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Herschel Walker - November 14th, Hour 2
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Hour two, Sean Hannity Show, toll-free.
It's 800-941, Sean.
If you want to be a part of the program, we have this runoff in the great state of Georgia.
It is on December 6th.
In light of this, the Herschel Walker campaign has put out this ad.
It was a massive rally post-election that he put out and saying we're ready to go after it was announced that, in fact, it would be a runoff.
I want to play this for you.
Hey, have the gas prices going up?
Have your grocery bill going up?
Have a utility bill going up.
Well, you know who's the cause of that.
It's not just Joe Biden, but it's Senator Warner as well.
They said that I don't need this.
They said I don't need this.
That's not the truth.
I do need this because I'm not going to let my family hurt.
And all of you are my family.
So I'm going to protect my family.
Because if you watch what he was saying, we're going to go in a runoff.
And if he wants to go in a runoff with me, I'm saying, you bring your homes.
You bring, because I will build for this.
This is what I will build for.
I can promise you this.
I'm not going to Washington to make friends.
I'm going to Washington to do my job.
That's what he should have done.
They want to change everything about this country.
They want to change it.
And I said, right now, we got the B team in.
It's a time to put the A team in.
December 6th, we got to get out and vote.
Because if we sit on the sideline, we would not recognize this country again.
And I want to tell him right now, don't let that door hit you in the back side as you leave the people off.
All right.
Hercer Walker joins us now.
How are you, sir?
Hello there, Sean.
How are you doing?
I'm doing good.
This would be an important race because it would be a 50-50 Senate again.
It's going to be an important runoff.
I know some people are angry at some of the results, et cetera, et cetera, but this race of yours matters, and we got to pay attention to it, and it's very winnable.
This race does matter.
It matters a great deal because, you know, all we have to do is get one person on the Democrat to flip over.
And if they love this country and they love their state, I think they would do that because right now they need to represent the people that he elected them to go to office.
I don't think they need to be representing Washington or representing Joe Biden, but representing the people that they elected them to go to office because we can get these grocery prices down.
We can get the gas prices down.
We can stop some of the crime on the streets and close this border.
But we got to come together and do the right thing by the people and not do the right thing by party.
This is not about party, but this is about the people of the United States of America and this is about the great people of Georgia.
You know, I understand that now all of Georgia's coalescing around you.
Apparently, Governor Kemp, who didn't need a runoff, is going to be out there on the campaign stump for you quite a bit.
Is that true?
That is true.
And, you know, a lot of the Republicans, they are rallying behind me because they know that we are going to roll the boat in the same direction.
I think people need to realize that when you have a person like Senator Warnot in Washington, he seems to be rowing the boat against everything Governor Kemp is trying to do.
So nothing ever gets done.
But yet, if you get someone like myself that believes in the same thing Governor Kemp is believing in, we can roll the boat in the same direction that we can get things done for the great people of Georgia.
And that's what I want to do.
Right now, Senator Warnott has shown us who he is.
He's a hypocrite.
I think he tries to sling a lot of mud at me.
But yet, I think right now, after people have seen what he's done in this apartment building, they see that he's not what he claimed to be.
He's not a preacher that believes in forgiveness.
He's not a preacher that believes in compassion.
He's someone that's all out for himself.
And we got to get him out of office because right now he's made money while the people of Georgia have lost money.
Right now, grocery prices are up, gas prices are up, your utility bill is up.
Everything has happened since you've been in office, and that is less than two years, and I'm not sure if we can take six years of this.
I don't think any of us can, to be very, very honest.
You know, it is an amazing thing.
I think Georgia fared better, you know, since the COVID changes to our election system where, you know, you have longer and longer periods where people get to vote.
You know, you have more and more people, you know, dropping their ballots and mailbox, Dropboxes, et cetera, et cetera.
When I look at what's happening in Arizona and Nevada and Alaska and California and their inability to count votes, you know, it just, to me, the whole system, if that's the system, it's unfair.
You know, if I had my way, I would go to a one-day election day, national holiday.
Partisan observers, you know, watch hand ballots, you know, written out by people.
They watch the voting.
They watch the vote counting.
And you have the results at the end of the night like France and Canada and the UK and so many other countries do.
