With just a few hours of early voting to go, and two days before Primary Day, Andrew Cuomo's Democratic opponents are still trying to remind voters why he ultimately resigned from the governor's office.
"I did not rank the former governor on purpose and there's good reason," City Council Speaker and mayoral hopeful Adrienne Adams said on Saturday afternoon, when asked whether Cuomo was on her ballot. It was a notable declaration from the cautious City Council Speaker who a few days earlier refused to say whether she had voted for Cuomo or not. "He resigned for a reason."
That reason: the numerous credible allegations of sexual misconduct and a toxic work environment documented in a 165-page report from the attorney general's office, that Cuomo himself ordered up.
Cuomo has continued to deny the allegations, when he acknowledges them at all, and now says he regrets quitting. His strategy appears to be working.
While the mayoral race has tightened, and the huge early voting turnout is being driven in large part by younger voters who overwhelmingly back Zohran Mamdani, Cuomo remains the heavy favorite in Tuesday's primary. Polymarket currently pegs the ex-governor's chances of winning at 76 percent.
Brad Lander, who remains far behind Mamdani and Cuomo in the polls, has emerged as Cuomo's sharpest critic in the closing days of the race. On Saturday afternoon, Lander was on the Upper West Side making his case that Cuomo is unfit to be mayor.