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Rob Astorino, WOR and NewsMax host Interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: On the line, Rob Astorino, former Westchester County executive, and
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  Speaker 1: heard here on WOR 4 to 5 on Saturday. Rob,
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman has been creeping up in the polls. He
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  Speaker 1: was 20 points behind. Then a Siena poll had him
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  Speaker 1: 10 points behind. A McLaughlin poll that just came out
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  Speaker 1: yesterday has him four points behind. And there's only two
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  Speaker 1: vulnerable areas. It said 30% of the sample didn't know
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  Speaker 1: who Bruce Blakeman was. and obviously not doing well in
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  Speaker 1: the city. If you were his political consigliere with less
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  Speaker 1: than two months to go before election day, how would
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  Speaker 1: you get him to address those two weak spots?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't think 30% unknown is a weak spot
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  Speaker 2: right now going into Labor Day as the Republican in
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  Speaker 2: New York. That means you can define yourself still. That
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  Speaker 2: means Kathy Hochul has not buried him with all her money.
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  Speaker 2: She still has not negatively buried him. So that's that's good, actually.
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  Speaker 2: And to be within four or five points at this. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: my God. You know what? I would have given my
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  Speaker 2: kids up at this point to start Labor Day at
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  Speaker 2: four down. Are you kidding me? So he's a look,
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  Speaker 2: even if it's 10 down, he's in a great spot
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  Speaker 2: in New York. And, you know, the city, look, you
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  Speaker 2: got to scratch to 30, 35 percent in New York
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  Speaker 2: City as a Republican to win statewide or you have
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  Speaker 2: to have higher numbers in the suburbs or upstate. And
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  Speaker 2: that's that's quite possible in this kind of year as well.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, just look at the Jewish vote that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you would always kind of write off to some extent
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  Speaker 2: other than the Jewish block vote. But that's also possible
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  Speaker 2: coming in in the Republican way with everything going on
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  Speaker 2: by the Democrats. So I think there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: different areas he can pick apart enough to to get
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  Speaker 2: to 50 percent. And she's not at 50 percent in
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  Speaker 2: these polls. I mean, that's the biggest red flag. If
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  Speaker 2: you're an incumbent, everyone knows you and not enough people
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  Speaker 2: are liking you right now. That's a real big problem
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  Speaker 2: for an incumbent.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Rob, I want to talk to you about the
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  Speaker 3: release of the 9-11 air quality papers yesterday. I got
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  Speaker 3: pretty upset with it and angry about it because I
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  Speaker 3: know so many people that died that were on at 9-11.
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  Speaker 3: I used to travel down to Washington with them. The
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  Speaker 3: fact that these have been hidden for so long by
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  Speaker 3: so many different administrations and so many different people There
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  Speaker 3: has to be, doesn't there, a further investigation of this?
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  Speaker 3: I hope the feds get involved because they hid the
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  Speaker 3: fact that that heir was killing people and killed people
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  Speaker 3: for years. 9,000 have died. There has to be more
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  Speaker 3: than just that news conference.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not only that, Larry, but the federal government,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you have families suing the federal government and
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  Speaker 2: winning in federal court. by exposing the Saudi government and
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  Speaker 2: their role in it and the federal the U.S. government's
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  Speaker 2: knowledge of that I mean there's a lot about 9-11
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  Speaker 2: that we haven't been told and aside from what happened
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  Speaker 2: that day and you know using as a pretext to
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  Speaker 2: you know to go into Iraq and and do what
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  Speaker 2: we did which is you know that's a total separate
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  Speaker 2: issue but I think The United States government and obviously
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  Speaker 2: now our city government and state government, I'm sure, had knowledge, too,
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  Speaker 2: on the air quality. These are things that everyone has
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  Speaker 2: an absolute right to know. Why did they set up
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  Speaker 2: the 9-11 fund with so many people dying and being
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  Speaker 2: diagnosed with basically 9-11 illnesses? You know, I obviously knew
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  Speaker 2: the air quality was bad and and they kept it quiet.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's the sin of government.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Rob Bastarino, we've never before had a midterm convention
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  Speaker 1: of any type, any party. But the president, Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 1: has called for it. It begins today in Dallas. It'll
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  Speaker 1: take place today and tomorrow. What is the messaging you
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  Speaker 1: would like to see come out of this? Because it's
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  Speaker 1: less than two months to go. Mail-in ballots are already
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  Speaker 1: being sent out. Before you know it, it's early voting.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want anything to talk about like Canada or
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  Speaker 4: Iceland or renaming New Mexico or, you know, the silly stuff.
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  Speaker 2: It has to focus on what the president and the
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  Speaker 2: party has done, what the big, big, beautiful bill has
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  Speaker 2: actually meant for working people. I mean, the economy is
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  Speaker 2: doing pretty darn well when you look at it with,
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  Speaker 2: With few exceptions, that can actually and hopefully do change,
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  Speaker 2: although we're running out of time. It's, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: gas prices and the grocery prices that stick in everyone's crock.
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  Speaker 2: But the value of people's homes and their stocks and
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  Speaker 2: their pension fund and 401ks, any investment has gone through
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  Speaker 2: the roof. Wages are up. Unemployment's down. I mean, there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of good stories. They need to start telling this.
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  Speaker 2: At the same time, the contrast between what life was
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  Speaker 2: like and what it will be, the chaos of Biden
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  Speaker 2: will come with this really, I mean, this next brand of, quote, Democrats,
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  Speaker 2: if they take over the frightening stuff on their agenda.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's going to come down, honestly, I think
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  Speaker 2: rural America is going to make or break this campaign.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you why. You know, that's part of the
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  Speaker 2: Republican Party. And if they are kind of dejected right now,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the farmers and the small business owners, and
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  Speaker 2: they kind of stay home that's it we're done if
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  Speaker 2: they come out of full force and i think that's
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  Speaker 2: the reason why trump is really appealing and why this
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  Speaker 2: convention is happening to remind them get out okay get
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  Speaker 2: out this might be temporary but long-term change for the
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  Speaker 2: worse is coming if you don't get.
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  Speaker 3: Out but he's also kind of making it all about
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  Speaker 3: him which the democrats are going to look at that
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  Speaker 3: and say please keep making it about you and.
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  Speaker 2: And Republican candidates are going to look like, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: he didn't say that. He didn't say that. I remember
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  Speaker 2: when I was in office, I still remember every day
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  Speaker 2: we would get a call from the media or a
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  Speaker 2: microphone in my mouth about Donald Trump answering something Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump said. And it really does cloud everything you do
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  Speaker 2: or want to get out. And I think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: senators and those running and members of the House and
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  Speaker 2: those running, they need breathing space here. That's just typical.
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  Speaker 2: It's not against Trump because Trump can pull out the
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  Speaker 2: base and this is going to be a base vote.
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  Speaker 2: So they do need his help.
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  Speaker 3: Rob Astorino, host of the Rob Astorino Show on WOR
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  Speaker 3: Saturdays from 4 to 5 p.m. He's also host on
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  Speaker 3: Saturdays from 1 to 3 of Saturday Agenda on Newsmax.
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  Speaker 3: And of course, he's the former Westchester County executive. Thanks
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  Speaker 3: a lot, Rob.
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  Speaker 2: Great to know.