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Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show, 9 till noon, weekdays, 710WOR.
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Speaker 2: Well, the best columnist in America, Michael Goodwin, the New York Post. You can read his column every Sunday and every Wednesday. And if you go to the New York Post website, all his columns are up there. You can take a look at all of them. And it's great to have him with us. Michael Goodwin, how are you doing?
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Speaker 1: Good morning, Mark. Thank you.
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Speaker 2: So, what do you think will happen tomorrow?
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Speaker 1: Well, I would be a little more confident in Blakeman's situation if the polls were even moving toward him, regardless of the gap. But unfortunately, I see no evidence in any poll that has been public that it's getting closer. And I'm kind of fascinated, Mark, by the events in Detroit, Michigan, with Haley Stevens endorsing Mike Rogers, the Republican. And the outcry, which I was writing about for Sunday, about the Democratic Party demands 100% loyalty from every official or you're excommunicated. And what Governor Hochul has done by bringing in Mamdani, she has really turned the party over to the radical left. And this is why the Democratic Party is going left. The so-called centrists never fight. They give up. They surrender to the left. And we're seeing that across the country.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So, you know, the anti-Semitic nonsense coming out of Michigan and Al-Sayed.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: A guy like Chuck Schumer, highest-ranking Jewish official in the American government, what made him run and hide? Why did he desert us on this?
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Speaker 1: Well, he did more than desert us. He is now calling Haley Stevens a despicable betrayal for backing Mike Rogers. So party first, party last. That's what the Democrats are demanding of themselves. And we see it with Hochul. It doesn't matter what she stands for. She's a Democrat. We see what Nancy Pelosi attacking Stevens and even supporting Mamdani, supporting El-Said, despite the repugnant views. This is what's happening to the Democratic Party. And I believe and I hope That there will be some pushback in some states. I wish it would happen in New York too.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. This anti-Semitism all through the democratic world. Yeah. Did it just come from somewhere? Was it always there and it just bubbled up over the surface? Where did it come from?
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Speaker 1: Well, I think it is the left, right? I mean, it is the socialist left, uh, And I think, you know, we've seen this explosion of it ever since the October 7th Hamas invasion, which is very odd, right? There's no question that was a terrorist operation that killed mostly civilians, including babies and women. And yet the Palestinians were the winners of the PR war. And so many young people in particular, you know, went out and bought their cathedrals, and dressed up like gorillas to bring down the big bad Zionist state and America for supporting it. So American support for Israel is really on the ballot this time. And so when people like Heather Stevens break with Saeed, how Saeed was a real anti-Semite. He was gathering signatures in a mosque. where the imams were saying, kill the Jews. And that's fine with Chuck Schumer. As long as he's a Democrat, we put up with it. That's what's wrong with the Democratic Party.
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Speaker 2: But even Kathy Hochul, it seemed way back when, was a common sense woman from upstate New York.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, way back when.
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Speaker 2: Why did she go along with all this? Just out of fear of losing?
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Speaker 1: Yes, yes. I mean, it's a drug, right? It's a drug to win. You know, Mark, I'm reminded of Bill Clinton. And remember in 1992 when he runs for president, the sister soldier moment, right? And so many others where he broke with the far left of his own party and ran as a centrist. Obviously, he had a lot of personal failings, but in terms of taking the party and grabbing it, pulling it back toward the center. I mean, that was a heroic thing that he did at the time. He wasn't always a good example of his own politics. But I have to say, the Democrats now need another Bill Clinton who can rescue them from their far-left dash over the cliff. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: So, Michael Goodwin, you think maybe Donald Trump is to blame, you know, because we like Trump as president, but he was so over the top, you know, extreme, this, that, the language. Did he set the Democrats off so that they figured they had to go even more extreme to the left and he went to the right?
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Speaker 1: I do think it's Trumpism in some ways, but it's more so much not about what he said. It's what he did. He beat Hillary Clinton, right? She was going to be the first woman president, and he beat her. And he had no right to beat her, right? That was her job. He stole it from her. He stole the presidency from Hillary Clinton. And so many on the left have never forgiven him. Let's think about it, right? He beat Hillary Clinton. and Kamala Harris, right? Both of them were going to be the first woman president. Donald Trump beat them soundly in both cases. And so I think that's a lot of this anger, particularly for a Kamala Harris mixed race. And so I think that there is a lot of anger. It's irrational. It's not about policies. It's not about personal behavior. It's simply political.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Personal.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely. Now, on the other hand, he doesn't do himself any favors. He's not exactly trying to, you know, appease people. I mean, when he sees hatred, he'll just crank it up.
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Speaker 1: He's not a good hand-holder.
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 1: If you had a tragedy in your life, you wouldn't expect Donald Trump to come over and bring you chicken soup, right?
