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Speaker 1: Marks among Mr. New York. Now three hours every weekday from 9 till noon on 710WOR. Well, Liz Peek, the brilliant columnist. You can read her columns at foxnews.com or thehill.com. But even better, go to her website. Everything is there, plus a lot of great stories. You go to lizpeek.com, lizpeek.com. Liz Peek, how are you doing?
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Speaker 2: I'm great. Thank you for having me on.
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Speaker 1: Hey, one week from today, seven days away. What do you think is going on now, midterm-wise?
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Speaker 2: Well, look, I.
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Speaker 3: Think that we have been hit with a blizzard of negative polls, negative headlines. I think Democrats and the liberal media are throwing absolutely everything at us to make us convinced that the election is basically over and done with and trying to convince Republicans not to bother to vote. Because if you think it's hopeless, Mark, you stay home. And I think that is absolutely what they're trying to accomplish. What I see is tightening poles in a lot of critical races. Michigan's a good example where Abdul Al-Sayed was up over Mike Rogers a few weeks ago by almost four points. And now it's one point or in some cases tied.
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Speaker 2: And that is true in Texas.
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Speaker 3: I think it's true in Iowa and various other races where, you know, yeah, Democrats have put up a really good fight.
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Speaker 2: But when you.
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Speaker 3: Look at the historical bias of polling, and I don't mean that the polls are purposely manufactured to make Republicans look bad, but in something like 13 out of the last 14 elections, Republicans have been undercounted. And in particular, according to The Economist, in states that are red states, in other words, You go into Iowa, you go into Texas and you do a poll. A lot of Trump voters aren't going to respond because they're just ornery and they don't like polling. And maybe they're embarrassed. Their neighbors, you know, they don't know who's going to look at these polls, whatever. But the answer by three or four points, Republicans are undercounted. And if that is the case, a lot of these supposedly squeaker races are not going to end up being as tight as we think.
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Speaker 2: So I am optimistic. that the GOP will hold the Senate.
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Speaker 3: I think probably the House they will not hold.
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Speaker 1: Well, you never know. You never know. Anything can happen. The good news is they sent Obama out, a panicky move, Obama out in the campaign trail, check his track record. Everybody he endorses loses. That's generally the case.
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Speaker 2: True, true.
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Speaker 3: And, you know, I think he's been like out in Michigan because El-Sayed, lost Detroit, by the way, in the primary. I mean, if you go back and look at how he has done with black voters, it is terrible. So, you know, Obama is supposed to be getting out there and rallying black voters to show up for al-Sayed. Is that really going to pull, as you point out, it has not proved an effective strategy in the past.
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Speaker 2: Maybe this time will be different.
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Speaker 3: But I think a lot of conservative black voters are looking at al-Sayed with this, you know, very clear borderline, I guess we have to say, alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, etc.
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Speaker 2: And they don't like that.
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Speaker 3: I mean, they're patriotic Americans. They don't like the fact that this guy's coming in and bashing Israel, bashing capitalism. That's just not their cup of tea. So I think Jewish voters are definitely having second thoughts.
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Speaker 2: Black voters just may not show up.
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Speaker 3: And so I'm Again, I'm sort of optimistic that in some of these races, the numbers are not really counting what's going to happen.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Here in New York, you know, the Cato Institute does a survey of governors in America. Kathy Hochul just won as the single worst governor in the United States of America. I think Bruce Blakeman's going to do it. I think he's going to win.
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Speaker 2: Oh, man, that would be, would that not be a thunderbolt?
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Speaker 3: Because I have likened New York voters to Stockholm Syndrome victims. Yeah. where you're held captive and you don't know how to get out, but you end up sort of loving your oppressors.
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Speaker 2: In this case, how could.
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Speaker 3: He not be in the bottom of the rankings when you have the highest taxes in the country, the worst conditions to run a business, and just cost of living through the roof, cost of electricity, not because of the war in Iran, I hesitate to point out, but because Kathy Hochul and Andrew Cuomo's policies, Democrat policies, have basically made natural gas unavailable to New Yorkers, banning not only pipelines, but also fracking, which means that our neighbors in Pennsylvania are doing much, much better income-wise and electricity price-wise than people in New York. These are policies that they should be fired for. Andrew Cuomo was.
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Speaker 2: Fired, thank God. Now we should fire Kathy Hochul.
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Speaker 3: And by the way, If you're worried, if you're a New York City resident, you're worried about Mamdani, the governor is the only possible break on Mamdani, and she will not be that break on Mamdani. So as he continues to throw up there all these benefits he wants to provide, programs he wants to initiate and so forth, you're looking at higher taxes. You're looking at losing more taxpayers to Florida and Texas and Tennessee and other low-tax locales.
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Speaker 2: This is not working. And I think, you know, the sooner there's a political.
