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Highlights for Curtis and Larry · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: So Larry, Natalie, our audience, a lot of campaigns last
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  Speaker 1: night that didn't get any sleep, I can just tell you.
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  Speaker 1: Because of all the neck and neck races that are
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  Speaker 1: taking place from coast to coast, every last minute detail
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  Speaker 1: is being attended to. Are you going to get your
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  Speaker 1: vote out? If you're really highly organized, Larry, you may
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  Speaker 1: have an idea of what your vote is by 12 noon.
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  Speaker 1: If you've really convinced the people who support you, we
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  Speaker 1: need to know if you voted because they can then
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  Speaker 1: track you. And if you haven't voted, my God, your
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  Speaker 1: phone's going to blow up. You're going to get text messages, emails.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to come to your door. And they don't
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  Speaker 1: mind being treated like Jehovah Witnesses or Mormon missionaries. And
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  Speaker 1: they know you have the doorbell camera and they'll actually
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  Speaker 1: talk into the door. I know you're in there. I'm
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  Speaker 1: out of here. A car will take you to the
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  Speaker 1: polling location. We'll bring you back, especially in congressional elections
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  Speaker 1: where sometimes a small handful of votes can determine the
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  Speaker 1: winner either way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you think about it. It was air support before.
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  Speaker 2: It was $ 14 billion. This is like a war. They
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  Speaker 2: went in and they advertised on radio and on television
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  Speaker 2: across the country, $ 14 billion worth of advertising across the country.
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  Speaker 2: And now it's a ground game. Now you have to
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  Speaker 2: get your people out there to get out your vote.
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  Speaker 2: And you have to knock on doors. You have to
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  Speaker 2: call people. You have to text people. I mean, you're right.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to be inundated today with getting out the vote.
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  Speaker 2: And at stake– well, at this point, you must know
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  Speaker 2: what's at stake. At stake is the future of the country.
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  Speaker 2: At stake is the next two years. Is it going
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  Speaker 2: to be a complete stalemate with one taking the House
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  Speaker 2: and the other taking the Senate, one party taking the House,
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  Speaker 2: the other taking the Senate? Is it going to be impeachment, impeachment, impeachment,
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  Speaker 2: impeachment and trials against Donald Trump if the Democrats take both?
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  Speaker 2: Or are we going to continue the way we've been
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  Speaker 2: going along with Republicans– taking both houses, both chambers. Look,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think the latter is going to happen at
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  Speaker 2: this point. I just looked at the Cook Report this
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  Speaker 2: morning and we were talking about it. And as you know,
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  Speaker 2: I follow the Cook Report and subscribe to it because
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  Speaker 2: it has been one of the best, if not the best,
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  Speaker 2: in predicting these things. And it doesn't show good news
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  Speaker 2: this morning for the Republicans when it comes to the
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  Speaker 2: House especially. The Senate is absolutely in play, and I
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  Speaker 2: do think that some of the things that happened over
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  Speaker 2: the last week or so is going to have an effect. However,
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  Speaker 2: I will tell you the bad news. Now, they had
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  Speaker 2: seven in the Cook Report. They had seven states as toss-ups.
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  Speaker 2: They now have six. For some reason, even after the
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  Speaker 2: events in Michigan, for some reason, they have moved Michigan
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  Speaker 2: to leaning Democratic. So if you lose that one seat,
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  Speaker 2: you can't lose many more. The Democrats have to win
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  Speaker 2: four to take control of the Senate. They have to
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  Speaker 2: take four. If they only take three, it'll be a
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  Speaker 2: 50 to 50 tie. And then J.D. Vance has the
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  Speaker 2: deciding vote. So it's going to be razor thin in
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  Speaker 2: the Senate tonight. But man, you know, you were just
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  Speaker 2: talking about it a second ago, how close this is
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  Speaker 2: going to be. This is a really monumental midterm election
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  Speaker 2: so far. And I heard Ted Cruz use this line
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  Speaker 2: last night in Texas. So far, the Democrats have been
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  Speaker 2: out there in mass in early voting. There have been
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  Speaker 2: millions of early votes already cast and mostly Democrats. So
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  Speaker 2: if the election were to end today, the Democrats would
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  Speaker 2: take the House and the Senate. And so this is
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  Speaker 2: when Republicans are motivated. This is when Republicans like to vote.
