He won’t leave them bere(f)t.
GOP nominee Curtis Sliwa won’t bow to growing pressure — including from the White House — to drop out of New York City’s mayoral race, insiders said Thursday.
The red beret-wearing Guardian Angels founder has been encouraged by the massive mound of cash — more than $3 million, according to campaign finance records — he has raised since June from thousands of donors.
And Sliwa feels an “obligation” to down-ballot Republicans as the GOP’s standard bearer, the insiders said.
“He has an obligation to other Republican candidates running down ballot,” former three-term GOP Gov. George Pataki, a major Sliwa booster, told The Post.
“He would be abandoning them. That’s not going to happen,” Pataki said. “Curtis is committed to the city. I don’t understand the pr