It seemed possible that the governor was having the same thoughts, as Cuomo dipped back into the Washington social scene and used public appearances to rail against Trump’s policies. After the 2016 election, oddsmakers had Andrew Cuomo’s name among the top 10 most likely Democrats to take on President Donald Trump in 2020. The name Cuomo has been in the national political conversation for two generations, since Andrew’s father, Mario, governed New York from 1983 to 1994. A few months before that, Cuomo had been photographed in the parking lot of the same Dunkin’ Donuts, driving his vintage Pontiac GTO-license plate number “1”-and flashing a thumbs-up alone behind the wheel, in just one in a series of recent local sightings. By the time she ran out to snap a photo, he was gone. Her co-worker whispered to her that it was, in fact, New York’s three-term governor, Andrew Cuomo. “We get people all the time who say, ‘I’m the president of the United States.’” “I’m thinking, ‘Yeah, he’s cuckoo,’” she told me.
So when a man walked in on Christmas Eve wearing a sweatshirt and introduced himself as the governor of New York, the shift leader working that day didn’t believe him. ALBANY, N.Y.-The Dunkin‘ Donuts on Madison Avenue and Lark Street here is a neighborhood hub for hungover college students, grizzled upstaters and those with nowhere else to escape bitter Albany winters.
