Curtis Sliwa says he isn’t going anywhere.

Despite growing calls from within his own party to step aside in the final days of New York City ’s mayoral race, with early voting already underway, the Republican nominee told Newsweek 's new video podcast, The 1600 , that he remains committed to seeing his campaign through.

“I’m the only one standing between Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo ,” Sliwa said. “If you ever figure that out by now, you’ll never figure it out.”

Sliwa, who previously lost to Eric Adams in the 2021 mayoral contest by 40 points and is currently polling in a distant third, argued New Yorkers deserve more than a binary choice between the Democratic Socialist frontrunner and the disgraced former governor. He cast Mamdani as a dangerous experiment and Cuomo as a

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