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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning Cooner country. Okay, my friends, as you know,
today is election day. Huge races across the country off
your elections, but still there will be they will be
very consequential. In New Jersey, a very tight race between
the Republican Jack Chiita Torelli and Mikey Cheryl the Democrat.
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It's going to go down to the wire. In Virginia.
All eyes are on Virginia. Two races for the attorney general,
especially whether Jay Jones, the Democrat, after the text came
out openly calling for the murder of his political opponents,
for the murder and the hum and fantasizing about killing
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fellow Republicans and those that he disagrees with. Will that
turn the race in Virginia, especially the governor's race between
Abigail Spanberger the Democrat and Winsome Earl Sears the Republican.
But all eyes are on New York City. There's no
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question that today the destiny of New York is going
to be decided. And as we head down the stretch,
poll after poll after poll shows Andrew Cuomo slowly clawing
back some of the lead that Mamdonni has gained. He
is closing the gap, but still, depending on which pole
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you look at, Mamdanni is up by seven. Other poles
have him up by ten. Another pole has him up
by eleven points. So, unless the polls are completely off
or barring a miracle or some kind of a disaster
in the Mamdanni turnout effort, it now looks very likely
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that New York City will elect an Islamo communist to
be their next mayor. And so President Trump has now
come out at the eleventh hour. He was hinting at
it the last couple of weeks, urging Republicans. It's been
about ten fourteen days now, saying you really got to
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give Andrew Cuomo a hard look. Curtis Sleewaw, the Republican nominee,
simply cannot win if you look at the polls, and
maybe it's time to bite the bullet and go with
the lesser of two evils. As Trump said just a
couple days ago, I'd rather have a Democrat in New
York City as the mayor than a full blown communist. Well,
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yesterday he left no more doubt. He endorsed Andrew Cuomo.
President Trump came out and said that a vote for
Curtis Sleewaw is now essentially a vote for Mamdani that
the only candidate who has a realistic chance of defeating
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Mamdonnie of stealing this from him at the last moment
is Andrew Cuomo. New York City is a Democrat stronghold.
Republicans do not do well in New York City. So
a traditional Democrat like Cuomo, former governor, which still a
lot of support in New York City, is the only one,
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according to Trump, who has a realistic chance of still
pulling this out of the fire and defeating the communist
mum Donnie. Trump also warned to people of New York
that if they vote for a communist like Mumdanni a,
it will be the end of New York City. It
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will be a disaster, really, as he put it, the
downfall of the greatest city in America. Trump is a
New Yorker. I know he lives now in mar A Lago,
but he was born there, he was raised there. His
financial empire was essentially built in New York. He loves
New York City. He still considers himself at heart a
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New York kind of guy. And he says, for him,
this is a living nightmare. And so he has now
promised that should Mum Donnie win a he will take
a political sledgehammer to New York City, and you will
see New York go the way of London under Sadikon.
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Crime will explode, Lawlessness will be rampant, Businesses will flee,
investors will leave, taxpayers will leave. That you will see
New York become poorer, more crime ridden, much more antisemitic.
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That this will become almost unbearable for many Jews to
live in that city, living under the living under a
mayor who is Prohamas, procherial law, virulently anti Jewish, virulently
anti Israel. And so Trump is saying, before you jump
off that cliff, think hard and long about the decision
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you're about to make. And then he issued a warning.
This warning. He said it over the weekend in his
interview with sixty Minutes, and he repeated it again on
Truth Social last night. Listen now to President Trump telling
Nora O'Donnell on sixty Minutes Sunday night, You're not gonna
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get federal funding. I'm gonna give you the absolute bare
minimum that I have to give, but I'm telling you
federal funds are gonna dry up New York is gonna
feel the pain. I will not send taxpayer dollars to
an avowed communist who will run that city into the ground.
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Roll cut three, Mike, What if Mandami becomes mayor?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
It's going to be hard for me as the president
to give a lot of money to New York because
if you have a communist running New York, all you're
doing is wasting the money you're sending there.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
So basically you're going to get little to no federal funds.
Now is that enough to dissuade voters? We shall see.
What is interesting is that even though Trump now has
given this last minute, very public endorsement of Andrew Cuomo,
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Cuomo is dismissing it. What is remarkable about Cuomo's campaign,
and I'm telling you, He's running one of the most incompetent,
ineffectiveffeckless campaigns I have ever seen in my entire life.
And that's saying something. He refuses to court Republicans, He
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refuses to accept their support that some are giving him.
He is doing everything he can to continue to bolster
his anti Trump credentials, saying he's going to fight Trump
every step of the way. If he's the mayor that
he doesn't want to get along with Trump, that New
York City will remain a sanctuary city, and that he
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will be Trump's toughest opponent in the country. So Trump
is trying to give him support, in fact, his endorsement,
and Cuomo is effectively spitting in his face. Listen now
to Cuomo. This was on a New York radio show
when they said, you know Trump's Trump says he's backing you.
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Trump is urging all of his supporters in New York
to go out and vote for you. He's telling the
Republicans basically, throw Curtis Leewhile under the bus. Don't vote
for Curtis, vote for you. What's your answer. Listen to
Andrew Cuomo, roll cut one. Mike, Yeah, boy, was just
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on sixty minutes, Cuomo saying that, yeah his guy.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
No. So if Trump said you're his candidate, if he
had to pick a bad Democrat.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Or what did he say, or a communist or a communist,
he's picking you?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Hello, I think that he was.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
They cut him off.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Sandy says that it's just a cell phone that just
you know, call just drop because of a cell phone.
That's and Mike says, yeah, Mike says, that's the exact
same noise that it makes on our show when we
lose a cell phone connection. So they doubt that Cuomo
hung up, or that his people just cut him off. Whatever,
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whatever the reason is, it's not a good look for
Cuomo now. Furthermore, he then said, I can stand up
to Trump in a way that mum Donnie can't. I
have the experience he doesn't. I have the resume he doesn't.
I've done it repeatedly in the past. This guy's a
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thirty three year old assemblyman, as he put it, with
a resume as long as a cocktail napkin. In other words,
he's never held a real job in his entire life.
Listen to Andrew Cuomo, roll cut one a, Mike.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
We need a mayor who can stand up to Donald Trump,
who can get the funding that New York deserves, who
can make sure the National Guard does not come to
New York. Mandani cannot handle Trump.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
So basically he's now out anti trumping mum Donnie saying
that no, I'm gonna be even harder on Trump than Mamdanni.
So so much for Trump's endorsement and Trump's support. Now
let me just say this. I've said it on X
and I'm going to say it again. I respectfully disagree
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with the President. I understand clearly where he's coming from.
A Communist as mayor of New York City would be
an unmitigated disaster. But why should Republicans in New York
City vote for Cuomo. This is the same man who
murdered senior citizens. This is the same man who imposed
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the authoritarian lockdowns that crushed the economy of the State
of New York and violated the civil liberties of every
single New Yorker. This is a man who turned New
York into a sanctuary state. In other words, the choice
between Cuomo and Mamdani is the choice between stomach cancer
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and a brain tumor. Okay, you can cut the tension
with a knife in New York City. I think almost
every New Yorker now realizes that New York will never
be the same again. Should they elect zoron Mamdani. I
think there's no question, and President Trump is warning the
people of New York be careful what you vote for,
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because you just may get it. And you may wish
for Mamdani. You may think he's the answer to your problems.
You're going to find out, like every other place on Earth,
communism leads to mass misery. And so at the last,
at the last hour, the eleventh hour, yesterday, President Trump,
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in a shocking move, publicly endorsed his arch nemesis Andrew Cuomo,
saying he'd rather have a bad or horrible democrat than
a communist running New York City. And he's urging all
Republicans now, anyone supporting Curtis Sleewaw, all MAGA patriots switch
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from SLIWA and support Andrew Cuomo together. If they unite
those two forces, maybe they can head off Mamdani before
he gets to victory. That to stop mmdonni from getting
the majority. Now, just a couple of points, and then
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I want to throw it open to the great audience
of Kooner Country number one. And this, to me is
the question on the table right now. Do you agree
with Trump's decision to endorse Andrew Cuomo. Do you think
it's a good move. Do you think it's a bad move.
The conservative media establishment Fox News, the New York Post
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in particular, which is earned by the owned by the
Murdoch Empire, the Wall Street Journal, there's a big radio
station up in New York City, WABC, all of them.
By the way, Curtis Leewah worked for WABC. He was
a very popular talk show host. In fact, he worked
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for them right up until he ran for the mayor's race.
In fact, all of his colleagues at WABC, all these
other people on air, urged him to run, saying someone's
got to stop Mom Donnie. You're the guy to do it.
Curtis run, and so we put his career in jeopardy
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and said, Okay, I'm suspending my show and I'm going
to run. And now, one by one by one, every
major talk show host, or i think almost every major
talk show host on WABC has stabbed Curtis Leewa in
the back saying you need to drop out of the race.
