Consultant World | Was it the sex scandal that brought down the "King of New York"?

Today is Andrew Cuomo's last day as governor of New York. He resigned because of a sex scandal. Official investigations show that between 2013 and 2020, Cuomo sexually harassed at least 11 women, including several female assistants. One by one, the harassed women came forward to accuse Cuomo of the indecent acts he had committed against them, many of which had become commonplace.

The sexual harassment allegations have put Cuomo facing impeachment in the New York State Legislature, and have also made Democratic party leaders such as US President Biden and House Speaker Pelosi choose to draw a line with Cuomo. Under the pressure, he himself knew that the trend was gone. On the 10th of this month, he announced his resignation. Today is the day he officially leaves his post, and after today, his political career will also come to an end.

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Things are unpredictable! Had it not been for the sex scandal, he would have been expected to ascend to the U.S. presidential throne. As recently as last August, his popular approval rating topped the Democratic polls, and even then-President Trump believed that it was probably not Biden, but Cuomo, who would eventually compete with him face-to-face. Even the lineup for the next election was predicted by the media to be contested by The Democratic Cuomo against the Republican Romney.

Cuomo's voice within the party is so loud, mainly because his decisive lockdown during the epidemic has made him a clear stream in American politics. His strong performance in the first wave of the epidemic, in stark contrast to the unresponsive Trump at the time, also overshadowed Biden, who was hiding at home and doing nothing. Andrew Cuomo, a well-known and powerful politician known as the king of New York, his father was the governor of New York for 12 years, he followed his father on the road to politics at a young age, in 1990, married President Kennedy's niece, in 1997, became the Clinton cabinet minister of housing and urban development, just turned 40 years old, in 2010, he became the governor of New York, and then re-elected to the present.

Cuomo's political career has been marked by success in gun control, infrastructure development, raising the minimum wage, tax law reform, and more, especially with the White House during the COVID-19 pandemic, acting decisively, respecting science, being open to international cooperation, and even praising Chinese-aided ventilators. New York State's daily pandemic briefing became the nation's highest-rated show and a highlight for Como. But at the same time, the arrogance and bullying in Cuomo's personality are also snowballing. The persecution of colleagues and the aggression against women are manifestations of this arrogance.

Veteran politician Kissinger said power is the best aphrodisiac. This sentence can always be confirmed in the American politicians represented by Cuomo. Having power gives them an urge to extend their salty hands, and they think that the relevant accusations can be put to rest by power. For the harassed party, they are often afraid to speak out because of the power of the other party. Cuomo's arbitrariness manifested itself not only in his frivolous behavior towards the female assistant, but also in demanding that others be centered on him 24 hours a day, or else retaliate. In his defense of the sexual harassment allegations, Cuomo even showed Biden stroking women's backs, Obama kissing the opposite sex, and Bush peeking at beautiful women, meaning nothing more than that, men are like this. This self-clever approach has clearly hastened Biden's defection as well.

If the situation had not been serious, Sleepy Joe could have opened one eye and closed one eye. However, Cuomo has clearly rebelled. And Biden's final call for Cuomo's resignation can be said to be a boat ride along the water, killing three birds with one stone. First, to remove an old sex ghost from the Democratic Party, followed by the first female governor of New York State, which is undoubtedly a plus for Biden's political team; second, the popular Como is likely to replace Biden as the next Democratic candidate for the US president, with The departure of Cuomo, Biden's hope of re-election is also one point more; and the third point Should not forget, Biden also faced sexual assault allegations, his female assistant said that he once put his hand into the other party's clothes, And several women say that Biden has touched them inappropriately, and abandoning Cuomo may prevent the storm of sexual harassment from further opening biden's own black history.

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Source: Thoughtful