Hour 2: NYC Mayoral race

The Mark Simone Show

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4.3 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Mark Simone talks about Donald Trumps impact on the NYC Mayoral race and the state of the race at this time; Mark talks about the Charlie Kirk assassination, the funeral, and the obituary written for him in the New York Times; Mark discusses Kamala Harris’ upcoming book and the book tour she will be going on to promote it; Stuart in South Carolina calls in to talk about the advancement in forensic technology that helped in the capture of the alleged Charlie Kirk shooter; Chris in Manhattan talks to Mark about Zohran Mamdani’s plans for free buses and free subways; Al in Staten Island asks Mark about Donald Trump backing Curtis Sliwa in the Mayoral race; Russ in New Jersey asks Mark about a policy that Curtis Sliwa should implement; Mark Simone and Curtis Sliwa talk about Donald Trumps involvement in the race and why he should support Curtis; Curtis talks about the scheduled debates in the Mayoral election; Mark asks Curtis about his plans for taxing NYC residents and how his experience running the Guardian Angels shows his qualifications.

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0:00.0	Well, the big news, they've got the shooter. It's 22-year-old liberal supremacist, Tyler Robinson. He's in custody. It took 33 hours, but they got them. That's the good news. We'll bring you more details when we get them. The mayoral race, well, things are changing. Eric Adams, you know, you kept hearing was going to get offered a big job to get out of the race.
0:24.6	The president, not directly, but the White House, would give him a big, big job if he'd leave the race.
0:31.8	Trying to clear the field for Cuomo.
0:34.0	The president, not a big Slewa fan.
0:36.5	He's just not a Curtis fan. He doesn't a Curtis fan he doesn't know Curtis he doesn't
0:39.9	like uh he said it on Fox and Friends he goes I don't know the cats he wants to have cats at
0:44.4	Gracie Mansion and um well we'll put that aside we'll talk to Curtis later this hour we'll talk
0:52.2	to him about it but But he felt if he was
0:58.3	convinced Cuomo was the only one that could beat Mom Dani. Now remember President Trump's in
1:02.7	Washington. He's a little removed from all this. I don't know. If you look at the facts,
1:06.7	the one guy we know cannot beat Mom Dami is Cuomo. We just tried that in the primary.
1:12.2	In two debates, Cuomo got wiped out by Mamdani.
1:15.6	In the voting in the primary, Cuomo got wiped out by Mamdani.
1:19.7	We know Cuomo can't beat him.
1:21.4	We've seen that happen.
1:22.7	That's been tested.
1:24.3	The problem with Adams, he can't get out of single digits.
1:27.3	And one poll is 7%, one pollies 9%.
1:30.4	It's a big, big problem.
1:33.9	But the president had been talking about offering him a big job to get him to leave.
1:39.3	Now, what's a big job?
1:40.4	Well, there could be an ambassadorship.
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