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Highlights for Curtis and Larry · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, let me take this first moment of our broadcast
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  Speaker 1: since the final results of the elections across the nation
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  Speaker 1: to salute you, Larry Menti, your entire team, Natalie, the
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  Speaker 1: quiet storm, Chris, and everybody else involved in your broadcast
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  Speaker 1: last night on this, the most listened to talk station
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  Speaker 1: in New York. 710 WOR, from 7 to 11.
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  Speaker 2: You had great guests. You were giving the facts.
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  Speaker 1: You were like Sergeant Joe Friday, unlike other outlets, both
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  Speaker 1: on radio and TV, that were homers. You know, they
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  Speaker 1: were either ready to commit Jeffrey Epstein suicide based on
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  Speaker 1: the incoming results, or they were dancing the Tarantella, and
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  Speaker 1: you would have thought that they won Powerball. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you gave the facts. You let people understand what was
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  Speaker 1: transpiring from early in the evening to when you finally
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  Speaker 1: signed off. And you're here in the morning to do
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  Speaker 1: it all over again. So I salute you, Larry, and
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  Speaker 1: I salute our whole team that I know worked many,
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  Speaker 1: many hours in advance. The pre-show preparation that always is
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  Speaker 1: required when it's a really good election night show.
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  Speaker 2: So great job. Great job, team.
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  Speaker 3: Well, thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Chris Schweitzer was the producer last night and did
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  Speaker 4: just a wonderful job of putting it together. And, you know,
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  Speaker 4: he's new to politics, and he's new to doing a
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  Speaker 4: newscast and doing a news show, and he was just
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  Speaker 4: excellent in getting guests. You know, we had some tremendous
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  Speaker 4: guests last night. But what a— not to you. You had
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  Speaker 4: predicted this, but I think to most people, the— The
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  Speaker 4: tsunami of this, and I think you used the right word,
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  Speaker 4: although it does line up to other wave elections in
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  Speaker 4: the past. So they're calling it a blue wave election
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  Speaker 4: was stunning. It was a stunning race, at least to me.
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  Speaker 4: I have a new term now. I just incorporated a
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  Speaker 4: new term.
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  Speaker 3: You know me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm always with the different phrases. We know what PTSD means, right?
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  Speaker 1: Under normal circumstances. Well, now you have a new term,
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  Speaker 1: post-Trump stress disorder. There are a lot of people out
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  Speaker 1: there who are going to be in denial for a while.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they're going to want to reach out and say, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: they stole the election. No, no, nobody has said that.
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  Speaker 1: It was so overwhelming in so many places, it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: even an afterthought. And I just say, look, Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: said to the Republican loyalists, the MAGA people, pretend I'm
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  Speaker 1: on the ballot, make me the center of the conversation,
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  Speaker 1: 30 rallies in 30 days. He said that 47 times. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the people of America certainly looked at it that way,
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  Speaker 1: because not only did you have an enormous turnout of Democrats,
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  Speaker 1: but in the last 10 days, as always happens, the
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  Speaker 1: independents broke, and they didn't break for the Republicans, they
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  Speaker 1: broke predominantly for the Democrats. And that's why you have
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  Speaker 1: the final tallies, that in many instances are either close
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  Speaker 1: to what the polls were saying or the polls had
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  Speaker 1: it completely wrong.
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  Speaker 4: No, in many of them, I think actually the polls
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  Speaker 4: were awful. The polls had it completely wrong. It's just
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  Speaker 4: not the way that people thought the polls would go.
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  Speaker 3: They went bigger.
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  Speaker 4: They went much bigger. I mean, Kathy Hochul, 20 points.
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  Speaker 4: Kathy Hochul wins by 20 points. They called that race
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  Speaker 4: right after they showed it, right after the polls closed.
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  Speaker 3: Boom. They knew Kathy Hochul had won. Many of the.
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  Speaker 4: Races were like that. And there was just big surprises
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  Speaker 4: across the country. Races that were supposed to be safe,
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  Speaker 4: especially in the House, they went Democratic. This is exactly
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  Speaker 4: what a wave election looks like.
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  Speaker 2: This is it.
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  Speaker 3: And you're right.
