# Andrew Cuomo Andrew Cuomo served as the 56th Governor of New York from 2011 to 2021. The son of former Governor Mario Cuomo, he previously served as U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Bill Clinton and as New York Attorney General. During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Cuomo became a national media figure through his daily televised briefings, which were widely cast as a counterpoint to [[Donald Trump]]'s pandemic response. He received an Emmy award for the briefings and published a book on leadership during the crisis. Cuomo's fall was rapid and bipartisan. Investigations revealed that his administration had undercounted COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes by as much as 50 percent, concealing data from the public, the legislature, and federal investigators. Simultaneously, multiple women came forward with sexual harassment allegations, prompting an investigation by the New York Attorney General that substantiated claims from eleven women. Cuomo resigned in August 2021 rather than face near-certain impeachment. Lieutenant Governor [[Kathy Hochul]] succeeded him. Cuomo's trajectory is significant within right-wing political discourse as a case study in media-constructed Democratic authority and its collapse. Conservative outlets had challenged the nursing home narrative long before mainstream media acknowledged the scandal, making Cuomo a recurring reference point in arguments about media bias, pandemic overreach, and accountability failures within the Democratic establishment.