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  Speaker 2: So this is your day. It's not a day to
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  Speaker 2: stay home. It's not a day to make excuses. If
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  Speaker 2: you have something going on today, you may just want
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  Speaker 2: to make an hour for yourself to get out there
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  Speaker 2: and vote because every vote is going to count in
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  Speaker 2: this one. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And look, just some advice. You go to your polling location.
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  Speaker 1: It's always a mess up. Sometimes it's their fault. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: it's not their fault. Don't get into arguments because there'll
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  Speaker 1: be constant delays. Just ask. You just say to yourself, look,
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  Speaker 1: I just want an affidavit. You fill it out. They
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  Speaker 1: put it in a special box. Now, in some of
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  Speaker 1: these congressional elections, like Tierney, upstate New York, which only
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  Speaker 1: won like by 10 votes, they go to that box
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  Speaker 1: the last thing because they first have to prove you're registered.
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  Speaker 1: And they can do that. But they don't have time
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  Speaker 1: sometimes when you're at the table. And let's face it,
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  Speaker 1: some of these poll polls. Workers say, my God, you
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  Speaker 1: wonder if they could pass a Department of Motor Vehicles test.
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  Speaker 1: They have a little difficulty. So don't get into arguments.
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  Speaker 1: Don't wear political attire of any type. Like, Larry, you see,
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  Speaker 1: I'm wearing my, you know, the people's mayor. I can't
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  Speaker 1: go in with that. Don't tell me none of them.
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  Speaker 1: can't go into so don't even try to get cute
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  Speaker 1: just don't wear any political sort of markings on you
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  Speaker 1: whatsoever buttons whatever because they may just put you outside
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  Speaker 1: you get in a huff and a puff no no
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  Speaker 1: just abide by their rules Make sure you get your
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  Speaker 1: ballot in in plenty of time. And I want to start, Larry,
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  Speaker 1: before we talk about your great coverage tonight for all
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  Speaker 1: the election results. I want to start because everybody is
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  Speaker 1: into this now. The Curtis Sliwa political prediction market.
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's into this now. Why can't I? Everybody has a podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Why can't I have the Curtis Sliwa political prediction marketplace?
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  Speaker 1: So I'm predicting and I'm going on the high side.
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  Speaker 1: That the Democrats will have, when all is said and done,
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  Speaker 1: and you'll be disputed races that don't get resolved for
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  Speaker 1: a whole day, sometimes weeks, whatever, 240 Democratic seats. And
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  Speaker 1: in the Senate, I think when all is said and done,
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats will have 53 seats. So either I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to be eating a lot of crow tomorrow. or people
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  Speaker 1: are going to say, my God, I'm ready to fund
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  Speaker 1: the Curtis Leeward prediction marketplace. Look, Larry, everybody else is
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  Speaker 1: doing it. Why can't I do it? No, you're right.
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  Speaker 2: And it's absolutely possible. The number you threw out there
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  Speaker 2: is absolutely possible. That's what's so fascinating about this election.
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  Speaker 2: If you look at the polls, it's really bad for Republicans.
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  Speaker 2: But remember, the polls have been embarrassingly wrong in some
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  Speaker 2: of the past elections. You remember when Hillary Clinton ran
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  Speaker 2: against Donald Trump, everybody thought that Hillary Clinton was going
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  Speaker 2: to win. Including Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: The most surprised man in the world on that stage
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  Speaker 1: that night when they said, Mr. President. What? What? And
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  Speaker 1: then Hillary got into a fetal position at Jacob Javits
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  Speaker 1: Center for a full month. She couldn't get off the podium. No,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't lose. Just say it ain't so. But these
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  Speaker 1: are the kinds of the political drama that takes place
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  Speaker 1: no matter what the polls say, no matter what the
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  Speaker 1: prognosticators say. But Larry, you're going to have some great
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  Speaker 1: coverage tonight. Can you give many listeners an opportunity why
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  Speaker 1: they should listen to you at 710WOR and all your contributors?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going to have people across the country. We're
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  Speaker 2: certainly going to have people in Texas and in Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: And there's going to be just a national ballot watcher
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  Speaker 2: nationally that's going to check in every once in a while.
