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Speaker 2: So a couple of things.

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Speaker 1: Regarding the election of Zoron Mamdani, which all indications are

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he's going to win, but when you go into the

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pulling data in New York City, some interesting things emerge,

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some patterns emerge. For example, Mamdani is actually not that popular, Okay.

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I suspect he'll win the election again based on the polling,

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but I'm not sure if he wins with over fifty

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percent of the vote. Because you have Curtis Sliwa the Republican.

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You've got Andrew Cuomo. I think he's running as an independent,

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but Democrat, right, longtime Democrat, but you know, scandal ridden,

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so not a particularly popular governor. I mean, Kathy Hochel

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is the governor right now because of Andrew Cuomo's what

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Curtis Sliwa called him killing granny's and slapping fannies.

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Speaker 2: That was the.

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Speaker 1: In regards to the scandals that actually cost him his office.

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It wasn't the murdering of the elderly in the nursing

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homes during COVID, it was the sexual misconduct allegations. So

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when you look at the favorability of Democrats, and this

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was according to the sources, the argument. They put out

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this poll and they pull favorability among Democrats, Republicans, independents,

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and all voters, and they asked about Gavin Newsom, Alexandria

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caz Cortez, Kamala Harris, Zorn Mumdani, and Chuck Schumer. And

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Newsom has a favorability rating among Democrats at sixty six percent,

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AOC sixty eight percent, Kamala Harris seventy three percent, and

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then Zorn Mumdani is at fifty So only half of

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Democrats view him favorably. Chuck Schumer is at that is

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at the bottom. He's at seventeen percent, which is that's

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pretty bad. So that's why you know AOC is probably

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most likely going to mount the challenge against Chuck Schumer,

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and that's what's driving the shutdown, right, is that Chuck

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Schumer is trying to shore up support among Democrats, particularly

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in the primary voting base of the Democrat Party, which

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is now really far left. And the far left does

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not like Chuck Schumer, which is why he flipped on

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his position of passing a clean continuing resolution. You know,

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he did this back in like July, the last time

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the R came through, he voted for it. He said

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it would be pointless to shut down the government over this,

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and his poll numbers cratered. And so now he learned

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the lesson that the leftists want to make people pay,

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because that's very on brand for leftists. They talk about

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out the people, right, they talk about helping the people

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and the democracy and all of that stuff, But the

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tactics always seem to hurt people because it's about power

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dynamics for them. That's always at the heart of leftism.

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It's communism. It's about power dynamics always. So his favorability

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numbers at fifty percent, that's not exactly great for Zoron Mamdani.

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Then you break down the numbers based on gender, based

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on age, based on college degree, based on race, and

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you start looking at these candidates, and what you see

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here if the November twenty twenty five general election for

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New York City mayor was held tomorrow, and these were

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the candidates, who would you vote for?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: And then they give the numbers and the top line

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is that forty percent would vote for Mumdanni, twenty four

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percent for Cuomo, fifteen percent for Eric Adams fourteen. But

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he's already dropped out. And I believe he endorsed Mumdanni,

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but I don't remember. Maybe that's wrong. I don't remember it.

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But he's at fifteen and Curtis Sliwa, the Republican, at

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fourteen percent, and that's why everybody assumes Mumdanni's going to win.

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People have been calling for Sliwa to drop out because

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a Republican cannot win in New York City. Saliwa refuses

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to drop out, and he says, you know, my job,

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you know, as a Republican is not to give my

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votes to Democrats. But you know, I am offering a

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different option from all of these other Democrats, and it's

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not on me to make Democrats pick a non socialist,

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non Jihati adjacent can If the Democrat Party chooses to

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do that, that's on them, that's not on Curtis Sliwa.

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If you were to drop out, you don't even know

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if all of his support is going to shift to Cuomo.

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Some people may just not even show up. But there

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are a lot of Republicans that will not vote for Cuomo.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: But what's interesting is if you look at the under

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forty five category, under age forty five, that's where Mom

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Donnie is strongest, with sixty eight percent of people under

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the age of forty five backing him. All of the

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other candidates are in single digits except for Eric Adams

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who's at twelve percent, but everybody else is at nine percent,

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so under the age of forty five, and the largest

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gap besides that one of of the youth people with

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college degrees. Mam Donnie's got fifty seven percent of college educated,

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whereas Cuomo's got eighteen, Eric Adams at fourteen, Curtis Sliwa

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at seven. And that really tells you the story. It

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is an over production of the elites. And by the elites,

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I don't mean the billion is, I mean the upper

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middle class. The upper middle class they have been sold

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on this idea that they are part of the elites.

