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Salena Zito - November 1st, Hour 2
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All right, I want to Sean Hannity show toll free on numbers eight hundred nine four one Sean.
If you want to be a part of the program, it is Election Day in America.
If there's voting going on anyway anywhere, that makes it election day.
We are four days away until the polls close, the vote counting starts, and there's no state probably that is being watched more than the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, uh, where we are joined by Selena Zito, National Political Reporter for the Washington Examiner.
And uh welcome back, uh Selena, here we are again.
Hey Sean, how are you today?
Oh, I'm just full of joy and happiness watching Kamala Harris's, you know, I'm a Nazi fascist, uh racist, you know, everything else in between.
Oh, and and a piece of garbage, and uh Donald Trump is never around smart, intelligent, strong women either.
Well, that's the other thing.
The women women who are supporting Trump are are even one step further of being worse because they're unintelligent and stupid.
Well, that's pretty much what they're saying about anybody that votes for Trump.
You're in your Nazi fascist racist, because that's what they're calling him.
So if you're voting for him, uh thereby guilt by association.
And in the case of Mark Cuban, he gave a a half-hearted attempt at trying to walk it back.
I thought it was pretty pathetic, but the reality is couple that with Joe Biden and the garbage comment.
I know they're trying to take out a out of context.
Uh uh Donald Trump's comments about war hawks, you know, they have no problem sending other people's kids off to battle, but you know, why don't they ever go off to battle themselves?
Right.
And that was the entire point of what he was saying.
He was saying that, you know, um, these are not people that have have been there on the on the front line and have faced uh the kind of you know, near death and or death um situations.
And and that's what it's like to go to war.
You and I have throughout our careers interviewed people that have been in that situation.
And often what uh has happened is that people say the people that are the most eager for us to go to the war are the ones that have rarely served.
And that was a that was something that was lobbed at Republicans for the longest time.
However, Republicans have done a very good job in in uh recruiting men and women that have served uh and and having them talk about these situations in a meaningful way and to talk about why we should avoid war rather than participate, be the first to jump in.
Now that that that is in a nutshell what he was saying.
Uh, but you know, they they have three days of cleanup between uh Biden and and Mark Cuban, and I'm sorry, he's from Pittsburgh.
Everyone, I'm really, really sorry.
And um, you know, and that's sort of the problem here.
Well, it's a big problem because I don't know if they can clean it up.
It's the type of thing that stays with them.
Well, I d I agree with you.
Look, last night I live in Western Pennsylvania.
I live in one of those collar counties outside of Pittsburgh that uh used to be Democrat and they're now um trending, not just trending Republican, have become Republican.
And I put pictures up last night of the amount of people that either dressed in garbage bags, orange sweaters, or McDonald's.
There was a ton of little kids with little McDonald's outfits on, with like their parents made drive through windows on a cardboard.
It was really actually kind of cute.
Um and so maybe uh not everyone is willing to put up a Trump sign in their yard, but they're all they're also they are willing to let you know with a wink in the nod, they're in on the joke, and we're telling you how we feel.
You know, registration in Pennsylvania has gone up a net nearly 800,000 uh plus Republicans.
So that that's been an underreported story in my view.
He's losing about half of the early voting that they had, and the number of Republicans that are voting earlier are greater, and they're not all high propensity voters.
Uh you have twenty-two percent fully or mid to Low propensity voters that that they believe are voting for Donald Trump.
How do you interpret those numbers?
Well, see, I even go even more nerdy, and I look at who you well, you just call me a nerd.
I just just for the record.
I heard that.
I I feel like you embrace that.
Um I embrace uh there'sn't there's nothing anybody can say that will offend me, nothing.
Oh, I I I wear my nerd as a point of pride.
I've had a feeling that's if I'm a fascist Nazi racist voting, you know, piece of garbage.
I mean, how much you know, what what else is left to say?
I said the nightest thing ever.
Um so That's true.
Look what I'm looking at is Sean is not I mean, yes, I'm looking to see who's showing up and how much, but more importantly, I'm looking to see who's not showing up.
And I take the numbers in Philadelphia of Democrats and Republicans.
