Hour 2: The real polls.

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🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Department of Homeland Security’s Kristi Noem was challenged on Capitol Hill yesterday by Democrats regarding her handling of ICE. Today, we also remember the legendary music icon Frank Sinatra on what would have been his 110th birthday. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews pollster John McLaughlin. John breaks down the latest behind-the-scenes poll numbers, focusing on the 2026 gubernatorial race in NYC. United States Representative Elise Stefanik is currently trailing Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, while Governor Kathy Hochul could face a serious challenge ahead. There are also concerns that President Trump’s approval rating polls may be manipulated against him.

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0:00.0	You're listening to The Mark Simone Show.
0:02.8	On 710, W.O.R.
0:10.9	Hey, it's Friday.
0:12.3	It's less than two weeks to Christmas Day.
0:15.2	Can you believe it?
0:16.6	And three weeks from today, it'll be the new year.
0:22.2	It'll be the first full day of the Mamdani administration.
0:26.1	Three weeks from today, all right, calm down.
0:30.1	It's going to be like de Blasio.
0:31.7	We got through eight years of that.
0:33.0	We'll get through a couple of years of Mamdani.
0:36.8	And, all right, it wasn't great under de Blasio, but we got through it.
0:42.0	We'll get through this too.
0:43.6	So, um, hey, you know this guy, Thompson?
0:46.9	We're talking about, uh, Democrats.
0:50.0	They're just nuttier and nuttier and nuttier and nuttier, crazier, more far left every year.
0:59.3	It just they get worse and worse.
1:00.9	So they're having hearings yesterday in Congress.
1:04.8	And Christy Noem is there to testify about deportation, about ICE.
1:09.0	Christy Noem is testifying.
1:10.3	And, of course, the Democrats with the TV cameras on, they want to, you know, create some viral moments. So they're yelling and screaming. He got this crazy left wing, Dan Goldman from New York yelling at Christy Nome.
1:22.3	If your department, your secretary, reports anyone with an ongoing asylum application, you are violating the law. Isn't that
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