#Stop playing Hide & Creep, Gov. Cuomo— and just end it

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is in an impossible position: Holed up at the Executive Mansion since state Attorney General Tish James accused him of sexual harassment, how can he govern? Yet how can he conduct the state’s business with impeachment nearing, his former allies urging him to resign and not one Democrat defending him?

It’s time to stop playing hide and creep. Cuomo needs to step down.

The gov’s been basically AWOL since the release of James’ report, which found his sexual harassment of 11 women broke state and federal law.

“What matters to me at the end of the day is getting the most done I can for you,” he said. “I will not be distracted from that job.”

Instead, he’s been lounging poolside at the mansion, no doubt fantasizing about a zero-chance political comeback. Longtime Cuomo ally and state Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs spent hours begging the gov to resign. But, Jacobs told The Post, that’s “not his mindset at the moment.”

How utterly out of touch: Impeachment is near-certain; the Assembly’s Judiciary Committee told his lawyer its “investigation is nearing completion.” More than half of the Assembly’s members have said they’ll vote to begin proceedings. Once the Assembly delivers an impeachment to the Senate, Cuomo is out of office for the duration of the trial. He’d be busy defending himself while state government ground to a halt — and at a critical moment.

“There’s no conceivable scenario or path where he can ride this out,” state Sen. James Skoufis (D-Hudson Valley) told MSNBC. “I think everyone’s hope is that he resigns, he steps down willingly and spares the state, spares the Democratic Party, from an ugly impeachment proceeding.”

“A guy who spends 11 hours having to testify about his sexual harassment and assault is not a guy who is focusing on fighting COVID or getting us federal aid or getting rent relief money to people who need it,” Mayor Bill de Blasio blasted Thursday.

Now imagine if, on top of all that, the handful of district attorneys probing possible criminal changes prepared to make indictments. Would any state work get done?

If Cuomo stays on, he’ll prove beyond all doubt he cares only about himself and not New Yorkers struggling to recover from his poor handling of the pandemic.