Mayor?

Doesn't he live in NYC now?

[Easterncedar]

53. Not in Chappaqua?

[Polybius]

55. 30 miles outside of NYC

Plus they have an office in Manhattan according to Google.

[mdmc]

58. Harlem?

Oh, Harlem is in Manhattan..

[Easterncedar]

59. Who was the last good mayor of NYC?

John Lindsay? LaGuardia?

[Polybius]

60. Bloomberg

His first term was elite. His second was ok and his third was a disaster. I was a kid in the 80's, but Koch was supposedly good.

[marble falls]

2. I can, big dog just wants to be a political broker one last time. He just picked the wrong election to tip in on.

[ananda]

25. Clinton has always veered to the right...

and never been a good judge of character.

I did like his economics though.

[purple_haze]

28. I always thought of Bill as a moderate

and I was quite the happy American under his administration, overall.

[ananda]

35. That's what I meant by veered to the right.

Way too Republican-lite for me.

He was good with economics though.

[purple_haze]

38. Very interesting

I remember him being basically worshipped at the time. Even through the Lewinsky stuff.

[ananda]

39. Not by me.

I mean, I was glad to have a Democrat in office.

However, I wasn't happy with him or Biden for
veering right.

I didn't start liking Biden again until he veered
left again much later.

[Polybius]

51. I only disagreed with him on two issues

War and NAFTA.

[electric_blue68]

45. Er...He Nominated RGB 👍

[MorbidButterflyTat]

61. Yeah, but....

[electric_blue68]

65. "but"...?

[LymphocyteLover]

3. Ugh, disgusting. Bill, you disappoint us again.

[gab13by13]

4. Someone made a good point yesterday

Democrats booted out Al Franken from the Senate for his misguided prank, but will now endorse someone who is accused of doing way worse things than Franken ever did.

Democrats claim of being a big tent doesn't seem to apply to certain people who are too progressive.

[Buddyzbuddy]

5. Birds of a feather.....

[LSparkle]

6. We're doomed if we Dems drift back to DLC mode

We need to go full Bernie progressive or we’re going to be in this funk forever. Thom Hartmann said the other day: we missed our chance to embrace the populist wave back in 2016 and let His Dumbass capitalize on it. Going to the center now is like going to hell.

[nycbos]

23. You mean, the people who won two big elections in a row in 92 and 96 after losing three consecutive presidential...

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... elections. Ask yourself why African-Americans, the most reliable voting bloc in the Democratic party, never embrace Bernie Sanders. They had a chance twice in 2016 and 2020.

[purple_haze]

29. I disagree

I think the moderate approach is what polling shows most centrists and fence-sitters prefer.

[Polybius]

32. Bill Clinton won with 370 Electoral Votes in 1992, and 379 in 1996

No President has done that since him. Imo, he's also the best President in my lifetime.

[FakeNoose]

44. What does going "full Bernie" mean?

We already know we can't elect a woman of any color during our lifetime. Bernie himself is too old to run, and even if he were the right age don't believe middle America would allow it to happen.

It seems that anyone who really wants to be elected in the US has to keep their political agenda a total secret, and run as a celebrity a la Ronald Reagan. (Even Chump might be considered a celebrity of sorts.)

[Oopsie Daisy]

64. LOL! No. Hard pass.

We will win from the center and center-left, thank you very much. Vermont politics do not play well in flat, square, flyover states of the heartland. I trust our party's leadership (loyal Democrats) more than I trust non-Democrats and fair-weather part-time Democrats telling Democrats what Democrats "ought to do".

[Autumn]

7. He should be like GW.

Sit down, shut up and attend a funeral once in a while.

[SamKnause]

8. Of course he does.

It's a big club and you ain't in it. (George Carlin)

[SSJVegeta]

9. There are certain ways to soil one's legacy

This may or may not be one of the top 5.

[Balatro]

10. Why?

Shouldn't Bill be looking out for the legacy of the party instead of playing kingmaker in NYC? Bill ought to be fundraising for the DNC. This is just polarizing.