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  Speaker 4: It is a referendum on the president. Listen, I think
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  Speaker 4: we'll be having a much different conversation this morning about
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  Speaker 4: the overall results. had Iran not happened, because Iran was
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  Speaker 4: its own wave.
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  Speaker 3: It created all these other things.
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  Speaker 4: And I truly believe, because he said it many times,
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  Speaker 4: that he thought it would be over quickly and that
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  Speaker 4: it would be a feather in his cap, not something
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  Speaker 4: that was going to drag him down.
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  Speaker 3: And that didn't happen.
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  Speaker 4: And when that didn't happen, when it dragged on and
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  Speaker 4: dragged on, and I think the Iranians knew this, too.
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  Speaker 4: They knew very well about our midterms. He was done.
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  Speaker 4: He was crippled. He was handicapped at that point. And
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  Speaker 4: it was such a politically, let's forget about going after
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  Speaker 4: Iran because of their nuclear weapons. Just talk politically for
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  Speaker 4: a second. Politically, it was a horrible thing to do
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  Speaker 4: because it ended his presidency, basically. Because right now he's
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  Speaker 4: a lame duck. He's going to be a lame duck.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he's going to have power to veto. He's
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  Speaker 4: going to veto and veto and veto. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if you heard him last night when he was on Fox.
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  Speaker 4: I thought he was good. I thought he reached across
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  Speaker 4: the aisle and said, look, I can work with you
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  Speaker 4: on certain things. Number one, I'll work with you on immigration.
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  Speaker 4: If you want to change the immigration laws, if you
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  Speaker 4: want to open the border again, that's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 4: But I'll work with you on the immigration laws. So
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  Speaker 4: I didn't expect that from him. I, he congratulated the Democrats.
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  Speaker 4: He said they ran a great race and he said
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  Speaker 4: that they, they had the pulse of the people and that, uh,
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  Speaker 4: and now they have to govern. And he said, and
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  Speaker 4: I have veto power. I'm going to veto, veto, veto
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  Speaker 4: anything I don't like, but I'd like to work with you.
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  Speaker 4: So we'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the big winner last night was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: people were saying the Democrats, no, the big winners talk radio,
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  Speaker 1: talk TV. I mean, we have colleagues, Larry, in both
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  Speaker 1: talk TV and talk radio who felt that they had
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  Speaker 1: to defend the indefensible with Trump as the president, really
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  Speaker 1: sounding stupid sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: Now they'll be able to go on the offensive. The
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  Speaker 2: Democrats will have.
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  Speaker 1: Hakeem Jeffries as the speaker, and they will have a
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  Speaker 1: big majority. And then Chuck Schumer for as long as
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  Speaker 1: he lasts, because I think they're going to sack him.
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  Speaker 1: will be the majority leader in the Senate. So this
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  Speaker 1: is like perfect for talk radio and talk TV. Talk
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  Speaker 1: radio and talk TV can now go on the offensive
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  Speaker 1: against Democrats. That's when people listen to talk radio and
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  Speaker 1: talk TV. When it's just defending President Trump, nope, it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have the fire. You know, it's not passionate. This
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  Speaker 1: will be passionate now. Now, the other thing, Larry, you
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  Speaker 1: have not returned the favor.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a little upset.
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  Speaker 1: I had created a business opportunity for myself yesterday. As
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm horrible in business. But I said, look,
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  Speaker 1: everybody has a podcast. Even my plumber, my dentist.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, your plumber.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. He didn't want me to listen to it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like I got time to listen to your freaking podcast.
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  Speaker 1: But I created the Curtis Sliwa Political Prediction Marketplace. Right?
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  Speaker 2: Because everybody else has it.
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  Speaker 1: They're all into now, you know, betting on who's going
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  Speaker 1: to win campaigns.
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  Speaker 2: No betting on this one.
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  Speaker 1: But my first prediction out of the box, hey, could
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  Speaker 1: you play that once again and remind everybody, even though
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  Speaker 1: we did it in many forms. And I am predicting
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  Speaker 1: I'm going high for the Democrats, not because I was
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  Speaker 1: smoking anything that would get me high, but I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully you write this down. The Democrats will win 240 seats.
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  Speaker 2: Stop it. See, I knew, I know you would have
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  Speaker 2: a jaundiced response.
