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Peter King | Former Congressman | 05-27-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Amazing Congressman Homeland Security did so much for a nine
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  Speaker 1: to eleven victims and families. I just love the guy.
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  Speaker 1: And I got to tell you Pete. Sitting there in
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  Speaker 1: Hudson Valley, Hudson Valley, Brockland County on Friday, Nassau County
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  Speaker 1: well represented in that front row, and I believe President
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  Speaker 1: Trump called out about two of them. You had Bruce Blakeman,
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  Speaker 1: I always wanting the governor, but he is a Nassau
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  Speaker 1: County executive. Yeah. Janine Driscoll, who's now been in these studios,
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  Speaker 1: money against Laura Gillen. You had Michael Petrie money against
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  Speaker 1: Tom Swazi. Nassau County well represented in the Hudson Valley
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  Speaker 1: on Friday, Peter.
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  Speaker 2: Nissa County with Joe Cairo, Bruce Blakeman, Janine Driscoe, Michael Petrie.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they are really established themselves as the really
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  Speaker 2: the base of the Republican Party in New York State
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  Speaker 2: and indeed nationwide. I mean, if you look around the
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  Speaker 2: country and you start comparing gemmi crats Republican registrations, who
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  Speaker 2: does the best. I mean, Joe Cairo has done a
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  Speaker 2: phenomenal job. Bruce Blakeman, you know what a leader he is.
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  Speaker 2: He's always been, but he's really emerged now people know
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  Speaker 2: who Bruce Blakeman is. And the more they know about
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  Speaker 2: him again, you know, the better it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: for him and for the state. Janie Driscoll is running
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  Speaker 2: I think an outstanding campaign. You know she was on
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  Speaker 2: your show. She did a great job. She really is
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  Speaker 2: a combination of like every person, a regular person but
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  Speaker 2: get incredibly intelligent at the same time, a great mother,
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  Speaker 2: a great wife everyone and everyone knows he loves her
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  Speaker 2: so and Bruce, I mean, he is the only phenomenal job. Also,
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  Speaker 2: let me throwing something else. Someones are talking about friends,
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  Speaker 2: the story you're talking about the New York posts about
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  Speaker 2: the co op and the Israelis and the boy got
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  Speaker 2: the reporter covering that Tira Breslan is Jimmy Bresley's granddaughter.
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  Speaker 1: Is that right? Is that? Is that Kevin's uh, Kevin's daughter?
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  Speaker 2: Now Kevin's her uncle, father of James Bresil and Kevin
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  Speaker 2: and James are brothers, right, And again, a great guy.
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  Speaker 2: He's a great guy, and she's been He's been so
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  Speaker 2: proud of her long and this is like our first
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  Speaker 2: major job and she's really stepping right up. So it's
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  Speaker 2: a I said, she'll be known as the good Brusl
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  Speaker 2: And I knew her grandfather, Jimmy, and depending on what
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  Speaker 2: day of the week it was, and he loved you
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  Speaker 2: or he hated you, or he wanted to he wanted
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  Speaker 2: to take on the world. And but James is great guy.
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  Speaker 2: Cairo from the sent I know her is really her
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  Speaker 2: talented at a very nice person.
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  Speaker 1: Oh go that sort.
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  Speaker 2: Now we have what Joe Cairo is saying. You know,
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  Speaker 2: so Jesse you got to see her in Suffolk County,
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  Speaker 2: is that you have to go out and work it.
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  Speaker 2: You can't just pick a candidate and have him run,
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  Speaker 2: have her run in November. You have to this has
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  Speaker 2: to be it's twenty four to seven. Anytime you go
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  Speaker 2: to Republican headquarters, Joe Cairo is going to be there
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  Speaker 2: and he's around the clock around it. It is twenty
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  Speaker 2: four to seven. And it's a really it's a business,
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  Speaker 2: it's a profession. It's something that you have to be
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  Speaker 2: proud of doing. But you can't just come in the
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  Speaker 2: last minute, get a couple of people and some money
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  Speaker 2: running candidate expect to win. You got to be out
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  Speaker 2: there we have at a moment's notice, Joe Cairo can
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  Speaker 2: have a thousand people coming out in the streets working campaign,
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  Speaker 2: and that's what you need. You have to be committed.
