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Speaker 2: Mark Simone.
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Speaker 1: More Mark.
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Speaker 1: Well, the best columnist in America. It's Michael Goodwin every Sunday, every Wednesday in the New York Post. And if you go to the New York Post website, all of his columns are up there. And it's great to have him back with us. Michael Goodwin, how you doing?
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Mark. Thank you.
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Speaker 1: Hey, I know they always say a Republican can't win in New York. something's different this time. Bruce Blakeman is a much stronger candidate. Don't you just feel that he's got a real shot this time?
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Speaker 2: I hope so, Mark. I'm not 100% certain because the big question in my mind is Mamdani's appearance with Hochul, helping Hochul or hurting her. I think, and Bruce Blakeman, I think, is responsible for a lot of this election is about Mamdani and his year, his first year in office. And Blateman, of course, thinks that Mamdani is poison to voters around the state. He's very unpopular upstate, for example, Mamdani is. So I think that is shaping up as a turning point And it's fascinating in its own right to talk about it, Mark, because Hochul invited this. Her sense of weakness and uncertainty about her own campaign had her close the race by spending part of almost every day with Mamdani recently. And so she's really tied herself to him and his socialist brigades. I think, you know, even if she were to win, she's really ruined her chances of getting anything done unless Mamdani approves it. I mean, she's entirely flipped the script. Normally the governor is more important and powerful in this relationship. She has handed all of that power to Mamdani.
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Speaker 1: That's an interesting point. Now, um, Normally, they use oil prices, gas prices. I don't know why Democrats think that's the number one issue. It's never been the number one issue. But as far as New York City, you've got to carry 35% of it to win the governorship. New York City, gas is definitely not an issue because probably 95% of New Yorkers don't drive or buy any gas. That's right. That'll help Blakeman. You think he'll get the 35% he needs of New York City?
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Speaker 2: Well, it's interesting. That number... I spoke to him about this when we talked, and he said he knows the history of all this, that Lee Zeldin and Donald Trump both got 30% in the Zeldin 40 years ago and Trump in 24. Both got 30% in the city and lost the state by about six points. So that's why Blateman says he's going to do better than 30%. And you have to do better than 30%. Lee Zeldin once said to me, if you get to 35% as a Republican, it's hard to lose the race. If you cop out under 35%, it's hard to win. And so I think the city, of course, having so many more votes than so much a disproportionate effect on the whole state. So if he can get in that 33, the 36, the 38 that he talked about with me, he's got a real shot at winning. And I think that would be a real pushback against Mamdani if more and more New Yorkers vote against his candidate and vote for the opponent. So there's a lot riding on the city outcome. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well, listen, Mamdani's got his younger, crazy, socialist-loving supporters. But don't you think in New York City since the election last year that there's a lot of other people, just normal Democrats voted for him, kind of sorry they did, and would like to have Blakeman as just a counter of Mamdani?
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Speaker 2: Well, not to be too... numbers heavy here Mark but Blakeman and I talked about the fact that Mamdani won the mayoral race with 50.4% now obviously it was a big field Andrew Cuomo for example but the point being that he got over a million votes and a million people voted against him so that If Blakeman can tap into those anti-Mamdani voters, he would easily get the required minimum to win the state. But he would really have to harvest a lot of the anti-Mamdani voters to come back and vote for him.
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Speaker 1: Do you think Andrew Cuomo has noticed that Kathy Hochul hasn't called and asked him to come campaign for her?
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Speaker 2: I guess that she would be certifiably crazy if she did that, right? Don't lock her up.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. She hasn't asked Alvin Bragg to come campaign with her.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. It's interesting about Cuomo, though, right? He was kind of king of the hill for most of the three terms. He was attorney general before that, right? And now, having lost Imam Dhani, he's not even a second thought. I mean, he's really disappeared from the public eye. And apparently he's making a lot of money. Good for him. But there's no hunger anywhere for Andrew Cuomo to endorse or to campaign with a candidate. It does look like his time has come and gone.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, actually, I think it's more a case of there's a real despising of Andrew Cuomo by everybody and anybody in New York. Remember, he did flee Albany with the police chasing him out of there, so.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but he almost, he came tantamizingly close to beating Mamdani. So for me, that's something in his favor. And he ran a lousy campaign, and he still got about, what, 70% of the anti-Mamdani vote. He got over 750,000 votes, I think, in the five boroughs.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but you've got to put a giant asterisk on that. That was with every Republican everywhere, including the president, telling you to vote for him, and he still couldn't get it done.
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Speaker 2: Right, right. Curtis Lewa was part of the problem. But the real problem is Mamdani turned out. So many voters who had not voted before. I mean, the piper of socialism. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: What do you think about the rest of the country? It looks pretty good. If you ignore the fake polls, it looks pretty good for Republicans with the Senate. Well, what do you think about the House?
