In late July of 2015, Vice President Joe Biden traversed the state of New York with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, ending the day in Queens, where they announced plans to rebuild La Guardia Airport. On a flight with Cuomo aboard Air Force Two, Biden broached a delicate subject: his own interest in the presidency.Like
In late July of 2015, Vice President Joe Biden traversed the state of New York with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, ending the day in Queens, where they announced plans to rebuild La Guardia Airport. On a flight with Cuomo aboard Air Force Two, Biden broached a delicate subject: his own interest in the presidency.
The episode earned Biden’s lasting appreciation, and helped cement a personal friendship that has grown into a crucial political alliance. But now they are facing the greatest public trial of their lives — and counting on the resiliency of their relationship to help them navigate it. On a personal level, their allies say, Biden and Cuomo enjoy an easy rapport that has matured into a deeper friendship. In 2015, their candid conversations about the presidency took place in a period of mourning for both men: Biden had recently lost his son, Beau, to brain cancer. Cuomo was still mourning his father, who died on New Year’s Day. Biden traveled to New York for Mario Cuomo’s wake, and Cuomo attended Beau Biden’s wake in Dover, Delaware.
“He just sees Joe Biden as a morally decent guy, the same way I know he saw his own father, in that sense,” said Jay Jacobs, a close ally of Cuomo who is chairman of the New York Democratic Party. Biden’s first such encounter was inauspicious. Seeking the Democratic nomination for president in 1987, Biden, then 44, made a dismissive remark in Iowa suggesting governors were “uniquely unequipped to understand a broad range of issues that a senator has to deal with.”
Valerie Biden Owens, the former vice president’s sister, said in an interview that it had long been evident to her that the Bidens and the Cuomos shared a common set of social values that she described as anchored in their Irish and Italian Catholic heritage. Of the elder Gov. Cuomo, Owens said, “I know my brother respected him greatly.”
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