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Full Show · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, let me take this first moment of our broadcast
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  Speaker 1: since the final results of the elections across the nation
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  Speaker 1: to salute you, Larry Menti, your entire team, Natalie, the
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  Speaker 1: quiet storm, Chris, and everybody else involved in your broadcast
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  Speaker 1: last night on this, the most listened to talk station
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  Speaker 1: in New York, 710WOR. From 7 to 11, you had
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  Speaker 1: great guests. You were giving the facts. You were like
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  Speaker 1: Sergeant Joe Friday, unlike other outlets, both on radio and TV,
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  Speaker 1: that were homers. You know, they were either ready to
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  Speaker 1: commit Jeffrey Epstein suicide based on the incoming results, or
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  Speaker 1: they were dancing the Tarantella and you would have thought
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  Speaker 1: that they won Powerball. So, you know, you gave the facts,
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  Speaker 1: you let people understand what was transpiring from early in
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  Speaker 1: the evening to when you finally signed off and you're
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  Speaker 1: here in the morning to do it all over again.
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  Speaker 1: So I salute you, Larry, and I salute our whole
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  Speaker 1: team that I know worked many, many hours in advance.
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  Speaker 1: The pre-show preparation that always is required when it's a
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  Speaker 1: really good election night show.
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  Speaker 2: So great job. Great job, team. Oh, well, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Chris Schweitzer was the producer last night and did a,
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  Speaker 4: just a, a wonderful job of putting it together. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, he's new to politics and he's new to
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  Speaker 4: doing a newscast and, and doing a new show. And
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  Speaker 4: he was, he was just excellent in getting guests. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we had, we had some tremendous guests last night, but
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  Speaker 4: what a, not to you, you had predicted this, but
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  Speaker 4: I think the most people, the, the, The tsunami of this,
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  Speaker 4: and I think you used the right word, although it
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  Speaker 4: does line up to other wave elections in the past.
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  Speaker 4: So they're calling it a blue wave election was stunning.
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  Speaker 4: It was a stunning race, at least to me.
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  Speaker 2: I have a new term now. I just incorporated a
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  Speaker 2: new term. You know me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm always with the different phrases. We know what PTSD means, right?
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  Speaker 1: Under normal circumstances. Well, now you have a new term,
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  Speaker 1: post-Trump stress disorder. There are a lot of people out
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  Speaker 1: there who are going to be in denial for a while.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they're going to want to reach out and say, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: they stole the election. No, no, nobody has said that.
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  Speaker 1: It was so overwhelming in so many places, it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: even an afterthought. And I just say, look, Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: said to the Republican loyalists, the MAGA people, Pretend I'm
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  Speaker 1: on the ballot. Make me the center of the conversation.
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  Speaker 1: 30 rallies in 30 days. He said that 47 times. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the people of America certainly looked at it that way.
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  Speaker 1: Because not only did you have an enormous turnout of Democrats,
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  Speaker 1: but in the last 10 days, as always happens, the
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  Speaker 1: independents broke and they didn't break for the Republicans. They
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  Speaker 1: broke predominantly for the Democrats. And that's why you have
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  Speaker 1: the final tallies. that in many instances are either close
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  Speaker 1: to what the polls were saying or the polls had
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  Speaker 1: it completely wrong.
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  Speaker 4: No, in many of them, I think actually the polls
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  Speaker 4: were awful. The polls had it completely wrong. It's just
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  Speaker 4: not the way that people thought the polls would go.
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  Speaker 2: They went bigger.
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  Speaker 4: They went much bigger. I mean, Kathy Hochul, 20 points.
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  Speaker 4: Kathy Hochul wins by 20 points. They called that race
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  Speaker 4: right after they showed it, right after the polls closed.
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  Speaker 5: Boom.
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  Speaker 2: They knew Kathy Hochul had won. Many of the.
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  Speaker 4: Races were like that. And there was just big surprises
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  Speaker 4: across the country. Races that were supposed to be safe,
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  Speaker 4: especially in the House, they went Democratic. This is exactly
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  Speaker 4: what a wave election looks like.
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  Speaker 2: This is it. And you're right.
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  Speaker 4: It is a referendum on the president. Listen, I think
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  Speaker 4: we'd be having a much different conversation this morning about
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  Speaker 4: the overall results had Iran not happened, because Iran was
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  Speaker 4: its own wave. It created all these other things. And
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  Speaker 4: I truly believe, because he said it many times, that
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  Speaker 4: he thought it would be over quickly and that it
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  Speaker 4: would be a feather in his cap, not something that
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  Speaker 4: was going to drag him down. And that didn't happen.
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  Speaker 4: And when that didn't happen, when it dragged on and
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  Speaker 4: dragged on, and I think the Iranians knew this, too.
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  Speaker 4: They knew very well about our midterms. He was done.
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  Speaker 4: He was crippled. He was handicapped at that point. And
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  Speaker 4: it was such a politically, let's forget about going after
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  Speaker 4: Iran because of their nuclear weapons. Just talk politically for
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  Speaker 4: a second. Politically, it was a horrible thing to do
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  Speaker 4: because it ended his presidency, basically. Because right now he's
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  Speaker 4: a lame duck. He's going to be a lame duck.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he's going to have power to veto. He's
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  Speaker 4: going to veto and veto and veto. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if you heard him last night when he was on Fox.
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  Speaker 4: I thought he was good. I thought he reached across
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  Speaker 4: the aisle and said, look, I can work with you
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  Speaker 4: on certain things. Number one, I'll work with you on immigration.
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  Speaker 4: If you want to change the immigration laws, if you
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  Speaker 4: want to open the border again, that's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 4: But I'll work with you on the immigration laws. So
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  Speaker 4: I didn't expect that from him. I, he congratulated the Democrats.
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  Speaker 4: He said they ran a great race and he said
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  Speaker 4: that they, they had the pulse of the people and that, uh,
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  Speaker 4: and now they have to govern. And he said, and
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  Speaker 4: I have veto power. I'm going to veto, veto, veto
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  Speaker 4: anything I don't like, but I'd like to work with you.
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  Speaker 4: So we'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the big winner last night was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: people are saying the Democrats, no, the big winners talk radio,
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  Speaker 1: talk TV. I mean, we have colleagues, Larry, in both
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  Speaker 1: talk TV and talk radio who felt that they had
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  Speaker 1: to defend the indefensible with Trump as the president, really
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  Speaker 1: sounding stupid sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: Now they'll be able to go on the offensive. The
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  Speaker 2: Democrats will have.
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  Speaker 1: Hakeem Jeffries as the speaker, and they will have a
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  Speaker 1: big majority. And then Chuck Schumer for as long as
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  Speaker 1: he lasts, because I think they're going to sack him.
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  Speaker 1: will be the majority leader in the Senate. So this
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  Speaker 1: is like perfect for talk radio and talk TV. Talk
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  Speaker 1: radio and talk TV can now go on the offensive
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  Speaker 1: against Democrats. That's when people listen to talk radio and
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  Speaker 1: talk TV. When it's just defending President Trump, nope. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have the fire. It's not passionate. This will be
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  Speaker 1: passionate now. Now, the other thing, Larry, you have not
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  Speaker 1: returned the favor.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a little upset.
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  Speaker 1: I had created a business opportunity for myself yesterday. As
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm horrible in business. But I said, look,
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  Speaker 1: everybody has a podcast, even my plumber, my dentist.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, your plumber.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. You want me to listen to it?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Like I got time to listen to your freaking podcast.
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  Speaker 1: But I created the Curtis Sliwa political prediction marketplace.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Because everybody else has it. They're all into now, you know,
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  Speaker 1: betting on who's going to win campaigns. No betting on
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  Speaker 1: this one. But my first prediction out of the box, hey,
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  Speaker 1: could you play that once again and remind everybody, even
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  Speaker 1: though we did it in many forms. And I am
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  Speaker 1: predicting I'm going high for the Democrats. Not because I
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  Speaker 1: was smoking anything that would get me high, but I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully you write this down. The Democrats will win 240 seats.
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  Speaker 2: Stop it.
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  Speaker 1: See, I know you would have a jaundiced response.
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  Speaker 2: That's bananas. And the Democrats... We'll end up with 53
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  Speaker 2: seats in the Senate. So, so far, I'm like one
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  Speaker 2: seat off with the Senate.
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  Speaker 1: And there are two we're going to talk about later,
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  Speaker 1: Mississippi and Alaska.
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  Speaker 2: Like, it is so microscopically close. You can go either way.
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  Speaker 1: And the House, even though that was considered high. And
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  Speaker 1: by the way, where's Jimmy Failure? He's hiding this morning,
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  Speaker 1: making fun of me. I was actually on the low side, 240.
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  Speaker 4: You were on the low side because there's more House
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  Speaker 4: seats to be determined out there, and it's going to
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  Speaker 4: be much higher than that. It is, and it is
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  Speaker 4: going to be kind of amazing. I'm really fascinated to
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  Speaker 4: see what the final figure was because there was House
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  Speaker 4: seats that were not in play. None of us talked
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  Speaker 4: about across the country, some locally, that went Democratic. that
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  Speaker 4: were considered safe seats. So, um, no, you, you did
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  Speaker 4: a nice job. You did a nice job of your predictions.
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  Speaker 4: And I think, I think you tempered your prediction. I
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  Speaker 4: think you probably wanted to go higher, but you thought
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  Speaker 4: this is crazy.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, I didn't think it was crazy. I could just...
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  Speaker 2: You said that. I could feel it. No, I said
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  Speaker 2: you all will think that it's crazy, right?
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  Speaker 1: And naturally, Jimmy Failure, who was with us for an
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  Speaker 1: hour yesterday, 8 to 9, if you haven't heard it,
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  Speaker 1: you got to go to the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: It was hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: But you'll see how he was treating me as if
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  Speaker 1: I was a political piñata.
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  Speaker 2: No way, that ain't gonna happen.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, he sounded a little sarcastic to you.
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  Speaker 1: Was he this morning, right? He's hiding. He's stuck in
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  Speaker 1: for cover. But Larry's here to his credit. And right
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  Speaker 1: away he said to me as I came in the
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  Speaker 1: door this morning, because Larry's been doing marathon duty between
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  Speaker 1: the marathon with you, Natalie, and the pre-game for the
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  Speaker 1: election and then the overnight actually broadcast and being here
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  Speaker 1: this morning. You are the marathon man here at 710WOR.
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  Speaker 1: But I am telling you, I listen to WOR all
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  Speaker 1: the time. It's going to make it a lot easier
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  Speaker 1: for our colleagues because I've heard some really stupid stuff
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  Speaker 1: coming out of the mouths of some of our colleagues
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  Speaker 1: here and other talk outlets.
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  Speaker 2: Defending the indefensible. They won't have to do it anymore.
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  Speaker 2: They can just go on the attack. Democrats, Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this is what they do best. They're going
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  Speaker 1: to actually feel, even though temporarily it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a bummer. For the industry, for this thing that this
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  Speaker 1: is what it is. This is what we have chosen.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to feel better, too, Larry. You're going to be, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you attack her.
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  Speaker 2: Larry, you're going to feel better. And finally, no, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going to feel better.
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  Speaker 4: But finally, Fox News is going to get their ratings back, too,
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  Speaker 4: because now they can do what they always do well.
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  Speaker 4: And that's going to be going after the Democrats and watch.
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  Speaker 1: It's also what Trump did better. 2016, nobody expected him.
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  Speaker 1: He was on the attack. 2024, he was on the
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  Speaker 1: attack because he was out of office. But when he
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  Speaker 1: had to defend the presidency, he's not good playing defense. 2020,
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  Speaker 1: this time around midterms because he inserted himself. It's like
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  Speaker 1: he went in the ring and he put his chin out.
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  Speaker 2: Here, here, go ahead. But I'll tell you what, even
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  Speaker 2: when he's on the defense, he's on the attack.
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 4: That's the way he defends himself. When we come back,
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  Speaker 4: by the way, we'd love to hear from you. If
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  Speaker 4: you just need a shoulder to cry on, we're here
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  Speaker 4: for you. You want to talk about the election results
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  Speaker 4: last night, what you think happened.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead and leave us a talk back.
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  Speaker 4: You could win if you get the talk back of
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  Speaker 4: the day. Curtis Lee, when Larry mentee in the morning
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  Speaker 4: home a sea crane radio. When we come back, one
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  Speaker 4: of the most surprising results in the country when it
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  Speaker 4: comes to house races happened in New Jersey last We'll
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  Speaker 4: have all the New Jersey election results, plus a chance
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  Speaker 4: to see Def Leppard and the Goo Goo Dolls at
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  Speaker 4: age 25.
