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...you're a Democrat incumbent who is in one of these districts, like all but a couple dozen of them, your only real threat to losing your office is from the left. Right? It's some young AOC type coming up to challenge you, and so you don't wanna expose
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...on. So if you're a Democrat incumbent who is in one of these
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and then you wind up, if you're not careful, saying things that make it hard for you to have credibility in a general election when you're trying to paint a picture that the broadest number of people possible can see themselves in. That's nothing new
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desiccated, and out of touch. And who was Ma'am Donnie running against? Andrew Cuomo, who is really a perfect avatar for this establishment. He's a retread, he's been around for decades. He'd probably be finishing his fourth term as governor except f
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The other one is, you know, counter to everything I just said, is maybe they would listen. Maybe the Republicans are like, yeah. Okay. Let's do it. The problem again, though, is swing state people who need to get reelected, they need to do one thing.
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Do you have concerns? Yeah. Well, so I do think it's funny that a committee about efficiency has two people running it. That's but but I think it's It's quite efficient. Just cut itself in half if if Vivek's running, you know, for governor. So that i
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as puts into building affordable housing. That will be a great thing for somebody running in 2028 to champion. Why do you guys think young women overwhelmingly supported Mamdani? The vibes? No. I look. I think there's a lot of polling showing that be
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you have to appeal to the people who vote if you want to get elected. If we could move our primary electorate participation from, like, 20 to 50, I actually think our politics would moderate and they would improve dramatically, more so than most peop
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And I I think anybody, that listens to you guys or anything that interview where they start say bringing this up, we gotta remind people, this has been the left's playbook since Robert Bork. Yeah. They started it with Robert Bork. They took him out o
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And I threw my hat in the ring and, we were, down at sixty nine ten in the polls in January. The primary was in June. Catherine was who who became the first lady was like, oh, we've got a great life. Listen, why would we why would we get into politic
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underlie the data. So I think in the short term, it's just going to be more of an economic up or down vote for the Trump administration. Many things I think are positive and in their control, but there are a few things that are not in their control.
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in good form. I noticed you said something in, I think, your first answer that the the business elite had accepted Cuomo as who was going to be the nominee. The accepted, it does not sound the same as enthusiastically support. I hear that as sort of
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I think it's a pretty simple explanation as to why it exists because the people that make the laws are the people that profit. So there's a pretty strong incentive not to outlaw. I think it's as simple as that. Someone the other day was talking about
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odious candidate, by the way. The worst candidate ever. Yeah. I agree that he is a weak candidate. He kinda represents this, like, washed up establishment vibe. It's just not a fresh candidate at all. That's the problem. But look, the democratic esta
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