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Cuomo has been going hard into showing he's the best candidate. He keeps saying he has no interest, but he has been sparring with Trump and trying to show a contrast to him for the past 100 days.
Yesterday he did his final briefing on Coronachan, and it was different from the press conferences. It was a sober, scripted, ersatz Oval Office speech full of noble platitudes and the most blatant "Please ask me to be the Democratic Presidential Nominee" thing he's done yet:
Related to the thread topic, he has also spent the past 3+ weeks adding the "Civil Unrest" to his daily briefings, and opining and proclaiming. He ordered all NYS towns and counties to give him a plan to reform police or lose state funding by next April. He declared Juneteenth a state holiday a few days ago. He's setting himself up as a middle ground straight talking guy who gets things done and is to the left of Drumpf but to the right of crazy DiBlasio, who he clashes with all the time.
He has won a ton of fans, rightly or wrongly, among republican voters in the state for his handling of the virus, and keeps trumpteting how NY is the only state which is going down to almost no cases when the rest of the country is spiking. He has regional support and was the first governor to defy Trump's threats to nationalize the COVID response by soft threatening secession by creating a breakaway group of Allied States, and had 6 other governors deferring to him. He also is a tough NYC guy who can't easily be bullied by Trump on a debate stage.
Cuomo is just waiting to be asked, to be begged to accept the nomination, but he won't volunteer. He very much idolizes and emulates his father, and back in the 90s his father was in a similar position:
If Andrew is asked, he absolutely will change history and board that plane. But he wants to be asked. If he is though, he could probably wipe the floor with Trump in the general election. He was right to sit out the clown car debates of the 24 other candidates, which only made them all look bad. All Biden has to do is drop out and endorse Cuomo and ask his delegates to support Cuomo. Then do a quick and dirty convention, maybe even a virtual one, and Cuomo has all summer to get out there and easily can with him having "solved" the state's major problems of Corona and racism.