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Hour 1: Midterm election results throughout the tri-state area · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, let me take this first moment of our broadcast
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  Speaker 1: since the final results of the elections across the nation
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  Speaker 1: to salute you, Larry Menti, your entire team, Natalie, the
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  Speaker 1: quiet storm, Chris, and everybody else involved in your broadcast
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  Speaker 1: last night on this, the most listened to talk station
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  Speaker 1: in New York. 710 WOR, from 7 to 11.
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  Speaker 2: You had great guests. You were giving the facts.
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  Speaker 1: You were like Sergeant Joe Friday, unlike other outlets, both
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  Speaker 1: on radio and TV, that were homers. You know, they
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  Speaker 1: were either ready to commit Jeffrey Epstein suicide based on
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  Speaker 1: the incoming results, or they were dancing the Tarantella, and
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  Speaker 1: you would have thought that they won Powerball. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you gave the facts. You let people understand what was
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  Speaker 1: transpiring from early in the evening to when you finally
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  Speaker 1: signed off. And you're here in the morning to do
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  Speaker 1: it all over again. So I salute you, Larry, and
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  Speaker 1: I salute our whole team that I know worked many,
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  Speaker 1: many hours in advance. The pre-show preparation that always is
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  Speaker 1: required when it's a really good election night show.
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  Speaker 2: So great job. Great job, team.
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  Speaker 3: Well, thank you. Yeah, Chris Schweitzer was the producer last
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  Speaker 3: night and did just a wonderful job of putting it together. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he's new to politics, and he's new to
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  Speaker 3: doing a newscast and doing a news show, and he
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  Speaker 3: was just excellent in getting guests. You know, we had
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  Speaker 3: some tremendous guests last night. But what a— not to you.
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  Speaker 3: You had predicted this, but I think to most people, the—
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  Speaker 3: The tsunami of this, and I think you used the
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  Speaker 3: right word, although it does line up to other wave
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  Speaker 3: elections in the past. So they're calling it a blue
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  Speaker 3: wave election was stunning. It was a stunning race, at
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  Speaker 3: least to me. I have a new term now. I
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  Speaker 3: just incorporated a new term.
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  Speaker 2: You know me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm always with the different phrases. We know what PTSD means, right?
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  Speaker 1: Under normal circumstances. Well, now you have a new term,
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  Speaker 1: post-Trump stress disorder. There are a lot of people out
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  Speaker 1: there who are going to be in denial for a while.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they're going to want to reach out and say, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: they stole the election. No, no, nobody has said that.
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  Speaker 1: It was so overwhelming in so many places, it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: even an afterthought. And I just say, look, Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: said to the Republican loyalists, the MAGA people, pretend I'm
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  Speaker 1: on the ballot, make me the center of the conversation,
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  Speaker 1: 30 rallies in 30 days. He said that 47 times. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the people of America certainly looked at it that way,
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  Speaker 1: because not only did you have an enormous turnout of Democrats,
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  Speaker 1: but in the last 10 days, as always happens, the
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  Speaker 1: independents broke, and they didn't break for the Republicans, they
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  Speaker 1: broke predominantly for the Democrats. And that's why you have
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  Speaker 1: the final tallies, that in many instances are either close
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  Speaker 1: to what the polls were saying or the polls had
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  Speaker 1: it completely wrong.
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  Speaker 3: No, in many of them, I think actually the polls
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  Speaker 3: were awful. The polls had it completely wrong. It's just
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  Speaker 3: not the way that people thought the polls would go.
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  Speaker 3: They went bigger. They went much bigger. I mean, Kathy Hochul,
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  Speaker 3: 20 points. Kathy Hochul wins by 20 points. They called
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  Speaker 3: that race right after they showed it, right after the
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  Speaker 3: polls closed.
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  Speaker 2: Boom.
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  Speaker 3: They knew Kathy Hochul had won. Many of the races
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  Speaker 3: were like that. And there was just big surprises across
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  Speaker 3: the country. Races that were supposed to be safe, especially
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  Speaker 3: in the House, they went Democratic. This is exactly what
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  Speaker 3: a wave election looks like.
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  Speaker 2: This is it.