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  Speaker 1: And the Democrats will end up with 53 seats in
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  Speaker 1: the Senate.
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  Speaker 2: So, so far.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty damn close.
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  Speaker 1: One seat off with the Senate. And there are two
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  Speaker 1: we're going to talk about later. Mississippi and Alaska. Like,
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  Speaker 1: they're so microscopically close. They can go either way. And
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  Speaker 1: the house, even though that was considered high, and by
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  Speaker 1: the way, where's Jimmy Failure? He's hiding this morning, making
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  Speaker 1: fun of me, right? I was actually on the low side, 240.
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  Speaker 4: You were on the low side because there's more house
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  Speaker 4: seats to be determined out there, and it's going to
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  Speaker 4: be much higher than that. It is, and it is
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  Speaker 4: going to be kind of amazing. I'm really fascinated to
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  Speaker 4: see what the final figure was because there was house
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  Speaker 4: seats that were not in play. None of us talked
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  Speaker 4: about across the country. some locally, that went Democratic, that
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  Speaker 4: were considered safe seats. So, no, you did a nice job.
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  Speaker 4: You did a nice job of your predictions. And I
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  Speaker 4: think you tempered your prediction. I think you probably wanted
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  Speaker 4: to go higher, but you thought this is crazy. No, no,
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  Speaker 4: I didn't think it was crazy.
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  Speaker 3: You said that. I could feel it.
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  Speaker 1: No, I said you all will think that it's crazy, right?
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  Speaker 1: And naturally, Jimmy Failure, who was with us for an
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  Speaker 1: hour yesterday, 8 to 9, if you haven't heard it,
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  Speaker 1: you've got to go to the podcast.
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  Speaker 3: It was hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: But you'll see how he was treating me as if
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  Speaker 1: I was a political piñata.
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  Speaker 2: No way, that ain't going to happen.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he sounded a little sarcastic to you.
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  Speaker 1: Was he this morning, right? He's hiding. He's stuck in
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  Speaker 1: for cover. But Larry's here to his credit. And right
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  Speaker 1: away he said to me as I came in the
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  Speaker 1: door this morning, because Larry's been doing marathon duty between
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  Speaker 1: the marathon with you, Natalie, and the pre-game for the
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  Speaker 1: election and then the overnight actually broadcast and being here
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  Speaker 1: this morning. You are the marathon man here at 710WOR.
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  Speaker 1: But I am telling you, I listen to WOR all
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  Speaker 1: the time. It's going to make it a lot easier
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  Speaker 1: for our colleagues because I've heard some really stupid stuff
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  Speaker 1: coming out of the mouths of some of our colleagues
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  Speaker 1: here and other talk outlets defending the indefensible.
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  Speaker 2: They won't have to do it anymore. They can just
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  Speaker 2: go on the attack.
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  Speaker 1: Democrats, Democrats. you know, this is what they do best.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to actually feel, even though temporarily it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a bummer, for the industry for this thing
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  Speaker 1: that this is what it is this this is what
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  Speaker 1: we have chosen you're gonna feel better too larry you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be oh you attack.
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  Speaker 4: Her you're gonna feel better and fine no i'm not
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  Speaker 4: gonna feel better but finally fox news is gonna get
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  Speaker 4: their ratings back too because now they can do what
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  Speaker 4: they always do well and that's going to be going
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  Speaker 4: after the democrats.
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  Speaker 1: And watch It's also what Trump did better. 2016, nobody
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  Speaker 1: expected him. He was on the attack. 2024, he was
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  Speaker 1: on the attack because he was out of office. But
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  Speaker 1: when he had to defend the presidency, he's not good
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  Speaker 1: playing defense. 2020, this time around midterms because he inserted himself.
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  Speaker 1: It's like he went in the ring and he put
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  Speaker 1: his chin out. Here, here, go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: But I'll tell you what, even when he's on the defense,
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  Speaker 4: he's on the attack. So that's the way he defends himself.
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  Speaker 4: When we come back, by the way, we'd love to
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  Speaker 4: hear from you. If you just need a shoulder to
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  Speaker 4: cry on, we're here for you. You want to talk
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  Speaker 4: about the election results last night, what you think happened.
