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

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  Speaker 1: Marks among Mr. New York. Now three hours every weekday
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  Speaker 1: from 9 till noon on 710WOR. Well, Liz Peek, the
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  Speaker 1: brilliant columnist. You can read her columns at foxnews.com or thehill.com.
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  Speaker 1: But even better, go to her website. Everything is there,
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  Speaker 1: plus a lot of great stories. You go to lizpeek.com, lizpeek.com.
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  Speaker 1: Liz Peek, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: I'm great. Thank you for having me on.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, one week from today, seven days away. What do
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  Speaker 1: you think is going on now, midterm-wise?
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, I.
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  Speaker 3: Think that we have been hit with a blizzard of
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  Speaker 3: negative polls, negative headlines. I think Democrats and the liberal
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  Speaker 3: media are throwing absolutely everything at us to make us
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  Speaker 3: convinced that the election is basically over and done with
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  Speaker 3: and trying to convince Republicans not to bother to vote.
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  Speaker 3: Because if you think it's hopeless, Mark, you stay home.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that is absolutely what they're trying to accomplish.
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  Speaker 3: What I see is tightening poles in a lot of
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  Speaker 3: critical races. Michigan's a good example where Abdul Al-Sayed was
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  Speaker 3: up over Mike Rogers a few weeks ago by almost
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  Speaker 3: four points. And now it's one point or in some
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  Speaker 3: cases tied.
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  Speaker 2: And that is true in Texas.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's true in Iowa and various other races where,
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  Speaker 3: you know, yeah, Democrats have put up a really good fight.
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  Speaker 2: But when you.
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  Speaker 3: Look at the historical bias of polling, and I don't
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  Speaker 3: mean that the polls are purposely manufactured to make Republicans
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  Speaker 3: look bad, but in something like 13 out of the
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  Speaker 3: last 14 elections, Republicans have been undercounted. And in particular,
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  Speaker 3: according to The Economist, in states that are red states,
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  Speaker 3: in other words, You go into Iowa, you go into
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  Speaker 3: Texas and you do a poll. A lot of Trump
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  Speaker 3: voters aren't going to respond because they're just ornery and
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  Speaker 3: they don't like polling. And maybe they're embarrassed. Their neighbors,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they don't know who's going to look at
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  Speaker 3: these polls, whatever. But the answer by three or four points,
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  Speaker 3: Republicans are undercounted. And if that is the case, a
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  Speaker 3: lot of these supposedly squeaker races are not going to
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  Speaker 3: end up being as tight as we think.
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  Speaker 2: So I am optimistic. that the GOP will hold the Senate.
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  Speaker 3: I think probably the House they will not hold.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you never know. You never know. Anything can happen.
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  Speaker 1: The good news is they sent Obama out, a panicky move,
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  Speaker 1: Obama out in the campaign trail, check his track record.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody he endorses loses. That's generally the case.
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  Speaker 2: True, true.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, I think he's been like out in
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  Speaker 3: Michigan because El-Sayed, lost Detroit, by the way, in the primary.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if you go back and look at how
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  Speaker 3: he has done with black voters, it is terrible. So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Obama is supposed to be getting out there
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  Speaker 3: and rallying black voters to show up for al-Sayed. Is
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  Speaker 3: that really going to pull, as you point out, it
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  Speaker 3: has not proved an effective strategy in the past.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe this time will be different.
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  Speaker 3: But I think a lot of conservative black voters are
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  Speaker 3: looking at al-Sayed with this, you know, very clear borderline,
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  Speaker 3: I guess we have to say, alleged ties to the
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  Speaker 3: Muslim Brotherhood, etc.
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  Speaker 2: And they don't like that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they're patriotic Americans. They don't like the fact
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  Speaker 3: that this guy's coming in and bashing Israel, bashing capitalism.
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  Speaker 3: That's just not their cup of tea. So I think
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  Speaker 3: Jewish voters are definitely having second thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: Black voters just may not show up.
