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Oct. 10, 2024 - Sean Hannity Show
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Governor Ron DeSantis - October 9th, Hour 1

Governor Ron DeSantis joins Sean to talk about how he's putting Florida before politics and getting his state ready for Hurricane Milton.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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when early voting starts, when it stops, how to do mail-in voting, every question you might have as a public service and as a public service, the Kamala files, her radicalism in her own words, and the Walls files, his radicalism in his own words, that I think slowly is beginning to penetrate into the consciousness of the American people going on, what, nearly 80 days since the big switcheroo.
And what did I say when it was announced, I guess, on Monday on this program, that Kamala was going to be going on this big media tour?
What did I say?
I said, there's got to be a reason.
And we know what the reason is.
The reason is, I said, I suspect, and we'll find out in the days ahead, that her polling internally is not good.
However, she didn't particularly make the best choices.
You know, the Call Me Daddy podcast, not exactly a podcast known for its hard-hitting political analysis.
Is it going to help people that were already voting?
All these choices are venues and or hosts that are already voting for Kamala Harris.
And of course, that hard-hitting news show, The View, Stephen Colbert telling Trump to F off last night, and he wonders why his show's been cut down to four days a week like Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel, and why late-night hosts are just, they're dying on the vine and probably won't be around in a few years, and why hosts like Greg Gutfeld are doing so well because he's actually funny.
I mean, something that they have long forgotten about, and they've become just, you know, the extension of the Democratic Party and radical extreme environmentalism and socialism and the whole works, open borders, you name it.
But I suspected that the reason this was all happening is because the polling internally is not good.
And I have a lot of confirmation to back this up today.
I mean, you know, when Kamala said on the view that she, you know, she wouldn't do one thing differently than Joe Biden, well, okay, well, then that means the open borders, you're still defending it, even though you say you're going to change it on day one.
And day one was January 20th in 2021.
Inflation, you said, was transitory, but, you know, we're going to deal with inflation on day one.
Day one was January 20th, 2021.
And if you don't have any differences and you are the last person in the room for the Afghanistan debacle, the economic debacle, the open border debacle, and every other debacle in between, including Ukraine and war in the Middle East and hatred and a pandering to the most radical wing in your party and not supporting our ally Israel after the worst terror attack in their history, the equivalent of 40,000 dead Americans in a day.
There's no help for you.
Anyway, Mark Halperin is now quoted as saying he's a longtime political analyst, and he's warning that he's seeing private polling being conducted by Democrats.
I don't have access to internal Democratic polls, although I get little winks and nods from people that I know and that I trust, sources that give me some insight.
And that's why I said earlier this week when she announced she was going to do some interviews after doing no interviews, but they're only friendly interviews, that there was a reason for it.
And this is what Halperin said.
He said her private poll numbers, their internals, as we call them, are so bad, it's possible she can lose all seven swing states.
These are his words, not mine.
And then Halpern warned that robust private polling is indicating that Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is in a lot of trouble in an appearance on some show called The Morning Meeting while noting that Democrats are increasingly bearish on her candidacy.
This is what he said.
If he goes, if you want to go watch MSDNC prime time and hear how great things are going for the Harris campaign, you're welcome to do that.
But if you want to understand what's actually happening, we're here to tell you, I just saw a new private polling today.
That's very robust private polling, and she's in a lot of trouble.
I want to stop right here, and I want to give an admonition and a warning to anybody that's listening to my voice right now or this show.
Do not take this to the bank.
Do not become complacent.
Whether the polls are good or whether the polls are bad, don't let it impact what you need to do if you want to do everything in your power to prevent the most radical, extreme presidential nominee to ever get elected.
So while you might be happy about the news, it might be hopeful news for you.
You can't take it to the bank because there's only one poll that ultimately matters.
And you have to assume that you're running behind.
It's two minutes left in the game.
As I always use the same analogy, you have the balls on your own 20.
You have no timeouts.
You got to march down the field 80 yards.
You got to cross the plane and kick the extra point if you want to win the game.
And that's how you have to look at it.
You have to look at it like your vote will decide the election between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
That's how you have to look at it.
Anyway, he goes on to say the conversation I'm having with Trump people and Democrats with data are extremely bullish on Trump's chances in the last 48 hours.
I also said something else on Monday.
I said there has been a dramatic shift in the betting sites and the polling, even the Great Britain sites, which had been heavily, heavily favoring Kamala Harris to win the election, they've all changed.
Polymarket has given Trump a seven, eight-point lead in the last 72 hours.
