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Boy, things are coming to a head in New York City.
I'm Peter Schweitzer.
That is Eric Eggers.
We're filling in for Sean.
And you have this political earthquake that has erupted in America's largest, most populous city, which is New York.
They may actually elect a socialist as mayor.
I happen to love New York City, although it has created so many problems with self-inflicted wounds.
It looks like we might be headed for another one.
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Eric, are you going to go to New York anytime soon?
Well, if you're going to go to New York, it sounds like the time to go is in the next few months until because unfortunately, you know, this person has won the Democratic primary.
I mean, it was so bad.
Even, you know, the New York Times did not endorse a candidate for mayor in the Democratic primary.
They just said, don't vote for Zoron.
And so, what happened, everybody did.
Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida where we live, has said Zoron Mamdani's win is the best thing that could happen to Palm Beach real estate in Florida.
I know a lot of people who live in New York, I, like you, like very much going to visit there.
And we have friends that live there, and they're all very concerned.
And I think what's going to be interesting is to see if this kind of novelty of, oh, here's a guy, and he ran a very localized campaign.
All the other candidates were asked, where will your first international trip be as mayor of New York?
They all said, well, we will go to Israel, of course.
And Zoron Mamdani said, I'm just going to stay right here in New York City.
And that may seem, some people have suggested that's an kind of anti-Semitical position or it's indicative of larger problematic worldviews you have.
Some people would say, listen, if you're a citizen of New York, you don't really care where your mayor's first international trip is.
You just want things to be better.
You want things to be cheaper.
His candidacy is ultimately a rejection of the failure of leftist policies, right?
I mean, that's one of the reasons why New York is struggling so much.
It's been run by Democrats for decades.
But, you know, a lot of people think that he will only make things worse.
Yeah.
And look, who was the alternative in the primary?
The only real alternative was Andrew Cuomo, who had to resign in disgrace.
A lot of corruption scandals in his administration.
We just talked about one of his top aides indicted by federal authorities for operating as an unregistered agent for the Chinese government, corruption, et cetera.
So I guess it's not a surprise that Mdami won, but the question is, where does it go from here?
He's starting to get scrutiny, and we're going to talk about, dissect some of his positions with a guest.
We're going to play some audio clips and we're going to lay out some of the things that this guy actually believes.
And then we're going to pause at the question: can this guy actually win in New York?
Well, let's talk about some of his more problematic beliefs.
I think it's cut four, where he's using some phraseology that has historic significance.
Let's listen to cut four here.
We have to continue to elect more socialists, and we have to ensure that we are unapologetic about our socialism.
It is very critical for all of us to remember what it is that we are fighting for and to remember that our agenda is an agenda that must not be dictated by calculus, but by conviction.
And what I mean by that is that the many things that we believe, some of them are already popular in this moment right now, right?
If we're talking about the cancellation of student debt, if we're talking about Medicare for all, you know, these are issues which have the groundswell of popular support across this country.
But then there are also other issues that we firmly believe in, whether it's BDS, right, or whether it's the end goal of seizing the means of production, where we do not have the same level of support at this very moment.
Yeah, it's unbelievable.
Seizing the means of production.
We need socialism.
This is the same thing you always wonder with Bernie Sanders, too, is what part of the planet are they looking to when they talk about socialism?
Because Bernie Sanders and Donnie will bring up, oh, well, you know, we want Scandinavian socialism from the 1970s.
They gave that up 40 years ago.
They gave it up 40 years ago.
They can't point to a single place on the planet that is a model for what they want to do that is actually going to work.
It's really remarkable to me that he succeeded in winning this primarily as handily as he did.
Well, that's why I think that this is an interesting conversation.
And it's relevant not just to people in New York.
And we're going to talk to Ryan Goderski, who does live in New York City.
He's the host of a Numbers Game podcast, and he's the founder of the 1776 Project PAC.
But this story, I think, is indicative of, because, you know, we're going to be going into the midterms next year, and there's this war inside the Democratic Party where mainstream Democrats are like, oh, my gosh, no.
Please.
Please, no, because the key thing in that quote you just heard is that seizing the means of production needs more support.
