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Nov. 8, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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Election Day Preview - November 7th, Hour 1

Sean previews Election Day previews around the country and looks to the recent polls.  Biden is falling further than it appeared he ever could!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Yes, an off-year election, but an important one nonetheless.
And anyway, people headed to the polls in a number of key matchups around the country.
The one I'm personally paying the most attention to is out of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
But we also have Kentucky and Mississippi and Ohio and Pennsylvania.
There's a special congressional election in Rhode Island, you know, pitting one individual who appears to be a shoe-in.
But if, you know, if the person fails and big in the district that went for Biden by 30 percentage points, his party will have some serious reassessment to do.
What's most interesting about Virginia, and I'm going to be very blunt here.
Virginia was long out of my mind, you know, for a long time as more and more of the Washington swamp and sewer was moving into Northern Virginia.
You know, obviously the people working for the federal government, D.C. itself is, you know, I think 5% of the people in D.C. voted for Donald Trump.
It just has not been Republican-friendly territory.
And they've moved en masse to Northern Virginia and they make the commute from Northern Virginia to D.C.
And that has just made the Commonwealth of Virginia bluer and bluer and bluer.
And then out of nowhere comes this guy, Glenn Yunken, and he kind of shocked the world.
And I give him a lot of credit.
He ran a great campaign.
And lo and behold, he not only won, he won by a pretty big margin against somebody that's not particularly inexperienced by the name of Terry McCullough, who had been, it previously had been governor.
And anyway, Yunkin won that race.
A lot of it had to do with Loudon County and educating our kids and woke agendas and CRT and all that.
And it's interesting to watch.
Now, Yunkin is halfway through his four-year term.
You don't get consecutive terms as governor in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
And he wants the next two years of his governorship to be productive.
I've had him on TV a number of times.
We even had him on last night.
And he has been at the forefront, thankfully, of pushing that which I have been telling you, which is Republicans have got to get over their reluctance and their resistance to voting early, voting by mail.
I don't think it's an issue in Virginia.
Otherwise, I'm sure he would have brought it up.
But in about half the states, there's something called legal ballot harvesting, defined as somebody else actually handing in another person's ballot.
And Democrats have mastered that technique.
But if Republicans don't adjust and conservatives don't adjust at thinking on how they approach voting and they don't start voting early, now I will tell you, it's very successful in Florida.
Republicans vote early in Florida.
Republicans have no problem.
Conservatives have no problem in Florida voting by mail.
And guess what?
You know, in no time, you get the results of the election because they're actually counting the votes as the votes are coming in, which is smart.
A lot of states are too stupid to do that.
They wait till the polls close.
So anyway, so Glenn Young has put a lot on the line.
Right now, if you look at the House of Delegates, there is a five-seat majority for Republicans in Virginia, yet they have in the Senate, they have a five-seat deficit.
So Glenn Young has been out there recruiting candidates.
He's been campaigning for candidates.
He really thinks this is coming down to Loudoun County.
He really does.
He thinks Loudoun County is going to be very critical.
So as you're watching coverage tonight, and I'll be on 9 Eastern with our coverage, that's probably going to be the one thing that I'm looking at the most here.
But he's trying to win a majority of the legislature.
And again, the Democrats have a five-seat edge in the Senate.
Republicans have a five-seat edge in the House of Delegates.
And the election, you know, many are saying that it'll be a referendum on Youngkin.
I don't go that far.
If he wins, I think he should get a lot of the credit for sure.
He was part of the recruiting process of a lot of these candidates.
And he went all in to go out and campaign and support these candidates.
And he's advanced a series of executive actions on education, criminal justice, signing billions of dollars in tax cuts.
The economy under Yunkin in two years has gone from one of the worst in the country to one of the best in the country.
But Republican victories would heighten speculation, I guess, too, that Yunkin might get into the presidential race.
You know what?
In all the times I've interviewed him and I have asked him the question, I've not gotten the impression that that's at the top of his list.
The top of his list has been and remains focused on today's election in Virginia.
If you're in Loudoun County, if you're in any part of Virginia and you haven't voted yet, you may want to get out and vote before the polls close.
We're also watching the great state of Kentucky where the Attorney General Daniel Cameron recently received an endorsement from President Trump in a pretty heated race to unseat Democrat Andy Bashir there.
Bashir narrowly won a first term in 2019, but is now one of the most popular governors in the country, earning support from around half of the state's Republicans.
So that's going to be a tough uphill battle for Cameron.
