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As Democrats size up the field, Monday’s speech is a reminder to keep an eye on what the various candidates have already done. Cuomo will enter the 2020 campaign season with a record of accomplishment likely beyond anybody else’s. Whether he will be there in the field, making the case for himself as a declared candidate, is another matter.
He seemed too snarling to ever be the kind of politician the left could fall in love with, too calculating for an era that prizes authenticity above all else. But he took dead aim at Donald Trump on Tuesday night, laying out a vision for the country that looks very different from his fellow Queens native.
Politics wins. Good, old-fashioned door-knocking and organizing and phone banking and precinct-walking wins.
The onetime shoo-in for state attorney general worries that anti-Establishment fervor will undo all her dues paying.
It was us! We did this! We put the fear into King Cuomo! Get fired up because we are at war!
As late as 1989, an undemocratic entity called the Board of Estimate made the city’s key decisions. When it was banned, a new political era was born
Instead, the 2018 Democratic Party State Convention began with a PowerPoint address. Followed by another.
