The Latest: Live updates as Cuomo announces resignation

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NEW YORK – The Latest connected New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigning implicit intersexual harassment allegations (all times local):

1:50 p.m.

A spokesperson tells The Associated Press that New York authorities Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins is acceptable to instrumentality connected the duties of lieutenant politician erstwhile Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul becomes governor.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's resignation takes effect successful 2 weeks. Hochul volition yet name her ain successor.

New Yorkers successful 2022 volition ballot for politician and lieutenant governor.

Stewart-Cousins called Tuesday “a somber day” successful a statement, but called Hochul a “dedicated leader” with whom she would enactment with to proceed tackling the coronavirus pandemic and rebuilding the economy.

1:40 p.m.

Will the New York authorities Assembly determination guardant with its impeachment probe present that Gov. Andrew Cuomo has resigned? Can the Assembly adjacent proceed the process?

Those stay unfastened questions. The authorities constitution says a politician convicted successful a Senate impeachment proceedings could beryllium barred from holding nationalist bureau successful the state.

Democrat Tom Abinanti is an Assembly Judiciary Committee member. He says members are waiting to perceive from Chair Chuck Levine astir whether the committee volition determination up with plans to wrapper up its wide-ranging impeachment probe successful “weeks.”

Abinanti said the committee has asked its lawyers if there’s a “legal ground to proceed with an impeachment probe and contented articles of impeachment if the politician resigns.” He says helium hopes the committee volition proceed with the probe and marque a afloat report.

1:30 p.m.

New York Attorney General Letitia James oversaw the autarkic probe that recovered Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed 11 women. She said Cuomo's resignation Tuesday “closes a bittersweet section for each of New York, but it’s an important measurement towards justice.”

James is simply a chap Democrat. While she led the investigation, the existent probe was conducted by two extracurricular lawyers, Anne Clark and Joon Kim.

James has said the probe and consequent study was apolitical. Cuomo's idiosyncratic lawyer has repeatedly criticized the report.

In a connection Tuesday, James nevertheless thanked Cuomo for his contributions to New York. She besides welcomed Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul's ascension, saying New York “is successful bully hands with Lieutenant Governor Hochul astatine the helm.”

1:20 p.m.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo boarded a chopper successful New York City and departed astir an hr aft announcing his resignation.

He near his Manhattan bureau successful a car, surrounded by members of the media and clutching a Dunkin' cup. He past departed successful a chopper astir 1 p.m. Tuesday. He did not halt to talk to reporters.

A pistillate photographed walking down him appeared to beryllium 1 of his daughters.

1:15 p.m.

The White House has weighed successful connected New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's resignation implicit intersexual harassment allegations.

White House property caput Jen Psaki said Tuesday that President Joe Biden did not talk with Cuomo earlier his resignation and Cuomo did not springiness the medication beforehand notice.

Biden and Cuomo were erstwhile adjacent allies. But the president called for Cuomo to measurement down past week successful effect to an autarkic investigations' findings.

Psaki said those views “stand” and that “this is simply a communicative astir these courageous women who came forward.”

Psaki said that Biden has yet to talk to Kathy Hochul, who volition instrumentality implicit successful 2 weeks. But Psaki added that the medication looks guardant to moving with her.

1:10 p.m.

Votes of assurance person travel pouring successful for Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, who is acceptable to instrumentality the reins to New York from Gov. Andrew Cuomo successful 2 weeks.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York told reporters astatine the U.S. Capitol that Hochul is “ready and capable and susceptible of being an bonzer governor.” She said she would beryllium determination to enactment Hochul arsenic she governs the authorities done “a precise hard and challenging time."

State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins called Tuesday “a somber day,” but called Hochul a “dedicated leader” with whom she would enactment with to proceed tackling the coronavirus pandemic and rebuilding the economy.

Former Democratic Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster said successful a Twitter connection that Hochul was motivated to tally for lieutenant politician by “duty to serve, not immoderate idiosyncratic ambition.”

He added that “no 1 could beryllium amended suited” to go New York's archetypal pistillate governor.

1 p.m.

An lawyer for 2 women who accused New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of intersexual harassment said her clients were “vindicated and relieved that Cuomo volition nary longer beryllium successful a presumption of powerfulness implicit anyone.”

Mariann Wang represents Alyssa McGrath and Virginia Limmiatis.

Executive adjunct McGrath said Cuomo made inappropriate comments, including commenting connected her neckline aft staring down her escaped shirt, regularly asking astir her marital presumption and asking whether she would archer connected different adjutant if she were to cheat connected her husband.

Limmiatis is an vigor institution worker who said Cuomo ran his fingers connected the lettering that ran crossed the thorax of her garment erstwhile they met successful a enactment enactment astatine a 2017 event. He past told her helium was going to accidental determination was a spider connected her enarthrosis and proceeded to brushwood her thorax with his hand.

Wang castigated what she described arsenic Cuomo's efforts to “gaslight and onslaught the brave women who came forward,” which yet “apparently served nary purpose.”

12:50 p.m.

The person of New York's Senate Republicans, authorities Sen. Rob Ortt, said Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s resignation was a tiny measurement toward accountability.

Ortt said Cuomo's “resignation is welcome, but it stops abbreviated of the justness his victims and the radical of New York deserve."

Ortt called for the FBI, authorities lawyer wide and different authorities to proceed investigating "all of the imaginable crimes related to our state’s nursing homes situation and the Governor’s questionable publication deal.”

Ortt said that Democrats, who power some the Assembly and authorities Senate, failed to clasp Cuomo accountable. The Assembly’s judiciary committee met Monday to sermon however to reason their probe of Cuomo’s behaviour with women, among different matters.

12:40 p.m.

New York's lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul, volition go the state's archetypal pistillate governor successful 2 weeks.

She's spent years connected the roadworthy arsenic the affable look of the administration. During 2 terms, she has visited each of the state’s 62 counties yearly for countless ribbon-cutting ceremonies and civic cheerleading events.

Now, with Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s resignation Tuesday, her adjacent halt is the authorities Capitol successful Albany.

The centrist Democrat from occidental New York past week joined the chorus of politicians denouncing the politician implicit intersexual harassment allegations. The 62-year-old Hochul is simply a seasoned person who served concisely successful Congress.

In a statement, she said Cuomo's determination to measurement down “is the close happening to bash and successful the champion involvement of New Yorkers.”

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12:10 p.m.

After announcing his resignation effectual successful 14 days, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo straight addressed his 3 daughters.

The Democrat said helium ne'er did oregon would “intentionally disrespect a pistillate oregon dainty a pistillate otherwise than I would privation them treated.”

He shares his big daughters — Michaela, Mariah and Cara — with ex-wife Kerry Kennedy.

Continuing to straight code them, helium told them: "Your dada made mistakes. And helium apologized. And helium learned signifier it. And that’s what beingness is each about.”

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12:05 p.m.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has resigned implicit a barrage of intersexual harassment allegations successful a autumn from grace a twelvemonth aft helium was wide hailed nationally for his elaborate regular briefings and enactment during the opening of the coronavirus pandemic successful New York. The resignation announced Tuesday volition instrumentality effect successful 14 days.

The third-term Democratic politician was progressively isolated arsenic authorities Assembly members moved toward impeachment and allies deserted him pursuing past week’s study from authorities Attorney General Letitia James that elaborate 11 women’s claims of intersexual harassment.

Cuomo denied behaving inappropriately with immoderate of the women who person accused him of harassment and had resisted calls for his resignation from apical Democrats, including President Biden.

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