Cuomo Threatened to Compare Official to ‘Child Rapist’: Leaked Audio

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in New York, N.Y., on March 8, 2021. Seth Wenig/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

New York’s governor in 2018 threatened to compare an official who endorsed a primary challenger to child rapists, according to newly released audio of the call.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, told then-Working Families Party head Bill Lipton: “If you ever say, ‘Well, he’s better than a Republican’ again, then I’m going to say, ‘You’re better than a child rapist.’ How about that?”