If he wants to be active office holder when he seeks the presidency, Andrew Cuomo will probably have to win two more terms (in 2018 and 2022) as governor of New York. Of course, he’ll be positioned for a challenge in 2020 should the Democrats unexpectedly lose in 2016. But it might not be until 2024 that he has a real shot.
In that case, though, he’d be vying for a fifth straight term for the Democrats in the White House.
And he’d have a very long record as governor of New York to defend.