New York’s Andrew Cuomo — If He Leaves, What Comes Next?

Andrew Cuomo is in a lot of hot water. It may not be enough to topple him from his perch before his third term as governor ends in January 2023, but when Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul showed up at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on St. Patrick’s Day, Archbishop Timothy Dolan cracked, “If you want to light some candles after Mass, we’ll understand.” If Cuomo is forced out, Hochul would become the state’s first female governor, its first from outside the New York City area since Franklin Roosevelt, and its first from Buffalo since Grover Cleveland. That could make her a figure of immediate national importance, but one who will be plagued by the toxic infighting of New York’s Democratic Party.

On March 12, the speaker of the New York State Assembly announced that the Assembly’s judiciary committee was opening an impeachment investigation into Cuomo. New York magazine has counted noses:

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Andrew Cuomo is in a lot of hot water. It may not be enough to topple him from his perch before his third term as governor ends in January 2023, but when Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul showed up at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on St. Patrick’s Day, Archbishop Timothy Dolan cracked, “If you want to light some candles after Mass, we’ll understand.” If Cuomo is forced out, Hochul would become the state’s first female governor, its first from outside the New York City area since Franklin Roosevelt, and its first from Buffalo since Grover Cleveland. That could make her a figure of immediate national importance, but one who will be plagued by the toxic infighting of New York’s Democratic Party.

On March 12, the speaker of the New York State Assembly announced that the Assembly’s judiciary committee was opening an impeachment investigation into Cuomo. New York magazine has counted noses: