New York Republican officials said Feb. 19 that they intend to run Congressman Lee Zeldin of Long Island (pictured) for governor of New York in 2021, challenging Democrat Cuomo.
New York Republican officials said Friday (Feb. 19) that they intend to run Congressman Lee Zeldin of Long Island for governor of New York next year.
The incumbent, Democrat Andrew Cuomo, who has served three terms, is under intense bipartisan criticism for concealing key nursing Home death data.
The New York Post reported Friday that the Republican National Committee intends to recruit a strong candidate for governor in 2020. Fox News first revealed that Zeldin was seen as a potential Republican Party candidate for governor of New York.
Zeldin, an Iraq veteran, easily picked up another fourth term in New York’s 1st Congressional District, Suffolk County, Long Island, last November.
In an interview with Fox News on Friday, he said Cuomo’s political strategy is “bullying” and “full of revenge and resentment and backstabbing.
As to what might happen next, Zeldin predicted that Cuomo might not continue to have emergency powers. The state Assembly granted Cuomo emergency powers last year to address the Epidemic, and those powers are set to expire April 30.
“Republicans in the New York State Assembly are pushing for impeachment …… there may be some Democratic support and we’ll see how that goes ……
“There’s a lot of different (opposition) makeup here as to why Governor Cuomo needs to step down ……,” Zeldin concluded. “I’m a proud New Yorker. If we want to save our state, Cuomo needs to go.”
After Cuomo’s aides admitted to the Democratic Party last week that the state had been hiding data on nursing home deaths since last year for fear of a federal investigation against state Democrats, New York state and even federal lawmakers from both parties joined in condemning Cuomo’s practices.
Even some Democrats have joined in the accusations that he is not disclosing death data because of personal political considerations and fear of a federal investigation, thus preventing the state legislature from making judgments and legislation based on correct information.
Cuomo has denied any wrongdoing. Democrats, however, are unimpressed with the Republican Party’s accurate nomination of Zeldin, who they believe will implement the policies of former President Trump (D) and is unlikely to win in a deep blue Democratic district.
Former Arkansas Governor: Cuomo is in trouble this Time
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee also said in a Fox interview that New York Democratic Governor Cuomo is in trouble this time because even the most radical Democrats, such as Congressman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Alec Baldwin, have “smelled it. (D-N.Y.) have “smelled blood in the water” and are hunting him down.
“His bullying has finally caught up with him, and people are no longer pretending to be afraid of him and are speaking out,” Huckabee added. “I think his time is limited. He may finish his term, but I think this is the last thing he’s going to do politically.”
Huckabee also criticized CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, Cuomo’s brother, for trying to deflect and downplay the controversy, with the network scheduling an alternative interview with Chris about his brother in addition to not scheduling the news to air.
“The (leftist) media has treated Cuomo as some kind of hero from the beginning, but we’re talking about the thousands of people who have died as a result of the (nursing home) directive he issued, which mandated that patients with the new coronavirus (COVID-19) — highly contagious patients — into nursing homes, into places where our nation’s most vulnerable people are staying.” Huckabee said.
A study released on March 18 by the nonprofit Empire Center for Public Policy shows that at the beginning of last year’s outbreak, the New York State Department of health directed on March 25, 2020, that COVID-19 (Chinese Communist Virus) confirmed patients from hospitals back to nursing homes, was associated with a statistically significant increase in nursing home resident deaths (Statistically significant).
Of the 6,327 infected residents who entered nursing homes between late March and early May of last year, approximately hundreds and likely more than 1,000 of those deaths were related to the decree, the report said.
“These findings contradict the main conclusion of the state Department of Health’s report on the nursing home outbreak, which was released on July 6. The state report’s conclusions recount that ‘admission policies (for accepting patients infected with the disease) were not a significant factor in the deaths of nursing home residents’ and that ‘there are no data showing a consistent relationship between admission policies and increased deaths.'” The report reads.
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