I'm giving you the realistic picture.
We're not going to sugarcoat anything here.
But Cameron and Republicans have attacked Bashir for his endorsement of a second Biden term, betting that the president's high unfavorability rate will drag down the Democrats in a state that went big for Trump in 2020.
Let's see what happens there.
We're watching the state of Mississippi tonight, where Republican Governor Tate Reeves is running for a second term.
Pretty red state where he leads by, as of now, single digits.
They've not elected a Democratic governor in Mississippi since 1999.
Backwards, but stay the course.
And Democrats are counting on changes in voting regulations and the name recognition of their candidate, some guy by the name of Brandon Presley, distant cousin of Elvis Presley.
Gee, that's a qualification to be an elected official, right?
We're watching other issues in Ohio today.
Voters are considering two ballot initiatives, one of which will determine if the state will have a constitutional protection for abortion.
The proposed amendment would change the state constitution to grant a, quote, right to one's own reproductive medical treatment and ban authorities from directly or indirectly burdening, penalizing, prohibiting abortion before fetal viability.
I'm not sure if science has even, you know, gathered or gotten to a point of full consensus on it.
But anyway, that's what's on the ballot.
In Pennsylvania, Democrats hold a 4-2 majority on the Supreme Court with a seventh seat up for grabs, and GOP candidate Carolyn Carlusio will be challenging the Democrat Daniel McCaffrey.
The race will shed light on Republicans' prospects there in 2024 after Biden narrowly won there.
What was so disheartening about in my analysis post-analysis in 2022 is, you know, it was late in the game when I had heard that Doug Mastriano didn't have exceptions for rape, incest, and the mother's life.
He lost by the largest percentage of vote.
And Linda, this is your home state.
And but the largest percentage of the vote against the non-incumbent, now Governor Shapiro, since the 1940s.
And I believe abortion played a big part in it.
If you want to know why, the number one reason why I think that Republicans did not perform at the expected levels in 2022, I think abortion was a big part of it.
I think a lot of people, first it was demagogued by the Democrats, and they basically were saying Republicans don't want abortion.
That's not what the Dobbs decision was about.
The Dobbs decision was out of Mississippi.
The Dobbs decision was a 15-week abortion ban after that point.
That's well beyond the first trimester.
And anyway, it seems to be consensus-wise, first trimester, 15 weeks, seems to be where the country is.
However, it's a state issue.
It is not going to be a federal issue.
When I was interviewing the new Speaker of the House, Johnson, I asked him, okay, these are the things you've said about gay marriage.
These are the things you've said about abortion.
Will any of these issues come before this house that you're leading?
And he said, absolutely not, because it's settled law.
He's also a constitutional attorney.
And then he went on to explain in great detail why it wouldn't be a big deal.
So anyway, we'll be watching a lot of that tonight.
I'm not sure what we'll know by the time I get on the air at 9 Eastern tonight, but we'll have our coverage regardless.
By the way, programming note for this show today: Mossab Hassan Youssef, he's been on this program before, Palestinian, author of what was the bestseller book, Son of Hamas, a guy who grew up as the son of one of Hamas's leaders in the West Bank, and then worked as a double agent for Israeli intelligence people.
And anyway, he knows the whole truth about Hamas.
He's got a lot of insight.
And I think it's stuff that people really need to hear.
There's a lot going on in terms of the back and forth.
The reaction by the left to the polling that came out from the New York Times that showed Donald Trump beating Joe Biden in five out of six swing states and only down by two in Wisconsin has scared the hell out of everybody.
I mean, Democrats are just freaking out.
And, you know, they've got to, look, I guess at any time Joe can say he's not going to run or accept the nomination.
I guess he could probably do it, you know, next year when the DNC convention takes place.
I don't know.
But every indication is he wants to stay in.
But anyway, this poll is certainly not good news for Biden, and it certainly wasn't great news for Kamala Harris, who actually fared worse than Joe.
And, you know, people are trying to understand something here.
This is not that difficult to figure out.
And it's, you know, to the mob, the media, they're not understanding something here.
And I think a lot of it is because they're out of touch with everyday people.
All I do is talk to, you know, Americans that I meet in Target in my grocery store.
By the way, Linda, I got another, what are you doing here when I was in Target and in the grocery store recently?
People don't believe.
I'm like, what do you mean?
What am I doing here?
I'm shopping.
I was picking up a present for somebody.
I had a specific present I had to pick up.
And, of course, buying food because I like to eat, which is very obvious.
And my staff knows that my eating is very important to me.
