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Opening Segment 10/14/26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now, Curtis Lewa and Larry Mendte in the morning on 710WOR. Well,
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  Speaker 1: last night was debate night, and you yearn for more afterwards,
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  Speaker 1: like so many other states have, Larry, as we've been
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  Speaker 1: talking about it. Maine, they've had like five debates for
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  Speaker 1: the Senate in nine days. Some of the others are
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  Speaker 1: like two debates. That's the mandatory. Jack Cittarelli, remember, against Cherelle?
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  Speaker 1: They had at least two debates. We only get one
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  Speaker 1: in New York, unfortunately. And after you watched it, you said, wow,
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  Speaker 1: one more debate and they would have touched on every subject.
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  Speaker 1: And I think those that are interested in voting would
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  Speaker 1: have had their buffet, would have had the entree and
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  Speaker 1: the hors d'oeuvres to make up their mind, if in
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  Speaker 1: fact they hadn't yet made up their mind on who
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  Speaker 1: they want to be the next governor of New York State.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I wonder how many undecided there are. That's a
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  Speaker 2: really interesting question. I thought that Bruce Blakeman won that
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  Speaker 2: debate easily, easily. Kathy Hochul, right from the beginning, seemed
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  Speaker 2: off her game. Remember this moment?
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  Speaker 3: New York State now has the lowest crime rates it's
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  Speaker 3: had in modern history. Now, we're not done yet, and
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  Speaker 3: you're going to hear a lot of, well, a lot
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  Speaker 3: of different opinions here this evening, and I want you.
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  Speaker 2: To judge it this way. Now, I will say this.
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  Speaker 2: I think she was about to curse there and say
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  Speaker 2: a lot of BS, but the longer word for that.
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  Speaker 2: But then after that, she couldn't come up with something else.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, don't you have that early on the opening prepared?
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  Speaker 2: Don't you already know what you're going to say right
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  Speaker 2: out of the box? That was out of the box,
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  Speaker 2: but that wasn't the only time. She did it a
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  Speaker 2: few times, and I'm not sure who was coaching her.
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  Speaker 2: Because if you've noticed, she was downplaying everything. She was
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  Speaker 2: speaking in a softer voice. It was like she was
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  Speaker 2: on Xanax. She rarely got excited. She rarely was showing
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  Speaker 2: a lot of energy or any energy at all. Blakeman,
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  Speaker 2: on the other hand, was full of energy constantly.
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  Speaker 1: I think you could have helped Kathy Hochul enormously. with
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  Speaker 1: your strategy of taking 15 caffeinated cups of coffee a day,
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  Speaker 1: she was in a desperate need.
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  Speaker 2: You're absolutely right.
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  Speaker 1: She needed a caffeinated coffee or a latte caffeinated. She
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  Speaker 1: was very low energy. I don't think that was on purpose.
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  Speaker 1: I really don't think that was on purpose.
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  Speaker 2: Then why? I mean, there's no other reason to do
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  Speaker 2: it unless somebody said, you know what, you don't want
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  Speaker 2: to be too shrill. You don't want to come off
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  Speaker 2: too loud. I mean, there's some bad debate coaches out there.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's because in her case, too much packed
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  Speaker 1: into her head. And that's why at times, if you notice,
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  Speaker 1: she was in a void. She was like searching. It
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  Speaker 1: almost like was a stop. And that's because they over
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  Speaker 1: prepare you. Whereas Bruce Blakeman, I think he came out,
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  Speaker 1: he knew what he had to say. He knew he
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  Speaker 1: was going to be wrapped in cellophane wrap with Trump.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Trump would be like an appendage to him.
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  Speaker 1: So he was prepared for that.
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  Speaker 2: He was calm.
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  Speaker 1: Unlike Lee Zeldin, who had only one debate against Hochul,
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  Speaker 1: he got a little angry at Hochul.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't come across well.
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  Speaker 1: But he had the fact that as the governor, he
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  Speaker 1: would get rid of Alvin Bragg, who had just been
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  Speaker 1: elected Manhattan DA. Remember, after sworn in, he said, Half
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  Speaker 1: the rules, throw them out the door. So that was
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  Speaker 1: a vulnerable point for Hochul. But I think Bruce Hochul,
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman overall did as well as you could possibly
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  Speaker 1: do in those circumstances.
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  Speaker 2: Unbelievably well. Here's the thing, too. And I didn't notice
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  Speaker 2: this before. I just noticed it after this debate because
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  Speaker 2: I saw Blakeman being shared on social media online. Over
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  Speaker 2: and over and over and over again. And it was
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  Speaker 2: done by the RNC, all the usual suspects, Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 2: the New York Republicans, Blakeman's campaign. And I thought maybe
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  Speaker 2: it's just my algorithm. Maybe I'm just getting all that
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  Speaker 2: because of my algorithm. So I just did a search
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  Speaker 2: now this morning. I did a search for Hochul and
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  Speaker 2: DNC and New York Republicans. New York Democrats, nothing. There's
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  Speaker 2: very little on Hochul because she didn't have a highlight.
