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By Alex Vena
Published Oct. 6, 2025, 12:46 p.m. ET
Joy Behar was already firing up the grill(ing) as Andrew Cuomo stepped onto The View set on Monday.
The former New York Governor received a brief introduction from Whoopi Goldberg before he joined her, Sara Haines, Behar, Sunny Hostin, and Alyssa Farah Griffin this morning.
“Four years after resigning as Governor of New York amid scandal, Andrew Cuomo is back jumping into the political arena to take on frontrunner Zohran Mamdani in the New York mayoral race, a race the White House is keeping a close eye on. Please welcome—I don’t know why they watching us,” she said with a laugh. “Please welcome Andrew Cuomo.”
Once Cuomo walked out and greeted the panel, Goldberg immediately notified him that Behar had “the first question.”
Behar began, “I do have the first question. So you entered the race earlier this…”
Placing her hand on Behar’s arm, Haines chimed in, “”First of all, welcome.”
Photo: ABCCuomo thanked Haines, as Behar realized her misstep.
“Oh yeah, sorry,” she apologized.
Cuomo, Behar, and the rest of The View‘s panel laughed it off, as Griffin teased, “Very hospitable here.”
“Yes, welcome,” Behar quickly reiterated before diving back into her question. “So you entered the race earlier this year with every advantage, you did. You have experience, you have name idea, you have money. You had a very good record as governor.”
After citing several of Cuomo’s accomplishments, including “the $15 minimum wage,” “paid family leave,” “same-sex marriage,” rebuilding LaGuardia Airport, opening the 2nd Avenue subway station, and being there for New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic, Behar noted that Cuomo was “defeated in the primary by a virtually unknown 33-year-old Democratic Socialist who had no experience doing any governing at all.”
“Now you’re running as an Independent,” she continued. “Why aren’t you doing better? He’s beating you by double digits in recent polls.”
Cuomo, who praised Behar’s inquiry as a “good question” and once again thanked The View for having him, admitted that he “did not run the best campaign [he] should’ve run in the primary.”
Behar replied, “Why, what’d you do wrong?”
Cuomo said Mamdani “focused very well, frankly, on younger people,” specifically the 20-30-year-old demographic, and is “very good on social media.”
“I had a social media operation, it was not as good as his,” he shared. “And he really targeted them, and they really turned out to vote, which is a good thing. We’ve always wanted to get more turnout from younger people. And that was the disproportionate vote in the primary, were those 20-30-year-olds, and they supported him.”
However, Cuomo said the “general” election is “a different story,” adding that “it’s a bigger universe.”
“It’s more moderate democrats, it’s republicans, it’s independents, it’s more people from the outer boroughs [who] vote in the general [election],” he said.
Behar chimed in, “But I think they see—I don’t mean to interrupt you—but I think they see him as something new and fresh, and they’re seeing you as the old school. I was talking to my son-in-law about it. It’s like, ‘Oh, them again?’ You know, like that.”
Cuomo joked, “Yeah. You don’t think I’m new and fresh?”
The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.
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