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One week from today, New Yorkers will find out who officially gets the nod to run for mayor on the Democratic side of the aisle. Whoever finishes second, however, probably just shrugs off the loss and runs anyway on another ticket. Throw into the mix the incumbent mayor running already as an independent, and the field gets crowded. Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa, who is the lock to get the Republican nominee for the second straight time, insists the electoral road still is set up to run from his front door to City Hall. He appeared on 710 WOR’s Mendte in the Morning program to explain why he feels the large field of Democratic contenders makes that possible.
“I know everybody’s getting all tied up in a knot, what happens if Mamdani somehow pulls an upset against Cuomo in the Democratic primary,” a confident Sliwa told host Larry Mendte. “It doesn’t matter. In the general election, there will be five of us. There will be Mamdani, there will be Cuomo, there will be Adams, there will be a guy nobody really knows, Jim Walden, and there will be me. And I start out with 30% of the vote, so just do the math. If you do the math, you can understand why Curtis Sliwa is going to be the next mayor of New York City.”
Sliwa says that fact that the Democrats will beat each other up, combined with his being the only candidate talking in the outer boroughs, will give him the votes to go over the top: “That means they’re going to continue the blood battle, cut each other up… meantime, I’m the only Republican, and I can basically, believe it or not, take the high road in this campaign!”
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