Swallow the bitter tablet, Curtis Sliwa — quit the – Latest News
It burns to write down this, however: It’s time for Curtis Sliwa to face actuality, and admit that the metropolis’s best hope to keep away from the catastrophe of a Zohran Mamdani mayoralty is for him to drop out of the race.
Sliwa is totally proper that it’s not his fault that New York is on this nook, however fault isn’t the challenge right here.
The easy reality is that the Republican nominee is much back in third place in each ballot, with zero likelihood of successful.
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Polls show Andrew Cuomo in spitting distance of Mamdani if Sliwa quits the race; if Curtis stays in and Andrew loses by a Sliwa-shaped gap, then he might be blamed.
Plenty of readers will erupt in fury at us, and we get it: No one will confuse this web page, or The Post as a entire, for Cuomo followers.
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That’s not the challenge, both: In a dire scenario, we’ve obtained to deal with the details as they’re, ugly as they’re.
Moving ahead, and with no disrespect to Curtis Sliwa: If the Republican Party needs to be a viable various to the Democrats for citywide workplace, it has to do higher.
Sliwa has labored arduous on this run, getting well-briefed on all the points, exhibiting up daily throughout the metropolis and even setting apart his proud crimson beret.
But he’s an oddball, with a sometimes-shady previous and nil expertise related to working the behemoth that’s metropolis authorities — but the GOP’s county bosses lined up firmly behind Sliwa.
If Republicans had come up with a more credible candidate, with a second line much less eccentric than Protect Animals, we’d seemingly now be demanding that Cuomo drop proper now.
But the reality stays that Mamdani is poised to win and do main, lethal injury to the lives of all New Yorkers: He should be stopped.
It stinks, however for the sake of the metropolis you like so deeply, Curtis, please swallow this bitter tablet.
