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Andrew Cuomo: “Ten years ago nobody was a socialist.”

Featuring: Andrew Cuomo, Democratic | Former Governor of New York

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Published | Video Starts at 06:41

This is a different Democratic Party. This is all these people who used to be moderates are all crazy socialists. You now have. Well, look, you never had the word socialist. Right. Ten years ago nobody was a socialist. Yeah, that's right. Nobody was a socialist. Zoron shows up at the May Day rally as a communist. He's a communist. No doubt he is. So this never existed before. (06:41–06:44)

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Asserts that the term 'socialist' was not commonly used to describe individuals in the Democratic Party ten years ago.

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