There is now a push among some in conservative media to whittle down the field of candidates in the New York City mayoral race to make it a one-on-one campaign between Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo . While the desire to stop Mamdani is understandable, the willingness to bring Cuomo back from the political grave is not.

Pressure from conservatives and centrist Democrats to push out incumbent Mayor Eric Adams succeeded, but the effort to hound GOP nominee Curtis Sliwa out of the race has not . Sliwa is defiantly staying in the race, splintering off votes that could otherwise go to Cuomo, despite it being obvious that Sliwa can’t win and will never be the mayor of New York City.

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