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LISTEN: People Smell a Rat After Lee Zeldin Claims to Smell Weed on a Train

A conversation about the man looking to upset New York State’s first female governor, New York City’s first female fire commissioner, and much more.

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Co-host Christina Greer doubts that Lee Zeldin will upset Gov. Kathy Huchul, but she does think that “He’s just that guy. Where it’s just like, you’re really dangerous but because you don’t look like a DeSantis or an Abbott, people don’t think that he’s as dangerous as he is. He’s got the Youngkin effect.” And co-host Katie Honan shoots down the Congressmember’s debate claim about smelling weed smoke on his one train ride during the campaign, which she joined as a reporter: “I’ll say on the record, I rode the subway with Lee Zeldin, and there was no pot smell. He said there was pot smell. And the only reason I noticed that is because there usually is a pot smell, right? So I was shocked that there wasn’t.”

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