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Natalie Migliore, WOR Reporter · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now, it's 710WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, she was a star for the New York City Marathon,
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  Speaker 2: and now you are a member of the team that's
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  Speaker 2: going to be covering election coverage tonight with Larry, with Natalie,
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  Speaker 2: the whole team out there. And so you can really
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  Speaker 2: strut yourself tonight. So I'm assuming when you were down
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  Speaker 2: in the streets, you were talking to people about the election,
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  Speaker 2: Natalie Migliore.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great assumption. Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: The polls are open.
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  Speaker 1: New Yorkers are voting for governor and a slew of
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  Speaker 1: other races, including Democrats. congress now experts say independence could
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  Speaker 1: be the deciding factor in the race between incumbent democrat
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  Speaker 1: governor kathy hokal and republican challenger bruce blakeman so after
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  Speaker 1: nearly two million new yorkers voted early guys not everyone
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  Speaker 1: planning on hitting the polls today.
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  Speaker 2: I don't really care honestly you.
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  Speaker 1: Don't care because you don't think they're going to change
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  Speaker 1: our lives or what yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Probably i mean i'm just in the middle i don't.
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  Speaker 5: Really know you can't really trust anyone So it's hard
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  Speaker 5: to know which side to vote for.
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  Speaker 4: The country hopefully will be going in the right direction,
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  Speaker 4: but everything's questionable. I mean, I think it's an important election.
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  Speaker 4: People should go out and vote.
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  Speaker 6: Honestly, depending on where they are, Manhattan, right, you're not
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  Speaker 6: going to vote. Still going to go Democratic.
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  Speaker 2: What do you do?
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 6: You're in a flip situation.
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  Speaker 4: You're not vote is a vote.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that could be the case, especially in four congressional
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  Speaker 1: districts in New York, as Representative Tom Swasey looks to
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  Speaker 1: hold on to his seat against Republican challenger Mike Lepetri.
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  Speaker 1: Same thing with Republican Mike Lawler in the Hudson Valley,
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  Speaker 1: who was going toe to toe with Democrat Kate Conley.
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  Speaker 1: I think they've had a dance off or two. I swear.
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  Speaker 1: The things you see during election season, my friends.
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  Speaker 3: I miss the dance-off.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you would have joined.
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  Speaker 5: A little two-step.
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  Speaker 4: A little Cotton Eye Joe.
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  Speaker 1: But after months of aggressive campaigning on all sides, New
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  Speaker 1: Yorkers are just done.
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  Speaker 6: You get text messages 24-7 constantly. It's a pain in
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  Speaker 6: the neck.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to see any of the ads. I'm
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  Speaker 4: tired of the ads.
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  Speaker 2: It's like Adults playing a children's role.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody's nasty. I don't know what happened to our country,
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  Speaker 4: to the people.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what happened.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I do know what happened. We have a leader
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  Speaker 4: who basically says, do it, do it, say whatever you want.
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  Speaker 5: It's not stuff that I go on social media to see. Like,
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  Speaker 5: I want to spend my time scrolling and tuning out
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  Speaker 5: the noise, and instead you're bombarded by the noise on socials.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think a good campaign would have one
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  Speaker 2: positive ad about themselves, what they're going to do, and
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  Speaker 2: they have to have some negative ads. But that one
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  Speaker 2: person was correct. Towards the end, it's all negative. Negative
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  Speaker 2: on both sides.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Negative on both sides.
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  Speaker 1: People are sick of hearing it. That's really the general
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  Speaker 1: consensus you get from everybody on the street, whether they're
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  Speaker 1: getting text messages from campaigns they've already contributed to or
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  Speaker 1: they're watching on team television or they're on social media
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  Speaker 1: and they're like, I do this to escape and I
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  Speaker 1: still can't escape it.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And the noise continues. There's a contentious race in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: Voters already hitting the polls as Republican Congressman Tom King Jr.