Most people do not support that yet, and they never will because of everything you just said.
But Ryan, I mean, now that this is not just this kind of utopian socialist, cool thing to talk about in a college dorm, but he won the dang Democratic primary.
Do you feel like most New Yorkers are waking up to just how bad this could be for the city?
Well, the number one Googled thing after his election was what is socialism in New York.
That was the number one Google thing.
Yeah, people are worried, and there's a reason why, despite being the Democratic nominee in a 7-to-1 Democratic city, his support has not, in any poll that I have seen, has not crossed over 45%.
I think the most is 44%.
But usually they have him in the high 30s.
Not exactly the place you want to be as the Democrat in New York.
There's large constituencies that he lost, obviously the Jewish vote, but more importantly, he's also lost the black vote.
He lost the Bronx.
He lost very large areas of the Democratic Party that have been trending away from the Democratic Party, that areas like the Bronx.
I mean, I think Mitt Romney got like 13 or 12% when he ran for president.
And Donald Trump got 26%.
Not, you know, carrying it away, but that's a huge, huge improvement in a part of the city and a part of the country that there's no real infrastructure of a party.
It all happened organically.
And people are worried by the fact of what's going to happen to landlords.
He wants to basically make sure their lives are living hell.
What happens to – sorry?
No, no, yeah, I think you're right.
I mean, what do you think is the thing that scares the average New Yorker the most?
Is it the rent control?
Is it the government-run grocery stores?
Is it the sort of Islamist Palestinian stuff that he puts?
What do you think is number one on the list of most New Yorkers when it comes to quality of life and their fear of this guy?
Well, it's crime.
It's not even close.
I mean, he just sat there and said that, you know, property crime is not a real crime.
He said that when they were carpet bombing police cars, he said property crime is not a real crime.
He has said that a violent crime is an abstract thought, as if it's, you know, as if it's something that some college professor just made up.
A crime by far in his support for defunding the police.
So, Ryan, I doubt if you went up or somebody went up and actually slugged him in the face, he would consider that an abstract crime.
Well, it's ironic that he hired armed security after running for mayor.
So he did.
Hired armed guards after he ran for mayor.
Why didn't he hire a social worker or a cam counselor if that's what he wants for the rest of New Yorkers?
It seems very, very strange that what liberals always want is the fact that they want one set of rules for them and others for other people.
Every American, every American under 35 should be angry that their parents never made enough money if they too can be socialists because that's really what it is.
You have to have incredibly wealthy parents in order to sit there and straight faith, look around the world and say, you know, what we need is the economy that has never produced any prosperity for any people in history.
And he wants, he's creating the conditions for a very violent future for a lot of people.
A lot of black voters never voted for Rudy Giuliani.
They did not like him when he was mayor, but no man saved more black lives in New York City, and I would argue in the United States than Rudy Giuliani while he was mayor of New York.
Because hard-on-crime things, they don't just, you know, they're not going to affect a wealthy community in the Upper West Side who sees very little crime to begin with.
They help the poorest people.
They help the people who are seeing violent crime on a regular basis.
They're not going to affect where Mandani's family lives in wealth and prosperity.
And that's just, that's constantly what you see, the hypocrisy of what you see from socialists.
So ironically, now Zoran Mandamani, who claimed to be African-American on his application to Columbia, as the New York Times reported, now faces the greatest threat, I think, from a black man, Eric Adams, the current mayor.
What's your take on this movement to try to get support to coalesce around him?
There are other candidates in this race, including a Republican.
Do you get that that's a real thing?
Or do you feel like ultimately, if Zora Mandani does win, it will be because, let's say he does get 40%, but 40% is enough if other candidates are siphoned off the support from Eric Adams.
Yeah, they have.
Listen, they have to put the city ahead of their party and inside of their own ego.
That includes Cuomo, that includes Adams.
All these polls that have come out, none have done a poll on a head-to-head match against these candidates, all of them.
They have to do a head-to-head poll.
Whoever comes out first has to drop out.
I like Curtis Leewa a lot.
He spent his entire life fighting for safety and for public safety for New Yorkers, and it's extremely admirable.
