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How Mayor Eric Adams Just Gave Fmr. Gov. Andrew Cuomo ONE LEG UP in NYC 4-3-25 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well, I woke up this morning and I
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  Speaker 2: had a very eventful morning, a very important meeting. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: with regards to this podcast, we'll keep your posts on that.
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  Speaker 2: And then I turned to Twitter or ex however you
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  Speaker 2: want to say it, and I see Jim Walden, who's
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  Speaker 2: an Independent, challenging Mayor Adams to a debate in the
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  Speaker 2: Independent primary.
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  Speaker 1: Now I was in to myself, Wait a minute, Wait.
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  Speaker 2: A minute, do Eric Adams really change parties to Independent
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  Speaker 2: from Democrat? Sure enough, the announcement came down this morning
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  Speaker 2: and Mayor Adams has completed his switch from the Democratic
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  Speaker 2: Party to now the Independent line, where he will be
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  Speaker 2: challenged by Jim Walden. And more so, he gives the
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  Speaker 2: keys to the city virtually to Governor Andrew Cuomo.
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  Speaker 1: And you know everybody talking about.
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  Speaker 2: How President Trump becoming a president again number forty seven
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  Speaker 2: was the greatest political comeback of all the time. I
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  Speaker 2: would say, if Cuomo, who should get the Democratic primary,
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  Speaker 2: does indeed get it over Curtis Labell, who says he
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  Speaker 2: has a lead over.
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  Speaker 1: Both Cuomo and Adams in his polling. If Cuomo beats
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  Speaker 1: everybody and becomes the mayor of New York.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I've seen back to back political comebacks in this
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  Speaker 2: city and I almost can't believe it, because here's a
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  Speaker 2: guy who made five what was a million dollars off
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  Speaker 2: a book of how he quote unquote led the city
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  Speaker 2: through the pandemic. Meanwhile he put nursing patients with COVID
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  Speaker 2: with non COVID, causing more death. It's all a mess.
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  Speaker 2: And five years later he could become the Mayor of
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  Speaker 2: New York. It's a political comeback. It's astonishing, and I
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  Speaker 2: do feel like Mayor Adams has truly committed a bit
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  Speaker 2: of political suicide.
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  Speaker 1: Now I could be wrong.
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  Speaker 2: He could win as an independent, but that's barely done,
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  Speaker 2: rarely done in the city if ever, And so I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to find out why. And Politico today is saying
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  Speaker 2: he needed some time after the federal charges were dropped
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  Speaker 2: yesterday to what do they say here? To recover, to recover,
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  Speaker 2: And I guess he felt the Democratic Party wouldn't help
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  Speaker 2: him recover because they're the ones that put him on
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  Speaker 2: fire and on trial to begin with. But in all seriousness,
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  Speaker 2: don't you think Mayor Adams going independent makes it quomos?
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  Speaker 2: You know, race to lose here in New York City.
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  Speaker 2: This is the biggest story in New York in a
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  Speaker 2: little while. And besides the mayor's charges being dropped and
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  Speaker 2: him being indeed to begin with this next step, and
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  Speaker 2: I just I hope he's put a lot of thought
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  Speaker 2: into it. I hope he's not running away from this
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  Speaker 2: part of the Democratic Party. And also I think it
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  Speaker 2: shows the Democratic parties and chaos when you are indicting
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  Speaker 2: your own mayor and investigating your own mayor, and I
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  Speaker 2: say your own because Democratic parties DJ did this for
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  Speaker 2: simply him calling out the lack of effort to combat
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  Speaker 2: the migrating crisis.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of focusing on that, you go.
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  Speaker 2: And turn your watchdogs and your DOJ on him. That
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  Speaker 2: shows the Democratic Parties in chaos. This is an example
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  Speaker 2: of how chaotic the Democratic Party is. You don't have
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  Speaker 2: your mayor doesn't want to be part of your party. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the New York City mayor, who's typically blue doesn't want
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  Speaker 2: to be part of the Democratic Party. If that's not
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  Speaker 2: a wake up call, If Trump winning wasn't a wake
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  Speaker 2: up call. If Adams moving to the independent line just
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  Speaker 2: because he thinks he can get a better shot and
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  Speaker 2: because he doesn't want to be affiliate with the Democrats anymore.
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  Speaker 1: That says a lot, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 2: So I couldn't just put this on audio. I had
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  Speaker 2: to talk about it because I'm fired up. We are
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  Speaker 2: on the verge of having my sixth present in my
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  Speaker 2: lifetime mayor in my lifetime.
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  Speaker 1: I should say sixth.
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  Speaker 2: Dingins was a lot was pre mayor when I was born.
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  Speaker 2: Then it went to Giuliani. Then of course Juliani has
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  Speaker 2: a couple of terms. Then Mayor Bloomberg won, then the Blasio,
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  Speaker 2: then Adams, and now I believe we're gonna have another mayor.
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  Speaker 2: I don't see how Mayor Adams can win as an independent.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't see it.
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  Speaker 1: Do you?
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  Speaker 2: Email me Alex ALEXJNYC dot com, Alex Alex GYC dot com.
