Larry Mendte talks about the anti ICE protests in New York, the anti ICE protests in LA where Donald Trump called in the National Guard and has Marines on standby, and the return to the states of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to face federal charges. Jimmy Failla joins Larry Mendte to give his final thoughts on what you can expect from his show ‘Fox Across America’ which has joined the lineup on WOR weeknights from 9PM – midnight. Mike Kelly joins Mendte in the Morning to talk about the NJ Governors race and who he thinks has the upper hand as we get closer to November.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We had a great weekend. Thanks so much for being
(00:03):
here this morning. Remember when it's raining all day today,
off and on, off and on, off and on, just
remember just keep saying to yourself, we need the rain,
we need the rain, we need this. It's good, it's good,
it's good. And it held off until Monday, so that's
at least pretty good.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I don't know what it is about weekends, but it
seems like the whole country's gone crazy. Anti ICE riots
break out from coast to coasts. At the Federal Building
in Manhattan, protesters tried to block ICE from doing their
jobs over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
You cannot just come into the community and terrorize citizens
the way you did.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
And a bigger and violent protest in Los Angeles where
the President called in the National Guard and has five
hundred marines on standby.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Well, we didn't have troops everywhere.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
We're not gonna let this happen to our country. We're
not gonna let our country be torn apart.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Like it was a fighten and this autopen.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
This is his Ice steps up deportations nationwide, and that
comes with a warning from Borders are Tom Homan.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
You can protest all you want. You got your first
memory rights.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
But if you cross that line of impediment where you're
putting hands on officers or destroyed property, you will be prosecuted.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
There's zero talents. And guess who's back.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
The Democrats favorite person, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is back in
the United States to face federal charges for rape and
sex trafficking.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
The defendant abused undocumented alien females, according to co conspirators
who were under his control while transporting them throughout our country.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I'll tell you what, the Democrats making this guy a
cause celeb is the worst thing that ever happened to whom.
And I want to hear all the apologies from all
the Democrats who went down there saying that he was
wrongfully detained and that he never should have been sent
to all and what a great guy he is, and
remember having drinks with him. Now, if he gets prosecuted
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for this and he's found guilty of this, let's let's
see all the apologies that'll come forward. Muslim Mayor O
candidate Zorin Mamdani is now facing critician criticism from both
New York Jews and Muslim protesters, and the Muslims are
upset about his stance on Israel.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
You cannot I associate the sign.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
How you smirk like that?
Speaker 5 (02:33):
One hundred thousand people, you are dead.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
And tomorrow is primary day in New Jersey with voters
across the state choosing the Democrat and the Republican who
will then run to be the state's next governor. Paul
showed Jack Chitarelli with a big lead for Republicans and
now Congresswoman Mikey Cheryl seems to be pulling away for
the Democrats.
Speaker 7 (02:58):
This is the most recent public poll we have and
it actually does show Cheryl Mikey Cheryl, the Congresswoman, opening
up a pretty clear advantage here over the rest of
the field. We hadn't seen this in the polling until
the last week or so, so that's significant potentially.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
So let's talk about what is going on across the
country right now, because Wow, what is happening in Los
Angeles is just seems to be getting worse and worse
and worse and worse. It sounds when you hear the
audio from Los Angeles like a war zone. Smoke bomb,
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flash guns, rubber bullets being shot, cars being set on fire.
It is horrible and the police chief out there says
this is something like he hasn't seen in a long
long time.
Speaker 8 (04:02):
It is violence that I've seen is disgusting. It's escalated
now since the beginning of this incident. What we saw
the first night was bad. What we've seen subsequent to
that is getting increasingly worse and more violent.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah, there's thousands.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
They were brought blake blocking the highway, not only trying
to get into the federal building and into the Ice center,
but blocking the highway, attacking ice officers. And for the
longest time, the LAPD wouldn't send anybody when they were
at the federal building, they wouldn't send anybody. If you've
seen the video, they were out there on their own.
And now I'll get this in a second, but now
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they're being criticized for sending anybody in the first place.
They're saying Los Angeles police shouldn't be involved in their
own city. This is the craziness in this country, the
fact that nobody seems to understand, first of all, law
and order or just the law period. And you know
what kills me about this, how many people are still
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in the media on the national news, national anchors calling
this a protest. It's not a protest, this is a riot.
Speaker 9 (05:12):
Oh I think it was a riot.
Speaker 7 (05:13):
I think it was very bad.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
It was covered really as a riot by almost everybody.
So let's get back to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bess,
who is a complete and utter embarrassment. Remember she was
the one that was out of the country and left
knowing that there could be wildfires in Los Angeles and
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left for a foreign trip because you know, she's gonna
get some money for that, and then didn't get back
when Los Angeles was burning down, and then blamed the
fire chief for the whole thing. After she's the one
that cut the fire budget. She's a disaster. Do they
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have any good policy Titians in California? I mean, think
of them all, you can name them one by one.
They're just they are awful. They are all in it
for themselves and not for the people, and they give
money to all the wrong things. But she has been
in the middle of a controversy because how she's handled
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the NYPD.
Speaker 9 (06:20):
When one branch of law enforcement says they need help,
another branch of law enforcement is going to respond and
is obligated to respond. And so the minute that protest
left the Federal building. Then that's when LAPD were involved.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Ah did you hear that? Did you hear what she
said at the end.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
That's the controversy, the moment they left the federal building.