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  Speaker 2: Daria Albinger is going to be here. And Andrew Whitman,
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  Speaker 2: who is a political aficionado, you hear him on WOR overnights.
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  Speaker 2: But this guy knows local races better than anybody I've
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  Speaker 2: ever talked to before. We're also going to have some guests,
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  Speaker 2: including Rob Astorino. We're going to have Mark Kelly coming
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  Speaker 2: in also as well. So in New Jersey, J.C. Polanco,
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  Speaker 2: the political aficionado that is used on all of the
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  Speaker 2: local stations, he's going to come and talk to us first.
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  Speaker 2: So we have a night full of people that we're
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  Speaker 2: going to talk. And remember, we're going on the air
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  Speaker 2: at 7 o'clock, from 7 to 11 o'clock. At 7 o'clock,
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina closes. That's going to be the first of
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  Speaker 2: the tightrope. Senate races. We're going to learn a lot
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  Speaker 2: from that race. Those early races, and then at 8
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  Speaker 2: o'clock you're going to have Maine and some of the
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  Speaker 2: other races. We're going to learn Ohio. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: learn so much from those early races. If all of
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  Speaker 2: them were to switch and go Democratic, it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a bad night for Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: Can I do this? Can I have permission, Natalie, our
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  Speaker 1: producer extraordinaire? That if, in fact, Joe Bartlett was wrong
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  Speaker 1: with his predictions about the demise of Darlene Graham. the
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  Speaker 1: Republican Senate who replaced her brother who passed away. Can
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  Speaker 1: I wake him up in the wee hours of the morning?
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  Speaker 1: Cause you know, I'm nocturnal. I think he would so
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  Speaker 1: appreciate that phone call.
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  Speaker 2: It would be amazing. It would be historic if Darlene
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  Speaker 2: Graham were to lose. I mean, I don't know when
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  Speaker 2: the last time Fritz Hollings, I think was the last
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  Speaker 2: democratic center of South Carolina, probably back in the eighties
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  Speaker 2: or nineties. I mean, It has been a long time.
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  Speaker 2: The most surprising one would be Texas. You have to
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  Speaker 2: go way back, maybe to the 50s, to find the
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  Speaker 2: last Democratic senator there. But all that's on the line tonight.
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  Speaker 2: All of that is possible. History is possible tonight. You
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  Speaker 2: can change much of that by just getting out to vote.
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  Speaker 2: That's the most important thing you can do personally right
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  Speaker 2: now because the way it looks right now, now with
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  Speaker 2: the early voting, we need a wave of Republican votes
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  Speaker 2: to help the Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, this is their day. Remember, Republicans are used
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  Speaker 1: to voting on Election Day. This is what Republicans bank on.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they're doing early voting. They're doing mail-in ballots.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of states, it's required. You got to do mail-in.
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  Speaker 1: There's no polling location to go to. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're segueing. But I would say you are absolutely correct.
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  Speaker 1: When I check the polling locations on Election Day, it's
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  Speaker 1: mostly Republicans. Most of the Democrats have, you know, done
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  Speaker 1: their duty and voted either early voting or by mail.
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  Speaker 1: So they don't even bother to show up at the
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  Speaker 1: polling location. So if you were doing an impromptu poll,
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  Speaker 1: you'd say, wow, Republicans are doing great. Well, hold on
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  Speaker 1: a second. The Dems did great in early voting and
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  Speaker 1: in mail-in voting. So now it's a question of the count.