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And they went to college, they racked up a lot

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of debt. Usually they got trust funds, right, but they

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racked up a lot of debt. And they're looking at

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mommy and Daddy that have funded their lifestyle, and they

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want that lifestyle to continue. But now college degrees are

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ubiquitous and they're not actually the elite, and they don't

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want to be a stake in for the lower class,

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for the holy POLOI right. They don't want to be

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seen as those other people. We're better than those other people.

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Now I will pay lip service to you know, making

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them okay, and we're going to give them all this

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free stuff. And I'm more virtuous than you because I

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support these government programs doing for the less fortunate and

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these other groups of people that you know have lost

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life's lottery. So I am better than you because I

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want gov Code to do this stuff. I'm not going

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to do it, and I don't want to pay for it.

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I want to tax those rich. I want to tax

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the people above me, tax the billionaires, and pay for

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these lowly people over here that.

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Speaker 2: I'm not a part of. I am better than them.

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Speaker 1: Now we have the endorsement that everybody has been waiting

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for in this race, which is Hakeem Jeffries, the House

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Minority Leader, Democrat leader from New York. He has been COI.

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He has been hesitant to endorse Zoronmumdani. But he has

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finally broken his silence. Spoiler alert, he fell in line.

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Message from Melissa regarding a Republican can't win in New

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York City. A Republican won five out of the last

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eight New York City mayoral elections, with the most recent

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Republican victory occurring in two thousand and nine when Michael Bloomberg,

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who had left the Republican Party in two thousand and

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eight but ran on the Republican ballot line, was reelected

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for a third term. And then there's a quote from

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Henry Ford whether you think you can or think you

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can't you're right, yeah, I'm not sure that actually proves

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the point, though, Melissa, because Bloomberg ran as a Republican

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and everyone knew he wasn't. He just didn't want to

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run through the Democrat primary field. That was the whole point, right,

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he didn't want to run or sorry, he didn't want

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to run through the yeah, through the Democrat primary field

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because he would lose in the Democrat primary. So he

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ran as a Republican and he got Remember, in the

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first term, he was endorsed by Rudy Giuliani and that's

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why he won his first term. And then he left

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the Republican Party but ran on the ballot, so everybody

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knew he wasn't a Republican anymore. So if you want

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to count that, that's still almost twenty years ago that

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a Republican won, and they put Bill de Blasio in

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and again, Zorn Mamdani appears to be, you know, well

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ahead of the split field. And so maybe Bloomberg would

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be proof that a Republican can win in a head

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to head race, but I don't think that you have.

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I know you don't have a head to head race

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right now. So that's why they're calling. And look, I'm

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not saying curtisly what needs to drop out. I just

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don't think there are any Republicans or enough Republicans left,

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and the Democrat Party has radicalized to such an extent

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as I went over in the polling, that a Republican's

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not going to be able to win in New York City.

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don't make these predictions on who's going to win. I

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don't know who's going to win. We'll see, but all

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the polling shows Mamdanni with the lead. Let me jump

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ahead to this. This was from David Weigel at Semaphore.

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Democrats have badly weakened their party, with left leaning ideas

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and rhetoric, growing only with self described white liberals while

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losing ground with other voters, according to a new report

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from a new center left group. The group is called Welcome.

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They consulted hundreds of thousands of voters over six months

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for its broad findings, including that seventy percent of voters

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think the Democratic Party is quote out of touch. Most

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voters the group found believe the party over prioritizes issues

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like protecting the rights of LGBTQ plus Americans, along with

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fighting climate change but not caring enough about securing the

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border or lowering the crime rate. The report urges party

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members to abandoned some of the progressive language about race, abortion,

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and LGBTQ issues that Democrats began using after the twenty

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twelve election, and they recommend the nomination of more candidates

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who are willing to vote with Republicans on conservative immigration

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and crime bills. This mirrors the same results we found

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in the report or survey that was done, but I

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think it was third way, remember, and they came out

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with this whole list of words that Democrats should avoid saying,

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and it was basically the entire vocabulary of the Democrat Party.

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This latest survey was inspired by one from nineteen eighty nine,

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a paper that was called The Politics of Evasion, which

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inspired the party's more centrist shift under Bill Clinton. It

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was a seventy page yeah. The seventy page document, called

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Deciding to Win, argues that Democrats have to be willing

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to break with unpopular party orthodoxies. Its prescription for getting

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the party out of its current wilderness is not simple, though,

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avoidance of both a pivot to corporate centrism and the

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pursuit of progressive ideology purity. So those are the things

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that they have to avoid. This is the recommendation is

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that you can't go corporate centrism as a Democrat party.

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Speaker 2: You can't do that.

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Speaker 1: You do that and you lose a lot of your

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own supporters because they're very wary of the corporate interests.

