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Natalie Migliore, WOR Reporter · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now, it's 710WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
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  Speaker 1: Back from the streets, Natalie Migliore. What do you have
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  Speaker 1: for our audience today?
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  Speaker 2: Well, people are showing up and showing out during this
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  Speaker 2: early voting period. Roughly half a million people have early
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  Speaker 2: voted across New York State already, if not more. About 225,000.
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  Speaker 2: are New York City residents that have cast their ballots
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  Speaker 2: in the first three days of early voting. Day four,
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  Speaker 2: underway today, so are people hitting the ballot box.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it's very important. I vote in every election I can.
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  Speaker 4: I have a mail-in ballot. I'm going Democrat all the way.
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  Speaker 4: I don't trust the mails anymore. So I'll be handing
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  Speaker 4: mine in in person.
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  Speaker 5: No, I'm not going to vote. Why not? Because I
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  Speaker 5: feel like it doesn't count. Honestly, I think the last
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  Speaker 5: time I paid attention to that was, I think, the
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  Speaker 5: first time Trump got elected. And that was the last time.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like it doesn't matter. Like, look at Trump.
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  Speaker 5: He's a fraud. And he's a president? Like, that doesn't
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  Speaker 5: make sense to me. So anybody could be a president.
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  Speaker 3: I just don't care anymore.
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  Speaker 4: I can't say this on.
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  Speaker 5: You can say.
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  Speaker 4: Whatever you want. They're full of s * * *.
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  Speaker 5: There you have it.
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  Speaker 3: She told you she couldn't say it.
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  Speaker 2: And I let her say it. Because I know that
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  Speaker 2: I have the power to bleep.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Natalie, a quick PSA. I am up on my
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  Speaker 1: social networking. Why, if you're doing mail-in ballots, you should
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  Speaker 1: not put it in the blue mailbox? Either bring it
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  Speaker 1: to the post office or give it to your mail
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  Speaker 1: carrier because they steal mail. And if they get your
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  Speaker 1: mail ballot, it's of no use to them. They just
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  Speaker 1: throw it away.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And that woman knew. So she's going to walk it
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  Speaker 2: into her voting place. Now, this this whole they're full
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  Speaker 2: of it seems to be the sentiment that people feel
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  Speaker 2: who aren't voting carry around. They just aren't buying what's
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  Speaker 2: being sold now more than ever. 12.3 million people are
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  Speaker 2: registered to vote in the state of New York, and
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  Speaker 2: just over 3 million of those voters are independents. So
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  Speaker 2: that could determine who ends up governor between incumbent Democrat
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  Speaker 2: Kathy Hochul and Republican challenger Bruce Blakeman. A race that
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  Speaker 2: I have people, you know, I'm wondering, are people even
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  Speaker 2: paying attention to that race?
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  Speaker 3: How could you not?
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people this morning telling me they are not.
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  Speaker 2: So what are you seeing out of this race between
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  Speaker 2: the two?
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's the usual stereotypes of the divisions that people
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  Speaker 6: set up. But beyond those divisions, you have to look
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  Speaker 6: and say, what is likely to come about when this
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  Speaker 6: person takes office? And you make a judgment about that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I like Kathy Hochul. I think she's a great governor.
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  Speaker 3: Blakeman says he's a clone of Donald Trump's, and Donald
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  Speaker 3: Trump is exactly who I'm hoping by November we'll have
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  Speaker 3: at least semi-castrated him. Oh, my God! Semi-castrated?
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  Speaker 5: It's an image.
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  Speaker 3: It's an image. That's worse than castration.
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  Speaker 6: Semi-castration's worse.
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  Speaker 3: Does that mean he's a eunuch? Oh, what is semi?
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  Speaker 3: I never heard of that term.
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  Speaker 1: Is that consummate?
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  Speaker 3: I literally just let people talk. That was great.
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  Speaker 5: That was brilliant.
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  Speaker 3: You don't just let them talk. You play them on
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  Speaker 3: the air, Natalie.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I know. I give them a voice.
