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Hour 2: Will New Jersey turn red? · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: The Mark Simonell on sevent tenor well.
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Speaker 2: Hey, we'll get to Dick Cheney, who passed away. We
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Speaker 2: learned this morning. We'll get to that in a moment.
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Speaker 2: We'll get to a lot more coming up now, don't
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Speaker 2: forget get out and vote today. The polls are open
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Speaker 2: un till nine o'clock in New York. Make sure you
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Speaker 2: get out and vote. Here in New York City, turnout
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Speaker 2: is headed to all time record. Three hundred thousand people
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Speaker 2: have voted already and this is early, so it'll go
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Speaker 2: over a million today most likely, and then the total
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Speaker 2: will be over two million, which is huge, could be
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Speaker 2: even more. We don't know. The weather is good today,
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Speaker 2: there'll be heavy turnout at the polls. Make sure you
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Speaker 2: get out and vote. Obviously, you don't want Mom Donnie
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Speaker 2: to win. The other thing is you got all the
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Speaker 2: city council seats are up. You can change the entire
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Speaker 2: city council. This is very important. The city council actually
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Speaker 2: very often has more power than the mayor. So if
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Speaker 2: you want to protect against Mom, throw out all the
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Speaker 2: left wing cooks in the city council, replace them with
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Speaker 2: the conservative reasonable people. And same thing with district attorneys.
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Speaker 2: You can get rid of Alvin Bragg today. Vote for
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Speaker 2: Maud Marin, very good Republican candidates. She'll put people in
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Speaker 2: jail unlike Unlike Alvin Bragg. Also make sure Westchester County
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Speaker 2: vote for the Republican, a better choice for you. The
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Speaker 2: same thing. Long Island, obviously, vote for Bruce Blake when
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Speaker 2: he's the best county executive in America. Connecticut, they don't
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Speaker 2: have county executives. They got mayors. Our closest suburb is Greenwich.
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Speaker 2: Vote for Fred Camillo, He's an excellent mayor. New Jersey
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Speaker 2: obviously you want Jack Chitdarelli, not Mikey Cheryl. And you
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Speaker 2: got races around the country, and again here in New
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Speaker 2: York City. You can't predict anything. These polls are kind
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Speaker 2: of meaningless. They're just little junkie polling companies that aren't
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Speaker 2: very good. And there'd been no serious polls by any
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Speaker 2: major polling company in the whole mayor oal race, so
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Speaker 2: we don't really know anything. And turnout is so huge
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Speaker 2: it's way beyond the model any of the polling companies used,
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Speaker 2: So anything could happen today. Get out there and vote.
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Speaker 2: You're supposed to Traditionally go to a sporting event if
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Speaker 2: you're a candidate before the election. Cuomo was seen at
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Speaker 2: the next game. You remember sitting in those front row seats,
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Speaker 2: which are like ten thousand a ticket. So Mom Donnie
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Speaker 2: went to see a game. Mom Donnie went to see
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Speaker 2: the Knicks, but he made sure to sit way up
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Speaker 2: in the back of the balcony of the bleachers. He
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Speaker 2: sat in the cheapest seats he could find. Oh, it's
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Speaker 2: a Knicks game. How much of those cheap seats eight
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Speaker 2: hundred dollars a seat? Yeah, those Cuomo seats are actually
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Speaker 2: ten thousand dollars seats. Let me say, I can't find
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Speaker 2: the price for the Mam Donnie seats, but forge there
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Speaker 2: about eight hundred. It's not though what you call your
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Speaker 2: affordability there. But okay, okay, wait, Actually, on the secondary market,
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Speaker 2: two hundred dollars, you can get a two hundred dollars seat.
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Speaker 2: That's a lot to sit in the very very very back.
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Speaker 2: We'll get back to the mayoral race. Let's just get
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Speaker 2: to Dick Cheney for a second. Dick Cheney's in a
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Speaker 2: This is an interesting case. Dick Cheney had a long
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Speaker 2: career in politics. He was Gerald Ford's chief of staff.
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Speaker 2: He did everything you could do in government. He was
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Speaker 2: a Secretary of Defense, he was a vice president. Some
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Speaker 2: think he was exactly president for a while there. And
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Speaker 2: he was a very hated guy. During the Bush years,
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Speaker 2: they hated Bush. That's where the term first came from.
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Speaker 2: They called it Bush derangement syndrome. That was used a
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Speaker 2: lot in the early two thousands, Bush derangement syndrome. But
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Speaker 2: it was Cheney they hated the most. They called him
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Speaker 2: Darth Vader. They hated this Cheney so much, and when
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Speaker 2: he was vice president, they made up a whole fake scandal,
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Speaker 2: the Halliburton scandal. Cheney at one time had been the chairman,
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Speaker 2: the CEO of Halliburton. In between government shops, he went
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Speaker 2: to work for them because he was a Secretary of Defense.
