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Miranda Devine | New York Post Columnist Returns to S&FIM to Talk Midterms · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: One of my favorite people on Twitter. She always reposts
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  Speaker 1: my stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Always.
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  Speaker 1: She's great. And she's got a great Twitter page as well.
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  Speaker 1: Is the best columnist in the world today. I really
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  Speaker 1: mean that. I like my good one. He's good. But
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  Speaker 1: nobody's as good as Miranda Devine. Nobody. New York Post.
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  Speaker 1: She's got a great podcast too. And I just love her.
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  Speaker 1: She's my friend. Miranda, good morning. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: Good morning. You're always so generous with me. It always
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  Speaker 2: makes my day. I'm being honest.
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  Speaker 1: I just, I think the world of you. I really do.
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  Speaker 1: I was a, as a pro and as a person.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're a terrific person.
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  Speaker 2: Well, likewise, and congratulations for another honor to add to
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  Speaker 2: your many others that you, I'm sure, have a mantelpiece
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  Speaker 2: just bulging with awards and honors.
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  Speaker 1: I do. Thank you for that, Miranda. Thank you. The
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  Speaker 1: only thing, and I talked about this a couple days
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  Speaker 1: ago with somebody. The only thing that, I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to say I regret or upsets me, is that my dad,
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  Speaker 1: he died six years ago. And everybody says to me,
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  Speaker 1: he sees all of this. He's the man that's doing
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  Speaker 1: all of this. And I choose to believe it because
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  Speaker 1: it just feels good to believe it. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Why argue it? Who knows, you know? So hopefully he
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  Speaker 1: does see all this. That's my only regret that he's
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  Speaker 1: not here for this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure he does, and he would be so proud
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  Speaker 2: of you and is proud of you. So, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that's what it's all about, isn't it? His legacy is you,
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  Speaker 2: and you're doing good work and making the world a
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  Speaker 2: better place.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Miranda. You are too. And I got to
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  Speaker 1: tell you, this is what Trump is afraid of, and
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't talk about this because he's Trump, okay? And
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  Speaker 1: he's got this really confident exterior, and he's trying to
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  Speaker 1: go to all these states and win all these states.
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  Speaker 1: But behind the scenes, I'm telling you this, He's scared
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  Speaker 1: to death that if, in fact, he loses his midterms,
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  Speaker 1: he's not worried about getting impeached. Who cares? We've been
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  Speaker 1: there already. He's worried about his family, what they're going
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  Speaker 1: to do to his sons, what they're going to do
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  Speaker 1: to the people he really loves and cares about. Heck,
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  Speaker 1: you could be subpoenaed. I could be subpoenaed. Who knows?
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  Speaker 1: So behind the scenes, and no one's ever really going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about this, I'm telling you that he is
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  Speaker 1: nervous about what will come. Not about him, but people
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  Speaker 1: that he loves and cares about if, in fact, we
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  Speaker 1: lose the House.
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  Speaker 2: I agree. It's really high stakes. And we only just
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  Speaker 2: saw what the Democrats did in his last term. I
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  Speaker 2: just did the story about the debanking that went on. 100,000
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  Speaker 2: complaints poured in of the major banks, closing accounts. refusing
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  Speaker 2: credit to conservatives, anybody related to MAGA, any sectors they
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  Speaker 2: didn't like, like gun manufacturers or gun retailers or oil
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  Speaker 2: and gas. And the Trump family were foremost in that.
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  Speaker 2: The Trump businesses, then Eric Trump, Melania Trump, and Barron Trump,
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  Speaker 2: they had their bank accounts shut. closed. And Donald Trump's
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  Speaker 2: been suing, I think, JPMorgan Chase about this. But honestly,
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  Speaker 2: the retribution that we saw before against Trump and the
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  Speaker 2: efforts to stop him from being an effective president and
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  Speaker 2: then from running again, the Democrats are redoubling their efforts.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that wiser heads are such that are
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  Speaker 2: left in the Democrat Party will be powerless against this
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  Speaker 2: new influx of Mamdani clones, people like El-Sayed, God forbid
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  Speaker 2: that he wins.
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  Speaker 1: I think he may win. I know the latest polls
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  Speaker 1: have Roger's inching right there, but I was talking to
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  Speaker 1: Hank Shankoff this morning, who's a brilliant guy. And he
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  Speaker 1: said that he said, if El-Sayed wins, we are in
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  Speaker 1: some serious trouble because Mamdani right now is kind of
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  Speaker 1: that face, right? He's that face. He's that guy. You know, Chevalier,
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  Speaker 1: she's going to win, but she's in Congress. But if
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  Speaker 1: this guy is actually able to attain a Senate seat
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  Speaker 1: in Michigan, the United States is in big trouble. Big trouble.