I don't know if you saw Saturday when the Federal
Building was being attacked and everybody was saying, where is
the LAPD? Why aren't they there? Because they take the
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sanctuary city law.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Two extremes.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Now in New York, the Federal building was attacked and
the LAPD was all over it, and they stopped it,
and they stopped it dead in its tracks. You notice
not much has happened since then. They did an excellent job,
arrested over twenty people I think got actually more than
forty people arrested, them all got rid of it. Everybody scattered.
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That was it, end of story. No more protests in
Los Angeles. They let it happen. All of this is
because of Karen Bassett and the LAPD. They let it happen. Yes,
they started to respond after it left the Federal building
and those poor Ice officers, they were hundreds were coming
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at them, throwing things at them, firing fireworks at them,
destroying property, and the Ice officers weren't prepared for this.
They were probably thinking, where's the LAPD. So if you're
wondering why Donald Trump sent in the National Guard and
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why he has five hundred marines on standby, it is
because of the idiocy of Karen Bess. The fact that
they still put up with her is incredible.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
But then I have to figure out where we go.
Speaker 10 (08:32):
I told Chief MacDonald that I want to repeat all
the tapes. I want to understand what the deployment of
LAPD was and why, and we need to get to
the body.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
See that she's investigating the police. She's investigating the police
for getting involved. I want to find out who made
the calls, who sent the police there. It is unbelievable.
It is unbelievable what is happening in this country. And
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the people that get me, that really bug me, that
are saying that this doesn't happen in this country. Congress
person after congress person, this shouldn't happen in this country
against US citizens. Most of them aren't. That's the whole point.
That's why Donald Trump was elected and he's doing his job.
(09:33):
Was there going to be pushback, Yes, But the surprising
thing is that there is pushback from the Democrats who
lost the election because of this issue, and now they
still want to cling to being on the wrong side
of this issue. This is despicable. This is evil, but
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it's also politically stupid. To the Tony Awards last night.
By the way, well we have the big winner next.
Plus how about this tickets to seem James Taylor at
A twenty five welcome back.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
So glad you're here this morning.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
And I'm really happy that sitting right across from me
right now is Jimmy Fla from Fox News. So I'm
a little bit nervous because you know, he's a he's
a big professional and he has a handler here with him.
That's how professionally he is. He brings somebody from Fox
News wherever you go.
Speaker 11 (10:33):
No, if you want to know the truth, she's sent
by wardrobe to make sure I don't eat carbs, okay,
because I look a little chubby in those sport coats
I wear on TV. So we actually have a cookie wrangler,
like if yeaf if you if I eat a cookie
right now, Tamara jumps and I get closed on.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Some situation I have Tomorry in my life.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Yees, can you get a cookie? Because I really really
want to see that. I would pay to see that.
All right, let me get through this big three of them.
We'll talk to Jimmy Fayla. In the second, anti ICE
riots breakout from coast to coast. At the Federal Building
in Manhattan, protesters tried to block ICE from doing their job.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
You cannot just come into the community and terrorize citizens
the way you did.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
And a bigger and more violent protest in Los Angeles.
It was going on all night right until the early
morning hours, where the President called in the National Guard
and has five hundred marines on standby.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Well, we're gonna have troops everywhere.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
We're not gonna let this happen to our country. We're
not gonna let our country be born apart like it was.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
A de fight.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
And this auto pen and how about this? Who saw
this coming? Muslim mayor Earl candidate Zorhim Mamdani is now
facing criticism from both New York Jews and Muslim protesters,
who are upset that he even recognizes Israel.
Speaker 11 (11:55):
You cannot, I'm so, says.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Smirk like that.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
People, you are dead.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Wow, what do you think of that? That's who saw that?
Who's ready for some comedy. Okay, all right, Tomorrow is
primary day in New Jersey. I'll just mention that as
voters choose who's going to run for governor.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Anything to say about any of that.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
I mean New Jersey. Obviously, I'm not from there. I do.
Speaker 11 (12:32):
I have the accent from my time driving a cab
in New York City, but I've I've invested so much
money in the state of New Jersey via Atlantic City
blackjack tables, I feel like I should be allowed to vote. Okay,
everybody talks about that time they lost a lot of money.
I'm like, don't talk to you about losing money till
you're putting on a blonde wig and walking morn walk
in a pair of high heels to make back bus
(12:54):
money to get to New York.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I'm like, then you reail money. You know what exactly
do you do for that bus? Body messed up like that?
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Meet me in the bathroom during the commercial stopping you
just stopping. Come on. This was a classic Network till
they brought Phala in.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Are you one of those guys that plays blackjack and said,
don't worry, I know how to count cards.
Speaker 11 (13:11):
Yeah, you're not a cop? Are you listen? I had
a good rundown there. I studied gambling at some of
the most prestigious institutions in America. University of Caesar's Borgata states,
it's a pricey degree.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
We're really excited, excited that you're going to be having
this shows on Big Deal tonight on WOR at nine
o'clock tonight. Tell us what the show is like. I've
heard it, I've heard it in other stations. Oh man,
I'm so glad you're joining us. I'm gonna give it
to you through analogies. Okay, for real, first and foremost,
the show is like the greatest story ever told. Because
I was a New York City cab driver for about
ten years. They start to talk after your third vehicular
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manslaughter and.
Speaker 11 (13:46):
That you know, you said the renewal process gets a
little diceier after each individual one. But anyway, stick with me.
I was a guy, of course, who spent long hours.
I was driving a cab eighty four hours a week
listening to WOR in my cab. So in a lot
of ways, this is that kept me alive, you know.
And I was listening to Rush back in a day.
