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Bruce Blakeman | Nassau County Executive Is Running Circles Around Kathy Hochul in New York State Gubernatorial Race · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: The current Nassau County Executive, my friend Bruce Blakeman. Bruce,
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  Speaker 1: good morning, buddy. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: Doing great, Sid. It was great seeing you yesterday with
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  Speaker 2: great people, the Torkins, Suzanne Miller, so many nice people
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  Speaker 2: coming together to save our state. What a venue that
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  Speaker 2: was that we were at. What a beautiful view of
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  Speaker 2: New York City.
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  Speaker 3: There's a picture that I sent you last night that
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  Speaker 3: you and I took at the end of the night
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  Speaker 3: when you were leaving of you and I with the
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  Speaker 3: The skyline behind us, not the skyline, but buildings across
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  Speaker 3: New York, the lights, it is such a gorgeous picture.
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  Speaker 3: John Katzmatidis was there early last night, too. So was
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  Speaker 3: Ed Cox. Listen, I can feel it, man. I'm out
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  Speaker 3: in the city every day, Bruce. I talk to a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people. A lot of people talk to me.
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  Speaker 3: I feel it in the boroughs everywhere that you've got
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  Speaker 3: this huge, huge momentum.
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  Speaker 1: I know you feel it, too.
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  Speaker 2: So I was at a Italian deli in Greenwich Village, FICO,
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  Speaker 2: and I get a hero sandwich. They got picnic tables
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  Speaker 2: out in front of their store. I'm sitting out there
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  Speaker 2: in Greenwich Village, and people were coming up to me saying,
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  Speaker 2: you got to save our state. We're behind you 100%.
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  Speaker 2: People that you wouldn't expect to be supporting a Republican.
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  Speaker 2: I thought I was in Massapequa, right in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of Greenwich Village. It was amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you've shown that.
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  Speaker 3: Like, we've seen Debra Messing. We've seen Bob Holden, Bonnie Lautenberg.
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  Speaker 3: You win elections in Nassau County, even though that is
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  Speaker 3: much bluer than red. So you have proven that you
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  Speaker 3: can win even when Republicans are not.
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  Speaker 1: The big order. in that district, in that city, in
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  Speaker 1: that state. Why?
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  Speaker 3: Because you're a common sense guy. I mean, even when
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  Speaker 3: Kathy Hochul tried to pin Trump all over you with
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  Speaker 3: the debate.
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  Speaker 1: And you're tight with Trump. You guys are brothers. He
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  Speaker 1: loves you. You love him. You're like, no, I don't
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  Speaker 1: agree with everything, okay? I'm pro-choice. Let me tell you this.
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  Speaker 1: Pro-choice Republican in New York? I like that, Bruce. So
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  Speaker 1: am I. I like that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, the difference between our party... And the
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  Speaker 2: Democratic Party is the Democratic Party would never let a
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  Speaker 2: pro-life candidate run in their party. They would ostracize them
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  Speaker 2: and kick them out. I know there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people that are pro-life in our party, but they have
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  Speaker 2: agreed to put that aside for now and for them
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  Speaker 2: to support me because they know what's at stake. It's
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  Speaker 2: the future of our state. So it's not any one
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  Speaker 2: issue that's going to decide this campaign. The issue is,
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  Speaker 2: do we want to save our state, the highest taxed
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  Speaker 2: state in America, utility bills 70% higher than the national average,
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  Speaker 2: and people getting shot in the subways at a record level?
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  Speaker 2: We've got to stop the insanity that's going on in
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  Speaker 2: our state.
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  Speaker 1: You were on the subway a couple of days ago.
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  Speaker 1: It was great.
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  Speaker 3: You and the whole crew. And you said, hey, let
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  Speaker 3: me tell you something, folks. It ain't all that rosy.
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  Speaker 3: You said something last night. You nearly had me in tears.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not just patronizing you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it.
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  Speaker 3: You said, listen, folks, it's really not about me. You're
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  Speaker 3: Bruce Blakeman, right? You got money. You You've had a
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  Speaker 3: great career. It's not about you, Sid, okay? You're a
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  Speaker 3: big-time radio guy. It's our kids. It's Danielle and Danielle.