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, you know, actually, in real life, he's pretty good at that privately, quietly, but in public, he's charging the bull, not the other way around.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point. I mean, I've had lots of very fun private moments with him and things. But publicly, he can really be unbearable in many situations. And I think that this campaign, he has not done a great job, I think, of making the argument that or why you want to keep the Republicans in charge of Congress. Um, so I think it's pretty likely that the Democrats will take the house and we'll see what happens in Michigan, but there's a very good chance. Uh, they'll also take the Senate. Um, I mean, there's lots of issues, of course, the Iran war and the inflation, uh, some of the Trump family businesses, businesses are not popular. with a lot of voters. So I think a lot of that comes on top of this dislike of Donald Trump by many on the left. But it's going to be a very interesting day tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: Now, if Hochul wins re-election, we hope not, but does that mean she'll finally distance herself from Mamdani, not needing him anymore, or does that mean she'll team up even more with Mamdani?
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Speaker 1: No, I think quite the opposite. She'll she'll go full socialist. She'll govern as a far leftist. And look, let's face it, Republicans have no real voice in the state legislature. It's heavily Democratic. Democrats have a veto-proof majority in both houses. So even if she were to get a backbone for a moment, it should be overridden on any budget bill. although she does have line-iron veto power, which George Pataki won for, won through the courts. So the governor can do line-iron vetoes, but there's a way around that in a legislature that is veto-proof, so that they don't have to take another vote, but they could certainly do that. So I'm afraid for New York if Hochul wins. I think Mamdani... It's going to be a very influential figure, and she will say, yes, sir, you helped me well. an election. Yes, sir. How much should I raise the tax, sir?
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Speaker 2: Well, if anybody doesn't like what they're hearing, the answer is get out there and vote tomorrow. Just make sure you go vote tomorrow. That's what you got to do. Well, Michael Goodwin, great work as always. And everybody check the New York Post website. You can get Michael Goodwin's columns there. And Michael Goodwin, thanks for being with us.
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Speaker 1: My pleasure. Thank you, Mark.
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Speaker 2: All right. Take care. We've got a lot coming up in the next hour. And we'll get to Johnny Carson in the next hour and a whole lot more. We'll get to the marathon. We'll get to Letitia James, Martha Stewart, and more coming up. It's Mark Simone here. Three hours every day, 9 to noon. And then don't forget at noon, Buck and Clay do an excellent show every day. 3 o'clock, you've got the most listened to radio show in America, Sean Hannity. Jesse Kelly at 6. Jimmy Fallon. What a funny, interesting show. Every night, 9 to midnight, here on 710WOR.
Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show, 9 till noon, weekdays, 710WOR.
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Speaker 2: Well, the best columnist in America, Michael Goodwin, the New York Post. You can read his column every Sunday and every Wednesday. And if you go to the New York Post website, all his columns are up there. You can take a look at all of them. And it's great to have him with us. Michael Goodwin, how are you doing?
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Speaker 1: Good morning, Mark. Thank you.
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Speaker 2: So, what do you think will happen tomorrow?
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Speaker 1: Well, I would be a little more confident in Blakeman's situation if the polls were even moving toward him, regardless of the gap. But unfortunately, I see no evidence in any poll that has been public that it's getting closer. And I'm kind of fascinated, Mark, by the events in Detroit, Michigan, with Haley Stevens endorsing Mike Rogers, the Republican. And the outcry, which I was writing about for Sunday, about the Democratic Party demands 100% loyalty from every official or you're excommunicated. And what Governor Hochul has done by bringing in Mamdani, she has really turned the party over to the radical left. And this is why the Democratic Party is going left. The so-called centrists never fight. They give up. They surrender to the left. And we're seeing that across the country.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So, you know, the anti-Semitic nonsense coming out of Michigan and Al-Sayed.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: A guy like Chuck Schumer, highest-ranking Jewish official in the American government, what made him run and hide? Why did he desert us on this?
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Speaker 1: Well, he did more than desert us. He is now calling Haley Stevens a despicable betrayal for backing Mike Rogers. So party first, party last. That's what the Democrats are demanding of themselves. And we see it with Hochul. It doesn't matter what she stands for. She's a Democrat. We see what Nancy Pelosi attacking Stevens and even supporting Mamdani, supporting El-Said, despite the repugnant views. This is what's happening to the Democratic Party. And I believe and I hope That there will be some pushback in some states. I wish it would happen in New York too.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. This anti-Semitism all through the democratic world. Yeah. Did it just come from somewhere? Was it always there and it just bubbled up over the surface? Where did it come from?
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Speaker 1: Well, I think it is the left, right? I mean, it is the socialist left, uh, And I think, you know, we've seen this explosion of it ever since the October 7th Hamas invasion, which is very odd, right? There's no question that was a terrorist operation that killed mostly civilians, including babies and women. And yet the Palestinians were the winners of the PR war. And so many young people in particular, you know, went out and bought their cathedrals, and dressed up like gorillas to bring down the big bad Zionist state and America for supporting it. So American support for Israel is really on the ballot this time. And so when people like Heather Stevens break with Saeed, how Saeed was a real anti-Semite. He was gathering signatures in a mosque. where the imams were saying, kill the Jews. And that's fine with Chuck Schumer. As long as he's a Democrat, we put up with it. That's what's wrong with the Democratic Party.