And this is one qualifier for everybody listening. Rush used
(14:06):
to say he had talent on loan from God. Okay,
I don't have talent on loan from God, but as
a former cab driver, I do know a guy named
Hazus who sells stolen flatscreen TVs in a Bronx, and
in this economy, he might be more valuable to you
than me borrowing some of that Rush talent from God.
God was like, no, I've seen your credit rating. I
don't trust you to get this talent back to me.
(14:28):
Rush made good on the deal.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
He's an icon. So for me, what the show is
for real is I am obviously.
Speaker 11 (14:34):
Taking the issues very seriously, but as you can tell,
I don't take myself seriously at all, and I feel
like I have that obligation because that's my one contribution
to media is essentially I show up every day and
I'm like, I describe myself as a dog with a job.
You know, when you go to the airport and the
dog that sniffs the bags is always smiling and wagging
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his tail because he can't believe they're counting on him
to save the plane.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
Okay, that's me.
Speaker 11 (14:59):
Every time I go on the radio, every time I
go on TV, I have the energy of a dog
with a job. So I'm gonna crush it as long
as no one throws a tennis ball halfway through the opening,
in which case I run out of here and somebody
pets my stomach and you gotta go to break early.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
What I love about you and watching Fox News all
the time, what I love about you is you're always happy.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Yeah, you were always in a good mood. H. I
mean you don't see that with everybody, and a lot
of people are so different.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Yeah when you meet them in person, not you.
Speaker 11 (15:27):
Well that's because they're traditional TV people. They're starving, they're
not allowed to eat. Okay, Like I joke, I'm clearly eating.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
Okay.
Speaker 11 (15:35):
I dress like a figure skater who let himself go. Okay,
that's my whole hook as I look like I wore
I want to medal twenty years ago and then bulked
up during the pandemic and never turned it around. But
you're right to say that I do have good energy
because I have perspective. I mean, this is a serious point.
I really was driving a cab getting cut off, getting
shot at, and people would always say that to me.
You know, at Fox this comes up all the time.
(15:56):
They'll say like, wow, you're a long day. So you
and Fox and Friends at eight in the morning, I say, Hannah,
at nine at night, you did your radio show in
there till ten or eleven. You know, God, it's got
to be a long day. I'm like, dude, there is
no world where TV and radio Jimmy Fayla could call
up taxi driver Jimmy Fayla and tell him about the
tough day he had.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 11 (16:15):
Listen, I know you're getting beat up by a mariachi
band on the van Wick Expressway. But if you could
say a prayer for me, because I had to get
hair and makeup and go on TV for four minutes.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
And there's always a bathroom around. Yeah, thank you for clear.
Speaker 11 (16:29):
To be clear, when you're dropping a cab, there's always
a bathroom around.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Shout out to that empty big gold cup.
Speaker 11 (16:35):
It's not the issue, you think anything, But just a
word to the wise out there. Those cabbys are not
dumping out coffee at red lights.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
It's so funny.
Speaker 11 (16:44):
Something out of my camera out of town once they're like, wow,
the coffee must sucking this time. I always see the
cabbies dumping it out and I'm like, well about that.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
A look at the big golf and say, hey, can
I have some of that meltain Judie? No, wow, you
do not want that.
Speaker 9 (17:00):
No.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I love that you're here. I love that you're part
of the show. What do you tonight?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
What do you? What are you talking about tonight?
Speaker 11 (17:06):
Well, it's it's in a lot of ways, it's big
box because what I try to do. Obviously, we got
these la Ice riots. Okay, you might not know this
about me, but I am like super supportive of law enforcement.
Everyone in my family is a cop NYPDA. Both my brothers,
my dad, my uncle, nine of my cousins NYPDA.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Get the academy.
Speaker 11 (17:25):
Well, I would have been a cop if it weren't
for this thing called a background check.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
They remember that a problem they told me about that.
I was like, thank you for your time, gentlemen. No,
if you want to laugh.
Speaker 11 (17:35):
I actually got hired by the NYPD and the Port
Authority when I was young, but I had already started
comedy and I was like, I don't need your health
care and your benefits. I'm getting paid in onion rings
at the Brown Ram times. Like I've made it are
you kidding me? So I'm always talking about those primal
issues first and foremost because they affect all of us.
You know, you'd expect me, as a guy who hosts
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a Fox News show to be a little right wing,
But I don't do a right wing conservative talk show.
I do an American talk show. There are certain things
we all have an investment in, and politics has a
way of blinding us to that reality. The cops matter,
the border matters, crime matters. I mean, think about right now.
You played a clip during the Big Three about how
they claimed that we were endangering people by sending in
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the National Guard. No, No, endangering people is what's happening. They're
burning down businesses. People don't feel threatened if you're a
local business owner by the National Guard showing up.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
That's to them.
Speaker 11 (18:26):
Finally, Okay, you feel threatened by the guy dumping gasoline
on your store. So in a lot of ways, there's
a broken compass in society, and I'm trying to be
that common denominator that kind of recalibrates the thing.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
That's what I do.
Speaker 11 (18:38):
I come on the air, there's jokes, this goofy, I
take shots at myself, but I'm very much. Putting your
vitamins in your apple sauce. You know, you trick a
kid into eating his vitamins by putting them in apple sauce,
and then he eats somebody he doesn't even know. We
digest them. That's kind of how I distill hard news.
That's so bring a spoon.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
That's great philosophy. That's what I also like that you're
coming at this, especially the stories that are in the
new nowadays, at a perspective of someone who is from
a cop family.
