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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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4.3695 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Ed and Mark talked about the Republicans learning to compete with the Democrat’s dirty tricks. Rollins said Republicans must ready themselves for early voting, ballot drop boxes, and everything else the left has up their sleeves.

Transcript

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0:00.0

He knows the news before it's news.

0:03.2

Mark Simone on 710 W-O-R.

0:07.5

Well, let's go to the Dean himself, the best political analyst, Ed Rollins.

0:11.8

One reason is he's to run the most successful campaigns in history.

0:17.2

He's worked with so many presidents, campaigns, White Houses.

0:20.6

Ed Rollins, how you doing?

0:23.0

I'm doing well.

0:23.9

I can say all that, but I have never seen one like this one.

0:26.7

This is going to be a real Donny book and fascinating from start to finish.

0:30.3

Let me skip right to the most important question.

0:33.2

Democrats last time figured out how to steal the election legally, totally legal,

0:42.4

but they figured out ballot harvesting, right in ballots, early vote, all this.

0:47.2

Have Republicans figured out how to do this? Are they going to be able to catch up in that area?

0:58.1

I don't think so. I'm afraid they're not. And part of the problem of having all of these various candidates running,

1:02.8

you know, if Trump was the nominee and Trump was in there blown,

1:05.9

he could spend the resources and efforts and do all that.

1:15.3

But we're going to spend months and months and months with trials, tribulations, primaries, and everything, but voter turnout.

1:17.2

We need to focus on that.

1:19.3

So that's my big word.

1:26.8

Yeah, but last time around, Democrats got 70% of the vote done before the election day even came around. Well, they're going to do the same thing. Why wouldn't they do it the same thing? Yeah. It worked. It worked. It worked. And, you know, I just, I just hope that someone at the Republican National Committee, I don't know anybody's doing it yet. Oh. But we'll really do the grassroots kind of stuff, which is hard work.

1:44.3

It's, you know, a lot of the donors want to write big checks.

1:48.2

I can't write big checks in presidential politics.

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