Hour 1: The future of New York City.

The Mark Simone Show

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4.3 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

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 takes your calls! 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.

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0:10.9	And basically, do it all?
0:13.0	No?
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0:30.8	Now, 710 WOR presents the Mark Simone show.
0:38.8	Uh-huh. The Mark Simone show. Hello, welcome to the show.
0:45.6	I don't know what to tell you.
0:48.0	I don't know what to tell you.
0:48.9	Listen, we got through the pandemic.
0:50.9	We'll get through this.
0:52.1	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. Biggest turnout in a couple of decades, but it was still only about
1:11.9	50% of the voters showed up. It went over 2 million. It looks like if you look through the numbers,
1:18.5	it's pretty apparent that Andrew Cuomo had no chance ever at any time, and it had nothing
1:24.1	to do with Curtis. If he added in Curtis's votes, he still would be several points behind Mamdani.
1:30.4	So there was no chance, zero chance,
1:35.3	for Andrew Cuomo to win, none.
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