A New York attorney general’s report corroborating 11 claims of sexual harassment by Gov. Andrew Cuomo left the one-time Democratic star isolated and without public allies on Tuesday, with deafening calls for his resignation from the most senior members of his own party in the White House, Congress and Albany.
Not one ally publicly came to the defense of the 63-year-old governor, who had begun fundraising ahead of the end of his third term in 2022. Until Tuesday, Cuomo had staved off a meltdown after some allegations were made public late last year by claiming he was misunderstood, calling the allegations politically motivated and asking the public to wait for the results of an investigation.
But that argument — repeated almost word-for-word in a video statement shortly after state Attorney General Letitia James’s report was released — rang hollow to leading Democrats in the wake of new allegations in the report that included unwanted touching and personal comments toward women on his office staff and a state trooper on his personal security detail.
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