“Obama DIDN'T Endorse Mamdani” - NYC Mayoral Race ROCKED By Shocking Obama Snub
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Summary
Rob and Titi are joined by special guest Vinny Pizzi to discuss the latest in the Democratic primary race between Bill de Blasio and his challenger, Zoran Mandani. Plus, a look at the numbers on early voting in New York City and the surge in turnout among younger voters.
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The 60 Minutes lady asked him, comparing Trump to Zoran Mandani.
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Well, you know, a lot of people are saying it's like,
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and then Trump had to put in the plug to say, but I'm better looking.
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Did you catch that or no? Go ahead. Go ahead, Rob.
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Zoran Mandani, 34-year-old Democratic Socialist.
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Some people have compared him to a left-wing version of you.
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Well, I think I'm a much better looking person.
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Oh, no, no, we got to get the rest because it's a whole exchange.
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Rob wanted to make sure we emphasize that he is a better looking guy.
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No, but he continues to go in and explaining what's going on
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Everything that they have is 16 seconds because everybody just...
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By the way, so the whole thing was 73 minutes, okay?
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so they lost a minute of ad time if you think about it.
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Rob, it shouldn't be hard to find it when you go to it.
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is because tomorrow they're deciding who's going to be it.
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Making the highest early in-person turnout ever
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and more voters under 35 than in the first weekend combined
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according to the data from City Board of Elections.
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That brought the median age of early in-person voters
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Turnout among younger age group lagged in early
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casting ballots, including more than 45,000 on Sunday.
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were cast in this year's closely-watched mayoral race
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New York City, where early voting was an option,
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So, Rob, did you find a part where they're speaking?
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So, Tom, what do you think is going to be happening?
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As a matter of fact, Vinny, I'm going to come to you.
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I was, articles, I was up till midnight yesterday,
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they're extremely intolerant towards gay people,
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So, Brandon, and I'm genuinely asking, would you rather have this guy because you know, Brandon, he's anti-cop, anti-this, anti-all that stuff, anti-America, communist.
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You'd rather have him be in than Cuomo, who made mistakes, by the way, who has a tarnished record, but he's a Christian.
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And I'm telling you right now, Brandon, this is not good, bro.
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I think what happened when he left office, what happened under COVID, how can it not change you?
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And what we know of Chris, and when you look at Chris, and I agree, Chris is a free agent.
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Listen to his monologues, his sort of talking point memo.
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And I know that phrase belongs to somebody else, but listen to what he's saying.
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My hope is that this is a different Andrew Cuomo with moderation.
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Now, is he all the way over with all the things that I believe and all the things that I feel in taxes?
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Now, Cuomo and I would sit back here and debate back and forth on a lot of different policies.
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You've got to realize there's a few different things here.
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So deep down inside, there's an underlying, like, hey, thank you, New York, for giving us the Dodgers to come to us.
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But Tom, who has seen this thing over the years in politics in a different way.
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Brandon, who has nothing to lose with New York City.
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But to see a case study of what could happen to that state if a Mamdana gets elected, where you almost need to see it.
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I think it was George Will that said, you know, every 20 years or so, every 10 years or so, we need to get somebody elected to show that socialism doesn't work, that these ideas don't work.
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But the reality of it is, you know, on what happens here with New York City and what we're talking about, this is the exchange on 60 Minutes that they have with Mamdana when she's saying, hey, you have the same charisma, same charm.
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Well, I think I'm a much better looking person than him, right?
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Well, former Governor Andrew Cuomo, who you know is campaigning for mayor, he recently said that if Mondami becomes mayor of New York City, that you will take over New York.
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He said he will be President Trump and Mayor Trump.
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He's going to take over New York and send tanks down Fifth Avenue.
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Look, when I left New York, we were at the epitome of it was a great city.
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But there was some bad signs because we had a guy named de Blasio who was the worst mayor.
