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

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  Speaker 1: Well, last night was debate night, and you yearn for
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  Speaker 1: more afterwards, like so many other states have, Larry, as
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  Speaker 1: we've been talking about it. Maine, they've had like five
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  Speaker 1: debates for the Senate in nine days. Some of the
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  Speaker 1: others are like two debates. That's the mandatory. Jack Cittarelli, remember,
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  Speaker 1: against Cherelle? They had at least two debates. We only
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  Speaker 1: get one in New York, unfortunately. And after you watched it,
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  Speaker 1: you said, wow, one more debate and they would have
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  Speaker 1: touched on every subject. And I think those that are
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  Speaker 1: interested in voting would have had their buffet, would have
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  Speaker 1: had the entree and the hors d'oeuvres to make up
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  Speaker 1: their mind, if in fact they hadn't yet made up
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  Speaker 1: their mind on who they want to be the next
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  Speaker 1: governor of New York State.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I wonder how many undecided there are. That's a
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  Speaker 2: really interesting question. I thought that Bruce Blakeman won that
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  Speaker 2: debate easily. I, Kathy Hochul, right from the beginning seemed
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  Speaker 2: off her game. Remember this moment?
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  Speaker 3: New York State now has the lowest crime rates it's
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  Speaker 3: had in modern history. Now, we're not done yet. And
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  Speaker 3: you're going to hear a lot of, well, a lot
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  Speaker 3: of different opinions here this evening. And I want you
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  Speaker 3: to judge it this way.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I will say this. I think she was about
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  Speaker 2: to curse there. And say a lot of BS, but
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  Speaker 2: the longer word for that. But then after that, she
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  Speaker 2: couldn't come up with something else. I mean, don't you
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  Speaker 2: have that early on the opening prepared? Don't you already
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  Speaker 2: know what you're going to say right out of the box?
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  Speaker 2: That was out of the box, but that wasn't the
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  Speaker 2: only time she did it a few times. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: not sure who was coaching her. Because if you've noticed,
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  Speaker 2: she was downplaying everything. She was speaking in a softer voice.
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  Speaker 2: It was like she was on Xanax. She rarely got excited.
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  Speaker 2: She rarely was showing a lot of energy or any
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  Speaker 2: energy at all. Blakeman, on the other hand, was full
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  Speaker 2: of energy constantly.
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  Speaker 1: I think you could have helped Kathy Hochul enormously. with
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  Speaker 1: your strategy of taking 15 caffeinated cups of coffee a day,
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  Speaker 1: she was in a desperate need. You're absolutely right. She
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  Speaker 1: needed a caffeinated coffee or a latte caffeinated. She was
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  Speaker 1: very low energy. I don't think that was on purpose.
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  Speaker 1: I really don't think that was on purpose. Then why?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's no other reason to do it unless
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  Speaker 2: somebody said, you know what, you don't want to be
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  Speaker 2: too shrill. You don't want to come off too loud.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's some bad debate coaches out there.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's because in her case, too much packed
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  Speaker 1: into her head. And that's why at times, if you notice,
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  Speaker 1: she was in a void. She was like searching. It
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  Speaker 1: almost like was a stop. And that's because they over
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  Speaker 1: prepare you. Whereas Bruce Blakeman, I think he came out,
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  Speaker 1: he knew what he had to say. He knew he
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  Speaker 1: was going to be wrapped in cellophane wrap with Trump.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Trump would be like an appendage to him.
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  Speaker 1: So he was prepared for that. He was calm. Unlike
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  Speaker 1: Lee Zeldin, who had only one debate against Hochul, he
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  Speaker 1: got a little angry at Hochul. It didn't come across well.
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  Speaker 1: But he had the fact that as the governor, he
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  Speaker 1: would get rid of Alvin Bragg, who had just been
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  Speaker 1: elected Manhattan D.A. Remember after sworn in, he said. Half
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  Speaker 1: the rules, throw him out the door. So that was
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  Speaker 1: a vulnerable point for Hochul. But I think Bruce Hochul,
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman overall did as well as you could possibly
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  Speaker 1: do in those circumstances.
