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Mark interviews NY Post columnist Michael Goodwin. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now, nine till noon weekdays.
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  Speaker 2: Mark Simone.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the best columnist in America. It's Michael Goodwin every Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: every Wednesday in the New York Post. And if you
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  Speaker 1: go to the New York Post website, all of his
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  Speaker 1: columns are up there. And it's great to have him
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  Speaker 1: back with us. Michael Goodwin, how you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Mark. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, I know they always say a Republican can't win
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  Speaker 1: in New York. something's different this time. Bruce Blakeman is
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  Speaker 1: a much stronger candidate. Don't you just feel that he's
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  Speaker 1: got a real shot this time?
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  Speaker 2: I hope so, Mark. I'm not 100% certain because the
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  Speaker 2: big question in my mind is Mamdani's appearance with Hochul,
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  Speaker 2: helping Hochul or hurting her. I think, and Bruce Blakeman,
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  Speaker 2: I think, is responsible for a lot of this election
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  Speaker 2: is about Mamdani and his year, his first year in office.
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  Speaker 2: And Blateman, of course, thinks that Mamdani is poison to
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  Speaker 2: voters around the state. He's very unpopular upstate, for example,
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  Speaker 2: Mamdani is. So I think that is shaping up as
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  Speaker 2: a turning point And it's fascinating in its own right
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  Speaker 2: to talk about it, Mark, because Hochul invited this. Her
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  Speaker 2: sense of weakness and uncertainty about her own campaign had
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  Speaker 2: her close the race by spending part of almost every
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  Speaker 2: day with Mamdani recently. And so she's really tied herself
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  Speaker 2: to him and his socialist brigades. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: even if she were to win, she's really ruined her
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  Speaker 2: chances of getting anything done unless Mamdani approves it. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: she's entirely flipped the script. Normally the governor is more
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  Speaker 2: important and powerful in this relationship. She has handed all
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  Speaker 2: of that power to Mamdani.
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  Speaker 1: That's an interesting point. Now, um, Normally, they use oil prices,
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  Speaker 1: gas prices. I don't know why Democrats think that's the
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  Speaker 1: number one issue. It's never been the number one issue.
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  Speaker 1: But as far as New York City, you've got to
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  Speaker 1: carry 35% of it to win the governorship. New York City,
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  Speaker 1: gas is definitely not an issue because probably 95% of
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  Speaker 1: New Yorkers don't drive or buy any gas. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: That'll help Blakeman. You think he'll get the 35% he
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  Speaker 1: needs of New York City?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's interesting. That number... I spoke to him about
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  Speaker 2: this when we talked, and he said he knows the
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  Speaker 2: history of all this, that Lee Zeldin and Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: both got 30% in the Zeldin 40 years ago and
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  Speaker 2: Trump in 24. Both got 30% in the city and
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  Speaker 2: lost the state by about six points. So that's why
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  Speaker 2: Blateman says he's going to do better than 30%. And
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  Speaker 2: you have to do better than 30%. Lee Zeldin once
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  Speaker 2: said to me, if you get to 35% as a Republican,
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  Speaker 2: it's hard to lose the race. If you cop out
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  Speaker 2: under 35%, it's hard to win. And so I think
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  Speaker 2: the city, of course, having so many more votes than
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  Speaker 2: so much a disproportionate effect on the whole state. So
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  Speaker 2: if he can get in that 33, the 36, the
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  Speaker 2: 38 that he talked about with me, he's got a
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  Speaker 2: real shot at winning. And I think that would be
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  Speaker 2: a real pushback against Mamdani if more and more New
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  Speaker 2: Yorkers vote against his candidate and vote for the opponent.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a lot riding on the city outcome. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, listen, Mamdani's got his younger, crazy, socialist-loving supporters. But
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  Speaker 1: don't you think in New York City since the election
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  Speaker 1: last year that there's a lot of other people, just
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  Speaker 1: normal Democrats voted for him, kind of sorry they did,
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  Speaker 1: and would like to have Blakeman as just a counter
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  Speaker 1: of Mamdani?
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  Speaker 2: Well, not to be too... numbers heavy here Mark but
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  Speaker 2: Blakeman and I talked about the fact that Mamdani won
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  Speaker 2: the mayoral race with 50.4% now obviously it was a
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  Speaker 2: big field Andrew Cuomo for example but the point being
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  Speaker 2: that he got over a million votes and a million
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  Speaker 2: people voted against him so that If Blakeman can tap
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  Speaker 2: into those anti-Mamdani voters, he would easily get the required
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  Speaker 2: minimum to win the state. But he would really have
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  Speaker 2: to harvest a lot of the anti-Mamdani voters to come
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  Speaker 2: back and vote for him.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think Andrew Cuomo has noticed that Kathy Hochul
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  Speaker 1: hasn't called and asked him to come campaign for her?