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De Blasio was the worst mayor in the history of New York.
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It's going to be hard for me as the president to give a lot of money to New York.
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Because if you have a communist running New York, all you're doing is wasting the money you're sending there.
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And I'm not a fan of Cuomo one way or the other.
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But if it's going to be between a bad Democrat and a communist, I'm going to pick the bad Democrat all the time, to be honest with you.
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This past Tuesday, while speaking to American troops in Japan, you talked about U.S. cities that are having trouble.
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By the way, so then Mondani posts Trump for Cuomo, and he gets a phone call by a guy you guys may recognize, a guy named Obama.
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He calls Mondani to praise his campaign and offers to be a sounding board.
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Yes, it's ABC 7 News in New York covering that call.
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ABC News has learned former President Barack Obama called mayoral candidate Zoran Mondani today.
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We are told Obama praised Mondani's campaign and offered to be a sounding board in the future.
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This was the second phone conversation between the two men, and they discussed potentially meeting after the election.
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But he didn't say, I'll be in Central Park speaking to people.
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So apparently it's a five-minute call that they had.
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No, and he's actually going to be in New Jersey.
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He's campaigning for the Democrat candidate for New York today.
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But then afterwards, when everybody was waiting from Obama to tweet out, can you go to Obama's account?
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Now, by the way, that doesn't mean Obama may not tweet today.
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But today would somewhat be a little bit late, but instead, Obama recognized the Dodgers.
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He's, you know, campaigning for, is that the Virginia one or which one?
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Okay, go to, and then he was also campaigning for the Virginia one.
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So the question becomes, why is, if he doesn't, it still isn't too late for him to endorse Mondani.
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I think, well, first of all, we know he just had the worst political year of his life.
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He's used to not really being tested by policy.
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There was a lot of enthusiasm and euphoria that was in his campaigns.
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And last year, he didn't move the needle at all.
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And so I think he's not endorsing it because I think there is a group of core establishment Democrats, Pat, that don't want this guy.
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But there's some core establishment Democrats that don't want this guy because I think they know exactly what's about to happen.
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And they've been going to boomerang safety training.
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What are the chances that Mondani asked Obama for support on that 30-minute call?
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President Obama, you know, obviously I've always been a big fan.
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You know, you go down as the greatest president of my generation.
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And what would it take for me to get your endorsement?
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Well, I think there's a lot of things going on here, and there's a lot of places I'm going.
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I'm spread really out with everything I'm doing in Virginia and New Jersey and everything like that.
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You want me in Central Park with you on the bandstand there?
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I would love that, but if not, can I at least get a tweet from you?
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So if you can't be in town, can you at least give me a tweet and give me support?
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I think, Pat, he's giving Mamdami credibility with the left, but he's keeping his distance just in case things go bad.
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He's playing both sides, but he doesn't want to take the hit.
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He's being presidential, but he doesn't want to take the hit because they could go really, really bad.
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He doesn't want his stamp of approval because, Pat, they have no idea.
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They have no idea what a communist is going to do to the greatest city.
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What did Obama say if Mamdami asked for the endorsement?
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I think he would say that because what does he have to gain?
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That makes you a little bit, it's not MAGA, but it's different wings of that party.
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I think Mamdami was like, Barack, we're both Muslim.
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I am simply wondering, either Obama said, I'm going to tweet something out on the morning
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Either he's going to do a surprise last-minute visit, which you don't do a 30-minute call.
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You don't make that 30-minute call without expressing support.
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Either there's going to be a massive surprise something of him showing up and a surprise
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tweet video that shows up, or Obama said something, and I'd love to know what Obama said.
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I'd love to know what Obama would say to him to reject him and say no.
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And in the book, she says, we reached out to my Democrat peers to get support.
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And when I texted, you know, Newsom, Newsom responded back with saying, I'm hiking.
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Rob, do you have this when Newsom's asked about it?
