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Bruce Blakeman | Nassau County Executive on His Continued Effort to Fire Governor Kathy Hochul · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Everybody loves Bruce, and everybody knows that the only chance
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  Speaker 1: we've got to save our state because we're losing it.
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  Speaker 1: City's already gone. We'll get to that with Bruce, but
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  Speaker 1: the state is not far behind it. The only way
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  Speaker 1: we save it it's not with Hockel, it's with Bruce Blakeman.
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  Speaker 1: He's the guy so here. He is my brother and
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  Speaker 1: dear friend and the next governor here in New York.
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman, Bruce, good morning, buddy.
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  Speaker 2: How are you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing great, Shid, Everything's great. Listen. I like the
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  Speaker 3: analogy to Moses because I'm hoping you'll part the Red
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  Speaker 3: Sea from me or the Blue Sea. I should to
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  Speaker 3: day make it the red Sea, right.
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  Speaker 2: Make the Blue Sea the Red Sea. I like that.
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  Speaker 2: Now you know what I mean. You're doing great.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of joked around last segment that when you
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  Speaker 1: and I hit the road together, people love us. But
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  Speaker 1: you are doing a great job. And I know that
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  Speaker 1: because I read the New York Post this morning and
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  Speaker 1: you have now shaven. This is unbelievable. Twenty two points
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  Speaker 1: off of Kathy, Howkele's in this show? Twenty six point
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  Speaker 1: lead and correct me upon wrong Bruce, but you were
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  Speaker 1: way ahead of even what Lee Selden was doing years ago,
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  Speaker 1: and he came very very close.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Lee ran a great race, but I have an
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  Speaker 3: advantage over lead because when Lee ran four years ago,
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  Speaker 3: he was telling everybody all the bad things Kathy Hope
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  Speaker 3: was going to do, and he was absolutely right, but
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  Speaker 3: he didn't have the evidence, the proof. I have the proof.
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  Speaker 3: We've got her four year record. We're least in economic outlook.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's a national embarrassment that the once great Empire
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  Speaker 3: state is number fifty out of fifty states and economic outlook,
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  Speaker 3: we're the most overtax states. Our electric bills are seventy
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  Speaker 3: percent higher than the national average. We spent eleven billion
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  Speaker 3: dollars of taxpayer money between eight and a billion at
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  Speaker 3: eight and eleven billion of taxpayer money on illegal migrants
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  Speaker 3: who aren't New Yorkers, and people are really upset with
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  Speaker 3: her pro criminal policies that make it less safe than
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  Speaker 3: our communities. So this is a perfect storm for the
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  Speaker 3: Democrats between Hoko and Mandami, who are both doing just
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  Speaker 3: a terrible job in running the state in the city.
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  Speaker 3: So we are in a virtual dead heat now, which means,
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  Speaker 3: look if we if we're in a virtual dead heat,
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  Speaker 3: now we're gonna win the election because Kathy Hochel's unfavorables
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  Speaker 3: are anywheres between fifty six and sixty percent. That means
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  Speaker 3: fifty six to sixty percent of the people just don't
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  Speaker 3: like her and don't think she's doing a good job.
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  Speaker 3: She's not going to come out of that. People want
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  Speaker 3: to change, and they know that I have a record
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  Speaker 3: of achievement, I know how to run a large organization,
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  Speaker 3: and I actually want to make New Yorkers happy again.
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  Speaker 2: What do you do so well? Bruce? I'm not just
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  Speaker 2: you know, blowing smoke up your body.
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  Speaker 1: Patronizing you is why you point out all the things
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  Speaker 1: that she's done badly.
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  Speaker 2: And there's a lot of them.
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  Speaker 1: What you're able to do? You did this again yesterday
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  Speaker 1: and really every time I want you to speak live
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  Speaker 1: on Laura ingram More. You bought a roll more of
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  Speaker 1: this show. Is you tell everybody how are you.
