Last year, former House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn endorsed Andrew Cuomo for mayor of New York City. Clyburn, whose endorsement of Joe Biden ahead of the South Carolina primary in 2020 crushed Bernie Sanders’s campaign, likely hoped to repeat that.
It didn’t work out that way. Instead, not the former governor from Queens, but the little-known state legislator from that Big Apple borough, shocked the political world, trouncing Cuomo in the primary, beating him again in the general and the city’s first socialist mayor.
