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Scott Singer | U.S. House Florida District 25 Candidate Speaks on His Chances a Day Before Election Day · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: This guy was the mayor of Boca Raton, where I
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  Speaker 1: lived for 16 years. Terrific mayor. But now he's running
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  Speaker 1: for Congress against a very popular Jewish Democrat, Jared Moskowitz,
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  Speaker 1: down in Florida. And he told me last week he
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  Speaker 1: was winning. And, of course, much like President Trump, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to take credit for that because he was on.
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  Speaker 1: our show, even though we're in a completely different state.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a lot of Floridians that listen to the
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  Speaker 1: show every day. Scott Singer doing a great job down
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  Speaker 1: in South Florida. Scott Singer, how are you, pal?
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  Speaker 2: Doing great. You do deserve credit because we are winning,
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  Speaker 2: and with your help today, we're going to win tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: I think you are, too. But before we get to
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  Speaker 1: your race, I've been watching this video all morning long
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  Speaker 1: of this airplane that took off in Austin, Texas, was
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  Speaker 1: on its way to the Bahamas. and crashed. Like, I've
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  Speaker 1: never seen a more violent plane crash on video, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: in my whole life. And the fireball, now it went down,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, in West Palm, not far from Mar-a-Lago, still
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  Speaker 1: not far from you guys in Boca Raton. All nine
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  Speaker 1: people on board obviously died. It was a horrendous-looking crash.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see that? What's going on down there this morning?
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  Speaker 2: I did see that. It's always a tragedy. My sister
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  Speaker 2: is a retired airline pilot, so all of those things
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  Speaker 2: hit a little harder. But it's not in our district.
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  Speaker 2: I'm super focused on getting the vote out tomorrow because
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  Speaker 2: this is a district Trump won by nine points. When
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  Speaker 2: Republicans show up tomorrow and we need them to get out,
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  Speaker 2: rain or shine, we will win. We need to stop
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  Speaker 2: the crazy and get common sense and some rationality back
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  Speaker 2: in D.C.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's true. What district is that exactly you're in, Scott?
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  Speaker 2: So this is District 25. It's Delray Beach down the
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  Speaker 2: coast to Miami Beach. Delray Beach, Boca Raton, Hollywood, Fort Lauderdale, Aventura,
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  Speaker 2: Miami Beach. A lot of your listeners have homes here.
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  Speaker 2: I heard the ad beforehand that Mike Lawler had. My
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  Speaker 2: opponent doesn't live in the district, doesn't pay property taxes here,
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  Speaker 2: yet he voted for the biggest tax hike in American history.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, one of your people, one of my best friends...
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  Speaker 1: the great Siggy Flicker. She's going to be here this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Her son is getting married on Saturday. And Danielle and
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  Speaker 1: I are going to the wedding, Siggy and Michael. Big
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  Speaker 1: wedding coming up out on Long Island on Saturday. So
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  Speaker 1: she's a Boca Raton resident. She loves you. She voted
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  Speaker 1: for you in the past for mayor. So what happened?
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  Speaker 1: What is going on where a guy like you, who's
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  Speaker 1: running for Congress now, For the first time, Moskowitz is
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  Speaker 1: pretty popular, and he's Jewish, so you would think he
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  Speaker 1: would do great with a Jewish vote. Why do you
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  Speaker 1: think you're winning as of this morning?
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  Speaker 2: Well, a lot of reasons. First, we understand that the
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  Speaker 2: Democrat Party has become anti-Israel at its core, and Jared
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  Speaker 2: has been powerless to stop it. He not only doesn't
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  Speaker 2: stand up to the squad, he enables them. He was
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  Speaker 2: the deciding vote to put Ilhan Omar on the Workforce
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  Speaker 2: and Education Committee. He was the deciding vote to stop
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  Speaker 2: Ilhan Omar from a censure. If he voted his conscience,
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  Speaker 2: she wouldn't be in those roles, and she would have
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  Speaker 2: been censured. Siggy's been sharing a graphic and look at
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  Speaker 2: her social media. The comparison is clear. He protected Ilhan Omar.
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  Speaker 2: He voted against U.S.-Israeli cooperation on military and intelligence matters.
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  Speaker 2: He even refused to ban Sharia law when he was
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  Speaker 2: in the statehouse. And Jewish voters of all parties understand
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  Speaker 2: that we can't have someone who will not stand strongly
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  Speaker 2: with our ally Israel and will not stand up consistently
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  Speaker 2: to anti-Semitism. And it's similar to what you've seen Haley
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  Speaker 2: Stevens do in Michigan. Jared, unfortunately, has not shown that
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  Speaker 2: courage or that consistency. They want someone like me who will.
