Arrow-right Camera
The Spokesman-Review Newspaper
Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Bloomberg endorses Cuomo for N.Y. governor

Associated Press

ALBANY, N.Y. – Democrat Andrew Cuomo sought to bolster his appeal among independents Wednesday in the race for New York governor with an endorsement from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, as a new poll showed tea party Republican Carl Paladino gaining ground.

Cuomo appeared in Manhattan with the Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-independent Bloomberg, a three-term popular billionaire mayor. The pair tried to showcase Bloomberg’s bipartisan appeal and link it to Cuomo, with the mayor praising him as the candidate who “knows that real change requires reaching across the aisle.”

The Quinnipiac poll showed Cuomo, the one-term attorney general, with a 49 percent to 43 percent lead among likely New York voters. In previous polls of registered voters, Cuomo has held a better than 2-to-1 edge.