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Mark interviews Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: It's the mark simone show live from the wor life
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  Speaker 1: vac studios well bruce blakeman of course most likely you're
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  Speaker 1: going to be the next governor of new york but
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  Speaker 1: he needs your help two things you can donate go
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  Speaker 1: to blakeman for new york.com it'll still help blakeman for
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  Speaker 1: new york.com and then make sure you vote you may
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  Speaker 1: be a big supporter but turnout is the key you
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  Speaker 1: can do the early voting this week get out there
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  Speaker 1: and vote for bruce blakeman bruce blakeman how you doing.
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  Speaker 2: We're doing great, Mark. It's the final push.
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  Speaker 3: I got eight days and we're crisscrossing the state and
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  Speaker 3: we're having a great time meeting people.
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  Speaker 2: But more importantly, people tell me wherever I go, how
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  Speaker 2: miserable they are under Kathy Hochul. I tell them help's
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  Speaker 2: on the way.
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  Speaker 3: Cut taxes, cut utility bills, get back to normal. These
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  Speaker 3: people that are running the state and the city now,
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  Speaker 3: they're not normal people. They don't have American values. And
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  Speaker 3: of course, Kathy Hochul is the most pro-criminal governor in
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  Speaker 3: the United States of America. All of her policies make
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  Speaker 3: it easier for criminals to prey on our communities. That
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  Speaker 3: ends when I become governor. When I become governor, we're
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  Speaker 3: no longer a sanctuary state. We're not going to spend
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  Speaker 3: billions of dollars on illegal migrants. We're going to spend
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  Speaker 3: that money on New Yorkers.
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  Speaker 1: You know, some people will actually say, when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to Mamdani, he really is pro-criminal. He really believes all
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  Speaker 1: this crap. But even worse is Hochul. who they think
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  Speaker 1: just does it for political purposes, which makes it even sleazier,
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  Speaker 1: the fact that she's a weathervane, whatever way the wind
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  Speaker 1: is blowing. You've never been like that.
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  Speaker 3: No, listen, the most important thing as far as a
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  Speaker 3: responsibility of an elected official is the safety of our communities.
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  Speaker 3: So it all begins and ends with safety and public health.
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  Speaker 3: And Kathy Hochul has been a disaster. Just think about
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  Speaker 3: the hospitals that have been defunded around the state. She's
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  Speaker 3: spending that money on illegal migrants when she should be
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  Speaker 3: spending it on our hospitals. She's not spending it on
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  Speaker 3: our schools. She's not spending it on our infrastructure. She's
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  Speaker 3: not cutting taxes. She's not cutting utility bills. She's doing
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  Speaker 3: the opposite. We're the highest taxed state in America. Her
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  Speaker 3: and Zoran Mandani want to increase taxes next year. God
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  Speaker 3: forbid she should be reelected. I will stop that. We
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  Speaker 3: will not increase taxes. We will cut taxes.
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  Speaker 2: Kathy Hochul has approved 48 utility rate hikes. 48 in
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  Speaker 2: four years. That's almost one a month.
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  Speaker 3: No wonder why our utility rates are 70% higher than
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  Speaker 3: the national average and people can't afford it. Her own
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  Speaker 3: state energy budget research department, her department said that under
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  Speaker 3: her policies, it's going to go up another.
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  Speaker 2: $ 4, 000 a year.
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  Speaker 3: And gasoline prices are going to go up $ 2.
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  Speaker 2: 25 a gallon.
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  Speaker 3: We've got to stop the insanity of Kathy Hoechlin, Zoran Mondami,
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  Speaker 3: On Election Day, vote for Bruce Blakeman. I'll cut taxes,
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  Speaker 3: cut utility bills, and I will make safer communities, just
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  Speaker 3: like I did in my county, where I have the
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  Speaker 3: safest county in America, according to U.S.
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  Speaker 2: News & World Report. I cut taxes, and I haven't
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  Speaker 2: raised them in five years one penny.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, tell people what to do, because I assume
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  Speaker 1: you want early voting. Important to get out and vote early?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because you never know what's going to happen on
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  Speaker 3: Election Day. So, if you can, get out, go vote early.
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  Speaker 3: If not, on November 3rd, go to your normal and
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  Speaker 3: usual polling place and go out and vote. Listen, you
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  Speaker 3: need to make your voice heard. If good people don't vote,
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  Speaker 3: bad people make the laws. And we know what happens
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  Speaker 3: when that occurs. We have to make sure that we
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  Speaker 3: save our state. We're number 50, Mark, in economic outlook.
