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Younkin Leading - November 2nd, Hour 2
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Hour two, Sean Hannity Show, 800-941, Sean, our number, you want to be a part of the program, 80 Days Americans Abandoned by Joe, and 93 Days Since He Promised He Wouldn't Do It.
Pretty sad.
I think we're like the only show now that talks about it every day.
And as every day passes, the odds of getting our fellow Americans home lessens as now the Taliban making demands for more and more and more money.
There's not going to be enough money to get every American green card holder, family member back to the U.S., sadly.
And there's not a thing that Joe Biden is doing except turning the page.
Anyway, we continue our election day coverage.
We have, what, it closes, polls close about 7, no, at 7 in Virginia.
I believe 9 o'clock in the great state of New Jersey.
800-941-Shawn is unnumbered.
Look, one of the things that's amazed me, and especially in the Commonwealth of Virginia, is how big education has become.
I keep saying explaining conservatism is not really that hard.
We believe in liberty and freedom, capitalism, and our Constitution.
We believe in limited government.
That means lower taxes, less government bureaucracy.
We believe in school choice, and now it's front and center, thankfully.
It should have been for decades, but it hasn't been.
We believe in law and order, so every American can be safe and secure in their pursuit of happiness.
Free market solutions on issues like health care.
Yes, we can protect pre-existing conditions.
We believe in constitutionalists on the bench, not people that write their own laws and legislate from the bench.
We believe in border security.
We believe in energy independence.
We believe in peace through strength.
We believe in free and fair trade.
It's not that complicated.
Look at that one issue in Virginia could very likely change the entire electorate in that state in just really over the course of a month, starting with Terry McCullough saying, well, he said this back September 28th.
I don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.
When did parents of students wanting to participate in their child's education and concerned about age appropriateness or concerned about ideological or philosophical teachings of certain people that have agendas or draconian COVID measures being adopted by schools?
When did that become a problem?
Because unless, you know, the state, I guess they think they're smarter than the parents.
Is that where this is all coming from or it's rooted in?
Anyway, it has grown into the biggest issue in the race.
And I think by the time we find out who the winner of today's election is going to be, hopefully Glenn Young, I think that this is going to be a defining issue for other states going forward as well.
Anyway, on this election day, we bring in our pollsters, Robert Cahaley, Matt Towery, both have their final poll numbers in.
They're almost identical as it relates to the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Gentlemen, welcome back to the program.
And let's get to the final polling.
Robert, we'll start with you.
Well, we've got Glenn Yunkin up by 2.3.
And so a couple points undecided.
And we feel like late deciders and those that vote late are going to be back yunking.
We see it breaking very much that way.
We expect you can do it 2.3 or better.
And your take, Matt Towery.
Well, in our poll we conducted for the Fox affiliate in D.C., we have, again, the same thing, yunking up by two, 47, 45.
We had 2% for Princess Blanding, who is the liberation candidate.
Now, whether she actually get that or not, we don't know, but I will tell you in a minute why that's important.
And then the rest were undecided.
All right.
So as you talked to people and you went out in the field, both of you, what are people most concerned about?
And when is the last time education has been that high on the priority list of voters?
Robert.
Well, we found that especially in the northern Virginia crowd, it was education.
It was everything from critical race theory to a lot of the COVID restrictions and kids not being able to go to school for so long.
And there's an attention that has been given to governors around the country because of COVID in the last two years that both frustrated parents and their inability to go to classrooms and also expose parents to what the kids were learning.
And so that's been the number one issue we've seen in those key swing counties and areas in Northern Virginia.
There's lots of other issues that have moved throughout the campaign, but that's been the issue I think that's going to make the biggest difference in the election.
And Matt, your take?
Well, I ditto to what Robert had to say.
There's no doubt about it.
And certainly when Terry McAuliffe decided to make the statement about parents not being in the classroom or involved, that was what began to turn this race.