His entire legacy goes out the window if he sits there, refuses to drop out to sit there and support and get Mandani elected.
His entire legacy, everything he did is worthless after that.
What are you doing?
You know, they should have a meeting and discuss who's going to be the deputy mayor and get different commissioners or get police chief job or get a park name after them.
Anything that you could possibly want.
Just save the city.
I understand Andrew Cuomo is not ideal.
He's also not a bleeding hard communist.
Yeah, he may have killed your grandma, but I mean, he's still not going to kill the entire city of New York.
That is what we're facing right now.
And also, establishing Democrats are worried because Mandani is going to challenge all of them.
You think that he's going to stop with this?
He's going to sit there and pursue an agenda for all of New York.
And I'll say this to non-New Yorkers, you're going to pay for a failing city eventually.
Eventually, either these voters are going to move to your state and carry their bad ideas with them, or they're going to need some kind of federal bailout.
That's just the, you know, we don't leave, we're not going to leave the biggest city in the country to just rot because their voters picked bad leaders.
That's happened in New York for, you know, forever, you know.
But this is going to be epic proportion, and it's going to be very bad for the entire country.
We really need to get serious in this moment because if we don't, the biggest city in this country is going to go by the wayside, and we just can't afford it.
We've been talking to Ryan Godorski.
He has a podcast, A Numbers Game.
He's the host of that podcast.
He's also the founder of the 1776 Project PAC, and he lives in New York City, so he's concerned about this.
Ryan, we appreciate you joining us.
I guess, Eric, it leads to the larger question.
Is this a leading indicator of what to expect in the larger Democratic Party?
We've seen that AOC is thinking about running in 2028 for president.
You certainly see a lot of progressives looking to potentially challenge more centrist Democrats, if there are any out there anymore, with more progressive left-wing candidates.
Of course, David Hogg at the DNC, a big story about that.
What's your sense, Eric, about whether this is going to have national implications?
Ryan makes a great point.
If this happens in New York, we're all going to end up paying for it because we're going to have to bail him out.
But the larger political implications, what do you think?
I think that you're seeing the number of New York Democrats come together against Mondami shows that there is not widespread popular appeal nationwide.
I saw one person say, socialism has only turned blue areas more socialists.
It's never turned red areas blue.
And I think they get that.
This is not a winning strategy nationally, which is why I think you're going to see interesting support.
You know, you're going to have New York Republicans and the editorial board of the New York Times agree on something, which doesn't happen very often.
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Yeah, I mean, we were talking earlier about the situation in New York City, a dramatic turn to the left, the Democratic nominee and an out-and-out socialist.
Used to be the day, I remember the days when Bill Clinton and Democrats said, no, the way we win elections is to move to the center.
It seems to me that Democrats are pushing the progressive side.
That's where the energy is.
That's where the drive is.
We talked about a story earlier that Axios was quoting Democrat officials saying that we actually want to have shootings at ICE protests because it will galvanize our side.
It's scary, frankly.
You know, let's fight over the middle.
What Trump is doing is proposing policy solutions that is peeling off Democrats, is peeling off minority communities.
He's not getting that by being radical.
He's getting that by moving to the center on these bread and butter issues.
The Democrats are not doing the same thing.
Yeah, the quotes from this Axios article, quoting unnamed House Democrat officials and elected officials, says, quote, our own base is telling us that we're not doing a good enough job.
There needs to be blood to grab the attention of the press and the public.
Quote, civility isn't working.
We have to prepare for violence to fight to protect our democracy.
They said you have to be willing to get shot when visiting ICE facilities or federal agencies.
So, I mean, to your point, they see candidates like Zoran Mandani as where the energy is.
And at a time when the Democratic Party is essentially adrift at sea with no leader, unfortunately, he's going to become something of a national figure only because New York is such an important city and he's going to get a ton of attention and people are hungry for anything like that that they think can help them win elections.
And think about what they're saying.
They're saying to fight quote-unquote fascism, we need blood spilled to protect democracy.
I mean, what an insane idea.
It's really truly remarkable.
Well, at the bottom of the hour, we're going to be joined by Congressman Randy Fine.
He is a congressman from the great state of Florida.
