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Rob Astorino, WOR and NewsMax Host Interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Right on time. Rob Astorino, former county executive man who
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  Speaker 1: would challenge Andrew evilized Cuomallan did a great job in
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  Speaker 1: running for governor. But he's been traveling the country going
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  Speaker 1: to where all the primaries have taken place for Senate
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  Speaker 1: candidates and House candidates, and he brings that all to
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  Speaker 1: you our Newsmax and also obviously on his show here
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  Speaker 1: Wor Saturdays from four to five. Rob, Well, what about
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  Speaker 1: seventy two days out of November third the midterm elections?
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  Speaker 1: And I got to say, it's starting to look like
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats could potentially win the majority of the Senate.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you think these changes are transpiring so quickly now?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I think part of it is it's typical.
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  Speaker 2: Right We're in this basically the sixty year of a presidency,
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  Speaker 2: which is never good, and you know, people have some
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  Speaker 2: problems with the economy and some issues trumped Aroun syndrome
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  Speaker 2: still still there, and you know, and then there's some
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  Speaker 2: candidates that the Republicans put up there aren't the greatest,
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  Speaker 2: like in Texas, but I see the biggest issue right
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  Speaker 2: now is Republicans are sitting on just brinks trucks full
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  Speaker 2: of money and they have not unloaded it yet. And
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  Speaker 2: with seventy two days to go, you know, you every
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  Speaker 2: day that Republicans aren't spending what they should against their
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  Speaker 2: opponents and defining their opponents is a win for the
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  Speaker 2: Democrat and you've got to change things quickly. So I know,
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  Speaker 2: Elon Musk apparently is going to spend like two hundred
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  Speaker 2: million dollars on Republican's behalf. Trump and his packs are
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  Speaker 2: sitting on like a half a billion plus. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they got the Senate campaigns, the House. What are they doing.
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  Speaker 2: You've got races all over that should not be should
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  Speaker 2: not be close, like Alaska, like Texas, Ohio, the we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna lose North Carolina, and you know Maine is a
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  Speaker 2: toss up. I mean, think about what that would bring
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  Speaker 2: if the Democrats take over again. We had just a
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  Speaker 2: slight taste of the chaos with Biden. When the actual
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  Speaker 2: crazies are in there running everything, I mean, the country
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  Speaker 2: will be unrecognizable and we won't be laughing anymore. So
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  Speaker 2: I still think there's time for Republicans to win. I
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  Speaker 2: still think they can win Michigan with Rogers. I still
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  Speaker 2: think in the end Texas is going to be Texas
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  Speaker 2: and Tallarico will be defined for what he is. Alaska
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  Speaker 2: has got this stupid rank choice voting and to Dan
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  Speaker 2: Sullivan's running, so who knows what the heck is going
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  Speaker 2: to happen there. But it's scary. It really is scary.
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  Speaker 1: Curtis, Well, you're correct, because I don't know why they're
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  Speaker 1: sitting on the money like a hen would an egg
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  Speaker 1: ready to hatch it. Look at Kathy Hokel. She just
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  Speaker 1: look at that Chianna poll. She lost half her lead
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  Speaker 1: to Blakeman, who's surging. She just put a dump out
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  Speaker 1: the other day. I mean, you know, she's sitting on
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  Speaker 1: a lot of cash. I gotta say, even though I
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  Speaker 1: disagree with Hokeel, it's a well done ad, it's not
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  Speaker 1: a I and what does it talk about? Affordability, cost
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  Speaker 1: of living, the war in Iran? All three of these
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  Speaker 1: things Republicans have to carry into the midterms because Trumpet
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  Speaker 1: time seems to be distracted on those issues.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, I mean, I this happens every presidency.
