Anthony Weiner: 'Quit isn't the way we roll' in NYC

• Mayoral candidate under fire for lewd online messages vows to stay in race
• Weiner has admitted he sent salacious messages to women after quitting Congress in 2011
• His support in public opinion polls has dropped

A defiant Anthony Weiner said again Tuesday he will not quit the race for New York City mayor, vowing in a new video that he'll continue to fight amid the furor over his lewd messages to women.

"Quit isn't the way we roll in New York City," Weiner said in the minute-long video posted on his campaign website. "We fight through tough things."

Weiner's video message comes after the Quinnipiac Poll shows he has dropped to fourth place in the Democratic field and trails City Council Speaker Christine Quinn by 11 percentage points among likely Democratic primary voters. The primary is Sept. 10.

Weiner acknowledged last week that he sent salacious messages to women even after he resigned from Congress in 2011. He has rejected calls to quit the race, even as public opinion polls show his support fading.

"Someone wants to come out ... with something embarrassing about you in your private life, you've got to talk about that for a little while," he said in the video. "But it's also reminded me that citizens, when they come up to you and they want to talk to you about something going on on their block or at their kids school or something going on on a job site, that's what this campaign is about, and I'll never forget that."

Weiner repeated that he is ignoring "newspaper editors and other politicians" calling on him to quit. At a campaign event in Manhattan earlier Tuesday, he suggested that Bill and Hillary Clinton — who are close friends — can't get him to leave the race.

"Let me make it clear, I've got enormous respect for the Clintons. They've been enormous friends to my wife and to my family," he said.

Dee Dee Myers, who was a spokeswoman for the former president, said Sunday on CBS that the Weiner scandal has been "very painful" for the Clintons because of their relationship to Huma Abedin, Weiner's wife.

"If they could choose, they would certainly have Weiner get out of the race," Myers said on Face the Nation.

Bill Clinton officiated at the Weiner-Abedin wedding in 2010. Abedin is a longtime aide to Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Contributing: Martha T. Moore

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