Speaker 11 (19:03):
Yes, big time cops, cabbies, and you see it like
I had no appreciation for what my brothers did until
I became a cab driver, you know, because you see
how primal that gig is. If there's a guy on
the corner of sixth Avenue with no pants on, swinging
a golf club at people, Okay, everybody yelling defund the
plate doesn't have to deal with that guy. The cops do.
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They have to dive in and handle that guy. And
for me, it's awkward because he's got no pants on,
and I know Jeffrey Tuban, so I also have to.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Weigh well, we have a lot more of this to come.
Thanks so much, for being here, Jimmy, and thanks for
joining the station. It means a lot to everybody here
in Brooklyn. Staple that brought a taste of Italy to
benson Hurst for decades is closing its doors.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Don't you dare?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
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Speaker 6 (20:07):
Stop it to go with my thong. Yeah I won
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Speaker 2 (20:12):
I disguise my voice, but I want to see it
during the break. We're coming right back.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
And now let's bring in Mike Kelly, Award winning columnist
for North Jersey dot Com and The Record. Good morning Mike.
So go ahead and set the stage for this primary.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Good morning, Larry. Not even stage for this primary is
kind of like just drawing a big question mark. I
think I think the Democrats are trying to find themselves Republicans.
You're absolutely right. I've been listening to your commentary earlier
this morning. I think it's Jack Chittarelli's race to lose,
not only in the primary, but I will walk even
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farther than this and say, I think it's Jack Chittarelli's
race to lose in November. To me, he is the
candidate who has the most clear message right now. That
could change, of course, you know, but right now, I
think he's the candidate who seems to be on top
of the messaging. And here in New Jersey, everybody says, oh,
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it's a blue state. And again, you and I have
talked about this a lot. It's really not a blue state. Yes,
there are more registered Democrats than Republicans, although the Republican
registry is rising. But I'd call it a purple state.
There's a lot of voters in the middle who flip
back and forth, and that's why we go from Chris
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Christia as governor for eight years and then we go
to Phil Murphy for eight years. So I think the
time is right for Republicans to seize this question. As
will they do it?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yeah, there's two strange trends that are competing in this election.
One is that no new governor of somebody running for
the first time, has ever won as a Democrat. If
a Republican his office is an office and has never
won as a Republican. If a Democrat is in the presidency,
is in the White House. So that's one trend that
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would favor, of course, whoever the Democrat is. But also,
nobody's won three times in a row. There's no Republican
that has held that three elections in a row, and
no Democrat that's held it three elections in a row.
That would favor Jack Chittarelli. So you're you're thinking that
the one that's going to go is that it's going
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to be Cheddarelli, even though Trump's in office. Doesn't a
lot of that depend on what Trump does over the
next several months.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Mean, look at what's happened just in the past week.
You know, last week we thought, oh my goodness, here
Trump is now going to crumble. The exhibit A was
the big, you know, mean girl's fight he had with
Elon Musk. Suddenly, I feel like the needle has shifted
a bit. With what's going on in Los Angeles. The
Democrats there have given Trump a gift. He must be
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he must be on his knees so great that he
doesn't have to talk about Elon Musk anymore. He can
talk about you know, California and Governor Newsom. So you know,
the luck is heading toward Trump again and again and again.
And I of course that could change in the fall.
You know, we'll have to keep an eye on the
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economy and with the tariffs due to it and that
sort of thing, and that will directly affect the New
Jersey race. But right now I see the Democratic field
as really still trying to find himself. I've written a
whole series of columns leading up to this primary about,
you know, what the Democrats need to do and what
they haven't done, And right now I think it's really
a party trying to, you know, find it's footing.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
I think it's also a party. I watched the debate.
It seems to be a party trying to find the
middle because not Ross Baraka, but the most of the
rest of them have seemed to change their policies just
a little bit to seem like a Now, I would argue,
more sane than the Democratic Party has been for the
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last four years. And if that is the case, I
would think that would favor someone like Josh Gottheimer.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
I know, I actually thought Godheimer had a real leg
up going into this election because he came out of
the box focused on what I would call kitchen table issues,
how can you afford to live in New Jersey where
taxes seemed to be rising, etc. That sort of thing.
But Gottheimer's message never really caught on, and I think
that's going to be really one of the great questions
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coming out of this primary. Because he's an enormously attractive candidate.
He really comes from a district here in northern New
Jersey that where there is a substantial number of Trump voters,
very conservative, but also a large number of moderates, and
also a very very loud and powerful progressive corner of
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the Democratic Party. And he's managed to cross all of
those bridges, and he does that, I think very well
in Congress is as one of the chair people of
the so called problem Solvers Conference. I think the fact
that Gottheimer never really found his footing in this selection
is going to be one of the great stories coming
out of it. And I don't think he's going to win.