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  Speaker 2: Unbelievably well. Here's the thing, too. And I didn't notice
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  Speaker 2: this before. I just noticed it after this debate because
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  Speaker 2: I saw Blakeman being shared on social media online.
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  Speaker 1: Over and over and over and over again.
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  Speaker 2: And it was done by the RNC, all the usual suspects,
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump, the New York Republicans, Blakeman's campaign. And I thought,
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  Speaker 2: maybe it's just my algorithm. Maybe I'm just getting all
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  Speaker 2: that because of my algorithm. So I just did a
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  Speaker 2: search now this morning. I did a search for Hochul
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  Speaker 2: and DNC and New York Republicans, New York Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing.
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  Speaker 2: There's very little on Hochul because she didn't have a highlight.
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  Speaker 2: She really didn't have a highlight. Blakeman had several. And
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  Speaker 2: some of these that are being shared on social media,
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  Speaker 2: which I think is the most important thing right now.
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  Speaker 2: It is no longer what is broadcast. It is what
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  Speaker 2: he shared. Some of these have hundreds of thousands. If
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  Speaker 2: you total them all up, it's over a million, hundreds
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  Speaker 2: of thousands of.
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  Speaker 1: Looks and likes. And so I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think, you know, if I had to bet,
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  Speaker 2: if you were forcing me to bet money now, I
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  Speaker 2: still don't think Blakeman can win just because of the
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  Speaker 2: way the state's set up and because the oversaturation of
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  Speaker 2: Democrats in New York City. But, man, he should win.
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  Speaker 2: He is by far the better candidate.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No, he definitely pounded her on the utility bills, which
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  Speaker 1: she's responsible for. Everybody opens up that envelope. You remember
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  Speaker 1: that day we were talking to Rob Astorino. He had
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  Speaker 1: just gotten his electricity bill at the same time I
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  Speaker 1: got mine. Our eyeballs fell out of our heads. Only 30%
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  Speaker 1: of it was for the cost of the electricity. The
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  Speaker 1: other 70% were all taxes, most of which were going
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  Speaker 1: to the state. She controls that. And he pounded away
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  Speaker 1: on that affordability, which is of key concern. The issue
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  Speaker 1: that Hochul has been convinced is an easy pass to
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  Speaker 1: victory is just campaign against Trump.
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  Speaker 2: I know. Treat Bruce Blakeman as if he's Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: But if you do it too much, and she did
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  Speaker 2: it way too much. 44 times she mentioned it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so if you do it all the time... After a while,
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  Speaker 2: people start rolling their eyes because they go, unless you
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  Speaker 2: are a really blue Democrat, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: If you are really into the Democratic Party, you love
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  Speaker 2: that stuff. That's red meat for you. But other people,
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  Speaker 2: especially any of the undecideds and some of the moderates,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe even some of the Republicans that would be
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  Speaker 2: willing to go over, after a while, they're going to go,
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  Speaker 2: do you have anything else?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was it. Everything was attached to Trump. Now, Blakeman,
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  Speaker 1: to his credit, only went at Zoran about six times.
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  Speaker 1: So imagine, 44 times Trump, that's Hochul. Blakeman mentioned Zoran
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  Speaker 1: as the negative factor attached to Kathy Hochul six times,
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  Speaker 1: which was appropriate. And so he didn't make the whole debate, oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: you're Zoran, mini me for Zoran, whereas all Hochul kept
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  Speaker 1: mentioning was Trump, Trump-like phrases, you're just like Trump. You
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  Speaker 1: worship Trump. You think Trump is the greatest president who
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  Speaker 1: ever lived in our lifetime. It's like, enough, lady.
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  Speaker 5: Enough.
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  Speaker 1: We get it. He already said, Trump is my friend.
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  Speaker 1: We don't need anything more. We know he supports Trump
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  Speaker 1: and Trump supports him. Well, he didn't hide from it.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't hide from it the entire time, which is
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  Speaker 2: really good. That's a smart strategy. Because if you try
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  Speaker 2: to hide from it, you're on the defensive. I thought
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  Speaker 2: what was really interesting, because I thought he might stay
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  Speaker 2: away from this because of ICE, but it was just
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  Speaker 2: the opposite. He went really after her about all the
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  Speaker 2: money she spent on illegals and all of the crimes
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  Speaker 2: that illegals have committed in this state. As a matter
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  Speaker 2: of fact, I just told you that the RNC is
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  Speaker 2: sharing this stuff. The one that is getting the most attention,
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  Speaker 2: it might be a little surprising to you, is this.
