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	Anyway, so Mark Halperin, he has worked for ABC, worked for NBC, and he used to do a show on Showtime.
	It actually was a fun show, except the one day that John Heileman tried to corner me and get me to talk to him.
	And I'm like, I'm not talking to you.
	Sorry, if you want an interview, call Fox PR.
	I might have talked to him for a minute.
	But it was a good show.
	It was kind of interesting.
	And we'll do the behind the scenes of political campaigns leading into presidential years.
	And a big part of the success of that show was Mark Halperin.
	He is one of the most connected in terms of knowing people on both sides of the aisle and has impeccable sources.
	And his commentary has been making a ton of news lately.
	In the last, what, 36, 48 hours, he made a lot of news when he said that there is information being peddled by people that if in fact it were turned out to be true, would probably destroy Donald Trump's campaign.
	And he clarified it.
	He said, I don't believe any of it for a minute.
	This is the crazy season.
	And just for the record, I'm being peddled stuff like an hour-by-hour basis, if not every half hour.
	It's insane.
	People get crazy in the final days of these campaigns.
	There'll probably be 14 October surprises between now and November 5th.
	And you got to be very careful with the information that people are peddling to you.
	Anyway, we welcome Mark Halperin to the program.
	Sir, how are you?
	Delighted to be back.
	Thank you.
	Now, you're the editor-in-chief of this new interactive video platform called Two-Way, and you do it with Sean Spicer.
	And you're getting, you're making a ton of news.
	Can we start with what you were referring to when you said you were being peddled information, which I think anybody that has any association in the news business, even a member of the press and an opinion person and talk show host like myself gets those kind of calls every day.
	Yeah, and my point of raising it was not to be provocative and sort of teasing.
	It was to say, because two ways about transparency and about letting citizens understand how things work, that this stuff's being peddled.
	And it's being peddled about Donald Trump, about Kamala Harris.
	And in the age, the information, digital age, in the age of the deep fake, you never know what's real.
	And some organizations, I won't say news organizations, they just shovel stuff right into publication.
	And the danger is we know it's asymmetrical.
	One side has the dominant media.
	And so they can orchestrate, hey, get this piece in the Atlantic and then get it on NBC News and CBS News.
	And that's a way to try to dominate the news and create what I call maybe a synthetic October surprise.
	That didn't really work out well for them, did it?
	Well, it's a great question.
	They switched to this new message, which is really the old message that Joe Biden was running on.
	What's the metric of success?
	They got a story and then were able to use that story to have public events and press conferences and public statements and then dominate certain parts of the news.
	Although when they check the Battleground state media, the local TV stations, the newspapers, no, they're not interested in that story.
	So I think history will probably record if she sticks with this message that they did it out of desperation because the other stuff wasn't working, but this probably won't either.
	But the point is, they did dominate the news.
	They did take advantage of a peddled story.
	Is there any one story that you specifically have in mind that you believe would just ⁇ I mean, I can't believe we're talking about this.
	13 days Donald Trump's been on the public stage 13 days before an election is an explosive news something.
	I mean, it sounds bizarre to me.
	The story that I had in mind, what I said was, if it were true, it would destroy his campaign, but I didn't think it was true.
	And based on the nature of it being peddled, but I also know it was peddled to one of the most important newspapers in America.
	And I don't know whether they took it seriously or not, but someone had the capacity to pay at them.
	I'd say this, Sean, in 2000, George W. Bush, who'd been son of a president, run for governor of Texas twice, foxed a story about a DUI.
	How could the Tech Press Corps have never, how could the DNC have never uncovered that?
	So I don't think it's impossible, particularly regarding Kamala Harris.
	Less likely for Donald Trump because he was president and has run three times.
	But I'm sure, I know there's stuff about her that's never come out.
	That's the nature of the beast.
	But at the same time, what I was trying to say to people is you have to be on guard just because something shows up in The Guardian or The Daily Beast or The Times of India or even the New York Times or The Atlantic Magazine.
	You cannot just say, oh, that's definitely true.
	You can't assume that because something got published, that it's definitely true because of the nature of not just partisan media, but people looking for a scoop.