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doesn't play well in a general election. See, this is

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the problem Democrats have, is that no matter which way

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you're looking to turn, you're going to anger some element

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of your base. And that's a problem. That's a problem

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in a general election outside of New York City. The

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report directly challenges democrats predilection for the interests of quote

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highly educated and affluent voters, arguing that their influence may

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be responsible for the party's closer association with left wing politics.

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Ain't no maybe about it, Okay, ain't no maybe, that's

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that is the case. These people are quote highly educated

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and affluent. Right, this is the over production of the elites.

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We've made too many of them saying everybody needs to

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go to college. They come out of college, they have

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so I'm guessing it was a little bit tougher to

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take over a campaign that's been rocked by all sorts

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of news that your candidate had a Nazi tattoo for

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like twenty years and made a whole bunch of racisty

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and homophobic remarks on Reddit. Things going well for the

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Democrat front runner in Maine. A message on Twitter from

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good Wahu, who says unrelenting Third world immigration since nine

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to eleven is why Mamdani will win. The polling even

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shows this, immigrants voting overwhelmingly for Mamdani. Native New Yorkers

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not voting for him. Indeed, I saw that polling as

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well over the weekend, and that does play a role

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in this absolutely. So I mentioned everybody was asking Hakim Jeffries,

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the House Minority Leader, who is from New York, whether

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he would endorse Zorn Mamdani, and Uh, he has, which

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I think everybody kind of expected.

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Speaker 2: He would do.

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Speaker 1: He kept playing koy and say, oh, I'm gonna meet

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with him, and I'm going to wait until I talk

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with him, and all this. Politico reports that House Minority

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Leader Uh Hakim Jeffries's decision to endorse Zorin Mamdani is

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a capitulation to the pressure from the activist left. Noah Rothman,

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writing at National Review says, indeed, the endorsement was the

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result of intense behind the scenes negotiations between the Mamdani

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camp and Jeffries's team, with the activist Al Sharpton serving

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as an intermediary. But nobody forced Jeffries to abandon the

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prudent trepidation that he previously had when asked for his

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thoughts on the campaign of the Democratic Socialist candidate. Jeffries

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took this step of his own free will. He and

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his party should be made to account for it, as

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the most recent mayoral debate demonstrated Mamdani, who has never

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held a job by the way, Ever, ever, he seems

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to have given little thought to the city's problems or

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the unintended consequences that will follow his proposed solutions. Mamdani

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defers to the activist class for his policy outlook, so

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it's no surprise that his policy preferences would give the

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activist class more control of city government. This is what

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he has said, by the way, this is what he

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has talked about and the activist class. I played this

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audio a couple of well probably now about two months ago,

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where you had Democratic Socialists that gathered for their annual

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convention in New York City, and one of them said

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that he basically wrote Mamdani's entire LGBTQ plus two IA

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platform for him, wrote the whole thing. Teachers' unions, they're

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going to have more power in the schools and the policies, housing,

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in construction policy, social workers as first responders. He wants

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to give emergency dispatchers the authority to decide the level

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of threat, which is a backdoor method to defund the

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police and these activists for whom Democrats have spent the

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last several years trying to distance themselves.

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Speaker 2: From a Kim.

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Speaker 1: Jeffries's throwing his arms around this unacceptable prospect for the

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benefit of the progressives and socialists who are attempting a

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hostile takeover of the Democrat Party. Jeffries' endorsement is cowardly,

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and it provides the GOP with ample opportunity to make

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the case with evidence now that Mamdani's views are shared

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in the highest echelons of the Democratic Party. Yeah, you're

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not going to be able to run from this guy.

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Now you're going to hear that argument a lot in

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advance of the next year's midterm. Right moderate Democrats could

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have said, well, Mamdani is an outlier, he's not representative

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of the party, he doesn't represent our views. A king

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Jeffries just changed all of that. That endorsement will now

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be hung around the necks of every Democrat running for office.

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Everything Mamdani does us, everything he says, everything he has said,

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All of this stuff will continue to be reported on

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the New York Post. Just I mean they just if

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Donnie wins, they're going to have a field day.

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Speaker 2: With this guy.

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Speaker 1: I mean, while obviously the city burns, but like they've

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already been dragging him for the last year.

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Speaker 2: To wit.

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Speaker 1: Here is the statement from House Speaker Mike Johnson quote,

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we saw our clearest sign yet that this radical insurgent

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movement in the Democrat Party is succeeding, and they are

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ending what has always been known as the Democrat Party

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in America. After a month's long pressure campaign from the

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far left, House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries finally relented. He

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gave in and gave his endorsement to the socialist running

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to be mayor of New York City. The House Democrats

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have chosen a side they were forced to by the

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far left that they are so terrified of, and they

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have shown the world what they really believe. There is

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no longer a place for centrists and moderates in that party.

