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Senator Ted Cruz - October 22nd, Hour 2
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All right, Scott County, hour two.
Sean Hannity Show, 800-941.
Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, we are 14 days away from election day.
That means it will be election day in America, uh, just two weeks from today.
But to be very honest, election day is now.
Election early voting is now going on all across the country.
And if you'd like to know how to vote early, vote by mail.
If you haven't registered and you'd like to, and you still can, uh, we have all that information as a public service on Hannity.com.
We have the Kamala files, her radicalism, extremism and her own words available as a public service.
The walls files also similarly available as a public service.
Um, but uh voting is happening now.
I I kind of caught myself yesterday.
I realized, you know, I keep saying 14 days to election day, but then I tell everybody to vote early, vote by mail.
I know it's not the system we want, uh, but it's a system we're stuck with, and we can't start out every election down hundreds of thousands of votes and and hope that it's not a hurricane weekend uh that might keep people away from polls on very important days.
Uh I brought this up with Joe Bastardi.
He said, Yeah, there's a pretty good chance there's going to be another hurricane or two this hurricane season.
Um so just it's called banking your vote.
And if you want to change the system, paper ballots, mandate that citizens only can vote, proof of citizenship, voter ID, signature verification, chain of custody controls, updated voter roles, partisan observers watching the voting in every precinct in the country all day, and the vote counting all night.
Uh I'd like to return to paper ballots.
Uh even Kamala Harris said, well, uh Russia and Putin can't uh do anything with paper ballots.
Uh and I'm like, huh.
Well, the first time I agreed with her.
A phenomenon is now evolving around the country, and that is Senate candidates are now beginning to show that as Donald Trump has been rising in the polls and is and Kamala has been sinking.
You have four, for example, Senate Democrats now running for re-election.
They're now Democrats now boasting about their ties not to Kamala Harris, but to Donald Trump, pretending that Joe Biden and Kamala don't even exist.
Now that's how bad Harris's internal poll numbers must be in some of these these surveys that they're looking at.
Uh but for example, Democrat Bob Casey, who's up against Dave McCormick in Pennsylvania.
You have Sherrod Brown is up against Bernie Moreno in Ohio.
You have Tammy Baldwin running for re-election in Wisconsin and in Michigan.
We've had Mike Rogers on the program.
We've we've had Moreno on the program, we've had McCormick on the program.
Anyway, in that case, Mike Rogers running against Alyssa Slocan.
They're all running commercials that tout their ability to work with Donald Trump.
And according to National Review, these senators aren't choosing to tell voters how well they work with Vice President Kamala Harris.
And, you know, since no line ends up in the campaign commercial by accident, these ads are a sign that they think Trump could win the presidency and win their state.
And then we have a good friend of this program, and I think probably one of the strongest conservative senators we have in the country by far, uh, Senator Ted Cruz, and story just broke on Fox today, how a super PAC associated with Chucky Schumer, and we've been warning you this is happening, is pouring millions of dollars behind new ads in the Texas Senate race.
Uh some polls have shown that it's closer than I certainly would like it to be, considering if there's one Senator that has been fighting to secure the borders of this country, is nobody that's been fighting harder than Senator Ted Cruz because Texas has been ground zero.
Anyway, we welcome back to the program, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas.
Senator Great to have you.
I've seen a number of polls that you have a comfortable lead, four or five points, and then I've seen polls that are closer than I like.
Um but there's no doubt that this is probably you will be you have been labeled the number one target of Chuck Schumer and company, and by evidence of the amount of money that's being dumped on your head every day in Negative and untrue ads, I would say that that's pretty obvious it's it's it's been their plan from day one.
Yeah, no, I think that's exactly right, Sean.
It's great to be back with you.
Um listen, the polls have been all over the place.
We have had more than a dozen polls in the last month that show this race as a one point race or a two-point race or a three-point race.
We had two different polls that show me losing the race by a point.
And so I think we're probably somewhere in the low single digits, is where I think we probably are.
But what I know is that Chuck Schumer is explicit.
I was number one.
I have seen a couple with you at plus four plus five plus six.
I have seen those two.
There have been a couple that have been better.
I like those polls a lot better.
Me too.
As your friend, me too.
Yeah, no, no, I would be very happy if that's where we end up.
Um and the difference in the polls, it all depends on the on the turnout model.
So different pollsters have a different assumption as to who shows up and votes, and the results all are all all over the place.
What I do know is that Schumer is unequivocal, that I'm his number one target in the country.
They are just saturating the state with attack ads.
They'll end up spending 150 million dollars attacking me in this race.
