NewsNation host Chris Cuomo, brother of former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo—who was recently defeated by Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani—is placing blame on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for what he describes as the downfall of the Democratic Party.
Cuomo criticized Ocasio-Cortez, a prominent supporter of Mamdani, for pushing the party too far to the left, though that was not the exact reason why he was being critical. Rather, Cuomo came down on ‘AOC’ for claiming that President Donald Trump should be impeached for striking Iran’s nuclear weapons facilities.
“How do you keep them from having the nuke? Impeach Trump is the opposite of having a better idea. You’re killing your party,” the host said. “You’re killing your party. And look, I hope it works out for you. I hope you guys splinter off and become, you know, whatever you really are, because you’re not a capitalist and you’re not a Democrat,” Cuomo, a former CNN host, said.
“And, you know, you can say, well, what do you know? I was raised by a real one. I was raised by a real one,” he said of his dad, the late New York Gov. Mario Cuomo. “Go ahead and criticize Mario Cuomo. What’s going to be your biggest insult? That he spawned me and Andrew?”
“Is that going to be the best you have? Because you ain’t shit compared to him. Not in terms of intelligence, not in terms of success, not in terms of pedigree, not in terms of philosophy, not in terms of mission, not in terms of eloquence, not in terms of charisma, not in terms of anything, certainly not electability,” Cuomo continued
“You are killing your party because you are not a real one because you’re doing what’s good for you in a vacuum with your little social media following, you know, different than a pod bro and you’re killing your party. And Democrats better wake the f**k up and realize that you’re better than this. Be with the 80, not the 20,” he said.