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  Speaker 4: Governor Hochul, under your sanctuary policies, a 14-year-old girl was
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  Speaker 4: raped recently here in New York State.
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  Speaker 1: By an illegal migrant.
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  Speaker 4: Four Irondequoit residents were killed recently by an illegal migrant.
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  Speaker 4: Two of those victims were children under the age of five.
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  Speaker 4: Two Nassau County women in their 30s were killed by
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  Speaker 4: an illegal migrant because of your sanctuary policies.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to cut it off there because he goes on,
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  Speaker 2: it's amazing how long they let him go on in that.
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  Speaker 2: But then he said to her afterwards, Do you apologize
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  Speaker 2: to those families for making this a sanctuary state? And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we talked about how low energy she was.
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  Speaker 2: Her answer was abysmal.
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  Speaker 3: You know, any crime is heartbreaking. There's a family left
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  Speaker 3: with a huge hole in their heart. And I abhor
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  Speaker 3: all crimes, regardless of the perpetrator.
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  Speaker 2: But that's not what he was saying. He was saying,
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  Speaker 2: your policies are responsible for these crimes, and you treat
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  Speaker 2: people that are here illegally, giving them billions and billions
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  Speaker 2: of dollars, better than you treat the people of New York.
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  Speaker 2: And she never answered that question.
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  Speaker 1: Well, remember, that was the first question out of the
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  Speaker 1: docket from the moderators, who I thought did a very
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  Speaker 1: good job. Errol Lewis and the young lady who was
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  Speaker 1: from the Albany Bureau. They didn't interfere many times. They
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  Speaker 1: let them talk to one another, go at one another,
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  Speaker 1: even in the lightning round, let them go on and on,
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  Speaker 1: then yes or no. You know, sometimes the moderators try
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  Speaker 1: to steal the show. So I thought they did a
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  Speaker 1: very good job. They were reserved. But Kathy Hochul was
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  Speaker 1: low-energy Kathy. There's no doubt about it. You remember Jeb Bush,
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  Speaker 1: low-energy Jeb Bush. She was low-energy Kathy Hochul. She could
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  Speaker 1: have used a few of your cups of coffee. There's
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  Speaker 1: no doubt about it. Or something. Shoot her up with
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  Speaker 1: something next time. But their first question out of the
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  Speaker 1: box was, the situation involving the illegal Dominican in Marble Hill, ICE,
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  Speaker 1: and that opened up immediately right out of the box,
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  Speaker 1: because that's when most people, if they're watching it, are
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  Speaker 1: going to pay attention. That should be a slam dunk
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  Speaker 1: for Hochul.
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  Speaker 2: If she wanted to go after ICE and she wanted
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  Speaker 2: to get those constituents on her side, that should have
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  Speaker 2: been a slam dunk. Instead, she fumbled. She sounded weak.
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  Speaker 2: She didn't sound like a governor.
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  Speaker 1: That's for sure. That's not somebody you want in charge.
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  Speaker 1: But I think, again, her situation is she was riding
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  Speaker 1: that pony up in Saratoga, the Trump pony. That was it.
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  Speaker 1: Just Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. Because
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  Speaker 1: she knows his negatives are high. So, for instance— Like
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  Speaker 1: Blakeman wisely didn't say Zoran as many times as Hochul
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  Speaker 1: said Trump. Remember, Hochul 44 times she said Trump in
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  Speaker 1: the debate. Blakeman 6 because... he happens to be the
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  Speaker 1: most popular Democrat in the New York State now, Joran Mondami.
