{"id":5785,"date":"2020-07-22T13:31:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T13:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=5785"},"modified":"2020-07-22T13:31:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T13:31:55","slug":"cynthia-nixon-vows-to-continue-campaign-for-new-york-governor-despite-failing-to-get-democrat-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=5785","title":{"rendered":"Cynthia Nixon vows to continue campaign for New York governor despite failing to get Democrat endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cynthia Nixon has failed to secure the Democratic party&#8217;s support for her campaign for governor of New York state &#8211; but has insisted that she never expected to, and will fight on regardless.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Nixon, a 52-year-old actress best known for her role as Miranda in Sex And The City, was heavily defeated by her incumbent rival, Andrew Cuomo.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Cuomo secured 95 per cent of support at\u00a0Wednesday&#8217;s convention, meaning that Ms Nixon failed to even secure the 25 per cent necessary to guarantee automatic inclusion on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Nixon now needs to secure 15,000 signatures on a petition to be allowed to challenge Mr Cuomo at the September 13 primary, ahead of the November election.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;As a two-term incumbent, it was no surprise to anyone that Andrew Cuomo won the nomination today,&quot; said Lauren Hitt, a member of Ms Nixon&#8217;s team.<\/p>\n<p>She told The Telegraph that it was usual practice for anyone challenging an incumbent to have to get on the ballot through a petition, and &quot;no one on the team thinks that will be a problem.&quot;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<noscript><\/noscript><figcaption>\nCynthia Nixon as Miranda in Sex And The City<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mr Cuomo was endorsed at the gathering in Hempstead, Long Island, by Hillary Clinton. On Thursday he will give a speech accepting the nomination, and is expected to be introduced by Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Nixon was present at the convention, in what Ms Hitt said was a bold decision from someone who knew they would not secure the votes. Mr Cuomo did not attend.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#8217;re standing up, being heard, and talking about the issues,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Nixon told the meeting she was not a &quot;protest candidate&quot;, and accused Mr Cuomo of being a Republican.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#8217;m here because I think it&#8217;s important that at a Democratic convention there be at least one Democrat running for governor,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#8217;m not a protest candidate. I&#8217;m a viable candidate who is really running hard for the Democratic nomination, and that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m here, to say this is my party, too, I&#8217;m not afraid and I&#8217;m here. You can&#8217;t shut me out.&quot; \u00a0<\/p>\n<figure>\n<noscript><\/noscript><figcaption>\nAndrew Cuomo, the current governor of New York<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since launching her campaign in March, Ms Nixon, a long-term education activist, has positioned herself to the left of Mr Cuomo &#8211; proposing the legalisation of marijuana and promising to fix New York City&#8217;s crumbling subway system.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Cuomo, by contrast, has run a campaign emphasising his experience.<\/p>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.nrlshops.com\/Teams\/Teams-NRL-Telstra-Premiership' title='nrl league jerseys'>nrl league jerseys<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Byron Brown, the mayor of Buffalo and Mr Cuomo&#8217;s handpicked chairman of the state Democratic party, called New York &quot;the progressive capital of the nation.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>He praised Mr Cuomo&#8217;s successful push to legalise gay marriage, pass tough gun control laws, enact a $15-an-hour minimum wage and establish the state&#8217;s first paid family-leave programme. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cynthia Nixon has failed to secure the Democratic party&#8217;s support for her campaign for governor of New York state &#8211; but has insisted that she never expected to, and will fight on regardless. Ms Nixon, a 52-year-old actress best known for her role as Miranda in Sex And The City, was heavily defeated by her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}