And as Dems seize upon recent revelations about allegations against Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz to try and change the subject away from Cuomo, who appears likely to hang on at least until the end of his current (and third) term, more reports of nefarious behavior about Cuomo have emerged overnight.

Late yesterday, the NYT reported that the governor was busy trawling for a $4MM deal for a book about Cuomo's "pandemic leadership lessons" while several of his aides were feeding deliberately false data to the DoJ and suppressing a Health Department report that threatened to disclose a far higher number of nursing home deaths. Unsurprisingly, Cuomo's spokespeople denied the report. But there's no denying that Cuomo published "America's Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic" in October. Cuomo was working on the book as early as mid-June.

The implication, of course, is that Cuomo did everything he could to delay publication of the higher nursing-home death toll number until he had received the advance for his book.

The embarrassing number was initially supposed to be featured in the second sentence of the report, but top Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa managed to get it removed from the final version.