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Mark interviews Fox News contributor Liz Peek. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: He's Mr. New York, Mark Simone, on 710WOR. Well, Liz Peek,
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  Speaker 1: the brilliant columnist. You can read her columns, foxnews.com, thehill.com.
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  Speaker 1: Even better, go to her website. She's got her columns
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  Speaker 1: and all kinds of great stories up there, lizpeek.com, lizpeek.com.
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  Speaker 1: Liz Peek, how you doing?
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  Speaker 2: I'm terrific. Thanks for having me on, Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I know how you're doing. I just saw you
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  Speaker 1: last night. The Kudlow Show was great.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, we were talking about the debate on this. So, uh,
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  Speaker 1: tell everybody what you thought about the gubernatorial debate.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, look, I think the more Kathy Hochul has to
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  Speaker 3: actually faced the voting public, uh, the better it is
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  Speaker 3: for everybody, including Bruce Blakeman, because she has absolutely nothing
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  Speaker 3: to run on. Uh, supposedly Democrats care a lot about affordability.
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  Speaker 3: New York is one of the most unaffordable places on
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  Speaker 3: the face of the planet actually. with building costs, as
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  Speaker 3: an example, the highest anywhere in the world, which is
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  Speaker 3: pretty staggering, right?
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  Speaker 2: And why is that?
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  Speaker 3: Because Democrats have ladled all kinds of regulations on small businesses,
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  Speaker 3: on contractors, on getting building permits, you name it.
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  Speaker 2: There's a red tape attached to it. And also high taxes.
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  Speaker 3: People kind of, you know, are just blanking mentally on
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  Speaker 3: the idea that every time Kathy Hochul or Zoran Mamdani raises,
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  Speaker 3: taxes on the voting public, they pay more for everything
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  Speaker 3: because whoever is paying that higher taxes, your grocery store,
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  Speaker 3: your delivery guy, whatever, they pass it right along to
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  Speaker 3: the consumer. And so, you know, the idea that Kathy
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  Speaker 3: Hochul is going to do a better job of bringing
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  Speaker 3: prices down or under control than Bruce Blakeman, forget it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he has much better instincts on all kinds
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  Speaker 3: of issues, including, by the way, how to manage ICE,
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  Speaker 3: illegal immigrants being in our country, committing crimes, et cetera.
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  Speaker 3: Kathy Hochul is basically going to lie down in front
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  Speaker 3: of Mamdani and the far left and do whatever they want,
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  Speaker 3: including raising taxes more on struggling New Yorkers in the
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  Speaker 3: coming years. And you can just absolutely bank that.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to happen. So I want Bruce Blakeman out
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  Speaker 2: there more. I want him making the case against....
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  Speaker 3: Against Kathy Hochul. And I think he made a good
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  Speaker 3: start on that in the debate. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know how the government stepped in and they made
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  Speaker 1: everybody list their ingredients, you know, what's in the Starbucks
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  Speaker 1: drink or what's the, oh, you have to list the ingredients.
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  Speaker 1: If they would do this, they'll never pass this, but
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  Speaker 1: if they would do this for gas prices, electric bills,
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  Speaker 1: if people saw where the money is going for that
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  Speaker 1: $ 4. 50 a gallon, I don't think they realize that 75
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  Speaker 1: cents goes to the state in taxes and Even your
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  Speaker 1: electric bill, like 50% of it is government taxes and fees.
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  Speaker 1: People don't know that.
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  Speaker 2: They don't know it.
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  Speaker 3: They don't understand that Democrats are basically waging, even today,
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  Speaker 3: an ongoing war against fossil fuels. But what's so stupid, Mark,
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  Speaker 3: is they, yes, you're right, state and local taxes on gasoline,
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  Speaker 3: for example, are enormous. In California, I think it's 70
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  Speaker 3: cents a gallon, something like that. But What they've tried
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  Speaker 3: to do is push everyone to electricity. But of course,
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  Speaker 3: they've also made electricity incredibly expensive. And a lot of
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  Speaker 3: that is, as you say, taxes and other fees that apply.
