NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo visits Harlem Senior Center, 108 West 146 Street. Matthew McDermott

If anyone had dared to tell me last winter that I would eventually vote to make Andrew Cuomo New York’s next mayor, I would have shot back, “Never.”

I was still thoroughly disgusted with the former governor, had applauded his forced 2021 exit from Albany and saw no evidence he was doing anything to make himself fit to hold public office again.

In the three-plus years since his resignation, he had continued to play defense and attack his critics, including me, but had done nothing to demonstrate he had learned anything or accepted any responsibility for his historic collapse.

In his public remarks and private conversations, there were no apologies for the heartless nursing home d

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