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  Speaker 2: You know, as it gets deeper and deeper into the
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  Speaker 2: end of the term, you know, people start to tune
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  Speaker 2: it out and that's just natural, and it's going to
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  Speaker 2: happen for Trump. It's gonna happen for the next president
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  Speaker 2: as it happened in the presidents before, and that party
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  Speaker 2: kind of suffers, you know, because people are they just
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  Speaker 2: think everything is the same, right. Trump is a Republican,
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  Speaker 2: so all Republicans are like Trump, and that's not the case.
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  Speaker 2: You know, a lot of these races too, Alaska, Texas
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  Speaker 2: for instance, some others. There's a lot of specific issues
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  Speaker 2: in that state that people are talking about other than
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  Speaker 2: you know, the economy or Trump or the war. And
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  Speaker 2: you know you and I talked about this on the
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  Speaker 2: show too, right with Larry. The AI data centers are
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  Speaker 2: becoming a major major issues. Mike Rogers in Michigan now
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  Speaker 2: just kind of backtracked a little bit and said he
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  Speaker 2: supports a one year moratorium. Texas is a lot closer
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  Speaker 2: than it should be. Even in the governor's race, Abbott
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  Speaker 2: was very much in favor of AI data centers. He's backtracking,
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  Speaker 2: So it's a very big issue in the next seventy
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  Speaker 2: two days and Republic. That's actually cuts across both, you
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  Speaker 2: know both. That's why Hopell of course put the the moratorium.
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  Speaker 2: She wasn't stupid on this one.
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  Speaker 1: Now the President himself is no fan of mail in ballots.
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  Speaker 1: It clearly does not work in California, where they could
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  Speaker 1: be counting well past the election date a week or more.
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  Speaker 1: Yet Florida, they've streamlined it ever since they're disaster in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand, where we had to find wait for eight
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  Speaker 1: weeks of deliberations in the United States Supreme Court to
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  Speaker 1: determine that Bush forty three head beat Gore. They really
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  Speaker 1: tailed it. A third of Floridians vote by mail, and
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  Speaker 1: they have their results that night. No complaints. Nobody says,
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  Speaker 1: you know, oh, you know, influencing the election. Why can't
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  Speaker 1: we get everything to function the way Florida does. We
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  Speaker 1: have all these tools in the toolbox, but everything is
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  Speaker 1: decided by the night of the election.
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  Speaker 2: And Florida has two time zones. The Panhandle is a
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  Speaker 2: separate time zone. And they get it right. They get
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  Speaker 2: it right immediately because they know what they're doing. They
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  Speaker 2: confronted their problems with the you know, Bush versus Gore. Look, California,
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  Speaker 2: California gets the results they want to get right. They
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  Speaker 2: take their sweet ass time because they got to figure
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  Speaker 2: out which bags account and which bags. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: not that hard. It really and truly isn't because when
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  Speaker 2: you either mail in or on the machines that you
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  Speaker 2: know the readers, they're done. The minute you shut that off,
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  Speaker 2: they're tabulated. You just really send that result into the
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  Speaker 2: Central Board of Elections and boom, the results tabulate. I
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  Speaker 2: don't see why it takes that long. It should never
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  Speaker 2: take that long. So it's in competence. And then maybe
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  Speaker 2: the corruption work.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it can work as it worked for the president
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  Speaker 1: who won the seven battleground states and won the popular
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  Speaker 1: vote by using all the tools in the toolbox well
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  Speaker 1: ahead of time. And let's just hope that the whole
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  Speaker 1: process can reform itself to give the voter an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to know that each and every vote really does count.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know in these elections like Michigan, where
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  Speaker 2: Detroit is notorious for coming in late looking at what
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  Speaker 2: they need, that's where the Republicans better have their election
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  Speaker 2: integrity team, you know, scattered about it all the boding
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  Speaker 2: places and polding places. Same thing in like an ann
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  Speaker 2: arbor where it's all kookie left baccos, you know, same thing,
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  Speaker 2: but we always put in we don't emphasize that as
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  Speaker 2: much as we should and we need to.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Rob Aschnarino.