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Oct. 24, 2024 - Sean Hannity Show
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Battle for Pennsylvania - October 23rd, Hour 3
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We are watching now three Senate races emerge where Republicans have either taken the lead or are tied.
In Michigan, right now, we have our friend Mike Rogers going up against Slotkin, and it's now a dead-even race.
Bernie Moreno, who'd been down in Sherrod Brown in Ohio, is now in polling ahead.
We have in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Republican candidate Dave McCormick has been surging at least three four polls that I've seen against incumbent Democrat Bob Casey.
As a matter of fact, the Cook political report just two days ago moved the race from leading Democrat to toss-up.
That's in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
And for the last couple of weeks, Democrat, 99% Biden voter, Bob Casey, adopted an interesting strategy and has basically been running as a Trump Republican.
He's trying to make himself sound MAGA, running away as far away as he can get from Harris and Biden, who he has supported 99% of the time, and even touting his ties to Donald Trump while failing to mention his radically liberal record, which we'll discuss in a second, or his ties to even the Democratic Party.
I mean, it's pretty unbelievable.
Let me play an ad of Bob Casey.
You know, oh, he likes fracking, and he sides with Donald Trump on trade.
How interesting.
Listen.
I'm a Republican.
And I'm a Democrat.
Our marriage, pure bliss.
But on politics, we just don't agree.
Except for Bob Casey.
He's independent.
That's right.
Casey's leading the effort to stop corporate greedflation and price gouging.
Casey bucked Biden to protect fracking.
And he sided with Trump to end NAFTA and put tariffs on China to stop them from cheating.
So in this house, we agree.
It's Bob Casey who's doing right by Pennsylvania.
I'm Bob Casey, and I definitely approve this message.
Yeah, well, Bob Casey introduced a bill six times to severely regulate the fracking industry.
He voted against securing the border numerous times, voted against removing a pathway to citizenship for illegals from the Immigration Reform Act, voted against a border wall, voted against deploying troops to the border, voted against strengthening E-Verify, voted for federal benefits to go to illegals, supported a sanctuary cities group.
I mean, and I can go on and on campaign with an anti-police group.
I mean, his list of radicalism goes on and on.
Now, he happens to find himself, you know, let's go back when he wasn't running for reelection.
He's been a career politician his whole life.
And here's Bob Casey, you know, pushing the Russia-Russia-Russia conspiracy theory and lie about Donald Trump and even calling Trump supporters.
I guess the people that Barack Obama referred to in Pennsylvania as being bitter that cling to their god gun faith and religion, saying that supporters of Trump are minions that would say fake news to his lies.
The New York Times and Washington Post and other papers were saying they would make a major revelation about the Mueller investigation.
The president would call it fake news and all his minions would say it was fake news.
And then Mueller would rely upon that news story and then the news story would be corroborated by Mr. McGahn and Mr. Lewandowski.
I mean, so we now know how accurate they were.
Exceedingly accurate.
It turns out none of it was accurate.
It's all been debunked, as a matter of fact.
Here's Dave McCormick, the Republican candidate now leading in the polls, talking very frankly about who the real Bob Casey is.
I retired from the Army as a captain after a combat tour in Iraq, but I've never stopped serving my country.
I'm a seventh-generation Pennsylvanian, born and bred.
I'm a businessman.
I'm a political outsider.
That couldn't be more different than Senator Casey was born with a political spoon in his mouth.
He doesn't know how to create jobs.
He doesn't understand the devastating effect of prices on families.
He is a status quo candidate.
He is a weak 30-year incumbent.
Bob Casey didn't change Washington.
Washington changed Bob Casey.
He's for amnesty, open borders, and sanctuary cities.
He's voted for every spending bill that's created this enormous uptick in inflation.
He wants to raise taxes on Pennsylvanians and lower taxes for rich people in California, New York.
He has actually supported males competing in women's sports.
Face it, Bob, you are a liberal.
Bob Casey has been given the opportunity and he has failed us.
We need leadership that's going to shake things up, that support and fight for common sense policies, reduce inflation, secure our border, keep America safe.
We need leadership that is going to change the direction of our Commonwealth and get it back on track.
I'm honored to be here tonight, and I humbly ask for your vote.
And that was during the debate that they recently had, which was a knockout for Dave McCormick, who joins us now.
Well, first of all, I owe you a big congratulations.
You have now overtaken Casey in the polls.
I hope the people in the Commonwealth keep this up.
Hey, Sean, thank you.
You know, the last eight weeks has been great because I think post-Labor Day, people in Pennsylvania are really focused on this election.
