Pressure is mounting from business leaders, MAGA world influencers, independents, and moderate Democrats for Mr. Sliwa to quit the race so the anti-Zohran Mamdani vote can coalesce around one candidate and have at least a shot at beating the 33-year-old Democratic Socialist state assemblyman in November.
Mamdani's emergence reflects a political shift; he leads in the polls against Cuomo due to a surge in leftist sentiment and a wave of dissatisfaction.