You when you turn on the TV, right now, every second or third ad is an attack ad directed at me.
As you noted, Fox News just reported Schumer just yesterday dropped millions more into the state of Texas.
We're two weeks out from election day, early voting is happening right now in Texas, and they are pounding it, and I think there are two reasons for this, Sean.
Number one, if you are a left-wing partisan Democrat, after Donald Trump, there is nobody in the country you want to beat more than me.
They hate me.
And so every left-wing activist in New York.
That makes me like you more just for the root just for the record.
Yeah, look, it was if you look at the their Chicago convention when my opponent spoke there, he spoke there three minutes, the entire stadium spontaneously burst into applause chanting, beat Ted Cruz.
I was the only elected official that got that particular treatment.
And I gotta tell you, Sean, I'm pretty proud of that.
I mean, listen, those SOBs are trying to destroy America, and the 20,000 elected Democrat delegates, they see me as one of the principal impediments standing in their way.
I'm proud to be there and stop them from from doing the damage they're trying to do.
But but isn't it the strangest thing is you've got McCormick now leading, has a slight lead in three polls in Pennsylvania over incumbent Casey.
You got Bernie Marino now, has pulled ahead slightly over Sharon Brown.
You got Tammy Baldwin in in Wisconsin in the fight for her life.
You've got Mike Rogers now pulling ahead in Michigan.
And and I i is the this obsessive hatred towards you that great that they they're willing to sacrifice people that in states that are are for far more friendly to Democrats historically.
Because is it because of your outspokenness on the border, your outspokenness on everything?
I mean, I'm I'm trying to figure it out because it's pathological.
Listen, the Democrats like Republicans who are scared and timid and frightened of their own shadow.
They don't like Republicans who fight them.
They don't like Republicans who lead them.
Frankly, they don't like Republicans who are smart, who can make the case that their policies are terrible for Americans.
And you know what?
They hate the fact that I'm Hispanic, that I'm the son of a Cuban immigrant, because their narrative is that the only people who could be Republicans are fat white guys who are who are bald and dying.
And so having young Hispanic leaders who who know full well that their policies are terrible and who are not afraid to make the case and to dissect their witnesses when they show up in Senate hearings, they hate that.
They want weak and ineffective opponents.
So that's a big part of it.
And actually, when all red spoke at the Democrat convention, he raised over a million bucks in the next 24 hours.
And so that's dangerous.
But I'd say, secondly, Schumer's looking at the math.
Right now, the Democrats have a 51-49 majority.
We're going to win West Virginia.
They've essentially conceded it.
That takes us to 50 50.
We will probably win Montana.
We've consistently led the polling there for a month.
That would take us to 5149.
Now you mentioned the other states.
I hope we win the other states.
But those polls, the polling in all those other states are razor thin.
So Schumer is looking at a map where he could easily end up 5149 Republican.
And if that's the case, he has one route and one route only to stay majority leader, and that is to beat me in Texas.
It's why he's dropping another hundred million into Texas because he says, okay, last time Cruz got elected by two point six percent.
And Schumer's calculus is all I need is three more points in Texas, and I got a shot to stay majority leader and to ram down the throat of this country, the most destructive agenda this country's ever seen.
What do you think is happened, the dynamic in the national race in terms of President Trump versus Kamala?
Because there has been a dramatic momentum shift.
Yeah, look, I'm optimistic.
I think the momentum shift has been markedly towards President Trump.
I think Kamala is flailing.
I think her campaign is getting more and more desperate, desperate.
You're seeing in fighting.
I think the Biden loyalists are pissed and are lashing out at her for having thrown him off the bus.
And she's doing more and more desperate things.
I think going on Fox News with Brett Bear was a sign of desperation.
I think she did terribly in that interview.
You know, I think By the way, Senator, I I invited her to come on with me for a full hour.
I we haven't heard back yet.
I'm surprised.
And and by the way, look, as a Republican, I go on the view.
I go on uh, you know, Senator Senator, I I I would personally restrain you from going on the view and wasting your time.
I've been on the view years ago.
I went on many times.
It's a waste of your time.
It is so much fun.
In fact, I will tell you, Sean, one of the greatest 24 hours I've ever had in my life was in 2022.
I went to game four of the ALCS, and it was the Astros against the Yankees, and I went to Yankee Stadium, and I sat behind home plate in the second row, wearing bright orange Astros colors, and I will admit I had more than 200 New Yorkers suggest that I do something anatomically impossible.
Welcome to New York, Senator.
That's why I left.
You were asked, but you were definitely asking for it.
There's no doubt about it.
