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Mike Lawler | New York District 17 Congressman Updates Listeners on His Campaign for Re-Eleciton · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: I've got to make a decision for Tuesday night. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I've been invited to speak at Bruce Blakeman's big election
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  Speaker 1: night party at the Lannan in Eisenhower Park. Bruce and
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  Speaker 1: I are like brothers, very, very, very, very close. Joe
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  Speaker 1: Cairo is running the show there, though, so I would
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  Speaker 1: not emcee the event. I would, as Chris Boyle said,
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  Speaker 1: warm up the crowd, and then I'm sure they'll have
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  Speaker 1: a million speakers. Joe Michael Petri will speak, and Janine Driscoll,
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  Speaker 1: Joe Cairo, maybe Peter King, I don't know. But It
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  Speaker 1: should be a big party on Long Island on Tuesday night.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time, my friend Lauren Marie in
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  Speaker 1: Rockin' County, she keeps texting me and she says, we'd
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  Speaker 1: like you to host, host, not just speak, host Mike
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  Speaker 1: Lawler's event in Pearl River. I love that hotel, the
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  Speaker 1: Pearl River Hotel. It's beautiful. I love Mike Lawler. I'm
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  Speaker 1: as close to Mike as I am to Bruce. So
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  Speaker 1: I've been wrestling all week with what to do. Now,
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  Speaker 1: To be completely honest, the Lawler campaign has been much
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  Speaker 1: more enthusiastic in getting me to their headquarters than Bruce.
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  Speaker 1: Bruce is, you know, running around and trying to beat Hochul,
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  Speaker 1: and he's the underdog in this race, so he's not
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  Speaker 1: really worried about who's going to be there on Tuesday night.
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  Speaker 1: But the Lawler campaign, Warren especially, has been very enthusiastic.
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  Speaker 1: So I may have to make up my mind right here,
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  Speaker 1: right now. And maybe Mr. Salt will help me do that.
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  Speaker 1: So here he is, the amazing congressman. He's going to
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  Speaker 1: win again. Sorry, Kate Conley. Mike Lawler. Michael, good morning, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good, Sid. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing well. You're going to win, aren't you?
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  Speaker 2: We're going to win. We're going to win.
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  Speaker 3: We've got four days to go, and the enthusiasm and
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  Speaker 3: momentum are building, and We're getting everybody out.
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  Speaker 2: To the polls.
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  Speaker 3: We've had great turnout for early voting. But when 9
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  Speaker 3: o'clock hits on Tuesday night, I am confident we're going
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  Speaker 3: to be victorious. We are tight to the finish, but
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  Speaker 3: we're there.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're going to win, too. But aside of that,
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  Speaker 1: what is the argument? Why should I be in Rockland
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  Speaker 1: County with Mike Lawler on Tuesday night and not on
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  Speaker 1: Long Island? What's your argument, Mike?
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  Speaker 3: Well, just remember, I did get you a ticket to
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  Speaker 3: the State of the Union, even though you canceled. I
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  Speaker 3: did get you a nice front row seat when the
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  Speaker 3: president came to Rockland County.
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  Speaker 1: That's true.
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  Speaker 3: Even recognized you.
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  Speaker 1: That's true.
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  Speaker 2: Waved at you.
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  Speaker 3: You got to shake his hand.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Yep. All true. We've recognized you several times now.
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  Speaker 1: You even made a Sid Rosenberg day in Rockland County.
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  Speaker 1: That was huge. And I never forgot.
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  Speaker 3: He declared it.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, a day. And you did also, and I'm serious
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  Speaker 1: about this, this was so nice, you took me and
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  Speaker 1: Danielle on a late-night tour of the Capitol building. That
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  Speaker 1: was awesome.
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  Speaker 3: That, and we also introduced legislation with respect to dyspraxia.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't know, Sid. That's true. I think we
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  Speaker 3: come out on top here.
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  Speaker 1: You and Gottheimer, you're right. Did all that great stuff
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  Speaker 1: for our son, Gabriel. Yeah, I don't know. It looks
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  Speaker 1: like you may be in the lead here, Mike. Well,
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  Speaker 1: what will you do for me on Tuesday night if,
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  Speaker 1: in fact, I decide to go to Rockland County?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we will give you all the fanfare that you deserve.
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  Speaker 3: We will recognize you and your historic legacy. admission to
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  Speaker 3: the Radio Hall of Fame here.