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Speaker 3: And, you know, Mark, what drives me nuts is that Republicans in this state are so fatalistic. It's sort of like, oh, you can't elect a Republican. Well, George Pataki was a Republican. Mike Bloomberg was elected mayor of New York City, for heaven's sakes, as a Republican because people were so fed up with Democrat incompetence.
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Speaker 2: That's where we are now. That's, I think, where we will be very shortly.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, the governor has the power to remove the district attorneys. It's a state job. He could put in real crime fighters that could turn everything around crime-wise.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and just justice-wise. I mean, we've had, you know, somebody in DA Post, Attorney General Post, who has had political vendettas. I mean, it's hilarious when they talk about Trump going after his enemies.
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Speaker 2: My God.
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Speaker 3: I mean, what do they think Letitia James has done over the last many years? All she has really targeted, as far as I can see, is political enemies like Donald Trump, creating cases where they went after him on the most preposterous, even described by the New York Times as creative charges, and basically not done her job in terms of locking up criminals. Mark, imagine if somebody you loved was shoved in the front of a subway train and killed or stabbed to death in the park or whatever. And you found out that same person had been arrested for similar things not long prior to that and put back out on the streets. How can people tolerate this? I don't understand it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. We're talking to Liz Peek, the great columnist. Listen, gas prices are too high. They're not Joe Biden high, but they're high. And it's an issue, but it's not the issue. If you watch the fake news, they make it sound like the entire election is going to be based on gas prices. That's never happened in history where the number one issue was gas prices, right? There's more to it.
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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, they want us to believe that everything that's wrong with the economy, and there is nothing wrong with the economy except high oil and gas prices, is the fault of exclusively Donald Trump.
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Speaker 2: I can tell you, in states like New York and California.
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Speaker 3: energy costs and electricity costs were going 60, 50% above the national average way before the war in Iran. Yes, the war in Iran has elevated oil prices.
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Speaker 2: There's no question.
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Speaker 3: Thank God that President Trump has also at the same time pushed domestic energy production so hard. Otherwise, we would be in big trouble and we're not. I mean, this is, yes, one element that is causing concerns. But Mark, when you have a conversation about affordability, And you look at the most, you know, these are easy rankings to uncover. The most unaffordable places to live in America, without exception, are run by Democrats. I don't mean just run by Democrat mayors. When they take over a state like California or New Jersey or New York, and they impose their policies of high taxes, tight regulations, anti-fossil fuel mandates, et cetera, guess what?
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Speaker 2: You end up with unaffordable living.
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Speaker 3: And that's those, it's really, I mean, it's genius that Democrats have co-opted this issue when they absolutely don't have any credibility or should not have at all. Right?
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: If you're going to yell and scream about Trump and a $ 4. 30 for gas, how come you're right? They never mentioned Gavin Newsom and his $ 8 a gallon gas.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yes, or high taxes.
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Speaker 3: Where do people think, if you're a company and you're operating in New York or California, Illinois, New Jersey, it's not just these two states, and you have high corporate taxes, do people not understand that those taxes are not swallowed by the business? They're passed along in terms of higher prices. Don't they understand that if you delay and make very cumbersome the act of building a home that home prices are probably 50% to 60% to 70% percent higher than they would be in a state that is more flexible, more permissive in terms of handing out permits. I will tell you, I have been trying to add on to a house in Westchester County in New York a minor, minor adjustment in this house. And it has taken months to get a permit. And I got to tell you, I am not alone. Everybody is bitching about the same thing.
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Speaker 2: And guess what?
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Speaker 3: Every day that you sit there and it doesn't happen, the price goes up.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's seven days away. Everybody get out and vote early. Early voting is important. Do it this week. You vote early. You can sail right in, breeze through, no lines. True, true.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: Well, Liz Peek, brilliant as always. Everybody read her website, LizPeek.com. Her columns, everything's up there. LizPeek.com. And thanks for being with us.
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Speaker 2: Mark, thanks for having me on. Good luck. And, you know, make sure you go out and vote. We need you.
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Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely. All right. Well, thanks. Take care.
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Speaker 2: All right. Bye-bye.
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Speaker 3: Thanks.
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Speaker 1: Everybody get out and vote. Do it today. Do it tomorrow. The early voting is the easiest. It's all about turnout. If Republicans turn out in great numbers, they win. It's that simple. If they don't turn out in great numbers, they lose. So get out there and vote. Do the early voting. Hey, coming up at noon, Buck Sexton and Clay Travis have an excellent show for you. Three o'clock, you got the most listened to radio show in America. Sean Hannity is back today at three o'clock. Six o'clock, you got Jesse Kelly. Jimmy Fallon does the funniest thing. Most interesting show every night, 9 to midnight, so listen to it tonight, every weeknight, on 710WOR.
