The tenant owner of Trump Tower in New York will perhaps soon be governed (at the local level) by a woman, who is also a socialist, who is also an actress, who is also a muse for the gay community. Enough to give nightmares to the very populist 45th president of the United States.
Although carried by favorable winds, Cynthia Nixon has not yet won the game. Far from it. Throwing herself into the Democratic primaries at the age of 52 with the aim of running for governor of New York State – a Democratic stronghold – the heroine of the cult series “Sex and the City” probably knew nothing of the pitfalls and twists that the storyboards of American politics have in store. Married to Christine Marioni after being the wife of an English teacher, Danny Mozes, she will have been served! One misleading leaflet, for example, accused her, without a shred of evidence, of indifference to anti-Semitism.
In front of her, one of the archetypes of the American political establishment and leader of the Democratic Party, Andrew Cuomo, 61 years old, governor of the State of New York as his father Mario was for more than ten years – who had the “privilege ” of being excommunicated by the Archbishop of New York because he criticized the anti-abortion position of the Catholic Church. His son knows how to pull all the strings of politics and all the bells of the powerful who provide him with convenient electoral resources. Thirty times higher than those of the rival actress. He is seeking a third term and even dreams of becoming the Democratic candidate for the White House against Donald Trump in two years, for an arm’s length among New Yorkers.
Very far from being the favorite
On August 29, the only televised debate between Cuomo and Nixon turned into a duel. “Can you stop interrupting me?” », the governor let himself get carried away for a moment. “Can you stop lying? », the actress immediately responded, underlining her opponent’s collusion with Donald Trump. The two men have known each other for decades. The current occupant of the White House even recorded a video at Andrew Cuomo’s bachelor party in 1990. He too had financed his friend’s campaigns to the tune of several tens of thousands of dollars in the past.
Raised in a modest environment by her mother, Cynthia Nixon wanted above all to give a very social tone to her campaign, also speaking out against anti-immigration policies and the gun lobby. However, polls place him more than thirty points behind his opponent. But she still wants to believe it: “The dynamics are on my side, we shouldn’t trust the polls.” Whatever the outcome of the vote expected this Thursday, Cynthia Nixon’s campaign undoubtedly marks a shift in the Democratic base in the wake of Bernie Sanders, the failed candidate for the Democratic nomination against Hillary Clinton. At the end of June, a young 28-year-old activist had already left a Democratic Party boss in the dust during the primaries in New York’s 14th district. The clearing wind blowing across the Atlantic hasn’t stopped blowing.
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