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Bruce Blakeman | Nassau County Executive Speaks on Heartbreaking Loss to Democrat Incumbent Kathy Hochul in Gubernatorial Race · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Let me ask Bruce what he thought about what happened
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday night. Current Nassau County Executive, Bruce Blakeman.
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  Speaker 2: Bruce, good morning, pal. How are you?
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  Speaker 3: Good, Sid. How are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing great.
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  Speaker 1: Any regrets looking back at Tuesday night's results?
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  Speaker 3: No, not at all.
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  Speaker 2: Not at all.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, I worked incredibly hard. People said they'd never seen
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  Speaker 3: anybody work so hard in their life. I had two
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  Speaker 3: days off in 11 months. Two days off. I played
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  Speaker 3: nine holes of golf in 11 months. Not nine rounds,
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  Speaker 3: nine holes. I dedicated my whole life to it. I
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  Speaker 3: put my heart and soul in it. We raised the money.
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  Speaker 3: We traveled around the state. We went to every nook
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  Speaker 3: and cranny. But I have no regrets. Would have liked
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  Speaker 3: to have a different result. But do you know how
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  Speaker 3: many great people I met? I mean, I met farmers.
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  Speaker 3: I met small business owners. I've met people who were struggling.
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  Speaker 3: I met people who were very, very productive people, people
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  Speaker 3: who invented things, people who created jobs. It was a
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  Speaker 3: blessing to be able to be the Republican and conservative
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  Speaker 3: party candidates for governor. And I have absolutely no regrets whatsoever.
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  Speaker 3: We were hit by a tsunami. If it was only
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  Speaker 3: New York that we got clobbered, then you probably could
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  Speaker 3: look to blame me. But we lost the governorship of Texas.
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  Speaker 3: Byron Donald in Florida just squeaked by. We lost the
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  Speaker 3: Senate race in Texas. You go down the map, and
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  Speaker 3: it was a bloodbath of the proportions of post-Watergate.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you think that was the case, Bruce?
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  Speaker 3: I think it was a lot of different reasons. we
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  Speaker 3: didn't articulate on a national level an agenda for addressing
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  Speaker 3: issues such as gasoline prices, grocery prices. I think people
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  Speaker 3: didn't get a full accounting of what the tariffs meant
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  Speaker 3: and what they were for and the impact that they
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  Speaker 3: had on a long-term basis. I think that the explanation
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  Speaker 3: of the war against Iran was not what I would
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  Speaker 3: say a very good campaign to make sure that people
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  Speaker 3: understood the life and death circumstances of Iran obtaining nuclear
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  Speaker 3: weapons capability and what threat that would mean To the
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  Speaker 3: United States, especially in cities like New York City, which
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  Speaker 3: is probably the number one terrorist target in in the
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  Speaker 3: whole United States of America. So I think there are
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  Speaker 3: a lot of things we could have done better. But,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I really have no stomach for people who
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  Speaker 3: who get involved in the blame game. You know, people
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  Speaker 3: who sat on the sidelines and now they're Monday morning
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  Speaker 3: quarterbacks should have done this, should have done that. Trump
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  Speaker 3: should have done this. Trump should have done that. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's over. Let's learn the lessons. Let's pick ourselves up,
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  Speaker 3: dust off the uniform and get back in the game.
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  Speaker 2: Fine again. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let me get to President Trump because you guys
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  Speaker 1: are very, very close, closer than I am with Trump.
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  Speaker 1: And I love Trump. And I tweeted right away on
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday night. Don't blame this all on Trump. That's lazy
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  Speaker 1: and easy. But everybody I speak to, they find a
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  Speaker 1: way to blame Trump. Now you, you had a great rally.
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  Speaker 2: Which I loved. I was at it. The Law and
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  Speaker 2: Order Rally, Nassau Coliseum. President Trump came.
