Bill Clinton approves Andrew Cuomo in the democratic primary mayor tight of New York

Before the primary of Tuesday’s Democratic Party for the mayor in New York, the favorite, Andrew Cuomo, won another high -level approval.

Cuomo, who resigned in 2021 during his third term as governor of New York State in the midst of several scandals, was approved by former President Bill Clinton. Cuomo was secretary of housing and urban development (HUD) during the Clinton administration.

“As president, I chose Andrew to be my secretary of housing and urban development, and he never dropped me – but more importantly, he did not drop the nation. He built public housing throughout the country,” said Clinton in a statement on Sunday.

Cuomo’s advance in the primary of the mayor of New York is shrunk?

(The former governor of New York State, Andrew Cuomo, on the left, was approved by former President Bill Clinton in the Mayoral primary of the New York Democratic Party.)

Cuomo, which aims for a campaign return and a political redemption, saw its formerly great advance on the rest of the Democrats in the field of 11 candidates.

Zohran Mamdani, an assembly of the 33 -year -old Democratic Socialist State of Queens, reduced the gap with Cuomo in the last two months of the primary of the Democratic Mayor, which is carried out using a voting system of choice in which the voters classify the candidates by preference on their ballots.

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Progressive representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the most eminent leader in New York on the left, approved Mamdani earlier this month. Last week, long -standing progressive champion and second candidate for the Democratic presidential election Senator Bernie Sanders Supported Mamdani, originally from Uganda.

With several candidates on the left during primary school, the approvals of Ocasio-Cortez And Sanders aimed to consolidate the support of progressive voters behind Mamdani.

The candidates for the Democrat Town Hall Andrew Cuomo, on the left, and Zohran Mamdani, on the right, present arguments such as Whitney Tilson looked at him during a primary debate mayor Democrat may on Wednesday June 4, 2025 in New York. (AP photo / yuki iwamura, swimming pool)

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Lander made the front page of the newspapers last week after his arrest by agents of the Ministry of Internal Security in Manhattan after having pretended to attack a federal officer while Lander tried to escort a defendant outside an immigration court.

Cuomo, his campaign and his allied groups in recent weeks, have questioned Mamdani’s experience in the direction of a city of more than 8 million people.

“Zohran Mamdani is a dangerously inexperienced legislator of 33 years which has only made three bills with staff that you can integrate into a New York elevator,” said the narrator of a Cuomo advertising campaign. “We need someone ready to ride. Andrew Cuomo managed a state and managed crises from Covid to Trump.”

Cuomo target Trump as he questions Mamdani’s experience in the primary battle of New York

In addition, Clinton highlighted Cuomo’s experience in his declaration of approval.

“New York is faced with major challenges. There is a desperate need for affordable housing, homelessness is at a level of crisis and public security must be restored. It is imperative that New York chooses a mayor who has the capacity, talent and experience to do the work,” said the former president.

Clinton told the voters of New York to “do not underestimate the complexity of the significant challenges and the need for the next mayor to have the qualifications to do the work. New Yorkers should choose the competence for a change. I am convinced that Endrew can transform New York.”

Cuomo was also recently approved by the former mayor of three New York mandates, billionaire entrepreneur and Michael Bloomberg media.

Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks to the New York district carpenters when he campaigned for the mayor of New York on Sunday, March 2, 2025. (AP photo / Julia Demaoree Nikhinson)

Cuomo, 67, has spent the last four years fighting to erase his name after 11 accusations of sexual harassment – which he has denied several times – forced his resignation. He was also the subject of an investigation at the time for his management of the Pandemic COVID-19 in the midst of allegations of his administration, deaths linked to COVID in state nursing homes.

Last month, the Ministry of Justice opened a criminal investigation into Cuomo after the Republicans accused him of lying at the Congress on the decisions he took as governor during the coronavirus pandemic.

This former billionaire, the former mayor of New York, approves Cuomo before the primary

Although the primary is only on Tuesday, more than 384,000 democrats have made ballots in early voting, which ended on Sunday.

The winner of the primary of the Democratic Party is traditionally considered to be the crumbling of the main elections in November in the city dominated by the Democrats.

However, this year, the general electoral campaign can be a little more unpredictable.

The mayor of New York, Eric Adams, who won the elections in 2021 as a Democrat, presents himself to his re -election this year as an independent candidate. (New York mayor’s office)

Holder Mayor Eric Adams, A moderate democrat elected in 2021, presents himself to a re -election as an independent. Adams earlier this year abandoned its primary democratic offer when its approval notes have sunk to historic stockings.

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Adams survey numbers were still running before he was even charged last year with five counts, who accused the mayor of corruption and fraud as part of an alleged “long -term” regime to personally take advantage of contacts with foreign officials.

The mayor made repeated openings to the president Donald Trump, And the Ministry of Justice earlier this year rejected the accusations of corruption, so that Adams can apparently work with the Trump administration on its illegal immigration repression.