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  Speaker 2: I guess that she would be certifiably crazy if she
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  Speaker 2: did that, right? Don't lock her up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. She hasn't asked Alvin Bragg to come campaign with her.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's interesting about Cuomo, though, right? He was kind
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  Speaker 2: of king of the hill for most of the three terms.
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  Speaker 2: He was attorney general before that, right? And now, having
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  Speaker 2: lost Imam Dhani, he's not even a second thought. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he's really disappeared from the public eye. And apparently he's
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  Speaker 2: making a lot of money. Good for him. But there's
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  Speaker 2: no hunger anywhere for Andrew Cuomo to endorse or to
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  Speaker 2: campaign with a candidate. It does look like his time
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  Speaker 2: has come and gone.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, actually, I think it's more a case of
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  Speaker 1: there's a real despising of Andrew Cuomo by everybody and
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  Speaker 1: anybody in New York. Remember, he did flee Albany with
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  Speaker 1: the police chasing him out of there, so.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but he almost, he came tantamizingly close to beating Mamdani.
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  Speaker 2: So for me, that's something in his favor. And he
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  Speaker 2: ran a lousy campaign, and he still got about, what, 70%
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  Speaker 2: of the anti-Mamdani vote. He got over 750,000 votes, I think,
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  Speaker 2: in the five boroughs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you've got to put a giant asterisk on that.
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  Speaker 1: That was with every Republican everywhere, including the president, telling
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  Speaker 1: you to vote for him, and he still couldn't get
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  Speaker 1: it done.
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  Speaker 2: Right, right. Curtis Lewa was part of the problem. But
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  Speaker 2: the real problem is Mamdani turned out. So many voters
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  Speaker 2: who had not voted before. I mean, the piper of socialism. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think about the rest of the country?
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  Speaker 1: It looks pretty good. If you ignore the fake polls,
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  Speaker 1: it looks pretty good for Republicans with the Senate. Well,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think about the House?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's interesting. Of course, you hear all the stock
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  Speaker 2: of a blue wave. And then, well, maybe it won't
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  Speaker 2: be a wave. We've heard this before. My friend Ed
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  Speaker 2: Rollins always reminds me that there will be a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people making up their minds in the last few days,
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  Speaker 2: and the polls will never pick that up. Nobody polls
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  Speaker 2: over the last weekend, and that's when a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people make their decisions. So almost by definition, the polls
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  Speaker 2: are going to get it wrong to the extent that
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  Speaker 2: those people maybe some of them changing their minds. So
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  Speaker 2: I don't believe the polls are a given in the
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  Speaker 2: sense that I think there's a blue wave coming. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's been really close, but I'm not convinced that
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  Speaker 2: this election has been decided. I think it's still a
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  Speaker 2: wide-open race for a lot of the seats in that
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  Speaker 2: House and the Senate. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, I never asked you this. The horse and carriages. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this Julie Menon flip-flops on that and says, well, it's
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  Speaker 1: about safety. Well, only one person died from a horse
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  Speaker 1: and carriage, whereas 133 have died from the e-bikes. Why
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  Speaker 1: isn't there a push to get the e-bikes out of
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  Speaker 1: Central Park?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. You know, Mark, you say flip-flop, talking about
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  Speaker 2: the horses, I can hear a clip going. But the, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think Julie Menon it's kind of hard to read.
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  Speaker 2: She kind of talks a tough game, but in the end,
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  Speaker 2: there's no real impact. There's very much a finger in
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  Speaker 2: the air about which way the wind is blowing. So
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  Speaker 2: I can't figure her out. I don't know that she's
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  Speaker 2: a counterweight to Mamdani or just pretending to be before
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  Speaker 2: she folds. So it's very hard to read whether the
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  Speaker 2: council in any way... can stand up to the mayor.
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  Speaker 1: Very good point. Well, Michael Goodwin, great as always. You
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  Speaker 1: can read his columns every Sunday, every Wednesday in the
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  Speaker 1: New York Post. And if you go to the New
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  Speaker 1: York Post website, all of his columns are posted up there.
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  Speaker 1: You should read them. Michael Goodwin, thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 2: My pleasure. Thank you, Mike. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Take care. Hey, we've got a lot coming up in
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  Speaker 1: the next hour. In fact, Bruce Blakeman will be with
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  Speaker 1: us in the next hour, so we'll get all the
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  Speaker 1: latest from him. And then at noon, Buck Sexton, Clay Travis.
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