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  Speaker 2: You can't just do it, I guess a spur of
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  Speaker 2: the moment or is it a second job or is
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  Speaker 2: a past time a serious business? You got to be
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  Speaker 2: at it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm looking at Swazi though, because again I agree
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  Speaker 1: with everything you say about Joe Cairo. I love the guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's really funny too. Every time he speaks he makes
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  Speaker 1: me laugh. But Swazi for some reason, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: dislike Tom. I just know he's a phony, but he's
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  Speaker 1: not a bad guy. But he does appeal to both
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  Speaker 1: Republicans and Democrats in Nassau County, and he did win.
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  Speaker 1: He beat Mazzi Pillop and then he beat Michael Petrie
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  Speaker 1: last time. Some story serviced about Mike Well, I like
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  Speaker 1: a lot. I saw him on body. We took a
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  Speaker 1: great picture together, and some story serviced about I don't
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  Speaker 1: even know what it was, some resume nonsense. It doesn't matter,
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  Speaker 1: but it does seem like Swazi appeals to both parties
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  Speaker 1: in Nassau County. Is that a Stretcher. Is that accurate.
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  Speaker 2: Thomas positioned himself in the center. But my point is,
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  Speaker 2: when it comes down to it, on really key votes,
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  Speaker 2: he's on the vote with the Democrats, and that's the reality.
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  Speaker 2: I have nothing against Tom. I've known Tom over thirty years.
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  Speaker 2: But the fact is, despite what he says, he is
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  Speaker 2: a Democrat and the Democratic Party today is not what
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  Speaker 2: it used to be. And now occasionally he will break off,
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  Speaker 2: but the fact is that they can count on him
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  Speaker 2: on the key votes if nothing else is to organized
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  Speaker 2: the Congress. But Tom was against the mayor going Cobe.
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  Speaker 2: He was the account executive. He lost the account executive
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  Speaker 2: and he lost me right again for re election, and
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  Speaker 2: then he's lost several times. He's run for governor. So
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  Speaker 2: he's not invulnerable, but he's a strong candidate. You can
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  Speaker 2: never ever take Tom Swasey lightly. And again he's serious
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  Speaker 2: about his job. But I think again, Michael Petrick can
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  Speaker 2: do it. He has that type of dynamism it's needed,
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  Speaker 2: and he will be a committed Republican down the line.
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  Speaker 1: Bruce was great on Friday, Pete and he was great
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  Speaker 1: to me. He actually gets up there and he starts
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  Speaker 1: naming people and he goes like, ci ros here, and
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  Speaker 1: I was on the other side of the room, because
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  Speaker 1: again just to the right of the podium where Bruce
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  Speaker 1: and Lawler and Trump spoke, you had all the big dignitaries,
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  Speaker 1: all the big shots. I was on the left side
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  Speaker 1: of the room, okay, and there was some pretty cool
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  Speaker 1: people around me, people like George Holman and Ed Day
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  Speaker 1: and those types of folks. So he starts looking around
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  Speaker 1: the room, may you sit here? And you heard like
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  Speaker 1: this big round of applause, and he goes, ah, Sid,
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  Speaker 1: he goes, He's great. He goes, you all listen to
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  Speaker 1: Sid right here, this huge applause again. Chris Boyle sent
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  Speaker 1: me the video yesterday. It's great. So I really appreciated
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Bakeman doing that. But more importantly, that's silly. He
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  Speaker 1: his speech was great. He outlined all the dangers of
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  Speaker 1: even considering forgetting about voting, even considering voting for Kathy Hokel.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a really rough couple of weeks, and President
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  Speaker 1: Trump went after her pretty hard. I'm not sure if
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  Speaker 1: he saw the whole thing, but he said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he said the same thing to me on my show
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  Speaker 1: on the air justin January he said, you know, sid
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  Speaker 1: Katy calls me at night, says all these beautiful things,
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  Speaker 1: and the next day, the very next day, she'll kill
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  Speaker 1: me in the press. So he said, at this rally
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  Speaker 1: on body he goes, Kathy, be ready or be careful
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  Speaker 1: or whatever he said. He said something directed at Kathy Hockle,
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  Speaker 1: which said here comes Bruce Blakeman. Kathy didn't like it.