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  Speaker 2: Big trouble, although I will say that it will encourage
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats to take the wrong message from that and
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  Speaker 2: to believe that the path to success for them is
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  Speaker 2: to run more candidates like Mamdani and like El-Sayed across
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  Speaker 2: the country and in the presidential election in 2028, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like an AOC candidate. And if they did that, I
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  Speaker 2: think that the American people would give them a big
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  Speaker 2: punch in the nose.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, God, I hope so.
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  Speaker 2: Just like they did in 2024. They always overreach. They
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  Speaker 2: always go too far. In 2024, the election of re-election
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  Speaker 2: of Donald Trump shows you where that ends for them.
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  Speaker 2: But look, I actually, you know, I don't feel I'll
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  Speaker 2: probably have egg on my face after November 3rd. But
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  Speaker 2: I saw a CNN, you know, that pollster, I can't
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  Speaker 2: remember his name, but he's quite jolly and decent compared
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  Speaker 2: to the rest of them. And he said, look, there's
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  Speaker 2: a big margin of error in these polls. And it's
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  Speaker 2: not unknown in history that they would be out by 3%.
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  Speaker 2: If they're out by 3% in favor of the Republicans,
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  Speaker 2: they keep the House and they gain Senate seats. So
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  Speaker 2: I know it's against history that they keep the House,
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  Speaker 2: but certainly in the Senate, they have a buffer. They
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  Speaker 2: have a buffer of one with J.D. Vance because he
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  Speaker 2: can cast the deciding vote, just like Kamala Harris did
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  Speaker 2: as VP. So that's an extra seat they can afford.
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  Speaker 2: And then secondly, John Fetterman, the wonderful, one of the
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  Speaker 2: few Democrats left who's sound.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, not one of the few, the only one.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the only one left, yes. Yes. He is now
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  Speaker 2: saying that if he were the deciding vote, that it's
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  Speaker 2: likely that he would switch to the Republican Party. I
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  Speaker 2: love him.
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  Speaker 1: God, he's a mega-federman.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't he great?
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  Speaker 1: He's a mega-federman. So Trump is going to be in
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  Speaker 1: Georgia and Kansas and Kentucky and North Carolina and Michigan
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  Speaker 1: and Florida. But you know this, Miranda. He's going back
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  Speaker 1: for a third time. Third time to Texas. He mentioned
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  Speaker 1: El Sayed, how dangerous he is in Michigan, and he's
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  Speaker 1: the most dangerous because he's like Bumdani, hates America, hates Israel.
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  Speaker 2: All that.
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  Speaker 1: But this lunatic, Tallarico, I mean, I've been watching clips
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  Speaker 1: of this guy the last couple of days. This guy's
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  Speaker 1: completely insane. Then he went missing for like two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: He said he had the flu or something. I don't know. Now, look,
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  Speaker 1: I don't love Paxton. I'm not going to lie. But
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  Speaker 1: I don't love Rodgers either, to be honest. But I
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  Speaker 1: love these guys. I love these guys compared to El
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  Speaker 1: Sayed and Tallarico, right?
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  Speaker 2: Well, exactly. You know, it's the least of two evils.
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  Speaker 2: And Tallarico is like a wolf in sheep's clothing. He's
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  Speaker 2: got this baby face. And if you don't really listen
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  Speaker 2: to what he says and what he has said in
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  Speaker 2: the past, you think that he's this lovely, you know, Christian, Presbyterian, educator, kind,
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  Speaker 2: looks after the poor guy. And he's a complete freak.
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  Speaker 2: He's a complete far left talafrico, low T talarico. And
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  Speaker 2: he's so the opposite of Texas. And Donald Trump is hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: He said when And Califrico took 12 days off for
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  Speaker 2: the flu. Who's ever heard of that? And Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: made the most hilarious joke. He said, oh, he's probably
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  Speaker 2: sick because he's had to force himself to eat meat
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  Speaker 2: during the campaign to pretend he's not a vegan.
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  Speaker 1: That is a good line. That is a good line.
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  Speaker 1: Good for President Trump. Good for him. He's doing all
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  Speaker 1: he can.
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  Speaker 2: But he shouldn't have to go back and waste his
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  Speaker 2: valuable time shoring up Texas, you know. But also it's
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats have been working for generations to try and
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  Speaker 2: flip Texas, you know, an absolutely patriotic, all-blue state. and
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  Speaker 2: they are trying desperately with illegal immigration and various other
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  Speaker 2: tactics to turn it red. And, you know, I hope
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  Speaker 2: it's not a matter of time, but clearly they, even
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  Speaker 2: though they've missed out with Beto O'Rourke, for instance, you
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  Speaker 2: remember the resources they poured into that guy and the media,
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  Speaker 2: the glowing media, saying he was the second coming of
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  Speaker 2: JFK And Califrico is not an inch on the kind of,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, charisma, if you can call it a
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  Speaker 2: Beto O'Rourke, but he's still getting glowing media praise.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I hope that Texans wake up and turn out.
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  Speaker 2: And the whole thing is go to vote. All you
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  Speaker 2: have to do, if you're a Republican, if you're a
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  Speaker 2: MAGA person, don't be lazy. This is... This is to
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  Speaker 2: save your country.