You need to endorse Andrew Cuomo. You're the one now
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that's going to be the spoiler. You're the one now
that's going to cost the election for the City of
New York and Mum Donnie the win because you're splitting
the anti Mumdannie vote with Andrew Cuomo. And so WABC
host after host after host on their orders from their owner.
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And it's coming straight from the top. Has said, you've
got to endorse Andrew Cuomo, and so as Curtis Sliewell
rightly put it in his last and I think final
interview with WABC, he said, you know, you guys have
turned WABC into always broadcasting Cuomo. And you could see
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he was very emotional, he was very angry, he was bitter,
he felt profoundly betrayed, saying, you all asked me to run.
I did everything right, and now, one by one, some
of the very people that I trained, some of the
very people that I helped get a job at WABC,
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you're all shanking me in the back, saying I should
drop out? Why should I drop out? And suddenly now
we're all supposed to embrace Andrew Cuomo. Now let me
And he's completely right. He has been betrayed by the
New York Post, he has been betrayed by Fox News,
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he has been betrayed by WABC. They're all embracing Andrew Cuomo.
And look, you can put lipstick on a pig, it's
still a pig. And the fact of the matter is,
and I'm just gonna lay it out if I'm a
Curtis Leewass supporter, and I am by the way. I
would vote for him a thousand times in New York
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City over either one of you know, either the communist
or the destructive leftist. That's really the choice. As I said,
it's brain tumor they kill you fast, or stomach cancer
they kill you slow. That's the choice between Cuomo and
and Mom Donnie. That's really that's the difference between the
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two men. So, as conservatives, we're supposed to now vote
for a man who committed mass murder against senior citizens
during the so called pandemic. We're supposed to vote for
a man who literally imposed one of the most draconian
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authoritarian lockdowns, closed down the schools, shut down businesses, shut
down churches, imposed these insane vaccine mask mandates, destroyed the
civil liberties of the entire state of New York. Who
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was disgracefully pushed out of office for on a sexual
harassment scandal. Okay, thank you, Sandy. He's this is what
the man has done, on top of giving driver's licenses
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to illegal aliens, and on top of on top of
turning his state into a sanctuary state. And so I'm
supposed to vote for him because he's quote unquote better
than Mom Donnie. No, they both suck if you want to.
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I mean, I can't stand either of them. Don't get
me wrong, I hate Mam Donnie with every fiber in
my being. But honestly, if you're gonna kill me quick
or kill me slow, I'd rather you kill me quick
get it over with because all you're doing with a
Cuomo marrialty is you're just You're just prolonging the death
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spiral of New York. That's all you're doing. So no,
I'm sorry, and I gotta say this, What did Curtis
Leewan do wrong? How comes suddenly now he's become the
bad guy? He ran for the Republican primary, he won.
He never murdered anybody, He never locked the state down,
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he never stole everybody's civil liberties, he never shut down
people's businesses. Okay, there is breaking news. In fact, that's
if you noticed, probably in the last segment, I paused
for about maybe twenty seconds on the air, in the
middle of my kind of mini monologue on Andrew Cuomo
versus Zorn Mamdani. It's because Dick Cheney Sandy was telling
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me my ear and now it's broken everywhere that former
Vice president Dick Cheney is dead. He died at the
age of eighty four. Generally, I don't speak ill of
the dead when they've just passed away. I don't do that.
I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Liberal. I just
don't do that. But as you know, I disagreed with
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Dick Cheney on many, many many issues, the Iraq War
being the biggest, but also his anti trumpsm how he
led the globalists against President Trump, he and his daughter,
and so I was never a big fan of Dick Cheney,
and I became even less of a fan as the
years went on. So, but I'm not going to bash
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him throughout the show. I feel sorry for his wife,
I feel sorry for his children. I want to express
my sympathies, my condolences to the entire Cheney family. But
I'm not going to talk about him. I don't like
to speak ill of the dead when they've just passed away.
I don't do that. So anyway, it is what it is.
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He is dead. He passed away at the age of
eighty four. All right, Today is election day in New Jersey.
In Virginia, by the way, there are some very big
mayoral races in Minneapolis Saint Paul, where a Mom Dawnie
candidate Omar Fate is looking to defeat the establishment democrat
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Jacob Fray, very stimilar to Andrew Cuomo versus Mamdani. All
eyes are going to be on that race as well,
and also in Seattle. So the radical left now believes
that they can take over not one, not two, but
three major American cities. Obviously the crown jewel is New York.
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So the question now is this, Will Trump's endorsement of
Cuomo help him? Will it lead to a defection among
the Curtis Sleewas supporters in favor of Cuomo and give
him enough support to put him over the top at
the very last possible moment. We shall see. Let me
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just say this, Curtis Sleewah is a very good man.
He has been fighting crime his entire career. He founded
the Guardian Angels. He is a conservative. He frankly is
loyal to Trump. He is very loyal to New York.
In fact, he's the only one who has come out
and said even if Mom Donnie wins, I don't care,
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I'm not leaving New York City. I was born in
New York. I was raised in New York. I am
a New York patriot, and I will go down with
the Titanic if need be. And look, as I said,
he's not corrupt. He never got pushed out of office
because he was sexually harassing women. He never murdered senior citizens.
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He doesn't support sanctuary cities Cuomo does. He never turned
New York into a sanctuary state Cuomo did. He never
locked down the entire state Cuomo did. He's never violated
the civil liberties of a single New Yorker. That's all
Cuomo has done. So to me, I'm voting Curtis Sleewah,
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and I think every Conservative should vot for Curtis Sleewah.
And I think every Republican, if frankly, any sane, any
sane New Yorker, should vote for Curtis Sleewah. Well, Jeff,
a vote for Sleewah is a vote for Mom Donni
because Sleewah has no chance. Well, I'm sorry, then, let
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New Yorkers live with the consequences of of their crazy politics.
You know, again, not to labor the point, Cuomo will
kill you. He'll kill you slower, yes, but he'll still
kill you. He's basically build the Blasio, like, have we
forgotten billed the Blasio? Just four years ago he was
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running New York City into the ground the way Cuomo
was running the entire state into the ground. Now is
Mom Donnie in a sense worse? Is he sort of
a brain cancer or a brain tumor? It's more shock.
I mean, it's fast. It's you know, it's like stage
four brain two, stage four brain cancer. You know, with him,
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you're not dead in three years, You're dead in three months.
But kill me slowly or kill me quickly. You're still
killing me. And so after a while, I think the
people of New York have to live with the consequences
of their insane left wing politics. And so it's not
that I want Mom Donnie to win, quite the contrary.
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But what I'm saying is why should I be complicit
in evil? Why? Just think about it if I'm a
citizen of New York, Because this is now what the
New York Post and Fox News and WABC and Wall
Street Journal and the entire GOP media establishment they're saying, well,
you have to vote for Cuomo. Why do I have
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to vote for Cuomo? Why? Why should I be complicit
in evil? Why should I get my hands dirty. You
want me to vote for someone who literally was a
who killed seene your citizens, who's a mass murderer. Like, no,
I'm sorry, man, you want to vote, Hey, you want
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to sully your hands, You sully your hands. I'm not
going to sully my hands. Why because I've got a
very nice, clear alternative. Well, he's not gonna win, Jeff, Well,
that's on the people of New York. All I can
do is vote my convictions and vote my conscience. I'm
not going to turn myself into a pretzel and vote
for a monster like Cuomo because people are telling me, mum,
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Donnie's an even bigger monster. And look, this is the
problem that the Democrats have. You're going to socialism. Frankly,
you're going to communism with the Democrats. Now, we can
do this a la Andrew Cuomo the slow way, or
we can do it under mom Donnie at sixty miles
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an hour. But you're still ending up at the same place.
So if this is what it takes, if New York
needs to collapse, so maybe it can rise again, let
it happen. I don't know what else to say to you. So,
and by the way, I don't think it's going to
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help Cuomo. And this is my final point about Cuomo.
Now that the President has expended political capital on his behalf,
does he say thank you? Does he say I'm calling
on everybody who's against Mamdnni to vote for me, whether
you're a Democrat, independent, Republican. That's all he's got to say.
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In other words, I'll tell a Trump supporter, in other words,
I'll take your vote. No, he won't even say that
I hate Trump. I'm going to oppose Trump. I'm more
effective at opposing Trump than Mom Donnie is. I will
keep New York a sanctuary city, but unlike Mam Donnie,
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I will keep the National Guard troops out because I
know how to fight Trump better and harder than Mamdani,
because I have more experience and I'm more battle hardened
because I fought him for years. From the Governor's mansion.
That's literally his pitch in the last twenty four to
forty eight hours. So President Trump extends the olive branch, says, look,
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I'm trying to save the city from this communist nut job.
