Cuomo, who is positioning himself for a 2020 presidential run, stumbled in the early days of the #MeToo movement when he initially refused to return donations from Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood mogul who has been accused of decades of
sexual misconduct against actresses and other women.
In a year of the Time's Up and #MeToo movements, which have come in the wake of dozens of accusations that have come out of Hollywood after a slew of
sexual misconduct allegations
against Weinstein, the presence of the two
actresses was a decidedly symbolic.