Cuomo’s approval plummets, 4-of-5 voters believe accusers, 59% not buying ‘apology’

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s approval rating has plummeted 30 percentage points as he is rocked by scandals over alleged harassment of young women — some of them staffers — and his false accounting of nursing home deaths during the coronavirus pandemic.

The new survey from Quinnipiac University found that 45 percent of New Yorkers approve of the job that Cuomo is doing, while 46 percent disapprove. That’s a nearly 30-percentage point drop from his 72 percent approval rating last May, during the height of the pandemic.

Pollsters from the university interviewed 935 self-identified registered voters in New York on Tuesday and Wednesday for the survey, which carries a 3.2 percent margin of error.

It reveals that nearly four out of five New York voters believe the sexual harassment allegations leveled against Cuomo by three women — including two former staffers — are “very serious” or “somewhat serious.”

And 59 percent of voters told the survey they were not satisfied with Cuomo’s explanations and apologies so far.

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