So yeah, you're not. You know, you're you're a horrible guy,
and you're a bad Democrat. But you're better than this
Marxist flamethrower. And what's Cuomo's answer? Pooh, he just spits
in his face. So okay, I mean, I don't know
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what to tell you. So it's ironically, whatever boost or
help he was gonna get now he squandered that. So please,
you know, I'm just a I can't believe how everybody
is blaming Curtis Leewah, and by the way, from the
very same people who told him to run. So what
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does he do? He runs, He gives up a lucrative job.
He wins the primary. He everything is above board, he
wins fair and square. He's the only guy with clean
hands in the entire race. And suddenly he's the bad guy.
He's now the spoiler. No, no, no, no, don't dirty your
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hands and vote for either Cuomo or Mom. Donni vote
Curtis Sleewah. At least that's what I would do if
I was living in New York now. But that's me.
I want to hear from you, the great audience of
Kooner Country. Six one seven two, six, six sixty eight
sixty eight is the number Trump endorses Cuomo. A. Will
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it have any impact? B Okay, news broke about maybe
twenty five minutes ago. Former Vice President Dick Cheney has
died at the age of eighty four. Okay, my friends.
The Kooner country Pole Question of the Day sponsored by
Mario's Mario's Quality Roofing, Siding and Windows. Who will be
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worse for New York City? Who do you think is worse? A? Mamdani,
B Andrew Cuomo? Who do you think is worse? A
the communist Zoron Mumdani, the Islamo communist, B, the destructive democrat,
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the the corrupt leftist Andrew Cuomo, A or B. It's
a shame we don't have a C. None of the
above because to be honest to me, it's you know,
for me, it's none of the above. But let that go.
I want to hear from you. You can vote on
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Let's go to Dave, our Western PA constitutionalist correspondent. He's
based in the Pittsburgh area. Dave, thanks for holding and
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as always welcome.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Yeah, Jeff, talk about us so going through someone's back,
Never mind a nice stabbing to Jeff. I mean, y'ar
and sleeve on the radio before. He's pretty good and
you know, for his coworkers to do this, Tom, Jeff,
it's like you can count your friends, but you can't
count your enemies. You know what I mean, Jeff, it's crazy,
But you know from a VT and secte f dec Cheney,
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rest in peace. That's all I'm gonna say to Jeff.
But no, Jeff and t ironic kid two in Pittsburgh,
our current mayor got tossed out in the primary and
he's just going to be replaced by another liberal and
in fact a Republican.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Jeff, get this.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
You think New York Kitty's crazy, We're calling the Yallaghany
County crazy. People like Murdoch from the Age team and
Kramer from Seinfeld because the Republican that's running against him
is a rhinos rhino like a Kerry Healy back there
or a Mitt Romney.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
So no matter what we do, Pittsburgh is going to.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Be more screwed then. You know what.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
So, Dave, who do you think is going to win today?
Do you think mom Donnie is gonna win? Or do
you think Trump's endorsement is going to give Cuomo the
the jet fuel, the boost that he needs to put
him over the top and to catch Mom Donnie at
the end.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Jeff, if I met you said, Jeff, you how about
some JP eight that I used to holler in Iraq
the second time doing motor transport.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
But I yet, Jeff, I think the JP eight's going
to help.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Let's hope and pray. I mean, I pray for the
lesser of two evils Cuomo. But you know he used
to be thanking Trump instead of crossing him. But you
know that that's New York City politics back when he
was mayor and governor. So but you know what, Jeff,
I think it's gonna I think it's gonna be close.
I think New York is actually very good people. Some
of them an't that fright Yankees fans obviously, but you know,
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I just I mean, let's hope that Metropolis does the
right thing. You know, and the only thing we can
do is just pray.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Jeff Dave, thank you very much for that call. I
really appreciate it. Uh Okay. Dave thinks that Trump's endorsement
will help Cuomo, and he said, pray for mom Donnie
to lose. Agree, disagree, Barbara in Maryland. Thanks for holding Barbara.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
And welcome goinging and thanks to taking my callas. I
have been watching this race. I'm from New York and
I've been watching this race from the very beginning. And
Curtis Flewell, I've always liked him because of his strong
stance on law and order. But I've got to tell you,
at least in my opinion, he ran a terrible campaign.
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He ran a terrible campaign, and the first mistake I
think he made is the same one that I've seen
other Republicans make who are afraid of their blue state.
He never ever have I heard him say out of
his mouth one time that he's an America First candidate
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and that he's going to follow or do any of
the things that President Trump has done. And fat where
the Sleewa seems to have gone out of his way
not to mention President Trump's name and the accomplishments that
he's made or done. That's one of the things I
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noticed from the very beginning when he started getting a
little bit of traction. I listened to Larry Cudlow yesterday
and Larry Kudlow said something that kind of brought it
all together. Larry Kudlow said, you know, I think he
made a big mistake because he never courted Trump's vote.
That just to me, that was bingo because he never
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courted President Trump's vote. He never considered himself America first.
And I can tell you my relatives in New York,
they are afraid of MONDOMNEI. Cloma's gonna win. He's gonna win.
His numbers have already gone up because of what's happening
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with not just what President Trump endorsing Clomo. I'm sure
that gave him a little bit of it. Did it
gave him a boost? However, it's what people found out
about mom Dommy over the last say, six weeks, four weeks,
the last four two to four weeks especially, all of
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the things that he's been lying about are being exposed,
and it's being exposed on the street because there's so
many podcasters who are on the street. There are people
that are out there talking to people. And then there's
a group called the Muslims against Man dumps, you know,
against him, that are out there in numbers. And there
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are also people walking the streets in New York against him. Uh,
Croomo is going to win. But sleive Wood just I
always I kept asking friends mine, I said, what what
is it between Curtis Slee what and President Trump? I said,
has he ever slided the orse? There's something it may
be from years ago. I don't know what, But tell
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me if I'm wrong. Have you ever heard Sleewas refer
to President Trump or America first in anything he's ever said,
because I'm telling you I've never heard it.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Well, that's a very good point, Barbara, to be honest,
I didn't look at it from that lens or that
angle the way I looked at it. And you I think, you're, well, hey,
you're right. I mean, he did not run a very
good campaign. I mean, I'm you know, I mean, I
think it's pretty obvious Curtis Leewall did not run a
good campaign. And you're right, and that I think about it.
(35:37):
I've seen several speeches, I've you know, read a lot
of stories about him giving interviews. He just doesn't mention Trump.
It's not that he attacks Trump or praises Trump, he
just doesn't mention him. And I don't know if that
was a deliberate strategy on their part or there's something
there's some bad blood going back, you know whatever five
years or ten years or whatever it is. But the
(35:59):
way I look that it is he was running a
very local campaign and he tried to keep it as
local as possible because ultimately he's a local guy. I
mean he really is. You know, he talks local, he
thinks local. Even when he's a talk show host, it's
all local. I mean, even his big pet Peeve pardon
(36:22):
the pun, right, he's obsessed with cat. I mean it's
a beautiful thing, don't get me wrong. But he goes
on about saving cats and dogs in his neighborhood, right,
saving animals that are abandoned. So you know, even the
thing that he's also besides crime, that he's really known for,
he's an animal rights lover. But again, very local. You know,
(36:44):
it's all you know, the cats and dogs in Brooklyn
where he's from, in Brooklyn. So I always looked at
it from well, he's just running a very local race
because he's a local guy and he's running a local campaign.
But you know, you're right. If I was advising him,
I'd say, you got one of the greatest presidents in
the history of the United States. You're a Republican, he's
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a Republican. Trump is telling you to run on low
energy costs. Trump is telling you to run on the
affordability issue. Trump is telling you to run on illegal immigration. Obviously,
crime law and order, which Curtius Lywa did, but there's,
you know, the affordability issue. Look again, to give Mamdani
his due, his solutions are a disaster. They're going to
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make everything infinitely worse. But he's running on the one issue,
the top issue that New Yorkers care about. That everything
in New York, like in Boston. I'm sure in Baltimore,
in your neck of the woods, Barbara rent is too expensive.
Housing is too expensive, Groceries are too expensive. The cost
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of living has gone through the roof. It's unaffordable to
live in New York, as it is in Boston, as
it is in Bold to More, as it is in
you know, in many cities. And Mum, Donnie, if you notice,
has zeroed in on it like a laser beam, like
in that sense, he's running I mean, I'm you know,
I'm putting this in qu air quotes. He's run a
(38:12):
quote unquote very good campaign. He goes back to that
issue again and again and again and again, so to
a lot of these low information voters, they're saying, well,
I don't know about his solutions, but at least he's
talking about what we care about. Cuomo. That clown hasn't
(38:33):
touched the affordability issue. It's all if and he's right,
if m'm Donnie's elected, this guy is gonna fall. But
it's basically, I'm not mum Donnie. I'm a Democrat. I
hate Trump. This is I'm telling you, this is Cuomo.
I'm not mum Donnie. I'm a Democrat. I hate Trump.