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  Speaker 1: More popular than Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: When you look at the polls outside of New York City,
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  Speaker 2: New York City skews those polls so much, because after
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  Speaker 2: you said that, I started looking into it. When you
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  Speaker 2: look at it outside of New York City, some of
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  Speaker 2: the polls, he's under 40 percent. Some of the polls,
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  Speaker 2: he's a low 40 percent when you go out. So
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  Speaker 2: he knows that. He knows that Mondami is not as
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  Speaker 2: popular outside of New York City, and I think he's
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  Speaker 2: basically has to give up on new york.
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  Speaker 1: City ain't gonna happen if he can win erie county
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  Speaker 1: which will be tough because that's the second biggest block
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  Speaker 1: because remember that's where kathy hulk was.
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  Speaker 5: From i'm the buffalo girl oh i i lived in
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  Speaker 5: a trailer park and i worked in a pizzeria enough
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  Speaker 5: of that already if he can win erie county then
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  Speaker 5: he's got a chance at an upset that'll be a
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  Speaker 5: tough one because that's her backyard but he's got to
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  Speaker 5: get at least 30 32 percent of the vote in
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  Speaker 5: new york city.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, if life was fair, he would
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  Speaker 2: absolutely win it.
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  Speaker 1: And up next, you know, this is the month of
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  Speaker 1: the black cats. Nobody wants black cats because of superstition.
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  Speaker 1: They're the ones that are left in the shelters the most.
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  Speaker 1: But a missing cat was found to have to have
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  Speaker 1: 571 days. Boy, Nancy is going to go see it all.
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  Speaker 1: The conversation continues. Curtis Lewa and Larry Menti. 710 WOR.
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  Speaker 2: So, Curtis, I think any fair observer of the gubernatorial
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  Speaker 2: debate last night would have to agree that Bruce Blakeman
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  Speaker 2: won the debate. If you just go by command of
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  Speaker 2: the issues, command of the stage, he wins. Because Kathy
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  Speaker 2: Hochul didn't seem like she came with her A-game. I've
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  Speaker 2: seen her better than this. But she's stumbled right out
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  Speaker 2: of the block.
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  Speaker 3: New York State now. has the lowest crime rates it's
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  Speaker 3: had in modern history. Now, we're not done yet. And
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  Speaker 3: you're going to hear a lot of, well, a lot
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  Speaker 3: of different opinions here this evening. And I want you
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  Speaker 3: to judge it this way.
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  Speaker 1: That was right out of the block. She needed some
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  Speaker 1: help from you. The 15 caffeinated cups of coffee that
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  Speaker 1: you have a day. She was on low energy. Remember
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  Speaker 1: Jeb Bush, low energy. She was low energy.
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  Speaker 2: For the entire debate. I mean, I'm just playing the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: It's only an hour.
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  Speaker 2: For the entire debate. And all she did was talk.
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  Speaker 2: You'd think she was debating Donald Trump. She must have
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  Speaker 2: been told by her strategist, go after Trump, go after Trump,
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  Speaker 2: go after Trump, no matter what comes up.
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  Speaker 4: When you talk about Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 4: that's all you can talk about because you have a
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  Speaker 4: record of failure and misery for the people who live
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  Speaker 4: in this state.
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  Speaker 3: I did not wrap myself in the shroud of Donald
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  Speaker 3: Trump the way you did.
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  Speaker 2: No, you wrap it in Zoran Mondani.
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  Speaker 3: Who Donald Trump actually thinks is a great mayor.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Larry, as I and Nancy watched, we had a clicker.
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  Speaker 1: 44 times in one hour, Kathy Hochul, the governor, tied
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman to Donald Trump. Only six times in an
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  Speaker 1: hour did Bruce Blakeman tie Kathy Hochul to Zoran Mandami.
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  Speaker 1: It was so, it's like every second word out of
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  Speaker 1: her mouth, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. It's like she was
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  Speaker 1: running against Donald Trump and not Bruce Blakeman. She was obviously,
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  Speaker 1: and she thinks this is the path to victory. And
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  Speaker 1: I understand it, by the way. If you're a strategist,
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  Speaker 1: you would think this is the path to victory, too.
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  Speaker 1: She's obviously just trying to shore up her base and
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  Speaker 1: that she knows her base hates Donald Trump. And so
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  Speaker 1: she's going to say Trump and Trump and Trump and
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  Speaker 1: Trump and Trump.
