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Full Show · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: So Larry, Natalie, our audience, a lot of campaigns last
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  Speaker 1: night that didn't get any sleep, I can just tell you.
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  Speaker 1: Because of all the neck and neck races that are
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  Speaker 1: taking place from coast to coast, every last minute detail
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  Speaker 1: is being attended to. Are you going to get your
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  Speaker 1: vote out? If you're really highly organized, Larry, you may
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  Speaker 1: have an idea of what your vote is by 12 noon.
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  Speaker 1: If you've really convinced the people who support you, we
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  Speaker 1: need to know if you voted because they can then
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  Speaker 1: track you. And if you haven't voted, my God, your
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  Speaker 1: phone's going to blow up. You're going to get text messages, emails.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to come to your door. And they don't
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  Speaker 1: mind being treated like Jehovah Witnesses or Mormon missionaries. And
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  Speaker 1: they know you have the doorbell camera and they'll actually
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  Speaker 1: talk into the door. I know you're in there. I'm
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  Speaker 1: out of here. A car will take you to the
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  Speaker 1: polling location. We'll bring you back, especially in congressional elections
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  Speaker 1: where sometimes a small handful of votes can determine the
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  Speaker 1: winner either way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you think about it. It was air support before.
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  Speaker 2: It was $ 14 billion. This is like a war. They
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  Speaker 2: went in and they advertised on radio and on television
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  Speaker 2: across the country, $ 14 billion worth of advertising across the country.
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  Speaker 2: And now it's a ground game. Now you have to
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  Speaker 2: get your people out there to get out your vote.
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  Speaker 2: And you have to knock on doors. You have to
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  Speaker 2: call people. You have to text people. I mean, you're right.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to be inundated today with getting out the vote.
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  Speaker 2: And at stake, well, at this point, you must know
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  Speaker 2: what's at stake. At stake is the future of the country.
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  Speaker 2: At stake is the next two years. Is it going
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  Speaker 2: to be a complete stalemate with one taking the House
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  Speaker 2: and the other taking the Senate, one party taking the House,
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  Speaker 2: the other taking the Senate? Is it going to be impeachment, impeachment, impeachment,
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  Speaker 2: impeachment and trials against Donald Trump if the Democrats take both?
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  Speaker 2: Or are we going to continue the way we've been
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  Speaker 2: going along with Republicans taking both houses, both chambers. Look,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think the latter is going to happen at
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  Speaker 2: this point. I just looked at the Cook Report this
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  Speaker 2: morning and we were talking about it. And as you know,
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  Speaker 2: I follow the Cook Report and subscribe to it because
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  Speaker 2: it has been one of the best, if not the best,
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  Speaker 2: in predicting these things. And it doesn't show good news
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  Speaker 2: this morning for the Republicans when it comes to the
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  Speaker 2: House especially. The Senate is absolutely in play, and I
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  Speaker 2: do think that some of the things that happened over
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  Speaker 2: the last week or so is going to have an effect. However,
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  Speaker 2: I will tell you the bad news. Now, they had
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  Speaker 2: seven in the Cook Report. They had seven states as toss-ups.
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  Speaker 2: They now have six. For some reason, even after the
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  Speaker 2: events in Michigan, for some reason, they have moved Michigan
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  Speaker 2: to leaning Democratic. So if you lose that one seat,
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  Speaker 2: you can't lose many more. The Democrats have to win
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  Speaker 2: four to take control of the Senate. They have to
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  Speaker 2: take four. If they only take three, it'll be a
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  Speaker 2: 50 to 50 tie. And then J.D. Vance has the
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  Speaker 2: deciding vote. So it's going to be razor thin in
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  Speaker 2: the Senate tonight. But man, you know, you were just
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  Speaker 2: talking about it a second ago, how close this is
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  Speaker 2: going to be. This is a really monumental midterm election
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  Speaker 2: so far. And I heard Ted Cruz use this line
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  Speaker 2: last night in Texas. So far, the Democrats have been
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  Speaker 2: out there in mass in early voting. There have been
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  Speaker 2: millions of early votes already cast and mostly Democrats. So
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  Speaker 2: if the election were to end today, the Democrats would
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  Speaker 2: take the House and the Senate. And so this is
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  Speaker 2: when Republicans are motivated. This is when Republicans like to vote.
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  Speaker 2: So this is your day. It's not a day to
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  Speaker 2: stay home. It's not a day to make excuses. If
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  Speaker 2: you have something going on today, you may just want
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  Speaker 2: to make an hour for yourself to get out there
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  Speaker 2: and vote because every vote is going to count in
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  Speaker 2: this one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And look, just some advice. You go to your polling location.
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  Speaker 1: It's always a mess up. Sometimes it's their fault. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: it's not their fault. Don't get into arguments because there'll
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  Speaker 1: be constant delays. Just ask. You just say to yourself, look,
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  Speaker 1: I just want an affidavit. You fill it out. They
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  Speaker 1: put it in a special box. Now, in some of
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  Speaker 1: these congressional elections, like Tierney, upstate New York, which only
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  Speaker 1: won like by 10 votes, they go to that box
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  Speaker 1: the last thing because they first have to prove you're registered.
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  Speaker 1: And they can do that. But they don't have time
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  Speaker 1: sometimes when you're at the table. And let's face it,
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  Speaker 1: some of these poll polls. Workers say, my God, you
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  Speaker 1: wonder if they could pass a Department of Motor Vehicles test.
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  Speaker 1: They have a little difficulty. So don't get into arguments.
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  Speaker 1: Don't wear political attire of any type. Like, Larry, you see,
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  Speaker 1: I'm wearing my, you know, the people's mayor. I can't
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  Speaker 1: go in with that. Don't tell me.
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  Speaker 4: No, no.
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  Speaker 1: Can't go into so don't even try to get cute
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  Speaker 1: just don't wear any political sort of markings on you
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  Speaker 1: whatsoever buttons whatever because they may just put you outside
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  Speaker 1: you get in a huff and a puff no no
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  Speaker 1: just abide by their rules make sure you get your
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  Speaker 1: ballot in in plenty time and I want to start
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  Speaker 1: Larry before we talk about your great coverage tonight for
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  Speaker 1: all the election results I want to start, because everybody
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  Speaker 1: is into this now, the Curtis Sliwa political prediction market.
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  Speaker 5: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's into this now. Why can't I? Everybody has a podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Why can't I have the Curtis Sliwa political prediction marketplace?
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  Speaker 1: So I'm predicting, and I'm going on the high side,
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  Speaker 1: that the Democrats will have, when all is said and done,
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  Speaker 1: and you'll be disputed races that don't get resolved for
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  Speaker 1: a whole day, sometimes weeks, whatever. 240 Democratic seats. And
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  Speaker 1: in the Senate, I think when all is said and done,
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats will have 53 seats. So either I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to be eating a lot of crow tomorrow, or people
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  Speaker 1: are going to say, my God, I'm ready to fund
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  Speaker 1: the Curtis Leeward prediction marketplace. Look, Larry, everybody else is
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  Speaker 1: doing it. Why can't I do it? No, you're right.
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  Speaker 2: And it's absolutely possible. The number you threw out there
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  Speaker 2: is absolutely possible. That's what's so fascinating about this election is,
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  Speaker 2: If you look at the polls, it's really bad for Republicans.
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  Speaker 2: But remember, the polls have been embarrassingly wrong in some
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  Speaker 2: of the past elections. You remember when Hillary Clinton ran
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  Speaker 2: against Donald Trump, everybody thought— that Hillary Clinton was going
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  Speaker 2: to win. Including Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: The most surprised man in the world on that stage
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  Speaker 1: that night when they said, Mr. President. What?
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: And then Hillary got into a fetal position at Jacob
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  Speaker 1: Javits Center for a full month. She couldn't get off
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  Speaker 1: the podium. No, I didn't lose. Just say it ain't so.
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  Speaker 1: But these are the kinds of the political drama that
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  Speaker 1: takes place no matter what the polls say, no matter
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  Speaker 1: what the prognosticators say. But Larry, you're going to have
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  Speaker 1: some great coverage tonight. Can you give our many listeners
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity why they should listen to you at 710WOR
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  Speaker 1: and all your contributors?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going to have people across the country. We're
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  Speaker 2: certainly going to have people in Texas and in Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: And there's going to be just a national ballot watcher
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  Speaker 2: nationally that's going to check in every once in a while.
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  Speaker 2: Daria Albinger is going to be here. And Andrew Whitman,
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  Speaker 2: who is a political aficionado, you hear him on WOR overnights.
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  Speaker 2: But this guy knows local races better than anybody I've
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  Speaker 2: ever talked to before. We're also going to have some guests,
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  Speaker 2: including Rob Astorino. We're going to have Mark Kelly coming
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  Speaker 2: in also as well. So in New Jersey, J.C. Polanco,
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  Speaker 2: the political aficionado that is used on all of the
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  Speaker 2: local stations, he's going to come and talk to us first.
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  Speaker 2: So we have a night full of people that we're
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  Speaker 2: going to talk. And remember, we're going on the air
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  Speaker 2: at 7 o'clock, from 7 to 11 o'clock. At 7 o'clock,
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina closes. That's going to be the first of
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  Speaker 2: the tight Senate races. We're going to learn a lot
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  Speaker 2: from that race. Those early races, and then at 8
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  Speaker 2: o'clock you're going to have Maine and some of the
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  Speaker 2: other races. We're going to learn Ohio. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: learn so much from those early races. If all of
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  Speaker 2: them were to switch and go Democratic, it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a bad night for Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: Can I do this? Can I have permission, Natalie, our
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  Speaker 1: producer extraordinaire? That if, in fact, Joe Bartlett was wrong
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  Speaker 1: with his predictions about the demise of Darlene Graham, the
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  Speaker 1: Republican senator who replaced her brother who passed away. Can
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  Speaker 1: I wake him up in the wee hours of the morning? Because,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm nocturnal. I think he would so appreciate
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  Speaker 1: that phone call. It would be amazing.
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  Speaker 2: It would be historic if Darlene Graham were to lose.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know when the last time Fritz Hollings,
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  Speaker 2: I think, was the last Democratic senator of South Carolina,
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  Speaker 2: probably back in the 80s or 90s. I mean, it
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  Speaker 2: has been a long time. The most surprising one would
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  Speaker 2: be Texas. You have to go way back, maybe to
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  Speaker 2: the 50s, to find the last Democratic senator there. But
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  Speaker 2: all that's on the line tonight. All of that is possible.
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  Speaker 2: History is possible tonight. You can change much of that
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  Speaker 2: by just getting out to vote. That's the most important
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  Speaker 2: thing you can do personally right now, because uh the
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  Speaker 2: way it looks right now with the early voting we
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  Speaker 2: need a wave of republican votes to help the republicans.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah well this is their day remember republicans are used
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  Speaker 1: to voting on election day uh this is what republicans
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  Speaker 1: bank on You know, they're doing early voting. They're doing
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  Speaker 1: mail-in ballots. A lot of states, it's required. You got
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  Speaker 1: to do mail-in. There's no polling location to go to. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they're segueing, but I would say you are
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  Speaker 1: absolutely correct. When I checked the polling locations on Election Day,
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  Speaker 1: it's mostly Republicans. Most of the Democrats have, you know,
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  Speaker 1: done their duty and voted either early voting or by mail.
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  Speaker 1: So they don't even bother to show up at the
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  Speaker 1: polling location. So if you were doing an impromptu poll,
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  Speaker 1: you'd say, Wow, Republicans are doing great. Well, hold on
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  Speaker 1: a second. The Dems did great in early voting and
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  Speaker 1: in mail-in voting. So now it's a question of the count.
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  Speaker 1: And the states vary, Larry. Some of the states, boom,
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  Speaker 1: you'll know right away. Other states, you'll be waiting a
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  Speaker 1: month to Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: And you can't pay attention to the polls right now.
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  Speaker 2: You can't pay attention to the early voting right now.
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  Speaker 2: Remember the last midterm election when Iowa was supposed to
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  Speaker 2: go and the Republicans won Iowa by six. percentage points.
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  Speaker 2: So you can't look at the polls. The polls have
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  Speaker 2: been awfully wrong, especially when it comes to the Republican vote.
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  Speaker 1: So don't get demoralized. You just got to vote. And
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  Speaker 1: let me tell you something. Jimmy Failio will be with
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  Speaker 1: us in studio 8 to 9. He has traveled all
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  Speaker 1: over the country doing his stand-up shows. He'll give us
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  Speaker 1: a pretty good idea of what's transpiring across America. But
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  Speaker 1: up next, we're going to discuss the man who walked
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  Speaker 1: around the world. That's right. He walked around the world,
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  Speaker 1: plus a chance to see Def Leppard and the Google
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  Speaker 1: Dolls at 825. This is just an amazing story.
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  Speaker 2: 28 years ago, a man named Carl Bushby set out
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  Speaker 2: on an adventure to walk around the world. And yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: he finally finished that journey. Bushby finished the walk. back
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  Speaker 2: at the beginning, where he started at his mother's home
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  Speaker 2: in Hull, England. So the first leg of the trip
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  Speaker 2: was actually a plane ride to Chile, where he started
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  Speaker 2: his trek on November 1st, 1998. From there, he walked
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  Speaker 2: 31,000 miles through four continents and more than two dozen countries.
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  Speaker 2: Part of the trip included crossing ice over the Bering Strait,
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  Speaker 2: and swimming across the Caspian Sea. The trip was delayed.
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  Speaker 2: That's the reason it took him so long, because of
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  Speaker 2: issues behind his control, like the 2008 financial crisis and
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  Speaker 2: the COVID pandemic.
