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Mark interviews NY Post Journalist Michael Goodwin. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Mark Simone.
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  Speaker 2: Mr. New York.
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  Speaker 1: Now three hours every weekday from 9 till noon on 710WOR. Well,
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  Speaker 1: with us right now, the best columnist in America, Michael Goodwin.
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  Speaker 1: You can read his column every Sunday and every Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: in the New York Post. And all of his columns
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  Speaker 1: are up on the New York Post website. And he's
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  Speaker 1: with us now. Michael Goodwin, how you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, good morning, Mark.
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  Speaker 1: I love this comment about Kathy Hochul, big sister to Mamdani.
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  Speaker 1: What exactly is she trying to accomplish with this Mamdani
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  Speaker 1: relationship she has?
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  Speaker 2: The big sis. Look, it's a simple attempt to curry
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  Speaker 2: favor with his voters. And he's a representative of a
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  Speaker 2: whole generation of voters. That's the way she looks at it. And,
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  Speaker 2: of course, she's not popular among them, except to the
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  Speaker 2: extent that she does what he wants. And then he
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  Speaker 2: says nice things about her and appears at her and smiles.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's what she's looking for. She's looking
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  Speaker 2: for help in the election. She's obviously somewhat concerned about
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  Speaker 2: Bruce Blinken's campaign. And right now, I think she's acting
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  Speaker 2: like all she has to do is keep Mamdani happy,
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  Speaker 2: and then everything will fall in place next month in
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  Speaker 2: the November election.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, now what is she getting wrong? It's not that simple,
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  Speaker 1: is it? That Mamdani crowd might just see right through her,
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  Speaker 1: won't they?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's it. I mean, they don't want the half-in,
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  Speaker 2: half-out Democrats. They made that clear with their insurgency attacks
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  Speaker 2: against the party. And to them, Hochul is that party.
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  Speaker 2: She's that party's chief executive in New York. I believe
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  Speaker 2: they are right about that. That is where her instincts are.
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  Speaker 2: But they have converted her at least 50% to go
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  Speaker 2: with them, to be a tear tax. all the billions
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  Speaker 2: of dollars that she funneled to the Mamdani operation in
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  Speaker 2: the city. So she's doing whatever she can to curry favor.
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  Speaker 2: And last week, she attacked Benjamin Netanyahu for criticizing Mamdani.
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  Speaker 2: And I find it very interesting. She never said whether
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  Speaker 2: she agrees with Mamdani that Israel is a genocide state.
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  Speaker 2: But she attacked Netanyahu for attacking Mamdani over that and
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  Speaker 2: other things he has said and done. So it's another
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  Speaker 2: example of Hochul wanting to rescue Mamdani without going full
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  Speaker 2: in on his side. I just think this kind of half-in,
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  Speaker 2: half-out posture can't work. And I hope it doesn't work
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  Speaker 2: because I think it's very bad for the state and
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  Speaker 2: the city.
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  Speaker 1: So Bruce Blakeman, we love him. He's a great candidate.
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  Speaker 1: He'd be a phenomenal governor. What can he do? He's
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  Speaker 1: only got like 35 days till this election. She's only
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  Speaker 1: agreed to one debate. What can he do to really
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  Speaker 1: go after her?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think the debate is going to be
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  Speaker 2: the deciding factor here. I think he's got to continue
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  Speaker 2: to wrap up and increase his linkage of Hochul and Mamdani.
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  Speaker 2: He's done some of that. But I think he's done
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  Speaker 2: it primarily upstate, where Mamdani is very unpopular. And so
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  Speaker 2: that should help drive out, turn out the Republican votes,
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  Speaker 2: the anti-Hoko votes. But the real key to this is
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  Speaker 2: in New York City. The five boroughs, I should say
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  Speaker 2: the four boroughs, not including Staten Island, always provide the
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  Speaker 2: Democratic margin for and have for the last 20 years.
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  Speaker 2: George Pataki in 2002 was the last Republican to win
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  Speaker 2: a statewide race. And so it's always because of the
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  Speaker 2: margin in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, and the Bronx. That's where
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats run up the score. So Blakeman has to
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  Speaker 2: get more turnout and more votes in New York City
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  Speaker 2: if he has any hope. And I think, as I
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  Speaker 2: have written, Mark, a million people voted against Mamdani. If
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  Speaker 2: Blakeman could get even half of those to vote for him,
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  Speaker 2: then he would, I think, be in a very good
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  Speaker 2: position overall.
