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发布时间：2025-09-11 19:09:38 来源：都市天下脉观察 作者：百科

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Cuomo warns Zohran Mamdani's socialist proposals would be 'death nail' for 'capitalist' New York City

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on his bid to become New York City's next mayor, confronting Zohran Mamdani's socialist agenda, his leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic and the Letitia James investigation.

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s campaign to lead the Big Apple has reopened old wounds from the COVID-19 pandemic, leading him to explain key aspects behind his handling of the virus at the height of the crisis.

"New York City had COVID first and worst, so we were literally the laboratory for the country, if not the world on what was going to happen with COVID, and nobody knew," he told Fox News' Maria Bartiromo on Sunday.

The former Democratic leader, now vying for the city's top position with an independent bid, said that COVID was uncharted terrain at the time, and that decisions — particularly regarding the meager use of the USNS Comfort hospital ship sent into New York Harbor at President Donald Trump's request — were made under immense uncertainty.

SCANDAL-PLAGUED FORMER GOV ANDREW CUOMO AIMS TO PULL OFF POLITICAL COMEBACK IN THE NATION'S BIGGEST CITY

NYC Mayoral Candidate Former Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks during a press conference at the Times Square Sheraton on August 21, 2025 in New York City.  (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

"The experts believed it [the virus] was going to continue to increase and mutate, and we would overwhelm the hospitals, so President Trump sent a hospital ship, the Comfort, to New York…" he explained.

"When the ship arrived, initially they were not prepared to take COVID people. We worked through that and then, ironically, the crew of the ship got COVID, and that took a period of time."

"By the time the ship was operational, the curve had turned. The hospitals were not under the same stress, and we had opened up and were set up with an emergency facility of 1,200 beds at the Javits Convention Center. We turned that into a very large emergency shelter for overflow of hospitals, so we never needed the ship. In fact, we never even filled Javits," he added.

CUOMO ATTACKED DURING DEBATE BY FELLOW DEMS FOR ALLEGEDLY LYING TO CONGRESS ABOUT COVID NURSING HOME SCANDAL

Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party's mayoral nominee in New York City, speaks to reporters on August 7, 2025. Cuomo is currently trailing behind Mamdani in the latest polls for the New York City mayoral race. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Cuomo did not directly address Bartiromo’s mention of a select subcommittee on coronavirus investigating his administration’s pandemic response, particularly the handling of nursing home policies.

His bid for a political comeback has been met with criticism over the issue, including from incumbent Mayor Eric Adams — a former Democrat also running as an Independent, but who trails Cuomo and Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani in the polls.

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