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  Speaker 1: Then not long after that, you went to Syracuse. Mike
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  Speaker 1: Tyson was there. President Trump came. I asked Mike Lawler
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  Speaker 1: the same thing yesterday. In retrospect, do you think it
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  Speaker 1: was a good or bad idea to do rallies with
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  Speaker 1: President Trump?
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  Speaker 2: Did we lose him?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I'm on. I thought you were going to
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  Speaker 3: play what he said. I didn't hear what he said.
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  Speaker 1: No, no.
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  Speaker 2: Lawler said, no, he's the president of the United States.
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  Speaker 1: And if I was going to do it over again,
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  Speaker 1: I would bring him right back to Rockland County.
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  Speaker 2: And I would guess you're going to say the same
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  Speaker 2: thing about Long Island, yes?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely. He's the president of the United States. And
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  Speaker 3: he was a friend. He is a friend, an ally
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  Speaker 3: of mine. Like I said, the blame game is really
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  Speaker 3: something that's not productive at all. What we should do
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  Speaker 3: is look at what we did right, what we did wrong,
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  Speaker 3: make adjustments and move on. By the way, let me
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  Speaker 3: say something about Mike Lawler. He was a terrific candidate.
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  Speaker 3: He fought hard. He got caught in the tsunami. This
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  Speaker 3: is a guy that deserved reelection if anybody did. He
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  Speaker 3: was just a great candidate. He's a great public official.
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  Speaker 3: And this will not be the last we hear of
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  Speaker 3: Mike Waller.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there are rumors today now that you brought it up, Bruce.
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  Speaker 1: And I hate to put you on the spot, but
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  Speaker 1: I've already made my opinion clear.
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  Speaker 2: I like Ed Cox. He's a nice guy. Really nice guy.
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  Speaker 2: I like him a lot.
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  Speaker 1: But we're getting our ass kicked every year, Republicans. And
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  Speaker 1: if he was a football coach, he would have been
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  Speaker 1: fired a long time ago. Rumors are that he may be,
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  Speaker 1: people want him out. People want him out. And they
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  Speaker 1: want Mike Waller to take over that position. What are
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts on that?
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  Speaker 3: Well, first of all, Mike Lawler, again, is a great leader.
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  Speaker 3: He understands politics very well. I think he would do
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  Speaker 3: well in anything that he desired to do. That's up
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  Speaker 3: to the political leaders. I try to stay out of
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  Speaker 3: that stuff. There will be a lot of discussions going
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  Speaker 3: forward on what the future leadership of the state should
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  Speaker 3: look like. And I think that's a healthy argument to make.
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  Speaker 3: I think that, you know, we have to refresh ourselves
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  Speaker 3: in certain areas. So, listen, but as far as law
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  Speaker 3: is concerned, look, the guy is a star. He'll do
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  Speaker 3: well whatever he does.
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  Speaker 1: You talk about the Monday morning quarterback, and we all
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  Speaker 1: remember that Elise Stefanik was running for governor.
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  Speaker 2: For all you folks that think you're good friends with her, okay,
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  Speaker 2: let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know who Elise Stefanik reached out to at
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  Speaker 1: the very beginning and said, I want to make the
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  Speaker 1: announcement on your show?
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  Speaker 2: Do you know, Bruce?
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  Speaker 3: Me. I didn't know that.
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  Speaker 2: That was me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So she said, here's the deal.
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  Speaker 1: I got to do it on Fox News first with
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  Speaker 1: Brian Kilmeade. But I want to be on your radio
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  Speaker 1: show first.
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  Speaker 2: And she did it.
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  Speaker 1: She made her announcement on my show. We did a
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  Speaker 1: couple of events together, one in particular, one Jewish event.
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  Speaker 1: She was on this show a couple of times.
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  Speaker 2: And we were friendly. Look, she gave me her seat
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  Speaker 2: on the floor.
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  Speaker 1: This is a true story in Wisconsin during the RNC
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  Speaker 1: back in 2024.