Vote for me, and you're lucky if you can string
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two three sentences out of him. That's the other thing
about Cuomo. He talks slow, he reacts slow. He's looking
a little bit like Joe Biden. I think that's another
problem that he has. And New Yorkers just remember what
a disaster he was as governor. So he's such a
weak and unappealing alternative and then you've got Curtis Sleewah,
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who's distanced himself from Trump. I agree with you, who's
running on crime in law and order, which is a good,
good issue, But it's not the top issue in New York.
And so the opposition to Mam Donnie was weak, It
was divided in many ways. It was ineffective, and I
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think the conservative media sold its soul in telling everybody
you have to vote for Cuomo. And look, it's fine
to say tactically Cuomo is better than Mam Donnie, but
to read now how Oh Cuomo is going to save
New York. Oh, Cuomo is going to stop crime. Oh,
(39:59):
Quoma going to make the city more affordable.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
No, he's not.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
He's just not a complete whack job like Mam Donnie.
That that's it. I mean, Okay, you want to hold
your nose and vote for Cuomo, go ahead, but don't
tell me that you know. Oh you want affordable housing,
vote for Andrew. Oh you want to bring down energy costs,
vote for Cuomo. Oh you want to get tough on crime,
(40:27):
vote for Cuomo. Bull You know what who made energy
costs high in New York. It was Cuomo who opened
up the state to the illegals, Cuomo, who literally violated
everybody's civil liberties. Cuomo. Now again, is he, you know,
slightly were better than you know, lesser of an evil
(40:49):
than Mam Donnie. Yeah, probably, but you know, don't put
a lipstick on a pig and suddenly tell me this
is the most beautiful beauty pageant in the world, beauty
can test in the world. So that's the problem I
have with all these conservatives over there. I think they've
disgraced themselves in New York. So we'll see. Look, Barbara,
(41:11):
I don't want to see Mom Donnie Wynn. I really
don't because I think you're right. The videos now that
are coming out, the stuff that he said, and I'm
going to play some of it. It's scary. I mean,
when you're cheering for Hamas literally a week after October seventh,
where they're still finding dead bodies, Jewish bodies. You are sick.
(41:38):
When you're taking pictures with you know, terrorized terrorists, sympathizing
Emams who cheered on the World Trade Center attack in
nineteen ninety three, you're sick when you talk about seizing
the means of production and abolishing private property and literally
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saying we want no cops, no police. We're gonna defund
and dismantle the police. We're going to abolish prisons and
allow violent murderers and rapists and criminals to roam the streets.
We want, you know, government owned grocery stores. So essentially,
(42:20):
we're gonna have food lines. Whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. When
you know, to me, the one that really got me
and everybody has a different Momdannie story. He went in
front of Antifa Antifa and told them I'm one of you.
(42:44):
I'm one of you, and if I win this race
for mayor, you are going to be in Gracie Mansion.
I will be your voice in Gracie Mansion. In other words,
Antifa has come into power backed by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Like I mean, it's a bullet from the left and
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you know, to the temple. It's from the left and
it's from the right. He's going to kill you both ways.
He's an islam wo communist. He's an Islamist and a Marxist.
New York is dead. It's it's dead, you know tomorrow,
if you know, if he wins, just hold a freaking
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funeral for the city. Because New York will have fallen.
Barbara final word to you, am I wrong?
Speaker 3 (43:36):
Everything you said is right and also the reason that
Cuomo is going to win. Curtis Sliwa ran a local
campaign to a city that's larger than two of states.
(43:56):
It's not local that local, Uh a local grown boy
in Brooklyn. Thing did not work, and he thought he
could do it without President Trump. He didn't attempt to
use America. First, he didn't have who what who came
into it to uh campaign for him? Did he have
(44:18):
Byron Donald's come in or maybe uh Wesley Hunt to
go into the into the black neighborhoods and have rallies
about the crime in the city. No, he did not.
He ran. I was just hitting myself. I'm like, what
is this? What is he doing? He had a chance
to win and he squandered it. And right now I know,
(44:41):
as far as I looked at the recent poll, Andrew
Cuomo has closed the numbers up to this single digit
and he is going to pull this off because of
everything you said that Mondami is going to do. He
didn't talk about it, but now everybody knows that that's
what he's about, because that that's just the way I
think this is going to row, Barbara.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
Let me ask you this. Trump kind of slightly referenced it.
He just touched on it. Now, look, I know it's
part of who Curtis sliwa is, his public identity. He
always wears that beret. It's from the Guardian Angels that
he created, what was it forty five? Forty years ago?
Even when he's on the air, he wears it. Everywhere
(45:23):
he goes, he wears it. And he insisted during this campaign,
you know, and he had a very nice suit on
Offen and you know, he was well dressed, but he
always had the beret all the time. The beret. The beret,
every press conference, the beret, every interview, the beret, every picture,
the beret. And Trump basically said, you know, you look
a hell of a lot better without the beret, meaning look, yes,
(45:44):
it's a superficial thing. But basically Trump was saying, look,
who's going to take you seriously when you keep wearing
a beret? Like now, Barbara, you may disagree with me.
If I was advising Curtis, I would do almost everything.
What you just said I think was brilliant. Let's get
Byron Donald's, let's get Wesley Hunt let's get these people
(46:05):
into the communities and rally up support for you, and
we're gonna run your right a true city New York
City campaign because New York is a city States It's
one of the biggest, greatest cities in the world. So
you can't just run a strictly local campaign. You got
(46:25):
to think much bigger than that. So I agree with you.
But you know, okay, once in a while you wear
the beret. It's part of who you are. It's got
that Brooklyn flavor to it. Okay, but if you keep
wearing it over and over and over again, people are
gonna start, you know, they're not gonna take it. They're
gonna start not taking you seriously. And I think, you know,
(46:47):
if I was advising them, might say, look, Curtis man,
you got to stop with the beret. You want to
wear it once in a while, fine, Look, it's your body,
it's up to you. But you look a bit like
a clown with the beret. Hey, I'm sorry, Like, I'm
just sorry. You know, it's image. I understand it's superficial,
but you know that's how people are, you know. I mean,
(47:08):
sure Trump will wear the occasional Maga hat or whatever.
But he's often in a suit, and you know he's
not wearing a hat all the time. In other words,
it's you know, there's a time to play around and
there's a time to be serious. You're asking for people's vote,
you're asking them to make you the mayor. You got
to look like a freaking mayor. Barbara, am I wrong?
Should he have should he have not worn the beret?
(47:31):
Or do you think ultimately that doesn't matter?
Speaker 3 (47:34):
It wasn't the beret. It was him. I mean the beret.
You know that that's a minor, a detailed kind of thing.
It's like his signature thing. That's okay, It's like Michael
Jackson with the white glove. You know that's not That's
not what did it. It was him. I mean, you
know Ron DeSantis would have come up and helped him.
He had I don't know who was running his campaign.
(47:57):
It just had me. I was just that's a great
point and had an opportunity.
Speaker 1 (48:02):
No, No, you're right, you're right. He could have had
the Santis. He could had so many people come in. No,
you're right, Barbara, you are spot on. Barbara as always
very thoughtful call I always learned something when you call, Barbara,
thank you very much for that call. Mike was in
my ear at this tail end of that call with Barbara,
and he made a very good point. He said, Jeff,
(48:24):
how many New Yorkers even know what the beret stands for?
Speaker 3 (48:28):
Right?
Speaker 1 (48:28):
It's it's a Guardian Angels beret. That's why he always
wears it. He's very proud of it. But Mike is right.
Mike says, you know, most New Yorkers, at least if
they knew what it stood for, right, it'd be like, well, hey,
he's a law order guy. You know, he founded the
Guardian Angels. Hey, that's their signature beret. You know. He
he you know, he walked the subways and the streets
(48:50):
and he would fight criminals and to keep you know,
citizens safe. No, they don't even know what the beret
is for. So, as Mike said, he looks like a
guy with a goofy hat. He goes, that's he goes,
I'm sorry, but you know, you know, Mike says, Look,
I'm not into New York politics, but I'm watching the
news and I see this guy and he's the Republican
and I'm like, why is he wearing that goofy hat.
(49:12):
So I'm just giving it from Mike's perspective, like the
beret didn't help him at all. And that's what Trump
was kind of saying in that Truth Social like you know,
you look the hell of a lot better without the beret,
Like it's, you know, you want to be taken seriously,
Yes or no? Six one seven two six six sixty
(49:32):
eight sixty eight Okay, double barreled question. Trump endorses Cuomo
Good morning Cooner country. Okay, my friends, as you know,
today is election day. Huge races across the country off
your elections, but still there will be they will be
very consequential. In New Jersey, a very tight race between
the Republican Jack Chiita Torelli and Mikey Cheryl the Democrat.
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It's going to go down to the wire. In Virginia.
All eyes are on Virginia. Two races for the attorney general,
especially whether Jay Jones, the Democrat, after the text came
out openly calling for the murder of his political opponents,
for the murder and the hum and fantasizing about killing
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fellow Republicans and those that he disagrees with. Will that
turn the race in Virginia, especially the governor's race between
Abigail Spanberger the Democrat and Winsome Earl Sears the Republican.