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  Speaker 3: And you're right. It is a referendum on the president. Listen,
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  Speaker 3: I think we'll be having a much different conversation this
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  Speaker 3: morning about the overall results. had Iran not happened, because
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  Speaker 3: Iran was its own wave. It created all these other things.
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  Speaker 3: And I truly believe, because he said it many times,
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  Speaker 3: that he thought it would be over quickly and that
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  Speaker 3: it would be a feather in his cap, not something
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  Speaker 3: that was going to drag him down. And that didn't happen.
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  Speaker 3: And when that didn't happen, when it dragged on and
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  Speaker 3: dragged on, and I think the Iranians knew this, too.
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  Speaker 3: They knew very well about our midterms. He was done.
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  Speaker 3: He was crippled. He was handicapped at that point. And
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  Speaker 3: it was such a politically, let's forget about going after
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  Speaker 3: Iran because of their nuclear weapons. Just talk politically for
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  Speaker 3: a second. Politically, it was a horrible thing to do
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  Speaker 3: because it ended his presidency, basically. Because right now he's
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  Speaker 3: a lame duck. He's going to be a lame duck.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he's going to have power to veto. He's
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  Speaker 3: going to veto and veto and veto. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if you heard him last night when he was on Fox.
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  Speaker 3: I thought he was good. I thought he reached across
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  Speaker 3: the aisle and said, look, I can work with you
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  Speaker 3: on certain things. Number one, I'll work with you on immigration.
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  Speaker 3: If you want to change the immigration laws, if you
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  Speaker 3: want to open the border again, that's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: But I'll work with you on the immigration laws. So
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  Speaker 3: I didn't expect that from him. I, he congratulated the Democrats.
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  Speaker 3: He said they ran a great race and he said
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  Speaker 3: that they, they had the pulse of the people and that, uh,
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  Speaker 3: and now they have to govern. And he said, and
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  Speaker 3: I have veto power. I'm going to veto, veto, veto
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  Speaker 3: anything I don't like, but I'd like to work with you.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the big winner last night was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: people were saying the Democrats, no, the big winners talk radio,
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  Speaker 1: talk TV. I mean, we have colleagues, Larry, in both
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  Speaker 1: talk TV and talk radio who felt that they had
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  Speaker 1: to defend the indefensible with Trump as the president, really
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  Speaker 1: sounding stupid sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: Now they'll be able to go on the offensive. The
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  Speaker 2: Democrats will have.
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  Speaker 1: Hakeem Jeffries as the speaker, and they will have a
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  Speaker 1: big majority. And then Chuck Schumer for as long as
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  Speaker 1: he lasts, because I think they're going to sack him.
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  Speaker 1: will be the majority leader in the Senate. So this
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  Speaker 1: is like perfect for talk radio and talk TV. Talk
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  Speaker 1: radio and talk TV can now go on the offensive
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  Speaker 1: against Democrats. That's when people listen to talk radio and
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  Speaker 1: talk TV. When it's just defending President Trump, nope, it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have the fire. You know, it's not passionate. This
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  Speaker 1: will be passionate now. Now, the other thing, Larry, you
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  Speaker 1: have not returned the favor.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a little upset.
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  Speaker 1: I had created a business opportunity for myself yesterday. As
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm horrible in business. But I said, look,
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  Speaker 1: everybody has a podcast. Even my plumber, my dentist.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, your plumber.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. He didn't want me to listen to it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like I got time to listen to your freaking podcast.
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  Speaker 1: But I created the Curtis Sliwa Political Prediction Marketplace. Right?
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  Speaker 2: Because everybody else has it.
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  Speaker 1: They're all into now, you know, betting on who's going
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  Speaker 1: to win campaigns.
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  Speaker 2: No betting on this one.
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  Speaker 1: But my first prediction out of the box, hey, could
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  Speaker 1: you play that once again and remind everybody, even though
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  Speaker 1: we did it in many forms. And I am predicting
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  Speaker 1: I'm going high for the Democrats, not because I was
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  Speaker 1: smoking anything that would get me high, but I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully you write this down. The Democrats will win 240 seats.
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  Speaker 2: Stop it. See, I knew, I know you would have
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  Speaker 2: a jaundiced response.
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  Speaker 1: And the Democrats will end up with 53 seats in
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  Speaker 1: the Senate.
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  Speaker 2: So, so far.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty damn close.