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Mamdani has sympathized with Hamas and openly embraced anti Semitic language.

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He has called to seize the means of production. That's

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a direct quote, because he's a Marxist. He has called

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to abolish our borders, to abolish and end immigration enforcement,

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to defund the police, and to legalize prostitution, among a

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long list of hits that could that I could share

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with you again. The speaker Mike Johnson Zorn Mamdani is

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expected to take the helm of one of the most

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important cities in the world and the largest city in America,

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and he now has the full blessing of the Democrat

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leader in the House of Representatives. It is shocking. Now

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there is a way to get him out. I don't

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think it's going to happen, but there is actually a way.

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The State of New York actually has a mechanism to

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remove mayors slight problem. It's going to require Democrats to

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do it.

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Speaker 2: And if.

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Speaker 1: The folding by Jeffries is any indication they are not

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going to do it. If the appearance of New York

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Governor Kathy Huckle on stage, you know, giving her full

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throated endorsement of the Jihati adjacent communist is any indication

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she is not going to try to remove him. But

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there is a mechanism.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: If you're listening to this show, you know I try

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say get your news from multiple sources. Why, Well, because

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stories get covered and by whom. The blind spot feature

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as they make the media landscape more transparents. It's a

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text from the Hellion who says, recall that the DLC

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was formed to get the Democrats back from a hard

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left turn, or at least look like it. But they

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can't play that card again. Lefties would swamp it. Does

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the Democratic leadership Council still exist. That's the DLC.

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Speaker 2: It does not.

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Speaker 1: It dissolved back about I don't know, thirteen years ago,

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and according to the AI here it's ideological legacy continued

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through groups like the New Democrat Coalition as well as

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Third Way. So that's the modern iteration of the DLC.

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So here is the way that, well, yeah, here is

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the way that there may be an off ramp for

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Democrats should they choose to take it and try to

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excise this hard leftist turn that the that the party

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base has taken. By the way, I don't. I don't

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think that there's any chance that this is going to happen.

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I would be really surprised if this mechanism is employed

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in New York State, if Mom Donnie wins. Nor do

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I believe that the Democrat Party is going to be

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able to excise the communist wing out of its base.

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I think they're just too reliant on it at this point,

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and they have too many people that have been brought

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up through the K twelve education system that have been

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steeped in this leftist ideology and then they have gone

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on to college where they ruminate in it as well.

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And so I don't see any off ramp for them,

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especially if that was heard an interview over the weekend,

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very interesting breakdown on politics and gender and marital status

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and such, and younger females turning more and more progressive

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as their college education levels increase, and men turning harder right,

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and the highest rates of polarization politically in those same

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directions women to the left, men to the right occurs

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after divorce, and women without children who aren't married heavily left.

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And there is a theory that is percolating among the

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social scientists that this there is a sort of a

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biological instinctive desire among women to care for things, right,

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care for people, and if that's not being satisfied with

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their own babies, then they seek to do that caring

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for some other group. And that's what animates a lot

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of the political positioning that is attractive to females. So again,

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I don't know if any of that's true, but it's

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just an idea that I was that I heard being

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kicked around by some social scientist types.

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Speaker 2: Over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Actually, before I give you the mechanism, I gotta play this.

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This was from that queen's rally for Zorn Mumdani over

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the weekend, and here's everybody's favorite socialist bartender, AOC.

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Speaker 3: But we must remember in a time such as this,

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we are not the crazy ones New York City. We

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are not the outlandish ones New York City. They want

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us to think we are crazy, We are sane.

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Speaker 1: I'm reminded of an old adage, never argue with an

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insane person, because the longer you do, the more people

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may not know which one is the sane person and not.

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You know, if you have to get up and say

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that you're not crazy, I'm not crazy. I'm the sane

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person here, like chances are you are actually not the

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same person. So the governor of New York State actually

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has virtually unlimited power to curb the mayor's authority or

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remove him, even if there is no crime committed, but

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the governor has to be willing to use it before

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removing a mayor. State law requires the governor to present

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grievances against the mayor at a formal hearing. Even so,

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the governor's decision is final, not subject to review by

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any court. The New York Supreme Court calls it quote

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the naked power of removal in the event a mayor

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is removed, the public Advocate acts as mayor until a

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special election is held within eighty days. Obviously, this raises

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the question, would Governor Kathy hookel have the guts to

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use her authority to protect the city.

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Speaker 2: No is my guests on that one. No, she's already endorsed.

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Mo'm don.

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Speaker 1: All right, that'll do it for this episode.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for listening.

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them you heard it here. You can also become a

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patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecallanershow dot com. Again,

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thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything

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while I'm gone.