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We are only a mere 60 days until Election Day.
Early mail-in ballots are being sent out today in North Carolina.
then in other states around the country as well, Delaware, et cetera.
11 days till early voting in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, where we were earlier this week, and we'll be next week for the debate.
That is on Tuesday with President Trump and Kamala Harris.
That'll be the longest she has spoken off the cuff in her life, maybe since the last time she debated, and that was what, against Mike Pence.
One of the issues we haven't spent a lot of time talking about demographically, one thing that Kamala Harris is now finding in all of the polls is that she is trailing fairly dramatically where Hillary Clinton was in 2016 and where Joe Biden was in 2020.
And demographically, when you look at the numbers, you see that she is trailing where they both were in a lot of cases by double digits and among very specific demographic groups, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, women, men.
The only one she's one point up in, and that would be older people.
And that means that she's not at this point in the campaign doing anywhere near as well as either Hillary or Joe Biden were doing at this point in the race when they were running.
And I know that surprises people because if you turn on any of the fake news, oh, things are going great.
They're wonderful.
They're outstanding.
They're amazing.
I think one thing that people have learned about Donald Trump is if you look at his policy positions on the economy, you know, we've learned a lot, for example, about, you know, a lot of the jobs that have come out.
You know, millions of them are going to illegal immigrants, and that is taking jobs away from Americans.
We learned that when Donald Trump was president pre-COVID, he had set record after record after record low unemployment for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, women in the workplace, African-American youth unemployment.
Those are things that no other administration had ever accomplished before.
We saw what happened with the price of gasoline when we became energy independent for the first time in 75 years.
We saw what Donald Trump did for minorities with historically black colleges and universities, the largest financial commitment of any administration in the history of the country.
We also saw what he did with criminal justice reform.
To this day, I'm still friends with and love Alice Maureen Johnson.
Nobody can ever forget that moment when she came out of prison.
She was a one-time offender, and it was a drug offense, and she was going to spend the rest of her life in prison.
And this woman has such a good heart that she accepted her fate, and she spent her time in prison rather than being bitter, angry, or checked out.
She used it to basically start a ministry to help a lot of the younger inmates in the prison and help them to develop their lives and their faith and skills that would prevent them from ever going back because they were getting out of there and she wasn't until Donald Trump came along and Donald Trump with criminal justice reform.
Well, that was promised by many Democrats.
They never did it.
Another case has to do with our good friend, Charles Duke Tanner.
And by the way, he has a new book out, Duke Got Life and a Boxer's Fight for Freedom and One Last Shot at Redemption.
It's a powerful testimony to the strength of the human spirit and the quest for justice.
And anyway, he's a promising young boxer.
His life was shattered when he was sentenced to two life terms.
He didn't want to die behind bars.
Who would want that?
And anyway, he had the world at his feet when he was 20.
He was undefeated, a professional, 19 and 0.
He was on the cusp of fulfilling his lifelong dream of becoming a world champion.
And then he was faced with the harsh reality of providing for his family.
He took a detour into the world of drug dealing.
And he was put in jail.
And it became a grueling 16-year battle against an unbeatable justice system that didn't give a rip about him.
Or did they not believe in redemption or second chances?
Anyway, Charles Duke Tanner's back on the program.
How are you, my friend?
I'm doing great.
How are you doing today, sir?
Why don't you just tell us a little bit about that story?
I mean, here you are.
You're 19 and oh.
I mean, you're on your way.
You know, Mike Tyson, you know, watch out.
I mean, go back and look at some of the YouTube videos of Mike Tyson throughout his career knocking everybody out.
I mean, he was an amazing boxer, but so were you.
You were an amazing boxer.
You had this bright future.
And what happened?
How did you make a wrong turn?
Well, first and foremost, I always give my praise and glory to God, you know, because without him, I wouldn't be here today.
I mean, I come from Gary, Indiana.
It's no excuse for what I did, but we couldn't run to certain people and get loans and know how to get grants of these things.
We weren't brought up taught like that.
So, you know, the guys that had money in that will help you that I knew was, you know, the drug dealers or the robbers or things of that nature.
So I needed money to, you know, help support my family at the time because if I felt like everybody was on my shoulders and I needed to be successful in boxing, which was my dream to help take them out of that field and that community.
And so I went to the streets and I started working for this guy, Domestic guy, Abraham Lee, who ended up getting his own personal troubles.