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  Speaker 3: So if you really want to tilt the balance in
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  Speaker 3: favor of electricity, number one, make sure you have the
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  Speaker 3: feedstock to create electricity.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't come from lightning.
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  Speaker 3: It actually has to be produced in a power plant somewhere.
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  Speaker 3: Don't shut down Indian Point nuclear power plant, which was
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  Speaker 3: one of the dumbest things that Andrew Cuomo did. Don't
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  Speaker 3: make it impossible to frack for natural gas. Natural gas
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  Speaker 3: is a fantastically clean and abundant and cheap feedstock for
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  Speaker 3: electricity production. And yet, basically, Kathy Hochul and her predecessor
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  Speaker 3: has made it wildly unaffordable and unattainable in New York.
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  Speaker 3: So Look, I think literally she has done everything wrong
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  Speaker 3: and it's only going to get worse. And at the
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  Speaker 3: end of the day, as we discussed yesterday on Kudlow's show,
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  Speaker 3: end of day, why are people leaving New York?
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  Speaker 2: End of discussion, right?
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  Speaker 3: Businesses, people flocking to Florida and to Texas because life
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  Speaker 3: in New York is unaffordable. And so, you know, let
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  Speaker 3: her explain that. That has nothing to do, by the way,
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  Speaker 3: with Donald Trump waging war in Iran, which has driven
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  Speaker 3: oil prices higher. Electricity and energy costs in New York
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  Speaker 3: have been higher than the nation's average right now, about 60%
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  Speaker 3: higher for decades, or at least a decade.
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  Speaker 2: And a half.
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  Speaker 3: It is not new. So it has nothing to do
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  Speaker 3: with Donald Trump. It has everything to do with the
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  Speaker 3: Democrats in charge of this state.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, Liz Peek, you should check out her website, lizpeek.com.
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  Speaker 1: You've written about this. If you watch CNN or MSNOW,
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  Speaker 1: all they're talking about is this blue wave that's going
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  Speaker 1: to take over. How much of that is a fantasy
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  Speaker 1: with the Democrats?
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  Speaker 3: Well, look, the more they talk about it, just remind yourself,
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  Speaker 3: the more they talk about it, the more voters get
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  Speaker 3: discouraged and say, ah, you know, Bruce Blakeman doesn't have
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  Speaker 3: a shot. Kathy Hochul's going to win. Why do I
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  Speaker 3: even bother to vote? That's what they're hoping for. So
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  Speaker 3: this negativity, about Republican chances in the midterms and the
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  Speaker 3: blue wave drowning all the Republican candidates, take it with
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  Speaker 3: a grain of salt because the polls, the media headlines,
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  Speaker 3: everything is primed to keep you at home, keep you
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  Speaker 3: from voting, keep you from giving money to a candidate.
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  Speaker 2: Don't listen to it. Just drown it out.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta go vote because otherwise you have absolutely no
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  Speaker 3: right to complain about what goes on in your city
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  Speaker 3: and state. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Being honest, the Republicans, as far as messaging, as far
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  Speaker 1: as marketing, what should they have done differently from the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of the year to now?
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  Speaker 3: I tell you what, Mark, how much time do we have?
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  Speaker 3: The lack of a message is appalling.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 3: Because, you know, look at an op-ed that Jerry Baker
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  Speaker 3: wrote recently in the Wall Street Journal. Jerry Baker is
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  Speaker 3: no fan of Republicans, certainly of Donald Trump. Not a
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  Speaker 3: big partisan guy, I don't think. But he listed all
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  Speaker 3: the things that are going right in the economy. Where
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  Speaker 3: have you heard that? Nowhere. No one's talking about the
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  Speaker 3: fact that unemployment claims are extremely low, that real incomes
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  Speaker 3: are still up. Even with inflation, $ 2, 000 during Trump's presidency,
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  Speaker 3: they went down under Joe Biden. I could list 10
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  Speaker 3: things that Republicans should be out there talking about on
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  Speaker 3: the stump, including unemployment. No taxes on tips, no taxes
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  Speaker 3: on overtime, things that are very popular. But they are
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  Speaker 3: so scared of their shadows, these Republican candidates. They're so
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  Speaker 3: scared someone's going to say, well, you just care about.