That's New York and Boston are the worst when it comes to you know loving their hometown and their home team.
It's fine, though.
I just laughed and said scoreboard.
And you know, I asked them watching the World Series on TV.
Now I recognize this year I'm watching the Yankees on TV.
So all right, what what turns are, you know, cut turn around fair play.
But I say that like you, listen, you're not afraid to argue anyone.
You you know what you believe.
You're not afraid to go into any lion's den.
Neither am I. The Democrats are used to being being nurtured and protected and put, you know, protected with bubble wrap at all times.
They don't know how to handle a hard question.
They really don't.
And and it's amazing with two weeks to go.
Well, no, election the election is happening now, and it's happening in your state of Texas.
I just want to say this in your defense.
There's never been a greater fighter, defender of our Constitution than you.
Uh there's never been a greater debater in our party than you.
I I saw the debate with Colin Alred.
This is a guy that voted with Nancy Pelosi a hundred percent of the time.
He is trying to hide who he really is, like Kamala is doing.
It really was you.
I mean, I'll never forget when the border crisis started almost from the very beginning of their administration, and they wouldn't let our cameras in to see in the middle of a pandemic these kids in these overcrowded cages that they built.
If it wasn't for you sharing that video with me, we would the country would not have known.
You and Governor Abbott have fought side by side to make the country aware of it because our national security is at risk.
You have fought for conservative justices, conservative principles, lower taxes, law and order, uh, energy dominance, uh, a sane foreign policy, and I'm grateful for it.
And I hope our friends in Texas and God bless Texas, you know, understand that what what they're trying to do to you.
I'm pretty sure the people of Texas will figure that figure this out in the end.
Well, I hope so.
I appreciate thank you, Sean.
I will say to everyone who's listening who who is in Texas, please, please, please come out and vote.
Vote today.
You can vote early vote today, any time this week, anytime next week.
Vote now.
Get your friends to vote.
Get your family to vote.
Send emails and text.
Get people to show up and vote, number one.
And then number two, to everyone in Texas and everyone listening all across the country, I need your help.
Please come to Ted Cruz.org, Ted Cruz.org.
Chuck Schumer and George Soros are flooding a hundred and fifty million dollars.
They are attacking me relentlessly.
This race could be as close as one or two points.
And so I need your help.
Please come to Ted Cruz.org.
Give 25 or 50 or 100, or maybe someone can give 500 or 1,000 or more.
But the only way we survive is Patriots coming to Ted Cruz.org and contributing.
Mitch McConnell and his super pack, they give nothing.
They will not support me because they do not want conservatives who stand up and fight, which means I've got to rely on patriots across the country who go to Ted Cruz.org and say we need conservative senators with backbone and the willingness to fight and to stand and to do what's right and to take on the people who are trying to destroy this country.
Sean, you know that this is the fight of my life.
I need everyone's help, so please come to Ted Cruz.org right now.
We need your help.
We appreciate you, Senator.
Thank you so much.
We're going to continue to follow this, and it's important.
And I know you're beginning your border tour of Texas, and we'll have more details about that on Hannity tonight.
Thank you, Senator Ted Cruz.
Thank you, Sean.
All right, quick break, right back.
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So we have the uh competing rallies, one with Vice President Harris, one with vice presidential candidate JD Vance, when people in the audience chanted that Jesus is king.
Uh at the University of Wisconsin, there were two young men that yelled, Jesus is Lord and Christ is King, and they were kind of met with a nasty crowd reaction, and Kamala Harris saying that, oh, you're at the you're at the wrong rally.
uh here's what went down Oh, you guys are at the wrong rally.
No, I think you meant to go to the smaller one down the street.
And when it happened with J. D. Vance, here's how he responded.
Anti-Christian rhetoric and anti-Christian approach to public policy.
I don't think we've I don't think that we've that's right.
Jesus is king.
And I don't think that we've seen...
I don't think that we've seen anything like this in modern American politics.
And there was a weird incident.
There were two churches that Kamala stopped at in Georgia this weekend.
And according to reports, I guess everyone, you know, got up and went on out, you know, as a team to the polls.
Uh, but at one of the events it was so bizarre.
I'm not sure why.
Didn't get a real explanation.
We've got the video of why people were arrested during that that um that rally.
Anyway, the the people in Wisconsin that were at the Kamala Harris rally.
Uh Grant Beth, Luke Pelaski's with us, both juniors, University of Wisconsin.
They join us now.
Uh guys, welcome to the program.
Thanks for being with us.
Thank you, Sean.
It's great to be here.
