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Mark interviews political strategist Ed Rollins. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: He knows his way around all this. It's the Marks
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  Speaker 1: Among Show on seven tenbr Well, let's talk to the
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  Speaker 1: dean himself, Ed Rollins, the greatest of all that political analysts.
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  Speaker 1: He's run a lot of campaigns, worked in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of white houses, and knows this stuff better than anybody.
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  Speaker 1: Ed Rollins, How you doing doing pretty well?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you? Confusing times. We're in trouble times. But the
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  Speaker 2: good news is we elected a strong candidate yesterday to
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  Speaker 2: be the nominated replaced Marjorie Taylor Green. He hit the nomination,
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  Speaker 2: he was endorsed by the President a runoff April seventh,
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  Speaker 2: that he should win it. Easy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Now, what about the president going to Kentucky, Ohio today,
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  Speaker 1: wants to get rid of Massy? What about Massy?
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  Speaker 2: You know that. I assume that's going to happen, But
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  Speaker 2: he knows. At the end of the day here, there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot to play out here. And the reality is
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  Speaker 2: that if you remember of Congress today and you're in
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  Speaker 2: the forty or fifty that are in trouble seats, uh,
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  Speaker 2: your polls aren't going to be very good and you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be very worried. You're gonna go work very hard
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  Speaker 2: so yeah, we'll see that. There's a lot on the
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  Speaker 2: genuinary now and overwhelming thing is the economy and a
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  Speaker 2: lot of discussion in the last twelve days of the
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  Speaker 2: war in Iran. But the reality is most Americans could
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  Speaker 2: care one way or the other about that. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they won't. They want to. They care about their gas prices.
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  Speaker 2: And if we see a rise there, which you know,
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  Speaker 2: all the size or we will all of those some
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  Speaker 2: good news. I guess the group that controls gas prices
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  Speaker 2: just basically said they're to the not the gas price
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  Speaker 2: of the oil. Yeah, the release out of the security.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, if yeah, you've got a spike during this
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  Speaker 1: little conflict, and then let's say a month from now,
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  Speaker 1: as a result, prices are down, in fact, they go
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  Speaker 1: even lower than before. Won't that fix everything for the GOP?
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  Speaker 2: It will, it will help. It won't fix everything.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Johnson's speak of the how Mike Johnson he said yesterday, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: the GOP is in a course correction mode. After Christy Nome.
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  Speaker 1: After all, that does the GOP that they really need
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  Speaker 1: a course correction.
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  Speaker 2: They need something And it's not just Christy Dome, it's
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  Speaker 2: it's uh, you know, it's not functioning at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day. If you're sitting out there in the country,
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  Speaker 2: or if you're going to be standing in the line
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  Speaker 2: the next couple of weeks going on Eastern holiday, you
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  Speaker 2: have to stand in an airport line three or four hours. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: you're not gonna be very happy. And you've got blame
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  Speaker 2: the party it's in power, whether it's their fault or not.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a lot of a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 2: of chaos going on right today. So not being an
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  Speaker 2: environment I want to be running. I think the difference
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  Speaker 2: now to is people assume that the House would be
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  Speaker 2: lost in the in the midterm, but now talking about
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  Speaker 2: the Senate being lost, and I don't know, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to concede that at this point in time. But
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  Speaker 2: it's a very very unhappy place to be a member
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  Speaker 2: of Congress today.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, but this election is like seven eight months awake,
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  Speaker 1: is it really does? I mean, everything's going to change
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  Speaker 1: it now it gets set.
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  Speaker 2: What happens is it gets set. Uh. And the reality
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  Speaker 2: is you've got to do a lot of stuff in
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  Speaker 2: the year out for an election, and it's uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: people don't wait to the last three weeks to make
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  Speaker 2: up their mind. In this particular case, you've got to
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  Speaker 2: have organization, You've got to have a variety of things.