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  Speaker 1: I also heard from Siggy and a bunch of others,
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  Speaker 1: and I saw this on the news, too, about this
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  Speaker 1: Islamic compound being built in Delray Beach. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: is that true? And if it is, please tell me
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  Speaker 1: that you're against it and Moskowitz is for it.
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  Speaker 2: So we were surprised four years ago to learn that
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  Speaker 2: in West Delray that the county commission had approved an
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  Speaker 2: Islamic center and in the agricultural reserve. There were meetings
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  Speaker 2: being held about that ag reserve. They were closed door.
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  Speaker 2: I insisted. I told the county commissioner, you need to
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  Speaker 2: have a public meeting. There was a forum last month
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  Speaker 2: that you probably saw in the news. I caused that
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  Speaker 2: to happen. Moskowitz was absent. People are concerned about what's
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  Speaker 2: going on in the ag reserve and we're not done
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  Speaker 2: with that issue.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so that's still a big issue down there. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: give me, we'll get back to your race in a second,
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  Speaker 1: but I did see Francis Suarez on Fox News this morning,
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  Speaker 1: the very handsome, and you're handsome too, Scott, don't worry, okay?
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  Speaker 1: But he was on this morning, and he said that
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  Speaker 1: Republicans may struggle a little bit, even at the very
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  Speaker 1: top of the ticket. If you're giving Byron Donalds a win,
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  Speaker 1: he probably will, but slow down, because at least Suarez
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  Speaker 1: thinks David Jolly is going to make it a very
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  Speaker 1: tight race. What do you think?
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  Speaker 2: I respectfully but strongly disagree with him. Republicans just need
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  Speaker 2: to get out and vote. And this is just more
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  Speaker 2: gloom and doom, you know, and he, you know, frankly,
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  Speaker 2: Francis wasn't. Francis endorsed Hillary on the eve of her election, too.
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  Speaker 2: So he hasn't always called it right. OK, he actually
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  Speaker 2: endorsed her. So Republicans just need to come out. Trump
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  Speaker 2: won this district by nine. There's a five point Republican
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  Speaker 2: registration advantage. And if we want to stop what the
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  Speaker 2: left is going to do to open up the border,
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  Speaker 2: to raise taxes, to make the next two years hell
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  Speaker 2: for President Trump and anyone in the administration, we need
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  Speaker 2: to flip this district. That's why the Speaker's been down.
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  Speaker 2: That's why we've gotten so much grassroots support. And that's
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  Speaker 2: why even former Democrats, like a Democrat former member, Peter Deutsch,
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  Speaker 2: has endorsed me. He understands how bad that party is
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  Speaker 2: for Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know Peter Deutsch is. And you keep mentioning
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  Speaker 1: President Trump. And I met you, the folks that don't
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  Speaker 1: know this, night three of Hanukkah. Last year, we're both
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  Speaker 1: in the East Wing for President Trump's big Hanukkah party.
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  Speaker 1: You're literally standing right next to me when President Trump
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  Speaker 1: invited me up on stage, which was just a huge,
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  Speaker 1: huge honor. So we met that night at the White House.
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  Speaker 1: And as far as I know, President Trump has endorsed you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely. Even in kind words for me on Saturday
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  Speaker 2: and to me, he had a telephone town hall and
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  Speaker 2: he started off by saying, Scott, you know, Jared's running
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  Speaker 2: ads saying that you're going to raise prescription drug prices.
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  Speaker 2: I'm the one that lowered and hit him on it.
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  Speaker 2: So we got to remind people, they're just continue to
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  Speaker 2: gaslight with all of these things. You think the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: are going to lower gas prices? They want to stop
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  Speaker 2: gas drilling entirely. Moskowitz, again, votes lockstep with the 88%
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  Speaker 2: of the time. He's voted against photo ID. He's voted
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  Speaker 2: to raise taxes. He even skipped a vote to convince socialism.
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  Speaker 2: And this district's got a lot of people who fled communism.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't have the courage to stand up.
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  Speaker 1: I will.
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  Speaker 2: I will fight for this district. I actually live in
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  Speaker 2: this district and we need people to come on out.
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  Speaker 2: Tomorrow's not a dress rehearsal. It decides that we need
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  Speaker 2: people to show up 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting, Scott, in that Jewish people see
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  Speaker 1: a Jewish name and they go, he's with us. And
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  Speaker 1: Moskowitz has a pretty good reputation, you know. Even a
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  Speaker 1: guy that's not Jewish here in New York, I kill
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  Speaker 1: him all the time, Richie Torres. He sucks. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's pro-Israel, but he hates Bibi. Well, what good are you?