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  Speaker 3: It's Gabe and Ava for me. It's your beautiful son, Arlen,
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  Speaker 3: for you. And eventually our grandchildren. If we're going to
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  Speaker 3: save this state, our children and our grandchildren need to
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  Speaker 3: live in a better place.
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  Speaker 1: I loved when you said that last night because, Bruce,
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  Speaker 1: you're 1,000% right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Sid, Our parents and our grandparents fought for us
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  Speaker 2: to have a better life. That's what every generation in
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  Speaker 2: America did. They wanted the next generation to do a
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  Speaker 2: little better. But there's not one of us who could
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  Speaker 2: look our kids and grandkids in the eye today and say,
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  Speaker 2: your life in New York is going to be better
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  Speaker 2: than mine unless we change the leadership of this state
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  Speaker 2: because we are in a death spiral. Anti-Semitism rampant. Crime rampant.
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  Speaker 2: You're talking about the highest taxes in America. Utility bills
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  Speaker 2: 70% higher than the national average. Jobs are leaving our state.
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  Speaker 2: We need to turn that out. Create prosperity. Create safe communities.
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  Speaker 2: Have better jobs for our kids so they have a
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  Speaker 2: better future. Jobs with better salaries and better benefits. That's
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  Speaker 2: what I want to create. I want to create a
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  Speaker 2: place that is safe and exciting and affordable here in
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  Speaker 2: New York. And we can do it if we all
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  Speaker 2: work together.
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  Speaker 3: I know you've got a lot to do this morning,
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  Speaker 3: so I'm not going to keep you too long. You've
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  Speaker 3: been so great to me on every week throughout this
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  Speaker 3: whole campaign, which you've done a tremendous job. I love
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  Speaker 3: it talking about energy because that's a big, big issue,
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  Speaker 3: and you talk about it all the time. They're driving
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  Speaker 3: Lamborghinis and Cadillacs in Pennsylvania, and we've got old pickup
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  Speaker 3: trucks spread across the border in New York because Josh
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  Speaker 3: Shapiro in Pennsylvania, they're getting all the money.
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  Speaker 1: We're buying our energy from them. How does that make
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  Speaker 1: any sense?
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  Speaker 3: And then this hokal, this wretched hokal bragging about these
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  Speaker 3: ridiculous energy rebate checks.
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  Speaker 1: They're like $ 100. What good is that when you're $ 2, 000
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  Speaker 1: in the hole?
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  Speaker 2: She raised the annual payment of utility bills for the
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  Speaker 2: typical New Yorker by four thousand dollars a year. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: And she's giving us a check for one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: fifty dollars. Are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know what? I know it's a campaign ploy.
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  Speaker 2: You know, give the people money right before the election.
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  Speaker 2: But people in New York aren't stupid. As a matter
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  Speaker 2: of fact, they're going to be incensed when they get
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  Speaker 2: that check. They're going to say this is it. My
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  Speaker 2: bills went up $ 4, 000 a year, and this is it? $ 150?
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  Speaker 2: It's a joke.
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  Speaker 1: It really is a joke. What's on the docket for today, Bruce?
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  Speaker 1: Where are you going to be?
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  Speaker 2: So I'm going to be in Brooklyn, Queens, Westchester, Rockland, Manhattan, Queens,
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  Speaker 2: and Long Island. Other than that, I've got nothing to
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  Speaker 2: do today.
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  Speaker 1: When you're in Rockland, will you be campaigning with Mike Lawler?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if we're hooking up with Lawler. I
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  Speaker 2: did last weekend. Look, he's a terrific guy. I feel
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  Speaker 2: very confident about his campaign. He's got a lot of momentum.
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  Speaker 2: People are rallying around him. Look, his opponent lives and
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  Speaker 2: pays taxes in Virginia. Are you kidding me? I know.
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy. Come to our state and try to take
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  Speaker 2: over for what we already have as a great and
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  Speaker 2: courageous member of Congress. And look, we're going to surprise
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people, Sid. We're going to win Republican
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  Speaker 2: congressional races here in New York that people didn't expect
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  Speaker 2: all over the state. There are good candidates. They're running hard.
