Cynthia Nixon urges Working Families Party vote for Harris in New York
“Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon urged New Yorkers to vote for Vice President Harris on the Working Families Party line in a Monday op-ed for The Nation.
“So much is at stake in this election, and we can’t go back to four more years of [Donald] Trump in the White House any more than we can go back to the bad old days Trump is trying to revive,” Nixon said in the piece.
Nixon said, however, “in this election season, I’m focused on using my vote to build the power of the movement that I am part of, which will ultimately win the change we are desperately fighting for.”
“In New York, that means voting for Harris-Walz on Row D, the Working Families Party line, and for any and all of the exciting WFP-endorsed candidates, of which there are dozens in New York and hundreds in states across this country,” she added.
The Working Families Party (WFP) is a progressive third party that describes itself as occasionally putting forward “candidates through Democratic Party primaries" and other times it runs candidates on its own.
In New York, the WFP’s state party is backing Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) in their bid for the presidency and vice presidency.
“To my fellow New Yorkers for whom Kamala Harris may not be the perfect candidate: As my mother would tell you if she were here, when we vote Harris-Walz on the WFP line, we are signaling to our (God willing) future president that we are voting for her as part of a movement that needs her to do better,” Nixon said.
“And that our vote is not the end of our interaction with her but just the beginning.”
Nixon mounted a primary challenge against former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) in 2018, but Cuomo handily defeated her and other challengers.
The Hill has reached out to the Harris campaign for comment.
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