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Hour 2: Election winners and losers · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now let's get to John Decker, WOR White House correspondent. John,
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  Speaker 1: I was pleasantly surprised, I should say, when the president
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  Speaker 1: went on Fox News last night and congratulated the Democrats
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  Speaker 1: and said, I'm willing to work with them. He did say,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to veto every crazy thing they send to me.
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  Speaker 1: but that he's willing to work with them. Did you
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  Speaker 1: get the sense from Donald Trump in his conversation last
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  Speaker 1: night that this might go better than we thought?
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  Speaker 2: Well, remember, I think it was all sinking in for
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  Speaker 2: the president, what had happened over the course of the
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  Speaker 2: past few hours with all of those losses by Republicans
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  Speaker 2: in deep red states. So that's what the president's mood
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  Speaker 2: was last night when he spoke with Fox News. But
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  Speaker 2: then reality will set in come January 3rd when this
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  Speaker 2: new Congress is sworn in, and we'll see if the
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  Speaker 2: president has that same conciliatory tone that he had last
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  Speaker 2: night in that interview with Fox News.
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  Speaker 3: Now, John Decker, I'm going to take you back to
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  Speaker 3: our favorite location, the reflection pool, because that's where the
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  Speaker 3: president decided to give his final speech, rally up the troops,
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  Speaker 3: you know, to get them out to vote. And I
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  Speaker 3: heard from a lot of Republicans. I heard about algae.
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  Speaker 3: I heard about pipes. He was holding up signs of reconstruction.
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  Speaker 3: This was not his Braveheart Mel Gibson moment. I think
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  Speaker 3: at that moment, a lot of Republicans were of the
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  Speaker 3: opinion that he knows it's over. It's over.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I can't get inside the president's head. I was
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  Speaker 2: at that event, as you know, at the Reflecting Pool.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was an odd choice of of venues
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  Speaker 2: and an odd choice in terms of the tone and
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  Speaker 2: content of the message that the president delivered just a
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  Speaker 2: day before the midterm elections. Instead of talking about the
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  Speaker 2: closing message for Republicans, as you point out, the president
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  Speaker 2: was talking about the beautification projects in Washington, D.C. that
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  Speaker 2: he's pursued. That, as you know, Curtis, that, as you know, Larry,
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  Speaker 2: not a top issue for voters, no matter what poll
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  Speaker 2: you were looking at this midterm election cycle.
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  Speaker 1: Is there going to be a presidential availability today that
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  Speaker 1: you know of?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: No open press events. That could change. All that is
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  Speaker 2: on the president's schedule today are closed-door policy meetings. No opportunities,
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  Speaker 2: as things stand right now, for the president to address
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  Speaker 2: the press about what happened over the course of the
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  Speaker 2: past 24 hours.
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  Speaker 3: John, give us some insight, if you can, about Mississippi.
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  Speaker 3: It's neck and neck. It's an actual tie between the
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  Speaker 3: sitting Republican senator and the Democrat challenger who was a
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  Speaker 3: DA column. I know Democrats, especially African-Americans, screaming that Chuck
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  Speaker 3: Schumer was asked a month ago to pour some money
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  Speaker 3: into Mississippi. He said, no, it's a losing proposition. How
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  Speaker 3: did it get to the point where we're neck and neck?
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  Speaker 3: And do you happen to know if there is a
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  Speaker 3: recount provision in their constitution?
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  Speaker 2: Well, in many states, as you know, there's a recount provision,
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  Speaker 2: a hand recount provision. If it's within a half percentage
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  Speaker 2: point from each other, I don't know the provisions that
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  Speaker 2: exist under state law in Mississippi. That being said, what
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  Speaker 2: we saw was a blue wave across the entire country,
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  Speaker 2: not just in pockets, but just about everywhere. Maybe you
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  Speaker 2: could say it didn't happen in certain parts of Florida,
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  Speaker 2: given that in Florida, the you had Republicans emerge victorious
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  Speaker 2: in the Senate race as well as in the governor's race,
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  Speaker 2: but not by much. But in deep red Mississippi, as
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  Speaker 2: you point out, it's too close to call at this point.
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  Speaker 2: But in other deep red states, like South Carolina, that
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  Speaker 2: was a major surprise for so many people. The fact
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  Speaker 2: that Darlene Graham could not hold onto that seat that
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  Speaker 2: was held by her late brother, Senator Lindsey Graham. And
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  Speaker 2: in fact, South Carolinians will be sending a Democrat to
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  Speaker 2: represent the state in the U.S. Senate?