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Speaker 2: That's usually who they hire over there. But he had
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Speaker 2: nothing to do with Halliburton getting any contracts. They made
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Speaker 2: it look like he got his old company all these
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Speaker 2: contracts with the Bush administration's Halliburton contracts in Iraq. Halliburton
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Speaker 2: had all the contracts. This is total fake news. They
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Speaker 2: even launched fake hearings. What was that guy Henry Waxman,
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Speaker 2: You remember him with the mustache looked like one of
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Speaker 2: those silent movie villains. And they held hearings on how
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Speaker 2: did how that hell did Halliburton get these contracts and
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Speaker 2: was Cheney profiting off this and Halliburton his old company
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Speaker 2: in the contracts? And then media covered this in MSNBS.
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Speaker 2: It was a big scandal. They never once explained to
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Speaker 2: you that the Bush administration inherited these contracts. The Clinton
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Speaker 2: administration had the same exact contracts with Aliburton every administration.
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Speaker 2: The reason nobody else can do the work. It's the
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Speaker 2: only company you can use, Halliburton. But they made up
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Speaker 2: this whole fake scandal even sixty minutes once did the
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Speaker 2: piece about it to well, other people can cap the
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Speaker 2: oil wells in Iraq, And they interviewed oil well companies,
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Speaker 2: do you know how to cap? And oh, yes, of
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Speaker 2: course we could. Now they never explained it. This is
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Speaker 2: sixty minutes totally conning you. They never explained to you. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: other companies can do that, but they can't do it
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Speaker 2: in a war zone. You have to have special equipment, facilities,
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Speaker 2: special insurance, all kinds of special training to operate in
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Speaker 2: a war zone. Only Haliburton had that. That's how they
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Speaker 2: had the contracts, and then they did another fake thing.
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Speaker 2: It was no bid contracts. You heard that all the
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Speaker 2: time Cheney got these Halliburton these no bid contracts. Well
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Speaker 2: they were always bid. Every contract was bid. They just
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Speaker 2: didn't bid individual jobs because and think about this, You're
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Speaker 2: in the middle of a war and all of a
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Speaker 2: sudden they blow up the oil field. Well, you can't
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Speaker 2: go start a two month bidding process to put out
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Speaker 2: the fire. You got to have somebody ready to go.
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Speaker 2: So it was actually al Gore that came up with
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Speaker 2: this system, was called the log cap system. They would
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Speaker 2: bid in a contractor for a two year period. If
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Speaker 2: you were the winning bid, you had all the contracts
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Speaker 2: for two years. That way, emergency happened, you could go
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Speaker 2: right in. Al Gore came up with that. So Haliburton
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Speaker 2: always always won the bidding for the log cap contracts.
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Speaker 2: Only one time did they lose. They actually lost the
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Speaker 2: bidding once. It was during the Clinton administration, and Clinton
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Speaker 2: stepped in and overruled the bidding and handed it back
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Speaker 2: to Halliburton only because they were the most qualified company.
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Speaker 2: It couldn't couldn't take a chance operating in a war
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Speaker 2: zone with a new company that didn't know what they
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Speaker 2: were doing, so they made up this whole fake scandal.
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Speaker 2: They demonized Cheney and he did some things. He could say,
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Speaker 2: we're bad things. The waterboarding, torture, Abu Gharab prison, remember
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Speaker 2: all that. Again, it's a complicated Situationbody here to defend Chaney.
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Speaker 2: I talked to him about it a few times. And
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Speaker 2: what he'll tell you, especially after you got it's right
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Speaker 2: after nine to eleven. He looked at everything we had,
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Speaker 2: all the intelligence, all the stuff that was they were learning,
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Speaker 2: and if you looked at it, it was absolutely frightening.
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Speaker 2: You remember, there were dirty bombs and all kinds of threats.
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Speaker 2: He was really afraid for America. Stuff that would make
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Speaker 2: nine to eleven look like nothing. So he was terrified
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Speaker 2: of that, and that's why he decided, you do anything
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Speaker 2: and everything to make sure that never happened again. So
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Speaker 2: that's what that was all about. Now, he was a hated,
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Speaker 2: hated figure. They hated this guy, the media, the left,
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Speaker 2: and tell me they hated this guy. And then Donald
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Speaker 2: Trump comes along and Cheney starts saying terrible things about Trump.
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Speaker 2: All of a sudden, they like Cheney. Cheney's a hero
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Speaker 2: Cheney's a wonderful guy. Same thing with Liz Cheney. I
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Speaker 2: remember Liz Cheney was on the January sixth committee. It
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Speaker 2: was Liz Cheney and Dick Cheney. Remember Dick Cheney did
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Speaker 2: a commercial saying, gotta stop Donald Trump, He's the worst
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Speaker 2: threat to America. And Liz Cheney was tearing into Trump.
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Speaker 2: She was on the January sixthe these two went after Trump.
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Speaker 2: Suddenly there were great American heroes, the Chaese. So it's
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Speaker 2: just you can flip up these Democrats. They're just knee
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Speaker 2: jerk anything. With Trump, you can just knee jerk them
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Speaker 2: into whatever direction you want. So Cheney died at the
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Speaker 2: age of eighty four. He's a guy who had heart
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Speaker 2: trouble all his life, lifetime of heart attacks and all
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Speaker 2: kinds of trouble and died at eighty four. So there'll
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Speaker 2: be a funeral. Now the question is who will go
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Speaker 2: to the funeral, Who will speak at the funeral. Obviously
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Speaker 2: George W. Bush will speak, He'll be there. A lot
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Speaker 2: of the people from the Cheney era no longer with us.