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  Speaker 1: One seat off with the Senate. And there are two
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  Speaker 1: we're going to talk about later. Mississippi and Alaska. Like,
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  Speaker 1: they're so microscopically close. They can go either way. And
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  Speaker 1: the house, even though that was considered high, and by
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  Speaker 1: the way, where's Jimmy Failure? He's hiding this morning, making
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  Speaker 1: fun of me, right? I was actually on the low side, 240.
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  Speaker 3: You were on the low side because there's more house
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  Speaker 3: seats to be determined out there, and it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be much higher than that. It is, and it is
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  Speaker 3: going to be kind of amazing. I'm really fascinated to
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  Speaker 3: see what the final figure was because there was house
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  Speaker 3: seats that were not in play. None of us talked
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  Speaker 3: about across the country. some locally, that went Democratic, that
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  Speaker 3: were considered safe seats. So, no, you did a nice job.
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  Speaker 3: You did a nice job of your predictions. And I
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  Speaker 3: think you tempered your prediction. I think you probably wanted
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  Speaker 3: to go higher, but you thought this is crazy. No, no,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't think it was crazy. You said that. I
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  Speaker 3: could feel it.
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  Speaker 1: No, I said you all will think that it's crazy, right?
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  Speaker 1: And naturally, Jimmy Failure, who was with us for an
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  Speaker 1: hour yesterday, 8 to 9, if you haven't heard it,
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  Speaker 1: you've got to go to the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: It was hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: But you'll see how he was treating me as if
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  Speaker 1: I was a political piñata.
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  Speaker 2: No way, that ain't going to happen.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he sounded a little sarcastic to you.
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  Speaker 1: Was he this morning, right? He's hiding. He's stuck in
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  Speaker 1: for cover. But Larry's here to his credit. And right
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  Speaker 1: away he said to me as I came in the
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  Speaker 1: door this morning, because Larry's been doing marathon duty between
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  Speaker 1: the marathon with you, Natalie, and the pre-game for the
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  Speaker 1: election and then the overnight actually broadcast and being here
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  Speaker 1: this morning. You are the marathon man here at 710WOR.
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  Speaker 1: But I am telling you, I listen to WOR all
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  Speaker 1: the time. It's going to make it a lot easier
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  Speaker 1: for our colleagues because I've heard some really stupid stuff
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  Speaker 1: coming out of the mouths of some of our colleagues
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  Speaker 1: here and other talk outlets defending the indefensible.
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  Speaker 2: They won't have to do it anymore. They can just
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  Speaker 2: go on the attack.
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  Speaker 1: Democrats, Democrats. you know, this is what they do best.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to actually feel, even though temporarily it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a bummer, for the industry for this thing
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  Speaker 1: that this is what it is this this is what
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  Speaker 1: we have chosen you're gonna feel better too larry you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be oh you attack.
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  Speaker 3: Her you're gonna feel better and fine no i'm not
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  Speaker 3: gonna feel better but finally fox news is gonna get
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  Speaker 3: their ratings back too because now they can do what
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  Speaker 3: they always do well and that's going to be going
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  Speaker 3: after the democrats.
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  Speaker 1: And watch It's also what Trump did better. 2016, nobody
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  Speaker 1: expected him. He was on the attack. 2024, he was
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  Speaker 1: on the attack because he was out of office. But
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  Speaker 1: when he had to defend the presidency, he's not good
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  Speaker 1: playing defense. 2020, this time around midterms because he inserted himself.
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  Speaker 1: It's like he went in the ring and he put
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  Speaker 1: his chin out. Here, here, go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: But I'll tell you what, even when he's on the defense,
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  Speaker 3: he's on the attack. So that's the way he defends himself.
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  Speaker 3: When we come back, by the way, we'd love to
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  Speaker 3: hear from you. If you just need a shoulder to
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  Speaker 3: cry on, we're here for you. You want to talk
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  Speaker 3: about the election results last night, what you think happened.
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead and leave us a talk back. Go to
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  Speaker 3: win if you get the talk back of the day.