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  Speaker 1: So Bush is now 57 years old, and he is
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  Speaker 1: finally home.
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  Speaker 6: The math will tell you you can do it in
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  Speaker 6: like five, four, five years. But there were these gaps
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  Speaker 6: that we had to get across. So we suspected that
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  Speaker 6: 12 years plus, but never in our wildest dreams would
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  Speaker 6: we ever imagine 28 years.
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  Speaker 2: So the amazing thing about it, he's talked about how
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  Speaker 2: kind people were around the world, that the only reason
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  Speaker 2: he made it, because he didn't have a lot of finances.
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  Speaker 2: The only reason he made it was because of the
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  Speaker 2: kindness around the world. And he said, that's what I
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  Speaker 2: learned more than anything. Instead of watching the news and
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  Speaker 2: seeing what the world is like, get out and experience
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  Speaker 2: because it's full of wonderful people.
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  Speaker 6: Quite literally, the world was my support network every step
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  Speaker 6: of the way. I mean, that's one of the biggest
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  Speaker 6: takeaways from this journey is we live in an incredibly
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  Speaker 6: good world.
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  Speaker 2: So now he's home and everybody's, of course, asking the question,
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  Speaker 2: so what's next?
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  Speaker 6: What's scary about being 57 years old, living in the
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  Speaker 6: basement of your mother's house with nothing except your bags?
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  Speaker 1: The real definition of a Mama Luke. 28 years on
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  Speaker 1: the road. I'd like to know how many shoes did
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  Speaker 1: you wear through in 28 years? Because you walk four continents. Man,
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  Speaker 1: and you know the roads in some of these places.
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  Speaker 1: They're barely roads. So there's a lot of wear and
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  Speaker 1: tear on your shoes. But it gives new meaning to
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  Speaker 1: what we grew up with when we were kids and
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  Speaker 1: we'd watch TV and we'd see. I'd walk a mile
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  Speaker 1: for a camel. Remember the guy has his shoes up
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  Speaker 1: with the hole in the bottom of his... Shoes, I'd
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  Speaker 1: walk a mile for them. You're thinking about his shoes.
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  Speaker 7: This story makes you think about his shoes?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because that's... Remember, if your dogs ain't comfortable, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to be howling all along the way.
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  Speaker 7: I'm thinking about what life was like in 1998 versus 2026.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely. So he started off with.
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  Speaker 7: very rudimentary cell phones, no social media, no real internet
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  Speaker 7: connection on your phones. So, you know, the journey was maps,
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  Speaker 7: asking for directions.
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  Speaker 2: And the kindness of people just saying, Hey, where can
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  Speaker 2: I stay tonight? You know that where, where can I
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  Speaker 2: eat tonight? Think about how much money he needed. Now
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  Speaker 2: he did have financings, but there was, there was some
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  Speaker 2: people that were financing him. That's why when the crash happened,
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  Speaker 2: He was out of money.
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  Speaker 1: He was stuck.
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  Speaker 7: But the sponsors he could have had. He could have
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  Speaker 7: had a shoe company. New Balance could have sponsored him.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Or Rockport for senior citizens. And I'm sure a documentary
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  Speaker 2: is coming. I mean, there has to be. And by
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  Speaker 2: the sound with the music in the background, you can
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  Speaker 2: see already that there's going to be a big documentary.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get to some talkbacks. Of course, what you want
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  Speaker 2: to talk about. are the midterm elections.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Larry and Curtis, as you've been speculating, expect a
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  Speaker 5: really big blue wave tonight. I do think there is
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  Speaker 5: a possibility Republicans may hold on to the Senate probably
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  Speaker 5: by 50-50 with Vance being the deciding vote, but it's going.
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  Speaker 1: To be very, very blue.
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  Speaker 5: And the last Texas Democratic senator was Benson, if you
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  Speaker 5: remember him from the 90s. He ran for vice president
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  Speaker 5: as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was put in, though, by the governor. Did
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  Speaker 2: he get elected? I don't think he got elected. We'll
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  Speaker 2: have to look at it.
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  Speaker 1: Remember his famous line, you know, I knew JFK, you
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  Speaker 1: know JFK. The vice president was chosen simply because he
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  Speaker 1: was young. From Indiana, the senator looked very young and
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  Speaker 1: couldn't spell potato. If you remember, that was the whole election. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Dan Goyle. That's right, the whole election.
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  Speaker 5: Larry.
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  Speaker 8: Larry.
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  Speaker 1: My question is to you, I want you to sell.
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  Speaker 2: Me why I should vote Republican when I have done
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  Speaker 2: nothing but suffered for the last almost two years now.
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  Speaker 1: Worse than I did under Biden. And then the Republicans
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  Speaker 1: try to tell me that inflation is only up at
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  Speaker 1: 1.9 when that is nothing more than another lie. It's
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  Speaker 1: actually at 6.8. And that's true, Larry.
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  Speaker 9: So sell me.
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  Speaker 1: Why do I vote Republican?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's not a 6.8. I mean, you have to
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  Speaker 2: go by the official figures. You can't just make up
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  Speaker 2: your own. And man, you must not have remembered the
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  Speaker 2: Biden years, all those people that died during the pandemic,
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  Speaker 2: everything that was closed down, the schools that were closed down,
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  Speaker 2: record high inflation, much higher than it is now. more
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  Speaker 2: than double than it is now. You don't remember the
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  Speaker 2: gas prices were higher than they were now.
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  Speaker 1: And you don't.
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  Speaker 2: Remember the debacle of Afghanistan. Oh, and an open border.
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  Speaker 2: I could actually go on and on.
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  Speaker 1: Larry, you know who doesn't remember those years? Biden himself. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that's true. Now let's get to Daria.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get to Daria Alviger with the 630 News.
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  Speaker 1: Daria. Morning, guys.
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  Speaker 10: Partly cloudy today. We'll see a high of 69 degrees.
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  Speaker 10: The polls are open across New York, New Jersey, and
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  Speaker 10: Connecticut on this election day. And the results especially in
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  Speaker 10: the House races could determine which party will control Congress.
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  Speaker 11: In Alaska, where two men named Dan Sullivan are on
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  Speaker 11: the ballot, a judge has thrown out the Justice Department's
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  Speaker 2: ready when it counts. Well, the only Republican pickup from
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: the Democrats may be in Michigan. Michigan is the race
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: that everyone's looking at because it is the most vulnerable
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Democrat in the country, Abdul El-Sayed. And he was on
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: 60 Minutes this week. and he had a rally. He's
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: been trying to get out the vote. It's razor thin
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: right now, so it is possible, especially if you look
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: at the polls in the primary, where he was way
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: ahead and ended up winning by a thin margin. Now
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: he's winning by a thin margin, so if the polls
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: are incorrect like they were in the primaries, he's going
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: to lose. And I don't know, Curtis, I don't think
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: he helped himself on 60 Minutes. Two of the controversial
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: things that he's been dealing with Well, let's start with
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: this one. Our transgender kids and male athletes playing with
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: female athletes. And 60 Minutes asked him about that, and
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: he doubled down.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: What happens with transgender kids on sports teams and so on, right?
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Like, these are places where rights are in conflict, right?
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  Speaker 14: I don't know that that's actually true. I think we
• 22:19
  Speaker 14: manufacture these social issues. You can get access to everything
• 22:23
  Speaker 14: and anything in the whole world, all the world's information
• 22:25
  Speaker 14: in your pocket. The notion somehow that you are going
• 22:29
  Speaker 14: to prevent your child from being exposed to something that
• 22:32
  Speaker 14: you may find disagreeable and that that is going to
• 22:36
  Speaker 14: be because of school is so profoundly outdated.
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  Speaker 2: The strange thing is, all he talked about was the
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: locker room. He didn't talk about the fact that young
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: girls are getting injured across the country having to play
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: against boys. He didn't talk about the fact that they're
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: losing scholarships. because they have to compete against a male
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: who is going to beat them when they were expected
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: to win. Didn't talk about that at all. All he
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: talked about was what it was like in the locker room.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: And then came Israel.
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  Speaker 14: I don't ever get the question of, does Palestine have
• 23:12
  Speaker 14: the right to exist?
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Does Palestine have the right to exist?
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Does Israel have the right to exist? Yes, if there
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: is a shared understanding. Wait, you said.
• 23:22
  Speaker 14: Let me just understand. I believe, and this is the
• 23:25
  Speaker 14: problem with this debate, we start from where we sit
• 23:28
  Speaker 14: rather than start from principles.
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  Speaker 2: Just danced around the issue, Curtis.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but again, you know, if you're going to talk Israel,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: you're going to talk Palestinians, it's sort of like that
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: should not be the primary issue in the state of Michigan.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: There's so many other prevalent issues. But because it's become that...
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Congressman Haley Stevens, who had been with Mike Rogers the
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: day before Sunday in a church pew supporting him in
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: a black church, she went home and said, you won't
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: hear from me anymore. Well, she may not have spoken,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: but she issued an 890-word manifesto in which she critiqued
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: all the reasons why it was she and she alone
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: who made this decision to publicly endorse Mike Rogers in
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: the waning days of the campaign. Because all the trolls,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: you see, in campaigns, there are trolls, artificial intelligence, they're
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: triggered off. You get thousands of emails, texts, calls, you know.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: And she said, Jason did not make this decision. How
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: sexist of you. Now, if that wasn't enough, her manifesto,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: then her mother.
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: This is Congresswoman Haley Stevens, who's broken ranks with El-Sayed
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: and is endorsing Mike Rogers. The mother comes out and
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: does interviews and said, you all should be ashamed of yourself.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: You know my daughter, she's a congresswoman. It was her
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: and her only. Jason had no role in making this decision.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: This is total sexism. And I'm saying, wow, in the
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: waning days of the campaign, this has become the number
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: one issue. So the way I look at it, Larry,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: He'll lose the Jewish vote, but he gets the Muslim vote.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: It offsets one another, and now it's to the rest
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: of the people in Michigan to make the decision.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: And she has been attacked relentlessly now for making this decision,
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  Speaker 2: which makes me to believe it has some weight. Her
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: coming out, and it's not just her. There are many
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Democratic congressmen and representatives, state representatives, who and mayors that
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: have come out and said they can't vote for El-Sayed either,
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: which is why I was surprised. We let off the
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: show today. I was talking about the Cook Report. The
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Cook Report took the race and took it from toss-up
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: to leans Democratic. That was a shock to me. They've
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: had it as a toss-up the entire time.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: You know what? We oftentimes compare El-Sayed to Zoran Mandami.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Zoran Mandami smoothly. Remember, in order to secure the nomination...
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: He befriended Adonis Rodriguez, who is the congressman from Washington Heights.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: He befriended Velazquez, the congresswoman, and then turned on them
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: and supported his own DSA candidates to replace them. Remember,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: he did it smoothly. But with El Saeed, it's like
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: right in your face. No, I'm not going to sit down.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to try to mend the, you know, fences.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: He's like the bull in the china shop because you
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: see how buffed he is. Well, as you notice, Zoran
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: is smoother. You get the same results, but initially, oh, no,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: why can't we be friends? Why can't we be friends?
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: It's come down in this election. El Saeed does not
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: want to be friends with Congresswoman Haley Stevens, and she
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: likewise does not want to be friends with him. And
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: a guy that nobody knew, the fiancé Jason, is now
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: a well-known person throughout Michigan. But, you know, right next
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: to Michigan is Ohio. And that's another big state because
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: originally I even thought it's red. You know, it's going
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: to stay red. But all of a sudden, Sherrod Brown
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: comes back. He's ahead in the polls, if you believe
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: the polls, against Husted. Then you have Vivek. He tried
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: his strategy against Dr. Anton. You have that congressional race,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: you know, with Moreno, the senator. It's his brother. Oh,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: my God. There's so much drama in Ohio. And J.D.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Vance was in Toledo yesterday and talking about, you know,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: his roots in Ohio and how important this election is. So, man,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: they've been flooding Ohio. I mean, Michigan, Ohio. is where
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: a lot of the money is going nationally. Yeah, I
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: think Vivek is in trouble.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: That ad that you're talking about with Amy Acton's mother,
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: and she had some problems in that family, and Amy
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Acton's mother came out and said, no, she's a liar,
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: you can't vote for her. That seemed to have a
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: lot of backlash, and we know that it didn't work
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: because Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign has pulled the ad now, and
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: they're not talking about it anymore. So and Amy Acton
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: doesn't want to talk about it anymore either. But I
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: think that had a negative effect. Listen, he was already
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: behind in the polls before that happened. But I think
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: that might be the death knell in that race. I
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: got a feeling that's going to be a Democratic pickup.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, up next, Larry, you're going to be
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: very impressed who just signed on to the Curtis Sliwa
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: initiative on what is going to be on the back
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: of the ballot in New York City. There are five initiatives,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: extraordinarily critical initiatives. I say vote no. The mayor says
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: vote yes. I'll break it down to you up next.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: And then Natalie will tell you who came out of
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: nowhere to support me against Oron.
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: This is big. Well, unbelievable, Natalie, while going through her
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: post yesterday on 710WR. How can people go through your post, Natalie?
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: What do they go to? Oh, well, me personally?
• 28:59
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 29:00
  Speaker 16: No, no.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: To the WOR posts that you do.
• 29:03
  Speaker 11: Oh, yeah.
• 29:03
  Speaker 7: You just follow 710WOR on Instagram or Facebook. Or you
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: can follow me, too.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Natalie Vaca. And you know who is following the post
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: on the initiatives that are on the back of the
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: city ballot? I'll explain momentarily because it's imperative that you
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: turn that paper ballot over and fill out those initiatives.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Who's that actor there?
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: John Leguizamo. So you were out there. You put a
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: video out about the initiatives and to vote no.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: And he agreed with you.