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  Speaker 1: You know, while you were answering the question, I looked
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  Speaker 1: it up. Mississippi state law does not provide any statuary
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  Speaker 1: mechanism for automatic candidate-requested or voter-requested election recounts, and there
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  Speaker 1: is no automatic trigger. So it could just be 100 votes,
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  Speaker 1: and that's going to be the end of that election.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of amazing to me because you're right, John,
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  Speaker 1: almost every state in the country, every state in the
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  Speaker 1: country has some type of mechanism for a recount in
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  Speaker 1: the close election, but apparently Mississippi doesn't. So that looks
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  Speaker 1: like it's going to be another pickup for the Democrats
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  Speaker 1: down there.
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  Speaker 3: How does Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: I know he's talked about it last night, but he's
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  Speaker 1: had some headwinds like this before. So we have something
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  Speaker 1: to see. and something to learn from about how he
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  Speaker 1: might handle having an adversarial Congress. How do you think
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  Speaker 1: he's going to react? The same as he did last time?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the president has to be aware of the fact
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  Speaker 2: that Democrats control all the levers of power in Congress,
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  Speaker 2: which means all the oversight committees, which means they can
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  Speaker 2: investigate all the things that they would have liked to
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  Speaker 2: have investigated over the course of the past decade.
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  Speaker 3: Two years.
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  Speaker 2: And they're going to do that. Let's leave aside this
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  Speaker 2: possibility of impeachment for a moment. There will be investigations.
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  Speaker 2: And that means that Democrats and those oversight committees have
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  Speaker 2: subpoena powers. They can bring to Congress any member of
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  Speaker 2: the president's cabinet. They can bring to Congress even Elon
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  Speaker 2: Musk if they wish to do so. And I think
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  Speaker 2: they're going to take advantage of that opportunity. But Democrats
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  Speaker 2: also have to be careful exit polls indicate that this
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  Speaker 2: was not an election in which American voters embraced the
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  Speaker 2: policies of Democrats. Instead, this was an election, again, according
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  Speaker 2: to those exit polls, in which they were rejecting what
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  Speaker 2: had happened during the course of the first two years
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  Speaker 2: of the second term of President Trump. They did not
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  Speaker 2: like the war in Iran and what that has meant
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  Speaker 2: in terms of high gas prices. I think that is
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  Speaker 2: the primary reason why the president's party ended up losing
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  Speaker 2: Congress yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the exit polls back you up on that, by
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  Speaker 1: the way. That's exactly what they said.
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  Speaker 3: The president seemed to say, John Decker, maybe I'm wrong,
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  Speaker 3: that he's not going to plan on bombing Iran now.
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  Speaker 3: At least he said that in the last 24 hours.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think that's the result of the sobering fact
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  Speaker 3: that he realized that, man, this is not helping at all?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think that that is a big part of
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  Speaker 2: the equation. And, you know, we can't get inside, you know,
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  Speaker 2: all the decision makers in Iran's head, you know, the mullahs,
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  Speaker 2: the IGRC, all of those decision makers. But, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they may be of the mindset, look what we did,
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  Speaker 2: you know, by not ending this war, by not coming
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  Speaker 2: to a peace agreement. Look what we did in terms
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  Speaker 2: of messing up the president's majority that he had in Congress,
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  Speaker 2: maybe if we continue this up, we can impact the
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  Speaker 2: 2028 presidential election as well. So we'll have to wait
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  Speaker 2: and see whether that war comes to a conclusion sometime soon. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in the meantime, there will be a lame
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  Speaker 2: duck session of Congress. that the president can use to
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  Speaker 2: get things potentially through. But I think that may be
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  Speaker 2: difficult as well, given the fact it's not just 53-47,
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  Speaker 2: the advantage that Republicans have right now, because there are
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  Speaker 2: some Republicans that are not in the mood to support
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  Speaker 2: many of the president's lame duck policies that he may pursue.
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  Speaker 2: You know, people like Susan Collins are out the door,
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  Speaker 2: John Cornyn out the door, Tom Tillis out the door,
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  Speaker 2: but they all can vote in that lame duck session
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  Speaker 2: of Congress.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they have not shown any inclination to vote
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  Speaker 1: with the president in the past. So give me your
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on it. You've been there for a while now,
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  Speaker 1: and you certainly have covered this president a couple of times.
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  Speaker 1: And you've also, you know Congress. Are they going to
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  Speaker 1: be able to work together, or is this going to
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  Speaker 1: be just investigation after investigation after investigation?