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Speaker 2: Well, it's interesting. Of course, you hear all the stock of a blue wave. And then, well, maybe it won't be a wave. We've heard this before. My friend Ed Rollins always reminds me that there will be a lot of people making up their minds in the last few days, and the polls will never pick that up. Nobody polls over the last weekend, and that's when a lot of people make their decisions. So almost by definition, the polls are going to get it wrong to the extent that those people maybe some of them changing their minds. So I don't believe the polls are a given in the sense that I think there's a blue wave coming. I think it's been really close, but I'm not convinced that this election has been decided. I think it's still a wide-open race for a lot of the seats in that House and the Senate. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Hey, I never asked you this. The horse and carriages. Now, this Julie Menon flip-flops on that and says, well, it's about safety. Well, only one person died from a horse and carriage, whereas 133 have died from the e-bikes. Why isn't there a push to get the e-bikes out of Central Park?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. You know, Mark, you say flip-flop, talking about the horses, I can hear a clip going. But the, yeah, I think Julie Menon it's kind of hard to read. She kind of talks a tough game, but in the end, there's no real impact. There's very much a finger in the air about which way the wind is blowing. So I can't figure her out. I don't know that she's a counterweight to Mamdani or just pretending to be before she folds. So it's very hard to read whether the council in any way... can stand up to the mayor.
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Speaker 1: Very good point. Well, Michael Goodwin, great as always. You can read his columns every Sunday, every Wednesday in the New York Post. And if you go to the New York Post website, all of his columns are posted up there. You should read them. Michael Goodwin, thanks for being with us.
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Speaker 2: My pleasure. Thank you, Mike. All right.
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Speaker 1: Take care. Hey, we've got a lot coming up in the next hour. In fact, Bruce Blakeman will be with us in the next hour, so we'll get all the latest from him. And then at noon, Buck Sexton, Clay Travis. That is a great show every day, 12 noon. Then at 3 o'clock, the most listened to radio show in America, Sean Hannity. Although today, it will be me filling in for Sean Hannity because he's on his honeymoon. That's right. He got married over the weekend. He'll be on his honeymoon, so I'll be doing the show today. Then at 6, you got Jesse Kelly. Then, 9 o'clock, the funniest show on radio, Jimmy Fallon, tonight at 9, on 710WOR.
Speaker 1: Now, nine till noon weekdays.
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Speaker 2: Mark Simone.
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Speaker 1: More Mark.
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Speaker 2: On 710WOR.
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Speaker 1: Well, the best columnist in America. It's Michael Goodwin every Sunday, every Wednesday in the New York Post. And if you go to the New York Post website, all of his columns are up there. And it's great to have him back with us. Michael Goodwin, how you doing?
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Mark. Thank you.
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Speaker 1: Hey, I know they always say a Republican can't win in New York. something's different this time. Bruce Blakeman is a much stronger candidate. Don't you just feel that he's got a real shot this time?
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Speaker 2: I hope so, Mark. I'm not 100% certain because the big question in my mind is Mamdani's appearance with Hochul, helping Hochul or hurting her. I think, and Bruce Blakeman, I think, is responsible for a lot of this election is about Mamdani and his year, his first year in office. And Blateman, of course, thinks that Mamdani is poison to voters around the state. He's very unpopular upstate, for example, Mamdani is. So I think that is shaping up as a turning point And it's fascinating in its own right to talk about it, Mark, because Hochul invited this. Her sense of weakness and uncertainty about her own campaign had her close the race by spending part of almost every day with Mamdani recently. And so she's really tied herself to him and his socialist brigades. I think, you know, even if she were to win, she's really ruined her chances of getting anything done unless Mamdani approves it. I mean, she's entirely flipped the script. Normally the governor is more important and powerful in this relationship. She has handed all of that power to Mamdani.
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Speaker 1: That's an interesting point. Now, um, Normally, they use oil prices, gas prices. I don't know why Democrats think that's the number one issue. It's never been the number one issue. But as far as New York City, you've got to carry 35% of it to win the governorship. New York City, gas is definitely not an issue because probably 95% of New Yorkers don't drive or buy any gas. That's right. That'll help Blakeman. You think he'll get the 35% he needs of New York City?