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  Speaker 2: Going to fix it? Right?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we know, for example, that she's buying energy
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  Speaker 1: from Pennsylvania even though she's got it right here in
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  Speaker 1: New York, and you say, no, we're gonna make it
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  Speaker 1: happen right here in New York. You can list from
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  Speaker 1: me right now six or seven things that you will
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  Speaker 1: do to fix this state.
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  Speaker 2: So Bruce take the floor.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's start out with an energy policy. So Kathy
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  Speaker 3: Hoko is engaged in a scam, it's called the green
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  Speaker 3: energy scam where every month when you pay your electric bill,
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  Speaker 3: you're paying a portion into a fund she gets to
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  Speaker 3: decide where it's invested. It's invested in crazy science projects
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  Speaker 3: that produce very little energy. They're very costly, and you're
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  Speaker 3: paying for it. So from day one, the green energy
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  Speaker 3: scam is gone. Number two, we have one of the
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  Speaker 3: largest natural gas reserves in the world here in New
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  Speaker 3: York State, and we don't extract that nowtal gas in
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  Speaker 3: Pennsylvania they do. That's why they drive brand new escalades
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  Speaker 3: in Pennsylvania, and on the New York side of the border,
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  Speaker 3: they're driving around twenty five year old, rusted out pickup trucks.
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  Speaker 3: And we could create such an incredible supply of natural
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  Speaker 3: gas energy that would increase the supply, bring down energy costs,
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  Speaker 3: and the green energy scam, I could easily cut utility
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  Speaker 3: bills in half. Then let's go to tax policy with
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  Speaker 3: the most overtaxed state in America and Cathny Hoche and
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  Speaker 3: Zara Mandami, they have an insatiable first for raising revenue.
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  Speaker 3: They never cut spending. We have a spending problem, not
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  Speaker 3: a revenue problem. Our budget in New York State is
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  Speaker 3: twice that of the state of Florida with four million
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  Speaker 3: more people. So what I'm going to do is, I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to say your first one hundred thousand dollars are
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  Speaker 3: exempt from tax. If you're a joint filer, wow, if
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  Speaker 3: you're a single filer, your first fifty thousand dollars are
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  Speaker 3: exempt from state taxes. That's the way to stimulate the economy.
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  Speaker 3: Put more money in people's pockets. And the other thing
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to do is I'm going to hire more
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  Speaker 3: state police. We are going to enforce laws that we
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  Speaker 3: need to change desperately. Cashless spail is a disaster. The
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  Speaker 3: Halt Act puts the prisoners in charge of our prisons.
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  Speaker 3: Raise the age, gives gangs the opportunity to use miners
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  Speaker 3: to commit crimes because there's no consequences. Our state is
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  Speaker 3: in a death spiral, and I'm the pilot that can
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  Speaker 3: pull us out of it.
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  Speaker 2: Bruce Blakeman, I love it. The pilot.
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  Speaker 1: So this question is maybe one you haven't heard yet.
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  Speaker 1: More difficult or easier, Bruce, More difficult or easier to
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  Speaker 1: run in this state now because you're running against two people.
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  Speaker 1: The governor got the Hogel, but also the wretched vile
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  Speaker 1: America hating jew hating Italian, hating everybody, hating Mayor Mamdani.
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  Speaker 1: So is it more difficult because you're really running against
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  Speaker 1: two people or easier because now you've got two examples
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  Speaker 1: of how badly a state can turn when they've got
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  Speaker 1: bad leadership.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Kathy Hochel and Zion Mundami are one of the same.
