Fresh off his primary win, in which he thwarted a challenge from progressive activist and actress Cynthia Nixon, Cuomo on dismissed the so-called “Ocasio-Cortez effect” as a fluke on Friday.

Cuomo triumphed with a respectable margin, challenging the notion that Alexandria Ocasio-Corteze’s stunning victory over longtime Rep. Joe Crowley in Queens in June’s congressional primary signaled a sift in the political winds in favor of the more liberal wing of the state’s Democratic Party

Poor voter turnout — the result of New York’s split primary for state and federal elections — was to blame for the toppling of Crowley, previously one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress who, as chairman of the Queens Democratic Party wields inordinate influence over politics in New York City, Cuomo argued in what was perhaps the grumpiest post-victory presser of all time..

Here’s what the governor said during his post-primary press conference in Manhattan Friday:

There was a misinterpretation of what happened in the Congressional primaries. The Congressional primaries were a fluke. The way the calendar worked, between the federal calendar and the state calendar, the congressional primaries were the only election on that day, and that dropped the turnout to a very very low level. You had some districts where the vote was some of the lowest turnout in history. And then people extrapolated from that turnout. They had all these theories of shifts and movements.

With his victory, Cuomo seemed to demonstrate that he was immune to the progressive “blue wave” disrupting Democratic races across the nation. He noted that he beat his left-leaning opponent by 36 percentage points in Crowley’s district, and won easily in all six hotly contested IDC Senate districts in New York City.

“What we saw yesterday was clear and powerful,” he said. “The turnout yesterday was extraordinary.”

Watch Cuomo’s full press conference here.