Interviewer/Moderator (3:02)

Right.

Andrew Cuomo (3:04)

We're pro. Business is the engine that drives the train. So none of that has been communicated yet. And when it does, I can tell you the minds will change.

David Gura (3:18)

Is there an effort by you and your campaign to try to convince Eric Adams or Curtis Lewitt to drop out of this race? Are there conversations that are happening behind the scenes to make what I imagine you see as a compelling case for them to step aside to make this more of a one on one race?

Andrew Cuomo (3:31)

No, I'm sure they're making their own decisions. Look, I've been in elections where I have dropped out because I thought it was the right thing to do. They have a decision to make. There is no apparent path to victory for them. They in essence would act as a spoiler. And that's a decision they have to make. They have to make it personally and that's their business. But again, I think it's going to come down to a two person race no matter what, because that's what the polls are going to say and that is the choice. I am a Democrat. My father was a Democrat. I worked for Bill Clinton. Zoran is a socialist. They call himself Democratic Socialists.

Interviewer/Moderator (4:19)

Right.

Andrew Cuomo (4:20)

Didn't support Democrats. Said Barack Obama was a liar and evil and didn't support Kamala Harris against Trump.

Interviewer/Moderator (4:30)

Right.

Andrew Cuomo (4:32)

So this is a very different. This is apples and oranges between the two of us.

David Gura (4:38)

I want to ask you about some comments that Curtis Sliwa made yesterday. I'm sure you heard them campaigning and suggested that you or affiliates of your campaign had reached out to him and offered him money to the tune of $10 million to drop out of this race. And I'm going to quote from what he said during that campaign event. He called these classic Andrew Cuomo tactics. Why don't you strap up Cuomo to a lie detection machine and ask him and we'll all be blown to kingdom come because he's behind it. I don't have a polygraph machine with me here. But how do you respond to what he's alleging in those comments?

Andrew Cuomo (5:08)

Look, you can't. You have to take Sleepwa with a grain of salt. Is a known con man. He's lied about being victims of crime before. But it's very simple, David. When he said that someone should have said who who offered you the money? Let him answer the question. Because it would happen to be a crime.

Interviewer/Moderator (5:34)

Right.

Andrew Cuomo (5:36)

Who offered you money? He never said who was. Sort of tells you, right, that it's, it's. There was no person who did it.

David Gura (5:50)

I want to ask you. Last we've talked about the state of the race, where you hope that it's headed, and if we can, I'd like to look back to 1977. So ways. You were 19, you were a student at Fordham University. Your dad was making a run for mayor, and you were helping out on the campaign. He didn't win the Democratic primary and decided to run on an independent line for mayor. He ended up losing that race by nine points. They say that history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. And I know that you don't want history to repeat itself. You'd like. You'd like to win this race in a way that he wasn't able to back then, 50 years ago. I'm not the first to point out this historical parallel, but I imagine you've thought about it, and I wonder how that experience has informed your outlook on this race. There was introspection after the primaries. You didn't do as well as you wanted to do. You decided to make this run. What can you learn about that race that your dad waged, and how does that inform the way that you're running this?

Interviewer/Moderator (6:40)

Yeah.

Andrew Cuomo (6:41)

My father was an extraordinary individual on many levels. Highly principled, frankly atypical for a politician. And he did, quote, unquote, the right thing, whatever he thought the right thing was. For me. I believe in the Democratic Party. I believe in what my father stood for, what John F. Kennedy stood for and Robert F. Kennedy stood for, and Bill Clinton and what Mondami represents. And this Democratic Socialists of America, DSA Socialists, call them whatever you want, is repugnant to the Democratic Party. I know. And that's what's really going on here. This is a civil war within the Democratic Party, right, where the extreme left is pulling the Democratic Party and the moderates are afraid of the extreme left. It's the inverse of the Republican Party when they had the Tea Party and the Tea Party was pulling the Republican moderates too far to the right because they were afraid of them in a primary. That's what's happening here. It's a battle for the soul of the Democratic Party. And the Democratic Party is not anti business, it's not anti police. That's not who we are. We're not about redistributing income as a policy Right. You tax to provide a service. You don't tax to take money from the rich to give it to the poor.

Interviewer/Moderator (8:19)

Right.

Andrew Cuomo (8:20)

That's why Donald Trump calls him a communist. So this is not the Democratic Party that I believe I represent and traditionally has served this nation well. He has zero experience in the position, never managed anything, five employees, never had a real job. And when you're willing to consider sitter chief executive, New York City, no management experience, ran five people. Now he's going to run 300,000 employees, $115 billion budget. You wake up any morning, you could have a terrorist attack, you could have another Covid. It just demeans government and demeans public service in a way that I just find abhorrent. And I'm going to do everything I can to stop it.

David Gura (9:23)

Governor Cuomo, thank you very much. Appreciate it.

Andrew Cuomo (9:25)

Thanks.

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