A defiant Curtis Sliwa forcefully rejected the growing calls for him to end his bid for New York City mayor.

“So, let’s be very clear: I am not dropping out, under no circumstances,” the GOP nominee for mayor said at a press conference Tuesday morning. “I’ve already been offered money to drop out, I said no.”

The comments come a day after his boss, influential Republican John Catsimatidis, issued a public plea for Sliwa to drop out of the race and unite behind Andrew Cuomo. 3

For months, the crowded field of mayoral hopefuls has been called on to coalesce behind a single candidate in an attempt to prevent proud socialist Zohran Mamdani from winning City Hall .

But the urging from Catsimatidis moved the pressure campaign to a new level, with the billionaire grocery store owner

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