Andrew Cuomo resigned amid a wave of scandals. But don’t count him out
by Edward Helmore in New York from US news | The Guardian on (#5X21R)
Can the New York governor accused of sexual harassment as well as a Covid cover-up succeed in his comeback campaign?
Last summer, the three-term New York governor Andrew Cuomo was considered, in political terms, dead and buried after one of the most spectacular falls from grace in modern US politics.
A year earlier, he'd been an empathetic pandemic hero, offering New Yorkers a measure of confidence in the state's response to the early waves of Covid-19 while the US president, Donald Trump, floundered or blustered his way through daily briefings as the terrifying death toll mounted.
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