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  Speaker 2: And we're going to pick up seats because people don't
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  Speaker 2: want the nonsense that's going on in Paris and Milan
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  Speaker 2: and around the world to come to our country. And
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  Speaker 2: that's exactly what will happen if the DSA, with all
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  Speaker 2: their candidates, win elections and moves their party further to
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  Speaker 2: the lunatic left.
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  Speaker 1: It's already here.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we saw some of that during the George
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  Speaker 3: Floyd summer. We certainly saw that after October the 7th.
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  Speaker 3: It's just going to get worse under Hochul and Mamdani.
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  Speaker 3: Like I keep saying, you know, Bruce Blakeman, he's got
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  Speaker 3: a tough job. All these candidates in New York, they
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  Speaker 3: got a tough job because, you know, Mike Lawler is
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  Speaker 3: running against Kate Conley, but he's running against Conley and Mamdani.
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  Speaker 3: Blakeman is running against Hochul, but he's running against Hochul
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  Speaker 3: and Mamdani. All you guys have to be two people, basically,
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  Speaker 3: because everybody in this state, these cowards, these Democrat cowards
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  Speaker 3: are so scared the death of Mamdani.
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  Speaker 1: All you guys got to run against him, too.
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  Speaker 2: Well, listen, when we win this year, it's not only
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  Speaker 2: going to be good for the Republican Party, but it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be good for the Democratic Party. I'd love
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  Speaker 2: to see the Democratic Party go back to being liberal,
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  Speaker 2: not socialist, philosophical differences, policy differences, but Democrats that love America,
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  Speaker 2: not this crowd who hates America.
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  Speaker 1: That's the bottom line.
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  Speaker 3: And last thing, just so you know, you'll get a
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  Speaker 3: kick out of this, but I've gone to so many
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  Speaker 3: Trump rallies, so have you. You know how the crowd
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  Speaker 3: gets all ginned up, Bruce, as they get ready for Trump,
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  Speaker 3: and usually he'll play like Guns N' Roses, November Rain,
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  Speaker 3: or something, and the crowd gets.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you something.
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  Speaker 3: Last couple of events that I did with and for you,
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  Speaker 3: the crowd was going nuts. I'm up there talking for
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  Speaker 3: 30 minutes. I mentioned your name. I swear to you,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not patronizing you. I'm not trying to blow you
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  Speaker 3: up here. I am telling you, this crowd, the last
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  Speaker 3: couple of times I've done this, It's like a Trump crowd.
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  Speaker 1: That's how excited.
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  Speaker 3: That is the enthusiasm that is out there right now,
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  Speaker 3: Bruce Blakeman, for you.
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  Speaker 2: Well, listen, it's not for me. It's for the people
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  Speaker 2: of this state. Like I said, Sid, it's for our
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  Speaker 2: kids and our grandkids. What kind of future do we
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  Speaker 2: want in New York? It's a movement. It's a campaign.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just the guy who delivers the message. And when
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  Speaker 2: I get up there, I'm the guy that has to
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  Speaker 2: get the job done. but it's all the people that
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  Speaker 2: are supporting me. Republicans, Democrats, independents, people who love this
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  Speaker 2: state and love America. That's why we're doing this. It's
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  Speaker 2: not any one person. And you've been the best. You've
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  Speaker 2: allowed me a great forum on your radio station. And look,
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  Speaker 2: I want to congratulate you two on the hall of fame.
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  Speaker 2: You're the goat baby.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: You're the man.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Bruce. I love you. Keep it up. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Have a great day today.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for your friendship and all the great things
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  Speaker 3: you've done for New York and that, uh, That nice
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  Speaker 3: little comment about the Hall of Fame, that means a.
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  Speaker 1: Lot to me. Bruce Blakeman, I love you. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much.
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  Speaker 2: God bless you and God bless America.
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  Speaker 1: You too.
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  Speaker 3: There he is, our next governor here in New York
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  Speaker 3: and the current Nassau County executive, my friend Bruce Blakeman.
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  Speaker 1: Love him.
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  Speaker 3: What the heck is going on here