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I think it's going to be Mikey Cheryl, but I
don't think she's going to win in any kind of
landslader with any great mandate. Here, she's you know, she's
basically got somewhere in the high twenty percentile in all
the polls, and that's not great for a candidate running
for a statewide office.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Hey, just real quickly, and we can talk about this
more as we go along. Give me one thing the
Democrats need to do in New Jersey to win.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Build something. I wrote this column over the weekend, and
you know, the Democrats are great at saying they want to,
you know, have this sort of paper type program, build something,
build railroads, build fix roads, that sort of thing, and
don't take so long. I suggested ways to you know,
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build where the new governor of New Jersey could could
require the Poort Authority to fix the George Washington Bridge
in less than ten years and to build the bus
terminal in Midtown Manhattan in less than ten years. I
just think that, you know, we are a country that
builds things, at least we used to be, and we
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don't do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
That is a tremendous point.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Mike Kelly is an award winning columnist for North Jersey
dot Com and the Record. Mike appreciate it. We'll go
through some of the other things in the weeks to come.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Appreciate your time, Stay well, Eric, take care
We had a great weekend. Thanks so much for being
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here this morning. Remember when it's raining all day today,
off and on, off and on, off and on, just
remember just keep saying to yourself, we need the rain,
we need the rain, we need this. It's good, it's good,
it's good. And it held off until Monday, so that's
at least pretty good.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I don't know what it is about weekends, but it
seems like the whole country's gone crazy. Anti ICE riots
break out from coast to coasts. At the Federal Building
in Manhattan, protesters tried to block ICE from doing their
jobs over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
You cannot just come into the community and terrorize citizens
the way you did.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
And a bigger and violent protest in Los Angeles where
the President called in the National Guard and has five
hundred marines on standby.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Well, we didn't have troops everywhere.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
We're not gonna let this happen to our country. We're
not gonna let our country be torn apart.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Like it was a fighten and this autopen.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
This is his Ice steps up deportations nationwide, and that
comes with a warning from Borders are Tom Homan.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
You can protest all you want. You got your first
memory rights.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
But if you cross that line of impediment where you're
putting hands on officers or destroyed property, you will be prosecuted.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
There's zero talents. And guess who's back.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
The Democrats favorite person, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is back in
the United States to face federal charges for rape and
sex trafficking.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
The defendant abused undocumented alien females, according to co conspirators
who were under his control while transporting them throughout our country.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I'll tell you what, the Democrats making this guy a
cause celeb is the worst thing that ever happened to whom.
And I want to hear all the apologies from all
the Democrats who went down there saying that he was
wrongfully detained and that he never should have been sent
to all and what a great guy he is, and
remember having drinks with him. Now, if he gets prosecuted
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for this and he's found guilty of this, let's let's
see all the apologies that'll come forward. Muslim Mayor O
candidate Zorin Mamdani is now facing critician criticism from both
New York Jews and Muslim protesters, and the Muslims are
upset about his stance on Israel.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
You cannot I associate the sign.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
How you smirk like that?
Speaker 5 (02:33):
One hundred thousand people, you are dead.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
And tomorrow is primary day in New Jersey with voters
across the state choosing the Democrat and the Republican who
will then run to be the state's next governor. Paul
showed Jack Chitarelli with a big lead for Republicans and
now Congresswoman Mikey Cheryl seems to be pulling away for
the Democrats.
Speaker 7 (02:58):
This is the most recent public poll we have and
it actually does show Cheryl Mikey Cheryl, the Congresswoman, opening
up a pretty clear advantage here over the rest of
the field. We hadn't seen this in the polling until
the last week or so, so that's significant potentially.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
So let's talk about what is going on across the
country right now, because Wow, what is happening in Los
Angeles is just seems to be getting worse and worse
and worse and worse. It sounds when you hear the
audio from Los Angeles like a war zone. Smoke bomb,
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flash guns, rubber bullets being shot, cars being set on fire.
It is horrible and the police chief out there says
this is something like he hasn't seen in a long
long time.
Speaker 8 (04:02):
It is violence that I've seen is disgusting. It's escalated
now since the beginning of this incident. What we saw
the first night was bad. What we've seen subsequent to
that is getting increasingly worse and more violent.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah, there's thousands.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
They were brought blake blocking the highway, not only trying
to get into the federal building and into the Ice center,
but blocking the highway, attacking ice officers. And for the
longest time, the LAPD wouldn't send anybody when they were
at the federal building, they wouldn't send anybody. If you've
seen the video, they were out there on their own.
And now I'll get this in a second, but now
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they're being criticized for sending anybody in the first place.
They're saying Los Angeles police shouldn't be involved in their
own city. This is the craziness in this country, the
fact that nobody seems to understand, first of all, law
and order or just the law period. And you know
what kills me about this, how many people are still
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in the media on the national news, national anchors calling
this a protest. It's not a protest, this is a riot.
Speaker 9 (05:12):
Oh I think it was a riot.
Speaker 7 (05:13):
I think it was very bad.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
It was covered really as a riot by almost everybody.
So let's get back to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bess,
who is a complete and utter embarrassment. Remember she was
the one that was out of the country and left
knowing that there could be wildfires in Los Angeles and
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left for a foreign trip because you know, she's gonna
get some money for that, and then didn't get back
when Los Angeles was burning down, and then blamed the
fire chief for the whole thing. After she's the one
that cut the fire budget. She's a disaster. Do they
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have any good policy Titians in California? I mean, think
of them all, you can name them one by one.
They're just they are awful. They are all in it
for themselves and not for the people, and they give
money to all the wrong things. But she has been
in the middle of a controversy because how she's handled
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the NYPD.
Speaker 9 (06:20):
When one branch of law enforcement says they need help,
another branch of law enforcement is going to respond and
is obligated to respond. And so the minute that protest
left the Federal building. Then that's when LAPD were involved.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Ah did you hear that? Did you hear what she
said at the end.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
That's the controversy, the moment they left the federal building.
I don't know if you saw Saturday when the Federal
Building was being attacked and everybody was saying, where is
the LAPD? Why aren't they there? Because they take the
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sanctuary city law.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Two extremes.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Now in New York, the Federal building was attacked and
the LAPD was all over it, and they stopped it,
and they stopped it dead in its tracks. You notice
not much has happened since then. They did an excellent job,
arrested over twenty people I think got actually more than
forty people arrested, them all got rid of it. Everybody scattered.