And how the food is made is even equally as important to me.
You're laughing.
Stop laughing.
I mean, this is a long-standing tradition with you.
I mean, I have actually been in Target with you.
And you are definitely, you just shop very quickly.
You don't do a lot of perusing, if you will, but you definitely love to shop.
Okay.
You're not telling the whole story.
So we're with Gomez and Sweet Baby James.
Gomez, my best friend from third grade.
And we just came back from some trip, and you needed to get a gift for Liam, your son.
I always, always get him gifts when I go on the road.
Okay.
So we go inside the Target.
It's one of the big targets.
I like big targets.
All right.
So we get to the toy section.
All right, great.
Finally, I'm watching you literally test out.
He liked choo-choo trains at the time.
Test out every single toy choo-choo train that was there.
And then you're looking at it and you're playing with it and you're seeing how, you know, how it works.
And, you know, then you're looking at the price.
And I can't take it anymore.
This goes on for 25 minutes.
And I'm trying to say this.
I mean, I think that's a slight exaggeration because no, it's really not.
First of all, you were not supposed to be there.
I was supposed to be there alone.
And then you threw me in.
Okay, but then I would have been along.
I would have been waiting in the car wondering what the hell has taken so long to get out of here.
I told you guys, go get your gross fries and fast food.
I'll meet you in a minute.
So, yeah, in a minute.
Okay, so I'm up there with her for 25 minutes.
Then they have a ton of the choo-choo trains.
She's touching everyone, feeling everyone, seeing how everyone works.
She's looking at the price of everyone.
Finally, I can't take it anymore.
I said, sweet baby James, see that cart over there?
Grab that cart.
And then I just, you know, I said, excuse me, move right past her.
I took every train and I threw it in the cart.
I said, we're ready, let's go.
And we walked out.
I bought the choo-choo trains and we got out of there.
Did it true story or not?
Yes.
And then you proceeded to take a car home and I proceeded to take my four bags of things I never would have bought onto an Amtrak train.
Right.
And how happy you were.
Right.
And how happy was Liam?
He was very happy.
The bags were slightly worse for wear, but we got them there.
Yeah, because you'd never make up your mind.
No, I would have made up my mind like a normal person who takes their time and looks at things and is cross-conscious.
That's all.
Okay, you could have been a little cost-conscious in like three minutes.
You didn't have to play with every single choo-choo train.
I guarantee every mom in our audience is going to side with me.
It takes a little time.
No, they're not.
No.
Every guy in the audience shops like I do.
You go on to the bottom of the bottom.
I'm not talking about the guys.
I'm talking about the moms.
I go grocery shopping.
I know where everything is.
I go boom, boom, boom, boom.
And then I check out myself because I can do it faster than the other person.
Oh, I do.
I always do the self-checkout.
Well, you're a very patient man.
That's exactly true.
I've waited 25 minutes before I acted.
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What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith political warfare and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
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Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass.
You're our kind of people.
Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday.
On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen.
I'm Ben Ferguson.
And I'm Ted Cruz.
Three times a week, we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
Nationwide, we have millions of listeners.
Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court.
And we cover the stories that you're not getting anywhere else.
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What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
I'm Leon Mayfook from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco, Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yes, that's right.
Lock her up.
Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Now, this is very interesting to me.
Now, what a lot of you may not know is in politics, in media, there's a lot of focus grouping going on.
You know, they do perceptual studies.
I have read them about me, you know, a big part of my career.
I mean, I'll never forget.
I knew one took place in Atlanta when I was a local host.
And all I knew is that the program director started telling me specific things that he wanted me to do.
And I'm like, well, why am I hearing this now?
I didn't understand.
Then I figured out that they had done a big perceptual study or a big focus group study.
And I asked if they would share it with me.
And they said no.
I'm like, well, that's kind of crappy.
I mean, how am I going to learn how to be a better host if I don't listen to what people that are listening to the show when asked about the show are saying about the show?
Anyway, long story short, I knew where there was a copy of one of the studies.
And I just happened to be in the radio station late one night.
And I just happened to go in the room where the book was.
It was a big binded book, bound book.
And I read it.
I read it cover to cover.
And there were a lot of things that I learned.
And what I learned about, and I've seen many, many focus group studies on me over the years.
And what's funny about people that are on air, a lot of them can't handle it.
They can't read things that are negative about themselves without it affecting them.
I didn't really look at it that way.
And what I discovered, and it became more solidified in my thinking over the years, is that, you know, people will shout at you if you're doing things on air that they don't like.
