OPINION: I Was Wrong To Think Cuomo Wouldn’t Resign. Now I Wonder What Else Was Going To Come Out.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) resigned in disgrace on Tuesday, a move I predicted would not happen. I was wrong. I’m really surprised I was wrong about this one.

In hindsight, it might have been unfair to compare Cuomo’s situation to that of Gov. Ralph Northam (D-VA), who refused to resign after admitting to appearing in his medical school yearbook wearing either a KKK hood or blackface. Part of the reason Northam survived is because his next in line, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, was accused of sexual assault. It was then discovered that the next in line after Fairfax, Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring, also wore blackface in college. When local and national Democrats learned that the next in line was a Republican, they stopped calling for resignations.