He knows the story behind the story.

The Mark Simone Show on WOR.

Well, John McLaughlin, the finest pollster in the world.

Don't believe all those cheap, flimsy public polls you read.

This is the real stuff that the candidates use.

You can go to his website, McLaughlin Online.com.

John McLaughlin, how you doing?

I'm doing well.

I'm doing well.

We got through one election headed for the next election.

But now it's a couple weeks later, looking back on that election, you know, everybody

said they were anti-Maga, but the biggest MAGA guy of all, Ron DeSantis had no problem.

And then they said it was anti-abortion stuff.

But the biggest anti-abortion congressional candidates in New York, most of them won.

So what do we know now looking back?

Well, we know now for a lot of Republicans, it was missed opportunity. We did a post-election

survey. 68% of all voters said the country's on the wrong track. But in the poll, only 68% of that

68% means 46% of the total means they blame Biden. So the Republicans needed to run a much more aggressive campaign.

And even though they beat the Democrats in the national vote, they got beat in this early vote

where like you're for New York, I'm for New York. We do a lot of work in New York. The tough

race for me was the big upset would have been if Lee's Elvin had won. And he put on a race when people told us that they couldn't because he ran an aggressive

campaign based on, you know, cashless bail and crime and corruption.

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