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Rob Astorino, host of the Rob Astorino Show on WOR, Saturdays, and former Westchester County Executive, interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: 46 days left before the midterms and a bit of
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  Speaker 1: an earthquake in southern Florida for Republicans. A real strong
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  Speaker 1: Trump supporter put out a TV ad, Congresswoman Marie Salazar,
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  Speaker 1: where she was criticizing Donald Trump, the president, and his
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  Speaker 1: administration by saying that Hispanics feel betrayed. I think, Rob Astorino,
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  Speaker 1: this is your opportunity to You can't have Stephen Miller
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  Speaker 1: respond to this.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people don't know this, Larry. Rob Astorino
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  Speaker 2: speaks the best Spanish. I was up in an event
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  Speaker 2: that he was speaking at in the Bronx, and some
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  Speaker 2: of the Hispanics said, is he from South America, Central America?
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  Speaker 3: Am I right or wrong about that, Rob? Hola, me, me, Lomelo, Rob.
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  Speaker 3: I don't speak Bloomberg.
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  Speaker 2: Thank God. Thank God.
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  Speaker 3: But how?
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  Speaker 4: So I saw this ad. I did see this ad.
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  Speaker 4: And I think you're going to see more of this,
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  Speaker 4: not particularly on immigration, but think about the district, right?
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  Speaker 4: It is the Miami area. So obviously a lot of
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  Speaker 4: Latinos and Hispanics. Their polling obviously shows that there's some
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  Speaker 4: backlash towards some of the immigration stuff. She kind of
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  Speaker 4: walked it both ways a little bit. But, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I thought she was very strong and almost like angry.
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  Speaker 4: She almost sounded like the Democratic candidate. I think she
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  Speaker 4: could have accomplished this ad the same way by being
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  Speaker 4: a little softer. But, OK, look, she had to do it.
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  Speaker 4: And you're going to have a lot of Republican candidates there.
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  Speaker 4: kind of breaking with Trump on something, I think, whatever
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  Speaker 4: it's important for their state or district. But here's the thing,
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  Speaker 4: and what are the odds of this? I think President
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  Speaker 4: Trump needs to bite his tongue because he has to
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  Speaker 4: look at the bigger picture. He has to have a
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  Speaker 4: Republican House and a Republican Senate, or it's going to
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  Speaker 4: be just misery for the following two years. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: if he's going to go after each Republican candidate like
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  Speaker 4: her in Florida, Then he's telling his MAGA base, hey,
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  Speaker 4: she betrayed us. Don't go out and vote for her.
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  Speaker 4: And they'll stay home and she'll lose and the Democrats
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  Speaker 4: will take over the House. It's a fine line, but
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  Speaker 4: you almost have to bite your tongue as the incumbent
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  Speaker 4: here or as the sitting president and look at the
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  Speaker 4: bigger picture. I hope he can do that. What do
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  Speaker 4: you think, Larry?
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  Speaker 1: Can he do that?
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  Speaker 3: I think so. I think he knows what's at stake.
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  Speaker 3: He's certainly just picking the districts where he knows he'll
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  Speaker 3: play well in, and he's avoiding districts that he doesn't
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  Speaker 3: think he'll play well in. But I am concerned. Talk
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  Speaker 3: me off the ledge, because I keep seeing these polls,
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  Speaker 3: and they're going the wrong way. El Sayed just pulled
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  Speaker 3: ahead of Rodgers in Michigan. state after state after state
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  Speaker 3: race after race after race it seems to be trending democrat.
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  Speaker 4: Well it has been there's no question about it there's
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  Speaker 4: still enough time and again this is finally where it's
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  Speaker 4: only been really the last week where republicans have been
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  Speaker 4: spending their boatload of money they should have been doing
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  Speaker 4: this months ago because really they allowed the democrats with
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  Speaker 4: whatever money they had to start spending and defining races
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  Speaker 4: and defining candidates so But places like Texas, for instance,
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  Speaker 4: they had a knock-down, drag-them-out primary where Republicans, the Senate committee,
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  Speaker 4: spent a ton of money beating the crap out of Paxton.
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  Speaker 4: And now all of a sudden he's their candidate, bumps
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  Speaker 4: and bruises and bandages all over that was caused by
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  Speaker 4: his own team. Now they've got to rehabilitate him. So
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  Speaker 4: there are a lot of races where they're behind the
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  Speaker 4: eight ball, but there's still enough time. And you also
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  Speaker 4: have to look at the other part of this. You know,
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  Speaker 4: in polls, Americans have a 70 percent disapproval of the
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  Speaker 4: Democratic Party. They do know they're crazy, but they're kind
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  Speaker 4: of willing to go with them because they're unhappy right now.
