President Biden calls on Cuomo to resign. [View all]

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Source: NYT

President Biden called on Tuesday for the resignation of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York after the state's attorney general found that Mr. Cuomo, a third-term Democrat, had sexually harassed multiple women.

Mr. Biden said, bluntly, "yes," when asked at the White House if Mr. Cuomo should leave office, but stopped short of calling for him to be removed if he refuses to resign: "Let's take one thing at a time."

Mr. Cuomo, who is facing a criminal investigation by the Albany County prosecutor, has vowed to stay in office, calling the report biased and saying the "facts are much different from what has been portrayed."

Mr. Biden, a longtime friend of Mr. Cuomo's, had initially avoided addressing the accusations, and at first seemed content to stay on the sidelines of a growing rift between the Democratic Party and the increasingly isolated New York governor. Mr. Biden said that he had not spoken to Mr. Cuomo and that he had not read the full report on the harassment accusations: "All I know is the end result," he said.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/03/nyregion/biden-cuomo.html

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And Nancy Pelosi has called on him to resign, and Jen Psaki said the allegations were abhorrent.

And they were.

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Prominent Democrats calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign:

-President Joe Biden
-Speaker Nancy Pelosi
-Majority Leader Chuck Schumer
-N.Y. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
-N.Y. Mayor Bill de Blasio