Him and Warren Moore, who was like, you know, guys we looked up to who's both boxers and older than me.
And then they started cooperating with the government.
And I refused.
I wanted to accept my responsibility for what I did, you know, without relying on other people to get a lesser amount of time.
And the justice.
So you basically are saying you would have gotten a better deal if you would have started ratting out other people and not taking responsibility for your actions.
I mean, that's what they wanted me to do, and I refused to do it.
And they pretty much said in my citizens transcript, the judge said, they gave you ample amount of time to help yourself, and you chose not to.
That's why I'm giving you a double life sentence today.
Man, oh, man, that must hit you like a ton of bricks.
I mean, but if you look at it, who do I got to tell them?
The bosses set me up.
You know, you're supposed to go up the tree, not down the tree.
So they just, I mean, but I mean, I'm not here for mercy on that, but my arrest on the guidelines now for what will happen to a guy like me, I could get as low as five years.
You know, so where do these life sentences come from?
It makes no sense on this criminal justice system.
And that's why I'm so thankful that President Trump signed off on the First Step Act because it freed and helped over 30,000 people as of today to be released home to their families.
So let me ask you for all those years, how many years total were you in prison?
What, 16 years?
Yes, I was over 16 years.
What was that like waking up in prison every day?
I mean, it had to suck.
I mean, it sucked, but when you got a vision and, you know, I had built a stronger relationship with God.
I was, you know, my fight was to get home to my son who's two years old, who had the mindset that you received in the book, Duke Got Life.
You know, he got his own chapter in there where he explained what he went through.
So so many other kids and even parents would know how to deal with a situation.
And even mine was worse because it was said I was never coming home.
And federal custody life means you come home in a fine box.
So I just had to get up every morning before I put my feet down on the ground and say a prayer and say, no matter what, I'm going home today.
And I used to tell myself that every morning I'm going home today.
And October 21st, 2020, I said I was going home that morning.
And by 5 o'clock p.m., I was in the hotel.
Did you know you were going home that day?
Are you just praying you're going home that day?
I said, every morning I woke up since 2010, I would tell myself after I pray, I'm going home today.
And that was just something that I always said.
Let me ask you this about prison, though.
Prison is a tough place.
There are tough people in there.
There's a lot of fighting in there.
I mean, you got to fight to survive, but I got to imagine your boxing skills probably kept you pretty safe and protected you from anybody challenging you.
Or if they did, God help them.
Am I guessing right?
No.
Prison in a USP, which is, you know, you start off, you got the camp, which is the lower level.
Then you got the low, then you got the medium, then you got the high.
I started off in the high.
I mean, it is, you, you see fights, but that's because they have to happen.
But most of the time, people are stabbing you or, you know, a bunch of other guys jumping on you together and stabbing you.
So they don't care about your boxing or whatever you got.
I mean, if it got to go, it got to go.
I believe that my boxing show helped me with my discipline and my character as a person that make me mind my own business and, you know, stay in my lane to where I was okay like that.
But if you go, are you saying that if you go into prison and you mind your business and you just, you just, you know, keep your head down, that you'll probably be okay?
Or are there still bad people that would come after you?
No, it's going to be people that's going to try you.
But I'm basically saying the character, your character is what makes you survive in there.
If you're the type of person that's, you know, you steal it, you be in other people's business.
You talk behind people's backs, stuff like that.
You know, those type of things get you dealt with quickly.
They get you killed.
And you saw people get killed in prison?
I was a murder every year in the USP that I was in.
The last murder that happened, it was in USP Macquarie in Kentucky.
The kid wasn't in the unit 30 minutes, and they pretty much tried to cut his head off.
He was stabbed 72 times.
Oh, my gosh.
What changed your heart?
And how did this happen with Donald Trump?
And how did you receive, you know, how did you get this opportunity to get out?
It's through prayers.
And I got denied.
All my appeals have been denied.
And then the Obama administration denied me clemency in 2016 when he left office.
So, you know, it was over with.
But I made a vow to write the White House once a month.
I was in the same letter.
I had a dream.
God told me President Trump was the one that was going to let me out.
So I focused and wrote them every month.
And then I will also write the different advocates that was fighting, that was working with the presidents and the agencies.
And people like the Candu Foundation, Brittany Burnett, Alex Winnerie Johnson, all these people kept hearing like, who is this kid that got all this time for his first arrest, never been in trouble?
I took every program that the BOP had, and my letter came across Brooke Rylands, who was working with the administration at that time.