And it show you know, because there there's a there's a chance in Philadelphia those Republicans are um are voting for Harris, right?
And so even then, even if you add those two numbers up, they are way down in Philadelphia.
And what'd be a percentage down by how much?
Um I forget the last time I looked, but their their numbers are are way down.
But historically they're not these are not areas well known for people voting on election day, are they?
No.
And and here's the other thing.
You know, they they have a turnout problem, meaning the Democrats in Philadelphia, they they ha on election day turnout, and they've had for a while.
It's not something I'm not breaking news here.
And so what it's telling me is basically what what um what I kept wondering what would happen with Hillary in twenty sixteen, because I was seeing a lack of enthusiasm for her.
Now I have a piece today in the Washington exam or examiner.
Um I hope people go and read it.
I I take them through all sixty-seven counties and tell them what's what's going on.
And I I I think that I would rather be Trump than Harris at this moment in this election.
So is that why the the turnout, is that why Barack Obama is insulting African American men saying that they're misogynist?
Uh is that why Stacey Abrams is saying they're racist and sexist?
Is that why you know Tim Walls is trying to act so manly with his shotgun and playing Madden and and George Clooney comes out with a ma an ad trying to show us what a real man is?
Or is that why with women Julia Roberts is telling women to lie to their husbands about who they're gonna vote for?
That's it was that that last one.
Well, they're all insulting.
As a woman that is particularly insulting because i it's as though she's saying to you, it's not as though she's saying to you, because you live in the heartland and you don't live in a sophisticated place like I do, I know that you can't think for yourself.
Well, I'm just letting you know that you can.
How utterly insulting to women.
So Barack Obama in 2008 was a very inspiring candidate.
Hope and change, it worked.
It pulled together a a coalition that included not just the Ascendant Coalition, which is the far left of the Democratic Party, but also the old New Deal coalition, which had been intact since the 30s, and and moderate Republicans.
But in 2012, people forget in Pennsylvania, Barack Obama left three almost three hundred thousand votes on the field.
They just didn't show up.
Why?
Because he went from hope and change to divisive.
He went from saying you are stupid if you don't believe in climate change.
And and you know, everything and he also ran on a lot about internationalism.
He got very professorial and also very mocking.
And it didn't work.
Voters stayed home.
No, not enough for him to win.
Romney did not do a good job in in convincing people that he had their back.
He actually did a good job of convincing people that he would bring the box out to their desk and walk them away from their job.
However, um, you know, they have m th that tone, they forgot what happened, the Democrats, and and n there's no better example of forgetting that than when Hillary Clinton ran in twenty sixteen.
She did the same kinds of rhetoric.
It was basketball of deplorables, it was irredeemables, it was telling a coal my she's gonna take his job, and And everyone was shocked when he lost.
And I'm like, well, I mean she lost.
I'm like, well, of course she lost.
You're doing not out.
You're not taking voters to a better place.
You are telling them how much you don't like them.
All right, quick break more with Selena Zeto, national political reporter for the Washington Examiner knows Pennsylvania better than anybody.
Your call's also coming up.
It's 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
She knows uh Pennsylvania politics better than anybody, national political reporter for the Washington Examiner.
Let me ask about some of the integrity issues that have come up.
The big one I thought was the Supreme Court weighing in in the Commonwealth of Virginia, where the Supreme Court halted a lower court ruling preventing sixteen hundred self-identified non-citizens from going back to the voter rolls, and the justices will make their their final rulings.
There's been issues out in Oregon and Washington, drop boxes full of ballots set ablaze, and according to the New York Times, the device has had a free Gaza messages found at the fires, but the police have not determined a motive.
Really?
What a mystery.
And perhaps more concerning has been in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, where we have two issues that have emerged and they've been investigating thousands of suspicious voter registration applications in Pennsylvania.
Number one, and then you have the issue in Butler County, where a court ruled to keep the polls open.
What what's going on in Pennsylvania?
So uh I think you meant Bucks County, right?
I'm sorry, Bucks County, but not Butler, Bucks.
Yes, I stay correct.
I stand corrected by Selena Zeto, who knows Pennsylvania better than anybody.