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  Speaker 1: And the states vary, Larry. Some of the states, boom,
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  Speaker 1: you'll know right away. Other states, you'll be waiting a
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  Speaker 1: month to Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: And you can't pay attention to the polls right now.
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  Speaker 2: You can't pay attention to the early voting right now.
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  Speaker 2: Remember the last midterm elections. when i was supposed to
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  Speaker 2: go and the republicans one i will buy six percentage
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  Speaker 2: points so you can't look at the polls the polls
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  Speaker 2: have been awfully wrong especially when it comes to the
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  Speaker 2: republican vote so don't get demoralized. You just got to vote.
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  Speaker 1: And let me tell you something. Jimmy Failure will be
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  Speaker 1: with us in studio 8 to 9. He has traveled
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  Speaker 1: all over the country doing his stand-up shows. He'll give
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  Speaker 1: us a pretty good idea of what's transpiring across America.
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  Speaker 1: But up next, we're going to discuss the man who
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  Speaker 1: walked around the world. That's right. He walked around the world,
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  Speaker 1: plus a chance to see Def Leppard. And the Google
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  Speaker 1: Dolls at 825. The conversation continues. Curtis Lewa and Larry Mendte. 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it is Election Day, and what a great time
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  Speaker 2: to talk to John Decker, White House and Washington correspondent,
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  Speaker 2: host of the podcast, The White House Briefing Room with
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  Speaker 2: John Decker. You can find that on the iHeartRadio app. So, John,
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  Speaker 2: there has been some surprises in this midterm election. Nobody
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  Speaker 2: thought South Carolina would be in play or Kansas or Nebraska,
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  Speaker 2: all Republican strongholds. So it feels a little bit like
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  Speaker 2: a Democratic year. I think there was some hope at
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  Speaker 2: first they could hold the Senate. That hope is questionable now.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it is.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think that the House is definitely going
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  Speaker 3: to flip, that Democrats will control the House of Representatives
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  Speaker 3: after this midterm election. It's just about how much the
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  Speaker 3: margin will be. On the Senate side, you're right. There
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  Speaker 3: are a number of states that at the very beginning
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  Speaker 3: of this cycle, no one thought would be at play.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we're talking about Texas, for instance, Alaska. But
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  Speaker 3: because of certain headwinds, the Republicans are not doing well there.
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  Speaker 3: And those are two really good pickup opportunities for Democrats
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  Speaker 3: this midterm election cycle.
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  Speaker 1: Now, John Decker, I notice in the president's closing remarks
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  Speaker 1: at my favorite location, the reflection pool, I didn't hear
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  Speaker 1: the bravado that I've heard before when he's on the stump,
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  Speaker 1: either for himself or fellow Republicans, where he was saying,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to win so much you're going to get
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  Speaker 1: tired of winning. It was almost like he had reserved
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  Speaker 1: himself to understand he's going to lose the House.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I can't get inside President Donald Trump's head, and
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  Speaker 3: I don't think anyone can, Curtis, but I think that
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  Speaker 3: you're right in terms of the tone. There's no doubt
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  Speaker 3: about it. I was there yesterday when the president made
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  Speaker 3: his remarks for about an hour at the reflecting pool
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  Speaker 3: at the Lincoln Memorial, and the very first part of
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  Speaker 3: that speech was a little odd. It was tone deaf
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  Speaker 3: in the sense that if it's a closing message, I
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  Speaker 3: think you want to reach out to those undecided voters,
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  Speaker 3: those voters on the fence, and explain why Republicans should
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  Speaker 3: get your vote. Instead, the president talked about some of
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  Speaker 3: the projects that the White House and the president have
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  Speaker 3: pursued during the course of his one and a half
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  Speaker 3: plus years back in the White House, including the reflecting pool.
