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Andrew Cuomo's polling numbers have been climbing since Mayor Eric Adams endorsed him. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tomorn.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Similar on seventeen w momar, Well, it's Friday, now tomorrow Saturday,
and it's the first day of early voting mayoral race.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
The election actually begins tomorrow. Voting starts tomorrow and it
goes for ten days. Get out there and vote. Vote
for Curtis. We think he'd be the best mayor. But
tomorrow is the first day. Well, we'll get back to
the meryal race. Now, the shutdown has been on for
two weeks. This is the big payday normally for government employees.

(00:33):
They're going to miss a payday today. And they tried
to take votes every day to what they want to do.
Republicans sign what do they call that? A clean cry?
They've all this jargon, but what it means is they'd
extend the talks. You signed this thing, and it extends
everything for seven weeks. That gives you a chance to negotiate.
Every time they bring this up for a vote, Democrats

(00:55):
voted down. They don't want the extension. President Trump tries
to explain, I think.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
The Democrats have gone totally crazy, and you don't know
what they're gonna do because they don't care about the
people they I really think they have no leadership. They
have a lot of very low IQ people.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Well, you do have some low IQ people. You got
a lot of those aocs. But the real problem is
no leadership. You don't have a clear leader. In the
good old days, it was somebody like Chuck Schumer. Now
he's like an old, washed up has been who's so terrified.
He knows it's over, he knows he can't run for reelection.
AOC has already out raised him like ten to one

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in money. And then you got Hakeem Jefferies, not really
a leader. He's trying to be. He's trying to look
serious and look like he has some gravitas, but not
pulling it off at all. So without the leadership, they
can't seem to get anything done. And that's another problem
the Republicans have. There's really nobody to negotiate with. Schumer
is not free to even be Schumer. He's just so

(01:56):
terrified of the left. And that's the problem. So we'll see,
we'll see what happens. You know, this all started over
the healthcare stuff, and it was all caused by the
Obamacare prices going crazy. They were just getting out of control,
and they've got to be something's got to be done
to get them back under control. The premiums are just

(02:17):
going through the roof. Everything has gone crazy. You remember
what they called Obamacare, Remember what the original name was,
the Affordable Care Act. It was supposed to start that way,
but the prices on it went up like seven hundred
percent and it's unaffordable now. You remember the other thing
that was billed as is you like your doctor, you
can keep your doctor. You like your plan, you can

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keep your plan. Well, nobody ever saw their doctor again.
All of a sudden, you're in some weird network. Everybody
lost their plan that was under it. It's just a mess.
It needs to be fixed by both sides. But somebody's
got to give in and sign that extension. It give
you a few more weeks to talk about it. Hey,
this big NBA scandal. You know, I like Steven A,

(03:02):
but sometimes he can say the dumbest things. You know,
he looks like a smart guy and he's always well
dressed and articked, and then every so of he just
says the dumbest stuff. So he's getting a lot of
flack from yesterday because he I don't know what he
was thinking. This whole NBA scandal. He was trying to
blame it on Trump. He said, it's Trump that caused this,

(03:23):
it's retribution from Trump Cash Prittel FBI director, he said,
it's about the dumbest comment he's ever heard. This investigation
was started by Joe Biden's administration. The Trump administration just inherited.
It's been going on for about two years. Trump's only
been there whatever it is, eight months, nine months. But again,

(03:44):
this whole it's operation, whatever the hell they call it,
it's a Biden era investigation. Most of it done during
the Biden era, So nothing to do with Trump whatsoever.
Stephen A. Smith, But he hasn't apologized, he hasn't said
it about it yet. Hey, another good thing in New
York if this works, if they actually do this. They've

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announced a crackdown on e bikes, those electronic bikes you
got it's just chaos in the streets. When it was
all cars, the it was just cars and all car lanes,
you would get bikes riding along the very edge by
the curb, which was that was a safer system. Now

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you got bike lanes in the middle of the street,
you got e bikes, you got scooters, you got those
what do you call those things? Those petticabs all over
the place. It's an absolute mess. It's total chaos and
no rules. It's just total chaos. Bikes going through lights,
going the wrong way, going on the sidewalk. You got
to start cracking down on this. So step number one.

