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Hour 2: Election Day voting · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, it is the election day and what a great
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  Speaker 1: time to talk to John Decker, White House and Washington correspondent,
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  Speaker 1: host of the podcast, The White House Briefing Room with
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  Speaker 1: John Decker. You can find that on the iHeartRadio app. So, John,
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  Speaker 1: there has been some surprises in this midterm election. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: thought South Carolina would be in play or Kansas or Nebraska. Sure.
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  Speaker 1: all Republican strongholds. So it feels a little bit like
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  Speaker 1: a Democratic year. I think there was some hope at
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  Speaker 1: first they could hold the Senate. That hope is questionable now.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it is. You know, I think that the House
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  Speaker 2: is definitely going to flip, that Democrats will control the
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  Speaker 2: House of Representatives after this midterm election. It's just about
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  Speaker 2: how much the margin will be. On the Senate side,
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  Speaker 2: you're right. There are a number of states that at
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  Speaker 2: the very beginning of the cycle, no one thought would
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  Speaker 2: be at play. You know, we're talking about Texas, for instance, Alaska.
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  Speaker 2: But because of certain headwinds, the Republicans are not doing
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  Speaker 2: well there. And those are two really good pickup opportunities
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  Speaker 2: for Democrats this midterm election cycle.
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  Speaker 3: Now, John Decker, I notice in the president's closing remarks
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  Speaker 3: at my favorite location, the reflection pool. I didn't hear
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  Speaker 3: the bravado that I've heard before when he's on the stump,
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  Speaker 3: either for himself or fellow Republicans, where he was saying,
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  Speaker 3: we're going to win so much you're going to get
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  Speaker 3: tired of winning. It was almost like he had reserved
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  Speaker 3: himself to understand he's going to lose the House.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I can't get inside President Donald Trump's head, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't think anyone can, Curtis, but I think that
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  Speaker 2: you're right in terms of the tone. There's no doubt
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  Speaker 2: about it. I was there yesterday when the president made
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  Speaker 2: his remarks for about an hour at the reflecting pool
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  Speaker 2: at the Lincoln Memorial. And, you know, the very first
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  Speaker 2: part of that speech was a little odd. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it was tone deaf in the sense that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if it's a closing message, I think you want to
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  Speaker 2: reach out to those undecided voters, those voters on the
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  Speaker 2: fence and explain why Republicans should get your vote. Instead,
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  Speaker 2: the president talked about some of the projects that the
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  Speaker 2: White House and the president have pursued during the course
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  Speaker 2: of his one and a half plus years back in
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  Speaker 2: the White House, including the reflecting pool. There's no doubt
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  Speaker 2: about it. These various projects have beautified Washington, D.C. But
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  Speaker 2: was yesterday the time to make that argument? I don't
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  Speaker 2: think so. I think, you know, the second half of
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  Speaker 2: the speech made more sense than the first half of
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  Speaker 2: the speech, which focused on all the work that went
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  Speaker 2: into the reflecting pool.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if the scenario works out the way that
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  Speaker 1: most people think it's going to happen, or at least
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  Speaker 1: it's very possible to happen, where the Democrats take the
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  Speaker 1: House and the Republicans still hold on to the Senate,
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  Speaker 1: either have a tie and J.D. Vance has the deciding
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  Speaker 1: vote or they win by one vote, then what is
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  Speaker 1: going to happen? Is the government just almost shut down
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  Speaker 1: for a while because nothing is going to get through?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's right. I think the only thing that will
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  Speaker 2: get through if your scenario plays out and Republicans control
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  Speaker 2: the Senate but not the House is that the president's
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  Speaker 2: ability to name certain individuals for open positions that require
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  Speaker 2: Senate confirmation, it makes it that much more easier. Having
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  Speaker 2: said all that, you'll also have to take into account that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the numbers may not be the same that
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  Speaker 2: existed before this midterm election. So you have certain senators,
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  Speaker 2: certainly during the lame duck session, they're in place still.
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  Speaker 2: But also beyond that, Lisa Murkowski is still there. So
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  Speaker 2: is she always a yes vote for everything that the
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  Speaker 2: president wants or every personnel decision that the president wants
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  Speaker 2: confirmed by the U.S. Senate? I don't think so. So
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  Speaker 2: you have to factor that into account. And also, let's
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  Speaker 2: just say for argument's sake.
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  Speaker 3: It's 50-50.
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  Speaker 2: We love hypotheticals, Larry and Curtis. What about John Fetterman?
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  Speaker 2: Does he switch parties? That is interesting to see whether
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  Speaker 2: or not that actually happens. He, like all senators, like
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  Speaker 2: all lawmakers, focused exclusively first and foremost on political survival.
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  Speaker 2: And I just don't see how he survives. And if
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  Speaker 2: he wants to run for a second term in the U.S. Senate,
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  Speaker 2: As a Democrat, I don't think he's going to get
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  Speaker 2: elected and win that nomination as a Democratic senator from Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 3: Now, John, we've talked to you many times about Supreme
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  Speaker 3: Court rulings. I saw yesterday there was an unsigned order,
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  Speaker 3: which is always difficult for me to understand, is that
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  Speaker 3: they weren't going to do anything that they had been
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  Speaker 3: asked to do to give permission to the Trump administration.
