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'What a pair' Mamdani reacts to Trump and Musk urging New Yorkers to vote for Cuomo · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: President Trump endorsing Andrew Cuomo and the New York City
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  Speaker 1: Mayor's race. Just posting on social media this he says,
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  Speaker 1: whether you personally like Andrew Cuomo or not, you really
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  Speaker 1: have no choice. You must vote for him and hope
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  Speaker 1: he does a fantastic job. He is capable of it. Mom,
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  Speaker 1: Donnie is not well out front now zoram Mam Donnie
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  Speaker 1: the candidate.
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  Speaker 2: For New York City mayor.
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  Speaker 1: And so President Trump making it very clear here, there's
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  Speaker 1: no beating around the bush here.
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  Speaker 2: You really have no choice. You must vote for him.
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  Speaker 2: Andrew Cuomo, what do you say to that?
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  Speaker 3: Look, this is something that we've been speaking about for months.
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  Speaker 3: We've known since the primary that Andrew Cuomo was funded
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  Speaker 3: by the same billionaires that gave us Donald Trump's second term.
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  Speaker 3: He denied that. Then he had a phone call with
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  Speaker 3: President Trump trying to coordinate to stop our campaign. He
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  Speaker 3: then denied that, and even just until these final days,
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  Speaker 3: he denied that he was Donald Trump's preferred candidate. But
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  Speaker 3: now it's written out for the entire world to see.
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  Speaker 3: This is the man that Donald Trump wants to be
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  Speaker 3: the next mayor of New York City, and not because
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  Speaker 3: he's good for New Yorkers, but because he'll be good
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  Speaker 3: for Donald Trump. And New Yorkers are exhausted of this
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  Speaker 3: agenda in Washington. They don't want to see a mimic
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  Speaker 3: of it come here to City Hall.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think it will help Cuomo at all in
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  Speaker 2: the polls?
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  Speaker 1: I guess, specifically, if you assume that Trump's talk trying
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  Speaker 1: to talk to that fifteen percentage percent of people who
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  Speaker 1: say they're going to vote for Curtis Leila.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we continue to be confident about what tomorrow
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  Speaker 3: will look like for us. But I do think New
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  Speaker 3: Yorkers must understand that Andrew Cuomo waited until the final
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  Speaker 3: day before the election to have this be revealed. He
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  Speaker 3: wanted to be able to make the message to Democrats
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  Speaker 3: that he was in fact the governor that he said
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  Speaker 3: he was, and then right at the last moment, the
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  Speaker 3: last opportunity to fully embrace the MAGA movement that we
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  Speaker 3: have long said he has tied to.
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  Speaker 1: So Trump also posts so he endorses a Cuomo. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Then he also talked about you, referring to you as
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  Speaker 1: a communist. I believe last time we talked, I think
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how many times I had of him
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  Speaker 1: calling you communists. That's not new, but he said, if
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  Speaker 1: communists candidate Zoramondani wins the election for mayor of New
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  Speaker 1: York City, it is en likely that I will be
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  Speaker 1: contributing federal funds other than the very minimum as required
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  Speaker 1: to my beloved first home, because of the fact that
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  Speaker 1: as a communist, this one greats was once great city,
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  Speaker 1: has zero chance of success or even survival. Okay, what
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  Speaker 1: do you think that means? Other the very minimum as
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  Speaker 1: required could be an important clause, I suppose in that sentence.
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  Speaker 1: But if he says unlikely it's going to contribute federal funds,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what happens then what will you do?
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  Speaker 2: If that's how he.
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  Speaker 3: Goes I think you can clearly see that Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: is threatened by our campaign. He's threatened by it because,
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  Speaker 3: like his we've diagnosed the crisis in working class New
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  Speaker 3: Yorkers lives the cost of living, But unlike him, we're
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  Speaker 3: actually going to deliver on that. And that is a
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  Speaker 3: contrast that he can't bear to see because while he
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  Speaker 3: is spending three hundred million dollars remodeling a white House ballroom,
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  Speaker 3: the same amount of money that could provide snap benefits
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  Speaker 3: for one hundred thousand New Yorkers. He's trying to make
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  Speaker 3: it harder for Americans across the country to actually afford groceries.
