Cuomo, Nixon Gear Up for Only Democratic Primary Debate

By Kenneth Lovett

ALBANY — New York’s political circles will be focused Wednesday on the one and only debate between Gov. Cuomo and his Democratic primary challenger, Cynthia Nixon.

For Nixon, the debate likely represents her best chance to close the polls that show her trailing by 30 points.

Sources close to her and other political observers believe she will come in armed with a number of one-liners aimed at the governor in hopes of getting the notoriously prickly Cuomo off his game.

"She needs to do something that will change the dynamic of this race,” said Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg. “She presumably is going to try and get him to make a gaffe. That is something that would absolutely make sense in her playbook.”

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Source: The New York Daily News (via Empire Report New York)