Mr. Cuomo has also lost the support of nearly every major union in New York State: the unions representing hotel workers, teachers, building service workers, transit workers, retail workers and municipal employees, as well as the head of New York’s umbrella labor organization, the AFL-CIO.
Laura Curran, whom Mr. Cuomo backed for Nassau County executive and whose swearing-in he memorialized on his website, has also called for him to resign. In an interview, she suggested that his defense on Tuesday was tone-deaf and fell flat in her suburban county, which backed him in the 2018 primary with nearly 78 percent of the vote.
“I’m hearing, you know, his tone of his own victimhood, and his tone of self-pity, was the wrong note to hit,” she said. “That’s what people found really off-putting. Along with, of course, the findings. But that on top of it — that this was something that was being done to him — is a turnoff to many people that I’m speaking to.”
Those who have not demanded the governor’s head — some of them longtime allies who have business before the state — are avoiding making public statements on his standing.
Mr. Gresham, the president of 1199 SEIU, a powerful health care union, declined multiple requests for comment. A spokesman for the New York State Public Employees Federation also said nothing. Gary LaBarbera, the president of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, was similarly circumspect.
According to his spokesman, Jordan Isenstadt, the union is “letting the process play out.”
On Tuesday evening, the Rev. Al Sharpton, the civil rights activist, met with New York City leaders at the National Action Network, then had a Wednesday-morning call with leaders from upstate New York.
“We have not come to a consensus,” Mr. Sharpton said on Wednesday afternoon. “But I can say it is leaning heavily toward calling for his resignation.”
