Mark interviews political strategist Ed Rollins.
The Mark Simone Show
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🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Mr. New York, Mark Simone, 710 W.O.R. |
| 0:06.0 | Well, let's talk to the dean himself. Ed Rollins has run the most successful campaigns in the history of American politics, and he's with us now. Ed Rollins, how you doing? |
| 0:16.9 | Good morning, Mark. How are you? I'm good. Yeah, so turnout now reported to be 500% above usual turnout. What does that mean? |
| 0:26.8 | It means this great animosity towards Mondami by older voters and great enthusiasm by younger voters. |
| 0:34.6 | So it means exactly what it says. People are out there turning out, voting early, |
| 0:39.2 | and I think to a certain extent, it could be a record turnout. Yeah. Is this good this early |
| 0:45.1 | voting, people voting? You know, a lot of people like might have missed some of the things |
| 0:49.0 | that are developing this week. Should there be this much early voting? |
| 0:51.8 | I think, you know, I think both sides are trying to get the early voting because obviously a part of why Trump lost the first time, |
| 1:00.3 | the second time when he was running for re-election was because they didn't do as much focus on early voting. |
| 1:06.3 | It's very much a part of the game today. |
| 1:08.0 | And in a city like this this particularly where there's no |
| 1:11.5 | statewide organization in here that getting getting volunteers to go out turn out the vote is important |
| 1:18.2 | so yeah i always tell people whenever you get your ballot whenever you're ready to vote go vote |
| 1:23.1 | don't delay it now you got remember uh we got the Democratic candidate, and Curtis is the Republican candidate. |
| 1:30.6 | Cuomo is a third-party candidate. |
| 1:33.3 | You ran... |
| 1:34.0 | Third-party. |
| 1:34.9 | Well, you ran the most successful third-party campaign in history, the Ross Perrault campaign. |
| 1:40.4 | Well, it would have been more successful with Trump, if if pro would have stayed in the race uh you know |
| 1:45.9 | he dropped out and he came back again but anyways uh there's there's certainly in this this is a very |
| 1:52.0 | democratic city obviously and and i think to a certain extent uh domi having the democrat |
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