{"id":11655,"date":"2025-10-22T05:49:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T05:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/11655\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T05:49:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T05:49:17","slug":"andrew-cuomo-urges-republicans-to-vote-for-him-and-block-mamdani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/11655\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Cuomo urges Republicans to vote for him and block Mamdani"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday pleaded with New York City Republicans and conservatives to vote for him instead of GOP nominee Curtis Sliwa<\/a> in the mayoral race \u2014 joking that \u201cI don\u2019t have horns.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former governor made the appeal on a right-leaning radio show, telling listeners that a vote for Sliwa will help lefty Democratic front-runner Zohran Mamdani cruise to victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cI need your listeners to vote for me,\u201d Cuomo told host Sid Rosenberg on WABC 77 radio\u2019s \u201cSid & Friends in the Morning\u201d program.<\/p>\n

Independent mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo urged conservative voters in New York City to back him instead of Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa during an appearance on WABC 77 radio\u2019s \u201cSid & Friends in the Morning.\u201d Kevin C Downs for The New York Post<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have horns,\u201d he quipped. \u201cI need your voters to vote for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cuomo, when asked by Rosenberg whether he\u2019d consider giving Sliwa a job in his potential administration should the Guardian Angels founder call it quits, left the door open to the idea.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t even thought about it to tell you the truth, but, yes, that would be something that I am interested in,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like Curtis\u2019 support,\u201d Cuomo added, praising the work of his opponent\u2019s red beret-wearing public safety patrol group.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Sliwa] does know the transit system \u2014 the trains and the subway,\u201d Cuomo said.<\/p>\n

Cuomo said that voting for Sliwa will only help Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani win the election. James Messerschmidt<\/p>\n

But the ex-governor, who is running as an independent, also continued to claim Sliwa only serves as a spoiler candidate whose votes will deliver the November 4 election to Mamdani, the socialist Democratic Party nominee.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s not viable. A vote for Curtis is a vote for Mamdani. Everyone knows that,\u201d Cuomo said.<\/p>\n

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His pitch mirrored a plea he made to Republicans on WABC\u2019s the \u201cCats Roundtable\u201d program hosted by John Catsimatidis on Sunday.<\/p>\n

WABC radio owner Catsimatidis \u2014 Sliwa\u2019s boss before he left his show at the station to run for mayor \u2014 has publicly urged the GOP standard-bearer to suspend his campaign<\/a> in favor of Cuomo.<\/p>\n

Cuomo said he would be open to giving Sliwa a job in his mayoral administration. Robert Miller<\/p>\n

Cuomo trails Mamdani by double digits in recent general election polls, but is running ahead of Sliwa, with a recent poll showing he could be within striking distance <\/a>of the front-runner in a two-way race.<\/p>\n

The three-term Queens state assemblyman \u2014 who trounced Cuomo in the June Democratic primary \u2014 is comfortably ahead in part because the ex-gov and Sliwa are splitting the anti-Mamdani vote.<\/p>\n

At a breakfast forum on Tuesday, Cuomo insisted he\u2019s in the race to win it amid criticism he\u2019s run a lackluster campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you really want to do this?\u201d he was asked at the Association For a Better New York event, responding <\/p>\n

He insisted he wants to be mayor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am afraid for New York City, and I\u2019ve never felt that before,\u201d said Cuomo, who earlier on the radio called Mamdani \u201cfrightening.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reporters noted to Cuomo that he was not not stumping as vigorously<\/a> in city neighborhoods as
Sliwa, who typically holds five or six public events a day.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am reaching out to his voters to get them to support me,\u201d Cuomo said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what he does. I know what I do \u2026 I\u2019m aggressively going out to meet all his voters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sliwa, for the umpteenth time, said Tuesday he will not be dropping out of the race<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, let\u2019s be very clear: I am not dropping out, under no circumstances,\u201d he told reporters. \u201cI\u2019ve already been offered money to drop out. I said \u2018no.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The five borough Republican Party chairpersons also issued a joint statement Tuesday standing behind Sliwa, including Manhattan leader Andrea Catsimatidis, John Catsimatidis\u2019 daughter.<\/p>\n

Sliwa will participate in the final mayoral debate taking place Wednesday on Spectrum NY1. The nine days of early voting begins Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday pleaded with New York City Republicans and conservatives to vote for him instead of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[80,154,57,9,24,55,54,56,563,6341,58,82],"class_list":["post-11655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-andrew-cuomo","tag-curtis-sliwa","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","tag-sid-rosenberg","tag-us-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}