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  Speaker 3: Curtis Lee, when Larry mentee in the morning t-shirt and
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  Speaker 3: the best talk back of the week takes home a
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  Speaker 3: sea crane radio. When we come back, one of the
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  Speaker 3: most surprising results in the country when it comes to
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  Speaker 3: house races happened in New Jersey last We'll have all
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  Speaker 3: the New Jersey election results, plus a chance to see
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  Speaker 3: Def Leppard and the Goo Goo Dolls at age 25. Well,
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  Speaker 3: New Jersey was a bit of a surprise, but first,
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  Speaker 3: before we get into the shocking race, let's pay homage
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  Speaker 3: to Chris Smith for a second. 26 terms. He is
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  Speaker 3: now tied for the longest serving member of Congress.
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  Speaker 2: And you know how he does it?
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  Speaker 3: He keeps his head down and out of the fray.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't want to go to the TV cameras. He
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  Speaker 3: just wins elections every single time. Chris Smith in Ocean
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  Speaker 3: County will now be the longest serving member of Congress,
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  Speaker 3: as I said, tied, and the only survivor of the
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  Speaker 3: Republican Party in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's under the radar. And it's the name, too.
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  Speaker 2: Just under the radar. Chris Smith. It doesn't bring a
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  Speaker 2: lot of attention to yourself. No, never, never.
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  Speaker 3: And he writes more bills than maybe anybody in Congress.
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  Speaker 3: Chris Smith, congratulations to you. You are the lone survivor
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  Speaker 3: because the shocking race was down along the South Jersey
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  Speaker 3: shore when Jeff Van Drew lost. Now, Democratic consultants had
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  Speaker 3: told me early on that he was vulnerable. And I laughed.
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  Speaker 3: And I think everybody laughed. Because he wins by double digits.
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  Speaker 3: That's one of the few Republican strongholds on the South
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  Speaker 3: Jersey shore. But he lost yesterday to Zach Mullock, who
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  Speaker 3: is the mayor of Cape May, was a very good candidate.
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  Speaker 3: But he's had good candidates run against him in the past.
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  Speaker 3: But when you talk about a wave election, these are
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  Speaker 3: the casualties. Somebody like Jeff Van Drew. By the way,
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  Speaker 3: he didn't lose by a little bit. He lost by
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  Speaker 3: four percentage points. This is a guy that last election
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  Speaker 3: won by 12 and a half.
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  Speaker 1: Right, but he had been a Democrat, became a Republican.
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  Speaker 1: Now he can go back to being a dentist. Because remember,
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  Speaker 1: I introduced him as the keynote speaker to the GOP
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  Speaker 1: annual dinner in Bergen County. Remember I commented he was
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  Speaker 1: wearing a polyester waffle weave flame retardant jacket, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like from the 1950s.
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  Speaker 2: He's old school.
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  Speaker 1: You think, like in Florida, they go back and forth.
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  Speaker 1: Democrats become Republicans, Republicans then become Democrat. You think there's
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  Speaker 1: any chance of him going back to being a Democrat
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  Speaker 1: or he's just going to go pull teeth?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, he's not going to be a Democrat again. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he was full in. I'm not sure the Democratic Party
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't even take him. He was full in for Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 3: if you remembered. And it was during all the impeachment
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  Speaker 3: stuff that he made the switch. So I think that
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  Speaker 3: there are still some bad feelings about Jeff Van Drew.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think he's going to go back to pulling
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  Speaker 3: teeth either. I got to know Jeff a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that he's going to retire. He's 73
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  Speaker 3: years old. You know, he's down along the beach down there.
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  Speaker 3: He made a lot of money. He had a great
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  Speaker 3: practice down there. And so he ran the practice. And
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  Speaker 3: so I think that Jeff Van Drew is just going
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  Speaker 3: to say, I'm sick of this now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just going to retire. And Tom Kane Jr.
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  Speaker 3: Tom Kane Jr. was another one. And Tom Kane Jr.
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  Speaker 3: lost early on. Listen, that whole taking a mental vacation
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  Speaker 3: and not letting anyone know why he was away and
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  Speaker 3: the national attention that he got on that, he never
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  Speaker 3: was able to outlive that. The campaign was centered on that.
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  Speaker 3: And Rebecca Bennett, by the way, is a wonderful candidate.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, that Democrat plan, female veterans running, your governor,
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  Speaker 1: her running.
