Quayle Predicts That Cuomo Will Be Democratic Nominee
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WASHINGTON — While preparing for another campaign trip to New Hampshire, Vice President Dan Quayle speculated Friday that none of the current Democratic presidential candidates would be in the race come November. The Democratic challenger, according to Quayle: Gov. Mario M. Cuomo of New York, the self-declared non-candidate.
At a breakfast with reporters, Quayle refused to comment on the tabloid allegations of infidelity surrounding Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, the Democratic candidate that the Bush campaign had come to regard as the most formidable of possible general-election opponents.
One Republican source said the Bush campaign now has “the crossed-fingers hope that Clinton gets blown up.”
However fanciful it may be, the renewed prospect of a race against a Northeastern liberal left Quayle, at least, clearly chomping at the bit.
“We’ll talk a lot about the job he’s done as governor of New York,” the vice president pronounced.
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