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Hour two of Clay and Buck kicks off now. We're joined by our friend Mr. New York, Mark Simone on at 10am Eastern on 7. 10. W O R and N Y C. Mark, you know, you and I have known each other a while and you've been saying to me, just give it time, you'll eventually go back to New York. And I gotta say, sometimes I start to miss the food options. And obviously I got family still there. New York still has its allure, no question about it. But this wacky socialist guy, after what the city's been through with de Blasio and then with Mayor Adams and now the can this guy really win? I mean, bring us into what's going on here, because a lot of people looking at this saying, how could someone who's so far left wing be possibly the next mayor of America's largest city?
Buck Sexton
Well, you could also be talking about Andrew Cuomo, who governed as the most left wing kook in the world, but you're talking about this mom Donnie, who's an actual socialist. And Cuomo was pretty bad. So this is the first election. We have to pray nobody wins this election today. So, yeah, this mom Donnie apparently did very well in the early voting. They allowed people to vote for two weeks before the election day, and that was about 38% of the vote. And he seems to be leading that by 10% now. He's turned off some immigrants, believe it or not, Russians, Cuban immigrants, because he's talking about having government run grocery stores. And they say we grew up with socialist government. Grocery stores, they're a nightmare. We don't want to see them again. He's very slick. He's very smooth talking. He's charming. Great campaigner. Problem with Cuomo, he's running a campaign from like 1986, you know, with these old endorsements. Senator Clyburn, he had Bill Clinton making robocalls, you know, to voters in their 30s. Bill Clinton is way in the past. It's like getting a call From Harry Truman. You know, you know, it doesn't mean anything to you. He was bragging about the Daily News. The New York Daily News newspaper endorsed him. Most people don't even know they still print that thing. So. And he's an old tired looking guy, Cuomo. So it was pretty easy for Mamdami to get ahead of him. And Mamdame's doing all these shows. He was on Colbert last night. And Cuomo has had to hide from reporters because of the terrible things he's done in the past, the baggage he has to cover up. So he's, he runs from reporters. He's actually gotten something like 10 speeding tickets in the last few weeks. And three or four of them were getting away from reporters who were trying to ask him a question. I'm very anti momdami, but Cuomo is no bargain either.
Clay Travis
Wait, can you remind everybody why Cuomo? Because Cuomo is sort of positioning himself, Mark, as the, you know, I'm not the insane candidate. The other guy is. There's some stuff that Cuomo did at the state level that affected New York, affected all of New York state that I think people need to be reminded of.
Buck Sexton
Yeah, he ran for governor as a moderate, but they have the list right here. This is the guy that gave us no bail, no jail. He pushed that like crazy. There's video of him pushing it. He closed prisons, let the prisoners out, and there's video of him bragging about it. He changed the parole board, put a bunch of left wing kooks on there that let all the prisoners out. They've let out 43 cop killers. He took away the qualified immunity for policemen. That's the protection from being sued. That's why we can't hire any more cops. He's the guy that gave us congestion pricing. He was gonna ban ICE from New York State. He threatened to sue them. He called them thugs. He closed Indian Point, that's the nuclear plant. That's 25% of our electricity. Drove everybody's electricity up. He raised taxes. We lost four congressional seats under Cuomo. Cause so many people moved out of the state. So if anybody loves him, it's Florida. He really did more for Florida than New York. I didn't even get to killing 10,000 senior citizens in the nursing homes in the dumbest decision ever made by an elected official. Sending people the virus into nursing homes.
Caller
Okay, all of that, Mark. And we appreciate you hanging out with us W O R listeners. This is the first major election since Trump and so people are looking and saying, okay, what's going to be the outcome here. Trump made a pretty significant improvement in the state of New York. There are lots of people obviously that feel like New Jersey could flip red. I mean Trump only lost New Jersey by about five points. When you look at this decision that the Democrats are making such that Andrew Friggin Cuomo can look like the reasonable rational choice for Democrats, what does this tell us about the party as a whole? And, and also is this primary happening today? Is this it? Or let's say that mom Donnie wins. Could Cuomo run as an independent? Like what could happen going forward? Is there already scuttlebutt about the larger race this fall and what might happen if Mamdani is the Democrat nominee?