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  Speaker 4: win if you get the talk back of the day.
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  Speaker 4: Curtis Lee when Larry Menti in the morning T-shirt and
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  Speaker 4: the best talk back of the week takes home a
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  Speaker 4: sea crane radio. When we come back, one of the
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  Speaker 4: most surprising results in the country when it comes to
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  Speaker 4: house races happened in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 3: We'll have all the New.
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  Speaker 4: Jersey election results, plus a chance to see Def Leppard
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  Speaker 4: and the Goo Goo Dolls at 825.
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  Speaker 2: The conversation continues.
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  Speaker 6: Curtis Lee and Larry Menti.
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  Speaker 5: 710 WOR.
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  Speaker 4: Now let's get to John Decker, WOR White House correspondent. John,
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  Speaker 4: I was pleasantly surprised, I should say, when the president
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  Speaker 4: went on Fox News last night and congratulated the Democrats
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  Speaker 4: and said, I'm willing to work with them. He did say,
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to veto every crazy thing they send to me.
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  Speaker 4: but that he's willing to work with them. Did you
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  Speaker 4: get the sense from Donald Trump in his conversation last
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  Speaker 4: night that this might go better than we thought?
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  Speaker 7: Well, remember, I think it was all sinking in for
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  Speaker 7: the president, what had happened over the course of the
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  Speaker 7: past few hours with all of those losses by Republicans
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  Speaker 7: in deep red states. So that's what the president's mood
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  Speaker 7: was last night when he spoke with Fox News. But
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  Speaker 7: then reality will set in come January 3rd when this
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  Speaker 7: new Congress is sworn in. And we'll see if the
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  Speaker 7: president has that same conciliatory tone that he had last
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  Speaker 7: night in that interview with Fox News.
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  Speaker 1: Now, John Decker, I'm going to take you back to
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  Speaker 1: our favorite location, the reflection pool, because that's where the
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  Speaker 1: president decided to give his final speech, rally up the troops,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to get him out to vote. And I
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  Speaker 1: heard from a lot of Republicans. I heard about algae.
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  Speaker 1: I heard about pipes. He was holding up signs of reconstruction.
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  Speaker 1: This was not his Braveheart Mel Gibson moment. I think
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  Speaker 1: at that moment, a lot of Republicans were of the
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  Speaker 1: opinion that he knows it's over.
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  Speaker 2: It's over.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I can't get inside the president's head. I was
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  Speaker 7: at that event, as you know, at the Reflecting Pool.
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  Speaker 7: I thought it was an odd choice of venues and
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  Speaker 7: an odd choice in terms of the tone and content
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  Speaker 7: of the message that the president delivered just a day
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  Speaker 7: before the midterm elections. Instead of talking about the closing
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  Speaker 7: message for Republicans, as you point out, the president was
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  Speaker 7: talking about the beautification projects in Washington, D.C. that he's pursued. That,
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  Speaker 7: as you know, Curtis, that, as you know, Larry, not
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  Speaker 7: a top issue for voters, no matter what poll you
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  Speaker 7: were looking at this midterm election cycle.
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  Speaker 4: Is there going to be a presidential availability today that
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  Speaker 4: you know of?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 7: No open press events. That could change. All that is
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  Speaker 7: on the president's schedule today are closed-door policy meetings. No opportunities,
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  Speaker 7: as things stand right now, for the president to address
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  Speaker 7: the press about what happened over the course of the
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  Speaker 7: past 24 hours.
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  Speaker 1: John, give us some insight, if you can, about Mississippi today.
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  Speaker 1: It's neck and neck. It's an actual tie between the
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  Speaker 1: sitting Republican senator and the Democrat challenger who was a
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  Speaker 1: DA column. I know Democrats, especially African-Americans, screaming that Chuck
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  Speaker 1: Schumer was asked a month ago to pour some money
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  Speaker 1: into Mississippi. He said, no, it's a losing proposition. How
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  Speaker 1: did it get to the point where we're neck and neck?
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  Speaker 1: And do you happen to know if there is a
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  Speaker 1: recount provision in their constitution?