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  Speaker 2: Well, New Jersey was a bit of a surprise.
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  Speaker 4: But first, before we get into the shocking race, let's
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  Speaker 4: pay homage to Chris Smith for a second.
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  Speaker 2: 26 terms.
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  Speaker 4: He is now tied for the longest serving member of Congress.
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  Speaker 4: And you know how he does it? He keeps his
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  Speaker 4: head down and out of the fray. He doesn't want
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  Speaker 4: to go to the TV cameras. He just wins elections
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  Speaker 4: every single time. Chris Smith in Ocean County will now
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  Speaker 4: be the longest serving member of Congress, as I said, tied,
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  Speaker 4: and the only survivor of the Republican Party in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 8: You know, it's under the radar. And it's the name, too.
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  Speaker 8: Just under the radar. Chris Smith.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 8: It doesn't bring a lot of attention to yourself.
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  Speaker 2: No, never, never.
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  Speaker 4: And he writes more bills than maybe anybody in Congress.
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  Speaker 4: Chris Smith, congratulations to you. You are the lone survivor
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  Speaker 4: because the shocking race was down along the South Jersey
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  Speaker 4: shore when Jeff Van Drew lost. Democratic consultants had told
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  Speaker 4: me early on that he was vulnerable, and I laughed.
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  Speaker 4: And I think everybody laughed because he wins by double digits.
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  Speaker 2: That's one of the few Republican strongholds. On the South Jersey, sure.
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  Speaker 4: But he lost yesterday to Zach Mullock, who is the
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  Speaker 4: mayor of Cape May, was a very good candidate. But
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  Speaker 4: he's had good candidates run against him in the past.
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  Speaker 4: But when you talk about a wave election, these are
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  Speaker 4: the casualties. Somebody like Jeff Van Drew. By the way,
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  Speaker 4: he didn't lose by a little bit. He lost by
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  Speaker 4: four percentage points. This is a guy that last election...
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  Speaker 4: One by 12 and a half.
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  Speaker 9: Right.
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  Speaker 1: But he had been a Democrat, became a Republican. Now
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  Speaker 1: he can go back to being a dentist. Because remember,
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  Speaker 1: I introduced him as the keynote speaker to the GOP
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  Speaker 1: annual dinner in Bergen County. Remember I commented he was
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  Speaker 1: wearing a polyester waffle weave flame retardant jacket, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like from the 1950s.
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  Speaker 2: He's old school.
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  Speaker 1: You think, like in Florida, they go back and forth.
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  Speaker 1: Democrats become Republicans, Republicans then become Democrats. You think there's
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  Speaker 1: any chance of him going back to being a Democrat
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  Speaker 1: or he's just going to go pull teeth?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, he's not going to be a Democrat again. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: he was full in. I'm not sure the Democratic Party
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  Speaker 4: wouldn't even take him. He was full in for Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 4: if you remembered. And it was during all the impeachment
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  Speaker 4: stuff that he made the switch. So I think that
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  Speaker 4: there are still some bad feelings about Jeff Bandrew. I
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  Speaker 4: don't think he's going to go back to pulling teeth either.
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  Speaker 4: I got to know Jeff a little bit. And I
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  Speaker 4: think that he's going to retire. He's 73 years old.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he's down along the beach down there. He
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  Speaker 4: made a lot of money. He had a great practice
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  Speaker 4: down there. And so he ran the practice. And so
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  Speaker 4: I think that Jeff Van Drew is just going to say,
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  Speaker 4: I'm sick of this now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just going to retire. And Tom Kane Jr.
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  Speaker 4: Tom Kane Jr. was another one. And Tom Kane Jr.
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  Speaker 4: lost early on. Listen, that whole taking a mental vacation
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  Speaker 4: and not letting anyone know why he was away and
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  Speaker 4: the national attention that he got on that, he never
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  Speaker 4: was able to outlive that. The campaign was centered on that.
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  Speaker 4: And Rebecca Bennett, by the way, is a wonderful candidate.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, that Democrat plan, female veterans running, your governor,
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  Speaker 1: her running. Mike Lola lost to one in Westchester, Rockland.
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  Speaker 1: That's a workable strategy for the Democrats.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but in New Jersey, it's pretty funny that she
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  Speaker 4: was also a helicopter pilot, and she did another ad
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  Speaker 4: in a helicopter, just like Mikey Sherrill did. But I've
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  Speaker 4: seen interviews with Rebecca Bennett.
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  Speaker 2: She's reasonable.
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  Speaker 4: She's not a crazy Democrat like the three that they
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  Speaker 4: put into office. I mean— The DSA is strong in
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  Speaker 4: New Jersey now because of some of the people that won.
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  Speaker 4: Amelia Mejia, who won a special election, and now she's
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  Speaker 4: won this election. Adam Hamaway has also won that election. So,
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  Speaker 4: you know, they won by a lot. All the Democrats
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  Speaker 4: won by a lot. But the story out of New
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  Speaker 4: Jersey for this is Jeff Van Drew. That's the shock.
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  Speaker 2: Jeff, I need a lot of dental work.
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  Speaker 1: I gave him the biggest introduction that any GOP person
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  Speaker 1: has ever received.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, he can pull a few teeth for me.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, he owes me. He owes me.
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  Speaker 4: There were rumors, you know, you have to give up
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  Speaker 4: your practice. You can't have another business when you're in Congress.
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  Speaker 4: There were rumors down there that for free he was
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  Speaker 4: still doing dental work. He loved being a dentist. You remember,
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  Speaker 4: he used to go around with that tooth on his
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  Speaker 4: lapel all the time. He just loved it.
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  Speaker 2: He was very eccentric. Yes, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: He was a good guy, though. He's funny. He's a
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  Speaker 4: good guy, full of personality.
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  Speaker 2: I need dental work. I'm going to chase you down. Well,
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  Speaker 2: let's get a quick couple of talkbacks.
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  Speaker 3: Guys, I'm depressed but not surprised.
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  Speaker 10: The only thing that all these rallies did that Trump
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  Speaker 10: was doing across the country was bringing out Republicans to
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  Speaker 10: vote for Democrats.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't understand that's the economy, stupid.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not sure that the Republicans voted for Democrats.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure some did, but I think, Maga, you're going
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  Speaker 4: to find out when the polls happen that they've still
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  Speaker 4: voted for Donald Trump. They were just overwhelmed, especially by
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  Speaker 4: the early voting.
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  Speaker 11: Well, the political ads are going to be put away
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  Speaker 11: like holiday decorations. And now we have to suffer with
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  Speaker 11: the Medicare open enrollment advertising until December 7th. I hope
• 17:39
  Speaker 11: everyone has a happy hump day.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Very well done.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: Now let's get the news with Larry Kofsky, who is
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: in for Daria Albinger.
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: Hey, Larry.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Good morning, Larry. Good morning, Curtis.
• 17:50
  Speaker 12: We have 52 degrees under clear skies at 630. The
• 17:53
  Speaker 12: midterm elections bringing sweeping changes. Come January, Republican leaders will
• 17:58
  Speaker 12: hand the gavel of the House and Senate over to Democrats.
• 18:01
  Speaker 12: Brooklyn Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, now House Minority Leader, is poised
• 18:05
  Speaker 12: to become Speaker. Another Brooklynite, Senator Chuck Schumer, is the
• 18:09
  Speaker 12: new likely Senate Majority Leader. Here in New York, Governor
• 18:13
  Speaker 12: Kathy Hochul won re-election, defeating Republican challenger Nassau County Executive
• 18:18
  Speaker 12: Bruce Blakeman.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: He told supporters, You know what? You win some, you
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: lose some.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: The fact of the matter is that now we pull together,
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: we move forward, we have the best interests of the
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: people in our heart.
• 18:31
  Speaker 12: Lakeman did not rule out another statewide run in the future,
• 18:34
  Speaker 12: saying he would do it all again. Other Democratic governors
• 18:38
  Speaker 12: across the Northeast, including Connecticut's Ned Lamont, Pennsylvania's Josh Shapiro,
• 18:44
  Speaker 12: and Westmore of Maryland, all won re-election. One of the
• 18:47
  Speaker 12: country's most hotly contested House races, New York's 17th Congressional District,
• 18:52
  Speaker 12: was caught up in the blue wave. Democrat Kate Conley
• 18:55
  Speaker 12: defeated two-term GOP incumbent Mike Lawler in the Hudson Valley District.
• 19:00
  Speaker 12: Katie Suarez, the runner stabbed in the neck last Friday
• 19:04
  Speaker 12: night on a Brooklyn bike path, has died. Her mother
• 19:07
  Speaker 12: confirmed the 28-year-old's passing last night. Police are still looking
• 19:11
  Speaker 12: for her assailant, who is now wanted for murder. Russian
• 19:15
  Speaker 12: diesel fuel is not welcome in New Jersey. Governor Mikey
• 19:19
  Speaker 12: Sherrill made that clear in a notice to port operators,
• 19:22
  Speaker 12: telling them not to accept any shipments of diesel fuel
• 19:25
  Speaker 12: from Russia... She says Congress outlawed energy imports from Russia
• 19:29
  Speaker 12: in response to the war in Ukraine back in 2022,
• 19:33
  Speaker 12: and violating that ban could result in criminal charges or
• 19:36
  Speaker 12: civil penalties. Our next news at 7. I'm Larry Kofsky
• 19:40
  Speaker 12: on 710-WOL.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Oh, up next, you're going to want to hear me
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: break down New York. There's a lot to say. And don't, well,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: you don't go anywhere. We're going to break it down
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: for you up next. Let's get to New York. And
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: all I have to say about Hochul versus Blakeman is
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: look at Nassau County. Blakeman did a great job as
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: a county executive. Everybody says that, no doubt. He lost
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Nassau County, barely, but he lost it and he lost
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Suffolk County. Four years ago, Zeldin, who was the congressman
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: in District 1, which was the far end of Suffolk,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: he won, overwhelmingly, Suffolk and Nassau County against Kathy Hochul.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: And there was a reason, because once you boiled down
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: all the ads, Larry and Natalie, It really came up
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: that this campaign was Zoran versus Trump. Every piece of
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: lit that Kathy Hochul sent out had Donald Trump like
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: an appendage to Bruce Blakeman. And all the literature and
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: all the ads that were sent out by Bruce Blakeman
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: had Zoran Mondami attached to Kathy Hochul. Well, it turns
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: out having Zoran Mondami attached to you did not hurt
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Kathy Hochul, but having Trump attached to Blakeman hurt him measurably.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Just to give you an idea, I told you, you
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: got to get at least 30, 32% in New York City,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: where you have the bulk of the vote, about 40, 44%
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: of the vote. Hochul got 77% to 22% for Blakeman.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: But the fact that he couldn't win Nassau County or
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Suffolk County, that was a slam dunk. You would have
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: said one of the reasons that they said what's good
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: he's running and not Stefanik from upstate is that he'll
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: give us a guarantee to maybe help the Congress races
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: involving Republicans trying to unseat Democrats. That did not happen.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: So I think when all is said and done, you
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: have to say to yourself, it wouldn't have mattered if
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: he started early. It wouldn't have mattered whatever Blakeman did.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: It was such... A anti-Trump vote that came out early. Oh, man,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Democrats who are out in force early voting. The independents broke. Now,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: he was doing well with independents, but they broke for
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Hochul in those last 10 days. So you can't really
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: fault Blakeman. He was MAGA. He's a Trump guy. He
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: said it over and over. That's my friend. I welcome
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: his support. But it certainly cost him in the state. Also,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: I want to give a salute to Mike Lawler for
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: two reasons. Now we don't have to see those endless
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: ads between him and Kate Conley. I mean, there were
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: more of those ads than any other ads. But he
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: did the correct thing. Early on in the night, he
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: recognized from his own internal polling he could not win
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: that race that involved Westchester and Rockland. And he came
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: to the podium early so he could be seen being
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: very gracious to his opponent. That's going to play very well.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: When you're gracious, it plays well. It played well for me.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: It did not play well for Andrew Evil Eyes Cuomo.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: Let me just say one thing about that, because I've
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: covered a whole lot of races, and you even saw
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: all of the people.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: On the networks were shocked that he did that.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: Nobody does that. Everybody waits until the race is called,
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: and then they do it. All of the sudden, I mean,
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: I remember I run over to Andrew Whitman last night
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: and said, gave it to him during the news. I said, you're...