Are we making it too complicated for people?
I mean, look, two and a half million people.
It seems like Georgia adapted better than other states to these new rules.
Do you think these are the right rules?
Well, right now, I think SB 202 has helped Georgia out a great deal.
And, you know, it is sad that you watch some states that seem to take days to count votes.
And I don't think it's fair to the people.
You know, this should be about the people having the right to vote and have your voices heard and your vote counted should be one of the most precious things you can have.
And to have them to take days to count votes, I think is a shame.
I think we can do better.
We should do better.
Being with a great country that we are, we should go out and we should do better and make things a little bit easier for the people to vote and not make it more difficult and make the people not trusting this voting system because we're good people and we can get this thing worked out if we come together, quit arguing between parties and come together as one and make people have their voices heard and vote counted.
That's the reason I'm running.
And that's the reason I tell everyone to go to teamhearser.com.
They're trying to buy this seat.
Senator Warner trying to buy this seat because he's done nothing for Georgia since he gotten into office.
And I'm not going to let him buy this seat.
Georgia's not for sale.
Georgia's not New York.
They're not California.
So all the money he's raised from those places, they're not going to buy this seat.
This seat is about a Georgia boy who's who loved the Georgia people.
And everybody in Georgia is my family.
You know, it is amazing the amount of money.
How much was finally spent in negative ads on you throughout the entire just general election?
Well, they spent over $100 million on negative ads towards me.
And I said it raised a virtual tide, which meant they don't even know how to spend that money.
So why are they spending our money?
They continue to spend our money, continue to spend money they don't have, and then they make excuses for it.
You know, right now, Biden was in China.
He's meeting with the president of China.
Can we trust what he said after the press conference?
We can.
You know, one thing that's sad is we have people that voted 96% of the time like Senator Warner with Biden.
You can't even trust what Biden is going to tell you when he gets into the press conference.
You don't know whether it's real or not because we've lost respect from our foreign leaders.
We've lost our leadership that we had, and people don't trust us no more because of what we did in Afghanistan.
We've got to bring that trust bite to our foreign leader.
We've got to bring that trust bite to the voters here in the United States of America and to our state.
Is the Republican Party united in terms of helping you and raising the money to counter the onslaught of negative ads they'll be throwing at you again?
Well, they're coming around.
They're coming in and they're coming in to help me to raise the money.
And as I said, I want everyone to come in and raise the money.
If you believe in the freedoms and liberties that we've had so many people to sacrifice for, if you believe in our men and women in blue, if you believe that we're in security border, you believe that we can get this inflation under control, you believe we can get law and order under control, go to teamherschel.com.
So we can do it, but we got to do it together.
Senator Warnot wants to divide.
It seems like Joe Biden wants to divide.
They want to separate people because of their color.
And we've come so far to have people in Washington that take us back right now.
And we shouldn't want that.
We shouldn't have that.
We got to get those people out of office.
There's no doubt.
They want to stay in the United States.
It's okay.
But we come together as people because he said we the people, we the people need to get this done.
Well, there's a lot of people.
I know Ted Cruz was in there and a bunch of people going in and doing events with you.
We'll be down there at some point.
Look forward to seeing you.
And I hope people take advantage.
When does early voting start in Georgia?
Well, that's one thing I think is good here.
You know, we have a shorter time right now in this runoff.
You know, December 6th is the day we got to vote.
And I think his early voting is only a week out from that.
So we only have a week out, and this is going to be really quickly.
So that's the reason I'm out right now campaigning.
As soon as it was decided it was a runoff, the next day I was out campaigning.
I want people to know, guys, whatever happened, I want you to know that there's a difference between Herschel Walker and Senator Warnott.
Senator Warnott has done nothing in two years since he's been in office.
Well, I'm here to work for the people.
You know, people say I don't have to do this.
That's not true.
I do have to do this because I found that America's dream.
And I know that America's dream is out there for all kids, all Americans.
But if we get Senator Warnot and Joe Biden stays in office, they would never have that America's dream.
I just can't believe a guy that says America needs to repent of its whiteness, you know, is even competitive.
I can't believe a guy that says you can't serve in the military and serve God at the same time is even in the U.S. Senate.
