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Project next governor of Virginia · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Fox News Alert at eight o clock and polls have
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  Speaker 1: closed in New Jersey. The Fox News Decision Desk believes
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  Speaker 1: the governor's race in the Garden State is close Democratic
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  Speaker 1: candidate Mikey Sheryl Leeds. The Fox News Decision Desk can
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  Speaker 1: also project that Democrat Abigail's Spanberger will become the next
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  Speaker 1: governor of Virginia. Spanburger defeats Republican Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earl Sears.
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  Speaker 1: Let's bring in Fox News Chief political anchor Brett Baer
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  Speaker 1: and the anchor of the story, Martha McCallum.
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  Speaker 2: Are you surprised, Brett that that was called early?
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  Speaker 3: No, you know, it's a purple state, but it's bluish purple.
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  Speaker 3: Wins Earl Sears did close the gap heading into election day,
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  Speaker 3: but you know there was a Democratic push. She was
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  Speaker 3: a decent candidate to begin with. She had some stumbles
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  Speaker 3: because of the attorney General's race, which by the way,
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  Speaker 3: we haven't called yet Jay Jones, although he is seeing
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  Speaker 3: increase in the polls, the numbers that we're seeing, But
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  Speaker 3: because of that, I think there was a stumble in
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  Speaker 3: a belief that Winson Miill Sears could close the gap
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  Speaker 3: too little, too late, and Abigail Spamberger will become the
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  Speaker 3: first female governor of the Commonwealth. She was the person
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  Speaker 3: that Democrats said, listen, this is a moderate. She's going
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  Speaker 3: to be the example for Democrats going forward. Republicans said
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  Speaker 3: she wasn't a moderate. She voted with Nancy Pelosi almost
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  Speaker 3: all the time. But she will become the next Virginia governor.
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  Speaker 1: But this race for ag where the guy says that
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  Speaker 1: he wanted to kill Republican kids, we can't call that yet.
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  Speaker 1: Are you surprised that we haven't been able to call
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  Speaker 1: that yet? I mean, most people that I know would say,
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  Speaker 1: heck no with a guy like that.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, there's a percentage of Virginia voters who said
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  Speaker 4: that they found those comments concerning but not disqualifying. And
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  Speaker 4: we saw that Spamberger really tried to just sort of
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  Speaker 4: sidestep this whole issue. She was pressed upon to say
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  Speaker 4: that he should drop out of the race. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it really really lowers the bar for what is required.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, think about the fact that Joe Biden once
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  Speaker 4: dropped out of a presidential race because there was a
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  Speaker 4: little some plagiarism in a speech that he gave. But
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  Speaker 4: this guy says that, you know, he should this family
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  Speaker 4: should be killed, and that the children are fascist and
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  Speaker 4: they should be killed too. But you know, the bar
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  Speaker 4: for all these things has changed.
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  Speaker 2: The Nazi tattoo hasn't dropped.
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  Speaker 1: The bar is so low now you can basically do
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  Speaker 1: anything and stay in the race.
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  Speaker 3: You chers asked about four times in that debate, will
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  Speaker 3: you pull your endorsement? She didn't, and was the easiest
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  Speaker 3: one would think layup to in a political race, say yes,
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  Speaker 3: I pulled my endorsement. It's time to move on. But
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  Speaker 3: she was. You know, it's like an albatross around her
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  Speaker 3: neck for the rest of that race, and that's why
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  Speaker 3: it was so close. In the end, she is going
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  Speaker 3: to pull this out in a decent majority margin rather,
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  Speaker 3: and Democrats are going to feel good about this. I
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  Speaker 3: think they have less to feel good about in New Jersey,
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  Speaker 3: which looks like it's tightening.
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  Speaker 2: All right, So it's tight in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: This is a state that Paris I think beat Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump by about six points. He didn't spend any money there,
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  Speaker 1: and this guy Shouldarelli had done well last time against
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  Speaker 1: the incumbent Bill Murphy.
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  Speaker 2: It's too close to call. What does that tell you.
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  Speaker 4: Well, this is the third time that Jack Torelli has
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  Speaker 4: run for governor. The first time he didn't make it
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  Speaker 4: through the primary. The second time, as you pointed out,
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  Speaker 4: he came within three points of Phil Murphy. Nobody has
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  Speaker 4: held the same party governorship in New Jersey since nineteen
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  Speaker 4: sixty one, which would indicate, you know, the historical trend
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  Speaker 4: is that it's time for it to flip to the
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  Speaker 4: GOP this time around. We've certainly had a number of
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  Speaker 4: Republican governors in New Jersey, but this is very close.
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  Speaker 4: And Cheryl, you know, also weathered a bit of a
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  Speaker 4: storm when it came to the cheating scandal at Annapolis.
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  Speaker 4: GENRELLI really tried to hang that on her in a
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  Speaker 4: negative light. Whether or not it's stock, we don't know yet.
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  Speaker 1: And the insider training allegations too. Absolutely, it wasn't very
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  Speaker 1: graceful in wiggling out of those What are your people
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  Speaker 1: in New Jersey telling.
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  Speaker 4: No, I mean I do sort of, you know, I
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  Speaker 4: go running around town. I see where the signs are.