But there is a hidden issue out there, Sean, that I think is going to have a big impact as well.
The mandate for vaccination is having a substantial impact, we're seeing, among African American voters in this country.
And although you won't get it in verbatims and the like, what we are seeing, for example, in this race, I have never seen a race where you had an African American population of over 15%, where in any instance, 75% would go to the Democrat of African American votes.
Normally, that's, by this time, about 90 to 93%.
So I mentioned Princess Blanding a moment ago.
She's pulling a little bit of that vote.
Some of it says it's undecided, but for Terry McCaul to win, he needed that African American vote to be at 93, 92, 93%.
And we're not seeing it.
And from what we're being told, the vaccine mandates have an effect in that community in the way they vote.
It's also having an impact on the economy.
Let's talk about the Biden factor in all of this.
Robert Cahaley, I mean, you know, ending with him falling asleep at the climate summit yesterday, which was just the latest humiliation on the world stage.
One of the first things we discovered in the first poll we did this summer was that of the issues that across the board that Virginians agreed on is that they were disappointed their governor had not joined the other governors in asking for the extra $300 from the federal government to stop.
And so as the Biden administration continued to pay people not to work, that was that idea that all these problems, that people can't, you know, companies can't find employees, things aren't getting done, is based on the Biden administration and this bad policy of paying people not to work.
And that was that over 62% of the public believe that in Virginia.
So that compounds now as we see supply chain and everything else.
This lack of confidence that the Biden administration and therefore Democrats don't know how to govern is certainly filtering down.
Matt, your take?
Well, let me just add this.
There's a disconnect right now taking place between the Democratic leadership starting with President Biden and moving down the food chain and what people are experiencing, as Robert talked about.
Here you see the president overseas talking about climate change.
You have a war going on between the socialist in essence of the Democratic Party and the quote-unquote moderates, who I would call them the progressives of the Democratic Party.
The nation is sitting here looking at these very issues that Robert's talking about with the supply chain issue.
We've got the mandate going on.
We've got critical race theory.
We've got battles in the classroom.
We have the gas pump being incredibly high and food costing a fortune.
And voters are seeing a disconnect between what they're seeing from these Democratic leaders, including, I might add, Terry McCullough, because Terry chose to make this a national race.
You alluded to it earlier, Sean.
They decided to put Donald Trump up there.
Well, that's not working for them.
If anything, this is going to be a victory for Trump.
It proves that he's not a problem for a candidate running who's been supported by Trump.
So I think there's a disconnect here.
The public's picking up on it.
And this may blow over to many other battleground states as we get into 2022.
I mean, I asked you both this question last night because you're both predicting a 12-point shift from a year ago because Donald Trump lost Virginia by 10 points.
So you're predicting a two-point win by Yunkin, a 12-point shift.
That is the equivalent of a cat-five hurricane, politically speaking, Robert.
That's the difference between electing a stable moderate, the perception of electing a stable, moderate Joe Biden and the way Joe Biden has governed.
There's the buyer's remorse.
I mean, that's why I thought it's silly to run around and talk about Trump all the time.
They're attacking Young and saying, oh, he's just like Trump in a state that is part of a national rebellion of, hey, maybe we picked the wrong guy.
Biden has collapsed so bad and done such a bad job that attacking Yunkin for saying that he's going to be an outsider like Trump is a stupid argument.
So there's no question that people thought they were getting one thing when they got Biden.
They thought they were getting stability.
They thought they were getting a moderate Democrat, and they didn't get any of it.
If the election were held today, then, Robert, would you say between Biden and Trump that Trump would run away with it?
I mean, nationwide or state-by-state?
Oh, I think he would definitely be north of 320 electoral votes if it was held right now.
Interesting.
Quick break more with our pollsters, Matt Towery and Robert Cahaley, 800-941-Shawn is on number.
We'll get to your calls on this election day with our pollsters, Matt Towery and Robert Cahaley.