And he goes on to say that we think that all seven battleground states, which ones, which one is she in danger of losing?
He said, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, North Carolina, and Georgia.
I'm not saying she's going to lose all six, but I'm saying she's in danger.
I mean, she could lose all seven, but Democrats will tell you they're worried about those six.
They're less worried about, I guess, Nevada, which I'm not sure why, because the polling there has been very, very tight.
And like a lot of these states, the registration shift from 2020 to 2024 towards Republicans has been pretty dramatic.
There was even a Time magazine article about that.
Now, in Newsweek, we have Donald Trump has now surged ahead, and this is the popular vote.
We're not even talking about swing states here.
And the poll conducted by Active Vote October 3rd through October the 8th gives Trump a 50.6% of the vote to Harris's 49.4%.
Now, Donald Trump was trailing Harris by 5.4 points, 47% for Trump and 52% for Harris in a poll conducted between September 11th and September 17th.
It's the first time Trump has led a national poll since September, but there was a national poll yesterday that had them tied.
That was the Yahoo poll.
And we have new polls that have come out today, which I think are extremely interesting, and I'm going to share with you here because I think they're very, very important.
And there is something worthwhile in terms of going back in time and looking at, you know, where were we in 2020?
On this day, October the 9th, 2020, Joe Biden was up in the real clear politics average by 9.7 percentage points.
On this day in 2016, Hillary Clinton was up 4.6 points.
Right now, Donald Trump is down by only 2.0 points.
So there's a dramatic impact from how things were versus how they are now.
And if you want to just compare and contrast, you know, where we are in a lot of these races, you know, you're beginning to see, for example, I can give you Pennsylvania.
Back in 2016, on this day, Hillary Clinton was up 9.4 points.
Biden on this day in 2020 was up 7.1 in Pennsylvania.
On this day, Donald Trump is up by 0.2.
Now, it's not the biggest lead, but compared to where he was in 16 and 20, I mean, he is known notoriously for under-polling.
And that's where we now find ourselves.
And that story is playing out in pretty much every swing state.
And, you know, the fact that you have such a dramatic difference from where Biden was in 2020 and where Clinton was in 2016 says a lot.
Now, Vice President Harris's campaign is, this was on Media 8.
They took a shot at me today.
I decided to respond back on X. I'm just tired when people distort things.
We have told the truth about the worst hurricane response in history.
We have gotten our information directly from FEMA.
We have taken the words of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkis and put it in its full context.
And now that they're saying, oh, we found other monies, has nothing to do with the fact that they've been missing in action.
And but for neighbor helping neighbor and charitable organizations like the one we had on yesterday in SamaritansPurse.org and many, many others, these people would be dead out of luck without the mules and the horses that have been used to get supplies to people on roads that are otherwise not passable.
Anyway, according to this article, CNN's Priscilla Alvarez joined Dana Bash and said, what's creeping in now is that anxiety.
The reason for that is because these polls are not moving despite multiple battleground blitzes.
It goes on to say, despite the opportunity she's had across media outlets, there's not a lot of movement from voters who are moving more and more towards former President Donald Trump.
In fact, I had one source describe it to me this way.
People are nervous.
They know the polls are tight.
A lot of us are having flashbacks to 2016.
And again, at this time, eight years ago, Hillary Clinton actually was up 12 points nationally over Donald Trump.
It was 50.38, according to CNN.
I mean, this is a major, dramatic shift and change in how things are playing out.
And, you know, now we had a poll yesterday that shows Donald Trump is up by two in Pennsylvania.
We have Quinnipiak polls, if I could just find them.
I have so many polls here in front of me.
It's just driving me crazy.
All right, here it is.
Quinnipiak came out today.
And in Wisconsin, Donald Trump's up 49.47 today.
In Michigan, he's up 51.47.
And I told you about insider advantage yesterday.
We go back to yesterday's polling.
You have Pennsylvania, insider advantage.
Trump is up in Pennsylvania, 49.47.
In Arizona, Babrizio has him up in Arizona, 50-48.
Then he's up in Texas, not a surprise, up by a lot in Florida.
I do say to my friends in Texas, pay attention because they're going after Ted Cruz with a vengeance.
And now their latest talking point, after we're nearly two weeks into the disaster, that has been the horrific response, especially in North Carolina, especially in Georgia.
Although they finally got up to speed on Georgia, but it shouldn't have been such a heavy lift for Governor Kemp.
