Andrew Cuomo hammers President Trump's 'dysfunctional and incompetent' response to the coronavirus crisis.
American flags and a banner of the Democratic National Convention hang outside the Chase Center in Wilmington, Del., on Monday. Cuomo, 62, a potential presidential contender in 2024 or 2028, said the Trump administration remained unprepared to overcome a pandemic that slammed into New York City five months ago.
“This is a man-made threat by our own negligence,” he said. “We now see the virus ricocheting across the country from one state to another. Today we trail the world in defeating COVID. We have over 5 million cases.”With more than 32,000 deaths, New York remains the hardest-hit state. But Cuomo’s lockdown and
have left New York with a low level of contagion this summer even as the virus continues to ravage Florida, Texas and other parts of the country that rushed to reopen.When New York was the pandemic’s epicenter in April, Cuomo’s televised daily briefings were widely watched nationwide as Americans began absorbing the enormity of the crisis., refusal to call for nationwide sacrifice and reluctance to recognize the pain of those who lost loved ones.
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