Buck Sexton
Well, Mamdani has in the, in the real polls, the internal polls pulled ahead of Cuomo, which is why Cuomo has registered as an independent. He will be on the ticket as an independent. The current mayor, Eric Adams is also on the independent ticket. So you're going to have, let's say mom Donnie wins. You're going to have Mamdani, Cuomo, Adams and Curtis Sliwa as the Republican and there's another guy on some party. So it'll be the first five way race. Last time that happened was John Lindsay, which was like early 70s. Lindsay ran as an independent and won as an independent. So it is possible to win that way.
Caller
Okay, so ranked choice voting also factors in here. And look, I know Alaskans have had major issues with this. There are relatively few places that do rank choice voting. It's actually complicated. There's talk that it's going to take a week or 10 days to even figure out what the totals are. What can you tell us about how the tallying will work and how ranked choice voting factors in here?
Buck Sexton
Well, it's a great system. Democrats came up with this system so that at the end of the night tonight, nine o' clock, when we see who voted for who, it doesn't count anymore. So under ranked choice voting, no matter what the voters decided, they can go into these charts and graphs. You could, you could have this ranked choice explained to you a thousand times and still not figure it out. It goes many, many rounds. In fact, in this polling it shows nobody could win the first seven rounds, which is absolutely ridiculous. It's, it's the way Mamdani will probably win. He's been more clever understanding it and teaming up with other candidates. It's, it's kind of like on Survivor when you form teams and the secret.
Caller
Plots because basically they're telling people if you hate Cuomo. Just don't rank him in any way and try to get him in the second, third, fourth, or as you just mentioned, seventh round of the ranked choice.
Buck Sexton
Yeah. So with this ranked choice, Cuomo could lose, and then he would run as an independent. I, I just don't see Mom. Donnie winning. Curtis Sliwa is the Republican candidate. There is nobody else, and he's a nobody. Better. On the subject of crime fighting, and.
Clay Travis
I think, how is crime, how is crime going in New York City? Mayor Eric Adams, former cop. Right. That's we were all told is supposed to handle this. Doesn't sound like it's been handled.
Buck Sexton
No. And it's been bad for three years. But great improvement by Eric Adams this year. He brought in a police commissioner, Jessica Tisch.
Clay Travis
I used to work with Jesse. I know Jesse.
Caller
Yeah, yeah.
Buck Sexton
And you know, she's absolutely incorruptible, very wealthy woman. So she's totally incorruptible. And there were some bad elements in the nypd. She fired them all, fired a lot of people the first week. It needed to be done. She's put in some, some of the best people on, on, she's created task forces to go after this stuff. So that's a big improvement. Adams also brought in Randy Mastro, who was the top Giuliani deputy mayor under Rudy Giuliani. So he's in City hall now running things. So great improvement. And I know Adams is going to start campaigning. He's been very quiet. The current mayor will start campaigning like crazy tomorrow and who knows, may rise up as an independent, might even beat Cuomo on the independent line.
Clay Travis
Who do you think is going to win this mayor's race when all said.
Buck Sexton
And done, Mark Curtis Sliwa, I think in the end, if he gets a fair debate, Boy, they really rigged the debates last time.
Clay Travis
And I mean, I, I, I, I love Mark's optimism, Clay. I love optimism. Via Mark here.
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Okay, so, Mark, let's say that you are listening to us, and obviously w O R this is going to factor in in a big way. New York City area listeners, if you are nationwide, let's say you're listening in Phoenix or Salt Lake City or Houston, one of these cities that doesn't really have a deep connection to New York City. Why should people tonight be paying attention to what happens in New York City in this race, in your mind, not only for what it means to New York City itself, but for the larger American political universe?
Buck Sexton
Well, because the problem is the Democratic Party has gone nuts. And instead of the Old Bill Clinton, Democrats, jfk, they've gone completely crazy. And New York City is the barometer where you see how crazy they're going to go. We gave you aoc, all the real crazy. So if they go this crazy here, actually voting in a socialist, then you know the party's going to go even more nuts, which will kill them in the midterms next year.
Clay Travis
Do you agree with Clay, our buddy here? Clay likes to make the long term predictions. He likes to point to the, the upper deck and then, you know, switch sides and bat left handed. You know, it's never, never enough of a. Of a crazy call for Clay. He thinks Cuomo wins the. If Cuomo wins the mayor's race, I should say, which I believe. You believe he will, right, Clay? Still.
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Clay Travis
Cuomo wins the mayor's race. Next stop for him is running as a Democrat nominee. Do you see that, too? Because that would obviously affect everybody listening across the country.
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Buck Sexton
No. Zero chance. One thing about Cuomo, he's a very New York urban guy from Queensland. I know you could say that about Trump, but Trump had incredible talent as a campaigner, which Cuomo does not have.
Caller
Not to win, but to run as a candidate in 2028. Like, I think this is about setting the foundation for him to be able to argue he has a comeback and throw his hat in the Democrat ring.
Buck Sexton
Yeah, he was a total outcast here. You know, I forgot to mention, he left office in disgrace. There was also, besides the sex scandal, Ethics committee ruled against him for profiting off the pandemic. But by running for mayor, he's made himself legitimate again, at least that he's a legitimate candidate. I don't think he could ever get the nomination in 28. I don't think anybody who does would put him on the ticket because they figure they're winning New York. They don't need him for that. They'd have to pick another state. And he's got a lot of baggage.
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Okay, Mom, Donnie wins. Let's say that happens. You got people like Buck Sexton with money who were like, New York, I'm done. I'm going to Florida. Ron DeSantis made a joke. He said the best thing that could happen for Palm beach property values is Mom, Donnie winning the New York City mayoral race. Do you hear? Because you've been doing New York City radio for a long time. You know, a lot of people. Do you hear wealthy New Yorkers say, if Mom Donnie wins. This is it. Like they're just fed up and done. Do you buy that? That will have a major tax revenue, for lack of a better way to describe it, impact. Because the number of rich guys and gals bailing on New York City, I mean, they're the ones who are failing, who are funding to a large extent what they see as a failed city.
Buck Sexton
Oh, yeah, No, a lot of them have said they'll leave. In fact, one went public. John Katz, Matitis owns 100 supermarkets in New York. He said, I will close them. He said, I'll move my business into New Jersey.
Clay Travis
Wait, Katz said that he would bounce on New York City if Mamdani wins. I didn't know that. That's wild.
Buck Sexton
Yeah. He owns a lot of supermarkets. He said, I'm not going to compete. Yeah. I will not compete with the government. And he's not the only way. He just went public and said it. But a lot of others have said it privately. And again, about 3 million people left under Cuomo as governor. In fact, we had a crisis. You couldn't get a moving van for almost a year. There was a shortage of moving vans under Cuomo and we did lose four congressional seats because of it.
Clay Travis
Oh, man. Well, let's hope Curtis Lewa pulls off the greatest a Trump level political come from behind victory. The greatest comeback of all time. Otherwise New York could be in for some rough stuff. 7:10 W O R 10:00am Eastern. Mark Simone, Mr. New York sir. Appreciate you. We'll talk to you soon. Thanks.
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Love listening to you guys.
Clay Travis
Same, same Mark also, have you ever listened to Mark's. Mark's callers, by the way, represent when they call into a show, all the different accents of all the different boroughs and counties around New York perfectly. You get the Long island guys calling in the Staten Island.
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When I did my last book, I went in into our New York because he's in the same. For people who don't know where we can use in New York City if we happen to be there. I think this is a big. I mean, I understand people say, oh, New York City Mayor, why do I care? I think if mom Donnie wins, it's a holy crap moment for the.
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Well, I tell you the truth, I think ranked choice voting first of all is the worst thing that ever happened to New York. And as far as the polls are concerned, I actually, I was looking for my notes and I couldn't find it. But one of the major newspapers, I don't remember if it was the Times, so don't hold me to that. But the sample size, when they do these surveys, they take a very small sample size and they weigh it toward the outcome that they want to achieve. So personally, I don't stick these polls. Seriously. I don't care that they showed Cuomo or Mandani leading. As far as the Democratic candidates, I don't think there is a viable Democratic candidate among all of them, except possibly for Adams. But really, as a New Yorker, with seeing the crime that has gone on and increased, Curtis Lewa, in my opinion, is really the only viable candidate. I think he's the only one that really cares about the people of the city of New York.
Clay Travis
So, you know, Jacqueline, I was a New Yorker for, for almost 40 years. And what is going on with our people? You know, like, how is it? It used to be we could disagree on the national stuff, but everybody wanted cleaner streets and less crime, at least for a while, I think, because Giuliani showed people what was possible. What happened? Like, where did these communists just lose their minds?
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I think they're just being brainwashed, quite honestly. They're, they're listening to the lamestream media. They are drinking the Kool Aid, so to speak. They are just buying and swallowing whatever they are being said. They don't have the ability to think critically for themselves and those that are. I think the recent presidential election where Trump made a clean sweep, as he did all across the country, sent a very clear message that the people, not only in cities like New York and New York State are fed up with what has happened, but people around the country are fed up and they're discussing, and I hope that's reflected in the New York City mayoral race.
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Yeah.
Clay Travis
Mark's a friend of the program, friend of mine, and Clay's great guy, fantastic radio host, and knows New York backwards and forwards. So I will say I think he knows too. Curtis is a long shot, okay, He's a long shot for New York, but he's the only shot. That's the, that's the problem. The other op. The other options are the city just gets worse. And we all know that. And Cuomo, I think that's so important for every. No, Clay, Cuomo is not a moderate. Cuomo did really bad stuff as governor. And this is the thing. In these blue states, people screw every. These politicians screw everything up. And then they're like promoted by the voters. You know, you see this time and time again, you turn on, you know, they're reelected. You look at Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan, you look at Gavin Newsom, crushed the recall effort against him. How do you let that snake oil salesman sell more snake oil? I don't. You know, this is. What do people need to see to understand, you know, if the people in Florida, Clay, all of a sudden, if we had a governor who was jacking up taxes and crime was out of control and there's all kinds of disorder, they wouldn't, they would say, get, throw the bum out. Let's get somebody else. I don't know why this corrective mechanism just has just gone completely haywire in Democrat controlled states.
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I think it's because, and this is like kind of a deep psychological analysis, we've talked about it a little bit, but I just keep coming back to means. If they were to change direction, it would mean acknowledging that all of the people that they consider to be the wrong people were right. It's not just that they were wrong, because if you're wrong and, and somebody else out there is right that you don't consider to be some awful human being, that's a moron compared to you, then I think it's easier to adjust your worldview. It's as if they are willing to light their lives on fire rather than acknowledge, hey, maybe we should have kept schools open and maybe we should have just states. Yeah.
Clay Travis
To understand the Democrat mindset. Yeah, they're brainwashed sheep and all that. Of course, that's all true. But to really understand the Democrat mindset, it was people who think they are so much smarter than, you know, quote unquote, red state, Billy Bob's or whatever, they're so much more sophisticated, so much smarter than they are, could not bring themselves to look at Again, so called Billy Bob and say, you were right, I was wrong, you were smarter than me on this. They just won't do it. They want, doesn't matter what, doesn't matter what the reality is, they cannot do that.
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And I think it's partly when you really dive into the psychology of it, I think it's partly because they may not have the income that they hoped, they may not live in the house that they had hoped they lived in. All these other things in their life may not be what they had hoped, but their degree or their graduate degree. It is their self worth. And that self worth is wrapped up in, well, I'm smarter, I'm smarter than all these other people. And they can't acknowledge that they were wrong. Look, one of the great tests of intelligence and I, I challenge all of you to do this. I try to do this myself every day. Presume that you might be wrong. Just be open to the idea because I think the most successful people out there, if you run a business, everybody out there who has ever run a business has done something you were convinced, hey, this is going to be brilliant. This is going to revolutionize my business. You did it and it failed. And you looked at the data and you said, you know what, I shouldn't have done that. Maybe I should go back to doing something else. But you're willing to take the chance and you're willing to acknowledge what the data reflects. Otherwise you just ride off the edge of a cliff and end up bankrupt. And most business people are rational. Be rational in your life. Be willing to adjust well.
Clay Travis
And, and this is when people ask me for advice, which happens, you know, we do live events and talk to people or just people come up to me.
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You know, also we're getting, we're getting older. When you're younger, you don't give as much advice. When you start get a little bit older, there's younger people coming up that are like, hey, you know, you've got a little bit more wisdom, mister. I start calling you mister a lot more.
Clay Travis
I had some American fans of the show in France come up to me and particularly when my voice was really bad, I felt so badly because it was almost like I was blowing people off. Thank you for, you know, I couldn't really respond. They were trying to be so nice. I said, let's see, I was giving the selfie hand signal, let's just do selfie because I cannot talk to you. It's possible for me right now. But it was really, really nice to see some of them over there. And I think that that's just indicative of how widespread the audience has become. Speaking of people weighing in on all this stuff. Clay, we got a listener here. Brett, I haven't heard any discussion about the similarities of the plot of Maverick. Clay's almost favorite movie. He really loves that movie.
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Yeah, I do.
Clay Travis
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Have. Am I correct? And I may be forgetting, but I think they tried to not really have any nation associated with Maverick.
Clay Travis
Same thing with the original Top Gun. I've. Everyone always. Everyone argues with me on this. And they're always wrong. They never indicate. You neck. It's a red star, which is kind of like a. Roughly a communism thing, I think. But yeah, there's no. I don't know what country. You don't hear the guys talking in the. In any language. They're just faceless, black, you know, fighter pilots on the. On the mask and so you can't see in. And. And you know, you don't know. You don't know who these people are. You have no idea. In a sense is kind of brilliant because it gives a little more timelessness to it. I, you know, I always like the old. I like the Rocky 4. We're fighting the Soviet stuff personally. But I can see arguments for both ways.
Caller
Well, it's super smart too, because theoretically it creates a much bigger international box office. Right. Because nobody's like, oh, we're the bad guys. And the bad guy would have to be a decent sized country.
Mark Simone
Do you remember the.
Clay Travis
There was a James Bond movie with back in the Pierce Brosnan days who I think is an underrated James Bond. I'm just gonna say it. I thought. Actually thought Pierce Brosnan was pretty good, even though he's Irish, not English. Whole other thing. But there was one where like, China is involved and there's a Chinese agent who. But he teams up with, you know, it's like China actually is the good guy and it's a British guy who runs a media empire. You know, kind of like a Rupert Murdoch like figure.
Caller
Yeah.
Clay Travis
Who's really the Carver Media Network. I remember. Who's really the bad guy. To start a war between the US And China. We have had no movies that I'm aware of. Are you aware, are you aware of a movie where China is our adversary? I can't even think of one, Buck.
Caller
There is a. This, there's a fantastic book that dives into this and they did a really great excerpt of it inside of the Wall Street Journal. They remade Red Dawn. Red dawn. For those of you. Spoiler alert. Remember this story, Red Dawn. Eric Stengel, I think team in New York look up the title of this book because I want to give him credit. I read it, it was so good. But it's about the rise of China in a movie making context. And Red dawn, the bad guy is Russia, right? If I'm remembering correctly, like the Russians suddenly land.
Clay Travis
Oh, yeah. Is the Soviets and the Cubans of all Soviets and Cubans helping them out.
Caller
So it comes out in 1984 and it's in the middle of the Cold War. And they said, okay, we're going to remake it. China has to be the bad guy in the remake. They made the whole movie, Buck. China got so powerful, the movie got held up, wasn't released. They went back in and digitally altered the movie to make North Korea the bad guy because they were afraid of having China as the bad guy in this movie because of geopolitical tensions relating to what movies even get in the, in the Chinese theaters.
Clay Travis
And making North Korea the bad guy, I might add, is not without consequence of its own. Because the Sony hack where they got into the Sony internal email servers and then released the most embarrassing stuff about executives that they could was because of that kind of silly movie. The Interview about a North Korean dictator. Interview with Seth. It was like a comedy, but sort of a dark comedy. And it made Kim Jong Un look silly.
Caller
Yes.
Clay Travis
Then they hacked, and that's the North Korean hackers I know everyone says, do they even have Internet over there? First of all, they operate in conjunction with and with the blessing of China. So yeah, they actually have really sophisticated hacking capabilities. But they, they hacked into the Sony thing. That was wild that people don't even remember that, that they targeted a private US company for making fun of them and did real PR damage to Sony at the time. I think some people got fired.
Caller
Oh, yeah. North Korea has some of the most talented hackers in the world. They've actually been some of the top crypto bandits. One of the ways that they finance the country is by all of the scams that they run on the Internet.
Clay Travis
The North Korean intelligence services, such as they are. There are units within it that effectively operate as just global mercenaries to bring hard currency into North Korea. It's kind of a fascinating. I thought this would be a great kind of plot line for a show or even if you want to do a documentary or something about it. You could. But yeah, imagine if the CIA instead of what it is, which has some cool stuff but also has some lame stuff, but imagine if the CIA there was a unit where it's like, hey, you can go sell drugs, you can go overthrow. I know people think this what the CIA does but actually doesn't. Okay. Trust me, this stuff actually they don't do this certainly anymore. I don't know what they used to do. But you can sell drugs, you can be involved in overthrowing a country. You can set up private mercenary armies, you can break into like national banks or crypto funds. As long as you are making money for us, meaning North Korea, the home country, you know, you have immunity. Just come back here and we'll never, we'll never extradite you. Obviously that, that's kind of how they operate. So whatever. Think about that. I mean they'll, they'll do, oh, they'll sell, you know, they'll sell military technology. They'll do anything. As long as it's making money for the North Korean regime, they're fine with it. It's pretty crazy.
Caller
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By the way book that I was referencing. It's really a good read if you are interested in the battle between Hollywood, China and how movies were made. And it ties in with what we were just talking about. I mean, think about how crazy that is. They they remade Red dawn and then they completely redid the entirety of the film and replaced China as the villain because they didn't want to offend China. Red Carpet is the name of that book, easy to remember, and the author is a guy named Eric Schwartzel. Really, really well done. If you're interested in cultural battles through film, we've made fun of the fact Buck That I took Chinese, sorry, Russian and German cinema classes when I was in college back in the day, as one does. By the way, Trump has landed in the Netherlands for the NATO summit. He is presently headed towards a car shaking hands in a not surprisingly big white USA cap. Which is great. You know, I, I don't know. We talked about the photos that they took inside of the situation room. Trump at the top of the, at the top of the table in his red MAGA hat, presiding over the, over the attack was, was pretty fantastic. But he has landed in a white, big bold USA baseball cap and, and his suit, as is usually the case and is in the, the beast there. The, the vehicle that he rides in to, to take him to the NATO meetings.
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Clay Travis
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Caller
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Mark Simone
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Caller
And so not that we're flawless on this show.
Clay Travis
We don't do his. We don't do hysteria on this show.
Buck Sexton
No.
Clay Travis
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Caller
Being right and having fun. It's a good combo.
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Weekly Review With Clay and Buck - Hour 2: Why the NYC Primary Matters
Release Date: June 28, 2025
Overview
In this engaging episode of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, hosts Clay Travis and Buck Sexton delve into the significance of the New York City mayoral primary. Joined by their guest, Mark Simone—known as Mr. New York—the discussion navigates the complexities of the race, the implications of ranked-choice voting, the state of crime in NYC, and the broader impact on the Democratic Party nationwide.
The episode kicks off with Clay and Buck introducing their guest, Mark Simone, a seasoned New York City radio personality affiliated with 710 WOR. Mark Simone brings his extensive knowledge of NYC politics and media to the conversation, setting the stage for an in-depth analysis of the mayoral primary.
Discussion of Candidates: Cuomo vs. Mamdani
Clay Travis initiates the conversation by expressing his lingering connection to New York City and his curiosity about the upcoming mayoral election. He raises concerns about the rise of a "wacky socialist" candidate, Mamdani, amidst the city's tumultuous political landscape under former mayors de Blasio and Adams.
Clay Travis [03:03]:
"And now the can this guy really win? I mean, bring us into what's going on here, because a lot of people looking at this saying, how could someone who's so far left wing be possibly the next mayor of America's largest city?"
Buck Sexton counters by comparing Mamdani to Andrew Cuomo, highlighting Cuomo's tenure as equally problematic.
Buck Sexton [04:00]:
"Well, you could also be talking about Andrew Cuomo, who governed as the most left wing kook in the world... So, Cuomo is no bargain either."
Early Voting Results
Buck elaborates on the early voting trends, noting that Mamdani has garnered significant support, accounting for 38% of the early votes, and is leading by 10% in current standings.
Buck Sexton [04:20]:
"This is the first election. We have to pray nobody wins this election today."
Impact on the Election
Clay seeks clarification on ranked-choice voting (RCV) and its potential repercussions on the mayoral race. Buck critiques the system, arguing that it complicates vote counting and may prolong the election results.
Buck Sexton [09:15]:
"It's a great system. Democrats came up with this system so that at the end of the night tonight... you could have this ranked choice explained to you a thousand times and still not figure it out."
Strategic Voting and Alliances
Buck suggests that Mamdani's understanding of RCV might give him an edge by forming strategic alliances with other candidates through the ranked choices.
Buck Sexton [09:53]:
"It's like on Survivor when you form teams and the secret plots... he's been more clever understanding it and teaming up with other candidates."
Recent Improvements Under Mayor Adams
Clay shifts the focus to public safety, questioning the effectiveness of Carlos Cuomo and the current administration under Mayor Eric Adams. Buck acknowledges the recent strides made in combating crime, crediting the new police commissioner, Jessica Tisch, and the appointment of Randy Mastro.
Buck Sexton [10:31]:
"But great improvement by Eric Adams this year. He brought in a police commissioner, Jessica Tisch... She's totally incorruptible."
Challenges Persisting Despite Improvements
While recognizing improvements, Buck notes ongoing challenges and the potential for Eric Adams to campaign actively, which could influence the race dynamics.
Buck Sexton [10:40]:
"Adams also brought in Randy Mastro, who was the top Giuliani deputy mayor under Rudy Giuliani. So he's in City Hall now running things."
Impact on the Democratic Party Nationwide
The hosts discuss how the NYC mayoral race serves as a barometer for the Democratic Party's direction. Buck warns that electing a socialist like Mamdani signals a shift towards more extreme policies, which could have detrimental effects in upcoming midterm elections.
Buck Sexton [12:10]:
"Because the problem is the Democratic Party has gone nuts... if they go this crazy here, actually voting in a socialist, then you know the party's going to go even more nuts, which will kill them in the midterms next year."
Economic and Social Implications
The conversation touches on the potential exodus of wealthy New Yorkers if Mamdani wins, leading to decreased tax revenues and economic strain on the city.
Buck Sexton [14:38]:
"He owns a lot of supermarkets. He said, I will move my business into New Jersey."
Forecasting the Election Outcome
Clay expresses an optimistic prediction for Cuomo's victory, suggesting that despite his controversies, his established political presence may secure his win.
Clay Travis [12:55]:
"Cuomo wins the mayor's race. Next stop for him is running as a Democrat nominee."
Buck remains skeptical about Mamdani's chances, emphasizing the fragmentation of the vote and the challenges posed by ranked-choice voting.
Buck Sexton [13:26]:
"I don't see Mom. Donnie winning. Curtis Sliwa is the Republican candidate. There is nobody else, and he's a nobody."
Long-Term Political Implications
They discuss the ramifications of the election on future political landscapes, including the possibility of Cuomo running as an independent and the effects on national elections.
Caller Insights
Listeners share their viewpoints, critiquing ranked-choice voting and expressing support for more pragmatic candidates like Curtis Sliwa. One caller, Jacqueline from Brooklyn, argues that ranked-choice voting has backfired, benefiting Mamdani and undermining reasonable Democratic candidates.
Jacqueline [23:00]:
"As a New Yorker, I think Curtis Lewa, in my opinion, is really the only viable candidate."
Psychological Analysis of Political Stubbornness
The discussion delves into the psychological barriers preventing Democrats from acknowledging mistakes, with callers suggesting that ego and self-worth are major factors.
Caller [27:53]:
"If you're wrong... I think the recent presidential election where Trump made a clean sweep... sent a very clear message."
Clay and Buck wrap up the episode by reinforcing the critical importance of the NYC mayoral primary. They emphasize that the outcome not only affects New York City but also serves as a reflection of the Democratic Party's future trajectory on a national scale.
Clay Travis [30:56]:
"What do people need to see to understand... they just won't do it. They want, doesn't matter what, doesn't matter what the reality is, they cannot do that."
Buck concurs, highlighting the need for voters to recognize the broader implications of their choices in the primary.
Buck Sexton [31:38]:
"Great, Clay. You know, Mark Simone's insights have been invaluable today."
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This episode offers a comprehensive analysis of the NYC mayoral primary, highlighting its critical role in shaping local governance and national political trends. Listeners gain valuable insights into the candidates, electoral processes, and the broader socio-political implications of the election outcome.