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Mark's 10am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now this is the Mark Simon Show on sevent ten. Woo, Well,
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  Speaker 1: things are shifting in the mayoral race. We'll get to that.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to the President's trip. He meets with President
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  Speaker 1: She tonight late tonight. We'll get to the shutdown. We'll
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  Speaker 1: get to the World Series. We'll get to twenty twenty eight.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to the ballroom, and a whole lot more
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  Speaker 1: coming up. There's people that watch this stuff carefully are
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  Speaker 1: seeing a shift in the mayoral race. More people are
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  Speaker 1: moving towards Cuomo. Curtis, who we love. He'd be He's
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  Speaker 1: the best candidate of the bunch, he'd be the best
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  Speaker 1: mayor of the bunch. But there are voters shifting from
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  Speaker 1: him to Cuomo, despite the fact that they hate Cuomo.
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  Speaker 1: They were horrified by Cuomo's performance in office as governor,
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  Speaker 1: but they're just so terrified of him Donnie City Hall,
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  Speaker 1: that they're more and more people are shifting to Cuomo.
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  Speaker 1: So we don't know if it's too little, too late.
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  Speaker 1: He's still way behind in all the polling, but but
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  Speaker 1: there is a shift, and there is some data showing
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  Speaker 1: the race really tightening. The big big donors are always
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  Speaker 1: the worst in any campaign because at first they always
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  Speaker 1: back the wrong guy. They're never great at helping. They
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  Speaker 1: do more damage than good, these big, big money donors.
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  Speaker 1: But one of the problems is to get mom Donnie
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  Speaker 1: out of this, to take him out of competition. This
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  Speaker 1: had to start about a month and a half ago.
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  Speaker 1: As John McLaughlin, the great Polster, explained to us, you
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  Speaker 1: got to drive his negatives up. You got to get
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  Speaker 1: his negatives up into the fifties. And the way you
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  Speaker 1: do that is massive negative ads against him. Bombard everybody
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  Speaker 1: with these ads showing you things he said in the past,
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. Well, that's where the big donors have
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  Speaker 1: to spend the money. The big super PACs have to
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  Speaker 1: run those ads. Well, they didn't this time. Where have
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  Speaker 1: they been This is one of the few campaigns where
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  Speaker 1: they haven't been there. You haven't seen those kind of
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  Speaker 1: negative adds. It's because the big donors were terrified of
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  Speaker 1: Mam Donnie winning and then not being able to have
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  Speaker 1: any kind of relationship with him because you can always
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  Speaker 1: tell who donated the money, So out of fear, they
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  Speaker 1: didn't do it. Now it looks like they may start
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  Speaker 1: doing it. It's a little late, about thirty five percent
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  Speaker 1: of the vote is already in because of that early voting.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a little late, but they're going to start
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  Speaker 1: running some negative stuff. You got this weekend to do it,
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  Speaker 1: and then early voting stops. I think Monday. I think
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  Speaker 1: there's no early voting the day before the election. But
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  Speaker 1: then Tuesday's election day. You'll probably get half the votes
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday. So, but Cuomo has been picking up a
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  Speaker 1: little steam and he's been picking up endorsements. David Patterson
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  Speaker 1: endorsed him, But then David Patterson has endorsed everybody in
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  Speaker 1: the race. He's endorsed Adams. If Curtiss is saying, don't
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  Speaker 1: endorse me, it's the kiss of death. Eric Adams is
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  Speaker 1: endorsed Cuomo. They were campaigning together.
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  Speaker 2: Here they are yesterday, here Adams, Governor Patterson, myself.
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  Speaker 1: We are Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: We've always been Democrats, we will always be Democrats, and
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  Speaker 2: we believe in the democratic values.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, the only problem is that he keeps, you know,
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  Speaker 1: making that point, I'm the real I'm the actual Democrat. Well,
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  Speaker 1: he was in the Democratic primary and Democrats rejected him.
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  Speaker 1: Democrats voted against him. He's running now on a third party.
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  Speaker 1: He's not the Democratic nominee, but Adams appeared with him yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: We don't need a socialist masquerading as a Democrat.
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  Speaker 2: No one's going to get a free ride, no matter
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  Speaker 2: what some people are promising. But there is a great
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  Speaker 2: opportunity for this city if we elect this gentleman right now,
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  Speaker 2: next Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's the Adams and David Patterson together. So here's
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  Speaker 1: the problem. Everybody hates Cuomo. They thought he was He's
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  Speaker 1: a nice guy in real life, but they just thought
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  Speaker 1: he was the worst governor. He caused the crime wave,
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  Speaker 1: the no bail, no jail, the closing the prisons, letting
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  Speaker 1: all the prisoners out, the taken away the qualified immunity
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  Speaker 1: from cops was a horrible thing to do. Cops could
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  Speaker 1: get sued if they went near anybody, so they had
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  Speaker 1: to be very restrained. I mean, he did so many things.
