Hour 1: Shaking up Democrats.

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🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

President Trump has come up with a new term called "97/3" issues, that he is using as a tactic to bring out the worst in Democrats. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews Ed Rollins, Political strategist. Ed talks about how President Trump is the first president in history he has seen who doesn't take off much time in August and how Trump's plan to fight crime is a major blow to the Democrats' strategy to win back seats next year.

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0:00.0	You just heard the news.
0:02.6	Now you'll find out what it all means.
0:05.6	It's Mark Simone on 710 W-O-R.
0:11.5	Day, another beautiful day.
0:13.2	It's going to be just beautiful and sunny for days and days and days.
0:16.3	A really great week.
0:17.3	But a sad week, the final week before Labor Day.
0:20.9	Well, we'll get to the mayoral race.
0:22.4	We'll get to President Trump and what this latest scheme is all about.
0:29.2	We'll get to the Democrats had their first DNC get the campaign rolling meeting, and it was disaster.
0:36.8	We'll get to, well, all sorts of things coming up.
0:42.7	One of the greatest talents of Donald Trump is his ability to bring out the worst in his opponents.
0:51.6	A lot of people love Donald Trump.
0:53.3	A lot of people hate Donald Trump. A lot of people say, well, he just rubs them the wrong way, even if he does something great. But he knows how to play that other side. He knows just how to bring out the worst in them. And we're heading into the fall, which means we're going to be heading in. I hate to say this. It's going to be the new
1:11.4	year. It's going to be a time for midterm elections. And he's getting the Democrats all screwed up.
1:18.1	You know, they have what they call 80-20 issues, or 80 percent is for it. And you don't want to be on the
1:25.3	other side. You don't want to be one of the 20% that's against it.
1:30.3	Well, Trump has come up with some 973 issues, as he calls them.
1:36.2	97% the public is with them on it, and 3% the crazies are against it.
1:42.3	Now, he's doing a lot of this deliberately.
1:45.4	Like he wants to get rid of the crime in D.C.
1:48.3	Now that he's living in D.C., it really upsets him to drive around there and see it in total
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