And then if you actually listen to the constructive criticism of people that are really, really honest.
Now, people in focus groups, people that are sitting in a room and being asked specific questions about either a politician or an on-air talent, whatever, they're brutally honest.
And the thing that was most valuable to me was when I would read what's called verbatims, and that is people just speaking from their heart and saying, I like him, I like his politics, but I can't stand that he interrupts his guests too much, which was a very big criticism, especially earlier in my career.
I still occasionally get it, although I've gotten so much better at it.
I don't get credit for it, which frustrates me because I truly do try to let conversations breathe.
Anyway, so I sat there and I read it all.
Eventually, after I left the station, I stayed in touch with Sluggo, who was the program director at the time, and I shared the story with him that I did that.
And he said, he basically, he couldn't believe I did it.
But it's a true story.
I did do it.
And from that point on, I actually sought out research like this because I learned a lot from my audience on how to be a better host.
A lot of people can't handle that.
In politics, a lot of politicians can't handle it.
Now, what is this leading up to?
I read this piece that was really interesting today in Politico.
And, you know, for example, the issue dealt with ads that were produced that focused on Donald Trump's legal problems.
These ads were put together by an anti-Trump group.
And to sum it up, all of the ads they created about Donald Trump that focused on his legal problems, none of them worked.
It didn't resonate with the people in the focus group.
So the question is, well, how will Donald Trump's legal problems impact his chances to win the 2024 election?
Now, I brought this up last night on the TV show.
We had Governor DeSantis on, and I asked him, I said, okay, you see the polls, and I said, by any objective analysis, every time Donald Trump now has been arrested and arraigned four separate times, by the way, in jurisdictions that hate him, and I would argue he's going to have probably be convicted in at least three of them.
I don't believe myself that Donald Trump can get a fair trial in New York.
I just don't believe it.
I don't believe he can get a fair trial in Washington, D.C. either.
I don't believe he can get a fair trial.
And I lived in Georgia in Fulton County, Georgia.
I think Florida might have a better shot, but I think his best chances are going to be on appeal.
I mean, this civil case going on in New York is a joke.
This judge is a joke.
It's, you know, the idea that he's clinging to this idiotic notion that Mar-a-Lago's $18 million is laughable.
But regardless, and when he said yesterday, I don't want to hear from the person on the stand.
I'm not here to listen to that person.
I'm like, yeah, that's kind of what your job is.
You listen to the answers.
Long story short, Politico puts this piece out today.
It's an anti-Trump group.
In late September, they opposed Donald Trump and they were testing four specific TV ads aimed to weaken the former president by focusing on the central issue of his campaign in their minds, which is the myriad of legal troubles that he has.
Now, one spot, which was surveyed before an online panel of Republican primary voters, declared that the indictments against Trump had worn him down and undercut his ability to win the election.
A second ad said that the trials presented, quote, too much baggage and warned that Democrats would sensationalize them to hurt Donald Trump as a candidate for president.
The hardest-hitting commercial raised the specter that Trump would be convicted, leading President Joe Biden to, quote, cruise to re-election.
All of the ads at the ads at the end of the day shared only one thing in common beyond the topic of which they all focused.
They all failed or they actually backfired.
Now, think about on paper, if I would have told you two years ago that you're going to have a presidential frontrunner that is going to be arrested four times and indicted four times and arraigned four times and be on trial four times in an election year, you know, would you think that that person after every arrest, would you believe that their poll numbers were likely to go up?
Because I'm arguing that, you know, all conventional thinking, all conventional wisdom about elections, I thought I knew everything, would tell me, nah, that probably would hurt that person.
But that's not been the case.
I mean, in this sense, Donald Trump has been able to defy conventional political gravity, and every time he's been arrested, every time he's been arraigned, his poll numbers go up.
I would imagine if you're one of his opponents in the primary, you might be saying, oh, this sucks.
You know, how did that happen?
So what was interesting, three of the four ads actually boosted Donald Trump's support among participants.
One, which was a softer touch spot that featured a voter saying that Trump's trials worry him, had no measurable impact on Trump's numbers.
None.
Now, these ads, because they didn't get the feedback that they wanted, so they didn't air anywhere, but along with nearly 260 pages of accompanying data analysis was obtained by Politico.
This is where I'm reading the story from.
And strategists with the conservative anti-Trump Political Action Committee, I'm not sure how conservative they are.
But anyway, they decided to shelve the commercials, and those commercials likely will never see the light of day.