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  Speaker 2: And as I mentioned on my Instagram and Twitter, I'm
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  Speaker 2: no political strategist, but I have to believe that.
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  Speaker 1: I that this is Quomo's race to lose. I have
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  Speaker 1: to believe that. And I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe Trump's gon to endorse Adams from every then you're
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  Speaker 2: going against Curtis, which would be interesting too. But see
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  Speaker 2: Trump found in Adams and Ally because they both were
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  Speaker 2: pissed off about the Democrat. The Democrat lack of effort,
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  Speaker 2: lack of effort to combat the immigration crisis.
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  Speaker 1: That's where they found and.
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  Speaker 2: They both probably relate because they're both being persecuted by
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  Speaker 2: Biden's DOJ There's no doubt about that. And by Trump's
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  Speaker 2: election it wiped out to federal cases, the one against
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  Speaker 2: Trump and the one against Adams. And there is a simpatico,
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  Speaker 2: a connectionist synchronicity.
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  Speaker 1: There, There's no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 2: And I still believe there was some kind of quid
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  Speaker 2: pro quote.
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  Speaker 1: Dare I say that word? But how is it?
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  Speaker 2: Adams doesn't act on the mayor on the migrant crisis
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  Speaker 2: as hardcore until Trump gets elected and drops the charges.
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  Speaker 2: Was he waiting for that to finally act on mapp
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  Speaker 2: of New Yorkers?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I have some concern about the Mayor Adams.
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  Speaker 2: Term, but I also think he should have just stuck
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  Speaker 2: in it as a Democrat. If he truly wanted to
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  Speaker 2: win the Mayor of New York, he should have stuck
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  Speaker 2: in the Democratic Party because that's the.
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  Speaker 1: Only way he could win. I don't see him winning
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  Speaker 1: as an independent.
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  Speaker 2: And now you're given the keys most likely to a
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  Speaker 2: guy who had to resign in disgrace as governor and
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  Speaker 2: now he's coming back on the scene and possibly won't
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  Speaker 2: be the mayor New York.
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  Speaker 1: See.
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  Speaker 2: Does Adams really want the job? That's my question today
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  Speaker 2: on the Women the Up Network because him moving to
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  Speaker 2: the Independent party just gave Andrew Cuomo a leg up
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  Speaker 2: in the NYC mayoral election.
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  Speaker 1: It really did, and.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure we could all see it, but someone had
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  Speaker 2: to say.
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  Speaker 1: This is not.
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  Speaker 2: It's not good for the mayor currently in power. It's
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  Speaker 2: almost like Biden dropping out of the race entirely when
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  Speaker 2: he when he did, but it feels like that moment
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  Speaker 2: again this time in New York and Biden dropping out,
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  Speaker 2: just like Adam's moving to an independent will give way
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  Speaker 2: to another political comeback. And we do love the comeback
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  Speaker 2: kid sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: But Cuomo.
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  Speaker 2: Cuomo does not handle that pandemic well and I hope
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  Speaker 2: in every debate this year they hold his feet to
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  Speaker 2: the fire on that, because he could have opened this
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  Speaker 2: up even more in the summer of twenty twenty. He'd
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  Speaker 2: have to do press conference this day after day, and
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  Speaker 2: they were helpful at times, but.
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  Speaker 1: Then they got too much.
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  Speaker 2: He won an Emmy for that he made millions off
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  Speaker 2: that decision.
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  Speaker 1: To put sick.
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  Speaker 2: COVID patients nursing into nursing homes, blaming the Trump directives.
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  Speaker 2: But we'll have to see, and is this why Andrew
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  Speaker 2: Cuomo got in the race? Because he knew down the
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  Speaker 2: road he could see he didn't remember he was attorney general.
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  Speaker 1: He could see the law. He could see charges being
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  Speaker 1: dropped way before any of us. He thinks like a lawyer.
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  Speaker 2: Still, so did he get involved in the race because
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  Speaker 2: he knew once the true were officially dropped, this was
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  Speaker 2: gonna happen. And I have to say I think that's
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  Speaker 2: the case, because while that case is closed, there's no doubt,
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  Speaker 2: there's no doubt that he thought Adams would which parties,
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  Speaker 2: That's why he jumped in. If it weren't that way,
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  Speaker 2: he wouldn't have run against a friend, a fellow party incumbent,
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  Speaker 2: someone who's led New York City. I don't think he
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  Speaker 2: would have touched this. But I think he knew in
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  Speaker 2: the back of his mind the charger dropped and Adams
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  Speaker 2: were floating the idea of going independent or another party
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  Speaker 2: in general, he would take advantage.
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  Speaker 1: Of that and now and now.
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  Speaker 2: Instead of digging his heels in and truly wanting to
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  Speaker 2: win reelection. May Or Adams I said earlier, has just
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  Speaker 2: given one leg up to Andrew Cuomo for yet the
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  Speaker 2: second biggest political comeback in as many years.
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  Speaker 1: That's it for now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Alex Garrett One Leg Up Network and we'll talk
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  Speaker 2: to you soon, Alex said.
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  Speaker 1: Alex G NYC is my email if you want to
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