The morning after the first mayoral debate of the general election, Andrew M. Cuomo said it would be nearly impossible to win if Curtis Sliwa did not drop out. Mr. Sliwa said he was not going anywhere.

Sliwa said he was offered $10 million to drop out, adding that “Eric got the same offer,” referring to Mayor Eric Adams.

Republican Curtis Sliwa should drop out of NYC mayoral race to give former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo a better chance to win against frontrunner Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani.

Sliwa has long been a memorable character in New York City life. In the 1970s, he donned a red beret and began patrolling the subways with a group of civilians as the head of the Guardian Angels. In the 1990s, he escaped a murder attempt by leaping out the window of a moving taxi that had been stolen by his would-be assassins.

Curtis Sliwa faces MAGA backlash after refusing to call Donald Trump the 'best president,' igniting Republican infighting and exposing new fractures in the GOP's 2025 New York City mayoral race.

If this is such an emergency that Sliwa must fall on his sword and abandon his priorities, then why haven’t Jeffries and Schumer, both from New York, had the courage to endorse Cuomo?

The Democratic nominee and front-runner Zohran Mamdani, the former governor Andrew M. Cuomo, and the Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa presented starkly different visions for governing the city.