Billionaire investor Bill Ackman called on NYC mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa to drop out of the race on Friday, citing a Polymarket graph showing Mamdani with 90% odds to win.

The morning after a contentious debate, Andrew M. Cuomo ramped up his attacks on Curtis Sliwa, the Republican mayoral nominee, as he continued to hunt for Republican votes.

As he pleaded for support from conservative voters Friday, Andrew Cuomo acknowledged it will be “very, very, very hard” for him to win next month’s mayoral election as long as

Sliwa said he was offered $10 million to drop out, adding that “Eric got the same offer,” referring to Mayor Eric Adams.

Curtis Sliwa faces MAGA backlash after refusing to call Donald Trump the 'best president,' igniting Republican infighting and exposing new fractures in the GOP's 2025 New York City mayoral race.

Republican Curtis Sliwa should drop out of NYC mayoral race to give former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo a better chance to win against frontrunner Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani.

Sliwa has long been a memorable character in New York City life. In the 1970s, he donned a red beret and began patrolling the subways with a group of civilians as the head of the Guardian Angels. In the 1990s, he escaped a murder attempt by leaping out the window of a moving taxi that had been stolen by his would-be assassins.