When allegations of sexual harassment first began to appear about Andrew Cuomo, many Republicans felt a bitter sense of irony. For months starting in March 2020, the New York governor had grossly mishandled the Covid crisis, pushing policies that spread the virus into nursing homes, and then lying about the extent of the death and damage those policies brought. And yet despite it all, Cuomo became a media darling, mostly because Democrats, and their allies in the press, saw him as the perfect foil to the hated President Donald Trump. It was only when the stories of alleged sexual misconduct picked up steam that Cuomo began to falter.
Now Cuomo has announced his resignation, effective in two weeks. He could not survive a report from the New York attorney general detailing the sexual allegations against him. When the report came out, any Democrats who still supported Cuomo abandoned him. When he determined that he no longer had the minimum level of support needed to stay in office, he quit.
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