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  Speaker 3: to involve themselves with state-run elections. Could you explain that,
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  Speaker 3: what that is?
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  Speaker 2: Well, what that is, I think, more than anything else is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you're asking the Supreme Court to weigh in
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  Speaker 2: on a decision which would impact, in a certain way,
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  Speaker 2: the vote count in California a day before the presidential election,
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  Speaker 2: and the Supreme Court just doesn't want to go there.
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  Speaker 2: Every justice on the Supreme Court doesn't want to go there. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if this issue came up, let's say, 60 days ago,
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  Speaker 2: 90 days ago, perhaps they would have weighed in on
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  Speaker 2: this issue, but they're not going to do it 48
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  Speaker 2: hours before the midterm election date takes place, November the 3rd.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's what that decision was all about.
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  Speaker 2: Also keep in mind, two lower federal courts had ruled
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  Speaker 2: against the administration on this particular issue, essentially segregating 20,000
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  Speaker 2: ballots that went out from California to Two lower courts
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  Speaker 2: said you can't do that. There's no there's no possible
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  Speaker 2: way of doing that. And so I think that's what
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  Speaker 2: that decision by the Supreme Court yesterday was all about.
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  Speaker 2: No dissent from the Supreme Court yesterday, even from the
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  Speaker 2: most conservative justices like Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
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  Speaker 3: What about Alaska?
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  Speaker 1: I know that that's been in the courts now, and
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  Speaker 1: one of the courts denied the movement, the request to
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  Speaker 1: take away the other Dan Sullivan's votes until they can
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  Speaker 1: be counted and checked on later to find out if
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  Speaker 1: that's exactly where people wanted to vote on. But that
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  Speaker 1: is going to be appealed by the Justice Department. Where
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  Speaker 1: does this go?
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  Speaker 2: Well, just the way you described it, it would go
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  Speaker 2: to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, That covers the
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  Speaker 2: District of Alaska. As you point out, Larry, a federal
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  Speaker 2: district court judge has already ruled against the federal government,
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  Speaker 2: ruled against the Department of Justice on this particular matter,
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  Speaker 2: and we'll see what happens at the appellate level. I
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  Speaker 2: think that the arguments being put forward by the administration
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  Speaker 2: were not good arguments, and I think they're going to lose,
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  Speaker 2: even if it were to go all the way up
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  Speaker 2: to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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  Speaker 3: John, once again, the last thing we're talking about is Iran,
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  Speaker 3: the war with Iran. Yesterday, it seemed to spark up hopes.
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  Speaker 3: The vice president commented we're in active negotiations through Qatar
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  Speaker 3: with Iran. Iran acknowledged that that is correct. Do you
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  Speaker 3: have any updates on that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the update is Iran said, well, we have an
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  Speaker 2: idea to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. And it was
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  Speaker 2: essentially an idea that they've put forward time and time again.
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  Speaker 2: They want to get reimbursed for all of the damage
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  Speaker 2: that has been inflicted upon Iran, reparations. That's a non-starter.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty clear it's been a non-starter the first, the second,
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  Speaker 2: the third time they asked for that. And they also
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  Speaker 2: said they would like to see their frozen assets unfrozen.
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  Speaker 2: That is also a non-starter as far as the U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Is concerned.
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  Speaker 2: So we're back at square one. The president has said
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  Speaker 2: time and time again that Iran will want to negotiate.
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  Speaker 3: An end to the war.
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  Speaker 2: But after the midterms, I don't know. I haven't seen
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  Speaker 2: any indication of that. This could be something that continues
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  Speaker 2: all the way through 2028 in the sense that Iran
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  Speaker 2: may say, you know what, we impacted the midterm elections.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe we can impact the presidential election as well.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about the other scenario. President Trump has said
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  Speaker 1: time and time again that if the Democrats take the
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  Speaker 1: House and the Senate, which is a real possibility, they
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  Speaker 1: are going to impeach me. And many of the Democrats,
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  Speaker 1: none of the leadership did, but many of the Democrats
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  Speaker 1: like Ro Khanna have come out and said, yeah, we're
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  Speaker 1: absolutely going to try to impeach him. But it seems
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  Speaker 1: like at first they have their target on Pete Hegseth,
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  Speaker 1: the Secretary of War, who they really don't seem to like.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's right. You know, and he may not have
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  Speaker 2: the kind of support that he needs to have from Republicans. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think that he could be one of
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  Speaker 2: those administration officials who departs after the midterm elections on
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  Speaker 2: his own rather than face the wrath of senators who
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  Speaker 2: would like to see him gone and may start the
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  Speaker 2: process of impeachment as it relates to impeachment for President Trump,
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  Speaker 2: which would be his third impeachment sentence. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what those articles of impeachment look like. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: on what grounds you'd impeach the president. But remember, impeachment
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  Speaker 2: is a process. It's a political process. You would have
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  Speaker 2: the votes to impeach the president in the House, simple majority.