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  Speaker 7: Well, in many states, as you know, there's a recount provision,
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  Speaker 7: a hand recount provision. If it's within a half percentage
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  Speaker 7: point from each other, I don't know the provisions that
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  Speaker 7: exist under state law in Mississippi. That being said, what
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  Speaker 7: we saw was a blue wave across the entire country,
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  Speaker 7: not just in pockets, but just about everywhere. Maybe you
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  Speaker 7: could say it didn't happen in certain parts of Florida,
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  Speaker 7: given that in Florida, the you had Republicans emerge victorious
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  Speaker 7: in the Senate race as well as in the governor's race,
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  Speaker 7: but not by much. But in deep red Mississippi, as
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  Speaker 7: you point out, it's too close to call at this point.
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  Speaker 7: But in other deep red states, like South Carolina, that
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  Speaker 7: was a major surprise for so many people. The fact
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  Speaker 7: that Darlene Graham could not hold onto that seat that
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  Speaker 7: was held by her late brother, Senator Lindsey Graham. And
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  Speaker 7: in fact, South Carolinians will be sending a Democrat, to
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  Speaker 7: represent the state in the U.S. Senate?
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  Speaker 4: You know, while you were answering the question, I looked
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  Speaker 4: it up. Mississippi state law does not provide any statuary
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  Speaker 4: mechanism for automatic candidate-requested or voter-requested election recounts, and there
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  Speaker 4: is no automatic trigger. So it could just be 100 votes,
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  Speaker 4: and that's going to be the end of that election.
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  Speaker 4: That's Kind of amazing to me because you're right, John,
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  Speaker 4: almost every state in the country has some type of
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  Speaker 4: mechanism for a recount in the close election, but apparently
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  Speaker 4: Mississippi doesn't. So that looks like it's going to be
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  Speaker 4: another pickup for the Democrats down there.
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  Speaker 3: How does Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 4: I know he's talked about it last night, but he's
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  Speaker 4: had some headwinds like this before. So we have something
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  Speaker 4: to see. and something to learn from about how he
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  Speaker 4: might handle having an adversarial Congress. How do you think
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  Speaker 4: he's going to react? The same as he did last time?
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  Speaker 7: Well, the president has to be aware of the fact
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  Speaker 7: that Democrats control all the levers of power in Congress,
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  Speaker 7: which means all the oversight committees, which means they can
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  Speaker 7: investigate all the things that they would have liked to
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  Speaker 7: have investigated over the course of the past decade.
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  Speaker 2: Two years.
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  Speaker 7: And they're going to do that. Let's leave aside this
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  Speaker 7: possibility of impeachment for a moment. There will be investigations.
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  Speaker 7: And that means that Democrats and those oversight committees have
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  Speaker 7: subpoena powers. They can bring to Congress any member of
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  Speaker 7: the president's cabinet. They can bring to Congress even Elon
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  Speaker 7: Musk if they wish to do so. And I think
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  Speaker 7: they're going to take advantage of that opportunity. But Democrats
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  Speaker 7: also have to be careful. exit polls indicate that this
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  Speaker 7: was not an election in which American voters embrace the
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  Speaker 7: policies of Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: Instead, this was an election.
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  Speaker 7: Again, according to those exit polls, in which they were
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  Speaker 7: rejecting what had happened during the course of the first
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: two years of the second term of President Trump. They
• 18:04
  Speaker 7: did not like the war in Iran and what that
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: has meant in terms of high gas prices. I think
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  Speaker 7: that is the primary reason why the president's party ended
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  Speaker 7: up losing Congress yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the exit polls back you up on that, by
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  Speaker 4: the way. That's exactly what they said.
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  Speaker 1: The president seemed to say, John Decker, maybe I'm wrong,
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  Speaker 1: that he's not going to plan on bombing Iran now.