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  Speaker 1: takes on Democratic challenger Rebecca Bennett. Now voters here letting
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  Speaker 1: us know how they feel about the Trump administration really
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  Speaker 1: trickling down into this election.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not sure whether this is a commonly held sentiment,
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  Speaker 4: but I feel strongly that I can't vote for.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone in a Republican party. Um, given the state of
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  Speaker 1: the national party and policies.
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  Speaker 4: I'm hoping it's going to have an incredible impact.
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  Speaker 5: We need to repudiate his policies and elect people who
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  Speaker 5: are going to stop him.
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  Speaker 1: Now, on the complete other side of the political spectrum,
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  Speaker 1: some people are paying attention to what's going on in Michigan,
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  Speaker 1: where Abdul Al-Sayed, one time the challenger, dropped. His challenger,
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  Speaker 1: excuse me, Haley Stevens, dropped. her endorsement for him and
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  Speaker 1: instead starting backing Republican Mike Rogers. This has caught attention
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  Speaker 1: from a lot of people, especially because Syed is labeled
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  Speaker 1: as a Democratic socialist. So people are very confused specifically
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  Speaker 1: over what's going to happen in that situation.
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  Speaker 4: There's a question behind all of that. I believe in researching.
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  Speaker 4: I don't really know. See, that's the whole thing. There's
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  Speaker 4: Democrats that are running that I don't want to support,
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  Speaker 4: the socialist Democrats. I'm not supporting that. So how confusing
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  Speaker 4: is that for someone who wants to either vote Republican
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  Speaker 4: or Democrat? It's hard to stay in a whole party line.
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  Speaker 4: You have to be much smarter than me to really
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  Speaker 4: follow it all. Good.
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  Speaker 2: And play the bingo card. Don't just vote one line.
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  Speaker 2: Vote each line. Research the candidates and then vote for
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  Speaker 2: one of them instead of being.
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  Speaker 4: Like, oh, no, I just vote Republican.
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  Speaker 2: I just vote Democrat.
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  Speaker 3: Come on.
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  Speaker 4: Stop it already.
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  Speaker 1: But you do come across those people in the street.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'll ask people why Governor Hochul, why Bruce Blakeman?
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  Speaker 1: And it's really because they're voting down the party line.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they're not necessarily when I talk to them.
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  Speaker 1: Not everybody is looking into the issues. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we talk about, too, on a national level, there's been
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  Speaker 1: so much conversation about ICE, right? Immigration enforcement. Not one
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  Speaker 1: of those issues when you talk to people on the street.
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  Speaker 1: That's not one person. That's not the first thing somebody
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  Speaker 1: brings up. Well, immigration enforcement is my big issue. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of people are like utilities, electric, the cost of gas.
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  Speaker 1: These are major things. pocketbook issues. When you sit down
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  Speaker 1: at your kitchen table and you talk to your family
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  Speaker 1: about how high the grocery bill was this week, that's
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  Speaker 1: what really people are focused on when you approach them
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  Speaker 1: on the street. Look, you approach them cold. So, you know, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: you don't really have time for them to think so deeply.
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  Speaker 1: But a lot of people, when they talk to me,
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  Speaker 1: they tell me they're just trying to keep their head
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  Speaker 1: above water.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're absolutely right. There are second tier issues. And
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  Speaker 3: if you've noticed later in the campaign, Everybody just goes
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  Speaker 3: after affordability. They narrow down the focus onto what they're
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  Speaker 3: going to go after. You're right. I love the people
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  Speaker 3: you talked to today, especially that one woman. She was
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  Speaker 3: excellent in talking about the different candidates. Nice job. You
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  Speaker 3: found some good people.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. You know, I search far and wide, so
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  Speaker 1: we have to find the best.
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  Speaker 2: You're like a trawler out there.
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  Speaker 4: A trawler?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because the trawlers out at sea, they scoop up
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  Speaker 2: everything in their path. Trawler.
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  Speaker 5: I'm a trawler.
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  Speaker 2: Like a troll. But anyway, you'll be with us same time,
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  Speaker 2: same place tomorrow. Up next, oh yeah, Jimmy Failure. He'll
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  Speaker 2: be with us the whole hour, but right now it's
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  Speaker 2: 8 o'clock. Or to the office.