I can't believe a guy that refers to cops and law enforcement as thugs and gangsters.
I'm shocked he never got called out on any of this.
I can't believe a guy that, you know, supposed to be the, you know, running Ebenezer Baptist Church, which is formerly the home of Pastor Martin Luther King Jr., you know, is supporting abortion up to the moment of birth.
Never mind his own personal positions.
He wants CRT taught in school.
He wants no domestic energy production at all.
I mean, these are really unbelievable positions he takes.
Never mind the personal issues he has.
And he talks about character, took a shot at you last week.
And meanwhile, this is a guy who tried to, according to his ex-wife, run her over with a car during a domestic dispute.
And it wasn't a long time ago.
That was 2020.
Or when he was running a camp and they had real allegations of child abuse, five specific cases to varying degrees.
He literally was arrested for obstructing justice into the investigation to protect these kids.
None of that seemed to really get out during the general election.
Well, Sean, he paid some families off for they couldn't talk.
So some families did not talk because he paid them off.
And the worst thing right now that people are not even talking about, the apartment that he runs, that the church runs, and he said Herschel is a part of it.
The apartment that he runs is people that are homeless, people that have mental illness.
He evicted them.
He evicted them.
And not only did he evict them, people have died in that place.
Nobody's been held accountable for it.
And he said that I'm bringing a bad thing down on the church.
The church has nothing to do with it.
And Senator Warnott was not held responsible.
He has not filed the right paperwork since 2011.
So my thing is, don't make excuses.
Right now, he's been in office for two years.
I've done nothing but went with Joe Biden, but now he's making excuses, and it's my fault.
It's everybody else's fault but here.
And that's what we got to do is hold people accountable.
It's time to hold people accountable.
And the only way we can do that is vote them out of office.
We cannot continue to have people in office that are thinking that they can get away with anything when they're supposed to represent the people of the United States, representing the great people of Georgia.
But this apartment builder is disgusting.
It has rats.
It has everything that he's taking money for that he should have cleaned up.
And then he said that I'm trying to sully the name of Dr. King.
No, he is doing that.
He's doing that.
It is embarrassing.
It is terrible.
He needs to be held accountable because his name is on the paperwork.
His name is on the paperwork.
By the way, it was you that offered to pay the back rent.
Some people have been being kicked out for $0.28.
All right, Herschel Walker, teamherschel.com.
Thanks for being with us.
We'll be checking in a lot in the next three weeks here.
Appreciate you being with us.
Hey, thank you, Sean, and God bless.
Thank you.
Quick break.
We'll come back.
We'll hit the phones.
800-941, Sean, our number, if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, let's set our busy phones here.
800-941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, let's go to John is in Connecticut.
John, you're on the Sean Hannity Show.
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean, how are you doing today?
I'm good, my friend.
What's going on?
So I've been trying to get through.
Last Wednesday, I woke up and all depressed and another post-election letdown.
And at 308, I'm like, I got to get it Hannity on.
And I tuned in, and I felt like I was listening to Rush.
You had to calm me down.
You're like the voice of reason.
And I figure you'd like to hear that.
Well, I appreciate it.
I'm not as down as I'm hearing from some people because I understand this country, I think, pretty well.
And all the years I've been doing this, I've learned a thing or two.
One of the things I've learned is: first of all, I did never bought into the expectations of others, but that's separate and apart, is that this country is going to end up getting this right.
We always do.
We've got a lot to examine here.
We're still going to end up with control of the House of Representatives, according to every person that I've talked to all weekend long.
That is an enormous victory, not to the extent that we want, but we'll take it.
I think every American now sees the absolute outrageousness of these never-ending perpetual voting, 90 days, 60 days, 30 days, early voting.
It's got to stop.
We've got to have some sense here applied to the system.
And I think people will agree to that.
And I just have a feeling that this is not, it's been misinterpreted by everybody.
And I think that the American people in the end are going to straighten this thing out.
And, you know, how, which way and how soon, I don't know.
But I think pain is a great awakener.
And if Americans need more economic pain, they're in for it.
They're going to get it.
And we're not going to fix the country anytime soon, but we can fix it in the next election.