But all eyes are on New York City. There's no
(01:12):
question that today the destiny of New York is going
to be decided. And as we head down the stretch,
poll after poll after poll shows Andrew Cuomo slowly clawing
back some of the lead that Mamdonni has gained. He
is closing the gap, but still, depending on which pole
(01:35):
you look at, Mamdanni is up by seven. Other poles
have him up by ten. Another pole has him up
by eleven points. So, unless the polls are completely off
or barring a miracle or some kind of a disaster
in the Mamdanni turnout effort, it now looks very likely
(01:58):
that New York City will elect an Islamo communist to
be their next mayor. And so President Trump has now
come out at the eleventh hour. He was hinting at
it the last couple of weeks, urging Republicans. It's been
about ten fourteen days now, saying you really got to
(02:19):
give Andrew Cuomo a hard look. Curtis Sleewaw, the Republican nominee,
simply cannot win if you look at the polls, and
maybe it's time to bite the bullet and go with
the lesser of two evils. As Trump said just a
couple days ago, I'd rather have a Democrat in New
York City as the mayor than a full blown communist. Well,
(02:42):
yesterday he left no more doubt. He endorsed Andrew Cuomo.
President Trump came out and said that a vote for
Curtis Sleewaw is now essentially a vote for Mamdani that
the only candidate who has a realistic chance of defeating
(03:04):
Mamdonnie of stealing this from him at the last moment
is Andrew Cuomo. New York City is a Democrat stronghold.
Republicans do not do well in New York City. So
a traditional Democrat like Cuomo, former governor, which still a
lot of support in New York City, is the only one,
(03:26):
according to Trump, who has a realistic chance of still
pulling this out of the fire and defeating the communist
mum Donnie. Trump also warned to people of New York
that if they vote for a communist like Mumdanni a,
it will be the end of New York City. It
(03:47):
will be a disaster, really, as he put it, the
downfall of the greatest city in America. Trump is a
New Yorker. I know he lives now in mar A Lago,
but he was born there, he was raised there. His
financial empire was essentially built in New York. He loves
New York City. He still considers himself at heart a
(04:09):
New York kind of guy. And he says, for him,
this is a living nightmare. And so he has now
promised that should Mum Donnie win a he will take
a political sledgehammer to New York City, and you will
see New York go the way of London under Sadikon.
(04:30):
Crime will explode, Lawlessness will be rampant, Businesses will flee,
investors will leave, taxpayers will leave. That you will see
New York become poorer, more crime ridden, much more antisemitic.
(04:50):
That this will become almost unbearable for many Jews to
live in that city, living under the living under a
mayor who is Prohamas, procherial law, virulently anti Jewish, virulently
anti Israel. And so Trump is saying, before you jump
off that cliff, think hard and long about the decision
(05:14):
you're about to make. And then he issued a warning.
This warning. He said it over the weekend in his
interview with sixty Minutes, and he repeated it again on
Truth Social last night. Listen now to President Trump telling
Nora O'Donnell on sixty Minutes Sunday night, You're not gonna
(05:36):
get federal funding. I'm gonna give you the absolute bare
minimum that I have to give, but I'm telling you
federal funds are gonna dry up New York is gonna
feel the pain. I will not send taxpayer dollars to
an avowed communist who will run that city into the ground.
(06:01):
Roll cut three, Mike, What if Mandami becomes mayor?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
It's going to be hard for me as the president
to give a lot of money to New York because
if you have a communist running New York, all you're
doing is wasting the money you're sending there.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
So basically you're going to get little to no federal funds.
Now is that enough to dissuade voters? We shall see.
What is interesting is that even though Trump now has
given this last minute, very public endorsement of Andrew Cuomo,
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Cuomo is dismissing it. What is remarkable about Cuomo's campaign,
and I'm telling you, He's running one of the most incompetent,
ineffectiveffeckless campaigns I have ever seen in my entire life.
And that's saying something. He refuses to court Republicans, He
(07:04):
refuses to accept their support that some are giving him.
He is doing everything he can to continue to bolster
his anti Trump credentials, saying he's going to fight Trump
every step of the way. If he's the mayor that
he doesn't want to get along with Trump, that New
York City will remain a sanctuary city, and that he
(07:27):
will be Trump's toughest opponent in the country. So Trump
is trying to give him support, in fact, his endorsement,
and Cuomo is effectively spitting in his face. Listen now
to Cuomo. This was on a New York radio show
when they said, you know Trump's Trump says he's backing you.
(07:49):
Trump is urging all of his supporters in New York
to go out and vote for you. He's telling the
Republicans basically, throw Curtis Leewhile under the bus. Don't vote
for Curtis, vote for you. What's your answer. Listen to
Andrew Cuomo, roll cut one. Mike, Yeah, boy, was just
(08:13):
on sixty minutes, Cuomo saying that, yeah his guy.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
No. So if Trump said you're his candidate, if he
had to pick a bad Democrat.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Or what did he say, or a communist or a communist,
he's picking you?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Hello, I think that he was.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
They cut him off.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Sandy says that it's just a cell phone that just
you know, call just drop because of a cell phone.
That's and Mike says, yeah, Mike says, that's the exact
same noise that it makes on our show when we
lose a cell phone connection. So they doubt that Cuomo
hung up, or that his people just cut him off. Whatever,
(08:55):
whatever the reason is, it's not a good look for
Cuomo now. Furthermore, he then said, I can stand up
to Trump in a way that mum Donnie can't. I
have the experience he doesn't. I have the resume he doesn't.
I've done it repeatedly in the past. This guy's a
(09:16):
thirty three year old assemblyman, as he put it, with
a resume as long as a cocktail napkin. In other words,
he's never held a real job in his entire life.
Listen to Andrew Cuomo, roll cut one a, Mike.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
We need a mayor who can stand up to Donald Trump,
who can get the funding that New York deserves, who
can make sure the National Guard does not come to
New York. Mandani cannot handle Trump.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
So basically he's now out anti trumping mum Donnie saying
that no, I'm gonna be even harder on Trump than Mamdanni.
So so much for Trump's endorsement and Trump's support. Now
let me just say this. I've said it on X
and I'm going to say it again. I respectfully disagree
(10:09):
with the President. I understand clearly where he's coming from.
A Communist as mayor of New York City would be
an unmitigated disaster. But why should Republicans in New York
City vote for Cuomo. This is the same man who
murdered senior citizens. This is the same man who imposed
(10:32):
the authoritarian lockdowns that crushed the economy of the State
of New York and violated the civil liberties of every
single New Yorker. This is a man who turned New
York into a sanctuary state. In other words, the choice
between Cuomo and Mamdani is the choice between stomach cancer
(10:57):
and a brain tumor. Okay, you can cut the tension
with a knife in New York City. I think almost
every New Yorker now realizes that New York will never
be the same again. Should they elect zoron Mamdani. I
think there's no question, and President Trump is warning the
people of New York be careful what you vote for,
(11:19):
because you just may get it. And you may wish
for Mamdani. You may think he's the answer to your problems.
You're going to find out, like every other place on Earth,
communism leads to mass misery. And so at the last,
at the last hour, the eleventh hour, yesterday, President Trump,
(11:40):
in a shocking move, publicly endorsed his arch nemesis Andrew Cuomo,
saying he'd rather have a bad or horrible democrat than
a communist running New York City. And he's urging all
Republicans now, anyone supporting Curtis Sleewaw, all MAGA patriots switch
(12:01):
from SLIWA and support Andrew Cuomo together. If they unite
those two forces, maybe they can head off Mamdani before
he gets to victory. That to stop mmdonni from getting
the majority. Now, just a couple of points, and then
(12:21):
I want to throw it open to the great audience
of Kooner Country number one. And this, to me is
the question on the table right now. Do you agree
with Trump's decision to endorse Andrew Cuomo. Do you think
it's a good move. Do you think it's a bad move.
The conservative media establishment Fox News, the New York Post
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in particular, which is earned by the owned by the
Murdoch Empire, the Wall Street Journal, there's a big radio
station up in New York City, WABC, all of them.
By the way, Curtis Leewah worked for WABC. He was
a very popular talk show host. In fact, he worked
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for them right up until he ran for the mayor's race.
In fact, all of his colleagues at WABC, all these
other people on air, urged him to run, saying someone's
got to stop Mom Donnie. You're the guy to do it.
Curtis run, and so we put his career in jeopardy
(13:29):
and said, Okay, I'm suspending my show and I'm going
to run. And now, one by one by one, every
major talk show host, or i think almost every major
talk show host on WABC has stabbed Curtis Leewa in
the back saying you need to drop out of the race.
You need to endorse Andrew Cuomo. You're the one now
(13:52):
that's going to be the spoiler. You're the one now
that's going to cost the election for the City of
New York and Mum Donnie the win because you're splitting
the anti Mumdannie vote with Andrew Cuomo. And so WABC
host after host after host on their orders from their owner.