	One thing that we both are analyzing, because I could tell from your commentary, are early vote numbers, and we're comparing them to 2020 and 2016.
	And there is no doubt the early voting in the swing states looks especially good for Donald Trump.
	If you look at the real clear politics average of polling, you know, Donald Trump four years ago, I think on this date, I have the number somewhere here in front of me, was down either seven or eight points, something like that, and was down, I think, four and a half points around that number in the Battleground states.
	He's now up in the Battleground States by a point.
	And even on a national level, it's a 0.2 race.
	I mean, you know, four years ago, very different story.
	But we get early voting data, and they know who's voting, Republicans, Democrats, and all these swing states.
	And you made the comment that the early vote looks very good for Republicans, and that if this trend continues, this election may be over before Election Day actually gets here.
	Yeah, I mean, you got to punch the if, right?
	It may not continue, and Democrats argue that it won't.
	What I'm saying is, first of all, you need another caveat besides the if, which is 2020 was a freaky year because of COVID, and 2016 is ancient history, and midterms are not presidentials.
	So we're dealing with a tangerine, an armadillo, and an apple to try to compare these things.
	But what you can say for sure is that Democrats have become highly reliant on going into Election Day with a big lead, knowing that while they're better at early vote, Republicans swamp them on Election Day.
	And what I said, and I stand by it despite some criticism, is that if the numbers we saw in the first few days, and it's continued so far, in what I call the early early vote, but if the late early vote continues along these lines, I think people will rightly look at the data going into Election Day and say, look how many Republicans voted early, look how many Democrats did, look at Democrats' performance on Election Day typically, you'd say there's just no way they're going to make up for the gap.
	And whether that's because of natural organic enthusiasm to vote for Donald Trump and vote out Kamala Harris, or whether the Trump campaign actually has a better field operation than they let on people have come to think they do, whatever the combination is, you can't deny the current data.
	It's overwhelming, and it eats into the Republican deficit that they had.
	They're going to lose the early vote number.
	But if the delta of this cycle compared to 2020 continues along these lines, as I said, we'll wake up on Election Day.
	We'll look at the early vote numbers, whether it's absentee ballots or early voting in person or Dropbox, and we'll say, it's just impossible that Democrats are going to make up these or hold the lead that they have, given how Republicans tend to perform on Election Day.
	It's like a 22-point swing in Pennsylvania, for example.
	As of the latest numbers that I saw, I don't know what you're seeing.
	Let me play a clip of you saying that you're talking to Democrats, and this is what they're telling you.
	I'm going to tell you what I know.
	Lots going on.
	And today, to me, was kind of the breakpoint day.
	Things are very tense now.
	I'm for America.
	I don't have a candidate in this race.
	And I'm doing my best to try to make sure the country comes out of this election as united as we can be, regardless of the outcome.
	As always, every day ask you, imagine how you'll handle it if your candidate loses.
	But things are quite tense.
	This morning we talked on the program about the fact that the early vote looks very good for Republicans.
	Not that they're going to win the early vote, but that the delta is going to be small enough if it stays on this trajectory that election day would be anticlimactic, that Democrats are going to have to do better.
	And they say they will.
	Dan and I have asked Democrats, say we're talking to Democrats.
	They're telling us things don't look good.
	If you want to dispute that, point to some public data.
	We're not suppressing anything.
	We'd love to, we always want to present the full story.
	There's more anecdotal evidence just to add what you said there, because I'm seeing the same thing, and that is, why is Bob Casey running away from Kamala Harris and trying to sound like a Trump supporter?
	And you see the same thing with Jared Brown.
	And you see the same thing in the Senate race in Michigan, for example.
	What are your thoughts?
	Well, there's a lot of tells going on right now, and they're all in one direction.
	First of all, Kamala Harris switched her message.
	You don't switch your message.
	You think you have a winning message.
	What you cited, you know, the conflict, just the logical conflict between the person at the top of the ticket saying the guy loves Hitler and then the Senate Democratic candidates who are imperiled saying, hey, Hitler and I agree.
	We agree on fracking.
	We agree on trade.
	That's a hard thing for the party to be unified about.