[Polybius]

33. Because he's not going to endorse Zohran

And in the general election, he's not going to endorse Mayor Adams or Curtis Sliwa either.

[BeyondGeography]

11. And tonight we're gonna party like it's 1999

[Polybius]

34. I wish

Ahh, to be in my mid-20's again...

[Magoo48]

12. The old ideas, at this point, are a wasteland of indecision, handwringing, and petrified protocols.

New, enthusiastic, progressive, and determined is the way now. It is past time to turn this thing over to the next generations with our sincere promise to assist them in any way we can.

[Icanthinkformyself]

13. Recycling

is supposed to help the environment by cleaning it up. This recycling is greasy and dirty. The container was never washed and still has muck in it.

[niyad]

14. WTAF ???

[Passages]

15. Literally, ANYONE but a progressive.

The issues of legacy power and who benefits.

[TacosUberAlles]

16. Non-paywall Archive link to story

Bill Clinton Endorses Andrew Cuomo for New York City Mayor

[Texin]

17. Well, I can: it demonstrates a total and staggering level of tone deafness. These silverbacks need to

take a backseat. And WTAF is he thinking? Endorsing a demonstrably disgusting misogynistic predator?

Sigh. I guess it's back to the future.

[gab13by13]

18. Progressives are allowed in the party

so long as they sit in the back row.

This Tuesday will be a secret ballot to elect the ranking member of the House oversight committee. Didn't see who Pelosi endorsed this time, there are 4 candidates.

[littlemissmartypants]

26. I know my preference:

Democratic Reps. Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts, Kweisi Mfume of Maryland, Robert Garcia of California and Jasmine Crockett of Texas who serves as the committee’s vice ranking member.

[thesquanderer]

19. I'm not sure Bill gets Cuomo any votes he wouldn't have gotten anyway, but the endorsement might cost Cuomo some votes

from the undecideds, so maybe it's a net positive..?

[Polybius]

52. He solidified my vote

I idolize Bill Clinton.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

62. I like him too

The 90s were the best years of my life.

[Grins]

20. Both of them - "Go away!!!" NM

[nycbos]

22. After the terrorist attacks in DC and Boulder, where Jews were targeted for the nerve of existing as Jews in public...

... Mamdani still defends the "globalize the intifada" phrase. New York has the largest Jewish population in the world outside of Israel.

There is a legitimate question whether due in New York City would be safe under Mamdani. If I still lived in New York, I would put Cuomo in a ranked-choice vote. I wouldn't even consider it if Mamdani weren't a factor.

Your Jewish fellow citizens right now are worried that they exist safely as Jews because we are squeeze between Donald Trump and the antisemitic thugs and his administration and people who celebrated the largest massacre of Jews in a single day since the holocaust and don't think it's a big deal when a candidate for mayor of New York City defends rhetoric that calls for the killing of Jews worldwide. Which is why I am now moderate and not progressive.

[electric_blue68]

47. I did Not rank Cuomo at all. As far as Mandami...

I'm not Jewish but I grew up in a 2/3rds Jewish neighborhood, and another that was ? %50. And since I'm 72, I am much closer to the experirnces, and feelings of people post-WW2/Hitler than our 30 - 50 yrs old DU'rs.

I didn't rank Mandami at all bc of his statements, including not being able to say that Israel has a right to be a Jewish State, whom I wish would kick out Netanyahu like yrsterday!

[Polybius]

54. Do you think it's possible for anyone else to have a chance?

Right now, it looks like Cuomo and Zohran are far ahead of the rest.

[Rebl2]

24. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[lonely bird]

27. Hmmm

Much like the Bush family on the right I have had enough of the Clinton family.

Yes, Hillary should have been president.

That being said, they are centrists at best.

Thanks for their efforts. Now, please retire from public life.

[Mysterian]

30. He endorsed Terry McAuliffe for Virginia governor too

How'd that work out?

