Maud Marin, many years ago, wrote as an attorney at legal aid with my beautiful wife, Danielle,

who's on her way to court right now in Washington, D.C., big case.

And now she's running for DA against Alvin Bragg.

She was a Democrat, but you have to be to work at legal aid, basically.

And now she's a Republican.

So let's start with this.

What happened? Move closer to with this. What happened?

Move closer to the mic. What happened that you, like most sane people, gave up that

rancid party and became a Republican? Well, you know, it wasn't always a rancid party. It was a party

that I shared values with way back when, you know, if you're a socially or even moderately

liberal person, if you supported the working class of, you know, our city, our country,

the Democratic Party used to make sense to a lot of people.

You know, I'm a Republican.

Right.

I am pro-choice.

I am pro-gay marriage. So, and so is Trump. So you can be, not anymore, but you can be that and still be a Republican.

Right. But I'll say this. When I was 18 years old, when I was first able to register to vote, like the way I understood the parties, the Democratic Party made more sense to me.

And for, you know, and for a while in New York, everyone was a Democrat. You didn't really think about it. It was sort of,

it wasn't just in the last few years, maybe going back a little bit more than that, but, you know,

in the last decade or so, being a New Yorker and being a mom and having kids, wanting good

public schools, wanting our streets to be safe, wanting to

have policies that made sense for the everyday person, I became increasingly out of step

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