Independent mayoral candidate Jim Walden is calling on “free market candidates” in the 2025 New York City mayoral election to pledge to coalesce behind one candidate in the hope of defeating Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani (D-Queens), a democratic socialist who this week clinched the Democratic nomination for mayor.
The “Pledge for Our Free Market” calls on independent candidate Mayor Eric Adams, Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo — who is reportedly still deciding whether to run a campaign but whose name will appear on the ballot in November — to pledge to back a single candidate other than Mamdani in the fall.
