John McLaughlin | Pollster | 09-30-25

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4.2 • 828 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Pollster John McLaughlin calls into the program to talk about various aspects of political polling and its implications for upcoming elections. The conversation covers the accuracy and strategic importance of polls, focusing on the New York City mayoral race, where Mamdani leads significantly in polls. McLaughlin emphasizes the importance of Curtis Sliwa targeting Mamdani rather than focusing on other candidates like Cuomo. The discussion also touches on the broader political landscape, including the gubernatorial race in Nassau County, and early indicators for the 2028 presidential race, suggesting JD Vance as a Republican front-runner and Gavin Newsom overtaking Kamala Harris among Democrats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.0	All right. Let's get to McGlachlan. He's the best pollster in the world. We love John McLaughlin.
0:50.1	And John, you heard my little piece on it, which is when people in this business talk about the polls,
0:57.9	they seem to work fine when the candidate they want to win is winning in the polls.
1:03.2	But when, in fact, their candidate is not bearing well.
1:06.6	You hear this all the time.
1:07.6	I don't trust the polls.
1:08.9	And for some reason, Curtis, he's just wrong, keeps going back to Cuomo when Mamdani, when the truth is, the day of the election, Mamdani was winning in the polls. Who cares what Cuomo was winning by a month before? Election day, Mamdani was up by four. Now, he did win by 13, but he was winning in the polls. So are they right? Do the polls
1:29.1	not matter? Are they not accurate? Because, again, I seem to think they're accurate a lot.
1:35.1	Well, by the way, you know, I had an old mentor, Arthur Finglstein, who taught me how to read polls,
1:42.0	etc., who used to say elections have consequences.
1:45.8	So yesterday we got to see two of the candidates that are polling helped Donald Trump and B.B. Netanyahu,
1:52.6	and as long as they're in office, you can say we're very impulsors,
1:56.0	but you don't know what it's like to have to tell Donald Trump or BB. Netanyahu
2:00.5	that they're losing in a poll at the time and what they have to do to fix it.
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