So here are two things that I think people that are worried about shenanigans should should know.
In 2020, the Trump campaign did not have any legal or notable legal preparation ready before the election.
That is not the case this time.
They are ready, they are scouring everything.
There's there's legal in every county and in in Pennsylvania, and and I'm sure in other states too.
I just know I just know my county.
Um people are on top of this.
Um and and also I I will commend all like you have to think about the counties in Pennsylvania and the people that work there.
Okay.
Most of these most of the people that work there are Republicans and Democrats, and a lot of these counties are Republican counties.
And and you the system is working in that they are seeing these these discrepancies and their self-reporting.
And so, and and the um the Secretary of State in my in my state is also a Republican, been a Republican all of his life.
And he's pretty pragmatic, pretty level headed, and he's been also very responsive and and ahead of the game um in the state as well.
The fact that we know so much beforehand as opposed to 2020 when we just thought about it afterwards and and started to, you know, when things were after the fact, uh, I think is a sign that the the just the Trump team is on top of this, and I don't think that Josh Shapiro, no matter what his political affiliation is, wants to have egg on his face about behaviors and and um capabilities within state government.
I don't think there's anybody I know uh that is as informed about the politics of Pennsylvania as you are.
So my last question is probably the one you hate the most is how is this gonna end and how is Dave McCormer gonna do?
So uh I would give I would give Trump the upper hand in my state by about one one and a half percentage points.
That's based on endless reporting in all sixty-seven counties.
Um, you know, I I have I don't know, I think sixty thousand miles in my car this cycle.
Uh and and just um oh we We need we need to get you car shields because something's gonna break one of these days.
I know, and I'm unwilling to buy a new car because it's too expensive.
Exactly.
Welcome to the Harris Biden economy.
One and a half one one and a half points is not a lot, Selena.
It's a very close race.
It was what you're describing, and it tells me that the people in the Commonwealth need to get out and vote big time.
Yeah, they absolutely need to.
Um people are uh I would say that Republicans are much more vote motivated than Democrats.
Um and and that that is part of the reason why I would give it to Trump.
But also he has closed not in the last week, but the last six weeks on a on a take you to a better place um message.
and while he doesn't deliver it always in a traditional way that a politician does that's part of his appeal the the the voters in particular the low propensity voters or new voters Don't like politicians, Republicans or Democrats.
Uh but but he doesn't come across that way.
And and you know, that is really, really appealing to voters who feel that both parties have left them down.
We appreciate it as always.
Uh we'll be checking in on election night.
Uh Selena Zito, thank you so much for being with us.
Thanks for having me.
800-941 Sean, our number if you want to be a part of the program, and we'll get to your calls coming up.
A lot of calls today.
All right, 25 to the top of the hour.
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Listen, next week, Americans uh we're just four days away.
Uh well, it's election day now, but the voting stops on Tuesday when the polls close in in your state or commonwealth.
Uh, but it is a consequential election.
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Anyway, eight hundred nine four one Sean is our number if you want to be a part of the program.
So Debbie Dingle and you got a bunch of other people out there, you know, are making all these comments about what's going to happen to them if Donald Trump is elected.
He's going to put me in an internment camp, she says.
Listen.
The Arab American community needs to be reminded and cannot forget he wants to ban Muslims, he wants to deport Muslims, and he wants to start interment camps.
And that's what we are busy talking to every voter.
He's telling you what he's going to do, believe them.
Internment camps?
Yes.
He has talked to internment camps.
You know what, Jake?
You may have to visit me in one.
I get worried enough when he talks about what he's going to do to his political enemies.
But he has talked about them in this uh with different groups of people.
Well, I I've heard him talking about rounding up uh undocumented migrants and and uh and obviously for that you would need some sort of camp.
But but what do you mean internment camps for Muslims and Arabs?
He has spoken about that in different audiences.
I w I don't have the exact citation right here, but I'll find it for you.
He can't find it because it doesn't exist.
Uh she now got such criticism for lying to the degree that she has.
Like Kamala Ha Harris lied in her closing speech.
Donald Trump, he's going to have a national abortion ban.
No, he's not.
