The Republican mayoral candidate tells Fox News Digital that New York City is “locking up toothpaste instead of criminals" and losing its best and brightest to low-tax states.

The Republican mayoral nominee also said a racist young Republicans group chat caused “horrible, horrible harm.”

In New York City, all eyes are on the race for mayor as frontrunner and Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa are making campaign appearances and headlines regularly.

The mother of an Afghanistan veteran who was brutally murdered in the Big Apple nearly a decade ago endorsed Curtis Sliwa for mayor on Wednesday — while blasting ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo for passing the state’s “soft-on-crime” bail reforms.

A New York political strategist with a history of working for both Democrats and Republicans has launched a super PAC to boost GOP mayoral nominee Curtis Sliwa’s campaign in the final weeks of this year’s heated race for City Hall.