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  Speaker 2: You need 67 votes in the Senate once it goes
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  Speaker 2: over to the Senate. to remove the president, and you're
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  Speaker 2: not going to get anywhere near that. So it's just that,
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  Speaker 2: Larry and Curtis. It would be a political exercise.
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  Speaker 3: One final quick question. I'm concerned about cyber attacks on
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  Speaker 3: the electronic equipment. We know Iran has the capability. We
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  Speaker 3: know others. All they have to do is hit one
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  Speaker 3: state where the vote is neck and neck, and that
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  Speaker 3: could throw the final results into chaos. They have the
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  Speaker 3: ability to do that. Each state does their own thing.
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  Speaker 3: Can the federal government protect that process from cyber attack?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, certain governors, even Democratic governors like Washington state,
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  Speaker 2: they've brought in the National Guard for this purpose. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it has to do with what you just mentioned, Curtis,
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  Speaker 2: these potential cyber attacks coming from bad actors, from foreign actors.
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  Speaker 2: And so, you know, I don't know what may or
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  Speaker 2: may not happen today. I think that, you know, this
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  Speaker 2: is something that has not just sprung up. Election entities
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  Speaker 2: in various states prepare for this day, literally for years.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm sure that, you know, they have certain processes
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  Speaker 2: already in place to prevent the kind of scenario that
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  Speaker 2: you're talking about.
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  Speaker 3: Let's hope that's the case.
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  Speaker 2: I would hate to see, you know, a delay because
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  Speaker 2: of a cyber attack being caused by a foreign actor
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  Speaker 2: on election systems in various states.
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  Speaker 1: John Decker, thanks so much. You've got a busy day ahead.
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  Speaker 1: WOR White House and Washington correspondent and host of the podcast,
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  Speaker 1: The White House Briefing Room with John Decker. You can
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  Speaker 1: find that on the iHeartRadio app. Thank you so much, John.
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  Speaker 1: trist let me ask you something curtis and natalie do
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  Speaker 1: either of you have it first of all have either
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  Speaker 1: of you had a mcrib sandwich from mcdonald's.
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  Speaker 3: Yes yes years ago absolutely because it's sort of like
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  Speaker 3: the arctic shake it only is a seasonal offering you
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  Speaker 3: know you have vanilla chocolate shakes you have saint patrick's
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  Speaker 3: day the green shake and then you have The orange shake,
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  Speaker 3: like the orange sherbet shake, but only come seasonally. Same
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  Speaker 3: thing with McRibs. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: They tease you.
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  Speaker 3: They tease you.
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  Speaker 1: Who am I asking? You're a McDonald's expert. I forgot
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  Speaker 1: about that.
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  Speaker 4: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: McRib?
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  Speaker 1: Have you had a McRib?
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  Speaker 4: I have never had a McRib, but I know some
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  Speaker 4: people that are obsessed when it comes out.
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  Speaker 1: I've never had a McRib either, but I've been smart
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  Speaker 1: enough to know that it's not going to be real
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  Speaker 1: rib meat, right? Correct.
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  Speaker 3: Correct.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not. As a matter of fact, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to tell you what's in it in a moment, and
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  Speaker 1: I think you're going to be a little upset about
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  Speaker 1: the meat that's used in there. Now, people have gotten
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  Speaker 1: together and sued McDonald's several times over the McRib sandwich.
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  Speaker 3: They should.
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  Speaker 1: But it's never been accepted as a lawsuit. It's never
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  Speaker 1: gone through because they don't believe it's false advertising. They
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  Speaker 1: don't claim it's really rib meat. But now it's going through.
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  Speaker 1: A federal judge has ruled— that a proposed class action
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  Speaker 1: lawsuit accusing the fast food giant of misleading customers about
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  Speaker 1: the meat used in its McRib sandwich can now go through.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to take the case.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, again, you know, there are some people out there,
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  Speaker 3: they love their ribs, and they know when they're getting bamboozled. So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, this would be the alternative. Bill Gates, no
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  Speaker 3: longer with Microsoft, but when he was riding high, you
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  Speaker 3: walk into his office at 12 noon, He'd have a
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  Speaker 3: Big Mac. And if you were there to have lunch
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  Speaker 3: with him, you'd have to have a Big Mac. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he's a McDonald's aficionado. But, you know, he's investing a
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  Speaker 3: lot of his money into the, I'll call it, Fagazi meat,
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  Speaker 3: the fake meat. that they develop in laboratories, which is
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  Speaker 3: not made from animals, I would suggest this is the
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  Speaker 3: perfect alternative. You can get the actual taste and feel
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  Speaker 3: of a McRib without it being all this fake meat.
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  Speaker 1: It's not fake meat. They just use other parts. The
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  Speaker 1: lawsuit filed by four consumers in December alleges that McDonald's
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  Speaker 1: designed the McRib to resemble a rack of pork ribs.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they did.