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  Speaker 3: Kathy Hochel is completely subservient to Mandami. He's running the
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  Speaker 3: Democratic Party now and she dances to his tomb. So, yes,
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  Speaker 3: I'm running against two people right now, but it's the
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  Speaker 3: perfect storm for the Democratic Party. This is a situation
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  Speaker 3: where you've got two leaders, the leader of the state
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  Speaker 3: and the leader of the largest city in our state,
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  Speaker 3: who are monumental failures. And I'm pointing out to people
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  Speaker 3: that the obvious is that unless I win as governor,
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna get four more years of Hoku and three
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  Speaker 3: more years of Mandami, and they will just.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, probably probably seven more years of mom Donnie.
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  Speaker 2: To be honest, well, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: About that, because people were starting to wake up and realize, hey,
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  Speaker 3: how did your how did your free bus trip go?
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  Speaker 3: Instead of getting a free bus trip, didn't they get
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  Speaker 3: a didn't they get a fair hike on buses?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? Okay, runs too. N's in Manhattan, I know he's
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  Speaker 2: got yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, congestion pricing. I talked to middle class people, not
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  Speaker 3: only in Manhattan but from the out of boroughs who say,
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  Speaker 3: I got to spend all this money for the privilege
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  Speaker 3: to drive on a public road that I already paid
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  Speaker 3: for with my taxes. It's ridiculous. It's just another tax.
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  Speaker 3: So the taxes that they want to raise on property owners,
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  Speaker 3: middle class property owners in Brooklyn and Queens and the
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  Speaker 3: Bronx Staten Island, ZOEA. Mundani says he wants to raise
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  Speaker 3: them ninet and a half percent. Cashy Hoak is going
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  Speaker 3: to have to cave into him because he's running the
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  Speaker 3: Democratic Party. I'm not going to let our state government
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  Speaker 3: or the city government raised the property taxes of middle
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  Speaker 3: class homeowners. That's the worst thing we can do. That'll
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  Speaker 3: make it less affordable. But they have no respect for
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  Speaker 3: property rights. They want to tax the inheritance of middle
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  Speaker 3: class people so there'll be nothing left to leave to
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  Speaker 3: their kids and their grand kids. This has to stop,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm the guy to stop it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you've won two consecutive elections to win the
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  Speaker 1: Nationale County executive seat in a county that is mostly
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  Speaker 1: Democrat by big numbers. Andy, Yes, Posito won there too,
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  Speaker 1: not that long ago. Then you've got our mutual friend
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  Speaker 1: up in Rockland County, Mike Lawler. He's in the same situation,
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  Speaker 1: many more Democrats and Republicans. He always wins. So when
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  Speaker 1: people say, look, the numbers just don't bull well for Bruce,
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  Speaker 1: he can't win. What do you mean he can't win?
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  Speaker 2: I think you.
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  Speaker 1: Angel Carrol made this point yesterday. You've won with smaller
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  Speaker 1: Republican numbers. Mike Lawer wins with smaller Republican numbers. So
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  Speaker 1: even with the numbers and the odds against us, we've
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  Speaker 1: proven we can still win. No.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's because we get a vast majority of independent
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  Speaker 3: voters who lean our way because they have common sense
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  Speaker 3: and good judgment. And that's because we get common sense
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  Speaker 3: Democrats who come up to me every day. Sid. I
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  Speaker 3: had a woman come up to me the other day,
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  Speaker 3: sixty five years old. I'm not telling her age because
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  Speaker 3: I asked her she told me. She said, I'm sixty
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  Speaker 3: five years old. I'm a lifelong Democrat. I've never voted
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  Speaker 3: Republican in my life. I'm voting for you, Bruce, because
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  Speaker 3: my party is insane.
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  Speaker 2: That's the bottom line.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so happy that people are doing things like that,
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  Speaker 1: and we've got examples, even Howard yesterday that he was
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  Speaker 1: standing weight behind us. The people that have been lifelong Democrats,
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  Speaker 1: they can't do it anymore. They just can't do it anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Pat Russo checks in, bring back qualified immunity for the cops,
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  Speaker 1: get rid of the diagram law. I do you not
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  Speaker 1: the problem? It's the other folks and patwis happens to me, right.
