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The Mark Simone Show

Mark interviews political commentator Liz Peek.

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3695 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Liz is hoping Zohran Mamdani will be defeated in the mayoral race, citing Mamdani’s lack of experience as a major concern. The New Jersey gubernatorial race may also hinge on whether President Trump is an asset for the candidates, Democrat Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli.

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0:00.0

You can read her columns, but also she's got a great website, Lizpeak.com, with all sorts of news and stories and interesting analysis, Liz Peake.com. Of course, you see her all over television. Liz Peek, how you doing?

0:13.8

I'm terrific. I'm baited breath to see how this election comes out, Mark. How about you?

0:19.9

Well, it's impossible to predict anything.

0:21.9

We only have these cheap little flimsy public polls, not any really good polls, and the turnout is

0:27.3

so extraordinary that the model they used is off anyway. So wouldn't you agree, anything could happen?

0:32.9

We have no idea what's going to happen. Well, I hope something happens other than the obvious, the obvious being

0:39.2

that Zoran Mamdani has been leading Andrew Cuomo by double digits up until literally a nanosecond ago.

0:47.8

So, yeah, it would be very cheering to have, you know, to have him defeated after all the publicity

0:59.6

that's been thrown about him, which is all accurate about his lack of experience, his radical

1:04.3

policies, etc. It would just be nice to know that voters actually are thinking and that they are actually

1:11.7

not just buying what this con man is selling.

1:15.5

And I say those words pretty judiciously.

1:18.9

I think he is a con man.

1:20.6

If he went to Bowdoin College, it's impossible to imagine, and he's bright enough to have

1:27.0

gone there, et cetera, that he really believes

1:29.4

what he's saying, that he believes that he can deliver all these wonderful freebies to people

1:34.1

and not completely wreck the city as he tries to pay for it. So, you know, I think this guy is

1:40.6

dangerous. I hope that voters agree. I agree with he's a con man. He looks like a

1:45.9

hustler, but maybe he's a con man the other way. Maybe this whole socialist, maybe that was the con,

1:51.6

and when he gets an office, he'll just be a normal mayor. I think the odds of that are about one

1:56.7

and ten gazillion. Okay. No, no. I mean, the only constraints on him are going to be reality.

2:04.7

And he has so far had no response when people have challenged him with the reality that he

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