Even the Clintons wouldn’t be able to convince Anthony Weiner to drop out of the New York mayoral race.
The hyper-sextual candidate — whose poll standing is plunging — made it clear Monday night that he’s indifferent to the opinion of Bill and Hillary Clinton, who have kept their distance from his campaign.
“I am not terribly interested in what people who are not voters in the city of New York have to say,” Weiner said in response to a question about whether the former president and secretary of state, who live in Westchester County, could influence his decision.
He said he only was thinking about New Yorkers, and “I am focused like a laser beam on their interests.”
The brazen comment at a mayoral forum in the Morrisania section of the Bronx came hours after a new poll showed Weiner had dropped from first to fourth place in the Democratic primary for mayor. The poll plunge followed last week’s revelations of raunchy sexts he sent after resigning from Congress in 2011 for the same behavior.
The Quinnipiac University poll found City Council Speaker Christine Quinn in first, at 27% of likely Democratic voters.
Weiner had a meager 16% — a 10-point drop from a Quinnipiac poll taken before last week.
More than half — 53% — said he should quit the campaign.
“There is no way he can win,” poll director Maurice Carroll said.
Weiner dismissed the findings. “Polls don’t change anything,” he said.
Even former Gov. Eliot Spitzer — attempting his own political comeback after a sex scandal — said he wouldn’t vote for Weiner.
On MSNBC, “Hardball” host Chris Matthews pressed Spitzer about Weiner’s candidacy. “He should not be mayor of New York?” Matthews asked.
“That is correct,” Spitzer said.
