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Political strategist Ed Rollins joins Mark for an interview. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: He's more.
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  Speaker 2: Mark's the Mark Simone Show on seven ten.
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  Speaker 1: Woor Well, let's turn to the dean himself, the greatest
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  Speaker 1: political analyst, the ball Boy. He's run a million campaigns,
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  Speaker 1: He's run the most successful campaigns of all Ed Rollins.
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  Speaker 1: How you doing pretty good?
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  Speaker 2: Mark?
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  Speaker 1: Are you good?
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  Speaker 2: A lot of activity going on in the world. We
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  Speaker 2: don't want to be sitting on white house today.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you as the veteran of a
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  Speaker 1: lot of white houses. These protests all over the streets,
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  Speaker 1: all this video, all this stuff we're watching. Is this
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  Speaker 1: hurting or helping the president?
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  Speaker 2: Right now? It's undefined. I mean, I think some of
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  Speaker 2: the things he's doing are very beneficial to the country.
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  Speaker 2: Some of the things are distracting. I mean, his mission
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  Speaker 2: has got to be Now we're really in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of the start of the midterms, He's got to basically
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  Speaker 2: give his party something to run on, and it has
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  Speaker 2: to be something that they they're not gonna win on
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  Speaker 2: battling Venezuela or changing the Iranian resolves or what have you.
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  Speaker 2: It be. It's gonna be the economy and particularly healthcare,
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  Speaker 2: and he's got to focus on that. I mean, the
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  Speaker 2: sidebar things like getting rid of Powell on what have
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  Speaker 2: you or part of the job as the president obviously,
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  Speaker 2: but at the end of the day, it's not what
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  Speaker 2: people want. People right now want to know you care
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  Speaker 2: about me, and so you're promised you're going to fix
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  Speaker 2: the economy for me. And that's what members of Congress
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  Speaker 2: kinda have to deal with.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they used to call that in Washington the Green
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  Speaker 1: Bay diner test. You know, there was if you went
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  Speaker 1: to green Bay, Wisconsin into a diner, is anybody talking
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  Speaker 1: about this? And if they're not, it's not an issue.
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  Speaker 2: So well in green Bay they're not talking about any
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  Speaker 2: of the Green Bay losses, but you're absolutely right it is.
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  Speaker 2: And when you got twenty two million people are going
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  Speaker 2: to have their healthcare altered in the sense of paying
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  Speaker 2: much higher rates for the insurance, that's a that's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of activity out there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so Democrats want to pass this, you know, patch
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  Speaker 1: the subsidies, extend the subsidies for in the year or two.
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  Speaker 1: But doesn't that kind of hurt them in the midterms
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  Speaker 1: If it's all taken care of, it's not.
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  Speaker 2: Going to be taken care of. I mean, I don't
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  Speaker 2: think it's going to get resolved unless the Republicans willing
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  Speaker 2: to make some big change in their and their plans.
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  Speaker 2: They're they're talking that was gonna be Another problem is
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  Speaker 2: speak of Johnson's space. He is you know, he has
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  Speaker 2: no majority. I mean, it's it's down of two votes.
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  Speaker 2: Got to make sure everybody's there every day, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and their congressman died over the week over the last
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  Speaker 2: couple weeks going to California.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And the numbers are just you know, two or three
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  Speaker 2: vote margins. You're always missing two or three voters in
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  Speaker 2: the Congress, And so I think this task is very,
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  Speaker 2: very difficulty.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, I just getting back to these protests and all
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  Speaker 1: the video we're seeing protesting, defund ice, all this stuff
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  Speaker 1: that You've seen this a million times. Don't the Democrats
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  Speaker 1: when they do this stuff, don't they end up always
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  Speaker 1: overplaying their hand and going too far.
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  Speaker 2: They do. But but you can't you can't bet on
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  Speaker 2: the other side doing We have to worry about what's
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  Speaker 2: going to help us, and I think we've got to
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  Speaker 2: focus on the things that matter. You know. One of
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  Speaker 2: the problems I think is that with immigration, obviously is
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  Speaker 2: a critical issue for the president. You see a couple
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  Speaker 2: of thousand guys and heavy military guard in Minnesota standing
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  Speaker 2: around guarding a federal bill, and that doesn't make people
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  Speaker 2: think we stopping illegals coming into the country. Maybe an
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  Speaker 2: underlying part of it, but at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: people want to see those guys out there on the
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  Speaker 2: borders making sure that people are being we're here illegally
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  Speaker 2: or improper arrested, and they want criminals rusted. They don't
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  Speaker 2: want the ordinary guy who's been there for twenty thirty years,
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  Speaker 2: who works in the market, works on the farms, who
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  Speaker 2: may be here illegally harassed and drag through the fields.
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  Speaker 2: I opplicated issue.
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  Speaker 1: There's always issues, always problems. But when you agree that
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  Speaker 1: you worked with Reagan, Nixon, everybody, when you agree the
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  Speaker 1: president's having a very successful second term. Usually it's rough
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  Speaker 1: the second term, but so far he's getting a lot done.
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  Speaker 2: He's getting a lot done. This president's got the strongest
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  Speaker 2: position any president I've seen in my lifetime, that presidential scholar.
