It's not yet over for "Governor" Andrew Cuomo in 2022-23; unless somebody else squeeks by him like one of his fellow Dems in the 2022 Primary, or Republican-Conservative Lee Zeldin from Long Island in the 2022 General Election

Some people suddenly think that Andrew Cuomo is going to fold his tent and go off quietly into the night  ---  especially since Governor Hochul annonced that New York State under-reported its total COVID-19 deaths by 12,000 souls  ---  but Andy Boy still has some tricks up his sleave, like turning right around and running again for NYS Govermor in 2022

Needless to say, Andrew Coumo pretty much has got to thread a needle for it to work.....  However, it's nonetheless possible

Republican-Conservative Lee Zeldin would also need to thread his own needle.....  And that too is somewhat possible

A long-time mostly-in/ for-Brooklyn Democrat wag pointed out to me that Kathy Hochul has no real shot, even as a technical "incumbent," because she won't have time to put all her own loyalists in place around NYS in time for the primary, and she is still a Democrat "upstater";  and the last real Democrat "upstater" to be elected Governor of New York was Grover Cleveland from Buffalo, when it was a very big city during another era. Nobody else from upstate New York in either party has really come close during the modern era, unleas you count Hyde Park, Pocantico Hills, or wherever Pataki was from, as "Upstate."  

However, that by itself isn't enough for Cuomo's outside shot to work in a Democrat primary  ---  Cuomo would also need a fourth candidate in the primary race in order for him to beat both of the Democrat women front-runners likely to be running, Kathy Hochul and Tish James. Luckily for Coumo, there is just such a fourth wheel for the Cuomo-mobile  ---  Jumaane Williams, who is both to the left of Letitia James and from her very own bailiwicks.

According to this full-time wag and sometime Dem cousultant, these are what he sees as the likely result of such a four-way Dem Primary among the early front-runners, if the contest were to be held any time soon (meaning somewhat sooner than the actual time of the 2022 Dem Primary, which in reality is already very soon).

His projected 2022 results for the Democratic Primary for Governor of NYS:
 
Cuomo                     39%
Tish James               28%
Jumaane Williams    21%
Kathy Hochul           12%

Nonetheless, Kathy Hochul can remain very relevant in any Democrat primary field.  If Hochul even gets to 20% in a Dem primary, then Cuomo's chances would be greatly reduced, and any surge by either Tish James or Jumaane Williams might well knock Chris's brother Andy off, once and for all. 
 
Now, if things do break for Cuomo in the 2022 Dem primary, then, of course there'd be the November election.....  And that's where things could get very interesting for somebody like Lee Zeldin.....  Of course, Zeldin would need to weather his own storm in a possible GOP primary against the likes of Rob Astorino, Andrew Giuliani and/or one or two others  ---  surely, for a Zeldin scenario to work in/for a November 2022 upset, he would need to be the winner of the Republican nomination, with or without a primary.

There are now only four (4) parties in NYS with permanent line status: the Democrats and Republicans, and the "third" party line Conservatives and the Working Families Party.  Right now, Tish James looks like a lock to get the WFP line; and Lee Zeldin pretty much has the inside track with the Conservatives ---  so the right outcome of both the GOP and the Dem primaries would be critical for both Cuomo and Zeldin.
 
Opposition to Coumo will remain strong throughout all of the 2022 election cycle, even if he were to be the winner of the Democrat primary, because Tish James would be likely to remain on the ballot as an active WFP candidate for governor.  As a result, in November 2022, if Lee Zeldin were to get a total of about 39-or-40%, combined on the Republican and Conservative party lines, he could very likely lead the field, and be the next Governor of New York State; and a November total closer to 44 or 45 percent for Zeldin would almost surely make him a lock as the next Governor of NYS. That's because strong races in November by Cuomo and Tish James would make the likelyhood of either garnering more than 39% or higher in the general election somewhat unlikely, and either Democrats' getting 44% or 45% would be a virtual impossibility.

Obviously, there are plenty "ifs," "ands," or "buts" in this story about the prospects for Cuomo and Zeldin in 2022, but stranger things have happened before; and these are very, very strange times.....