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  Speaker 1: There's no question they did. That's true. The plaintiffs argue
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  Speaker 1: that the sandwich's name, appearance, and marketing mislead customers into
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  Speaker 1: believing they're purchasing a more expensive piece of pork. Now,
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  Speaker 1: listen to this. One survey, there's been surveys done on this,
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  Speaker 1: found that 72% of respondents expected the McRib to contain
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  Speaker 1: rib meat. 67% considered rib meat important. or very important
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  Speaker 1: to their purchasing decision, this is now according to the
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  Speaker 1: court filing. However, the court is not accusing McDonald's of
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  Speaker 1: deceptive advertising.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what do you think it is if it ain't ribs? Well,
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you the other thing, although it's unrelated to McDonald's.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure, Natalie, you're aware of this. You go over
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  Speaker 3: to some Italian house and probably the second course, the
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  Speaker 3: third course of a 10-course meal, It's brajo, the brajo.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I just made it the other day. The toothpicks
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  Speaker 3: in it, it's got the string. You know, most brajo
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  Speaker 3: is horse meat. Oh, I was not. In Italy and
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  Speaker 3: in Argentina, it's horse meat. And when you tell that
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  Speaker 3: to people, they say, oh, I thought it was beef.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. Most of it is horse meat. Now,
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  Speaker 3: will there be a class action suit about that? There
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  Speaker 3: should be.
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  Speaker 1: You could do it. You could become rich. Now let's
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  Speaker 1: get some talkbacks.
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  Speaker 5: I'm in Westchester, and all the machines in Westchester are
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  Speaker 5: out of order. They're giving out the ballots for people
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  Speaker 5: to fill out, and then they're supposed to put them
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  Speaker 5: in a sealed envelope so they're going to feed it
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  Speaker 5: to the machine.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 7: Help.
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  Speaker 1: No, there's massive problems in Westchester County right now, despite
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  Speaker 1: a countywide problem with voting machines and polling locations. This
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  Speaker 1: is according to the County Board of Education. The voting
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  Speaker 1: is continuing despite that problem. The board is instructing poll
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  Speaker 1: workers to check voters in and provide them with ballots.
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  Speaker 1: The ballots are being placed in orange bags. while technicians
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  Speaker 1: work to resolve the problems. The bags, this is according
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  Speaker 1: to Westchester County officials, will be sent to the Board
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  Speaker 1: of Elections at the end of the night. Those ballots
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  Speaker 1: will be counted first before ballots cast through the machines. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my goodness.
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  Speaker 3: Those are the affidavits that I spoke of. Now, you
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  Speaker 3: can imagine it's Lawler versus Kate Conway.
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  Speaker 1: Right, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: It's neck and neck to begin with. If it's... one
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  Speaker 3: or the other side wins barely, this whole thing will
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  Speaker 3: be contested. And rightfully so. How is your machines not
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  Speaker 3: working at this point? They're not a victim like I
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  Speaker 3: discussed with John Decker of a cyber attack. It's just
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  Speaker 3: not malfunctioning. It's like, how many times do you use
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  Speaker 3: it a year? You know, it's not like you use
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  Speaker 3: it all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it certainly is a reason for suspicion once human
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  Speaker 1: hands get a hold of the ballots. I mean, Apparently
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  Speaker 1: they're placing them right in the bags, but then what
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  Speaker 1: happens with the bags afterwards?
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  Speaker 8: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And you know what?
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  Speaker 8: If there's anybody else out there in Westchester that's encountered this,
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  Speaker 8: leave us a talk back.
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  Speaker 3: We want to hear what's happening out there. Absolutely. Demand
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  Speaker 3: an affidavit. Fill it out. It will have to be counted.
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  Speaker 3: Went to vote this morning.
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  Speaker 9: I found the casting, the new valve casting machines to
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  Speaker 9: be a little weird. And I don't know if I
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  Speaker 9: should trust the machine, but I guess I have to,
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  Speaker 9: I have no choice.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you do have to trust the machine. Just
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  Speaker 1: trust the process is what they say.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if you think... I want the old elephant
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  Speaker 3: dinosaur machine. You go in, you press the levers, you
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  Speaker 3: can see what you voted for, you pull the ledge.
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  Speaker 3: And then it's locked in. Your vote is locked in.
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  Speaker 1: I want a receipt. Why don't they give you a
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  Speaker 1: receipt for your vote?
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you what. CVS receipts, you want some of them.
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  Speaker 3: And Duane Reade, you know, they go.
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  Speaker 1: A half a block off. What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 1: I want a receipt to say this is what I
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  Speaker 1: voted for. I want it to come out the bottom
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  Speaker 1: so I can go back and say this is who
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: I voted for.
• 17:52
  Speaker 8: You know what else I was really surprised about? My son,
• 17:55
  Speaker 8: for the first time.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: Voted for.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: By mail.
• 17:58
  Speaker 8: Okay, so he got the ballot, then he put it
• 18:01
  Speaker 8: in the box, and I said, well, how do you
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: know if they got it?
