Mike Crispi ｜ 04-28-25
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On today's show, my good friend Mike Crispy joins me to talk about the President's decision to save Columbus Day. Mike is a founding member of the Italian American Civil Rights League, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the proud heritage of Italian Americans who have contributed mightily to the greatness of this nation.
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Joining me now to talk about it is my friend Mike Crispy. Mike, welcome to the Stone Zone.
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Roger, an honor to be with you. Great to be back. And it's been great 100 days under President
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Trump and this Columbus Day News was just another cherry on top of what's been an amazing ride so
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far. It is. Mike, I invited you because you are one of the founders of the Italian American Civil
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Rights League. That is a nonprofit organization. You can find it at IACRL.org. You and I are both
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affiliates. It is a nonprofit with no overhead. Everybody involved is a volunteer. But our
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specific purpose is to preserve Italian American culture and the proud heritage of Italian Americans
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who have contributed mightily to the greatness of this nation. So I think the president's action
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today is very much in keeping with the principles and mission of the Italian American Civil Rights
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League. Now, 100 percent. You know, President Trump had said over the course of the campaign trail
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several times that he would save Columbus Day. He made that distinction very clear. And we were
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running in the race in the 2024 election with Kamala Harris and Tim Wolfe, candidates on the Democrat
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side who said that they wanted to abolish Columbus Day, get rid of every statue and create Indigenous
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People's Day far and wide. So President Trump made that promise. He actually had a phenomenal
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performance in all of the major Italian counties in the United States, all the top 10 Italian American
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counties. There was a shift to the right by three to eight points in each of those respective
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counties. So President Trump has a great base of support with Italian Americans for years to come.
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Roger, this was a great move by him. And I'm looking forward to this Columbus Day under his
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presidency. Mike, tell us about your show, because your show is red hot and I don't want anyone to
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miss it. Well, thank you, Roger. So on Real America's Voice TV, last call with Mike Crispy. We're having a good
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time on weekends now. You know, we're celebrating the golden age of America. So we have a show on Saturday
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nights. It's a little bit fun, but it's obviously very entertaining and uniquely, you know, fast paced
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and hard hitting. We have that Italian American energy going on and it's been really great. We've
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been doing it for a month on Real America's Voice, a channel that, you know, many people know. And we
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have great people who come on, great panelists. And, you know, we're trying to cover President Trump's
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first 100 days and then his four years subsequent while celebrating the successes, laughing at the peril of
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the leftists and also giving people a fun new alternative to watch on Saturday night when the
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leftists put out their mindless content. They can now watch last call and they can get informed and
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get entertained. And it's never been a funner way to spend your weekend. So we look forward to having
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you on soon, Roger. I appreciate that. So, Mike, let's talk some New Jersey politics because you made a
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valiant and very strong race for Congress two years ago. I know many, many Republicans,
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conservatives, MAGA supporters are urging you to take another stab at it. On the other hand,
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you're a young man. You have a great future. You're building a very, very substantial media
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following. I think anybody who was paying attention really credits you beyond President Trump himself,
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of course, with the president's incredibly strong showing in the Garden State in the last election.