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  Speaker 2: She really didn't have a highlight. Blakeman had several and
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  Speaker 2: some of these that are being shared on social media,
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  Speaker 2: which I think is the most important thing right now.
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  Speaker 2: It is no longer what is broadcast. It is what
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  Speaker 2: he shared. Some of these have hundreds of thousands. If
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  Speaker 2: you total them all up, it's over a million, hundreds
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  Speaker 2: of thousands of, of, looks and likes. And so I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. I don't think, you know, if I had
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  Speaker 2: to bet, if you were forcing me to bet money now,
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  Speaker 2: I still don't think Blakeman can win just because of
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  Speaker 2: the way the state set up and because the oversaturation
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  Speaker 2: of Democrats in New York City. But man, he should win.
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  Speaker 2: He is by far the better candidate.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No, he definitely pounded her on the utility bills, which
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  Speaker 1: she's responsible for. Everybody opens up that envelope. You remember
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  Speaker 1: that day we were talking to Rob Astorino. He had
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  Speaker 1: just gotten his electricity bill at the same time I
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  Speaker 1: got mine. Our eyeballs fell out of our heads. Only 30%
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  Speaker 1: of it was for the cost of the electricity. The
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  Speaker 1: other 70% were all taxes, most of which were going
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  Speaker 1: to the state. She controls that. And he pounded away
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  Speaker 1: on that affordability, which is of key concern. The issue
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  Speaker 1: that Hoku has been convinced is an easy pass to victory.
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  Speaker 1: is just campaign against Trump.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: Treat Bruce Blakeman as if he's Donald Trump. But if
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  Speaker 1: you do it too much, and she did it way
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  Speaker 1: too much. 44 times she mentioned it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so if you do it all the time, after
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  Speaker 2: a while people start rolling their eyes because they go,
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  Speaker 2: unless you are a really blue Democrat, you know what
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  Speaker 2: I mean? If you are really into the Democratic Party,
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  Speaker 2: you love that stuff. That's red meat for you. But
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  Speaker 2: other people, especially any of the undecideds and some of
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  Speaker 2: the moderates and maybe even some of the Republicans that
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  Speaker 2: are be willing to go over after a while, they're
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  Speaker 2: going to go. Do you have anything else?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was it. Everything was attached to Trump. Now, Blakeman,
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  Speaker 1: to his credit, only went at Zoran about six times.
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  Speaker 1: So imagine 44 times Trump. That's whole cool. Blakeman mentioned
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  Speaker 1: Zoran as the negative factor attached to Trump. Kathy Hochul
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  Speaker 1: six times, which was appropriate. And so he didn't make
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  Speaker 1: the whole debate. Oh, well, you're Zoran, mini, you know,
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  Speaker 1: mini me for Zoran. Whereas all Hochul kept mentioning was Trump,
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  Speaker 1: Trump-like phrases. You're just like Trump. You worship Trump. You
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  Speaker 1: think Trump is the greatest president who ever lived in
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  Speaker 1: our lifetime. It's like, enough, lady. Enough. We get it.
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  Speaker 2: He already said.
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  Speaker 1: Trump is my friend. We don't need anything more.
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  Speaker 2: We know he supports Trump and Trump supports him. But
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  Speaker 2: he didn't hide from it. He didn't hide from it
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  Speaker 2: the entire time, which is really good. That's a smart strategy.
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  Speaker 2: Because if you try to hide from it, you're on
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  Speaker 2: the defensive, right? I thought what was really interesting, because
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  Speaker 2: I thought he might stay away from this because of ICE,
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  Speaker 2: but it was just the opposite. He went really after
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  Speaker 2: her about all the money she spent on illegals and
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  Speaker 2: all of the crimes that illegals have committed in this state.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, I just told you that
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  Speaker 2: the RNC is sharing this stuff. The one that is
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  Speaker 2: getting the most attention, it might be a little surprising
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  Speaker 2: to you, is this. Governor Hochul.
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  Speaker 4: Under your sanctuary policies, a 14-year-old girl was raped recently
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  Speaker 4: here in New York State by an illegal migrant. Four
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  Speaker 4: Irondequoit residents were killed recently by an illegal migrant. Two
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  Speaker 4: of those victims were children under.
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  Speaker 2: The age of five.
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  Speaker 4: Two Nassau County women in their 30s were killed by
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  Speaker 4: an illegal migrant because of your sanctuary policies.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to cut it off there because he goes on.
