TV news anchor Chris Cuomo said Wednesday night after brother Andrew Cuomo was soundly defeated in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary by democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani that the Democratic Party is “dead.”
“That [Democratic] party is dead,” said Cuomo, a NewsNation anchor. “What will it be reborn as? We will see. The winner is an open socialist and the Democratic Party is now just that: socialistic.”
Andrew Cuomo is a former New York governor. He resigned from office in August 2021, amid a sexual harassment investigation.
Chris Cuomo was fired from CNN in December 2021 following reports about his close involvement in his brother’s defense strategy against the sexual harassment claims.
In contrast to many who were surprised by the NYC mayoral primary results Tuesday, Cuomo said he was not.
During a monologue on NewsNation, he said Democrats’ reaction to MAGA has become socialism.
“The Democratic Party is now officially in MAGA mode,” he said. “We are now on both sides in a period of extremism. The same way MAGA played with the prejudices of white nationalism, you are seeing an identical dynamic on the left with prejudices like tacitly supporting extreme Islamism or targeting Jews.”
Though Cuomo’s brother Andrew received endorsements from Democrats including former President Bill Clinton and former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg in addition to significant donations from the city’s business community, Cuomo conceded to Mamdani on Tuesday night.
