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Mark's 10am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now seven wor presents, no Mark some own show. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: welcome to the show. Oh well, I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: to tell you. I don't know what to tell you. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: we got through the pandemic. We'll get through this. We'll
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  Speaker 1: get through this. We got through eight years of the Blasio.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get through this. We'll go over everything that happened,
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  Speaker 1: what's going to happen. A couple of things. We now
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  Speaker 1: have all the results in all the numbers. Only half
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  Speaker 1: of New York voted, but that's high turnout. It was
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  Speaker 1: a big, big turnout, biggest turnout in a couple of decades.
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  Speaker 1: But it was still only about fifty percent of the
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  Speaker 1: voters showed up. It went over two million. Looks like
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  Speaker 1: if you look through the numbers, it's pretty apparent that
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Cuombo had no chance ever at any time, and
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  Speaker 1: it had nothing to do with Curtis. If you added
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  Speaker 1: in Curtis's votes, he still would be several points behind him, Donnie.
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  Speaker 1: So there's there was no chance, zero chance for Andrew
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  Speaker 1: Cuomo to win none. You know, there's this fantasy if
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  Speaker 1: Curtis dropped out, well, then those votes would go to
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  Speaker 1: Cuomo and then he would win. First of all, if
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  Speaker 1: Curtis were to drop out, you figure about half the
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  Speaker 1: votes would go to Cuomo, half would stay home. There's
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  Speaker 1: actual polling data that shows that. But even if he
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  Speaker 1: got every single voter of Curtis's, which would be impossible,
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  Speaker 1: but even if he did, he still would lose to
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  Speaker 1: Mom Donnie by a few points. So Cuomo never had
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  Speaker 1: a chance. The real problem is everybody can't stand the guy.
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  Speaker 1: And he had a horrible record as governor, just a
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  Speaker 1: disastrous governor. He did horrible things to New York and
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  Speaker 1: the single handedly caused the crime wave with his no bail,
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  Speaker 1: no jail in closing the prisons and all that. And
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  Speaker 1: then the list I could read you the list of
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  Speaker 1: twenty horrible things he did to New York. So he
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  Speaker 1: and he left in disgrace. He resigned in disgrace. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he just didn't have a chance to add to that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it'd be one thing if you were really
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  Speaker 1: likable guy. Remember Maryon Barry mayor of DC who got
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  Speaker 1: caught in all kinds of scandal. But he was a
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  Speaker 1: likable guy. He was a charming guy. People kind of
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  Speaker 1: had a little affection for him that this is not
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  Speaker 1: the case with Clomo. Nobody likes the guy and he
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  Speaker 1: never had a shot. Now, the problem is Culomo had
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  Speaker 1: no chance at all because another reason, main reason, he
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  Speaker 1: was totally out of shape politically, just totally rusty, out
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  Speaker 1: of shape politically. And he came alive the last week
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  Speaker 1: or two he got some energy. He started doing speeches, rallies,
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  Speaker 1: he started doing appearances, he started to sound sharper, he
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  Speaker 1: started to get a bit of a message. But those
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  Speaker 1: the last two weeks. Then for the first two months
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  Speaker 1: he was just awful, totally rusty, totally out of shape politically.
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  Speaker 1: He was absolute disaster. In the primary. In both those
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  Speaker 1: debates he got wiped out and had nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with the rank choice. He lost every round of the
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  Speaker 1: popular vote. And then the primary ended, and then he
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  Speaker 1: decided to run on some third party and he didn't
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  Speaker 1: really run. He did no appearances, he did no rallies,
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  Speaker 1: knowing he did very few interviews. There was a month
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  Speaker 1: or two of him doing absolutely nothing. That's when he
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  Speaker 1: needed to get the momentum going. Then even in the general,
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  Speaker 1: there was a period remember not long ago, he took
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  Speaker 1: ten days off. Who takes ten days off in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of a campaign, So he didn't get it together
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  Speaker 1: until last two. He's way too late, way too late.
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  Speaker 1: You got it. You know, that's why candidates go to
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  Speaker 1: Iowa a year or you know, a year and a
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  Speaker 1: few months before in elections to get the messaging honed,
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  Speaker 1: to get in shape. It's like spring training. You gotta
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  Speaker 1: get up to speed. He never did any of that.
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  Speaker 1: A curtis the reason he was great in the debates.