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: He's like, I have no idea. You can check, but
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: it's up to you.
• 18:08
  Speaker 8: It's got to be a lot of work.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: You have to call in to see if your mail-in
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: ballot was received. Wow.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: All right, let's get to Daria Albinger now with the
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: 730 News, Daria. Morning, guys.
• 18:20
  Speaker 10: Mostly sunny today with a high of 69 degrees while
• 18:23
  Speaker 10: the polls are open on this election day. And there
• 18:25
  Speaker 10: is a real focus this year on the U.S.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: House races.
• 18:29
  Speaker 10: WOR Scott Pringle takes a look at some of the
• 18:31
  Speaker 10: matchups in New Jersey.
• 18:32
  Speaker 11: The House races in New Jersey could play a key
• 18:34
  Speaker 11: role in determining the party control in Congress. Three of
• 18:37
  Speaker 11: the state's 12 seats are held by Democrats. One of
• 18:40
  Speaker 11: the most closely watched races, Tom Kane Jr. 's seventh
• 18:43
  Speaker 11: congressional seat. The Republican is seeking a third term. Democrat
• 18:47
  Speaker 11: Rebecca Bennett is trying to beat him. In southern New Jersey,
• 18:49
  Speaker 11: Republican Congressman Jeff Van Drew is trying for another term
• 18:52
  Speaker 11: by fending off Democratic challenger Zach Mullock.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: In the U.S.
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  Speaker 11: Senate, Democrat Cory Booker going up against challenger Justin Murphy.
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  Speaker 11: I'm Scott Pringle, WDOR News.
• 19:01
  Speaker 10: Voters in New York and in Connecticut are choosing governors.
• 19:04
  Speaker 10: And although this is not a municipal election year, there
• 19:06
  Speaker 10: are some ballot questions here in the city. So make
• 19:08
  Speaker 10: sure that you turn your ballot over if you're voting
• 19:10
  Speaker 10: in New York and make sure that you check those questions.
• 19:13
  Speaker 10: Voting is continuing across Westchester County, despite what we are
• 19:17
  Speaker 10: being told is a problem with voting machines at some
• 19:20
  Speaker 10: polling locations. The county's Board of Elections is instructing the
• 19:25
  Speaker 10: poll workers to check voters in and to provide them
• 19:27
  Speaker 10: with ballots. Now, we're being told that those ballots are
• 19:30
  Speaker 10: being placed in orange bags while technicians work to resolve
• 19:34
  Speaker 10: the problems. The bags will then be sent to the
• 19:36
  Speaker 10: Board of Elections. After the polls close, those ballots will
• 19:39
  Speaker 10: be counted first, we are told. before ballots cast through
• 19:42
  Speaker 10: the machines. Bottom line, there will likely be a delay
• 19:46
  Speaker 10: in getting vote results later tonight. The polls will close
• 19:49
  Speaker 10: at 8 o'clock in New Jersey and in Connecticut, 9
• 19:52
  Speaker 10: o'clock in New York. And make sure that you join
• 19:54
  Speaker 10: us for live election night coverage hosted by Larry Mendte.
• 19:57
  Speaker 10: It all starts at 7 p.m. right here on 710WOR.
• 20:02
  Speaker 10: And if this is not a sign of the times,
• 20:03
  Speaker 10: I'm not sure what is. A former Army secretary is
• 20:06
  Speaker 10: now working for OpenAI.
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: His title is Senior Counselor for National Security Modernization, a
• 20:12
  Speaker 8: new role that focuses on advising on the use of
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: advanced AI to strengthen national and cybersecurity. He'll be working
• 20:18
  Speaker 8: with U.S. allies and leaders from across several sectors. Driscoll
• 20:22
  Speaker 8: resigned from the Trump administration after tensions with Secretary Pete Hegseth.
• 20:26
  Speaker 8: I'm Tammy Trujillo.
• 20:27
  Speaker 10: The Knicks beat the Nets 103-90. Next news, 8 o'clock,
• 20:30
  Speaker 10: bulletins at once. I'm Daria Albinger on 710WOR.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Larry, up next, Alaska and Texas. It's dominating the attention
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: across the nation. And don't forget, you listen tonight to
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: my partner Larry's election coverage from 7 at night to
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: 11 p.m. with all the contributors, the news folks, everybody
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: at 710WOR. Or stream it live on the free iHeart app.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Just search 710WOR. Two of the other huge races. We
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: first go up to Alaska, where there's tumult going on
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: ever since the New York Times did an extensive article
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: about the cheating that has taken place up there. Really,
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: almost in consort, Peltola and her staff and the Democratic
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Senate finance campaign, which is led by Chuck Schumer. to
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: convince this person of no consequence, Sullivan, although he's very
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: consequential to this election, he's one of the four on
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: the ballot, who people, Larry, cannot find. He lives in
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: some fishing village near the Aleutian Islands. It could be
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: almost in Russia. They still haven't located him. Subpoenas are
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: flying all over Alaska to all the intended targets. They're
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: going to have to appear before a grand jury. and
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: explain this evil cabal. And Sullivan, the U.S. senator, who
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: was not all that active, has suddenly become, bing, bing, bing, bing,
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: ricochet rabbit. He's all over the state. He's saying, you can't,
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: you know, Alaskans, you cannot let the Democrats through this
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: chicanery totally, totally bypass you, try to fool you, use technology.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: and essentially take my seat. So the choice should be
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: simple right now. It's Paltola, the Democrat, me, the Republican,
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: and forget Decoy Dan. You know, that name is stuck.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: Decoy Dan. You would think with all the attention they
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: could find this guy. He has not surfaced.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: What's amazing now is that the New York Times article
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: was pretty darn extensive with 12 different sources and with
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: a text that were read from mary peltola but she
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: is still swearing curtis she knew nothing about this.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Is it possible that anybody in your campaign was potentially
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: part of that conspiracy to plant dan.
