Curtis Sliwa is once again the GOP's standard bearer in America's largest city after losing to Eric Adams four years ago. This time he’s up against a rising progressive star in the Democratic Party in Zohran Mamdani and the former governor Andrew Cuomo who left office in disgrace. As the campaign reaches its home stretch, Sliwa tells David Chalian what he’s learned from a lifetime in New York and his two runs for mayor.

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