Have you seen the other option’s we’ve had? Right wing knobs, billionaire 3rd party bids. And the most recent primary challenger of any note was Cynthia Nixon. Who’s campaign focused almost exclusively on national politics and NYC, and was pretty obviously propped up by Bill De Blasio as a test case for his own ambitions.
Cuomo has a lock on the state level party, which tends to keep challenges to a minimum. To the point that he’s pretty constantly at odds with the national party, and politicians associated with it (this is a big part of the constant fight with De Blasio). So to a large extent it boils down to this guy or whoever the fuck the GOP is gonna throw at it. And here’s the thing the “supposedly progressive New York Electorate”. Is the electorate of New York City.
It’s a big state. And the bulk of it is deep red.
My own congressional district, on the east end of LI has Lee Zeldin as our congress critter. So it wouldn’t take much for the state to flip.
Basically the thrust for in state politics for the last few elections has been to flip our legislature from GOP control. Cause till 2018 we had a GOP controlled legislature, both houses. Despite technically having a 2 seat Democratic majority in the senate. Cause Cuomo spent most of his time in office being “bipartisan”, IE starting fights with NYC and passing whatever the state GOP wanted. Dems took control in 2018, now he’s a vocal champion of the progressive movement. And we’re finally doing things like reforming our election laws.
