{"id":19889,"date":"2025-06-27T19:46:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T19:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/19889\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T19:46:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T19:46:06","slug":"cynthia-nixon-hopes-that-andrew-cuomos-career-is-finally-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/19889\/","title":{"rendered":"Cynthia Nixon hopes that Andrew Cuomo\u2019s career is finally over"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seven years after losing to then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo by 31 percentage points in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, actor and activist Cynthia Nixon got to indulge in a bit of schadenfreude on Tuesday night. Nixon attended mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani\u2019s election night party at a rooftop bar in Long Island City and watched as the election results rolled in and showed Mamdani unexpectedly blowing out Cuomo by 7 points<\/a> in the first round of ranked choice voting, most likely clinching the Democratic mayoral nomination.<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s victory in the November general election<\/a> isn\u2019t assured; he still has to beat incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who is running as an independent; Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa; independent candidate Jim Walden; and potentially even Cuomo (again), who is considering whether to continue running as an independent. Everyone at Mamdani\u2019s watch party was well-aware of the cautionary tale of India Walton \u2013 a democratic socialist who won the Democratic nomination for Buffalo mayor in 2021 only to lose the general election to incumbent Mayor Byron Brown, who mounted a successful write-in campaign backed by Buffalo business interests.<\/p>\n

But the mood was still jubilant in the wake of Mamdani\u2019s remarkable upset victory. Shortly after Cuomo conceded to Mamdani, City & State caught up with Nixon to discuss what Mamdani\u2019s victory means for the socialist movement in New York and whether it is now time to write Cuomo\u2019s political obituary.<\/p>\n

How does it feel to watch the former governor go down?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, very satisfying for tonight, but I worry about what he has planned in store for the fall.<\/p>\n

Are you concerned we could see a situation similar to what happened in Buffalo with India Walton?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I do, but I think that as devastating as that was, what happened to India, I think that would be a lot harder to pull off here.<\/p>\n

Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Because Zohran is a more experienced politician and he has such a broad base of volunteers and people really excited about this.<\/p>\n

Were you surprised to see these results?<\/strong><\/p>\n

No.<\/p>\n

You always expected him to win by this much?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I did not expect it, but I was very hopeful. You just watch the polls creep up, you know, Zohran started at like 1%. You just watch the tenacity and brilliance of the campaign, and he just peaked at exactly the right time.<\/p>\n

At a time when Democrats are unsure how to respond to President Donald Trump, do you think that Mamdani shows a path forward for Democrats?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes, I think he provides a great template. It\u2019s not enough to say, \u201cVote for me, I\u2019m a Democrat. Vote for me, I\u2019m not Donald Trump.\u201d You actually have to offer people substantive policy.<\/p>\n

What do you think about the controversies that have dogged his campaign, such as accusations of antisemitism?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s nonsense. It\u2019s what the Republicans always do when they\u2019re trying to fight us about the left wing of our party.<\/p>\n

What do you think this means for the socialist movement in New York?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think the socialist movement has been gaining traction for a lot of years now, starting in the year that I ran, in 2018, and I think that our economic system is so broken that it needs socialists to actually fix it.<\/p>\n

Do you think Andrew Cuomo\u2019s career is now over?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I certainly hope so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seven years after losing to then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo by 31 percentage points in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, actor…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[18636,5229,13260,18635,405,403,13261,5226,5225,5228,5227,6546,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-19889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-2025-new-york-city-mayoral-election","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-campaigns-elections","11":"tag-interviews-profiles","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-news-politics","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-personality","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114757054786041041","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}