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Speaker 1: This is a podcast from wor Now the wr Saturday

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Speaker 1: Morning Show.

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Speaker 2: Here's Larry Minti.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Saturday Morning. On this week's show, independent candidate

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Speaker 1: for mayor of New York City, former Governor Andrew Cuomo,

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Speaker 1: needs Republican votes if he hopes to defeat Zorin Mamdanni.

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Speaker 1: He's here to make his pitch to you.

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Speaker 2: Good to be with you, Larry, Thank you for having

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Speaker 2: me listen.

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Speaker 1: There's been a slow of polls out and they've all

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Speaker 1: been fascinating because they're all over the place. I want

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Speaker 1: to focus in if we can for a second on

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Speaker 1: a Quinnipiac poll that showed you winning by just one point,

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Speaker 1: but winning among Republicans, which is our audience, and that's

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Speaker 1: winning over Curtis Liwa with Republicans tying with independence with

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Speaker 1: Mom Donnie, but losing by a large percentage point among Democrats.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you've seen this. I'm sure you've studied it,

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Speaker 1: your people have.

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Speaker 2: What do you make of that, Larry, is it is illustrative.

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Speaker 2: You're right, Zoron does well with Democrats. A Democrat. Zoron

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Speaker 2: is now on the Democratic line, and you have a

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Speaker 2: lot of Democrats who just vote party line. So he's

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Speaker 2: a Democrat on the Democratic line. And by the way,

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Speaker 2: he's not a Democrat. He's a socialist, but he happens

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Speaker 2: to be on the Democratic but he's a socialist. I'm

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Speaker 2: a Democrat, but I'm on the independent line. So you

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Speaker 2: have a lot of Democrats who say, well, I just

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Speaker 2: vote Democratic. I think the Republicans, frankly, truly have really

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Speaker 2: stood up here in a way that I find admirable.

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Speaker 2: You have a lot of Republican electives who say, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'm a Republican, and I know quote was a Democrat,

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Speaker 2: but the thestential threat is Mondommi because he's a communist

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Speaker 2: and we can't have a communist. The Republicans call him

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Speaker 2: as mayor. So I'm going to vote as a New

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Speaker 2: Yorker and I'm going to vote for Cuomo because has

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Speaker 2: no chance of winning. Even if you believe he was qualified,

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Speaker 2: he has no chance of winning. So ofously, what is

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Speaker 2: a vote for Mondami? And Republican electors are saying that,

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Speaker 2: and Republicans are saying that, and you know what, good

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Speaker 2: them because all this partisanship, it's they're saying, I'm a

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Speaker 2: New Yorker first, And the truth is Larry, I'm not

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Speaker 2: a crazy lefty, right, I'm a moderate Queen's Italian New

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Speaker 2: Yorker governor for eleven years, cut taxes, got things done.

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Speaker 2: So I think Republicans understand that. RS Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And what's fascinating, and you were saying that they're just

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Speaker 1: voting the party line, I think it's deeper than that.

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Speaker 1: I think it's where the Democratic Party is going at

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Speaker 1: this point. I think the Democratic Party, especially in cities

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Speaker 1: across the country like Chicago and Minneapolis, are going to

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Speaker 1: a place that they shouldn't go. They're going to a

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Speaker 1: dark place of socialism. And I know you've described it

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Speaker 1: as a civil war in your party, and I agree

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Speaker 1: with you, and so this is really an important battle,

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Speaker 1: a stand against socialism. In that civil war, everything.

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Speaker 2: Is at stake in this election. As a Democrat, exactly

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Speaker 2: what you say. It is a civil war. And you

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Speaker 2: have this extreme radical left that has been getting stronger

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Speaker 2: and stronger in the Democratic Party. It's the Bernie Sanders

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Speaker 2: AOC where socialists, police are bad. NYPD is racist and corrupt.

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Speaker 2: We should government should control the means of production. I mean,

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Speaker 2: that's not who I am, not who my father was,

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Speaker 2: not who Bill Clinton was. This is a different, extreme

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Speaker 2: socialist version. It will kill the Democratic Party, I believe

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Speaker 2: if they win, because it's just out of touch with America. Also,

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Speaker 2: it will kill New York City. New York City cannot

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Speaker 2: be a socialist city. People would flee from New York.

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Speaker 2: I am telling you by the car load, and it

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Speaker 2: would be the death of New York City. That's why

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Speaker 2: this election is so important, and that's why I'm saying

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Speaker 2: to Republicans all over the city, forget this Democrat Republican stocks.

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Speaker 2: It's bigger than that. This is bigger than that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with you. I agree with you one

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Speaker 1: thousand percent. Did I do these final thoughts a commentary

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Speaker 1: at the end. They did it a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: and I've taken a lot of blowback over it. But

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Speaker 1: it's exactly fifty to fifty. There's a lot of people

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Speaker 1: that are listening right now that are going to vote

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Speaker 1: for you to stop Zorinmamdani. But there are fifty percent

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Speaker 1: that call in and are upset that I even said

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Speaker 1: that that they want to vote for Curtis Sliwa. I

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Speaker 1: think that you're right, there's an exce essential threat that's

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Speaker 1: more important than any partisan politics at this point. And

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Speaker 1: that's why I said that. But the people that called

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Speaker 1: have a good point. Now I want you to address this,

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Speaker 1: and I want to give you time to address this.

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Speaker 1: They bring up three things, and you already know what

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Speaker 1: they're going to be. It is the sexual harassment scandal.

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Speaker 1: They bring up the death in the nursing homes, and

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Speaker 1: they bring up the bail reform. They're the three things

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Speaker 1: that they claim are holding them back. Now, obviously nothing

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Speaker 1: may convince them at this point, but they're the three

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Speaker 1: things they're holding them back. So I'm going to give

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Speaker 1: the flor to you and you can address them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but yes, and you're right, you know, you get

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Speaker 2: at one point. People just need a rationalization for their position.

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Speaker 2: And their position is, oh, he's a Democrat, he must

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Speaker 2: be bad. Sexual harassment allegations. They were made, They were

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Speaker 2: made in the report. I said at that time, this

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Speaker 2: is all political. There is nothing there. They just want

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Speaker 2: me out of office because frankly, there was that whole

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Speaker 2: far left that was never happy with me in the

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Speaker 2: Democratic Party because I was too moderate in their view,

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Speaker 2: which is a bad thing. I said, nothing will come

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Speaker 2: of it. We spent four years, five district attorneys. People

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Speaker 2: came in and testified under oath, and the women dropped

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Speaker 2: the cases against me. I then object to them dropping

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Speaker 2: the case because I want my day in court.

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Speaker 1: Former Governor Andrew Cuomo, independent candidate for New York City Mayor.

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