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With two weeks till Election Day, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa have landed on unlikely frequent floor: rejecting billionaire affect within the New York Metropolis mayoral election.
Two billionaires, Purple Apple Media CEO John Catsimatidis and hedge fund CEO Invoice Ackman, are calling on Sliwa to drop out of the mayoral race with a purpose to clear a pathway to victory for former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who’s working as an Impartial candidate.
“The billionaires can conspire to select their candidate,” Sliwa mentioned throughout a press convention in Manhattan on Monday. “I belief the individuals. They’ll make the choice. I can’t drop out.”
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New York Metropolis mayoral nominee Curtis Sliwa speaks to reporters in Manhattan on Monday, Oct. 20, 2025, with two weeks till Election Day. (Fox Information Digital/Deirdre Heavey)
A number of blocks downtown at his personal press convention Monday morning, Mamdani admitted his shock to agree with Sliwa.
“I by no means thought I’d say this, however right here we’re, the place the one candidates who agree that billionaires shouldn’t management the way forward for this metropolis are the Republican nominee and the Democratic nominee,” Mamdani mentioned.
Catsimatidis, who can also be the CEO of WABC Radio, publicly urged Sliwa to drop out of the race on Monday. Sliwa has lengthy hosted a radio program on WABC however is on go away whereas he runs for mayor.
“Curtis would make one of the best mayor of all of the candidates … however Curtis has to comprehend that he ought to love New York greater than the rest,” he mentioned. “It definitely seems to be like Curtis ought to pull out proper now.”
“I’m not dropping out,” Sliwa reaffirmed to reporters on Monday whereas responding to Catsimatidis’ plea.
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New York Metropolis Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani fields reporter questions in Manhattan on Monday, Oct. 20, 2025. (Fox Information Digital/Deirdre Heavey)
A latest Fox Information survey of the mayoral race, carried out Oct. 10–14, requested voters about their second-choice candidate. If each Adams and Sliwa are out, the outcomes present Mamdani conserving a major lead, at the same time as assist for Cuomo will increase.
With Sliwa out, the ballot discovered Mamdani would choose up 50% in comparison with 37% to Cuomo.
But, Cuomo on Monday mentioned that when New Yorkers notice that Sliwa dropping out would create a head-to-head matchup with Mamdani, “they’ll discard the spoiler Curtis Sliwa and rally behind Cuomo to save lots of the town.”
When requested who bears duty if Mamdani is elected mayor, Sliwa instructed Fox Information Digital on Monday, “We blame Andrew Cuomo.”
“I’d recommend to Andrew Cuomo, cease this nonsense. You’re the one who’s answerable for Zohran Mamdani. You bought crushed mightily in a Democratic main,” Sliwa mentioned when requested about Cuomo calling him a “spoiler.”
Mamdani on Sunday responded to a viral clip of Sliwa reiterating that he’ll keep within the race, regardless of pleas from billionaires, like Ackman.
“It’s genuinely constructive for our democracy that there’s one other candidate on this race who believes NYC voters ought to choose their subsequent mayor, not billionaires who principally reside someplace else,” Mamdani mentioned within the publish.
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Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, left, speaks whereas taking part in a mayoral debate with Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani, proper, and impartial candidate former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (not pictured), Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025, in New York. (AP Picture/Angelina Katsanis, Pool)
Ackman and Catsimatidis are amongst these billionaires arguing {that a} vote for Sliwa is a vote for Mamdani.
“Like that Ackman, out in Chappaqua, what does he find out about New York Metropolis?” Sliwa questioned on Monday, telling reporters that billionaires “have paved the best way for Zohran Mamdani as a result of each time they fail, it makes it simpler for Zohran Mamdani to marketing campaign.”
“They need to keep out of it, deal with Wall Avenue, hedge funds. They know nothing in regards to the streets, as clearly evidenced by their panic,” Sliwa mentioned, urging billionaires to “let the individuals determine.”
“Billionaires needs to be ashamed of themselves for interfering with this election. I name it election interference. Let the individuals determine. That’s the best way I used to be raised. That’s the best way all people was raised. No person was ever instructed the billionaires have been going to select the one that wins an election.”
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Mamdani agreed along with his Republican opponent on Monday, arguing that New Yorkers “it doesn’t matter what they consider our politics, need to make their very own choices, and that’s one place the place Curtis and I agree, which is that it’s time for New Yorkers to make this resolution, not for billionaire donors to determine who will get to run this metropolis.”
“To have a candidate spending all his time pleading with one other candidate to get, it reveals that he doesn’t have a lot to share with New Yorkers himself,” Mamdani mentioned of Cuomo.
Fox Information Digital reached out to Cuomo for remark however didn’t instantly obtain a response.
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