New York tough means New York loving and I love New York and I love you and

everything I have ever done has been motivated by that love and I would never

want to be unhelpful in any way and I think that given the circumstances the

best way I can help now is if I step aside and let government get back to

governing.

Hello and welcome to this emergency edition of the 538 Politics podcast. I'm

Galen Druke, New York governor Andrew Cuomo just announced his resignation

which will be effective in 14 days. Exactly a week ago the New York Attorney

General released a report that accused Cuomo of sexually harassing 11

women most of whom were government workers. Since then Democrats all the way up

to President Joe Biden have called for his resignation and the New York state

legislature said it would impeach and remove him if he did not resign. His

announcement today was not telegraphed in advance. His lawyer started the press

conference by rebutting many of the details in the Attorney General's report but

later Cuomo said that he would resign rather than engage in a drawn out

impeachment process. So it's been a while since we've done an emergency

podcast but here with me to discuss what just happened our editor-in-chief

Nate Silver. Hey Nate. Hey everybody. Also here with us politics editor Sarah

Frostensen. Hey Sarah. Hey y'all. And elections analyst Jeffrey Scully. Hey

Jeffrey. Hey Galen. And I should note that you were in the middle of moving

when this news came out. It's the middle of August. Some people are on

vacation. We're all scrambling. Nathaniel Raikich is also moving today. But we

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