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  Speaker 2: And get him. to then defend Donald Trump, which he
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  Speaker 2: didn't take the bait. He really rarely took the bait.
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  Speaker 2: But as you mentioned, he did go after Mamdani. If
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  Speaker 2: you want to campaign with him, that's fine.
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  Speaker 4: But I will tell you right now, I think Zoran
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  Speaker 4: Mamdani is an anti-Semite. I believe he's anti-Christian. And I
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  Speaker 4: don't think he has American values.
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  Speaker 3: You don't even have the spine to stand up to
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump. You're taking money from your own county.
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  Speaker 1: He's talking Zoran Mamdani. She's talking Donald Trump. I will
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  Speaker 1: tell you, though, they had go-to terms. For her, she
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  Speaker 1: consistently says, I'm laser-focused. You know, that comes from a consultant.
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  Speaker 1: He had the best go-to term. You played it in
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  Speaker 1: one of those cuts. You have a record of misery
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  Speaker 1: and failure. That's a great one. That's a good one.
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  Speaker 1: And he dropped that appropriately. Not too much, but in
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  Speaker 1: the appropriate times. And if you were listening and you
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  Speaker 1: hadn't yet decided... you would say, yeah, it's been miserable.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a failure. I'm paying more money than ever before,
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  Speaker 1: especially electricity rates, which he hammered her for. 30% of
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  Speaker 1: what you pay is for the electricity. 70%, the rest
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  Speaker 1: of it is for taxes and fees.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll tell you, if it was another year, if
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  Speaker 2: it was a different climate, political climate in the country,
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  Speaker 2: Bruce Blakeman could win this. I think he's got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of headwinds against him, only because it seems like
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  Speaker 2: at least if you pay attention to the polls. And
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  Speaker 2: trust me, and I read your emails and we get
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  Speaker 2: your talkbacks, I know the polls can be way off.
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  Speaker 2: And they almost always favor Democrats. And I think that's
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  Speaker 2: going to affect certain states. I'm not sure it's going
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  Speaker 2: to affect New York. So right now, if you were
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  Speaker 2: handicapping this race, and I know you get upset when
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  Speaker 2: I say this, but if you're handicapping this race, to
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  Speaker 2: be fair, it's Kathy Hochul's to lose. And I'm not
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  Speaker 2: sure she lost it last night. But I'm sure a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the people that are supporting her are looking
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  Speaker 2: at that and have some concerns.
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  Speaker 1: Well, she has the woman's vote, overwhelmingly. And she had
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  Speaker 1: it the last time against Zeldin. The difference here is
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  Speaker 1: Zeldin was strongly pro-life, which turns off a lot of women.
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  Speaker 1: And Blakeman very adeptly got it in twice by saying,
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  Speaker 1: this is how I differ from Donald Trump. I am pro-choice, pro-choice.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of women watching, I just assumed every
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  Speaker 1: Republican is pro-life. So he got that in a few
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  Speaker 1: times is effective because a lot of women will not
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  Speaker 1: even consider you if you're pro-life.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it seemed like the top issues are the same
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  Speaker 2: top issues they are in every election. Crime in the
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  Speaker 2: economy and the cost of living. And so although Kathy
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  Speaker 2: Hochul kept going after Trump for causing record high inflation, well,
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  Speaker 2: not record high, Biden had higher, but high inflation problems.
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  Speaker 2: Blakeman kept going after her for higher taxes and the
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  Speaker 2: energy costs, which she says she raised 48 times. And
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  Speaker 2: the fact that she never challenged him on that means
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  Speaker 2: it's true. Now, she's also going to send a $ 150 check.
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  Speaker 2: Have you gotten yours yet, by the way?