Speaker 1: Marks among Mr. New York. Now three hours every weekday from 9 till noon on 710WOR. Well, Liz Peek, the brilliant columnist. You can read her columns at foxnews.com or thehill.com. But even better, go to her website. Everything is there, plus a lot of great stories. You go to lizpeek.com, lizpeek.com. Liz Peek, how are you doing?
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Speaker 2: I'm great. Thank you for having me on.
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Speaker 1: Hey, one week from today, seven days away. What do you think is going on now, midterm-wise?
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Speaker 2: Well, look, I.
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Speaker 3: Think that we have been hit with a blizzard of negative polls, negative headlines. I think Democrats and the liberal media are throwing absolutely everything at us to make us convinced that the election is basically over and done with and trying to convince Republicans not to bother to vote. Because if you think it's hopeless, Mark, you stay home. And I think that is absolutely what they're trying to accomplish. What I see is tightening poles in a lot of critical races. Michigan's a good example where Abdul Al-Sayed was up over Mike Rogers a few weeks ago by almost four points. And now it's one point or in some cases tied.
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Speaker 2: And that is true in Texas.
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Speaker 3: I think it's true in Iowa and various other races where, you know, yeah, Democrats have put up a really good fight.
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Speaker 2: But when you.
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Speaker 3: Look at the historical bias of polling, and I don't mean that the polls are purposely manufactured to make Republicans look bad, but in something like 13 out of the last 14 elections, Republicans have been undercounted. And in particular, according to The Economist, in states that are red states, in other words, You go into Iowa, you go into Texas and you do a poll. A lot of Trump voters aren't going to respond because they're just ornery and they don't like polling. And maybe they're embarrassed. Their neighbors, you know, they don't know who's going to look at these polls, whatever. But the answer by three or four points, Republicans are undercounted. And if that is the case, a lot of these supposedly squeaker races are not going to end up being as tight as we think.
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Speaker 2: So I am optimistic. that the GOP will hold the Senate.
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Speaker 3: I think probably the House they will not hold.
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Speaker 1: Well, you never know. You never know. Anything can happen. The good news is they sent Obama out, a panicky move, Obama out in the campaign trail, check his track record. Everybody he endorses loses. That's generally the case.
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Speaker 2: True, true.
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Speaker 3: And, you know, I think he's been like out in Michigan because El-Sayed, lost Detroit, by the way, in the primary. I mean, if you go back and look at how he has done with black voters, it is terrible. So, you know, Obama is supposed to be getting out there and rallying black voters to show up for al-Sayed. Is that really going to pull, as you point out, it has not proved an effective strategy in the past.
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Speaker 2: Maybe this time will be different.
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Speaker 3: But I think a lot of conservative black voters are looking at al-Sayed with this, you know, very clear borderline, I guess we have to say, alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, etc.
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Speaker 2: And they don't like that.
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Speaker 3: I mean, they're patriotic Americans. They don't like the fact that this guy's coming in and bashing Israel, bashing capitalism. That's just not their cup of tea. So I think Jewish voters are definitely having second thoughts.
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Speaker 2: Black voters just may not show up.
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Speaker 3: And so I'm Again, I'm sort of optimistic that in some of these races, the numbers are not really counting what's going to happen.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Here in New York, you know, the Cato Institute does a survey of governors in America. Kathy Hochul just won as the single worst governor in the United States of America. I think Bruce Blakeman's going to do it. I think he's going to win.
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Speaker 2: Oh, man, that would be, would that not be a thunderbolt?
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Speaker 3: Because I have likened New York voters to Stockholm Syndrome victims. Yeah. where you're held captive and you don't know how to get out, but you end up sort of loving your oppressors.
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Speaker 2: In this case, how could.
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Speaker 3: He not be in the bottom of the rankings when you have the highest taxes in the country, the worst conditions to run a business, and just cost of living through the roof, cost of electricity, not because of the war in Iran, I hesitate to point out, but because Kathy Hochul and Andrew Cuomo's policies, Democrat policies, have basically made natural gas unavailable to New Yorkers, banning not only pipelines, but also fracking, which means that our neighbors in Pennsylvania are doing much, much better income-wise and electricity price-wise than people in New York. These are policies that they should be fired for. Andrew Cuomo was.
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Speaker 2: Fired, thank God. Now we should fire Kathy Hochul.
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Speaker 3: And by the way, If you're worried, if you're a New York City resident, you're worried about Mamdani, the governor is the only possible break on Mamdani, and she will not be that break on Mamdani. So as he continues to throw up there all these benefits he wants to provide, programs he wants to initiate and so forth, you're looking at higher taxes. You're looking at losing more taxpayers to Florida and Texas and Tennessee and other low-tax locales.
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Speaker 2: This is not working. And I think, you know, the sooner there's a political.