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  Speaker 2: And I loved her. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And she did an amazing, amazing job that day on
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  Speaker 1: the Hill when she took out all the university presidents.
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  Speaker 2: She was spectacular.
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  Speaker 1: She had a second great day, which people forget when
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  Speaker 1: she hammered Andrew Cuomo.
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  Speaker 2: She did some great things. Great things. She decides to
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  Speaker 2: run for governor.
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  Speaker 1: You decide to run for governor, and instead of doing
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  Speaker 1: the right thing, which is, okay, let me beat Bruce
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  Speaker 1: in the.
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  Speaker 2: Primary, what does she do? She quits.
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  Speaker 1: She literally quits on New York. Now she hates Bruce Blakeman,
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  Speaker 1: won't even return your text. She hates me, refuses to
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  Speaker 1: return any of my texts for months and months, and
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  Speaker 1: now she's going to come out afterwards and say you
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  Speaker 1: were low energy?
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  Speaker 2: Talk about Monday morning quarterback. What the hell was that?
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  Speaker 3: Well, look, what did Elise Stefanik do for the Republican
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  Speaker 3: Party in New York State? I was out every single day.
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  Speaker 3: She didn't work for me. She didn't work for Sarifa.
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  Speaker 3: She didn't work for Joe Hernandez. She didn't work for
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  Speaker 3: Mike Lawler. She didn't work for Nicola Loda, Andrew Garbarino,
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  Speaker 3: Janine Driscoll, Mike Lepetri, Peter Oberacker, Kelly Buller. I can
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  Speaker 3: go through the list Of people that she could have helped.
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  Speaker 3: She didn't campaign for anybody. She didn't raise any money
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  Speaker 3: for anybody. She was just AOL, absent without leave. And
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  Speaker 3: it just showed that it was really all about her.
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  Speaker 3: And it wasn't about the state. It wasn't about the country.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't about the party.
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  Speaker 1: And yet, I'm getting messages all day yesterday and still
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  Speaker 1: this morning. I'll leave the names out, but I think
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  Speaker 1: you know who they are. Oh my God, Bruce. What
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  Speaker 1: is wrong with Bruce? Why would he attack her? Wait
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  Speaker 1: a second, wait a second. You don't attack her. You
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  Speaker 1: never mentioned her. You didn't say a word about her.
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  Speaker 1: She attacked you. Said you ran a bad campaign. Do
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  Speaker 1: the people expect you to say nothing? After that, I
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  Speaker 1: don't get it.
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  Speaker 2: What do they expect?
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  Speaker 3: Listen, Elise Stefanik... Can't get along with Mike Johnson. That's
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  Speaker 3: all you need to know. Mike Johnson is probably the
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  Speaker 3: nicest guy I've ever met in politics for being such
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  Speaker 3: a powerful person. He's probably one of the most unassuming,
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  Speaker 3: grounded people I've ever met. And she is just hostile
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  Speaker 3: towards him, which needs, you know, that tells you everything.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, you know, what what was she doing?
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  Speaker 3: that was so important that she couldn't run her primary. Well,
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  Speaker 3: now we know. She was on a book tour. So
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  Speaker 3: she was planning to run for governor and use that
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  Speaker 3: as a catalyst to sell books on her book tour
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  Speaker 3: because she was booked all over the country. And she
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  Speaker 3: was doing all these book tours on her book. And
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  Speaker 3: she had no intention of running hard to become governor.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I got in the race is because I
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  Speaker 3: didn't think her candidacy was serious. I didn't think she
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  Speaker 3: had a prayer of winning. Look at her record. She's
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  Speaker 3: run in districts that a Mickey Mouse could run as
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  Speaker 3: a Republican and win. I win in districts. I win
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  Speaker 3: in a county with almost 104,000 more Democrats than Republicans.
