Cuomo skipped work to strategize survival plan at Gov. Mansion: sources

Gov. Andrew Cuomo didn’t show up at work on Wednesday but instead remained holed up in the Governor’s Mansion developing a strategy to salvage his political career, sources told The Post.

The embattled Democrat met with close allies in Albany’s Executive Mansion and remained tight-lipped on findings by independent investigators that he sexually harassed 11 women in the workplace, according to the sources.

State Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs — a longtime Cuomo ally — told The Post that for several hours he begged the governor to resign following the release of State Attorney General Letitia James’s bombshell report Tuesday.

“I was trying to encourage him to step down. That’s not his mindset at the moment,” he said, describing it as a “sad conversation” between the two men.

The Wall Street Journal also reported that Cuomo was prepping with his close advisors for a second press conference,  where he planned to further address the allegations lodged against him.

“The event never happened because the governor’s team couldn’t settle on an exact message or format,” the sources told the paper.

Cuomo has not been seen in public or made a statement since Attorney General Letitia James released the 165-page bombshell report Tuesday morning, instead opting to release a pre-recorded video denying the accusations, as a bipartisan chorus of calls for his resignation grew deafening.

The governor’s silence comes as separate criminal investigations into the report’s allegations of forcible touching were launched in Nassau County, Manhattan, Westchester County and Albany.

A wide-ranging impeachment inquiry in the Democratic-led state Assembly is said to have broad support among state legislators, the majority of whom have called for Cuomo to read the writing on the wall.

The local calls for Cuomo’s resignation have also been echoed by former allies President Biden, House Speaker Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Schumer in Washington.

The AG’s report detailed allegations of sexual harassment, intimidation and unwanted touching by 11 accusers that investigators found credible.

Cuomo’s Wednesday hideout — the mansion where he once lived with his father Gov. Mario Cuomo — was the site of the report’s most serious accusation.

“I mean it was — he was like cupping my breast. He cupped my breast,” an unidentified female aide said in sworn testimony to investigators.