BUFFALO, N.Y. — Over the course of three Upstate Get Out the Vote events Monday, Governor Andrew Cuomo named his Democratic primary opponent Cynthia Nixon zero times. Instead, he focused his speech on President Donald Trump and framed this election as the resistance to the president.

"He has strong thumbs though he must because he tweets a lot. He has very quick and agile thumbs. I think he'd beat me in a thumb wrestle but that is all he would beat me at is a thumb wrestle," Cuomo said of Trump in Buffalo.

In his first trip to the city of Buffalo since April, Cuomo joined hometown Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul. The two are campaigning as a ticket but have often been attending campaign and official events individually in different parts of the state. Hochul did not join the governor for the first two legs of the Upstate tour.

"I am bursting with pride to see what's happened in my hometown and I'm seeing it all over the state of New York. So governor, as a Western New Yorker, I say thank you. Thank you for never giving up on me, never giving up on our community," Hochul said.

At all of the events, Cuomo touted the progress all three cities and regions have made under his administration.

"We are proud of everything we have done and I'll tell you this, you get us another four years and you ain't seen nothing yet. You ain't seen nothing yet," he said.

In Syracuse, Cuomo said he’s “in a fight” with President Trump. “He attacks me, and I have no problem with that. I am the most aggressive governor in the United States of American in taking him on. We’re suing him on immigration, we’re suing him on SALT,” referring to state and local tax deduction caps. 

In Rochester, Cuomo spoke to the theme many Democrats have reiterated in recent months, that the November election is about Trump.

“This election doesn’t ask you what you are,” he said, a sentiment he'd echo in Buffalo. “This election is about who you are. Because this election is about the character of this country. It is about the value and character and priorities of who we are as a country.”

While Nixon was not the focus of the governor's speeches, she did issue a statement in response to the Upstate tour. She says Cuomo's Upstate economic development strategy has resulted in corruption scandal after corruption scandal and New Yorkers have missed out on promised jobs.