By Jill Colvin
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — You win some, you lose some.
That was the message from Mayor Michael Bloomberg Wednesday as he weighed in on Tuesday's election results, which dealt blows to the candidates he endorsed for both attorney general and comptroller.
Bloomberg said he called Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo — whom he did endorse — to congratulate him Tuesday night and said he expects Cuomo will do a fine job.
Still, he warned Cuomo to expect a long road ahead.
"I think that Andrew Cuomo's going to have his hands full," Bloomberg told reporters in the Bronx.
After running a campaign promising to fix a broken Albany, he said Cuomo is "going to have to do that, and he’s not going to have all the tools that perhaps he might have liked.
"But that’s the job. He wanted it. He’s got it. And I think he’ll do a good very job.
Bloomberg said he was disappointed that Dan Donovan, his pick for attorney general and Harry Wilson, his pick for comptroller, had lost their state-wide bids.
Bloomberg had spent the weeks before Election Day enthusiastically endorsing Donovan and aggressively campaigning on his behalf.
Other Bloomberg picks who lost their races included Pennsylvania Senate candidate Joe Sestak, fellow billionaire and California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman and Staten Island Rep. Michael McMahon.
But he also picked a slew of winners, including Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and Reps. Carolyn McCarthy and Pete King.
"A lot of the people that I campaigned very hard for won," he said when asked about the losses. "You’re not going to win all the time."
With the state senate's fate still up in the air, Bloomberg said he's just hoping that one side will emerge on top.
"The worst case is going to be a tie. And then? Chaos. I don’t know how you work that out," he said.
He also said both parties are going to have to figure out a way to put partisan politics aside and "get their act together."
"“We just have to stop some of this partisan bickering and people have to start voting across the aisle," he urged.
