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Mark interviews political strategist Ed Rollins. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Marc Simone on se wo R. Well, let's talk to
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  Speaker 1: the dean himself, Ed Rollins. He's run more campaigns, more
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  Speaker 1: of the successful campaigns than anybody on Earth, Ed Rollins,
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  Speaker 1: How you doing well?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you? How are you? No?
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  Speaker 1: I'm good? What the hell happened last day?
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  Speaker 2: We got our bus kicked meeting Republicans. At the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day, Democrats heart maneuvers and certainly had and
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  Speaker 2: what But at the end of the day, what they
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  Speaker 2: did is they created one crazy candidate here in New York,
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  Speaker 2: which we have to win with the new mayor inexperienced
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  Speaker 2: and certainly socialists by inclination, and two progressive women who
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  Speaker 2: got new governors of Virginia and New Jersey. The women
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  Speaker 2: I worry about more because they're articulate and they have
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  Speaker 2: an interesting story, and they blew us out. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: margins were a week better than anybody anticipated. So first
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  Speaker 2: thing we got to do, We've got to shoot all
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  Speaker 2: the posters, and at least the the posters they're giving
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  Speaker 2: bad numbers and getting the trenches. This is the reality
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  Speaker 2: is a year from now is when it all matters.
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  Speaker 2: This president as president loses this majority in the House
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  Speaker 2: and the Senate serving the House as possible. Then he
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  Speaker 2: got us in the last two years in legal entanglements
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  Speaker 2: and potential impeachments and all the rest of it. So
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  Speaker 2: he's got to basically get his focus in his White House,
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  Speaker 2: his teams focused on those midterms that they have been
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  Speaker 2: focused to date. You got to pick the twenty or
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  Speaker 2: thirty members that are vulnerable and you can do everything
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  Speaker 2: you can to build up their resources. You got to
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  Speaker 2: do a real examination of what did happen to us yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: No delusion. No Democrats went out and they got organized.
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  Speaker 2: They turned people out. There's still a lot of anger
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  Speaker 2: out there in this country and they have to deal
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  Speaker 2: with it now.
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  Speaker 1: Ed Rollins, you've seen them all come and go. Can
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  Speaker 1: you reassure us that we are once and for all
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  Speaker 1: done with Andrew Cuomo. We're not going to see him
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  Speaker 1: again in a race, are absolutely not.
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  Speaker 2: I hope he runs for president and gets the nomination
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  Speaker 2: of the Democratics, not a kid. No, No, he's finished
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  Speaker 2: and I don't know what he does but at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the day and go live on his government pensions.
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  Speaker 2: But he ran a terrible campaign. At the end of
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  Speaker 2: the day, people didn't turn to yeah, even even the
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  Speaker 2: governor governor or the other officers. He said this. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think people are tired of the legacy, and and
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  Speaker 2: he did. He didn't make his case well. Uh and
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  Speaker 2: the fact that he rebuilt Meguardia and the train station
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  Speaker 2: is not what people are looking for today. How do
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  Speaker 2: you make their life better?
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  Speaker 1: So, so explain mont Domi to us. He's a he's
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  Speaker 1: a good salesman. He is a nice, glib, fast talker.
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  Speaker 1: He sounded very slick. Uh. But there's no substances, no resume,
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  Speaker 1: no no history of a job. Well, how did he
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  Speaker 1: do this?
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's gonna be a big story, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna I'm gonna look into it a lot more than
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  Speaker 2: I have to day. Uh. Uh, it's a you know,
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  Speaker 2: I've talked about this for several weeks now, and he's
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  Speaker 2: a new phenomenon. He turned young people on because I
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  Speaker 2: think people just tired the status quo and they this
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  Speaker 2: is this is the tough city to live in, it's
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  Speaker 2: a tough city to govern. Uh. And my my worries is,
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  Speaker 2: what's what's this direction? It's gonna be AOC and Bernie
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  Speaker 2: Sanders coming in here as this senior advisors or of
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  Speaker 2: the people that work for those two guys guy, or
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  Speaker 2: is it going to be his own team as he is,
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  Speaker 2: he kind of gets somebs and people. I doubt that
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  Speaker 2: that's my fear is not it's not him alone. Uh
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  Speaker 2: you know, we've we've survived the Bill Blood the Blazos before,
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  Speaker 2: which was terrible mayors. But this guy has some dangerous
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  Speaker 2: thoughts And is it the people he puts around him
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  Speaker 2: an more dangerous That's what I worry about.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, but we used to have for mayor like Rudy
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  Speaker 1: Giuliani was a highly qualified guy when he ran him.
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  Speaker 1: Incredible crime fighting history of Michael Bloomberg, incredible business resume.
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  Speaker 1: The last three guys, the Blasio Adams and this guy
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  Speaker 1: are just charming guys with no experience at all. What
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  Speaker 1: is this some kind of new trend we got to
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  Speaker 1: worry about?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I think so well to them, to them fail miserably,
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  Speaker 2: and uh you know this one, this one I think
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  Speaker 2: will fail even worse because what his natural inclination is
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  Speaker 2: and the people are going to advise him, meaning again
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  Speaker 2: AOC's people, uh are are not what this country the
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  Speaker 2: city needs. The city needs a pro business. Uh you know, people,
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  Speaker 2: people want the city to be stable, and it's not
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  Speaker 2: going to be stable with their socialist policies come in.
