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Today, Explained

A tale of two governors

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Cuomo and Gavin Newsom were hailed for their leadership early on in the pandemic. Now, the former is mired in scandal and the latter is facing a recall campaign. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Around this time last year, we were starting to hear more about a novel coronavirus.

0:38.8

Remember when we still called it the novel coronavirus?

0:41.3

A lot of the focus was on Washington State, which had some of the first known cases,

0:46.2

but also two of the most popular states in the Union, New York and California.

0:50.9

The governors of those two states, Andrew Cuomo and Gavin Newsom got a lot of praise

0:56.0

for how they handled the pandemic early on.

0:58.4

They both held daily press conferences.

1:00.8

It was clear that they both wanted to be president, but bummer for them, they are both now

1:05.1

mired in scandal and facing a recall effort, respectively.

1:09.5

On the show today, we're going to try and figure out how that happened, starting with

1:13.5

Cuomo.

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