Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Empire State O'Reilly: Andrew Cuomo's Future

Episode Date: December 14, 2023

Bill examines speculation that for Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to be New York City's mayor. Originally only available in the New York City area, Bill’s Empire State O’Reilly commentary addresses local New York issues, but those issues have implications, impact the country, and mirror problems in other states. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I was listening to Sid and Friends in the morning, top-rated show in the country, because New York City is the biggest radio market with the most people. So this station, W.A.B.C. reaches about 17 million people just in the New York metropolitan area. And the signal is so strong, we go to Iceland at night. You know, you can get me in Iceland. And then we go all the way down to Georgia. If you're driving in a car, you pick up W.A.B.C. 77, because it's a huge, huge signal. So anyway, I'm listening to Sid in the morning, and he's talking about Governor Andrew Cuomo. Some people, I think Curtis Lee was one of them, are saying that he is interested in the mayor job of New York City.

So Eric Adams, obviously, the elected mayor, he's being investigated with this campaign finance stuff. So the feds are looking at that whole Adams fundraising mechanism. I don't know anything about it as far as what the FBI is looking for. I do know they've raided. They've confiscated computers and stuff like that. That's what I know. So I guess the extension of the conversation is, that if Eric Adams is implicated in any kind of shenanigans about raising money,

and believe me, I am fervent that you are innocent until proven guilty. But if Adams were ever convicted, he'd have to leave, and then Andrew Cuomo might come in or whatever. I don't think that's what's going on. I don't believe that Andrew Cuomo wants to be mayor of New York City because it's an impossible situation right now unless that's what your lifelong goal is and certainly it isn't for him. He wants to be governor of New York again. That's what he wants. And you'll see him this time next year, pick it up, declare so he can raise money. So he already has a pretty good treasury from the time that he was governor. And he's going to make a run for that. Why? Well, governor of New York, you got a lot more power than mayor of New York,

because you're above the mayor of New York. Cuomo likes attention, national attention. He can put himself up as the Democratic Party's voice of reason. He sees, because every intelligent person does, that the progressive movement, which is now in power controlling Joe Biden, is on the skids. and we'll get into that in the national show that follows the local monologue. The progressive movement has reached its high point. It's now going to decline fairly quickly. Biden's not going to be reelected president of the United States. Cuomo knows this.

So he's going to position himself as the moderate Democrat, voice of reason, problem solver. You know, I got booted out of there, and I shouldn't have, and it was wrong, and now I'm coming back. I'm going to clean up the state of New York. That's what he wants to do. I thought at one point he might want to go for the Senate, for Gillibrand's seat, because Gillibrand is weak. And he might have beaten her if he had, you know, really put a lot of effort into that. But I don't think Cuomo is, he doesn't want to be one of a hundred, you know, a hundred senators.

He doesn't want to be there. He wants to be the man, you know, the guy. That's what it strikes me. I don't know him that well, spoken to him in other times out of my career, but I know his father, I know his brother very well because we do the News Nation thing with him on television, Chris Cuomo. I don't see Andrew Cuomo running New York City. I don't think he wants to do that. Now, I could be wrong.

And Sid was talking about how there have been phone calls and people know about the calls and this and that. Yeah, okay, I'm not going to say that they're not telling the truth. Maybe there have been phone calls. But I don't think this time next year that you're going to have Andrew Cuomo involved with any local politics in New York City at all. I do think that he will try to get his old job back. So let's put that on the tape. You got that in the bank for what it is worth.