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: I wrote, you're not going to believe this.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Lawler conceded.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Well, there's a reason now. If you know you're going
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: to lose, and he knew he was going to lose
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: the internal polling. If there's any race that he knows better,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: it's that he grew up there, Astorino. Yeah, I get it.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: But still, nobody does that, even when they get killed. Remember,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: he's going to be out of a job January 1st.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: And I guarantee you he will be a regular contributor
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: to either MSNOW or CNN because he will be that
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Republican because he's appeared with them before. But being courteous
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: to Kate Conley, congratulating her and appearing to be very
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: genuine will go a long way for Mike Lawler than
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: if he waited. Because if he had waited, it would
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: have never made the national news. It never would have.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: That's the rule of thumb. If you know you lost,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: get out there early. You say it's the rule of thumb.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Nobody does it. No, because their team tells them, no,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: we're still waiting for these votes. And by the way,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: that whole controversy involving the machines, you pay people on
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: both sides to basically monitor that. The guy that they
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: paid over $ 200, 000 to, the Republicans, hadn't been around for days.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: So they knew they were partly at fault for that
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: because you're supposed to monitor those situations to make sure
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: the machines are checked. You have the Democrat there. You
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: have the Republicans. You do all that in advance. That
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: was never done.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: But I want to give him a high five. It
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: was gracious.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: He lost fair and square. He wished her the best
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: of luck. And we know he'll have quite a career.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: He'll be in talk TV because, again, I can't say
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: it enough. The real winners last night were talk TV
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: and talk radio because now you can go back to
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: bashing Democrats full time and not feel that you have
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: to defend Trump every second of the day. In terms
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: of the other races in New York, Big, big thing.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: If I were Governor DeSantis on my way out because
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: I have a new governor, Donald, barely, like one and
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: one-third percent he won by against the Democrat, I would
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: put a big sign at the border between Georgia and Florida.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: If you're from New York, if you're from New Jersey, if.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: You're from Connecticut, you're not welcome here anymore because I
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: guarantee you with so many of our listeners and others
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: who fleeing to Florida, and we know they are in
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: sizable numbers. That is helping to turn Florida into maybe
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: a purple state again. Now, the reason I say that,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: you had this screwball Nixon.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, you couldn't be any screwier. She had these
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: crazy glasses, these Spike Lee glasses.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: She's walking around like Joe Clark, you know, with the bullhorn.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: She's screaming. She's yelling.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: She says, oh, no, Cuba is the ideal location to be, right,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: in Florida.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: And she only loses to Moody by 3%.
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: It wasn't just that race. It was every single race.
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: It was Byron Donalds was just won by a hair
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: of Congresswomen and congressmen who were supposed to win by
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: a lot, just won by a hair.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: It's funny.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: We were talking about before this election on Monday that
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: watch South Carolina, watch South Carolina. Who knew you had
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: to watch Florida? I think that was a shock. Again,
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: you saw it on the national news. The anchors going,
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: look at Florida. Look, look what's happening in Florida. We
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: got we had an indication pretty early on that this
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: was going to be a wave election. You know, I
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: keep hearing this tsunami. That's what the Democrats like to say.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: It's a tsunami. It doesn't make the top five. I mean,
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: we've had bigger ones in the midterms than this. And
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: we had one recently in 2010, if you remember, than this.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: It's a big one. I'm not going to say that.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: It does make the top 10.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Let me give credit to Natalie because I'm generally the
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: factoid guy when it comes to knowing about candidates.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: And you know how I always say, where are you from?
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Where'd you grow up? What high school did you go to?
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Everybody knows that about Curtis. And then I give you
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: a card. Well, Natalie educated me about the new governor,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: barely one in Florida, Donald. What did you find out
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: about him, Natalie, that I had no idea?
• 27:31
  Speaker 8: He's a Brooklyn boy. He was born and raised in
• 27:33
  Speaker 8: Crown Heights. But he did go to college in Florida.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: But he went to Nazareth High School.
• 27:40
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: East Flatbush right across from Kenosha. I had no idea.
• 27:43
  Speaker 8: I didn't either.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: So at an early age, his family fled down there
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: like so many others. I'm telling you, Juan DeSantis, big sign.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: If you're from New York, if you're from New Jersey,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: if you're from Connecticut, Don't come down here. We're going
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: to block you because it's going to turn Florida purple. Yeah,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: he's not exactly the opposite. You've seen him saying, come
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: on down, come on down, come on down, especially if
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: you have a business. Hey, we have so many talkbacks.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: We're going to try to sneak them in in all
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: of the segments.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Here's one.
• 28:12
  Speaker 10: It is truly amazing to me that people think things
• 28:14
  Speaker 10: are going to be better under Democrat rule for the
• 28:18
  Speaker 10: most part. I mean, did everyone forget about COVID, the mandates,
• 28:22
  Speaker 10: the illegal aliens pouring through our borders? Inflation, 9%. I
• 28:28
  Speaker 10: guess we all forgot. But this is what everybody wants.
• 28:32
  Speaker 10: This is what's going to happen. And it is going
• 28:35
  Speaker 10: to be what it's going to be. Congratulations, America.
• 28:38
  Speaker 13: It is.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: In a way, it's one of the best things to
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: happen to the Republican Party for the upcoming presidential election,
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: because now they have to do what they do worst.
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: They have to try to govern, and they have failed
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: and failed and failed.
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: Over and over again.
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: So, America, you may not be happy with what you
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: voted for. When we come back, well... Talk about states
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: that turn blue. Pennsylvania, which has always been a purple state,
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: across the state, the Democrats won. And we might see
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: somebody that's going to run for president winning in an
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: overwhelming victory. We'll talk about Pennsylvania when we come back. Now,
• 29:25
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• 30:41
  Speaker 4: I think it's going to be a short visit into
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: the world of purple. I mean, in the world of blue,
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: because Pennsylvania was always considered a purple state, one of
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: the key states in the presidential election, because sometimes it
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: goes Republican. Sometimes it goes Democrat. Well, in this midterm election,
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: it went Democrat. The Democrats across the state of Pennsylvania
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: were able to take six seats, six congressional seats. And
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: now for the first time in a long time, they
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: have the most seats. The Democrats have the most seats
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: in Pennsylvania. And around the Pittsburgh area, it is all
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: blue now. Throughout all southeastern Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia area going
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: up through Allentown, it is all blue as Brian Fitzpatrick,
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: who has been the sole survivor for the Republicans in
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: the Philadelphia area in Bucks County, has lost his race.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: So it was absolutely a blue wave across Pennsylvania. Josh
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: Shapiro once again getting close to 3 million votes, breaking
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: the record he set back years ago. Josh Shapiro now,
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: I believe, Curtis, is going to be taken extremely seriously.
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: He was already talked about. Some of the talk faded
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: there for a while. I think he's going to be
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: talked about as a presidential candidate once again. He is
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: a great campaigner, a wonderful speaker. And as a matter
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: of fact, if you remember when Kamala Harris came out
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: with her announcement that she was going to run for president,
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: It was in Pennsylvania, Temple University in Philadelphia. And introducing
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: her was Josh Shapiro. And Josh Shapiro blew Kamala Harris away.
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: I know that's not a high bar, but really blew
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: her away. And the crowd was incredibly inspired. And the
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: talk is that Kamala Harris, after saying that, immediately said
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: he's off the list because she didn't want him overshadowing
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: her through the entire campaign. And that's how she ended
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: up with the idiot from Minnesota, Tim Walz. And so Shapiro,
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: once again, Shapiro has never shied away from saying he
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: would be interested.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: His problem is he's a Zionist in favor of Israel.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: And those candidates that were pro-Israel this run, they got hurt. Now,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: I believe Asaf is also in the running.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: He's Jewish, too.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: But remember, the first primary for the Democrats, they've changed it,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: is South Carolina. He's right next to South Carolina. I
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: don't think Shapiro would do well in South Carolina. And
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: then it's Vegas. And then it's back to the normal routine.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: But we'll see.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Meantime, what does this mean about Fetterman?
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Because, look, this was another case when Trump interfered and
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: chose Dr. Oz out of the many capable Republicans who
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: would have beaten Fetterman. Oz was not a good candidate.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: What does this do now for Fetterman's prospects because he
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: wants to run for re-election?
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Well, he can't.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: He can't run for re-election. You should see the poll
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: numbers for him right now in Pennsylvania. I mean, I
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: know after this election you're probably saying, how can you
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: trust the polls? But they're bad. I mean, really bad
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: for Fetterman right now. He can't win in the Democratic Party.
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: If he was going to run again, he would have
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: to run as a Republican candidate. I don't think he's
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: there yet. I think he's been a Democrat all his life.
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: And when he's been interviewed about it, he's been asked
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: a lot. And he said, no, I'm a Democrat. I've
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: always been a Democrat. It's just that I disagree with
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: the party on some things.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: He's like former Governor Casey, who was pro-life. And the
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: whole party scorned him, but he would not leave being
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: a Democrat. Born a Democrat, died a Democrat. So you
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: think he's that kind of a Democrat? Yes, except that
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: we get back to Israel again. He's very pro-Israel.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, big time.
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: Extremely pro-Israel. And that seems to be his problem in
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: the Democratic Party. It's amazing that you have an entire
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: party now that is anti-Israel and that that is one
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: of the bars you have to jump over to run
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: for president.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Incredible.
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: John Decker, our White House correspondent. Man, we could use
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: him more than ever with the Election Day Roundup. That's
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: coming up after the 7 o'clock news. Now let's get
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: to John Decker, W.O.R. White House correspondent. John, I was
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: pleasantly surprised, I should say, when the president went on
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: Fox News last night. and congratulated the Democrats and said,
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: I'm willing to work with them. He did say, I'm
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: going to veto every crazy thing they send to me,
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: but that he's willing to work with them. Did you
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: get the sense from Donald Trump in his conversation last
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: night that this might go better.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Than we thought?
• 35:43
  Speaker 14: Well, remember, I think it was all sinking in. for
• 35:46
  Speaker 14: the president, what had happened over the course of the
• 35:49
  Speaker 14: past few hours with all of those losses by Republicans
• 35:52
  Speaker 14: in deep red states. So that's what the president's mood
• 35:56
  Speaker 14: was last night when he spoke with Fox News. But
• 36:00
  Speaker 14: then reality will set in come January 3rd when this
• 36:04
  Speaker 14: new Congress is sworn in, and we'll see if the
• 36:07
  Speaker 14: president has that same conciliatory tone that he had last
• 36:11
  Speaker 14: night in that interview with Fox News.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Now, John Decker, I'm going to take you back to
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: our favorite location, the reflection pool, because that's where the
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: president decided to give his final speech, rally up the troops,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: you know, to get them out to vote. And I
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: heard from a lot of Republicans. I heard about algae.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: I heard about pipes. He was holding up signs of reconstruction.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: This was not his Braveheart Mel Gibson moment. I think
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: at that moment, a lot of Republicans were of the
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: opinion that he knows it's over.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: It's over.
• 36:45
  Speaker 14: Well, I can't get inside the president's head. I was
• 36:47
  Speaker 14: at that event, as you know, at the Reflecting Pool.
• 36:50
  Speaker 14: I thought it was an odd choice of venues and
• 36:54
  Speaker 14: an odd choice in terms of the tone and content
• 36:58
  Speaker 14: of the message that the president delivered just a day
• 37:01
  Speaker 14: before the midterm elections. Instead of talking about the closing
• 37:04
  Speaker 14: message for Republicans, as you point out, the president was
• 37:07
  Speaker 14: talking about the beautification projects in Washington, D.C.
• 37:11
  Speaker 9: That he's pursued and That, as you.
• 37:13
  Speaker 14: Know, Curtis, that, as you know, Larry, not a top
• 37:17
  Speaker 14: issue for voters, no matter what poll you are looking
• 37:19
  Speaker 14: at this midterm election cycle.
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: Is there going to be a presidential availability today that
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: you know of?
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: No.
• 37:27
  Speaker 9: No open press events. That could change.
• 37:30
  Speaker 14: All that is on the president's schedule today are closed-door
• 37:34
  Speaker 14: policy meetings. No opportunities, as things stand right now, for
• 37:39
  Speaker 14: the president to address the press about what happened. over
• 37:43
  Speaker 14: the course of the past 24 hours.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: John, give us some insight, if you can, about Mississippi.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: It's neck and neck.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: It's an actual tie between the sitting Republican senator and
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: the Democrat challenger who was a DA column. I know Democrats,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: especially African-Americans, screaming that Chuck Schumer was asked a month
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: ago to pour some money into Mississippi.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: He said, no.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: It's a losing proposition. How did it get to the
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: point where we're neck and neck? And do you happen
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: to know if there is a recount provision in their constitution?