Let me play the final ad for you, Matt.
This is Glenn Younkin's ad because Terry McCullough put out a lie.
Oh, Youngin and Trump are appearing together.
They never had plans to appear together.
Anyway, but this is the ad.
Terry McAuliffe's campaign in Virginia is all about Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Trump, Donald Trump, Trump, Trump, Donald Trump.
Donald Trump, Trump, Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Trump, Donald Trump.
Trump Trump, Donald Trump.
He keeps invoking Trump.
Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Trump, Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Trump, Donald Trump, Trump, Trump, Donald Trump, Trump, Trump.
Trump Trump, Donald Trump.
Trump, Donald Trump.
Have you made this race too much about Trump?
No, Trump, Donald, Trump, Donald, Trump, Donald Trump, Trump, Donald Trump, Trump, Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Trump, Donald Trump, Trump, Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Trump, Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Trump, Trump.
You know, Danis isn't about Trump.
I mean, it's hilarious, but that's how they ran their campaign, Matt.
That's a great ad, I got to say.
Well, it goes to my point about the disconnect.
You have all of these other issues that are critical to people in the state of Virginia, like education.
Then you have all of these national issues.
And here they are running Trump, Trump, Trump, constant ads and campaign rhetoric against Yonkin trying to tie into Trump.
Look, Donald Trump, if he's a problem, clearly he's not a problem right now because Yunkin is leading.
It looks like he's gaining speed.
And I want to make one other quick note, Sean.
You and I were both there in 1994 when Newt Gingrich and the Republicans took over the House.
And if you recall, right about 72 hours before we took over the House in a wave, we really saw the polling begin to tell us this thing was coming.
No one was sure until then.
We've seen the same sort of thing in this particular race.
I think Robert would agree.
When we started in the field, it was sort of close, but with Yonkin doing fairly well.
In the last day or two of us polling, the bottom fell out for McCullough.
So I think weight breakers are going this way.
And I think this is a trend that's going to spill over to the rest of the country.
And your take, Robert?
This is a race that I've, I think, done six different polls on.
So to me, it is an evaporation of the Democrat support.
And it's always been about enthusiasm.
Young has always been north of 45 or better.
But in studying and looking at what happened to McAuliffe last time, I mean, even when he won, the Libertarian got a significant amount of the vote before.
I mean, this guy has a ceiling of around 48%, and I don't see McAuliffe getting over that.
And you can't get elected governor without a third-party candidate with that kind of a ceiling.
So you're really feeling very confident on a scale of one to 10.
How confident are you that Yunkin wins?
I would say seven, and Rain and Overcast makes it an eight.
Okay, Matt, prediction.
I'm with him.
The numbers we had, we had to literally wait Democrat various weightings that we do to the highest level to make sure that we adjusted for any possible thing we might slip upon.
I think I'm in an eight or a nine right there with Robert.
What about New Jersey?
What about Curtis Leewood, New York City Mayor?
Any chance?
Matt?
New York Mayor, probably not.
New Jersey, I've not done the poll Robert has, but I think it should be very interesting.
Even if it's a four or three-point win for Murphy, that still tells you in a deep blue state like that, what could be happening in these red and purple states and the ones that didn't go for Trump last time, but probably would right now go for him overwhelmingly.
Any chance of a surprise, Robert?
I think the surprise is going to be that the race is going to be much closer than anybody thinks.
But yeah, I think it's very possible.
There are a lot of people in New Jersey who have either themselves are firefighters or policemen or relatives are.
And this vaccine mandate has gotten these guys very frustrated and feeling used and abused.
The scandal at the nursing homes was just as bad and just as horrible in New Jersey.
And the attention brought to these governors and some of the powers that were used that Murphy is seen as really kind of lording over this power.
And I think there's some resentment that might not show up in traditional polling where people can be intimidated on how to answer.
But I think we're on to something.
I think this thing's going to be much more competitive.
