USA TODAY — NEW YORK – It’s two thumbs down for the tabloid twins.

New York City voters rejected two scandal-scarred politicians trying for an electoral comeback: Former governor Eliot Spitzer, who resigned in 2008 in a prostitution scandal, lost a competitive race for city comptroller. Former representative Anthony Weiner, whose sexting cost him his congressional seat in 2011, came in fifth in the NYC Democratic mayoral primary. .

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“No comeback kids there,” said Doug Muzzio, a political scientist at Baruch College.