And you see that at the top of the ticket.
President Trump's gaining momentum.
And, you know, the more people see of Kamala Harris and this radical liberal agenda, in her own words, banning fracking and confiscating guns and giving citizenship to illegal immigrants, the more they move towards President Trump.
And the same's happening for me.
They see the contrast between change and the leadership I could bring as a business guy, a combat vet, an outsider versus this status quo career politician who just has gotten nothing done and is a sure vote for the radical liberal agenda.
So I feel good about it.
We've still got 13 days.
We've got to finish hard.
No, actually, voting in the Commonwealth is going on right now.
It's going on.
So election day is today.
People can vote today.
Yes, sir.
That's right.
And we're trying to, and we've seen great numbers in the early voting.
We've seen great numbers in the registration.
And, you know, as you know, I wrestled in college.
And what I always knew in college, if I was within a point or two in the third period, I would win because in the third period, it's just about mental toughness and heart and staying on offense every second, every minute.
And that's what we're doing.
And he's clearly panicking.
The embrace of President Trump's policies is one example.
His ads have been.
Can you answer something for me?
How does the guy vote with Biden and Harris 99% of the time?
How does a guy that introduced a bill six times that would severely hurt the economy of Pennsylvania and regulate the fracking industry, how does he all of a sudden make this big turnaround, doesn't want to acknowledge he's a Democrat, wants nothing to do with the Democratic presidential candidate, and tries to tie himself to Donald Trump?
How do you pull that off?
It's panic, and he's not going to pull it off.
What I call him is Pung Satani Bob because my mom is born and raised in Pungsatani.
And, you know, Bob Casey pops his head up every six years for six months.
And, you know, he's gotten a free pass.
And he's just not getting a free pass this time.
And I'm hammering him every single day on his radical liberal record that's completely out of touch with Pennsylvanians.
And, you know, you can see the panic with the attacks, the lies.
He's an incumbent that's running a campaign that's all about the lies against me as opposed to a record he can run on.
And I think Pennsylvanians are seeing it.
It's interesting because the two people that I look to that have a lot of knowledge of Pennsylvania politics that are predicting you're going to win are Selena Zito and Jeff Bartos.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think they.
And by the way, and so is Dr. Ross, who ran a very close campaign, as you know, a couple of years ago.
And I think he got dragged down by Doug Bastriano, but that's a separate issue for another day.
And I think that, you know, I know he's supporting your candidacy also and you guys once we're in a primary together.
Yeah, you know, the party's united behind President Trump and the party's united behind me.
And, you know, what's happening in Pennsylvania is happening a lot of places, but we're becoming more and more red.
And our registration's moved by 700,000 registered voters in the direction of Republicans since President Trump won in 2016.
Our mail-in ballot data looks great and the momentum on the ground looks great.
And, you know, it's going to be close.
So we got to get every single person out there to vote now, as you said, and be active and tell their friends.
But I think people realize this election is about saving their country and they want to vote for change, not status quo career politicians like Bob Casey or radical liberals like Kamala Harris.
I agree.
One of the reasons I'm telling people, I mean, we just had two hurricanes.
And again, we're still praying for our friends in North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and my home state now, Florida.
And they got hit really hard.
And I was talking to Joe Bastardi, Weatherbell.com, and he said, we're not out of the woods with hurricane season yet.
He sees the possibility of two more hurricanes this season.
I hope, and he hopes he's wrong, but he definitely sees the possibility.
And the reason you want to bank your vote now, get it in now.
It's not the system I would choose or the one I even like, but it's the system we have.
And you can't start out Election Day down hundreds of thousands of votes.
And if God forbid, it's bad weather or something happens, you know, another hurricane, God forbid.
I mean, people are not going to be able to vote on Election Day.
And so I'm telling people, take advantage of it now, get your vote in, bank your vote, and they can do that for you.
And they could do that for President Trump and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania because Bob Casey is a 99% Harris Biden, you know, radical extremist.
And that's what he is.
And those policies will hurt Pennsylvania.
They'll hurt the country.
No doubt about it, Sean.
And, you know, listen, most people in Pennsylvania know me now, but for those who don't know me or want to get involved or help chip in some money at the end of the campaign here, it's DaveMcCormickPA.com.
And what I'm feeling is a lot of movement, a lot of energy on the ground.
And I'm fired up to be doing it.
And, you know, you and I've talked throughout this campaign.
And I'm right exactly where I need to be to knock off an incumbent.
And one of your colleagues in the media world asked me the other day, what about the Casey dynasty?
And I said, you know, the thing about dynasties is they all end.