• 29:36
  Speaker 7: Yeah and he let his two million plus people let
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: no also.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: So imagine that because you see it's local it's local
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: control now he come from jackson heights obviously he's a
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: big star now movies tv huh.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: How many productions has he been in It's like 162
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: TV and movies in his career.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Can I use this against Joe Neumeier on Friday that
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: I got this guy following me? Yeah, sure. I'm sure
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: he'll be impressed.
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: I actually have to see if he follows you, too.
• 30:07
  Speaker 7: I don't know how he found your post, but, you know,
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: you show up on feeds. But I loved his reaction
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: to it. Vote no, my New Yorkers. Don't let him
• 30:14
  Speaker 7: trick you.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: F that. That's right. Trick knowledge. So let me explain
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: it very simply. This is put together by whoever is
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: the mayor. Every year it's called charter revision. So Zoran
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: and his Zoranistas were able to post five. They chose
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: to post five. Proposition one, and it's all bureaucratic mumbo jumbo, is, oh,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: if you want a sidewalk cafe, you want a flower pot,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: you don't have to go to the council person any longer.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: The community board will get input from the people in
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: the neighborhood. The sidewalks are already so crowded, Larry. You
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: just come to City Hall. We'll give you the easy pass.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: I said, my, no, no, my. Hell no. Where's the oversight?
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Where's the community involvement? So no on Proposition 1. Proposition
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: 2 is that they wanted oversight on all the contracts,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: only City Hall. That'll lead to corruption. You want city
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: council looking at it. You want a community board analyzing it.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: You want people's input to come to public hearings. A
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: lot of the elected officials, they don't like that because
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: the gadflies show up and, you know, they're going to
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: be heard. So they want to eliminate that. They want
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: you to vote yes, I say vote no. Number three,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: and this is the one That everybody can relate to. Now,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: look at this as the title, technology. Street safer, done faster. Now, Larry,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: doesn't that sound good, right? Everybody's for street safer and
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: that the street get, you know, paved faster, right? I mean,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: you would be for that.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but there's going to be money attached to that, right?
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. Department of Transportation is not going to
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: have to ask for permission to throw in more bike lanes.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: You know, there's a process.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Got to go to the community board, got to go
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: to the city council person, have to have public hearings.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: And those are public hearings that people turn out in mass.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: And this way, the people can be hurt. So the
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: mayor just basically said, no, you come through City Hall. Oof,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: out of you, City Hall. I say, vote no. Then
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Proposition 4 is you go to the Department of Buildings
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: to deal with all waterfront property that's owned by the city.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Are you kidding? The former Department of Buildings chairperson is
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: on trial now for corruption. It's the most corrupt agency
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: of any in the city, no matter who's the mayor.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: And then last is the Rainy Day Fund. They're playing
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: a shell game. Because if we have a recession, and
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: it could well happen if there's an implosion in Silicon Valley,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: you know, they're moving around the money that you have
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: to save for a rainy day, you know, when there's
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: going to be an emergency. And so I just say
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: vote no on every proposition. You have to have public oversight.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: You have to have the other elected officials involved. That's
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: why you elect them, to represent you in your district.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: And this isn't just in New York. You really should
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: look at the ballot before you go in. They purposely make,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: either they use jargon to make it hard to understand,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: or they make it ambiguous, or they make it flowery,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: like you were just talking about. They make it sound
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: like it's going to be something wonderful without showing you
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: the cost. There are some states that insists that you
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: have to have the cost in there. Every time you
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: have a ballot question, you have to have the cost. Apparently,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: New York doesn't have that, but they should have that.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: It's the call, trust me, I'm Zoran.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: I'm the mayor.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: I would never screw you. Right, exactly. Are you kidding?
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: Imagine an easy pass where everything has to go through
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: city hall, and there's no checks and balances, no oversight,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: no citizen involvement, and the indignity of saying to you,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: the citizen who pays all the taxes... Just send in
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: a letter. You know where that letter goes to the
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: round filing cabinet. That'll never be read.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: But you do have to dig into these. By the way,
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: there's some really important questions being asked across the country.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: Should citizens be able to vote? I thought that was
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: already illegal. Should citizens be able to vote? Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Kansas,
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: South Dakota, and West Virginia. And should you show voter ID?
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: You talked about California. It's also Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, North Carolina,
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: and Ohio also have that initiative on there.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: And then the other initiatives, I think it's four states.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: If you're a male, you don't get to play as
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: a female. We'll just make it very simple. That's right.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska, and Washington. You know what the
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: vote on that's going to be overwhelmingly across America. Even
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: some of the Dems, you notice how they're moderating. Well,
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: I don't think men should be able to play against
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: women in sports.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Wait, you said this two years ago. No, no, no.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: You know, because they want to push. They know. that's
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: where they're vulnerable. That's their Achilles heel. The cultural issues,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: we'll call it.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Yes, but the votes on non-citizens are also going to
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: pass easily because most people in the country don't want
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: non-citizens to vote and they think it's already illegal. It's
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: also the voter ID is going to pass because you've
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: seen the numbers, the poll numbers on that. 80% of
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: the people across the country, it doesn't matter if they're black,
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: if they're Hispanic, women, male, everybody, conservative, Democrats, Republicans, all
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: of them across the board want that. So The fact
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: that that hasn't happened and we have one party that's
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: trying to hold that up is unbelievably suspicious.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Well, this is how the people can be heard, initiative
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: and referendum. And guess, say if you lose an initiative
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: and referendum one year, two years later, you get to
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: challenge it and do it all over again. Oh, the
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: man of the moment, John Decker, our White House correspondent,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: the president of the United States, had his closing remarks
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: in D.C. yesterday. He'll give us a gauge if it
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: was a rah-rah pump-up speech or if there were other
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: details that the president wanted to get out to the
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: nation before the vote begins today. Remember, 6 o'clock, New York,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: New Jersey, Connecticut, the polls are all already open, but
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: right now it's 7 o'clock in the Well.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: It is election day and what a great time to
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: talk to John Decker, White House and Washington correspondent, host
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: of the podcast, The White House Briefing Room with John Decker.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: You can find that on the iHeartRadio app. So, John,
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: there has been some surprises in this midterm election. Nobody
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: thought South Carolina would be in play or Kansas or Nebraska.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: All Republican strongholds. So it feels a little bit like
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: a Democratic year. I think there was some hope at
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: first they could hold the Senate. That hope is questionable now.
• 36:40
  Speaker 17: Well, it is. You know, I think that the House
• 36:42
  Speaker 17: is definitely going to flip, that Democrats will control the
• 36:46
  Speaker 17: House of Representatives after this midterm election. It's just about
• 36:50
  Speaker 17: how much the margin will be. On the Senate side,
• 36:53
  Speaker 17: you're right. There are a number of states that at
• 36:55
  Speaker 17: the very beginning of the cycle, no one thought would
• 36:59
  Speaker 17: be at play. You know, we're talking about Texas, for instance, Alaska.
• 37:04
  Speaker 17: But because of certain headwinds, the Republicans are not doing
• 37:08
  Speaker 17: well there. And those are two really good pickup opportunities
• 37:13
  Speaker 17: for Democrats this midterm election cycle.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: Now, John Decker, I notice in the president's closing remarks
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: at my favorite location, the reflection pool. I didn't hear
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: the bravado that I've heard before when he's on the stump,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: either for himself or fellow Republicans, where he was saying,
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: we're going to win so much you're going to get
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: tired of winning. It was almost like he had reserved
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: himself to understand he's going to lose the House.
• 37:43
  Speaker 17: Well, I can't get inside President Donald Trump's head, and
• 37:45
  Speaker 17: I don't think anyone can, Curtis, but I think that
• 37:48
  Speaker 17: you're right in terms of the tone. There's no doubt
• 37:50
  Speaker 17: about it. I was there yesterday when the president made
• 37:53
  Speaker 17: his remarks for about an hour at the reflecting pool
• 37:57
  Speaker 17: at the Lincoln Memorial. And, you know, the very first
• 38:00
  Speaker 17: part of that speech was a little odd. You know,
• 38:02
  Speaker 17: it was tone deaf in the sense that, you know,
• 38:05
  Speaker 17: if it's a closing message, I think you want to
• 38:08
  Speaker 17: reach out to those undecided voters, those voters on the
• 38:11
  Speaker 17: fence and explain why Republicans should get your vote. Instead,
• 38:15
  Speaker 17: the president talked about some of the projects that the
• 38:18
  Speaker 17: White House and the president have pursued during the course
• 38:21
  Speaker 17: of his one and a half plus years back in
• 38:24
  Speaker 17: the White House, including the reflecting pool. There's no doubt
• 38:26
  Speaker 17: about it. These various projects have beautified Washington, D.C. But
• 38:32
  Speaker 17: was yesterday the time to make that argument? I don't
• 38:36
  Speaker 17: think so. I think, you know, the second half of
• 38:38
  Speaker 17: the speech made more sense than the first half of
• 38:40
  Speaker 17: the speech, which focused on all the work that went
• 38:43
  Speaker 17: into the reflecting pool.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: You know, if the scenario works out the way that
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: most people think it's going to happen, or at least
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: it's very possible to happen, where the Democrats take the
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: House and the Republicans still hold on to the Senate,
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: either have a tie and J.D. Vance has the deciding vote,
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: or they win by one vote, then what is going
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: to happen? Is the government just almost shut down for
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: a while because nothing's going to get through?
• 39:15
  Speaker 17: Well, that's right. I think the only thing that we'll
• 39:17
  Speaker 17: get through, if your scenario plays out and Republicans control
• 39:22
  Speaker 17: the Senate but not the House, is that the president's
• 39:25
  Speaker 17: ability to name certain individuals for openings. positions that require
• 39:31
  Speaker 17: Senate confirmation, it makes it that much more easier. Having
• 39:34
  Speaker 17: said all that, you'll also have to take into account that,
• 39:38
  Speaker 17: you know, the numbers may not be the same that
• 39:42
  Speaker 17: existed before this midterm election. So you have certain senators
• 39:46
  Speaker 17: that Certainly during the lame duck session, they're in place still.
• 39:50
  Speaker 17: But also beyond that, Lisa Murkowski is still there. So
• 39:54
  Speaker 17: is she always a yes vote for everything that the
• 39:56
  Speaker 17: president wants or every personnel decision that the president wants
• 40:00
  Speaker 17: confirmed by the U.S.
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: Senate?
• 40:02
  Speaker 17: I don't think so. So you have to factor that
• 40:04
  Speaker 17: into account. And also, let's just say for argument's sake,
• 40:08
  Speaker 17: it's 50-50. We love hypotheticals, Larry and Curtis. What about
• 40:12
  Speaker 17: John Fetterman? Does he switch parties? That is interesting to
• 40:16
  Speaker 17: see whether or not that actually happens. He, like all senators,
• 40:20
  Speaker 17: like all lawmakers, focused exclusively first and foremost on political survival.
• 40:26
  Speaker 17: And I just don't see how he survives if he
• 40:29
  Speaker 17: wants to run for a second term in the U.S.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Senate as a Democrat.
• 40:33
  Speaker 17: I don't think he's going to get elected and win
• 40:36
  Speaker 17: that nomination as a Democratic senator from Pennsylvania.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: Now, John, we've talked to you many times about Supreme
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: Court rulings. I saw yesterday there was an unsigned order,
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: which is always difficult for me to understand, is that
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: they weren't going to do anything that they had been
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: asked to do to give permission to the Trump administration
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: to involve themselves with state-run elections. Could you explain that,
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: what that is?
• 41:06
  Speaker 17: Well, what that is, I think more than anything else is,
• 41:09
  Speaker 17: you know, you're asking the Supreme Court to weigh in
• 41:12
  Speaker 17: on a decision which would impact in a certain way
• 41:14
  Speaker 17: the vote count in California a day before the presidential election.
• 41:20
  Speaker 17: And the Supreme Court just doesn't want to go there.
• 41:23
  Speaker 17: Every justice on the Supreme Court doesn't want to go there. Now,
• 41:26
  Speaker 17: if this issue came up, let's say 60 days ago,
• 41:30
  Speaker 17: 90 days ago, perhaps they would have weighed in on
• 41:32
  Speaker 17: this issue. But they're not going to do it 48
• 41:34
  Speaker 17: hours before. the midterm election date takes place, November the 3rd.
• 41:39
  Speaker 17: And I think that's what that decision was all about.
• 41:42
  Speaker 17: Also keep in mind, two lower federal courts had ruled
• 41:46
  Speaker 17: against the administration on this particular issue, essentially segregating 20,000
• 41:51
  Speaker 17: ballots that went out from California. Two lower courts said,
• 41:56
  Speaker 17: you can't do that. There's no possible way of doing that.
• 41:59
  Speaker 17: And so I think that's what that decision by the
• 42:02
  Speaker 17: Supreme Court yesterday was all about. No dissent from the
• 42:05
  Speaker 17: Supreme Court yesterday, even from the most conservative justices like
• 42:09
  Speaker 17: Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: What about Alaska?
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: I know that that's been in the courts now, and
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: one of the courts denied.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: The movement, the.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: Request to take away the other Dan Sullivan's votes until
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: they can be counted and checked on later to find
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: out if that's exactly where people wanted to vote on.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: but that is going to be appealed by the Justice Department.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: Where does this go?
