Losing Amazon again: Is Cuomo losing his mojo?

After days of efforts to get Amazon to rethink its decision to give up on a New York City headquarters, Gov. Cuomo on Friday glumly announced that he “has no reason to believe” the company will bite.

All of which leaves the gov looking like he’s lost his mojo — at least.

Cuomo had been his usual dervish of activity in the “Hail Mary” campaign. He’d gotten state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins to back off on naming Amazon foe Sen. Mike Gianaris to a key panel, while Long Island state Senate Democrats loudly, belatedly and “spontaneously” voiced their support for the seemingly dead deal.

And Friday morning brought a full-page New York Times ad from business, labor and political leaders begging Amazon to reconsider and promising their support against the Bezos-bashers.

But then Cuomo told WNYC’s Brian Lehrer that none of it made a difference: “No” still means “no.”

Yet we couldn’t help but notice how erratic the gov has been in explaining what went wrong in the first place. At one point, he said that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s opposition to the deal didn’t matter; later on, he said it did.

Similarly, he at one point blamed Gianaris, and at another called the senator’s role insignificant. (“I’m either responsible for what happened with Amazon, or I am irrelevant. I can’t possibly be both,” quipped Gianaris.)

All this, when Amazon has never publicly explained its decision, beyond apparent leaks to The Washington Post about its surprise at the “unwelcome” response from so many local pols. Really?

Perhaps it was Gianaris and AOC, or the way Mayor de Blasio turned straight from helping announce the deal to desperately trying to appease its critics.

Or maybe the company just lost faith that Cuomo could deliver as he’d promised. If so, Amazon’s not the only one.

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