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  Speaker 1: In New York. This is so good. Keep going, Mikey.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're going to have a car service pick you
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  Speaker 3: up at your home, bring you all the way up
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  Speaker 3: to Rockland County. We'll have a nice hotel room for
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  Speaker 3: you so you don't have to travel home. Then you'll
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  Speaker 3: be able to go right to the studio the next
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  Speaker 3: morning to talk about what a great night it was
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  Speaker 3: and how I defied the odds and kicked some butts.
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  Speaker 3: And we're going to send Kate packing back to Virginia,
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  Speaker 3: where she's from. And, yeah, I mean, I think it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be a great night, Sid.
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  Speaker 1: No, usually your events are amazing. Lauren does a great job, too.
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  Speaker 1: I really love them. Last time I was there with
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  Speaker 1: Lee Zeldin, it was spectacular. Well, I will announce at
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  Speaker 1: 10 o'clock this morning my final decision. But Mike just
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  Speaker 1: made a really, really good argument why I should be
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  Speaker 1: and probably will be in Rockland County on Tuesday night
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  Speaker 1: and celebrate a win. I mean, look, you're wrong.
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  Speaker 3: The last thing I'll say, Sid, listen, you're going to
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  Speaker 3: be the star of the show because you're going to
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  Speaker 3: emcee it. You're not going to get just a one-
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  Speaker 3: to two-minute speech. You're going to be speaking the whole
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  Speaker 3: night in front of a national audience because we're going
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  Speaker 3: to have every national camera there.
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  Speaker 1: Well, your race... I think I just decided to go
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  Speaker 1: with you.
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  Speaker 3: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't even have to wait until 10 o'clock. No,
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  Speaker 1: you just said national cameras. That did it for me.
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  Speaker 3: National cameras did it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, look, Blakeman and Hochul is somewhat national, too.
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  Speaker 1: But your race, because it's a Congress seat and an
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  Speaker 1: important Congress seat, has been everywhere. There's no question. And
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  Speaker 1: I think there was probably a bit exaggerated the success
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  Speaker 1: that Kate Conley has been having lately. Some people said
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  Speaker 1: to me, she can win. And I just don't see that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, in the end, what do you think she did?
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  Speaker 1: And try to be honest about this. What do you
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  Speaker 1: think she did that got people to notice her?
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  Speaker 3: Look, I respect and appreciate her service to our country.
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  Speaker 3: But she has spent the entire campaign... relying on her
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  Speaker 3: bio as her rationale for why she should be elected
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  Speaker 3: to Congress. She really hasn't been able to articulate much
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  Speaker 3: on policy. And the fact is, she's not from here.
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  Speaker 3: And when people find out that She doesn't own a
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  Speaker 3: home here. She doesn't pay taxes here. This is not
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  Speaker 3: about renting. We have a lot of renters in the district.
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  Speaker 3: That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about somebody
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  Speaker 3: who literally owns a home in Virginia, pays taxes in Virginia,
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  Speaker 3: and parachuted into this district for the sole purpose of
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  Speaker 3: running for Congress after she negotiated two contracts with two
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  Speaker 3: AI companies that she can't tell you what she does
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  Speaker 3: for these companies, but they're paying her effectively to run
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  Speaker 3: for Congress. because they want her in Washington, D.C. And
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  Speaker 3: to me, she has not laid out the case for
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  Speaker 3: what it is that she's going to do to actually
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  Speaker 3: deliver real results. The only thing she has said she
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  Speaker 3: wants to do, she wants to impeach the president. She
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  Speaker 3: wants to impeach the cabinet. And honestly, folks understand the
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  Speaker 3: work that I have done. I've shown up in every
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  Speaker 3: community across this district. We've closed over 10,000 cases. I
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  Speaker 3: brought back over $ 140 million to my constituents and municipalities.
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  Speaker 3: I've passed over two dozen bills. 17 have been signed
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  Speaker 3: into law.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Ask AOC how many she's had signed into law. The
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  Speaker 3: answer is zero. So I have worked tirelessly on behalf
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  Speaker 3: of my constituents, including delivering the largest tax cut in
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  Speaker 3: American history. Kate supports increasing taxes by $ 4 trillion. She
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  Speaker 3: supports open borders and local sanctuary state policies, which protect
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  Speaker 3: criminal illegal aliens. And she supports a government takeover of
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  Speaker 3: health care. I mean, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 3: she will be a rubber stamp. Just yesterday, she had
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  Speaker 3: Kathy Hochul campaigning with her. And this is a week
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  Speaker 3: and a half after she was caught on tape agreeing
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  Speaker 3: with me that Kathy Hochul had to go.