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Speaker 2: They're no longer alive. Colin Powell and Rumsfeld, they're no
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Speaker 2: longer with us. So Condalisa Rice. I assume we'll be
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Speaker 2: there to speak. I don't know. Well, vice presidents will
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Speaker 2: probably go, Al Gore, Dan Quail, all the former vice
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Speaker 2: presidents will go. He was a vice president. I don't
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Speaker 2: know if Jade Vans will go. I don't think Trump
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Speaker 2: will go, and I don't think they'd want Trump at
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Speaker 2: the funeral. So we'll see. Hey, a lot of people
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Speaker 2: are saying the shutdown is going to end, that the
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Speaker 2: Democrats were keeping the shutdown going. You know, every day
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Speaker 2: they could have ended the shutdown. Just vote in the extension.
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Speaker 2: You vote in a seven week extension. It gives you
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Speaker 2: time to negotiate every day. The Democrats have voted it down.
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Speaker 2: Now some people think they were doing that for the election.
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Speaker 2: They thought somehow the shutdown might help them in the
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Speaker 2: elections which are taking place all over the country. So
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Speaker 2: when it's over tomorrow, you may see him actually end
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Speaker 2: the shutdown. So make sure you get out and vote today.
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Speaker 2: Very very very important in New Jersey, New York. These
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Speaker 2: are very close races, impossible to predict. In New Jersey.
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Speaker 2: They got bomb threats at a lot of the polling
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Speaker 2: places today.
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Speaker 3: So.
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Speaker 2: Things were delayed for a while. They checked all that out.
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Speaker 2: But polls are open until nine o'clock in New York.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what will happen. It's because it could
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Speaker 2: be a very close race. Closer in the NBA thought,
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Speaker 2: so I don't know how quickly we'll get the results
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Speaker 2: today nine o'clock. Now, Zoron Mamdani was on Morning Joe
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Speaker 2: this morning, sitting next to his close buddy Al Sharpton.
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Speaker 2: There were the two of them there. Uh, it wasn't
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Speaker 2: a good look. Morning Joe on one side and Al
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Speaker 2: Sharpton on the other side. Trump has endorsed Cuomo big
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Speaker 2: endorsement last night. Now, I don't know if that helps
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Speaker 2: or hurts Cuomo. It could hurt him with Democrats, who
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Speaker 2: you know, whatever Trump does, they have to do the opposite.
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Speaker 2: So who knows. It might it might slow down some
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Speaker 2: of his Democratic voting. Uh, here's Cuomo.
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Speaker 4: I agree, A vote for Curtis Silua is a vote
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Speaker 4: for Mom Donnie. Curtis Slua is not a viable candidate.
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Speaker 4: He cannot win. He is in the race as a
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Speaker 4: spoiler only.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you can remember he is a major party candidate.
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Speaker 2: It's Cuomo that's a third party candidate. So you could
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Speaker 2: actually technically Cuomo is the spoiler in this, he said,
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Speaker 2: And they're talking about President Trump.
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Speaker 5: He said, he said, I'd rather have a bad Democrat
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Speaker 5: than a communist.
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Speaker 3: That's what he said.
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Speaker 5: He caught me a bad Democrat.
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Speaker 2: First of all, I happen to be a.
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Speaker 5: Good Democrat and a proud Democrat, and I'm going to
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Speaker 5: stay a proud Democrat. Mndami is not a communist.
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Speaker 2: He's a socialist.
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Speaker 5: But we don't need a socialist mayor.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Clomo is a Democrat and he's running
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Speaker 2: as an independent. He's not the Democrat in the race here,
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Speaker 2: but he has been a Democrat all. I don't know
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Speaker 2: if you call him a good democrat. I mean, did
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Speaker 2: terrible things. This governor had to resign in disgrace. I
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Speaker 2: don't know if you call it a good democrat.
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Speaker 5: We need a mayor who can stand up to Donald Trump,
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Speaker 5: who can get the funding that New York deserves, who
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Speaker 5: can make sure the National Guard does not come to
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Speaker 5: New York.
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Speaker 2: This is the problem with Cuomo. I remember when he
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Speaker 2: was a governor. He was crazy with a lot of things.
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Speaker 2: He wanted to ban ice, he wanted to sue them.
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Speaker 2: Remember at one time, he was going to ban the
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Speaker 2: vaccine from New York because it was created by Trump. Remember,
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Speaker 2: he wouldn't use the hospital chips. He was just he
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Speaker 2: gets really crazy when he's in office. Here's Mom Donnie
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Speaker 2: last night.
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Speaker 6: In these final days, what was rumored, what was feared,
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Speaker 6: has become naked and unabashed. The MAGA movements embrace of
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Speaker 6: Andrew Cuomo is reflective of Donald Trump's understanding that this
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Speaker 6: would be the best mayor for him.
