FULL SHOW: Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s victory speech; Is Andrew Cuomo’s political career ending?

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🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Andrew Cuomo’s political reputation may have cost him the New York City mayoral race. Across the country, many are expressing disappointment over Tuesday night’s election results, but did Republicans put in enough effort to flip key states and regions from blue to red? Mark interviews political strategist Ed Rollins. Ed shares his perspective, stating that Republicans suffered a decisive defeat amid a powerful Democratic wave nationwide. He urges the GOP to focus on strategies for winning the 2026 midterm elections. He also weighs in on whether Andrew Cuomo’s political career is truly over. In a major development, FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker, who is Jewish, resigned this morning after learning that Zohran Mamdani is the city’s new mayor-elect. Mark discusses the districts where Andrew Cuomo performed well during his campaign. Mark interviews Best-selling author Ann Coulter. Ann joins Mark to analyze why Andrew Cuomo lost the mayoral race in NYC. They discuss whether the lack of a strong Republican base in the city remains a significant obstacle to defeating Democrats.

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0:00.0	Now 710 WOR presents the Mark Simone show.
0:10.8	Hello, welcome to the show.
0:15.6	I don't know what to tell you. I don't know what to tell you. Listen, we got through the
0:19.7	pandemic. We'll get through this. We'll get through what to tell you. Listen, we got through the pandemic.
0:38.3	We'll get through this. We'll get through this. We got through eight years of de Blasio. We'll get through this. We'll go over everything that happened. What's going to happen? A couple of things we now have all the results in, all the numbers. Only half in New York voted, but that's high turnout. It was a big, big turnout.
0:38.3	Biggest turnout in a couple of voted, but that's high turnout. It was a big, big turnout,
0:44.5	biggest turnout in a couple of decades, but it was still, only about 50% of the voters showed up.
0:49.2	It went over 2 million. It looks like if you look through the numbers, it's pretty apparent that Andrew Cuomo had no chance ever at any time, and it had nothing to do with Curtis.
0:55.0	If he added in Curtis's votes, he still would be several points behind Mamdani.
1:00.5	So there was no chance, zero chance for Andrew Cuomo to win. None.
1:08.7	You know, there's this fantasy. If Curtis dropped out, well, then those votes would go to
1:12.8	Cuomo and then he would win. First of all, if Curtis were to drop out, you'd figure about half the
1:17.2	votes would go to Cuomo, half would stay home. There's actual polling data that shows that. But
1:21.5	even if he got every single voter of Curtis's, which would be impossible, but even if he did,
1:27.3	he still would lose to
1:29.0	Mamdani by a few points. So Cuomo never had a chance. The real problem is everybody can't
1:36.5	stand the guy. And he had a horrible record as governor, just a disaster as governor. He did
1:42.7	horrible things to New York. And
1:45.7	single-handedly caused the crime wave with his no bail, no jail, and closing the prisons and all.
1:51.0	And I could read you the list of 20 horrible things he did to New York. So he, and he left in
1:56.8	disgrace. He resigned in disgrace. I mean, he just didn't have a chance add to that i mean it'd be
2:04.6	one thing if you were a really likable guy remember marian berry mayor of dc who got caught in all
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