NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s mayoral candidates are meeting for their final debate Wednesday evening, as Democrat Zohran Mamdani looks to maintain his steady lead in a race increasingly seen as his to win and as former Gov. Andrew Cuomo amps up pressure on Republican Curtis Sliwa to drop out.

With just days left until early voting begins, Cuomo has made a series of urgent pleas to the city’s conservative voters to ditch Sliwa and instead to support him, casting the Republican candidate as a “spoiler” whose presence in the race will deliver Mamdani a win.

But Sliwa, the swaggering creator of the Guardian Angels crime patrol group, has forcefully maintained he will not exit the race and has in turn ramped up his criticism of the former governor.

Mamdani came under attack from Cuomo dur

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