Andrew Cuomo’s newly-hired mayoral marketing campaign pollster blasted the ex-governor as “arrogant” and “out of touch” in 2021 after he resigned amid sexual misconduct accusations.
Cornell Belcher, a famend pollster identified for engaged on each of Barack Obama’s profitable presidential bids, got here on board Cuomo’s mayoral marketing campaign earlier this month as a part of a wider staffing shakeup.
Belcher has a historical past of fairly harsh phrases for Cuomo.
“The arrogance of man has run its course in politics … That sort of arrogant statement that [Cuomo] made is unacceptable,” Belcher stated within the MSNBC look on Aug. 15, 2021, a transcript exhibits.
Later in this system, as different panelists mentioned the potential for Cuomo ultimately making a political comeback, Belcher interjected with a blunt evaluation: “He can’t win a Democratic primary in New York.”
In a tweet later that day linking to his TV feedback about Cuomo, Belcher wrote: “Times up for the arrogance of powerful out of touch men in our politics.”
Belcher didn’t return a request for remark Monday.
A spokesman for Cuomo, who denies the sexual harassment claims in opposition to him, instructed Belcher could now remorse these feedback.
“A lot of people said things years ago before they had all the facts who later went on to endorse, support and work for his campaign because they know Andrew Cuomo is the mayor this city needs,” spokesman Wealthy Azzopardi stated.
A lot of organizations that had criticized Cuomo in 2021 shifted course and endorsed him forward of June’s mayoral main, which he misplaced to Zohran Mamdani.
Cuomo’s staffing shakeup comes as he’s making an attempt to step up his impartial marketing campaign for mayor as he continues to path Democratic front-runner Mamdani in polls of November’s election. Along with Mamdani and Cuomo, Mayor Adams is operating on an impartial line on the November poll and Curtis Sliwa is the Republican candidate.
