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.

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman called on NYC mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa to drop out of the race on Friday, citing a Polymarket graph showing Mamdani with 90% odds to win.

As he pleaded for support from conservative voters Friday, Andrew Cuomo acknowledged it will be “very, very, very hard” for him to win next month’s mayoral election as long as

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.

Andrew Cuomo was the main punching bag at Thursday’s first general election mayoral debate, with Democratic front-runner Zohran Mamdani and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa repeatedly

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.

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?