Hour 2: Curtis Sliwa's last-minute strategy to become mayor.

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🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo thinks a vote for his competitor, Curtis Sliwa, is a vote for Zohran Mamdani. Mark explains the political races happening outside of the NYC mayoral race to keep an eye on. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa. Curtis explains to Mark the reason he will not drop out of the race, even though he is being pressured to. What plan is usually executed on the last day before election day?

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0:00.0	Mr. New York.
0:01.6	Mark Simone, you're the best.
0:03.3	710 W.O.R.
0:06.0	Well, we'll get to the mayoral race in just a second.
0:11.0	And we'll get to the World Series.
0:12.7	And Curtis will be with us.
0:14.0	Curtis Lee will join us a little later this hour.
0:16.5	We'll see what he's feeling like on the final day.
0:20.2	It is the final day before the election.
0:23.0	There's no early voting today.
0:24.7	Yesterday was the last day.
0:29.4	Yeah, yesterday was the last day.
0:32.0	735,000 early votes.
0:34.1	That's like six times normal.
0:36.1	That is through the roof.
0:39.7	It's huge. It's expected that we'll get over two million voters in this election after election day tomorrow. Normally
0:45.2	we could end up with 300,000, 400,000, so this is big, very, very, very big. Turnout is huge.
0:52.6	Cuomo is doing better than before he has surged, but Curtis is also surging. Weout is huge. Quamo is doing better than before he has searched, but Curtis is also
0:56.2	surging. We've seen that. So they're both surging. Quomo was, you still got to blame him for this
1:02.8	mess. There was a Democratic primary. Mom Dani was at zero, a weird, you know, a weird extremist
1:10.0	candidate. Remember there was a whole bunch of people in that Democratic primary.
1:14.2	Cuomo scared Eric Adams out of it, so Eric Adams didn't enter that Democratic primary, and who knows, he might have won.
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