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  Speaker 1: At least he said that in the last 24 hours.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that's the result of the sobering fact
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  Speaker 1: that he realized that, man, this is not helping at all?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I think that that is a big part of
• 18:45
  Speaker 7: the equation. And, you know, we can't get inside, you know,
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  Speaker 7: all the decision makers in Iran's head, you know, the mullahs,
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  Speaker 7: the IGRC, all of those decision makers. But, you know,
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  Speaker 7: they may be of the mindset, look what we did,
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  Speaker 7: you know, by not ending this war, by not coming
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  Speaker 7: to a peace agreement. Look what we did in terms
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: of messing up the president's majority that he had in Congress,
• 19:08
  Speaker 7: maybe if we continue this up, we can impact the
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  Speaker 7: 2028 presidential election as well. So we'll have to wait
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: and see whether that war comes to a conclusion sometime soon. But,
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: you know, in the meantime, there will be a lame
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: duck session of Congress. that the president can use to
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: get things potentially through. But I think that may be
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: difficult as well, given the fact it's not just 53-47,
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: the advantage that Republicans have right now, because there are
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: some Republicans that are not in the mood to support
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: many of the president's lame duck policies that he may pursue.
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: People like Susan Collins are out the door. John Cornyn,
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: out the door. Tom Tillis, out the door. But they
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: all can vote in that lame duck session of Congress.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and they have not shown any inclination to vote
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: with the president in the past. So give me your
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: thoughts on it. You've been there for a while now,
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: and you certainly have covered this president a couple of times.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: And you also know Congress. Are they going to be
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: able to work together, or is this going to be
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: just investigation after investigation after investigation?
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  Speaker 7: That's the big question. What do Democrats want to do?
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: Do they want to show that they can govern and
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  Speaker 7: show Americans that if we had control of the White House,
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: look what we could do. These are our policies. These
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: are our goals. these are our policy objectives, or do
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: they just pursue investigations? And that could essentially roil their
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: chances in terms of trying to win back control of
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: the White House in 2028. It's important to look at
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: some of these results. It's not just Democratic wins. It's
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: wins by significant margins. John Ossoff winning another six-year term
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: with nearly 60% of the vote. Josh Shapiro also winning
• 21:00
  Speaker 7: with over 60 percent of the vote. Those are going
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: to be frontrunners for the Democratic nomination in 2028 for sure.
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: And James Tallarico, those polls, let's talk about the polls
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: just for one moment. Those polls ended up being pretty accurate.
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: He wins his Senate race, at least the way vote
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: totals have come in so far, by 12 points. That's
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: a pretty significant victory that he had in the state
• 21:24
  Speaker 7: of Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Very quickly, I thought The big loss was Greg Abbott,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: the governor of Texas, who not only sealed his border first,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: you know, he was attached to the president.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: He did a great job. He lured business in.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: All these big billionaires, he personally lured in, and yet
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: he got whacked.
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: Yeah, he did. And that's pretty shocking as well. The
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: first Latina governor of the state of Texas, Gina Hinojosa,
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: She will be the new governor of the state of Texas.
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: There hasn't been a Democratic governor. You'd have to go
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: all the way back to Ann Richards. There hasn't been
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: a Democratic senator in Texas since Lloyd Benson in the 1980s.
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: So it's pretty remarkable what happened over the course of
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: the past 24 hours in so many states. But Texas
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: certainly stands out.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: John Decker, WOR White House and Washington correspondent and host
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: of the podcast, The White House Briefing Room with John Decker,
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: which can be found on the iHeartRadio app.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Curtis Lewa and Larry Minty in the morning.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: The conversation continues on 710WOR. It's 710WOR Speed on the
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Street with Natalie Migliore.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: Wow, what else would Natalie Migliore be talking about today
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: with people on the street and her beat on the
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: street except for the election?
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: This should be good.
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: Maybe literally anything else.
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  Speaker 4: No.
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: Look, election day has come and gone.
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  Speaker 5: The team has put in work, my friends, with election
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: night coverage and everything.
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: So congratulations. You got through that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I got through it. Yes, I survived it.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Glad to see you here this morning.
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: You've made it.
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: Now we're left to sort through the winners and the losers.
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: It's being called a blue tsunami with even the unlikeliest
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: of states.
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: Voting blue.
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  Speaker 5: In New York, of course, Democrat incumbent Governor Kathy Hochul
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: defeats Republican challenger Bruce Blakeman.
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: But that wasn't really a surprise.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: Some voters paying very close attention to races across the country.
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: Of course, I voted early.
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: First day I went and it was great.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: And I'm so happy with the outcome.
• 23:39
  Speaker 8: No, I was actually looking at the elections just now.