• 38:19
  Speaker 14: Well, in many states, as you know, there's a recount provision,
• 38:22
  Speaker 14: a hand recount provision. If it's within a half percentage
• 38:26
  Speaker 14: point from each other, I don't know the provisions that
• 38:28
  Speaker 14: exist under state law in Mississippi. That being said, what
• 38:33
  Speaker 14: we saw was a blue wave across the entire country,
• 38:37
  Speaker 14: not just in pockets, but just about everywhere. Maybe you
• 38:40
  Speaker 14: could say it didn't happen in certain parts of Florida,
• 38:43
  Speaker 14: given that in Florida, you had Republicans emerge victorious in
• 38:48
  Speaker 14: the Senate race, as well as in the governor's race,
• 38:51
  Speaker 14: but not by much. But in deep red Mississippi, as
• 38:54
  Speaker 14: you point out, it's too close to call at this point.
• 38:58
  Speaker 14: But in other deep red states, like South Carolina, That
• 39:02
  Speaker 14: was a major surprise for so many people. The fact
• 39:06
  Speaker 14: that Darlene Graham could not hold onto that seat that
• 39:09
  Speaker 14: was held by her late brother, Senator Lindsey Graham. And
• 39:12
  Speaker 14: in fact, South Carolinians will be sending a Democrat to
• 39:17
  Speaker 14: represent the state in the U.S.
• 39:18
  Speaker 9: Senate.
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: While you were answering the question, I looked it up.
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: Mississippi state law does not provide any statuary mechanism for
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: automatic candidate-requested or voter-requested election recounts, and there is no
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: automatic trigger. So it could just be 100 votes, and
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: that's going to be the end of that election. That's
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: kind of amazing to me because you're right, John, almost
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: every state in the country, every state in the country
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: has some type of mechanism for a recount in the
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: close election, but apparently Mississippi doesn't. So that looks like
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: it's going to be another pickup for the Democrats down there.
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: How does Donald Trump, I know he's talked about it
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: last night, but he's had some headwinds like this before.
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: So we have something to see and something to learn
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: from about how he might handle having an adversarial Congress.
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: How do you think he's going to react? The same
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: as he did last time?
• 40:22
  Speaker 14: Well, the president has to be aware of the fact
• 40:26
  Speaker 14: that Democrats control all the levers of power in Congress,
• 40:30
  Speaker 14: which means all the oversight committees, which means they can
• 40:33
  Speaker 14: investigate all the things that they would have liked to
• 40:36
  Speaker 14: have investigated over the course.
• 40:37
  Speaker 9: Of the past two years. And they're going to do that.
• 40:40
  Speaker 14: Let's leave aside this possibility of impeachment for a moment.
• 40:44
  Speaker 14: there will be investigations. And that means that Democrats and
• 40:48
  Speaker 14: those oversight committees have subpoena powers. They can bring to
• 40:52
  Speaker 14: Congress any member of the president's cabinet. They can bring
• 40:55
  Speaker 14: to Congress even Elon Musk.
• 40:57
  Speaker 9: If they wish to do so. And I think they're
• 40:59
  Speaker 9: going to.
• 40:59
  Speaker 14: Take advantage of that opportunity. But Democrats also have to
• 41:02
  Speaker 14: be careful. You know, exit polls indicate that this was
• 41:05
  Speaker 14: not an election in which American voters embrace the policies
• 41:10
  Speaker 14: of Democrats. Instead, this was an election, again, according to
• 41:13
  Speaker 14: those exit polls, in which they were rejecting what had
• 41:16
  Speaker 14: happened during the course of the first two years of
• 41:20
  Speaker 14: the second term of President Trump. They did not like
• 41:23
  Speaker 14: the war in Iran and what that has meant in
• 41:26
  Speaker 14: terms of high gas prices. I think that is the
• 41:28
  Speaker 14: primary reason why the president's party ended up losing Congress yesterday.
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the exit polls back you up on that, by
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: the way. That's exactly what they said.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: The president seemed to say, John Decker, maybe I'm wrong,
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: that he's not going to plan on bombing Iran now.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: At least he said that in the last 24 hours.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: Do you think that's the result of the sobering fact
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: that he realized that, man, this is not helping at all?
• 42:01
  Speaker 14: Well, I think that that is a big part of
• 42:03
  Speaker 14: the equation. And, you know, we can't get inside, you know,
• 42:06
  Speaker 14: all the decision makers in Iran's head, you know, the mullahs,
• 42:10
  Speaker 14: the uh... i g r c all of those decision
• 42:13
  Speaker 14: makers but you know they may be of the mindset
• 42:15
  Speaker 14: look what we did you know by uh... not ending
• 42:18
  Speaker 14: this war by not coming to a peace agreement look
• 42:20
  Speaker 14: what we did in terms of of messing up the
• 42:23
  Speaker 14: president's majority that he had in congress maybe if we
• 42:27
  Speaker 14: continue this up we can impact the twenty eight twenty
• 42:29
  Speaker 14: eight presidential election as well uh.
• 42:32
  Speaker 9: so we'll have to wait and see whether that war uh.
• 42:35
  Speaker 14: comes to a conclusion sometime soon uh... but you know
• 42:38
  Speaker 14: in the meantime There will be a lame duck session
• 42:42
  Speaker 14: of Congress that the president can use to get things
• 42:45
  Speaker 14: potentially through. But I think that may be difficult as well,
• 42:49
  Speaker 14: given the fact it's not just 53-47, the advantage that
• 42:52
  Speaker 14: Republicans have right now, because there are some Republicans that
• 42:56
  Speaker 14: are not in the mood to support many of the
• 42:57
  Speaker 14: president's lame duck policies that he may pursue. You know,
• 43:02
  Speaker 14: people like Susan Collins are out the door. John Cornyn,
• 43:05
  Speaker 14: out the door. Tom Tillis, out the door. But they
• 43:08
  Speaker 14: all can vote in that lame duck session of Congress.
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and they have not shown any inclination to vote
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: with the president in the past.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: So give me your thoughts on it.
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: You've been there for a while now, and you certainly
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: have covered this president a couple of times. And you've also,
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: you know, Congress, are they going to be able to
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: work together or is this going to be just investigation
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: after investigation after investigation?
• 43:34
  Speaker 14: You know, that's that's the big that's the big question.
• 43:38
  Speaker 14: You know, what do Democrats want to do? You know,
• 43:40
  Speaker 14: do they want to show that they can govern and
• 43:43
  Speaker 14: show Americans that, you know, if we had control of the.
• 43:46
  Speaker 9: White House, look what we could do. These are our policies.
• 43:49
  Speaker 9: These are our goals.
• 43:51
  Speaker 14: These are our policy objectives, or do they just pursue investigations?
• 43:55
  Speaker 14: And that could essentially roil their chances in terms of
• 43:59
  Speaker 14: trying to win back control of the White House in 2028.
• 44:04
  Speaker 14: It's important to look at some of these results. It's
• 44:06
  Speaker 14: not just Democratic wins. It's wins by significant margins. John
• 44:11
  Speaker 14: Ossoff winning another six-year term with nearly 60% of the vote.
• 44:16
  Speaker 14: Josh Shapiro also winning with over 60 percent of the vote.
• 44:19
  Speaker 14: Those are going to be front runners for the Democratic
• 44:21
  Speaker 14: nomination in 2028 for sure. And James Tallarico, those polls,
• 44:27
  Speaker 14: let's talk about the polls just for one moment. Those
• 44:30
  Speaker 14: polls ended up being pretty accurate. He wins his Senate race,
• 44:34
  Speaker 14: at least the way vote totals have come in so far,
• 44:37
  Speaker 14: by 12 points. That's a pretty significant victory that he
• 44:41
  Speaker 14: had in the state of Texas.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: Very quickly, I thought The big loss was Greg Abbott,
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: the governor of Texas, who not only sealed his border first,
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: you know, he was attached to the president and did
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: a great job.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: He lured business in.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: All these big billionaires, he personally lured in, and yet
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: he got whacked.
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he did.
• 45:03
  Speaker 14: And that's pretty shocking as well. The first Latina governor
• 45:08
  Speaker 14: of the state of Texas, Gina Hinojosa, She will be
• 45:11
  Speaker 14: the new governor of the state of Texas. There hasn't
• 45:14
  Speaker 14: been a Democratic governor. You'd have to go all the
• 45:15
  Speaker 14: way back to Ann Richards. There hasn't been a Democratic
• 45:19
  Speaker 14: senator in Texas since Lloyd Benson in the 1980s. So
• 45:24
  Speaker 14: it's pretty remarkable what happened over the course of the
• 45:27
  Speaker 14: past 24 hours in so many states. But Texas certainly
• 45:30
  Speaker 14: stands out.
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: John Decker, WOR White House and Washington correspondent and host
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: of the podcast, The White House Briefing Room with John Decker,
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: which can be found on the iHeartRadio app. Let's try
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: to sneak in. We have so many talkbacks today. We're
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: going to try to play them where we normally wouldn't.
• 45:48
  Speaker 15: Now that the Democrats have won, I'm so looking forward
• 45:51
  Speaker 15: to gas being $ 2 a gallon, the war in Iran
• 45:54
  Speaker 15: being over with, all the prices coming down. And just
• 46:00
  Speaker 15: things being wonderful. I just can't wait. I know they're
• 46:03
  Speaker 15: going to do a great, great job of all of that.
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: That's what they ran on. And that's what stupid people
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: voted for. I knew it was sarcastic from the beginning.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: You should be a talk radio show host because all
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: of our colleagues here at WOR and talk TV are
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: going to be relieved that they don't have to defend
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: everything that Trump says. And they'll take that same line
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: of thought.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: You'll be liberated.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: You're free to actually attack Democrats ad nauseum.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: But up next.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: There are so many talkbacks, as you mentioned, Larry. We're
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: just going to open up in the next segment for
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: all the talkbacks so that your voice can be heard,
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: and we're going to let you use it, plus a
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: chance to see Def Leppard and the Google Dolls at 825.
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: All right, we're going to play your talkbacks because we
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: got so many of them. You want to talk about
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: what happened yesterday, and here you go.
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: I am just so devastated.
• 46:58
  Speaker 16: That this El-Sayed, wolf in sheep's clothing, snake in the grass,
• 47:05
  Speaker 16: deceiver got in. I cannot believe that the American people
• 47:11
  Speaker 16: are so stupid that they fall for his line of BS.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, she is suffering what I have now
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: coined PTSD, post-Trump stress disorder. He ran the table, and
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: he did not want unity in the Democratic Party, which
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: would have been probably a guarantee to his election.
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: He did it his way, and he won. We're going
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: to discuss that later.
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but let's just say that I don't know what
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: she's suffering from except for common sense. In a regular election,
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: he never would have won. He was a great candidate,
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: but you're right. Everybody could see through it, and he never,
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: ever came out And denounced his family and the Muslim Brotherhood.
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: And he still won.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: The big winner yesterday was Joe Bartlett.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: He pretty much called it. That is true.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Joe Bartlett called it while playing bocce down in South
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: Carolina with everybody else who's moved there for retirement. He
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: did call it. We got to give credit where credit
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: is due. Darlene Graham was a horrible candidate. And that's
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: on Trump.
• 48:20
  Speaker 5: That's totally on Trump.
• 48:22
  Speaker 17: I think the blue wave last night guarantees a Democratic
• 48:26
  Speaker 17: presidential win in 2028. If anything, it proved that the
• 48:32
  Speaker 17: American people don't give a damned about nukes in Iran
• 48:35
  Speaker 17: or the plight of the Israelis or even immigration. They
• 48:38
  Speaker 17: care about what's in their own pocket, about gas prices, affordability,
• 48:42
  Speaker 17: and all the other things. Assuming the American people become
• 48:47
  Speaker 17: more prosperous in the next two years, the Democrats are
• 48:50
  Speaker 17: going to get the credit for that.
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: But they're not. Do you forget what it was like
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: under democratic rule? Do you completely forget what it was
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: like under Biden? The gas prices were higher than they
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: are right now. Inflation is higher than it was right now.
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: And most of the rest of the economy, all the
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: thing we, we went through a recession because of two,
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: two quarters in a row of negative GDP. Does nobody
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: remember that? I mean, the economy was really steamrolling ahead.
