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The Mark Simone Show

Mark Interviews FOX Contributor Joe Concha

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3695 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Mark and FOX contributor Joe Concha talked about Trump being an everyman who connects with people. They also hit on Haley needing to drop out of the race before she gets embarrassed in her home state South Carolina.

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0:00.0

Mr. New York, Mark Simone.

0:03.2

710, W-O-R.

0:07.2

Joe Concha, the great columnist, of course, he writes for the messenger.

0:11.6

You'll see them all over television, the Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network,

0:16.2

and he's got a great book out called Come On Man.

0:19.7

No Better Book about Joe Biden. You should get the book. Joe Concha, how you doing? You know, I love the compliment. I appreciate it, Mark. But I think I have the only book out on Joe Biden. I mean, Maggie Heyerman, where are you? I just read that she's doing another book on Trump. And Jonathan Carl, another book on Trump. All these people writing about Trump. How about the guy that's currently in the Oval Office? Maybe we want to concentrate on him for a little bit. But Trump's been out of office for, what, three years? And these people just focus on him instead of the guy who's destroying the country. It's quite a business concept. That's a very good point. He's the first president where nobody writes about him. They won't go after him. And also, when you watch the Sunday shows, they never mention him. He's the president. He doesn't get on the week in review. I wonder why that is, maybe because inflation is still more than 250 percent higher than it was when he took office. Maybe crime is still out of control in American cities. Maybe the border is wide open with fentanyl and terrorist pouring in.

1:14.7

Maybe the world seems like it's on fire because it basically is as far as foreign policy

1:19.3

and Russia going into Ukraine when that didn't happen under Trump and everything we're seeing

1:23.5

with China and Taiwan. Maybe education test scores are at a 30-year low. I could go through the Biden record. And boy, there is plenty of comedy there also, if you're a late-night host, given all the gaffes that we see from him and his vice president. But as you say, it's all about Trump and not about the guy who's currently in power, which I would think is probably the person you want to at least commit 50% of your time to.

1:49.5

Hey, Joe Kachia, if Trump wraps it up tonight and that's it, Nikki Haley's gone and there's no primary race, what does that do to us? What the hell do we do for the next few months?

1:53.2

That's what I'm saying, right? Can you remember ever a nomination sewn up this quickly

1:58.5

before? We at least usually get through Super Tuesday and maybe

2:02.3

into April. Remember, I think Trump didn't clinch officially until early May of 2016. John Kasich

2:08.9

obviously hung around too long. Ted Cruz won Iowa. So that gave him some, at least a little bit of

2:14.3

warranty as far as like staying in the race. But now, once this is over and you're right, and Mark, you've been right about this all along, so you deserve a lot of credit for this as far as Trump dominating here. If Haley's out tonight, and I think she will be, if she loses by more than 10 points, there absolutely is no path forward for her, then what do we do? Indeed, I guess it becomes a general election matchup, and then we'll just speculate whether Joe Biden can make it to the finish line or not, which a lot of people think that ain't going to happen, and he's going to be replaced at the convention in Chicago by Michelle Obama or Gavin Newsom or Gretchen Whitmer, and I guess we'll just have to speculate about that. I've got to go back and look at 1984, where obviously Reagan had it all wrapped up.

2:51.5

There was no challenger.

2:52.5

And Mondale pretty much was assumed to be the nominee, what they did back then for.

2:57.8

But, you know, I'm watching, I don't like watching this New Hampshire primary.

3:01.6

You see, like, Fox News.

3:03.3

They're doing a great job, but they're in this weird-looking building in the snow.

3:06.8

It looks like a haunted house.

3:10.3

I've never been to New Hampshire. I don't know about you. Oh, I have. Vermont, but never New Hampshire. I used to work in New Hampshire. Oh, is that right? WFTN, Franklin, New Hampshire. That was like the first station I was ever on. Oh, by the way, my dad, who's probably listening right now, he tells me that we went to the same college.

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