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Mark interviews political strategist Ed Rollins. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: It's more Mark Simone on seven ten w u R.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's talk to Ladan himself. Ed Rollins, the best
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  Speaker 2: political analyst out there. Nobody's run more campaigns, worked in
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  Speaker 2: more white houses, and great to add him with us,
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  Speaker 2: Ed Rollins, how you doing good?
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  Speaker 1: Wanting? Mark? Are you here?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good? So hey. Bruce Blakeman will be nominated tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: as the Republican candidate for governor. Big endorsement today from
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  Speaker 2: the New York Post. But how easy? How tough is
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  Speaker 2: it for a Republican to win the governor's race in
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  Speaker 2: New York?
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  Speaker 1: Now, well, it's tough. But Bruce is a great candidate,
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  Speaker 1: and in my senses, he comes from the right area
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  Speaker 1: of the state. He's got a great record, He's as
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  Speaker 1: stronger candidate as we could have in New York. We
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  Speaker 1: have I think we're a very weak mayor. I mean
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  Speaker 1: we're not mayor big governor. Yeah, So, I you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think at this point in time you can
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  Speaker 1: see to the past history, what's going to happen here?
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  Speaker 1: So can he can he raise the money? Can he
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  Speaker 1: campaign effect les? So I think that put race is
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  Speaker 1: still to watch very closely.
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  Speaker 2: Now you've been in this game a while. How did
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  Speaker 2: we get to this world where you could have the
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  Speaker 2: worst record in the world, you absolutely stink like Gavin
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  Speaker 2: Newsom or whoever, and you can run again. How does
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  Speaker 2: this happen nowadays?
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's so much clutter in the media today that
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to people make so many impressions that are
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  Speaker 1: out there. It's like the president of president's got so
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  Speaker 1: much going on, but it's hard to focus on two
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  Speaker 1: or three things. And in a campaign like this, you
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  Speaker 1: need a campaign on a few things. You've got to say,
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  Speaker 1: here's what she's done that basically have affected your life badly,
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  Speaker 1: and keep hammering on that issue, don't talk about thirty
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  Speaker 1: five issues. And the same way the Democrats. Democrats keep
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  Speaker 1: talking about we've got to have all these policy papers
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  Speaker 1: and what have you. At at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: policy papers are not going to be any for them. What's
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  Speaker 1: going to do something that is they're going to make
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  Speaker 1: their case against against the president of the president's party.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And as far as the president, too much, too much clutter,
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  Speaker 1: too much media.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, the economy, if you look at the actual numbers,
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  Speaker 2: the math, the economy is doing well. It's headed in
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  Speaker 2: the right direction. Everything's good. But what does the president
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  Speaker 2: need to do to get better messaging about that?
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  Speaker 1: Well, he needs he needs to basically focus himself on
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  Speaker 1: the message. You know, he sees the one driving the message.
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  Speaker 1: And all the foreign policy stuff that he's doing certainly
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  Speaker 1: may be important, but it's not important to the voters
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  Speaker 1: out there that are basically worrying about healthcare and worrying
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  Speaker 1: about food prices and housing prices, what have you. So
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  Speaker 1: I would argue that now that we're in the in
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  Speaker 1: the actual election year, the president needs to spend his
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  Speaker 1: time and energy on these issues at matative voters. He's
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  Speaker 1: got strong polsters, get the posters, give them three or
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  Speaker 1: four things he should be talking about, and talk about
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  Speaker 1: those things. You know. I think the key thing here is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's there's a lot of crisises in the world,
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  Speaker 1: and the president wants to solve those crisises, and it's
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  Speaker 1: done a pretty effective job and all that, but most
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  Speaker 1: people out there aren't worried about and as much as
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  Speaker 1: they're worried about, you know, what's happening in Westchester County
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  Speaker 1: or Suffolk County or across the country.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's interesting what you said about clutter. But as
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  Speaker 2: President Trump doing a great job, but he's the king
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  Speaker 2: of clutter. If you watch a press conference of speech
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  Speaker 2: and there's four thousand things he's working on at once.
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  Speaker 2: So and you can't cure him with that, can you.
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  Speaker 2: That's always the way you.
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  Speaker 1: Can't cure him that. One of the concerns I have
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  Speaker 1: is having another White House political director and have one
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  Speaker 1: Congressional committee. The intent now is to put him out
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  Speaker 1: and have him campaign and try and drive out the
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  Speaker 1: vote to only votes when he's on the pallet. I
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  Speaker 1: would just argue, the more you move around the country,
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  Speaker 1: the less likely he can stay on message. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: he needs to stay in the White House. He needs
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  Speaker 1: to go out maybe ten or twenty times. He told
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  Speaker 1: him in the campaign, but if they have him out
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  Speaker 1: there three or four days a week, you know he
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  Speaker 1: likes the campaign, but at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: you've got priority messages going out. Needs to stay in
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  Speaker 1: that White House, hit hit the big message places, uh,
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  Speaker 1: and and be very consistent and quit in selfing people.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he needs to quit making cracks about his opponents.