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  Speaker 3: And so I'm Again, I'm sort of optimistic that in
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  Speaker 3: some of these races, the numbers are not really counting
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  Speaker 3: what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Here in New York, you know, the Cato Institute
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  Speaker 1: does a survey of governors in America. Kathy Hochul just
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  Speaker 1: won as the single worst governor in the United States
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  Speaker 1: of America. I think Bruce Blakeman's going to do it.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's going to win.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man, that would be, would that not be a thunderbolt?
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  Speaker 3: Because I have likened New York voters to Stockholm Syndrome victims. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: where you're held captive and you don't know how to
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  Speaker 3: get out, but you end up sort of loving your oppressors.
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  Speaker 2: In this case, how could.
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  Speaker 3: He not be in the bottom of the rankings when
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  Speaker 3: you have the highest taxes in the country, the worst
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  Speaker 3: conditions to run a business, and just cost of living
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  Speaker 3: through the roof, cost of electricity, not because of the
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  Speaker 3: war in Iran, I hesitate to point out, but because
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  Speaker 3: Kathy Hochul and Andrew Cuomo's policies, Democrat policies, have basically
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  Speaker 3: made natural gas unavailable to New Yorkers, banning not only pipelines,
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  Speaker 3: but also fracking, which means that our neighbors in Pennsylvania
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  Speaker 3: are doing much, much better income-wise and electricity price-wise than
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  Speaker 3: people in New York. These are policies that they should
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  Speaker 3: be fired for. Andrew Cuomo was.
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  Speaker 2: Fired, thank God. Now we should fire Kathy Hochul.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, If you're worried, if you're a
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  Speaker 3: New York City resident, you're worried about Mamdani, the governor
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  Speaker 3: is the only possible break on Mamdani, and she will
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  Speaker 3: not be that break on Mamdani. So as he continues
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  Speaker 3: to throw up there all these benefits he wants to provide,
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  Speaker 3: programs he wants to initiate and so forth, you're looking
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  Speaker 3: at higher taxes. You're looking at losing more taxpayers to
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  Speaker 3: Florida and Texas and Tennessee and other low-tax locales.
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  Speaker 2: This is not working. And I think, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: sooner there's a political.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, Mark, what drives me nuts is that
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  Speaker 3: Republicans in this state are so fatalistic. It's sort of like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: you can't elect a Republican. Well, George Pataki was a Republican.
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  Speaker 3: Mike Bloomberg was elected mayor of New York City, for
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  Speaker 3: heaven's sakes, as a Republican because people were so fed
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  Speaker 3: up with Democrat incompetence.
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  Speaker 2: That's where we are now. That's, I think, where we
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  Speaker 2: will be very shortly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, the governor has the power to remove
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  Speaker 1: the district attorneys. It's a state job. He could put
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  Speaker 1: in real crime fighters that could turn everything around crime-wise.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and just justice-wise. I mean, we've had, you know,
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  Speaker 3: somebody in DA Post, Attorney General Post, who has had
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  Speaker 3: political vendettas. I mean, it's hilarious when they talk about
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  Speaker 3: Trump going after his enemies.
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  Speaker 2: My God.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, what do they think Letitia James has done
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  Speaker 3: over the last many years? All she has really targeted,
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  Speaker 3: as far as I can see, is political enemies like
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump, creating cases where they went after him on
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  Speaker 3: the most preposterous, even described by the New York Times
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  Speaker 3: as creative charges, and basically not done her job in
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  Speaker 3: terms of locking up criminals. Mark, imagine if somebody you
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  Speaker 3: loved was shoved in the front of a subway train
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  Speaker 3: and killed or stabbed to death in the park or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: And you found out that same person had been arrested
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  Speaker 3: for similar things not long prior to that and put
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  Speaker 3: back out on the streets. How can people tolerate this?