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's the big question. You know, what do
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  Speaker 2: Democrats want to do? You know, do they want to
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  Speaker 2: show that they can govern and show Americans that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if we had control of the White House, look what
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  Speaker 2: we could do. These are our policies. These are our goals.
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  Speaker 2: These are our policy objectives. Or do they just pursue investigations?
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  Speaker 2: And that could essentially roil their chances in terms of
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  Speaker 2: trying to win back control of the White House in 2028.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's important to look at some of these results.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just Democratic wins. It's wins by significant margins.
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  Speaker 2: John Ossoff winning another six-year term with nearly 60 percent
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  Speaker 2: of the vote. Josh Shapiro also winning with over 60
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  Speaker 2: percent of the vote. Those are going to be frontrunners
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  Speaker 2: for the Democratic nomination in 2028 for sure. And James Tallarico,
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  Speaker 2: those polls, let's talk about the polls just for one moment.
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  Speaker 2: Those polls ended up being pretty accurate. He wins his
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  Speaker 2: Senate race, at least the way vote totals have come
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  Speaker 2: in so far, by 12 points. That's a pretty significant
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  Speaker 2: victory that he had in the state of Texas.
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  Speaker 3: Very quickly, I thought the big loss was Greg Abbott,
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  Speaker 3: the governor of Texas, who not only sealed his border first,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he was attached to the president. He did
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  Speaker 3: a great job. He lured business in. All these big billionaires,
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  Speaker 3: he personally lured in, and yet he got whacked. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he did.
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  Speaker 2: And that's pretty shocking as well. The first Latina governor
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  Speaker 2: of the state of Texas. Gina Hinojosa, she will be
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  Speaker 2: the new governor of the state of Texas. There hasn't
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  Speaker 2: been a Democratic governor. You'd have to go all the
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  Speaker 2: way back to Ann Richards. There hasn't been a Democratic
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  Speaker 2: senator in Texas since Lloyd Benson in the 1980s. So
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  Speaker 2: it's pretty remarkable what happened there. over the course of
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  Speaker 2: the past 24 hours in so many states, but Texas
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  Speaker 2: certainly stands out.
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  Speaker 1: John Decker, WOR White House and Washington correspondent and host
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  Speaker 1: of the podcast, The White House Briefing Room with John Decker,
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  Speaker 1: which can be found on the iHeartRadio app. Let's try
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  Speaker 1: to sneak in. We have so many talkbacks today. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to try to play them where we normally wouldn't.
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  Speaker 5: Now that the Democrats have won, I'm so looking forward
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  Speaker 5: to gas being $ 2 a gallon, the war.
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  Speaker 3: In Iran being over with. All the prices coming down
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  Speaker 3: and just things being wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: I just can't wait.
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  Speaker 3: I know they're going to do a great, great job
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  Speaker 3: of all of that. That's what they ran on. And
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  Speaker 3: that's what stupid people voted for. I knew it was
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  Speaker 3: sarcastic from the beginning. You should be a talk radio
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  Speaker 3: show host because all of our colleagues here at WOR
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  Speaker 3: and talk TV are going to be relieved that they
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  Speaker 3: don't have to defend everything that Trump says. And they'll
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  Speaker 3: take that same line of thought. You'll be liberated. You're
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  Speaker 3: free to actually attack Democrats ad nauseum. But up next.
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  Speaker 3: There are so many talkbacks, as you mentioned, Larry. We're
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  Speaker 3: just going to open up in the next segment for
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  Speaker 3: all the talkbacks so that your voice can be heard,
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  Speaker 3: and we're going to let you use it, plus a
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  Speaker 3: chance to see Def Leppard and the Google Dolls at 825.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we're going to play your talkbacks because we
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  Speaker 1: got so many of them. You want to talk about
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  Speaker 1: what happened yesterday, and here you go.
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  Speaker 6: I am just so devastated.
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  Speaker 7: That this El-Sayed, wolf in sheep's clothing, snake in the grass,
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  Speaker 7: deceiver got in.
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  Speaker 8: I cannot believe that the American people are so stupid
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  Speaker 8: that they fall for his line of BS.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, she is suffering what I have now
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  Speaker 3: coined PTSD, post-Trump stress disorder. He ran the table, and
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  Speaker 3: he did not want unity in the Democratic Party, which
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  Speaker 3: would have been probably a guarantee to his election. He
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  Speaker 3: did it his way, and he won. We're going to
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  Speaker 3: discuss that later.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but let's just say that I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: she's suffering from except for common sense. In a regular election,
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  Speaker 1: he never would have won. He was a great candidate,
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  Speaker 1: but you're right. Everybody could see through it, and he never,
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  Speaker 1: ever came out And denounced his family and the Muslim Brotherhood.