• 42:37
  Speaker 17: Well, just the way you described it, it would go
• 42:40
  Speaker 17: to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. That covers the
• 42:43
  Speaker 17: District of Alaska. As you point out, Larry, a federal
• 42:47
  Speaker 17: district court judge has already ruled against the federal government,
• 42:51
  Speaker 17: ruled against the Department of Justice on this particular matter,
• 42:54
  Speaker 17: and we'll see what happens at the appellate level. I
• 42:57
  Speaker 17: think that The arguments being put forward by the administration
• 43:01
  Speaker 17: were not good arguments. And I think they're going to lose,
• 43:04
  Speaker 17: even if it were to go all the way.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: Up to the U.S.
• 43:06
  Speaker 17: Supreme Court.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: John, once again, the last thing we're talking about is Iran,
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: the war with Iran. Yesterday, it seemed to spark up hopes.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: The vice president commented we're in active negotiations through Qatar
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: with Iran. Iran acknowledged that that is correct. Do you
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: have any updates on that?
• 43:26
  Speaker 17: Well, the update is Iran said, well, we have an
• 43:30
  Speaker 17: idea to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. And it was
• 43:32
  Speaker 17: essentially an idea that they've put forward time and time again.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: They want to get.
• 43:38
  Speaker 17: Reimbursed for all of the damage that has been inflicted
• 43:42
  Speaker 17: upon Iran, reparations.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: That's a non-starter.
• 43:47
  Speaker 17: It's pretty clear it's been a non-starter the first, the second,
• 43:49
  Speaker 17: the third time they asked for that. And they also
• 43:52
  Speaker 17: said they would like to see their frozen assets unfrozen.
• 43:58
  Speaker 17: That is also a nonstarter as far as the U.S.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Is concerned.
• 44:02
  Speaker 17: So we're back at square one. The president has said
• 44:05
  Speaker 17: time and time again that Iran will want to negotiate
• 44:08
  Speaker 17: an end to the war. But after the midterms, I
• 44:10
  Speaker 17: don't know. I haven't seen any indication of that. This
• 44:13
  Speaker 17: could be something that, you know, continues all the way
• 44:16
  Speaker 17: through 2028 in the sense that Iran may say, you
• 44:19
  Speaker 17: know what? We impacted the midterm elections. Maybe we can
• 44:23
  Speaker 17: impact the presidential election as well.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about the other scenario. President Trump has said
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: time and time again that if the Democrats take the
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: House and the Senate, which is a real possibility, they
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: are going to impeach me. And many of the Democrats,
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: none of the leadership did, but many of the Democrats
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: like Ro Khanna have come out and said, yeah, we're
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: absolutely going to try to impeach him. But it seems
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: like at first they have their target on Pete Hegseth.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: the Secretary of War, who they really don't seem to like.
• 44:54
  Speaker 17: Well, that's right, you know, and he may not have
• 44:56
  Speaker 17: the kind of support that he needs to have from Republicans. So,
• 45:00
  Speaker 17: you know, I think that he could be one of
• 45:02
  Speaker 17: those administration officials who departs after the midterm elections on
• 45:07
  Speaker 17: his own, rather than face the wrath of senators who
• 45:11
  Speaker 17: would like to see him gone and may start the
• 45:14
  Speaker 17: process of impeachment. As it relates to impeachment, for President Trump,
• 45:19
  Speaker 17: which would be his third impeachment. I don't know what
• 45:22
  Speaker 17: those articles of impeachment look like. I don't know on
• 45:24
  Speaker 17: what grounds you'd impeach the president. But remember, impeachment is
• 45:28
  Speaker 17: a process. It's a political process. You would have the
• 45:31
  Speaker 17: votes to impeach the president in the House, simple majority.
• 45:35
  Speaker 17: You need 67 votes in the Senate once it goes
• 45:38
  Speaker 17: over to the Senate. to remove the president, and you're
• 45:42
  Speaker 17: not going to get anywhere near that. So it's just that,
• 45:45
  Speaker 17: Larry and Curtis. It would be a political exercise.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: One final quick question. I'm concerned about cyber attacks on
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: the electronic equipment. We know Iran has the capability. We
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: know others. All they have to do is hit one
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: state where the vote is neck and neck, and that
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: could throw the final results into chaos. They have the
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: ability to do that. Each state does their own thing.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: Can the federal government protect that process from cyber attack?
• 46:14
  Speaker 17: Well, you know, certain governors, even Democratic governors like Washington state,
• 46:18
  Speaker 17: they've brought in the National Guard for this purpose. You know,
• 46:22
  Speaker 17: it has to do with what you just mentioned, Curtis,
• 46:24
  Speaker 17: these potential cyber attacks coming from bad actors, from foreign actors.
• 46:29
  Speaker 17: And so I don't know what may or may not
• 46:32
  Speaker 17: happen today. I think that this is something that has
• 46:35
  Speaker 17: not just sprung up. Election entities in various states prepare
• 46:44
  Speaker 17: for this day literally for years. So I'm sure that
• 46:47
  Speaker 17: they have certain processes already in place to prevent the
• 46:51
  Speaker 17: kind of scenario that you're talking about. Let's hope that's
• 46:54
  Speaker 17: the case. I would hate to see a delay because
• 46:56
  Speaker 17: of a cyber attack being caused by a foreign actor
• 47:02
  Speaker 17: on election systems in various states.
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: John Decker, thanks so much. You've got a busy day ahead.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: WOR White House and Washington correspondent and host of the podcast,
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: The White House Briefing Room with John Decker. You can
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: find that on the iHeartRadio app. Thank you so much, John.
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: trist let me ask you something curtis and natalie do
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: either of you have it first of all have either
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: of you had a mcrib sandwich from mcdonald's.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: Yes yes years ago absolutely because it's sort of like
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: the arctic shake it only is a seasonal offering you
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: know you have vanilla chocolate shakes you have saint patrick's
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: day the green shake and then you have The orange
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: shake like the orange sherbet shake, but it only comes seasonally.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: Same thing with McRibs. That's right. They tease you. They
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: tease you.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: Who am I asking? You're a McDonald's expert. I forgot
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: about that.
• 47:51
  Speaker 7: That's right.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: McRib? Have you had a McRib?
• 47:54
  Speaker 7: I have never had a McRib, but I know some
• 47:56
  Speaker 7: people that are obsessed when it comes out.
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: I've never had a McRib either, but I've been smart
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: enough to know that it's not going to be real
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: rib meat, right?
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: Correct. Yeah, it's not.
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, I'm going to tell you
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: what's in it in a moment, and I think you're
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: going to be a little upset about the meat that's
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: used in there. Now, people have gotten together and sued
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: McDonald's several times over the McRib sandwiches.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: They should.
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: But it's never been accepted as a lawsuit. It's never
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: gone through because they don't believe it's false advertising. They
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: don't claim it's really rib meat. But now it's going through.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: A federal judge has ruled that a proposed class action
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: lawsuit accusing the fast food giant of misleading customers about
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: the meat used in its McRib sandwich can now go through.
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: They're going to take the case.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, again, you know, there's some people out there,
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: they love their ribs. And they know when they're getting bamboozled. So,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: you know, this would be the alternative. Bill Gates, no
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: longer with Microsoft, but when he was riding high, you
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: walk into his office at 12 noon, he'd have a
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: Big Mac. And if you were there to have lunch
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: with him, you'd have to have a Big Mac. You know,
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: he's a McDonald's aficionado. But, you know, he's investing a
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: lot of his money into the, I'll call it, Fagazi meat,
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: the fake meat. that they develop in laboratories, which is
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: not made from animals, I would suggest this is the
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: perfect alternative.
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: You can get the actual taste and feel of a
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: McRib without it being all this fake meat. It's not
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: fake meat. They just use other parts. The lawsuit filed
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: by four consumers in December alleges that McDonald's designed the
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: McRib to resemble a rack of pork ribs.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: Well, they did. There's no question they did. That's true.
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: The plaintiffs argue that the sandwich's name, appearance, and marketing
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: mislead customers into believing they're purchasing a more expensive piece
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: of pork. Now, listen to this. One survey, there's been
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: surveys done on this, found that 72% of respondents expected
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: the McRib to contain rib meat. 67% considered rib meat important.
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: or very important to their purchasing decision, this is now
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: according to the court filing. However, the court is not
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: accusing McDonald's of deceptive advertising.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: Well, what do you think it is if it ain't ribs? Well,
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you the other thing, you know, it's unrelated
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: to McDonald's. I'm sure, Natalie, you're aware of this. You
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: go over to some Italian house and probably the second course,
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: the third course of a 10-course meal, It's brajo, the brajo,
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: you know. Oh, I just made it the other day.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: The toothpicks in it, it's got the string. You know,
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: most brajo is horse meat. Oh, I was not. In
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: Italy and in Argentina, it's horse meat. And when you
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: tell that to people, they say, oh, I thought it
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: was beef. I don't know. Most of it is horse meat. Now,
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: will there be a class action suit about that?
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: There should be. You could do it. You could become rich.
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: Now let's get some talkbacks.
• 51:11
  Speaker 18: I'm in Westchester, and all the machines in Westchester are
• 51:16
  Speaker 18: out of order. They're giving out the ballots for people
• 51:22
  Speaker 18: to fill out, and then they're supposed to put them
• 51:25
  Speaker 18: in a sealed envelope so they're going to feed it
• 51:27
  Speaker 18: to the machine.
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: Right. Help.
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: No, there's massive problems in Westchester County right now, despite
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: a countywide problem with voting machines and polling locations. This
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: is according to the County Board of Education. The voting
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: is continuing despite that problem. The board is instructing poll
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: workers to check voters in and provide them with ballots.
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: The ballots are being placed in orange bags. while technicians
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: work to resolve the problems. The bags, this is according
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: to Westchester County officials, will be sent to the Board
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: of Elections at the end of the night. Those ballots
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: will be counted first before ballots cast through the machines. Oh,
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: my goodness.
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: Those are the affidavits that I spoke of. Now, you
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: can imagine it's Lawler versus Kate Conway. Right, exactly. It's
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: neck and neck to begin with. If it's one or
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: the other side wins barely, this whole thing will be contested.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: And rightfully so. How is your machines not working at
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: this point? They're not a victim like I discussed with
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: John Decker of a cyber attack. It's just not malfunctioning.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: It's like, how many times do you use it a year?
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: It's not like you use it all the time.
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: Well, it certainly is a reason for suspicion once human
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: hands get a hold of the ballots.
• 52:47
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: Apparently they're placing them right in the bags, but then
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: what happens with the bags afterwards?
• 52:52
  Speaker 11: Right.
• 52:52
  Speaker 16: And you know what?
• 52:53
  Speaker 7: If there's anybody else out there in Westchester that's encountered this,
• 52:56
  Speaker 7: leave us a talk back.
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: We want to hear what's happening out there. Absolutely. Demand
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: an affidavit. Fill it out. It will have to be counted.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: Went to vote this morning.
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: I found the casting, the new valve casting machines to
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: be a little weird.
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: And I don't know if I should trust the machine, but.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: I guess I have to. I have no choice.
• 53:19
  Speaker 19: Yeah.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you do have to trust the machine. Just trust
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: the process is what they say. I want the old
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: elephant dinosaur machine. You go in, you press the levers,
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: you can see what you voted for, you pull the ledge.
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: And then it's locked in. Your vote is locked in.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: I want a receipt. Why don't they give you a
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: receipt for your vote? I'll tell you what. CVS receipts,
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: you want some of them.
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  Speaker 2: Dwayne Reed, you know, they go a half a block off.
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: What are you talking about? I want a receipt to
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: say this is what I voted for. I want it
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: to come out the bottom so I can go back
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: and say this is who I voted for.
• 53:55
  Speaker 7: You know what else I was really surprised about?
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  Speaker 16: My son, for the first time.
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  Speaker 1: Voted for... By mail.
• 54:01
  Speaker 7: Okay, so he got the ballot, then he put it
• 54:04
  Speaker 7: in the box, and I said, well, how do you
• 54:05
  Speaker 7: know if they got it?
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: He's like, I have no idea. You can check, but
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: it's up to you.
• 54:10
  Speaker 4: It's got to be a lot of work.
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: You have to call in to see if your mail-in
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: ballot was received.
• 54:16
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: All right, let's get to Daria Albinger now with the
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: 730 News, Daria. Morning, guys.
• 54:23
  Speaker 10: Mostly sunny today with a high of 69 degrees while
• 54:25
  Speaker 10: the polls are open on this election day.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: And there is a real focus this year on the U.S.
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: House races.
• 54:32
  Speaker 10: WOR Scott Pringle takes a look at some of the
• 54:34
  Speaker 10: matchups in New Jersey.
• 54:35
  Speaker 20: The House races in New Jersey could play a key
• 54:37
  Speaker 20: role in determining the party control in Congress. Three of
• 54:40
  Speaker 20: the state's 12 seats are held by Democrats. One of
• 54:42
  Speaker 20: the most closely watched races, Tom Kane Jr. 's seventh
• 54:46
  Speaker 20: congressional seat. The Republican is seeking a third term. Democrat
• 54:49
  Speaker 20: Rebecca Bennett is trying to beat him. In southern New Jersey,
• 54:52
  Speaker 20: Republican Congressman Jeff Van Drew is trying for another term
• 54:55
  Speaker 20: by fending off Democratic challenger Zach Mullock.
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  Speaker 1: In the U.S.
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  Speaker 20: Senate, Democrat Cory Booker going up against challenger Justin Murphy.
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  Speaker 20: I'm Scott Pringle, WDOR News.
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  Speaker 10: Voters in New York and in Connecticut are choosing governors.
• 55:07
  Speaker 10: And although this is not a municipal election year, there
• 55:09
  Speaker 10: are some ballot questions here in the city. So make
• 55:11
  Speaker 10: sure that you turn your ballot over if you're voting
• 55:13
  Speaker 10: in New York and make sure that you check those questions.
