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Andrew Cuomo: “You can win a city as a socialist, you can't win a state…”

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

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Andrew Cuomo & David Paterson LIVE in studio — The Future of New York City | Hour 1

Published | Video Starts at 02:04

And your father would have been considered a moderate. He would have been a moderate. He would have been a moderate. Yeah. If you're not a socialist, you're a moderate. But you don't win. You can win a city as a socialist, you can't win a state, you can't win nationally as a socialist. And the socialists are the enemies of the moderates and they threaten them in primaries and they push them to the left in primaries. (02:04–02:12)

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Asserts that socialists can win city elections but not state or national elections.

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