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  Speaker 2: 50. There's only 50 states.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't get worse than that. People are leaving in droves.
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  Speaker 3: Jobs are leaving in droves. People are miserable under Kathy Hochul.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a governor that will put New Yorkers first. every
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  Speaker 3: New Yorker, and I will make you happy again. You
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  Speaker 3: deserve a governor that makes you happy rather than a
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  Speaker 3: governor that makes you miserable.
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman, the fact that she's suddenly campaigning everywhere with Mamdani,
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  Speaker 1: that means she's in panic mode, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 3: Well, according to one Democrat friend of mine who knows
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  Speaker 3: what's going on in her campaign, they told me her
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  Speaker 3: hair was on fire.
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  Speaker 2: Their polling is very bad. She is desperate.
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  Speaker 3: Now she's going to the absolute left wing of the
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  Speaker 3: Democratic Party, the lunatic left.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why every day.
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  Speaker 3: Another Democrat walks up to me and says, Bruce, I'm
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  Speaker 3: a lifelong Democrat, never voted for a Republican in my life.
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  Speaker 2: I'm voting for you this year. I'm voting Republican.
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  Speaker 3: My party has gotten insane. I'm talking about liberal Democrats,
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  Speaker 3: not just, you know, moderate Democrats, liberal Democrats who feel that, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we're liberal, but we're not crazy.
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  Speaker 2: We're not communists.
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  Speaker 3: They're going to go vote for me, so I feel
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  Speaker 3: very confident about this election if everybody gets out to vote.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, make sure you get out and vote. Now, you
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  Speaker 1: and Kathy Ogle both have access to real polls from
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  Speaker 1: serious real pollsters, but when you see these fake college
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  Speaker 1: polls that have you 15 points behind, what do you
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  Speaker 1: think when you see these?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we looked at the data collection, and it's just
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  Speaker 3: what we thought it was. They overpolled Democrats, underpolled Republicans,
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  Speaker 3: and they overpolled New York City. And why do they
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  Speaker 3: do that? They want to frustrate our turnout. And they
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  Speaker 3: want to frustrate our fundraising. But people aren't buying into it. Look,
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  Speaker 3: if Kathy Hochul was way ahead of me, why would
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  Speaker 3: she spend $ 6 million attacking me last week?
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  Speaker 2: Okay? And raising my name ID.
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  Speaker 3: You never do that unless it's a close race. All
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  Speaker 3: she would be doing is positive ads. But all her
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  Speaker 3: ads are negative ads. She can't talk about her record
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  Speaker 3: because her record is miserable. So she attacks me constantly,
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  Speaker 3: not on substance, but on association, you know, that I'm
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  Speaker 3: associated with Trump.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I support President Trump.
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  Speaker 3: I agree with President Trump on most things, but I
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  Speaker 3: have disagreements with President Trump and.
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  Speaker 2: I'm willing to stand up. I will always do what's
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  Speaker 2: best for the people of New York.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody's going to tell me what to do when it
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  Speaker 3: comes to protecting this state and making sure that we
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  Speaker 3: make it affordable for every New Yorker.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Hochul got embarrassed that there were no positive
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  Speaker 1: ads for her. So she's finally come out with positive.
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  Speaker 1: The only positive ad she could come up with is
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  Speaker 1: she fixed the school lunch program. Is that it? That's
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  Speaker 1: the only thing she could say?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's about it.
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  Speaker 3: And even that is a disaster because the fact is
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  Speaker 3: that was screwed up as well. The students weren't getting
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  Speaker 3: their proper nutrition. They got a program that is... way
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  Speaker 3: overly expensive. There is no controls on the spending, so
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  Speaker 3: you're not getting quality food and quality service. Kathy Hochul
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  Speaker 3: can't run any operation. This woman can't run a pepper factory.
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  Speaker 3: How is she going to run the state of New York?
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  Speaker 3: She's run it into the ground. People are miserable. We're
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  Speaker 3: in a death spiral. We're number 50 in economic outlook.
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  Speaker 3: It's time for a change. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You got to give the Democrats credit, though, just for chutzpah.
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  Speaker 1: They've been in charge of every inch of government in
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  Speaker 1: New York for the last 10 years, and they're campaigning
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  Speaker 1: that there's an affordability crisis on their watch. How do
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  Speaker 1: they have the nerve to do that?
