While Analysts Say Cuomo Should Think Local, Hochul Tops Statewide Poll

‘I could see him potentially running for a congressional seat, definitely not Senate. think Cuomo is open to everything and anything.’

Governor Cuomo, September 14, 2018. AP/Mary Altaffer, file

New polling shows Governor Cuomo has made inroads in his campaign to clear his name in the minds of voters after stepping down amid sexual harassment allegations, though many are skeptical of a statewide political return in 2022.

“Who knows what he’ll do in the next four years and I think that he’s playing the long game,” a professor of political science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Susan Kang, told the Sun. “He’s still young.”

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