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Opening Segment 11/3/26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now, Sliwa, Menti, they're better together.
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  Speaker 2: Curtis Sliwa and Larry Menti in the morning, 710WOR. So, Larry, Natalie,
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  Speaker 2: our audience, a lot of campaigns last night that didn't
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  Speaker 2: get any sleep, I can just tell you. Because of
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  Speaker 2: all the neck and neck races that are taking place
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  Speaker 2: from coast to coast, every last minute detail is being
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  Speaker 2: attended to.
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  Speaker 1: Are you going to get your vote out? If you're really.
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  Speaker 2: Highly organized, Larry, you may have an idea of what
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  Speaker 2: your vote is by 12 noon. If you've really convinced
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  Speaker 2: the people who support you, we need to know if
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  Speaker 2: you voted because they can then track you. And if
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  Speaker 2: you haven't voted, my God, your phone's going to blow up.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to get text messages, emails. They're going to
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  Speaker 2: come to your door. And they don't mind being treated
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  Speaker 2: like Jehovah Witnesses or Mormon missionaries. And they know you
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  Speaker 2: have the doorbell camera and they'll actually talk into the door.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're in there. I'm out of here. A
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  Speaker 1: car will take you to the polling location.
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  Speaker 2: We'll bring you back, especially in congressional elections where sometimes
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  Speaker 2: a small handful of votes can determine the winner either way.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you think about it. It was air support before.
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  Speaker 3: It was $ 14 billion. This is like a war. They
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  Speaker 3: went in and they advertised on radio and on television
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  Speaker 3: across the country, $ 14 billion worth of advertising across the country.
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  Speaker 3: And now it's a ground game. Now you have to
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  Speaker 3: get your people out there to get out your vote.
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  Speaker 3: And you have to knock on doors. You have to
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  Speaker 3: call people. You have to text people. I mean, you're right.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to be inundated today with getting out the vote.
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  Speaker 3: And at stake, well, at this point, you must know
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  Speaker 3: what's at stake. At stake is the future of the country.
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  Speaker 3: At stake is the next two years. Is it going
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  Speaker 3: to be a complete stalemate with one taking the House
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  Speaker 3: and the other taking the Senate, one party taking the House,
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  Speaker 3: the other taking the Senate? Is it going to be impeachment, impeachment, impeachment,
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  Speaker 3: impeachment and trials against Donald Trump if the Democrats take both?
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  Speaker 3: Or are we going to continue the way we've been
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  Speaker 3: going along with Republicans taking both houses, both chambers. Look,
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  Speaker 3: I don't think the latter is going to happen at
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  Speaker 3: this point. I just looked at the Cook Report this
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  Speaker 3: morning and we were talking about it. And as you know,
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  Speaker 3: I follow the Cook Report and subscribe to it because
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  Speaker 3: it has been one of the best, if not the best,
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  Speaker 3: in predicting these things. And it doesn't show good news
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  Speaker 3: this morning for the Republicans when it comes to the
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  Speaker 3: House especially. The Senate is absolutely in play, and I
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  Speaker 3: do think that some of the things that happened over
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  Speaker 3: the last week or so is going to have an effect. However,
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  Speaker 3: I will tell you the bad news. Now, they had
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  Speaker 3: seven in the Cook Report. They had seven states as toss-ups.
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  Speaker 3: They now have six. For some reason, even after the
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  Speaker 3: events in Michigan, for some reason, they have moved Michigan
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  Speaker 3: to leaning Democratic. So if you lose that one seat,
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  Speaker 3: you can't lose many more. The Democrats have to win
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  Speaker 3: four to take control of the Senate. They have to
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  Speaker 3: take four. If they only take three, it'll be a
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  Speaker 3: 50-50 tie, and then J.D. Vance has the support. deciding vote.
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  Speaker 3: So it's going to be razor thin in the Senate tonight.
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  Speaker 3: But man, you know, you were just talking about it
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  Speaker 3: a second ago, how close this is going to be.
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  Speaker 3: This is a really monumental midterm election so far. And
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  Speaker 3: I heard Ted Cruz use this line last night in Texas.
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  Speaker 3: So far, the Democrats have been out there in mass
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  Speaker 3: in early voting. There have been millions of early votes
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  Speaker 3: already cast and mostly Democrats. So if the election were
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  Speaker 3: to end today, the Democrats would take the House and
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  Speaker 3: the Senate. And so this is when Republicans are motivated.