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  Speaker 1: He totally mismanaged the pandemic. He tried to ban the vaccine.
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  Speaker 1: At one point he blocked Ice and threatened to sue them.
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  Speaker 1: He closed Indian Point that drove up that was twenty
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  Speaker 1: five percent of our power, drove up our electric costs.
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  Speaker 1: He picked Kathy Hockle. He's the reason we're stuck with
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  Speaker 1: Kathy Ogle. He gave us the congestion pricing. He's the
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  Speaker 1: one that pushed that through. So he was just terrible
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  Speaker 1: as governor, But many just think Madamie could actually be worse. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: they're worried most about public safety. But remember it was
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  Speaker 1: Cuomo that gave us the no bail no jail. That
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  Speaker 1: one move single handedly caused the crime wave. He's the
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  Speaker 1: one that pushed it like crazy. But people just think
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  Speaker 1: they'd be safer with him than Mom Donnie. He's probably
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  Speaker 1: probably correct, but even Here's Michael Goodwin today, the great
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  Speaker 1: columnist in the New York Post, and he writes, if
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  Speaker 1: anyone had dared to tell me I would actually vote
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  Speaker 1: for Andrew Cuomo again, I would have shot back. Never.
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  Speaker 1: I was thoroughly disgusted with the former governor, applauded his
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  Speaker 1: forced exit from Albany, and saw no evidence he was
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  Speaker 1: doing anything to make himself fit to hold public office again.
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  Speaker 1: In the three plus years since his resignation, he's continued
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  Speaker 1: to play defense attack as critics, including me Goodwin, but
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  Speaker 1: had done nothing to demonstrate he learned anything or accepted
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  Speaker 1: any responsibility for his historic collapse. There were no apologies
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  Speaker 1: for the heartless nursing home tobaccle he caused. There was
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  Speaker 1: no remorse that he was guilty of sexually harassing thirteen
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  Speaker 1: women accused of harassing them. He never said so directly,
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  Speaker 1: but he seemed to believe if he got back into
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  Speaker 1: politics enough, voters enamored with the Cuomo name would give
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  Speaker 1: him a second chance, even if he didn't show them
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  Speaker 1: why he deserved it. Well, that was the problem in
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  Speaker 1: the primary. He thought just the Cuomo name, the name recognition, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: would help him, but he got wiped out in both
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  Speaker 1: debates in the primary. He got wiped out in the
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  Speaker 1: popular vote in the primary. But Goodwin says, as horrible
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  Speaker 1: as he thinks Cuomo is, he'll vote for him just
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  Speaker 1: to stop mom Donnie. So you're getting more and more
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  Speaker 1: of that. By the way, every piece of polling these
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  Speaker 1: are all kind of junk polls, the dozen of them
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  Speaker 1: that are out there, but every single one shows that
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  Speaker 1: Curtis got out of the race, Cuomo still would be behind,
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  Speaker 1: so it's not about Curtis. And the most detailed polling
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  Speaker 1: shows if Curtis left, thirty six percent of his vote
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  Speaker 1: would go to Cuomo, giving Cuomo an extra four percent,
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  Speaker 1: so if he spot behind ten percent, then he'd be
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  Speaker 1: behind six percent, still not enough to win. The idea
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  Speaker 1: that if Curtis dropped out, all those votes would go
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  Speaker 1: to Cuomo is crazy. It's like saying if the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: lose in the playoffs and don't make the World Series,
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  Speaker 1: all the Yankee fans will then go with the Red Sox.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't work that way. It may be some of
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  Speaker 1: them just because they like the American League, would cheer
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  Speaker 1: for the Red Sox, but most of the Yankee fans
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  Speaker 1: would not suddenly go to the Red Sox. Same thing
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  Speaker 1: with Curtis. Curtis is not getting out of the race,
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  Speaker 1: no reason why he should. If Cuomo wants to win this,
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  Speaker 1: he's got to win those votes. You can't just force
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  Speaker 1: Sliwa out. Cuomo has to legitimately try to win those
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  Speaker 1: voters away. Well, it looks like there is some movement
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  Speaker 1: like that. He is picking up a little steam. We'll
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  Speaker 1: see if he can do it enough to close the gap.
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  Speaker 1: The race is tighter than the people think. Mamdani is
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  Speaker 1: on course to win. Now. Well, here's what's interesting. If
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  Speaker 1: you try to argue with people about policies that he supports.
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  Speaker 1: In the polling, the majority of residents don't agree with
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  Speaker 1: his This is the fascinating part. They just like him.
