Gov pounds ‘demeaning’ prez

He’s running for a third term in Albany, but Gov. Cuomo spent much of his nomination acceptance speech to the state Democratic convention Thursday talking about Washington, accusing President Trump of “using” and “abusing” the middle class.

“We’re going to send Washington a message that their government demeans us, degrades and they degrade the people of this state, and we are better than this,” Cuomo told the hall of delegates at Hofstra University on Long Island, calling the 2018 congressional midterm elections the “most consequential political campaign of our lifetime.”

“New York is the alternative state to Trump’s Amer- ica,” the governor said.

Cuomo also took shots at his more liberal critics during his 48-minute address.

People “don’t want pontification from an ivory tower, they want help in their lives,” Cuomo said, later touting massive state infrastructure projects, including the reconstruction of La Guardia Airport.

But the governor didn’t mention the growing furor over the deterioration of the subways run by his MTA, nor his Democratic rival Cynthia Nixon, who has made the transit system a key part of her campaign.

At a stop in The Bronx, Nixon blasted Cuomo for the state of the subways.

“If you let the MTA disintegrate to the point where it is now, you’re killing New York City,” she said. “And how the governor of New York state would think that is acceptable is beyond me.”