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	If you want to join us, we had a great time last night in Harrisburg, PA.
	It is obviously a very important state.
	Latest Insider Advantage poll has Donald Trump up by two.
	If you look at varying polls from, you know, what's his name?
	Lickman, the professor who everyone says, oh, he's gotten almost every presidential election right based on his formula.
	Not sure if I agree with his analysis, but he says Harris is going to win.
	And then you look at Nate Silver, has his own pretty good track record.
	He says Donald Trump is going to win, 58% chance.
	And then you look at all the other polls in between.
	One thing is certain is that the honeymoon is over.
	Any growth for Kamala Harris has stopped.
	And I would imagine that the only opportunity she may have for growth will be six days from now or five days from now when she debates Donald Trump in Philly.
	We will be there for that.
	We're headed back to Pennsylvania next Tuesday.
	Anyway, here to help break all of this down.
	We have Jeff Bartos is with us.
	I didn't see him until after.
	He was near Dave McCormick, and I felt bad I would have otherwise introduced him to the crowd.
	He was the 2022 U.S. Senate candidate and 2018 Republican nominee for lieutenant governor.
	And the person that knows more about Pennsylvania politics than anybody else on the face of this earth, Selena Zito, National Political Reporter for the Washington Examiner, and actually a pretty darn good grandma.
	I know that for a fact.
	I've had phone conversations with the children myself.
	Anyway, welcome both of you back to the program.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Thanks for having us.
	Selena, let's start with you.
	Let's get your take on the state of where Pennsylvania is and more importantly, what you thought of the town hall last night and what impact it's going to have for President Trump to go all around the state because you have your own formula about how to win the state of Pennsylvania.
	Right.
	I believe that, you know, forever in a day.
	Well, first of all, it was a great town hall.
	It was very informative for the voter.
	I watched it with a bunch of voters last night and a bunch of, you know, all over the place voters.
	And they felt as though they learned more about President Trump than they had before.
	Now, these are voters that are not as engaged as we are.
	So that was very compelling for me.
	You know, the race is not going to be decided in Pittsburgh where Vice President Harris is right now for the next four days, or is it going to be decided in Philadelphia?
	While they are the most populous counties in the state, with the cities within populous counties in the state, they have sort of a ceiling.
	There's just going to be so much you can pull out of them.
	So what you need to win is to win over counties like Erie, Pennsylvania, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, Westmoreland County, Cambria County, where President Trump was last week in Johnstown.
	Well, a lot of people don't understand the importance of those counties.
	President Trump did.
	You know who else did?
	Barack Obama.
	He was in Altoona.
	He was in state college.
	He went to Beaver County.
	He understood that.
	But both Clinton and Harris and Harris to date doesn't seem to grasp that this is where you need to build up the margins and win the election.
	That is a great analysis.
	Let me get your take on it, Jeff Bartos, because I think this is very, very key.
	One thing that the polling also suggests is that Kamala Harris is polling significantly below where Hillary Clinton was in 2016 and where Joe Biden was in 2020 in very key demographics and down double digits by a lot of key demographics.
	Should we glean much out of that or no?
	Yeah, I think we should, Sean.
	First of all, great town hall.
	My father called me about 10 times from Florida when you were broadcasting last night.
	He said, has ever seen such a raucous crowd?
	What was it like?
	I mean, he kept calling.
	So he says hello, and he was super excited.
	It was incredible energy to be there.
	So thank you for hosting that great event.
	And Selena, I have to say also, before we talk about Pennsylvania, thank God that you and your daughter and your son-in-law are okay.
	And the interviews and what you've done, Butler, is really remarkable.
	By the way, just so people will remember, Selena was like three feet away from President Trump when he got shot.
	And bullets were whizzing by her head.
	And we had talked to Selena on air about that in the past.
	But you're right, by the way, Jeff, I echo every comment you just made.
	Yeah, not only does she know more about Pennsylvania politics than anyone, is she great-grandma?
	She's gutsy as hell.
	And thank God you're okay.
	Thank you.
	We're just sucking up for a future run, Jeff.
	I can tell what your motivation is here.
	And by the way, you're doing the right thing.
	I would not want to have Selena against me if I was running in Pennsylvania.
	Well, Cheryl has said I'm not allowed to do that anymore.