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  Speaker 3: There's no doubt about it. These various projects have beautified Washington, D.C.,
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  Speaker 3: but was yesterday the time to make that argument? I
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  Speaker 3: don't think so. I think, you know, the second half
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  Speaker 3: of the speech made more sense than the first half
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  Speaker 3: of the speech, which focused on all the work that
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  Speaker 3: went into the reflecting pool.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if the scenario works out the way that
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  Speaker 2: most people think it's going to happen, or at least
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  Speaker 2: it's very possible to happen, where the Democrats take the
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  Speaker 2: House and the Republicans still hold on to the Senate,
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  Speaker 2: either have a tie and J.D. Vance has the deciding vote,
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  Speaker 2: or they win by one vote, then what is going
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  Speaker 2: to happen? Is the government just almost shut down for
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  Speaker 2: a while because nothing's gonna get through?
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's right. I think the only thing that will
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  Speaker 3: get through if your scenario plays out and Republicans control
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  Speaker 3: the Senate but not the House is that the president's
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  Speaker 3: ability to name certain individuals for open positions that require
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  Speaker 3: Senate confirmation it makes it that much more easier. Having
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  Speaker 3: said all that, you'll also have to take into account
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  Speaker 3: that the numbers may not be the same that existed
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  Speaker 3: before this midterm election. So you have certain senators, certainly
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  Speaker 3: during the lame duck session, they're in place still. But
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  Speaker 3: also beyond that, Lisa Murkowski is still there. So is
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  Speaker 3: she always a yes vote for everything that the personnel
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  Speaker 3: decision that the president wants confirmed by the U.S. Senate?
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so. So you have to factor that
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  Speaker 3: into account. And also, let's just say for argument's sake,
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  Speaker 3: it's 50-50. We love hypotheticals, Larry and Curtis. What about
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  Speaker 3: John Fetterman? Does he switch parties? That is interesting to
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  Speaker 3: see whether or not that actually happens. You know, he,
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  Speaker 3: like all senators, like all lawmakers, focused exclusively first and
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  Speaker 3: foremost on on political survival. And I just don't see
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  Speaker 3: how he survives, you know, if he wants to run
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  Speaker 3: for a second term in the U.S. Senate as a Democrat.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think he's going to get elected and win
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  Speaker 3: that nomination as a Democratic senator from Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 1: Now, John, we've talked to you many times about Supreme
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  Speaker 1: Court rulings. I saw yesterday there was an unsigned order,
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  Speaker 1: which is always difficult for me to understand. is that
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  Speaker 1: they weren't going to do anything that they had been
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  Speaker 1: asked to do to give permission to the Trump administration
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  Speaker 1: to involve themselves with state run elections. Could you explain that,
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  Speaker 1: what that is?
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  Speaker 3: Well, what that is, I think more than anything else is,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you're asking the Supreme Court to weigh in
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  Speaker 3: on a decision which would impact in a certain way
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  Speaker 3: the vote count in California a day before the presidential election,
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  Speaker 3: and the Supreme Court just doesn't want to go there.
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  Speaker 3: Every justice on the Supreme Court doesn't want to go there. Now,
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  Speaker 3: if this issue came up, let's say 60 days ago,
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  Speaker 3: 90 days ago, perhaps they would have weighed in on
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  Speaker 3: this issue, but they're not going to do it 48
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  Speaker 3: hours before the midterm election date takes place, November the 3rd.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that's what that decision was all about.
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  Speaker 3: Also keep in mind, two lower federal courts had ruled
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  Speaker 3: against the administration on this particular issue, essentially segregating 20,000
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  Speaker 3: ballots that went out from California. Two lower courts said,
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  Speaker 3: you can't do that. There's no possible way of doing that.
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  Speaker 3: And so I think that's what that decision by the
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  Speaker 3: Supreme Court yesterday was all about. No dissent from the
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  Speaker 3: Supreme Court yesterday, even from the most conservative justices like
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  Speaker 3: Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
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  Speaker 1: What about Alaska?
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  Speaker 2: I know that that's been in the courts now, and
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  Speaker 2: one of the courts denied the movement the request to
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  Speaker 2: take away the other Dan Sullivan's votes until they can
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  Speaker 2: be counted and checked on later to find out if
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  Speaker 2: that's exactly where people wanted to vote on. But that
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  Speaker 2: is going to be appealed by the Justice Department. Where
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  Speaker 2: does this go?
