It is a fairly safe assumption that few people expected the re-election campaign of Eric Adams for mayor to make it to the finish line. The incumbent bowed out Sunday with his campaign hemorrhaging cash and below double digits in the polls. The media, saying that consolidation is the only way to upset Zohran Mamdani now, immediately picked up on Adams’ departure as a chance for Andrew Cuomo, who is currently trailing Mamdani by 21 points, to make up ground on the man who beat him in the Democratic primary. However, most stories seem to barely acknowledge the candidate in third place, Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa. Sliwa appeared on 710 WOR’s Mendte in the Morning program to say that’s okay; he likes his odds. In fact, as Sliwa put it, “One down, two more to go, and we knew that Eric Adams was one and done.”
Sliwa told host Larry Mendte why he believes his campaign as the “law and-order” candidate will get a boost with Adams out of the mix: “Remember, Cuomo had his shot, forty points ahead [in the] Democratic primary, mailed it in from the Hamptons with his billionaire supporters, got trounced- and he’s not even out in the streets, Larry. I mean, thirty-six days left, you’ve got to be going twenty hours a day, and that’s exactly what I do. And, now that Eric Adams is out, there’s only one law and order candidate; that’s me, because Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani share the same values. They’re for no-cash bail, they’re for raise the age, and we just had a report that juvenile crime has never been higher.”…