Cynthia Nixon is doing just fine, and if one candidate has been knocked back on their heels in this race, it’s Cuomo. That’s not to say she’s winning—she’s not by a long shot. The best public poll for Nixon has her down 22 points, and the governor has both a $30 million campaign war chest and the institutional support of the Democratic Party.
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The primary election isn’t for another four months, but the Cuomo-Nixon contest is already becoming a useful test of two post-2016 dynamics: Do Democratic voters want their own sharp-tongued celebrity over a political veteran? And will they insist on the kind of progressive purity that Bernie Sanders popularized, or are they willing to reward pragmatism?
Just about all of Cuomo’s recent policy announcements have come on issues Nixon had raised in the early days of her campaign. The governor has also resorted to hardball tactics, allegedly threatening unions and community groups aligned with Nixon. “If unions or anyone give money to any of these groups, they can lose my number,” Cuomo warned them, according to the executive director of the state’s Working Families Party. The pressure didn’t stop the WFP from endorsing Nixon, giving her a progressive nod that went to Cuomo four years ago and potentially a spot on the general-election ballot in November even if she loses the Democratic primary. Last week, she also won the support of Our Revolution, the progressive organization that grew out of Sanders’s presidential campaign.
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It begs for some explanation what an ‘Infowars Left’ would even look like, because there’s no one on the left as stupid as Alex Jones. Seems more like score settling from 2016.