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  Speaker 1: That's a bribe. It is a bribe. It's absolutely a bribe.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: They call it rebate. It's a bribe.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: No, and she said that as well. She never said that,
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: but she was ignoring all of that. I will tell
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: you something. Whoever prepped her for this debate did a
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: horrible job because there was many things Blakeman went after
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: her about that she didn't seem like she had an
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: answer for. And so that's definitely prep. Now, I don't
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: know if it was her fault that she didn't feel
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: like she needed to be prepped, or it was the
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: person that was prepping her. But you've been through debates.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: You've gone through a lot of preps.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: I've gone through seven debates now running for mayor, three
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: in a primary, and four in the general election. I
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: will tell you, though, that I felt the two moderators,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Errol Lewis, who's based here in New York City, and
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: his colleague from Spectrum, the Albany correspondent, did not intervene.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: They let them go. And that's what you want. You
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: want them to go back and forth. Because, you know,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: sometimes you've seen it. Moderators, they steal the show. It's
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: all about them. You know, and then they talk over you.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: They interfere with you. Both sides were able to make
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: their points. You're right.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: And your first debate, by the way, was awful. That
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: was awful. They felt like they were the stars. You
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: heard more... From the people that were asking the questions
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: than you did from the people.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: That were on the stage. That was NBC. I had
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: to wave flags as if I was on the deck
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: of an aircraft carrier. And I was right in the middle,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: you know, from the choice. Hey, you know, I'm running
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: for mayor. This is after 10 minutes. But I will
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: tell you this. You didn't get a question.
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: No.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: And then I just bogarted my way in. I just
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: kept talking, talking, even just interfering. I had no choice.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: But I will tell you this. Three things that are
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: important in the debate. Height.
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: Hair.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Makeup.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: Every debate.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: So Kathy Hochul is about a little taller than our
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: own Natalie Migliore. Did I get that right? Migliore. Yes.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Very good. So Bruce Blakeman's a pretty tall guy. I've
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: been in his company. He's about 6'2, 6'3. So if
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: they stood next to one another debating at the podium,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: there would be a clear difference. They obviously had a
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: place for her to stand on. It almost put her
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: at equal eye level, except when the New York won,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: the spectrum camera was on it. You never saw her feet.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: You saw Bruce Blakeman's feet. That's the way it was positioned.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Then at the very end, after the salutations and greetings
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: to the audience by the moderators, they panned over.
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: To her.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: She walked over to Bruce, shook his hand. It's like
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: she was staring up at the Jolly Green Giant. Now, psychologically,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: they say that impacts on people. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: And by the way, she's not the first one to
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: do this. This happens regularly in debates. And a lot
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: of it is not just for the candidate. It's for
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: the camera shot. You know, they need to get people.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: They do it all the time on anchor sets. There's
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: people that sit on pillows so they can be as
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: high as the other person.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: But it happens all the time.
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: He had that nice silver gray hair, well done. And
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: he had a little bit of what looked like a tan,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: but it wasn't a tan. So the makeup was a
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: good job. In regards to Kathy Hochul, yes, hair, makeup
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: was okay. But there have been other candidates who are bald,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: who never have a chance as a guy against somebody
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: with a full mane of hair.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Bruce Blakeman's a good-looking guy. And Bruce Blakeman presents himself well.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: He looks like a politician. He looks like a governor.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: And that's important. That's really important that people see that.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Kathy Hochul, I don't think she looks like a governor.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Well, remember she told us at the start. I came
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: out of a trailer park and I worked in a pizzeria.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: I said, you are so loaded with cash. You and
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: your deadbeat husband, a former U.S. attorney in Buffalo, from
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: that Buffalo's bills deal they engineered and other measures. She's
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: the grifter of New York State. But, oh, my God,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: I wanted to take the violin out. I didn't know
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: it's a rags to riches story. Oh my God.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, here's the important thing. Let's just
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: sum this up by saying, I think that Bruce Blakeman
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: easily won that debate. Unfortunately, I don't think a lot
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: of people watch the debate. However, they do look at
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: social media and they do look at YouTube. And when
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: they hear about certain things, especially they go and search
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: it out. And Bruce Blakeman at this point is winning
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: the internet. He's winning the social media battle. And I
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: would say, Curses on the Hochul campaign because they have
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: done a horrible job of getting her out there and
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: her shining moments, if there was one or two, on
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: the Internet. And they have done a horrible job of
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: promoting that. If you go online right now and you
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: put Hochul's name in. and you go to X or
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: you go to Facebook or go to anything, you're not
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: going to see a lot of stuff, especially from the
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Democratic National Committee or from the Hochul campaign.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Blakeman, on the other hand, it's filled. It's all over
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: the place. The key to this is he's winning with independents,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: which normally at this point, three weeks out, that's not
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: the case. So he's doing very well. He'll have the
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: base out. Democrats, maybe some men, he's really hurting when
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: it comes to the women. and hopefully last night's performance,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: if looked at by a woman, they would take a
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: much more liking to him than they did to Lee Seldon,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: who was, first of all, he was angry in his
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: one debate. There should be more debates. Yeah, I think
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: you're right.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: I want to just tell the importance of the point
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: I just made, though, because very few people saw that
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: debate last night.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Very few people. A lot of people are going to
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: see it online today. That's why there should be minimum
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: of two debates. As you look around the country, Maine
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: has had five in nine days, most others two, some four,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: and we are only relegated to one debate. That is
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: who disgrats the other.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Maybe if it tightens up, they'll agree to another debate
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: and do one in a rush, because right now I
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: think Hochul thinks she has it wrapped up, and that's
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: why there's only one.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's running against Trump. She probably forgot Bruce Blakeman's name.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: 44 times she mentioned Trump in one hour. Now, the
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: conversation continues.