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  Speaker 4: It is interesting and areas that are, you know, sort
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  Speaker 4: of working class neighborhoods in New Jersey. You have seen
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  Speaker 4: a lot of chittererellly signs it has felt that he
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  Speaker 4: had the momentum. But whether or not, you know, the
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  Speaker 4: New Jersey machine will prevail tonight, and.
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  Speaker 1: We had Barack Obama had to fly in all the
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  Speaker 1: way from Hawaii to save both of these women.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: He went to uh Virginia and to New Jersey. He
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  Speaker 3: did not go to New York.
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  Speaker 2: City, but he did make a phone call.
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  Speaker 3: He did make a phone call and said he was
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  Speaker 3: really you know, touching on important issues, but didn't do
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  Speaker 3: an official endorsement. I think obviously the big race that
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  Speaker 3: has sucked up all the oxygen is the mayor's race
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  Speaker 3: here in New York City, and that could maybe have
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  Speaker 3: an effect in New Jersey because people in New Jersey
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  Speaker 3: look at New York City and say, what happens there
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  Speaker 3: could mean something for us.
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  Speaker 1: Do you really think think that if Mondanmi wins that
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  Speaker 1: it could have repercussions in New Jersey. Martha, you know
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey better than any of us here at this table.
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  Speaker 4: True, well, we both live there, but I you know,
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  Speaker 4: you and I both lived there.
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  Speaker 2: I was born.
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  Speaker 4: There's also Jersey roots as well. You know, it's interesting
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  Speaker 4: to see if you get a counterbalanced vote if people
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  Speaker 4: in a Jersey sort of turn out to try to
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  Speaker 4: balance Mamdannie in the mayor's race. I also think that
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  Speaker 4: the other person who's watching very closely at least to phonic,
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  Speaker 4: because I think if Mamdannie wins in New York, she
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  Speaker 4: may feel, you know, Hokel wants to be governor, to
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  Speaker 4: stay governor there. But when Donnie didn't even endorse Hokel,
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  Speaker 4: she endorsed him, and he will endorse her because she
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  Speaker 4: refuses to raise taxes in this state, which is going
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  Speaker 4: to be a problem.
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  Speaker 2: So we're not giving Mondani the win.
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  Speaker 1: But if he does win, Brett, what kind of damage
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  Speaker 1: if he teams up with Kathy Hokeel could those two
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  Speaker 1: do in the state of New York.
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  Speaker 3: So interestingly, the New York City mayor doesn't have as
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  Speaker 3: much power as the New York governor, right, so she
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  Speaker 3: would almost be a check if she wanted to be
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  Speaker 3: to the New York City Maine. So she wanted to
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  Speaker 3: be you know, when she was on that stage, it
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  Speaker 3: didn't look like it when she was holding up his hand,
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  Speaker 3: but she has said to other people and reporters that
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  Speaker 3: that's what she would do. It's not good enough if
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  Speaker 3: he does win, and we don't know, I mean, who knows.
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  Speaker 3: Those polls closed at nine pm.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see.
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  Speaker 3: It's the biggest turnout we've seen in two decades in
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  Speaker 3: New York City for a mayor's race. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: that could mean good things for Cuomo. But if she,
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  Speaker 3: if he wins, Hoko will be in a much weakened
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  Speaker 3: position against the Republican nominee, likely Stephanic and are.
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  Speaker 1: You thinking people in New York City are calculating this? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't like Cuomo, but I might have to vote
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  Speaker 1: for him to stop Mondani. How much of that calculation
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  Speaker 1: is happening?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think one of the biggest questions is that
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  Speaker 4: percentage of SLIWA voters. Because Trump came out and said, look,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I don't really like either of these main candidates,
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  Speaker 4: but if you should go for the worst Democrat rather
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  Speaker 4: than the communist is what the President said. So those
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  Speaker 4: SLIWA voters had to make a decision today when they
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  Speaker 4: went to the polls and figure out if they wanted
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  Speaker 4: to pull the lever for SLIWA or if they were
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  Speaker 4: going to go over and do what the President asked
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  Speaker 4: them to do and vote for Cuomo, So watch the
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  Speaker 4: SLIWA margins. Staten Island is obviously a big conservative, the
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  Speaker 4: only big conservative stronghold in New York City. If his
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  Speaker 4: margins are lower there than they were last time around,
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  Speaker 4: that's something to keep an eye on.
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  Speaker 1: Does the pseudo endorsement by Donald Trump of Andrew Cuomo
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  Speaker 1: help Andrew Cuomo in a city like New York where
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  Speaker 1: they just tried to throw this president in prison? You know,
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  Speaker 1: this guy's like, oh, this is your guy, and then
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  Speaker 1: mondami says, well, look, Donald Trump's endorsing my opponent.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it did give Mondamie a talking point ahead of
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  Speaker 3: election day, but it also may move some SLIWA voters
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  Speaker 3: off to vote for Cuomo. So the balance there is
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  Speaker 3: interesting to factor in. I think it was late, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it might have been earlier. Cuomo had to absorb a
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  Speaker 3: day of look, he's Donald Trump's endorsed candidate. But at
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  Speaker 3: the same time, it probably moves some SLIWA voters.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we'll see how it checks out pretty soon.
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