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  Speaker 1: You know, obviously the media, very slanted, very biased, they're
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  Speaker 1: always pretty brilliant. painting it as the Republicans are in
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  Speaker 1: real trouble, Democrats are going to coast. You think there's
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  Speaker 1: like an undercurrent there that's really going to come out
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  Speaker 1: and back Blakeman and other Republicans that the polls aren't measuring?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think the best sign that I've seen in
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  Speaker 2: the polls for Blakeman is that he had a significant
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  Speaker 2: lead in the most recent poll among independents. And again...
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  Speaker 2: It bears in mind to remember that there are more
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  Speaker 2: independents in New York State than there are Republicans. There
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  Speaker 2: are far more Democrats. Democrats outnumber Republicans about two to one,
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  Speaker 2: I believe, in the state. But there are more independents
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  Speaker 2: than there are Republicans. So he needs a big chunk
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  Speaker 2: of independent voters to come out for him. And he needs,
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  Speaker 2: of course, Republican voters to turn out on big numbers.
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  Speaker 2: If he can do that, then I think he has
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  Speaker 2: a shot. But I'm not sure. It's hard to measure
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  Speaker 2: each group differently, you know, in one poll. So we
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  Speaker 2: haven't seen the polls. And all these polls have been done.
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  Speaker 2: He's never, to my knowledge, had the lead. So I
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  Speaker 2: think the last one had him at nine points behind.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's got to close that gap to inspire
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  Speaker 2: those potential voters for him to come out. Because if
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  Speaker 2: people think the election is already over, they're not going
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  Speaker 2: to vote. So he's running out of time to light
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  Speaker 2: the spark.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Michael Gooden, we haven't talked to you since UN week. Netanyahu,
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  Speaker 1: powerful speech by Netanyahu, by Trump. What do you think
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  Speaker 1: of Was anything accomplished with all of that?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think that speaks, Mark, was, you know,
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  Speaker 2: for the UN, of course, but it was primarily for
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  Speaker 2: Israeli voters. You know, Netanyahu's got an election coming up
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  Speaker 2: even before the American election. It's in, I think, two,
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  Speaker 2: two and a half weeks, the Israeli election. I don't
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  Speaker 2: believe there's early voting or anything like that. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's a single day. So it would be interesting. He's
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  Speaker 2: got kind of a coalition running against him, but it's
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  Speaker 2: still very much in flux. And the winner, in order
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  Speaker 2: to be the winner, has to get a majority of
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  Speaker 2: the seats, the parliamentary seats, the Knesset seats. That's how
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  Speaker 2: the prime minister becomes the prime minister, is if your
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  Speaker 2: party can get a majority of the legislative seats. then
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  Speaker 2: that's the way it is in all these parliamentarian systems.
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  Speaker 2: And he has a very narrow majority and has, by
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  Speaker 2: stitching together several parties, he'll have to do that again
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  Speaker 2: to keep the job.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Well, Michael Goodwin, great stuff. Love the columns.
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  Speaker 1: Any idea what you're writing about tomorrow? Can you give
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  Speaker 1: us a little preview?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. The Post has a fascinating piece today on Mondani's social...
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  Speaker 2: social media hit squad going to go after individual business
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  Speaker 2: leaders in New York City. I think it's terrible. It's terrible.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it really will drive businesses out of the city.
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  Speaker 2: It's unbelievable for a mayor to do something like this.
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  Speaker 1: But he's also going to run a smear campaign against
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  Speaker 1: the biggest, most powerful CEOs in New York. You think
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  Speaker 1: he's making it? Doesn't he realize what he's going to set?
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  Speaker 1: These guys could come after him with billions of dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Has he really thought about it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think he's worried about the politics of
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  Speaker 2: it just yet. I think he's running to be the
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  Speaker 2: champion of the far left. He's got three and a
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  Speaker 2: half years to continue in the office. But I think
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  Speaker 2: if he can get a few scouts this way, it'll
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  Speaker 2: make him more popular among the rabid set that follows
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  Speaker 2: him now. Hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, interesting.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait to read that column.
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  Speaker 2: Again, how does Hochul react to this, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, interesting. Well, this is going to be a great
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  Speaker 1: column tomorrow. You can read Michael Goodwin every Sunday, every
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday in the New York Post. Michael Goodwin, thanks for
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  Speaker 1: being with us.
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  Speaker 2: Always a pleasure, Mark. Thank you.
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