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  Speaker 3: And he still won.
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  Speaker 4: The big winner yesterday was Joe Bartlett.
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  Speaker 3: He pretty much called it. That is true. Joe Bartlett
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  Speaker 3: called it while playing bocce down in South Carolina with
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  Speaker 3: everybody else who's moved there for retirement. He did call it.
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  Speaker 3: We got to give credit where credit is due. Darlene
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  Speaker 3: Graham was a horrible candidate. And that's on Trump. That's
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  Speaker 3: totally on Trump.
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  Speaker 4: I think the blue wave last night guarantees a Democratic
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  Speaker 4: presidential win in 2028. If anything, it proved that the
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  Speaker 4: American people don't give a damn about nukes in Iran
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  Speaker 4: or the plight of the Israelis or even immigration. They
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  Speaker 4: care about what's in their own pocket, about gas prices, affordability,
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  Speaker 4: and all the other things. Assuming the American people become
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  Speaker 4: more prosperous in the next two years, the Democrats are
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  Speaker 4: going to get the credit for that.
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  Speaker 3: But they're not.
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  Speaker 1: Do you forget what it was like under Democratic rule?
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  Speaker 1: Do you completely forget what it was like under Biden?
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  Speaker 1: The gas prices were higher than they are right now.
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  Speaker 1: Inflation is higher than it was right now. And most
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  Speaker 1: of the rest of the economy, all the thing, we
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  Speaker 1: went through a recession because of two quarters in a
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  Speaker 1: row of negative GDP. Does nobody remember that? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the economy was really steamrolling ahead. It's still steamrolling, except
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  Speaker 1: because of.
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  Speaker 3: The Iran war. That was it.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I got a feeling you're completely wrong because the
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  Speaker 1: Democrats taking over is the worst thing that can happen
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  Speaker 1: to the Democratic Party because they don't know how to govern.
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  Speaker 6: Well, the country is screwed now. The indoctrination of all
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  Speaker 6: these young people, which collectively have the intellect of a peanut.
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  Speaker 6: They don't know what they've just done. They're going to
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  Speaker 6: reap what they sow. It'll be a continuous impeachment process,
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  Speaker 6: continuous nonsense, and the country's just going to keep going
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  Speaker 6: straight downhill.
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  Speaker 4: Screw.
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  Speaker 3: Keep disparaging young people, and they'll never become Republicans. You
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  Speaker 3: talk like that. They are the majority. Pal, whether you
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  Speaker 3: like it or not, millennials and Gen Zers, are the
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  Speaker 3: majority of the voters and the majority of the population.
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  Speaker 3: And baby boomers, we can complain all we want, but
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  Speaker 3: you disparage them, they're never going to want to be
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  Speaker 3: with you. They're never going to want to be with you.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny you say that because I completely agree with them.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to learn a lesson over the next couple
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  Speaker 1: of years.
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  Speaker 6: One good thing about this election is that... We shouldn't
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  Speaker 6: have to put up with any more no-kings rallies.
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  Speaker 3: That's a great point.
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  Speaker 9: You know, Republicans could not verbalize their accomplishments. They just
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  Speaker 9: ran away from them. Tax cuts, shutting the border, low crime,
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  Speaker 9: all these accomplishments. I can't even list all the accomplishments.
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  Speaker 9: And they ran away from each and every one of them,
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  Speaker 9: and that's why they lost. There are people even in
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  Speaker 9: blue states getting $ 15, 000 refunds From the big, beautiful bill,
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  Speaker 9: and they were never able to verbalize it.
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  Speaker 3: Shameful.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, people were making more money than ever before, and
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  Speaker 1: so it makes up for the rise in inflation. But
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  Speaker 1: you're right, their messaging was awful. But that started at
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  Speaker 1: the top with Trump.
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  Speaker 3: He'd go to these rallies and talk about anything but...
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  Speaker 3: Those things that this guy just brought to our attention.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he didn't, but the problem is you're right in
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  Speaker 1: a way because he would say something outlandish and the
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  Speaker 1: media would just run with that and not play when
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  Speaker 1: he talked about the economy.
