A longtime fixture in New York City politics known for his eccentricities – from his love of cats to his brushes with the mob – now finds himself at the center of one of the most consequential mayoral elections in decades.
Curtis Sliwa, the Republican nominee, is facing escalating pressure from key members of his party to drop out and clear the way for a one-on-one matchup between Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani and independent candidate Andrew Cuomo. President Donald Trump, a Queens native himself, has all but written Sliwa off.
Sliwa insists he will not drop out. And in mocking Cuomo and the business interests backing him, Sliwa at times seems to echo Mamdani, the democratic
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