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I mean, New Jersey was not a targeted state. The Trump campaign candidly, wisely sent their funds to
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targeted swing states that were absolutely crucial to the president's victory. In no one's count were New
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Jersey's electoral votes counted in the 270 likely for Donald Trump. Yet the president ran incredibly
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strongly in the Garden State. And I think that is due very much to the grassroots shoe leather effort
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that you and others in New Jersey put forward. You know, it was pretty amazing because they were
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trying to kick President Trump off the ballot in New Jersey in January of 2024. And we formed our group,
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the America First Republicans in New Jersey, out of that fight. We said they're not going to kick off
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President Trump from the ballot. This guy is extremely popular in New Jersey. And that actually kicked off a
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32-stop rally tour that we held from January all the way up until November, holding events for President
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Trump's campaign all around the state. We would be in the most red counties. We'd be in the most blue areas,
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such as Newark. And no matter where we went, Roger, we would have over 100 to 300 people coming out to learn how to
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get involved. We didn't have any fancy speakers or guests or anything like that. It was just grassroots
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patriots coming together whenever we had an event to talk about the future of New Jersey and talk
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about what we could do together to maximize the output for President Trump. So 32 events. We got
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2,000 volunteers signed up. We did 1.5 million voter contacts through text, digital, and door knocking
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all throughout the state. And President Trump obviously had a historic rally in New Jersey in Wildwood
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where he had 107,000 people. They said that was perhaps his biggest or one of the biggest rallies
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that he had all 2024 campaign season long. So nobody was expecting it in New Jersey. You know,
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he had lost the state in 2016 and 2020 by 16 points both times, this time only losing it by five and a
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half. It shows that he has totally changed the whole paradigm in this state. And he has set it up for the
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future for it to turn red. I think that's going to be a big part of President Trump's legacy in the
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garden state in the future is that he changed this state. And I think in the future, 2028 and beyond,
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we can flip it red. That's going to be thanks to the groundwork that President Trump put in,
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awaking so many of the masses and obviously our volunteers and helping spread that message.
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It looks to me, Mike, like you may have a presidential candidate from New Jersey,
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Senator Cory Booker, a former mayor of Newark, whose last campaign for president fizzled badly,
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seems to have kicked off his campaign. First, he gave a filibuster on the U.S. Senate speaking for
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24 hours plus, breaking the previous record, which was held, I think, in 1958 by Senator J. Strom Thurmond.
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And I noticed that while he did have a lot to say, the one thing he did not address is why,
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as the mayor of Newark, he received a $200,000 payment from the New York City Water Authority,
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essentially called Watershed, that went immediately to his law firm and from his law firm to his pocket.
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Now, when he was confronted by those very few souls in the New Jersey media who are not in the tank
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about how this was possible, then Mayor Booker said, well, I am an ex-officio member of the board
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of the Watershed Authority, but I wasn't present and I didn't vote to award the money to my own law firm.
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The problem is that I dug up the official minutes and they show him present and voting yes.
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Two of the top officials of the Water Authority went to prison, but Cory Booker went to the U.S. Senate.
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Will he face this kind of scrutiny if he runs for president?
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Well, you know, Roger, you're one of the first people to blow it out in the open with your book
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that you wrote about Cory Booker, Spartacus, as we call him in New Jersey.
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And I believe that Cory Booker right now is totally setting up to run for president.
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The stunt that you mentioned was 24 hours, and then there's that footage of him over the weekend
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sitting on the steps. He was sitting on the steps for 10 hours on Washington, D.C.,
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And he was talking about what a courageous effort he was undertaking, him and Hakeem Jeffries.
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So this is what a Democrat on the rise looks like.
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I don't think he's going to be top five when it's all said and done in the Democrat nominations.
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There's a lot more candidates that have a lot more money and, frankly,
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a lot more political savvy and skill and are a little bit smarter than Cory Booker.
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And our two senators in New Jersey have been just an utter disgrace, Andy Kim and Cory Booker,
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They're the loudest mouths who are inhibiting progress to this country,
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whether it be speaking in favor of illegal immigrants or speaking in favor of tanking the economy.
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These people don't want America to be made great.
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They're the biggest loudmouth cronies of the left.
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And Cory Booker is going to go no place when he inevitably declares his candidacy.
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Candidly, it looks like he's put on a few pounds.
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The other U.S. senator who was forced to resign, Senator Menendez,
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this was his second brush with the law, but now convicted of far worse than bribery,
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convicted of taking national security information and leaking it to a foreign enemy,
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putting American lives in danger, accepting gold bars along with his wife.
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It is rumored that he or some of his supporters are furiously lobbying President Trump for a pardon,
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Separately, there's a rumor that the gentleman who actually bribed the senator is also lobbying for a pardon.
