Republican mayoral nominee and Guardian Angels Founder Curtis Sliwa.
Photograph by Lloyd Mitchell
The 5 Republican Celebration county leaders in New York Metropolis have reaffirmed their “unequivocal support” for his or her celebration’s mayoral nominee, Curtis Sliwa, forward of the Nov. 4 common election.
The vote of confidence issued in an Oct. 21 assertion responded to quite a few public requires Sliwa to drop out of the election to offer former Gov. Andrew Cuomo a greater probability of beating Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani in a one-on-one contest. The GOP leaders maintained that they and their celebration trustworthy would by no means assist Cuomo underneath any circumstances.
“Republican voters are not going to vote for Andrew Cuomo,” the celebration chairs mentioned in a joint assertion. “He lost his own party’s primary, badly, and is not even appearing on the ballot on a major party line. 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.”
Sliwa has ‘grassroots momentum’: GOP
Richmond County Chair Meeting Member Michael Tannousis; New York County Chair Andrea Catsimatidis; Bronx County Chair Michael Rendino; Queens County Chair Anthony Nunziato; and Kings County Chair Liam McCabe all introduced their assist for Sliwa in Tuesday’s joint assertion.
Catsimatidis’ father — John Catsimatidis, the billionaire businessman who owns WABC Radio and the station’s mother or father firm, Pink Apple Media — had referred to as on Sliwa to drop out of the race on Monday to unify assist behind Cuomo.
Sliwa, who presently sits third within the polls behind Cuomo, has confronted a continuing stream of calls to withdraw from the election in an effort to consolidate average and conservative assist round Cuomo, who was roundly defeated by Mamdani within the Democratic major in June.
The Guardian Angels founder, nevertheless, has repeatedly maintained that he will likely be remaining within the race till election day, stating that Cuomo should “actively” earn the assist of voters who would in any other case vote for the Republican candidate.
The Republican Celebration chairs cited the “overwhelming grassroots momentum” behind the Sliwa marketing campaign, “record petitioning,” and citywide assist from the bottom up as causes for his or her unequivocal assist of Sliwa in subsequent month’s race. They described him because the “credible leader who will defeat the radical left.”
Republican leaders additional pointed to Cuomo’s “disastrous” report as Governor, specifying his efforts to introduce bail reform and the sexual harassment allegations that compelled him to resign from workplace in 2021. Cuomo has repeatedly denied all allegations towards him.
“Republicans across every borough stand united behind Curtis Sliwa for Mayor of New York City,” Republican leaders mentioned in an announcement Tuesday morning. “In every neighborhood, volunteers have collected thousands of petition signatures and Curtis has raised millions from everyday New Yorkers, proof of a genuine grassroots movement that money cannot manufacture.”
The 5 Republican leaders concluded by stating that any try and divide the celebration subsequent month will fail as a result of the bottom is “energized and unified” behind Sliwa.
