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Well, our friend Bernadette Castro, big name in the business world, government,

and our Long Island correspondent as well.

Bernadette Castro, how you doing?

I'm doing great, Mark.

How are you doing on this beautiful summer day?

Very good.

Kind of a weird summer, though.

You know, that week of smoke, that week of heat wave.

Yeah, but, you know, we forget those things when, you know, we still got so much good summer left, which leads into and we still have so much time.

We're talking not this November that people are voting. We're talking next

November. Well, actually, this November, everybody in the city council is up for real. So vote

them all out and get some normal people in the city. All right, but let's talk presidential

a minute. Okay. So you are just beating the almighty out of Ron DeSantis. And I have to say one thing. Okay. I'm happy he fired all those people because you know what? He was listening to them. And here's what it's like when you're a candidate. If you have your own money to dump in the campaign or if you have a huge donor list

and a big war chest, talk about sharks, they come at you. We can advise you on this strategy,

on that strategy. We want 5,000 a month retainer. So many people want to be on your payroll. It's crazy.

And he was green. You're right. He's never run for president.

He's only run for governor. He's got a bigger problem. And it had nothing to do with the staff

or strategy. He's the world's worst talker. He went, what really killed him, he got on every

show in the world for about three weeks. He was on Hannity. He was on Laura Ingram.

He was on Jesse. He was on everything. And people listened to him, he immediately dropped 20 points in the pulse. And every time he did an interview, he dropped again. He's the world's worst talker. He is totally toned deaf. Well, you know, I'm going to interrupt you that because I saw the Jake Tapper interview. I watched it on purpose on CNN,

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