Blue States Are More Incompetent Than Red States

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🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Today’s podcast looks at the disaster of the New York Democratic mayoral primary and what it says about the way liberal cities and states work. And more repulsive blather from Ilhan Omar. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	music
0:24.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Wednesday June 30th 2021.
0:29.4	I'm John Pudhorts the editor of commentary with me as always executive editor
0:32.6	Abe Greenwald hi-a.
0:33.9	Hi John.
0:35.1	Associate editor Noor Rothman.
0:37.1	Hi John.
0:38.1	Hi John.
0:39.1	And senior writer Christine Rosen.
0:40.3	Hi Christine.
0:41.3	Hi John.
0:43.1	So yesterday afternoon word came down that in the first counting of the rank choice
0:55.6	ballots the second counting of the rank choice ballots in the New York City
1:01.6	mayoral Democratic primary rank choice five ballot system that something
1:10.4	extraordinary had happened that Eric Adams the former or retired New York
1:16.4	City cop who seemed to have prevailed on election night because he won
1:22.4	31% of the vote next to a progressive named Maya Wiley is getting 22% of the vote
1:31.6	and a tectocrat named Catherine Garcia getting about 19 and a half percent of
1:36.8	the vote that the second counting of the rank choice
1:42.1	and the second counting of the preferences of the peoples suddenly Adams is at 51% and Garcia
1:52.5	is at 48% and that Garcia because there are absentee ballots out that still have
1:59.4	to be counted and many of them if not most of them are from Manhattan and
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