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: It's still steamrolling, except because of the Iran war. That
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: was it.
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: Now, I got a feeling you're completely wrong because the
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: Democrats taking over is the worst thing that can happen
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: to the Democratic Party because they don't know how to govern.
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: Well, the country is screwed now.
• 49:41
  Speaker 7: The indoctrination of all these young people, which collectively have
• 49:46
  Speaker 7: the intellect of a peanut.
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: They don't know what they've just done. They're going to
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: reap what they sow.
• 49:53
  Speaker 7: It'll be a continuous impeachment process, continuous nonsense, and the
• 50:00
  Speaker 7: country's just going to keep going straight downhill.
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: Screwed.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: Keep disparaging young people and they'll never become Republicans. You
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: talk like that. They are the majority. Pal, whether you
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: like it or not, millennials and Gen Zers are the
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: majority of the voters and the majority of the population.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: And baby boomers, we can complain all we want, but
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: you disparage them, they're never going to want to be
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: with you. They're never going to want to be with you.
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: It's funny you say that because I completely agree with them.
• 50:28
  Speaker 4: They're going to learn a lesson over the next couple
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: of years.
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: One good thing about this election... is that.
• 50:34
  Speaker 7: We shouldn't have to put up with any more no-kings rallies.
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: That's a great point.
• 50:42
  Speaker 13: You know, Republicans could not verbalize their accomplishments. They just
• 50:45
  Speaker 13: ran away from them. Tax cuts, shutting the border, low crime.
• 50:52
  Speaker 13: I can't even list all the accomplishments. And they ran
• 50:54
  Speaker 13: away from each and every one of them, and that's
• 50:57
  Speaker 13: why they lost. There are people even in blue states
• 50:59
  Speaker 13: getting $ 15, 000 refunds From the big, beautiful bill, and they
• 51:03
  Speaker 13: were never able to verbalize it.
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: Shameful.
• 51:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, people were making more money than ever before, and
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: so it makes up for the rise in inflation. But
• 51:14
  Speaker 4: you're right, their messaging was awful. But that started at
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: the top with Trump. He'd go to these rallies and
• 51:19
  Speaker 4: talk about anything but... Those things that this guy just
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: brought to our attention.
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: Well, he didn't.
• 51:24
  Speaker 4: But the problem is, you're right, in a way, because
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: he would say something outlandish and the media would just
• 51:30
  Speaker 4: run with that and not play when he talked about
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: the economy.
• 51:33
  Speaker 18: This bloodbath rests mainly on the shoulders of Congress. Trump
• 51:40
  Speaker 18: could have been a great president, but he got too
• 51:42
  Speaker 18: focused on amassing power for himself and enriching himself. It
• 51:47
  Speaker 18: was up to Congress to stop him, and Congress just
• 51:51
  Speaker 18: rolled over and died for anything he wanted to do.
• 51:54
  Speaker 18: So if we're looking for people to blame, Congress should
• 51:59
  Speaker 18: start looking in the mirror.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not unusual, though.
• 52:03
  Speaker 4: I mean, a Democratic Congress under Barack Obama did everything
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: he wanted. It's not unusual when a party is in
• 52:10
  Speaker 4: power for them to work together.
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: It is rare.
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: That a party in Congress stands up to a president
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: within their own party.
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: Now, should we sneak in one more? Let's try.
• 52:23
  Speaker 6: I know how people could keep voting for people that
• 52:26
  Speaker 6: keep raising their taxes and their rates on utilities and everything.
• 52:32
  Speaker 6: And this party doesn't have a clue how to make cuts,
• 52:35
  Speaker 6: but they all know how to raise our taxes and
• 52:38
  Speaker 6: make us squeezed. And don't let me hear about $ 8
• 52:41
  Speaker 6: billion for the migrants when you're trying to tell me
• 52:44
  Speaker 6: that there's no money for Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security.
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: I'm an American.
• 52:50
  Speaker 5: They're not.
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: That was a well-thought response. But remember, this turnout was
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: against Trump. That's all it is. They didn't care about
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: anything else.
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: They hate Trump. And you've got to accept it, listeners,
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: because I felt it out there.
• 53:05
  Speaker 4: But he was absolutely correct. Wait till they wait till
• 53:07
  Speaker 4: they try to govern again. And then you'll see they
• 53:10
  Speaker 4: might have just blown the 2028 election. Now, let's get
• 53:15
  Speaker 4: to Larry Kofsky in for Daria Albinger today.
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: Good morning, Larry. Good morning, Curtis.
• 53:21
  Speaker 12: We have 52 degrees under clear skies at 730. The
• 53:24
  Speaker 12: balance of power in American politics has changed. Democrats have
• 53:28
  Speaker 12: won control of both the House and Senate. after running
• 53:31
  Speaker 12: up a string of midterm election victories. Here in our area,
• 53:34
  Speaker 12: Governor Kathy Hochul has won re-election in New York. Ned
• 53:37
  Speaker 12: Lamont has won a third term as Connecticut's governor.
• 53:41
  Speaker 19: Lamont was first elected in 2018 and then re-elected in 2022,
• 53:45
  Speaker 19: and now he's defeated Republican challenger Ryan Fazio for a
• 53:48
  Speaker 19: third term.
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: We're looking at deficits.
• 53:51
  Speaker 20: Then we're looking at COVID.
• 53:52
  Speaker 9: Then we're looking at Donald Trump.
• 53:54
  Speaker 16: I think despite all that, we're in a better place
• 53:56
  Speaker 16: today than we were eight years ago.
• 53:58
  Speaker 21: Thanks to each and every.
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: One of you.
• 53:59
  Speaker 19: Lamont, who is 72, is the second governor in Connecticut
• 54:02
  Speaker 19: to serve a third term in the last 200 years.
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  Speaker 19: And he could run again because Connecticut does not have
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  Speaker 19: term limits. I'm Scott Pringle, WDOR News.
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  Speaker 12: President Trump tells Fox News that the GOP electorate just
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  Speaker 12: wasn't inspired. He says Republicans would have done better if
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  Speaker 12: he'd been on the ballot. And while striking a conciliatory
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  Speaker 12: tone toward the Democratic majority on Capitol Hill, he said
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  Speaker 12: he'll be quick to veto any legislation he doesn't like.
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  Speaker 12: New Jersey Governor Mikey Sherrill has one word for port
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  Speaker 12: operators in the state thinking about accepting shipments of cargos
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  Speaker 9: Don't.
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  Speaker 22: Sherrill says that Congress outlawed energy imports from Russia in
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  Speaker 22: response to the ongoing war in Ukraine back in 2022.
• 54:44
  Speaker 22: Then last month, President Trump announced a deal with Russian
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  Speaker 22: President Vladimir Putin that would allow the U.S. to buy
• 54:50
  Speaker 22: millions of tons of Russian fuel. Sheryl penned a letter
• 54:53
  Speaker 22: on Monday saying that violating the congressional ban on Russian
• 54:56
  Speaker 22: oil could result in criminal charges or civil penalties. I'm
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  Speaker 22: Lizzie Radabali, WOR News.
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  Speaker 12: A convicted murderer who broke out of a Tennessee prison
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  Speaker 12: says 28-year-old Jacob Morley was recaptured Tuesday near Kansas City
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  Speaker 12: after a week-long manhunt. Our next news at 8, I'm
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  Speaker 4: When we come back, well, I will tell you, tech
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  Speaker 4: had a lot to do with this election, and we
• 55:26
  Speaker 4: have the tech expert Rich DiMuro with an interesting take
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  Speaker 4: on the elections and tech when we come right back.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, Rich DeMuro, Rich on Tech, which is heard
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  Speaker 1: Sunday nights from 8 to 11 p.m. right here on
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: the most listened to talk radio station in New York, 710WOR.
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  Speaker 1: It was a big initiative on the ballot that affected
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: Silicon Valley and all the billionaires there. And we will
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: talk about the California vote later in this show. But
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: the big one was the Wealth tax, the billionaire tax
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: that even Newsom at the last minute decided to lead
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: the opposition against, it.
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  Speaker 2: Did not pass.
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  Speaker 1: So Rich DeMuro, all those billionaires out there, are they
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  Speaker 1: going to stay put or are they going to follow
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  Speaker 1: Musk to Texas, Zuckerberg to Florida, or Peter Thiel to Argentina?
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  Speaker 23: Oh, I don't think they're going to Texas at this point.
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  Speaker 23: I don't know if it's going to be any better
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  Speaker 23: over there now. You know, they had some big changes there, too.
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  Speaker 23: But this was, you know, this was the people saying, OK,
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  Speaker 23: we don't know if this is the best thing for
• 56:36
  Speaker 23: our state, even though it sounded good. One time, five
• 56:39
  Speaker 23: percent wealth tax on people worth more than one billion dollars.
• 56:42
  Speaker 23: That money was going to go to health care, also
• 56:45
  Speaker 23: towards some food assistance and education. But like you said,
• 56:49
  Speaker 23: did not pass. Because I think people in California are
• 56:52
  Speaker 23: probably worried. They're probably worried that we would see more
• 56:56
  Speaker 23: industry drive out of this state, even though California is
• 56:59
  Speaker 23: still a huge leader when it comes to tech and AI.
• 57:03
  Speaker 23: But I don't think at this point people want to
• 57:05
  Speaker 23: lose that momentum by changing this.
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  Speaker 4: You know, AI was used extensively. I know in industries
• 57:12
  Speaker 4: across the country, they're worried about AI taking over some jobs.
• 57:17
  Speaker 4: But AI was used by campaigns more than ever before,
• 57:22
  Speaker 4: especially online. And many of the times, they were making
• 57:27
  Speaker 4: candidates say things they normally wouldn't say. Now, in the
• 57:30
  Speaker 4: bigger races that were watched, there was a scrutiny on
• 57:33
  Speaker 4: that type of stuff. So it didn't happen as much.
• 57:36
  Speaker 4: But in some of the smaller races, they they could
• 57:40
  Speaker 4: change the effects of the election and the results of
• 57:42
  Speaker 4: the election. And so I know the politicians are concerned
• 57:47
  Speaker 4: about this. So when you add this, please add this
• 57:52
  Speaker 4: to your list of things that AI is affecting to
• 57:55
  Speaker 4: be concerned about, because there's going to be a major
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: push apparently in Washington to to crack down on these
• 58:02
  Speaker 4: AI ads.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm not even sure if there's a solution, Rich.
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  Speaker 23: Yeah, as you're telling me this and I'm thinking about
• 58:09
  Speaker 23: it in a bigger picture of things, like I think
• 58:11
  Speaker 23: about how I go through my day and I'm exposed
• 58:14
  Speaker 23: to so much information online, right? Especially if you're scrolling
• 58:17
  Speaker 23: social media, right? If you're just going to the main
• 58:20
  Speaker 23: websites for the news stations and the newspapers, you should
• 58:23
  Speaker 23: be okay for the most part. But if you are
• 58:25
  Speaker 23: scrolling on social media, if you are watching these short
• 58:29
  Speaker 23: videos online, seeing these pictures, you don't know what's real
• 58:33
  Speaker 23: and you don't know what's fake. And not just that,
• 58:35
  Speaker 23: but people discuss, they have entire discussions over material that has.
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: Been created by AI that is fake.
• 58:42
  Speaker 23: And so if you're not regularly fact-checking this stuff, it
• 58:45
  Speaker 23: can be a problem. And I'll be honest, it's not
• 58:47
  Speaker 23: easy to fact-check it. There's not one single place where
• 58:50
  Speaker 23: you can just pop in a link or you can
• 58:52
  Speaker 23: just pop in a picture and it tells you everything
• 58:54
  Speaker 23: you need to know. So it really comes down to
• 58:57
  Speaker 23: the individual doing the work, which is We all know
• 58:59
  Speaker 23: that's not very easy. It's much easier to just scroll,
• 59:02
  Speaker 23: to screenshot, to share. And so I see this as
• 59:05
  Speaker 23: a huge issue, especially for trust, especially for just the...
• 59:10
  Speaker 23: average person dealing with it. And I don't have a
• 59:13
  Speaker 23: solution today. You just have to do your research. If
• 59:16
  Speaker 23: you're going to.
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: Have an opinion on something, let's put it that way.
• 59:19
  Speaker 4: By the way, there's a new term for this called slopaganda,
• 59:24
  Speaker 4: which I love. Slopaganda that's been making it on the internet.
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: Now, Rich.
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  Speaker 23: Yeah, my kids and I talk about AI slop all
• 59:30
  Speaker 23: day long because it's especially if you have kids, they're
• 59:33
  Speaker 23: exposed to a lot of it.