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Speaker 3: And, you know, Mark, what drives me nuts is that Republicans in this state are so fatalistic. It's sort of like, oh, you can't elect a Republican. Well, George Pataki was a Republican. Mike Bloomberg was elected mayor of New York City, for heaven's sakes, as a Republican because people were so fed up with Democrat incompetence.
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Speaker 2: That's where we are now. That's, I think, where we will be very shortly.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, the governor has the power to remove the district attorneys. It's a state job. He could put in real crime fighters that could turn everything around crime-wise.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and just justice-wise. I mean, we've had, you know, somebody in DA Post, Attorney General Post, who has had political vendettas. I mean, it's hilarious when they talk about Trump going after his enemies.
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Speaker 2: My God.
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Speaker 3: I mean, what do they think Letitia James has done over the last many years? All she has really targeted, as far as I can see, is political enemies like Donald Trump, creating cases where they went after him on the most preposterous, even described by the New York Times as creative charges, and basically not done her job in terms of locking up criminals. Mark, imagine if somebody you loved was shoved in the front of a subway train and killed or stabbed to death in the park or whatever. And you found out that same person had been arrested for similar things not long prior to that and put back out on the streets. How can people tolerate this? I don't understand it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. We're talking to Liz Peek, the great columnist. Listen, gas prices are too high. They're not Joe Biden high, but they're high. And it's an issue, but it's not the issue. If you watch the fake news, they make it sound like the entire election is going to be based on gas prices. That's never happened in history where the number one issue was gas prices, right? There's more to it.
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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, they want us to believe that everything that's wrong with the economy, and there is nothing wrong with the economy except high oil and gas prices, is the fault of exclusively Donald Trump.
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Speaker 2: I can tell you, in states like New York and California.
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Speaker 3: energy costs and electricity costs were going 60, 50% above the national average way before the war in Iran. Yes, the war in Iran has elevated oil prices.
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Speaker 2: There's no question.
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Speaker 3: Thank God that President Trump has also at the same time pushed domestic energy production so hard. Otherwise, we would be in big trouble and we're not. I mean, this is, yes, one element that is causing concerns. But Mark, when you have a conversation about affordability, And you look at the most, you know, these are easy rankings to uncover. The most unaffordable places to live in America, without exception, are run by Democrats. I don't mean just run by Democrat mayors. When they take over a state like California or New Jersey or New York, and they impose their policies of high taxes, tight regulations, anti-fossil fuel mandates, et cetera, guess what?
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Speaker 2: You end up with unaffordable living.
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Speaker 3: And that's those, it's really, I mean, it's genius that Democrats have co-opted this issue when they absolutely don't have any credibility or should not have at all. Right?
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: If you're going to yell and scream about Trump and a $ 4. 30 for gas, how come you're right? They never mentioned Gavin Newsom and his $ 8 a gallon gas.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yes, or high taxes.
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Speaker 3: Where do people think, if you're a company and you're operating in New York or California, Illinois, New Jersey, it's not just these two states, and you have high corporate taxes, do people not understand that those taxes are not swallowed by the business? They're passed along in terms of higher prices. Don't they understand that if you delay and make very cumbersome the act of building a home that home prices are probably 50% to 60% to 70% percent higher than they would be in a state that is more flexible, more permissive in terms of handing out permits. I will tell you, I have been trying to add on to a house in Westchester County in New York a minor, minor adjustment in this house. And it has taken months to get a permit. And I got to tell you, I am not alone. Everybody is bitching about the same thing.
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Speaker 2: And guess what?
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Speaker 3: Every day that you sit there and it doesn't happen, the price goes up.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's seven days away. Everybody get out and vote early. Early voting is important. Do it this week. You vote early. You can sail right in, breeze through, no lines. True, true.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: Well, Liz Peek, brilliant as always. Everybody read her website, LizPeek.com. Her columns, everything's up there. LizPeek.com. And thanks for being with us.
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Speaker 2: Mark, thanks for having me on. Good luck. And, you know, make sure you go out and vote. We need you.
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Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely. All right. Well, thanks. Take care.
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Speaker 2: All right. Bye-bye.
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Speaker 3: Thanks.
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Speaker 1: Everybody get out and vote. Do it today. Do it tomorrow. The early voting is the easiest. It's all about turnout. If Republicans turn out in great numbers, they win. It's that simple. If they don't turn out in great numbers, they lose. So get out there and vote. Do the early voting. Hey, coming up at noon, Buck Sexton and Clay Travis have an excellent show for you. Three o'clock, you got the most listened to radio show in America. Sean Hannity is back today at three o'clock. Six o'clock, you got Jesse Kelly. Jimmy Fallon does the funniest thing. Most interesting show every night, 9 to midnight, so listen to it tonight, every weeknight, on 710WOR.