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  Speaker 1: I saw that.
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  Speaker 3: She's a disaster for New York. And then she went
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  Speaker 3: on bended knee and groveled and apologized to Hochul.
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  Speaker 2: 24 hours later.
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  Speaker 1: Well, look.
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  Speaker 3: And then brings her up in the waning days of
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  Speaker 3: the campaign.
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  Speaker 1: Right, and she's a liar, too, because I saw all
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  Speaker 1: the debates you guys had, two of them, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: and she lied. She flat-out lied twice, at least. You
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  Speaker 1: do not vote with President Trump, although you love him
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  Speaker 1: like I do. You don't vote with President Trump 100%
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  Speaker 1: of the time. She said that. Then she accused you,
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  Speaker 1: as if it's a bad thing, by the way, of
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  Speaker 1: building data centers when they were there before you even
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  Speaker 1: got there.
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  Speaker 3: And the best part is their financial service data centers
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  Speaker 3: have nothing to do with AI. They have to do
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  Speaker 3: with post 9-11 protecting our financial services industry with backup
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  Speaker 3: data centers to make sure in the event of a
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  Speaker 3: terrorist attack that they don't get wiped out. And this
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  Speaker 3: is what she is making up stuff throughout this entire campaign.
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  Speaker 3: She said that we gave $ 80 billion in tax breaks
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  Speaker 3: to data center companies. You know what she's talking about?
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  Speaker 3: The 100 percent expensing of plant property and equipment that
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  Speaker 3: every single business in America gets to take advantage of
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  Speaker 3: every single business. That's what she was referring to in
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  Speaker 3: the debates when she said that we gave 80 billion
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  Speaker 3: in tax breaks to data centers. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 3: somebody who literally just recites whatever made up.
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  Speaker 2: You know, for cock the talking points.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Her handlers in D.C. give her.
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  Speaker 1: They also said.
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  Speaker 2: No, no.
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  Speaker 3: She just doesn't understand the issues.
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  Speaker 1: No. They also said that you wanted to arrest people
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  Speaker 1: who were involved in boycotting Israel. So, in other words,
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  Speaker 1: if there was an Israeli company and somebody in Rockland
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  Speaker 1: County decided to boycott that company, that you wanted that
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  Speaker 1: person arrested.
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  Speaker 4: Wait.
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  Speaker 3: And here's the thing. The BDS legislation, the anti-BDS legislation
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  Speaker 3: was passed back in 2018. And what I have is
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  Speaker 3: a bill to amend it to include the United Nations. OK, IGO,
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  Speaker 3: the IGO Anti-Boycott Act, it would be a one line
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  Speaker 3: amendment to the existing law. And the existing law does
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  Speaker 3: not cover international governmental organizations like the United Nations.
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  Speaker 2: And my point is, if the U.N.
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  Speaker 3: Is trying to force American businesses into boycotting, divesting and
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  Speaker 3: sanctioning the state of Israel, that is a violation of U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Law. That is the point. And it is not targeting
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  Speaker 2: the small businesses.
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  Speaker 3: It's targeting foreign countries and international governmental organizations like the
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  Speaker 3: UN that would try to force U.S. businesses doing business
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  Speaker 3: overseas in their countries or with their organizations, trying to
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  Speaker 3: force them to boycott, divest, and sanction U.S. the state
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  Speaker 3: of Israel. That is what the bill is about. It's
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  Speaker 3: not the U.S. sanctioning U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Businesses.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Stupid. So, again, I think you're going to win. Most
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  Speaker 1: people that are learned in this political game think you're
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  Speaker 1: going to win. But most people I speak to, most Republicans,
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  Speaker 1: think we lose the House. So I need you, Lawler,
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  Speaker 1: to be honest, because you are such a great congressman,
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  Speaker 1: so strong. Trump loves you. We may need you now
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  Speaker 1: more than ever because we may very well lose that
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  Speaker 1: slim majority on Tuesday. What do you think?
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  Speaker 3: Look, I ran for reelection for a whole host of reasons.
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  Speaker 3: But one of the biggest ones was that I care
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  Speaker 3: deeply about the job that we are doing in Washington.
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  Speaker 3: I care deeply about this country. There is so much
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  Speaker 3: at stake on Tuesday. It is not just control of Congress.