Donald Trump, he's he's he's going to limit access to contraception.
No, he's not.
Donald Trump is going to end IVF treatment.
No, he's not.
This is how desperate they are.
Donald Trump, if only he would have passed the border bill, the border bill that allowed a couple of million illegals into the country unvetted every year and was really an amnesty bill.
No, that was not a border security bill.
They just flat out lie about pretty much everything.
He supports Project 2025.
No, he doesn't.
He doesn't support any of it.
He just makes it up.
Anyway, now Debbie Dingle has had to uh uh backtrack on this.
Oh, I was joking when I said that he'd put me in an internment camp.
Suggested that that um if elected pres former President Trump would would put you in an internment camp.
What what is what makes you think that?
Okay, I cracked that I mean I will be serious and say I said that as a joke.
Okay, because I'm reminding members sort of as a joke because the president has made it very clear he's going after his political enemies.
And it is well documented what he has gone after me on numerous times because he doesn't agree with what I've said or what I've done.
I try to be a really thing that that you're not really living in fear that that's going to happen to you.
I have to say something to you, Martha.
I don't know what it means to be on his political enemy list to be called the enemy from within when he's talked about using the military against his political enemies.
I hope right now that you know on the show might even do you want me to tell you the truth.
I don't know what he means sometimes when he says things.
Unbelievable.
Uh she's uh it's sort of like Kamala Harris.
You know, uh it's it's like everything that they he's going to empower the military to arrest people.
Rachel Maddow.
He's going to take us off the air, the women of the view.
He's going to silence us and put us in jail.
Like, what is wrong with these people?
The only one that has any sense is Bill Maher, and Bill Maher has been saying, if he wins, I'm gonna continue to I'm gonna stay right where I am.
I'm going to do my show.
I'm going to make jokes about Donald Trump, and I'm not gonna stop.
And you know what?
Nobody's gonna stop him.
Uh and I'd be the first person to stand up for all anybody if any such a movement ever emerged.
It's just unbelievable.
Uh Sandy in my free state of Florida, Stan Sandy, how are you?
Glad you called.
I am fantastic.
And I do have to make a comment.
Welcome to Florida.
I'm so glad you're here.
Thank thank you.
People have been so welcoming here.
The opposite of the reaction I got in New York, but go ahead.
Well, when I was listening to Joe say that we were all about the garbage, I actually chuckled about that.
Because isn't he for the Green New Deal about not submitting all these submissions and everything and against garbage?
Well, he just created a whole bunch because I know some Democrats that have come over to our side after that comment, right before they voted for Trump.
I look, I think I think he's certainly I don't think any of these surrogates, Mark Cuban, you know, talking about strong women.
I mean, are you kidding me?
I I I mean it's so shocking to me, you know, the things that they're saying, you know, and and saying he's never around strong, intelligent women.
I'm like, every woman around him is strong and intelligent.
And I love I I love I love people.
I I don't spend a lot of time on social media because my staff won't let me have access to my account, which is a true story, but you know, sweet baby James shows me a lot of stuff.
And what's really interesting to me is that so many women have taken to social media and they're saying, Yeah, I'm a strong, smart, uh uh tough, intelligent woman, and I'm voting for Trump.
And so many African Americans that have been insulted by Obama and Stacey Abrams, they're like, excuse me, I'm not a misogynist, I'm not a racist, and I'm voting for Donald Trump because things were better under Donald Trump.
It's it's it's it's great to see that.
Um, and then another thing with Kamala, you know, she says women's health, women's health, women's rights.
Well, what about the baby's rights, number one?
All she talks about is death to the baby.
That's it.
She never talks about if it's women's health.
What about supporting a woman if she does want to keep the baby?
Giving her options, helping her keep the baby.
What about that?
There are so many good groups out there that actually do help women uh with it if they would want if they choose to to bring their baby the baby to term.
So many good groups out there, and so many people that are willing to help in in such a case.
And and listen, adoption is not a horrible option if you find the right adoptive family.
You know, you could be giving life to this beautiful child and ensuring that good people will raise them.
Um and we never really talk about it.
Uh but Donald Trump, unlike what Kamala said, is not going to have a national abortion ban.