This one's about to end if we can slam it home on Election Day.
All right, quick break.
Right back more with Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
And your calls coming up, final half hour of the program today, 800-941-Shauna's on number as we continue.
We can take you now.
Dave McCormick is with us.
He is the Republican candidate.
He's now taken over Bob Casey in the polls for the U.S. Senate in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
You said something that really stuck with me, and that was every six years he just shows up.
And for the most part, he's just a reliable, steady party guy, liberal Democrat that really is not in touch with the people in the Commonwealth.
And it's evidenced by the radical voting record that he has.
Of people now becoming aware of that, because if they become aware of that, they understand you might as well have Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania as your senator.
No doubt about it.
Yeah, I think they are becoming aware of it.
And he's not helped himself.
You know, when Kamala Karis Kamala Harris became the nominee, he went out there and said, listen, you're going to love her when you get to know her.
And I don't think he even knew all the radical stuff she had said.
And then he was just on CNN recently, and he was asked this question.
Can you imagine this, Sean?
He was asked this question.
Can you think of a single thing you disagree with Kamala Harris on?
After we had heard her say all those crazy San Francisco liberal policies, he said, you know, I really can't think of a difference at this moment.
So he is not someone who's going to stand up for and stand against the liberal wing of the party.
And, you know, there's this great clip from 18 years ago when he ran for the Senate.
He's on the stage with Rick Santorum, and he's being interviewed.
It's a debate, and he says something like, listen, and this is referring to Santorum and President Bush.
He says, whenever you have two politicians that vote the same way, 98% of the time, you don't need one of them.
Here we are, Bob Casey, a certain vote for the radical liberal agenda of Kamala Harris.
I mean, this guy is exactly what he said he wasn't.
And I don't know what Bob Casey was like when he won office 18 years ago, but I know the Bob Casey of today is a man that has shown no leadership and has voted with the extreme liberal agenda every single time.
And that's just not what Pennsylvania needs or wants.
Well, we appreciate you coming on.
We're really happy how well you've done.
I'm glad the people in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are, it's such an important, it's such, it's so important for this election that both for you and for President Trump, if you get elected, I mean, if you're going to vote for President Trump, he needs Republican senators, Republican congressmen to advance the Make America Great Again agenda.
And we need secure borders and we need to get to tame inflation.
We need energy dominance.
We need law and order and safety and security so people can pursue happiness.
We need better schools and we need a safer world.
It's not that complicated.
Dave McCormick, I've gotten to know you, really like you.
You and your family are amazing.
And I think the world of you.
And I really am watching the race closely, as you know, and we hope we'll have you back before Election Day.
Thank you so much and congratulations.
Keep pounding on the pavement and let's pull this off.
Same here, Sean.
Thanks so much.
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All right, let's get to our phones.
You know what?
We got two calls from Pennsylvania.
Let's go to Pennsylvania.
Let's say hi to Mike in Pennsylvania, the all-important state of Pennsylvania.
Mike, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
I am out.
You know what?
I shouldn't say the state.
If you say the state, people hate it.
It's the Commonwealth.
Okay.
I correct myself.
Sean?
Yeah.
How are you?
You know, I'm fine, but originally I'm a boy from Lindenhurst, Long Island.
So we're practically neighbors.
Wow.
And I went to visit my brother down there this weekend, and I found out something I thought was totally despicable.
The Biden-Harris administration has dropped a certain program from Social Security where the surviving spouse is no longer able to pick up the higher of the two Social Securities.
Should it have come from their spouse if one passes away?
I did not hear that.
I knew that there were changes and they wanted to put them past the election.
I don't think they were able to pull it off.
I don't remember the exact specifics because, you know, I mean, the flow of information 24-7 that I see and I read every day is just voluminous.
But there was a little trick they were trying to play on us as it relates to Medicare benefits and so on and so forth.
I didn't hear about that one.
Yeah, my brother's neighbor's husband passed away after a year in the hospital.
That's ridiculous.
That's insane.
To get the higher Social Security because she was a stay-at-home mom, and she's going to lose her house now because she won't be able to afford it on her, you know, lower Social Security.
This is exactly what the Washington Post was saying.
Lower your expectations about what the American dream is.
You know, Social Security was a sacred promise that we made to people.
The money that we pay every year, all of our working years into Social Security is designed, was supposed to be put into a lockbox.
And if they would have just invested it conservatively and wisely, even in treasuries for crying out loud, and not rated the lockbox, we wouldn't be looking at insolvency with Social Security or Medicare.
But they didn't handle it that way.