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  Speaker 1: It really is the bottom line. And the same holds
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  Speaker 1: true because I know you are a great, great New
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  Speaker 1: Yorker for our gubernatorial race. And I was with Bruce
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  Speaker 1: Blakeman last night with James Dolan at Madison Square Garden,
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  Speaker 1: which was quite a bit. And I was very proud
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  Speaker 1: of Bruce a couple of nights ago up against Kathy Hochul. Now, look,
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  Speaker 1: she's awful. The bottom line is. You know, Hank Sankoff
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  Speaker 1: said earlier she's great at raising money. That may be true.
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  Speaker 1: She's pretty good at campaigning. That may be true. But
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  Speaker 1: put her on the debate stage, whether it's against Lee
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  Speaker 1: Zeldin or Blakeman, and she looks terrible. She looks terrible.
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  Speaker 1: She sounds terrible. She mentioned the president's name. I got
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  Speaker 1: the final count. 41 times, Miranda Devine.
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  Speaker 2: 41.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what kind of psycho does a debate and
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  Speaker 1: mentions the person she's not running against? 41 times?
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  Speaker 2: That is insane. Oh, 41 times. Honestly, they're all like this,
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  Speaker 2: but I think she's the worst because she's so insecure.
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  Speaker 2: We had a body language expert analyze both Bruce Blakeman
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  Speaker 2: and Kathy Hochul's body language that night during the debate.
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  Speaker 2: And she was nervous. I mean, you could see it yourself.
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  Speaker 2: She was stuttering and went blank. She's not very smart.
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  Speaker 2: And Bruce Blakeman, the body language expert said, was resolute
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  Speaker 2: and a few times angry, particularly emotionally. I detected when
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  Speaker 2: he was talking about illegal migration that is just bankrupting
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  Speaker 2: this state and causing so much mayhem and crime and
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  Speaker 2: tragedy for New Yorkers. And he just destroyed her. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: she's boasting that she's not a defund police. Oh, I
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  Speaker 2: gave $ 4 billion to law enforcement. I mean, she didn't
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  Speaker 2: give it to them. And Bruce Blakeney said, well, you
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  Speaker 2: spend twice as much on illegal migration. $ 8 billion on
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  Speaker 2: illegal migrants. You give them more benefits than New Yorkers get,
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  Speaker 2: which is absolutely true. And he just keeps on hammering
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  Speaker 2: the case that a vote for Hochul is a vote
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  Speaker 2: for Mamdani. He is the only way New York can
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  Speaker 2: stop The disaster that Mamdani... Mamdani's no signs of moderating.
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  Speaker 2: He's getting worse and more hateful and kind of more
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  Speaker 2: out of the shadows. That fake smile, he doesn't even
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  Speaker 2: bother to hide what he really thinks now. The malice
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  Speaker 2: behind the destruction he's wreaking. She is his... Totally complicit ally.
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  Speaker 2: And she, I think, is vulnerable because Lee Zeldin came
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  Speaker 2: pretty close, but that was before New Yorkers knew who
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  Speaker 2: Kathy Hochul was. Now we know. And Bruce Blakeman is
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  Speaker 2: a steady pair of hands. He's a proven guy. He's
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  Speaker 2: so perfect for New York. He's really quite moderate. He
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  Speaker 2: doesn't rock the boats. He's not highly partisan or highly political.
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  Speaker 2: He's just competent. But he loves this country and he
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  Speaker 2: loves this state, born and raised here. Can't get more
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  Speaker 2: New York than him. And he's angry about what Kathy
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  Speaker 2: Hochul and Mamdani have done to this city and this state,
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  Speaker 2: going back to de Blasio and the destruction. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they inherited this fantastic state and this fantastic city, and
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  Speaker 2: they've just trashed it in a few years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, true. I mean, she had some help from
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  Speaker 1: the guy before her, Andrew Cuomo. You know, and this
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  Speaker 1: creep who's the worst mayor ever had a lot of
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  Speaker 1: help from Bill and even Eric Adams for that matter.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't very good either. So these two losers, I'll
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  Speaker 1: say it, losers that are in power right now didn't
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  Speaker 1: exactly come on the scene with a bunch of great
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  Speaker 1: ones right before them, but whatever was left of the
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  Speaker 1: city and the state, they are destroying. There's no question
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  Speaker 1: about that. Miranda, you're the best. I love you. New
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  Speaker 1: York Post columnist and her podcast is amazing every week
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  Speaker 1: and She's my favorite Miranda Devine. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Sid. And thank you to your team and
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  Speaker 2: your audience and have a wonderful day.
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  Speaker 1: You too. Have a great weekend. You're great. Miranda Devine
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  Speaker 1: right there, folks, New York post columnist and, on this
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  Speaker 1: show quite a bit because she's terrific.
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  Speaker 1: What the heck is going on here?