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  Speaker 1: This guy was working twenty four to seven for a year,
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  Speaker 1: I mean rally after rally, speech after speech, NonStop. Anybody
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  Speaker 1: wanted to interview him, Just the opposite of Qualma. So
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  Speaker 1: Cuomo screwed up the primary debates. He screwed up the
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  Speaker 1: first mayor old debate, did okay in the fourth one,
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  Speaker 1: but again way too late. And then he had the
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  Speaker 1: other problem of being this tired old fossil, this old
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  Speaker 1: dinosaur politician from another era. And Chuck Schumer, you better
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  Speaker 1: take notice of that. Today's Democratic voters have had enough
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  Speaker 1: with you old dinosaurs from other eras. Kathy Hochel, you too,
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  Speaker 1: you better take notice of this. So it was a
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  Speaker 1: historic turnout. It looks like it'll be about two point two million.
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  Speaker 1: Those other bad news it was a very bad night
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  Speaker 1: for a lot of reasons. Alvin Bragg easily won reelection.
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  Speaker 1: Alvin Bragg won reelection Westchester County. We were hoping to
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  Speaker 1: get a Republican county executive. The Democrat Jenkins won. Not
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  Speaker 1: the only thing that is in Westchester County. The county
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  Speaker 1: executive doesn't really do much of anything. The legislature runs everything.
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  Speaker 1: But and it's just in that county. It's not a
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  Speaker 1: count executive doesn't have a lot of power there New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like Chitarelly. I mean, we liked the guy,
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  Speaker 1: but he wasn't a great candidate. He was okay, but
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't great that maybe Mikey Cheryl wasn't much of
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  Speaker 1: a candidate either. But the MAGA base there in New
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  Speaker 1: Jersey did not turn out for Chittarelly. They're not too
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  Speaker 1: fired up about Chitarelly. So he didn't just lose, he
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  Speaker 1: really lost. This is his third time and he's losing
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  Speaker 1: by more and more each time he runs. So it's
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  Speaker 1: it's not a good sign. Mom. Donnie, big night, big
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  Speaker 1: victory speech, he was the star of the night. I
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  Speaker 1: guarantee you, I guarantee you. AOC is not happy about this.
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  Speaker 1: AOC who wants to be the leader of the Waco
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  Speaker 1: side of the party is now no longer that. It's
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  Speaker 1: Mom Donnie. He's the first. I think he's all these things.
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  Speaker 1: He's the first Muslim mayor. He's the first Indian mayor.
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  Speaker 1: I could add to the He's the first mayor without
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  Speaker 1: a job, never never worked, never did anything. He's the
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  Speaker 1: first mayor who just became a citizen two weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: He's the first mayor who's twelve years old. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of that stuff now. He shocked a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people with the victory speech. There were a
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  Speaker 1: couple of Curtis was in some sort of a look
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  Speaker 1: like a bar restaurant, like a pub on the Upper
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  Speaker 1: East Side doing his thing, and Mom Donnie had a
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  Speaker 1: big theater with a lot of people there. Cuomo for
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  Speaker 1: his election night rented the Zigfield Ballroom, which is right
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  Speaker 1: over there. It's right across the street from us. I
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  Speaker 1: can see it out the window. The Zigfield Ballroom is
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  Speaker 1: a very expensive venue. It's a very nice venue. People
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  Speaker 1: have their weddings there, big charity gallows. It's a very
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  Speaker 1: nice venue, but it's very expensive. I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: this Cuomo is thinking. Well, I know what he's thinking.
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  Speaker 1: He's got these billionaire donors, and again, they're lovely people,
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  Speaker 1: but when they get into politics, they don't know what
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  Speaker 1: the hell they're doing. And as long as they're paying
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  Speaker 1: for it. Cuomo takes the most enormous, big, beautiful venue.
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  Speaker 1: It's a venue that will hold a couple thousand people.
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  Speaker 1: He only had a couple hundred, so there was a
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  Speaker 1: lot of empty space. There no reason to take such
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  Speaker 1: an expensive place, but he did. It's the donor's money,
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  Speaker 1: what does he care? And he did his speech. It
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  Speaker 1: was a nice speech. It was a good speech.
