{"id":339670,"date":"2025-10-29T01:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T01:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/339670\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T01:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T01:55:12","slug":"firebrand-nyc-councilwoman-latest-in-gop-to-back-cuomo-over-sliwa-to-thwart-mamdani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/339670\/","title":{"rendered":"Firebrand NYC Councilwoman latest in GOP to back Cuomo over Sliwa to thwart Mamdani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-Zohran Mamdani Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/02\/09\/us-news\/nyc-councilwoman-inna-vernikov-quits-womens-caucus-over-woke-anti-israel-agenda-im-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">City Councilwoman Inna Vernikov<\/a> is pulling support for \u201cloyal friend\u201d Curtis Sliwa \u2014 and endorsing Andrew Cuomo in the hotly contested mayor\u2019s race, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs much as it hurts me to say this, a vote for Curtis Sliwa is a vote for Zohran Mamdani,\u201d Vernikov told The Post on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The firebrand conservative councilwoman \u2014 who regularly stumped for Sliwa \u2014 added that the long-shot Republican mayoral candidate and\u00a0Guardian Angels founder has been a \u201cloyal friend\u201d to her.<\/p>\n<p>Vernikov told The Post that she will be endorsing Cuomo over Sliwa in the mayoral eleciton. Stephen Yang<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m grateful for everything he\u2019s done for the city and the Jewish community,\u201d\u00a0said Vernikov, who reps the council\u2019s 48th District in Brooklyn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Vernikov, like some other New York Republicans, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/21\/us-news\/curtis-sliwa-refuses-to-drop-out-of-nyc-mayoral-race-under-no-circumstances\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">including billionaire supermarket mogul John Castimatidis<\/a>, is ditching the GOP\u2019s standard-bearer to back ex-Gov. Cuomo, a veteran Democrat running as an independent.<\/p>\n<p>Many NYC Republicans are ditching Sliwa for Cuomo in an effort to defeat Mamdani. Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Post<\/p>\n<p>She and the others believe a one-on-one race would boost Cuomo and help to thwart\u00a0the lefty Democratic candidate\u2019s ascendance to City Hall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fierce conservative and Ukrainian-born Zionist who was first elected in 2021, said in a video exclusively obtained by The Post that the race \u201cis not a game \u2014 it\u2019s not about egos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is beyond party lines \u2014 this is about our future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vernikov told The Post that voting for Sliwa will ultimately help Mamdani. Paul Martinka<\/p>\n<p>Follow The Post\u2019s coverage of the NYC mayoral race<\/p>\n<p>Vernikov stressed in her video that Cuomo, \u201cthe guy we may not like,\u201d is the \u201conly one who has a shot\u201d to defeat the \u201canti-American, anti-Israel, anti-cop\u201d Mamdani, whom she called a \u201cdanger\u201d and \u201cexistential threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>She stressed she still \u201cencourages everyone to vote Republican down ballot,\u201d including critical City Council races, \u201cbut reality is reality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anti-Zohran Mamdani Republican City Councilwoman Inna Vernikov is pulling support for \u201cloyal friend\u201d Curtis Sliwa \u2014 and endorsing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":339671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5297,5310,5340,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5341,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-339670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-andrew-cuomo","10":"tag-city-council","11":"tag-curtis-sliwa","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115454969534712269","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}