(14:14):
And it's coming straight from the top. Has said, you've
got to endorse Andrew Cuomo, and so as Curtis Sliewell
rightly put it in his last and I think final
interview with WABC, he said, you know, you guys have
turned WABC into always broadcasting Cuomo. And you could see
(14:35):
he was very emotional, he was very angry, he was bitter,
he felt profoundly betrayed, saying, you all asked me to run.
I did everything right, and now, one by one, some
of the very people that I trained, some of the
very people that I helped get a job at WABC,
(14:56):
you're all shanking me in the back, saying I should
drop out? Why should I drop out? And suddenly now
we're all supposed to embrace Andrew Cuomo. Now let me
And he's completely right. He has been betrayed by the
New York Post, he has been betrayed by Fox News,
(15:17):
he has been betrayed by WABC. They're all embracing Andrew Cuomo.
And look, you can put lipstick on a pig, it's
still a pig. And the fact of the matter is,
and I'm just gonna lay it out if I'm a
Curtis Leewass supporter, and I am by the way. I
would vote for him a thousand times in New York
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City over either one of you know, either the communist
or the destructive leftist. That's really the choice. As I said,
it's brain tumor they kill you fast, or stomach cancer
they kill you slow. That's the choice between Cuomo and
and Mom Donnie. That's really that's the difference between the
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two men. So, as conservatives, we're supposed to now vote
for a man who committed mass murder against senior citizens
during the so called pandemic. We're supposed to vote for
a man who literally imposed one of the most draconian
(16:26):
authoritarian lockdowns, closed down the schools, shut down businesses, shut
down churches, imposed these insane vaccine mask mandates, destroyed the
civil liberties of the entire state of New York. Who
(16:47):
was disgracefully pushed out of office for on a sexual
harassment scandal. Okay, thank you, Sandy. He's this is what
the man has done, on top of giving driver's licenses
(17:08):
to illegal aliens, and on top of on top of
turning his state into a sanctuary state. And so I'm
supposed to vote for him because he's quote unquote better
than Mom Donnie. No, they both suck if you want to.
(17:31):
I mean, I can't stand either of them. Don't get
me wrong, I hate Mam Donnie with every fiber in
my being. But honestly, if you're gonna kill me quick
or kill me slow, I'd rather you kill me quick
get it over with because all you're doing with a
Cuomo marrialty is you're just You're just prolonging the death
(17:53):
spiral of New York. That's all you're doing. So no,
I'm sorry, and I gotta say this, What did Curtis
Leewan do wrong? How comes suddenly now he's become the
bad guy? He ran for the Republican primary, he won.
He never murdered anybody, He never locked the state down,
(18:15):
he never stole everybody's civil liberties, he never shut down
people's businesses. Okay, there is breaking news. In fact, that's
if you noticed, probably in the last segment, I paused
for about maybe twenty seconds on the air, in the
middle of my kind of mini monologue on Andrew Cuomo
versus Zorn Mamdani. It's because Dick Cheney Sandy was telling
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me my ear and now it's broken everywhere that former
Vice president Dick Cheney is dead. He died at the
age of eighty four. Generally, I don't speak ill of
the dead when they've just passed away. I don't do that.
I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Liberal. I just
don't do that. But as you know, I disagreed with
(19:01):
Dick Cheney on many, many many issues, the Iraq War
being the biggest, but also his anti trumpsm how he
led the globalists against President Trump, he and his daughter,
and so I was never a big fan of Dick Cheney,
and I became even less of a fan as the
years went on. So, but I'm not going to bash
(19:23):
him throughout the show. I feel sorry for his wife,
I feel sorry for his children. I want to express
my sympathies, my condolences to the entire Cheney family. But
I'm not going to talk about him. I don't like
to speak ill of the dead when they've just passed away.
I don't do that. So anyway, it is what it is.
(19:43):
He is dead. He passed away at the age of
eighty four. All right, Today is election day in New Jersey.
In Virginia, by the way, there are some very big
mayoral races in Minneapolis Saint Paul, where a Mom Dawnie
candidate Omar Fate is looking to defeat the establishment democrat
(20:05):
Jacob Fray, very stimilar to Andrew Cuomo versus Mamdani. All
eyes are going to be on that race as well,
and also in Seattle. So the radical left now believes
that they can take over not one, not two, but
three major American cities. Obviously the crown jewel is New York.
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So the question now is this, Will Trump's endorsement of
Cuomo help him? Will it lead to a defection among
the Curtis Sleewas supporters in favor of Cuomo and give
him enough support to put him over the top at
the very last possible moment. We shall see. Let me
(20:49):
just say this, Curtis Sleewah is a very good man.
He has been fighting crime his entire career. He founded
the Guardian Angels. He is a conservative. He frankly is
loyal to Trump. He is very loyal to New York.
In fact, he's the only one who has come out
and said even if Mom Donnie wins, I don't care,
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I'm not leaving New York City. I was born in
New York. I was raised in New York. I am
a New York patriot, and I will go down with
the Titanic if need be. And look, as I said,
he's not corrupt. He never got pushed out of office
because he was sexually harassing women. He never murdered senior citizens.
(21:34):
He doesn't support sanctuary cities Cuomo does. He never turned
New York into a sanctuary state Cuomo did. He never
locked down the entire state Cuomo did. He's never violated
the civil liberties of a single New Yorker. That's all
Cuomo has done. So to me, I'm voting Curtis Sleewah,
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and I think every Conservative should vot for Curtis Sleewah.
And I think every Republican, if frankly, any sane, any
sane New Yorker, should vote for Curtis Sleewah. Well, Jeff,
a vote for Sleewah is a vote for Mom Donni
because Sleewah has no chance. Well, I'm sorry, then, let
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New Yorkers live with the consequences of of their crazy politics.
You know, again, not to labor the point, Cuomo will
kill you. He'll kill you slower, yes, but he'll still
kill you. He's basically build the Blasio, like, have we
forgotten billed the Blasio? Just four years ago he was
(22:40):
running New York City into the ground the way Cuomo
was running the entire state into the ground. Now is
Mom Donnie in a sense worse? Is he sort of
a brain cancer or a brain tumor? It's more shock.
I mean, it's fast. It's you know, it's like stage
four brain two, stage four brain cancer. You know, with him,
(23:03):
you're not dead in three years, You're dead in three months.
But kill me slowly or kill me quickly. You're still
killing me. And so after a while, I think the
people of New York have to live with the consequences
of their insane left wing politics. And so it's not
that I want Mom Donnie to win, quite the contrary.
(23:24):
But what I'm saying is why should I be complicit
in evil? Why? Just think about it if I'm a
citizen of New York, Because this is now what the
New York Post and Fox News and WABC and Wall
Street Journal and the entire GOP media establishment they're saying, well,
you have to vote for Cuomo. Why do I have
(23:45):
to vote for Cuomo? Why? Why should I be complicit
in evil? Why should I get my hands dirty. You
want me to vote for someone who literally was a
who killed seene your citizens, who's a mass murderer. Like, no,
I'm sorry, man, you want to vote, Hey, you want
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to sully your hands, You sully your hands. I'm not
going to sully my hands. Why because I've got a
very nice, clear alternative. Well, he's not gonna win, Jeff, Well,
that's on the people of New York. All I can
do is vote my convictions and vote my conscience. I'm
not going to turn myself into a pretzel and vote
for a monster like Cuomo because people are telling me, mum,
(24:31):
Donnie's an even bigger monster. And look, this is the
problem that the Democrats have. You're going to socialism. Frankly,
you're going to communism with the Democrats. Now, we can
do this a la Andrew Cuomo the slow way, or
we can do it under mom Donnie at sixty miles
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an hour. But you're still ending up at the same place.
So if this is what it takes, if New York
needs to collapse, so maybe it can rise again, let
it happen. I don't know what else to say to you. So,
and by the way, I don't think it's going to
(25:14):
help Cuomo. And this is my final point about Cuomo.
Now that the President has expended political capital on his behalf,
does he say thank you? Does he say I'm calling
on everybody who's against Mamdnni to vote for me, whether
you're a Democrat, independent, Republican. That's all he's got to say.
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In other words, I'll tell a Trump supporter, in other words,
I'll take your vote. No, he won't even say that
I hate Trump. I'm going to oppose Trump. I'm more
effective at opposing Trump than Mom Donnie is. I will
keep New York a sanctuary city, but unlike Mam Donnie,
(25:59):
I will keep the National Guard troops out because I
know how to fight Trump better and harder than Mamdani,
because I have more experience and I'm more battle hardened
because I fought him for years. From the Governor's mansion.
That's literally his pitch in the last twenty four to
forty eight hours. So President Trump extends the olive branch, says, look,
(26:19):
I'm trying to save the city from this communist nut job.