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  Speaker 6: Well, these people know that that's going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine what they say in private?
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  Speaker 1: That is true.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the image that I walked away with and
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  Speaker 2: told her to have a beautiful day. But to be honest,
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  Speaker 2: these people seem to be voting along party lines when
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  Speaker 2: you talk to them, right? It's not about... what the
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  Speaker 2: policies are behind each candidate. When you ask them, they
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  Speaker 2: actually tell me that they're very unhappy what's happening at
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  Speaker 2: the federal level. And so that tends to trickle down
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  Speaker 2: into how they're voting on the local level, something we've
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  Speaker 2: discussed before. So talk to some people who don't even
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  Speaker 2: plan on voting and they are just so disenchanted by
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  Speaker 2: the system that they have what they say, way more
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  Speaker 2: stuff that they're worrying about.
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  Speaker 4: Healthcare, transportation, groceries skyrocket. I mean, it's just not fair.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm retired, and I get my monthly checks, right?
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  Speaker 4: And it doesn't even add up. I mean, it doesn't
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  Speaker 4: even make it for me. And I've got to struggle.
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  Speaker 4: I've still got to struggle. I've worked 24 years.
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  Speaker 3: Healthcare is my priority.
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  Speaker 5: You see the surge in food costs, and only people
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  Speaker 5: that receive Medicaid are allowed to get those special boxes
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  Speaker 5: delivered to them. What happened to middle class? I have
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  Speaker 5: to pay for everything, for the doctor, for my food,
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  Speaker 5: for my transportation, taxes. You know what I mean? When
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  Speaker 5: do we get to breathe?
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  Speaker 2: Now, Larry made a face in the very beginning.
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  Speaker 5: In fact, not just a face.
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  Speaker 2: If I could explain, he almost looked like he was
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  Speaker 2: on a roller coaster.
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  Speaker 5: He rolled all the way back on the road. What
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  Speaker 5: was that?
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  Speaker 6: Because the way you led into that, and excuse me
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  Speaker 6: if I'm wrong, you said that people have.
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  Speaker 3: found reasons not to vote.
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  Speaker 2: Right. That they are that they're so frustrated and they
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  Speaker 2: have other stuff that they're worrying about.
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  Speaker 6: But then they list health care, transportation and prices as
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  Speaker 6: the reason they're not voting.
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  Speaker 3: There's something really wrong.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that those are the those aren't based
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  Speaker 2: on conversation, the reasons why they're not voting. They are
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  Speaker 2: just so disenchanted. And they feel when they talk to me,
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  Speaker 2: they tell me, They feel they don't have a voice.
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  Speaker 2: Their voice doesn't matter. It doesn't matter how they cast
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  Speaker 2: their ballot.
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  Speaker 3: That's their only voice. That's it. That's their voice.
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  Speaker 1: And haven't they seen all the close elections, all the
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  Speaker 1: polling now that's neck and neck? I've never seen such
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  Speaker 1: neck and neck polling in my lifetime of observing politics.
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  Speaker 5: Man.
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  Speaker 2: I am a reporter, not an activist. So I just
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  Speaker 2: let people say.
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  Speaker 6: What they want to say.
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  Speaker 5: Now I'm going to go out on the street with
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  Speaker 5: both of.
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  Speaker 2: You and you can tell them why it's important to vote.
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  Speaker 3: You idiot. Yes, they'll really take to that.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly what somebody who's sharing their opinion wants to
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  Speaker 2: be told on the street.
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  Speaker 5: You're an idiot.
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  Speaker 3: No, I'd never say that because I'd get the hell
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  Speaker 3: beat out of me. I'm not a good fighter.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the one bright light for Bruce Blakeman is he's
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  Speaker 1: winning the independent vote, which normally at this point in
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  Speaker 1: the election, a Republican is not winning in this state.
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  Speaker 1: So that's a very good sign what that one participant
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  Speaker 1: had mentioned. Anyway, Natalie Migliore, we've got to segue you
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  Speaker 1: out of here. You'll be back same time, same place
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow at 7.50.