	So just good Pennsylvania neighborliness.
	But, yeah, I think that we should pay attention to those demographics.
	And I'd add one more, Sean, which is the Jewish vote, which, for whatever inexplicable reason, President Biden, when he was running, and now Vice President Harris, has told Jewish voters across the nation, and particularly here in the Commonwealth, to get bent.
	And I'll watch my language on a national program.
	But that's their message.
	So I think we should be paying attention to those demographics, not only where Secretary Clinton underperformed, or where she performed in 2016, and President Trump overperformed that.
	He overperformed in 2020.
	And he's going to way overperform here in 2024.
	But I would say another one to add is watch the Jewish vote all over the Commonwealth, but in particular in the Collar counties of Philadelphia.
	I think President Trump is over 40 percent right now, and we're aiming to get him over 50 percent.
	And where was he in the last two elections?
	I don't recall.
	It's somewhere in the 28 to 30 percent range, if memory serves.
	So it's – and on 300,000 voters, every vote's going to count.
	That's obvious.
	But that, along with black men, along with the Hispanic vote, along with all of our energy workers, our veterans, I mean, if we could just keep adding the layers of where President Trump's going to make gains, you know, compared to 2020 and 2016.
	And I think he's trending, along with, by the way, Dave McCormick and Stacey Garrity and Dave Sunday and Tim DeFore, our whole statewide ticket.
	They're all going to overperform what we saw in 2020.
	and in 2016.
	I'd love your take on the Senate race Selena and Dave McCormick seems to have narrowed the gap rather significantly against Bob Casey.
	Now Casey votes with Joe Biden, Kamala Harris 98.6% of the time.
	That means he's a radical new Green Deal, you know, Marxist Democrat, because it's not even socialist anymore.
	$93 trillion is far from socialism.
	And of course, Medicare for all eliminate private health insurance, universal health care, open borders, no fracking, no drilling.
	It's such a big part of Pennsylvania's economy.
	Yeah, so Bob Casey was always going to have a ceiling, right?
	And he pretty much hit his ceiling when the campaign rolled out.
	And he's never gotten any higher.
	Whereas Dave McCormick, who was pretty much an unknown entity to a lot of people, always had the ability, if he did it right, to grow.
	So what has McCormick done right?
	Well, he's gone to these places that are important that I've talked about, like to these rural post-industrial areas.
	He has been relentless in doing that.
	And he's also had a very, very solid message.
	Now, Casey has used two particular attacks on him that haven't stuck.
	They said they tried to use the he doesn't live here.
	That didn't stick.
	Naomi.
	By the way, he grew up in Butler County.
	He's from Pittsburgh, the surrounding areas of Pittsburgh, is he not?
	So he was born in Washington County.
	He grew up in Columbia County, where Bloomsburg is.
	His dad was the head of the university there.
	He played high school football there, got a scholarship there, or was appointed to West Point because of his academics and his wrestling, and then came back after he finished his schooling.
	He's finished his time in the military, then went off to higher education.
	He came back and worked in Pittsburgh.
	I think it was for about 10 years running free markets, a company, was called to serve again in D.C. under the Bush administration, the W. Bush administration, then went off to work in the private sector and then came back to Pittsburgh.
	Sounds like a local guy to me.
	Yeah, Sean, I'll tell you.
	I tried and tried and tried to make that I'm from Pennsylvania and they're not work in 2022.
	And all I'll say to our Democratic friends is keep trying.
	The other thing that Casey has really stuck to running on and it really hasn't worked, I'm surprised that they continue to do it, is this sort of greedflation, snackflation thing, right?
	Where they blame the corporate entities for your snacks being smaller.
	A couple things to unpack here.
	First of all, 80% of the snacks that are consumed in this country are made where?
	Pennsylvania.
	So you're going after your own Pennsylvania companies and the farmers that make the ingredients that go into it and the truck drivers that deliver it and the people that work in the potato chip places and the candy bar places, right?
	So that sort of didn't make sense.
	And also, how is that Dave McCormick's fault?
	Like, there was no connection there.
	So voters were like, yeah, well, we don't like it either, but that's not Dave McCormick's fault.
	But yet they continue to pound on that.
	And they pound on the residency thing.
