Primary Day 2021: Curtis Sliwa wins Republican mayoral primary

June 24, 2021

Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa has won the Republican mayoral primary in New York City. Sliwa defeated businessman Fernando Mateo. Sliwa does not have much of a chance to win the November general election in a city where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by 7 to 1. Former allies, the two Republicans Sliwa and Mateo traded personal insults and tried to shout over each other during one debate on Zoom. Primary Day 2021: Voting ends; now a long wait for results in NYC mayoral race