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  Speaker 3: It is about the future of this country. It is
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  Speaker 3: about standing in the way of crazy and fighting for
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  Speaker 3: common sense. It is about standing in the way of
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  Speaker 3: Marxism and fighting for our capitalist system. America is the
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  Speaker 3: greatest force for good anywhere in the world because of
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  Speaker 3: our military and our capital markets. That is at the
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  Speaker 3: foundation of why we have been able to lift people
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  Speaker 3: out of poverty and and to ensure freedom and opportunity,
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  Speaker 3: not just here at home, but around the globe. And
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  Speaker 3: the Democrats have gone so far to the left. Chuck
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  Speaker 3: Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries can't tell you what they're fighting for.
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  Speaker 3: The only thing they can say is that they hate
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump, and they want to oppose everything he does.
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  Speaker 3: But the fact is, AOC, Bernie Sanders, and Zoran Mamdani
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  Speaker 3: are the leaders of the Democratic Party. And what they
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  Speaker 3: are fighting for, is to defund the police, to abolish ICE,
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  Speaker 3: open borders, sanctuary state policies, government takeover of health care,
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  Speaker 3: trillions of dollars in new taxes, trillions of dollars in
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  Speaker 3: new spending, seizing the means of production, seizing private property,
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  Speaker 3: freezing the rent, free busing, government-run grocery stores, and on
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  Speaker 3: and on and on the list goes, abolish the Senate, etc.
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  Speaker 3: This is what these people are fighting for. And whether
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  Speaker 3: you agree with everything the Republicans have done or not,
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  Speaker 3: the fact is we are working to uphold the values
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  Speaker 3: of this country, the Judeo-Christian values that are at the
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  Speaker 3: foundation of our Constitution.
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  Speaker 2: Our rule of law, and our values as a country.
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  Speaker 3: And so at the end of the day, this is
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  Speaker 3: a very stark choice. And the voters will make that choice.
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  Speaker 3: I am confident I will win because of my record
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  Speaker 3: and the work that we have done.
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  Speaker 2: But I will tell you this.
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  Speaker 3: Every race is going to be decided by a handful
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  Speaker 3: of votes, by a handful of points. And despite all
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  Speaker 3: the pollsters, prognosticators, pundits, and the Democrats and their lapdogs
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  Speaker 3: in the media who keep telling everybody that the election
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  Speaker 3: is over, that the Democrats are going to win the majority.
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  Speaker 2: Remember 2016.
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  Speaker 3: Remember 2024. They told you Donald Trump never had a chance.
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  Speaker 3: They told you Republicans were going to lose all across
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  Speaker 3: the board. The voters make the ultimate decision.
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  Speaker 2: Get out and vote.
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  Speaker 1: The only way.
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  Speaker 3: Democrats get elected is if Republicans and conservatives and independents
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  Speaker 3: stay home. Don't stay home.
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  Speaker 2: Vote.
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  Speaker 3: Early voting runs through Sunday. Make sure to get out
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  Speaker 3: and vote. Election day is November 3rd on Tuesday. Polls
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  Speaker 3: are open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.
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  Speaker 2: Get out and vote. If you stay home, shame on you.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a refrigerator inside that hotel room at the
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  Speaker 1: Pro River Hotel where I can keep like an iced
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  Speaker 1: tea late at night?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, we will have a nice mini fridge right in
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  Speaker 3: your room for you as well as we'll have somebody
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  Speaker 3: available to deliver you iced teas on demand. You can
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  Speaker 3: have President Trump's red button on his desk and get
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  Speaker 3: you iced teas on demand, okay?
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  Speaker 1: Michael, I'll see you on Tuesday night. That was a,
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  Speaker 1: on a serious note, that's a great appearance, and you
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  Speaker 1: just laid it out perfectly, and that's why you are
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  Speaker 1: going to win. You understand this better than anybody. You
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  Speaker 1: get it, and you're right about who runs that Democrat Party,
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  Speaker 1: and you're right about how crazy they've gotten. That word
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  Speaker 1: lunatic really applies, but not to you. You are an
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  Speaker 1: amazing congressman and a great guy, and I'm excited for
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  Speaker 1: you because I do think you're going to win on
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday and actually win easier than most people think. Mike Lawler,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see you in Pearl River on Tuesday night.
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  Speaker 2: You got it. Thanks, Sid.
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  Speaker 1: God bless you, Mike. Mike Lawler right there, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: the king of Rockland County, Mr. Salt, and he's about
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  Speaker 1: to beat Kate Conley on Tuesday. Thank God Mike Lawler
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  Speaker 1: will remain in Congress. That's my prediction.
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  Speaker 1: A new episode so you never have to wonder. What
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  Speaker 1: the heck is going on here?