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  Speaker 1: So the next morning Kathy went on Twitter and she said,
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  Speaker 1: screw Trump. And if you think I'm going to be
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  Speaker 1: intimidated by this, Maga Trump guy, Bruce Blakeman, You're crazy.
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  Speaker 1: But clearly if you're tweeting about it the next morning,
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  Speaker 1: you are intimidated.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Pete King, Absolutely, I've been in some tough races,
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  Speaker 2: but unless it really really got close. I didn't even
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  Speaker 2: mention my opponent's name, not out of any my show
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  Speaker 2: or why give your opponent if you think you're winning,
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  Speaker 2: why give your opponent any coverage at all. So the
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  Speaker 2: fact now this is second or third time if she's
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  Speaker 2: come back after Bruce, and to me, that's just a
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  Speaker 2: gift to Bruce. Every time she does that, she shows
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  Speaker 2: what a serious candidate Bruce is. And people from person
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  Speaker 2: I get really annoyed with people. Look at the polls,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, Kathy Hochels headed Bruce. Of course she is.
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  Speaker 2: She's incumbent, she's been there five years. But Bruce the
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  Speaker 2: inrollenc he's making list When he ran against Laura Carra,
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  Speaker 2: who by the way, was a much better county executive
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  Speaker 2: than Kathy Hocke was the governor. She was very popular
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  Speaker 2: and Bruce was way behind at this time, and he
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  Speaker 2: ended up winning because he stayed in. He stayed he
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  Speaker 2: keeps going and going. He does not stop. And that's
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  Speaker 2: what that's what's gonnappen with governor. And unlike Laura Curran,
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  Speaker 2: who was popular, Kathy hoche was not popular. Listen, I
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  Speaker 2: knew Captay Hockey and Congress. She was on my committee.
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  Speaker 2: She was at that time, I write of center Democrat.
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  Speaker 2: She hadn't given she wouldn't give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants,
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  Speaker 2: which she was the county clerk coup in Erie County.
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  Speaker 2: She really didn't involve herself with the left wing of
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  Speaker 2: the party at all. Then she becomes lieutenant governor and
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  Speaker 2: governor and she went further to the left. And Andrew
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  Speaker 2: Clumbo ever thought of being so there's no real moral
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  Speaker 2: compass for her, there's no political compass, and Bruce has
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  Speaker 2: taking advantage of that. He's going to show that she Basically,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't think anyone is going to
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  Speaker 2: wake up on election today and say I got to
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  Speaker 2: go out and for Kathy Hockel. They may say they're
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  Speaker 2: going to vote Republican. I mean they're going to vote Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to be anti Republican, but nobody is going
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  Speaker 2: to be for Kathy Hockel. Well, Bruce is going to
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  Speaker 2: have people who really want him. He's able to engender
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  Speaker 2: a lot of personal support, not just political support, for
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  Speaker 2: personal support. And again I go way back with Bruce
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  Speaker 2: and my daughter especially, she and Bruce were very friendly.
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  Speaker 2: They were really partners on the town board and they're
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  Speaker 2: both counselmen and the Towannahem said, they're incredibly close relationship.
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  Speaker 2: For Bruce and his wife, Siga will be over my
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  Speaker 2: daughter's house off and we be getting together for general
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  Speaker 2: a lot. So we've known Bruce going back many many
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  Speaker 2: years when I was a kid. For while I lived
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  Speaker 2: in the East end of Queen's in Cambria Heights for
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  Speaker 2: a couple of years Bruce's father was the Assembly minute
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  Speaker 2: he overlapped between Nesrall County and Queen's great, great family,
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  Speaker 2: great guys. Anyway, I've gone down long enough about Bruce,
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  Speaker 2: but not seriously. He's a great guy. He's going to
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  Speaker 2: be our next governor.