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  Speaker 3: Well, if it wasn't so tragic, it would be hysterical
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  Speaker 3: because I almost fell off my chair when Kathy Hochul
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  Speaker 3: in January gave her state of the state speech saying
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  Speaker 3: that it's unaffordable to live in New York. Well, what
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  Speaker 3: have you been doing for five years? You're the one
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  Speaker 3: that created this problem. You're the one that made us
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  Speaker 3: the highest taxed state in America. You approved 40 utility
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  Speaker 3: rate hikes.
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  Speaker 2: Look in the mirror. So people, they're very smart. I
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  Speaker 2: don't sell people short in New York State. They're smart.
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  Speaker 2: They're sophisticated.
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  Speaker 3: From one state to the other, they know what's going on,
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  Speaker 3: and that's why we're going to win this election.
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman, just set the record straight. You have agreed
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  Speaker 1: to many debates. There should be a real debate, like
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  Speaker 1: Channel 2, Channel 4, channels. You've agreed to them and
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  Speaker 1: she's turned them all down, right?
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  Speaker 3: I agreed to CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox 5, Spectrum, News 12.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody that asked me to debate Kathy Hochul, I accepted.
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  Speaker 3: She picked the smallest media outlet in the state of
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  Speaker 3: New York.
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  Speaker 2: People couldn't find it.
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  Speaker 3: They had to go on YouTube to see it or
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  Speaker 3: they had to see it after it was live.
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  Speaker 2: But you know what?
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  Speaker 3: People started paying attention after the debate. They realized that
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  Speaker 3: she couldn't support any of her policies. And they realized
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  Speaker 3: that I had a record of making people happy, cutting taxes,
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  Speaker 3: making safer communities. So I got a big bump from
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  Speaker 3: the debate, even though not enough people saw it. But
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  Speaker 3: that just shows you Kathy Hochul has no record to
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  Speaker 3: run on. And that's why you compare my record running
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  Speaker 3: a county that's larger than eight states and getting reelected.
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  Speaker 3: In a landslide in a county with 110,000 more Democrats
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  Speaker 3: versus her record of just failed policies and making people unhappy. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Now, she's actually the first governor in history to refuse
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  Speaker 1: to do a second debate. No one else has ever
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  Speaker 1: done that before, I believe.
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  Speaker 3: Well, again, she's hiding and she doesn't want to appear
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  Speaker 3: in public. It was hysterical at all of the public
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  Speaker 3: events that she goes to. She has security standing around her,
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  Speaker 3: so she has no interaction with the general public. I
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  Speaker 3: wade into the public. I want to meet people. I
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  Speaker 3: want to talk to them. I'm not afraid to debate issues.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not afraid to discuss policies. And I want to
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  Speaker 3: hear about common, everyday people's problems, because that's what you
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  Speaker 3: should do as governor. And she lives in this ivory tower.
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  Speaker 3: And look what she said about black kids. She said
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  Speaker 3: black kids in the Bronx don't know what a computer is. Well, Kathy,
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  Speaker 3: they get computers in sixth grade. They're better at a
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  Speaker 3: computer than you'll ever be. Or what she said about
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  Speaker 3: upstate New Yorkers. She said upstate New Yorkers weren't sophisticated
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  Speaker 3: enough To make important decisions. Well, I've traveled upstate many
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  Speaker 3: times over the last 35 years, and I can tell
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  Speaker 3: you they have something that Kathy Hochul doesn't have. They
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  Speaker 3: have good sense, good common sense, and good judgment. So
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  Speaker 3: she looks down on the people of this state. I
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  Speaker 3: want to uplift the people of this state.
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  Speaker 1: Well, everybody get out and vote. That's the key.
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  Speaker 2: Turn out.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're supporting Bruce Blakeman, but get out and vote.
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  Speaker 1: Do the early voting. It'll be much easier. Go to BlakemanForNewYork.com.
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  Speaker 1: You can donate there, BlakemanForNewYork.com, but get out and vote
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  Speaker 1: this week. Bruce Blakeman, good luck.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Mark.
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  Speaker 3: You're a good friend, and thank you for giving me
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  Speaker 3: this opportunity to be on your show. You have so
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  Speaker 3: many fans and supporters out there. Everywhere I go, they say,
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  Speaker 3: I heard you on the Mark Simone Show.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well, keep up the good work, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: see you in Albany pretty soon. Thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks so much. You got it.
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  Speaker 1: Take care. Hey, don't forget, coming up at noon, Buck
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