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  Speaker 1: I know you agree with that, Bruce Blakeman, I know
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  Speaker 1: you do. So you're all over the state. I think
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  Speaker 1: you're in Buffalo this morning. I think the weather turned out.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know, to be honest, but you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, we missed our flight. Unfortunately we did them. I'm
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  Speaker 3: very upset about it because I was going to meet
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  Speaker 3: a group of labor leaders up there. Paul Brown is
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  Speaker 3: the leader up there, and we missed it. Unfortunately. We've
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  Speaker 3: got a band of thunderstorms coming in and they said
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  Speaker 3: we could probably get you out there, but we won't
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  Speaker 3: be able to get you back. And I've got Joe
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  Speaker 3: Cairo's big charity tonight, Pat Cairo Family Foundation that raises
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  Speaker 3: money for cancer research and Calvary Hospital, so I didn't
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  Speaker 3: want to miss that. And I have a fundraiser later today,
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  Speaker 3: so I got to get back up to Buffalo. I
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  Speaker 3: got to see those people in organized labor because they
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  Speaker 3: need help. I want to start apprentice programs in our
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  Speaker 3: community colleges for kids who may want to become a plumber,
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  Speaker 3: a carpenter, a sheet metal worker, an operating engineer. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, these are the types of things where we
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  Speaker 3: can create good jobs with good benefits for our young
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  Speaker 3: people so they'll stay here in our state.
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  Speaker 2: A hundred percent.
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  Speaker 1: Well, get the guy that drove me into your offices yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: Tom Sullivan.
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  Speaker 2: He's a pilot, he's got a plane, he'll fly you there.
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  Speaker 3: Yet Tom, Tom said no go today. Tom said the
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  Speaker 3: weather's not good. You're not going.
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  Speaker 2: You're not going.
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  Speaker 1: I know on the way there, I know when I
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  Speaker 1: came at your offices yesterday, are beautiful office. You're having
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  Speaker 1: this big meeting with like ten important people, and I
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  Speaker 1: broke the news to you. I said, you're not going, Bruce,
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  Speaker 1: And Chris Boyle was like, he's got to go. You're
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  Speaker 1: not going, Bruce. How about the time you were done,
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  Speaker 1: you weren't going. Let me get to the part of
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  Speaker 1: the campaign that's a little more difficult than that is.
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  Speaker 1: Early on, you and I talked about name recognition around
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  Speaker 1: the state. There's been reports about money, how much money
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  Speaker 1: you guys have raised exactly. I know there will number
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  Speaker 1: and that we're very very good. So some of the
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  Speaker 1: stuff that people talk about in terms of I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to say criticoge in the campaign, but saying things
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  Speaker 1: that you.
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  Speaker 2: Need to work on to ensure victory. Are any of
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  Speaker 2: these things concerns for you?
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  Speaker 3: Now? I get a lot of advice, some of it's good.
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  Speaker 3: What I tell people now is we don't need advice.
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  Speaker 3: We need help. So make a contribution, volunteer, put along
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  Speaker 3: sign up, make a list of people, make sure they
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  Speaker 3: get out to vote. Our campaign is doing very very well.
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  Speaker 3: Think about how far we've come. We're in a virtual
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  Speaker 3: dead heat right now. And I'm very proud of something said.
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  Speaker 3: You know how many views we got on social media
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  Speaker 3: just last month? How many fifty seven million?
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  Speaker 2: Wow? Is that right?
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, which are probably in the top five campaigns
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  Speaker 3: in the United States right now on social media. So
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  Speaker 3: we're rocking and rolling, we're raising money. We need to
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  Speaker 3: raise a lot more. But the fact is that if
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  Speaker 3: you want to if you want to take back this state,
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  Speaker 3: if you want to get it out of the death spiral,
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  Speaker 3: if you want to play for your kids and your
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  Speaker 3: grandkids to grow up where there's opportunity and safe communities,
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