The New York City mayoral race has boiled down to a nightmare binary: Andrew Cuomo, the disgraced architect of liberal failure, versus Zohran Mamdani, a venomous, antisemitic Marxist hell-bent on torching the city to the ground.
A fresh Gotham Polling and AARP survey shows Cuomo neck-and-neck with Mamdani if Republican Curtis Sliwa bows out — but Sliwa’s stubborn refusal to quit is handing the keys to a socialist apocalypse on a silver platter.
This is a gut-wrenching betrayal for New York City Republicans: back a quixotic long shot with zero chance at victory, swallow a revolting Democrat, or let an unrepentant, Jew-hating communist seize power.
As a lifelong Republican, Trump Advisory Board member, and New York City business owner, it makes me sick to my stomach — but there’s only one path to survival: vote Andrew Cuomo for mayor.
The numbers scream it: if Republicans choke down the bile, fulfill their duty, and rally behind Cuomo, New York can be yanked from the abyss. He’s the sole bulwark against Mamdani’s reign of terror.
Let’s be crystal clear — this is no love letter to Cuomo’s legacy or the policies that gutted the state. It’s a cold-eyed recognition that New Yorkers are trapped between a corrupt rock and a genocidal hard place.
Cuomo’s flaws are legion, but Mamdani is a Category 5 catastrophe that would inflict irreversible, soul-crushing damage on America’s greatest city. His election would turbocharge economic suicide, obliterate public safety, and erase every vestige of New York’s fighting spirit.
[…]Mamdani’s victory isn’t fate — it’s enabled by Sliwa’s ego splitting the anti-socialist vote.
Conservatives, moderates, anyone with a pulse: seize this chance. Gag, vote Cuomo, and stop the red tide. New York hangs by a thread — cut it, or save it. The choice is yours.
— Jason D. Meister, Nov. 4 Newsmax column