And don't be surprised if this is a shock, a big shock and there's a slight revolving victory.
Well, certainly worth tuning in tonight.
And we'll have full election coverage tonight, 9 Eastern on Hannity.
Final polls are in.
Matt Towery and Robert Cahaley, Trafalgar.
Thank you both for being with us.
800-941-Sean is our number.
Quick break, right back.
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All right, 25 now till the top of the hour.
On this election day, 800-941, Sean is our number.
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I mean, Joe Biden falling asleep and having to be woken up by an aide is embarrassing enough.
Then Joe Biden apologizes to the world leaders for Donald Trump, rightly, withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord.
Now, the Paris Climate Accord puts all of the financial burden, billions of dollars on the United States, while countries like China and India are classified as developing nations and they pay next to nothing.
That's how stupid Joe Biden is.
That is how insane he is.
Anyway, then Biden calls on OPEC and Russia yet again after he's already been told no.
He's begging them again to produce more oil.
Now, if this is all about climate change, why did we have over 400 private jets?
Separate issue and apart, which we've discussed.
But more importantly, if it's about climate change and the reason we're not drilling for oil and we're not energy independent anymore is because we believe in being good stewards of the planet.
Well, what difference is it if you get the oil, gas, and coal from the U.S. or that China does it for you or the Middle East does it for you or Russia does it for you?
The impact on the planet is still the same.
How stupid is this man?
Anyway, listen to these cuts.
I guess I shouldn't apologize, but I do apologize for the fact the United States, the last administration pulled out of the Paris court because of the kind of gateboard.
When the cost of a gallon of gasoline gets to above $3.35 a gallon, it has profound impact on working-class families just to get back and forth to work.
So I don't see anything inconsistent with that, but I do think that the idea that Russia and Saudi Arabia and other major producers are not going to pump more oil so people can have gasoline to get to and from work, for example, is not right.
And what we're considering doing that, I'm reluctant to say before I have to do it.
I'm reluctant to say before I have to do it.
Unbelievable.
All right, on this election day, I know a lot of you have a lot on your mind.
Let's say hi to Steve is in the great state of Florida.
Steve, a lot smarter than me.
Steve, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Sean, I want to appreciate and thank you for letting me talk.
I'm a big fan.
Backstory on me.
I am from the great state of New Jersey.
I grew up in northern New Jersey.
I served in law enforcement for 20 years right across the river.
And by the way, thank you for doing that.
That's awesome.
You served on the NYPD?
I was with the New Jersey State Police.
New Jersey State Police.
Okay.
Glad you called.
I retired.
I moved to Florida, my family, and because of the great state and the weather and the warmth and the taxes, and I became a registered nurse.
And I'm still serving the public.
Why did you decide to become a nurse after 20 years of being a cop?
Because back in the day, I was working with arresting heroin addicts and people that were alcoholics.
And I started to realize that punishment maybe wasn't the answer.
So I started to get into detox nursing and working with alcoholics and drug addicts.
And then I got into psychiatric nursing and just enjoying it.
And you have an interest and you're good at it and you're helping people.
I get it.
Good for you.
It sounds like a life of service.
That's terrific.
But what happened?
They're vilifying us now.
It's turned into the, you know, the police are villains, nurses.
You know, I mean, I've been vaccinated.
I did it because of my age.
But again, freedom is the answer here.
It's about our freedom.
And we're still America.
And this Democratic Party is not my grandfather's Democratic Party.
Obviously, coming from New Jersey, you know, we were democratic.
We were a Democratic state.
I was not, but my grandfather was, but, you know, he's gone a long time, and it's changed.
And what happened to the days of police and nurses being held to a certain standard?
But these politicians can do whatever they want, and nobody holds them accountable.
I cannot believe, and it boils my blood, that people like yourself that are in the medical field, police officers, I include them as well, firemen, EMT workers, the people that were on the front lines during the worst of this pandemic, when we knew little compared to what we know today.
