It is the “ray of sunshine” of his day. Every day, Cynthia, a mother of two small daughters who lives in Brooklyn, is planted in front of their tv. She listens religiously to the briefing of Andrew Cuomo, the governor of the State of New York. She became addicted. “It helps me stay sane in this chaos,” she said. And yet, she did not like him. She even voted for his opponent in the last election. But the Covid-19 changed everything. Andrew Cuomo, 62, became a star of television and all of America looks at his daily press conference.

The democratic governor…