Governor’s Andrew Cuomo stated on Sunday the country is more divided than ever pointing to recent anti-Semitic attacks in New York. The governor’s statements came after he was asked about upstate and downstate political tensions at an unrelated event in Saranac Lake to promote winter tourism in the Adirondacks.
I don’t think it has anything to do with New York. I think it’s a national phenomenon, he said. You have seen more divisiveness across this country than you have seen before. Cuomo pointed to the dozens of anti-Semitic attacks in the state over the past two months and a spike in hate crimes nationwide.
He called the clashes over race, religion, immigration status and sexual orientation the greatest threat the nation has ever faced and a cancer within the body politic.
