US election campaign with dead? – New York Corona hero becomes dangerous to Trump – Politics abroad

These are images that New York has not seen since September 11, 2001. Dozens of corpses lie in a refrigerator truck. The corona dead are brought directly from the hospital to the transporter by forklift truck.

New York was hit by the corona epidemic like no other state. Last night, 75,795 New Yorkers contracted the virus (USA: 173,741), 1,550 people died (USA: 3,433).

Public life in the metropolis has come to a standstill. Nevertheless, New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo (62, Democrat), is already considered the hero of the crisis – and his party’s hope for the highest office in the country.

“Can Andrew Cuomo become FDR?” Asks the Washington Post. FDR, these are the initials of Franklin Delano Roosevelt († 1945), the legendary 32nd President of the USA, who led his country out of the world economic crisis baptized as the “Great Depression” and into the war against Nazi Germany. “The pandemic is Cuomo’s great depression.”

Cuomo sensed his chance. In the style of a general, the governor swears the soldiers of the National Guard to fight the epidemic: “Let’s kick the corona virus in the ass!” In the heart of the metropolis, Central Park, he left a field hospital for corona patients erect.

The New York dead could even influence the US election. To the disadvantage of Donald Trump (73). In the Democratic Party, the question is being raised: Is Cuomo the ideal challenger for US President Trump?