Mark interviews political strategist Ed Rollins.
The Mark Simone Show
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🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's more of Mark. |
| 0:02.0 | Mark Simone on 710 W-O-R. |
| 0:09.0 | Well, let's talk to the dean himself. |
| 0:11.4 | Ed Rollins, the best political analysts out there. |
| 0:13.5 | Nobody's run more campaigns, worked in more White Houses, |
| 0:16.5 | and great to add him with us. |
| 0:18.0 | Ed Rollins, how you doing? |
| 0:20.1 | Good morning, Mark. How are you doing? I'm good. So, hey, Bruce Blakeman will be nominated |
| 0:24.4 | tomorrow as the Republican candidate for governor. A big endorsement today from the New York Post. |
| 0:29.9 | But how easy, how tough is it for a Republican to win the governor's race in New York now? |
| 0:35.9 | Well, it's tough, but Bruce is a great candidate and in my sense is |
| 0:39.1 | he comes to the right area of the state he's got a great record uh he's a strong candidate as we |
| 0:44.5 | could have in new york uh i think we have very weak mayor i mean we're not we're not mayor big governor |
| 0:50.3 | so i you know i don't i don't think at this point in time you can see, because of |
| 0:55.2 | past history, what's going to happen there? It's said, can he raise the money? Can he campaign |
| 0:59.6 | effectively? Yes. So I think that that race is still, still watch very closely. Yeah, you've been |
| 1:05.6 | in this game a while. How did we get to this world where you could have the worst record in the |
| 1:09.7 | world? You absolutely stink, like Gavin Newsom or whoever, and you can run again. |
| 1:14.4 | How does this happen nowadays? |
| 1:17.7 | Well, there's so much clutter in the media today that it's hard to have people make so many impressions that are out there |
| 1:27.5 | it's like the president the president's got so much |
| 1:29.5 | going on but it's hard to focus |
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