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  Speaker 2: Mike Lola lost to one in Westchester, Rockland. That's a
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  Speaker 2: workable strategy for the Democrats.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but in New Jersey, it's pretty funny that she
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  Speaker 3: was also a helicopter pilot, and she did another ad
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  Speaker 3: in a helicopter, just like Mikey Sherrill did. But I've
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  Speaker 3: seen interviews with Rebecca Bennett. She's reasonable. She's not a
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  Speaker 3: crazy Democrat like the three that they put into office.
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  Speaker 3: I mean— The DSA is strong in New Jersey now
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  Speaker 3: because of some of the people that won. Amelia Mejia,
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  Speaker 3: who won a special election, and now she's won this election.
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  Speaker 3: Adam Hamaway has also won that election. So, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they won by a lot. All the Democrats won by
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  Speaker 3: a lot. The story out of New Jersey for this
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  Speaker 3: is Jeff Van Drew. That's the shock.
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  Speaker 2: Jeff, I need a lot of dental work. You owe me.
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  Speaker 1: I gave him the biggest introduction that any GOP person
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  Speaker 1: has ever received.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, you can pull a few teeth for me.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, he owes me. He owes me.
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  Speaker 3: There were rumors, you know, you have to give up
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  Speaker 3: your practice. You can't have another business when you're in Congress.
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  Speaker 3: There were rumors down there that for free he was
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  Speaker 3: still doing dental work. He loved being a dentist. You remember,
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  Speaker 3: he used to go around with that tooth on his
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  Speaker 3: lapel all the time. He just loved it.
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  Speaker 2: He was very eccentric.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah. He was a good guy, though. He's funny.
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  Speaker 3: He's a good guy, full of personality.
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  Speaker 2: I need dental work. I'm going to chase you down.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's get a quick couple of talkbacks.
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  Speaker 5: Guys, I'm depressed but not surprised. The only thing that
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  Speaker 5: all these rallies did... that Trump was doing across the
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  Speaker 5: country was bringing out Republicans to vote for Democrats. He
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  Speaker 5: doesn't understand that's the economy, stupid.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not sure that the Republicans voted for Democrats.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure some did, but I think, Maga, you're going
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  Speaker 3: to find out when the polls happen that they've still
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  Speaker 3: voted for Donald Trump. They were just overwhelmed, especially by
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  Speaker 3: the early voting.
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  Speaker 6: Well, the political ads are going to be put away
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  Speaker 6: like holiday decorations. And now we have to suffer with
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: the Medicare open enrollment advertising until December 7th. I hope
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: everyone has a happy hump day.
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  Speaker 3: Very well done. Now let's get the news with Larry Kofsky,
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  Speaker 3: who is in for Daria Albinger. Hey, Larry.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Larry. Good morning, Curtis.
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: We have 52 degrees under clear skies at 630. The
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: midterm elections bringing sweeping changes come January. Republican leaders will
• 17:58
  Speaker 7: hand the gavel of the House and Senate over to Democrats.
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: Brooklyn Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, now House Minority Leader, is poised
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: to become Speaker. Another Brooklynite, Senator Chuck Schumer, is the
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: new likely Senate Majority Leader. Here in New York, Governor
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  Speaker 7: Kathy Hochul won re-election, defeating Republican challenger Nassau County Executive
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  Speaker 7: Bruce Blakeman.
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  Speaker 2: He told supporters, You know what? You win some, you
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: lose some.
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  Speaker 1: The fact of the matter is that now we pull together,
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  Speaker 1: we move forward, we have the best interests of the
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: people in our heart.
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  Speaker 7: Lakeman did not rule out another statewide run in the future,
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: saying he would do it all again. Other Democratic governors
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: across the Northeast, including Connecticut's Ned Lamont, Pennsylvania's Josh Shapiro,
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: and Westmore of Maryland, all won re-election. One of the
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: country's most hotly contested House races, New York's 17th Congressional District,
• 18:52
  Speaker 7: was caught up in the blue wave. Democrat Kate Conley
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  Speaker 7: defeated two-term GOP incumbent Mike Lawler in the Hudson Valley District.