Now, Ron DeSantis, Governor Kemp, Governor McMaster of South Carolina, not the Democratic governor of North Carolina.
He didn't stage anything.
They had pre-staged all the utility trucks, food, water, supplies, medicines that would be necessary, knowing that a Cat 3-4 hurricane would be headed up their way.
They did their job.
What did the federal government under Harris and Biden do?
Nothing.
And then they were missing in action for an entire week in North Carolina, especially.
And then on Friday, on Thursday or Wednesday or Thursday, then we hear from Maorkis that we're not going to have enough hurricane money for the season.
And it's been a light hurricane season, although you wouldn't know it with back-to-back hurricanes in two weeks.
But it's been, and the fact is, that's what he said.
Those are his words.
Joe Biden said on Friday that, you know, every need is being met and everybody's getting everything they need and everybody's happy.
And I know because Sarah Carter has been reporting for us on the ground that just the opposite is true.
And the people in the hardest-hit areas of North Carolina haven't gotten, you know, dog Adam shift from the government.
And they've been abandoned by Harris and Biden.
And now, if you dare to criticize them, you know, oh, you're not showing empathy.
If they had empathy, instead of her hanging out in Hollywood and him sitting his ass on the beach in Delaware, maybe they would have, you know, got the relief immediately to North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida.
Now, hopefully, they'll have a better response this time, but we still need help in North Carolina.
We still don't know what the body count ultimately is going to be.
And if it wasn't for these relief organizations and people volunteering, God knows how bad it would be.
You know, so it all started, you know, the head of FEMA under Kamala Harris and Joe Biden was on this week with Georgie Stephanopoulos, Deanne Criswell is her name.
And she, you know, is addressing the public outcry over the horrific, callous, thoughtless, heartless response, non-response, really, to Hurricane Helene.
I mean, by the end of last week, and it had been a full week since the hurricane hit, they had spent a measly $4 million.
And when we sent Sarah Carter to the hardest-hit areas of North Carolina again and again and again and again, and she's interviewing the sheriffs.
She's interviewing everybody in between, and they're not there.
And then we read FEMA's website, and what does it talk about?
The first three goals are about diversity, equity, and inclusion, and climate change.
How about we help everybody in a time of need?
And what they failed to do is, for example, we're waiting for this hurricane to hit again in my free state of Florida, which I'm so proud to be in and happy to be a part of.
And Hurricane Milton.
And just before Hurricane Helene, we had Governor DeSantis on.
He's going to join us in a second.
And Governor DeSantis told us how he had staged, what, 30,000 utility trucks.
He had 18 wheelers with food, water, medicine supplies, and he was prepared.
And Governor Kemp of Georgia had, you know, prepared his state the same way.
Governor McMaster had done the same thing, and he prepared his state.
Nothing really was done in North Carolina, to be honest, but I'll put that aside for a moment.
But Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, they knew for days on end it was going to be a massive hurricane.
Just like we know Hurricane Milton's going to be a massive hurricane.
And they didn't do a thing.
And then they didn't show up for six, seven days.
And then they said, well, we'll give you a one-time payment of $750 and then maybe more down the road.
I mean, and if it wasn't for relief organizations like SamaritansPurse.org and OperationHilo.org, which we had those guys on yesterday, they were on the ground saving lives and they're doing it on their own and neighbor helping neighbor.
Anyway, Governor Ron DeSantis is with us, the governor of the great state of Florida.
Governor, man, I'm sure you haven't slept in two weeks.
I know I've talked to you at all hours of the day and night myself.
I just want to help my fellow Floridians here.
This looks like a really bad hurricane coming in.
Well, look, this is just what we do.
So, you know, we did the state of emergency for Helene more than two weeks ago.
So we've been on a footing nonstop with this.
And it's not just me, but our Division of Emergency Management, a lot of the local communities, the first responders down there, preparing for Helene, responding, and then helping people get on their feet.
And then as soon as that begins, you've got to turn around and do it all over again.
But the preparations are the same.
In fact, we now have for this storm 50,000 utility workers that are staged.
So this is a record.
We've never done this, many in the history of Florida.
I was really the first governor that would stage this stuff pre-storm to be able to have rapid power restoration.
We also have the largest National Guard footprint that we've ever had for immediate response and search and rescue.
And we've had a lot of other states that have sent folks in.
I sent people to Western North Carolina for search and rescue to help, bring food, rescue people out of the mountains.
We've had a lot of states that have responded and helped Florida.
So we're ready for this.
It's a big storm.
