Gov. Cuomo did his best Uncle Sam impression on Sunday, preaching his love for the “red, white, and blue,” and sounding off against Washington partisanship — while still stumping for a Democrat-controlled Congress “that can stop this president.”
“To govern, to live together, it can’t be red or blue. It can’t be conservative or liberal. You have to bring everyone together,” said Cuomo in an appearance on John Catsimatidis’s AM 970 radio show. “I think, frankly, that’s the point the president misses time and time again. He plays to the polarization.”
“When you take babies from mothers, I don’t care if you they’re … illegal immigrants, we don’t do that as Americans,” he continued, railing against President Trump’s controversial policy of separating families at the U.S. – Mexico border. “When you treat women as second-class citizens, that violates American principles.”
“A lot of these policies are anti-American,” continued Cuomo, who this summer infamously flipped Trump’s campaign slogan on its head by proclaiming, “[America] was never that great.”
But Sunday, Cuomo played the part of a flag-waving patriot, hoping that the midterm elections bring not a rush of Democrats or Republicans, but rather “a red, white and blue wave.”
“Our founding slogan is E Pluribus Unum. Out of many, one,” he continued. “Pointing out distinctions, racial distinctions, religious distinctions … this is a cancer for this country.”
But in between his push for bipartisanship, Cuomo took a moment to opine on the upcoming elections — and his “need [for] a Democratic senate in the state to stop what Washington is doing.”
“I need to elect congressional Democrats so there is a Democratic Congress that can stop this president,” he said. “If you let this president and this federal government do what they want to do, a woman could lose the right to choose. You could have no gun safety laws. Everything we’ve done with the environment is going backwards.”
“[New Yorkers] know the threat from Washington is very real,” Cuomo said. “It’s beyond normal politics.”