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: Katie Suarez, the runner stabbed in the neck last Friday
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: night on a Brooklyn bike path, has died. Her mother
• 19:07
  Speaker 7: confirmed the 28-year-old's passing last night. Police are still looking
• 19:11
  Speaker 7: for her assailant, who is now wanted for murder. Russian
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: diesel fuel is not welcome in New Jersey. Governor Mikey
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: Sherrill made that clear in a notice to port operators
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: telling them not to accept any shipments of diesel fuel
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: from Russia. She says Congress outlawed energy imports from Russia
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: in response to the war in Ukraine back in 2022,
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: and violating that ban could result in criminal charges or
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: civil penalties. Our next news at 7. I'm Larry Kofsky
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: on 710-WOL.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Oh, up next, you're going to want to hear me
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: break down New York. There's a lot to say. And don't, well,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: you don't go anywhere. We're going to break it down
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: for you up next. Let's get to New York. And
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: all I have to say about Hochul versus Blakeman is
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: look at Nassau County. Blakeman did a great job as
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: a county executive. Everybody says that, no doubt. He lost
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Nassau County, barely, but he lost it and he lost
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Suffolk County. Four years ago, Zeldin, who was the congressman
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: in District 1, which was the far end of Suffolk,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: he won, overwhelmingly, Suffolk and Nassau County against Kathy Hochul.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: And there was a reason, because once you boiled down
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: all the ads, Larry and Natalie, it really came up
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: that this campaign was Zoran versus Trump. Every piece of
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: lit that Kathy Hochul sent out had Donald Trump like
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: an appendage to Bruce Blakeman. And all the literature and
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: all the ads that were sent out by Bruce Blakeman
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: had Zoran Mondami attached to Kathy Hochul. Well, it turns
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: out having Zoran Mondami attached to you did not hurt
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Kathy Hochul, but having Trump attached to Blakeman hurt him measurably.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Just to give you an idea, I told you, you've
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: got to get at least 30%, 32% in New York City,
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  Speaker 1: where you have the bulk of the vote, about 40%, 44%
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  Speaker 1: of the vote. Hochul got 77% to 22% for Blakeman.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: But the fact that he couldn't win Nassau County or
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Suffolk County, that was a slam dunk, you would have said.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: One of the reasons... that they said what's good he's.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Running and not Stefanik from upstate is that he'll give
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: us a guarantee to maybe help the Congress races involving
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Republicans trying to unseat Democrats. That did not happen. So
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: I think when all is said and done, you have
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: to say to yourself, it wouldn't have mattered if he
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: started early. It wouldn't have mattered whatever Blakeman did. It
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: was such a A anti-Trump vote that came out early. Oh, man,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Democrats were out in force early voting. The independents broke. Now,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: he was doing well with independents, but they broke for
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Hochul in those last 10 days. So you can't really
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: fault Blakeman. He was MAGA. He's a Trump guy. He
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: said it over and over. That's my friend. I welcome
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: his support. But it certainly cost him in the state. Also,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: I want to give a salute to Mike Lawler for
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: two reasons. Now we don't have to see those endless
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: ads between him and Kate Conley. I mean, there were
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: more of those ads than any other ads. But he
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: did the correct thing. Early on in the night, he
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: recognized from his own internal polling he could not win
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: that race that involved Westchester and Rockland. And he came
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: to the podium early so he could be seen being
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: very gracious to his opponent. That's going to play very well.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: When you're gracious, it plays well. It played well for me.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: It did not play well for Andrew Evil Eyes Cuomo.
