NYC mayoral candidate Jim Walden drops out and implores rivals to consolidate against Zohran Mamdani
New York (AP) – Jim Walden, an independent candidate in the Mayor of New York, explains that he suspended his campaign on Tuesday, calling his other candidates to unite against democratic primary winners, Zohran mamdani.
Walden wrote in a statement that explains how to think about how to judge them if they allow each of them to use arrogance or stubborn ambition in Mr. Mamdani for those who still follow them until the end of the month in the surveys.
He warned that Mamdani, a democratic socialist, would represent a Trojan Horse that seized the Town Hall, and added that time was the “shift” for an alternative option to gain acceleration in the crowded area.
Walden, a lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and mixed martial arts warrior Conor McGregor, Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg positioned himself as a free market technocrat.
However, he struggled to register among voters who have already struggled with a few familiar names: the current Mayor of New York Eric Adams, the former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the founder of Guardian Angels Curtis Sliwa.
Last month, Walden released a “quittance challenge ve on these three islands, and argued that if they agreed to be consolidated collectively behind those who lead the polls, they would maximize the possibility of defeating Mamdani.
Although both Adams and Cuomo called on the other, none of the candidates did not accept the offer.
On Tuesday, Cuomo spokesman Richard Azzopardi praised Walden for “leaving aside the ego and ambition,” and the decision “underlined the existential threat of our city in Zohran Mamdani”.
Adams campaign spokesman Todd Shapiro said that the mayor was not a plan to quit school and that he focused on the future – gave results and took this city forward ”.
Mamdani’s spokesman Dora Pekec, said in a statement: “While Zohran’s support for an affordable New York vision continues to grow in all five districts, the billionaire class narrows the election process – and Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams are making all the stops to enlarge them throughout Donald Trump.
