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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now this is the Mark Simon Show on sevent ten. Woo, Well,
things are shifting in the mayoral race. We'll get to that.
We'll get to the President's trip. He meets with President
She tonight late tonight. We'll get to the shutdown. We'll
get to the World Series. We'll get to twenty twenty eight.
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We'll get to the ballroom, and a whole lot more
coming up. There's people that watch this stuff carefully are
seeing a shift in the mayoral race. More people are
moving towards Cuomo. Curtis, who we love. He'd be He's
the best candidate of the bunch, he'd be the best
mayor of the bunch. But there are voters shifting from
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him to Cuomo, despite the fact that they hate Cuomo.
They were horrified by Cuomo's performance in office as governor,
but they're just so terrified of him Donnie City Hall,
that they're more and more people are shifting to Cuomo.
So we don't know if it's too little, too late.
He's still way behind in all the polling, but but
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there is a shift, and there is some data showing
the race really tightening. The big big donors are always
the worst in any campaign because at first they always
back the wrong guy. They're never great at helping. They
do more damage than good, these big, big money donors.
But one of the problems is to get mom Donnie
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out of this, to take him out of competition. This
had to start about a month and a half ago.
As John McLaughlin, the great Polster, explained to us, you
got to drive his negatives up. You got to get
his negatives up into the fifties. And the way you
do that is massive negative ads against him. Bombard everybody
with these ads showing you things he said in the past,
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all that stuff. Well, that's where the big donors have
to spend the money. The big super PACs have to
run those ads. Well, they didn't this time. Where have
they been This is one of the few campaigns where
they haven't been there. You haven't seen those kind of
negative adds. It's because the big donors were terrified of
Mam Donnie winning and then not being able to have
any kind of relationship with him because you can always
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tell who donated the money, So out of fear, they
didn't do it. Now it looks like they may start
doing it. It's a little late, about thirty five percent
of the vote is already in because of that early voting.
So it's a little late, but they're going to start
running some negative stuff. You got this weekend to do it,
and then early voting stops. I think Monday. I think
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there's no early voting the day before the election. But
then Tuesday's election day. You'll probably get half the votes
on Tuesday. So, but Cuomo has been picking up a
little steam and he's been picking up endorsements. David Patterson
endorsed him, But then David Patterson has endorsed everybody in
the race. He's endorsed Adams. If Curtiss is saying, don't
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endorse me, it's the kiss of death. Eric Adams is
endorsed Cuomo. They were campaigning together.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Here they are yesterday, here Adams, Governor Patterson, myself.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
We are Democrats.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
We've always been Democrats, we will always be Democrats, and
we believe in the democratic values.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah. Now, the only problem is that he keeps, you know,
making that point, I'm the real I'm the actual Democrat. Well,
he was in the Democratic primary and Democrats rejected him.
Democrats voted against him. He's running now on a third party.
He's not the Democratic nominee, but Adams appeared with him yesterday.
We don't need a socialist masquerading as a Democrat.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
No one's going to get a free ride, no matter
what some people are promising. But there is a great
opportunity for this city if we elect this gentleman right now,
next Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Now that's the Adams and David Patterson together. So here's
the problem. Everybody hates Cuomo. They thought he was He's
a nice guy in real life, but they just thought
he was the worst governor. He caused the crime wave,
the no bail, no jail, the closing the prisons, letting
all the prisoners out, the taken away the qualified immunity
from cops was a horrible thing to do. Cops could
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get sued if they went near anybody, so they had
to be very restrained. I mean, he did so many things.
He totally mismanaged the pandemic. He tried to ban the vaccine.
At one point he blocked Ice and threatened to sue them.
He closed Indian Point that drove up that was twenty
five percent of our power, drove up our electric costs.
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He picked Kathy Hockle. He's the reason we're stuck with
Kathy Ogle. He gave us the congestion pricing. He's the
one that pushed that through. So he was just terrible
as governor, But many just think Madamie could actually be worse. Obviously,
they're worried most about public safety. But remember it was
Cuomo that gave us the no bail no jail. That
one move single handedly caused the crime wave. He's the
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one that pushed it like crazy. But people just think
they'd be safer with him than Mom Donnie. He's probably
probably correct, but even Here's Michael Goodwin today, the great
columnist in the New York Post, and he writes, if
anyone had dared to tell me I would actually vote
for Andrew Cuomo again, I would have shot back. Never.
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I was thoroughly disgusted with the former governor, applauded his
forced exit from Albany, and saw no evidence he was
doing anything to make himself fit to hold public office again.
