{"id":28754,"date":"2025-11-04T22:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/28754\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T22:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:10:07","slug":"nyc-mayors-race-sliwa-says-vote-vote-vote-across-big-apple-on-election-day-in-last-ditch-appeal-to-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/28754\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor\u2019s Race: Sliwa says \u2018vote, vote, vote\u2019 across Big Apple on Election Day in last-ditch appeal to voters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa kept busy throughout Election Day on Tuesday, hopping between different polling sites and campaigning with GOP officials.<\/p>\n

REUTERS\/Ryan Murphy<\/p>\n

Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa<\/a> kept busy throughout Election Day on Tuesday, with the red beret-wearing Guardian Angels founder hopping between different polling sites and campaigning with GOP officials.<\/p>\n

Sliwa is polling last out of the race\u2019s three major candidates \u2014 he is running against Democratic nominee and Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani (D-Queens) and independent candidate and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who lost to Mamdani in the primary. Mamdani is leading Cuomo in most polls by double digits, while both Cuomo and Mamdani remain well ahead of Sliwa, who is polling between 10 and 25%.<\/p>\n

Despite an increasingly narrow path to victory, Sliwa plugged away on Tuesday as New Yorkers went to the polls.\n<\/p>\n

In the morning, he accompanied his wife, Nancy Sliwa, to cast her ballot on the Upper West Side. Curtis Sliwa, who is running on both the Republican and Protect Animals lines,\u00a0wore a tie featuring cats<\/a> and emphasized his continued\u00a0dedication to animal rights. <\/p>\n

A few minutes after 10 a.m., Sliwa called in live to the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC to encourage New Yorkers to get out the vote.
\n\"CurtisRepublican candidate for New York City Mayor Curtis Sliwa campaigns in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on the eve of Election Day in New York, U.S., November 3, 2025. REUTERS\/Ryan MurphyREUTERS\/Ryan Murphy\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI would urge everybody to vote, even if they\u2019re not voting for me,\u201d Sliwa said on the Lehrer Show. \u201cI would suggest you vote for me. But please, whatever you do, vote, vote, vote.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lehrer asked Sliwa for his thoughts on the ballot proposals related to housing \u2014 proposals two through four, which aim to fast-track approval for new affordable housing developments by removing certain powers of City Council members and community input \u2014 Sliwa said he was against the idea.<\/p>\n

\u201cAndrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani are helping developers and realtors,\u201d Sliwa said. \u201cI\u2019m standing with the people.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Sliwa has taken heat in the final stretch of the election from anti-Mamdani Cuomo supporters who view the Republican candidate as a \u201cspoiler\u201d for Cuomo\u2019s candidacy \u2014 some hypothetical polls of a two-way race show Cuomo approaching Mamdani in the polls, or even eking out a win. Cuomo has repeatedly called on Sliwa to drop out to improve his own chances of beating Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist.<\/p>\n

When asked on CNN on Saturday whether he would have \u201cany regrets\u201d if Mamdani won and ran the city \u201clike a communist,\u201d Sliwa responded, \u201cWhy should I have regrets?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI trust people. People are going to make the choice. I\u2019ll live with the choice. I\u2019d like them to choose me. But if, perchance, I lose on Nov. 4, I will improve, not move. I will lead the opposition, I will organize against any of the initiatives that are not in the best interest of people,\u201d Sliwa said. \u201cI was born in this city. I was almost killed in this city. I\u2019ll die in this city. I\u2019ll be buried in this city.\u201d<\/p>\n

After his radio appearance, Sliwa headed to Christopher Columbus High School in the Bronx to campaign with Council Member Kristy Marmorato (R-Bronx) before greeting voters at P.S. 193 in Whitestone, Queens. Sliwa then campaigned with City Council candidate Alicia Vaichunas and Queens County GOP Chairman Tony Nunziato at P.S. 49 in Middle Village.<\/p>\n

Sliwa joined Council Member Vickie Paladino (R-Queens) for a press availability<\/a>, during which the Republican candidate criticized Trump\u2019s endorsement of Cuomo.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s the guy who said that Andrew Cuomo was a lousy governor, and during COVID, in the lockdown,\u201d Sliwa said.\n<\/p>\n

Still in Queens, Sliwa headed to campaign with City Council Minority Leader Joann Ariola (R-Queens), who has been a vocal supporter of Sliwa\u2019s throughout the campaign, at P.S. 207 in Howard Beach. He then campaigned with Queens GOP Chairman Tony Nunziato at P.S. 114 in Belle Harbor.<\/p>\n

Later in the afternoon, Sliwa was slated to greet voters at P.S. 4 and P.S. 55 in Staten Island before heading to St. Dominick\u2019s School with State Senator Steve Chan (R-Brooklyn) in Brooklyn. Sliwa planned to close the day of campaigning with a 7 p.m. stop with Republican candidate for City Council George Sarantopoulos at P.S. 264.<\/p>\n

Voting remains open until 9 p.m. Tuesday evening at all polling sites in New York City. To find your polling site, visit vote.nyc<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa kept busy throughout Election Day on Tuesday, hopping between different polling sites and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[10653,80,8394,17914,154,17915,17916,17917,9,24,14866,17918,63,1260,613,122,124,123,7819,9803,12257,82],"class_list":["post-28754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-affordable-housing-proposals","tag-andrew-cuomo","tag-animal-rights","tag-brian-lehrer-show","tag-curtis-sliwa","tag-election-day-campaigning","tag-gop-campaign","tag-mayoral-race-2025","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-election","tag-new-york-polls","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-politics","tag-pm-newsletter","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-queens-politics","tag-republican-candidate","tag-voter-turnout","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28754","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=28754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}