Twice-elected New York
Governor Andrew Cuomo is facing an unlikely challenge from a fellow Democrat in
the upcoming primary election. Actor and activist Cynthia Nixon entered the
race last month and is gaining in the polls. Cuomo must grapple with this new
competition and clear pressure to move to the left. Editor at large for Dissent Magazine, Sarah Leonard, wrote an oped in the New York Times about how Nixon can help the Democratic Party
refocus on serving working class Americans in NY. She joins me on the show
today to talk all about it.
Since we last spoke
with John Nichols of The Nation a lot has happened—catching
up on Trump’s latest Twitter storm, prepping for this week’s upcoming local
special elections and gearing up for the vote on Mike Pompeo as Secretary of
State. John is The Nation’s
national-affairs correspondent, a contributing writer for The Progressive and In These
Times and the associate editor of The
Capital Times, the daily newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin.
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