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  Speaker 3: Let me just say one thing about that because I've
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: covered a whole lot of races and you even saw
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: all of the people on the networks were shocked that
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  Speaker 3: he did that.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody does that.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody waits until the race is called and then they
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  Speaker 3: do it. All of the sudden, I mean, I remember
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: I was, I run over to Andrew Whitman last night
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: and said, gave it to him during the news. I said,
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: you're I wrote, you're not going to believe this. Lawler conceded.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Well, there's a reason now. If you know you're going
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: to lose, and he knew he was going to lose,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: the internal polling. If there's any race that he knows better,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: it's that he grew up there, Astorino. Yeah, I get it.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: But still, nobody does that, even when they get killed. Remember,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: he's going to be out of a job January 1st.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: And I guarantee you he will be a regular contributor
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: to either MSNOW or CNN because he will be that
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Republican because he's appeared with them before. But being courteous
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: to Kate Connolly, congratulating her and appearing to be very
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: genuine will go a long way for Mike Lawler than
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: if he waited. Because if he had waited, it would
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: have never made the national news. It never would have.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: That's the rule of thumb. If you know you lost,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: get out there early.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: You say it's the rule of thumb. Nobody does it. No,
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: because their team tells them, no, we're still waiting for
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: these votes.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: And by the way, that whole controversy involving the machines,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: you pay people on both sides to basically monitor that.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: The guy that they paid over $ 200, 000 to, the.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Republicans, hadn't been around for days.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: So they knew they were partly at fault for that
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: because you're supposed to monitor those situations to make sure
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: the machines are checked. You have the Democrat there. You
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: have the Republicans. You do all that in advance. That
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: was never done.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: But I want to give him a high five. It
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: was gracious.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: He lost fair and square. He wished her the best
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: of luck. And we know he'll have quite a career.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: He'll be in talk TV because, again, I can't say
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: it enough, the real winners last night were talk TV
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: and talk radio because now you can go back to
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: bashing Democrats full time and not feel that you have
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: to defend Trump every second of the day. In terms
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: of the other races in New York, Big, big thing.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: If I were Governor DeSantis on my way out because
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: I have a new governor, Donald, barely like one and
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: one third percent he won by against the Democrat. I
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: would put a big sign at the border between Georgia
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: and Florida.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: If you're from New York, if you're from New.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Jersey, if you're from Connecticut, you're not welcome here anymore.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Because I guarantee you, with so many of our listeners
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: and others fleeing to Florida, and we know they are
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: in sizable numbers. That is helping to turn Florida into
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: maybe a purple state again. Now, the reason I say that,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: you had this screwball Nixon. I mean, you couldn't be
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: any screwier. She had these crazy glasses, these Spike Lee glasses.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: She's walking around like Joe Clark, you know, with the bullhorn.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: She's screaming. She's yelling. She says, oh, no, Cuba is
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: the ideal location to be, right, in Florida.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: And she only loses to Moody by 3%.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: It wasn't just that race. It was every single race.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: It was Byron Donalds was just won by a hair
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: of Congresswomen and congressmen who were supposed to win by
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: a lot, just won by a hair. It's funny. We
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: were talking about before this election on Monday that watch
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: South Carolina, watch South Carolina. Who knew you had to
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: watch Florida? I think that was a shock. Again, you
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: saw it on the national news. The anchors going, look
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: at Florida. Look, look what's happening in Florida. We got
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: we had an indication pretty early on that this was
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: going to be a wave election. You know, I keep
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: hearing this tsunami. That's what the Democrats like to say.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: It's a tsunami. It doesn't make the top five. I mean,
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: we've had bigger ones in the midterms than this. And
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: we had one recently in 2010, if you remember, than this.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: It's a big one. I'm not going to say that.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: It does make the top 10.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Let me give credit to Natalie because I'm generally the
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: factoid guy when it comes to knowing about candidates.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: And you know how I always say, where are you from?
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Where'd you grow up?
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: What high school did you go to? Everybody knows that
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: about Curtis. And then I give you a card. Well,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Natalie educated me about the new governor, barely one in Florida, Donald.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: What did you find out about him, Natalie, that I
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: had no idea? He's a Brooklyn boy. He was born
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: and raised in Crown Heights. But he did go to
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: college in Florida. But he went to Nazareth High School.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: East Flatbush right across from Kenosha. I had no idea.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: I didn't either.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: So at an early age, his family fled down there
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: like so many others. I'm telling you, if I'm DeSantis,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: big sign. If you're from New York, if you're from
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: New Jersey, if you're from Connecticut... Don't come down here.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: We're going to block you because it's going to turn
