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The Mark Simone Show

Mark Interviews Pollster John McLaughlin

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3695 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Mark and John talked about how close the 2024 election is. They also spoke about Trump’s great MSG Rally and the Joe Rogan podcast. The polls are close, but Trump has a slight lead in most.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Mark Simone, the voice of New York.

0:03.8

710 W.O.R.

0:06.6

Well, you know, you had all these public polls, cheap, flimsy, rigged, wrong metrics, bad public polls.

0:12.7

But then there's the real polls, the internals, the ones the candidate use, deadly accurate, much more expensive.

0:19.0

The best of them is John McLaughlin.

0:21.4

His website is McLaughlin Online.com, and he's with us right now.

0:25.3

John McLaughlin, how you doing?

0:27.7

I'm not getting much sleep, and I had to...

0:30.8

You know, somebody offered me World Series to go to the World Series game last night,

0:34.6

the Yankee Stadium, and I couldn't take it.

0:36.0

I had polls coming back, so I was in the office to like three in the morning. But the, uh, it's probably just as well.

0:42.7

Yeah. We'll get to the details, but just give us bottom line. Where does it stand right now,

0:49.2

if the election was right now? Uh, very close. But, you know, for me, working for President Trump and his campaign, we're in a lot

0:58.3

better position than we were in 2016, because at this point, Hillary Clinton was ahead

1:03.8

in the national polls, winning all the battleground states.

1:06.3

It was a Hillary Locke.

1:07.9

And even on Election Day, they said 71% chance of winning. The exit polls come out.

1:12.3

She's going to win. And guess what? We won out of 139 million votes. We won an electoral college

1:18.2

victory by 78,000 votes across three states, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan.

1:25.7

And four years ago, Biden was up today by 10 points in the national polls.

1:31.2

No shot of us winning.

1:32.5

It was a Biden blue wave.

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