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  Speaker 1: The poll found that New Yorkers favor harsher penalties for
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  Speaker 1: fair evasion. They're not looking for free bus fair. They
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  Speaker 1: don't like the bail reform law. Sixty eight percent don't
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  Speaker 1: want the free buses. They thought it would turn them
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  Speaker 1: into homeless shelters. He can go on and on. They're
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  Speaker 1: not in favor of his crime policies, but despite all that,
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  Speaker 1: they were still for them. Now, Mam, Donnie's got all
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  Speaker 1: these horrible comments in the past, you know, they keep
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  Speaker 1: coming up. He said, the NYPD had their boots on
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  Speaker 1: your neck. Is he said, I think I have it
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  Speaker 1: here somewhere. Maybe maybe this is it. This is from
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  Speaker 1: a few years ago. We have to make clear when
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  Speaker 1: it's yes. Yeah. So he said, when the NYPD boot
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  Speaker 1: is on your neck, it's been laced by the IDF.
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  Speaker 1: So that's real, mom, Donni. There he takes a terrible
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  Speaker 1: shot of the police and puts in some anti Semitic,
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  Speaker 1: anti Israel nonsense into the same sentence. So that's what
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  Speaker 1: you're dealing with. Uh, here's Curtis, but he just shows
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  Speaker 1: the hate that he has vote for the idea and
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  Speaker 1: the hate that he has for the NYPD. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: all of this is just horrible. But again we are
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  Speaker 1: seeing a shift of voters who don't like Cuomo. They
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  Speaker 1: hate Cuomo, they thought he was a terrible governor. But
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  Speaker 1: there is some movement, some shift over the voting for Cuomo.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see if it's enough. A lot of people really
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  Speaker 1: upset with Kathy Hokele. Now, if Mom Donnie were to
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  Speaker 1: win and be a terrible mayor, that would be the
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  Speaker 1: end of Kathy Hokel. Anybody running against her would just
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  Speaker 1: run the clips of her supporting Mom Donnie and stickiness
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  Speaker 1: with this stuff. She could actually remove him as mayor,
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  Speaker 1: which she won't have the nerve to do. So that's
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  Speaker 1: another reason she'll get voted out of office. She just
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  Speaker 1: panders to him in his socialist crowd. She was at
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  Speaker 1: she appeared at the Mam Donnie rally, and again she'll
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  Speaker 1: never be able to explain that away. What were you
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  Speaker 1: doing at a Mom Donnie rally? Speaking on his behalf,
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  Speaker 1: holding hands with him at the rally? She got booed there,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, even the far left hates her. She
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  Speaker 1: was booed. She said, she's not the brightest woman in
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  Speaker 1: the world. They were booing her like crazy, and she said,
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  Speaker 1: I thought they were saying, let's go bills. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: you're going to think of an excuse, that's why would
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  Speaker 1: this was in Forest Hill stadiums. Why would people in
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  Speaker 1: New York City not say let's go giants jets. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: in New York City cares about the bills. So just
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  Speaker 1: looked awful for her. Now, what if Mom Donnie win?
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  Speaker 1: Is there any way to stop him? If he wins? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: if they found out he took foreign money, knowingly took
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  Speaker 1: foreign money into his campaign, they can remove him from
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  Speaker 1: being mayor, that would be the end of it. Now,
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  Speaker 1: there are several groups that have been working on this,
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  Speaker 1: this one called the Coolidge Reagan Foundation. They have now
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  Speaker 1: filed two criminal referrals with the Justice Department. They've uncovered
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  Speaker 1: thirteen thousand and foreign money from one hundred and seventy
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  Speaker 1: donors that went to Mom Donnie. Now it's not quite
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  Speaker 1: that simple. You got to prove that he knew about it,
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  Speaker 1: but it's enough to file a criminal referral, have a
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  Speaker 1: criminal investigation there's another one hundred and seventy incidents that's
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  Speaker 1: not isolated. That's a lot of incidents. The Mam Donnie
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  Speaker 1: campaigns at thirty one of the one hundred and seventy
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  Speaker 1: one donors proved their citizenship. Well, he's still got one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and forty left that didn't. The criminal referral is
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  Speaker 1: with the Assistant Attorney General right now, so he'll be
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  Speaker 1: looking at that. Fox News Digital did an investigation. They
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  Speaker 1: uncovered thirteen thousand from donors with foreign addresses, including one
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  Speaker 1: five hundred dollars donation from his mother in law in Dubai,
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  Speaker 1: not an American citizen. Mam Donnie says he returned the contribution,
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  Speaker 1: but as of October fourteenth, filing still show ninety one
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  Speaker 1: foreign donations had been funded. But that leaves that leaves
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  Speaker 1: about sixty of them still out there, So it's possible
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  Speaker 1: they could take him out with that. Also, any victory
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  Speaker 1: of Mandami's would he'd be a terrible mayor. It would
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  Speaker 1: just kill the Democrats right now. Democratic brand is in
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  Speaker 1: real trouble. If you went back to ten years ago
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  Speaker 1: and took a real poll, not a serious poll, fifty
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  Speaker 1: percent of voters viewed the Democratic Party is out of touch.
