New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is on pundits’ shortlists for potential presidential nominees for the Democrats in 2016, but a new report suggests that he will not consider running if Hillary Clinton is an opponent.
The New York Post is reporting this morning that Cuomo has told associated that he won’t run if the former Secretary of State is his rival. “The governor has told people in recent weeks that there’s not a chance for him to run if Hillary gets in the race because she’ll easily wrap up the Democratic nomination,” an insider with Cuomo’s administration told the paper.
This source added, “He knows that and he accepts that, and so he won’t even be thinking at all in those terms — unless Hillary decides not to run, which seems unlikely.”
This news follows a recent University of New Hampshire poll that showed that 61 percent of likely Democratic voters would vote for Clinton, notes Talk News Radio. Cuomo earned just 3 percent in the poll.
Meanwhile, on Sunday, Politico ran a story about the possibility of New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who succeeded Clinton in 2008, running for president in 2016.