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  Speaker 2: So I would say at this point in time, as
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  Speaker 2: someone that's run a lot of congressional races, run the
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  Speaker 2: Congressional Committee, and run the White House political operation, this
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  Speaker 2: is not this is not a good good day for
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  Speaker 2: uh especially yes, whatever takes to say. Now, the good
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  Speaker 2: news is the president still strong in the party and
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  Speaker 2: he basically has raised a tremendous amount of money and
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  Speaker 2: it's spent well, and they certainly can make it to
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  Speaker 2: make it closer that people think today, Hey.
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  Speaker 1: When you raise all this money, you're right, the rnc's
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  Speaker 1: raised a lot more money than the Dancy. When you
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  Speaker 1: got all this money, what do you do with it?
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  Speaker 1: TV commercials aren't the thing anymore? How do you spend it?
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  Speaker 2: Now? Well, grass roots is a very important and you
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  Speaker 2: need to go out and identify your voter and make
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  Speaker 2: sure that they're voting because traditionally in the midterm election
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  Speaker 2: people don't care, and we need to go out and
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  Speaker 2: identify our voters and make sure that they turn out
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  Speaker 2: on election there.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, speaking of Marjorie Tailor Green you mentioned her.
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  Speaker 1: These nutty characters in Congress, aoc elon Omar marjor retailer,
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  Speaker 1: these really nutty types. If you went back to the
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  Speaker 1: Reagan days, you didn't see a bunch of wackos in Congress,
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  Speaker 1: did you. This is like a new phenomenon, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: It's much much newer phenomenon, and equally is important because
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  Speaker 2: they have vehicles now, you know, you've got the Internet
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  Speaker 2: and all of various entities that you have that you
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  Speaker 2: can be in nuts and get a lot of attention.
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  Speaker 2: The most significant people today are not TV commentators or
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  Speaker 2: radio commentators. It's these people that have these massive, you know,
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  Speaker 2: abilities go communicate to h different different votors. So but
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  Speaker 2: nut bars that come forth and have and find other
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  Speaker 2: nut bars to stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So, hey, this crazy mayor in New York now he's
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  Speaker 1: talking about in the crazy left wing city Council. They're
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  Speaker 1: talking about raising the minimum wage to thirty dollars that's
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  Speaker 1: almost double. Wouldn't that cause a lot of people to
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  Speaker 1: get fired? Companies will go with less people.
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  Speaker 2: And absolutely it would. It would put a tremendous burden
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  Speaker 2: on the restaurants and hotels and people that need services
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  Speaker 2: in my sense, if you raise it at thirty dollars,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to basically paint the city on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they do that stuff, you know when they do
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  Speaker 1: that stuff in San Francisco, that kind of stuff, companies
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  Speaker 1: just close up and leave, all the chains leave, and
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  Speaker 1: you got empty stores everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: But you got empty stores everywhere. And you know New
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  Speaker 2: York occausey is the international capital, the world financial capital.
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  Speaker 2: But it would not be a good good thing for
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  Speaker 2: him to do. It wouldn't be good for the city.
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  Speaker 2: It wouldn't be good for those of us who live
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  Speaker 2: in the city.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, but could you explain this democratic mentality to us?
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  Speaker 1: They do it a thousand times, it fails a thousand times,
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  Speaker 1: and they keep proposing it again. Don't they ever learn
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  Speaker 1: their lessons?
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  Speaker 2: It's what it's what they fundamentally believe that we are
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  Speaker 2: so polarized as as two philosophies Republicans and Democrats. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we believe in lower taxes. We believe in
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  Speaker 2: more effective business is being run and smaller. Uh. And
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  Speaker 2: and businesses should be great jobs and not governments. Democrats
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  Speaker 2: obviously are the opposite point of view. It's just they
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  Speaker 2: don't they don't slow down the spending. They basically there's
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  Speaker 2: you know, revenue shortfalls everywhere, but no one is cut
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  Speaker 2: No one is recommending cutting money from the states or cities.
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  Speaker 2: They want to spend more and in the in the
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  Speaker 2: in the day. It doesn't work.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, ed, great, great, great.
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  Speaker 2: Stuff has never worked anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: So all right, well, thanks thanks for talking with us.
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  Speaker 1: Always great talking. You will do it again soon. Take care. Hey,
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