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  Speaker 8: This bloodbath rests mainly on the shoulders of Congress. Trump
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  Speaker 8: could have been a great president, but he got too
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  Speaker 8: focused on amassing power for himself and enriching himself. It
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  Speaker 8: was up to Congress to stop him. And Congress just
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  Speaker 8: rolled over and died for anything he wanted to do.
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  Speaker 8: So if we're looking for people to blame, Congress should
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  Speaker 8: start looking in the mirror.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not unusual, though.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, a Democratic Congress under Barack Obama did everything
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  Speaker 1: he wanted. It's not unusual when a party is in
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  Speaker 1: power for them to work together. It is rare that
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  Speaker 1: a party in Congress stands up to a president within
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  Speaker 1: their own party.
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  Speaker 3: Now, should we sneak in one more? Let's try.
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  Speaker 10: I know how people could keep voting for people that
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  Speaker 10: keep raising their taxes and their rates on utilities and everything.
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  Speaker 10: And this party doesn't have a clue how to make cuts.
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  Speaker 10: But they all know how to raise our taxes and
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  Speaker 10: make us squeezed. And don't let me hear about $ 8
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  Speaker 10: billion for the migrants when you're trying to tell me
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  Speaker 10: that there's no money for Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security.
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  Speaker 3: I'm an American. They're not. That was a well-thought response.
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  Speaker 3: But remember, this turnout was against Trump. That's all it is.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't care about anything else. They hate Trump. And
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  Speaker 3: you've got to accept it, listeners, because I felt it
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  Speaker 3: out there.
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  Speaker 1: But he was absolutely correct. Wait till they try to
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  Speaker 1: govern again, and then you'll see. They might have just
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  Speaker 1: blown the 2028 election. Now let's get to Larry Kofsky
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  Speaker 1: in for Daria Albinger today.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Larry. Good morning, Curtis.
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  Speaker 11: We have 52 degrees under clear skies at 730. The
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  Speaker 11: balance of power in American politics has changed. Democrats have
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  Speaker 11: won control of both the House and Senate. after running
• 18:22
  Speaker 11: up a string of midterm election victories. Here in our area,
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  Speaker 11: Governor Kathy Hochul has won re-election in New York. Ned
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  Speaker 11: Lamont has won a third term as Connecticut's governor.
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  Speaker 12: Lamont was first elected in 2018 and then re-elected in 2022,
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  Speaker 12: and now he's defeated Republican challenger Ryan Fazio for a
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  Speaker 9: We're looking at deficits, then we're looking at COVID, then
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  Speaker 12: Lamont, who is 72, is the second governor in Connecticut
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  Speaker 1: When we come back, well, I will tell you, tech
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  Speaker 1: had a lot to do with this election. And we
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  Speaker 1: have the tech expert, Rich DeMuro, with an interesting take
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  Speaker 1: on the elections and tech when we come right back.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, Rich DeMuro, Rich on Tech, which is heard
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• 20:33
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  Speaker 4: Com.
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  Speaker 3: It was a big initiative on the ballot that affected
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  Speaker 3: Silicon Valley and all the billionaires there. And we will
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: talk about the California vote later in this show. But
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: the big one was the. Wealth tax, the billionaire tax
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: that even Newsom at the last minute decided to lead
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: the opposition against, it did not pass. So Rich DeMuro,
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  Speaker 3: all those billionaires out there, are they going to stay
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: put or are they going to follow Musk to Texas,
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  Speaker 3: Zuckerberg to Florida, or Peter Thiel to Argentina?
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  Speaker 14: Oh, I don't think they're going to Texas at this point.
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  Speaker 14: I don't know if it's going to be any better
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  Speaker 14: over there now. You know, they had some big changes there, too.
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  Speaker 14: But this was, you know, this was the people saying, OK,
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  Speaker 14: we don't know if this is the best thing for
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  Speaker 14: our state, even though it sounded good. One time, five
• 21:30
  Speaker 14: percent wealth tax on people worth more than one billion dollars.
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  Speaker 14: That money was going to go to health care, also
• 21:36
  Speaker 14: towards some food assistance and education. But like you said,
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  Speaker 14: did not pass. Because I think people in California are
• 21:44
  Speaker 14: probably worried. They're probably worried that we would see more
• 21:47
  Speaker 14: industry drive out of this state, even though California is
• 21:50
  Speaker 14: still a huge leader when it comes to tech and AI.
• 21:54
  Speaker 14: But I don't think at this point people want to
• 21:56
  Speaker 14: lose that momentum by changing this.