It's going to produce a lot of storm surge, and it's going to cut across the state and exit on the east coast of Florida into the Atlantic Ocean.
And there's going to be damage, but we're going to do everything we can to get the people of Florida through this.
It's pretty much going to be a Florida-only hurricane, this hurricane.
And it's now, last time I checked, it was a Cat 5.
I'm not sure if it's going to be a Cat 5 when it hits, when landfall happens sometime, I guess, late in the morning tonight or whenever it's going to happen.
But the problem is, even if it weakens a little bit, the storm is going to get bigger is my understanding.
And you actually said something to me that scared me.
You said, this is the one that we feared the most.
That scared me.
Well, if you look at the state of Florida, the Tampa Bay area, and I grew up in that area in Pinellas County.
That's just a peninsula where you have the Gulf of Mexico and Tampa Bay.
And then Tampa, you have all the bay right there.
So it is very low-lying, and it is really susceptible to storm surge.
Now, the way the track has developed, it seems like, and this is not set in stone because these things wobble, it seems like the storm is likely to hit closer to Sarasota and Venice, which would probably be 60-some miles south of the Tampa Bay area.
It would then cut across the state and the more rural sections of Florida, probably about 40, 50 miles south of Interstate 4, and then go out of Florida in the southern Brevard County area.
Now, look, a wobble here or there could make a difference.
But the way these storms work, if you are out of the eye of the storm or you're on the strong side, the right side of the storm, that kicks up the most surge.
If you're on the left side of the storm, in this case, it kind of be like north of it because it's going to go, if it goes in perpendicular, the winds can actually suck water out.
So with Tampa Bay, I think it's still an open question.
Are they going to see major surge?
And they said they could get as much as 15 with a direct hit, or is it going to suck water out of Tampa Bay because they're going to be on the weak side potentially?
I don't know the answer to that.
Obviously, we think people should assume there's going to be big surge, but that's something that we've game planned for.
And so our plan that we've implemented is something we've been thinking about since the day I became governor about what would be challenging things to respond to.
So this would be one of those.
I do think it's tracked a little further south than where it was 24 hours ago.
But we'll see what happens.
What parts of the west coast of Florida are we talking about?
Is it from, say, Naples and Fort Myers and Sarasota up through Tampa?
And then, of course, we've got to worry because it's going to go right across the state.
And projections I saw, it will still be hurricane force winds, even in Orlando, which is central Florida, and the I-4 corridor and those areas heading straight across to the east coast of Florida.
Yeah, I mean, it's basically when it hits land, it's going to go pretty much perpendicular across the state, maybe a touch northeast, but generally just straight east.
So if it does end up going Sarasota, Venice, everything south of that is going to get serious surge.
So you're going to end up with Charlotte County, Fort Myers, probably down to Naples would also get some surge.
And obviously the farther away you are, the less you'll get.
But you're definitely looking at in those areas where it makes landfall, probably 10, 15 feet potentially.
But I think all the way down to Naples, you'd still see significant surge.
What's on the north side of the storm?
It may not be as much, depending on how the storm goes in, if it's sucking water out, but that's not guaranteed.
And then what will happen is if it goes across the state of Florida, when it's exiting on the east coast, the south side, the strong side of the storm, will push water away from the east coast.
But then the north side of the storm will actually bring water back in and create surge in places like Cape Canaveral, Daytona Beach, and probably all the way up to St. Augustine and places like Flagler.
So there are evacuations on the east coast of Florida right now because you're likely going to get some surge on the east coast.
Not as much as you'll get wherever this thing makes landfall, but it's still going to be a hurricane when it leaves Florida.
And then you're right.
It's supposed to just go out to sea and not affect any other states in the U.S.
Yeah, the only state I could see maybe mildly impacted would be the southern part of Georgia.
And Governor Kemp, I know, is prepared for that part of it.
I mean, I'm not kidding when I say this.
I mean, you sound like a meteorologist to me based on your knowledge of hurricanes, I guess.
I'm governor here.
Like, that's just something that we put a lot of time into, and we're ready to respond to whatever.
But I will say on the one track that it looks like it's no further south, but if it did go directly into Tampa, St. Petersburg and ride I-4 all the way out to Daytona Beach, you're talking about, I mean, probably 8 million people along that path.
I mean, that would be probably the most destructive path.
It seems like it's further south than that.
When you go about 40 miles south of I-4, 50 miles south of I-4, you're basically in more rural part of Florida.
So there's not going to be as many people in the heartland there that will be impacted.
