Andrew Cuomo will probably not be able to blow his primary no matter how hard he tries

Less than a week before the primary election, Governor Andrew Cuomo (DN.Y.) had the chance to participate in a great photo shoot: driving Franklin Roosevelt's old car through the new Mario M. Cuomo bridge, replacing the old Tappan Zee on the Hudson River north of New York City. The current governor evokes the name of his eternally popular father while recalling one of the most important infrastructure projects of his administration. And with only six days before the vote! What luck.

Except that the span crossed by Cuomo, the west-east part of the bridge, is not yet open. This part of the bridge is adjacent to parts of the old Tappan Zee that are still standing and it is feared that part of the old bridge will fall on the new one. So, no cars until Tuesday at the earliest.

The bridge was Assumed to open Friday, but, a few hours after crossing Cuomo, workers heard a loud "pop" coming from the old bay and, that night, the delay was announced. Nothing indicates that the crossing of Cuomo was planned, knowing that the bridge would not be opened thereafter, but as the governors taking advantage of the points of passage of the Hudson for political reasons are not unknown in the region, people have naturally wondered.

"It is now clearer than ever that the bridge was opened to respect Governor Cuomo's political agenda without regard to public security," Republican candidate Marcus J. Molinaro said in a statement. Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie.

In the current state of things, the timing of Cuomo's driving seems to be good after all.

As it is fortunate that the impact of a direct mail targeting the lead actress of Cuomo, the actress Cynthia Nixon, is not directly related to him. This letter came from the Democratic Party of the State and accused Nixon of anti-Semitism based on political positions he attributed to him but that Nixon does not.

"At a time when anti-Semitic, Islamophobic and other hate crimes are on the rise, it is heartbreaking to exploit the real fears of people like this," Nixon said. m said in a tweet.

The New York Times, which approved Cuomo in the primary, called the direct mail "shame" and told him[ed] credulity "for Cuomo to assert, as he did, that he did not know and had not seen the sender.

"Mr. Cuomo dominates the state democratic party," the Times editorial board wrote. "He acts in an ethical or abominable way to his direction, or at least, with his blessing campaign." endorsement of the governor.

Cuomo's Friday tour coincided with another Times article on its propensity to move on the penny of taxpayers.

"In California, the governor trades, except in an emergency," Shane Goldmacher of the Times reported. "In Texas, the governor pays private charters, even for government events." Mr. Cuomo has stolen about 50% more private flights than the next closest governor on the list.His office described as "absurd" and "Non-relevant" inter-state comparisons. "In addition, the Cuomo campaign has paid only for a theft this year, despite the frequency of Cuomo's trips (including, of course, for business official) as he seeks re-election.

He also refused to engage in another form of controversial transit: the New York subway. Why is it controversial? Because the metro network, the critical arterial network of the city, keeps getting worse. While Cuomo and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio have fought over who is to blame, the city or state (among other battles), it's Cuomo who runs the agency that runs the trains.

This is not uncommon in the city.

"He is smart enough to know that if he shows up on a subway platform at that time, he would be kicked," said a Democratic consultant at Politico. Maybe not literally, but New Yorkers could offer their opinions at least once.

Or maybe not. On Monday, Siena College released a poll of Democratic primary voters in the state. Cuomo not only leads Nixon by more than 40 points, his lead has grown up since the Siena polls at the end of July. And the strongest area of ​​Cuomo is actually the city of New York, where it leads by 50 points. It is leading only 32 US, perhaps in part because its efforts to curb gun purchases were at the center of opposition in the region.

Nixon, for one, insists that there are reasons to be optimistic. His campaign is to run ads on Facebook, noting that other Democratic primary candidates, who have adopted a platform as progressive as his own, have overcome significant survey deficits to win. This includes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York candidate whose politics and victory have served as a beacon for leftist democrats ever since.

Ocasio-Cortez, however, was only ("only") down 36 points in a race with a much lower profile and, probably, a much lower participation rate than Cuomo-Nixon. Nixon catching Cuomo would be a bigger accomplishment.

This is unlikely. Even though the next three days of Cuomo are as tough as its last three.