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  Speaker 1: You know, AI was used extensively. I know in industries
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: across the country, they're worried about AI taking over some jobs.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: But AI was used by campaigns more than ever before,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: especially online. And many of the times, they were making
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: candidates say things they normally wouldn't say. Now, in the
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: bigger races that were watched, there was a scrutiny on
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: that type of stuff. So it didn't happen as much.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: But in some of the smaller races, they they could
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: change the effects of the election and the results of
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: the election. And so I know the politicians are concerned
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: about this. So when you add this, please add this
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: to your list of things that AI is affecting to
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: be concerned about, because there's going to be a major
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: push apparently in Washington to to crack down on these
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: AI ads. And I'm not even sure if there's a solution, Rich.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, as you're telling me this and I'm thinking about
• 23:00
  Speaker 14: it in a bigger picture of things, like I think
• 23:02
  Speaker 14: about how I go through my day and I'm exposed
• 23:05
  Speaker 14: to so much information online, right? Especially if you're scrolling
• 23:08
  Speaker 14: social media, right? If you're just going to the main
• 23:11
  Speaker 14: websites for the news stations and the newspapers, you should
• 23:14
  Speaker 14: be okay for the most part. But if you are
• 23:16
  Speaker 14: scrolling on social media, if you are watching these short videos,
• 23:21
  Speaker 14: seeing these pictures, you don't know what's real and you
• 23:24
  Speaker 14: don't know what's fake. And not just that, but people discuss,
• 23:27
  Speaker 14: they have entire discussions over material that has been created
• 23:31
  Speaker 14: by AI that is fake. And so if you're not
• 23:34
  Speaker 14: regularly fact-checking this stuff, it can be a problem. And
• 23:37
  Speaker 14: I'll be honest, it's not easy to fact-check it. There's
• 23:39
  Speaker 14: not one single place where you can just pop in
• 23:42
  Speaker 14: a link or you can just pop in a picture
• 23:44
  Speaker 14: and it tells you everything you need to know. So
• 23:47
  Speaker 14: it really comes down to the individual doing the work,
• 23:49
  Speaker 14: which We all know that's not very easy. It's much
• 23:52
  Speaker 14: easier to just scroll, to screenshot, to share. And so
• 23:56
  Speaker 14: I see this as a huge issue, especially for trust,
• 23:59
  Speaker 14: especially for just the average person dealing with it. And
• 24:03
  Speaker 14: I don't have a solution today. You just have to
• 24:06
  Speaker 14: do your research if you're going to have an opinion
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  Speaker 14: on something.
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  Speaker 3: Let's put it that way. By the way, there's a
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: new term for this called slopaganda. Which I love. Slopaganda
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: that's been making it on the Internet. Now, Rich.
• 24:19
  Speaker 14: Yeah, my kids and I talk about AI slop all
• 24:22
  Speaker 14: day long because it's especially if you have kids, they're
• 24:24
  Speaker 14: exposed to a lot of it.
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  Speaker 3: Elon Musk, the big guy in the room, spent half
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: a billion dollars openly to defeat the Democrats. He was
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: a big loser. Some of the congresspeople have already said
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: to Elon Musk, lawyer up. You're going to be in
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: a lot of our committee hearings tomorrow. How does his
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: businesses run without his day-to-day involvement?
• 24:49
  Speaker 14: I mean, at this point, I think Tesla's in a
• 24:51
  Speaker 14: pretty good place. I think that when you look at SpaceX,
• 24:55
  Speaker 14: that's probably the one that needs him the most right now.
• 24:57
  Speaker 14: I don't think he can be without these companies. He
• 25:01
  Speaker 14: needs to be there because they're all in a place
• 25:04
  Speaker 14: where they're leaders in their spaces, but because he is
• 25:08
  Speaker 14: a hands-on guy. He is the guy that is giving
• 25:10
  Speaker 14: them you know, instructions on a daily basis. I remember
• 25:14
  Speaker 14: Tesla in the early days when people were worried about
• 25:16
  Speaker 14: whether it was going to survive or fail. He would
• 25:18
  Speaker 14: sleep there days on end and he would sleep under
• 25:21
  Speaker 14: a desk and, you know, people thought he was crazy,
• 25:24
  Speaker 14: but it worked out in the end for Tesla. Now
• 25:27
  Speaker 14: with Elon, I think that he's probably, I think in general,
• 25:31
  Speaker 14: getting a gut check this morning because like you said,
• 25:34
  Speaker 14: he did put a lot of money and Texas was
• 25:36
  Speaker 14: sort of this place where people like him could say, okay,
• 25:39
  Speaker 14: well at least we have Texas, right? And now you
• 25:41
  Speaker 14: wake up this morning, you see for the first time
• 25:43
  Speaker 14: in 30 years, things have changed there. You have now
• 25:46
  Speaker 14: a Democrat for governor. His main guy packs in loss
• 25:50
  Speaker 14: to a Democrat. So this is a huge gut check
• 25:54
  Speaker 14: for this guy in a state that he has put
• 25:56
  Speaker 14: so much into. And by the way, I don't know
• 25:58
  Speaker 14: if you saw his joke on X that he said is...
