Cuomo and de Blasio trade barbs as they eye the national stage.
T he governor of New York and the mayor of New York City don’t like each other.
And now their feud has reached new heights with each accusing the other of trying to score political points over a proposed plan to unite state Democrats.
Their latest spat stems from an attempt by Governor Andrew Cuomo to unite Democrats in the New York state senate. Since 2011 a group of Democrats called the Independent Democratic Caucus (IDC) led by Bronx state senator Jeff Klein has caucused with the Republicans in Albany. In effect that’s meant the Republicans control the legislative body even though they’ve been elected to a minority of the seats.
Cuomo now wants to unite the centrist IDC with the larger state Democratic party but New York mayor Bill de Blasio says Cuomo is only pushing for a deal because he wants to run for president in 2020.
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