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: Arizona governor, I'm glad that I have family in Arizona
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: and they're all Republicans. So I was glad to see
• 23:46
  Speaker 8: the Arizona governor was reelected. Other than that, not just
• 23:51
  Speaker 8: as surprised as anybody else on some of the swing states,
• 23:54
  Speaker 8: like the incumbents that got beat.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: Wow, it's been great. It's been great. I think we
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: won all over.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and just to clarify, the Arizona governor-elect is Democrat.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: He was just happy, I guess, to stick it in
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: family's face when they have Thanksgiving.
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: Which is coming up. But it comes to all.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: Well, when it comes to all over Texas, Republican Governor
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: Greg Abbott was beat out by Democratic challenger Gina Hizona,
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: the first Democrat to run Texas in.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: More than 30 years.
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: Democrats are also set to take over Congress here in
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: New York. Four districts considered battlegrounds all went blue. So
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: what do people think this indicates? You know, the middle
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: class has been getting crushed and the 1%.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Keeps rising and the poor keep getting poorer.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: So I think it's... indicative of people are into self-preservation.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: So the Democrats are usually, you know, a lot of
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: social programs.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Probably because of the way they were treating the immigrants,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: Don't treat them that way.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Give them a chance to defend themselves and leave the country.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 25:05
  Speaker 8: My feeling is that the divisiveness in the country over
• 25:08
  Speaker 8: the last bunch of years has been hard to take.
• 25:11
  Speaker 8: My wife actually said, we want to retire, let's leave
• 25:13
  Speaker 8: the country. But I'd like to see the country kind
• 25:16
  Speaker 8: of get back together and work together.
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: Well, it's not clear how much working together they'll do,
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: especially with President Trump's reaction to these midterm elections.
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: They're all going to come through for us, hopefully. But then,
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: you know, Trump said he's going to veto everything.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: But we'll see.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: So he had said he has the ultimate power to
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: veto whatever moves are made. There's one race where a
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: Republican challenger conceded in New York, even though there was
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: I'm not a Republican challenger or a Republican incumbent, conceded,
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: even though there was an issue with ballot scanners. Westchester
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: reported the countywide issue yesterday morning. We'd been reporting on
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: it all day. But still, Mike Lawler didn't question it
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: and conceded to his Democratic challenger, Kate Conley.
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: Reaction, though, to issues at the polling sites across the county.
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  Speaker 2: I think maybe it's hampered. You never know. You know,
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: you can't trust all the polling sites, I don't think.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: you know, who's in charge and who's, you know, looking
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: over it. Everybody's going to say that.
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: My wife said that last night, that all these mail-in
• 26:22
  Speaker 8: early voting, because they were breaking it down into early
• 26:25
  Speaker 8: voting and day of voting. And she said that all
• 26:28
  Speaker 8: this early voting that's showing as a win for Democrats,
• 26:32
  Speaker 8: all that's going to happen is the president's going to say, oh,
• 26:34
  Speaker 8: it's all rigged.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: It's all rigged.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: It's all, you know, BS.
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: You know what the really interesting thing is?
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: As I was following the polls in my personal life
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: my fiance was following Kalshi like Kalshi that that the
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: problem Kalshi which uh Governor Hochul has been trying to
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: shut down right because she says it's like a betting
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: site or whatever and he says every time he goes
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: to uh look at it for an election it's always
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: on point who's going to win and who's not.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: It's very interesting I was more on point. I launched
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: yesterday the Curtis Sliwa political marketplace, and my picks were
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: better than Kalshi, better than the competitors. You compare them.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: You make that kind of an outrageous statement. You're not
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: giving me props for being almost completely correct.
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: You know what I love? That I don't have to
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: give you props. You give yourself props. Everybody clapping for him.
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: We got Curtis Sliwa in the house. What is really interesting, though,
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: is the way I voted yesterday. I don't think I've
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: ever voted in a voting the same way twice. I
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: feel like there's always different mechanisms to vote. And that
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: isn't that interesting.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: That's a really fascinating point. They do keep changing. It's
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: it's ridiculous.
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: I tried to ask people that, and I think people
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: just have such short memories about it that they just
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: sort of float on into the, like, it's like, all right,
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: I voted.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Bring back the lever machines. It was so much easier.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: But Natalie.
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  Speaker 2: Brooklyn.