There were no thank yous, no outstretched hand to a vanquished opponent.

Instead, there was this.

"I have no regrets whatsoever about the election last night," Governor Andrew Cuomo said.

An election where Cuomo routed Cynthia Nixon by 31 points, yet at the same time left him sporting barely a smile in public.

He seemed troubled. By amateur political analysts. By unfair press coverage. And by so-called progressives. He says they don't help real New Yorkers who are not "ivory-tower academics. These are not pontificators. These are not people who live in the abstact or the theoretical."

But asked specifically who is peddling ivory-tower academia, Cuomo says he is speaking, well, you could say theoretically.

When asked if he was talking about Cynthia Nixon, he said, "No, I'm not talking about anyone. It's just the concept. The concept."

Whatever he says to the camera, Cuomo clearly is still nursing hard feelings toward Mayor Bill de Blasio. He is said to believe he put Nixon up to her challenge.

The mayor denies it, but it's souring a relationship between the two leaders you could charitably call barely functioning.

What's also clear is that after Thursday, Cuomo is even more trusting of his instincts. After all, he won, handily, even in regions you'd think would go for the insurgent Nixon.

Cuomo's campaign says he won by 36 points where Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won her primary. Ten points more where state Senator Jeff Klein lost.

In all, he won more primary votes than any candidate for governor in a race with record turnout.

"That is a revolution. That is a wave," he said. "On the numbers, not on some Twittersphere dialogue where I tweet you, you tweet me, and between the two of us, we think we have a wave."

And that wave could very well continue, matching Cuomo to the third term his father also won.