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10. This election is nothing like the last one. Back then you did not have a sore-loser serial sexual harasser AND a

Sat Jul 26, 2025, 02:43 AM

Jul 26

seriously compromised, Trump-beholden, corrupt (with a newly errupted strawman donor scheme just coming out on top of all the rest) Democratic incumbent both very problematically running against the actual Democratic primary winner.

So no, your comparative attempts fail on a prima facie basis.

Cuomo's campaign is a giant FU to all women who have been sexually harassed and abused by men in power.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cuomo

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Attorney General (a Democrat) James's five-month investigation concluded with the release of a report on August 3, 2021. This report concluded that during Cuomo's time in office, he sexually harassed 11 women: Boylan, Bennett, Ruch, Liss, Brittany Commisso, Kaitlin, McGrath, event attendee Virginia Limmiatis, an unnamed New York State trooper and two unnamed state entity employees. The investigation concluded that Cuomo's behaviour included unwanted groping, kissing and sexual comments, and also found that Cuomo's office had engaged in illegal retaliation against Boylan for her allegation against him.