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  Speaker 1: He hates President Trump. He has said the nastiest things
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  Speaker 1: about President Trump. And then you get the Jews like Moskowitz,
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  Speaker 1: like you're saying, look, he can't stop the squad. Can't
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  Speaker 1: stop them, right? He can't stop Mamdani. But wouldn't it
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  Speaker 1: be nice if a guy like Moskowitz came out and said,
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  Speaker 1: I condemn the members of the squad. I will never
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  Speaker 1: vote with Ilhan Omar. That's all he's got to do.
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  Speaker 1: That's all he's got to do. He doesn't even do that,
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  Speaker 1: does he?
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  Speaker 2: Not only that, he's failed time and time again. He's
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  Speaker 2: voted for Ilhan Omar three times. He wouldn't condemn her.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me. He makes condemnation comments to reporters, but he
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  Speaker 2: voted to keep her twice on committees and once literally
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  Speaker 2: to prevent her censure. And that got under his skin.
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  Speaker 2: I pointed it out in one of the forums we had.
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  Speaker 2: He refused to appear in a televised debate. He didn't
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  Speaker 2: want to stand up for his record. And also, you
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  Speaker 2: know why? He's traded stocks hundreds of times, $ 4. 5 billion worth.
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  Speaker 2: A moderator asked him, would you voluntarily stop trading? He said, no,
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  Speaker 2: I'll comply with the law, and I don't have to,
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  Speaker 2: except that he violated the law repeatedly.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: It's the Washington double talk. Yes, he repeatedly violated the
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  Speaker 2: Stock Act. I will not trade stocks in Congress. I
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  Speaker 2: will ban stock trading, but I will trade regardless if
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  Speaker 2: there's a ban or not. People need to know that
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  Speaker 2: we're in it for public service, not self-service. 100%.
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  Speaker 1: So you guys never had one to beat?
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  Speaker 2: We had two forums. They weren't styled as a debate,
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  Speaker 2: but he wouldn't allow TV cameras there, even though a
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  Speaker 2: TV reporter was conducting one of them. We had to
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  Speaker 2: put clips out on YouTube, which you can see on
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  Speaker 2: my social media, Scott Singer USA. That's the best he
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  Speaker 2: would give us. He's a member of Congress and he's
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  Speaker 2: afraid to go on TV against the nominee of another party.
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  Speaker 2: What kind of courage is that? No wonder why he
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  Speaker 2: can't stand up to Ilhan Omar. He won't even face
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  Speaker 2: his own voters. And again, doesn't even live in the district.
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  Speaker 2: So they're not his neighbors.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Good for you, Scott. You sound great. Last one.
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  Speaker 1: I know a big issue down there, we discussed this
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  Speaker 1: last time, is insurance. Right. You get these hurricanes, you
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  Speaker 1: get these tropical storms, you get floods. And Ron DeSantis,
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  Speaker 1: when it's all said and done, he was a great governor,
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  Speaker 1: great governor. I think Trump is warming up to him
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  Speaker 1: just a little bit. But but people will talk about
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  Speaker 1: Ron failed when it came to the insurance game down
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  Speaker 1: in South Florida. That's what they'll say. I think Byron
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  Speaker 1: Donald even says that. Is that a huge issue for
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  Speaker 1: you and your campaign or not, Willie?
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  Speaker 2: Insurance is an issue. Here's two things I do in Congress. One,
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  Speaker 2: we need Congress to take more commerce powers, which they
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  Speaker 2: delegated to the states for the last 80 years, and
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  Speaker 2: increase competition. Second, the way we have tax deductibility for
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  Speaker 2: state and local taxes, we can consider that for insurance too.
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  Speaker 2: I want to have lower taxes, not higher taxes. My
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  Speaker 2: opponent voted to raise them. That's not how you increase affordability.
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  Speaker 2: That's how you take money out of people's pockets. I
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  Speaker 2: will cut taxes. i will continue to support these tax
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  Speaker 2: cuts from president trump that have unleashed the economy that's
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  Speaker 2: how we improve our.
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  Speaker 1: Economy personal question for you scott how do you feel
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  Speaker 1: about all these disenchanted americans leaving places like New York,
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey, all these blue sanctuary states. They're leaving, and
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  Speaker 1: they're going to a lot of states. Tennessee, South Carolina,
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  Speaker 1: but no state more than yours. How do you feel
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  Speaker 1: about that? Well, great.
