New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s speech at the 2020 Democratic National Convention was a “massive risk” for Democrats, according to Fox News staffer Guy Benson.
Benson, the political editor of TownHall.com and the host of Fox News Radio’s The Guy Benson Show, pointed to criticism of the pandemic’s treatment of the third term Democrat. of coronavirus, which has killed more than 32,000 people in New York – the highest death toll in the country.
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“I think potentially the most consistent speech of the night’s politics was Andrew Cuomo’s,” Benson told America’s Newsroom Tuesday.
“I thought the borderline obscene was the way he took this victory leg and declared it a success at COVID in New York,” he told host Sandra Smith as Cuomo’s administration slammed thousands of dead in New York City nursing homes.
Cuomo blamed Trump’s “failure” in response to COVID-19, but Benson called it a “massive risk” for Democrats to use Cuomo as the coronavirus’ response, which Biden pointed out.
“Republicans have a real chance to oppose this,” Benson added.
Michael Caputo, assistant secretary of health and human services in the Trump administration, tweeted after Cuomo’s speech that the governor is responsible for “planting the seeds of infection that killed thousands of grandparents.”
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“Do the #DemConvention @NYGovCuomo still know how to stop nursing home deaths by counting only those who died in the home – not the thousands who died in hospitals?” Caputo wrote.
Fox News’s Megan Henney contributed to this report.
