Gov stumps in Bronx as Cyn seeks upstate votes

ALBANY – With less than two weeks before the Sept. 13 Democratic primary, Gov. Cuomo and his challenger Cynthia Nixon spent time in different parts of the state Sunday trolling for votes.

Cuomo spoke at the Heavenly Vision Christian Center in the Bronx and attended a salsa festival on Orchard Beach, though reporters were not told about the latter event in advance.

As he’s done pretty much the entire campaign, Cuomo ignored Nixon, focusing his remarks heavily on President Trump. “His America is repugnant to the America that we believe in,” Cuomo said at the Bronx church. “Everything he is doing, we believe the opposite in New York.”

He blistered Trump as a “bully.”

“You know what they do in the Bronx or Queens, how you handle a bully?” Cuomo said. “The bully puts his finger in your chest, you put your finger right back in his chest. That’s how we handle a bully.”

In Schenectady, Nixon visited a farmer’s market with fellow insurgent Democrat Zephyr Teachout, who is running in the four-way Democratic primary for attorney general and had challenged Cuomo four years ago.

Nixon, who has been accused by some Dems of paying too little attention to upstate, also visited Rochester, Syracuse and Ithaca during the Labor Day weekend.

In Schenectady, Nixon again accused Cuomo of emboldening a Republican state Senate and being in the pocket of his large corporate and real estate donors.

“We have a governor who is not a progressive, and who is barely a Democrat,” Nixon said.

She again said she does not believe polls that show her down by 30 points are capturing the energized, new and young registered Democrats she expects to turn out to vote in the primary.