	And I don't think that it has captured the voters' imagination, who are still skeptical of Casey because he's been in elected office in this state since 1996, but they don't know anything that he's done.
	All right, quick break.
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	More on the pivotal, important state of Pennsylvania, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
	God forbid you say state.
	We check in with Jeff Bartos, more with him and Selena Zito on the other side.
	Your call's coming up.
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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 Nayfak from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
	This is Fiasco, Benghazi.
	What difference at this point does it make?
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	We've been in political media for a long time.
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	We continue our discussion, the all-important Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, only 12 days away from early voting with Selena Zito and Jeff Bartosa with us.
	What is the feeling, Jeff, about Kamala Harris?
	And as much as, I mean, I know I'm getting frustrated.
	I mean, we have all of her radicalism on no banning fracking, banning drilling.
	On day one, I'm going to deal with inflation.
	Well, you told us it was transitory and that Bidenomics, we call it Bidenomics, and we're proud of it.
	How does she get out?
	Yeah, how does she get away with not answering questions, hiding, ducking, dodging, weaving?
	The media is letting her get away with it.
	Are the people of Pennsylvania okay with this?
	Not at all.
	And if I may, just close the loop on the Senate for a second to add to what Selena said.
	The Dems have outspent, they spent $60 million since May on negative ads against Dave, three to one ratio on TV, and they're tied.
	Bob Casey's been in the Senate for 18 years.
	Nobody knows what he's done.
	He's been in elected office for almost 30 years.
	No one can name a thing he's done.
	So Dave's going to win this race in November.
	I can tell you one thing he's done.
	He's voted with Harris and with Joe 98.6% of the time.
	There's your answer.
	98% of the time.
	And so for the same reason that President Trump's going to win Pennsylvania, I think we can look at the Senate race the same way.
	Voters feel insulted.
	I mean, I'll start within my own family and neighborhood and work outwards.
	Cheryl and I are very active in the U.S.-Israel relationship.
	We're very active combating anti-Semitism, not only here, but across the nation.
	And we feel, my friends, our friends, our community feel abandoned by the Biden-Harris administration.
	So start right there.
	And what they've done with Iran, the way they've disrespected Israel, Kamala Harris not even bothering to show up to BB speech, even though she's the presiding officer of the Senate.
	So there's little acts.
	And of course, we don't have time to talk about the complete diss that she did on Governor Shapiro and what that all means.
	But so Pennsylvanians, certainly within our community, feel disrespected.
	They feel like, I hate to use this word, but I think it's fair.
	She's a fraud.
	Someone has put her up almost like a movie, and they're trying to sell something to us that we don't want to buy.
	Pennsylvania is a microcosm of the nation.
	And so everything you just mentioned, whether it's runaway inflation, economic distress, my hometown of Redding is a perfect example.
	Cheryl's hometown of Allentown is a perfect example.
	Things have only gotten worse under the Harris-Biden administration.
	But then you add the crime, the border.
	Two issues I would add that I think are unique, not unique, but special to Pennsylvania.
	Our energy industry, which you mentioned a bunch of times last night on the town hall, Sean, that is going to be a critical, critical issue as we come down the final 60 days here, and President Trump is going to lap Vice President Harris on energy industry.
	And then veterans issues.
	I mean, we have almost 700,000 veterans in Pennsylvania.
	Dave McCormick proudly served in the U.S. Army, West Point Grad.
	But we have almost 700,000 veterans here.
	And the disrespect, the fact that Kamala Harris and President Biden can't even mention the names of the 13 heroes that were killed at Abbey Gate, the service women and servicemen, they don't mention their names.
	Total disrespect.
	They make fun of President Trump for spending the time and for showing respect to those families.
	That resonates with Pennsylvanians.
	It resonates with the almost 700,000 veterans we have here.
	And so, look, sum it up, they ain't buying what she's selling.
	And she's going to have a big loss here on November 5th.
	I appreciate both of you.
	We'll check in again.
	Thank you, Jeff, for coming.
	Selena, we're always great to have you and see you.
	We appreciate all your hard work in Pennsylvania.
	Thank you as well.
	Thank you.
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	Let's say hi to Denise is in Maryland.
	Hey, Denise, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Thanks for being with us.
