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Curtis Sliwa says he will now travel with armed security after receiving “deranged” threats that have left the Republican mayoral nominee and Guardian Angels founder rattled during what his campaign described as an increasingly toxic run for office.

“For the first time in seven decades, the man who patrolled our subways, streets and parks now needs private security for himself and, more painfully, for his wife,” Sliwa spokesperson Dan Kurzyna said in a statement.

Sliwa is familiar to New Yorkers as the red beret-wearing leader of the Guardian Angels, t

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