So yeah, you're not. You know, you're you're a horrible guy,
and you're a bad Democrat. But you're better than this
Marxist flamethrower. And what's Cuomo's answer? Pooh, he just spits
in his face. So okay, I mean, I don't know
(26:43):
what to tell you. So it's ironically, whatever boost or
help he was gonna get now he squandered that. So please,
you know, I'm just a I can't believe how everybody
is blaming Curtis Leewah, and by the way, from the
very same people who told him to run. So what
(27:06):
does he do? He runs, He gives up a lucrative job.
He wins the primary. He everything is above board, he
wins fair and square. He's the only guy with clean
hands in the entire race. And suddenly he's the bad guy.
He's now the spoiler. No, no, no, no, don't dirty your
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hands and vote for either Cuomo or Mom. Donni vote
Curtis Sleewah. At least that's what I would do if
I was living in New York now. But that's me.
I want to hear from you, the great audience of
Kooner Country. Six one seven two, six, six sixty eight
sixty eight is the number Trump endorses Cuomo. A. Will
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it have any impact? B Okay, news broke about maybe
twenty five minutes ago. Former Vice President Dick Cheney has
died at the age of eighty four. Okay, my friends.
The Kooner country Pole Question of the Day sponsored by
Mario's Mario's Quality Roofing, Siding and Windows. Who will be
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worse for New York City? Who do you think is worse? A? Mamdani,
B Andrew Cuomo? Who do you think is worse? A
the communist Zoron Mumdani, the Islamo communist, B, the destructive democrat,
(28:46):
the the corrupt leftist Andrew Cuomo, A or B. It's
a shame we don't have a C. None of the
above because to be honest to me, it's you know,
for me, it's none of the above. But let that go.
I want to hear from you. You can vote on
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Let's go to Dave, our Western PA constitutionalist correspondent. He's
based in the Pittsburgh area. Dave, thanks for holding and
(29:51):
as always welcome.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Yeah, Jeff, talk about us so going through someone's back,
Never mind a nice stabbing to Jeff. I mean, y'ar
and sleeve on the radio before. He's pretty good and
you know, for his coworkers to do this, Tom, Jeff,
it's like you can count your friends, but you can't
count your enemies. You know what I mean, Jeff, it's crazy,
But you know from a VT and secte f dec Cheney,
(30:15):
rest in peace. That's all I'm gonna say to Jeff.
But no, Jeff and t ironic kid two in Pittsburgh,
our current mayor got tossed out in the primary and
he's just going to be replaced by another liberal and
in fact a Republican.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Jeff, get this.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
You think New York Kitty's crazy, We're calling the Yallaghany
County crazy. People like Murdoch from the Age team and
Kramer from Seinfeld because the Republican that's running against him
is a rhinos rhino like a Kerry Healy back there
or a Mitt Romney.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
So no matter what we do, Pittsburgh is going to.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Be more screwed then. You know what.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
So, Dave, who do you think is going to win today?
Do you think mom Donnie is gonna win? Or do
you think Trump's endorsement is going to give Cuomo the
the jet fuel, the boost that he needs to put
him over the top and to catch Mom Donnie at
the end.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Jeff, if I met you said, Jeff, you how about
some JP eight that I used to holler in Iraq
the second time doing motor transport.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
But I yet, Jeff, I think the JP eight's going
to help.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Let's hope and pray. I mean, I pray for the
lesser of two evils Cuomo. But you know he used
to be thanking Trump instead of crossing him. But you
know that that's New York City politics back when he
was mayor and governor. So but you know what, Jeff,
I think it's gonna I think it's gonna be close.
I think New York is actually very good people. Some
of them an't that fright Yankees fans obviously, but you know,
(31:42):
I just I mean, let's hope that Metropolis does the
right thing. You know, and the only thing we can
do is just pray.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Jeff Dave, thank you very much for that call. I
really appreciate it. Uh Okay. Dave thinks that Trump's endorsement
will help Cuomo, and he said, pray for mom Donnie
to lose. Agree, disagree, Barbara in Maryland. Thanks for holding Barbara.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
And welcome goinging and thanks to taking my callas. I
have been watching this race. I'm from New York and
I've been watching this race from the very beginning. And
Curtis Flewell, I've always liked him because of his strong
stance on law and order. But I've got to tell you,
at least in my opinion, he ran a terrible campaign.
(32:29):
He ran a terrible campaign, and the first mistake I
think he made is the same one that I've seen
other Republicans make who are afraid of their blue state.
He never ever have I heard him say out of
his mouth one time that he's an America First candidate
(32:52):
and that he's going to follow or do any of
the things that President Trump has done. And fat where
the Sleewa seems to have gone out of his way
not to mention President Trump's name and the accomplishments that
he's made or done. That's one of the things I
(33:13):
noticed from the very beginning when he started getting a
little bit of traction. I listened to Larry Cudlow yesterday
and Larry Kudlow said something that kind of brought it
all together. Larry Kudlow said, you know, I think he
made a big mistake because he never courted Trump's vote.
That just to me, that was bingo because he never
(33:36):
courted President Trump's vote. He never considered himself America first.
And I can tell you my relatives in New York,
they are afraid of MONDOMNEI. Cloma's gonna win. He's gonna win.
His numbers have already gone up because of what's happening
(33:57):
with not just what President Trump endorsing Clomo. I'm sure
that gave him a little bit of it. Did it
gave him a boost? However, it's what people found out
about mom Dommy over the last say, six weeks, four weeks,
the last four two to four weeks especially, all of
(34:20):
the things that he's been lying about are being exposed,
and it's being exposed on the street because there's so
many podcasters who are on the street. There are people
that are out there talking to people. And then there's
a group called the Muslims against Man dumps, you know,
against him, that are out there in numbers. And there
(34:41):
are also people walking the streets in New York against him. Uh,
Croomo is going to win. But sleive Wood just I
always I kept asking friends mine, I said, what what
is it between Curtis Slee what and President Trump? I said,
has he ever slided the orse? There's something it may
be from years ago. I don't know what, But tell
(35:03):
me if I'm wrong. Have you ever heard Sleewas refer
to President Trump or America first in anything he's ever said,
because I'm telling you I've never heard it.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Well, that's a very good point, Barbara, to be honest,
I didn't look at it from that lens or that
angle the way I looked at it. And you I think, you're, well, hey,
you're right. I mean, he did not run a very
good campaign. I mean, I'm you know, I mean, I
think it's pretty obvious Curtis Leewall did not run a
good campaign. And you're right, and that I think about it.
(35:37):
I've seen several speeches, I've you know, read a lot
of stories about him giving interviews. He just doesn't mention Trump.
It's not that he attacks Trump or praises Trump, he
just doesn't mention him. And I don't know if that
was a deliberate strategy on their part or there's something
there's some bad blood going back, you know whatever five
years or ten years or whatever it is. But the
(35:59):
way I look that it is he was running a
very local campaign and he tried to keep it as
local as possible because ultimately he's a local guy. I
mean he really is. You know, he talks local, he
thinks local. Even when he's a talk show host, it's
all local. I mean, even his big pet Peeve pardon
(36:22):
the pun, right, he's obsessed with cat. I mean it's
a beautiful thing, don't get me wrong. But he goes
on about saving cats and dogs in his neighborhood, right,
saving animals that are abandoned. So you know, even the
thing that he's also besides crime, that he's really known for,
he's an animal rights lover. But again, very local. You know,
(36:44):
it's all you know, the cats and dogs in Brooklyn
where he's from, in Brooklyn. So I always looked at
it from well, he's just running a very local race
because he's a local guy and he's running a local campaign.
But you know, you're right. If I was advising him,
I'd say, you got one of the greatest presidents in
the history of the United States. You're a Republican, he's
(37:06):
a Republican. Trump is telling you to run on low
energy costs. Trump is telling you to run on the
affordability issue. Trump is telling you to run on illegal immigration. Obviously,
crime law and order, which Curtius Lywa did, but there's,
you know, the affordability issue. Look again, to give Mamdani
his due, his solutions are a disaster. They're going to
(37:30):
make everything infinitely worse. But he's running on the one issue,
the top issue that New Yorkers care about. That everything
in New York, like in Boston. I'm sure in Baltimore,
in your neck of the woods, Barbara rent is too expensive.
Housing is too expensive, Groceries are too expensive. The cost
(37:51):
of living has gone through the roof. It's unaffordable to
live in New York, as it is in Boston, as
it is in Bold to More, as it is in
you know, in many cities. And Mum, Donnie, if you notice,
has zeroed in on it like a laser beam, like
in that sense, he's running I mean, I'm you know,
I'm putting this in qu air quotes. He's run a
(38:12):
quote unquote very good campaign. He goes back to that
issue again and again and again and again, so to
a lot of these low information voters, they're saying, well,
I don't know about his solutions, but at least he's
talking about what we care about. Cuomo. That clown hasn't
(38:33):
touched the affordability issue. It's all if and he's right,
if m'm Donnie's elected, this guy is gonna fall. But
it's basically, I'm not mum Donnie. I'm a Democrat. I
hate Trump. This is I'm telling you, this is Cuomo.