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There's now a fifteen mile an hour speed limit on
e bikes and they claim they'll enforce this. Now, if
they do, two things will happen. Those bikes will start
to have to behave themselves instead of running lights, being
all over the road and speeding. If that's true, and
they start cracking down giving tickets, they'll have to do that.
And the other thing that'll happen is you'll start generating

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a ton of revenue because they go city always claiming
they need more revenue. Crack down on the e bikes,
the petty cabs, speeding, tickets, running lights, running all over
the place. It's a ton of revenue. You could probably
get rid of that congestion pricing. But let's see if
they do it. Let's see if they really crack down. Also,
make all those bikes and everything get licenses. It's another

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source of revenue. You have to pay for a license
every year. Now, speaking of congestion pricing, you'll notice in
the debate, Mom Donnie said he would keep the congestion pricing.
Is all for it. But you'll notice Cuomo said that too.
I guess he thought he had to since he created it.
He's the guy that gave us congestion pricing. He's the
one that pushed it through, got it passed, and then

(05:54):
hokel used it. But he said he would keep it.
He's all for it. Mayoral race, I don't know. Eric
Adams yesterday endorsing Cuomo. He says he'll go out and
campaign with him. I don't know how much that helps.
Adams was in single digits, but he's gonna fight for Cuomo.

Speaker 5 (06:11):
Am I angry that I'm not the one taking down Zoran,
the socialists and the communists. You're dawn right, I am,
but you know what the city means more to me
than anything, and it is time for us as a
family to come together.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
Yeah, it's on principle, But on the other hand, remember
there were massive, big, big donors with billions of dollars
trying to spread it around, trying to do whatever they
could to help Cuomo get Curtis out whatever. Who knows,
who knows why Adams is suddenly on board? Who knows?

Speaker 6 (06:43):
Corrupt birds of a feather flock to get I was
cursed about that. Anybody who was going to vote Rick Adams,
I have to wonder when they've been these last four years,
because he is the most corrupt man in the history
of New York. So, hey, Andrew Pombo, you could have
whatever vote she had. I don't have a want parrak

(07:05):
Adam's boots.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
Now, you gotta admit Adams when he took office put
in some of the sleaziest people. The first few years
of the Adams administration, in fact, how many of them
got indicted, how many of them got arrested, how many
of them are going to trial? It was pretty bad.
But the last year Adams straightened out and it became
pretty good. He brought in Randy Mastro to be the

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deputy mayor running things. Mastro is great. You couldn't ask
for a better guy to run city hall. He was
Giuliani's guy for eight years. And then he brought in
Jessica Tish, excellent police commissioner. And under the first few
years of Adams there was tremendous corruption in the NYPD
at very high levels, but Jessica Tish came in and

(07:50):
cleaned it out. It was about ten or fifteen people
and she fired him all some of them pretty big people.
But she immediately give her credit cleaned it up, so Adams,
the last six months things have been fine. Now Cuomo
has said he will keep Jessica Tish and Mom Donnie
shocked a lot of people in the debate by saying
he will keep Jessica Tish. If that's the case, that

(08:12):
would reassure a lot of people. But if you go
back and play the video again and analyze it, he
didn't exactly say he would definitely keep her. He said
he would consider keeping. There was some wiggle room in it.
There was some weasel room. And even if he said
I will ask her to stay on, well what does

(08:33):
that mean for a week, for a month? Fire her
in six months? Obviously, if you had your own idea
for a commissioner, you would take office and she would
stay on until you're whoever your replacement is was ready.
So would she stay on? Which you want to stay with?
Mom Donnie, Well, that's the problem. She did work under Deblasio,
which was pretty bad, and she did take over in

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the Atoms when things were still a mess there. But
she would stay on. But you never know. If he
starts interfering, if he starts tampering and things starts restricting
the police, she'd probably, knowing her, she would quit on
principle and not put up with it. Donald Trump Junior,
weighing in on Mom Donnie.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
Perhaps it's exactly what we need as a country. You know,
you hate to see New York failure, the birthplace off
Wall Street, the birthplace of American capitalism, go down in flames.
But perhaps that's the lesson we all have to see.
If the rest of the country watches New York fail,
and I believe it will under these disastrous ideas, you know,
maybe that's what we need to stop the spread of

