Mayoral candidates Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo, and Curtis Sliwa.
Left: Picture by Lloyd Mitchell; Heart & Proper: Picture by Jonathan Portee
Unbiased mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo seems to be open to providing Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa a job in his administration if Sliwa withdraws from the race forward of the Nov. 4 election in an obvious bid to shut the space on Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani.
Mamdani, the clear frontrunner within the race ever since his complete victory within the Democratic major in June, is forward by a double-digit margin in nearly each ballot when all three candidates stay within the subject.
Nonetheless, a latest ballot from AARP and Gotham Polling & Analytics said that Mamdani’s double-digit lead narrowed to only 4% in a situation the place Sliwa withdrew from the race, a lead that falls inside the ballot’s margin of error.
That ballot has prompted some Republicans and average Democrats to name on Sliwa to withdraw from the race and provides Cuomo the very best probability of inflicting an upset subsequent month.
John Catsimatidis, the billionaire grocery store magnate who owns Purple Apple Media and WABC, appeared on the Sid Rosenberg present on Monday morning to name on Sliwa — a WABC radio host — to withdraw from the race and support the Cuomo marketing campaign.
Cuomo appeared on the identical present on Tuesday and appeared to make the same name, indicating that he could be open to providing Sliwa a place in Metropolis Corridor if the Republican nominee have been to withdrew from the race.
“Would that be something that Andrew Cuomo would think about doing in an effort to beat Mamdani, maybe make Curtis a part of the administration?” Rosenberg requested the previous governor on Tuesday morning.
Cuomo responded that he needed everybody’s assist within the mayoral race, together with that of each Republican. He added that he would additionally like Sliwa’s assist within the race however stated he had by no means thought in regards to the prospect of providing the Republican nominee a job.
Cuomo later said that he could be taken with such a prospect.
“That would be something that I would be interested in. We need a coalition to run this city. We need New Yorkers to come together,” Cuomo instructed Rosenberg.
The assertion seems to be a U-turn from Cuomo, who dismissed the suggestion of providing a job to Sliwa throughout a dialog with businessman Elisha Wiesel on Monday evening.
Neither the Sliwa or Cuomo marketing campaign has responded to a request for remark.
Sliwa, nevertheless, has repeatedly said that he won’t withdraw from the marketing campaign and reiterated this following Catsimatidis’s feedback on Monday.
“Others may have their opinions, but the voters will decide in 15 days. Andrew Cuomo has been absent from public view for 10 days; if he seeks support, he must actively earn it.”
On Tuesday, the 5 Republican county chairs representing New York Metropolis additionally issued a joint assertion by which they stood by Sliwa, stating that they believed Republican voters are dead-set towards voting for Cuomo beneath any circumstances.