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  Speaker 3: And I've run a big organization. I have executive experience. experience. So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Elise Stefanik, she said what she said. If
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  Speaker 3: she wants to pick a fight with me, bring it on.
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  Speaker 3: I'm happy to engage her. I didn't say anything about
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  Speaker 3: her lack of support for me or anybody else. here
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  Speaker 3: in New York State. She did absolutely nothing. And, you know, look,
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  Speaker 3: I don't suffer bullies well. I don't like bullies. And
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  Speaker 3: that's her reputation in Congress. That's her reputation in her district. And, again,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't take the first swing. But if you swing
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  Speaker 3: at me, I'm swinging back.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I got no problem with that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look, and you showed me, and I showed you, mine,
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  Speaker 1: the text messages that you sent to her, no reply whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: I even tried to book her to promote her book,
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  Speaker 1: but she was so mad at me because I'm friends
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  Speaker 1: with you, and I didn't come on the air and say, hey, Bruce,
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  Speaker 1: don't run against... I mean, did she think, or do
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  Speaker 1: her friends think that because she had that great day
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  Speaker 1: in Congress and she did, that everybody should just clear
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  Speaker 1: the floor and get out of her way?
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  Speaker 2: How is that an American... How is that the American
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  Speaker 2: way to do that? What is that all about?
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  Speaker 3: Look, what Lee Stefanik should do is repair... all of
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  Speaker 3: the divisions that she's made within the Republican Party if
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  Speaker 3: she wants a future. Maybe she doesn't want a future
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  Speaker 3: in the Republican Party. I don't know. She went out
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  Speaker 3: and did nothing for anybody and to attack people that,
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  Speaker 3: quite frankly, work really, really, really hard. I'm not talking
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  Speaker 3: about me. I'm talking about county chairman. I'm talking about volunteers.
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  Speaker 3: I'm talking about people who care about this state. They
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  Speaker 3: were out there working their ass off And where was she?
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  Speaker 3: Where was she? Does she care about the state? Does
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  Speaker 3: she care about the country? I was working hard not
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  Speaker 3: just for me, but for the state of New York,
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  Speaker 3: for members of Congress, for Mike Johnson to remain as Speaker,
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  Speaker 3: for us to win Assembly seats and Senate seats. Those
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  Speaker 3: are the reasons why I was running. So the fact
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  Speaker 3: that she did nothing and lent nothing to this effort
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  Speaker 3: is just instructive of the type of person that she is.
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  Speaker 2: Do you expect.
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  Speaker 1: that somewhere down the road she'll reach out, or would
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  Speaker 1: you reach out? Is there any way that this relationship
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  Speaker 1: can be fixed, or does it even matter, really?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't care, but she doesn't talk to
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  Speaker 2: me either. I don't care. Do you care moving forward?
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  Speaker 3: Well, there's an old saying in politics, only amateurs stay mad.
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  Speaker 3: So the people that you fight with today could be
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  Speaker 3: the people that you are allied with the next day.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 3: Look, if Elise reached out to me, I would be
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  Speaker 3: very happy to sit down with her and iron things
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  Speaker 3: out because, look, we're in a minority here in New
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  Speaker 3: York State. It's better if we're unified than if we're divided.
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  Speaker 3: But the fact is that, you know, right now, She
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  Speaker 3: would have to make the move to do that because
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  Speaker 3: she started the battle. She started the fight. And I
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  Speaker 3: don't know why it didn't elevate her. It just it
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  Speaker 3: brought her down. And it just highlighted the fact that
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  Speaker 3: she she was very selfish. She did nothing for anybody.
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  Speaker 2: So let me get back to you for a second.
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  Speaker 1: You are still the Nassau County executive and you've done
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  Speaker 1: a tremendous job there. That's why you won for the
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  Speaker 1: second time in a mostly blue district. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: unfair to think at this point any Republican will have
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  Speaker 1: success in New York.
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  Speaker 2: It just is.
