Brian Lear on WNYC, and after having our latest candidate interview in the mayoral race with

Republican Curtis Lee were there.

We're going to talk about it and some other campaign news with our political reporter

Elizabeth Kim, who joins us every Wednesday and now is being forced to join us on Thursday as well.

Two days in a row should get overtime. Liz, hi. Happy Thursday.

Happy Thursday, Ryan. And listeners, any reactions to what you just heard or other relevant things on the mayoral race 212-433, WNIC or questions for list, 212, 433-9-6-9-2, call or text?

Did Sluva make any news that?

You know, what I thought was interesting is that unlike Adams and Cuomo who have kind of described

Zora Mamdani as this existential threat to New York City, Sliwa isn't going there. And I, you know, you tried to tease this out of him several

times, but he's actually making the argument. I felt almost not that he's pro-Zoron. He, you know,

he does say very clearly that we disagree on issues. But, you know, he came out saying that, you know, we had socialists in our city before

we've had communists in our city in our city before. And he says, this is nothing to be frightened

up. He says, you know, I'm not going after his religion. I'm not going after the controversy

about, you know, what box he checked when he applied to Colombia.

He didn't get in. That's not a story. It's interesting to me that he spends all this time

kind of, I think making Zoran seem like a normal candidate, whereas the other two rivals are

doing anything but, I mean, they are

accusing Zoran of being a radical, of being an anti-Semite, right? But Sliwa isn't going there.

I mean, instead, he's saving all of his energy to eviscerate atoms, which he did a lot of,

and then he had a lot of attacks on Cuomo later on, too.

Why do you think his take on Mamdani is more mild and maybe less hysterical is the way he would

characterize it than the other candidates?

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