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That was it, end of story. No more protests in
Los Angeles. They let it happen. All of this is
because of Karen Bassett and the LAPD. They let it happen. Yes,
they started to respond after it left the Federal building
and those poor Ice officers, they were hundreds were coming
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at them, throwing things at them, firing fireworks at them,
destroying property, and the Ice officers weren't prepared for this.
They were probably thinking, where's the LAPD. So if you're
wondering why Donald Trump sent in the National Guard and
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why he has five hundred marines on standby, it is
because of the idiocy of Karen Bess. The fact that
they still put up with her is incredible.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
But then I have to figure out where we go.
Speaker 10 (08:32):
I told Chief MacDonald that I want to repeat all
the tapes. I want to understand what the deployment of
LAPD was and why, and we need to get to
the body.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
See that she's investigating the police. She's investigating the police
for getting involved. I want to find out who made
the calls, who sent the police there. It is unbelievable.
It is unbelievable what is happening in this country. And
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the people that get me, that really bug me, that
are saying that this doesn't happen in this country. Congress
person after congress person, this shouldn't happen in this country
against US citizens. Most of them aren't. That's the whole point.
That's why Donald Trump was elected and he's doing his job.
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Was there going to be pushback, Yes, But the surprising
thing is that there is pushback from the Democrats who
lost the election because of this issue, and now they
still want to cling to being on the wrong side
of this issue. This is despicable. This is evil, but
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it's also politically stupid. To the Tony Awards last night.
By the way, well we have the big winner next.
Plus how about this tickets to seem James Taylor at
A twenty five welcome back.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
So glad you're here this morning.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
And I'm really happy that sitting right across from me
right now is Jimmy Fla from Fox News. So I'm
a little bit nervous because you know, he's a he's
a big professional and he has a handler here with him.
That's how professionally he is. He brings somebody from Fox
News wherever you go.
Speaker 11 (10:33):
No, if you want to know the truth, she's sent
by wardrobe to make sure I don't eat carbs, okay,
because I look a little chubby in those sport coats
I wear on TV. So we actually have a cookie wrangler,
like if yeaf if you if I eat a cookie
right now, Tamara jumps and I get closed on.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Some situation I have Tomorry in my life.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Yees, can you get a cookie? Because I really really
want to see that. I would pay to see that.
All right, let me get through this big three of them.
We'll talk to Jimmy Fayla. In the second, anti ICE
riots breakout from coast to coast. At the Federal Building
in Manhattan, protesters tried to block ICE from doing their job.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
You cannot just come into the community and terrorize citizens
the way you did.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
And a bigger and more violent protest in Los Angeles.
It was going on all night right until the early
morning hours, where the President called in the National Guard
and has five hundred marines on standby.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Well, we're gonna have troops everywhere.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
We're not gonna let this happen to our country. We're
not gonna let our country be born apart like it was.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
A de fight.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
And this auto pen and how about this? Who saw
this coming? Muslim mayor Earl candidate Zorhim Mamdani is now
facing criticism from both New York Jews and Muslim protesters,
who are upset that he even recognizes Israel.
Speaker 11 (11:55):
You cannot, I'm so, says.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Smirk like that.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
People, you are dead.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Wow, what do you think of that? That's who saw that?
Who's ready for some comedy. Okay, all right, Tomorrow is
primary day in New Jersey. I'll just mention that as
voters choose who's going to run for governor.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Anything to say about any of that.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
I mean New Jersey. Obviously, I'm not from there. I do.
Speaker 11 (12:32):
I have the accent from my time driving a cab
in New York City, but I've I've invested so much
money in the state of New Jersey via Atlantic City
blackjack tables, I feel like I should be allowed to vote. Okay,
everybody talks about that time they lost a lot of money.
I'm like, don't talk to you about losing money till
you're putting on a blonde wig and walking morn walk
in a pair of high heels to make back bus
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money to get to New York.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I'm like, then you reail money. You know what exactly
do you do for that bus? Body messed up like that?
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Meet me in the bathroom during the commercial stopping you
just stopping. Come on. This was a classic Network till
they brought Phala in.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Are you one of those guys that plays blackjack and said,
don't worry, I know how to count cards.
Speaker 11 (13:11):
Yeah, you're not a cop? Are you listen? I had
a good rundown there. I studied gambling at some of
the most prestigious institutions in America. University of Caesar's Borgata states,
it's a pricey degree.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
We're really excited, excited that you're going to be having
this shows on Big Deal tonight on WOR at nine
o'clock tonight. Tell us what the show is like. I've
heard it, I've heard it in other stations. Oh man,
I'm so glad you're joining us. I'm gonna give it
to you through analogies. Okay, for real, first and foremost,
the show is like the greatest story ever told. Because
I was a New York City cab driver for about
ten years. They start to talk after your third vehicular
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manslaughter and.
Speaker 11 (13:46):
That you know, you said the renewal process gets a
little diceier after each individual one. But anyway, stick with me.
I was a guy, of course, who spent long hours.
I was driving a cab eighty four hours a week
listening to WOR in my cab. So in a lot
of ways, this is that kept me alive, you know.
And I was listening to Rush back in a day.
And this is one qualifier for everybody listening. Rush used
(14:06):
to say he had talent on loan from God. Okay,
I don't have talent on loan from God, but as
a former cab driver, I do know a guy named
Hazus who sells stolen flatscreen TVs in a Bronx, and
in this economy, he might be more valuable to you
than me borrowing some of that Rush talent from God.
