He wants to be New York\u2019s guardian angel.<\/p>\n
Republican mayoral nominee Curtis Sliwa defiantly insisted that he\u2019s not going anywhere Thursday \u2014 as calls mount for him to drop his longshot bid over fears of socialist Zohran Mamdani\u2019s surging campaign.<\/p>\n
The pressure campaign on Sliwa amped up as Mamdani surprisingly trounced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo<\/a> in Tuesday\u2019s Democratic primary \u2014 and both the Guardian Angels founder and the Queens assemblyman will face Mayor Eric Adams in November.<\/p>\n Sliwa insisted that he would remain in the mayoral race despite calls for him to drop out. ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n Sources said Mayor Adams, who is running as an independent, hasn\u2019t given up his Hail Mary hope of taking over Sliwa\u2019s spot on the coveted GOP party line in the general election. AP<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m focused on one thing: winning this race and saving New York City from the corruption and collapse he created,\u201d Sliwa told The Post of Adams on Thursday. <\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s not running against a fantasy. He\u2019s running against me. I\u2019m the only one capable of beating Zohran Mamdani and I\u2019m going to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n Sources said Adams, who is running as an independent, hasn\u2019t given up his Hail Mary hope <\/a>of taking over Sliwa\u2019s spot on the coveted GOP party line in the general election.<\/p>\n Adams has been gunning \u201cbig time\u201d for Sliwa\u2019s spot as recently as Wednesday, and even told bigwig donors that the red beret-wearing vigilante was dropping out for a job in the Trump administration, according to the sources.<\/p>\n Republicans, big business leaders and even some moderate Democrats are panicked over the prospect of Mamdani sailing to victory against a divided field of opponents. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n But Sliwa scoffed at the idea.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s laughable that Eric Adams is telling donors I\u2019m headed to the White House,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019s clearly panicked.\u201d<\/p>\n Republicans, big business leaders and even some moderate Democrats are panicked over the prospect of Mamdani sailing to victory against a divided field of opponents: Sliwa, Adams, independent Jim Walden and perhaps even a stubborn Cuomo also running as an independent.<\/p>\n Follow The Post\u2019s coverage of the NYC mayoral race<\/p>\n Even if Cuomo does end up deciding to carry on his campaign<\/a>, sources said he\u2019s viewed as a loser unlikely to stop Mamdani.<\/p>\n But Adams viewed Mamdani\u2019s victory as a way to resurrect his own waning re-election hopes, casting himself as the best chance to stop the socialist from winning, sources said.<\/p>\n