No one buying gov’s offer to drop re-elex bid for leniency

Gov. Cuomo tried to cut a deal with the state Legislature — offering to drop his bid for a fourth term in exchange for not getting impeached, The Post has learned.

But no one seems to be buying what the governor, is selling.

The three-term Democrat made the offer before Attorney General Letitia James released her damning report on his conduct last Tuesday, according to the state’s top party official.

“It was something that was floated to me by the folks in the Cuomo camp as a possible option before the attorney general’s report came out,” state Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs told The Post, adding, “I never saw it as a viable option.”

Still, it looks as if Cuomo and his winnowed-down inner circle haven’t given up on the last-ditch effort to avoid impeachment.

A source told The City on Monday that the gov’s team has been busy making calls to try to save his skin in the wake of the official report, which concluded Cuomo sexually harassed at least 11 women in violation of state and federal law. He repeatedly has denied any wrongdoing.

Before she resigned Sunday night, his top aide and confidante, Melissa DeRosa, had been asking executive staffers for strategies to quiet the impeachment talks, the source told The City.

Jacobs said he told the governor’s staff he didn’t think it was a plausible plan.

“I shot it down pretty quick,” Jacobs said. “Either you can survive the AG’s report and run again or you don’t survive the AG’s report. There’s no compromise.”

Charlie King, a longtime Cuomo pal, was apparently among those making inquiries about the deal, a source told The Post.

But King denied the claim, saying, “No. He’s not running for a fourth term, period.”

The governor has ignored calls for his resignation coming from as high as President Biden.

Even top adviser Larry Schwartz — who pressed Democratic county officials on whether they remained supportive of the scandal-plagued governor while leading the state’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign — has urged him to step down, a source close to the Cuomo camp said.

Bill Mulrow, the governor’s 2018 campaign chairman, was also among those who appealed to him to resign, according to a source familiar with the matter.

“You don’t need this,” Mulrow told the governor, according to the source, although the plea apparently fell on deaf ears.

Even the recently departed DeRosa has lost faith in the governor. The New York Times said that she resigned because she believed that her boss “no longer had a path to remain in office.”

Cuomo’s current term ends on Dec. 31, 2022.

The state Assembly Judiciary Committee met in Albany on Monday for updates on its investigation into Cuomo, with Speaker Carl Heastie saying the probe would be wrapped up “with all due haste” in the wake of James’ report.

The meeting included “detailed discussions” between the Judiciary Committee and its outside lawyers about Cuomo’s $5.1 million book deal, and whether the governor improperly used state resources to write his memoir, “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic,” sources said.

Spokesman Rich Azzopardi has previously denied that there was any criminality relating to the book.