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Speaker 2: Yes, so you never know that trump endorsement might stop
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Speaker 2: some Democrats who were going to vote for Trump. They're
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Speaker 2: just so anti Trump. If Trump tells them to vote
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Speaker 2: for Cuomo, it might be enough to stop them. They're
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Speaker 2: that angry about it.
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Speaker 6: We know, and have known for months that Donald Trump
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Speaker 6: would favor Andrew Cuomo as the mayor. They share the
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Speaker 6: same donors, they share the same small vision, they share
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Speaker 6: the same sense of impunity.
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Speaker 2: All Right, Mam Donnie was kind of embarrassing could not
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Speaker 2: get the Obama endorsement, and his staff put out a
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Speaker 2: whole fake statement about, well, the Obama's policy is not
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Speaker 2: to endorse in local mayoral races. Well, people quickly pointed
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Speaker 2: out he endorsed like twenty seven mayors in different races
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Speaker 2: around the country. He endorsed Deblasio and Deblasio and twice
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Speaker 2: so here's asked about the Obama lack of endorsement, refusal
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Speaker 2: to endorse.
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Speaker 7: I also shared with him that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he did he say, he said, well, I talked
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Speaker 2: to him. I talked him on the phone. He's been
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Speaker 2: guiding me.
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Speaker 7: I also shared with him that it was his speech
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Speaker 7: of a more perfect union all those years ago that
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Speaker 7: was in part the inspiration for the speech that I
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Speaker 7: shared outside of the mosque not too many fridays ago,
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Speaker 7: an opportunity to rise above the twenty four hour news
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Speaker 7: cycle that is typical in our politics and speak to
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Speaker 7: the soul of the city and the people of the city.
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Speaker 2: There aren't similarities Mam Donnie and Obama in that they
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Speaker 2: both got elected without much of a resume. They had
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Speaker 2: no resume. They were both briefly in the legislature. Mom
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Speaker 2: Donnie briefly in the Assembly and all but the Obama
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Speaker 2: had been an actual senator, but he only served one
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Speaker 2: hundred and forty four days in the Senate, not much,
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Speaker 2: and he again no voting record, know anything, And like
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Speaker 2: Mam Donnie before his legislative career, didn't really have a job,
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Speaker 2: never really did anything, never had anything on his resume. So,
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Speaker 2: but they both were similar, and they were good looking, smooth,
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Speaker 2: great smile, great speakers. They could talk fast and sound
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Speaker 2: very articulate when they were up there, and they could
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Speaker 2: sound very smart because they talked so fast it sounded brilliant.
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Speaker 2: But no management skills at all. So the difference is
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Speaker 2: Obama was not a crazy left wing Okay, well crazy
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Speaker 2: left wing. He was not a communist socialist. Anyway, we'll
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Speaker 2: take some calls in a minute. Eight hundred three to
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Speaker 2: two one zero seven ten is the number. Eight hundred
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Speaker 2: three to two, one zero seven ten. Now back to the.
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Speaker 1: Mark Simon Show on woor.
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Speaker 2: Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Let's go
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Speaker 2: to Jesse and the Bronx. Jesse, how you.
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Speaker 8: Doing, Good morning, Mark, thanks for taking my call. I
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Speaker 8: wanted to talk to you about what my ballot looked like.
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Speaker 8: And I thought it was very strange in that you
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Speaker 8: didn't really see Andrew Cuomo's name. It didn't come up
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Speaker 8: as independent. It came up as like some fighting whatever party.
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Speaker 8: I don't know. It's a party I've never heard of.
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Speaker 2: Before. Yeah, well he's not a major party candidate. He's
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Speaker 2: on some weird third party. The thing is on the
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Speaker 2: ballot at the top is mam Donnie and Curtis. Those
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Speaker 2: are the two major party candidates. Right, you gotta go
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Speaker 2: eight spaces down to get to Cuomo.
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Speaker 8: That's exactly how it looked. I'm like, where the heck
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Speaker 8: is it? And I'm like, this is rigged for Mamdani
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Speaker 8: to win. And I am not a mom Donni.
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Speaker 9: Guy at all.
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Speaker 8: Well, I'm a slople guy, but I want to save
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Speaker 8: the city. I'm sorry to admit it.
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Speaker 2: It's not that it's not that it's rigged. Clomo lost
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Speaker 2: the Democratic nomination.
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Speaker 8: No, no, I get ball is laid out by.
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Speaker 2: The major parties, and if you're in a weird third party,
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Speaker 2: you're going to be down further.
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Speaker 8: Get I get what you're saying. What I'm telling you
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Speaker 8: is that, like you could have made his name more
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Speaker 8: visible on the top of the line instead of hiding
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Speaker 8: his name somewhere else.
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Speaker 2: Well you really can't. Then then you'd be rigging it
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Speaker 2: because this is always the layout of every ballot in
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Speaker 2: every election. Major parties.
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Speaker 8: This thing we're done, We're cooked.
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Speaker 10: And you know I all right, we're changing.
