{"id":2501451,"date":"2025-10-21T14:07:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-city-republicans-sticking-with-sliwa\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T14:08:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:08:33","slug":"new-york-city-republicans-sticking-with-sliwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-city-republicans-sticking-with-sliwa\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City Republicans sticking with Sliwa"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-york-city-republicans-sticking-with-sliwa%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2501451&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>New York City Republican leaders continue to support mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa despite increasing pressure from influential figures, including billionaire john Catsimatidis, for him to drop out of the race. The GOP borough chairs emphasize Sliwa&#8217;s grassroots support and reject attempts to consolidate behind former Governor Andrew Cuomo to improve his chances against socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani. Sliwa&#8217;s campaign highlights his popularity among everyday New Yorkers and vows to defeat Mamdani in the upcoming election. Although some party insiders and donors urge Sliwa to withdraw, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >offering potential job opportunities<\/a> or applying pressure, he remains committed to continuing his campaign. Former Governor George Pataki suggests that such pressure may actually motivate Sliwa to stay in the race. Current polls show Mamdani leading, but Sliwa maintains that he is the true candidate to restore safety and common sense to City Hall and insists he will not succumb to political insiders or special interests.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">NY Republicans sticking with Sliwa as Cuomo and allies ramp up the rhetoric calling for him to step out<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2378616\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Top <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/republican\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Republicans<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/new-york-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York City<\/a>&lsquo;s five boroughs reiterated their support for mayoral candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/state\/3856906\/andrew-cuomo-curtis-sliwa-irrelevant-nyc-mayor-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Curtis Sliwa<\/a> as pressure for him to step away from the race continues to grow.<\/p>\n<p>The calls have recently intensified, with billionaire John Catsimatidis, a top Republican donor and Sliwa&rsquo;s WABC radio boss, calling for Sliwa to drop out on Monday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3858139\/ed-gallrein-campaign-challenging-thomas-massie\/\">Ed Gallrein answers Trump&#8217;s call to primary Thomas Massie<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3857992\/josh-shapiro-memoir-release-in-january\/\">Josh Shapiro to release memoir in January<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3857545\/independent-senate-hopeful-dan-osborn-democratic-donors\/\">Independent Senate hopeful Dan Osborn cashes in on Democratic donors<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The New York City GOP&rsquo;s united support for Sliwa signals the party is not ready for the Republican to step out and consolidate support behind former Gov. Andrew Cuomo against socialist Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Republicans across every borough stand united behind Curtis&nbsp;Sliwa&nbsp;for Mayor of New York City,&rdquo; the five <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-republican-lawmaker-reveals-cancer-diagnosis-and-status-of-treatment-regimen\/\" title=\"Top ... Lawmaker Reveals Cancer Diagnosis And Status Of Treatment Regimen\">county chairs<\/a> said in a statement shared with the<em> Washington Examiner<\/em> by Sliwa&rsquo;s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In every neighborhood, volunteers have collected thousands of petition signatures and Curtis has raised millions from everyday New Yorkers, proof of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-tied-dark-money-network-arabella-advisors-behind-youth-tech-lobbying-groups\/\" title=\"Arabella Advisors, a Democratic-linked dark money network, ...s &#039;youth&#039; tech lobbying groups.\">genuine grassroots movement<\/a> that money cannot manufacture,&rdquo; they added.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican chairs insisted that they would not bow to outside interference and that Republican voters would not move their votes to Cuomo even if Sliwa drops out.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He lost his own party&rsquo;s primary badly and is not even appearing on the ballot on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-denies-meddling-in-nyc-mayoral-race-to-help-cuomo-against-mamdani\/\" title=\"Trump denies meddling in NYC mayoral ... to help ... against ...\">major party line<\/a>. Republicans should not have to clean up the mess Andrew Cuomo and the Democrats created, and we will not allow the political class to interfere with voters or hijack our ballot,&rdquo; they added.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Curtis&nbsp;Sliwa&nbsp;is our candidate, the credible leader who will defeat the radical left and restore safety, affordability, and common sense to City Hall. He is our candidate to defeat Zohran Mamdani on November 4th,&rdquo; they concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn GOP chairman Liam McCabe repeated the statement&rsquo;s sentiment in a comment to the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>: &ldquo;The County Chairs stand united in our support for Curtis Sliwa.