	If she's going to be running down Donald Trump, it's a core message of hers.
	And her Senate partner in Pennsylvania and elsewhere are going to be bragging about working with Trump.
	And then, you know, I'm no scientist or psychiatrist, but watch cable and watch Democratic pundits now.
	They're making up different excuses.
	They're blaming, you know, they're saying Biden stayed in too long.
	Oh, my God.
	They're lashing out.
	I mean, it's like unbelievable.
	Yeah.
	So they're lecturing African-American men.
	They're calling them misogynist and sexist.
	I'm like, oh, my gosh.
	And here's one of the biggest tells, right?
	Today, after spending four days courting young black men to try to win back enough vote to win, today, who do they have out on the trail?
	They have all these prominent black American figures, male figures, with her in Atlanta, with her husband in, I forget where he is, North Carolina, maybe.
	They clearly recognize that this is something they have to work on, and the press barely covers it.
	Imagine if Donald Trump were out there doing day after day events trying to win back evangelical Christians or pro-life activists.
	It's just, it's an asymmetrical situation, and it's another tell.
	It doesn't mean Trump's definitely going to win, but it does parallel not just the public and private polling data and the early vote data, but it matches the mood in these campaigns, which, again, you don't need to be a psychiatrist to read the body language and say they think they recognize they have a problem.
	And you go back to there's a reason why Joe Biden said he couldn't give up the slot because it would go to her and she couldn't win.
	There's a reason why Nancy Pelosi didn't want her to be the nominee.
	Doesn't mean she can't win.
	It doesn't mean that she hasn't improved somewhat in some areas.
	But if she does lose, people are going to say.
	Was that an improvement last night on CNN?
	Because I thought it was awful.
	It was horrible.
	And Democrats know it's horrible.
	And they also look at the clock and say, you know, when she was that horrible two weeks ago, we could say, well, she'll get better.
	But time's kind of up, not just because the election's in less than two weeks, but because that was our last TED poll event.
	All right, quick break.
	Right back more with Mark Halperin on the other side.
	Then your call's coming up.
	800-941-Sean.
	As we continue, it's Election Day in America, 12 days till the official Election Day.
	But when there's voting in America, it's Election Day.
	We'll continue.
	All right, we continue now with Mark Halpern is with us analyzing the state of the race with just 12 days till Election Day, although every day is now Election Day if there's early voting going on.
	You know what's saddeness?
	And it's interesting because I really don't know where you stand politically.
	I thought you did slant left.
	I did because I just thought the circus did.
	And I thought it was a great show, though.
	It was a really good show.
	And I don't slant.
	No, I appreciate that.
	And, you know, I believe when you believe in what you're saying, if that's your position, I respect it.
	And I know you have great sources in both Republican and Democratic circles.
	There's no disputing that.
	This is when I said in 2007 and 8, journalism's dead.
	They're so repulsively, abusively biased to me.
	I'm honest about being a conservative in the media.
	They're not honest.
	I don't need to be a conservative to say what you say because it's patently true.
	And I've said it my whole career, even when I worked at places that were liberally biased, the level of liberal bias is massive.
	And it creates an unlevel playing field.
	It doesn't mean Republicans can't win.
	George W. Bush, Donald Trump both won with unleveled playing fields.
	But it is part of why Donald Trump does well because the country can see it.
	And just look at the cover-up of Biden's loss of mental acuity.
	And after it was exposed, not one news organization that participated in the conspiracy said, oops, we better explain to people how that happened.
	They protested.
	It felt like a voice in the wilderness playing a clip a night for crying out loud.
	Yeah.
	And in the beginning, I was excoriated for pointing it out.
	Yeah.
	So I agree with you.
	The bias is pronounced, but I also, and I said this to my friends in the liberal media, you're helping Trump win.
	It's the ultimate irony.
	You want Trump to lose, and you're helping him win because your coverage is only appealing to the people who are already against him.
	And the backlash, I talk to people on Tui all the time who say, I'm voting for Trump because of lawfare in the media.
	I don't like Trump.
	You know, I'm worried about him being president, but we have to stand up for lawfare, liberal media, woke.
	We just have to do it.