• 23:35
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• 23:38
  Speaker 1: 710WOR. WOR. Glory, hallelujah, hallelujah. When I heard the words
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: late in the morning yesterday after the show, Larry, I
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: immediately left my bag here. in the studios of the
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: number one most listened to talk radio station in New York,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: 710 WOR. I don't often do that because I just
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: wanted to go into Central Park and talk to every
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: one of the horses who are still attached to a carriage,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: you know, because they sit there very sullen, their heads
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: are down, they're very depressed. And even though the horse
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: carriage drivers, they scream at me now, most are Turks now.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: They used to be all Irish. They're mostly Turks now.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: And you may have remembered that one video.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: You'll never be mayor.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: People hate you. Get out of here. Get away from
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: my horse. And remember, I was drinking from the trough.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: I said, the horses can't even get fresh water. They
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: have to drink swill. They got so much attention. And
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: I just petted the horses, you know, and I said,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: hold on for another two years. Because in 2028, there
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: will no longer be horse-drawn carriages in Central Park or
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: anywhere in the city of New York. So you just
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: got to hold on because this deal that's been made
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: with Zoran Mandami, who was a latecomer to this, remember
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: in the last election cycle, at the very end, public
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: popular opinion was actually siding with me, as opposed to
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: 2021 when I ran against Eric Adams. Everybody laughed at me,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: you animal lover. The editorials and the Times, the News,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: the Post were... Really demeaning. And then all of a sudden, 2025,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: at the very end in the last month, Cuomo came
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: on board. Adams came on board. And yes, Zoran Mandami
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: came on board. I didn't think he would do anything.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: But he joined with Julie Mennon, who was the only
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: person who could do something because this had to be
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: voted on by the city council. Years ago, Bill de
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Blasio claimed that he was going to ban the horse
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: carriage industry when he was running for mayor. All the
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: animal welfare people, you know how they love animals. They'll
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: give more money for animal welfare than for people welfare.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: They flooded his campaign with cash, which propelled him to victory.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Then he got inaugurated. They said, well, where's your executive pen?
