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The Mark Simone Show

Hour 1: Zohran’s new term.

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3695 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Big donors may have a major influence on who wins the NYC mayoral race. A new video is surfacing on the web of Zohran Mamdani speaking at rallies a few years ago, highlighting his antisemitic views. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews Boston radio host Howie Carr. Andrew Cuomo, compared to Zohran Mamdani, may be the lesser of two evils when it comes to voting in the NYC mayoral race. Curtis Sliwa needs a different approach to gain more votes as election day approaches.

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0:00.0

You just heard the news. Now you'll find out what it all means. It's Mark Simone on 710 W.O.R. Hey, well, it's a rainy day today. It's going to be like this all day. Don't forget we go off. Daylight saving time Saturday. It's going to start getting dark like 515 starting Sunday. Hey, we'll get to the mayoral race. There have been some changes. We'll get to that in a moment. We'll get to the World Series. We'll get to President Trump. His trip to China, he's still on the way back. He won't get back here until about 3 in the afternoon. We'll get to CBS firing lots of people.

0:39.2

And a whole lot more coming up.

0:40.9

We'll get to Jerome Powell and all of that.

0:43.5

So the mayoral race, things are changing again.

0:46.9

Now, I know I said that yesterday.

0:48.6

And yesterday, the news was, according to the polls that had come out,

0:51.9

that Cuomo was narrowing the gap. Well, according to the polls that had come out that Cuomo was narrowing the gap. Well, according to the polls that have come out since in the last 24 hours, the gap is widening and Mamdani is increasing his lead dramatically over Cuomo. Now you say, well, how could it flip-lop like that? Well, the problem is we haven't had any

1:11.8

real polls ever in this mayoral race. We've got all these junk polls, these cheap polls, these

1:16.7

college polls, these media polls, they're not very good and they're not very reliable. But the

1:22.5

major polls, the major polling companies and the top pollsters, normally the campaigns behind the scenes bring in the best pollsters,

1:30.5

you know, McLaughlin and Trafalgar, those kind of guys.

1:34.5

They haven't been spending the money.

1:36.1

Nobody's been doing the polling, so we're relying on these junk polls.

1:40.3

And again, they're not very accurate.

1:41.9

But the latest thing that have come out in the last 24 hours.

1:46.1

Emerson College Poll and Ameris College Poll.

1:49.8

Again, these are colleges that are too cheap to have a football team.

1:54.9

So to get attention, they start a polling company.

1:58.4

And instead of having to build a football stadium and spend 100 million on a football team,

2:03.1

you spend $1.50 and you give some students some iPads and you take your polls.

2:07.3

So they're not very reliable polls.

2:09.3

But in one, Mamdani has increased his lead to 16 points, 48 to 32 over Cuomo.

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