Molinaro Weighing 2nd Run Against Cuomo's Bid for Fourth Term

Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro, who got nearly 37 percent of the vote in the 2018 gubernatorial election despite huge disadvantages in campaign cash and name recognition, said Feb. 18 that he might challenge Governor Cuomo again next year, with the growing controversy over the large number of deaths in state nursing homes to be a key issue if he does.

"I'm giving it real consideration," he said in a phone interview while conceding that he might instead run for Congress if he didn't sense enough support from the Republican and Conservative parties—on whose lines he ran three years ago—and Democrats willing "to cross the line and vote for honest, competent government" rather than give Mr. Cuomo a fourth term.