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>While Sliwa has been adamant that he will not drop out of the race, several outside influencers have lobbied for him to do so. They believe Sliwa dropping out will enhance Cuomo&rsquo;s chances of beating Mamdani.<\/p>\n<p>Billionaire Bill Ackman, a supporter of President Donald Trump, has particularly pressed Sliwa to fall back. He reposted the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nypost\/status\/1980590307348472089\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">front page<\/a> of the <em>New York Post<\/em> on Tuesday, which said, &ldquo;Just Walk Away, Beret!&rdquo; in reference to Sliwa&rsquo;s red beret.<\/p>\n<p>The page noted that Sliwa&rsquo;s allies have told him to drop his mayoral bid. Fellow WABC radio host Sid Rosenberg said Tuesday that Sliwa &ldquo;was not gonna win.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s the bottom line,&rdquo; he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sidrosenberg19\/status\/1980566011696017569\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">added.<\/a> Rosenberg routinely hosts Sliwa on his radio program alongside many other New York Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Rosenberg had praised Sliwa for &ldquo;chopping up&rdquo; Ackman in a video Sliwa appeared in days earlier. In the video, Sliwa <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/realpeteyb123\/status\/1979597482083631397\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called out Ackman <\/a>as a &ldquo;jerk&rdquo; and said, &ldquo;Stay in your lane.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The monologue earned praise from Mamdani. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s genuinely positive for our democracy that there&rsquo;s another candidate in this race who believes NYC voters should pick their next mayor, not billionaires who mostly live somewhere else,&rdquo; he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZohranKMamdani\/status\/1980029005764907010\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A recent poll from Patriot Polling, reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/split-ticket.org\/2024\/10\/29\/are-gop-leaning-pollsters-biasing-the-averages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">leaning right<\/a>, shows Mamdani winning over Cuomo and Sliwa at 43% to 32% for Cuomo and 19% for the Republican.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo would win if Sliwa&rsquo;s supporters converted cleanly to the former governor. Republicans have pushed Sliwa to listen to the polling and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EricLDaugh\/status\/1980337056057598400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">drop out<\/a>. Cuomo said Tuesday he would <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/C_Sommerfeldt\/status\/1980618959238955081\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">be &ldquo;interested&rdquo;<\/a> in offering Sliwa a job in his administration if he dropped out.<\/p>\n<p>But despite the job offers, bribes to get out, and threats against him, Sliwa has insisted he will stay in the race. Former New York Gov. George Pataki suggested he only feeds off the energy directed at him to drop his mayoral bid.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;All these offers of jobs and threats against his life &mdash; &lsquo;he&rsquo;s going to be destroyed if he doesn&rsquo;t get out&rsquo; &mdash; I think it just makes him far more likely to stay in,&rdquo; Pataki told the <em>New York Times.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/state\/3856906\/andrew-cuomo-curtis-sliwa-irrelevant-nyc-mayor-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CUOMO SAYS CURTIS SLIWA WAS &lsquo;PUT ON&rsquo; THE NYC MAYORAL BALLOT BY PARTY LEADERSHIP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sliwa <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CurtisSliwa\/status\/1980659779581493727\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reiterated his love for the city<\/a> and willingness to keep running on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I love this city too much to hand it over to political insiders and special interests,&rdquo; he wrote on X. &ldquo;The architect, Cuomo, and the apprentice, Mamdani, are one and the same. I&rsquo;m the People&rsquo;s Mayor, and we will win together on November 4th!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY GOP backs Sliwa amid Cuomo allies&#8217; calls to quit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2501454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/c-sliwa-nyc.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651,538],"tags":[36462,3756,58766],"class_list":["post-2501451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","category-washington-examiner","tag-new-york-city","tag-republicans","tag-sliwa"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/c-sliwa-nyc.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2501451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2501456,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501451\/revisions\/2501456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2501454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2501451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2501451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2501451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}