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  Speaker 2: This campaign was to contest the philosophies that are shaping
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  Speaker 2: the Democratic Party, the future of this city and the
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  Speaker 2: future of this country. Well, all right, this campaign was
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  Speaker 2: the right fight to wage. And I am proud of
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  Speaker 2: what we did and what we did together.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he went on to he made this whole thing
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  Speaker 1: about we gave it our all, We fought our hearts out,
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  Speaker 1: we left everything on the field. Thank god a light
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  Speaker 1: detector wasn't hooked up to him. There would have been
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  Speaker 1: a massive blackout all over the East coast. But gave
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  Speaker 1: it all. He didn't campaign at all for the first
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  Speaker 1: couple of months. Even in recent times, he took ten
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  Speaker 1: days off in the middle of the elect I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: call that leaving it all on the field. But here's
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  Speaker 1: more of Cuomo.
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  Speaker 3: Two million voters, the largest number in modern political history,
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  Speaker 3: cared enough to show up in a municipal election, and.
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  Speaker 2: Forty two percent voted.
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  Speaker 3: For us on an independent line.
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  Speaker 1: All right, that's pretty good. Now. The only thing is
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  Speaker 1: you got to keep repeating this. You got to keep
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  Speaker 1: remembering this. If Curtis were not in the race, if
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  Speaker 1: Cuomo had every last Curtis voter, which is impossibly, wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have gotten them all. But if he had every Curtis voter,
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  Speaker 1: he still would have lost by a few points. And
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  Speaker 1: Mom Donnie won. This was the part nobody quite expected.
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  Speaker 1: Mom Donnie did win a majority of the votes, almost
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  Speaker 1: fifty one percent. He did win a majority of the votes.
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  Speaker 3: Congratulations to Zor on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's great. He still can't pronounce the guy's name.
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  Speaker 1: It's Mom Danni, but Cuomo always says mom, dammy.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations to Zoran Mondalmi.
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  Speaker 1: No no no, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, that is no, that is not right.
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  Speaker 3: That hey that is not right, and that is not us.
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  Speaker 1: That is not us. Clomo is the most gracious man.
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  Speaker 1: That's not us. He's a very gracious, humble when the
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  Speaker 1: camera's on, as soon as it's all oh, if he's
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  Speaker 1: threatening everybody, yelling, screaming at everybody.
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  Speaker 2: From the bottom of my heart, I thank each and every.
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  Speaker 1: One of you. I love you for.
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  Speaker 3: The fight you made, for the soul that you showed,
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  Speaker 3: and the example that you said.
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  Speaker 1: He loves you. You could drop dead, you'll step right
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  Speaker 1: over your body, But when the camera's on, when the
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  Speaker 1: MIC's on, he loves you. So now here's the thing
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  Speaker 1: about mom, Donnie. We know he's a phony, we know
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  Speaker 1: he's a con man, but we didn't know which way. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it looks like this is bad because when he made
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  Speaker 1: his big victory speech, that's normally when you congratulate Andrew
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  Speaker 1: Cuomo in a good fight and all that. But he
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  Speaker 1: got kind of ugly in the victory speech. This is
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  Speaker 1: something he didn't do in the campaign, Trilly. He was
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  Speaker 1: always the smiling salesman. He was a different guy in
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  Speaker 1: this victory speech. He got angry at times. He got
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  Speaker 1: really aggressively angry. Not just a Trump but at Cuomo.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I hoped I never utter his name again.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a kind of anger you don't usually show.
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  Speaker 1: So if this is the real hymn, this is not
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  Speaker 1: a good sign.
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  Speaker 4: In this new age we make for ourselves, we will
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  Speaker 4: refuse to allow those who traffic in division and hate
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  Speaker 4: to pity us against one another.
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  Speaker 1: There was this little campaign pitting you against the billionaires.
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  Speaker 1: The billionaires the right to get you and the gender.
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  Speaker 4: It will freeze the rents for more than two million rents,
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  Speaker 4: stabilized tenants, make bus is fast and free, and deliver
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  Speaker 4: universal childcare across in the city.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, now that all sounds great. Now you know
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  Speaker 1: he can't do it, but he tapped into something and
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  Speaker 1: this is what really the election was all about, and
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  Speaker 1: all over the country he was right about affordability. People
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  Speaker 1: are upset about prices, and it's not just product and play.
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  Speaker 1: Inflation is actually coming down. It's gonna you know, it
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  Speaker 1: takes a while. Biden had it at record heights. It's
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  Speaker 1: coming down. But still people feel that everything is too expensive,
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  Speaker 1: and they're talking about insurance and rent and all this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: People just think everything's too expensive and it's not that
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  Speaker 1: it's Trump's fault or anybody's fault. But when they feel
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  Speaker 1: that they'll vote against the establishment, they'll come out in
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  Speaker 1: great numbers and just they just hate the establishment, they
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  Speaker 1: blame them, and they'll go with the anti establishment candidates do.
