Get ready for my ‘shocker’ win – Mallio

REPUBLICAN mayoral hopeful Nicole Malliotakis vowed to pull off a “shocker” and defeat Mayor de Blasio, hitting the campaign trail with former Gov. George Pataki on the last day before voters head to the polls.

At a campaign stop in Middle Village, Queens, Malliotakis also doubled down on her promise to cap property tax collections — saying she’d freeze the levy in her first year in office and cap annual increases at 2% after that.

Pataki, who scored a 1994 upset to defeat then-Gov. Mario Cuomo, gave his fellow Republican and one-time staffer a lastminute endorsement and predicted the underdog challenger would repeat his feat.

“I cannot wait tomorrow night to look at all the shocked faces when you become the next mayor,” he said outside Panepinto Bakery. “I’m in the city virtually every day, and you can see with your own eyes how the quality of life has deteriorated.”

Malliotakis, a Staten Island assemblywoman, slammed de Blasio for hiking spending, and vowed to be more responsible with taxpayer money.