God was like, no, I've seen your credit rating. I
don't trust you to get this talent back to me.
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Rush made good on the deal.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
He's an icon. So for me, what the show is
for real is I am obviously.
Speaker 11 (14:34):
Taking the issues very seriously, but as you can tell,
I don't take myself seriously at all, and I feel
like I have that obligation because that's my one contribution
to media is essentially I show up every day and
I'm like, I describe myself as a dog with a job.
You know, when you go to the airport and the
dog that sniffs the bags is always smiling and wagging
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his tail because he can't believe they're counting on him
to save the plane.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
Okay, that's me.
Speaker 11 (14:59):
Every time I go on the radio, every time I
go on TV, I have the energy of a dog
with a job. So I'm gonna crush it as long
as no one throws a tennis ball halfway through the opening,
in which case I run out of here and somebody
pets my stomach and you gotta go to break early.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
What I love about you and watching Fox News all
the time, what I love about you is you're always happy.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Yeah, you were always in a good mood. H. I
mean you don't see that with everybody, and a lot
of people are so different.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Yeah when you meet them in person, not you.
Speaker 11 (15:27):
Well that's because they're traditional TV people. They're starving, they're
not allowed to eat. Okay, Like I joke, I'm clearly eating.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
Okay.
Speaker 11 (15:35):
I dress like a figure skater who let himself go. Okay,
that's my whole hook as I look like I wore
I want to medal twenty years ago and then bulked
up during the pandemic and never turned it around. But
you're right to say that I do have good energy
because I have perspective. I mean, this is a serious point.
I really was driving a cab getting cut off, getting
shot at, and people would always say that to me.
You know, at Fox this comes up all the time.
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They'll say like, wow, you're a long day. So you
and Fox and Friends at eight in the morning, I say, Hannah,
at nine at night, you did your radio show in
there till ten or eleven. You know, God, it's got
to be a long day. I'm like, dude, there is
no world where TV and radio Jimmy Fayla could call
up taxi driver Jimmy Fayla and tell him about the
tough day he had.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 11 (16:15):
Listen, I know you're getting beat up by a mariachi
band on the van Wick Expressway. But if you could
say a prayer for me, because I had to get
hair and makeup and go on TV for four minutes.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
And there's always a bathroom around. Yeah, thank you for clear.
Speaker 11 (16:29):
To be clear, when you're dropping a cab, there's always
a bathroom around.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Shout out to that empty big gold cup.
Speaker 11 (16:35):
It's not the issue, you think anything, But just a
word to the wise out there. Those cabbys are not
dumping out coffee at red lights.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
It's so funny.
Speaker 11 (16:44):
Something out of my camera out of town once they're like, wow,
the coffee must sucking this time. I always see the
cabbies dumping it out and I'm like, well about that.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
A look at the big golf and say, hey, can
I have some of that meltain Judie? No, wow, you
do not want that.
Speaker 9 (17:00):
No.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I love that you're here. I love that you're part
of the show. What do you tonight?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
What do you? What are you talking about tonight?
Speaker 11 (17:06):
Well, it's it's in a lot of ways, it's big
box because what I try to do. Obviously, we got
these la Ice riots. Okay, you might not know this
about me, but I am like super supportive of law enforcement.
Everyone in my family is a cop NYPDA. Both my brothers,
my dad, my uncle, nine of my cousins NYPDA.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Get the academy.
Speaker 11 (17:25):
Well, I would have been a cop if it weren't
for this thing called a background check.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
They remember that a problem they told me about that.
I was like, thank you for your time, gentlemen. No,
if you want to laugh.
Speaker 11 (17:35):
I actually got hired by the NYPD and the Port
Authority when I was young, but I had already started
comedy and I was like, I don't need your health
care and your benefits. I'm getting paid in onion rings
at the Brown Ram times. Like I've made it are
you kidding me? So I'm always talking about those primal
issues first and foremost because they affect all of us.
You know, you'd expect me, as a guy who hosts
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a Fox News show to be a little right wing,
But I don't do a right wing conservative talk show.
I do an American talk show. There are certain things
we all have an investment in, and politics has a
way of blinding us to that reality. The cops matter,
the border matters, crime matters. I mean, think about right now.
You played a clip during the Big Three about how
they claimed that we were endangering people by sending in
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the National Guard. No, No, endangering people is what's happening. They're
burning down businesses. People don't feel threatened if you're a
local business owner by the National Guard showing up.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
That's to them.
Speaker 11 (18:26):
Finally, Okay, you feel threatened by the guy dumping gasoline
on your store. So in a lot of ways, there's
a broken compass in society, and I'm trying to be
that common denominator that kind of recalibrates the thing.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
That's what I do.
Speaker 11 (18:38):
I come on the air, there's jokes, this goofy, I
take shots at myself, but I'm very much. Putting your
vitamins in your apple sauce. You know, you trick a
kid into eating his vitamins by putting them in apple sauce,
and then he eats somebody he doesn't even know. We
digest them. That's kind of how I distill hard news.
That's so bring a spoon.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
That's great philosophy. That's what I also like that you're
coming at this, especially the stories that are in the
new nowadays, at a perspective of someone who is from
a cop family.
Speaker 11 (19:03):
Yes, big time cops, cabbies, and you see it like
I had no appreciation for what my brothers did until
I became a cab driver, you know, because you see
how primal that gig is. If there's a guy on
the corner of sixth Avenue with no pants on, swinging
a golf club at people, Okay, everybody yelling defund the
plate doesn't have to deal with that guy. The cops do.