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  Speaker 3: Well, just the way you described it, it would go
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  Speaker 3: to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, That covers the
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  Speaker 3: District of Alaska. As you point out, Larry, a federal
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  Speaker 3: district court judge has already ruled against the federal government,
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  Speaker 3: ruled against the Department of Justice on this particular matter,
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  Speaker 3: and we'll see what happens at the appellate level. I
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: think that the arguments being put forward by the administration
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: were not good arguments, and I think they're going to lose,
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: even if it were to go all the way up
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: to the U.S. Supreme Court.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: John, once again, the last thing we're talking about is Iran,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: the war with Iran. Yesterday, it seemed to spark up hopes.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: The vice president commented we're in active negotiations through Qatar
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: with Iran. Iran acknowledged that that is correct. Do you
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: have any updates on that?
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Well, the update is Iran said, well, we have an
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: idea to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. And it was
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: essentially an idea that they've put forward time and time again.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: They want to get reimbursed for all of the damage
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: that has been inflicted upon Iran, reparations. That's a non-starter.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: It's pretty clear it's been a non-starter the first, the second,
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: the third time they asked for that. And they also
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: said they would like to see their frozen assets unfrozen.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: That is also a non-starter as far as the U.S.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Is concerned.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: So we're back at square one. The president has said
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: time and time again that Iran will want to negotiate
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: an end to the war. But after the midterms, I
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: don't know. I haven't seen any indication of that. This
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: could be something that, you know, continues all the way
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: through 2028. in the sense that Iran may say, you
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: know what, we impacted the midterm elections. Maybe we can
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: impact the presidential election as well.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about the other scenario. President Trump has said
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: time and time again that if the Democrats take the
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: House and the Senate, which is a real possibility, they
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: are going to impeach me. And many of the Democrats,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: none of the leadership did, but many of the Democrats
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: like Ro Khanna have come out and said, yeah, we're
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: absolutely going to try to impeach him. But it seems
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: like at first they have their target on Pete Hegseth,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: the Secretary of War, who they really don't seem to like.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: Well, that's right. And he may not have the kind
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: of support that he needs to have from Republicans. So
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: I think that he could be one of those administration
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: officials who departs after the midterm elections on his own
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: rather than face the wrath of senators who would like
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: to see him gone and may start the process of impeachment.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: As it relates to impeachment for President Trump, which would
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: be his third impeachment, I don't know what those articles
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: of impeachment look like. I don't know on what grounds
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: you'd impeach the president. But remember, impeachment is a process.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: It's a political process. You would have the votes to
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: impeach the president in the House, simple majority. You need
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: 67 votes in the Senate once it goes over to
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: the Senate. to remove the president, and you're not going
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: to get anywhere near that. So it's just that, Larry
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: and Curtis. It would be a political exercise.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: One final quick question. I'm concerned about cyber attacks on
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: the electronic equipment. We know Iran has the capability. We
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: know others. All they have to do is hit one
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: state where the vote is neck and neck, and that
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: could throw the final results into chaos. They have the
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: ability to do that. Each state does their own thing.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Can the federal government protect that process from cyber attack?