Still, it's going to do damage wherever it goes.
But yes, we're monitoring all these.
But one thing we've stressed is you just can't, like a forecast 48 hours out, you just can't assume where they say it's going to hit Israel because it's a synthesis of a lot of these models.
And these things do shift 30 miles here, 40 miles here, 50 miles here.
So we're going to get another advisory at 5 o'clock from the National Hurricane Center.
I think it's likely going to say that it's probably going to be in that Sarasota-Venice area.
And then now at this point, it's going to make landfall later tonight.
So that's probably going to be a pretty good estimate at that 5 o'clock advisory.
So people should definitely check that out.
There's one other thing that I didn't think we'd have to worry about, but every report that I've been reading shows the possibility of tornado warnings in the state as well.
We've already got them.
I mean, so some of these are just unbelievable tornadoes.
I mean, so we've seen them in Southeast Florida.
We've seen them in Fort Myers.
And these are just things they typically happen in advance of the storm coming.
So very much there's hazards out there all across the Florida Peninsula.
It's not just the hurricane force wind.
Have these been damaging?
Have these been big ones?
I think it's too soon to know the damage, but like there's videos of these things.
I mean, and they are big tornadoes.
I mean, so it likely has done some damage.
There's likely going to be more tornado warnings issued in the ensuing hours.
So people should just be very careful for that.
If there is a tornado warning for where you are in Florida and it's something that's close to your house, you just kind of get down and find a place where you can go because those things are two blocks away.
It may not impact anything, but right where it goes over, it can be really, really damaging.
I think the recommendation is, and correct me if I'm wrong, you're the expert, I'm not, is you get to the lowest part of your house and like the safest area and try and barricade yourself in, right?
Cover.
You hide from the wind.
We always say you run from the water in the storm surge.
You evacuate away from the areas that are susceptible to storm surge because there's no way you can guarantee your safety, but you hide from the wind.
And I would say the one thing about Florida is with our building code, we know that we're a hurricane-prone state.
So over the years, they've made improvements to it.
This thing comes ashore.
I'm not saying it's not going to do any wind damage, but most of our homes that have been built in the last 20, 25 years are going to be able to withstand the wind that's coming in.
And so we've really done a good job on that.
I think probably most of the damage will be related to the storm surge.
Yeah.
And then, of course, you know, it's going to be recovery efforts and a rebuild.
I guess one of the beauties of Florida is the water.
One of the dangers of Florida, too, is, you know, you run the risk of these hurricanes, and hurricane season is always tough here.
But we're glad you're on the case, Governor.
If there's anything that this audience can do in the aftermath of this to help people, please don't hesitate to let us know.
I know the American people have stepped up big time and been helping the people in North Carolina and some of the other affected states.
And it's important that we step up when our fellow Americans are in need, especially considering all the monies we give to all these other countries when they're in need, which gets a little infuriating to me, but that's a separate political issue for another day.
But Florida's in our prayers tonight, Governor.
Is our charitable organization, Floridadisaster.org.
It's a tax deductible.
We did $63 million after Hurricane Ian.
It goes directly to organizations that are helping people.
We help first responders, teachers, you name it.
That's the place if people want to help, they can go and make a difference.
All right, Governor Ron DeSantis, as we bear down, waiting for this hurricane to hit sometime late in the evening tonight.
Governor, thank you.
Prayers for Florida.
We appreciate you being with us.
Appreciate it, buddy.
Thanks.
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And this is what's so infuriating.
I mean, you know, if they have 50,000 people staged, we're ready to come into Florida.
They did the same thing in Georgia, the same thing in South Carolina.
And Kamala Harris and Joe Biden did nothing.
And then they were missing in action for a week.
And then, if you dare to tell the story about how woke, for example, FEMA's own website.
The Shelter and Services Program provides financial support to non-federal entities to provide humanitarian services to non-citizen migrants following their release from DHS.
They gave over a trillion dollars the last two years, fiscal years.
Well, why isn't that money kept in a lockbox for Americans?
And why is FEMA's website have, you know, their top goals for FEMA?
You know, one, to instill equity as a foundation for emergency management.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion cannot be optional.
They must be core components of how the agency conducts itself.
And FEMA's leadership and workforce is required to demonstrate an increased commitment to integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion.
How about you save everyone's damn life and you provide emergency assistance and you help every person in need as quickly as you can and you don't remain missing in action for a week and then two weeks later complain that people are frustrated that you did a lousy job.
How about that?
Not that complicated.
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