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  Speaker 2: Tax cuts for the wealthy. Holy crow.
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  Speaker 3: These tax cuts in 2017, and again, in the big,
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  Speaker 3: beautiful bill, they were primed to middle income Americans. And
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  Speaker 3: middle income Americans, I think, know that. But unless you
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  Speaker 3: have a politician saying, hey, we delivered that. And by
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  Speaker 3: the way, my opponent wants to reverse that. Remember, Kamala
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  Speaker 3: Harris actually campaigned on reversing the 2017 tax cuts, which
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  Speaker 3: I always thought was one of the most unbelievably dumb
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  Speaker 3: things she did. And that's a very high bar. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's just kind of amazing. They can't prosecute the case.
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  Speaker 2: You and I can. What's wrong with that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. On the other hand, though, if they had the
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  Speaker 1: case and the right message, where are they going to
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  Speaker 1: get it out? 90% of the media will never ever
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  Speaker 1: broadcast it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, social media is huge.
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  Speaker 3: We've seen with Mamdani that, guess what?
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  Speaker 2: You actually have to You have to kind of use
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  Speaker 2: the tools of today.
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  Speaker 3: An extraordinary number of people are getting their news from
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  Speaker 3: social media, not from the newspapers, not from television news programs.
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  Speaker 3: They go on to X or they go on to
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  Speaker 3: TikTok and they believe what they read, which is really
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  Speaker 3: frightening because you and I both know there's a whole
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  Speaker 3: lot of stuff on all those platforms that's just simply
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  Speaker 3: made up. But the reality is you can wage this
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  Speaker 3: war not only in person, and the candidates who do
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  Speaker 3: best are going out there every day making their case
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  Speaker 3: to voters, but also on social media and, look, on
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  Speaker 3: radio programs like yours.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. That's a good point. Yeah, Radio Hacks, believe it
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  Speaker 1: or not, has a lot more listeners than TV has
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  Speaker 1: viewers right now. That's right. In today's world. Well, Liz Peek,
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  Speaker 1: great stuff. Everybody check out her website, LizPeek.com. There's not
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  Speaker 1: only her columns, but great stories up there every day. LizPeak.com.
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  Speaker 1: And you can read her columns, FoxNews.com, TheHill.com. Liz Peak,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for having me. Don't get discouraged, Mark. You
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  Speaker 3: sound discouraged. Look, there's still three weeks. We've got to
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  Speaker 3: prosecute the case.
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  Speaker 1: All right. You're right. Right attitude.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 2: Take care.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks.
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  Speaker 1: Take care. I'm not discouraged. It's just that it's a
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  Speaker 1: three-hour show now. Three hours every day. I'm not used
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  Speaker 1: to this. The third hour, I'm like, drag it a little. No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not discouraged. Hey, don't forget Buck and Clay. You've
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  Speaker 1: got to listen to them every day, noon to 3.
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  Speaker 1: Great show. And then 3 o'clock, you've got the most
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  Speaker 1: listened to radio show in America, Sean Hannity. 3 o'clock,
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  Speaker 1: you've got Jesse Kelly. Big show at 6 o'clock. Then
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  Speaker 1: 9 o'clock, you've got the great Jimmy Fallon. Very funny
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  Speaker 1: show every night, 9 to midnight. Don't forget, I'm three
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  Speaker 1: hours now. 9 a.m. till noon, three hours, nine to noon.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, before me, from six to nine, it's
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  Speaker 1: Curtis Lewa, Larry Menti, here on 710WOR.