	And that's been the pattern for 10 years now.
	There's scary times, too.
	Two would-be assassins, one assassination attempt, one very close.
	You've become one of the most interesting people to follow during this election.
	And I do appreciate your commentary.
	And we're going to continue to have you back on if you're available.
	We appreciate your time.
	Mark Halfer.
	Don, thank you.
	Love being on.
	Take care.
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	Hey, ladies and gentlemen, it's sick and it's getting sicker.
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	It's sick and it's getting sicker.
	No doubt about a 25 now to the top of the hour.
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	It is Election Day in many states and Commonwealths around the country, although some are going to have early voting coming to an end in just a couple of days.
	We have all of this information as a public service on Hannity.com about registration, about early voting, when it starts, when it stops, wherever you live.
	If you are interested, we have the Kamala files that the state-run media mob will never play for you throughout the whole campaign.
	Disgusting, repulsive, and they're so abusively biased.
	It is pretty unparalleled.
	It's never been this bad, and it's been bad for a long time.
	But you can use it as a public service, share it with your friends, your neighbors, your coworkers, your family, social media, whatever you want to do.
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	All right, let's get to our busy phone, shall we?
	Jose is in Kansas.
	Jose, hey, how are you?
	Glad you called, and we appreciate you being with us.
	Sean, how are you doing today?
	I'm good.
	What's going on?
	Well, thanks for taking my call, first of all.
	But anyways, I was calling because, God, I can't wait for this election to be over.
	All these ads that are nothing but lies, and all the money that they spent going to Twitter, weaponizing the FBI, the CIA, getting them to take Trump off for false information and whatever else they could dream of.
	But they're doing the same thing with all these ads that they're doing.
	I mean, isn't that considered election interference?
	No, you're allowed to run an ad.
	You can say, I mean, they lie, but Democrats always lie.
	They've now settled on a closing argument that Donald Trump is a racist and a fascist and a Nazi, and he's Stalin and Hitler and Mussolini all in one.
	I mean, not a great closing argument because they can't, Kamala can't really be herself.
	This is where a lot of this comes from.
	Last night's town hall for her, I watched the replay of it.
	It was a disaster.
	It was an unmitigated disaster, and it just shows how ill-equipped she is to be the president of this country.
	And even every commentator on fake news, CNN, recognized how bad it was.
	And she can't answer questions because she can't tell the truth.
	And when she does answer it, she's so radical and extreme and out of touch with the American people.
	That's just it.
	I mean, I don't even know if they, I know they know the truth.
	I mean, that's the part that gets me.
	I mean, everything that they bring up, you know, Trump was, you know, January 6th, you know, John Keller bringing up all the Nazi stuff, you know, I mean, all that stuff has been debunked, you know, and but they still keep bringing it out.
	It's like it's one thing.
	There's never been a bigger partner or greater presidential partner in the modern era to Israel than Donald J. Trump.
	And this is, they just, there's so it is Trump derangement syndrome.
	There's no other way to put it.
	And everything they're throwing at them up to now is falling apart and is not real.
	And people, you know, they've heard this noise for 10 years, and it's just, it's diminishing returns at this point.
	And the only reason they have to go there is because that's all they got.
	They can't say the borders are more secure, your town and city is more safe and secure.
	They can't say that the economy is doing well because every time you go to any store, you're paying way more than you were paying four years ago.
	You can't, you know, every time you fill up your gas tank, you're paying a fortune more because of their radicalism.
	And the world is not a safer place.
	So, I mean, that's Trump's closing argument.
	They broke it, and Trump's going to fix it.
	That's a pretty good closing argument to me.
	Yeah.
	Well, and I'm glad that most people know.
	And, you know, watching Charlie Kirk, you know, with, gosh dang it, from Hawaii, Tulsi Gabbard.
	Oh, Tulsi Gabbard, yeah.
	You know, I watched a podcast on them, you know, with Arizona College, and I was so glad to see all them red hats out there, you know, so I know that the message is getting out, you know, and that's I'm the message is getting out, but my admonition remains, and I'm going to let you go to get other calls in here, and I do appreciate you being with us.
	I really do.
