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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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4.3694 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Mark and Ed talked about President Biden looking like he’s not able to do his job. They also hit on Gavin Newsome circling Biden like a buzzard waiting for the downed animal to die so he can throw his hat into the 2024 election.

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0:00.0

It's Mr. New York. Mark Simone on 710 W.O.R.

0:05.2

Well, let's talk to the dean himself. Ed Rollins, the great, maybe the greatest political strategist.

0:10.8

He's run some of the biggest, most successful campaigns ever.

0:14.2

Ed Rollins, how you doing?

0:16.5

Good morning, Mark. How are you doing?

0:18.2

Good. Hey, let me ask you about something. RFK Jr. I saw him on TV this weekend. He's getting

0:22.4

very upset that they're screwing around with the primary rules to shut him out. And now he's now

0:28.6

talking about going third party. You ran the most successful third party campaign ever, the parole

0:34.7

campaign. What damage could RFK Jr. do if he went third party?

0:40.6

It probably could do more damage to Biden than he could as a primary opponent. It's going to be

0:46.5

tough as a friend of Democrat to beat Biden in the primary, even though he's very unpopular and

0:51.4

people are very worried about his age and his competency.

0:54.7

But I think Kennedy, if Kennedy ran as a third party, it's a big task to get on all the states.

0:59.9

But it's possible.

1:01.7

You know, he could probably take 10 to 12% of the vote.

1:04.7

That's enough to be very helpful to Trump.

1:09.4

Hey, no, Biden looked really bad in Vietnam and incoherent.

1:15.8

What would you say the odds are that he's not the candidate by January or February?

1:21.2

If he continues on this pattern that every time he goes out, you have to worry about him falling

1:26.5

down the stairs and making some inappropriate remark.

1:29.3

They're normally these kinds of events, G20s, what have you, or big, big events and presidents get a little bit of boost out of them, no matter what they do.

1:38.3

But in his case, you know, every day you go out and you worry about them, and I say this as an American, not just as a partisan Republican, you know, every day you go out and you worry about them. And I say this as an American, not just as a partisan Republican.

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