The states are deciding individually.
My state, our state of Florida is deciding, as you know.
Um, and although I think the amendment is so extreme that I'm not supporting the this amendment.
I think the country is more around Dobbs 15 weeks.
Um and the other thing is he's not going to limit contraception.
He's not going to stop IVF.
Is these are all lies to get women to vote for Kamala Harris by scaring them.
He's lying to seniors by saying he's going to cut Social Security and Medicare.
You know, she's she's lying repeatedly about the borders and and Donald Trump being a threat to democracy and a Nazi and a fascist, and this has been their closing argument, and she's staying on that message today.
I've I I saw her earlier today.
But there's definitely a level of desperation that have come in, and you could see who they're targeting.
They they they are they are feeling that they're not getting enough votes and support from women and from African American men and from hi from Hispanic American Hispanic Americans.
And so you could see that, you know, demographic identity politics is in play too.
Anyway, Sandy, I appreciate the call.
Uh calls back any time.
All right, back to our busy phones.
Carl in Texas.
God bless Texas.
What's up, Carl?
How are you?
How are you doing, Sean?
First time caller here.
Uh the only way Kamala Harris becomes president is if Joe Biden falls down a long off a long ladder and lands on his head.
Uh I wanted to give a perspective.
I'm I'm a uh from my perspective, I'm assumed to be seventy-year-old, uh, retired from the old business, uh, from Houston.
And uh, and I'm an independent.
I voted for Bill Clinton once.
I voted for Obama once, I voted for Ross Perot.
This is the first time I've ever voted straight ticket ever.
Uh in 50 years of voting.
Uh it's just too important.
Uh I'm married to a Hollywood act ex-Hollywood actress in the 70s and 80s.
She's like the second Joe Foster on Young and the Restless, and uh Lieutenant Claire Reed on Operation Petticoat, and she's not voting, she won't vote for Kamala Kamala.
I've already voted.
She was gonna she wanted to wait till she's not gonna take Julia Roberts' advice and and say to her husband she's voting for Trump and then vote for Kamala and lie to her husband.
That that that's that's that's a great set of family values to be teaching our our young women.
No, she's not gonna be she's an intelligent woman who's in f who's offended by you know talking about dumb women and stuff like that voting for Trump.
You know, again, she has some issues regarding the abortion, which that's uh it's a women's right.
I get it.
Um, you know, that's always a woman's choice, but she's quite intelligent.
She was worried, just like we all are, about the border crossings by illegals.
And we're all open to a female president, but not a crooked one like Hillary Clinton or one that's done nothing like this cackling hyena who's being supported by the media.
We have a dog.
Be nice.
We refer to her as our giggling vice president.
I want to thank the Houston Harris County Sheriff's Department.
They just busted two national, Mexican national illegals for running a drug pill run here in Houston about four or five days ago.
They got five pill-making machines and arrested these people.
You know, a lot of great people came over from across the border.
Our neighbors are a Cuban family.
The man just became a citizen here about a month ago.
Really nice people.
But when Donald Trump talks about deporting, he's talking about deporting these criminals and people who are a threat to our society with all the drug trafficking, the human trafficking and all that.
So I don't have – for me, the decision was easy.
I mean, we're also concerned about the housing shortage.
We have a daughter that lives out in California.
She just moved about a week ago – or no, she just moved about three days ago.
And paying $3,300 rent for a condo out there that we're concerned that – I've owned my home for 30-something years.
And, you know – Listen, it's rough for young people today.
It really is starting out.
And I have a number of them that work on my TV show.
It's tough.
It's very tough for them.
And a lot of kids, more than ever, are – you know, they're –
they're they're need they're needing and wanting help from their parents and I know more of my friends are helping their kids out you know I was one of these parents that actually was stupid enough to believe that you raise your kids they graduate college and your your job is done I've I've come to realize that's a lifelong commitment and um which is my it's my great joy to be able to you know get closer to my kids as they become adults as they are adults.
Anyway listen God bless you I appreciate it and uh good luck to you Carl real quick Aaron in Colorado we have about a minute Aaron it's all yours.
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