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Sid & Friends In The Morning

John McLaughlin | Pollster | 07-16-26

Sid & Friends In The Morning

Podcast WABCRadio

Comedy, News, Sports

4.2833 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Pollster John McLaughlin returns to the morning show to talk about his client Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman's surge in his New York State gubernatorial race against incumbent Kathy Hochul ahead of November's election day.

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0:00.0

Did you know that St. Luke's University Health Network,

0:03.0

based in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania,

0:05.0

has been recognized by the U.S. government

0:08.0

as the highest performing health system in the United States for quality?

0:12.0

You heard right.

0:13.0

St. Luke's number one recognition affirms our status as the top leader

0:17.0

among the most respected health care providers in the nation,

0:20.0

including Houston Methodist and the Mayo Clinic.

0:23.1

To state it simply, if you want to receive the best care when you go to a hospital, come to St. Luke's.

0:30.0

John, good morning, buddy. How are you?

0:31.9

Good morning. I'm doing well. And it's a lot of pressure. You put a lot of pressure on the pulster.

0:36.9

We just take the balls and report it.

0:38.4

No, you're the best.

0:39.4

And all your clients, Mike Lawler, B.B. Netanyahu, President Trump, they're all on my show.

0:46.6

All your clients.

0:48.3

Yeah, I've told the president, I wrote his coattails.

0:50.5

As long as, see, as President Trump is there in office and we've won, you can say all the nice things about me that you want. 100%. And do you think, and I know you don't want to put words in the President's mouth, I'm going to ask you to do it anyway. Okay? But that's fine. Do you think President Trump was happy or unhappy with J.D. Vance yesterday. Just your opinion.

1:18.1

You know, I haven't heard from about it, but I think the president's focused on winning the war in Iran.

1:23.9

And, you know, he's trying to do this. He's trying to negotiate with terrorists. And, you know, you hear these other people talk about moderate terrorists. There's no such

1:28.0

thing. It's an oxymoron. And, you know, he's, I'm sure, I'm sure he's trying to do this peacefully,

1:34.3

but he's got two goals. One is stopping Iran from getting nuclear weapons. And by the way,

1:38.7

in our last June poll, 76% of all Americans approved of that. And when, and about also stopping Iran from funding international

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