In the three plus years since his resignation, he's continued
to play defense attack as critics, including me Goodwin, but
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had done nothing to demonstrate he learned anything or accepted
any responsibility for his historic collapse. There were no apologies
for the heartless nursing home tobaccle he caused. There was
no remorse that he was guilty of sexually harassing thirteen
women accused of harassing them. He never said so directly,
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but he seemed to believe if he got back into
politics enough, voters enamored with the Cuomo name would give
him a second chance, even if he didn't show them
why he deserved it. Well, that was the problem in
the primary. He thought just the Cuomo name, the name recognition, whatever,
would help him, but he got wiped out in both
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debates in the primary. He got wiped out in the
popular vote in the primary. But Goodwin says, as horrible
as he thinks Cuomo is, he'll vote for him just
to stop mom Donnie. So you're getting more and more
of that. By the way, every piece of polling these
are all kind of junk polls, the dozen of them
that are out there, but every single one shows that
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Curtis got out of the race, Cuomo still would be behind,
so it's not about Curtis. And the most detailed polling
shows if Curtis left, thirty six percent of his vote
would go to Cuomo, giving Cuomo an extra four percent,
so if he spot behind ten percent, then he'd be
behind six percent, still not enough to win. The idea
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that if Curtis dropped out, all those votes would go
to Cuomo is crazy. It's like saying if the Yankees
lose in the playoffs and don't make the World Series,
all the Yankee fans will then go with the Red Sox.
It doesn't work that way. It may be some of
them just because they like the American League, would cheer
for the Red Sox, but most of the Yankee fans
would not suddenly go to the Red Sox. Same thing
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with Curtis. Curtis is not getting out of the race,
no reason why he should. If Cuomo wants to win this,
he's got to win those votes. You can't just force
Sliwa out. Cuomo has to legitimately try to win those
voters away. Well, it looks like there is some movement
like that. He is picking up a little steam. We'll
see if he can do it enough to close the gap.
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The race is tighter than the people think. Mamdani is
on course to win. Now. Well, here's what's interesting. If
you try to argue with people about policies that he supports.
In the polling, the majority of residents don't agree with
his This is the fascinating part. They just like him.
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The poll found that New Yorkers favor harsher penalties for
fair evasion. They're not looking for free bus fair. They
don't like the bail reform law. Sixty eight percent don't
want the free buses. They thought it would turn them
into homeless shelters. He can go on and on. They're
not in favor of his crime policies, but despite all that,
they were still for them. Now, Mam, Donnie's got all
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these horrible comments in the past, you know, they keep
coming up. He said, the NYPD had their boots on
your neck. Is he said, I think I have it
here somewhere. Maybe maybe this is it. This is from
a few years ago. We have to make clear when
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it's yes. Yeah. So he said, when the NYPD boot
is on your neck, it's been laced by the IDF.
So that's real, mom, Donni. There he takes a terrible
shot of the police and puts in some anti Semitic,
anti Israel nonsense into the same sentence. So that's what
you're dealing with. Uh, here's Curtis, but he just shows
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the hate that he has vote for the idea and
the hate that he has for the NYPD. Yeah, so
all of this is just horrible. But again we are
seeing a shift of voters who don't like Cuomo. They
hate Cuomo, they thought he was a terrible governor. But
there is some movement, some shift over the voting for Cuomo.
We'll see if it's enough. A lot of people really
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upset with Kathy Hokele. Now, if Mom Donnie were to
win and be a terrible mayor, that would be the
end of Kathy Hokel. Anybody running against her would just
run the clips of her supporting Mom Donnie and stickiness
with this stuff. She could actually remove him as mayor,
which she won't have the nerve to do. So that's
another reason she'll get voted out of office. She just
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panders to him in his socialist crowd. She was at
she appeared at the Mam Donnie rally, and again she'll
never be able to explain that away. What were you
doing at a Mom Donnie rally? Speaking on his behalf,
holding hands with him at the rally? She got booed there,
by the way, even the far left hates her. She
was booed. She said, she's not the brightest woman in
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the world. They were booing her like crazy, and she said,
I thought they were saying, let's go bills. Now, if
you're going to think of an excuse, that's why would
this was in Forest Hill stadiums. Why would people in
New York City not say let's go giants jets. Nobody
in New York City cares about the bills. So just
looked awful for her. Now, what if Mom Donnie win?