But the behind-the-scenes deliberations around the ads do want, it does underscore how Donald Trump's legal problems have, if anything, helped not hurt his standing in the primary.
Now, I don't care if Donald Trump is being accused of increasing the valuations of properties that he owns for the purpose of getting better loan terms and better insurance rates.
And the judge in the case values a property like Mar-a-Lago that's it's worth somewhere close to a billion, maybe more, maybe less.
I don't know, but it's hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars.
And for him to just stand by the $18 million figure and not budge, he's guilty of that which Donald Trump's being accused of.
Now, you add to that that inside of every contract that the Trump organization put together when they were applying for loans or applying for insurance, they put in a waiver saying, don't follow our valuations.
Not that any insurance company or lender would.
They're not going to listen to a borrower and what the borrower thinks that their collateral may or may not be worth.
They're not doing that.
They have a fiduciary responsibility to do their own valuations.
They've got to bring in their own appraisers.
I mean, it would be insane to think it would be elsewhere, you know, any other way.
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It is interesting.
I mean, Democrats are in a full-fledged panic now after the New York Times Sienna poll put Trump ahead of Biden by up to 10 points and five swing states.
If this holds, that is a 300 electoral college landslide.
Now, Joe Biden obviously is weak and frail and is in significant cognitive decline that is not going to get better.
Cognitive decline, unfortunately, people get progressively worse.
I think we're watching it unfold before our very eyes.
It's degenerative in nature.
Anyway, so three times as many voters think that the nation is headed in the wrong direction.
Yet another poll, 76% think that Joe Biden's doing a horrible job.
If Americans cannot name a single thing that Joe Biden has done and done successfully, how is it possible for him to win?
Now, add the context of what these trials are going to be about, because I've often thought about this.
How will independents in America react to the idea that in all likelihood, based on the fact that they didn't bring these cases, like the Stormy Daniels case, the Alvin Bragg case, they could have brought that case in 2018.
They didn't.
Although I guess you can't indict a sitting president.
They certainly could have done it right at the start of 2021.
This whole issue in Washington, January 6th, they could have brought that in January of 2021 also.
They could have brought the case in Fulton County, Georgia in January of 2021.
Why did they all wait to an election year to have a trial?
Now, look, it's still New York, so I can't say for sure, but I got to imagine that after this dopey judge in this case in New York in the civil trial, you know, throws the book at Donald Trump because it's a predetermined outcome anyway, and Donald Trump brings it up on appeal.
I think it's going to be like Bob McDonald.
Bob McDonald, former Virginia governor, got convicted, 11 felonies.
And by the time it finally got to the Supreme Court, everybody would know the Supreme Court very rarely has a unanimous verdict on anything, but they voted unanimously to vacate all 11 felony convictions against Bob McDonald.
Now we're going to have the trials in jurisdictions that are not friendly to a conservative or a Republican or Donald Trump in the election year 2024 and where he would fare better, where there would be at least some hope of some legal integrity in the system on appeal.
That would happen post-election.
Now, how do you not make the case that that is a kind of election interference, that a kind of unfairness to the process?
Democrats love it because they think it's going to work out.
Maybe this is a canary in the poll coal mine that we're reading here out of politico.
I don't know.
I really don't.
But I will tell you, you know, if you're looking at the borders, you're looking at the Biden economy, you're looking at inflation, you're looking at gas prices, heating and cooling prices, if you're looking at, you know, the cost of everything being higher.
Now we have 8% 30-year fixed-rate mortgages.
That has basically brought the homebuilding industry to a standstill.
Sale of pre-existing homes.
Nobody's given up their 3% 30-year fixed rate mortgage for an 8% 30-year fixed rate mortgage unless they absolutely have to.
And if they're moving for a job, they're probably going to negotiate that the new company that they're going to work for compensate them for this.
Otherwise, why would they do it?
Why would they do it?
All right, we have a lot of ground to cover today.
We're going to talk about this with our pollsters, Matt Towery and Robert Kahale, on the other side.
Also, later in the program today, author of the best-selling book, Son of Hamas, Mossab Hassan Youssev, actually grew up and his father was one of Hamas's leaders.
Knows more about this organization than probably anybody would ever imagine.
That's all coming up.
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We'll let you know what's happening in these states and much more.
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And of course, our election coverage.
We've got a busy night.
When we come back, we'll look at the polls.
What does it mean for Donald Trump and everybody else in between?
What is tonight going to look like?
Our pollsters are next.
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