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I don't know if you have it where Newsom's asked about it.
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Did it happen where, you know, she did reach out?
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I think it needs still a little bit more forensics, a little more analysis.
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Do you think if former President Biden had stayed in the race, given that you did stay
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with him till virtually the end, do you think he could have won?
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In her book, the former vice president writes that she scrambled to reach prominent Democrats.
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And she said that you responded to her call, quote, by saying, Gavin Newsom, hiking will call
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And I sent out an endorsement a few minutes after that.
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The last person she needs to reach out to is me.
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And I said, I was like, Kamala, you got a million people to call.
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And we were literally working as she reached out.
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It was a voicemail, by the way, unknown number for the record.
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And as she was on to her next calls, we were already on to our press release endorsing
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So I don't even know why I was even in the book.
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Did you feel like she took a swipe at you in her book?
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It's this is we've known each other for 20 years.
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Meaning she was just using this in the book to create controversy, to sell more copies
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That's what she's saying, because you know why I think the part that people don't give
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him enough credit is you have to believe him when he says how much he hates liars, Rob.
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I mean, if he says, Rob, can you do me a favor?
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I mean, you, Rini, you're laughing as if you don't believe him.
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He he said in the same interview how much he can't stand politicians that is this the
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one, Rob, you have to believe him if he says something like that.
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So the interview on the left is him with Kirk and a watch what happens.
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Now, one person ever in my office has ever used the word Latinx.
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Everybody just didn't even know where it came from.
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This has been on the Latinx community, Latinx community politicians banning not assault
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I just like more than the politician that is sits there and lies to you.
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And we all just sit there rolling our eyes going.
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Who would you say is the biggest liar in politics?
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Guys, he just said he doesn't like politicians who lie.
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So, either what he's saying to the world is, because what words did he use?
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We don't like, I don't like politicians who lie.
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So, you know, maybe what he's saying is he doesn't like himself.
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Every single thing that comes out of his mouth is a lie.
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So, when you know that, if you do, like, for instance, watch this.
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Tell me if you're paying attention to the lies.
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Like, it's all, you're not even paying attention.
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Pat, I remember a while ago, I was like, he might be a sociopath.
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But in this past six months, Tommy, because he's so in our face, and he's doing all these interviews, I'm going to put him up there.
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And, Pat, I really don't think, when you're a sociopath, you don't, he believes what he's saying.
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Like, when he does, really, the politicians, he doesn't know that we know, and I just hope.
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Yeah, he is, and again, I made it my freaking job for the next four years, every time he says something, because I want people to know, like, do not be deceived.
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The same thing that's happening with Mamdani, this guy is going to be the frontrunner, and I want you guys, and I love that all the clips are going to come out.
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And the first order of business will be to open the border, because he's the guy that said, make it illegal for asking for an identification to vote in California.
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He just passed Corrine Jean Liar, who was on my, who previously was the GOAT.
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This is just a video, to Vinny's point, about the hand gestures.
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There was a report out that people were concerned about the use of Gavin Newsom's hands in interviews, specifically this one with ABC News' Jonathan Carl.
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I can just play it at double speed and go through, but you guys can see the guy is just, it looks like he's trying to land an airplane.
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With the amount of, like, just the amount of hand gesturing that he does throughout the entire interview.
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There's this, there's the, there's the, because, and look, guys, when he's doing that, are you really paying attention to his mom?
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Somebody told him that this creates a distraction.
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I don't think he takes himself seriously, but he iterates.
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Like, I'm not even, what is he even talking about?
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Are they really saying that this article, with him using hand gestures, is like a concern of the Daily Mailers?
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The best speakers tend to be more using their body when they speak.
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And he is a very animated speaker with the way he does.
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The part about him saying the fact that he can't sell politicians for life,
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If you go on black, can you officially order size 7 and 8 or not yet?
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you can go place the order now because I was under the impression that it was already up, Rob.
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