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  Speaker 3: This is when Republicans like to vote. So this is
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  Speaker 3: your day. It's not a day to stay home. It's
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  Speaker 3: not a day to make excuses. If you have something
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  Speaker 3: going on today, you may just want to make an
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  Speaker 3: hour for yourself. To get out there and vote because
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  Speaker 3: every vote is going to count in this one. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And look, just some advice. You go to your polling location.
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  Speaker 2: It's always a mess up. Sometimes it's their fault. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: it's not their fault. Don't get into arguments because there'll
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  Speaker 2: be constant delays.
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  Speaker 1: Just ask.
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  Speaker 2: You just say to yourself, look, I just want an affidavit.
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  Speaker 2: You fill it out. They put it in a special box. Now,
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  Speaker 2: in some of these congressional elections, like Tierney, upstate New York,
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  Speaker 2: which only won like by 10 votes, they go to
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  Speaker 2: that box the last thing because they first have to
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  Speaker 2: prove you registered. And they can do that. But they
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  Speaker 2: don't have time sometimes when you're at the table. And
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  Speaker 2: let's face it, some of these poll polls. Workers say,
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  Speaker 2: my God, you wonder if they could pass a Department
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  Speaker 2: of Motor Vehicles test. They have a little difficulty. So
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  Speaker 2: don't get into arguments. Don't wear political attire of any type. Like, Larry,
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  Speaker 2: you see, I'm wearing my, you know, the people's mayor.
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  Speaker 2: I can't go in with that.
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  Speaker 1: Don't tell me.
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  Speaker 3: No, no.
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  Speaker 2: Can't go into so don't even try to get cute
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  Speaker 2: just don't wear any political uh sort of markings on
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  Speaker 2: you whatsoever buttons whatever because they may just put you
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  Speaker 2: outside you get in a huff and a puff no
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  Speaker 2: no just abide by their rules uh make sure you
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  Speaker 2: get your ballot in in plenty time and i want
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  Speaker 2: to start larry before we talk about your great coverage
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  Speaker 2: tonight for all the election results I want to start,
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  Speaker 2: because everybody is into this now, the Curtis Sliwa political
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  Speaker 2: prediction market.
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  Speaker 1: Right? Everybody's into this now. Why can't I? Everybody has
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  Speaker 1: a podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Why can't I have the Curtis Sliwa political prediction marketplace?
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  Speaker 2: So I'm predicting, and I'm going on the high side,
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  Speaker 2: that the Democrats will have, when all is said and done,
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  Speaker 2: and you'll be disputed races that don't get resolved for
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  Speaker 2: a whole day, sometimes weeks, whatever, 240 Democratic seats. And
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  Speaker 2: in the Senate, I think when all is said and done,
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats will have 53 seats.
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  Speaker 1: So either I'm going to be eating a lot of
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  Speaker 1: crow tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Or people are going to say, my God, I'm ready
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  Speaker 2: to fund the Curtis Sliwa prediction marketplace.
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  Speaker 1: Look, Larry, everybody else is doing it. Why can't I
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  Speaker 1: do it? No, you're right.
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  Speaker 3: And it's absolutely possible. The number you threw out there
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  Speaker 3: is absolutely possible. That's what's so fascinating about this election.
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  Speaker 3: If you look at the polls, it's really bad for Republicans.
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  Speaker 3: But remember, the polls have been embarrassingly wrong in some
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  Speaker 3: of the past elections. You remember when Hillary Clinton ran
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  Speaker 3: against Donald Trump, everybody thought that that Hillary Clinton was
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  Speaker 3: going to win. Including Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: The most surprised man in the world on that stage
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  Speaker 2: that night when they said, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: President. What?
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 2: And then Hillary got into a fetal position at Jacob
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  Speaker 2: Javits Center for a full month.
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  Speaker 1: She couldn't get off the podium. No, I didn't lose.
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  Speaker 1: Just say it ain't so.
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  Speaker 2: But these are the kinds of the political drama that
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  Speaker 2: takes place no matter what the polls say, no matter
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  Speaker 2: what the prognosticators say. But Larry, you're going to have
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  Speaker 2: some great coverage tonight. Can you give many listeners an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity why they should listen to you at 710WOR and
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  Speaker 2: all your contributors?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're going to have people across the country. We're
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  Speaker 3: certainly going to have people in Texas and in Ohio.
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  Speaker 3: And there's going to be just a national ballot watcher
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  Speaker 3: nationally that's going to check in every once in a while.
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  Speaker 3: Daria Albinger is going to be here. And Andrew Whitman,
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  Speaker 3: who is a political aficionado, you hear him on WOR overnights.
