Andrew Cuomo’s sound rejection Tuesday calls into question the future of the centrist platform and coalition that once propelled him to the heights of political power in the Empire State.

The former governor spent years battling progressives while in office and easily dispatched left-flank primary challengers in his two re-election campaigns. Zohran Mamdani, backed by the local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, beat him first in June’s Democratic primary and then by around 8 percentage points in the general election.

Tuesday night’s results are a repudiation of Cuomo’s brand of politics, said state Sen. Gustavo Rivera, who backed Mamdani.

“It should go by the wayside,” said Rivera, a Bronx Democrat. “For a long time, corporate-ass Democrats and moderate, right-leaning Dem

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