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Speaker 2: We're changing the subject from what we just change the subject. No, no,
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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm just saying you can't. You can't. You
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Speaker 2: got to use the same format for the ballot you
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Speaker 2: always use. You can't get it. It goes by the
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Speaker 2: major parties at the top, the minor parties at the bottom.
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Speaker 2: It's always that way.
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Speaker 8: But of course I voted Republicans down ballot. I mean,
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Speaker 8: last time I checked, Mark, you and I were the Republicans.
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Speaker 8: But you know what I'm.
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Speaker 2: Saying, I'm not a Republican or a Democrat. I like
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Speaker 2: to pick on both sides.
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Speaker 8: But what I do, But that's what I'm trying to
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Speaker 8: tell you. You and I know how to vote on
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Speaker 8: both sides of the aisle. Where Democrats don't know how
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Speaker 8: to vote.
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Speaker 2: On worry, Democrats can figure out how to vote.
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Speaker 8: You get a little think, Okay, we'll see what happens tonight.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I want a lot of these Democrats. They're crazy,
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Speaker 2: they're Trump haters, they're yelling, screaming, but they they're lawyers,
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Speaker 2: professors there. I think they could figure out how to
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Speaker 2: read a ballot. Let's go to Rob in Lincoln Park. Rob,
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Speaker 2: how you.
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Speaker 9: Doing, Mark Simone, Yeah, are you doing good? I watch
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Speaker 9: all the time.
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Speaker 2: You got a TV dow Wow?
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: Hey. My My question is, uh, I got the paper
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Speaker 9: this morning, and uh, I say, where you.
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Speaker 2: Still get an actual newspaper?
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Speaker 9: Yeah? Well read it and I put it back. We
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Speaker 9: don't actually buy it.
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Speaker 2: Oh, steal the neighbor's paper, read it and put it back.
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Speaker 9: Okay, they say over three hundred thousand more Democrats submitted
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Speaker 9: mailing ballots voted earlier. Ready.
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Speaker 2: Well, actually, so far seven hundred and thirty five thousand
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Speaker 2: people voted early, almost getting close to a million. You'll
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Speaker 2: have well over a million voting today, so the total
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Speaker 2: should hit about two million, which is another reason you
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Speaker 2: can't trust any of these polls. The model they used
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Speaker 2: isn't what's happening today. Let's go to Mike and Florida. Mike,
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Speaker 2: how you doing?
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Speaker 10: Good morning?
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Speaker 3: Mark?
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Speaker 10: Yes, Mike scaping up to be a banner day for
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Speaker 10: the left wing Democrat left wing.
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Speaker 2: We don't know yet, nobody knows.
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Speaker 10: No, but the early tell is that, you know, between
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Speaker 10: Cheney dying their greatest villain since oh no, no.
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Speaker 2: No, they like Cheney now. The last few years they've
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Speaker 2: loved Channing.
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Speaker 10: And you know all the you know, the winds in Virginia,
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Speaker 10: New Jersey, New York. Either way they win in New
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Speaker 10: York with its Pomo one man and we all know that.
18:57
Speaker 10: But you know, and they're gonna use it. This was
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Speaker 10: a referendum, and they're going to say that this is
19:01
Speaker 10: a referendum against Trump. The nation has spoken, they're not
19:04
Speaker 10: they're tired of that, and.
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Speaker 9: The Republicans seem like they can't be bothered.
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Speaker 10: They just can't be bothered.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's not that simple, but thanks for calling, Mike. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it could be, like we said earlier, if Mom Donnie
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Speaker 2: were to win, the Democrats will just go crazy all
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Speaker 2: over the country with socialists and all that. But as
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Speaker 2: the old Karl Rove said.
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Speaker 11: They've been perpetually angry since December, since November of last year,
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Speaker 11: and they are angry at Trump, but they really ought
19:30
Speaker 11: to be as angry about themselves because they are so
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Speaker 11: focused on being against him that they can't figure out
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Speaker 11: what they're for. And as a result, the Democratic Party
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Speaker 11: is now held in lower esteem than it has in
19:42
Speaker 11: some forty some odd years.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the probably they forgot to be for something.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to Vincent and Brooklyn Vincent.
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Speaker 3: How you doing, good morning, Mack. I'm okay. I hope
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Speaker 3: Sean Duffy as he issued a statement last night that
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Speaker 3: they put the final nail in the coffin of this
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Speaker 3: congestion prices.
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Speaker 2: Well, he's trying to find a way to stop it.
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Speaker 2: He hasn't found the way to stop it yet.
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Speaker 3: Well, he could also say, well, we're not giving you
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Speaker 3: no more federal money's and that you infringed on uh,
20:14
Speaker 3: what we're supposed to do. We gave you money, and
20:17
Speaker 3: that's a public street that you can't if it's using
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Speaker 3: federal money, you can't charge our people. Told. But that
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Speaker 3: being aside, I hope the con artists in New Jersey,
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Speaker 3: the New Jersey corrupt machine doesn't do like what they
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Speaker 3: did four years ago when Murphy was running against Chatterrelly. Uh,
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Speaker 3: the votes were coming in, it looks like Chatterrelly was
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Speaker 3: ill name. That's a really, that's how you're really supposed
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Speaker 3: to pronounce it.
