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New York City mayoral front-runner Andrew Cuomo vowed to lead the fight against President Trump, but bizarrely pledged to “spend eight years in Washington” in a bid to help Democrats retake

the House. The former governor told Politico he planned to wage the national campaign against the Trump administration — even though the president’s second and final term would come to a

close in 2028, or three years into the next mayor’s tenure. “I would spend eight years in Washington — go to that US Conference of Mayors, go to the National Governors Association,” Cuomo

said as he detailed his anti-Trump strategy if he’s elected to run the Big Apple. Cuomo, who is reportedly embroiled in a Department of Justice probe over his handling of nursing home deaths

during COVID, noted he would home in specifically on Trump’s planned Medicaid cuts. “He’s cutting Medicaid. Medicaid is not a blue-city, blue-state situation. That is in every state. That

is a lot of red congressional districts. And he could lose the House on cutting Medicaid if you organized it and got it moving,” Cuomo said. “You’re going to have to be a spokesperson,

advocate, organizer,” he added. “This is what Medicaid means in Mississippi, this is what Medicaid means in Texas … And you organize that, they don’t have a lot of congressional seats left

to lose.” EXPLORE MORE A confident Cuomo, who is still yet to secure the Democratic nomination, made the remarks after being asked what leverage he believed he’d have against the White House

if he was elected. He acknowledged that a mayor has little power compared to the commander-in-chief but vowed to ramp up his political organizing to fill that void. Mayor Eric Adams was

quick to slam Cuomo’s Trump-takedown-strategy, bluntly saying: “The job of mayor is not around the country. It’s around the city.” “If you’re going to be around the country that means you’re

trying to run for something else and not the mayor of New York,” Hizzoner added.   “He’ll say anything and everything to get elected.” Cuomo’s pitch to rally Democrats nationwide, though,

follows speculation he’s just using the mayoralty to further his own political aspirations. “I did hear that he is running for mayor so that he can run for president in 2028,” one former

Queens politician, who knows Cuomo well, recently told The Post. Still, his plan to take on the Trump administration didn’t sit well with some Democratic insiders.   “He should be focused on

fixing New York City, not plotting a presidential run four years out while Trump is still in office,” one Dem operative said. It comes, too, after it was reported the DOJ had opened a

criminal investigation into Cuomo for allegedly lying to Congress last year about the Empire State’s nursing home deaths during the pandemic. The Republican-led House Oversight and

Government Reform Committee asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to pursue the charges last month, the New York Times reported, citing sources. Cuomo, in his Politico interview, slammed the

reported probe as “purely political nonsense.” Meanwhile, Cuomo said in a separate New York Times interview that he wouldn’t resign as governor if he could do it over again — as he threw

shade at successor Gov. Kathy Hochul’s record. “If I had to do it again, I wouldn’t have resigned,” he said when asked if he regretted stepping down during a 2021 sexual harassment scandal.

“At the time, I thought that I would be a distraction to government functionality, that they would all be involved in impeachment proceedings, blah, blah, blah,” Cuomo added. “Looking back,

what has really been done in the last four years, anyway, right?” Hochul has been governor in the four years since Cuomo resigned over a flurry of accusations, which he vehemently denies.

The Times noted the implicit diss to Hochul. “It sounds like you don’t think your successor, Gov. Kathy Hochul, has done that,” the Times offered. “Well, you can judge the record of

accomplishment of the past four years,” Cuomo fired back. The remarks came just as the Cuomo campaign released a new ad Tuesday touting, in part, his prior political track record – including

as former President Bill Clinton’s housing secretary in the early 90s. “New York City has an affordability crisis but we will rise. The minimum wage will rise. I raised it to the highest in

the nation as Governor, I’ll do it here,” the ad declares. “500,000 new affordable homes will rise. I did it as the nation’s Housing Secretary, we can do it here. We built new bridges,

train stations and airports, and got through COVID together because there’s a simple solution to a crisis: You act. So let’s rise – together.”