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  Speaker 3: But this guy knows local races better than anybody I've
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  Speaker 3: ever talked to before. We're also going to have some guests,
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  Speaker 3: including Rob Astorino. We're going to have Mark Kelly coming
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  Speaker 3: in also as well. So in New Jersey, J.C. Polanco,
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  Speaker 3: the political aficionado that is used on all of the
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  Speaker 3: local stations, he's going to come and talk to us first.
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  Speaker 3: So we have a night full of people that we're
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  Speaker 3: going to talk. And remember, we're going in the air
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  Speaker 3: at 7 o'clock, from 7 to 11 o'clock. At 7 o'clock,
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina closes. That's going to be the first of
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  Speaker 3: the tightrope. Senate races. We're going to learn a lot
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  Speaker 3: from that race, those early races. And then at eight o'clock,
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  Speaker 3: you're going to have Maine and some of the other races.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to learn.
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  Speaker 3: So Ohio, we're going to learn so much from those
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  Speaker 3: early races. If all of them were to switch and
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  Speaker 3: go democratic, It's going to be a bad night for Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: Can I do this?
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  Speaker 2: Can I have permission, Natalie, our producer extraordinaire, that if
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  Speaker 2: in fact Joe Bartlett was wrong with his predictions about
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  Speaker 2: the demise of Darlene Graham? the Republican Senator replaced her
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  Speaker 2: brother who passed away. Can I wake him up in
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  Speaker 2: the wee hours of the morning?
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  Speaker 1: Cause you know, I'm nocturnal.
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  Speaker 2: I think he would so appreciate that phone call.
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  Speaker 1: It would be amazing.
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  Speaker 3: It would be historic if Darlene Graham were to lose.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know when the last time Fritz Hollings,
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  Speaker 3: I think was the last democratic center of South Carolina,
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  Speaker 3: probably back in the eighties or nineties. I mean, It
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  Speaker 3: has been a long time. The most surprising one would
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  Speaker 3: be Texas. You have to go way back, maybe to
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  Speaker 3: the 50s, to find the last Democratic senator there. But
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  Speaker 3: all that's on the line tonight. All of that is possible.
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  Speaker 3: History is possible tonight. You can change much of that
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  Speaker 3: by just getting out to vote. That's the most important
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  Speaker 3: thing you can do personally right now. Because the way
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  Speaker 3: it looks right now with the early voting, we need
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  Speaker 3: a wave of Republican votes to help the Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, this is their day.
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  Speaker 2: Remember, Republicans are used to voting on Election Day. This
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  Speaker 2: is what Republicans bank on. You know, they're doing early voting.
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  Speaker 2: They're doing mail-in ballots. A lot of states, it's required.
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  Speaker 2: You got to do mail-in. There's no polling location to
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  Speaker 2: go to. So, you know, they're segueing. But I would
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  Speaker 2: say you are absolutely correct. When I check the polling
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  Speaker 2: locations on Election Day, it's mostly Republicans. Most of the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats have, you know, done their duty and voted either
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  Speaker 2: early voting or by mail. So they don't even bother
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  Speaker 2: to show up at the polling location. So if you
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  Speaker 2: were doing an impromptu poll, you'd say.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, Republicans are doing great.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hold on a second. The Dems did great in
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  Speaker 2: early voting and in mail-in voting. So now it's a
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  Speaker 2: question of the count. And the states vary, Larry. Some
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  Speaker 2: of the states, boom, you'll know right away. Other states,
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  Speaker 2: you'll be waiting a month to Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: And you can't pay attention to the polls right now.
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  Speaker 3: You can't pay attention to the early voting right now.
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  Speaker 3: Remember the last midterm election. When Iowa was supposed to go,
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  Speaker 3: and the Republicans won Iowa by six percentage points. So
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  Speaker 3: you can't look at the polls. The polls have been
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  Speaker 3: awfully wrong, especially when it comes to the Republican vote.
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  Speaker 1: Don't get demoralized.
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  Speaker 3: You just got to vote.
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  Speaker 2: And let me tell you something. Jimmy Failure will be
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  Speaker 2: with us in studio 8 to 9. He has traveled
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  Speaker 2: all over the country doing his stand-up shows. He'll give
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  Speaker 2: us a pretty good idea of what's transpiring across America.
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  Speaker 2: But up next, we're going to discuss the man who
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  Speaker 2: walked around the world.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: He walked around the world, plus a chance to see
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  Speaker 2: Def Leppard and the Google Dolls at 825.