A defiant Curtis Sliwa, the Republican nominee for New York mayor, told Newsmax on Wednesday that he will not drop out of the race to prevent Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist front-runner, from winning the election and implementing an extreme-leftist agenda.
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, running as an independent candidate, and many other Republicans have said the only way to defeat Mamdani is for Sliwa to end his candidacy.
“I don’t surrender to Andrew Cuomo, a disgraced governor who, because of his failures, made a pathway for me to become possibly the next mayor,” Sliwa said on “Finnerty.”
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