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The New York mayoral race has people asking if anybody can derail Zohran Mamdani’s campaign. The Democratic front-runner has a commanding lead in the polls; his detractors, however, raise the alarm that New York will self-destruct if a socialist takes the reins. Andrew Cuomo seems uninterested and blasé about running for the job. Incumbent Eric Adams seems to generate more interest from voters if he drops out than stays in. But most people seem to gloss over the fourth viable option: GOP candidate Curtis Sliwa.
Sitting in third place in recent polls, the founder of the Guardian Angels has long said the race should finally get interesting after Labor Day. We are now nearly two weeks removed from that milepost, with speculation that President Trump has offered jobs to Adams and Sliwa to entice them to drop out and make Andrew Cuomo’s path for upsetting Mamdani easier. Sliwa appeared on 710 WOR’s Mendte in the Morning with a two-word message for President Trump on how he can best assist the field in the mayoral race- stay out!
Sliwa explained to host Larry Mendte how Trump can help if he actually has a vested interest in who wins the race for Gracie Mansion: “If he were to bring peace to Gaza, which he has the potential to do, that would take a major campaign plank right away from Zohran Mamdani. He doesn’t want to talk about local issues. He wants to run against Donald Trump, he wants to talk about the Palestinian cause, anything to distract, because on the local issues, especially crime and public safety, he’s extraordinarily weak… but every day that the press and the candidates talk about who should drop out is another good day for Zohran Mamdani, because he doesn’t have to talk about issues.”
Sliwa also addressed the assassination of conservative stalwart Charlie Kirk: “(It) should send shock waves through our country, which is best known for free speech and democracy… we don’t want anybody to be hurt in the process of exposing their views; that’s what America is known for, but there have been spurts of violence in our history, and that’s why it’s very important that people come together in this moment of Charlie Kirk’s loss.”