And it is unconscionable to me because this is the big lie that Democrats tell on top of the Republicans are racist and Trump is Hitler and Nazi and Stalin and Mussolini, et cetera, is that Republicans want to take away grandma and grandpa's Social Security and Medicare.
Donald Trump could not be more clear.
That is not true.
He didn't do it his first term.
He won't do it in his second term.
So they just lie.
However, I would imagine that if, in fact, that happened, that that is something that Donald Trump would fix immediately.
But I just didn't hear about it.
I mean, and if you're right and I'm wrong, I apologize because I should be all over that.
You know, Donald Trump is like you, a hometown boy made good.
You're very kind.
Because he's a guy from Queens who talks like a guy from Queens.
By the way, it's probably the reason we hit it off so well.
I can talk to him.
And as Nuke Gingrich has said, you know, I've watched the relationship that you've had with him, and because of your similar backgrounds in the sense of where you grew up, he goes, you can talk and communicate with him in a way that nobody else can.
And I think in many ways, he's right.
But I will tell you, you're very kind.
I don't know if I've made good.
I'm trying to in my life.
I'm imperfect.
All have sinned and fallen short.
But I will tell you that I feel I've lived an undeserved life, and I'm grateful to God for that.
And I'm praying for our country as well.
And I know everybody's fighting for our country right now.
And that's why I say every day for the next 13 days is Election Day, early voting.
Go to Hannity.com.
See how you can register when early voting starts or stops in your Commonwealth like Pennsylvania or in any state you live in.
It's up as a public service.
Appreciate it, Mike.
God bless you, man.
Love our friends and PA.
Linda's from Pennsylvania.
That's where she lives.
John in Pennsylvania also.
John, how are you?
Glad you called.
Good, Sean.
You're a beautiful, stable genius.
I don't know about that, but go ahead.
Keep going.
Stable.
You're stable.
But let's go with that.
Hey, I just wanted to say a couple quick things.
First of all, the Democrats have proven they just cannot handle power.
It's like giving a 16-year-old a Corvette and a six-pack of IPA.
First, they put in the American Rescue Act $2 trillion of stimulus right after Trump had to do $5 trillion.
Now, you know that that was a slush fund, right?
And of course, the inflation took off right from there.
The open borders, partisan January 6 hearings, Justice Department going after people they don't like, shutting down free speech they don't like, all things to benefit Democrats, but really hurt the American people.
Look, I've never seen a party get this vitriolic, this hateful, the rhetoric this radical and this extreme, and none of it has to do with substance.
It's all about personality.
Now, you would think that if this was working for them, that I guess they would continue it, but they wouldn't be in the state of panic that they are.
But they really don't have any choice left at this point because they can't run and say we secured the border because they didn't.
They can't run and say that your town and city is more safe and secure because they supported defund dismantled Nobel laws.
They support sanctuary states.
They support decriminalizing illegal immigration, free housing, food, healthcare, education, legal driver's licenses, free college, taxpayer-funded sex change surgeries, and amnesty.
They don't support America using its energy to become the wealthiest country on earth.
They just don't.
He would ban fracking, ban offshore drilling.
She said it repeatedly.
And Bernie Sanders is assuring us that she will go back to her real vantage point if she wins the election.
He can't run on the economy because it's been a disaster.
We pay more for everything we buy in every store we go to.
He can't run on energy because we pay more for energy, about a buck fifty more a gallon for gas every gallon we put in our tank.
And they can't run down the world's a safer place.
And that means we're not better off than we were four years ago.
And that's where they they that's why they are left with what they're left with is Donald Trump is Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, all in one, and he's going to use the military and arrest his enemies.
Not true on every count.
And I know the people in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are smarter than this.
Appreciate it, John.
Thank you.
Christina, Texas.
God bless Texas, Christina.
Don't forget our friend Ted Cruz is spending $200 million in negative ads on him.
I'm sure you see him every second of every day.
I do, Sean, and thank you for having me.
Been a fan of your for years.
I'm a Texas in San Antonio, Texas, been a realtor in the real estate business since 1999.
And I am telling you, I've seen such a change in early voting this past couple of days with all these realtors fed up with the Harris fighting.
Half of these realtors had to get other jobs.
And it's hard to make it.
The only reason I'm making is because my husband's in the military, but I'm telling you with tons of realtors out there.
What we were making in 2019 during the Trump years, oh my God, yes, I want to go back to that.
And with early voting and the lines I'm seeing, all these Latinos are for Trump.
They are fed up with the open border.
Do you know because you're talking to them?
Yes.
I was out.
Like, I was out there.
I have a lot of presence.