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Florida purple. Yeah, he's not exactly the opposite.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: You've seen him saying, come on down, come on down,
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: come on down, especially if you have a business. Hey,
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: we have so many talkbacks. We're going to try to
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: sneak them in in all of the segments. Here's one.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: It is truly amazing to me that people think things
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: are going to be better under Democrat rule for the
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: most part. I mean, did everyone forget about COVID, the mandates,
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: the illegal aliens pouring through our borders? Inflation, 9%. I
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: guess we all forgot. But this is what everybody wants.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: This is what's going to happen. And it is going
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: to be what it's going to be. Congratulations, America.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: In a way, it's one of the best things to
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: happen to the Republican Party for the upcoming presidential election,
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: because now they have to do what they do worst.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: They have to try to govern, and they have failed
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: and failed and failed over and over again. So, America,
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: you may not be happy with what you voted for.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: When we come back, well... Talk about states that turn blue. Pennsylvania,
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: which has always been a purple state, across the state,
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: the Democrats won. And we might see somebody that's going
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: to run for president winning in an overwhelming victory. We'll
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: talk about Pennsylvania when we come back. Now I do
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  Speaker 3: I think it's going to be a short visit into
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: the world of purple. I mean, in the world of blue,
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: because Pennsylvania was always considered a purple state, one of
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: the key states in the presidential election, because sometimes it
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: goes Republican. sometimes it goes Democrat. Well, in this midterm election,
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: it went Democrat. The Democrats across the state of Pennsylvania
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: were able to take six seats, six congressional seats. And
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: now for the first time in a long time, they
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: have the most seats. The Around the Pittsburgh area, it
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: is all blue now. Throughout all southeastern Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: area going up through Allentown, it is all blue as
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: Brian Fitzpatrick, who has been the sole survivor for the
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: Republicans in the Philadelphia area in Bucks County, has lost
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: his race. So it was absolutely a blue wave across Pennsylvania.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: Josh Shapiro once again. getting close to 3 million votes,
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: breaking the record he set back four years ago. Josh
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: Shapiro now, I believe, Curtis, is going to be taken
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: extremely seriously. He was already talked about. Some of the
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: talk faded there for a while. I think he's going
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: to be talked about as a presidential candidate once again.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: He is a great campaigner, a wonderful speaker. And as
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: a matter of fact, if you remember... When Kamala Harris
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: came out with her announcement that she was going to
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: run for president, it was in Pennsylvania, Temple University in Philadelphia.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: And introducing her was Josh Shapiro. And Josh Shapiro blew
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: Kamala Harris away. I know that's not a high bar,
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: but really blew her away. And the crowd was incredibly inspired.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: And the talk is that Kamala Harris, after saying that,
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: immediately said he's off the list. Because... She didn't want
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: him overshadowing her through the entire campaign. And that's how
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: she ended up with the idiot from Minnesota, Tim Walz.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: And so Shapiro, once again, Shapiro has never shied away
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: from saying he would be interested.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: His problem is he's a Zionist in favor of Israel.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: And those candidates that were pro-Israel this run, they got hurt. Now,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: I believe Ossoff is also in the running. He's Jewish, too.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: But remember, the first primary for the Democrats, they've changed it,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: is South Carolina. He's right next to South Carolina. I
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: don't think Shapiro would do well in South Carolina. And
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: then it's Vegas. And then it's back to the normal routine.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: But we'll see.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Meantime, what does this mean about Fetterman?
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Because, look, this was another case when Trump interfered and
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: chose Dr. Oz out of the many capable Republicans who
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: would have beaten Fetterman.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: Oz was not a good candidate.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: What does this do now for Fetterman's prospects because he
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: wants to run for re-election?
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: Well, he can't. He can't run for re-election. You should
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: see the poll numbers for him right now in Pennsylvania.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: I mean, I know after this election, you're probably saying,
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: how can you trust the polls? But they're bad. I mean,
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: really bad for Fetterman right now. He can't win in
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: the Democratic Party. If he was going to run again,
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: he would have to run as a Republican candidate. I
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: don't think he's there yet. I think he's been a
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: Democrat all his life. And when he's been interviewed about it,
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: he's been asked a lot. And he said, no, I'm
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: a Democrat. I've always been a Democrat. It's just that
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: I disagree with the party on some things.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: He's like former Governor Casey, who was pro-life. And the
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: whole party scorned him, but he would not leave being
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: a Democrat. Born a Democrat, died a Democrat. So you
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: think he's that kind of a Democrat? Yes, except that
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: we get back to Israel again. He's very pro-Israel.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: Oh, big time.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: Extremely pro-Israel. And that seems to be his problem in
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: the Democratic Party. It's amazing that you have an entire
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: party now that is anti-Israel and that that is one
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: of the bars you have to jump over to run
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: for president. Incredible. John Decker, our White House correspondent. Man,
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: we could use him more than ever with the Election
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: Day Roundup. That's coming up after the 7 o'clock news.