Zohran Mamdani: “Andrew Cuomo received $5 million for writing about his…”

“And there's a clear difference here, where so much of his reputation is a mythology that he helped to burnish with public dollars, even as he Andrew Cuomo received $5 million for writing about his leadership in a crisis which sent at least 15,000 New Yorkers to their death in nursing homes. And so the opening of this ad is those facts. This is a governor who cut Medicaid. This is a governor who stole hundreds of millions of dollars from the mta.” (10:19–10:34)

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