We're going to talk about the passage of the big beautiful bill.
We're probably also going to talk a little bit about Israel and the global situation.
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I'm here with Eric Eggers.
We are filling in for Sean.
We appreciate him giving us the microphone.
We appreciate Linda and the producers for giving us this opportunity.
We wanted to talk to somebody who is in the belly of the beast in Washington, D.C., and who's there new.
He's only been there for a few months, got there through the special election in Florida.
And we want to talk to Congressman Randy Fine.
And we want to talk to him about several subjects.
Congressman, thanks for joining us.
Thanks for having me.
Honored to be here.
Well, first of all, tell us about the big, beautiful bill.
What is the most important part of that legislation in your mind?
And what is the most, the part that's misunderstood or that has been misrepresented the most?
Well, I think the most important thing, and I say it's most important because it's something we conservatives have wanted for decades, but have never been able to get.
And that is the final feeling of the border.
Building the wall, increasing ice, increasing customs so that we can make sure that illegals stop coming.
Democrats always said they'd give us border security if we gave amnesty to tens of millions of people.
We now got everything we wanted and we had to give them nothing.
So that's why that one's so important.
I think the most misunderstood thing about the bill is what we did with Medicaid.
People are saying we've cut Medicaid, we've cut Medicaid.
It's just not true.
We've cut Medicaid to people who shouldn't have it.
Illegal immigrants.
I know Democrats want to give illegal immigrants Medicaid.
I want illegal immigrants to go home, but they shouldn't have Medicaid and people who can work.
You know, if you are an able-bodied, childless adult, you need to get off your butt and you need to go get a job.
And I'm excited that we're taking Medicaid away from those people.
But the people who Medicaid was for, a kid with special needs, somebody who loses their job and needs health insurance while they're looking for a new one, we didn't make any changes there.
And so that's, I think, the most misunderstood part about the bill.
It's not been very long since you've been in Congress.
I know you used to work in the Florida legislature in Tallahassee, where we are broadcasting from right now.
And so, you know, as we like to say, the cesspool hasn't become a spa yet for you, Representative Fine.
What's been the thing about being in Washington, D.C. that surprised you the most?
Well, actually, I'll tell you, as bad as I thought it was going to be, it's worse.
I mean, I feel like Rome is on fire, and all people want to do is roast marshmallows in the flames.
There's willingness to talk about problems, but in terms of solving them, not as much.
Now, look, maybe all the energy went into getting President Trump's bill over the finish line, and it's a big deal, and I fully support that.
But I just see a lot of emphasis on speeches that nobody listens to.
I love to talk, but you know what I like more than talking?
I like people listening.
And the number of speeches people give to an empty room, it boggles my mind.
Well, in fairness, if you give it a couple years and your portfolio increases significantly, you might find D.C. to be more hospitable, just based on our track record.
Because, look, I'm here because President Trump asked me to be here.
I'm not supposed to be here.
I wasn't looking to come here.
I got elected to the Florida Senate just last November.
And I'm here really because I believe that our country is on a bad path.
And I think President Trump and the Republican Congress is our last best chance to fix it.
I'm here for my kids and everybody like them.
And I want to make sure there's an America for them to inherit.
Well, Congressman Fine, we appreciate that.
And we have dealt with people in Washington who actually do walk the walk.
And we appreciate your openness and your transparency on that.
Where does this go in the future in terms of the Republican Party?
This bill barely passed.
There are some people like Senator Ron Johnson, who we know and respect, who felt like it didn't go far enough in terms of certain cuts.
And the question is always asked: Republicans are now in charge of the House of the Senate.
We've got the White House.
Surely at this time, we should be able to start to get a handle on federal spending.
Do you feel that the bill actually does that?
Did you want more cuts?
And what are the prospects?
We got this one through, but what are the prospects the next time this comes around next year?
Sure.
Well, the reason the bill barely passed is because almost half of Congress is Democrats and they don't care about the future of the country.
They just want to give free stuff to illegals.
We had to basically get every Republican to vote for it, and that's a pretty hard thing to do.
I have told people one big, beautiful bill is not only big, beautiful bill.