Well, first of all, you know, there are worse things in life than having kids in college that believe in Jesus and that Jesus Christ is King and uh Jesus is the Lord, and uh will you wait I don't know which one of you said it or if both of you said it.
Um I'll ask you, Grant, who said what?
Uh so Kamala Harris was speaking on topic of abortion, and I know it's an extremely uh you know controversial topic in this country.
Um when she was speaking on it, I was implored to say uh Christ is King, Jesus is Lord.
Um, and we did so.
Um we repeated it, and it was it was very telling um the reaction of Kamal Harris, and I really haven't talked about like how fast it happened.
Um Kamala Harris denounced us.
She did not stop for a second.
She didn't have to stop and think about it.
She was publicly denouncing the name of the Lord, and that is not something that Americans will stand for in this country.
Um, you know, that was kind of it's become clear that uh me and Luke are vessels for and God.
We are full we are vessels for God, and that is the truth.
Um that's the message we've been spreading um on other platforms, and now on your Sean.
And at the end of the day, people have to understand uh what Kamala Harris is about, and that has become abundantly clear in the last few weeks of her campaign.
You know, uh it's amazing when you think of kids in college, you think of fraternities, you think of over drinking, you worry about drug use, uh, you worry about you know, kids having uh uh a lot of sex, etc.
etc.
And you have two kids that actually believe in something care enough to show up at a rally.
I'm sure you went there with an open mind.
Uh what was the experience like for you, Luke?
Yeah, so exactly what you said is correct.
We did go there open-minded.
Um about six weeks ago, Trump was here.
He had his first ever town hall, technically for undecided voters.
Uh I showed up to that, had really good conversations with Trump supporters on on why he deserves my vote, and you know, why Kamala doesn't.
And uh personally for me, I did the same thing.
That's why I went to this rally.
Uh we waited in line for about two hours.
We had really, really good conversations with um excuse me, Kamala supporters on why she deserved our vote and what and why Trump didn't.
Um there's one conversation that kind of did get out of hand.
The guy that we were talking to was a little bit insane.
He was up in our face, um, pretty much spinning on us while he was talking.
We had to actually have other uh Harris supporters tell him to back up.
Um like Brant said, I think the number one thing about me in politics as being a Christian is abortion.
Um there's a lot of Christians, a majority that believe abortion is a sin, which it is.
Um scripture, it's in Psalms that it is is a sin.
And uh I think something in that moment just came over me personally.
I don't know if it was the Holy Spirit, but I know we were sent there, and when she was talking about abortion, she got a huge uproar, and something was wrong.
Um I told her that abortion was a sacrament of Satan, and then ten seconds go by, and that's when Grant and I are getting uh yelled at by the crowd, and uh there's like 10, 15 people screaming at us, and then that's when we start telling everybody that Christ is Lord,
and I guess our message was the people in the audience in Sakamala, um, you know, you might get away with it now, but there's one man that's watching, and no matter what you think about him, um, in scripture it says every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Christ is Lord, whether you believe it or not.
And there is a day in our country where abortion was legal, but it was very rare.
And it's something that's not that wasn't celebrated, and I feel like in today's day and age, the people we talk to, they they celebrate abortion.
They they're not afraid of it, and it's really concerning um as a Christian.
You might not know this, because you guys are a little bit younger than me, and I've been doing this for a long time, is that both Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton said that abortion should be legal and rare.
They actually said that.
You know, I by I happen to be a Christian too, and I think Christians are often misunderstood.
Uh to me, a Christian, and I'm I believe as you do, that that Christ is king and that Jesus is Lord, and I have no problem proclaiming that on radio and TV whenever I can.
And I believe all of that with my heart, and but I also believe that I'd be nothing without you know God in my life every day, and that I believe my whole life I've been blessed by God, and it's an undeserved life.
And it's amazing to me that when you said that, that the reaction you're right, was spontaneous.
There was no hesitation, and that, oh, you guys are at the wrong rally because you believe in Jesus.
That I I thought Democrats prided themselves in being open minded.
And I think that's what was so striking, not only to me, but to other people too.
Grant.
First of all, I will say this, and we haven't mentioned his name once um in all the news we've done.
Um all the people we've talked to, we haven't mentioned Trump's name once.
I will say this, you know, on the issue of abortion.
Um, regardless of if it matters to you, um, he has publicly said he's gonna leave it up to the states.
Um and that's a big thing, Sean.
But if our story isn't enough to an undecided voter or someone who's looking at us and thinking, Well, you know, what are these guys doing?
I want, you know, young Americans, actually young and old Americans, to really consider the future of the United States and the free world as we know it.
