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The Mark Simone Show

Mark Interviews former Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

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4.3694 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Mark and Rob talk about the special election in New York today. Will Kathy Hochul's refusal to fire Alvin Bragg and his soft stance on crime hurt her campaign?

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0:00.0

Well, Rob Astorino, of course, was the candidate in the Republican primary, and he's a great radio host himself, and he was the Westchester County Executive, expert on this governor's race.

0:13.6

Rob Astorino, how you doing?

0:16.1

I'm good, Mark. Boy, you got a lot going on today with these congressional primaries and some state

0:20.9

Senate stuff. Interesting. Interesting what's going to happen. I hope and expect that the best

0:26.5

Republican candidates win their primaries so we can actually win in November. And who's that? Who do we

0:31.4

want to vote for today? There's a whole bunch of them. I mean, Mike Lawler is running to take

0:37.2

on either Sean Patrick Maloney or Alessandro Biagi, and Lawler has the best shot at winning that race. He's actually up in the polls against either one of them, so that's a seat we can win. You got Mark Mlonaro in Duchess County in the Mid-Hudson Valley, who's actually an election today. It's not even a primary, it's an election for that seat.

0:56.3

That's the Delgado seat who became lieutenant governor.

0:58.7

So hopefully people get out and vote for Malinaro.

1:01.7

He'll actually take the seat.

1:03.3

And even in 14, you know, it's against AOC.

1:07.4

You got Tina Forte running and, you know, look, that's a hard race, but she'll give AOC a run for

1:14.2

her money and won't back down. So a lot of good things. Interesting. And then, of course,

1:18.8

on the Democratic side, you've got the Brontosaurus against the Stegosaurus. Those two

1:22.7

freaking dinosaurs running, Nadler and Maloney. I mean,

1:29.4

geez, can it get any worse?

1:32.2

Yeah, but the young

1:33.2

upstart Patel,

1:34.9

would you be surprised if he ended up

1:37.2

beating the two of them?

1:38.7

The guy with his man bun there?

1:41.1

No, I mean, I wouldn't,

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