The New York Post called on Republican mayoral nominee Curtis Sliwa to drop out of the race for Gracie Mansion in an eye-catching editorial published late Monday afternoon.
“It burns to write this, but: It’s time for Curtis Sliwa to face reality, and admit that the city’s best hope to avoid the disaster of a Zohran Mamdani mayoralty is for him to drop out of the race,” began the Post. “The simple fact is that the Republican nominee is far back in third place in every poll, with zero chance of winning.”
It continued:
Polls show Andrew Cuomo in spitting distance of Mamdani if Sliwa quits the race; if Curtis stays in and Andrew loses by a Sliwa-shaped hole, then he will be blamed.
Plenty of readers will erupt in fury at us, and we get it: No one will confuse this page, or The Post as a whole, for Cuomo fans.
That’s not the issue, either: In a dire situation, we’ve got to deal with the facts as they are, ugly as they are.
After praising Sliwa for having “worked hard” on the campaign trail and dinging him for being “an oddball, with a sometimes shady past,” the influential conservative newspaper concluded that “Mamdani is poised to win and do major, deadly damage to the lives of all New Yorkers: He must be stopped. It stinks, but for the sake of the city you love so deeply, Curtis, please swallow this bitter pill.”
The Post‘s call for Sliwa to step aside comes amidst widespread frustration with the Guardian Angels founder on the right.
“Curtis would make the best mayor of all the candidates … but Curtis has to realize that he should love New York more than anything else,” mused John Catsimatidis, Sliwa’s boss at WABC, on Monday. “He could win the next election because people will be proud of him for doing the right thing for New York City, instead of the wrong thing.”
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