(09:35):
this scourge, of this disease of communism in America.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
Well he's not alone. I mean, I don't know about that,
but there's some people that think that it's better to
get mom donnie. Let him be a total disaster. Everybody's
been trying to figure out what to do about the
Democratic this woke, crazy, insane far left nonsense. Even a
lot of Democrats are trying to figure out how to
stop it. So maybe a total Mom Donni disaster, but

(10:02):
we've already tested it, we already watched it. It happened in Chicago,
it happened in San Francisco. It's happened all over the place,
and it doesn't seem to be a lesson that resonates anywhere.
From what I hear, you know, Mom Donnie is funded.
There's a lot of money funding Mom Donnie, a lot
of George Soros type money flowing in millions, many, many millions.

(10:23):
And from what I hear, they got another twenty six.
Mom Donnie's ready to go. They'll run them in other cities.
You know, they got them like a central training headquarters
where they like an academy where they train them how
to be like Mom Donnie, you know, be good in
the debates, say all the right stuff, have that slick look.
There's about twenty six. Mom Donnie's ready to go. So

(10:45):
this idea, let New York go up in flames. So
everybody sees it, learns their lesson. It's great, but not
for us. We're going to have to live through this
if it is, Mom Donnie. I just remember we got
through eight years at the LA. We made it through
the Blasio, So you never know Mom Donnie was using that.
He's got a lot of commercials. Now you're seeing more

(11:06):
and more commercials now. Last few weeks it was mostly
Curtis running TV commercials. Now it's everybody. But there's one
Mom Donnie commercial where it uses a New York Knicks
uniform with his name on it. It implies that there's
somehow there's a New York Knicks connection to Mom Donnie.
The New York Knicks have sued him. They've they got
a cease and desist order. They want him to stop

(11:28):
using their logo, their uniform or anything in the commercials.
They want nothing to nothing to do with them. You know,
there's a candidate in Long Island who's running for DA
or something, and there's some commercial from the opposition tying
her to Mom Donnie. So she's suing the GOP. She

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wants nothing to do with Mom Donnie. I think she's
a Democrat. She just wants no connection. She's a Democrat
suing the GOP for trying to connect her in any
way to Mom Donnie. So again, he's very, very unpopular
with a lot of Democrats too. Hey, remember Bob Menendez
Bob Menendez who went to jail. He's the senator with

(12:12):
the gold bars. We're recommending books today. There's a great
book that just came out Isabelle Vincent, big, big investigative
reporter in New York Post, and she's written a lot
of great books. She's written books about all sorts of stuff.
But her new book is called gold Bar Bob. If
you want the real Bob Menendez story, and by the way,

(12:33):
if you're a movie producer, you might want to get
this book. It'd be a great movie. Gold Bar Bob
goes through the whole Menendez story. But you got to
read this because it takes you all through this New
Jersey mafia connection, the Caribbean, Latin America, the Middle East,
the personal campaign contributions, the way he aided others, interfered

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in criminal prosecutions, defrauded medicare questionable visa. It's fast senating stuff.
But take a look at this book. It's called gold
Bar Bob Downfall of the Most Corrupt US Senator. So
if you're in New Jersey you might want to read
or anyway, gold Bar Bob speaking in New Jersey looks

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like it's tied. We don't have any definitive polling there,
but it's very, very close. Chitarelly just lost by a little.
Now here's the problem. Nothing personal in New Jersey, but
your voting system. There's a lot of funny business goes
on in New Jersey. Even Democrats I'm talking about the insiders,

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will tell you officials, people that know all this stuff.
You know, you can't win by one two percent. It
won't cover the cheating in the New Jersey voting system.
You got to win by like three, four or five
percent to cover that. So so far Chitarelly hasn't been
able to get that kind of lead. Hey, well, take
some calls in a minute, eight hundred three to two,

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one zero seven ten. Oh and by the way, in
a few minutes, we'll talk to the greatest polster in
the world and see what he knows about the New
York race and the New Jersey race. We'll get to
all of that coming up, but we'll take some calls
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