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: Elon Musk, the big guy in the room, spent half
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: a billion dollars openly to defeat the Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: He was a big loser.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: Some of the congresspeople have already said to Elon Musk,
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: lawyer up.
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: You're going to be in a lot of our committee hearings.
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: How does his businesses run without his day to day involvement?
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  Speaker 23: I mean, at this point, I think Tesla's in a
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 23: pretty good place. I think that when you look at SpaceX,
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 23: that's probably the one that needs him the most right now.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 23: I don't think he can be without these companies. He
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 23: needs to be there because they're all in a place
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 23: where they're leaders in their spaces, but because he is
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 23: a hands-on guy. He is a guy that is giving
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 23: them instructions on a daily basis. I remember Tesla in
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 23: the early days when people were worried about whether it
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 23: was going to survivor fail, he would sleep there, days
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 23: on end. And he would sleep under a desk. And
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 23: people thought he was crazy, but it worked out in
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 23: the end for Tesla. Now, with Elon, I think that
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 23: he's probably, I think in general, getting a gut check
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 23: this morning, because like you said, he did put a
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 23: lot of money. And Texas was sort of this place
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 23: where people like him could say, okay, well, at least
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 23: we have Texas, right? And now you wake up this morning,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 23: you see for the first time in 30 years, things
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 23: have changed there. You have now a Democrat for governor.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 23: His main guy packs in loss to a Democrat. So
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 23: this is a huge gut check for this guy in
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 23: a state that he has put so much into. And
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 23: by the way, I don't know if you saw his
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 23: joke on X that he said is... My election interfering
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 23: space lasers, I guess they didn't work.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: He is a funny guy.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 4: Real quickly, there's a New York Times report that schools
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 4: that block Google's AI tools entirely could lose Google search.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: Is that true?
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 23: This is very confusing because, yes, this New York Times
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 23: report came out and they basically had this bombshell report
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 23: that said Google is going to turn off search for
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 23: any school that refuses AI. to include its AI in
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 23: their search, you know, like when kids go on their computers.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 23: And so, of course, people went, wait, what? Google, why
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 23: would you do this? Like, we want less AI in
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 23: schools because kids need to learn. And so I don't
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 23: know if Google backtracked or they changed their mind or
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 23: they just flat out lied.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: But basically they said, oh, no, no, no. This is
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: what we meant. We meant that.
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  Speaker 23: There's Gemini, there's Gemini Notebook and there's search. Those will
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 23: all be off by default in K through 12 schools.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 23: teachers and administrators are now in control. They can choose
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 23: to turn one, two, or all three of these services
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 23: on individually. So I think this is one of those
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 23: stories that Google kind of saw the reaction and said, uh-oh,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 23: what do we do to fix this? Because we don't
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 23: want to be out of schools, obviously. And so we'll see.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 23: This is supposed to start in 2027. But I think
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 23: if what Google is saying in their tweet and their
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 23: blog post about how they have individual switches to turn
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 23: these three things on and off, that's probably the best
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 23: case scenario.
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  Speaker 2: Rich DeMuro. Thanks so much. Rich DeMuro.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 4: Rich on tech has heard Sunday nights from eight to
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  Speaker 1: Now, it's 710WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 4: Wow, what else would Natalie Migliore be talking about today
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 4: with people on the street and her beat on the
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 4: street except for the election?
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  Speaker 2: This should be good.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe literally anything else.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 24: Look, election day has come and gone. The team has
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 24: put in work, my friends, with election night coverage and everything.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 24: So congratulations. You got through that.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: Oh, I got through it. Yes, I survived it.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 8: Glad to see.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: You here this morning.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 8: You've made it.
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  Speaker 24: Now we're left to sort through the winners and the losers.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 24: It's being called a blue tsunami with even the unlikeliest
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 24: of states.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 8: Voting blue.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 24: In New York, of course, Democrat incumbent Governor Kathy Hochul
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 24: defeats Republican challenger Bruce Blakeman.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 8: But that wasn't really a surprise.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 24: Some voters paying very close attention to races across the country.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, I voted early. First day I went and
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: it was great. And I'm so happy with the outcome.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 25: No, I was actually looking at the elections just now.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 25: Arizona governor, I'm glad that I have family in Arizona
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 25: and they're all Republicans. So I was glad to see
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 25: the Arizona governor was reelected. Other than that, not just
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 25: as surprised as anybody else on some of those swing states,
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 25: like the incumbents that got beat.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 5: Wow, it's been great.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: It's been great. I think we won all over.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 24: Yeah, and just to clarify, the Arizona governor-elect is Democrat.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 24: He was just happy, I guess, to stick it in
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 24: family's face when they have.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 8: Thanksgiving, which is coming up. But it comes to all.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 24: Well, when it comes to all over Texas, Republican Governor
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 24: Greg Abbott was beat out by Democratic challenger Gina Hizona,
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 24: the first Democrat to run Texas in.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 8: More than 30 years.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 24: Democrats are also set to take over Congress here in
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 24: New York. Four districts considered battlegrounds all went blue. So
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 24: what do people think this indicates?
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 26: You know, the middle class has been getting crushed and
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 26: the 1% keeps rising and the poor keep getting poorer.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 26: So I think it's... indicative of people are into self-preservation.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: So the Democrats are usually a lot of social programs.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: Probably because of the way they were treating the immigrants.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: Don't treat them that way.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 18: Give them a chance to defend themselves and leave the country.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 25: My feeling is that the divisiveness in the country over
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 25: the last bunch of years has been hard to take.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 25: My wife actually said, we want to retire, let's leave
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 25: the country. But I'd like to see the country kind
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 25: of get back together and work together.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 24: Well, it's not clear how much working together they'll do,
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 24: especially with President Trump's reaction to these midterm elections.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: They're all going to come true for us, hopefully.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 8: But then, you know, Trump said he's going to veto everything.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: But we'll see. Right.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 24: So he had said he has the ultimate power to
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 24: veto whatever moves are made. There's one race where a
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 24: Republican challenger conceded in New York, even though there was
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 24: I'm not a Republican challenger or a Republican incumbent, conceded,
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 24: even though there was an issue with ballot scanners. Westchester
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 24: reported the countywide issue yesterday morning. We'd been reporting on
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 24: it all day. But still, Mike Lawler didn't question it
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 24: and conceded to his Democratic challenger, Kate Conley. Reaction, though,
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 24: to issues at the polling sites across the county.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 11: I think maybe it's hampered.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 27: You never know.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: You know, you can't trust all the polling sites, I
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: don't think. you know, who's in charge and who's, you know,
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: looking over it. Everybody's going to say that.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 25: My wife said that last night, that all these mail-in
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 25: early voting, because they were breaking it down into early
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 25: voting and day of voting. And she said that all
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 25: this early voting that's showing as a win for Democrats,
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 25: all that's going to happen is the president's going to say, oh,
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 25: it's all rigged.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: It's all rigged. It's all, you know, BS.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 8: You know what the really interesting thing is?
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 24: As I was following the polls in my personal life
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 24: my fiance was following Kalshi like Kalshi that that the
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 24: Kalshi which uh Governor Hochul has been trying to shut
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 24: down right because she says it's like a betting site
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 24: or whatever and he says every time he goes to
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 24: uh look at it for an election it's always on
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 24: point who's going to win and who's not.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: It's very interesting I was more on point I launched
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: yesterday the Curtis Sliwa political marketplace, and my picks were
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: better than Kalshi, better than the competitors.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: You compare them. Go ahead.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: You make that kind of an outrageous statement. You're not
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: giving me props for being. almost completely correct.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 8: You know what I love? That I don't have to
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 8: give you props. You give yourself props.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: Everybody clapping for him!
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 24: We got Curtis LeVar in the house! What is really interesting, though,
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 24: is the way I voted yesterday, I don't think I've
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 24: ever voted... in a voting booth the same way twice.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 24: I feel like there's always different mechanisms to vote. And that,
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 24: isn't that interesting?
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 4: That's a really fascinating point. They do keep changing it.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 4: It's ridiculous.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 24: I tried to ask people that, and I think people
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 24: just have such short memories about it that they just
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 24: sort of float on into the, like, it's like, all right,
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 24: I voted.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: Bring back the lever machines. It was so much easier.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: The last night in Michigan, Al Saeed was flexing when
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: he was giving his acceptance speech for being announced the
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: winner against Mike Rogers. He was taking shots at Trump.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: He was taking shots at J.D.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: Vance. He was like a Gatling gun.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: But he made a tactical decision on Saturday, and he
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: bore down on it against Democratic leadership all over the country.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: You may have remembered there was a Democratic Party mutiny
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: against al-Saeed that was led by Haley Stevens, who he
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: had just barely beaten the congresswoman in the primary, barely
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: by 1%. And so in the waning days of the campaign,
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: Haley Stevens started doing interviews in which he was critical
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: of El-Said's positions, but always the caveat would be, but
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: I'm going to vote for him. And then they were
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: supposed to put together a unity rally on Sunday at
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: an African-American church in Detroit. Clayburn from South Carolina, who
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: she described as her mentor in the House, and others
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: were lobbying her. Look, just come. Stand on the stage.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: You don't have to say anything. Just show unity. And
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: we do know what happened on Saturday is El Saeed said, yeah,
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: I denounce that ad you keep talking about, but I
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: don't want you to come to the church.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: I don't want you.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: And a lot of Democrats in leadership positions who had
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: spent a lot of time trying to heal the divisions Said, oh, no,
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: you just blew the election here. And so the very
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: next morning, she wakes up and she appears with Mike
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: Rogers at a different African-American church and embraces him and
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: endorses him. And then on Monday, she puts out a 900-page,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: not 900-page, but 900-word manifesto denouncing El-Said. And even her
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: mother weighed in by saying, answering reporters' questions and saying, yo,
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: it wasn't her fiancé who happens to be Jewish that
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: forced her into this. My daughter doesn't get forced into anything.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: She's a congresswoman. Look, she makes up her own mind,
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: and you're all sexist for even mentioning this. Well, El-Said
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: did the unconventional. He said it's not going to be
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: about party unity, and he won 52-46 against Mike Rogers.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: And I'll give you a few of the breakdowns here, Larry,
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: that indicate why he won The Jewish and the Muslim vote,
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: they cancel each other out. But the real vote was
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: the black vote because the state is majority white. So
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: white men voted for Rogers, 55 to 44 percent. White
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: women voted for El-Said, 50 percent to 48 percent.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: So it came down to the black vote. Mike Rogers had.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: Spent all of his time, he spent weeks, he was
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: like living in the African-American community, and El-Sayed knew he
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: had a tough time because he had lost the African-American
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: vote in the primary to Haley Stevens. Well, when all
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: was said and done, El-Sayed won black men by 86-13
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: and black women by 86-11. Now, could we attribute this
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: to the smooth operator? Barack Obama coming in and basically
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: campaigning on his behalf in the Wayne County, which encompasses Detroit,
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: which is where most of the African-American votes are.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 4: Oh, I think absolutely. I think that's why they needed
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 4: him in there and they wanted to bring him in.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 4: I think this is horrible, horrible for the country. This
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 4: guy is an out-and-out liar. He lied about his medical degree.
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 4: He lied about the Muslim Brotherhood. He lied about his positions.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 4: He said he wasn't DSA, and yet every position he
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 4: took was democratic socialist. He's going to now be the
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 4: first Muslim senator ever in the United States. And that's
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 4: a good thing, except it's this guy. And this guy
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 4: is a wolf in sheep's clothing. And so this is
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 4: the start of a movement in this country that is
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 4: something that we have to be concerned about. Unless you
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 4: like socialism, which.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: Most of.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 4: The time in the history of the world has turned
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 4: into communism. So it's taken root. It took root first
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 4: here in New York, and now it's taking root across
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 4: the country. And there's nobody stopping it out because the
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 4: young seem.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: To like it.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 4: And so we're going to find out. We're going to
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 4: find out what happens when you invite socialism into the Senate.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: Well, the ad in question, which never got aired on television,
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: but it went viral all over the world. The beginning
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: part of it, the husband and the wife complaining about
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: prices at the supermarket and blaming it on all the
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: aid that goes to Israel to kill Palestinians, that couldn't
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: have been more hopelessly wrong. But it was the second
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: part that resonated, Larry. Americans learned that $ 4 billion doesn't
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: go for military aid. They were thinking, yeah, yeah, military
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: aid for Israel. That it goes to support their socialism there,
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: which is free health care in Israel, free college tuition
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: in Israel, and anybody immigrating there who happens to have
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: been born a Jew, everything gets paid for them. And
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: that caused tremendous blowback. We didn't know that.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: So that's not why he won though.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 4: I mean, you know, and, and listen, you said he
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 4: started off with a lie in that and, and he's just,
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 4: he's a liar. And, and I, I am embarrassed for
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 4: Michigan that they put him in office. I think he
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 4: was the worst.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: He's good.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 4: He's like mom Donnie. He's got, he's wonderful on the
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 4: stump and he's very good in interviews. He was great
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 4: on 60 minutes. He handled every tough question. He interrupts
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 4: everybody constantly. But, um, I think that's, That's one of
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 4: the worst choices ever for U.S. Senate, and we have
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 4: to reap what we sow. He's not the only one. Again,
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 4: he doesn't say he's DSA because he's a liar, but
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 4: everything he says is DSA.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: Just so people understand, DSA is not as big as
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: they're made out to be. Nationally, they only have 130,000 members.