• 23:01
  Speaker 12: Jay I have no idea.
• 23:04
  Speaker 8: I honestly have no idea. The reason, this is offensive
• 23:08
  Speaker 8: to me on a number.
• 23:09
  Speaker 10: Of different levels.
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  Speaker 12: First of all, this is Alaska.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: We're not in the business of tricking each other up here. Oh,
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: come on. Did she not remember the gold rush up
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: there and how miners would trick one another over? No,
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: this is my deed, not your deed. Unbelievable. Trust politicians.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: She is in trouble now. She was expected to win
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: this state. You know, she was doing very well against
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: three Republicans. It's not just Decoy Dan. There's another Republican,
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: not the same name, on the ballot, and they have
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: ranked choice voting and all that. So it gave her
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: an advantage. But I'm telling you, if I was an Alaskan,
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: I'd be so upset that you stacked a deck, you
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: used Chick-fil-A, and also some of the texts from her
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: campaign staff to the National Democratic Senate Finance Campaign run
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: by Schumer. Oh, they're just a bunch of goobers. You know,
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: they can't even chew gum and think at the same time.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: It's like you're humiliating Alaskans for no other reason. I
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: think you've got to send out a lesson. You've got
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: to elect Sullivan Sr., who is the sitting U.S. senator. And,
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: you know, if that happens, all these threats of lawsuits,
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: everything else, investigations, at least for now, goes away.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: By the way, a couple of newspapers have been able
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: to track down in Alaska Dan J.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Sullivan.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: And Dan J. Sullivan swears, swears he did nothing wrong. Now,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: he told them both that he hates Donald Trump. He
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: told them both he'd do anything to get a Democrat
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: in office there and to stop Donald Trump, but swears
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: he did nothing wrong. He just thought it would be
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: great to run for Senate. Then when they pressed him
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: when they pressed him on why you really don't have
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: a campaign, why you haven't been out, why it's so
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: hard to find you right now. He said, I didn't
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: really think I had a chance.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: And now where they can nail him and Peltola and
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: her campaign team and the Democrat National Senate Finance Committee
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: run by the schmuck to putz Chuckie Cheese Schumer. If
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: they gave him any kind of gratuities, let's say a
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: trip to Cancun, all expenses paid for you and whoever
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: you want to go down there or money. And if
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: they sweat him down because he's going to be subpoenaed
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: before the grand jury and you know, they're going to
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: ask him. That is a federal crime. That is a felony.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: And any promise of a job, any promise to make
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: his situation better, any promise to help his– because there's
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: other ways you can do it without being able to
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: trace money. But that's very difficult to tell if that happens.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: They went through a list of things where it could
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: end up being a felony. But if there was no
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: promises made and there was no money exchanged, then it's
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: not illegal.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: I love that nickname, Decoy Dan. I'm going to tag
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: Jimmy Failure, who's with us the whole 8 o'clock hour,
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: because he's always ducking me. He's always a decoy with
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: me because he doesn't like the questions I'm going to
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: ask him. But that case, ballot stacking, and this could
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: go on for many days because there are a lot
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: of rural parts of Alaska that are not reachable. So
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: they mail it. As long as it's postmarked by 9
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: o'clock tonight, that's the time the vote is over. It
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: could take up to seven or ten days for it
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: to be counted and added to the tally.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: And with a close vote, you're right, it could take
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: ten days. And the polls aren't going to close there
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: in Eastern Standard Time until one in the morning. So
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: you're going to have to wait until tomorrow morning. Could
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: you imagine if it is the Alaskan Senate vote that
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: decides the future of the country and the future of
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: the Senate? It very well could come down to that.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: The Senate's going to be that tight. And the future
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: of the schmuck to putz Chuck E. Cheese Schumer because
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: he's got his fingerprints on this. So let's say that
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: is the swing seat and gives the Republicans just one
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: vote so they don't have to depend on Vance if
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: it's tied.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: That's it for Chuck Schumer. He will not even be
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: the minority leader any longer. They'll say you blew it
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: by launching this cabal with Patola's campaign because this sounds
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: more like Schumer. He's been known to do these kind
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: of things.