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Should the president consider pardoning any of these people?
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The Democrats for the last decade have totally flaunted it.
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They have made a joke, quite frankly, of the rule of law.
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And any time there is any exercise of power, they've used it against innocent conservatives.
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So when a Democrat does something illegal, which many of them have over the last decade,
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The reason that Menendez was caught red-handed is because his crimes were so egregious,
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egotistical, and out there that it was right there in everybody's face.
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That goes to show you the status of the modern-day leftists and Democrats,
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is that they think they can get away with anything.
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So Bob Menendez, dead to right, him, his wife, the one who was paying off the bribe,
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you know, these people operated like an organized crime racket.
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And Menendez, quite frankly, it's treasonous activity.
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I mean, putting the interests of foreign countries over the interests of America,
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which he very much is guilty of when you read through the case and the file,
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That is the exact opposite of what we elect our members of Congress to do.
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We elect them to advocate at the very least, even though they have a different worldview of us,
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to advocate for the people of the state and the country.
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Menendez is such an egregious case because everything he did was to advocate for essentially foreign countries,
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It was to advocate for the interests of the Egyptians over the interests of the people in New Jersey.
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It's an insane case, and there needs to be an example made out of him that if you're going to act like this,
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you need to face the consequences because members of the Senate, even on both sides,
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are getting really kind of out of line on stuff.
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We need to have more people who are transparent and advocating for the constituents.
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So Menendez, I don't think he's going to get a pardon, and I sure hope not, Roger.
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Or we're talking about national politics with a little New Jersey flair, of course.
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So, Mike, I want to ask you about this upcoming Republican primary.
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New Jersey, one of only two states in the nation that have their gubernatorial election in the off year.
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Often read as an indicator of how the new president is doing.
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But you have, I think, a spirited, although it appears to be, one-sided Republican primary for governor.
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Many, many conservatives and MAGA supporters, Trump supporters, urged you to run.
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I know you thought about it seriously, but elected not to run because you thought you could make a greater contribution doing what you're doing now.
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Well, you know, it's coming down in less than 45 days at this point.
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And it looks like the field is starting to narrow.
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I think the campaign of Bill Spadia, who people say is a MAGA guy, starting to fizzle out, his campaign has run out of money, spent almost a million dollars, and he can't break 11 percent in the polls.
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So people who have been talking about his candidacy, it looks increasing by the day that it's effectively over, can't run out of cash and not move in the polls.
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So that really leads us with three other candidates.
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And the other two candidates on the ballot are Mario Cranjak and Jack Cittarelli.
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I'm hearing from sources Mario Cranjak, who is the most pure MAGA candidate in the race, is ready to do a pretty substantial ad spend.
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You know, they say half a million to a million dollar ad spend in late Bush because people are looking for a MAGA alternative, and he's starting to get some fire.
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So that's Mario Cranjak, the former mayor of Inglewood Cliffs and an ally of President Trump.
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And then we have Jack Cittarelli, who was at Bedminster a couple of weeks ago.
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He had a conversation with President Trump, and he has moved his message more towards the Trump angle, obviously known as more of a moderate, but attempting to rehab his image a little bit and look more to Trump.
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And he looks like he's leading in the polls right now.
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And I really, truly hope, Roger, that whoever wins this primary embraces President Trump's message because it's proven you could only win New Jersey if you embrace the MAGA message.
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President Trump had an incredible finish here in 2024.
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Every candidate running right now needs to run to that message, not run away from it.
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And all of the fake Trump people who are running those people, well, the voters are smart.
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They realize that people like Spadia are phonies who only want to jump on the Trump bandwagon when it's convenient.
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We need people who are real and disciplined so we could actually turn the state around.
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Yeah, I recall Spadia supporting first Ron DeSantis and then Nikki Haley finding the landing of Donald Trump.
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If I had to call this, I think Jack Cittarelli is going to win the primary.
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And then it is uphill for any Republican in the Garden State, but nothing is impossible.
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