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Speaker 2: But I like that Chatterrelly.
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Speaker 3: The guy's always talking well, uh c I A and
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Speaker 3: Italian his chat. It's not hitterrell. I don't know where
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Speaker 3: better chattering Well, yeah, even even Ken Rosato agreed with me,
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Speaker 3: uh Friday when he when he sat inf you, I
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Speaker 3: don't know where he sounds like. Well, Jack Chatterrelli speaks,
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Speaker 3: he sounds like a pasta Vazula. Curtis sleebwa. Well, anyway,
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Speaker 3: I hope they don't do what they did the last time. Well,
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Speaker 3: it's getting laid. We'll continue to count tomorrow. Jack CHATTERRELLI
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Speaker 3: was ahead when they stopped the vote and then slowly
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Speaker 3: like they did with Trump, and I believe, well.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, you're you're absolute right. For there is a
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Speaker 2: problem with a little corruption there in New.
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Speaker 3: Jersey, and all of a sudden these votes come in
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Speaker 3: that were in people's trunks. Oh, we found them here
21:36
Speaker 3: in a box.
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Speaker 2: And believe it. Connecticut does that too, Like these experts
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Speaker 2: in the campaigns will tell you got to win by
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Speaker 2: like an extra three points in those places to get
21:46
Speaker 2: past the cheating. But Vincent, great call, Thanks for calling.
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Speaker 2: Oh when we come back, Liz Peak will be with
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Speaker 2: us next. We'll talk about the election and a whole
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Speaker 2: lot more coming up next on seven to ten.
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Speaker 1: W r I Moore much Mark Simon on seven to
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Speaker 1: ten woy Well, Liz Peak is the brilliant columnist you
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Speaker 1: could read her columns.
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Speaker 2: But also she's got a great website, lizpeak dot com
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Speaker 2: with all sorts of news and stories and interesting analysis
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Speaker 2: lizpeak dot com. Of course you're Oliver Television, Liz Peak.
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Speaker 2: How you doing.
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Speaker 12: I'm terrific. I'm baited breath to see how this election
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Speaker 12: comes out. Mark, how about you?
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Speaker 2: Well, it's impossible to predict anything. We only have these cheap,
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Speaker 2: little flimsy public polls, not any really good polls, and
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Speaker 2: the turnout is so extraordinary that the model they used
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Speaker 2: is off anyway, So wouldn't you agree anything could happen.
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Speaker 2: We have no idea what's going to happen.
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Speaker 12: Well, I hope something happens other than the obvious, the
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Speaker 12: obvious being that zoron Mom Donnie has been leading Andrew
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Speaker 12: Cuomo by double digits up until literally a nanosecond ago.
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Speaker 12: So ah, yeah, I would It would be very cheering
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Speaker 12: to have, you know, to have him defeated after all
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Speaker 12: the publicity that's been thrown about him, which is all
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Speaker 12: accurate about his lack of experience, his radical policies, et cetera.
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Speaker 12: It would just be nice to know that voters actually
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Speaker 12: are thinking and that they are actually not just buying
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Speaker 12: what this con man is selling. And I say those
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Speaker 12: words pretty judiciously. I think he is a con man.
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Speaker 12: If he went to vote in college, it's impossible to imagine,
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Speaker 12: and he's bright enough to have gone there, et cetera,
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Speaker 12: that he really believes what he's saying, that he's believes
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Speaker 12: that he can deliver all these wonderful freebies to people
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Speaker 12: and not completely wreck the city as he tries to
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Speaker 12: pay for it. So, you know, I think this guy
23:47
Speaker 12: is dangerous. I hope that voters agree.
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Speaker 2: I agree with you, he's a con man. He looks
23:52
Speaker 2: like a hustler, but maybe he's a con man the
23:56
Speaker 2: other way. Maybe this whole socialist maybe that was the
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Speaker 2: con and when he gets in office, he'll just be
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Speaker 2: a normal mayor.
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Speaker 12: I think the odds of that are about one in
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Speaker 12: ten gazillion. No. No, I mean, the only constraints on
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Speaker 12: him are going to be reality, and he has so
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Speaker 12: far had no response when people have challenged him with
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Speaker 12: the reality that he doesn't have an open checkbook, that
24:21
Speaker 12: New York already is struggling to cover its stephesis, that
24:25
Speaker 12: there are tens of thousands of well healed New Yorkers
24:29
Speaker 12: who have already left, and others in the queue to
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Speaker 12: leave if he continues to raise taxes. What's so infuriating,
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Speaker 12: Mark is that there's never a Democrat that says, you know,
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Speaker 12: what we're doing isn't working. Piling on lots of regulations
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Speaker 12: and high taxes, it drives up the cost of living,
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Speaker 12: it drives people out of the city, particularly when other
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Speaker 12: services like our public schools are really mediocre at best
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Speaker 12: or terrible at worst. I mean, wouldn't you think at
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Speaker 12: some point they sit down and say, you know, maybe
25:03
Speaker 12: we should try a new tax. Let's look at Florida,
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Speaker 12: where there's no income tax, where people are moving in
25:10
Speaker 12: droves because the state works, where the state budget per
25:14
Speaker 12: person is what one half of New York something like
25:17
Speaker 12: that for no particular reason except New York is piled
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Speaker 12: on all these mandates and requirements from the public sector
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Speaker 12: as well as businesses and just inflated the cost of everything.