I'm not mum Donnie. I'm a Democrat. I hate Trump.
Vote for me, and you're lucky if you can string
(38:55):
two three sentences out of him. That's the other thing
about Cuomo. He talks slow, he reacts slow. He's looking
a little bit like Joe Biden. I think that's another
problem that he has. And New Yorkers just remember what
a disaster he was as governor. So he's such a
weak and unappealing alternative and then you've got Curtis Sleewah,
(39:17):
who's distanced himself from Trump. I agree with you, who's
running on crime in law and order, which is a good,
good issue, But it's not the top issue in New York.
And so the opposition to Mam Donnie was weak, It
was divided in many ways. It was ineffective, and I
(39:38):
think the conservative media sold its soul in telling everybody
you have to vote for Cuomo. And look, it's fine
to say tactically Cuomo is better than Mam Donnie, but
to read now how Oh Cuomo is going to save
New York. Oh, Cuomo is going to stop crime. Oh,
(39:59):
Quoma going to make the city more affordable.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
No, he's not.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
He's just not a complete whack job like Mam Donnie.
That that's it. I mean, Okay, you want to hold
your nose and vote for Cuomo, go ahead, but don't
tell me that you know. Oh you want affordable housing,
vote for Andrew. Oh you want to bring down energy costs,
vote for Cuomo. Oh you want to get tough on crime,
(40:27):
vote for Cuomo. Bull You know what who made energy
costs high in New York. It was Cuomo who opened
up the state to the illegals, Cuomo, who literally violated
everybody's civil liberties. Cuomo. Now again, is he, you know,
slightly were better than you know, lesser of an evil
(40:49):
than Mam Donnie. Yeah, probably, but you know, don't put
a lipstick on a pig and suddenly tell me this
is the most beautiful beauty pageant in the world, beauty
can test in the world. So that's the problem I
have with all these conservatives over there. I think they've
disgraced themselves in New York. So we'll see. Look, Barbara,
(41:11):
I don't want to see Mom Donnie Wynn. I really
don't because I think you're right. The videos now that
are coming out, the stuff that he said, and I'm
going to play some of it. It's scary. I mean,
when you're cheering for Hamas literally a week after October seventh,
where they're still finding dead bodies, Jewish bodies. You are sick.
(41:38):
When you're taking pictures with you know, terrorized terrorists, sympathizing
Emams who cheered on the World Trade Center attack in
nineteen ninety three, you're sick when you talk about seizing
the means of production and abolishing private property and literally
(42:00):
saying we want no cops, no police. We're gonna defund
and dismantle the police. We're going to abolish prisons and
allow violent murderers and rapists and criminals to roam the streets.
We want, you know, government owned grocery stores. So essentially,
(42:20):
we're gonna have food lines. Whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. When
you know, to me, the one that really got me
and everybody has a different Momdannie story. He went in
front of Antifa Antifa and told them I'm one of you.
(42:44):
I'm one of you, and if I win this race
for mayor, you are going to be in Gracie Mansion.
I will be your voice in Gracie Mansion. In other words,
Antifa has come into power backed by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Like I mean, it's a bullet from the left and
(43:07):
you know, to the temple. It's from the left and
it's from the right. He's going to kill you both ways.
He's an islam wo communist. He's an Islamist and a Marxist.
New York is dead. It's it's dead, you know tomorrow,
if you know, if he wins, just hold a freaking
(43:27):
funeral for the city. Because New York will have fallen.
Barbara final word to you, am I wrong?
Speaker 3 (43:36):
Everything you said is right and also the reason that
Cuomo is going to win. Curtis Sliwa ran a local
campaign to a city that's larger than two of states.
(43:56):
It's not local that local, Uh a local grown boy
in Brooklyn. Thing did not work, and he thought he
could do it without President Trump. He didn't attempt to
use America. First, he didn't have who what who came
into it to uh campaign for him? Did he have
(44:18):
Byron Donald's come in or maybe uh Wesley Hunt to
go into the into the black neighborhoods and have rallies
about the crime in the city. No, he did not.
He ran. I was just hitting myself. I'm like, what
is this? What is he doing? He had a chance
to win and he squandered it. And right now I know,
(44:41):
as far as I looked at the recent poll, Andrew
Cuomo has closed the numbers up to this single digit
and he is going to pull this off because of
everything you said that Mondami is going to do. He
didn't talk about it, but now everybody knows that that's
what he's about, because that that's just the way I
think this is going to row, Barbara.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
Let me ask you this. Trump kind of slightly referenced it.
He just touched on it. Now, look, I know it's
part of who Curtis sliwa is, his public identity. He
always wears that beret. It's from the Guardian Angels that
he created, what was it forty five? Forty years ago?
Even when he's on the air, he wears it. Everywhere
(45:23):
he goes, he wears it. And he insisted during this campaign,
you know, and he had a very nice suit on
Offen and you know, he was well dressed, but he
always had the beret all the time. The beret. The beret,
every press conference, the beret, every interview, the beret, every picture,
the beret. And Trump basically said, you know, you look
a hell of a lot better without the beret, meaning look, yes,
(45:44):
it's a superficial thing. But basically Trump was saying, look,
who's going to take you seriously when you keep wearing
a beret? Like now, Barbara, you may disagree with me.
If I was advising Curtis, I would do almost everything.
What you just said I think was brilliant. Let's get
Byron Donald's, let's get Wesley Hunt let's get these people
(46:05):
into the communities and rally up support for you, and
we're gonna run your right a true city New York
City campaign because New York is a city States It's
one of the biggest, greatest cities in the world. So
you can't just run a strictly local campaign. You got
(46:25):
to think much bigger than that. So I agree with you.
But you know, okay, once in a while you wear
the beret. It's part of who you are. It's got
that Brooklyn flavor to it. Okay, but if you keep
wearing it over and over and over again, people are
gonna start, you know, they're not gonna take it. They're
gonna start not taking you seriously. And I think, you know,
(46:47):
if I was advising them, might say, look, Curtis man,
you got to stop with the beret. You want to
wear it once in a while, fine, Look, it's your body,
it's up to you. But you look a bit like
a clown with the beret. Hey, I'm sorry, Like, I'm
just sorry. You know, it's image. I understand it's superficial,
but you know that's how people are, you know. I mean,
(47:08):
sure Trump will wear the occasional Maga hat or whatever.
But he's often in a suit, and you know he's
not wearing a hat all the time. In other words,
it's you know, there's a time to play around and
there's a time to be serious. You're asking for people's vote,
you're asking them to make you the mayor. You got
to look like a freaking mayor. Barbara, am I wrong?
Should he have should he have not worn the beret?
(47:31):
Or do you think ultimately that doesn't matter?
Speaker 3 (47:34):
It wasn't the beret. It was him. I mean the beret.
You know that that's a minor, a detailed kind of thing.
It's like his signature thing. That's okay, It's like Michael
Jackson with the white glove. You know that's not That's
not what did it. It was him. I mean, you
know Ron DeSantis would have come up and helped him.
He had I don't know who was running his campaign.
(47:57):
It just had me. I was just that's a great
point and had an opportunity.
Speaker 1 (48:02):
No, No, you're right, you're right. He could have had
the Santis. He could had so many people come in. No,
you're right, Barbara, you are spot on. Barbara as always
very thoughtful call I always learned something when you call, Barbara,
thank you very much for that call. Mike was in
my ear at this tail end of that call with Barbara,
and he made a very good point. He said, Jeff,
(48:24):
how many New Yorkers even know what the beret stands for?
Speaker 3 (48:28):
Right?
Speaker 1 (48:28):
It's it's a Guardian Angels beret. That's why he always
wears it. He's very proud of it. But Mike is right.
Mike says, you know, most New Yorkers, at least if
they knew what it stood for, right, it'd be like, well, hey,
he's a law order guy. You know, he founded the
Guardian Angels. Hey, that's their signature beret. You know. He
he you know, he walked the subways and the streets
(48:50):
and he would fight criminals and to keep you know,
citizens safe. No, they don't even know what the beret
is for. So, as Mike said, he looks like a
guy with a goofy hat. He goes, that's he goes,
I'm sorry, but you know, you know, Mike says, Look,
I'm not into New York politics, but I'm watching the
news and I see this guy and he's the Republican
and I'm like, why is he wearing that goofy hat.
(49:12):
So I'm just giving it from Mike's perspective, like the
beret didn't help him at all. And that's what Trump
was kind of saying in that Truth Social like you know,
you look the hell of a lot better without the beret,
Like it's, you know, you want to be taken seriously,
Yes or no? Six one seven two six six sixty
(49:32):
eight sixty eight Okay, double barreled question. Trump endorses Cuomo
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies!
The Breakfast Club
The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, And Charlamagne Tha God!