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  Speaker 1: Half okay, that makes sense, but it's now up to
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  Speaker 1: seventy percent. The majority of the country thinks the Democratic
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  Speaker 1: Party is totally completely out of touch. So we'll see
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  Speaker 1: what happens as the early voting continues. Now, if we
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  Speaker 1: get about a million votes, a million one, a million two,
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  Speaker 1: which is low twenty thirty percent turnout, it looks like
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  Speaker 1: it could head to two million. You could get sixty percent,
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  Speaker 1: seventy percent turnout. If the voting gets to two million,
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  Speaker 1: that probably could give you a Cuomo victory. Probably it
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  Speaker 1: has to get to about two million, but it looks
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  Speaker 1: like it could be headed there. So there's all these endorsements. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Michael Goodwin says he hates Cuomo as much as it,
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  Speaker 1: but he's going to vote for him. Here you got
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  Speaker 1: a woman who this kind of went viral online. She says,
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  Speaker 1: Cuomo murdered my husband. I think she's referring to the
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  Speaker 1: nursing homes. Cuomo murdered my husband, But I'm still going
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  Speaker 1: to vote for him. So you're getting a lot of that.
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  Speaker 1: So there is a shift going on right now. Now
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  Speaker 1: in New Jersey, it's very very very tight. Nobody can
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  Speaker 1: tell what's going to happen. Now, these endorsements don't mean
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  Speaker 1: much of anything. You know, when Cuomo announces, oh, the
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  Speaker 1: Electricians Union endorsed me. They're nice people, but I don't
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  Speaker 1: think anybody when they want to know who to vote for,
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  Speaker 1: asks they're Electrician. It doesn't mean anything. Even the big
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  Speaker 1: name the newspaper endorsements generally mean nothing. Rally's trying to
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  Speaker 1: get endorsements. He's got a Trump. Trump's not going to
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  Speaker 1: come to New Jersey, but it's gonna be some sort
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  Speaker 1: of video endorsement. Mikey Cheryl brought in Obama to give
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  Speaker 1: an indorsement. Here's the latest Chiitarelli endorsement. Kelsey Grammar, Hi,
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  Speaker 1: Kelsey Grammar. Here, you already know that I'm from New Jersey. No,
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  Speaker 1: wait to stop it. Did you know he's from New Jersey?
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  Speaker 1: I never know he's from New Jersey. Is there anything
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  Speaker 1: about him that suggests he's from New Jersey?
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  Speaker 3: No, why I'm talking to you right now. There's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of famous folks who grew up in Jersey. But
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  Speaker 3: some of them seem content to let you guys go
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  Speaker 3: on living on a prayer. Others have just forgotten that
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  Speaker 3: you were born in the USA too. But once Jack wins,
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  Speaker 3: and I think he's got a good chance of winning,
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna make it a lot easier to just shake
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  Speaker 3: it off.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. That's not a very good not a
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  Speaker 1: good commercial. I don't know. I don't know. It's like
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  Speaker 1: just picture him and Niles in the in the little cafe,
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  Speaker 1: they're talking. No, no, not a powerful endorsement. Anyway, We'll
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  Speaker 1: see what happens. We'll get back to the mayor all race.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get back to that. The President is continuing the trip.
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  Speaker 1: You'll read that he's going to meet with President She
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  Speaker 1: Thursday morning, but with the massive time difference, Thursday morning
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  Speaker 1: is late tonight, so it'll be late tonight that he
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  Speaker 1: meets with She. So far, it's been a very very
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  Speaker 1: successful trip. Lots of agreements, lots of deals have been signed,
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  Speaker 1: great for the United States. So they call deliverables. He's
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  Speaker 1: gotten a lot of different deliverables on this trip. We'll
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  Speaker 1: get to the shutdown coming up. Chuck Schumer says, this
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  Speaker 1: is outrageous. It's outrageous, this is horrifying. Forty two million
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  Speaker 1: people on foodstamps might not get their benefits, but most
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  Speaker 1: people on to hear this go Wait a minute, forty
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  Speaker 1: two million people are on food stamps. Why weren't you
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  Speaker 1: outraged about that? You should have been screaming for years
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  Speaker 1: that forty two million people are on food stamps. That's
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  Speaker 1: not right. Somebody that did just the sign of his
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  Speaker 1: failed leadership. Anyway, we'll get back to all of this up.
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  Speaker 1: We'll take some calls. Next. Eight hundred three two one
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