It is the eye of the political storm, as early voting is done and the polls open on Election Day. By Tuesday night, the long campaign season will finally draw to a conclusion and see either Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo or Curtis Sliwa occupying the Mayor’s Office in City Hall. Sliwa has been the supreme underdog in the race all year, although a new Fox News poll taken over the weekend says his third-place campaign finally received a boost in support, though the poll also suggested that Cuomo surged enough to move within striking distance of the front-running Mamdani. Sliwa appeared on 710 WOR’s Mendte in the Morning program to discuss the message he’s trying to get across to undecided voters before the polls close on Election Day.
Sliwa laid out the numbers in a recent poll for host Larry Mendte as proof that people will turn out tomorrow and vote for him: “Well, of course, we have momentum, and the favorabilities of that poll- they rated all Democrats and Republican at a national level, and guess who rated out at 52%, the highest in the rating, equal to former President Barck Obama- Curtis Sliwa. When your favorables are high, that means people are likely to vote for you.”
Sliwa says he will continue to fight the good fight and try to drum up as many votes as possible because he loves New York City: “If you’re a Zohranista, if you’re a supporter of Zohran Mamdani, you feel empowered because you have a whole generation of Baby Boomers who are quaking in their boots, whereas I take the approach of Braveheart: we fight, fight, fight, we never surrender, we never retreat, and if we lose, we come back to battle again. I’m not going anywhere. I’m staying. I was born in New York, I’m the only real New Yorker, they tried to kill me in New York, I will die in New York and I will be buried in New York, and I will fight for New York.”
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