Mark Huma and Silda as almost certain no-shows.
Scandal-plagued pols Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer ducked questions Sunday about whether their wives would join them on the final day of campaigning before the primary election.
The two candidates, who claim to have their spouses’ full support, will make last-minute appeals to voters Monday without their better halves at their sides.
“I don’t know, I mean, I’m walking a fine line,” Weiner said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” when asked if his wife, longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, would make a last-minute appearance on the campaign trail.
“You have an appetite for the Huma side of the story. I want to talk about issues that are important to the middle class and the issues that citizens care about.”
Weiner, who trotted his wife out during the Sydney Leathers sexting scandal, admitted that his politically-savvy spouse paid a price for her public role that day.
“That’s for sure, that’s for sure, and an unfair one,” Weiner said about the negative impact on his wife. “I don’t think she did anything wrong.”
While Abedin has at least made her presence felt during Weiner’s mayoral run, Silda Spitzer has been was completely absent from her husband’s bid for the comptroller’s job.
Asked on Sunday whether his wife would be present on the trail, Spitzer said the focus should instead be on him.
“You know, I’ve said very clearly, this is a campaign where I’m the candidate,” Spitzer said in Brooklyn.
“I’ve been campaigning for nine weeks, which is plenty long, and the public is making a choice based on what I have done and what I stand for.”
When he launched his bid back in July, Spitzer said he would have Silda with him on the trail.
“She’s my wife,” the candidate said at the time. “And we’re going to be campaigning. And we’re going to make sure we win this thing.”
Asked about Huma’s role when he announced in May, Weiner was even more enthusiastic.
‘’She seems to have jumped on board with both boots,’’ Weiner said.
Spitzer’s tenure in the governor’s mansion was cut short by a hooker scandal in 2008.
The former governor is in a virtual dead heat with Scott Stringer for the Democratic comptroller nomination, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released last week.
A new poll is due out Monday.
Spitzer, who lives apart from his wife, has dodged questions about whether he has a girlfriend.
“I’m so tired of the personal attacks and I’ve answered all those questions,” Spitzer said last month.