Mark Interviews Political Consultant and Former White House Political Director Ed Rollins.

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🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Ed breaks down what could happen if Elon Musk gets his way of having a third party. In addition, there could be backlash from it to. Ed thinks that if the republicans want to get serious in the NYC Mayoral Race, they may have to choose a different candidate than Curtis Sliwa.

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0:00.0	Mark Simone on 710 W-WOR.
0:05.3	Well, let's talk to the dean himself.
0:07.6	Ed Rollins, the best campaign analyst of all.
0:10.7	He's run plenty of them and some of the most successful ever.
0:14.9	Ed Rollins, how you doing?
0:17.3	Good well.
0:17.9	Thank you.
0:18.3	How are you?
0:19.2	I'm good.
0:19.9	I'm good.
0:20.7	Hey, Elon Musk wants to start a third party
0:23.0	now the most successful third party run ever was Ross Perot you ran that campaign is it possible
0:29.4	for Elon Musk to really do a third party no no it's not uh if you want to be successful it would
0:36.2	take take a couple years to do and it can't be about him it has to be successful, it would take a couple years to do.
0:37.7	And it can't be about him.
0:38.7	It has to be, he can fund it.
0:40.6	He can certainly put money into it.
0:42.6	But the moment Ross Faroe dropped out the first time, there was nothing left.
0:48.9	He came back and spent a lot of money.
0:50.9	But at the end of the day, when he was at when he was at 20% of the vote
0:55.0	uh and and you know very competitive uh it was all about him once once he dropped out
1:01.2	in the same way with musk you don't want to be about musk you don't want to have a third party
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