	Jose, God bless you, and God bless Kansas, too.
	The message is getting out, and we're beginning to see it, but you have to assume that your vote is the vote that's going to tip the election to Donald Trump.
	That's it.
	You just have to assume it.
	Don't let anything is said, any lie that is told, any poll that is good or bad impact your commitment to voting.
	I urge everybody to vote early.
	And God forbid, Joe Bastardi's warning me, there's a potential for two more hurricanes this year.
	That means it could happen.
	And what happens then if a state gets hit hard on elections?
	You can't go out and vote on Election Day.
	Bank your vote.
	I urge you to do it.
	Not the system I like, but the one we're stuck with.
	And I think it's very, very important.
	Anyway, appreciate the call.
	Pennsylvania, the Commonwealth, the very important Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
	Glad you called, Wayne.
	Thanks for checking in.
	How are you, sir?
	Sean, great.
	Thanks for taking my call.
	Hey, I'm a transplant from New Jersey, and I'm kind of disappointed with Springsteen.
	He was the working man's musician.
	And for Kamala to bring on the Obamas, any kind of musical event, she's going to the bench because she can't carry a rally on her own.
	I've been out to a Trump rally out here, and for an hour and a half, it's all Trump.
	Now, can I make a quick analogy using you?
	I'll go right ahead.
	All right, you have a three-hour show, and for some reason, Sean Hannity loses his fastball, and you have to call on Hulk Hogan, John Rich, and Kid Rock to fill in two and a half hours of your show.
	Why would I need them when I got Linda that could fill 17 hours a day?
	But anyway, I'll just as a sentence.
	Let's throw Linda into the mix, too.
	So, but she cannot do an hour and a half rally.
	The other point I want to make out in Central PA here, we have not received our mail-in ballots.
	My wife is judge of election.
	She cannot vote on election day because she's going to be running the polls.
	Do you know, and we're in Trump country, it's 80% Republican, 20% Democrat.
	Do you know or you have any info on whether mailing ballots have been sent out in Pennsylvania or are they playing some game here?
	I did read something about some guy in, I think, Laverne County.
	I may be mistaken.
	It's Luzerne County.
	It's Scott Pressler, who does early vote action.
	He's out there and he's pushing back.
	Okay, so there are people that say this.
	I'd say go to your local election place and say, Excuse me, I asked for my mail-in ballot.
	I deserve to get it.
	Be polite, be respectful.
	And if you can't do that, I don't know if they allow early voting instead of mail-in, if you have the opportunity to do that.
	And I just would say to you, just vote early.
	Anyway, hang in there, my friend.
	I hope you work it out.
	Everybody, if you're having problems, go to your election people.
	Go to your local district.
	Go to your voting place.
	Talk to your elected officials.
	Talk to your state representative.
	Talk to your senator.
	Talk to your congressman.
	Let's say hi to Mark in Alabama.
	What's up, Mark?
	How are you?
	Glad you called.
	Good afternoon.
	Thank you.
	I appreciate your show.
	Appreciate you.
	The radio, the TV, I just make the world of you.
	And I've been wanting to ask somebody this question for years, and I wanted it to be somebody of your prominence and inside knowledge of politics.
	But can you please explain to me why the liberals want to implement all these different policies, whether by executive order, legislative, that are so destructive to the country?
	And we can see it.
	I mean, I'm talking about everything, decriminalizing drug use, defund the police.
	Why are they doing this?
	I don't know.
	I don't know why you'd want taxpayer-funded dollars to go to sex change surgeries for people that didn't respect our laws, borders, and sovereignty or free housing, health care, education.
	Absolutely.
	I don't know why you'd want to destroy capitalism with the $93 trillion Green New Deal.
	I don't know why you'd want to defund, dismantle ICE, and reimagine ICE and police departments.
	I don't know why you want no fracking or drilling, the one thing that would make this country rich, get us out of debt, and bring peace to the world because our allied countries wouldn't be reliant on somebody like Vladimir Putin for the lifeblood of their economy.
	I don't know why they believe a lot of what they believe, but that's why I think that they're so extreme, so radical.