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  Speaker 1: No, he is. And his brother is great. President Trump
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  Speaker 1: loves his brother too.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, night that you and I were together and it
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  Speaker 1: was a wonderful night at the Aviation Museum. The night
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  Speaker 1: that Bruce Blakeman was sworn in for the second consecutive
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  Speaker 1: time as an Assau County executive, his brother was sitting
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  Speaker 1: with President Trump in the White House and they called
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  Speaker 1: Trump together to congratulate him.
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  Speaker 2: You remember that, right, Rue, and is a great guy.
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  Speaker 2: Brad Blakeman is a great guy. Bruce's father was a
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  Speaker 2: great guy. His wife, Shakyle, is a wonderful person. His
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  Speaker 2: son Lan is terrific. No, this is this is the
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  Speaker 2: kind of guy you went in there, and Bruce Isso.
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  Speaker 2: Bruce's run elections, He's won, he's lost, and he never
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  Speaker 2: stays down. He always gets up and he wins the
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  Speaker 2: races that nobody thinks he can win. And the county
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  Speaker 2: executive is the main example of that now, when he
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  Speaker 2: got re elected last year, people took it for granted.
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  Speaker 2: But the fact is there's almost one hundred thousand more
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  Speaker 2: Democrats YEP and Naso County than Republicans. He had Bruce
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  Speaker 2: one big and it was not a Republican year. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we show what happened in Jersey. I really thought that
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  Speaker 2: was going to be a close race, and it wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: Virginia wasn't a close race. Around the country, Democrats did well,
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  Speaker 2: if loose any wave, it was a Democratic wave and
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  Speaker 2: with all of that, Bruce won. So he's going to
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  Speaker 2: win again. You know, this is November, I hope so
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  Speaker 2: for New York and because the state. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: proud of New York. I was. I always said, Board
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  Speaker 2: of Manhattan Racing Queens, which high school and college in Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 2: My father was at MYPG for over thirty years. So
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  Speaker 2: I am in trench New Yorker. But this is a
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  Speaker 2: different New York than you and I knew. I mean
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  Speaker 2: it really is. I was with some friends of mine
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  Speaker 2: Doanna Farrell's bar last week. We went. There's a documentary
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  Speaker 2: they're filming, and some friends who mine go back there.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of times each year. It was like a
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  Speaker 2: different place in the world, so that there were guys
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  Speaker 2: who were normal, who are regular, who are pro American,
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  Speaker 2: pro cop yep. And then you go just a few
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  Speaker 2: blocks away and you surround they run some progressions and
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  Speaker 2: left wingers, BENDOMMI types. It's really a struggle for survival.
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  Speaker 1: It really is. No I mean, we need Bruce Blakeman
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  Speaker 1: to win. You know, I joke around about the mayor's
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  Speaker 1: race and other things in the city. But the truth is,
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  Speaker 1: if we're gonna salvage our state. And I say salvage
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  Speaker 1: because the truth is, I know the knicks are exciting,
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  Speaker 1: and the weather it's getting nice, and people don't care.
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  Speaker 1: They go to the Hampton's or Jersey Shore. They're living great.
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  Speaker 1: But the truth is we're in big trouble. The city's
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  Speaker 1: in big trouble, the state's in big trouble. If we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna salvage it, Bruce has to win. If not, like
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  Speaker 1: I said earlier, the state goes right down the toilet,
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  Speaker 1: and the city too. Bruce Blakeman has to win. And
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  Speaker 1: with friends like you, Peter King, he's got a shot.
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  Speaker 1: Another amazing appearance this morning, Pete King as always. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much. We'll do it again soon, buddy, Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much.
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  Speaker 2: And even with friends like you, he's still gonna win.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna make sure he's gonna win. I love you
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  Speaker 1: about Thank you so much. Pete's funny, always has a
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  Speaker 1: good line or two every time he comes on. He's funny.
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  Speaker 1: I love Peter King. Great job there, Pete.
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