Los Angeles Times: “The missteps and aloofness that now have California Gov. Gavin Newsom facing the threat of recall from office have been overshadowed by the sexual harassment scandal that has rapidly engulfed his counterpart in New York, Andrew Cuomo. The two men took very different paths in their descent from favorites of liberal voters to the targets of scathing parody on ‘Saturday Night Live,’ but both share problems so big they are stealing oxygen from a party that doesn’t have much to spare.”
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