Cuomo crashes Biden's victory party: The Note

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that he "didn't want to be a distraction," but he managed to upstage President Joe Biden's biggest bipartisan victory to date.

The TAKE with Rick Klein Any afterglow was bound to fade fast -- for 3.5 trillion reasons or because of critiques from the left or anything else from the menu of pre-midterm challenges confronting Democrats. While Gov. Andrew Cuomo said one of his reasons for stepping down was that he "didn't want to be a distraction," he managed to upstage President Joe Biden's biggest bipartisan victory to date. And Biden didn't exactly take the stage back for himself. To Democrats, there was something vaguely familiar and slightly worrisome about an August day that brought a temporary return to the kind of news cycle the Trump years generated with regularity -- only partly because it was Cuomo making headlines that would rather be owned by Biden.