For much of New York City’s business community, it’s hard to take Curtis Sliwa seriously.
He seems to sleep in his trademark red Guardian Angels beret.
His high-octane rants in a heavily accented outer-borough brogue can be distracting.
The largest sources of campaign cash barely know he’s running for mayor as the fat cat class courts Eric Adams, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and even the Marxist Zohran Mamdani, who upended the race by winning the Democratic primary.
Yet the last I checked, most Big Apple voters aren’t fat cats.
Sliwa, red beret and all, is within striking distance of frontrunners Mamdani and Cuomo, at 22%, and beating Adams handily in a four-man race, according to a recent Harris poll.
“You guys always say follow the numbers. In a four-way race, I have a path to victory because people actually like me and they have problems with the others,” Sliwa told me in an interview.
Suffice to say, it’s been an uneven trajectory to Sliwa’s current role as the GOP mayoral candidate in a decidedly Democratic city.
I have covered Sliwa’s rise since I was a reporter for the Pace University newspaper back in the mid-1980s, following him and his crime-prevention troops, the aforementioned Guardian Angels.
We have mutual friends and have broken bread over dinner.
And yes, he was wearing his beret throughout our meals. --->READ MORE HERE
In New York City, scoring the Democratic nomination for mayor is traditionally viewed as a lock for a general election win, but Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani's primary victory has rewritten the playbook.
President Donald Trump insists that Mamdani can't win as he ramps up his attacks against the 33-year-old, and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo threw his hat back in the ring as an independent after losing the Dem primary race.
Incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who saw record-low approval ratings this year, and Republican Curtis Sliwa have insisted they would not drop out of the race, even as Mamdani critics urge them to do so. Antitrust lawyer Jim Walden is also in the race.
But what do polls say about who voters want to become the Big Apple's next mayor?
Latest polls
A July poll by market research company HarrisX shows Mamdani leading a four-man race. The survey of 585 registered New York City voters has Mamdani with 26% of the vote, followed by Cuomo (23%), Sliwa (22%) and Adams (13%). Fifteen percent of responded said they are undecided. Yet Cuomo and Sliwa are within the polls margin of error, meaning the results essentially show a three-way tie. --->READ MORE HEREFollow the link below to a relevant story:
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