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They have to dive in and handle that guy. And
for me, it's awkward because he's got no pants on,
and I know Jeffrey Tuban, so I also have to.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Weigh well, we have a lot more of this to come.
Thanks so much, for being here, Jimmy, and thanks for
joining the station. It means a lot to everybody here
in Brooklyn. Staple that brought a taste of Italy to
benson Hurst for decades is closing its doors.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Don't you dare?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
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Speaker 6 (20:07):
Stop it to go with my thong. Yeah I won
that one.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I disguise my voice, but I want to see it
during the break. We're coming right back.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
And now let's bring in Mike Kelly, Award winning columnist
for North Jersey dot Com and The Record. Good morning Mike.
So go ahead and set the stage for this primary.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Good morning, Larry. Not even stage for this primary is
kind of like just drawing a big question mark. I
think I think the Democrats are trying to find themselves Republicans.
You're absolutely right. I've been listening to your commentary earlier
this morning. I think it's Jack Chittarelli's race to lose,
not only in the primary, but I will walk even
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farther than this and say, I think it's Jack Chittarelli's
race to lose in November. To me, he is the
candidate who has the most clear message right now. That
could change, of course, you know, but right now, I
think he's the candidate who seems to be on top
of the messaging. And here in New Jersey, everybody says, oh,
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it's a blue state. And again, you and I have
talked about this a lot. It's really not a blue state. Yes,
there are more registered Democrats than Republicans, although the Republican
registry is rising. But I'd call it a purple state.
There's a lot of voters in the middle who flip
back and forth, and that's why we go from Chris
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Christia as governor for eight years and then we go
to Phil Murphy for eight years. So I think the
time is right for Republicans to seize this question. As
will they do it?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yeah, there's two strange trends that are competing in this election.
One is that no new governor of somebody running for
the first time, has ever won as a Democrat. If
a Republican his office is an office and has never
won as a Republican. If a Democrat is in the presidency,
is in the White House. So that's one trend that
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would favor, of course, whoever the Democrat is. But also,
nobody's won three times in a row. There's no Republican
that has held that three elections in a row, and
no Democrat that's held it three elections in a row.
That would favor Jack Chittarelli. So you're you're thinking that
the one that's going to go is that it's going
(22:26):
to be Cheddarelli, even though Trump's in office. Doesn't a
lot of that depend on what Trump does over the
next several months.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Mean, look at what's happened just in the past week.
You know, last week we thought, oh my goodness, here
Trump is now going to crumble. The exhibit A was
the big, you know, mean girl's fight he had with
Elon Musk. Suddenly, I feel like the needle has shifted
a bit. With what's going on in Los Angeles. The
Democrats there have given Trump a gift. He must be
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he must be on his knees so great that he
doesn't have to talk about Elon Musk anymore. He can
talk about you know, California and Governor Newsom. So you know,
the luck is heading toward Trump again and again and again.
And I of course that could change in the fall.
You know, we'll have to keep an eye on the
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economy and with the tariffs due to it and that
sort of thing, and that will directly affect the New
Jersey race. But right now I see the Democratic field
as really still trying to find himself. I've written a
whole series of columns leading up to this primary about,
you know, what the Democrats need to do and what
they haven't done, And right now I think it's really
a party trying to, you know, find it's footing.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
I think it's also a party. I watched the debate.
It seems to be a party trying to find the
middle because not Ross Baraka, but the most of the
rest of them have seemed to change their policies just
a little bit to seem like a Now, I would argue,
more sane than the Democratic Party has been for the
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last four years. And if that is the case, I
would think that would favor someone like Josh Gottheimer.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
I know, I actually thought Godheimer had a real leg
up going into this election because he came out of
the box focused on what I would call kitchen table issues,
how can you afford to live in New Jersey where
taxes seemed to be rising, etc. That sort of thing.
But Gottheimer's message never really caught on, and I think
that's going to be really one of the great questions
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coming out of this primary. Because he's an enormously attractive candidate.
He really comes from a district here in northern New
Jersey that where there is a substantial number of Trump voters,
very conservative, but also a large number of moderates, and
also a very very loud and powerful progressive corner of
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the Democratic Party. And he's managed to cross all of
those bridges, and he does that, I think very well
in Congress is as one of the chair people of
the so called problem Solvers Conference. I think the fact
that Gottheimer never really found his footing in this selection
is going to be one of the great stories coming
out of it. And I don't think he's going to win.
(25:16):
I think it's going to be Mikey Cheryl, but I
don't think she's going to win in any kind of
landslader with any great mandate. Here, she's you know, she's
basically got somewhere in the high twenty percentile in all
the polls, and that's not great for a candidate running
for a statewide office.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Hey, just real quickly, and we can talk about this
more as we go along. Give me one thing the
Democrats need to do in New Jersey to win.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Build something. I wrote this column over the weekend, and
you know, the Democrats are great at saying they want to,
you know, have this sort of paper type program, build something,
build railroads, build fix roads, that sort of thing, and
don't take so long. I suggested ways to you know,
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build where the new governor of New Jersey could could
require the Poort Authority to fix the George Washington Bridge
in less than ten years and to build the bus
terminal in Midtown Manhattan in less than ten years. I
just think that, you know, we are a country that
builds things, at least we used to be, and we
(26:24):
don't do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
That is a tremendous point.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Mike Kelly is an award winning columnist for North Jersey
dot Com and the Record. Mike appreciate it. We'll go
through some of the other things in the weeks to come.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Appreciate your time, Stay well, Eric, take care
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