And she was just like, all the advocates are saying, look into this case.
And she gave it to the president, and he read it for a fact.
And he came back, they said, a week later and said that, hey, I signed off on this kid, petition him to go home to his son.
That's what I did.
You ever talked to President Trump since then?
I actually got to meet him, me and my son in Mar-a-Lago November of last year.
And he, the first thing he's telling me, how beautiful my son is and our teeth, and that I got a hard, I got a hard census.
And he was just like, this makes no sense because, you know, we came under the 100 to 1 ratio of crack cocaine and powder cocaine that don't doesn't exist.
And there were so many men still sitting with life sentences in 30 years.
And he just said, I know you're going to go out to be great things, but your son is going to be great.
And we smiled it off with Coach Lou host.
And we walked away.
And he tapped me on the back and said, continue to be a great father.
I know your son.
I love you.
I remember the words like it was yesterday.
What an incredibly inspiring story.
All right, quick break.
We'll come back.
More of our conversation with our good friend, Charles Duke Tanner, his new book, Duke Got Life, a Boxer's Fight for Freedom and One Last Shot at Redemption, Amazon.com, Hannity.com, bookstores around the country.
All right, we continue now with Charles Duke Tanner.
Duke Got Life is new book.
It's on Hannity.com, Amazon.com, bookstores around the country, a boxer's fight for freedom and one last shot at redemption.
I hope people pay attention to this.
What do you say to the African-American community that are always told Republicans and conservatives are racist and sexist and all these horrible things that they're not?
I don't think I'm a real dark-skinned man, and I think I'm black as I can be.
And President Trump could have said no to me if he was a racist or if the Republican Party, they didn't want to help so many, you know, different races based on that's what a racist is.
They're not dealing with none but their kind.
Like I said, the First Step Act bill alone let go over 30,000 people early.
I'm not saying all 30,000 was black, but we had a big number in that percentage, maybe more than half.
So I would say that you guys got to do your homework.
And to start off doing your homework, go to Amazon and order Duke Got Life.
I highly recommend it.
It's great.
And how much do we love Alice Marie Johnson?
Is she not the best or what?
That's my mom.
I think I want to adopt her as my mom.
I love her so much.
Charles Duke Tanner, it's called Duke Got Life, a Boxer's Fight for Freedom, One Last Shot at Redemption.
God bless you.
And I'm glad you're free.
And I'm glad you're with your family.
And God bless your son and the rest of your family.
All right, my friend.
Thanks, Talass.
All right.
Appreciate you being with us.
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We got such a huge reaction to our town hall in Harrisburg this week.
We had part two last night, and this was, well, me asking the final question about whether he ready for Kamala to agitate, aggravate, annoy, and piss him off during the debate, but also questions from the people of Harrisburg for President Trump, something that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz will never do.
But let's play that portion that we aired last night on TV.
Senate candidate from Pennsylvania.
Senator, great to have you.
Give you a chance to say a couple of words.
Yes, thank you.
Thank you, Sean, and thank you for Mr. President for being here at the Keystone State.
And the Keystone State is going to decide the future of the country and put you back in the White House and a majority in the Senate.
Thank you.
Thank you, Vote.
And, you know, Mr. President, it's a scary time in the world.
Our adversaries around the world, Iran, China, Russia, North Korea, are testing us.
They're challenging us.
We've lost deterrence.
They think America's weak.
They think America's on retreat.
And my question to you is on day one, when you're back in the White House, how do we restore deterrence?
How do we bring strength and capability back to our military?
And how do we make sure that everybody in the world knows that America is back?
So thank you, David, and good luck with the race.
It's really important that you win.
I hope you're going to vote.
He's a great gentleman and a great, he's a great warrior.
The first thing we have to do, we have to strengthen our country from within.
And we have a lot of bad people from within, but we have to straighten it.
We have to, number one, have a border like we had it four years ago, which was slum, where the wrong people didn't get in.
We have to have that.
The other thing, we want to become, again, energy independent.
We were energy independent 40 years ago.
And what we really want is energy dominance.
And then, as you know, I rebuilt the entire military and we had it like nobody has ever had it before.
And then this guy gave away $85 billion worth of equipment to Afghanistan in the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country.
But we have a lot more than that.
We rebuilt the military.
We want to be strong, but we want to do it peace through strength.
That's what we want.
Peace through strength.
We shouldn't have to use our military.