And every single day, their workplace, their work environment, talk about a hostile work environment, they worked in a Petri dish.
They dove on COVID grenades daily to save the lives of people they didn't know.
And they did it.
And many of them, as a result, ended up getting COVID, many of them.
And they have natural immunity.
The idea now that we're going to fire them because they, for whatever reason, they've decided they don't want to take the vaccine.
Many of them might have natural immunity.
Many of them may have rare medical conditions and their doctors don't recommend the vaccine.
There seems to be no exemption possibility at all.
There seems to be no willingness to even accommodate.
If you wanted to test people every day before they can get in the hospital, they could set that up and it could be organized and you could consider their feelings and you could appreciate all they did in the worst moments of this and take that into consideration.
There are ways to accommodate both concerns here, but they won't even consider it.
That to me, and one size fits all medicine, just doesn't work for me.
That doesn't seem very scientific.
We're not following the science, as they say.
You know, we have now the latest push is for kids 5 to 11 to get the vaccine.
And meanwhile, in two years, we've only lost 100.
We've lost 162 kids.
One is too many.
From COVID, kids are not being impacted by this virus the way older Americans are and those with pre-existing conditions.
We lose almost the same number of kids every year to the flu.
Very comparable numbers.
And while they're not saying it's mandated yet, that's probably the next thing to follow because Fauci and Pelosi and Walensky and Biden, they all said, oh, no, we don't have the right to mandate this.
Now they're mandating it.
No, I don't think it should be mandatory.
I wouldn't demand to be mandatory for that.
Perhaps the federal government should step in and issue mandates.
And if not, are you putting the needs of unvaccinated people ahead of the needs of vaccinated people?
I think the question here, one, that's not the role of the federal government.
That is the role that institutions, private sector entities, and others may take.
We cannot require someone to be vaccinated.
That's just not what we can do.
I am all for more vaccination.
But, you know, I have nothing further to say on that except that we're looking into those policies.
And quite honestly, as people are doing that locally, those are individual local decisions as well.
I don't think you'll ever see a mandating of vaccine, particularly for the general public.
So I feel bad for all of you.
I really can sympathize.
And I'll tell you what's happening.
People that want to really take a stand, they've got a problem.
The problem is they still have to pay their rent.
The problem is they have to pay their mortgage.
The problem is they have car payments and truck payments they've got to make.
The problem is they've got to put food on their table for their families.
So, you know, to give up a career, a paycheck, benefits, retirement, at the end of the day, many of these people are going to end up doing something that they are really against doing.
And there is no freedom in that scenario.
And for those people, it's not fair.
They deserve better, especially after all they did for all of us in the worst moments of this pandemic.
It's Fauci also with the masks.
Back in, what, 2020, it was, oh, don't wear a mask.
Now we have to wear a mask.
We're wearing a piece of cloth on our face.
It's not going to stop microorganisms.
Oh, it's not going to maybe a droplet or two.
The masks aren't going to work.
That was the first thing he said in March of 2020.
And he's been wrong ever since.
And I don't believe him on gain of function.
I don't believe him that he didn't know about the funding.
I don't believe him.
I don't believe a word that he says at this point.
Why he still has a job?
I don't know.
Look, Steve, I wish you the best.
Thank you for all you've done as a policeman, now as a nurse.
And I appreciate you being out there.
People like you make this a better country.
I'll tell you that.
Thank you very much.
You keep up the great work, too.
You stand up for America every night.
And we're all big fans in my household.
And even my family is still up in New Jersey tonight.
Hopefully they change the outcome of our New Jersey race.
Well, we'll see.
New Jersey is going to be a little tougher.
I think the most hope I have is for the Commonwealth of Virginia, but let's see.
You never know.
All right, back to our busy phones.
Let's go to Kathy is in Rhode Island.
Kathy, glad you called.
