“Oh, we’re not celebrating anything,” Cuomo, a Democrat, told CNN’s Kate Bolduan in “Newsroom” when he was pressured into the cartel, which he released earlier this week. “What we are saying is that New Yorkers stepped forward and flattened the curve. That’s a fact … I applaud New Yorkers. I am proud to applaud New Yorkers.”
When asked by Bolduan if it was a mistake to display the poster while the country is still in the midst of the pandemic, Cuomo said he did not believe it and again applauded the efforts of state residents in recent months.
New York has been at the center of the pandemic since its inception, and the state currently leads the country in both coronavirus cases and deaths.
“Today we have completed 180, from worst to first,” he said last month. “We are controlling the virus better than any state in the country and any nation in the world.”
But the governor has also faced detractors, who say he made several missteps earlier this year, including failing to shut down the New York economy quickly enough as the number of cases in the state began to climb.
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