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to learn more. It's the media buzz meter with Howard Kurtz. Kind of a gloomy day here in Washington.

It's raining.

The cherry blossoms are starting to fade.

But we're going to lift everybody's spirits on this Friday podcast, which means I hope you

have a good weekend coming up.

And I've got a jigsaw puzzle here with a few holes in it in terms of media buzz.

By the time we come on the air, 11 Eastern on Sunday on Fox, I think we'll have those holes filled.

So first rule of television, you can't have dead air, all right?

I'll digress for a second to say that, look, I don't make a lot of predictions because what happens is there's videotape, there's audio tape, and if you're wrong, you end up looking dumb.

But I will make an exception right now.

And that is, Eric Adams will not win re-election in New York.

He has dropped out of the Democratic primary, where he's polling at about 10%.

Andrew Cuomo is leading by a lot, and there are other contenders.

And now he's going to run as an independent.

Well, good luck with that.

I mean, he was indicted, and then pardoned by Donald Trump.

Doesn't mean the people of the city of New York want to re-elect this guy.

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