I think America was on the one-yard line when Donald Trump got elected.
And that's not one yard to a touchdown.
That's 99 to a touchdown.
The one big, beautiful bill takes us from the one to the 11.
It gets us a first down and it gets us moving in the right direction.
But we still have 89 yards to go, and we have a lot of spending to cut.
That's why we need the Senate to pass the rescissions bill that we passed in the House a couple weeks ago that said no more NPR and no more ridiculous foreign aid for transgender clinics in Uganda or whatever dumb ideas the Democrats came up with.
And then we have to keep cutting because that is the solution to our problems.
We've got to cut trillions of dollars.
And Speaker Johnson has said there will be more reconciliation bills during this Congress, but this was the start, not the end.
How does it work in terms of the negotiations?
On our podcast, we've interviewed Congressman Chip Roy, and he talked about how he was very much against this bill, at least initially, because of the spending that happens.
How does it work in the negotiations when somebody like yourself or somebody maybe more fiscally conservative, you don't like the idea of what the projections are, the increases to the debt and then the deficit spending.
So what does Speaker Johnson do to get somebody from a no to a yes?
Well, you're asking the wrong guy.
I'm the new guy and nobody really cares what I think it's.
You know, it's my job to change that over time.
But I took a different approach.
I said, I'm here because of President Trump.
He's the leader of our party, and we have to show that we can govern.
And I think about things in terms of are we better passing this than not?
I don't let perfect be the enemy of the good.
And when I looked at the bill, I said this is better than the status quo.
So it wasn't a hard decision to vote for it.
I think some of my colleagues get focused on, is it perfection?
It doesn't have to be.
You don't have to throw a Hail Mary pass on every play.
You get the first down and then you play for the next first down.
And this did it.
So in terms of those negotiations, I don't know.
But I will tell you, one of the things I've learned in Washington, which I don't like, is kind of causing trouble gets you attention.
Kind of going, being part of the team, you often get ignored.
And I don't like that part of it because I believe politics should be a team sport.
I'm on Team Trump, and that's what I want to see happen.
And that's what I'm fighting to make sure happens.
Yeah, they kind of do reward people that try to hold out to the last minute.
We're talking with Congressman Randy Fine, a newly elected member of Congress.
He's been there for a few months, a special election here in Florida.
We've been talking about the big, beautiful bill.
I want to shift gears a little bit, Congressman, and talk about the situation in the Middle East.
We know that Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump are getting together to meet.
And it seems to me, I supported what Trump did in the Middle East.
I thought it was necessary with Iran.
He's been very supportive, I think, of Israel and rightfully so.
There does seem to be a little bit of difference in terms of what the end goal is here.
It seems like Netanyahu and Israel, and I understand why, want to kind of finish the job with Iran, at least by continuing sustained attacks to continue to diminish their military capabilities.
Trump sort of created this ceasefire situation that may or may not hold.
But what is your take?
You've been outspoken on this issue.
What is your take on the relationship between Israel and specifically between Netanyahu and Trump?
Is there daylight there, or do you think that they are locked in unison?
So, yeah, you guys know you're in Tallahassee.
I was the only Jewish Republican in the Florida legislature.
I'm one of only four up here, and I got the nickname the Hebrew Hammer because I'm not afraid and punch hard.
Look, my take is this.
I think the United States needs to make sure Iran doesn't get a nuclear weapon because that's a risk to us.
And in that, we're locked step with Israel.
I think Israel would probably like to see regime change in Iran, which frankly, I'd like as well.
But I think that's the Iranians' problem to do that.
As long as Iran can't bother America, then that's where our problem ends.
But I think Bibi is also here to talk about how you bring Gaza in for a landing and Judea and Samaria and just to continue to make sure that American-Israeli relationship is important because we have no better ally in the world than Israel.
We get so much technology from them.
They invent so many things that we use in our everyday lives.
Their values are similar to ours.
And frankly, they're fighting the fight that we would have to if they weren't around.
If you look at what happened in Iran, all they asked us to do was to do the one thing they couldn't.
They didn't have the technology with those bunker-busting bombs that we did.
But everything else they said, we got this, we're good.
