By Christmastime, Janice Dean was ready to give up on her extracurricular crusade against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Fox News’s preternaturally optimistic early-morning meteorologist had spent the better part of 2020 railing against the Democrat’s disastrous executive order mandating that nursing homes accept COVID-positive patients and his subsequent cover-up of the true death toll among seniors. Yet Cuomo’s star continued to rise, buoyed by an adoring media that saw him as their anti-Trump champion. By the time Dean was writing an op-ed against Cuomo that she believed would be her last, then-President-elect Joe Biden was reportedly considering Cuomo as his attorney general.

But then, the floodgates opened. In January, state Attorney General Letitia James confirmed what Dean had spent a year warning of, namely that Cuomo had severely undercounted nursing home deaths. The next month, former Cuomo aide Lindsey Boylan expounded on her December assertion that the governor had sexually harassed her in a harrowing essay. A total of 10 women have now made allegations ranging from unwanted kisses and verbal harassment to outright sexual battery. With top New York Democrats such as Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calling for Cuomo’s resignation, he is now politically isolated in Albany, waiting out the clock in the hope that he can quietly survive the scandal.