[wolfie001]

41. Like a lead balloon

Idiot voters got their panties in a bunch when the repukes yelled, "A transperson!!!" in a crowded theater. Pretty much how that election went. Stupid f6cking voters. Electing Gov. Dumbkin.

[Polybius]

31. Well, between Zohran and Cuomo (the top two frontrunners), what other option did he have?

I guess he could have just not endorsed anyone.

[hamsterjill]

36. Cuomo will win.

n/t

[Akakoji]

37. Looking at Cuomo's very Long List of accomplishments

This comes as no surprise. Thanks, President Clinton.

[wolfie001]

40. The old Dem stalwarts are so enervating

They literally suck the life out of the Democratic Party like vampires. I'm thinking Pelosi, Clyburn, Cuomo, Bill C., Steny Hoyer, the recently deceased Va. congressman Connelly. They need to be more like mentors and help the up-and-coming future leaders. They act more like: batten down the hatches!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

42. I support President Clinton's endorsement

[Polybius]

56. Agree fully

Living in NYC, it was an easy choice for me.

[elleng]

43. Nor can I.

[muriel_volestrangler]

48. "Andrew Cuomo isn't an asshole who gets things done, he's just an asshole"

The phrasing comes from Lawyers, Guns & Money, but the reasoning from Sam Deutsch's An Urbanist NYC Voter Guide, who suggests a rank of 1. Zellnor Myrie 2. Brad Lander 3. Zohran Mamdani 4. Adrienne Adams - but not Cuomo under any circumstances:

Last but not least, you should rank Zohran because he’s not Andrew Cuomo. While Andrew Cuomo’s campaign is centered around this image of stability and competence that he is trying to build, that reputation is simply not aligned with reality. I know people who worked in Albany during Cuomo’s tenure who say he is the worst manager they have ever dealt with, as he had zero understanding of policy and simply sought the limelight at all times. Moreover, I have friends in City Hall who are expecting a mass exodus of talented bureaucrats if Cuomo wins, precisely due to his “intolerable” management style, as former MTA subway chief Andy Byford described it. Here are all of the specific reasons I am not ranking Andrew Cuomo:
...
Cuomo completely mismanaged the pandemic response, most notably the nursing home scandal where he ordered nursing homes readmit covid-positive patients, and then covered up the deaths stemming from this decision. Additionally, as part of Cuomo’s rivalry with then-Mayor Bill DeBlasio, Cuomo delayed vaccine distribution at Citi Field. To top it all off, Cuomo forced state employees to help write his book instead of doing their jobs during the pandemic.

According to the state Comptroller, Andrew Cuomo’s legal fees for the above scandals have totaled around $60 million, and taxpayers are on the hook for it. This includes $18 million for private lawyers to defend Cuomo from the sexual harassment claims against him. Those lawyers even sued to get access to the gynecological records of one of Cuomo’s accusers.

Cuomo created the Moreland Commission to investigate state corruption. When the commission started looking into Cuomo’s own questionable activities, Cuomo abruptly disbanded the commission and halted their work.

Cuomo partnered with RFK Jr. to shut down the Indian Point Nuclear Plant, which was producing 25% of downstate electricity with zero carbon emissions. This resulted in the New York City grid’s carbon intensity increasing by over 50% as the nuclear power was replaced by fossil fuels, primarily natural gas. This caused electricity prices to spike in 2022, resulting in $300 million in additional electricity costs on New Yorkers’ utility bills.

(I left out the well documented "sex pest" reason. And many, many more - follow the link - including that one of Cuomo's backers is Bill Ackman, one of Trump's richest supporters. Which makes the claim that "Cuomo will stand up to Trump" look like bullshit.

[Polybius]

57. Comparing Cuomo to Epstein is a stretch

He was accused of sexual harassment, which he denies. Epstein and his clients are in a whole other league.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

63. You are the voice of reason on this thread.

Purity politics will leave the Democratic party barren. SMH