Is Schumer Afraid of an AOC Primary Challenge? Yes!

The Rich Zeoli Show

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🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 1: 3:05pm- At midnight on Tuesday, the U.S. government officially shutdown after Senate Democrats refused to agree to a continuing resolution. While Democratic Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (NV) and John Fetterman (PA) voted with Republicans to pass the CR, the vote fell short of the necessary 60-vote threshold. According to rumors, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is reluctant to negotiate a deal with Republicans—hoping to prove his progressive credentials in order to stave off a potential primary challenge from Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. 3:30pm- During a Wednesday press briefing, Vice President JD Vance and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt explained that Democrats have shut down the government as part of their fight to provide free healthcare to migrants residing in the United States illegally. 3:50pm- While discussing the New Jersey gubernatorial race on Fox News, Dana Perino cited Rich—so, we’ll be playing that clip multiple times today.

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0:00.0	The Rich Zioly Show podcast is sponsored by Mike Vaneria Jr.
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0:11.7	Call me at 856-252-0107.
0:15.8	There's also a government shutdown going on, but that's probably not going to last that much longer, I don't think.
0:22.5	But the AOL thing is.
0:25.1	And our buddy, Dr. E.J. and Tony, free to come back on the show again.
0:30.6	He'll be on the show at 5.30 today.
0:33.5	And everybody wants to hear from him.
0:35.8	So we got the first interview with our own, our guy who will officially be, once again, our official economist for the show.
0:44.8	I'm very excited about that.
0:46.4	We'll ask him his thoughts on the government shutdown and what all this means.
0:52.1	As you can imagine, on days like today, we call it a jump ball.
0:57.6	I had to look that up, find out what that means.
1:00.0	Apparently, it's sports reference.
1:01.8	It means could go any way.
1:03.6	We don't really know how the show is going to go today, given the shutdown,
1:07.4	except that we imagine there's going to probably be throughout the show,
1:12.1	either breaking news or news conferences or something.
1:15.7	Let me give you the 30,000 foot view of where everything is.
1:18.9	And by the way, the issue of the Chinese communist flag being flown in Philadelphia,
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