So, I mean, that's the kind of partner we should want in America.
We always get accused of being the world's policeman.
Well, in that part of the world, they're willing to do the job.
They just needed this one thing from us, and I'm glad the president did it.
At the beginning of this hour, we interviewed somebody in New York City recovering the Zoran Mandani campaign and the fact that New York Times is now coming out with some information about his college application and lies in this interesting coalescing of coalitions who don't seem to have a lot in common other than the fact that they don't think Zoran Mandani is going to be good for New York City.
You tweeted that what some of the sheikhs in Iran have done is what Zoran Mandani will do to New York City.
Why do you think he is so dangerous?
Well, he's a Muslim terrorist who's also the socialist.
Everyone focuses on the socialist part, but he's like an all-you-can-eat of bad.
Forget his political views.
The guy's worked for three years.
He's got no job experience, running the most important city in the world.
He wants to have government grocery stores, government housing, government, everything.
But look, he hates Israel.
He will not stand away from globalize the antifada, which has led to people being killed in the United States.
He believes in radical Islam, which is the cause of so many problems, not only in the world, but in our country.
He would legitimize what happened on our college campuses everywhere.
And the fact of the matter is, radical Islam is a huge problem in this country, and it is one that we have been unwilling to deal with.
I'm willing to deal with it.
I say all the time, we have a Muslim problem in this country.
Doesn't mean all Muslims are terrorists.
They aren't.
But it's also not true that 1% of them are terrorists.
It's a meaningful percentage.
And the polling shows that.
And Mandami would legitimize all of those people who want to do bad things in this country.
Well, it seems to me that in the Middle East, you have a civilizational struggle that's taking place between Israel, which is a liberal democracy and does a lot to try to incorporate people into its society.
And you have these theocratic rulers and these terrorist groups.
And in a certain sense, this is kind of being replayed in American politics.
We're talking with Congressman Randy Fine.
It's interesting to me that you have this really odd coalition of, frankly, Islamists that have found this way to partner with progressives.
So you have people like Linda Sarsour.
You have people like AOC that's literally going to events that are held by Islamist groups where the men and women have to sit separately.
The women have their heads covered.
And yet you have people like AOC and people on the left talking about abortion rights, talking about all these things that really have nothing in common with the Islamists.
The one thing that seems to unite them is a hatred for Western civilization.
What's your thought on this odd coalition we're seeing with the race in the mayor race in New York and in the left in general in the United States?
Well, they call it the Red-Green Alliance, the association of sort of hard left communists and Islamists.
But I want to challenge one thing you said.
You talked about a war of civilization in Israel.
It ain't just there.
Look at Europe.
Look at what they want to do here.
Look at the city they want to build in Texas.
Look at all the imams who talk about taking over America.
I mean, this is all over the world.
It's not just over there.
It's just worst over there.
And I think part of the issue for liberals, I often say conservatives live in the world the way it is.
Liberals live in the world the way they wish it was.
And so the notion that you've got queers for Palestine, I mean, it's just delusional thinking.
The other thing my dad often says to me, he goes, Randy, if they were smart, they wouldn't be liberal.
And so, you know, that's part of what's going on.
It's this delusional intersection.
And the funny thing for all these liberals is if the Muslim terrorists ever took control, they'd line them up and shoot them.
You know, all the gay people would be killed.
The women who wouldn't cover themselves in a burqa, they'd get beaten up just like they do in Iran.
So it doesn't even make any sense, this alliance.
But they hate Western civilization.
They hate Jews.
They hate America.
And they use that to bind themselves together.
He is Representative Randy Fine.
He is from Florida.
You can hear why he was asked to run for Congress by President Donald Trump.
He's been our guest here on the Sean Handy Show.
Representative Fine, thank you so much.
Congratulations on the passage of the big beautiful bill and good luck in the next 89 yards in the rest of your congressional tenure.
Thanks so much for joining us today.
Thanks for having me.
Good luck, guys.
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I'm Eric Eggers.
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You know, normally we do these shows and it's summertime.
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But absolutely, it is the greatest country in the world.
And it's an honor to be able to talk to the people who live in it each time we get to host a show.