NYC Mayor’s Race: Democratic frontrunner Cuomo nabs support from former Mayor Mike Bloomberg

Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced on Tuesday that he is backing ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in NYC’s Democratic mayoral primary, despite past differences between the two when they were both in office.

Bloomberg, whose 2002 to 2013 tenure overlapped with Cuomo’s, said in a Tuesday statement that the former governor is the only Democrat in the crowded primary field with the experience to effectively lead the city at this moment in time. He said that he continues to “care deeply” about the city and has had difficulty watching its “struggles,” especially since the devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic.