This show proudly sponsored by Real American Freestyle Wrestling. Impactful debates in Virginia and New York City for the Big Apple, one last chance to see if Cuomo or Sleewa could stop the inexperienced socialist Mom Donnie and a Virginia the AG race of national importance. And the New Jersey race with polls showing Jack Chitterelli is continuing to close on Mikey Sherrill. Quick note before I bring in Seth. We got the Fox Nation Patriot Awards coming up.
It's going to be streamed on Fox Nation. We're going to have so many big stars there. Sean Hannity hosts. Go to foxnation.com/slash Patriot Awards. Let's bring in Seth Barron, New York Post editorial, board member, and author of The Last Days of New York.
Seth, Your reaction to the debate last night, and I'll play some clips. First off, what's your takeaway? Hi, Brian.
Well, my takeaway is that You know, Mom Donnie. All he needed to do was skate through, and I think he did. Uh you know he's a smug Self-satisfied liar Uh he proved that last night. When he said that he had never called for the decriminalization or the legalization of prostitution, he did, and not only did he do it, he did it on the floor of the assembly. He said sex work is work.
He heartily believes in the legalization of prostitution.
So, I mean this is a guy who'll say anything. I I mean, who goes up on on T V and and brags about their own integrity? I mean, I think that's up to to other people to decide if you have integrity or not. True. And I saw Rosanna Escoto, just where I tried to get him to say, I'm against prostitution.
And he never did. We'll see. Go ahead.
Well, he won't say he's against prostitution. He won't say he's against Hamas. Uh he won't say a lot of things. He just uh smiles his smile. And uh You know, gets away with it.
He's going to raise taxes on corporations to New Jersey levels, which is abhorrent. New Jerseyans all think their taxes are too high, but now New York wants to do it. He's going to raise taxes on millionaires. He says rich people, he obviously resents. That means people who make over a million dollars have to give over 50% of their income.
So make a million, give up $560,000 of that. Who wants to work 80 hours a week and give away more than half?
So he doesn't think that successful people work hard. He guessed he thinks we're cheating the system or are white. Here is him, and he's here and here he is sparring with Andrew Cuomo over Israel's right to exist. Cut nine. I've said time and again that I recognize Israel's right to exist.
I've said that I will not recognize any state's existence. I said that I will not exist. As a Jewish state, if I would be allowed to finish, that I would not recognize any state's right to exist with a system of hierarchy on the basis of race of religion. I have made that very clear. And part of that is because I'm an American who believes in the importance of equal rights being enshrined in every single country, whether we're speaking about Israel or whether we're speaking about Saudi Arabia.
You can stand here and you can lie all you want, but New Yorkers are no good. We have the question. We are not supporting Israel.
So, I mean He doesn't like the way the Israel is set up, so he says, I like Israel as a right to exist, but not the way it is.
Well, he doesn't. He claims that Israel operates on a hierarchy of race and religion.
Now, it's true that it is the Jewish state. Same way America is the United States of America. But Israel has twenty percent of Israel's population are Arab citizens. They have the full rights and the same rights as the Jewish citizens.
So yes, there's a Jewish character to the state, but there is not a hierarchy of the citizens. Basically Go to Czech Republic. If you're like a German and you want to move back to Czech, they won't let you, even if your grandparents are from there, because they prioritize. Czech nationalism and Czech blood. This is all over the place.
And he's basically pretending like he doesn't know what What the real question is. Palestine is not going to have Jews in it. If they want to survive, no kidding. And we know that's got certain hurdles too.
So Mondami Cuomo went out of two on Governor Hoko.
Now Governor Hoko he He has said in the past, made New York unaffordable. And that's why he has not endorsed her. And now that she came and appeared with him, even though he still has not endorsed her, she's endorsed him, even though she says I disagree with him on some things. And now she's suddenly going to be open to raising taxes, Governor Hokkul, and we originally said she isn't.
So I want people at home to hear this exchange with the moderator, Cuomo, and Mamdani. Cut 12. Who supports Kathy Hokkaul for reelection? It's a decision that should be made after this general election.
So, no decision. Mr. Cuomo. You hand picture as your lieutenant, governor. You have to know who's running.
And I would add that I do think that Kathy Hochle, our governor, has been doing a good job in not only delivering. Do you support her for re-election? Not only delivering for New Yorkers, but also standing up to Donald Trump. Do you support her for reelection? I'm focusing on November.
Why aren't you endorsing her? I appreciate her support and I appreciate her work. But you are an endorser. Yeah, that's an endorser. It's unbelievable.
And by the way, what terrible politician Kirk Hochl is. She goes she goes and endorses him and doesn't get guaranteed of an endorsement back. She's running so scared that she's going to get primaried from the left I mean she is by Delgado And she doesn't know, I mean, she's a sucker, and he's a snake. Um couple of things. Governor Hokul, the theory is, and I was speaking to people last night at the Al Smith dinner about this.
She's running against Elise Stefanik. She's going to get the nomination for the Republicans. I saw a poll recently. She's within five points already with low name recognition throughout the state. And we know what a great politician she is and how smart she is.
They say and I wonder if Seth Barron agrees with this That if Mamdami was to win, it helps to Foddik against Hokul. Do you agree? Oh, certainly it helps him upstate on Long Island. I mean, the problem is to win a statewide race, a Republican needs to get 33% of New York City. You know, look, Elise is a great.
Politician. I think she's like very personable. I think she is a shot. But, you know, it is a it is a steep hill. No doubt about it.
Here's Curtis Sleewa. On uh on public safety. What he would do Uh cut 11. Seven thousand cops. You already have a plan in Boston where you pay for taxes in the future.
This is a great plan. In which universities and others who have bought up properties that are now taken from the real estate market and taken from property tax, paid, we could raise a billion dollars from Columbia University, NYU, that are in the real estate business, and Madison Square Garden, your friends, Andrew Cormal, Jimmy Dolan, who pays no property taxes. That's how you raise a billion dollars to get 700 police officers trained, vetted, and out into the streets in the five boroughs. And then the police will be on the subways and they will be patrolling the old-fashioned way where they're needed. He knows law enforcement, no doubt about it, Seth, right?
Oh, listen, I I love Curtis, and I think Curtis really actually made a lot of sense talking about the police, and especially this whole idea of how social workers can go out and do the job that police shouldn't be doing. He's 100% right that Mamdani doesn't know what he's talking about. I don't really think that the idea of taxing Colombia. I mean, I think those people already pay like payments in lieu of taxes. But Listen, I mean, maybe he's not the big the greatest financial guy, but he certainly knows what he's talking about with public safety.
Right.
So, what about the pressure that he says he's gotten offered millions of dollars to step out? If he did step out, what would affect how would the race be affected? Or is it too late now anyway? I think it's a little late. I think, yes, there are people, there may be some people who are.
On his side, who would jump to Cuomo. But listen, he ran last time and won 28% of the city. There's a lot of Republicans, there's a lot of people who really don't like Cuomo and are not going to vote for him. I mean, I know people who are. Steadfast that they are voting for Curtis and Curtis only.
So maybe it would help, but you know, honestly, look, he's the Republican, he's on the Republican line, and at least he's honest about that, and that's what he's doing. Right.
So, Seth, there's another debate, and then you got a couple of weeks, and we're going to actually have the election. The last poll is looks pretty bleak for the rest of the field: 52% among likely voters for Momdami, 14% for Sleewa, 28% for Cuomo.
Now, Eric Adams won with 70% of the vote, so this guy just got over 50%.
So, does anything change? Could their polls be this far off? There's nothing to really now that Bomdami's been really found out and I think failed with Rosanna Scotto and Martha McCallum. Do you think that there's anything that could derail him? like a million people who who never vote decide to come to the polls and vote for Cuomo.
But that doesn't seem very likely. I don't really think so, unless some massive scandal emerges. You know, it it seems like it's pretty much a done deal.
So the last thing is, we've seen these mayors and governors clash with Donald Trump in Chicago, in Illinois, and in Portland, Oregon, mayors and governors. And then we see. In Tennessee, it's working, you know, to get to fix Memphis, the Democratic mayor and governor. The question is, if Donald Trump comes in and tries to help you with crime, are you going to take the aid? Are you going to fight him like Governor Pritzker?
Here's what Cuomo said, cut to. I would say to the President in the first conversation, look. We have had many, many battles. We fought together every day during COVID. And the battles were bloody.
And I'd like to avoid them. You know, if you come after New York, you know what I'm going to do. You know it's going to be ugly. And you know, my chances are almost 50-50, even though you're the president. I'd like to work with you.
I think we can do good things together, but number one, I will fight you every step of the way if you try to hurt New York. Right.
So that's Cuomo's approach. We also know that Cuomo, when it comes to being tough on crime, he's the one with the no-cash bail. And when it comes to energy, he's the one who got rid of the nuclear power plant and refused to frack, even though an environmental study says you can frack no problem.
So that hurt everybody in upstate New York.
So, I mean, clearly, President Trump. What rather work with Cuomo than Momdami? Sure. And you know, Mamdani, I think, has been very foolish. Coming out and saying, I'm going to fight Trump every step of the way.
I am Trump's worst nightmare. I mean, is he kidding? Does he think the mayor of New York City? Can it that's like Orders of magnitude under the type of power that the president has. He's fooling himself and he's fooling his base because.
If he if he becomes mayor, Trump will just like stomp him. The other thing is, just real quick on these free buses, it's going to cost the city $800 million. This city was so bootstrapped, the MTA, that they have that congestion pricing.
So they're demanding that just to drive across the city. I think it's the first one in the country. But then we're going to make buses for free. It's going to be a haven for the homeless, for the drug-infused. And it's no longer going to be okay for kids to join, excuse me, jump on a bus because they're going to be fast and free and dangerous.
And as he pointed out, one great reason to do this is because it'll decrease assaults on bus drivers. It's like, well, why not make everything free? Right.
If I'm on for free, there's no reason to punch a bus driver. Which, by the way, there was always, I guess he's saying at one point there's rationalization for doing that. Unbelievable. Said that, I mean, I found people, I traveled, I was traveling two different states over the last two weeks. Everyone says, What is New York City doing?
What are they thinking? When you get that, since you have been here forever and you've been writing forever here, and now you're with the Post, what do you say to people? I mean, New York is its own little bubble. The Democrats seem to think that. Getting Momdani, making Momdani win a Democrat primary is like a national phenomenon.
But outside of New York, even Democrats don't want to become like socialists. Not to mention Republicans.
So, look, people in New York are off in la-la land, as far as I can tell. I don't know what they're thinking, but. Uh you know, I'm stuck here, sorta, so I mean that's kind of what that's kind of what we're dealing with. Yes, I got the worst of both worlds. I live on Long Island, which Nassau County could relate, but I work here.
So I pay the taxes and I can't vote.
So Seth, thanks so much. I'll tell you what, it does make good copy and does bring a lot of interest to something that's usually. Not a national story. This sadly is a national story because I'm afraid it's going to be a national trend, at least on the left. Seth, thank you.
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