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, certain governors, even Democratic governors like Washington State,
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: they've brought in the National Guard for this purpose. You know,
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: it has to do with what you just mentioned, Curtis,
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: these potential cyber attacks coming from bad actors, from foreign actors.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: And so I don't know what may or may not
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: happen today. I think that this is something that has
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: not just sprung up. Election entities in various states prepare
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: for this day literally for years. So I'm sure that
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: they have certain processes already in place to prevent the
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: kind of scenario that you're talking about. Let's hope that's
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: the case. I would hate to see a delay because
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: of a cyber attack being caused by a foreign actor
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: on election systems in various states.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: John Decker, thanks so much. You've got a busy day ahead.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: WOR White House and Washington correspondent and host of the podcast,
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: The White House Briefing Room with John Decker. You can
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: find that on the iHeartRadio app. Thank you so much, John. Trish. Well,
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: we have breaking news. Donald Trump just announced that the
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: United States will stop providing its annual $ 4 billion in
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: funding to Israel by the end of the year. Trump
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: made this statement on Fox and Friends just a moment
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: ago that he and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: a mutual agreement months ago to end the yearly direct
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: aid package and just announced it today. The financial assistance
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: is scheduled to stop completely after the end of 2026.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: It'll be pared back through the end of the year.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Trump added that the U.S. would still assist Israel in
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: the future if they need it through specific terms. Specific
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: terms of any replacement framework remain under discussion at this point.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: The decision follows ongoing discussions between Washington and Jerusalem regarding
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: a potential restructuring of of the decades-long defense relationship.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Wow. So this is really in response to that ad
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: that never made it to TV in Michigan. Remember the husband?
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: wife yes looking at oh you got to put the
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: eggs back i thought the kids like eggs well we
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: can't afford it because we're sending all of our money
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: to israel to kill palestinians and then they tick off
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: you know it's a socialist country yeah their health care
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: we pay for free education we don't even get it
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: here so i will bet you they've done some internal
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: polling and realized that people in the many of these
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: places are friendlier now to the palestinians than they are
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: to bb and israel.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's horrifying because we give them $ 4 billion in aid.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: We spend about $ 50 billion all in. So how our
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: aid to Israel is the driver of prices and not
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: the totality of aid seems like a very specific targeting
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: of a very specific group. That commercial said eggs were
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: $ 7 a carton. Okay, the national average is $ 2. 39 right now.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: So the fact that they were ginning up that much
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: rage means on some level they have succeeded in creating
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: a moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas. And that's what
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: Abdul Al-Sayed does, which is disgusting. He was asked on
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: 60 Minutes if Israel's our friend. And he said, say
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: you have a friend, you walk down the street, you
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: see a bear sleeping. And you're like, we better leave
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: that bear alone. But your friend's like, no, let's poke
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: the bear. He goes, that's what Israel did.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: I go, no, no, no.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: But that is such a disgusting framing of where we're
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: at in Gaza. The bear paraglided into a rave and
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: killed 2000 Israelis before Israel responded. So I think, you know,
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: this Abdul Al-Sayed thing is that He literally is catering
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: to a constituency that hates the Jews. There's no way
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: around that. There's not, you know, on the money side
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: for America. I get the Trump side because it is
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: four billion and USAID. They need that money to produce
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: gay Sesame Street in Iraq, transgender mice in Namibia. It's like,
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: are these mice just going to trans themselves? They're not.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: No transgender mice in Namibia? I mean, not anymore if
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: we don't run out of money.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: I mean, did you read those USAID studies? We spent
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: $ 50 million airlifting condoms into Gaza because apparently Gaza Strip
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: is a gentleman's club now.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: I didn't know. What's even happening? That's a great point.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: The money that was spent through USAID was ridiculous.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: And it was spread out all over the world for
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: some of the things that you just mentioned. By the way,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: I will say that you talked about this might be
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: in reaction to the campaign. The president did say this
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: agreement was worked out months ago. Mm-hmm.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: But the timing of this is curious to me.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: It is. It is. But I just want to make sure.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: It's being election day and all.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: I get it. Yeah, yeah.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: If you're thinking of voting for Mike Rogers, you see,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: it's okay. It's okay. Now, question here. Okay, you've been
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: a prevaricator on this. You have been known to make
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: a few wagers in your lifetime. Every time you've appeared
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: with us, you've talked about the times that you didn't
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: have two nickels to rub together because you were gambling.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Larry has gone to these market sites. I gamble with
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: my life. But I have decided if everybody can set
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: up a prediction market like everybody has a podcast now,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: I can do it too. The Curtis Sliwa Political Prediction Market.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: So we are going to partake right here. And Natalie,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: our producer, is going to write it down and hermetically
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: seal the envelope. So tomorrow when I return with Larry,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: we'll open up that envelope and we will– actually point
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: out what your choice was for the House and Senate, Larry,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: yours and mine. I love that.