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  Speaker 3: I don't understand it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. We're talking to Liz Peek, the great columnist. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: gas prices are too high. They're not Joe Biden high,
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  Speaker 1: but they're high. And it's an issue, but it's not
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  Speaker 1: the issue. If you watch the fake news, they make
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  Speaker 1: it sound like the entire election is going to be
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  Speaker 1: based on gas prices. That's never happened in history where
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  Speaker 1: the number one issue was gas prices, right? There's more
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  Speaker 1: to it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, they want us to believe that everything
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  Speaker 3: that's wrong with the economy, and there is nothing wrong
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  Speaker 3: with the economy except high oil and gas prices, is
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  Speaker 3: the fault of exclusively Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: I can tell you, in states like New York and California.
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  Speaker 3: energy costs and electricity costs were going 60, 50% above
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  Speaker 3: the national average way before the war in Iran. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: the war in Iran has elevated oil prices.
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  Speaker 2: There's no question.
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  Speaker 3: Thank God that President Trump has also at the same
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  Speaker 3: time pushed domestic energy production so hard. Otherwise, we would
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  Speaker 3: be in big trouble and we're not. I mean, this is, yes,
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  Speaker 3: one element that is causing concerns. But Mark, when you
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  Speaker 3: have a conversation about affordability, And you look at the most,
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  Speaker 3: you know, these are easy rankings to uncover. The most
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  Speaker 3: unaffordable places to live in America, without exception, are run
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  Speaker 3: by Democrats. I don't mean just run by Democrat mayors.
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  Speaker 3: When they take over a state like California or New
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  Speaker 3: Jersey or New York, and they impose their policies of
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  Speaker 3: high taxes, tight regulations, anti-fossil fuel mandates, et cetera, guess what?
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  Speaker 2: You end up with unaffordable living.
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  Speaker 3: And that's those, it's really, I mean, it's genius that
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  Speaker 3: Democrats have co-opted this issue when they absolutely don't have
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  Speaker 3: any credibility or should not have at all. Right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: If you're going to yell and scream about Trump and
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  Speaker 1: a $ 4. 30 for gas, how come you're right? They never
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  Speaker 1: mentioned Gavin Newsom and his $ 8 a gallon gas.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, or high taxes.
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  Speaker 3: Where do people think, if you're a company and you're
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  Speaker 3: operating in New York or California, Illinois, New Jersey, it's
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  Speaker 3: not just these two states, and you have high corporate taxes,
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  Speaker 3: do people not understand that those taxes are not swallowed
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  Speaker 3: by the business? They're passed along in terms of higher prices.
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  Speaker 3: Don't they understand that if you delay and make very
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  Speaker 3: cumbersome the act of building a home that home prices
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  Speaker 3: are probably 50% to 60% to 70% percent higher than
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  Speaker 3: they would be in a state that is more flexible,
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  Speaker 3: more permissive in terms of handing out permits. I will
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  Speaker 3: tell you, I have been trying to add on to
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  Speaker 3: a house in Westchester County in New York a minor,
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  Speaker 3: minor adjustment in this house. And it has taken months
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  Speaker 3: to get a permit. And I got to tell you,
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  Speaker 3: I am not alone. Everybody is bitching about the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: And guess what?
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  Speaker 3: Every day that you sit there and it doesn't happen,
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  Speaker 3: the price goes up.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's seven days away. Everybody get out and vote early.
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  Speaker 1: Early voting is important. Do it this week. You vote early.
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  Speaker 1: You can sail right in, breeze through, no lines. True, true.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Liz Peek, brilliant as always. Everybody read her website, LizPeek.com.
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  Speaker 1: Her columns, everything's up there. LizPeek.com. And thanks for being
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  Speaker 1: with us.
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  Speaker 2: Mark, thanks for having me on. Good luck. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: make sure you go out and vote. We need you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely. All right. Well, thanks. Take care.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Bye-bye.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody get out and vote. Do it today. Do it tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: The early voting is the easiest. It's all about turnout.
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  Speaker 1: If Republicans turn out in great numbers, they win. It's
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  Speaker 1: that simple. If they don't turn out in great numbers,
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  Speaker 1: they lose. So get out there and vote. Do the
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