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The Mark Simone Show

Mark interviews political strategist Ed Rollins.

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3694 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

The first NYC mayoral debate will be on October 16th, 2025. This could determine who NYC will pick, after months of back-and-forth drama between candidates. Ed breaks down what the candidates need to speak about in order to win. Does Andrew Cuomo have a better chance of beating Mamdani since Mayor Adams has dropped out?  

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0:00.0

Here's more of the Mark Simone show on WOR.

0:05.0

Well, let's turn to the dean himself.

0:07.5

Ed Rollins, the best political analyst of all.

0:10.1

Ed Rollins, how you doing?

0:12.3

I'm doing pretty well.

0:13.4

I'm a little overwhelmed, Mark.

0:14.4

Here we have a president who obviously is yesterday

0:19.1

basically laid out a peace treaty for Israel this morning talked

0:24.3

to his generals all the generals across the country along the Secretary of War or

0:29.8

defense whatever his title might be and on the verge of shutting down the government next 24

0:36.3

hours that's like a drama and and and on the verge of shutting down the government next 24 hours.

0:38.7

It's like a drama.

0:44.4

And, you know, how you handle it all is going to be very important.

0:50.9

Communications is my strategic skill, and there's a lot on the plate,

0:54.4

and we need to make sure that we're not conflicting our messages.

1:02.2

I think the decisions are right, but I think the reality here is in a battle of Democrats,

1:05.1

you've got a midterm is going to be very key and lots of what's going on.

1:06.4

Lots going on.

1:08.9

Now, I know we're supposed to be terrified of a government shutdown.

1:10.6

Haven't we just been through a dozen of them?

1:14.4

I mean, it'll shut down for three days and nobody will remember it.

1:17.6

Well, hopefully that's the end result.

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