• 27:24
  Speaker 13: Right.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: I've got a feeling even if the Democrats win, Schumer
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: might be out. There is really a groundswell to get
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: rid of Schumer that his time has come. And if
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: you listen to him these days, I do think that
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: he'd be smart to retire. He'd be smart to just
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: step down, not retire as senator, just retire as minority leader.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Or majority leader, if he's lucky enough on election night. Well,
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: we know we're going to hear from him tonight. Meantime,
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: let's go down to Texas, Telerico versus Paxton. Now, Paxton
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: had an original plan, Larry, that he would have his
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: final get out to vote campaign in front of the
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Alamo in San Antonio. Why is your minds prevailed and said,
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: you don't want to do that? No, no, no, no, no, no.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: Not in front of the Alamo. So he did something
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: in Dallas where he's got a big vote in the
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: suburbs out there, you know, to get out that vote.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: But luckily, people convinced him, don't do it by the Alamo.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: My God, it's going to conjure up, oh my God,
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: Sam Houston, you know, Mexicans who aren't all that thrilled
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: with the Alamo. So it was a wise move. And then,
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: of course, Tallarico has shifted. He is no longer campaigning
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: against Paxton. He's campaigning against He's doing the David and
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: Goliath thing against Musk. Almost every ad is, I'm David,
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: you know Elon Musk is Goliath. He spent $ 150 million
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: of his personal fortune in order to support Paxton in
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: this race. So we'll see if, you know, there's a
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: lot of hate for the billionaires out there, if that
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: actually resonates for him.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: The best thing that happened to Telerico nationally is the
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: controversy and the allegations in Alaska. And then the El
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Saeed constantly stepping on it. And also the Vivek Ramaswamy
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: ad that ran in Ohio that got so much national attention.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: There is only so much national airtime. And those three
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: stories took up so much in the last week of
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: the campaign, so much of airtime that Tallarico wasn't a
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: lead story anymore. He wasn't being hit hard by, let's say,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Fox News or even covered by CNN and MSNOW. So
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: that was the best thing that happened to him. Because
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: if he can run without the incoming from the media
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: and without the incoming from the Republican Party nationally, You know,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: he has a much better chance because he was villain
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: number one for the Republican Party. Oh, absolutely.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: And as you know, Trump tagged him a vegan, which
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: is almost a no-no down in Texas, you know, cattle country.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: So one of his last stops, ironically, was at a
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: rib joint. so that everybody could see him gumming down
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: those ribs, because you know how it is. The sauce
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: on it, you put the barbecue sauce. So if you
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: weren't a cognoscente, you wouldn't know how to do it
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: the way Texans do it. So he wanted to get
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: that issue out of the way, because there are some
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: in Texas who immediately would say, you know, that's not
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: a man's man. If you're a vegan, I'm not voting
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: for you, because I'm Texas tough.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, when we come back, Natalie Migliore, guess what she's
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: doing today?
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: Oh, the election.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Of course, voting. Natalie Migliore, the builders. Now, it's 710WOR
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: Wow, she was a star for the New York City Marathon,
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: and now you are a member of the team that's
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: going to be covering election coverage tonight with Larry, with Natalie,
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: the whole team out there. And so you can really
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: strut yourself tonight. So I'm assuming when you were down
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: in the streets, you were talking to people about the election,
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: Natalie Migliore. That's a great assumption.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: Good morning.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: The polls are open.
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: New Yorkers are voting for governor and a slew of
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: other races, including Congress. Now, experts say independence could be
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: the deciding factor in the race between incumbent Democrat Governor
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: Kathy Hochul and Republican challenger Bruce Blakeman. So after nearly
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: two million New Yorkers voted early, guys, not everyone planning
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: on hitting.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: The polls today. I don't really care, honestly.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: You don't care because you don't think they're going to
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: change our lives or what?
• 31:44
  Speaker 7: Yeah, probably.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm just in the middle.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: I don't really know.
• 31:47
  Speaker 7: You can't really trust anyone, so it's hard to know
• 31:49
  Speaker 7: which side to vote for.
• 31:51
  Speaker 12: The country, hopefully, will be going in the right direction,
• 31:54
  Speaker 12: but everything's questionable.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's an important election.
• 31:59
  Speaker 12: People should go out and vote.
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: Honestly, depending on where they are, Manhattan, right, you're not
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: going to vote.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: Still going to go Democratic. What do you do?
• 32:08
  Speaker 13: Right.
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: You're in a flip situation.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: You're not vote is a vote.
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that could be the case, especially in four congressional
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: districts in New York, as Representative Tom Swasey looks to
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: hold on to his seat against Republican challenger Mike Lepetri.
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: Same thing with Republican Mike Lawler in the Hudson Valley,
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: who was going toe to toe with Democrat Kate Conley.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: I think they've had a dance off or two. I swear.
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: The things you see during election season, my friends.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: I miss the dance-off.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm so sorry. Maybe you would have joined.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: A little two-step.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: A little Cotton Eye Joe.
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: But after months of aggressive campaigning on all sides, New
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: Yorkers are just done.
