New York Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon speaks at OZY Fest in Central Park on Saturday, July 21, 2018, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
Just as the polls closed, Cynthia Nixon's campaign sent out a memo lowering expectations saying that if Cuomo didn't win by a 41% margin, it "would be a major embarrassment and significant under-performance for the two-term incumbent" https://t.co/f1XdQPgyIM
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 14, 2018
What Cynthia Nixon won by losing: https://t.co/BzmTgPc1uP pic.twitter.com/AMvWzfXehX
— Slate (@Slate) September 14, 2018
In one now-deleted tweet by an account called “LBGT Activism” we learned that Nixon didn’t lose, per se, she just wasn’t “picked as much.”
The most hilarious take came from Nixon herself:
NY GOV: Cynthia Nixon's campaign is not happy that so many voters turned out to vote. In other states, Dems have a problem with this kind of argument. pic.twitter.com/mlnKfbI3PA
— Reid Wilson (@PoliticsReid) September 14, 2018
She actually blamed high turnout for her loss. And she’s not wrong. The other socialists who have slipped through the net have done so in races where a lazy and entrenched incumbent was surprised in primary. To a great extent, Nixon was trying to replicate this on a statewide basis. She ran a celebrity, not a policy, campaign and relied on Cuomo dismissing her. It didn’t work that way.
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