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The Mark Simone Show

Mark interviews political strategist Ed Rollins.

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

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4.3696 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Speaker Mike Johnson has called for a reassessment of roles and positions within the GOP. With the current political climate, the stage for the midterms is effectively being set now - though much could shift depending on how events unfold over the next eight months. Mark and Ed also turn to how GOP resources should be strategically allocated in the lead-up to the midterms. Meanwhile, New York City is pushing forward with a proposed $30-per-hour minimum wage bill aimed at supporting everyday workers.

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0:00.0

He knows his way around all this.

0:03.7

It's the Marks Among show on 710 W-O-R.

0:08.1

Well, let's talk to the dean himself, Ed Rollins, the greatest of all that political analysts.

0:13.7

He's run a lot of campaigns, worked in a lot of White Houses, knows this stuff better than anybody.

0:18.2

Ed Rollins, how you doing?

0:20.5

Doing pretty well, thank you.

0:22.2

Confusing times we're in, but troubled times. But the good news is we elected a strong candidate

0:27.6

yesterday to be the nominee to replace Marjorie Taylor Green. He got the nomination. He was endorsed

0:32.7

by the president. There's a runoff April 7th that he should win it easy. Yeah.

0:37.6

Now what about the president going to Kentucky, Ohio today, wants to get rid of Massey?

0:41.2

What about Massey?

0:44.3

You know, I assume that's going to happen, but who knows?

0:48.1

At the end of the day here, there's a lot to play out here, and the reality is that if you're a member of Congress today

0:55.9

and you're in the 40 or 50 that are in trouble seats, your polls aren't going to be very good,

1:02.2

and you're going to be very worried, you've got to go work very hard.

1:04.5

So we'll see.

1:05.8

There's a lot on the agenda right now, and the overwhelming thing is the economy,

1:10.0

and a lot of discussion in the last

1:13.3

12 days of the war in iran but the reality is most americans could care one way or the other about

1:18.4

that uh you know they want they what do they care about their gas prices and if we see uh rise there

1:25.6

which you know all the signs are we will.

1:29.4

All of us are good news, I guess the group that controls gas prices.

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