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Pressure builds on Cuomo to resign
By The Associated PressUpdated March 12, 2021, 6:58 p.m.
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Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York.Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) â Facing unprecedented political isolation, a defiant New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo insisted on Friday that he would not step down in the wake of sexual harassment allegations and condemned the expansive coalition of Democrats calling for his resignation as âreckless and dangerous.â
By dayâs end, the three-term Democratic governor had lost the support of almost his stateâs entire congressional delegation. None of the defections hurt more than those of New Yorkâs two U.S. senators, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.
Reps Kathleen Rice (L.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
After pushing the candidacy of Jamaal Bowman to defeat 16-term Democratic Congressman Eliot Engel, possibly the most pro-Israel lawmaker in Congress, Squad leader Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was beaten by Rep. Kathleen Rice from Nassau County, Long Island, in their struggle to take over Engel’s seat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
According to Politico, just before the Democratic Steering Committee voted on who gets into the Energy and Commerce slots, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic leadership team circulated a slate of their candidates. And, you guessed it, AOC wasn’t included.