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  Speaker 3: And this money that we're talking about, it's money that
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  Speaker 3: New York City is owed. It's not Donald Trump's to
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  Speaker 3: decide which city or state will get what money. This
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  Speaker 3: is the money that New Yorkers are owed, and this
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  Speaker 3: is the money that we're going to fight for.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So Trump is not the only one talking about U.
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  Speaker 3: J and I.
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  Speaker 2: Elan Musk is actually talking about you.
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  Speaker 1: What a pair he and you know, and obviously Musk
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  Speaker 1: had supported him, was crucial to his election victory. They
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  Speaker 1: had their falling out, but they're back together again. Elon
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  Speaker 1: posts about you remember to vote tomorrow in New York.
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  Speaker 1: Bear in mind that a vote for Curtis referring to
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  Speaker 1: Curtis Sliwa, whom I just mentioned, is really a vote
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  Speaker 1: for mum dummy or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: His name is. Vote Cuomo. All right?
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  Speaker 1: Why do you think he's speaking out against you? And
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  Speaker 1: obviously the personal insult is in there as well, mum dummy.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I think this is one of the more expensive
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  Speaker 3: endorsements that Andrew Cuomo has ever gotten because it took
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  Speaker 3: nine hundred and fifty nine million dollars in tax breaks
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  Speaker 3: that he gave Elon Musk for Elon Musk's pet projects
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  Speaker 3: back when Cuomo was the governor. And we're seeing the
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  Speaker 3: two twin architects of this second term of it Donald
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  Speaker 3: Trump's presidency, in the President himself and Elon Musk saying
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  Speaker 3: clearly to New Yorkers that their candidate is Andrew Cuomo.
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  Speaker 3: And they've picked Andrew Cuomo because they know that he
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  Speaker 3: will be the puppet that they want right here in
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  Speaker 3: New York City. And he's showing himself to not just
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  Speaker 3: be that, but also to be their parrot in the
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  Speaker 3: language that he's using to close out this election.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you talk about billionaires, and there have been some
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  Speaker 1: really wealthy individuals who have come out and put money
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  Speaker 1: in attacks against you in recent days, right my former
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  Speaker 1: mayor Michael Bloomberg among them.
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  Speaker 2: There are plenty of other business leaders.
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  Speaker 1: Who in private will have are afraid, they have concern
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  Speaker 1: There are very few who actually will talk about it publicly,
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  Speaker 1: but one of them is Jamie Diamond from JP Morgan.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm thinking about this in the light of Trump
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  Speaker 1: calling you a communists. Jamie Diamond did not call you
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  Speaker 1: a communist. He was more intellectual about it. He said,
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  Speaker 1: what does he really think? You know, he was part
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  Speaker 1: of that socialist democratic thing, which literally is more Marxist
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  Speaker 1: than socialist. And I read it, but I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what he believes in that, all right, So he's basically
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  Speaker 1: saying he's not really sure where you stand on things.
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  Speaker 1: But what do you say to that concern? Is Marxist
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  Speaker 1: something you're comfortable with?
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm a democratic socialist and I've said it time
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  Speaker 3: and again. When was that quote from from Jamie Diamond?
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  Speaker 2: From Jamie Diamond?
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  Speaker 1: It was from Fortune last week, Okay, a Fortune conference
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  Speaker 1: last week.
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  Speaker 3: Because he he's also come out and said in public,
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  Speaker 3: is that in our success, this is something that business
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  Speaker 3: leaders would also hope for for the success of the city.
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  Speaker 3: And I put that forward to say that despite where
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  Speaker 3: New Yorkers may stand on my candidacy, whatever qualms they
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  Speaker 3: may have, they know that I'm actually being honest with
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  Speaker 3: them about my ideas about who I'm looking to fight for.
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  Speaker 3: And that's sadly unique in this race, because what you
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  Speaker 3: have is someone in Andrew Cuomo who spent the entirety
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  Speaker 3: of a primary campaign on the premise that he was
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  Speaker 3: the best suited to take on Donald Trump. And here
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  Speaker 3: we are with the chirn that Donald Trump is endorsing
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  Speaker 3: Andrew Cuomo.