I lived in Rhode Island in Warren, Rhode Island for five years.
Beautiful state.
I know.
Thank you.
So I would like to just suggest that the news headlines are always saying how there are challenges to Joe Biden's mandate.
And I think the mandate should be challenged on the basis of, and I haven't heard anybody really ask for an answer from the Department of Labor, from OSHA, from Biden, Surgeon General, HHS, CDC, and I, what is the magic of one person in determining the policy of infection control in the workplaces of 99 versus 100 people?
What science does that one person make in making the draconian difference in how it works?
It doesn't.
Probably it's just compliance capabilities more than anything else.
But that does not prevent a virus from transmitting.
There is no rationale in implementing that number.
But I thought the message they gave us, all part of them being wrong again and again and again, was that if you got vaccinated, that you'd be protected.
Now, apparently, that's not so.
That's correct.
So you're not providing a safe workplace because vaccinated people are getting the virus and spreading it as much as unvaccinated.
So you're not providing a safe workplace.
You're only impeding the ability for social structures to stay intact and take care of people as they need to be taken care of.
What I don't understand is I think the model that was set by Ron DeSantis is the right one.
And that is that he set up monoclonal antibody centers all throughout Florida.
Joe Biden didn't hear about them or mention them one time until a month ago.
And then he started rationing it to red states because they were using it too much and too effectively.
I'm like, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
It's the one therapeutic that has shown the most promise to help people, whether you're vaccinated or unvaccinated, if you get the infusion early, and I know a ton of people that have gotten it.
In every case, within 48 hours, they feel infinitely better.
And not one person has been hospitalized that I know.
Anecdotally, of course, and not one person died that I know that got Regeneron within 24 to 36 hours after diagnosis.
Not one.
Right.
And I just don't understand in a workplace where you have 99 people that a manager can decide that distancing markers, masks, air filters, open the windows, do your cleaning.
Yeah, what they're going to do is they're going to purposely everybody has to be mandated.
Well, you know, if you're asking for, you want to apply common sense to this.
There is none.
This is one size fits all medicine.
That's not scientific.
That's not following science.
Anyway, good point.
Kathy, God bless you.
800-941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Terry is in Kentucky.
What's up, Terry?
How are you?
Glad you called.
Hi, Sean.
I'm great.
Happy Election Day.
Yes, you too.
I want to make a point.
After the smoke clears, this election today, we're facing the debt ceiling and the CR again.
And I think Republicans need to be pounding the table for a line item budget, which I think would resolve a lot of the issues that we have with liberalism being shoved down our throat.
We're not going to be too successful with that without the money to fund it.
They're saying they're going to spend all of it, some of it's $7 trillion, some is $5,000 $1.7 over 10 years.
But they don't factor in the other spending that happens during each year.
That should be factored into any budget bill.
Well, that's what Manchin has been saying.
And Manchin took a pretty harsh stance on all of this yesterday.
And we had been pointing it out last week, all the phony accounting that's going on.
And the $1.75 trillion is really $7 trillion.
I mean, they're just lying.
And Manchin really, really put his foot down yesterday.
He was pissed because he's, you know, look, all the devil's always in the details.
It's not you pass the bill to find what's in it.
And the details are going to matter.
But there's no way, I don't think you can please this new Green Deal radical socialist wing of the Democratic Party.
I don't think there's any satisfying them until they get the $10 trillion they want.
And, you know, whether Mansion and Cinema hold strong, time will tell.
Perhaps if there is a win by Yunkin in Virginia, that will be the game changer.
Democrats will realize we are on the wrong path here.
And this is going to, you know, now it's going to impact them.
And politicians, for whatever reason, once they get called congressman, senator, mayor, whatever, they like the title, they like the prestige, they like the role, and they don't want to lose their job.
And a lot of what they do is designed to keep them in power for as long as possible.
Anyway, appreciate the call.
800-941-Sean, our number.
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