{"id":1387832,"date":"2022-03-18T04:58:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T08:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1387832"},"modified":"2022-03-18T08:59:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T12:59:53","slug":"ex-ny-gov-andrew-cuomo-floats-political-comeback-launch-of-new-political-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-ny-gov-andrew-cuomo-floats-political-comeback-launch-of-new-political-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo Floats Political Comeback, Launch Of New Political Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fex-ny-gov-andrew-cuomo-floats-political-comeback-launch-of-new-political-party%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1387832&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/Andrew-Cuomo.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is floating a political comeback months after leaving office in disgrace following accusations of sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>The former Democratic governor said Thursday that he is open to running for governor as well as launching a new political party to do so. Cuomo resigned as governor in August after New York Attorney General Letitia James published a <a href=\"https:\/\/ag.ny.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2021.08.03_nyag_-_investigative_report.pdf\">report<\/a> concluding that Cuomo \u201csexually harassed a number of\u201d women.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo spoke to a group of clergy gathered in a small Pentecostal church in the Bronx Thursday, the ex-governor\u2019s second public address in two weeks as he appears to work his way back into public life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m open to all options,\u201d Cuomo said when asked if he was considering another run for office, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-03-17\/cuomo-says-he-s-open-to-running-for-n-y-governor-again\">Bloomberg<\/a>. Asked if he would consider creating another political party for the bid, Cuomo answered, \u201cI\u2019ve done it before. My father\u2019s done it before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo previously started a new party in 2014 during his run for reelection as governor of New York. Cuomo launched a party called the Women\u2019s Equality Party in an effort to appeal to women telling stories of sexual harassment at the hands of powerful men. Critics called the move a cynical ploy to draw voters away from the progressive Working Families Party, at the time considering backing Cuomo\u2019s progressive challenger.<\/p>\n<p>Since leaving office, Cuomo has maintained his innocence and blamed \u201ccancel culture\u201d for pushing him out. In February, Cuomo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-02-07\/andrew-cuomo-says-he-s-been-vindicated-won-t-rule-out-run\">said<\/a> that if he could go back, he would never have resigned from office. \u201cI never resigned because I said I did something wrong. I said, I\u2019m resigning because I don\u2019t want to be a distraction,\u201d the former governor said.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo resigned in disgrace last year amid numerous allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct as well as bipartisan anger over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. In February 2021, some Democratic legislators began calling for impeachment proceedings against the then-sitting governor over his COVID-19 policies surrounding the virus\u2019 impact on nursing homes and New York\u2019s elderly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCuomo abused his powers to hide life and death information from the Department of Justice that prevented lawmakers from legislating \u2013 like fully repealing corporate immunity for nursing homes. That is an impeachable offense,\u201d New York State Assemblyman Ron Kim <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/an-impeachable-offense-new-york-democrat-demands-cuomo-face-inquiry-over-nursing-home-order\">said<\/a> in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only way to protect the integrity of the co-equal branch of the state government, AKA the \u2018People\u2019s House,\u2019 is to start impeachment,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic state Sen. Julia Salazar said at the time: \u201cI\u2019ve seen enough. We need real accountability for this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a betrayal of the public trust,\u201d Democratic state Sen. Andrew Gounardes added. \u201cThere needs to be full accountability for what happened, and the legislature needs to reconsider its broad grant of emergency powers to the governor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The wave of Democratic resistance to the then-governor came after one of his aides told Democrats in the state legislature that the governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/betrayal-of-public-trust-cuomo-faces-calls-for-accountability-resignation-after-top-aide-admits-cover-up\">hid<\/a> the true toll of COVID-19 on the state\u2019s nursing homes to avoid scrutiny from the Trump administration\u2019s Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is floating a political comeback months after leaving office in disgrace following accusations of sexual misconduct.The former Democratic governor said Thursday that he is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1387832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}