A former adviser to Bill Clinton claimed New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is secretly plotting to steal the presidential nomination from Joe Biden.
Dick Morris, who was Clinton’s political adviser and later campaign manager, claimed that Cuomo canceled the New York primary because “he wants all the other states to follow and cancel their primaries.”
“That way, Biden will not have a committed first-ballot majority. It will be perfectly possible for delegates to leave him and vote for Cuomo,” Morris told John Catsimatidis on The Cats Roundtable radio show on Sunday.
“That’s the motive behind Cuomo’s move,” he said.
The New York State Board of Elections, not Cuomo, effectively canceled the state’s presidential voting contest after it voted to remove Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders from the primary ballot.
Morris has long been critical of Biden, saying in April that he had doubts the Democratic Party would officially nominate Biden to run against President Trump in the general election. Biden has not yet secured the 1,991 delegates needed to win the Democratic nomination on the first ballot but is the only major candidate left in the race after Sanders ended his campaign last month.
Morris has pitched Cuomo as a possible replacement and said he would write in the New York governor’s name on his ballot.
“I think they’re looking very seriously at Cuomo,” he said of Democrats. “It could be a last-minute thing at the convention.”
Cuomo has said he has no plans to run for president.
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