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Through executive order, you're going to discontinue this barbaric behavior.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: He said, oh, it's the city council that has to
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: do it and never did anything more. So finally, they
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: got the votes. They must have worked on these different
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: city council people. I know who they are, who resisted.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to mention their names because the victory
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: is here. And she probably threatened them with holding discretionary funds,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: which is the mother's milk of a politician. So they
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: can go back to their district and say, hey, you know,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: I'm bringing you all of this courtesy of me. When
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: in fact, it's us, the taxpayers. So it is a
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: momentous occasion because I don't want to take any credit
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: for this. This actually, as I mentioned, and nobody else
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: out there ever mentions it, started in the studios at WOR.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: with the man who was credited with founding talk radio,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: this thing of ours that we love so much, Barry Gray. Remember,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: he's the first person ever to take a phone call.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: And after that, the suits at WR say, that's a
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: pretty damn good thing. Maybe you ought to do it
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: on a regular basis. In the 60s and 70s, he
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: did mid mornings at WMCA, WOR constantly. We need to
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: ban the horse carriage industry, ban it. Nothing was done.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Bill de Blasio faked everybody out. 2021, they made fun
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: of me. And now we're going to see the end
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: of it. Imagine, this was the first city that began
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: the effort to stop this barbaric practice and will probably
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: be the last city to end it. And that includes
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: in the world.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: But let's give some credit to people in general. I
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: don't think if you didn't get the masses behind this,
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: and I think it's changed, the polling has already showed
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: that it's dramatically changed. You pointed that out a second
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: ago that You know, nobody was doing anything when you
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: were talking about it at first. As a matter of fact,
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: they probably thought you were crazy. There were editorials putting
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: you down for even saying that. What has happened is
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: that because of you and because of Barry Gray, people
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: started paying attention to the issue. And it was the
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: people that changed. When horse after horse was dying, when
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: horse after horse was running rampant through the streets and
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: terrorizing people that were walking on the streets, they're was
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: slowly a feeling that maybe this isn't the best thing
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: to have in an overpopulated city, in a city where
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: there's people every single day that are in these horses' way,
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: that they're unpredictable and anything can happen. It was case
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: after case after case that was building. And I'll be
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: honest with you, I was one of those people. I thought, wow,
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: you don't want to get rid of the carriages in
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Central Park.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: They're iconic. It's part of the landscape. You were in
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: the majority at that time. Yeah, of course.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: But I think I was in that majority that changed
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: in story after story after story after story. And I
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: didn't change until recently. And I think a lot of
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: people changed recently when that young boy was killed, the
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: tourist that was killed in Central Park just this year.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: So listen– um i applaud you because you saw this
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: a long time ago and i applaud everybody who saw
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: it a long time ago but i i do know
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: and it's not going to be voted on now it's
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: probably going to take about a month to but.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: No no actually it's october 22nd next uh next week
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: oh really the vote yeah i've been invited to come
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: oh good we'll see if they let me in the
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: last time they took my microphone away remember That was
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: still one of my favorite videos. The the hand coming
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: out of.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Nowhere yeah october 22nd because i i had heard somebody
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: oh it's not going to take effect for a long.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Time no not until 2028 now what they're going to
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: do is because obviously they're men and women who that's
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: how they earn their living they're going to seek other
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: terms of employment for them until 2028 i had the
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: better plan they didn't want to go with it There
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: is a benefactor down in Florida who collected all these
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Chitty Bang Bang cars. He said, I'll electrify them. Remember
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: from the movie Dick Van Dyke, Chitty Bang Bang? There
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: are people who would love to be in a Chitty
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Bang Bang car and go around Central Park electric, safe.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: We got to do something with the pedicabs up next
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: because they're out of control. Do you want to hear
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: from one of your favorite people? Yes. Christina Hansen?
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: I would hope that the city council members have, you know,
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: that they remember why they came to government and that
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: that was to help people, not hurt people. This bill
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: will be devastating for carriage drivers and carriage owners. People
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: will be evicted. People will lose their houses. They have
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: mortgages and bills they need to pay. They have children.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: She's with the TWU. That's not show because they're giving
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: them two years. They're going to segue them into other work.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: They're going to compensate the owners. Everybody will be made
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: whole at taxpayers expense. But it's time. It's time that
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: it's over. And I'm going back into Central Park today,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: talk to the horses. You know, I talk to the horses,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: and they listen to me. I'm saying, hold on, pal.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Hold on to 2028. Oh, man.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: When we come back, well, the Pope, see, he went
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: in for something on his lung, and he ended up
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: in there a lot longer than they thought he was
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: going to be in there because they found something. Well,
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: they found the beginnings of something really bad, but we
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: should have an expert talk about that, the great Dr.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Gil Lederman. Right, who saved my voice. Sunday night, or
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: I would never have been able to appear with you
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: and Natalie. I had no voice. The only one who's
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: upset about that is my wife, Nancy, who appreciated two
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: days of me not being able to talk Saturday and
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Sunday in the house.
• 31:51
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• 31:54
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• 33:07
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