An ambitious Democratic governor with possible White House aspirations has a formula for staying blue in the time of Trump: Take your progressive message directly to angst-ridden middle-class voters. "He hasn't done anything for me," said Adam Kelley, an unemployed carpenter who was walking through downtown Syracuse as Cuomo delivered a speech nearby. New York is a deep blue state, where Hillary Clinton beat Trump by more than 20 percentage points. Or as Ed Cox, chairman of the state Republican Party put it, "Andrew Cuomo would like to run away from New York state and go where his father didn't go — to Washington." Democratic Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi said Cuomo was treating those areas "like New York state's version of 'flyover country.'"

Source: ABC News January 16, 2017 15:20 UTC