You live in the greatest country God gave man.
We've overcome a Civil War, revolutionary war, two world wars, one my father fought in, 9-11, 2001, one depression, many recessions.
We're going to overcome this.
And we have to keep that perspective.
And are there things that we need to examine and fix?
Yeah, some of which I discussed earlier.
Some are inexplicable to me.
And I think over time we'll figure it out.
I think when Newt says that this defies every model of elections he's ever seen, he's right.
And I think a lot of it is rooted in we have dramatically altered how elections are held in this country.
And it has turned out to be a huge disadvantage to Republicans and conservatives.
How do you win 5 million more votes?
We never win the popular vote anymore, but yet, you know, don't win by a massive margin in the House.
We're going to take this apart.
I'm going to make it my mission to get us there.
I promise you.
Anyway, appreciate the call.
Keep your head up.
You know, God's still in charge.
Don't forget.
Holding them accountable.
Sean gets the answers no one else does.
America deserves to know the truth about Congress.
All right, 25 down to the top of the hour, 800-941.
Sean, our number, if you want to be a part of the program, you know, we're going to go over in great detail and specificity why the Republicans will win the House based on the numbers, based on what we know, not speculation, but just pure facts.
Even at the Cook report, you have Dave Wasserman saying between Arizona 1, Arizona 6, California 41, and California 3, 27, 45, and Colorado 3, that's Lauren Boebert's district, New York, 22, Oregon 5, which already was called for the Republicans, and a number of toss-ups that the map is not there for the Democrats to make a play.
Also, there was another big flip that took place in the state of New York where Mark Molinaro, this is a Democrat to Republican flip where he wins election to New York's 19th congressional district.
That wasn't really on a lot of people's radar that I saw all weekend long as I was going over all of these races with so many people.
I mean, my head's spinning about it.
Anyway, let's get to our phone calls.
800-941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, let's say hi to our friend Joe in Ella J. Joe, how are you?
Glad you called.
Sean, I'm really fired up for Herschel Walker.
I'm calling everybody in Georgia that I've known since I'm five years old and asking them to vote for Herschel.
And I definitely think he will win.
He's got the momentum.
People are fired up.
And your program, I think, will be a huge factor in why Herschel Walker is a lake in Georgia.
You're doing a great job.
You're always doing a great job.
There's never been a better friend of the taxpayers in America than the great Sean Hannity.
But Herschel Walker will win.
He must win.
And so I'm calling everybody I know in Georgia and telling them to get out there and not only vote for Herschel, but call everybody they know, call their family and friends.
We have got to get Herschel Walker elected, Sean, and you know that.
It's a very important race.
And also, you know what?
I'd love to see him there.
It'd be so good for him, the state of Georgia, the Republican Party, for so many different reasons.
And I think he's the right guy for the job.
Anyway, Joe, appreciate it.
Dave in the great state of Florida.
Dave, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hello, Sean.
It's great to talk to you.
You had been talking last week with regard to the fact that Florida has gone deep, deep, deep red, and I couldn't be more proud of my state.
You can probably tell from my accent that I was not born here.
I moved here about 30 years ago.
Everybody thought I was crazy at the time, but now I get about probably two or three phone calls a month from friends of mine who are in the formerly great state of New York.
Did you buy a house 30 years ago when you went down there?
You know, I did not.
I was a single guy working in the Merchant Marine on tug-and-barge rigs.
So I was kind of in and out.
So buying a house.
I wish you would have bought one because it would be worth 15 times what it was today, what it was then.
You and me both, my friend.
You and me both.
By the way, we all think that way.
Anyway, what's on your mind?
Well, I think what you're referring to is what I call this migration that's happening, accelerated migration.
And what I'm saying is, is, yeah, Florida is now, I mean, deeply, deeply red.
And I want to be very clear here.
I'm not taking away from the well-deserved double-digit victory margins of Governor DeSantis and Senator Rubio.
They both deserved it because they've done a great job for the state of Florida.
But 20% is a number that is astronomical.
And what I'm telling you is this migration accelerated by COVID shutdowns, kids, they wanted their kids to have in-person learning, et cetera.
Baby boomers now getting to that retirement age, wanting to live in warmer weather, have a better lifestyle, et cetera.
