Sliwa begs for cash to boost flailing campaign as he rails against elite trying to force him from NYC mayoral race

Maybe he needs a new beret?Curtis Sliwa begged for donations ahead of the final fundraising deadline in the New York City mayoral race — as he called out the “elites” who want to push him out of the race.“The elite, you see, they’re trying to push me out — and they’re trying to silence you, the hardworking people that make this city work,” the GOP nominee said in a video posted on X Monday night.“We will never surrender,” he wrote in the post.“Tonight is our last fundraising deadline.

Donate now.”The appeal for campaign contributions came as calls for Sliwa to ditch his long-shot campaign reached a fever pitch, with even his friend and boss at WABC radio, John Castimatidis, joining in on Monday.Sliwa is running at a distant third, netting only 19% of the vote to ex-Gov.Andrew Cuomo’s 29% and lefty Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani’s commanding 43%, according to the latest poll from Gotham Polling and the city AARP.Castimatidis and others in the anti-Mamdani camp believe Cuomo, who is running as an independent, will have a better chance of beating the socialist Queens state assemblyman in a two-way race — prompting them to urge Sliwa to drop out.Sliwa has poured cold water on the idea that he will drop out of the race, previously saying “I’m not getting out of this race unless they figure out a way to put me in a pine box and bury me six feet under.”The Guardian Angels founder has over $3.4 million cash on hand after raising over $1.3 million in private money and receiving nearly $4.5 million in public dollars as part of the city’s generous matching funds program.

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