Cuomo See Dueling Parties in Election

By KENDRA MARTINEZ

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Thursday that the election laid bare the deepening polarization in the Democratic and Republican parties rather than healed it.

Ant he mostly blamed President Trump for the discord.

“He was ‘divide and conquer,’” Cuomo said in a radio interview,” and he saw the division and he saw the cracks in society and he went around, placing
wedges in those cracks and he started hammering them.”

The governor’s concern for further division in this country coincided with the tight race for presidency and voters taking very different stances on issues such as police in America, abortion, and healthcare.  The governor’s  remarks, which come after Trump’s campaign filed two lawsuits against Pennsylvania to discontinue vote counting, were expressed in an interview with WAMC.

“I think they branded Democrats as anti-law and order and that hurt Democrats,” he added. “It was untrue. We are against the injustice in the criminal justice system, we are against the racism and discrimination and policing,” said the governor.

He seemed exasperated by the divisions:  “You are red and I am blue. You are wearing a mask, then I am not wearing a mask. You say COVID is real then I’m sayingCOVID is not real. We define ourselves by opposition, by our differences. The nation’s franchise is over,”

Cuomo expressed the belief that Joe Biden represented the essence of unity

The governor also predicted that once all the ballots are counted, Democrats would win the House and Senate.