	Thanks for having me.
	I'm probably one of the less political callers that you'll get.
	But recently seeing the dumpster fire that is the world and the decay and the decline in our country, I've really kind of locked in on it.
	No small thanks in part to my fiancé, who is a disabled Marine veteran.
	And to watch the disgust on his face when he sees this lunacy unfolding around us, it's just broken my heart.
	And so I'm really trying to learn and see with my own two eyes and hear with my own ears what's going on.
	Denise, first say to your boyfriend, tell him Semper Fi.
	Thank him for his service, and our prayers are with him.
	It is hard when you get a debilitating injury or disease in life.
	It's terrible, and it's life-changing, and you sound like a great couple.
	I wish you guys the best.
	Well, thank you.
	And he is, you know, the loyalty and the love of his country, his Constitution, and seeing the disrespect for our military, our police, our first responders.
	And I originally called because I was a little concerned about President Trump's slide to becoming a little less presidential.
	But honestly, last night in the town hall, when he came off with you really don't have a choice, I loved it because he's right.
	There is no other it cracked me up, actually.
	I'm sitting there and I was just kind of laughing.
	That line really stuck out to me, too.
	I mean, but you know, my only fear, Denise, is you're willing to do the work and get informed.
	I'm worried about the people that don't know her radical positions on the border and on fracking and drilling and eliminating private health insurance and Medicare for all and energy and her foreign policy and her economic policies, which I believe the president's right.
	This would lead to a real estate crash and a stock market crash, the likes of which we'd never see.
	Never mind foreign policy.
	And I just shudder to think, you know, if she has unbridled power, we're in deep trouble because those are her real beliefs.
	That's her belief system.
	Right.
	And they are bad actors.
	You can look at them and tell their frauds and their fakes and their body language.
	You can see it.
	And it just makes you want to go through the television.
	I don't know how the American people don't see it.
	If they open their eyes even a little bit, it is truly terrifying.
	But I'm hopeful after the town hall, I really felt energized last night after the town hall.
	Thank you for being there with him.
	You know, it's the fact that she's been allowed not to say but 16 minutes and 20 some odd seconds of words to this country.
	People should be beyond themselves with rage and just disgust.
	And sadly, I just keep going back to the word disgust because it is disgusting what we're facing down right now.
	And I just sincerely hope that this energy that you've started with this town hall moves right into the debate.
	I hope it is an absolute, just devastating blow to her campaign.
	I can't believe it's gone this far, honestly.
	I was hopeful she'd quit.
	But that said, you know.
	Well, she's got the media behind her.
	She's got big tech behind her.
	She's got the deep state behind her.
	Those are powerful institutions and forces.
	And it's never easy for a Republican to win a national election.
	You have to thread the needle and you have to win every race.
	You have to hold on to states that are difficult to hold on to and win states that are always hard for Republicans to win, Pennsylvania being one of them.
	I think it's doable, but we need an informed electorate.
	And that's why I have the Kamala files and the walls files on Hannity.com.
	And, you know, if this audience is able to reach 20,000 people and change their votes, just informing them of them in their own words, that might make all the difference.
	I mean, this race could come down to a couple of hundred thousand votes or less.
	And we have to assume that's the case.
	Anyway, Denise, God bless you.
	God bless your family.
	And I do appreciate you being out there.
	And please call back anytime, okay?
	Absolutely.
	Thank you so much, Sean.
	Take good care, and God bless you.
	You too.
	Amen.
	Dominic Virginia, another Commonwealth.
	What's up, Dominic?
	How are you?
	I'm doing great, Sean.
	Thanks for taking my call.
	The town hall last night was fantastic.
	Trump was fantastic.
	He kept stayed right on message, on point, kept things tight.
	I love the point when you paused at the 16-minute, 29-second mark.
	That was fantastic.
	Loved it.
	But I was calling.
	I tell my staff before the show starts.
	I said, all right, I want a clock.
	I want you to count how much time President Trump is speaking.
	And when we get to 16 minutes and 29 seconds, I want to know.
	And they're in my ear, and they said, they went 16 minutes, 30 seconds away.
	I said, okay.
	And they go, okay, 16 minutes, 29 seconds.
	And I just stood up and I'm like, okay, thank you, Mr. President, because that's all the time Kamala spoke.
