Cuomo cruises to New York gubernatorial win
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo won a second term on Tuesday by easily dispatching a challenge from Republican Rob Astorino, becoming the first Democratic governor since his father, Mario Cuomo, to win re-election in the nation’s third-largest state.
Cuomo is believed to harbor national ambitions and has been mentioned as a possible presidential candidate, though he has said he intends to serve a full four-year term.
Cuomo consistently led the lesser-known Astorino in the polls and enjoyed a nearly 10-to-1 ratio fundraising advantage over the Westchester County executive in the campaign’s final weeks. The only question in many political observers’ minds was how big Cuomo’s margin of victory would be.