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Is there any way to stop him? If he wins? Yes,
if they found out he took foreign money, knowingly took
foreign money into his campaign, they can remove him from
being mayor, that would be the end of it. Now,
there are several groups that have been working on this,
this one called the Coolidge Reagan Foundation. They have now
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filed two criminal referrals with the Justice Department. They've uncovered
thirteen thousand and foreign money from one hundred and seventy
donors that went to Mom Donnie. Now it's not quite
that simple. You got to prove that he knew about it,
but it's enough to file a criminal referral, have a
criminal investigation there's another one hundred and seventy incidents that's
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not isolated. That's a lot of incidents. The Mam Donnie
campaigns at thirty one of the one hundred and seventy
one donors proved their citizenship. Well, he's still got one
hundred and forty left that didn't. The criminal referral is
with the Assistant Attorney General right now, so he'll be
looking at that. Fox News Digital did an investigation. They
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uncovered thirteen thousand from donors with foreign addresses, including one
five hundred dollars donation from his mother in law in Dubai,
not an American citizen. Mam Donnie says he returned the contribution,
but as of October fourteenth, filing still show ninety one
foreign donations had been funded. But that leaves that leaves
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about sixty of them still out there, So it's possible
they could take him out with that. Also, any victory
of Mandami's would he'd be a terrible mayor. It would
just kill the Democrats right now. Democratic brand is in
real trouble. If you went back to ten years ago
and took a real poll, not a serious poll, fifty
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percent of voters viewed the Democratic Party is out of touch.
Half okay, that makes sense, but it's now up to
seventy percent. The majority of the country thinks the Democratic
Party is totally completely out of touch. So we'll see
what happens as the early voting continues. Now, if we
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get about a million votes, a million one, a million two,
which is low twenty thirty percent turnout, it looks like
it could head to two million. You could get sixty percent,
seventy percent turnout. If the voting gets to two million,
that probably could give you a Cuomo victory. Probably it
has to get to about two million, but it looks
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like it could be headed there. So there's all these endorsements. Now,
Michael Goodwin says he hates Cuomo as much as it,
but he's going to vote for him. Here you got
a woman who this kind of went viral online. She says,
Cuomo murdered my husband. I think she's referring to the
nursing homes. Cuomo murdered my husband, But I'm still going
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to vote for him. So you're getting a lot of that.
So there is a shift going on right now. Now
in New Jersey, it's very very very tight. Nobody can
tell what's going to happen. Now, these endorsements don't mean
much of anything. You know, when Cuomo announces, oh, the
Electricians Union endorsed me. They're nice people, but I don't
think anybody when they want to know who to vote for,
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asks they're Electrician. It doesn't mean anything. Even the big
name the newspaper endorsements generally mean nothing. Rally's trying to
get endorsements. He's got a Trump. Trump's not going to
come to New Jersey, but it's gonna be some sort
of video endorsement. Mikey Cheryl brought in Obama to give
an indorsement. Here's the latest Chiitarelli endorsement. Kelsey Grammar, Hi,
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Kelsey Grammar. Here, you already know that I'm from New Jersey. No,
wait to stop it. Did you know he's from New Jersey?
I never know he's from New Jersey. Is there anything
about him that suggests he's from New Jersey?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
No, why I'm talking to you right now. There's a
lot of famous folks who grew up in Jersey. But
some of them seem content to let you guys go
on living on a prayer. Others have just forgotten that
you were born in the USA too. But once Jack wins,
and I think he's got a good chance of winning,
it's gonna make it a lot easier to just shake
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it off.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
I don't know. That's not a very good not a
good commercial. I don't know. I don't know. It's like
just picture him and Niles in the in the little cafe,
they're talking. No, no, not a powerful endorsement. Anyway, We'll
see what happens. We'll get back to the mayor all race.
We'll get back to that. The President is continuing the trip.
You'll read that he's going to meet with President She
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Thursday morning, but with the massive time difference, Thursday morning
is late tonight, so it'll be late tonight that he
meets with She. So far, it's been a very very
successful trip. Lots of agreements, lots of deals have been signed,
great for the United States. So they call deliverables. He's
gotten a lot of different deliverables on this trip. We'll
get to the shutdown coming up. Chuck Schumer says, this
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is outrageous. It's outrageous, this is horrifying. Forty two million
people on foodstamps might not get their benefits, but most
people on to hear this go Wait a minute, forty
two million people are on food stamps. Why weren't you
outraged about that? You should have been screaming for years
that forty two million people are on food stamps. That's
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not right. Somebody that did just the sign of his
failed leadership. Anyway, we'll get back to all of this up.
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