Pressure is building on Republican mayoral nominee Curtis Sliwa to drop his long-shot quest for Gracie Mansion.
A stream of prominent Big Apple conservatives — including The Post’s editorial board and Sliwa’s own radio boss, John Catsimatidis — have sagely implored him to step aside and endorse Andrew Cuomo.
The absurdity of that sentence underscores the stakes.
Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani’s ideas are so backward — and represent such a grave threat to the livelihoods and lives of New Yorkers, and to their city’s moral standing — that an alliance with Cuomo is not just conceivable for many Republicans, but imperative.
Polling indicates the former governor is the only one with any chance of sending Mamdani packing — and only if Sliwa drops out.
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