You're going to have the greatest military in the world.
Thank you, Daniel.
All right.
Ma'am Ty, what's your name?
My name is Deborah Williams.
Hi, Deborah.
How are you?
I'm good now.
Hi, Deborah.
Oh, because of me or because of the president?
I'm just guessing.
No, I'm kidding.
I pleaded the fifth.
Good answer.
Mr. President, I want to thank you for coming and sharing your time with us today.
Thank you, Deborah.
What could you share that you've learned during the first time being in the Oval Office for those who are hesitant to vote for you now?
So we need a strong president.
And, you know, I actually think we had a very stable administration, but we were hit with this weaponization.
We were hit to weaponize.
They've never done this before.
The weaponization, all of the different Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, all of the different hoaxes, and we won every single one of them.
The most important thing, and I found it, and you could say this is true in business also, we have to get the right people.
When I first went there in 2016, we were, I had a lot of good people, I had a lot of good advice, but I put people in that in some cases were not what I really wanted.
And I know now the people, and I know them better than anybody would know them.
So thank you very much.
Thank you, Governor.
Lamb, hi.
La'am, what's your name?
Sue Helm.
And I'd like to welcome you to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
We love you both so much.
Thank you.
I'm a small business owner.
I'm the owner of Century 21 at the Helm Real Estate.
The four years of your presidency, Mr. Trump, were the best economically I have experienced in the 35 years I owned this business.
And my question is: what are your plans and policies to restore the economy so small business owners can thrive and make America great once again?
Good.
Thank you.
You know, we had a woman who was very spectacular, Linda McMahon, and she ran the Small Business Administration, did a phenomenal job.
And that's a very important group for what we're talking about with small business.
But to put it a little simpler, we're going to have low interest rates.
We're going to have low taxes.
We're going to give you tremendous incentive to grow and to build your business.
Small business is much bigger than big business in this country when you add it all up.
And we're going to take care of small business in this country.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, Ma'am.
Sir, what's your name?
Travis Pinkenbinder.
I'm from Palmyra, Pennsylvania.
I'd like to welcome you both here, and it's an honor to stand before you.
Thank you, Trevor.
Mr. President, is it possible to correct the extensive damage the current administration has caused related to our safety and security?
From the border crisis to the plethora of weapons left behind in Afghanistan, I fear for my three adolescent sons.
At night, what do I tell Kale, Kate, and Cole about their safety and their future of this great nation?
Well, the first thing you should do is pray.
Amen.
Because what they've done to our country, right?
What they've done to our country, what these, and I hate to use the word, what these stupid people, naive people, but bad people, you know, weaponization.
Again, they're after me.
I got more court cases.
On Friday, I have one.
On Monday, I have one.
And they do that for very bad reasons.
They don't want you to campaign.
They want to keep you off the campaign.
They want to try and take as much money as possible instead of putting it in.
But let me just tell you, the hardest problem we have, because a smart president will be able to get along with Russia, China.
There are a lot of reasons why.
But the biggest problem we have is they've allowed 21 million people into our country.
And I told you last night, I tell you tonight, it's the single biggest problem.
They've poisoned our country.
They're coming in from prisons.
They're coming in from mental institutions.
Terrorists are coming in.
The criminals are coming off the streets in Caracas, Venezuela, but all over the world, not just in South America.
It's the single hardest problem that we would have never had.
If I were president, you wouldn't have that problem.
You wouldn't have inflation.
You wouldn't have Russia attacking Ukraine.
You wouldn't have had October 7th with Israel.
You wouldn't have had the Afghanistan disaster, which I think is the most single, most embarrassing day in the history of our country, where they have billions of dollars of equipment.
We lost 13 great, great soldiers, and I celebrated and honored their wonderful, they call them their children, then they are their children.
They're wonderful children.
They're kids.
I went to Arlington Cemetery with them the other day.
And at their request, at their request, and John knows this better than anybody.
And it was very tough for me to get there.
I will tell you, I don't want to say that, but it was very tough.
I was in a different part of the world, frankly.
And I got there, and we had a beautiful couple of hours together.
First, we had a ceremony, and then we had a, we went down to the grave sites, and they said, sir, could we have a picture with my son?
In one case, it was a daughter.
Could we have a picture with my daughter?
We took pictures.
We had, I stayed for a long time, and then I left, and that was it.
I thought it was beautiful.
And those people are phenomenal, what they've done.
Joe Biden and Kamala killed those children because of their incompetence.
