I think the real shot is that some people saw him as Harris’s VP choice (it HAS to be a governor), and he just didn’t fit the profile.
I never understood why people would think that way. For all the media fawning he got, Cuomo is still a butt-ugly mutt whose COVID press briefings sounded like a character from “The Sopranos” reading stories to children. I don’t think this jackass ever had a future in national politics.