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The Mark Simone Show

FULL SHOW: There's a shift in voting for NYC; Trade deals are being worked on.

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3695 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Many voters who are not fond of mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo may vote for him to prevent Zohran Mamdani from possibly becoming NYC's next mayor. Mark interviews Roger Friedman from Showbiz411. All the strikes on Broadway in NYC that occurred within the last few weeks have been settled. Mariah Carey is secretly teasing plans for the upcoming holiday season! Many Democrats are thinking of a 2028 Presidential run. A huge decision on trade with China could unfold overnight tonight. Mark interviews Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman. More police officers are being tapped to work in Nassau County because Zohran Mamdani may be the next mayor. The economy under Mr. Blakeman is thriving with restaurants, beaches, stores, and more! Making the county safe is a huge priority.

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0:00.0

Now, this is the Mark Simone Show on 710 W.O.R.

0:08.0

Well, things are shifting in the mayoral race. We'll get to that. We'll get to the president's trip. He meets with President Xi tonight, late tonight. We'll get to the shutdown. We'll get to the World Series. We'll get to 2028. We'll get to the ballroom and a whole lot more coming up. There's people that

0:27.4

watch this stuff carefully are seeing a shift in the mayoral race. More people are moving

0:32.5

towards Cuomo. Curtis, who we love, he'd be a, he's the best candidate of the bunch, he'd be the best

0:38.8

mayor of the bunch, but there are voters shifting from him to Cuomo, despite the fact that

0:44.9

they hate Cuomo. They were horrified by Cuomo's performance in office as governor, but they're

0:51.6

just so terrified of him on Doni city hall that there more and more people

0:58.1

are shifting to Cuomo so we don't know if it's too little too late he's still way behind in all the

1:03.9

polling but but there is a shift and there is some data showing the race really tightening

1:10.6

the big big donors are always

1:13.5

the worst in any campaign because at first they always back the wrong guy. They're never great at

1:19.5

helping. They do more damage than good, these big, big money donors. But one of the problems is to

1:25.5

get Mamdani out of this, to take him out of competition.

1:29.6

This had to start about a month and a half ago.

1:32.7

As John McLaughlin, the great pollster, explained to us, you've got to drive his negatives up.

1:37.0

You've got to get his negatives up into the 50s.

1:39.9

And the way you do that is massive negative ads against him.

1:45.1

Bombard everybody with these ads showing, you know, things he said in the past, all that stuff.

1:49.0

Well, that's where the big donors have to spend the money.

1:52.1

The big super PACs have to run those ads.

1:54.3

Well, they didn't this time.

1:55.6

Where have they been?

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