What a difference a few months have made for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo — and not in a good way.
Cuomo last year was lionized by many who saw him as a competent, science-respecting, straight-talking, dad-like counterpoint to then-President Donald Trump’s off-the-cuff, expert-disdaining and often-confusing approach to handling the coronavirus pandemic.
Cuomo’s daily press conferences detailing the grim Covid-19 statistics in New York and urging citizens to take precautions from becoming infected became must-see TV for weeks, as did his towel-snapping banter in interviews with CNN anchorman Chris Cuomo — his own brother.
As a result, there was renewed talk that Cuomo, whose father Mario’s agonizing over whether to run for president earned him the sobriquet of „Hamlet on the Hudson,“ would be a contender for the Democratic nomination for the White House in 2024, or some position in the federal government before that.
Cuomo even scored a deal to write a book, „American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic,“ published in October — even as the crisis continued to threaten his own state and elsewhere.
But it is Cuomo’s managerial approach to the health crisis that has led to a political crisis in his administration that threatens his electoral future.
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