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The Mark Simone Show

Hour 2: When big donors give candidates huge amounts of cash, the candidate always loses.

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

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4.3695 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Forensic detectives continue to hunt for clues in the alleged Gilgo Beach Murders. Clay Travis, WOR Co-Host Interview: Mark and Clay talked about his new book, The American Playbook. Clay talked with Mark about how the country is headed in the wrong direction.

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0:00.0

Hey, we got a lot to get to this hour. Do you understand this Zuckerberg, Elon Musk fight, cage match?

0:08.0

Zuck versus Musk. This is going to be streamed live. What are these two idiots up to? What is wrong with these two morons? I mean, they're both like the two richest guys on Earth. Between them, they got like $250 billion, and they want to have a cage match.

0:22.9

Anything for attention apparently gets very boring just sitting there in the office, so they're

0:28.0

looking for some attention. Hey, we'll get back to Donald Trump a little later this hour.

0:35.7

Now, DeSantis, I know a lot of you wanted DeSantis. You were behind Descentes. He's got no shot at all,

0:41.3

nothing. You can't possibly do anything in the Republican primary. I know you were saying,

0:47.3

well, you know, Trump can't win. He can't even get Republicans to vote for him. He can't even

0:52.3

get Republicans to support him.

0:59.3

Now, DeSantis in the beginning, when he first started to run, had Carl Rove, he had all the Bush people supporting him, all the big Bush donors. The big donors all got behind DeSantis.

1:07.6

He can win. The big donors would tell you. Now, you got to remember something.

1:11.2

The big donors are always wrong every time.

1:16.0

They always back the loser.

1:19.5

And when they get behind somebody, that candidate has no shot at all.

1:24.6

There's the big donors that brought you Romney.

1:27.1

It was the big donors that brought you Jeb.

1:30.8

You might be saying, hey, Romney got the nomination.

1:34.7

Big loser, backed by the big donors.

1:37.1

But they got lucky that year.

1:38.7

There were no opponents in the Republican primary.

1:40.9

There were no credible opponents.

1:42.3

That's how Romney got the nomination.

1:44.4

The only opponents were Ron Paul, not Rand Paul, his father. Ron Paul was the opponent and

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