People around the world are watching this.
You know, people in this country are sick and tired of politicians destroying what generations before us fought to build and protect.
You know, the freedoms we have as Americans continue to be under attack, and if we get four more years of Kamala Harris in office, who knows what could happen in this country.
Who knows?
Well, we know what our stated positions are on issues like abortion.
Uh Tim Walls and and California out in California, interestingly, we're where Kamala's from, you know, the idea that per parents wouldn't have any rights and that they could offer gender affirming care to minors without parental consent.
Um that that is a huge issue for me because I don't think the state or government ought to be making decisions that parents and children should be making, uh especially life altering permanent uh decisions about their bodies.
Uh I don't think they're emotionally spiritually, you know, at an age where they're capable of making such a a life-changing decision.
That's my position.
Luke.
Um, yeah, I I completely agree.
And I was touched by your your words of saying how you thank God and it is an undeserving life.
And I guess to my Christian my Christian brothers and sisters and my family, um, we need to stand up for what we believe in.
And you know, this country was built on faith, and we've strayed away from that over time, and over half the population is Christian, and we need to we need to be together.
Um, I'm I'm interested in both of you in this way.
And I think this is where Christians are misunderstood, because to be a Christian, you gotta look in your heart and you realize that you don't believe your conscience convicts you, and your heart convicts you that you don't believe you're living the life you should, and that you believe you have failed, you quote, have sinned, and you are seeking to be a better person.
You're seeking redemption, you're seeking forgiveness.
Uh The word uh uh repentance from the Latin means to change one's heart.
And and yet people have this impression that you know, Christians want to proselytize and convert everybody.
I uh I think you can talk about religion with friends.
I've I've had many debates over the years with atheists, agnostics, callers, you name it, and I find them to be pretty fascinating.
I have people all over the map when it comes to the issue of abortion, but I can tell you this I don't know one person that I know that considers themselves quote pro-choice or pro-abortion that supports late-term abortion.
Not one.
And that is where that's how radicalized this party has become.
But anyway, Luke, I kind of cut you off.
Um, yeah, I guess like I said, 30% of the Christians are unregistered to vote.
And um this is a huge election for the the genocide of innocent children, to be honest with you.
And um if we vote together, and I mean everybody's seen the clip by now, she clearly uh disrespected our faith and our morals, and as Christians, I hope we can see that and we don't compromise our faith um for a woman that does obvious obviously does not care.
Um I'm not surprised she hasn't come out, but I've I've been taught ever since a young age that even if she everybody says no, she may not have heard us.
I'm I'm here to tell you I'm 99% sure she was directly looking at us and screaming, and not screaming, but telling us that we were at the wrong rally.
The venue was only 2,500 people, we were only 25, 30 yards away.
And um I guess another message is that even if you think we were there for the wrong reasons, um, we are disciple disciples of Jesus, and even the atheists out there, um, you cannot agree with what we stand for or whatnot, but you have to respect that there's not one piece of advice from scripture in the Bible that you can take and apply to your life that will not somehow improve your life.
Last question.
You know, i i i both of you are unique and both are your own person.
And most kids in college are focused on other things, as I mentioned.
What changed you, and I'll give you about 30 seconds each.
Uh why is it how did you become so faithful at a young age?
It usually takes a lot more maturity to get there.
Luke.
Uh yeah, I'll start um personally.
I I grew up a Christian, but I wasn't I wasn't living the Christian lifestyle.
And I guess my testimony, I was saved back in 2022.
Um I started getting back to my faith again, and about a month into that, I had one of the hardest moments of my life.
My dad passed away from a heart attack unexpected, and I guess from that, my entire world changed, and it's like, why am I here?
And it's it's it's it's it's because I I want to be a fisher of men.
I want to bring people to the kingdom, and there's so much more to life than just you know being a college student, which is partying, drinking, uh smoking, doing whatever.
It's it's I'm fighting for eternity and I'm fighting for you know what I believe in, which is which is Jesus Christ.
Well, it's obviously, you know, it's it's made you bold and courageous, which I advise every young kid.
We only have a few seconds left, Grant, you get the last word.
I'll just say this.
You know, we're all sinners.
I'm no different than you know, someone who hasn't come to Christ.
Um, you know, we are all made in you know God's image.
And I will just say this, you know, this election is the most important election in history, and the world is watching.
Um I implore, you know, Americans um of all ages to get out and vote and uh do what's right, you know, um for America at the end of the day.
Well, we appreciate both of you, and uh thank you so much.
Sorry you were treated that way.
Uh, but I admire the fact you stood up.
Uh 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
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