Ex-President Invoice Clinton on Sunday endorsed his former Housing secretary Andrew Cuomo within the Massive Apple’s mayoral major, describing town as in “disaster’’ and his pal as a “competent chief.”
In a robocall launched by Cuomo’s marketing campaign, the Democratic former commander in chief urged New Yorkers to again the ex-governor within the Tuesday’s Dem showdown.
“The election will determine the following mayor of New York, and I urge you to vote for Andrew Cuomo,” Clinton mentioned within the recorded message. “As president, I selected Andrew to be my secretary of Housing and City Growth, and he by no means let me down.”
Clinton, 78, lives in tony Chappaqua in Westchester County along with his spouse Hillary, New York’s former senator who spectacularly misplaced to Trump within the 2016 presidential election.
The ex-prez is at present on the high of Cuomo’s on-line checklist of endorsements — whereas Hillary is nowhere to be seen.
Invoice Clinton famous in his name that Cuomo labored in his presidential administration on such points as inexpensive housing and serving to to stave off hate, together with “discrimination, together with towards the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and antisemitism.”
The ex-president mentioned Cuomo can repair what he known as a metropolis in “disaster.
“New York Metropolis is dealing with main challenges. There’s a determined want for inexpensive housing, homelessness is at a disaster stage, and public security should be restored,” Clinton mentioned.
“It’s crucial that New York chooses a mayor who has the flexibility, expertise, and expertise to do the job.
“He’s a fighter who is aware of the right way to make authorities work, and at a time when our primary rights are underneath assault, I do know he’ll arise and shield the folks of this metropolis,” he mentioned of Cuomo, including his Dem buddy has the flexibility to boost the “progressive customary.”
Cuomo, 67, responded to the endorsement with gratitude.
“I’m honored to have the help of President Invoice Clinton — a private mentor, buddy, and hero. His administration was one of the achieved in fashionable political historical past,” Cuomo mentioned within the message.
Cuomo, who resigned in shame as governor in 2021 amid a slew of sexual-harassment allegations, is aiming for a political resurrection in his mayoral comeback bid. Cuomo has vehemently any accusation of wrongdoing.
Clinton equally had a presidency rocked by scandal.
His Oval Workplace affair with then-22-year-old intern Monica Lewinsky led him to be impeached by the Home for perjury and obstruction of justice — although he was acquitted by the Senate and by no means resigned.
Clinton’s endorsement of Cuomo comes simply two days earlier than town’s Tuesday major.
Democratic kingmaker and 84-year-old South Carolina Congressman Jim Clyburn endorsed Cuomo on Friday — as surging socialist contender Zohran Mamdani’s marketing campaign garnered a mixture of contemporary condemnation and help.
Within the metropolis’s ranked-choice voting contest, Cuomo at present prevails 55% to 45% towards Mamdani in a possible seventh spherical, in accordance with a latest Marist Faculty Institute for Public Opinion survey.
The ballot indicated a giant drop from a Marist ballot performed in Could, when Cuomo led Mamdani 60% to 40% in spite of everything the opposite candidates have been eradicated and second choice votes transferred to the 2 finalists.
