NYC GOP mayoral nominee floats new nickname for Cuomo, Adams while urging Trump to stay 'neutral' in race

NEW YORK, N.Y. - As he runs for mayor in Democrat-dominated New York City, Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa says he's on a mission.

"I've got to beat Zohran Mamdani to save this city," Sliwa said in a Fox News Digital interview this week.

Mamdani, the 33-year-old democratic socialist state lawmaker from the New York City borough of Queens, sent political shockwaves across the country in June as he topped former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and nine other candidates to capture the Democratic Party's mayoral nomination.

But with Cuomo – the former three-term governor who resigned in 2021 amid multiple scandals – still running in the general election as an independent candidate, and embattled incumbent Democratic Mayor Eric Adams also running as an independent, Sliwa sees a pathway to victo...