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Speaker 2: Well, it's interesting. That number... I spoke to him about this when we talked, and he said he knows the history of all this, that Lee Zeldin and Donald Trump both got 30% in the Zeldin 40 years ago and Trump in 24. Both got 30% in the city and lost the state by about six points. So that's why Blateman says he's going to do better than 30%. And you have to do better than 30%. Lee Zeldin once said to me, if you get to 35% as a Republican, it's hard to lose the race. If you cop out under 35%, it's hard to win. And so I think the city, of course, having so many more votes than so much a disproportionate effect on the whole state. So if he can get in that 33, the 36, the 38 that he talked about with me, he's got a real shot at winning. And I think that would be a real pushback against Mamdani if more and more New Yorkers vote against his candidate and vote for the opponent. So there's a lot riding on the city outcome. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well, listen, Mamdani's got his younger, crazy, socialist-loving supporters. But don't you think in New York City since the election last year that there's a lot of other people, just normal Democrats voted for him, kind of sorry they did, and would like to have Blakeman as just a counter of Mamdani?
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Speaker 2: Well, not to be too... numbers heavy here Mark but Blakeman and I talked about the fact that Mamdani won the mayoral race with 50.4% now obviously it was a big field Andrew Cuomo for example but the point being that he got over a million votes and a million people voted against him so that If Blakeman can tap into those anti-Mamdani voters, he would easily get the required minimum to win the state. But he would really have to harvest a lot of the anti-Mamdani voters to come back and vote for him.
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Speaker 1: Do you think Andrew Cuomo has noticed that Kathy Hochul hasn't called and asked him to come campaign for her?
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Speaker 2: I guess that she would be certifiably crazy if she did that, right? Don't lock her up.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. She hasn't asked Alvin Bragg to come campaign with her.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. It's interesting about Cuomo, though, right? He was kind of king of the hill for most of the three terms. He was attorney general before that, right? And now, having lost Imam Dhani, he's not even a second thought. I mean, he's really disappeared from the public eye. And apparently he's making a lot of money. Good for him. But there's no hunger anywhere for Andrew Cuomo to endorse or to campaign with a candidate. It does look like his time has come and gone.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, actually, I think it's more a case of there's a real despising of Andrew Cuomo by everybody and anybody in New York. Remember, he did flee Albany with the police chasing him out of there, so.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but he almost, he came tantamizingly close to beating Mamdani. So for me, that's something in his favor. And he ran a lousy campaign, and he still got about, what, 70% of the anti-Mamdani vote. He got over 750,000 votes, I think, in the five boroughs.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but you've got to put a giant asterisk on that. That was with every Republican everywhere, including the president, telling you to vote for him, and he still couldn't get it done.
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Speaker 2: Right, right. Curtis Lewa was part of the problem. But the real problem is Mamdani turned out. So many voters who had not voted before. I mean, the piper of socialism. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: What do you think about the rest of the country? It looks pretty good. If you ignore the fake polls, it looks pretty good for Republicans with the Senate. Well, what do you think about the House?
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Speaker 2: Well, it's interesting. Of course, you hear all the stock of a blue wave. And then, well, maybe it won't be a wave. We've heard this before. My friend Ed Rollins always reminds me that there will be a lot of people making up their minds in the last few days, and the polls will never pick that up. Nobody polls over the last weekend, and that's when a lot of people make their decisions. So almost by definition, the polls are going to get it wrong to the extent that those people maybe some of them changing their minds. So I don't believe the polls are a given in the sense that I think there's a blue wave coming. I think it's been really close, but I'm not convinced that this election has been decided. I think it's still a wide-open race for a lot of the seats in that House and the Senate. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Hey, I never asked you this. The horse and carriages. Now, this Julie Menon flip-flops on that and says, well, it's about safety. Well, only one person died from a horse and carriage, whereas 133 have died from the e-bikes. Why isn't there a push to get the e-bikes out of Central Park?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. You know, Mark, you say flip-flop, talking about the horses, I can hear a clip going. But the, yeah, I think Julie Menon it's kind of hard to read. She kind of talks a tough game, but in the end, there's no real impact. There's very much a finger in the air about which way the wind is blowing. So I can't figure her out. I don't know that she's a counterweight to Mamdani or just pretending to be before she folds. So it's very hard to read whether the council in any way... can stand up to the mayor.
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Speaker 1: Very good point. Well, Michael Goodwin, great as always. You can read his columns every Sunday, every Wednesday in the New York Post. And if you go to the New York Post website, all of his columns are posted up there. You should read them. Michael Goodwin, thanks for being with us.
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Speaker 2: My pleasure. Thank you, Mike. All right.
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Speaker 1: Take care. Hey, we've got a lot coming up in the next hour. In fact, Bruce Blakeman will be with us in the next hour, so we'll get all the latest from him. And then at noon, Buck Sexton, Clay Travis. That is a great show every day, 12 noon. Then at 3 o'clock, the most listened to radio show in America, Sean Hannity. Although today, it will be me filling in for Sean Hannity because he's on his honeymoon. That's right. He got married over the weekend. He'll be on his honeymoon, so I'll be doing the show today. Then at 6, you got Jesse Kelly. Then, 9 o'clock, the funniest show on radio, Jimmy Fallon, tonight at 9, on 710WOR.
