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Polling USA

@usapolling.bsky.social

NYC Mayoral Polling:

🔵 Mamdani: 41%
🟢 Cuomo: 26%
🟣 Adams: 16%
🔴 Silwa: 9%

Gotham Polling / July 2, 2025

July 6, 2025 at 2:42 AM

Polling USA

@usapolling.bsky.social

NYC - Net Favorable Polling:

Mamdani: +5%

Cuomo: -5%
Silwa: -9%
Adams: -28%

American Pulse / July 1, 2025 / n=568

July 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM

brad

@bradiscranky.bsky.social

"it was good, old fashioned retail politics"

fucking curtis silwa is more of a participant in reality than half of the upper east side

January 1, 2026 at 11:19 PM

RI Smith

@rismith.bsky.social

The Baileys voted for Silwa

November 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM

Polling USA

@usapolling.bsky.social

NYC Mayoral Polling:

🔵 Mamdani: 40%
🟢 Cuomo: 24%
🟣 Adams: 15%
🔴 Silwa: 14%

Data For Progress / July 12, 2025

July 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM

Matt Brown

@mattbrown.dev

I learnt this from Curtis Silwa!

October 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM

Dex Anderson

@dexanderson.com

curtis silwa is seething

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 20d

Mexico’s fight for independence is the triumph of a people determined to shape their own future.

Today, I was proud to be the first New York City Mayor to march in Sunset Park’s Mexican Independence Day Parade alongside a community that has fostered cultural pride across generations.

Mayor Mamdani waves at the Mexican Independence Day parade.

September 14, 2026 at 12:45 AM

Chris Person

@papapishu.bsky.social

lol

A big sign that says “vote cuomo or silwa”

November 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM

Kevin M. Kruse

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

My man looks like Curtis Silwa lost a fight with a downtown 6 train

June 15, 2026 at 10:42 PM

Polling USA

@usapolling.bsky.social

NYC - Mayoral Polling:

🔵 Mamdani: 50%
🟢 Cuomo: 22%
🔴 Silwa: 13%
🟣 Adams: 7%

Zenith / July 24, 2025

July 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM

Dumbstash

@dnlmsstch.bsky.social

He is a Silwa voter ... because Silwa saved his cousin's life

November 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM

☀️ Starshine

@starshine.bsky.social

Curtis Silwa is a terrible human being who never the less retains Honor

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · Jan 1

this is the most incredible interview i’ve ever read. the aei guy tries so hard to get sliwa to trash mamdani and he simply won’t. he also brings up flaco (rip) unprompted.

www.wsj.com/opinion/free...

Tunku Varadarajan: Will you ask New Yorkers who voted for you to give Zohran Mamdani a chance?
Curtis Sliwa: Absolutely. He won a majority. He has a mandate. The Masters of the Universe, the billionaires, did everything they could to make sure he wasn't the mayor. It didn't work. He's a great organizer. I'll give you an example: Melinda Katz, the current District Attorney for Queens County, New York. She's the mother of my two youngest sons. She was running for DA in 2019. She had the institutional support. Moderate Jewish mother. Loyal Democrat.
Queens borough president. Perfect résumé. She's running against Tiffany Caban, who wasn't even in elective office at that time. Very radical. You know,
"do away with jails, don't arrest anyone." Tiffany Caban won on election night. But she lost the race on the absentee ballots, but only by about 20 votes. You know who the street organizer was for Tiffany Caban? Zohran Mamdani. So, when they talk about him as a trust fund baby, I say no, no, no, no, no.

You don't like it when people call him a "nepo baby."
He's earned his stripes. He had 100,000 volunteers going door-to-door, and I experienced that in some of the neighborhoods where you would never have seen anybody liberal or progressive go. Howard Beach! In conservative Howard Beach, they're going block to block. They were everywhere. 100,000. I call them Zohranistas. This was the secret to his election, not TikTok. It was good, old-fashioned retail politics. Frankly, Cuomo and not Mamdani was the nepo baby in this race. Born on third base. Felt entitled. Knew the political process, but mailed it in.
He didn't have the stomach to actually go out and do retail politics. And shame on him.
Do you think Mamdani will make a better mayor than Andrew Cuomo might have done?

How would you describe Mamdani's politics?
He's not a communist. People call him that. That's ridiculous. He is a democratic socialist. David Dinkins [New York mayor from 1990-93] was a democratic socialist. We've had a long history in New York City of socialism.
What's the biggest challenge Mamdani faces as mayor!
I don't think the Zohranistas totally understand the fiscal irresponsibility we just went through with the Adams years and how little money there's left.
There's not enough money to do all the things that Zohran wants to do.

A last question. All through our interview you pronounced Mamdani as "Mandami," transposing the "m" and the "n" in his name. Are you aware of the mispronunciation? Many people, Cuomo included, mangle his name.
In the debate, Zohran brought that to my attention, my mispronunciation. I didn't do it on purpose.
There's no disrespect. I have a hard time with it. It took people about 10 years to pronounce my last name correctly: "Sleewah.'" They pronounced it Silva, Saliva, Slywah. In the streets, we would have given Zohran a nickname, like I did for all the Guardian Angels. "Z Man" would have been perfect for him. That would have been his handle.
Mr. Varadarajan, a Journal contributor, is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and at NYU Law School's Classical Liberal Institute.

January 1, 2026 at 11:43 PM

Kent Lind

@camasonian.bsky.social

Silwa is BY FAR my favorite Republican of 2026.

October 2, 2026 at 7:06 PM

TofuNYG 🏈🏳️‍🌈🗽🇺🇦 🚫👑🖕🧊

@groguspeak.bsky.social

MAGAs are already calling Silwa a Dem plant lmao

October 2, 2026 at 9:25 PM

Sharon 🪳🌹

@sharonk.bsky.social

team of rivals (mamdani and silwa working together to defeat rats)

October 4, 2025 at 1:05 AM

Bill

@bill-of-lefts.bsky.social

Silwa is who the marginal Trump II voter thought Trump was

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · Oct 20

i think the thing which is most redeeming about Sliwa is that he is absolutely a reactionary but he is also absolutely committed to multiracial solidarity

Theo Landsman @ordinalandsman.bsky.social · Oct 20

One of the weirder things about Sliwa is that he is an OG right wing paramilitary operative in ways that Trump is at least in theory trying to emulate with the current iteration of ICE and violent currents within MAGA but neither recognizes any kind of kinship with the other.

October 20, 2025 at 9:37 PM

Reconstructionist

@unavaleable.bsky.social

Curtis Silwa looks like he's about to start in an FMV for a command and conquer game

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · Jun 25

what a beautiful thing

June 25, 2025 at 7:12 AM

Yashar Ali 🐘

@yasharali.bsky.social

Curtis Silwa was asked if he felt okay with losing and contributing to Zohran Mamdani’s victory and he responded by laying into Bill Ackman and Andrew Cuomo.