• 26:00
  Speaker 14: My election interfering space lasers, I guess they didn't work.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: He is a funny guy.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Real quickly, there's a New York Times report that schools
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: that block Google's AI tools entirely could lose Google search.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: Is that true?
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  Speaker 14: This is very confusing because, yes, this New York Times
• 26:22
  Speaker 14: report came out and they basically had this bombshell report
• 26:25
  Speaker 14: that said Google is going to turn off search for
• 26:28
  Speaker 14: any school that refuses AI. to include its AI in
• 26:32
  Speaker 14: their search. You know, like when kids go on their computers.
• 26:35
  Speaker 14: And so of course people went, wait, what Google, why
• 26:37
  Speaker 14: would you do this? Like we want less AI in
• 26:39
  Speaker 14: schools because kids need to learn. And so I don't
• 26:41
  Speaker 14: know if Google backtracked or they changed their mind or
• 26:44
  Speaker 14: they just flat out lied, but basically.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: They said, oh no, no, no. This is what we meant.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: We meant that.
• 26:50
  Speaker 14: There's Gemini, there's Gemini notebook and their search. Those will
• 26:54
  Speaker 14: all be off by default in K through 12 schools.
• 26:58
  Speaker 14: teachers and administrators are now in control. They can choose
• 27:01
  Speaker 14: to turn one, two, or all three of these services
• 27:04
  Speaker 14: on individually. So I think this is one of those
• 27:07
  Speaker 14: stories that Google kind of saw the reaction and said, uh-oh,
• 27:11
  Speaker 14: what do we do to fix this? Because we don't
• 27:13
  Speaker 14: want to be out of schools, obviously. And so we'll see.
• 27:17
  Speaker 14: This is supposed to start in 2027. But I think
• 27:19
  Speaker 14: if what Google is saying in their tweet and their
• 27:22
  Speaker 14: blog post about how they have individual switches to turn
• 27:25
  Speaker 14: these three things on and off, That's probably the best
• 27:28
  Speaker 14: case scenario.
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  Speaker 3: Rich DeMuro, thanks so much.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro, Rich on Tech, has heard Sunday nights from
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  Speaker 3: Now, it's 710WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Wow, what else would Natalie Migliore be talking about today
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: with people on the street and her beat on the
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: street except for the election?
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  Speaker 3: This should be good.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe literally anything else now look election day has come
• 29:21
  Speaker 7: and gone the team has put in work my friends
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: with election night coverage and everything so congratulations you got through.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: That oh i got through it yes i survived it
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: yes glad.
• 29:32
  Speaker 15: To see you here this morning you've made it now
• 29:35
  Speaker 15: we're left to sort through the winners and the losers
• 29:39
  Speaker 15: it's being called a blue tsunami with even the unlikeliest
• 29:43
  Speaker 15: of states voting blue in New York.
• 29:46
  Speaker 7: Of course, Democrat incumbent Governor Kathy Hochul. defeats republican challenger
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: bruce blakeman but that wasn't really a surprise some voters
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: paying very close attention to races across the country of.
• 30:00
  Speaker 16: Course i bought it early first day i went and
• 30:03
  Speaker 16: it was great and i'm so happy with the outcome.
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: No i was i was actually looking at the elections
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: just now arizona governor i'm glad that i have family
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: in arizona and they're all republicans so i was glad
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: to see the arizona governor was re-elected um other than
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: that not Just as surprised as anybody else on some
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: of those swing states, like the incumbents that got beat.
• 30:23
  Speaker 10: Wow.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: It's been great. It's been great. I think we won
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: all over.
• 30:29
  Speaker 17: Yeah.
• 30:29
  Speaker 7: And just to clarify, the Arizona governor-elect is Democrat. He
• 30:37
  Speaker 7: was just happy, I guess, to stick it in family's
• 30:39
  Speaker 7: face when they have.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: Thanksgiving, which is coming up. But it comes to all.
