{"id":41379,"date":"2025-11-16T17:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/41379\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T17:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:16:12","slug":"why-curtis-sliwa-stayed-in-the-race-and-the-billionaires-who-tried-to-buy-him-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/41379\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Curtis Sliwa Stayed in the Race\u2014and the Billionaires Who Tried to Buy Him Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even a week after the former governor was roundly defeated and his political career dealt a deathly blow, it has not ebbed. In an interview that lasts less than two hours, he compares Cuomo to Macbeth, Cain of Cain and Abel, a mob boss, and the \u201cPrince of Darkness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Such was Sliwa\u2019s animosity towards Cuomo and the billionaires who rallied behind him that, at times in the campaign, it seemed as if Mamdani and Sliwa were on the same team. Both of them railed against the big money pouring into the race, both criticized the interference of the White House, and both wouldn\u2019t miss an opportunity<\/a> to mock Cuomo\u2019s cozy relationship with the ultra-rich Hamptons<\/a> set. <\/p>\n

The Cuomo campaign did not respond to a request for comment from TIME. <\/p>\n

What was perhaps most confusing for Sliwa\u2019s fellow Republicans, and for the billionaires trying<\/a> to stop Mamdani, was that Sliwa did not fear a socialist mayor. <\/p>\n

\u201cFiscally, I was along Republican lines. But the fear, the fright, the hysteria, is what drove this race,\u201d he says. \u201cI saw grown men and women shaking in the street\u2026\u2019I don’t know what I’m going to do about Mamdani.\u2019 I would try to explain to them that in New York City\u2014 since I’m a student of our history\u2014we’ve had socialists, we’ve had communists in our City Council. We had a socialist Congressman \u2026It\u2019s not at all unusual.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even a week after the former governor was roundly defeated and his political career dealt a deathly blow,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[153,9,24,55,54,12,5296,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-41379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-city-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-news-desk","15":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41379","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=41379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}