Mark interviews Political strategist Ed Rollins.
The Mark Simone Show
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🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | He's Mr. New York, Mark Simone on 710 W-O-R. |
| 0:05.4 | Well, let's talk to the dean himself. |
| 0:07.6 | Ed Rollins has run more campaigns and more successful campaigns, some of the most |
| 0:11.7 | successful ever than anybody. |
| 0:13.9 | Ed Rollins, how are you doing? |
| 0:16.4 | Good, doing well. How are you doing this morning? |
| 0:17.9 | I'm doing well. So the word is that Trump and Cuomo have formed an alliance they've agreed on certain things now trump wants to get |
| 0:25.4 | atoms out of the race you must have seen this a million times where somebody wants to get |
| 0:29.8 | get somebody else out of the race by giving them a job is that ever i've seen that i've never |
| 0:35.6 | seen a former governor or former or president mayor to do it. |
| 0:39.3 | I have seen, I have seen some other candidates be condensed to go do something else. |
| 0:45.6 | But weren't there, |
| 0:47.2 | weren't there presidential races where the president would offer somebody a cabinet, |
| 0:51.7 | just to get them out of the race for next time? |
| 0:54.8 | Certainly historically there has been. And if Carol Ford could have done something with Ronald Reagan in 1976, he would have done it, but he couldn't. |
| 1:03.3 | Obviously, it changed history for the good. |
| 1:06.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.8 | But the end of the day, there's always guys in the behind the scenes, guys or gals, |
| 1:13.3 | who try and move people around. |
| 1:16.9 | A lot of that's gone on in New Jersey, a lot of it's gone on, certainly in New York. |
| 1:20.5 | But not at this level. |
| 1:21.8 | I mean, this is an incumbent mayor, a former governor, |
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