{"id":30782,"date":"2025-11-06T15:54:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T15:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/30782\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T15:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T15:54:06","slug":"tuesdays-mayoral-election-should-be-a-wake-up-call-for-nys-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/30782\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday’s mayoral election should be a wake-up call for NY’s GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday\u2019s mayoral election should be a wake-up call for New York Republicans<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Their candidate, Curtis Sliwa, failed even to break double digits. More than nine out 10 voters backed either Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani or Democrat Andrew Cuomo.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a far worse showing than the GOP should\u2019ve gotten based on the Democrats\u2019 6-1 edge in voter registration.<\/p>\n

Something is clearly broken here.\u00a0Republicans have to get serious about running candidates in the city.<\/p>\n

True, Sliwa might\u2019ve finished a lot closer if Andrew Cuomo had dropped out after losing the Democratic primary.<\/p>\n

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But Cuomo \u2014 who was badly tarnished<\/a> \u2014 was able to pull 42% of the vote because Democrats and Republicans who wanted to avoid an antisemitic socialist as mayor thought Sliwa had no shot.<\/p>\n

That was understandable: He has zero experience in government. And zero experience running anything even close to an enterprise with a $125 billion budget and more than 350,000 employees.<\/p>\n

Indeed, his record and life history, as the founder of the Guardian Angels, made him a quirky, if not something of a joke, candidate.<\/a><\/p>\n

We get it: Republicans face a steep uphill climb in New York.<\/p>\n

The city has a long history of identity politics that favors the left and Democratic political machines and clubs that reinforce the view that voting for anyone who isn\u2019t a Democrat is heresy.<\/p>\n

Even the schools tilt young minds leftward.<\/p>\n

All of which makes it hard for Republicans to find good candidates, and harder still when the weak ones who do run lose, discouraging others.<\/p>\n

Say hello to Democratic domination with no accountability \u2014 and a steady, downward spiral.<\/p>\n

Still, it\u2019s not like a Republican has never prevailed in New York: Rudolph Giuliani won twice and Michael Bloomberg claimed victory as a GOPer in 2001 and 2005.<\/p>\n

Last year, the supposedly despised Donald Trump pulled an impressive 30% of the city vote.<\/p>\n

Clearly, getting the GOP\u2019s act together requires building a bench \u2014 but also a far stronger party apparatus: New York really has no Republican establishment, just scattered clubs.<\/p>\n

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It needs donors who don\u2019t just jump in at the last minute, but engage in party-building and candidate cultivation \u2014 and realize that politics means compromise, not simply dictating or dangling cash to magically get exactly what you what.<\/p>\n

A long-term strategy involves trying, failing and learning lessons so you succeed next time; worthwhile potential candidates need to know they\u2019ll be more than just another sacrificial lamb.<\/p>\n

Having viable Republican candidates \u2014 if only to keep Democrats honest \u2014 is essential to the city\u2019s health.<\/p>\n

Tuesday was proof: With Sliwa as the GOP nominee, and Cuomo running as an independent, the city wound up with a radical socialist who\u2019ll surely test New Yorkers\u2019 endurance.<\/p>\n

New York needs a stronger opposition party.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s hope Republicans learn from Tuesday\u2019s results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday\u2019s mayoral election should be a wake-up call for New York Republicans. Their candidate, Curtis Sliwa, failed even…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[80,128,154,2132,304,12363,9,24,63,1093,563,299,5285,2134,14738,129,131,130,82],"class_list":["post-30782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-andrew-cuomo","tag-bronx","tag-curtis-sliwa","tag-democrats","tag-editorial","tag-michael-bloomberg","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-mayoral-election","tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","tag-opinion","tag-republican-party","tag-republicans","tag-rudy-giuliani","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30782","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=30782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}