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  Speaker 1: Uh uh. You know, Joe Biden's gone. But we'll die
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  Speaker 1: on the beach Uh. You know what, at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day, we you can't blame everything on him
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  Speaker 1: at this point in time, because nobody's gonna listen. This
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  Speaker 1: is Trump's administration. His biggest problem. Has got a very
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  Speaker 1: narrow majority of the House. Uh, and it does that
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  Speaker 1: the Senate doesn't have anything. So yeah, you know, to
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  Speaker 1: two seats to you know, this week, he's got a
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  Speaker 1: two seat margin. He's got to get every member there
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  Speaker 1: voting for him on these issues. And we now have
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  Speaker 1: a big ice debate on on funding and that's very important. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you drive this Congress through, uh through a
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  Speaker 1: budget fight for another two or three weeks. Here again,
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  Speaker 1: people are distracted, People want want order.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, there's this whole anti ice feeling of Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, November is a long way away. Democrats
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  Speaker 2: always overplay their hand. They always go too far. Don't
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  Speaker 2: you think they'll do that this time? By by election time?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, we'll see. You know, we don't have
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  Speaker 1: we don't have a full year. You know, the reality
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  Speaker 1: is three or four months from now, these campaigns got
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  Speaker 1: to be running a hundred hundred degrees forward and the
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  Speaker 1: Congress is not gonna want to go back here, You've
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  Speaker 1: got forty four members Congress that are Democrats have targeted
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  Speaker 1: forty four. Those forty four guys and gals are going
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  Speaker 1: to have to be home worrying about what their constituous
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  Speaker 1: are saying. And if you're dragged here to fight these
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  Speaker 1: stupid battles, we're not going to win. Uh. You know,
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, people will get frustrated.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying is my argument is we
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  Speaker 1: don't we don't have a year. Time flies very quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Here's going to be big, expensive races, and you got
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  Speaker 1: to you gotta be focusing on everything that rights to
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  Speaker 1: district right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look at some of these congress people now, from
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  Speaker 2: King Jeffries to elon Omar to AOC to Jasmine Crocker.
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  Speaker 2: These are some real low IQ people. Did you ever
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  Speaker 2: see that before where we had those type of people coming.
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  Speaker 1: Well, no, but they're in pretty safe districts though, so
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  Speaker 1: they can they can do and say what they want.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the key thing here is we don't have
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  Speaker 1: there'd be a lot of seats. They'll talk about being competitive,
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  Speaker 1: It won't be competitive. It's really twenty five seats total
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  Speaker 1: that they're going to be competitive on both sides. They'll argue,
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  Speaker 1: forty four Democrats that could be defeated, thirty five Republicans
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  Speaker 1: going to be defeated. In the reality where we switch
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  Speaker 1: those numbers realities, you know, this comes down to ten
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  Speaker 1: to fifteen seats, and you've got to make all your
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  Speaker 1: efforts there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, voter, I d Democrats opposing that blocking that.
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  Speaker 2: That looks pretty bad on their part, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 1: It does, But you know there's so much ecusion on
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  Speaker 1: voting him. The key thing is get your voter out,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it takes to get him out, and don't argue
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  Speaker 1: about the method of voting, argue about who's going to vote.
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  Speaker 1: And the president can do that, but again, I would
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  Speaker 1: just argue everything in the cabinet, every the vice president
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  Speaker 1: need to be out there saying the same thing. The
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  Speaker 1: economy is the economy. It's the economy, and that's that's
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  Speaker 1: what the public wants to hear.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Hey, in New York City, Mom, Donnie probably the
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  Speaker 2: worst person we could have for mayor, But he seems
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  Speaker 2: very busy with photo ops and press conferences and the
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  Speaker 2: public stuff and not really doing any work. That's a
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  Speaker 2: good thing, but you think we'll get through these four
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  Speaker 2: years of mom Donnie.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they get through it one way or the other.
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  Speaker 1: It's what kind of shape If his policy is getting implemented,
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  Speaker 1: we'll have a very bad state of the pairs in
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  Speaker 1: New York in four years. But so far, I think
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  Speaker 1: he's more of a personality than he is effective mayor
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  Speaker 1: and the people that he's put in a to Blasio,
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  Speaker 1: people who are not very effective. I think a certain
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  Speaker 1: extent and a very dangerous And you've got to make
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  Speaker 1: this sedacious financial capital, communications capital. You've got to make
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  Speaker 1: the city run and run ef tectically. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that he's going peple to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all the more reason we need Bruce Blakeman as governor,
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  Speaker 2: just the.
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  Speaker 1: Counter, no question about that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, Ed Rollins, great stuff, Thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk again soon, pleasure, all right, take care. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Bruce Blakeman will get the nomination tomorrow at the convention.
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  Speaker 2: A big endorsement of him today New York Post. That's
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