22 February 2022: Voters Reject Cuomo's Claim of Vindication in Sexual Harassment Cases

NYS voters say Cuomo is a sexual harasser, reject claims of vindication

In another sign that Andrew M. Cuomo desperately needs better PR people and more legal help, a new poll indicates New York state voters are rejecting Cuomo's claim to have been vindicated of sexually harassing multiple women while serving as New York's state governor. Here's a summary of the poll's results (emphasis ours):

A total of 58 percent of voters think Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women during his tenure in Albany, compared to just 21 percent of respondents who believed he was innocent. The remaining voters surveyed had no opinion, according to the Siena College survey.

The voters were given the following prompt:

“Cuomo presently faces no criminal charges for sexual harassment. He says that he ́s been vindicated and that the whole investigation was a political hit job. Local prosecutors who declined to bring criminal charges against Cuomo said that while they believed the credibility of the women, there was not enough evidence to prosecute.”

They were then asked: “Do you think Cuomo has or has not been vindicated?”

The verdict: 56 percent of voters said Cuomo has not been vindicated while 25 percent said he has — a better than two-to-one margin against Cuomo.

But wait, there's more:

Cuomo remains deeply unpopular with 60 percent of voters having an unfavorable view of him and 33 percent having a favorable view.

The bottom line: 80 percent of voters said Cuomo made the right decision to resign last August based on what they know today. Only 13 percent of respondents said he shouldn’t have resigned, with the rest undecided.

Polling numbers like these are why Andrew M. Cuomo won't seriously run again for public office in New York. If Cuomo actually ever does launch a new election campaign, we think it's real purpose will be to extract the $16+ million in previously donated funds sitting in his campaign organization's bank accounts, with as much as possible being directed to the wallets of Cuomo family members and close associates.