And so you've got now 850 people on average moving down to Florida every single day.
That's massive.
And then you have other people moving to the Carolinas, Texas, Tennessee.
This migration is real.
Here's the problem.
Look at Florida, for example.
On the east coast of Florida and central Florida, you have plenty of people from New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
And then you look at the west coast of Florida, and I've been on both coasts.
And you have people from Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Illinois.
They're moving down there.
But the vast majority of people moving are the people that are more conservative, sick and tired of high taxes, sick and tired of lockdowns, shutdowns, and wanting a better way of life.
And they want to live in a state where there's no state income tax.
There's no state tax like there is in New York, where it's like you die, they take 10 more percent of your money on top of the federal government taking 40%.
So I think that accelerated migration is great for Florida, and it's great for the Carolinas, and it's great for Tennessee.
They'll be redder than red.
But now those states that were hard to win for a Republican presidential candidate, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, et cetera, they're going to be that much harder to win.
And you can't negate this fact that this is now a real, real migration, and we're really only in the beginning stages of it.
I think COVID accelerated it, and now it's just going to be a steady flow of people out of those liberal states.
And the more conservative people are like, we've had it.
We're out of here.
Yeah, I mean, I couldn't agree with you more.
I mean, and it has been a function of time.
Like I said, 30 years ago when I first moved here, you know, I live and work outside of Orlando, and Orlando continues to be a very liberal but tolerable, dare I say that word, a liberal but tolerable town.
Everybody gets along.
I don't see the racism.
I don't see the problems that the mainstream media and the Democratic Party are constantly talking about.
I don't see that.
So you're in central Florida near the, you know, part of the I-4 corridor, and you're a big part of the state.
And how many people have moved there in just the last five years?
Oh, it's astronomical.
It's in the hundreds of thousands.
I mean, and the real estate business, in particular, construction has been booming, which I'm happy about.
My future son-in-law is in that business.
I'm happy for him.
But, you know, the interesting thing is, is that as I look at my state, if you think about just four years ago, the great governor DeSantis basically won by about two percentage points over Andrew Gillum.
And everybody.
No, he won by 33,000 votes in 2018.
Rick Scott won by a little over 10,000 votes.
So that's how close it was.
Right.
But the influx from COVID on has accelerated the baby boomer, you know, moving migration down south, and it's not going to stop.
No.
It's only going to continue.
No, I'll leave you with this.
I think that the election results are just going to enhance the migration south.
That's what I think.
Okay, so then now tell me how does a Republican, and it was already at the point they had to run the table, they'd have to win Florida and Ohio.
Nobody's worried about Florida and Ohio any longer, but now you have to worry about Georgia, North Carolina to a certain extent, although I see them benefiting from this migration a little bit.
But, you know, how is somebody on a national level going to win Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, you know, then go out west and pick off Arizona, Nevada, and then maybe pick up a New Hampshire somewhere in there or some other state to get to the magic number of 270 electoral votes.
It's hard.
And it's just gotten, this is making it dramatically harder.
It's great for Florida, great for, you know, some of these other states I'm mentioning.
Horrible if you're a Republican and you want to win in these blue states.
Listen, I agree.
I don't think it's going to make anything easier on a national level.
I have always been involved in politics in terms of trying to keep up with everything.
And the one mantra that I was taught a long time ago in high school on Long Island was think nationally, act locally.
And that's what I have done.
And I got to tell you, things have changed so dramatically down here, let alone in the last, you know, forget 30 years.
I mean, let alone in the last 10 years, it's changed.
I mean, we have so many people involved in school board races, in local councilmen and councilwoman positions that have changed.
A lot of stuff has changed.
A lot of stuff has changed down here.
Do you agree with my theory?
The overall theory that it's going to be more difficult on a national level?
Yes, I do.
Yeah, that's a problem.
All right.
Listen, you made the smart decision.
Good for you.
And I'm glad you're happy.
And for all the people that were smarter than me, I'm really jealous.
But I'm going to rectify that at some point.
I promise you.
Thanks for the call, Dave.
Appreciate it.
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Sleepy Joe just signed more executive actions in one week than most presidents did in their entire term.
So much for democracy.
