By the time Andrew Cuomo resigned as governor in 2021, almost every elected Democrat in New York was calling for him to resign or be impeached in the face of multiple sexual harassment allegations.

It’s a different story now — with many in Cuomo’s party biting their tongues when asked about him as he runs for mayor in New York City.

“I have to go forward in light of where we are today and deal with whatever the voters decide to deal with,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said on Tuesday during a press conference in Albany’s State Capitol Building.

And in Washington, D.C., Democratic U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand added, “I’ve known Andrew Cuomo for decades. He has a lot of talent as an executive, he’s been a very strong governor and done very good things for New York.”

Cuomo has come a long way since August 2021 when then-President Joe Biden was calling for him to resign.

The Democrat-led state Assembly was poised to impeach the governor with the state Senate ready to hold his impeachment trial.

Cuomo was dealing with charges of sexual harassment as well as allegations that he covered up his administration’s response to the COVID pandemic in nursing homes.

Rather than face likely impeachment, Cuomo stepped down.

After he handed in his resignation papers, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said in a statement, “This evidence - we believe - could likely have resulted in articles of impeachment had he not resigned.”

If Cuomo was impeached and convicted, he would’ve been banned for life from statewide office.

Now, four years later, he’s riding a political comeback wave in the race for mayor. His critics are still there — but many of them are more muted.

But Democratic state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins was skeptical on Tuesday in Albany when asked about his return to politics.

“Well, it’s a free country,” she said. “He did resign for a myriad of reasons.”

“I guess he feels that it’s time for him to reassert himself in the political arena and I said for me, I’m watching it, I’d like to know during that time what has changed? What is different about how he approaches things and right now I am not sure what that is,” she added. "But I guess there is a campaign that will unfold and he will be able to let us know what is different between the time he left and now.”

Some Democratic lawmakers are still outspoken.

“I don’t understand why any New York would want to vote for Andrew Cuomo. It occurs to me [that] if anyone needs to be bullied or lied to, they can call a member of their family,” Queens Democratic Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi said. “He’s the guy who cut mental health beds so our mentally ill patients don’t have a place to go to get services, so they’re on the streets and he’s the guy who fought against a rent supplement for the last 12 years.”

“So, I’m puzzled by the logic that ‘my terrible time as governor earns me a spot to be mayor,’” he continued.

“He has no business being in the race, up until recently, he didn’t even live in New York City. Cuomo has harmed women by sexually assaulting them — and now he’s suing them for defamation!” added Democratic Assemblywoman Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas of Queens.

Hochul slammed Cuomo for his “documented repulsive and unlawful behavior” toward women in 2021.

Implementing new workplace harassment protections in state government.  

But on March 4, she said don’t ask her about her former boss.

“I’m getting involved as much as you desperately want me to — I’m not talking about the mayor’s race!” Hochul said.

Victims advocate Erica Vladimer says Hochul should pick a side.

“It’s been really disappointing to see the elected officials who less than four years ago had come out and said that Cuomo does not deserve to hold public office kind of hedge even be, extremely quiet at the moment, and I’d like to see elected officials, like the governor, really show something we call institutional courage,” Vladimer, the co-founder of the Sexual Harassment Working Group, said on “Inside City Hall.”

Republican leaders argue Democrats are still afraid of Cuomo.

“He had a reputation for being a hard-fisted-type guy. And it was his way or the highway,” Republican state Assembly Minority Leader William Barclay said.

He blames Cuomo for COVID-era economic regulations he argues crippled New York, as well as other controversial policies he signed into law: bail reform and congestion pricing.

“Don’t forget he was the one who [said] you couldn’t buy a beer without getting food at restaurants. He closed golf courses. You couldn’t dance at weddings!” he added.

Cuomo, who is denying the charges of his critics, is leading a current field of 10 Democrats seeking the top job at City Hall.