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Speaker 12: I mean, that's not a workable approach, and yet there
25:33
Speaker 12: seems to be no appetite for challenging that approach. It's
25:37
Speaker 12: quite disheartening.
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Speaker 2: You have to say, yeah, we're telling Liz peak. If
25:41
Speaker 2: you want to be realistic and be practical and use
25:43
Speaker 2: logic and realistic. I guess you got to go to
25:45
Speaker 2: people in the private sector, right, I mean, we need
25:49
Speaker 2: more private sector guys in government. They know to do
25:52
Speaker 2: that well.
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Speaker 12: And by the way, find a private sector guy who's
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Speaker 12: a Democrat who runs for office, you're not going to
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Speaker 12: And that's why someone like Andrew Cuomo, he isn't going
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Speaker 12: to go back to running a restaurant or building apartment
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Speaker 12: buildings or whatever. He has no trade. Almost no Democrat
26:11
Speaker 12: build a Blasio Lori, Lightfoot, name it. What do they do?
26:14
Speaker 12: The only thing they do is run again. And Kamala
26:19
Speaker 12: Harris thinking she should do a reprise of her absolutely
26:22
Speaker 12: catastrophic presidential run on what basis because she can't think
26:26
Speaker 12: of anything else to do. These people have no fallback position,
26:30
Speaker 12: And I mean, is that harsh? I don't think so.
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Speaker 12: I really can't think of a Democrat. Very few come
26:37
Speaker 12: out of the private sector. Remember Obama's White House. One
26:41
Speaker 12: of the critiques many of us had was there wasn't
26:44
Speaker 12: a single businessman in the High House. They had no
26:46
Speaker 12: idea how Obamacare should work, or this program or that.
26:50
Speaker 12: And by the way, where are we now? We're in
26:52
Speaker 12: a situation where literally the government is locked down because
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Speaker 12: Democrats are so angry about the essential failings of Obamacare,
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Speaker 12: which turned out not to be something that everyone in
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Speaker 12: the country could afford, not to be accessible to the
27:10
Speaker 12: majority of the country, only serves seven percent of the country,
27:14
Speaker 12: and even so is a catastrophe. So I mean you
27:18
Speaker 12: just have to say, when do they ever look at
27:20
Speaker 12: the product of their handiwork and say, you know, we're
27:25
Speaker 12: doing something wrong.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think that should be the next movement, get
27:29
Speaker 2: rid of the politicians. The original idea of the Founding
27:32
Speaker 2: Fathers was citizen legislators, people from the private sector come
27:36
Speaker 2: in and serve for a while and then go back.
27:38
Speaker 2: So you know, in Connecticut you got Ned Lamont. Here's
27:41
Speaker 2: a guy who is in the business world most of
27:43
Speaker 2: his life, and he's a crazy Democrat, but he gets
27:46
Speaker 2: very logical at times and very reasonable because he's got
27:49
Speaker 2: private sector experience. But the problem is we did get
27:54
Speaker 2: a guy from the private sector to come in Trump
27:56
Speaker 2: and look what they did to him. And I think
27:59
Speaker 2: part of that is geared off anybody else from the
28:01
Speaker 2: private sector from coming in.
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Speaker 12: Who would want, really, who would you want to run
28:06
Speaker 12: for office? I certainly wouldn't know. I mean, it is
28:09
Speaker 12: a crucible and not a very pleasant one. But boy,
28:12
Speaker 12: talk about a businessman taking over, remember without a doubt,
28:17
Speaker 12: and you could dislike a lot of the stuff he did,
28:20
Speaker 12: and I do. Mayor Bloomberg was the best mayor we've
28:24
Speaker 12: had in New York in my lifetime because he surrounded
28:28
Speaker 12: himself with equally talented, smart, capable people and they really
28:33
Speaker 12: ran the city very well. Again, I don't like the
28:36
Speaker 12: bike lanes, and I don't like his obsession with big gulps, etc.
28:41
Speaker 12: But the reality is Mike was very, very smart, and
28:45
Speaker 12: he did a very good job running the city. It
28:47
Speaker 12: was safe and prosperous and attracting all kinds of new
28:51
Speaker 12: industries and businesses. When he left and Bill Deblasio just
28:55
Speaker 12: scorched it. And how is it? I guess there's just
28:58
Speaker 12: so many people who are newcomers to New York and
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Speaker 12: they don't remember how things actually work in the city
29:05
Speaker 12: and how they did work under Bloomberg, and then they
29:08
Speaker 12: didn't work under Deblasio. Why would they go to go
29:11
Speaker 12: further down that path? I can't imagine.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and don't forget Rudy Giuliani, who rescued the City
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Speaker 2: from Yes.