	And then at the end, I do what I have often done with him.
	Can we just do a little bit more?
	Because I didn't get to questions yet from the audience because he likes to give comprehensive answers, which is something she won't do.
	But anyway, I interrupted you.
	Go ahead.
	Oh, no.
	All I was going to say is the last thing Kamala's got to run on is abortion.
	And people, I think, are so concerned about abortion right now because the economy is so dismal under the Kamala Harris Biden administration that people have to decide between their own survival or being able to start a family because they can't afford to.
	And I just think that if, you know, if we just focus on the economy and you take her last argument away about abortion, she's got nothing.
	And, you know, her whole slogan is move forward, move forward.
	It's because she wants to forget the past.
	She doesn't want people to talk about the economy.
	She wants to use abortion as this distraction away from the mess that she left our country in.
	And I mean, I just think that if people could connect the dots that, hey, I'll have more money with Trump and everything will be less expensive.
	She has nowhere to go.
	So, I mean, I just think that's the main focus right now.
	It's just the economy.
	And so if you take that away, she's got nothing left.
	Yeah.
	Well, I agree with you.
	I don't even think she has the, I don't think she has anything to run on.
	And that's why she's trying to act as if day one would be January 20th, 2025.
	Day one was January 20th, 2021.
	And she's had four years.
	And then she lied and denied the obvious about the economy.
	And she denied the obvious about what was happening internationally.
	And she denied the obvious on the borders.
	And now she's trying to, through AIDS, act as if bills that she herself sponsored, the new Green Deal, I'll eliminate the filibuster to pass it on day one, no fracking, no drilling.
	The Medicare for all bills she co-sponsored, both those bills with Bernie Sanders, eliminating private health insurance.
	She's acting as if none of this is real.
	And so far, there has been a certain degree of success with this strategy.
	And if it lasts throughout the campaign, that's trouble.
	The more informed the American people are about how radical and extreme she is, the better off we're all going to be, in my view.
	Appreciate the call.
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	Carol, it's great to be home.
	How are you?
	Hey, Carol.
	I mean, hey, Carol.
	Hey, Carol.
	Hey, Sean.
	How are you, Sean?
	Glad longtime listener, first time caller.
	Yes.
	So I liked the town hall last night.
	I can't wait to the questions.
	The American people are a lot smarter than these Democrats give us credit for, and the questions are going to be great, I'm sure.
	So I was looking forward to the questions.
	So we'll see that tonight, right?
	Yes, ma'am.
	Good.
	Okay.
	So I really, really, really, your last caller was right about the abortion.
	That's all she has.
	Okay, so Trump has got to get prepared on this abortion issue for this debate next week.
	It's not enough to just say that it's up to the state.
	You know, David Carlucci was on Harris yesterday, and he starts with the lie, Trump is going to ban abortion.
	Okay, no president can do a national ban or a national abortion law.
	It has to go to Congress.
	Has to change the Constitution.
	That is going to be a constitutional amendment, and that's going to take two-thirds of the House, Senate, 38 states, which makes a convention, and then it has to go three-quarters to each one of the state's legislation.
	Okay?
	So, he needs to tell the people, why do I know this?
	Because my husband's 58-year-old daughter, who's not married, doesn't have children, and is a true cat lady, is as we speak convinced that Trump is going to have a national abortion ban, and she is campaigning for Kamala.
	So, he has really got to wrap this up and explain that no president can ever do a ban or do a national abortion law.
	It now goes to Congress.
	How do we know this?
	When DOPS came out in June of 2022, they had the House, the Democrats had the House, the Senate, and the White House.
	They attempted to get the Women's Health Protection Act passed, which was going to give them everything they wanted, make a national abortion law, and it failed.
	It never passed.
	Why?
	Because all roads lead back to the 10th Amendment.
	Every AG in every state would assert their rights under the 10th Amendment.
	The federal courts would put in a stay.
	So Trump has really got to wrap this up.
	There are women out there that are convinced that if Kamala Harris gets in, that she's going to be able to pass, write an executive order or get Congress to pass something.
	You know, her new thing is, is, well, if Congress passes, then I'll sign it.
	That's what she's doing on the border.
	She's the de facto president right now, by the way.