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  Speaker 2: When I haven't work for bringas if I worked for
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  Speaker 2: several he has basically taken on a lot of things
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  Speaker 2: and he's got great powers. The Congress has given him
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  Speaker 2: to a certain extent give given them much of their power.
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  Speaker 2: And I think to a certain extent, he's got to
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  Speaker 2: make sure the things he does. He can't do everything
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  Speaker 2: every day. You've got to make it to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that your message is getting out. There is here the
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  Speaker 2: five or three two things that are doing in the
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  Speaker 2: healthy American public?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? So, and what about twenty twenty eight. Gavin Newsom
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  Speaker 1: looks like the front runner, But what do you think?
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  Speaker 1: He's the show horse, not the workhorse.
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  Speaker 2: They say he's a show horse. And he's got severe
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  Speaker 2: problems in California, financial issues and what have you. And
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  Speaker 2: he hasn't a particularly good governor. But sometimes it's a
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  Speaker 2: matter of change, you know. And he's getting attention at
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  Speaker 2: this point in time. And you know, I think there'll
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  Speaker 2: be several of the candidates that are running, so they're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have a primary. We may have a primary too, though,
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  Speaker 2: So I think at the end of the day, we
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  Speaker 2: need to put becus on the mid term and put
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  Speaker 2: up the next presidential lecture right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but a couple of years out. You always see
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  Speaker 1: some glamorous, good looking guy who's way out in front,
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  Speaker 1: Gary Hart, John Edwards. But don't they always go down
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  Speaker 1: in flames. They never end up with the nomination, do they.
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  Speaker 2: Fortunately, fortune they happen up to this point in time
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  Speaker 2: and sense. Yeah, I think the critical thing here is
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  Speaker 2: there's so much on the plate right now. Let's make
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  Speaker 2: sure we have full scale of candidates. We're still going
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  Speaker 2: to see some small Republicans drop out. I mean they're
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  Speaker 2: they're coming back from their home vacation, Christmas vacation, and
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  Speaker 2: a lot of them got beat up pretty good by
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  Speaker 2: their friends and family. You know, go back there and
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  Speaker 2: do something. What's going on? If if you sat me
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  Speaker 2: down today and you and I had luncheon said, I
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  Speaker 2: hear that the worships and matter, what would they be? Could
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  Speaker 2: you could do it? I could do it? It? Could the
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  Speaker 2: public do it? That's the key thing here is you've
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  Speaker 2: got to make sure you have a communication message. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: here's what we're doing while we're doing it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: getting rid of Chairman Powell or basically drag into the
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  Speaker 2: course for overspending and building a building is not is
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  Speaker 2: not what the country is focused.
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  Speaker 1: Hey it Rose, Let me ask you something. The divisiveness,
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  Speaker 1: the hatred. You know, if you have anything with Trump,
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  Speaker 1: people won't talk to you they're screaming. When you were
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  Speaker 1: working for Nixon or Reagan, it was divided then, But
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  Speaker 1: was it that bad? We the people have refused to
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  Speaker 1: speak to you because you were working for them.
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  Speaker 2: No, U, And this is the worst I've ever seen it.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know, I don't know when it goes
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  Speaker 2: back in the bottle again in the sense that we've
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  Speaker 2: got to have some bipartisanship that you unless either side
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  Speaker 2: winds big in the in the midterms, which you know,
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  Speaker 2: I would say at this point in time, that's that's unlikely.
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  Speaker 2: It's still going to be very divided Congress and somehow
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  Speaker 2: you got to look to the public you're working together. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're not. We're not a parliamentary system where you know,
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  Speaker 2: democracy and equally supportant. You know, we can't get military
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  Speaker 2: to all these places. We've got a great military. We
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  Speaker 2: need to build it up. But the big battles are
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  Speaker 2: still Ahead's gonna be a budget battles. I mean, we
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  Speaker 2: you know, we've still got the whole conflict has to
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  Speaker 2: deal with the budgets. And that's that's gonna be a
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  Speaker 2: real battle.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Hey, today, later today, Bruce Blakeman gets inaugurated for
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  Speaker 1: a second term county executive. I think he'd be he'd
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  Speaker 1: be a great governor.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: The what are the chances for a Republican in New
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  Speaker 1: York State?
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  Speaker 2: Well, and they're not great because of the overwhelming number
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  Speaker 2: of Democrats with proofs. Is a superb candidate who who's
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  Speaker 2: run a great county. Uh And I think if anything,
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  Speaker 2: that he won't he won't ever sitting in the primary.
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  Speaker 2: And I think to a certain extent, we have an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity against a very very weak governor.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, well Ed Rolands, great stuff. We always
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  Speaker 1: love talking to you. Thanks for being with us. Take care, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: later today Bruce Blakeman inauguration for a second term is county.
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  Speaker 1: He's the best county executive in America. And the job
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  Speaker 1: of a county executive you're basically the governor. You're the
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  Speaker 1: governor of Nassau County. Nassau County is huge, It's three
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  Speaker 1: million people. It's bigger than some states. So there's nobody
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  Speaker 1: more qualified to take over as governor of New York
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  Speaker 1: election coming up later this year. He would be perfect.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go to the inauguration today. I'll report
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