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: You get text messages 24-7 constantly. It's a pain in
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: the neck.
• 32:58
  Speaker 12: I don't want to see any of the ads.
• 32:59
  Speaker 13: I'm tired of the ads.
• 33:01
  Speaker 8: It's like Adults playing a children's role.
• 33:04
  Speaker 12: Everybody's nasty. I don't know what happened to our country,
• 33:08
  Speaker 12: to the people. I don't know what happened. Well, I
• 33:10
  Speaker 12: do know what happened. We have a leader who basically says,
• 33:14
  Speaker 12: do it, do it, say whatever you want.
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: It's not stuff that I go on social media to see. Like,
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: I want to spend my time scrolling and tuning out
• 33:23
  Speaker 7: the noise, and instead you're bombarded by the noise on socials.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: You know, I think a good campaign would have one
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: positive ad about themselves, what they're going to do, and
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: they have to have some negative ads. But that one
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: person was correct. Towards the end, it's all negative. Negative
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: on both sides.
• 33:39
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: Negative on both sides. People are sick of hearing it.
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: That's really the general consensus you get from everybody on
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: the street, whether they're getting text messages from campaigns they've
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: already contributed to or they're watching on team television or
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: they're on social media and they're like, I do this
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: to escape and I still can't escape it.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: And the noise continues. There's a contentious race in New Jersey.
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: Voters already hitting the polls as Republican Congressman Tom King Jr.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: Takes on Democratic challenger Rebecca Bennett.
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: Now voters here letting us know how they feel about
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: the Trump administration really trickling down into this election.
• 34:21
  Speaker 13: I'm not sure whether this is a commonly held sentiment,
• 34:24
  Speaker 13: but I feel strongly that I can't vote for anyone
• 34:27
  Speaker 13: in a Republican party. Um, given the state of the
• 34:31
  Speaker 13: national party and policies.
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: I'm hoping it's going to have an incredible impact.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: We need to repudiate his policies and elect people who
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: are going.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: To stop him.
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: Now, on the complete other side of the political spectrum,
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: some people are paying attention to what's going on in Michigan,
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: where Abdul Al-Sayed, one time the challenger, dropped. His challenger,
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: excuse me, Haley Stevens, dropped. her endorsement for him and
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: instead starting backing Republican Mike Rogers. This has caught attention
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: from a lot of people, especially because Syed is labeled
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: as a Democratic socialist. So people are very confused specifically
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: over what's going to happen in that situation.
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  Speaker 12: There's a question behind all of that. I believe in researching.
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  Speaker 12: I don't really know. See, that's the whole thing. There's
• 35:22
  Speaker 12: Democrats that are running that I don't want to support,
• 35:25
  Speaker 12: the Socialist Democrats. I'm not supporting that. So how confusing
• 35:30
  Speaker 12: is that for someone who wants to either vote Republican
• 35:33
  Speaker 12: or Democrat? It's hard to stay in your whole party line.
• 35:36
  Speaker 12: You have to be much smarter than me to really
• 35:39
  Speaker 12: follow it all.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: Good, then play the bingo card. Don't just vote one line.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: Vote each line, research the candidates, and then vote for
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: one of them instead of being like, oh no, I
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: just voted Republican, I just voted Democrat. Come on, stop
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  Speaker 3: it already.
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: But you do come across those people in the street.
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: I mean, I'll ask people, why Governor Hochul?
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: Why Bruce Blakeman?
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: And it's really because they're voting down the party line.
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: You know, they're not necessarily when I talk to them,
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: not everybody is looking into the issues. And, you know,
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: we talk about, too, on a national level, there's been
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: so much conversation about ICE, right? Immigration enforcement. Not one
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: of those issues when you talk to people on the street.
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: That's not the first thing somebody brings up. Well, immigration
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: enforcement is my big issue. A lot of people are
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: like utilities, electric, the cost of gas. These are major things.
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: Pocketbook issues. When you sit down at your kitchen table
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: and you talk to your family... about how high the
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: grocery bill was this week. That's what really people are
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: focused on when you approach them on the street.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: Look, you approach them cold.
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: So, you know, whatever, you don't really have time for
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: them to think so deeply. But a lot of people,
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: when they talk to me, they tell me they're just
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: trying to keep their head above water.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're absolutely right. There are second tier issues. And
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: if you've noticed later in the campaign, everybody just goes
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: after affordability. They narrow down the focus. onto what they're
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: going to go after. You're right. I love the people
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: you talked to today, especially that one woman. She was
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: excellent in talking about the different candidates. So Nice job.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: You found some good people.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: You know, I search far and wide, so we have
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: to find the best.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: You're like a trawler out there. A trawler? Yeah, because
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: the trawlers out at sea, they scoop up everything in
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: their path. Trawler. I'm a trawler. Like a troll. But anyway,
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: you'll be with us same time, same place tomorrow. Up next,
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: oh yeah, Jimmy Failure. He'll be with us the whole hour,
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: but right now it's 8 o'clock. Or to the office.