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  Speaker 2: It's amazing how long they let him go on in that.
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  Speaker 2: But then he said to her afterwards, do you apologize
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  Speaker 2: to those families for making this a sanctuary state? And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we talked about how low energy she was.
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  Speaker 2: Her answer was abysmal.
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  Speaker 3: You know, any crime is heartbreaking. There's a family left behind.
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  Speaker 3: with a huge hole in their heart. And I abhor
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  Speaker 3: all crimes, regardless of the perpetrator.
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  Speaker 2: But that's not what he was saying. He was saying,
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  Speaker 2: your policies are responsible for these crimes, and you treat
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  Speaker 2: people that are here illegally, giving them billions and billions
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  Speaker 2: of dollars, better than you treat the people of New York.
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  Speaker 2: And she never answered that question.
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  Speaker 1: Well, remember, that was the first question out of the
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  Speaker 1: docket from the moderators, who I thought did a very
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  Speaker 1: good job. Errol Lewis and the young lady who was
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  Speaker 1: from the Albany Bureau. They didn't interfere many times. They
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  Speaker 1: let them talk to one another, go at one another,
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  Speaker 1: even in the lightning round, let them go on and on,
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  Speaker 1: then yes or no. You know, sometimes the moderators try
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  Speaker 1: to steal the show. So I thought they did a
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  Speaker 1: very good job. They were reserved. But Kathy Hochul was
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  Speaker 1: low-energy Kathy. There's no doubt about it. You remember Jeb Bush,
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  Speaker 1: low-energy Jeb Bush. She was low-energy Kathy Hochul. She could
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  Speaker 1: have used a few of your cups of coffee. There's
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  Speaker 1: no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 2: Or something. Shoot her up with something next time.
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  Speaker 1: But their first question out of the box was the
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  Speaker 1: situation involving the illegal Dominican in Marble Hill, ICE, and
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  Speaker 1: that opened up immediately right out of the box because
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  Speaker 1: that's when most people, if they're watching it, are going
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  Speaker 1: to pay attention.
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  Speaker 2: That should be a slam dunk for Hochul. If she
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  Speaker 2: wanted to go after ICE and she wanted to get
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  Speaker 2: those constituents, on her side, that should have been a
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  Speaker 2: slam dunk. Instead, she fumbled. She sounded weak. She didn't
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  Speaker 2: sound like a governor. That's for sure. That's not somebody
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  Speaker 2: you want in charge.
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  Speaker 1: But I think, again, her situation is she was riding
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  Speaker 1: that pony up in Saratoga. The Trump pony.
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  Speaker 2: That was it.
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  Speaker 1: Just Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. Because
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  Speaker 1: she knows his negatives are high. So, for instance, like
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  Speaker 1: Blakeman wisely didn't say Zoran as many times as Hochul
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  Speaker 1: said Trump. Remember, Hochul 44 times she said Trump in
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  Speaker 1: the debate. Blakeman six, because he happens to be the
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  Speaker 1: most popular Democrat in the New York state.
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  Speaker 2: Now, when you go, when you look at the polls
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  Speaker 2: outside of New York city, New York city skews those
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  Speaker 2: polls so much because after you said that I started
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  Speaker 2: looking into it, when you look at it outside of
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  Speaker 2: New York city, some of the polls, he's under 40%.
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  Speaker 2: Some of the polls, he's a low 40% when you
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  Speaker 2: go out. So he knows that he knows that mom
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  Speaker 2: Donnie is not as popular outside of New York city.
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  Speaker 2: And I think he's, basically has to give up when
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  Speaker 2: New York City ain't going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: If he can win Erie County, which will be tough
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  Speaker 1: because that's the second biggest block. Because remember, that's where
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  Speaker 1: Kathy Hochul is from. I'm the Buffalo girl. Oh, I
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  Speaker 1: lived in a trailer park and I worked in a pizzeria.
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  Speaker 1: Enough of that already. If he can win Erie County.
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  Speaker 1: then he's got a chance at an upset. That'll be
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  Speaker 1: a tough one because that's her backyard, but he's got
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  Speaker 1: to get at least 30, 32% of the vote in
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  Speaker 1: New York city.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, if life was fair, he would
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  Speaker 2: absolutely win it.
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  Speaker 1: And up next, you know, this is the month of
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  Speaker 1: the black cats. Nobody wants black cats because of superstition.
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  Speaker 1: They're the ones that are left in the shelters the most,
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  Speaker 1: but a missing cat was.
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  Speaker 2: Found to have to have 571 days to
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  Speaker 1: Boy, Nancy is going to go hip, hip, hooray on
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  Speaker 1: this one, plus a chance to see Journey at 825.