• 55:16
  Speaker 10: Voting is continuing across Westchester County, despite what we are
• 55:20
  Speaker 10: being told is a problem with voting machines at some
• 55:23
  Speaker 10: polling locations. The county's Board of Elections is instructing the
• 55:27
  Speaker 10: poll workers to check voters in and to provide them
• 55:30
  Speaker 10: with ballots. Now, we're being told that those ballots are
• 55:32
  Speaker 10: being placed in orange bags while technicians work to resolve
• 55:36
  Speaker 10: the problems. The bags will then be sent to the
• 55:38
  Speaker 10: Board of Elections. After the polls close, those ballots will
• 55:42
  Speaker 10: be counted first, we are told. before ballots cast through
• 55:45
  Speaker 10: the machines. Bottom line, there will likely be a delay
• 55:48
  Speaker 10: in getting vote results later tonight. The polls will close
• 55:52
  Speaker 10: at 8 o'clock in New Jersey and in Connecticut, 9
• 55:55
  Speaker 10: o'clock in New York. And make sure that you join
• 55:56
  Speaker 10: us for live election night coverage hosted by Larry Mendte.
• 56:00
  Speaker 10: It all starts at 7 p.m. right here on 710WOR.
• 56:04
  Speaker 10: And if this is not a sign of the times,
• 56:06
  Speaker 10: I'm not sure what is. A former Army secretary is
• 56:09
  Speaker 10: now working for OpenAI.
• 56:10
  Speaker 4: His title is Senior Counselor for National Security Modernization, a
• 56:14
  Speaker 4: new role that focuses on advising on the use of
• 56:17
  Speaker 4: advanced AI to strengthen national and cybersecurity. He'll be working
• 56:21
  Speaker 4: with U.S. allies and leaders from across several sectors. Driscoll
• 56:24
  Speaker 4: resigned from the Trump administration after tensions with Secretary Pete Hegseth.
• 56:29
  Speaker 4: I'm Tammy Trujillo.
• 56:30
  Speaker 10: The Knicks beat the Nets 103-90. Next news, 8 o'clock,
• 56:33
  Speaker 10: bulletins at once. I'm Daria Albinger on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 1: Larry, up next, Alaska and Texas. It's dominating the attention
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: across the nation. And don't forget, you listen tonight to
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: my partner Larry's election coverage from 7 at night to
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: 11 p.m. with all the contributors, the news folks, everybody
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: at 710WOR. Or stream it live on the free iHeart app.
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: Just search 710WOR. Two of the other huge races. We
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: first go up to Alaska, where there's tumult going on
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: ever since the New York Times did an extensive article
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: about the cheating that has taken place up there. Really,
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: almost in consort, Peltola and her staff and the Democratic
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: Senate finance campaign, which is led by Chuck Schumer. to
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: convince this person of no consequence, Sullivan, although he's very
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: consequential to this election, he's one of the four on
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: the ballot, who people, Larry, cannot find. He lives in
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: some fishing village near the Aleutian Islands. It could be
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: almost in Russia. They still haven't located him. Subpoenas are
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: flying all over Alaska to all the intended targets. They're
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: going to have to appear before a grand jury and
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: explain this evil cabal. And Sullivan, the U.S. senator, who
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: was not all that active, has suddenly become, bing, bing, bing, bing,
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: ricochet rabbit. He's all over the state. He's saying you can't,
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: you know, Alaskans, you cannot let the Democrats through this
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: chicanery totally, totally bypass you, try to fool you, use technology.
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: And essentially take my seat. So the choice should be
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: simple right now. It's Paltola, the Democrat, me, the Republican,
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: and forget Decoy Dan. You know, that name is stuck.
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: Decoy Dan. You would think with all the attention they
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: could find this guy. He has not surfaced.
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: What's amazing now is that the New York Times article
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: was pretty darn extensive with 12 different sources saying, And
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: with a text that were read from Mary Peltola, but
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: she is still swearing, Curtis.
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: She knew nothing about this.
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: Is it possible that anybody in your campaign was potentially
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: part of that conspiracy to plant Dan Jay?
• 59:05
  Speaker 4: I have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: I honestly have no idea.
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  Speaker 13: The reason is.
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  Speaker 4: Is offensive to me on a number of different levels.
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  Speaker 13: First of all, this is Alaska.
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  Speaker 7: We're not in the business of tricking.
• 59:17
  Speaker 13: Each other up here.
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: Oh, come on. Did she not remember the gold rush
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: up there and how miners would trick one another over? No,
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: this is my deed, not your deed. Unbelievable. Trust politicians.
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: She is in trouble. She was expected to win this state.
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: You know, she was doing very well against three Republicans.
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: It's not just decoy Dan. There's another Republican, not the
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: same name, on the ballot, and they have ranked choice
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: voting and all that. So it gave her an advantage.
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: But I'm telling you, if I was an Alaskan, I'd
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: be so upset that you stack the deck, you use
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: trick not, and also some of the texts from her
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: campaign staff to the National Democratic Senate Finance Campaign run
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: by Schumer. Oh, they're just a bunch of goobers. You know,
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: they can't even chew gum and think at the same time.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: It's like you're humiliating Alaskans. And for no other reason,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: I think you got to send out a lesson. You
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: got to elect Sullivan Sr., who is the sitting U.S. Senator. And,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: you know, if that happens, all these threats of lawsuits,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: everything else, investigations, at least for now, goes away.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, a couple of newspapers have been able
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: to track down in Alaska Dan J.
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  Speaker 1: Sullivan.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: And Dan J. Sullivan swears, swears he did nothing wrong. Now,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: he told them both. that he hates Donald Trump. He
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: told them both he'd do anything to get a Democrat
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: in office there and to stop Donald Trump, but swears
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: he did nothing wrong. He just thought it would be
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: great to run for Senate. Then when they pressed him,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: when they pressed him on why you really don't have
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: a campaign, why you haven't been out, why it's so
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: hard to find you right now, he said, I didn't
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: really think I had a chance.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: And now where they can nail him and Peltola and
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: her campaign team and the Democrat National Senate Finance Committee
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: run by the schmuck to putz Chuckie Cheese Schumer. If
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: they gave him any kind of gratuities, let's say a
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: trip to Cancun, all expenses paid for you and whoever
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: you want to go down there or money. And if
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: they sweat him down because he's going to be subpoenaed
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: before the grand jury and you know, they're going to
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: ask him. That is a federal crime. That is a felony.
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  Speaker 2: And any promise of a job, any promise to make
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: his situation better, any promise to help his– because there's
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: other ways you can do it without being able to
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: trace money. But that's very difficult to tell if that happens.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: They went through a list of things where it could
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: end up being a felony. But if there was no
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: promises made and there was no money exchanged, then it's
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: not illegal.
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  Speaker 1: I love that nickname, Decoy Dan. I'm going to tag
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: Jimmy Failure, who's with us the whole 8 o'clock hour,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: because he's always ducking me. He's always a decoy with
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: me because he doesn't like the questions I'm going to
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: ask him. But that case, ballot stacking, and this could
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: go on for many days because there are a lot
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: of rural parts of Alaska that are not reachable. So
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: they mail it. As long as it's postmarked by 9
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: o'clock tonight, that's the time the vote is over. It
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: could take up to 7 or 10 days for it
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: to be counted and added to the tally.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: And with a close vote, you're right, it could take
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: 10 days. And the polls aren't going to close there
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: in Eastern Standard Time until 1 in the morning. You're
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: going to have to wait till tomorrow morning. Could you
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: imagine if it is the Alaskan Senate vote that decides
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: the future of the country and the future of the Senate?
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: It very well could come down to that. The Senate's
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: going to be that tight. And the future of the
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: schmuck to putz Chuck E. Cheese Schumer because he's got
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: his fingerprints on this. So let's say that is the
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: swing seat and gives the Republicans just one vote so
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: they don't have to depend on Vance if it's tied.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: That's it for Chuck Schumer. He will not even be
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: the minority leader any longer. They'll say, you blew it
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: by launching this cabal with Patola's campaign. Because this sounds
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: more like Schumer. He's been known to do these kind
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: of things.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: I've got a feeling even if the Democrats win, Schumer
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: might be out. There is really a groundswell to get
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: rid of Schumer that his time has come. And if
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: you listen to him these days... I do think that
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: he'd be smart to retire. He'd be smart to just
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: step down. Not retire as senator, just retire as minority leader.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: Or majority leader, if he's lucky enough on election night.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: We know we're going to hear from him tonight. Meantime,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: let's go down to Texas. Telerico versus Paxton. Now, Paxton
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: had an original plan, Larry, that he would have his
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: final get-out-to-vote campaign in front of the Alamo in San
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: Antonio tonight. Wiser minds prevailed and said, you don't want
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: to do that. No, no, no, no, no, no. Not
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: in front of the Alamo. So he did something in
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: Dallas where he's got a big vote in the suburbs
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: out there, you know, to get out that vote. But luckily,
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: people convinced him, don't do it by the Alamo. My God,
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: it's going to conjure up, oh my God, Sam Houston,
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: you know, Mexicans who aren't all that thrilled with the Alamo.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: So it was a wise move. And then, of course,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: Tallarico has shifted. He is no longer campaigning against Paxton.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: He's campaigning. He's doing the David and Goliath thing against Musk.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: Almost every ad is, I'm David. You know, Elon Musk
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: is Goliath. He spent $ 150 million of his personal fortune.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: in order to support Paxton in this race. So we'll
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: see if, you know, there's a lot of hate for
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: the billionaires out there, if that actually resonates for him.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: The best thing that happened to Telerico nationally is the
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: controversy and the allegations in Alaska, and then the El
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: Saeed constantly stepping on it. And also the Vivek Ramaswamy
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: ad that ran in Ohio that got so much national attention.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: There is only so much national airtime. And those three
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: stories took up so much in the last week of
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: the campaign, so much of airtime that Tallarico wasn't a
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: lead story anymore. He wasn't being hit hard by, let's say,
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: Fox News or even covered by CNN and MSNOW. So
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: that was the best thing that happened to him because
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: if he can run without the incoming from the media
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: and without the incoming from the Republican Party nationally, you know,
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: he has a much better chance because he was villain
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: number one for the Republican Party. Oh, absolutely.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: And as you know, Trump tagged him a vegan, which
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: is almost a no-no down in Texas, you know, cattle country.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: So one of his last stops, ironically, was at a
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: rib joint. so that everybody could see him gumming down
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: those ribs, because you know how it is. The sauce
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: on it, you put the barbecue sauce. So if you
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: weren't a cognoscente, you wouldn't know how to do it
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: the way Texans do it. So he wanted to get
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: that issue out of the way, because there are some
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: in Texas who immediately would say, you know, that's not
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: a man's man. If you're a vegan, I'm not voting
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: for you, because I'm Texas tough.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, when we come back, Natalie Migliore, guess what she's
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: doing today?
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, the election. Of course, voting. Natalie the Builders.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: Now, it's 710WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: Wow, she was a star for the New York City Marathon,
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: and now you are a member of the team that's
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: going to be covering election coverage tonight with Larry, with Natalie,
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: the whole team out there. And so you can really
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: strut yourself tonight. So I'm assuming when you were down
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: in the streets, you were talking to people about the election,
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: Natalie Migliore. That's a great assumption. Good morning. The polls
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: are open.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 21: New Yorkers are voting for governor and a slew of
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 21: other races, including Congress. Now, experts say independence could be
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 21: the deciding factor in the race between incumbent Democrat Democrats
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 21: Governor Kathy Hochul and Republican challenger Bruce Blakeman. So after
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 21: nearly two million New Yorkers voted early, guys, not everyone
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 21: planning on hitting the polls today.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: I don't really care, honestly.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 21: You don't care because you don't think they're going to
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 21: change our lives or what?
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 6: Probably.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just in the middle. I don't really know.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 15: You can't really trust anyone, so it's hard to know
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 15: which side to vote for.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 16: The country hopefully will be going in the right direction, but...
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 16: Everything is questionable. I mean, I think it's an important election.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 16: People should go.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 6: Out and vote.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 22: Honestly, depending on where they are, Manhattan, right, you're not
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 22: going to vote, still going to go Democratic.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: What do you do, right? You're in a flip situation.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: You're not vote is a vote.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 21: That could be the case, especially in four congressional districts
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 21: in New York, as Representative Tom Swasey looks to hold
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 21: on to his seat against Republican challenger Mike Lepetri. Same
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 21: thing with Republican Mike Lawler in the Hudson Valley, who
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 21: was going toe to toe with Democrat Kate Conley. I
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 21: think they've had a dance off or two. I swear,
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 21: the things you see during election season, my friends.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: I miss the dance off. Oh, I'm so sorry.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 21: Maybe you would have joined a little two-step, a little
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 21: Cotton Eye Joe. But after months of aggressive campaigning on
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 21: all sides, New Yorkers are just done.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: You get text messages 24-7 constantly. It's a pain. in
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: the neck.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 16: I don't want to see any of the ads. I'm
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 16: tired of the ads.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 4: It's like adults playing a children's role.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 16: Everybody's nasty. I don't know what happened to our country,
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 16: to the people.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: I don't know what happened.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 16: Well, I do know what happened. We have a leader
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 16: who basically says, do it, do it, say whatever you want.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 15: It's not stuff that I go on social media to see. Like,
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 15: I want to spend my time scrolling and tuning out
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 15: the noise. And instead, you're bombarded by the noise on socials.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: You know, I think a good campaign would have one
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: positive ad about themselves, what they're going to do. And
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: they have to have some negative ads. But that one
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: person was correct. Towards the end, it's all negative. Negative
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: on both sides.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: Negative on both sides. People are sick of hearing it.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 21: That's really the general consensus you get from everybody on
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 21: the street, whether they're getting text messages from campaigns they've
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 21: already contributed to or they're watching on team television or
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 21: they're on social media and they're like, I do this
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 21: to escape and I still can't escape it.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: And the noise continues. There's a contentious race in New Jersey.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 21: Voters already hitting the polls as Republican Congressman Tom King Jr.
