Governor Andrew Cuomo suffered a major blow after an influential progressive political group in New York endorsed Cynthia Nixon.
On Saturday, 91.5% of the members of the New York Working Families Party (WFP) supported Nixon, an actress and education activist. She is challenging Cuomo in New York’s Democratic gubernatorial primary. The second-term governor is running for re-election.
WFP is an influenctial progressive group composed of labor unions and activists within the Democratic Party. Its endorsement is considered by Democrats as one of the most important in the state of New York.
In a speech, Nixon told New York WFP members, “I am indebted to you today and every day because you are the heart and the soul of the progressive New York that wan to create…”
Nixon blasts Cuomo’s leadership
She slammed Cuomo for allowing the increasing inequality in the state and underfunding public schools. She described the past eight years under Cuomo as “living with disappointments, dysfunction and dishonesty.”