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  Speaker 4: You've got to make sure that they understand how dangerous
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  Speaker 4: they are. And it's not only a base vote getting
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  Speaker 4: at your own people, but it's scaring the living crap
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  Speaker 4: out of people to say this team, this team is
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  Speaker 4: under no circumstances. Can you let them come in?
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  Speaker 1: All right, but for the independents, who oftentimes, as you know,
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  Speaker 1: Rob Astorino, will be the deciding element in very close races.
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  Speaker 1: The president once again said yesterday, rising gas prices is
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  Speaker 1: a small price to pay to keep Iran from getting
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  Speaker 1: a nuclear weapon. I do not see that resonating with
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  Speaker 1: a lot of voters, Rob. How else can he alter
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  Speaker 1: the message or sort of address it? Because we see
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  Speaker 1: the prices are going up at the pump.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, they actually came down like $ 3 a
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  Speaker 4: barrel the other day. I think maybe and hopefully the
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  Speaker 4: market kind of settles and maybe goes down a little bit,
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  Speaker 4: but I don't know how much you're going to feel that.
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  Speaker 4: And he admitted it. He was like, you know, gas
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  Speaker 4: prices are going to come down like a reverse rocket
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  Speaker 4: ship right after the election. So I think he's got
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  Speaker 4: two issues, this and the AI. You know, this is
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  Speaker 4: the big, I heard you guys talk about it. I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to talk about it tomorrow on my 4 p.m.
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  Speaker 2: Show.
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  Speaker 4: This is, I think, the biggest head fake in the
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  Speaker 4: history of head fakes. this AI nonsense that we're all
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  Speaker 4: going to die tomorrow. So we have to do something today.
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  Speaker 4: And this is getting us to not talk about socialism,
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  Speaker 4: which was working, you know, talking about the democratic party
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  Speaker 4: and their crazy ideas. Now they've accomplished something. They've got everybody,
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  Speaker 4: including Republicans running to do something on AI. They don't
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  Speaker 4: even know what to do, but we got to look
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  Speaker 4: like we're doing something. And again, You know, that's a
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  Speaker 4: that's a potent issue because it's an emotional issue. And
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  Speaker 4: the other thing about AI is this whole thing about
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  Speaker 4: we've we've got to beat China. OK, we do. But
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  Speaker 4: that's not anyone. Nobody cares about that if we're going
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  Speaker 4: to die from robots. You know, so I just don't
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  Speaker 4: think the China thing is is the messaging to people.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you have to acknowledge their fears, but also
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  Speaker 4: bring people back to reality of what it is and isn't.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what you just said is eye-opening because I do
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  Speaker 3: think you have a pulse on things because they've been
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  Speaker 3: showing a poll over the last couple of days of
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  Speaker 3: the issues people care about. And less than 1% care
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  Speaker 3: about AI. But it might be because those polls were
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  Speaker 3: taken before all of the scare tactics over the last week.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're going to.
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  Speaker 4: They're going to ramp this up left and right. Now,
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  Speaker 4: the House just decided they're on recess now for good.
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  Speaker 4: They're not coming back until after the election, so they're
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  Speaker 4: not going to deal with the AI thing, which I
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  Speaker 4: think is good. Don't rush to something. Let cooler heads prevail,
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  Speaker 4: and then get together and figure out how to deal
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  Speaker 4: with this, but not run to a room and just
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  Speaker 4: come up with something on paper, which could be so
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  Speaker 4: bad for this country.
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  Speaker 3: I agree.
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  Speaker 4: We do need to... We need to win the AI race,
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  Speaker 4: but what does that mean? It's a tool.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a hammer.
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  Speaker 4: A hammer could be good if you use it the
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  Speaker 4: right way, or a hammer could be used really bad
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  Speaker 4: if you hit somebody over the head with it. So
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  Speaker 4: let's figure out how to use it.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Rob Astorino, thanks a lot. You didn't talk
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  Speaker 3: me off the ledge at all, but I appreciate you
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  Speaker 3: coming on. Thanks a lot, Rob. Rob, by the way,
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  Speaker 3: will be on this weekend, both on Newsmax and on WFM.