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: New York City, 16,800. Reminds me of the old Tea Party.
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: It never had a lot of members. But they got
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: out aggressively. They do rallies. They go door to door.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: They're way more Democrats, moderate Democrats than DSA. It pales
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: in comparison. But a very small, dedicated unit can get
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: into a party apparatus, as the Tea Party did with
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: the Republicans when they were country club Republicans, and cause chaos.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: Now let's go to the cliffhanger.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 4: Well, here's what's really fascinating about Alaska. And Alaska has
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 4: not been called yet.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 2: Dan S.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 4: Sullivan is still in the lead with 48.49% of the vote.
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 4: He is leading by a little over 1,000 votes. And
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 4: there is, unlike Mississippi, there is an automatic recount in Alaska.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 4: So there will probably be a recount. But remember the
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 4: figure I just gave you. A little bit over 1,000
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 4: votes he's leading by.
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: Daniel J. Sullivan?
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 13: No.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 4: Got 3,448 votes. So that could have worked. That may
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 4: have worked, which means there's going to be court fights
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 4: over this case if Daniel S. Sullivan ends up losing
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 4: this case. And now they have some evidence. Well, I
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 4: hope that Dan S. Sullivan, the real Sullivan, the senator,
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 4: the Republican, wins because Mary Peltola and Chuck Schumer need
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 4: to get a real serious lesson from the voters in
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 4: Alaska who say, you used technology on us.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: You were joined. It was a cabal.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: From the National DNC supporting Senate runs to you, Mary Paltola,
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: who claim, I didn't know it was my staff.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 2: I didn't know. Of course you knew. And by the way,
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: there was another Republican, Gerald Heikes, who got 2.13%.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: Where did they find this guy from? But anyway, the
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: other thing is the voters did not reject or repeal
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: the rank choice and open primary that makes Alaska very,
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: very special place. They have nonpartisan elections. and they have
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: ranked choice in the primary and in the general election.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: So that will stay in effect, which will always mean
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: everybody's going to pay attention to Alaska.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 11: I know.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 4: Well, you have to pay attention to Alaska now. There
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 4: was a thought early on that Alaska may decide who
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 4: wins the Senate.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: That's been out the window.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 4: So even though it's a fascinating election, it's just now
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 4: going to be a salvation for the Republicans that they
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 4: were able to keep the Alaskan seat, or an add
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 4: on to the Democrats. It's not going to be as
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 4: significant as we once thought. But it's going to be
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 4: worth watching because of this Daniel J. Sullivan, because if
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 4: a recount comes into effect, there is going to be
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 4: this may stretch on for a long, long time. Trust me,
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 4: there's going to be lawsuit after lawsuit. on this only
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 4: because Dan J. Sullivan actually didn't do bad, you know,
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 4: with 3,448 votes that could, if you give that to
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 4: Daniel Sullivan, you know, he wins, but here's the, here's
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 4: the thing, you know, maybe it backfired because if it's
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 4: true that Republicans were fooled and they went to Daniel J. Sullivan, um,
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 4: Or is it the Democrats that voted for Daniel J. Sullivan,
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 4: finding out who he was and trying to prop up
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 4: his vote? And maybe he kept Peltola out.
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 2: Let me ask you a question.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: I applauded Mike Lawler for doing his concession speech very early.
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 2: You knew he had lost. You do that. You show, hey,
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: fair and square election.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 17: I lost.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: He did his thing. Did Daniel J.
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: Sullivan in that island somewhere in the Aleutian Islands give
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: a concession speech?
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: There's no way he can win. He can only be
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 2: a spoiler.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 4: If a tree falls and no one's around, did it
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 4: really fall? I mean, who knows? It doesn't really. When
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 4: we come back, I'll tell you what. You have been
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 4: amazing with your talk, Bax. And we understand. For many
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 4: of you, it's an emotional time. It's an emotional time
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 4: for me. and you want someone to talk to, and
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 4: I'm glad that you turned to 710WOR. So if you
• 1:20:30
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• 1:20:33
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• 1:20:37
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• 1:20:39
  Speaker 4: a whole lot of Talkbacks.
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 2: It's all about Talkbacks next. You're Brandon. I want to
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: remind you that.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 4: Coming up shortly, we're going to be giving away tickets
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 4: for Def Leppard and the Goo Goo Dolls. But we
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 4: want you. You've been great today with your talk back.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 4: So many of you have called in and we're trying
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 4: to get to as many as possible of them.
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 20: The country has voted.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 3: The people are stupid.
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 12: And you know what?
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 9: Now we're going to get a taste of socialism at
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 9: some point, maybe not just yet. But if this is
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 9: what it's trending towards, wow, then there'll be a revolution
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 9: in this country.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 4: Well, it's very early on. It's still possible to stop it.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 4: I know you're upset, but let's not get carried away
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 4: just yet.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 17: The only thing that yesterday has taught us is that
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 17: the American people are stupid.
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 2: Keep saying that. Keep saying that.
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: And all these Gen Z's and millennials who are the
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: largest percentage of voters now, We'll never come over to
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: the Republican side.
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 2: They'll grow up. They'll grow up.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: This is like your father would tell you, you know,
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: I used to walk to school.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: I didn't have any shoes. You don't know what it's like. No, no, no.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you. I'm with Gen Z's all the time.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: I'm with millennials all the time. They hate hearing that
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: kind of crap where they get demeaned by baby boomers.
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 2: Well, then they have to stop voting so ridiculously.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: It's all over.
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 27: 2027. It took a long time to subvert America totally,
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 27: but here we have it. So get ready for the
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 27: return of identity socialism. Your earnings is now state property.
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 27: And let's take that ride.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you went pretty far with that. Let's hold on.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 4: This is just, this is the, we're on the doormat
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 4: right now. Maybe not even the doormat, just approaching the house.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 4: There's plenty of time to stop this. Watch the next
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 4: two years. Watch what the Democrats do. Now you know
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 4: what this is.
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: He was suffering from PTSD, post-Trump stress disorder.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: Got to give him a few days to get it
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 2: out of his system. Yeah, well, it's not this, you know,
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 2: all right.
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 28: All of us Trump supporters really learned last night that
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 28: despite all of his business prowess and everything he's done
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 28: for the country, unfortunately, he does not have the political
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 28: skills as a politician.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 2: And that's what that election showed last night.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 28: All his bad decisions that caused that blue wave.
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 4: When you say all his bad decisions, I think the
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 4: bad decision was going into Iran. I mean, if you're
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 4: talking politically, that was the bad decision. Although every president
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 4: has said that they should go into Iran, nobody has,
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 4: and he did. But the timing of it couldn't have
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 4: been worse. And I think he believed he was going
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 4: to be able to wrap this up before the election
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 4: cycle started. And he was just wrong. So you're right
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 4: about that. But I think the decisions before that were
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 4: pretty darn good.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 15: They fled from California to Texas, and now they're going
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 15: to destroy Texas.
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 2: It's not just Texas.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: Excuse me, California. Texas has had the biggest population boom.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: You know how many New Yorkers are down there? People
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: from New Jersey, people from Connecticut, and obviously California and Colorado.
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 2: That turns what was.
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: A solid red state, we're going to be talking about
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: it up next, into potentially what is now a purple state.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 2: You lost the governorship and you lost the U.S.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 3: Senate.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 2: And there's a lot to discuss about that coming up.
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 20: Larry Curtis, I know everybody wants to say the Democrats, obviously,
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 20: they beat Trump, but a lot of it is their
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 20: own Republicans, these rhinos. You got that fat pig on Fox,
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 20: Karl Rove, who went against Paxton. You have so many
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 20: rhinos and Republicans that, unfortunately, President Trump had to run
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 20: by himself.
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 2: The Republicans have no backbone whatsoever. And they're disgusting.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: There's another mistake. If you're not MAGA, you're not a Republican.
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: I'm a proud rhino. I'm a proud rhino. And there
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: are others who won't say it because they get bullied.
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: This should be a party like the Democrats. They have
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: two points of view. You have moderate Democrats. You have DSA.
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: And the Republicans should have MAGA and they should have
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: rhinos because that's how you build a party apparatus. You
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: can't survive without both. Let me ask you, when he
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: said fat pig, did you think he was talking about Christie?
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: That's what I thought.
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 29: Good morning. Just weighing in on the results of yesterday's midterm,
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 29: specifically across New York and the governor's race. I think
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 29: there's a need to be emphasis to be placed on
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 29: term limits. And for those of us who are conservative
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 29: and those who are against radical socialism, there's two names
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 29: to remember. Who's in office and the governors Cuomo and Spitzer.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 29: Remember how their terms came to an end.
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're absolutely right, I will tell you. I know
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 4: there's this big fear about socialism right now. Listen, we're
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 4: very early on. It still can be stopped. You don't
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 4: have to worry too much about it now. Is this
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 4: a warning? Absolutely, it's a warning. But don't get too
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 4: far afield at this point. You can stop it. The
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 4: first thing he talked about, term limits. Absolutely, right across
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 4: the board.
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 2: I agree with you.
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 4: And I never did before, but it's gotten ridiculous. Now
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 4: Larry Kofsky in for Daria Albinger with the 830 News, Daria.
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, excuse me, Larry. Good morning, Larry.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 12: 56 degrees, cloudy, clear skies at 830.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 2: Good morning. I'm Larry Kofsky.
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 12: You could almost feel the ground politically shifting under your
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 12: feet Tuesday as Democrats posted win after win in the
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 12: midterm elections. They're now poised to take control of both
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 12: houses in Congress come January. New York and Connecticut also
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 12: kept their state houses blue, with Governor Hochul winning a
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 12: second fall term in New York, and Ned Lamont elected
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 12: to a third term in Connecticut. Even as Democrats won
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 12: big nationwide, it was also a big night for Democratic
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 12: socialists in New York State.
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 22: At the federal level, Claire Valdez and Darieliza Avila-Chevalier won
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 22: their first terms in the House after upsetting the two
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 22: Democrat incumbents back in the June primaries. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 22: her fifth term in Congress. On the state level, several
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 22: DSA members are heading up to Albany, including Abir Kawas
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 22: and Ian Huntley. I'm Lizzie Ratabali, WOR News.
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 12: The man accused of pushing his ex-girlfriend and their baby
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 12: off the balcony of a Bronx apartment is due back
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 12: in court today. The ex, Natalie Ramirez, died from injuries
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 12: suffered in the 15-story fall from the Allerville Arms Apartments.
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 12: Her baby, which she was holding in her arms, is
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 12: recovering from critical injury. Angel Carrasco is charged with murder
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 12: and attempted murder. A Long Island landscaper is dead after
• 1:27:35
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations to John Van Heese from Glenrock, New Jersey. You
• 1:28:02
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  Speaker 1: Another chance to win tomorrow at 825. Up next, the
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  Speaker 1: election totals in Texas and Ohio.
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  Speaker 4: We've been talking a lot about the Iran war and
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 4: the cost of living that was the price of gas
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 4: going up and other goods because of transportation costs going up.
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 4: that lost Donald Trump and the Republicans this election across
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 4: the country. But there was another self-inflicted wound as well.
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  Speaker 4: The quality of candidates in several of these races was
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 4: a problem, and those candidates were handpicked by Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 4: Let's talk about Texas for a second, where John Cornyn
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  Speaker 4: was the sitting senator. Now, John Cornyn voted with Donald
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  Speaker 4: Trump 99%.
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  Speaker 2: Of the time.