Looks like Joe is the new dictator.
Hannity's on right now.
All right, back to our busy phones.
Let's say hi to Brian is in Idaho.
Brian, welcome to the Sean Hannity Show.
How are you, sir?
Good, Sean.
How are you doing?
I'm good.
What's going on?
Oh, hey, I just called to visit with you about the election a little bit and the diesel shortages that they're saying are coming.
I'm a farmer here in Idaho.
Yes, well, I'm a farmer out here in Idaho.
And when I talk to my diesel supplier, America runs on diesel.
You don't get a crop planted without diesel.
You don't get a crop harvested without diesel.
These elections that we're having have serious consequences for how we operate as farms.
I mean, believe it or not, politics play a huge part in what we're doing.
And as I watch these, I call it incompetence in these other states.
I look at Florida and that's the model.
I look at Texas, these big states.
And then I'm looking at Nevada and Arizona.
And, you know, as a person in Idaho looking at it, I'm going, you know, it's hard not to think that there's games being played down there.
They can't get these votes counted.
How far out are we now?
A week, almost a week.
It's a national embarrassment.
Look, just put aside any allegations of nefarious activity.
Just put that aside for a minute.
The idea that we can have 46 states get their election results in record time.
And in this election, I'll just use this one.
You've got Nevada and Arizona and California and Alaska that are a total mess.
It's so unfair to the 46 other states.
It's unfair to the people of those states.
It's unfair to the people that are running for office.
They deserve an answer.
Did they win or did they lose?
And it also, you know, breeds distrust.
You know, Marco Rubio, I keep quoting him, 7.5 million votes counted in less than five hours.
And here we are on day six.
Tomorrow will be election day.
You know, a week out of election day, we'll still be counting ballots in Arizona and California and Alaska.
I mean, we're not any closer to getting a final result.
It is, it's unfair.
It's frustrating.
And listen, it makes people question any, whether there's any integrity in the system.
It breeds a lack of confidence in the outcome.
And it's not fair for either party.
It's not fair for any candidate.
It's not fair for anybody.
And it's humiliating and it's embarrassing.
And it's got to stop.
We're better than this.
And how many more elections are we going to sit and wait?
Oh, we might get a 50,000 drop, a vote drop from we don't know where and we don't know what time.
Just listen to these idiots that are in charge of the county.
It's unbelievable to me.
In our ultimate effort to always try and be as transparent as we possibly can, we're forced to use estimates when giving out information.
We know that right now, based on what we saw in the vault this morning, we've got a little over 50,000 ballots that still need to be counted.
15,900 ballots are currently in tabulation behind us here, being tabulated.
There are 34,130 currently being worked on by the counting board.
How many ballots have been cured?
Whatever the math is on 14,569 minus 9,659.
So it looks like about 5,000.
It's insanity playing itself out before the country.
And it's, you know, we better fix this.
This is a problem of monumental proportions.
Yes, sir.
We'll give you the last word.
I agree.
Oh, I agree 100%.
And back to the diesel shortages.
What I'm afraid is going on as a farmer, we're marketing crops all the time.
The cost of production is getting so high, people haven't seen the food prices that are coming yet, Sean.
So if you're paying about three times what you used to pay for fertilizer, you're paying twice what you used to pay for seed, and you're paying, let's see, double what you used to pay for diesel, and your ability to make a profit is contingent on you raising your prices dramatically, correct?
Absolutely.
You know, it's a mark, you know, on the farmer.
Unfortunately, we don't get to raise the prices.
The market tells us what we're going to get in a lot of ways unless we contract.
But the people we contract to, at Ceason, Idaho, and I'll use potatoes as an example, they're selling that crop out on some of these processors, you know, six, eight months out.
So the public hasn't felt the price that's coming because they've got to raise their prices because I'm not going to go contract potatoes at a loss.
You can't.
You can't keep your farm running.
You don't work for free.
It's such a good point.
Listen, farmers have been telling us, truckers have been telling us, everybody's warning us that this is coming.
And I know this audience won't be surprised.
I won't be surprised for sure.
Anyway, let's go to Mike in California.
Mike, how are you?
Oh, hang on, Mike.
We'll get back to you in a minute.
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