Cuomo is not stupid (enough). He correctly gauged that being charged with sexual harassment as a cover for being charged with murder made a lot of sense. Of course, he attempted to stay in office because lots of RAT elites such as Kennedy and Clinton had managed to tiptoe around the charges that were never filed. The DNC recognized that sacrificing one of their own for a minor crime made a lot of sense to cover for several others of their office holders guilty of the other more hideous crime Cuomo had also committed. Dumping Cuomo also gave them something more — they now could hold him up as an example of their ability to “do the right thing” that they so often had avoided in the past.
He correctly gauged that being charged with sexual harassment as a cover for being charged with murder made a lot of sense.