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  Speaker 21: takes on Democratic challenger Rebecca Bennett. Now voters here letting
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  Speaker 21: us know how they feel about the Trump administration really
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 21: trickling down into this election.
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  Speaker 23: I'm not sure whether this is a commonly held sentiment,
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 23: but I feel strongly that I can't vote for anyone
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 23: in a Republican party. Um, given the state of the
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 23: national party and policies.
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  Speaker 1: I'm hoping it's going to have an incredible impact.
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  Speaker 17: We need to repudiate his policies and elect people who
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 17: are going.
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  Speaker 1: To stop him.
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  Speaker 21: Now, on the complete other side of the political spectrum,
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 21: some people are paying attention to what's going on in Michigan,
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 21: where Abdul Al-Sayed, one time the challenger, dropped. His challenger,
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 21: excuse me, Haley Stevens, dropped. her endorsement for him and
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 21: instead starting backing Republican Mike Rogers. This has caught attention
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 21: from a lot of people, especially because Syed is labeled
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 21: as a Democratic socialist. So people are very confused specifically
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 21: over what's going to happen in that situation.
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  Speaker 16: There's a question behind all of that. I believe in researching.
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  Speaker 16: I don't really know. See, that's the whole thing. There's
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 16: Democrats that are running that I don't want to support,
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 16: the socialist Democrats. I'm not supporting that. So how confusing
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 16: is that for someone who wants to either vote Republican
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 16: or Democrat? It's hard to stay in your whole party line.
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  Speaker 16: You have to be much smarter than me to really
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 16: follow it all.
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  Speaker 1: Good, then play the bingo card. Don't just vote one line.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: Vote each line, research the candidates, and then vote for
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: one of them instead of being, oh, no, I just
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: vote Republican. I just vote Democrat. Come on, stop it already.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 21: But you do come across those people in the street.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 21: I mean, I'll ask people, why Governor Hochul? Why Bruce Blakeman?
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 21: And it's really because they're voting down the party line.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 21: You know, they're not necessarily, when I talk to them,
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 21: not everybody is... looking into the issues. And, you know,
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 21: we talk about, too, on a national level, there's been
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 21: so much conversation about ICE, right, immigration enforcement. Not one
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 21: of those issues when you talk to people on the street.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 21: That's not one person. That's not the first thing somebody
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 21: brings up. Well, immigration enforcement is my big issue. A
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 21: lot of people are like utilities, electric, the price, the
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 21: cost of gas. These are major things.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: Pocketbook issues.
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  Speaker 21: When you sit down at your kitchen table and you
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 21: talk to your family about how high the grocery bill
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 21: was this week, that's what really people are focused on
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 21: when you approach them on the street. Look, you approach
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 21: them cold. So, you know, whatever, you don't really have
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 21: time for them to think so deeply. But a lot
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 21: of people, when they talk to me, they tell me
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 21: they're just trying to keep their head above water.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're absolutely right. There are second tier issues. And
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 2: if you've noticed later in the campaign, Everybody just goes
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: after affordability. They narrow down the focus onto what they're
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: going to go after. You're right. I love the people
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: you talked to today, especially that one woman. She was
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 2: excellent in talking about the different candidates. Nice job. You
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: found some good people.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 21: You know, I search far and wide, so we have
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 21: to find the best.
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: You're like a trawler out there. A trawler? Yeah, because
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: the trawlers out at sea, they scoop up everything in
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: their path.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 19: Trawler.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: I'm a trawler. Like a troll. But anyway, you'll be
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: with us same time, same place tomorrow. Up next, oh yeah,
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: Jimmy Failure. He'll be with us the whole hour, but
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: right now it's 8 o'clock. Or to the office. Well,
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: you know, you go to sleep with Jimmy Failure at night,
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: 9 to 12, right here at 710 WOR, the number
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: one talk station in New York. And then you wake
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: up with Larry and me in the morning at 6.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: But I was getting a number of people texting me.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: about your appearance at Cucina Calandra.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 3: Boom.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: And instead of giving you, like, five stars up for
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: your appearance, they were sending five loaves of Italian bread, saying, man,
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: you nailed it. Again, they can't get over the fact
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: that our producer, Natalie, sends you pictures of loaves of
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: Italian bread.
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  Speaker 24: Well, after last night, she's sending me much worse. No,
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 24: I'm kidding. She's moved on to the ziti.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: Jamboli.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 7: Rajul.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's been great.
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  Speaker 24: And a shout out to everybody who came out to
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 24: Kachina Kalandra. WOR throws a killer event. Like the event teams,
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 24: it was actually a first class event.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: Can you understand?
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 24: I started in Italian restaurants. When you first get into comedy,
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 24: comedy clubs don't book you. So you go to a restaurant,
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 24: you're like, hey, how about a comedy night? I was
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 24: telling you this. So the difference between last week and
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 24: when I started is last week's audience was consensual. Like
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 24: they showed up knowing there would be a comedy show
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 24: and were happy to watch it. Whereas 20 years ago,
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 24: You just set up a microphone in the middle of
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 24: someone's engagement proposal.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: And you're like, hey, wait. Before you go through with this,
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: two guys walk into a bar.
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 7: But beyond that, they knew they were coming for you.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. That was really sweet.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 16: That was special.
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  Speaker 24: They were magical. Two things that happened of great import.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 24: Obviously, the crowd was phenomenal. It was amazing turnout. It
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 24: was very flattering.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: They were under. My over-under for getting groped in Jersey
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: was nine and a half.
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  Speaker 16: Okay.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 24: I only got groped seven times, but one woman groped
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 24: me twice.
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: And I'll tell you, this is a crazy story. There
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: was a woman. She told me she was 98. She
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: was delightful. I laughed at all of it, especially the
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: dirty parts. I was like, I love that.
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 3: Great.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 24: But you don't forget that because she was 98. She
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 24: held on a little too long, but she was sweet.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 24: At the end of the meet and greet, I saw
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 24: her back on the line. I'm like, oh, look who's
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 24: back again. You know, she wants another helping, you know,
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 24: little chub. And she waited and she's like, you know,
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 24: my best friend's daughter used to run around with you
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 24: before you got married.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: And I was like, well, how's she doing? I got
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: to know.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 24: You can't just dump that on me. And she was like,
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 24: she runs a billion dollar advertising agency. I was like,
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 24: tell her to give me a call, you know, just.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: To catch up. We did not make the connection, but
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: I got the 98-year-old's number. Oh, good for you. Good
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: for you. You got at least one number.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: Well, today's a huge day, right, for news organizations, especially
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: Fox News.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: What's your assignment?
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 24: Ooh, Jimmy's got to, you know, I'll do my radio show.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 24: But aside from that, I just, you know, make sure
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 24: there's fresh coffee grinds in the coffee machine. Some of
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 24: the bread bear likes Triscuits. Can we have some Triscuits
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 24: in the pantry? The more high, the higher the stakes
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 24: at Fox, the lower my obligations. It's like, it's sad
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 24: because when something bad happens in the news, you gotta
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 24: be like, ah, something bad happened. But on my end,
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 24: I'm like, oh, I'm going to be in a hammock
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 24: for like 10 days. So you won't see me on
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 24: TV again before Wednesday. Like I'll be on today to
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 24: do some morning coverage. But once it goes into like
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 24: election night coverage, I'm on the couch making balloon animals
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 24: doing whatever I do.
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: So that's great. I'll be watching. I'm excited. I'll be
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: listening to Larry Mendte on WLR.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 16: Good.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: You better be. 7 to 11. Absolutely. Required listening. But
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: now let me ask you, you brought up Fox News. Mm-hmm.
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: So I'm watching very intently the interview that Sean Hannity,
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: the rocker of the All-American conservative voice of reason from
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: Franklin Square, Long Island, had with comrade Bill de Blasio,
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: the part-time mayor, the dope from Park Slope. And they're
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: talking about socialism, its involvement in the Democratic Party. And
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, Bill de Blasio, I guess
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: he didn't smoke the Maui Waui and Hindu Kush because
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: he did a pirouette and he started attacking Trump.
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 10: Yep.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: And Sean stopped him and said, you know the rules.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: You know the rules, Bill. Don't go there. So, Jimmy,
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: what are the rules?
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 24: I mean, going against Trump on Hannity?
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 24: Well, you know it's like walking through with your gang
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 24: colors on. You're going to get jumped. You know what
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 24: I mean?
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 24: They're homies he believes in the guy it's like the
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 24: warriors so de blasio's trying to make it back to
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 24: coney island but you can't walk through with your gang
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 24: colors on and who doesn't know that i love that
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 24: de blasio i we did this on my show the
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 24: other night de blasio i guess and his wife still
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 24: go to halloween together he was clark kent she was
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 24: wonder woman and i said i could forgive that except
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 24: he turned time square into wonder if it's a woman
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 24: and that i can't you know so i'm I'm on
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 24: the fence about that guy. Can I give you one
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 24: more de Blasio story?
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: Of course.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 24: So I was on Hannity after de Blasio two Fridays ago.
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 24: De Blasio is in a pod, meaning sitting in front
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 24: of a camera at Fox. He comes out.
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: I go in.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 24: I guess he doesn't dabble around comedy a lot because
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 24: I said the most basic entry-level thrillers.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 3: Line.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 24: Him and Sean screamed at each other for 18 minutes,
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 24: cutting each other off, screaming. The minute the door opens,
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 24: I was like, hey, would you guys get a room already?
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: You know, like that.
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 24: And he was like, oh, that's funny. I was like,
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 24: it's not really that funny. It's not actually, it's like
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 24: a sarcastic thing people say. That's been around forever. I mean,
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 24: but he was like blown away because I guess there's
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 24: no humor in his circles.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: No. That makes sense. No, there's never been. Yeah. Never been.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: I was watching your show the other night and you
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: had Bruce Blakeman on. Yes, I did.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 24: Battling Bruce Blakeman who took a shot at me right
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 24: out of the gate. He sat down and he goes, oh,
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 24: I see you forgot to return your tuxedo jacket from
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 24: the Division Avenue prom.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: And I was like, I was like, He thought he
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: had something.
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 24: But I was like, you know what? In my defense, Blake,
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 24: when the prom was only a week ago. You know,
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 24: you're mistaking me for a much classier guy.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: Go ahead. All throughout America. Big locations, small locations, mid-sized locations.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: You've really had your finger on the pulse of Americans
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: during this whole midterm election period of time. It's been
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: going on for close to a year, some of these races.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: What's your sense out there? In the many places that
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: you've been where basically the media doesn't go sometimes.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 24: Well, I think that is the biggest challenge for the polls.
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 24: As we know, number one, Republicans are underrepresented. But two,
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 24: we've also had two polls that were fake, like fake
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 24: polling outfits. One of which is why Abdul El-Sayed is
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 24: the nominee in Michigan. Mallory McMorrow dropped out because of
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 24: that head-to-head poll that showed him beating Mike Rogers. And
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 24: that was a Wedgwood poll who admitted two weeks ago
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 24: it was just a drinking story. So I'd have a
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 24: hard time believing the polls. And let's assume they're right
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 24: this time for the first time in 10 years. That
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 24: still doesn't mean I wouldn't feel dumb, you know, for
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 24: not trusting them because they've kind of been wrong the
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 24: last three. And it doesn't mean I'll buy in the
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 24: next time around. So I think there's this prisoner of
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 24: the moment mentality that tells you incumbents traditionally lose seats.
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 24: Most people I know do expect the Republicans to lose
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 24: the House. I think they're going to hold on to
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 24: the Senate. That's what I think is going to happen.
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 24: And I think the balance of power is going to
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 24: hinge on those critical races. Tallarico, that moon bat down
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 24: in Texas, and of course, you know, Abdul Al Sayyad,
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 24: who's 5'2, and blames the Jews for the fact that
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 24: he can't get on the rides at Six Flags. You know,
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 24: they didn't build those roller coasters. They didn't make Yosemite's hands,
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 24: Yosemite's hands, hand this high. So, you know, I've been
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 24: watching all of these character races. Michigan, Texas, obviously, and
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 24: now this stupid thing in Alaska.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 24: You know, but I've watched it because you don't know this.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 24: I lost my wallet last night. So I have zero ID,
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 24: which means the only thing I can do today in
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 24: New York is vote.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: Other than that, I can't go anywhere. I got to watch.
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: There's nothing I can do but vote.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 24: Can't get in the car, can't buy a train ticket,
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 24: can't fly out of town.
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: All I can do is participate in democracy. You can't
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: shovel snow in New York City during the summer. Three
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: government IDs. But you can vote. Yeah, I can vote.
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 24: I could not buy the unlimited pasta pass at the
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 24: Olive Garden today.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: Because I lost my ID. But I can vote. No,
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: it is amazing. It is amazing.
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 2: You know, you were talking about all the people running
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 2: across the country in the polls. I think you're dead
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: right on the polls. They've been off with Republicans anywhere
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: from two to six points. In Iowa, they blew six
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: points the last midterm. So you think that's going to
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 2: play out now? Because it's played out most of the
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 2: last midterm elections.
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 24: Yeah, because they say Republicans traditionally are underpolled by an
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 24: average of four points. And a lot of these races
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 24: are within the margin of error. So if a race
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 24: is two points in the polls and the Republicans getting
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 24: underrepresented by four, we're going to see upsets. That's why
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 24: I think a lot of these races, especially the statewide
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 24: ones where the socialists are running again. I know conventional
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 24: wisdom says the incumbent loses seats, but conventional wisdom doesn't
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 24: say you have a candidate who wants to empty the prisons,
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 24: get rid of the police and usher in socialism. So
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 24: I don't know if people are going to vote for that.