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Speaker 12: He did a great job too. I agree.
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Speaker 2: What about New Jersey? You know you got two horrible candidates,
29:22
Speaker 2: Chittarelli and the Mikey Cherl. Then they're not the most
29:26
Speaker 2: dynamic candidates. So it looks like it's deadlock there. What
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Speaker 2: do you think will happen?
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Speaker 12: It does seem deadlocked. It seems to me Chittarelli has
29:34
Speaker 12: the momentum uh coming into election day. Mikey Eryl just
29:39
Speaker 12: seems like a train wreck. I mean, there's one extremely
29:43
Speaker 12: good ad they're running about her when she just can't
29:46
Speaker 12: answer an obvious question. But you know, this is good.
29:50
Speaker 12: This is a race that may well come down to
29:53
Speaker 12: whether Trump is an assetability in these sort of borderline
29:58
Speaker 12: toss up areas because all the advertising, this is what democrats,
30:04
Speaker 12: this is their brand.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 12: All they do is run ads about how much they
30:08
Speaker 12: hate Trump. It's never like, really, here's what we're gonna
30:12
Speaker 12: do that's better and different. Here is how we're going
30:16
Speaker 12: to confront the fact that Joe Biden's legacy leftos of
30:19
Speaker 12: high electricity costs and all kinds of other problems, lots
30:23
Speaker 12: of illegal migrants living in our country, et cetera. All
30:27
Speaker 12: they want to do is to fame Donald Trump. It's
30:30
Speaker 12: pretty darn thin gruel. But there are an awful lot
30:33
Speaker 12: of people out there who lap it up and think
30:35
Speaker 12: it tastes just fine, So we'll see. I mean, I
30:39
Speaker 12: think that race could go everywhere either way.
30:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, well, great stuff. Liz Peak has a
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Speaker 2: wonderful website. You should check it. There's new stories, new
30:48
Speaker 2: stuff every day. It's lizpeak dot com lizpeak dot com.
30:54
Speaker 2: And that's the best place to get your column too.
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Speaker 12: Right, Yeah, yes, I mean today's Fox News column is
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Speaker 12: on my website. Two days ago I had a Hill
31:03
Speaker 12: column that's on the website. Yes, thank you, Mark, I
31:06
Speaker 12: appreciate your mentioning that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, just go to lizpeak dot com and just turn
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Speaker 2: on TV anytime day or night and there she is too.
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Speaker 2: So Liz Peak, thanks in your face, Thanks for being
31:17
Speaker 2: with you.
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Speaker 12: Thanks Mark, Thank you for having me. Always appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: Thanks, take care, and don't forget coming up at noon,
31:25
Speaker 2: Buck and Clay and an excellent show. They'll be on
31:27
Speaker 2: noon to three, three to six. You got the most
31:29
Speaker 2: listened to radio show in America, Sean Hannity. Now tonight
31:33
Speaker 2: Jesse Kelly will be six to eight and then special
31:37
Speaker 2: election coverage eight to eleven and then eleven o'clock. Jimmy Failer,
31:42
Speaker 2: he's with us now every night, excellent show every night
31:44
Speaker 2: at nine, seven to ten wor it's.
31:48
Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show on seventen wor.
31:54
Speaker 2: Well, it's election day to day. The weather is great,
31:56
Speaker 2: so that'll help turn out and turn out. It's already
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Speaker 2: on track. Maybe maybe set a record or get close
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Speaker 2: to it. Usually in a mayoral race in a non
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Speaker 2: presidential election year, you're lucky. If you get seven eight
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Speaker 2: hundred thousand, we're going to hit over two million. The
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Speaker 2: all time record is nineteen sixty nine two and a
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Speaker 2: half million voted. That was a similar election because John
32:20
Speaker 2: Lindsay ran for reelection. He couldn't get his own party's nomination,
32:24
Speaker 2: so he ran as a third party candidate, but two
32:27
Speaker 2: and a half million turned out. We may get close
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Speaker 2: to that today, So make sure you get out and vote.
32:32
Speaker 2: And again important not just the mayoral race, but get
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Speaker 2: rid of Alvin Bragg, the terrible district attorney. Vote for
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Speaker 2: Maud Meren the Republican, and get rid of the city council.
32:42
Speaker 2: You know, it's just a left wing kookie city council.
32:45
Speaker 2: So if you're really worried about Mom, Donnie, just get
32:48
Speaker 2: rid of all the city council. They're all up for reelection.
32:51
Speaker 2: Throw them all out, go with the other side. City
32:54
Speaker 2: council often has more power than the mayor, so that
32:57
Speaker 2: would be a good protection against Mom. So make sure
33:02
Speaker 2: you vote. Make sure you vote today. Polls will be
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Speaker 2: open till nine o'clock and then we'll see if we
33:07
Speaker 2: get an answer to this at sometime tonight. It could
33:10
Speaker 2: be closer than you think. You never know. Don't go away.
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Speaker 2: Buck and Clay are coming up next. I'll be here
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Speaker 2: tomorrow ten to noon. This will be interesting tomorrow. See
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Speaker 2: you then on seven to ten. WR