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  Speaker 1: Now you live in New York, How bad is this
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  Speaker 1: going to be? What? What? What's going to happen to us?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? I'm an old man, so I'm just I'm just
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  Speaker 2: hoping I survive it. Uh. You know, there's so much,
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  Speaker 2: there's so much to this city that that's magical, but
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  Speaker 2: right today it's it's struggling. And the change in the demographics.
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  Speaker 2: The fascinating parties to look at the early pool stuff
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  Speaker 2: is that you know, Brooklyn is a place that this
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  Speaker 2: guy went in and basically built the built the base,
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  Speaker 2: and you know Staten Island is sort of the Republican
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  Speaker 2: base and everything else is now different. We have a
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  Speaker 2: very important governor's race and what I bothered me is
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  Speaker 2: there's some assumptions now that we've got a great chance
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  Speaker 2: with our candidate to win the governorship. We do, but
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  Speaker 2: we don't do that unless we put in a reorganization together.
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  Speaker 2: And this is not as this is not a party
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  Speaker 2: has put any organizations together. This is the tacky.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's another problem. You've got a massive democratic machine,
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  Speaker 1: party ground game. Republicans is like, three guys, there's no
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  Speaker 1: Republican party here. What do we do about that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we got to change that. We have to you know,
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  Speaker 2: the city is divided. We have five five our own
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  Speaker 2: five party chairmen, and they all have their own little fiefdoms.
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  Speaker 2: And the reality is we need a strong party chairman,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and we've got to have changed the change
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  Speaker 2: the way they've done things.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Jack Chitarelli, I mean this is his third
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  Speaker 1: time he lost by an even bigger margins. That that's
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  Speaker 1: it for him, Right, he can't run again, Kenny.
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  Speaker 2: I assume, so he should have been you know, he can't.
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  Speaker 2: He came close with the biggest argument they had. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he came within three points last time. Well, he obviously
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  Speaker 2: had his story's flown off this time. And and she
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  Speaker 2: she's gonna be a tough candidate and what what are you?
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  Speaker 2: What are you running inst run that when she was
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  Speaker 2: in Annapolis, that she basically wouldn't turn in her fellow
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  Speaker 2: classmates who cheated. That's that was his big issue. And
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  Speaker 2: the fact that her husband has stock stocking business, made
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  Speaker 2: made some money. Yeah, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: she's she's an effective communicator, and she she's likable, and
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  Speaker 2: you got to be likable in this business. Uh. And
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  Speaker 2: when I saw the Farewell numbers, the Polie numbers came
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  Speaker 2: out early, you know, the seven eight nine point margin
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  Speaker 2: among abilities between the Democrats and Republican candidates. I knew,
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  Speaker 2: if you don't like somebody, you're not going to vote
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  Speaker 2: for him. So you've got to have people you like
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  Speaker 2: homely you don't like right now, Mandavi they like, We'll
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  Speaker 2: see it along that.
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  Speaker 1: Last Hey, Gavin Newso, guy who redistricting plan approved in California,
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  Speaker 1: is that going to make it easier for Republicans to
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  Speaker 1: do the same thing in their states?
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  Speaker 2: Now? Absolutely? Absolutely, you know, he had more marginal California.
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  Speaker 2: But the more telling part is the guy who was
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  Speaker 2: on the verge of being recalled several times, meaning the
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  Speaker 2: governor of California, he's now at the bist of Bowery.
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  Speaker 2: He had a fifty four percent of poop rating in
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  Speaker 2: these poors last night. So he's become a viable candidate
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  Speaker 2: beyond California, and he's certainly going to be if he
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  Speaker 2: has to be viewed as one of the front runners
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  Speaker 2: of the Democratic Party. I mean, I'd love to have
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to run against him. But at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day here you can't underestimate him as a messenger.
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  Speaker 2: And certainly the House Republicans, we've gotta have a plan
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  Speaker 2: here because they're going to carry to Downy Brook. We
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  Speaker 2: lose that House, and we lose it by four or
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  Speaker 2: five or ten or twenties. He's going to make all
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  Speaker 2: the difference in the world. But the reality is the
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  Speaker 2: President's going to have a bad two years if that happens.
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  Speaker 2: So they got to do everything in this White House
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  Speaker 2: against some of this formed policy stuff and what have you,
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  Speaker 2: and be realistic. Realistic is president still has some popularity
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  Speaker 2: on the base. None of the base was motivated by
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  Speaker 2: him yesterday in the election because he wasn't on a
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  Speaker 2: campaign and like he traditionally would be husy, busy guy
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  Speaker 2: doing lots of other things, but it wasn't doing wasn't
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  Speaker 2: focused on the campaigns, and that's his people come out
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  Speaker 2: when he's on the ballot. He's not gonna be on
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  Speaker 2: the ballot again, so you've got to cut of somehow
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  Speaker 2: substitute something or someone for.
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  Speaker 1: That good point. Well Ed Rollins, Thanks for the wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk again soon. Thanks for being with us, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll do it again soon, my pleasure. All right, take care,
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  Speaker 1: take care. Well, Well, we'll go over the mail race
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  Speaker 1: some more. Little later, we'll get to New Jersey, the
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  Speaker 1: governor's race. We've got a lot to get to coming up.
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  Speaker 1: Don't forget Buck and Clay at noon today, excellent show.
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  Speaker 1: They'll go over what happened last night, as will Sean Hannity,
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