	You know, I don't know why people would support gender-affirming care for minors and feel like the law has the ability to bypass parents.
	This is insanity.
	Or no restrictions on late-term abortion.
	I don't understand that either.
	But regardless, that's what elections are about.
	You know, if you don't want to wake up and have somebody with these beliefs winning this election, you better take it seriously.
	You know, people say, Well, Hannity, you're making me scared.
	Maybe it sounds like it's very close.
	Assume your vote is the deciding vote.
	I'm not playing around with this.
	I am telling everybody: assume your vote will decide the election.
	I can't be any more clear.
	And if I have to come on and we're going to deal with it, I'm sort of like with Bill Maher is.
	Yeah, I'll deal with it.
	I've lost elections.
	I wanted to win badly before, but I don't want to lose this time.
	I'd like to win.
	And I think we can win.
	And I think if we don't win, then I think there are consequences for the country in the sense that elections have consequences.
	That's it.
	Obama famously said, We won, you lost.
	And that's her radicalism will come back out very quickly, probably within an hour.
	You know, everything she's been hiding.
	Anyway, God bless you, my friend.
	I appreciate you being with us.
	800-941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
	The important state of Ohio, Valerie is next.
	I hope you're also, if you're voting for Donald Trump in Ohio, I hope you'll also vote for Bernie Moreno.
	I hope you vote for Mike Rogers in Michigan.
	I hope you'll vote for Dave McCormick in Pennsylvania.
	And I hope you vote for Republican congressmen and senators so that Donald Trump will have a fighting chance to get his full agenda across.
	Anyway, how are you, Valerie?
	Glad you called.
	I am great, Sean, and thanks for taking my call.
	So I am calling because I'm confirming a caller yesterday who said that Social Security is not giving the higher, if your spouse has passed, they're not giving you the higher Social Security amount.
	And I'm confirming that because my spouse passed last year and he earned a lot more than I did.
	And they're only giving me about less than $1,000 of what he earned.
	So I got a lot of text, and I honestly have been so buried in the day-to-day, voluminous amounts of material.
	I'm having my team look into it.
	It turns out I've heard from a lot of people that are confirming exactly what you said.
	And I'll get the exact information.
	I'll have it on the air tomorrow, okay?
	Because that's terrible.
	That is terrible.
	You know, you spend your whole life.
	And let me tell you what else is going to happen.
	They're going to raise the retirement age, you know, to basically the day before people are scheduled to die, even though you've paid into Social Security your whole life.
	They're going to means test it, meaning, well, if you were successful in life because you worked your ass off, well, they're going to say, well, you have enough money.
	You don't need the money that we promised you, that we told you would be yours, that we supposedly put in a lockbox.
	Mark my words, all of this is coming.
	You know, I'll probably just barely skate through and get mine.
	And then they'll probably want to take it away just because my last name's Hannity.
	But it's awful.
	I mean, for a lot of people, that is their only income.
	And they need that money.
	And they deserve cost of living increases.
	It's a promise we made.
	They promised to put it in a lockbox and they rated it and it's now headed towards insolvency.
	Now, again, if we would tap into the energy resources in this country, we could eliminate our debt.
	We could lower taxes, hopefully eliminate that.
	We could shore up Social Security and Medicare for generations to come and get our act together.
	It won't happen under Kamala Harris.
	It's never going to happen.
	Elections matter.
	It's election day in America and 12 days till the official day, but you can vote early.
	Hannity.com, public service, how to register when early voting starts and stops in your state.
	I hope you'll take advantage of the opportunity.
	Now is the time.
	Now is the time.
	Don't let some natural disaster or emergency prevent you from voting.
	Do it now.
	Not the system I love, but it's the one we're stuck with.
	You can't change it until you win elections.
	All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
	We are loaded up tonight, 9 Eastern on the Fox News channel.
	Please set your DVR so you never, ever, ever miss an episode of Hannity.
	Tonight, we have Stephen A. Smith.
	We have Joe Concha, Ari Fleischer, David Asmond, Steve Moore tonight, Senator Lindsey Graham.
	Set your DVR, 9 Eastern, Hannity on Fox.
	See you tonight.
	Back here tomorrow.

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