You know, being a realtor, I work with a lot of, you know, people in the community.
I see them change.
Like, from 2020 to now, they're like, we're fed up.
They're not doing anything for us.
We got fed up with that open border.
And they think that Latinos want open borders.
No, we don't.
So I want to find out what your opinion is on election night.
Are we going to find out the next day or is it going to be weeks?
Well, if you listen to some analysts, I've heard we're not going to probably know on election night.
If you're I'm hoping we know very quickly, and I'm hoping that it is a dominant Trump victory.
That's what I hope for.
There are others that have said we may not know till the weekend.
I don't know the answer to it.
I don't have a crystal ball.
But I am hoping that Americans will decisively reject this campaign of hatred and vitriol and this radicalism and extremism of Harrison Walls and that Donald Trump will be given a chance to fix our borders,
fix our economy, lower energy prices, make us energy dominant, make the world more safe and secure, bring back law and order so we can all be safe and secure, so we can all pursue happiness and our dreams.
And that's what my hope is.
But you know what?
Right now, the only one that knows the outcome of this election will be God himself.
I don't know.
Anyway, I appreciate the call.
Thank you so much, Christina.
West Virginia Scott, next on the Sean Hannity show.
Looks like you will be electing a Republican senator from West Virginia come election day.
That's what it looks like.
I hope that's the case.
Scott, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Hey, great.
Good to speak with you, Sean.
And I hope you're having a great day.
Yeah, Joe Manchin's gone.
That would be very nice.
They hate us, of course, down here, but that's how it goes.
I haven't been here that long, man.
I've lived down in Florida and out in the West Coast.
But I had a couple of areas here that I wanted to touch upon.
I was kind of disgusted when I heard the media, of course, the Democrats themselves, when they've been to slice and dice up Donald Trump for doing what I thought was a brilliant strategic move, going to McDonald's at this point and staged.
Of course, it had to be staged Secret Service and let everybody roll in there.
But the fact is, the way they called it out, and yet I look at what Timmy Waltz did on his present hunt.
Now with that...
You mean when he had a hard time loading his own shotgun at that moment?
He was trying to push batteries up into the shotgun.
But when I looked at everybody out there, it looked like they were involved from central casting and had their outfits and Julian Pierre's full suits.
And I see all of that.
But there was two questions that I have.
And I've never heard the media pick on this or ask.
Number one, where were the pheasants?
That's actually a good, you know, I hadn't actually thought about it.
I didn't, I paid some attention to it.
Again, I'm taking him voluminous amounts of information by the hour.
And I'm watching as well.
So I'm just not able to absorb it all and convey it all.
But I did see that and I did laugh, but I didn't think about where the pheasants were.
That's a good point.
I did wonder where the Secret Service agents were because there weren't any shots around them.
You do have a vice presidential candidate in light of two assassination, one assassination attempt and another would-be assassin of a presidential candidate.
You would think security would be beefed up to its maximum level.
And I'm not sure if I'm the Secret Service director, I want anybody with a gun around any presidential candidate.
And I mean that, Republican or Democrat.
But I guess they deemed it was a safe situation.
Everything worked out.
Probably the most unsafe thing I saw was him loading his own shotgun.
Guess what?
The other thing that was missing, Peter.
Yeah.
Who is Peter?
He's going to kill a pheasant.
Good point.
Criticized that.
I know he wanted to act like he was Mr. Tough Guy and a real man, and I use a gun and I go shooting for pheasants.
Okay.
You know, I have friends of mine that are hunters.
They always invite me to go.
I'm like, I don't really want to kill Bambi.
I have no interest.
I'll just go to my local meat market or grocery store and get my meat.
But, you know, I respect that people love it.
They have a passion for it.
And many of my friends do.
They can't understand why I don't like it.
I'm like, well, I don't have time to do it anyway.
Anyway, I appreciate the call.
800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, thank you so much.
That's going to wrap things up for today.
We've got a great Hannity 9 Eastern on the Hannity program, Fox News.
Hope you'll join us as the left in America is melting down.
Will the strategy that Trump is Hitler and Stalin and Mussolini?
Is it going to work?
We'll ask Newt Gingrich, Laura Trump, Vivek, Ramaswamy, Tim Scott, Josh Hawley.
Oh, his opponent.
That was a real winning move.
A journalist got hit with shrapnel as he fired an AR-15 to show how tough he was.
Anyway, that's all coming up 9 Eastern City DVR tonight.
We'll see you back here tomorrow.
Remember, voting day is going on right now through Election Day as a public service.
All the info on Hannity.com.
See you tonight.
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