Cuomo All but Begs Sliwa to Drop Out. No Chance, Sliwa Says.

[RandySF]

Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo pleaded with Republicans on Friday to abandon Curtis Sliwa, their nominee for mayor, and said it would be “very, very, very hard mathematically” for him to mount a last-minute comeback as long as the Republican remained in the race.

Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat running on a third-party line, stopped just short of demanding Mr. Sliwa quit. But he called him “unqualified” and “a spoiler” whose continued presence in the race would only help elect Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee and front-runner.

“He cannot win,” Mr. Cuomo said, referring to Mr. Sliwa. “You vote for Curtis, save yourself the time, and vote for Mamdani. That’s what this is.”

The morning after Thursday night’s first general election debate, Mr. Cuomo took his case directly to WABC, the conservative talk radio station where Mr. Sliwa, the iconoclastic founder of the Guardian Angels, a crime patrol group, has long worked as a host.



https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/nyregion/cuomo-sliwa-mamdani.html