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You're listening to America first with Sebastian Gorka, former strategist of President Donald J. Trump.

I got no wiper for some reason. The theme from Hawaii, 5.0, the original! 5.0 always puts me in a good mood.

And that's one of the reasons we're playing it right now. We don't need some cheesy fanfare.

We need to be in a good mood for some great news. It's official. It's happened. There is hope for

New York State. Why? Because a great patriot, he is a man who has worn the cloth of the Republic

in combat, representative for the first congressional district of New York, has decided. It's time for a new

governor, Lee Zeldin. Congratulations on your big decision. Hey, if you were just on together talking

about this a couple days ago and we jumped all in this morning, maybe announcement, launched the

website, the social media, the emails, the texts, and I'll tell you what, while there's a lot that

went out this morning, there's been a lot coming back of really positive feedback. The support,

if the last few hours, if it is indicative of how the next few weeks and months are going to go.

And it's time to be now November 2022. I'm feeling really good about our chances here in New York.

The response has been amazing. I thank you for all of your support, your listeners. You guys have

been fantastic. Well, this is a guy I campaign for when he was a lowly congressman. Now he's going

for the governor's mansion in the state of New York. He almost didn't make it on the show today

because he had so many incoming texts. I texted him, no response, no response. And I just thought

maybe I'll just send him a question mark. And he saw that text and he responded straight away.

Can you tell us so happy to? Is there some commonalities, there's some thread to the feedback

you're already receiving since you made the announcement today? What kind of messages or

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