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  Speaker 1: So let me ask you, because that was October seventeenth,
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  Speaker 1: so it was actually a week and a half ago.
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  Speaker 1: But I want to ask you because you asked me
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  Speaker 1: when he said that, Are you talking to him? Are
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  Speaker 1: people like that people that you're going to sit down
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  Speaker 1: with and eagerly work with or not.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I'll have conversations with anyone. And I've spoken to
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  Speaker 3: Jamie Diamond briefly, and I've spoken to a number of
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  Speaker 3: other business leaders across the city about my proposals. I
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  Speaker 3: know that there are disagreements around my fiscal policy. That
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  Speaker 3: I think we should raise income taxes on the top
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  Speaker 3: one percent of New York or who make a million
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  Speaker 3: dollars or more a year by two percent, or the
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  Speaker 3: fact that I think corporation's top tax rate should be
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  Speaker 3: matching that what they pay in New Jersey. And still
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  Speaker 3: there is room for an immense amount of agreement on
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  Speaker 3: what it means to bring the city forward. And I'll
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  Speaker 3: always leave that door.
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  Speaker 1: Open so okay, So let me just ask you about
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  Speaker 1: President Obama. I know that you had a conversation with him.
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  Speaker 1: What was that conversation about your most recent one.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciated the conversation with President Obama, and we spoke
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  Speaker 3: about both.
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  Speaker 2: The New York Post headline is that he's not endorsing it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, the New York Post has a lot of
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  Speaker 3: fun with their headlines. To put it lightly, it was
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  Speaker 3: a conversation where we were speaking about the importance of
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  Speaker 3: hope in politics, the delivery of that kind of an agenda.
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  Speaker 3: And I also shared with him that the remarks that
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  Speaker 3: I had shared outside of a mosque in the Bronx
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  Speaker 3: not too long ago was inspired in part by his
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  Speaker 3: remarks on race of a more perfect union many years ago.
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  Speaker 3: And I think there is often a tendency in our
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  Speaker 3: politics to think solely in a twenty four hour news cycle,
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  Speaker 3: and the need to sometimes step back and speak to
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  Speaker 3: the soul of a city and not just the cycle
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  Speaker 3: of that city.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that he and he's never endorsed to me,
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  Speaker 1: you're all candidates, So that's why I'm making the point.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, he wasn't going to endorse, But do you
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  Speaker 1: feel that he has your back. That there's because they're
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  Speaker 1: plenty in the Democratic Party who are scared of you too,
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  Speaker 1: and they don't know whether they're going to succeed. If
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  Speaker 1: really going to sit back and watch. Do you think
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  Speaker 1: he's someone who's going to be in there.
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  Speaker 2: In it with you?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I appreciate it, the President offering to be a
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  Speaker 3: sounding board. And that's exactly what we see is what
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  Speaker 3: the future of these next few weeks and months look like.
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  Speaker 3: It looks like speaking to those who've been in these
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  Speaker 3: very kinds of positions and putting together a team that
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  Speaker 3: reflects the best and the brightest that the city in
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  Speaker 3: this country has to offer, and then delivering on this agenda.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what actually terrifies Donald Trump and Elon Musk
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  Speaker 3: and even Andrew Cuomo the most. It's their fear that
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  Speaker 3: we will in fact accomplish the things that we have
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  Speaker 3: campaigned on. And that's one place where they're actually right.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Sam, Mom, Donnie, thank you very much. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: we're hours away, yes, hours away? Here, are you ready?
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  Speaker 1: Do you expect it's going to be a big.
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  Speaker 2: Night for you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm hopeful, I'm confident, but I'll never be complacent. But look,
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  Speaker 3: if people want to vote for Donald Trump and Needlon Musk,
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  Speaker 3: they should vote for Andrew Cuomo. If people want to
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  Speaker 3: vote for change, they should vote for me.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Zorn Mom, Donnie, thank you very much. I
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  Speaker 2: appreciate it.