Former "Sex and the City" star Cynthia Nixon is running for New York governor. On health care, ending massive incarceration, fixing our broken subway," Nixon said in a video announcing her candidacy. Nixon did a little better among younger and upstate Democrats, but didn't have more than a quarter of either group. More recently, she has been delving into issues of keen interest to New York City, the main blue stronghold in a state where suburban and rural towns upstate tend to run red. One of those issues is transportation policy, which contributed to a plunge in Cuomo's popularity last July amid his "summer of hell" forecast for New York City commuters facing ongoing transit breakdowns and delays.

Source: CBC News March 19, 2018 18:31 UTC