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: Why don't we put them in the same bag Tish
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: James is carrying the votes in out of Westchester?
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: That way we can change them.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Perfect. That's wonderful.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: What a great idea. By the way, these prediction markets
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: all have money involved. Are we putting money up?
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: I'll throw a couple of bucks down. I have a problem,
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: so you're asking the wrong guy. Come here.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Come on. Yeah, you really perked up right there.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Hold on a second. On iHeart information here, Natalie, are
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: we permitted to make wages on the air, you know,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: or does that offend the corporate rules?
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: It's monopoly money. We're betting monopoly money.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Well, how about loaves of Italian bread?
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: Oh, from Canuck. That means if I lose, I've got
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: to go do another 40 minutes in Fairfield, New Jersey.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: I thought you loved it.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: I did love it. I'm just saying. That's a lot
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: of Steve Hill. I'm the only one who has to
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: go to Jersey here. So this is like professional gambling here.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: The cameras are on us. And I am predicting I
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: am going high for the Democrats. Not because I was
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: smoking anything that would get me high, but I'm saying.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Hopefully you write this down. The Democrats will win 240 seats.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Stop it. See, I know you would have a jaundiced response.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: That's bananas. And the Democrats will end up with 53
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: seats in the Senate. What? All right, we'll match. Go ahead.
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: No, I get to respond to that?
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Yes, of course you do.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: Okay, I was just waiting for you to make your
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: real prediction.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: I thought I was the comedian. The little did I know.
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: 240 seats. Listen, I get the Democrats. 218 is the
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: number they need to win the House. I do think
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: the map favors them. They'll win the House at about 220.
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: That's my guess. Yes, and I will take those 53
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: seats and I will give them to the Republicans. They're
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: going to win the Senate.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: And now, Larry. You've been following this show. What is
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: that line that you follow oftentimes? You say that. usually
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: pretty good in predicting these races.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: The Cook Report.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: The Cook Report says that 18 seats are already going
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: to go. Wow. Yeah, they have them. Toss-ups are now
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: going over to lean Democrats. So it's not a good time.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: But I'm still going to go, just assuming that the
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: polls are off a little bit, I'm still going to
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: go lower. I'll say 226 in the House. And I'm
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: going to, man, 51. 51 Republicans.
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: That's probably where it is going to be. It's going
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: to be thin, but it's what I expect. I don't
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: think Democrats will win the Senate. I think it's really
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: hard to sell some of these policies at a statewide level.
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: I think it's a challenge. Angie Nixon down in Florida
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: is down to saying they won't vote for me because
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: Florida is racist. Meanwhile, they're about to elect a black governor.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: You're contradicting yourself on that level.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Tough sale. Very tough sale. Where do you think The
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: golden boy is tonight, you know, leaving his oyster beds
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: in Maine. Platner, remember, Platner was going to set a
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: new trend.
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: Yes, he was.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: What do you think he's going to be doing tonight?
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: His side chick?
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: That guy.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: That guy.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: Commendable drive. I'm not as motivated as that guy. I mean,
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: he really kept up the balloon even during the campaign.
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: You know, obviously, I think she's going to win. Troy
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: Jackson's been a bad candidate. The polls always underestimate her.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: So I do think he's going to pull an Elvis
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: and shoot a TV at some point.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: This will be her sixth re-election. And I think in
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: every single one, they predicted she was going to lose.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: Every time, man. That's the thing about the polls. As
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: much as every report that we trust is saying, well,
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: this many seats, that's still based on the polls.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: Because we definitely live in a moment where they give
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: you polls, as you guys know, not to reflect opinion,
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: but to shape it. So I don't know. I don't know.
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: I'm standing by my bets, though. Your bets are crazy.
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: You said, what, 240?
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: That's right, 240 in the House, Democrats, 53 in the Senate. Look,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: if you're guessing my weight, 240 is respectable. Okay, but
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: 240 for seats is not respectable.