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: Well, when it comes to all over Texas, Republican Governor
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: Greg Abbott was beat out by Democratic challenger Gina Hizona,
• 30:51
  Speaker 7: the first Democrat to run Texas in more than 30 years.
• 30:55
  Speaker 7: Democrats are also set to take over Congress here in
• 30:59
  Speaker 7: New York. Four districts considered battlegrounds all went blue. So
• 31:04
  Speaker 7: what do people think this indicates?
• 31:07
  Speaker 17: You know, the middle class has been getting crushed and
• 31:10
  Speaker 17: the 1% keeps rising and the poor keep getting poorer.
• 31:14
  Speaker 17: So I think it's... indicative of people are into self-preservation.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: So the Democrats are usually, you know, a lot of
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: social programs.
• 31:23
  Speaker 16: Probably because of the way they were treating the immigrants,
• 31:26
  Speaker 16: you know. Don't treat them that way. Give them a
• 31:29
  Speaker 16: chance to defend themselves and leave the country. That's it.
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: My feeling is that the divisiveness in the country over
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: the last bunch of years has been hard to take.
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: My wife actually said, we want to retire, let's leave
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: the country. But I'd like to see the country kind
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: of get back together and work together.
• 31:47
  Speaker 7: Well, it's not clear how much working together they'll do,
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: especially with President Trump's reaction to these midterm elections.
• 31:55
  Speaker 16: They're all going to come through for us, hopefully. But then,
• 31:58
  Speaker 16: you know, Trump said he's going to veto everything.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: But we'll see. Right.
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: So he had said he has the ultimate power to
• 32:05
  Speaker 7: veto whatever moves are made. There's one race where a
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: Republican challenger conceded in New York, even though there was
• 32:15
  Speaker 7: I'm not a Republican challenger or a Republican incumbent, conceded,
• 32:18
  Speaker 7: even though there was an issue with ballot scanners. Westchester
• 32:21
  Speaker 7: reported the countywide issue yesterday morning. We'd been reporting on
• 32:24
  Speaker 7: it all day. But still, Mike Lawler didn't question it
• 32:29
  Speaker 7: and conceded to his Democratic challenger, Kate Conley.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: Reaction, though, to issues at the polling sites across the county.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: I think maybe it's hampered. You never know. You know,
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: you can't trust all the polling sites, I don't think.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: you know, who's in charge and.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Who's, you know, looking over it.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: Everybody's going to say that.
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: My wife said that last night, that all these mail-in
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: early voting, because they were breaking it down into early
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: voting and day of voting. And she said that all
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: this early voting that's showing as a win for Democrats,
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: all that's going to happen is the president's going to say, oh,
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: it's all rigged.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: It's all rigged. It's all, you know, BS. You know
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: what the really interesting thing is?
• 33:08
  Speaker 7: As I was following the polls in my personal life
• 33:11
  Speaker 7: my fiancee was following Kalshi like Kalshi that that the
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: Kalshi which uh Governor Hochul has been trying to shut
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: down right because she says it's like a betting site
• 33:20
  Speaker 7: or whatever and he says every time he goes to
• 33:25
  Speaker 7: uh look at it for an election it's always on
• 33:28
  Speaker 7: point who's going to win and who's not.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: It's very interesting I was more on point I launched
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: yesterday the Curtis Sliwa political marketplace, and my picks were
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: better than Kalshi, better than the competitors. You compare them.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: Go ahead. You make that kind of an outrageous statement.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: You're not giving me props for being almost completely correct.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: You know what I love? That I don't have to
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: give you props. You give yourself props.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Everybody clapping for him.
• 33:59
  Speaker 7: We got Curtis Sliwa in the house. What is really interesting, though,
• 34:05
  Speaker 7: is the way I voted yesterday. I don't think I've
• 34:09
  Speaker 7: ever voted in a voting booth the same way twice.
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: I feel like there's always different mechanisms to vote. And
• 34:15
  Speaker 7: that isn't that interesting.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: That's a really fascinating point. They do keep changing. It's
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: it's ridiculous.
• 34:22
  Speaker 7: I tried to ask people that, and I think people
• 34:24
  Speaker 7: just have such short memories about it that they just
• 34:27
  Speaker 7: sort of float on into the, like, it's like, all right,
• 34:30
  Speaker 7: I voted.
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: Bring back the lever machines. There was so much here,
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: Jim and Natalie. Brooklyn.