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  Speaker 4: We won because we insisted that it no longer would
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  Speaker 4: politics be something that is done to us. Now it
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  Speaker 4: is something that we do.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what that meant, but it sounded good.
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  Speaker 4: Hope over turney, hope over big money and small ideas,
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  Speaker 4: hope over despair. We won because New Yorkers allowed themselves
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  Speaker 4: to hope that the impossible could be made possible.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope this guy's not gonna yell like this
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  Speaker 1: for four years. You get a headache after a while. Now.
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  Speaker 1: Actually the reason he's yelling Cuomo's in a massive ballroom,
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  Speaker 1: but there's only a handful of people there. This guy's
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  Speaker 1: he really had a crowd. This guy had thousands of people.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, even the press told me there was like
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  Speaker 1: a press line. You had to wait in line like
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  Speaker 1: an hour to get in. There was so much press
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  Speaker 1: to cover this.
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  Speaker 4: Every New Yorker whither you voted for me, for one
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  Speaker 4: of my opponents, or felt too disappointed by politics to
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  Speaker 4: vote at all. Thank you for the opportunity to prove
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  Speaker 4: myself worthy of your trust.
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  Speaker 1: Now let's remember it was the weirdest election, just a
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  Speaker 1: strange election. First of all, the Democrats. You got to
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  Speaker 1: be mad at them. Look what the Democrats did to
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats. They nominate a crazy socialist and then after
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  Speaker 1: that that's a problem. So now they tell you to
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  Speaker 1: vote for this disgraced governor who had to quit in
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  Speaker 1: total disgrace, who everybody hates that. This is the choice
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  Speaker 1: they gave you. The Republicans are R. Curtis is a
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  Speaker 1: pretty good guy, but there's no Republican Party. There was
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  Speaker 1: no machine behind him, no ground game, no get out
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  Speaker 1: the vote game, no anything. And you end up with
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  Speaker 1: You end up with Mom, Donnie, my friends.
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  Speaker 4: We have toppled a political dynasty New York tonight. You
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  Speaker 4: have delivered.
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  Speaker 1: Now the other thing it's do We don't have the clip,
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  Speaker 1: but he did say one point something thank you to
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Cuomo, and I'll be happy to have to never
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  Speaker 1: utter his name again. Well, okay, if you want to
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  Speaker 1: look at the silver lining or whatever, I think we're
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  Speaker 1: done with Cuomo. We don't ever have to worry about
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  Speaker 1: him taking office again. So you've probably finally rid of Cuomo.
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  Speaker 1: Although that guy's like herpies. It always comes back, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it never goes away forever. But it's been it's just
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  Speaker 1: been a weird, weird night. Everybody very up, so we
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  Speaker 1: don't know what's going to happen. The transition is underway.
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  Speaker 1: Eric Adams says that he had a transition team putting
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  Speaker 1: together everything a new mayor would need to have, see documents, books,
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  Speaker 1: explanations of things. They've been putting that together for weeks
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  Speaker 1: and they are beginning the process of handing it over
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  Speaker 1: to the Mom Donnie team. Now there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: de Blasio people on this Mom Donnie team, so they
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  Speaker 1: have some experience in city hall. But anyway, we've got
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  Speaker 1: a lot to get to. We'll go over the mail
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  Speaker 1: race throughout the show. We'll get to Jack Smith. It
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: turns out Jack Smith is Watergate times a million, bugging
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  Speaker 1: people's phones, even the President of the United States. He
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  Speaker 1: even tapped his phone. So, Woodward Bernstein, where are you?
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  Speaker 1: You should be on this story. But we'll get to
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  Speaker 1: all of this coming up. We'll take some calls next
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  Speaker 1: to see what people have to say, hey, once again,
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  Speaker 1: Curtis was not a factor. He didn't cost anybody to race.
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  Speaker 1: If you took every Curtis voter and added it into Cuomo,
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  Speaker 1: Cuomo still loses by a few points, but we'll take
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  Speaker 1: some calls. Next, eight hundred three to two, one zero
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  Speaker 1: seven ten is the number. Eight hundred three to two,
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  Speaker 1: one zero seven ten