Just like they had, just like they had a gun that killed them.
And I went home and I thought it was a beautiful thing.
I told my wife, I told a great first lady who people love.
They love her.
I said, it was so sad and yet so beautiful and joyful in a sense.
I mean, the people, they had something that was very special.
And I went there and, you know, I had them up to Bedminster.
I got to know many of them, most of them.
But I get home and I get a call from one of my people, sir.
They're saying that you use this for public relations purposes.
And you know what happened?
It was so beautiful.
Every one of those people made a video to say that Donald Trump came home.
I got enough publicity.
I don't need publicity.
I'd like to get half the publicity.
I'd be very happy.
But they said that, and you saw the videos, the videos became very, very well-known and famous, actually.
Some beautiful statements.
And I went there.
I got nothing out of that except to take care of people that were not taken care of by our government.
And Joe Biden and Kamala should call those people and apologize because that was the most incompetent withdrawal in the history of our country.
There has never been anything so.
Think of it.
We took the military out first.
You're supposed to take the military out last.
Once the military was gone, they had free shots at us.
But we took the military out first, and then it began.
We lost 13 soldiers.
Many were horribly wounded, meaning no legs, no arms.
The face was obliterated.
Many, we don't even talk about those people, and we have to.
And for them to go out of their way, and every one of them made a video.
They said, sir, could you take a picture next to the grave of my son?
I said, of course.
Could you imagine if I said, no, I don't want to do it.
I don't want to do it.
But every one of those people appreciated it, and every one of them made a tape and they sent it out.
And it became very viral, as they say nowadays.
And it was a great honor for me to be there.
Thank you.
And I should add, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden were both invited.
And this was not, you knew these families.
You had met with them at Bedminster.
You were familiar with them.
I knew them.
And they invited you.
You went, and they said, would you take a picture?
And then you did.
And then you were attacked by, and then the families were furious to Kamala about it.
I want to ask you one final question.
In five nights, you'll be on the stage, not with me, but with Kamala Harris.
Now, if I'm going to make a prediction, I think she's going to try and annoy, agitate, irritate, frustrate, and piss you off, to use a phrase.
And are you aware of how she debates and probably every name in the book she can call you?
And without giving away your tactics.
Yeah, you don't want to do that.
But, you know, when I had Biden, you and I had the same discussion.
And I let him talk.
I'm going to let her talk because, you know, you've all seen it.
There are those that say that Biden is smarter than she is, okay?
And if that's the case, we have a problem.
But, you know, debating is an interesting thing.
I've been in many debates.
I think I probably won because of debating, maybe.
You know, we had a lot of debates with the Republicans.
Then we had Crooked Hillary.
We had a lot of different people we had to debate.
And we had some great debates.
You do remember the Rosie O'Donnell debate.
Remember Rosie?
Rosie O'Donnell.
That's a real, she's a real great one.
Isn't she a great one?
Anyway, but a debate is interesting.
You really, you can go in with all the strategy you want, but you have to sort of feel it out as the debate's taking place.
I've seen it.
You go in there and you have a strategy.
Mike Tyson made the statement: everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.
It's true.
It was a brilliant statement.
It's a brilliant statement.
So I can tell Sean exactly what I'm going to do, but, you know, things change.
It depends a lot on ABC.
Will they be fair or not?
If they're not going to be fair, I'm going to be a little bit different than if they are.
If you know she's going to try and annoy you, but that's.
Well, I think we have a bigger problem.
I think that ABC will try and annoy her.
I bet that's her.
Okay.
All right.
That was our interview, our town hall with President Trump from earlier this week in Harrisburg.
The people were phenomenal.
I want to thank the people of Harrisburg again for hosting us and coming on out and a massive crowd.
Wrap things up for today.
Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern on the Fox News channel.
Obviously, the big delay in President Trump's sentencing till post-election.
We'll get to that.
Also, the continued lawfare and weaponization of justice.
We've got Alina Habos is going to be on the program of a Vaik Ramaswamy, New Kingrich, Tammy Bruce tonight, Joe Concha, Charlie Hurt, Jimmy Phela, DVR, Hannity, 9 Eastern on Fox.
We'll see you tonight back here on Monday with only 57 days until Election Day and only eight days until early voting in Pennsylvania.
And yep, ballots are out in North Carolina.
We'll have the latest news you'll never get from the media mob, Monday Edition, Sean Hannity Show.
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