'Based on years of friendship': big promotion awaits if Biden wins

Biden considers it controversial to appoint the current governor of New York to the office of attorney general if he wins. What Cuomo himself says about this, the newspaper writes Fox News.

According to Sunday's report, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is being considered as attorney general in the administration of Joseph Biden if he wins the presidential elections in the United States.

The National Association of Governors, led by Cuomo, is making plans in the event that he leaves office. This gave rise to rumors about his possible appointment to the post of attorney general, Axios reports.

Democrats close to the governor said that Cuomo is being promoted to the post of attorney general, and that Biden is considering him for this role based on their years of friendship.

It is noted that the main tasks of the attorney general under the Biden administration will be the pursuit of former Trump administration officials and the management of nationwide riots caused by police violence, and other pressing issues.

Biden's office declined to comment. Cuomo's office also did not respond to a request for comment.

Tim Murtaugh, director of communications for the 2020 Trump campaign, said, "There is no chance that President Trump will appoint Governor Cuomo as Attorney General for a second term."

Cuomo himself commented earlier this year on his possible appointment to this position. When asked this question by ABC's Good Morning America, Cuomo said he would be delighted to remain governor of New York. “I was in the department's office and I was in Bill Clinton's office,” Cuomo said, meaning that he was head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development from 1997 to 2001. “I don't want to go to Washington. I represent only the interests of the residents of the state, I have no other goals than this. "

Recall that at the beginning of this year, New York was at the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in America. Amid the fight against the epidemic, Cuomo's popularity skyrocketed. Even the current President of the United States, Donald Trump, admitted this.

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But his credibility suffered after he ordered the transfer of patients with COVID-19 from hospitals to nursing homes in late March. This decision is believed to have resulted in many deaths.

Cuomo's executive order mandated nursing homes to admit patients as long as they are medically stable. In addition, nursing homes were banned from screening arriving residents for the virus.

More than 25 COVID-6300 patients were admitted to nursing homes between March 19 and May, according to a state health department report. It is the large number of admitted patients that is believed to have caused the deaths of more than 6 people in a New York City nursing home.

However, analysis by the State Department of Health found that there was no causal relationship because “comparison of time of admission to hospital and mortality shows that it cannot be the cause of fatal infection in nursing homes.