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 24: And the way they're really stampeding Haley Stevens for flipping
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 24: on Abdul Al-Said is Speaks to a desperation because he
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 24: beat her by less than a point in Michigan. And
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 24: he is at about 47% with black voters, which is
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 24: a bad, big problem in Detroit for him.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: Well, one thing we haven't talked about yet is the
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: weather factor. They have massive rains and flash floods in
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: potentially 35 states.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 3: Jeez.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: So that could be an incumbent to some people getting
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: to their polling location. Because you know like it is
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: all along the Mississippi River, man. You can forget about that.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: Sandbags still ready. You're stuck. So hopefully that will not
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: affect people. And then we have a problem in Westchester
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: where the machines are not working.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 14: Uh-huh.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: Isn't that ironic? They have all year long to work
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: on the machines, the board of elections. And on the
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: election day, the machines seem to be malfunctioning. Of all
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: the gin joints in the world, you know.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 24: But that weather matters because if the cemeteries flood in
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 24: New Orleans, that's half the Democrat voting base right there.
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: They got to get out to vote. You are absolutely right.
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: I'm excited.
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 24: I mean, there's the one thing you don't know till
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 24: you play the game. And tonight is live ammo for
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 24: all the analysis, all the polls, everything else. We're going
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  Speaker 24: to find out tonight or we're going to start finding
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 24: out tonight because some of those races will take a
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 24: little longer.
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: Play the game. We know you're a gambler. Larry, you've
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: been known to gamble from time to time. And I've
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: now had the Curtis Sliwa political marketplace site. OK, so
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: by the time you finish at the top of the hour.
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: I got to get your picks, the numbers in the House,
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: the numbers in the Senate. Likewise, you, Larry, and then me,
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: and then you, Natalie, will seal it, hermetically seal it
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: in an envelope and open it up tomorrow so it
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: cannot be tampered with overnight. This matters.
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 2: Natalie's got that why me look on her face.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: It's okay. I'm up to that task.
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 16: I could do that for you.
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: Got this, Natalie.
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 2: When we come back, we want you to talk about
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 2: Mamdani's new look.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: Have you seen it?
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  Speaker 19: Yes.
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  Speaker 24: I like that he looks like a magician because he
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 24: made half our tax base disappear.
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: It's fitting.
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 2: More of that to come, plus a chance to see
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 2: Def Leppard and the Goo Goo Dolls next.
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: Well, well, well, Jimmy Fallon, you're here to the top
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: of the hour. One hour in studio with us, Larry
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: and Natalie.
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 3: Jeez.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: You wake up with Curtis and Larry in the morning.
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: In the meantime, you go to bed with you, Jimmy Failure,
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: at night 9 to 12 here on 710WOR. Ain't it nice?
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: Some of us don't go to bed, Kurt. I don't
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: know why. I was all fired up for today. I
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: did not sleep last night. It was great. I wrote.
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: I was kind of manic. You know what that means?
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: By about 10 a.m. this morning, I'm going to be
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: snoring on a TV set.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 24: That's what happens. Sometimes you get that bonus, like, Jimmy's
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 24: really awake. And then I'll be drooling on Dana Perino's
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 24: shoulder on America's Newsroom at 10.50 this morning.
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: All right, let me ask you, what do you think
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: of this look? Oh, the Mom Donnie look.
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  Speaker 24: Man, he looks like a children's magician who shouldn't be
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 24: around children.
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: Because the smile is too big. You know what I mean?
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 24: It's like you hired this magician because you saw him
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 24: on the internet and then he shows up wearing a
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 24: bottle and a half of cologne and you're like, maybe not.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: I don't like that look. That's a shaky look. I
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: like the beard better.
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 2: I did. I agree with you. I agree with you.
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 2: He doesn't look like him. No, he looks a little
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 2: bit like Sacha Baron Cohen, doesn't he?
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's funny. He looks like Borat.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 24: Borat, who has the same jokes that Abdul Al-Sayed has
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 24: as policies.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: Now, let me ask you a question, because you brought
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: up the kids, you brought up the mayor. I'm pissed
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: off at the mayor. So he's sitting at a Gin
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: Mel sports bar in Queens, Hoco in the middle, you know,
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, and AOC on one side like a bookend,
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: and so on, Mondami. And somebody brings a child from
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: the audience and sits it right on Kathy Hoco's lap
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: for 20 minutes. Do you know that this mayor cheated
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: on me and held that baby's hand for five minutes? Really?
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: For five minutes. But did he make the baby get
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: a flu vaccine? Oh, very good. You are very good.
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: Come on, Kurt. Go ahead.
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: You ready for some talkbacks? I love it.
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 2: They're having voting machine problems in Westchester County. Let the
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 2: shenanigans begin.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 12: In Westchester County, the polling places are down. Something to
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 12: do with the printing of the ballots.
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: Come back later.
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 11: What?
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: Or fill out a paper one.
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 3: No, thank you.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: Wait, there's help. It's a rescue. Beep, beep, beep, beep.
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: Breaking news. Attorney General Tish James has been assigned to
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: oversee the balloting in Westchester. Right now, Mike Lawler is
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: ready to commit suicide. Oh, my gosh. This early in
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: the morning?
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: Tish James. The worst.
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 2: I can't imagine Mike Lawler is not going to be
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 2: out there objecting to this. There's no way he can't
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 2: stay silent on this. And no matter what happens. First
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 2: of all, how do you get to election day.
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: And the machines don't work? Yeah, I mean, seriously, could
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: we have made a staples run? Like, I don't know,
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: in the last couple of weeks. Maybe a little printer ring.
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: What are we talking about here? It's election day.
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 3: Come on.
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: And what do they do the rest of the year,
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: the Board of Elections? They prepare for this big midterm election,
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: and the machines are not working. So here's what they're doing.
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 2: The voting machines won't accept ballots, so they're taking all
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 2: the ballots by hand and putting them in a big
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 2: orange bag.
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: LAUGHTER Follow that bag, man. To the accounting firm of
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: Madoff and Madoff.
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 2: If we see Latish James with a big orange bag,
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 2: you know there's going to be some problems.
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 15: Oh, my God. Unbelievable.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 3: This is exactly why I always vote early. Because if
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 3: you wait until Election Day, things like this are going
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 3: to happen, whether it's naturally, you know, happening or it's
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 3: fabricated by a certain party to happen. you know, alleviate
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 3: the pain of losing or what have you. But always
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 3: vote early. Don't wait for the day because things like
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 3: this are going to happen.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 16: You know what?
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 3: These votes, they're not going to be counted correctly. I
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 3: believe so.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: That's the first time I've heard anybody say early voting
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: is safer. Yeah. But you know what? He's got a point. Yeah.
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: If you get it in, it's good.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 24: The trade-off is that sometimes if there's like a scandal
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 24: and you want to move away from a candidate, you can't.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 24: You know, that's what they're arguing with this Haley Stevens thing.
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: I think of it in places other than ours, 35
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: states that could be affected by heavy rains and flash flooding. Now,
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: that would keep a lot of Republican older voters away
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: because that's precarious. You know, what are you going to do?
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: Get in a boat, you know, navigate your way to
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: the polling location?
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 24: Whereas most of the Democrat voters just got here in
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 24: a boat a little while ago.
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: They're ready to go.
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 2: All right, this will be fun for you. I'll talk
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 2: back on the McRib sandwich at McDonald's.
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 7: Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 3: We can sue because there's no rib in McRib? Wait
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 3: until my client-sanctioned lawsuit for hot dogs.
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: All of them are going down. Next thing you'll tell
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: me there are no dogs in them. You heard about
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: this lawsuit? I did.
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 24: It's kind of like the McRib. I hate to ruin
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 24: it for everybody, but that was the thing about McDonald's.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 24: It's like you're really not supposed to look under the hood.
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 24: Isn't that the deal we made with McDonald's and Taco Bell?
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 24: Because I got a newsflash. I take peace in knowing
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 24: that no chickens were harmed in the making of my
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 24: 20-piece chicken McNugget either.
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? I don't know that that's
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 1: chicken either. I mean, that's just part of the deal.
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: It certainly doesn't taste like chicken, does it?
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 24: If they can replicate the taste a trillion times over
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 24: and serve it to you in under a minute, I
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 24: assume I'm making a trade-off in that deal.
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? That's a good point. So
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 8: If you think inflation is going to go down by
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 8: voting Democrat, I have one thing to say. What are
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 8: Democrats notorious for? Spending money and raising taxes. So when
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 8: you vote Democrat, it's like taking Viagra. Taxes are going
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 8: to just keep going up.
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: And staying.
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 8: Up.
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: I love that one. You know what?
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 7: I think they're on their game because you're here today.
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: People are stepping up today. Yes, they are. All right.
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: But right now at 8.30, let's get the news with Daria.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 4: Morning, guys.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 10: Mostly sunny today. We'll see a high of 69 degrees.
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 10: This is Election Day. The polls are open across the
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 10: tri-state area. There's a lot of attention on the U.S.
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 10: House races, which could determine which party will control Congress.
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 10: Voters in New Jersey could flip the state blue.
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 22: Republicans now hold three of the Garden State's congressional seats.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 22: All 12 are up for grabs and only one GOP
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 22: seat is considered safe. Chris Smith's on the Jersey Shore.
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 22: Democrats are hoping to flip Tom Cain Jr. 's seat
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 22: in the north and Jeff Van Drew's in the south.
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 22: Polls give Democrat Rebecca Bennett the edge against Cain. GOP
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 22: incumbent Van Drew is ahead, but in a tight contest
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 22: with Democrat Zach Mullock, the mayor of the city of
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 22: Cape May. It's all about election turnout. Sarah Lee Kessler,
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 22: WOR News.
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 10: Westchester County elections officials are looking into problems with voting machines,
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 10: which they say could delay the results tonight. President Trump
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 10: made his final pitch to voters yesterday in front of
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 10: the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, the site of months of
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 10: costly renovations. In fact, he spent most of his speech
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 10: talking about the projects around D.C.
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 19: Cleaned hundreds of sites of graffiti, fixed over 2,300 lighting
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 19: fixtures in Washington, D.C., cleaned and renovated over 83 statues
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 19: and fountains and monuments, removed hundreds of squalid homeless encampments.
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 10: Join us tonight for a live election night coverage. It's
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 10: going to be hosted by Larry Mendte, and it all
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 10: starts at 7 p.m. right here on 710WOR. The military
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 10: carried out a defensive strike on Aram's Keshem Island after
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 10: Iranian forces fired on an American aircraft. The Pentagon says
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 10: the strike does not signal a return to major combat
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 10: operations in the region. The Knicks beat the Nets 103-90.
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 10: Next news, 9 o'clock, bulletins at once. I'm Daria Albinger
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 10: on 710WOR.
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Daria. Now, when we come back,
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 2: Jimmy Fallon is here again. And, wow, Curtis has been
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 2: putting his feet to the fire. He wants a prediction
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 2: on the midterm elections. Also, congratulations to Sheila Jane from
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 2: Morris Plains, New Jersey. You just won a pair of
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 2: tickets to see a great double bill. Death Leopard and
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 2: the Goo Goo Dolls, March 13th at the Prudential Center.
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 2: Tickets on sale at Ticketmaster.com. You've got another chance to
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 2: win tomorrow at 825. Jimmy returns next.
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: We have breaking news.
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump just announced that the United States will stop
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 2: providing its annual $ 4 billion in funding to Israel by
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 2: the end of the year. Trump made this statement on
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 2: Fox & Friends just a moment ago that he and
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 2: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached a mutual agreement months
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 2: ago to end the yearly direct aid package and just
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 2: announced it today. The financial assistance is scheduled to stop
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 2: completely after the end of 2026. It'll be pared back
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 2: through the end of the year. Trump added that the U.S.
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 2: would still assist Israel in the future if they need it.
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 2: through specific terms of any replacement framework remain under discussion
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 2: at this point. The decision follows ongoing discussions between Washington
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 2: and Jerusalem regarding a potential restructuring of the decades-long defense relationship.
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 8: Wow.
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: So this is really in response to that ad that
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: never made it to TV in Michigan. Remember the husband?
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: wife yes looking at oh you got to put the
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: eggs back i thought the kids like eggs well we
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: can't afford it because we're sending all of our money
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: to israel to kill palestinians and then they tick off
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: you know it's a socialist country yeah their health care
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: we pay for free education we don't even get it
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: here so i will bet you they've done some internal
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: polling and realized that people in the many of these
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: places are friendlier now to the palestinians than they are
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: to bb and israel.
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 24: Yeah, that's horrifying because we give them $ 4 billion in aid.
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 24: We spend about $ 50 billion all in. So how our
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 24: aid to Israel is the driver of prices and not
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 24: the totality of aid seems like a very specific targeting
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 24: of a very specific group. That commercial said eggs were
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 24: $ 7 a carton. Okay, the national average is $ 2. 39 right now.
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 24: So the fact that they were ginning up that much
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 24: rage means on some level they have succeeded in creating
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 24: a moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas. And that's what
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 24: Abdul Al-Sayed does, which is disgusting. He was asked on
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 24: 60 Minutes if Israel's our friend. And he said, ah,
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 24: say you have a friend. You walk down the street,
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 24: you see a bear sleeping. And you're like, we better
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 24: leave that bear alone. But your friend's like, no, let's
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 24: poke the bear. He goes, that's what Israel did.
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 1: I go, no, no, no.
