Cuomo: Democratic Social gathering Is In A “Civil Warfare,” The Social gathering’s Technique Is Simply Hoping Trump Makes A Mistake | Video

In an interview on Stephen A. Smith’s SiriusXM political present “Straight Shooter with Stephen A.,” former Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) mentioned the Democratic Social gathering is preventing a civil conflict.

STEPHEN A. SMITH, HOST: What about your ideas about Governor Kathy Hochul endorsing him, supporting him? It is one factor for Bernie Sanders to do it. He is a progressive leftist and does not thoughts socialism in any respect. It is one factor for AOC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, doing the identical factor. It is one other factor solely in your former lieutenant governor to be keen to try this. What ought to that say to New Yorkers in your eyes? How do you reply that?

 

FMR. GOV. ANDREW CUOMO: They’re, look, you will have a civil conflict happening within the Democratic get together. You’ve got this far-left, extreme-left socialists. They’re socialists. They name themselves democratic socialists. Neglect democratic. It is only a modifier for socialists. They’re socialists. Bernie Sanders, AOC, et cetera. That far left is having a conflict with the average mainstream Democrats. I am now a average. All my life I used to be a loopy liberal, son of a loopy liberal. However the world shifted so quick that now I am a average. Okay? So it is the far left versus the average. A whole lot of the mainstream Democrats are afraid of the left. So that they suppose they will make peace by endorsing Zoran and they will purchase peace with the far left. I’ve information for them. The far left is rarely, by no means going to declare peace. They will come for energy and they will come to kill them. However you will have average Democrats who’re simply making an attempt to make good as a result of they’re afraid the far left goes to return after them.

 

STEPHEN A. SMITH, HOST: Does the identical in your thoughts apply to Home Speaker Hakeem Jeffries?

 

FMR. GOV. ANDREW CUOMO: Sure.

 

STEPHEN A. SMITH, HOST: Does the identical apply to Chuck Schumer at this specific time limit, contemplating we’re dwelling in a authorities shutdown proper now? And 6 months in the past, he clearly was for the CR and he voted to not shut down the federal government. However six months later, he is clearly elected to aspect with the progressive left. Does the identical apply to him?

 

FMR. GOV. ANDREW CUOMO: It applies to all of them, Stephen A. It applies to all of them.

 

STEPHEN A. SMITH, HOST: So the place does that go away Andrew Cuomo?

 

FMR. GOV. ANDREW CUOMO: I am saying, I’m not going there. That isn’t my father’s Democratic get together. It isn’t my Democratic get together. It isn’t Invoice Clinton’s Democratic get together. It isn’t Barack Obama’s Democratic get together. This can be a socialist get together. It will be the dying, it could be the dying of the Democratic get together. The Republicans are licking their lips, hoping this child Mamdani wins as a result of they will decide ’em up and carry ’em across the nation and say, this is the Democratic get together. 34-years-old, by no means had a job. Desires to decriminalize prostitution, does not just like the police defund the police, abolish jails. Actually a socialist. Anti-business, anti-corporate, authorities ought to management the technique of manufacturing. That is what their first motto. That is Marxism. So this socialist wing wins, the Democratic get together dies, for my part…

STEPHEN A. SMITH, HOST: How are we presupposed to really feel if Andrew Cuomo, the previous governor of this state, is saying such issues, however we received elected officers on Capitol Hill endorsing this individual that you just’re describing, Zora Mamdani? How are we presupposed to really feel as a nation contemplating that?

 

FMR. GOV. ANDREW CUOMO: Look, the Democratic get together is misplaced. Let’s be trustworthy. The Democratic get together is misplaced proper now. Proper? They don’t have any technique vis-a-vis Trump. It is all about, they’re simply hoping Trump makes a mistake. That is their recreation plan proper now. However the Democratic Social gathering is misplaced. And sure, we’re having this civil conflict, which is a part of the truth that the Democratic Social gathering has misplaced its id. The individuals it represented, the working households that have been the bottom of the Democratic get together. The Democratic Social gathering has turn into disconnected and alienated, and the Democratic Social gathering used to ship, used to do one thing, make a distinction in someone’s life.