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  Speaker 1: But with that said, you're not done, right? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you're thinking about maybe Congress. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: you went for a Senate seat. Maybe president one day.
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  Speaker 1: You're very close with Trump. My guess is, and I
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  Speaker 1: hope this is the case, you're not done.
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  Speaker 3: Well, no, listen, Sid. My goal right now is to
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  Speaker 3: be the best county executive I can be. I got
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  Speaker 3: great news yesterday. Our sales tax revenue far exceeded what
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  Speaker 3: we projected, meaning that our county is very robust. We're
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  Speaker 3: probably the only or one of the few counties in
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  Speaker 3: all of New York State where people are actually moving
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  Speaker 3: into my county rather than moving out. We're the safest
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  Speaker 3: county in America. I haven't raised taxes in five years
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  Speaker 3: one penny. People like the fact that their home values
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  Speaker 3: have gone up. We've created equity for their families. We've
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  Speaker 3: created prosperity. We've created good jobs. That's what I want
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  Speaker 3: to continue to do. And whatever the future may hold,
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  Speaker 3: the future may hold. But right now, I'm focused on
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  Speaker 3: being the best county executive that I can be.
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  Speaker 2: You already are.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what scares me, though, with the Democrats, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for people who want to work with them and get
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  Speaker 1: along with them.
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  Speaker 2: No, no way, baby. They're lunatics. No, thanks. Tuesday night
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  Speaker 2: is the bloodbath. It took them two days.
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  Speaker 1: Bruce, two days in your Nassau County to start to
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  Speaker 1: unravel what you did, which was great, keeping boys out
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  Speaker 1: of women's sports.
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  Speaker 2: Two days.
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  Speaker 1: And the Democrats start to unravel that and get transgenders
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  Speaker 1: back into sports. That's just the appetizer of what's to
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  Speaker 1: come on a national level.
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  Speaker 3: No. Well, you know, Sid, the good news is the
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  Speaker 3: Democrats will screw it up like they always have. They
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  Speaker 3: will overreach. And, you know, we lost the elections across
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  Speaker 3: America because we lost the independent voters. And also, we
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  Speaker 3: didn't have as much enthusiasm from our own Republican voters
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  Speaker 3: as we would have needed to win elections. So it
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  Speaker 3: was two things. We didn't get our base out to
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  Speaker 3: the extent that we needed. And we lost the independent
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  Speaker 3: voters because the independent voters are voters that they are
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  Speaker 3: truly independent. They go Republican when they think the Republicans
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  Speaker 3: have the best ideas, and they go Democrat. And I
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  Speaker 3: think that the independent voters are the key to the
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  Speaker 3: future elections, not only here in New York State, but
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  Speaker 3: throughout the country. And we've got to find a way
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  Speaker 3: to appeal to them again. And I think a lot
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  Speaker 3: of it's messaging. I think our messaging across the United
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  Speaker 3: States was weak, And it wasn't direct and it wasn't empathetic.
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  Speaker 3: You know, listen, we should have said and I tried
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  Speaker 3: to say it, but I think others should have said, look,
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  Speaker 3: we understand the gas prices are high and we're working
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  Speaker 3: to bring those prices down. But you got to remember
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  Speaker 3: that we have a country out there that says death
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  Speaker 3: to America and we can't allow them to get a
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  Speaker 3: nuclear weapon because these are people who don't value life.
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  Speaker 3: They think they get rewarded. If they die in a
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  Speaker 3: suicide bombing. So they're not they're not afraid to die
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  Speaker 3: for their cause. And therefore they would use the nuclear
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  Speaker 3: weapon on us. And I don't think that that message
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  Speaker 3: was conveyed to the extent that, you know, people could
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  Speaker 3: absorb it and understand it.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with you. All right, so in closing, let
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  Speaker 2: me just tell you that I'm very, very proud of you.
