Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa saved busy all through Election Day on Tuesday, hopping between totally different polling websites and campaigning with GOP officers.
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Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa saved busy all through Election Day on Tuesday, with the crimson beret-wearing Guardian Angels founder hopping between totally different polling websites and campaigning with GOP officers.
Sliwa is polling final out of the race’s three main candidates — he’s working towards Democratic nominee and Meeting Member Zohran Mamdani (D-Queens) and unbiased candidate and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who misplaced to Mamdani within the main. Mamdani is main Cuomo in most polls by double digits, whereas each Cuomo and Mamdani stay nicely forward of Sliwa, who’s polling between 10 and 25%.
Regardless of an more and more slim path to victory, Sliwa plugged away on Tuesday as New Yorkers went to the polls.
Within the morning, he accompanied his spouse, Nancy Sliwa, to forged her poll on the Higher West Facet. Curtis Sliwa, who’s working on each the Republican and Defend Animals strains, wore a tie that includes cats and emphasised his continued dedication to animal rights.
A couple of minutes after 10 a.m., Sliwa referred to as in dwell to the Brian Lehrer Present on WNYC to encourage New Yorkers to get out the vote.
Republican candidate for New York Metropolis Mayor Curtis Sliwa campaigns within the Brooklyn borough of New York Metropolis on the eve of Election Day in New York, U.S., November 3, 2025. REUTERS/Ryan MurphyREUTERS/Ryan Murphy
“I would urge everybody to vote, even if they’re not voting for me,” Sliwa stated on the Lehrer Present. “I would suggest you vote for me. But please, whatever you do, vote, vote, vote.”
Lehrer requested Sliwa for his ideas on the poll proposals associated to housing — proposals two via 4, which purpose to fast-track approval for brand new inexpensive housing developments by eradicating sure powers of Metropolis Council members and group enter — Sliwa stated he was towards the thought.
“Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani are helping developers and realtors,” Sliwa stated. “I’m standing with the people.”
Sliwa has taken warmth within the remaining stretch of the election from anti-Mamdani Cuomo supporters who view the Republican candidate as a “spoiler” for Cuomo’s candidacy — some hypothetical polls of a two-way race present Cuomo approaching Mamdani within the polls, and even eking out a win. Cuomo has repeatedly referred to as on Sliwa to drop out to enhance his personal probabilities of beating Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist.
When requested on CNN on Saturday whether or not he would have “any regrets” if Mamdani gained and ran the town “like a communist,” Sliwa responded, “Why should I have regrets?”
“I trust people. People are going to make the choice. I’ll live with the choice. I’d 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,” Sliwa stated. “I was born in this city. I was almost killed in this city. I’ll die in this city. I’ll be buried in this city.”
After his radio look, Sliwa headed to Christopher Columbus Excessive Faculty within the Bronx to marketing campaign with Council Member Kristy Marmorato (R-Bronx) earlier than greeting voters at P.S. 193 in Whitestone, Queens. Sliwa then campaigned with Metropolis Council candidate Alicia Vaichunas and Queens County GOP Chairman Tony Nunziato at P.S. 49 in Center Village.
Sliwa joined Council Member Vickie Paladino (R-Queens) for a press availability, throughout which the Republican candidate criticized Trump’s endorsement of Cuomo.
“He’s the guy who said that Andrew Cuomo was a lousy governor, and during COVID, in the lockdown,” Sliwa stated.
Nonetheless in Queens, Sliwa headed to marketing campaign with Metropolis Council Minority Chief Joann Ariola (R-Queens), who has been a vocal supporter of Sliwa’s all through the marketing campaign, at P.S. 207 in Howard Seashore. He then campaigned with Queens GOP Chairman Tony Nunziato at P.S. 114 in Belle Harbor.
Later within the afternoon, Sliwa was slated to greet voters at P.S. 4 and P.S. 55 in Staten Island earlier than heading to St. Dominick’s Faculty with State Senator Steve Chan (R-Brooklyn) in Brooklyn. Sliwa deliberate to shut the day of campaigning with a 7 p.m. cease with Republican candidate for Metropolis Council George Sarantopoulos at P.S. 264.
Voting stays open till 9 p.m. Tuesday night in any respect polling websites in New York Metropolis. To seek out your polling website, go to vote.nyc.