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  Speaker 2: As mayor of Boca Raton, we actually recruited refugees who
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  Speaker 2: wanted to bring businesses from New York, Illinois, California, and
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  Speaker 2: we succeeded. I was the first mayor in the country
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  Speaker 2: right after Mamdani's primary win to go on an offensive.
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  Speaker 2: We put a billboard up in Times Square trying to
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  Speaker 2: attract businesses. leaders. The New York Post even covered it.
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  Speaker 2: They put us on the cover. This is before other
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  Speaker 2: people were copying us. And we got hundreds more high
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  Speaker 2: paying jobs. We had thousands of high paying jobs. And fortunately,
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  Speaker 2: people voted conservatively. They understand they were leading high crime,
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  Speaker 2: high tax jurisdictions and coming to Boca Raton. I need
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  Speaker 2: people in this district who don't want to New York
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  Speaker 2: up our Florida and don't want to New York up
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  Speaker 2: our United States to come out tomorrow and vote.
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  Speaker 1: What's your favorite Italian restaurant in Boca? Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 2: Trotteria Romano, probably.
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  Speaker 1: I knew you were going to say that. I know it.
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  Speaker 1: It's good. I'm going to tell you what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: I love Peter Kramer. What can I tell you?
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  Speaker 2: I love Peter, too. And I'm sorry, Peter. I love you, too.
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  Speaker 1: I'll call that 1A. He's a great Jewish supporter of yours,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure, as well. And then my steakhouse, I still,
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  Speaker 1: for some reason, I'm still loyal to Johnny Gio and
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  Speaker 1: all those guys over at New York Prime because New
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  Speaker 1: York is in the title. But I will say this
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  Speaker 1: on a serious note. My family and I, we lived
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  Speaker 1: in Boca Raton twice for 16 years. It's a beautiful place.
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  Speaker 1: You got the great restaurants. It's clean. The crime is very,
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  Speaker 1: very low. So it is one of the more desired
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  Speaker 1: places to live, I think, anywhere in the country.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it is, but that's how we get that way.
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  Speaker 2: You govern with common sense. Lower taxes, lower crime by
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  Speaker 2: backing the blue and creating high-paying jobs. That's what I
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  Speaker 2: want to do for America. We need to secure the border.
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  Speaker 2: President Trump did that. We need to make sure it
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  Speaker 2: stays sealed. You want to lower taxes further, you improve
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  Speaker 2: the economy. We've got to get common sense, not nonsense.
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  Speaker 2: And when you see what the left is embracing... Even El-Saeed,
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  Speaker 2: who's disgusting on so many levels, but even last night
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  Speaker 2: on 60 Minutes saying it's perfectly fine for men to
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  Speaker 2: be in girls' locker rooms because they'll be exposed to stuff.
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  Speaker 2: This is what we're dealing with here. Moskowitz hasn't come
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  Speaker 2: out and said, you know, El-Saeed's ads were the one,
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  Speaker 2: you know, blaming Israel for all the problems of the world.
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  Speaker 2: Hasn't come out and said anything. Another failure of him
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  Speaker 2: to stand up. I will stand up. I will fight.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what we need tomorrow. So please come out
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  Speaker 2: and vote.
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  Speaker 1: One more time for people that want to help you,
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  Speaker 1: your website address, what's all that good stuff?
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  Speaker 2: Website is scottsingerusa.com. We are still looking for volunteers to
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  Speaker 2: even work for an hour at the polls or call
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  Speaker 2: 10 friends. And you don't have to go to the website.
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  Speaker 2: Just if you're in this district or got relatives there,
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  Speaker 2: Delray Beach to Miami Beach and all points in between.
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  Speaker 2: Ask five friends to get out and vote. Voting, we
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  Speaker 2: will win. We just need to get the turnout. And
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  Speaker 2: that's it. We've got five point registration advantage. Don't gloom
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  Speaker 2: and doom. Get out and vote like our nation depends
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  Speaker 2: on it.
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  Speaker 3: It does.
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  Speaker 1: Scott Singer, you're very, very impressive. Terrific guy. I'm very
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  Speaker 1: happy for you. I think you do win tomorrow, but
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  Speaker 1: best of luck regardless. We'll talk after you win. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, Sid.
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  Speaker 1: God bless you. Scott Singer right there, former mayor of
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  Speaker 1: Boca Raton, running for Congress against the incumbent Jared Moskowitz.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds to me like Moskowitz is in big trouble.
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