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  Speaker 2: I think you ran a tremendous campaign. Great campaign, because
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  Speaker 2: I was in it. I was there every day. Was
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  Speaker 2: I not there? Did you and I not talk every day?
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  Speaker 2: Every day. I know what you did. All your critics today,
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  Speaker 2: they have no idea what they're talking about. No idea.
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  Speaker 3: If you went on Facebook or Instagram, you'd see me
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  Speaker 3: all over the place every single day.
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  Speaker 1: And you were still doing a great job running Nassau County.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody was going to beat Hochul that day. That's the
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  Speaker 1: bottom line. Nobody was. You did a great job, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm proud to be your friend.
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  Speaker 3: Taylor Brunson and Josh Allen combined to beat Kathy Hochul
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  Speaker 3: this Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: Well, then, on the way out, last one. Because you're
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: right about that. Jalen Brunson, who just won the championship
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: with the Knicks, and Josh Allen, the Hall of Fame
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: quarterback for the Buffalo Bills, they couldn't beat her. What
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: does that tell you about New York? Does that depress you?
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: I know you're doing great in Nassau County, but on
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: the big scale, our state, what happened to you on
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Tuesday night, does that not depress you?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm very disappointed, obviously. I'm disappointed because I wanted, truly,
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: to have the opportunity to turn the state around. I know,
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: but forget about you.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: What is wrong with these people?
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Do they not see the drugs, no jobs, a million cities,
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: I mentioned them earlier, from Monticello to, forget about New
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: York City, Monticello, Utica, Rome, Syracuse, Rochester. Do they not
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: see these are broken cities, drug addled and broke cities?
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: They like that. They want to keep Kathy Hochul in power.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: Why? I'm disappointed, but I still have my faith in
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: New Yorkers. And I think we still have to fight.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: Never give up the fight. And these elections tend to
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: be cyclical. And I think we'll have another opportunity to
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: save our state sometime in the future.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Bruce Blakeman, you're great. I love you.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Thank you for all your hard work, and you ran
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: into a campaign and just ran into a buzzsaw.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: We will do it again, Bruce. Thank you so much
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: for today. Thank you.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Well, God bless you, and God bless America. Thank you, Sid.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: You got it. Bruce Blakeman right there. God bless him, too.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: And look, I don't dislike Elisa. Elisa and I were
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: good friends. Like I said, she reached out to me.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: She said, I want to make my announcement on your show,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: and she did it. Now, she got mad at me.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Because in the interview, I brought up a portion that
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: she didn't like.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: It, but she made it on my show.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: And we talk quite a bit, texted each other a lot,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: a lot more than any of you folks out there
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: that think you love it today.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: A lot more. But the truth is she quit. She
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: just quit. And Bruce did nothing wrong. Nothing. And Bruce didn't.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: start this two days ago. He didn't bring her up once.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: She's the one who came out and said, low energy,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: bad campaign. What do you want Bruce to do? Just
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: take it? Would Trump do that? Would you do that?
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't do that. So yeah, he came back hard.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: So what? So what? It's easy for all the Republicans. See,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: that's what we do. They don't do that. The Democrats,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: those group of insufferable lunatics, they never, ever, ever get
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: on each other. Ever. Republicans? Bunch of bitches.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: So what we do is complain about the other candidate.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: So what we do is criticize the other candidate.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: What would you have done? Would you have won? All
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: the folks that texted me yesterday, I'm not going to
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: name your names. You would have gotten your asses kicked, too.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: And so would have released a bonnet. You all would
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: have lost, but you got all the answers. Bruce was
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: the problem. No, he wasn't. No, he wasn't. So Republicans,
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: more than ever, need to come together.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Get better people in charge, get better candidates, and honestly,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: STFU about the folks that lost.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Because you would have lost too.
• 20:58
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• 21:01
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• 21:04
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• 21:23
  Speaker 2: See you next time.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: For a new episode so you never have to wonder.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: What the heck is going on here?