The state of Clintons and Cuomos

Steve Kornacki

It is a given, for anyone who knows anything about New York politics, that Andrew Cuomo is interested in running for president. It is also a given that he can’t, because there’s already a candidate from New York, and she’s Hillary Clinton.

Clinton poses the same problem for every other Democrat who has an interest in ’16, too. But in Cuomo’s case, the problem comes with an extra heaping of indignity.

It’s not just that he’s a popular governor who, thanks to Hillary, wouldn’t have a prayer of carrying his own state. He’s also the product of a New York political dynasty, a native of Queens, a graduate of Fordham and the son of Mario Cuomo, a three-term governor who at the height of his power and fame could have had the Democratic presidential nomination almost with the snap of his finger.

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