20 July 2022: Cuomo Spends $93,211 on Poll to Tell Him He's a Loser

Here’s the $93K proof Andrew Cuomo tried to make a political comeback

Although this report was published on 18 July 2022, the timeline is just catching up to it now. It has a "too good to check" quality about it, but it's real and it's glorious! Here's a streamlined excerpt from the article covering the major details:

Disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo paid a veteran pollster $93,000 as he weighed a political comeback — potentially a challenge of Gov. Kathy Hochul — this year, a new filing reveals.

Cuomo tapped the firm Expedition Strategies to test the waters, with a payment of $93,211 recorded on May 31....

“When you spend $93,000 on a poll, your intention is to run unless the results tell you otherwise,” said Rob Cole, a GOP consultant who served as a top aide to former three-term New York Gov. George Pataki.

State Democratic Party chairman Jay Jacobs said, “I don’t think you poll unless you’re looking to run in a future election. If he polled in the governor’s race, it showed Kathy Hochul was strong and one would be dissuaded from running.”

A Cuomo insider confirmed that the ex-governor was mulling a comeback and his campaign committee hired a pollster to see where he stood.

“He was trying to understand the landscape in terms of the Democratic primary and the general election,” the source, who requested anonymity, said.

The source claimed there was “a path” for a Cuomo to mount a comeback but winning was not a “certainty.”

“If you’re looking at 50-50, you can’t do it,” the source said.

To put the timing of this poll into context, Andrew M. Cuomo had until 5:00 PM on 31 May 2022 to file 45,000 signatures with New York's Board of Elections to run as an independent candidate in the 2022 elections. That didn't happen as Cuomo chickened out from running after reviewing his $93,211 worth of poll results, which confirmed he is a loser.