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 24: But that is such a disgusting framing of where we're
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 24: at in Gaza. The bear paraglided into a rave and
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 24: killed 2,000 Israelis before Israel responded. So I think, you know,
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 24: this Abdul Al-Sayed thing is that He literally is catering
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 24: to a constituency that hates the Jews. There's no way
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 24: around that. There's not, you know, on the money side
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 24: for America. I get the Trump side because it is
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 24: four billion and USAID. They need that money to produce
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 24: gay Sesame Street in Iraq, transgender mice in Namibia. It's like,
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 24: are these mice just going to trans themselves?
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 22: They're not.
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 1: No transgender mice in Namibia? I mean, not anymore if
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: we don't run out of money. I mean, did you
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: read those USAID studies?
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 24: We spent $ 50 million airlifting condoms into Gaza because apparently
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 24: Gaza Strip is a gentleman's club now.
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 15: I didn't know.
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: What's even happening? That's a great point.
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 2: The money that was spent through USAID was ridiculous.
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 2: And it was spread out all over the world for
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 2: some of the things that you just mentioned. By the way,
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 2: I will say that you talked about this might be
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 2: in reaction to the campaign. The president did say this
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 2: agreement was worked out months ago.
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm. But the timing of this is curious to me.
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 16: It is.
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 15: It is.
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 1: But I just want to make sure. It being election
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: day and all. I get it.
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: If you're thinking of voting for Mike Rogers, you see,
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 1: it's okay. It's okay. Now, question here. Okay, you've been
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: a prevaricator on this. You have been known to make
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: a few wagers in your lifetime. Every time you've appeared
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: with us, you've talked about the times that you didn't
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: have two nickels to rub together because you were gambling.
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 1: Larry has gone to these market sites. I gamble with
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: my life.
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 2: But I have decided if everybody can set up a
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 2: prediction market like everybody has a podcast now, I can
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 2: do it too.
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: The Curtis Sliwa Political Prediction Market. So we are going
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 1: to partake right here. And Natalie, our producer, is going
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 1: to write it down and hermetically seal the envelope. So
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 1: tomorrow when I return with Larry, we'll open up that
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 1: envelope and we will– actually point out what your choice
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: was for the House and Senate, Larry, yours and mine.
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 1: I love that. Why don't we put them in the
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 1: same bag Tish James is carrying the votes in out
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: of Westchester? That way we can change them.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 16: Perfect.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 1: That's wonderful. What a great idea. By the way, these
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: prediction markets all have money involved. Are we putting money up?
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 1: I'll throw a couple of bucks down. I have a problem,
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: so you're asking the wrong guy. Come on. Yeah, you
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: really perked up right there. Hold on a second. On
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: iHeart information here, Natalie, are we permitted to make wages
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 1: on the air? Does that offend the corporate rules?
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 24: It's monopoly money. Well, you're betting monopoly money.
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 1: Exactly. Well, how about loaves of Italian bread?
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 24: Oh, from Cano. That means if I lose, I've got
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 24: to go do another 40 minutes in Fairfield.
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  Speaker 15: New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: I thought you loved it. I did love it. I'm
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: just saying. That's a lot of Steve Hill. I'm the
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: only one who has to go to Jersey here. So
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: this is like professional gambling here. The cameras are on us.
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: And I am predicting I am going high for the Democrats.
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 1: Not because I was smoking anything that would get me high,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm saying. Hopefully you write this down. The Democrats
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: will win 240 seats. Stop it. See, I know you
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: would have a jaundiced response. And the Democrats will end
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: up with 53 seats in the Senate. What? All right.
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: We'll match.
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  Speaker 15: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: No, I get to respond to that? Yes, of course
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 1: you do. Okay. I was just waiting for you to
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 1: make your real prediction. I thought I was the comedian.
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 1: The little did I know.
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  Speaker 24: 240 seats. Listen, I get the Democrats. 218 is the
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 24: number they need to win the House. I do think
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 24: the map favors them. They'll win the House at about 220.
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 24: That's my guess. Yes, and I will take those 53 seats,
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 24: and I will give them to the Republicans.
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: They're going to win the Senate. And now, Larry, you've
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: been following this. What is that line that you follow oftentimes?
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: You say they're usually pretty good in predicting these races.
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 1: The Cook Report, right. The Cook Report says that 18
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: seats are already going to go.
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 8: Wow.
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they have them. Toss-ups are now going over to
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 2: lean Democrats.
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 19: Whoa.
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 2: It's not a— It's not a good time, but I'm
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 2: still going to go, just assuming that the polls are
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 2: off a little bit, I'm still going to go lower.
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 2: I'll say 226 in the House. And I'm going to, man, 51.
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: 51 Republicans.
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 24: You see him holding on. That's probably where it is
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 24: going to be. It's going to be thin, but it's
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 24: what I expect. I don't think Democrats will win the Senate.
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 24: I think it's really hard to sell some of these
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 24: policies at a statewide level.
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: I think there's a challenge.
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 24: Like Angie Nixon down in Florida is down to saying,
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 24: They won't vote for me because Florida's racist. Meanwhile, they're
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 24: about to elect a black governor. You know, that's like
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 24: it's contradicting yourself on that level.
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 1: That's a tough sale. Very tough sale. Where do you
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 1: think the golden boy is tonight? You know, leaving his
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: oyster beds in Maine. Platner. Remember, Platner was going to
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: set a new trend. Yes, he was. What do you
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 1: think he's going to be doing tonight? His side chick.
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 3: That guy.
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 2: That guy.
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Commendable drive.
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 24: I'm not as motivated as that guy. I mean, he
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 24: really kept up the balloon even during the campaign. You know, obviously,
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 24: I think she's going to win. Troy Jackson's been a
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 24: bad candidate. The polls always underestimate her, so I do
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 24: think he's going to pull an Elvis and shoot a
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 24: TV at some point.
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 2: This will be her sixth re-election, and I think in
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 2: every single one they predicted she was going to lose.
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 24: Every time, man. That's the thing about the polls. As
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 24: much as every report that we trust is saying, well,
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 24: this many seats, that's still based on the polls. I
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 24: don't know, because we definitely live in a moment where
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 24: they give you polls, as you guys know, not to
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 24: reflect opinion, but to shape it.
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 1: So I don't know. I don't know.
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 24: I'm standing by my bets, though. Your bets are crazy.
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 24: You said, what, 240?
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 2: That's right, 240 in the House, Democrats, 53 in the Senate. Look,
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 2: if you're guessing my weight, 240 is respectable. Okay, but
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 2: 240 for.
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: Seats is not respectable.
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 2: Hey, when we come back, Jimmy's going to stick around,
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 2: but we have an update on the Westchester voting machines
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 2: from former Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino.
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: That's coming up next.
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 2: From you on the talkbacks about election problems at voting
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 2: machines in Westchester County all morning. On the phone right
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 2: now is Rob Astorino, former Westchester County executive, with an update.
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 1: What do you got, Rob?
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 9: So apparently they use dark black paper. But there was
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 9: an issue with the paper. It was the paper that
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 9: the ballots were printed on and the scanners couldn't scan them.
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 9: I mean, you'd think they would get that right. It
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 9: did not affect any of the early voting. Here's another lesson, folks.
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 9: It's better to early vote and bank your vote because now,
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 9: look at the, just think for a second, Michael Lawler's
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 9: race could determine the entire House of Representatives. He has
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 9: half of Westchester in his district. The Democrats dominated early voting.
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 9: So today was the day where Republicans come out and
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 9: they make up the difference and Mike wins. Now people
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 9: may not vote because they think there's problems. Now they
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 9: should go vote because these votes will be counted. They'll
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 9: be put into an orange bag or a box. They'll
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 9: be secured and then they'll be hand-counted. So there's confusion
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 9: and confusion leads to problems. And that means, you know,
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 9: people may not vote. And that could literally affect the
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 9: entire House of Representatives.
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 1: Rob, I know why you're upset and everyone should be upset,
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: but there's help on the way. It's just been announced
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: that State Attorney General Tish James running herself is going
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 1: to oversee the balloting process, seize all the ballots, make
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 1: sure they're all properly counted in those orange bags. You
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 1: got nothing to worry about, Rob.
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 9: Yes, she determined that only the early voting will count,
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 9: that today will not count because of these illegal issues.
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 1: Hey, Rob, say hi to Jimmy Fallon.
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 3: Hey, Jimmy, what's up, man?
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 8: I love your show.
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 3: I listen all the time.
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 24: Well, if you listen all the time, you doubled my ratings.
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 24: You know that. I have to go down the hall
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 24: and get a raise from these people.
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 1: Thanks, Rob. You should be my agent.
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 9: Only for a little while, because then my wife says,
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 9: turn that crap off.
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: All right. Thanks, Rob.
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 2: And by the way, you're going to be joining us tonight.
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 2: And I appreciate that for our election coverage. Talk to
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 2: you then.
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 9: All right, guys.
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 3: Take care.
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: See you, brother.
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 8: Wow.
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: So again, just to recap, the big issue other than
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 1: the local problems with Westchester County, Mike Lawler right now
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 1: is contemplating doing a Jeffrey Epstein. He really is.
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 24: You're saying the government's going to kill Mike Lawler? I'm kidding.
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 24: I'm kidding.
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 1: Well, the Democrats, to shame, right? Ah, stop it. But
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: the big story on Fox & Friends. Your network, Jimmy.
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 1: I'll be on the link. The president who told Sean
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: Hannity last night, that's it, I'm making no more comments,
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 1: announced this morning that he is eliminating aid to Israel.
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 1: That will end at the end of this year. So
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 1: January 1st, 2027, I read, according to this, there'll be
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: no more aid, U.S. aid to Israel. And that he
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: had discussed it with Bibi Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel,
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 1: months ago.
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 24: I don't doubt that it was discussed months ago. But
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 24: like I said, the fact that this is coming out
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 24: on Election Day, where a turnout issue for Democrats is
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 24: hating Israel and the fact that they're getting money, seems
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 24: like a maneuver. You know, I don't even know how
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 24: sincere this is because it's like the $ 5, 000 check.
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 1: I don't believe I'm getting the $ 5, 000 check of a Republican.
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 15: Do you?
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 3: Wait.
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 1: Jimmy, you can join me. I'm America's most prominent vigilante.
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: For a million dollars, if you can find election fraud,
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: you know, find the persons who are doing it, and
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: they get arrested and they get convicted, you get a
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 1: million dollars. Come on. Well, I'm heading up to Westchester
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 1: and checking the ink in that printer. Try to get
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 1: some money. I don't know what to tell you. What
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: are you going to be doing on your radio show
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 1: for the election?
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 24: Oh, buddy, it all goes down. So everybody at Fox,
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 24: Bill Hammer comes by. He works the board all night.
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 24: So he'll stop by and give me a couple of
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 24: updates just so people understand what's happening. And then Tudor
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 24: Dixon's coming on because she's from Michigan. She wants to
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 24: talk about El Sayad. And then basically it's a who's
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 24: who on Fox's election night panel stops by the studio
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 24: to give me an update or whatever they think they're,
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 24: you know. Basically, when it's this important, Fox wants me
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 24: talking as little as possible. So normally in a three-hour show,
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 24: I have two guests. Tonight's one of those nights where
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 24: I have 63. It's crazy. I'm actually off now that
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 24: you mentioned it.
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 1: So you're like an emcee. You just do the intro.
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 1: That's all it is. That's all it is. The perception
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: on the street is that I'm a little slow. You
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 1: know how I know that?
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 24: Wells Fargo sent me an offer yesterday to refinance my home,
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 24: home equity line of credit. The interest rate is nine
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 24: points higher than my mortgage. Did you ever even wrap
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 24: your brain around that? I bought my house on interest
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 24: rates of like 3%. Wells Fargo, the same bank who
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 24: has the 3%, is like, congratulations. You qualify for a
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 24: home equity.
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: Line of credit at 12%. They congratulated me. Do you
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: have your mortgage with Wells Fargo? Yes, yes, yes. That's
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 1: what I mean.
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 7: They think he doesn't know how to do math.
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 1: Hey, Jimmy, you're dumb.
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 24: Do you want to refinance the house to four times
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 24: the amount?
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 1: I got to bone up, man. I got to bone up.
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 24: I'll be taking remedial math today while everyone else talks
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 24: about the election.
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 1: Just remember our predictions. Tomorrow we'll be opened up in
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 1: that hermetically sealed envelope. In which you, you, Jimmy Fallon,
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 1: are going to have a lot of splaining to do
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: for your picks. Call me up. I'll be around. I'll
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 1: jump right in to take this. Oh, anyway, Jimmy Fallon,
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 1: thanks for joining us for this full hour. Fantastic. And
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 1: you're going to listen to them tonight, 9 to 12. No,
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 1: not 9 to 12. I'm sorry. We're cutting it now. Yeah,
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 1: let's go. Let's find a place. Let the adults get
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: in there. I got nothing to say. Let the adults
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 1: get in there. I got nothing to say. Anyway, the
• 1:48:25
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• 1:48:27
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• 1:48:29
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• 1:48:39
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• 1:48:59
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• 1:49:02
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• 1:49:05
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• 1:49:09
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• 1:49:13
  Speaker 2: So I'm going to be feeling big time because I'm
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 2: actually going to be throwing it to you.
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 1: Oh, come on.
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 3: The handoff?
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, at 11 o'clock. You're going to give me a
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 1: live toss?
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 24: Jimmy Fallon joins us now with the hiccups. He's been
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 24: drunk tweeting on a couch.
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 1: I can't wait.
• 1:49:27
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• 1:49:31
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• 1:49:35
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• 1:49:43
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• 1:49:46
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• 1:49:50
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• 1:49:54
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