Cuomo, Newsom and Trump’s early pandemic praise vanished
From there, Cuomo’s popularity rose, just like that of his fellow politicians California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, and then-President Donald Trump, a Republican.
But, just as history has shown us time and time again, a year turned out to be a lifetime in their political careers. All have either been vanquished or are fighting for their political lives.
The results in the polls, which were fielded before some of the more recent allegations made by women and calls to resign, have been quite bad for Cuomo.
The one piece of good news for Cuomo is that most Democrats (60%) have a favorable view of the governor, a slim majority (50%) want him to run again in 2022 and just 21% want him to resign.
If those numbers hold in a state as Democratic as New York, Cuomo might be able to survive the scandals.
Things look better for his counterpart on the West Coast. Newsom isn’t facing anywhere near that type of opposition from his own party. Still, it’s been quite the bumpy political road for the governor of California.
He’s now facing a recall effort, which may make the ballot. At this point, the recall would probably be unsuccessful even if it did reach the voters.
Of course, both Cuomo and Newsom are in better political shape than Trump. While Trump ended up losing the election, at least in part to his response to the pandemic, voters actually had rallied around him early.
Unfortunately for Trump, crises can shift political winds dramatically. One year into the pandemic, those winds are blowing against Cuomo, Newsom and Trump.
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