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Speaker 2: But even Kathy Hochul, it seemed way back when, was a common sense woman from upstate New York.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, way back when.
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Speaker 2: Why did she go along with all this? Just out of fear of losing?
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Speaker 1: Yes, yes. I mean, it's a drug, right? It's a drug to win. You know, Mark, I'm reminded of Bill Clinton. And remember in 1992 when he runs for president, the sister soldier moment, right? And so many others where he broke with the far left of his own party and ran as a centrist. Obviously, he had a lot of personal failings, but in terms of taking the party and grabbing it, pulling it back toward the center. I mean, that was a heroic thing that he did at the time. He wasn't always a good example of his own politics. But I have to say, the Democrats now need another Bill Clinton who can rescue them from their far-left dash over the cliff. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: So, Michael Goodwin, you think maybe Donald Trump is to blame, you know, because we like Trump as president, but he was so over the top, you know, extreme, this, that, the language. Did he set the Democrats off so that they figured they had to go even more extreme to the left and he went to the right?
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Speaker 1: I do think it's Trumpism in some ways, but it's more so much not about what he said. It's what he did. He beat Hillary Clinton, right? She was going to be the first woman president, and he beat her. And he had no right to beat her, right? That was her job. He stole it from her. He stole the presidency from Hillary Clinton. And so many on the left have never forgiven him. Let's think about it, right? He beat Hillary Clinton. and Kamala Harris, right? Both of them were going to be the first woman president. Donald Trump beat them soundly in both cases. And so I think that's a lot of this anger, particularly for a Kamala Harris mixed race. And so I think that there is a lot of anger. It's irrational. It's not about policies. It's not about personal behavior. It's simply political.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Personal.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely. Now, on the other hand, he doesn't do himself any favors. He's not exactly trying to, you know, appease people. I mean, when he sees hatred, he'll just crank it up.
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Speaker 1: He's not a good hand-holder.
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 1: If you had a tragedy in your life, you wouldn't expect Donald Trump to come over and bring you chicken soup, right?
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, you know, actually, in real life, he's pretty good at that privately, quietly, but in public, he's charging the bull, not the other way around.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point. I mean, I've had lots of very fun private moments with him and things. But publicly, he can really be unbearable in many situations. And I think that this campaign, he has not done a great job, I think, of making the argument that or why you want to keep the Republicans in charge of Congress. Um, so I think it's pretty likely that the Democrats will take the house and we'll see what happens in Michigan, but there's a very good chance. Uh, they'll also take the Senate. Um, I mean, there's lots of issues, of course, the Iran war and the inflation, uh, some of the Trump family businesses, businesses are not popular. with a lot of voters. So I think a lot of that comes on top of this dislike of Donald Trump by many on the left. But it's going to be a very interesting day tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: Now, if Hochul wins re-election, we hope not, but does that mean she'll finally distance herself from Mamdani, not needing him anymore, or does that mean she'll team up even more with Mamdani?
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Speaker 1: No, I think quite the opposite. She'll she'll go full socialist. She'll govern as a far leftist. And look, let's face it, Republicans have no real voice in the state legislature. It's heavily Democratic. Democrats have a veto-proof majority in both houses. So even if she were to get a backbone for a moment, it should be overridden on any budget bill. although she does have line-iron veto power, which George Pataki won for, won through the courts. So the governor can do line-iron vetoes, but there's a way around that in a legislature that is veto-proof, so that they don't have to take another vote, but they could certainly do that. So I'm afraid for New York if Hochul wins. I think Mamdani... It's going to be a very influential figure, and she will say, yes, sir, you helped me well. an election. Yes, sir. How much should I raise the tax, sir?
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Speaker 2: Well, if anybody doesn't like what they're hearing, the answer is get out there and vote tomorrow. Just make sure you go vote tomorrow. That's what you got to do. Well, Michael Goodwin, great work as always. And everybody check the New York Post website. You can get Michael Goodwin's columns there. And Michael Goodwin, thanks for being with us.
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Speaker 1: My pleasure. Thank you, Mark.
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Speaker 2: All right. Take care. We've got a lot coming up in the next hour. And we'll get to Johnny Carson in the next hour and a whole lot more. We'll get to the marathon. We'll get to Letitia James, Martha Stewart, and more coming up. It's Mark Simone here. Three hours every day, 9 to noon. And then don't forget at noon, Buck and Clay do an excellent show every day. 3 o'clock, you've got the most listened to radio show in America, Sean Hannity. Jesse Kelly at 6. Jimmy Fallon. What a funny, interesting show. Every night, 9 to midnight, here on 710WOR.