	She's the one that helped out Pig Losie and her crew to take out Biden and get him off the ticket.
	And so why isn't she closing the border?
	She doesn't care.
	It's worse than that.
	They announced in the last week and a half they're flying in more illegals.
	You know, don't pass go, don't collect 200.
	You know, why bother with making the perilous journey to the border?
	Look, the one thing I would say is I don't think it's effective to talk about, you know, quote, the cat lady comment.
	I just don't.
	I think the issue of abortion is very sensitive for a lot of people.
	Now, the Supreme Court did codify the wide availability of the abortion pill, which basically allows for first trimester abortion.
	President Trump supports it, the widespread availability of it.
	You know, it's back to legal, rare, and I would add the word early.
	I think the Dobbs decision, 15 weeks, I think people that I know that, quote, say they are pro-choice.
	I think that's where the country is.
	I think we saw that in the vote in Ohio.
	I think you'll see it probably in Florida as well.
	And I would just add one more thing: that, you know, putting aside what my values are, I think the real extremism on abortion are those people like Kamala Harris and Tim Walz that allow for late-term abortions.
	And there's absolutely no restrictions on months seven, eight, and nine.
	And at that point, we're now talking about infanticide.
	And that is not something Democrats want to talk about.
	And President Trump has been clear that he doesn't like it, but he understands where the country is, and it's going to be up to the states to decide.
	And the Supreme Court has also weighed in.
	And we've got to pay very close attention because they're going to lie about this issue, demagogue this issue.
	Abortion is not going to be outlawed in America.
	The abortion pill is not outlawed in America.
	It's not going to be.
	And then the states, based on their values, if you believe in federalism, they will decide.
	And that is far better law than Roe v.
	Wade.
	But Democrats, they just want to demagogue it, and they want to make abortion available with no restrictions.
	You know, Governor Newsom summed it up in the debate with Ron DeSantis, you know, after I pushed him for the fourth time to get an answer.
	If there's any restrictions he supports, he says it's between a doctor, a patient, and their conscience.
	So that means no restrictions.
	And that's where Kamala is, and that's where Walls is.
	The problem is, is that there's women out there and they're voters, and they're absolutely convinced that Trump is going to put the ban if he just explains to them that he doesn't have the power.
	No president has the power at this point.
	He has been very clear on it.
	I thought he gave a clear answer in the debate with Joe Biden.
	He's given me clear answers, which is why I didn't feel like asking the question again last night.
	I mean, how many times can I ask the guy the same question?
	But I hear you, Carol.
	I'm listening very closely.
	You're right.
	I think that 2022, the red wave that didn't happen, I think it was all related to abortion and the overturning of Roe v.
	Wade.
	I really believe that.
	All right, real quick, Gerard of Mississippi.
	You got about a minute, Gerard.
	It's all yours, sir.
	Hey, Sean, thank you.
	I really liked your town hall last night.
	Trump hit a little bit on what I said.
	Y'all talked about Keystone.
	My idea is to make Kamala keep playing the copycat game.
	Come out and say, look, I'm going to reopen Keystone right off the bat.
	Make her copy.
	Make her look like just a kid reacting to a toy commercial.
	Yeah, I want that.
	I want that.
	And make her keep doing that.
	Don't leave anything on the table here.
	We can't afford it.
	I think they know it.
	I heard you talking to Corey Lewandowski.
	You know, I don't know what ads are in different states, but hit them with the Kamala saying 18 and 24-year-olds are stupid.
	My son, he never hears that.
	He just, I tell him these things and he says, Well, yeah, okay.
	I, you know, I haven't heard that.
	So they all need to hear this stuff.
	I don't know what platforms they can go on to just throw that out in her voice with, you know, Trump, you know, saying, well, I'm only just short on time or else I'd spend a lot more with you.
	But I can only tell you is that that's why I put up the Kamala files, the walls files, them in their own words on Hannity.com to inform people.
	It's a public service.
	And you can download it.
	You can share it on social media with your friends, your family, your co-workers, your neighbors, and strangers.
	I don't care.
	But, you know, the media is not going to do that job.
	That much I can tell you.
	They haven't done it up till now.
	They're not going to start doing it.
	Anyway, I do have to run.
	I appreciate the call.
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