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  Speaker 4: But Paxton was more loyal to him, he thought. Paxton
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  Speaker 4: cozied up to him right away as soon as he
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  Speaker 4: took over as the Attorney General in Texas. And so
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  Speaker 4: even though John Cornyn was very loyal to Trump, Trump
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  Speaker 4: ultimately viewed him as, and this is a quote, not
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  Speaker 4: supportive of me when times were tough. Now, again, he
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  Speaker 4: voted for Trump 99% of the time. So I guess
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  Speaker 4: he needs 100. But Texas would have kept that Senate
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  Speaker 4: seat had it been John Cornyn.
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  Speaker 2: There's no question.
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  Speaker 4: They also would have kept the seat in South Carolina
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  Speaker 4: if it was Tom Tillis.
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  Speaker 2: No question.
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  Speaker 4: So Ed Rollins had an interesting point last night when
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  Speaker 4: he said about Ronald Reagan. He said there were some people,
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  Speaker 4: he worked with Reagan, and he said, you know, there
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  Speaker 4: were some people that Reagan just hated. But if he
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  Speaker 4: thought they could win, it didn't matter to him because
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  Speaker 4: he knew it was good for him in the long
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  Speaker 4: run and it was good for the party.
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  Speaker 1: Now, didn't he coin the phrase, thou shalt not say
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  Speaker 1: anything negative about Republicans? I'm pretty sure that's what Reagan
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  Speaker 1: lived by. Even though, as you pointed out, what Ed
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  Speaker 1: Rollins had said behind closed doors, he could cuss with
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  Speaker 1: anybody in terms of guys who had given him a
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  Speaker 1: hard time. And there were a lot of Republicans out there,
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: like Gerald Ford, remember, like others, who gave Reagan an
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  Speaker 1: incredibly hard time.
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  Speaker 2: But he never publicly said anything. No, he never publicly
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  Speaker 2: said anything. And he never he never inflicted himself on
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 2: races across the country. If a Republican could win, a
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 2: Republican could win. And it's a shame that Donald Trump
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 2: didn't learn that lesson because I think would have not.
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  Speaker 2: I don't I don't I think the Democrats would still
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  Speaker 2: take the Senate. It wouldn't probably have been by this
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  Speaker 2: many seats. But James Tallarico won, so we have now
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  Speaker 2: a vegan who thinks that God is non-binary now as
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  Speaker 2: a senator in Texas. Let that sink in for a second.
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  Speaker 2: All of that may be true except a vegan.
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  Speaker 1: He's been at Whataburgers all over Texas eating hamburgers.
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  Speaker 5: I know.
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  Speaker 2: I know. He was a vegan. He tried to change
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  Speaker 2: everything about himself. Don't you understand? He was a liar, too.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he kept saying, oh, I said some silly
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 2: things in the past. Silly things. Silly things. Well, remember,
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  Speaker 2: he's young. He's a chameleon, just like J.D. Vance was
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 2: a chameleon. I mean, J.D.
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  Speaker 1: Vance will morph and change, and now that there's going
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: to be a run.
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  Speaker 2: For the president. Oh, come on. You can't compare the two. Oh, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: This is ridiculous what Tallarico did. Oh, my God. Come on.
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  Speaker 2: that the people he cares about the most are the
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  Speaker 2: trans children that their parents don't let have the surgeries
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  Speaker 2: they deserve.
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  Speaker 4: That's what he said. And when he was asked about that,
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  Speaker 4: he said, no, that was silly. I shouldn't have said that.
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  Speaker 4: I never really meant that. And he got away with it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, because Paxton was not only unlikable, he was corrupt.
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  Speaker 1: The real story in Texas. is the guy who led
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  Speaker 1: the way to seal the border, even before Trump followed
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  Speaker 1: everything that Greg Abbott did.
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  Speaker 2: I want to see if you did your homework, and
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  Speaker 2: who beat him? Who beat him? Hinojosa. He and Osa. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that was pretty good, though. That was actually pretty good. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you were very close.
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  Speaker 1: But remember, it was Greg Abbott who first sealed the
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: Texas border with Texas Rangers, with National Guard.
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  Speaker 2: He fought the fight. He put the illegals on buses
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 2: and said, oh, okay, you love illegals, New York? You
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 2: love illegals, Washington.
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: D.C., Chicago, Kansas City, Denver? He kept sending them there
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  Speaker 1: at great expense. But he led the way and... Imagine,
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: here's a guy in a wheelchair against all odds who
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: did so many things good for Texas.
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  Speaker 2: He brought in a lot of business. He encouraged a
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 2: lot of people to come down.
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: Wouldn't it be ironic if a lot of the people
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: came down there at his urgings because he was a
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: great lobbyist for that?
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  Speaker 2: No, you were absolutely right. Voted against him. Yeah, you're right.
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  Speaker 4: And Greg Abbott was the biggest surprise of the night.
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 4: Nobody saw that coming. I know the polls started to
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 4: get close, but everybody thought, oh, well, Greg Abbott's going
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  Speaker 4: to win.
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  Speaker 2: So that was one of the shockers.
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  Speaker 1: But, you know, Ohio was so interesting because the polls
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  Speaker 1: indicated that Sherrod Brown was going to totally defeat the
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: Turkish senator. That's John Husted, who took over for J.D.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: Vance when he became vice president. And we thought for
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 1: sure Vivek would be underwater, maybe lose by 10, maybe
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  Speaker 1: 12 percent.
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  Speaker 3: No, no.
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  Speaker 1: Vivek only lost to Amy Acton by six. Sherrod Brown,
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  Speaker 1: who had been there three times before... only lost to Senator, no,
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  Speaker 1: won against Senator John Husted by three points. And the
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: situation that you brought to our attention that created all
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: that drama in Ohio even before this was that Congressman
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: Max Miller, when his former father-in-law, Senator Moreno, read the
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: Riot Act against him, and he would not get out
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 1: of the race, Even though the charges of sexual harassment,
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: brutality were enormous. And he lost to a guy that
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: you never thought would have won, a guy named Poindexter.
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  Speaker 1: Just with a name like that, Poindexter.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the sitting Senator Marino was tough on him. He
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 4: was actually campaigning against him because of how he treated
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 4: his daughter, who he was married to. Hey, listen, when
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 4: we come back, we're going to save a little bit
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 4: of time just so we can play your talkbacks. But
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 4: we're also going to talk briefly about the next two years,
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 4: something we're going to talk about at length coming up tomorrow.
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 4: Tell you what, Curtis, I was really encouraged last night
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 4: to hear about many of the Democratic winners when we
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 4: heard their speeches and even from the leadership, Hakeem Jeffries,
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 4: because they didn't mention impeachment. They didn't mention investigations. They
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 4: actually talked. about trying to do past policy. And I
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 4: was also encouraged by Donald Trump, who reached his hand
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 4: out and said, I am willing to work with the Democrats,
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 4: especially on certain issues like immigration. So I don't know
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 4: if that's all talk or it shows that maybe politicians
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 4: have wised up a little and know that it's a
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 4: pox on other houses when they just fight. when they
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 4: just investigate each other, when they just make it so
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 4: they want to make the other guy look bad? Can
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 4: they actually work together? Because it hasn't happened for a
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 4: long time.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if you're the new chairman coming in, Congressman Garcia
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: of California, you're in charge of oversight, which is where
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: it all goes. So he already said, I'll give you
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 1: two words, lawyer up. That's all you need to know.
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  Speaker 1: So You're going to see, I don't think you're going
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: to see them try to impeach Trump. Look, they've done
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: that too many times. But you're going to see them
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: grab Jared Kushner in front of committees. Steve Witkoff, did
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: you make any money while you were out there trying
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: to be a peacemaker? Definitely Donald Trump Jr. and Eric,
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: because they've been making billions out there. And I think
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: they're going to leave Donald Trump alone. But I think
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: they're going to go to those people that they feel
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 1: made a lot of money as a result of their
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: positions and who they are.
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  Speaker 4: It's funny you say that because I think the first
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 4: one up is going to be Pete Hegseth because many
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 4: of them had said on the campaign trail that they
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 4: want to impeach Pete Hegseth. So we'll see. We'll see
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  Speaker 4: if it happens. I think it's a big mistake on
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 4: their part if they make this the centerpiece of the
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 4: next two years because it's going to hurt them in
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 4: the presidential election.
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  Speaker 2: We do have a lot of talkbacks. You want to
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  Speaker 2: hear them?
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  Speaker 17: Yes.
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  Speaker 21: It boggles the mind that that many people in this
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 21: country can be that stupid if you think anything good
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 21: is going to come from this election cycle you are
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 21: sadly mistaken it's just scary really really scary that there's
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 21: that many people that can be this stupid.
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  Speaker 1: I must have heard that all morning long you keep
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 1: Calling millennials Gen Z is stupid. And Republicans are never
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: going to be able to recruit them.
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  Speaker 11: I know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm out there.
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  Speaker 4: But nobody specifically said, you keep saying millennials and Generation Z.
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 4: You keep saying that. Well, that's not what they're saying.
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 4: They're saying the Democratic voters. There were also Generation Z
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 4: and millennials that voted.
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 2: Republican as well.
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: How about the fact that they, like most Americans, said
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: this war is stupid.
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 2: We should never be in it. So it's not stupidity.
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 1: It's anger that the messaging did not remain what it
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 1: had been before.
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think going into Iran was stupid. I
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 4: think the timing of it was stupid. If it was stupid,
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 4: then when Obama... said that we should attack Iran was stupid.
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 4: When Biden said it was stupid. When Bush said it
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 4: was stupid. I mean, they've been talking about it forever.
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 2: Nobody does anything.
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 30: Socialism reminds me of when you're a child and you're
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 30: living at home, you get everything for free.
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 5: Your parents give you everything. But yet you're under their control.
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 30: Then you start getting older, and you don't want to
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 30: be under their control anymore, and they tell you you've
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 30: got to leave, and you have to support yourself.
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 5: That's kind of like what socialism is.
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 30: We have to wait for these people to mature before
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 30: they realize that they.
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 5: Have to stand on their own two feet.
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 2: Well, that's well said.
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: But I will tell you, there is a bright light
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: for this thing of ours, talk.
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 2: Radio and talk TV.
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: It's Liberation Day, and it's not the tariffs that Trump
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 1: had sort of released, you know, internationally. Because if you're
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 1: in talk radio and talk TV, you don't have to
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 1: defend the indefensible any longer and wonder, am I offending Trump?
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 4: You keep saying indefensible, and I don't think that's the
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 4: right word to use. I don't think anybody was defending
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 4: the indefensible.
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 3: What?
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 4: You're talking about the border? Did you want the borders
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 4: wide open? Did you want crime to keep going the
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 4: way it was going?
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 2: No, I'll give you the most recent one.
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: I could have solved the Vietnam War in one week.
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: I didn't hear anybody in talk radio, conservative, and talk
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 1: TV condemn that.
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 2: But who cares? That's just a stupid thing to say.
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 2: This is the president of the United States, Larry. I know,
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 2: I know, but you grab onto those things all the time. Oh,
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 2: because it needs response.
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: And by the way— Let me applaud everybody who's called
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: in today, the talkbacks, because I know a lot of
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: them are refugees from WABC where they don't take calls
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: because Sid Rosenberg had the worst record of backing candidates.
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 2: He didn't have one winner. And you know why?
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 1: Because every time he'd show up at a rally or
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: be on talk TV or talk radio, it was Israel first,
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: Bibi first. Whatever's good for Israel and Bibi is good
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: for our party.
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 2: Guess what, Sid? You're a loser. And welcome on board.
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 1: Come on over, listeners, to WABC because you get two
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: points of view here, which you don't get at WABC.
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  Speaker 4: That is very true. And thank you, by the way,
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 4: we didn't get to all of them. They were massive today.
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 4: Thank you for all of your talk backs. We really
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 4: appreciate them. We tried to get to all of them.
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 4: If we don't today, we're going to save them to
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 4: play some of them tomorrow because they're still being relevant.
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 4: They were very insightful, passionate, and some were very funny.
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 4: The winner of the Curtis Lee when Larry meant to
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 4: in the morning t-shirt, however, is and now in the
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 4: running for Talk Back of the Week, who will win
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 4: a C-Crane radio, found something positive in everything that happened yesterday.
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 3: We shouldn't have to put up with any more no-kings rallies.
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 2: Amen to that. Don't be too sure.
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 1: They're used to doing their no-kings rallies.
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 2: They're not going to get paid, so they're not going
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 2: to go out there.
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 4: We went over all the races around the country this morning.
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