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If you want to be a part of the program, it is Election Day in America.
If there's voting going on anywhere, 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, where we are joined by Selena Zito, national political reporter for the Washington Examiner.
And welcome back, 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, racist, you know, everything else in between, oh, and a piece of garbage.
And Donald Trump is never around smart, intelligent, strong women either.
Well, that's the other thing.
The women who are supporting Trump 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 Nazi fascist racist because that's what they're calling him.
So if you're voting for him, thereby guilt by association.
And in the case of Mark Cuban, he gave 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 context Donald Trump's comments about war hawks.
You know, they have no problem sending other people's kids off to battle, but 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, these are not people that have been there on the front line and have faced the kinds of near-death and or death situations.
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 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 something that was lobbed at Republicans for the longest time.
However, Republicans have done a very good job in recruiting men and women that have served 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 is in a nutshell what he was saying.
But, you know, they have three days of cleanup between Biden and Mark Cuban.
And I'm sorry, he's from Pittsburgh.
Everyone, I'm really, really sorry.
And, 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.
I agree with you.
Look, last night, I live in western Pennsylvania.
I live in one of those collar counties outside of Pittsburgh that used to be Democrat, and they're now 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 out of cardboard.
It was really actually kind of cute.
And so maybe not everyone is willing to put up a Trump sign in their yard, but 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 nearly 800,000 plus Republicans.
So 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.
You have 22% fully or mid-to-low propensity voters that they believe are voting for Donald Trump.
How do you interpret those numbers?
See, I even go even more nerdy, and I look at who...
Well, you just called me a nerd.
I just...
Just for the record, I heard that.
I feel like you embrace that.
I embrace.
There's nothing anybody can say that will offend me.
Nothing.
I wear my nerd as a point of pride.
If I'm a fascist, Nazi, racist voting piece of garbage, I mean, how much, you know, what else is left to say?
I said the nicest thing ever.
So 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 shows, you know, because there's a chance in Philadelphia, those Republicans are voting for Harris, right?
And so even then, even if you add those two numbers up, they are way down in Philadelphia.
Or your percentage down by how much?
I forget the last time I looked, but their numbers are way down.
But historically, these are not areas well known for people voting on Election Day, are they?
No.
And here's the other thing.
You know, they have a turnout problem, meaning the Democrats in Philadelphia 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 I kept wondering what would happen with Hillary in 2016 because I was seeing a lack of enthusiasm for her.
Now, I have a piece today in the Washington Examiner.
I hope people go and read it.
I take them through all 67 counties and tell them what's going on.
And I think that I would rather be Trump than Harris at this moment in this election.
So is that why the turnout, is that why Barack Obama is insulting African-American men, saying that they're misogynist?
Is that why Stacey Abrams is saying they're racist and sexist?
Is that why Tim Walz is trying to act so manly with his shotgun and playing Madden?
And George Clooney comes out with 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 going to vote for?
That last one, they're all insulting.
As a woman, that is particularly insulting because 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 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 moderate Republicans.
But in 2012, people forget in Pennsylvania, Barack Obama left almost 300,000 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, 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 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, you know, they have that tone, they forgot what happened, the Democrats.
And there's no better example of forgetting that than when Hillary Clinton ran in 2016.
She did the same kinds of rhetoric.
It was basketball of deplorables.
It was irredeemable.
It was telling a Kohlmeyer she's going to take his job.
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 not taking voters to a better place.
You are telling me how much you don't like them.
All right, quick break more with Selena Zito, 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.
All right, we continue now with Selena Zito.
She knows 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 that I thought was the Supreme Court weighing in in the Commonwealth of Virginia, where the Supreme Court halted a lower court ruling preventing 1,600 self-identified non-citizens from going back to the voter rolls.
And the justices will make 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 gauze of 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 had the issue in Butler County, where a court ruled to keep the polls open.
What's going on in Pennsylvania?
So I think you meant Bucks County, right?
I'm sorry, Bucks County, not Butler, Bucks.
Yes, I stay correct.
I stand corrected by Selena Zito, who knows Pennsylvania better than anybody.
So here are two things that I think people that are worried about shenanigans 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 legal in every county in Pennsylvania.
And I'm sure in other states too, I just know my county.
People are on top of this.
And also, I will commend all, like, you have to think about the counties in Pennsylvania and the people that work there, okay?
Most of the people that work there are Republicans and Democrats.
And a lot of these counties are Republican counties.
And the system is working in that they are seeing these discrepancies and they're self-reporting.
And so, and the Secretary of State 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 ahead of the game 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 started to, you know, when things were after the fact, I think is a sign that 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 eggs on his face about behaviors and capabilities within state government.
I don't think there's anybody I know 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 going to end and how is Dave McCormick going to do?
So 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 67 counties.
You know, I have, I don't know, I think 60,000 miles in my car this cycle.
And just...
We need to get you car shield because something's going to break one of these days.
I know, and I'm unwilling to buy a new car because they're too expensive.
Exactly.
Welcome to the Harris-Biden economy.
One and a half points is not a lot, Selena.
It's a very close race, 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.
People are, I would say that Republicans are much more vote motivated than Democrats.
And 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 take you to a better place message.
And while he doesn't deliver it always in a traditional way that a politician does, that's part of his appeal.
The voters in particular, the low-propensity voters or new voters, don't like politicians, Republicans, or Democrats.
But he doesn't come across that way.
And, you know, that is really, really appealing to voters who feel that both parties left them down.
We appreciate it as always.
We'll be checking in on election night.
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, we're just four days away.
Well, it's Election Day now, but the voting stops on Tuesday when the polls close in your state or Commonwealth.
But it is a consequential election.
Regardless of the outcome, the world is really on fire in so many places, especially we see our friends and allies in the Middle East and Israel under fire like never before.
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So Debbie Dingell, 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 internment camps.
And that's what we are busy talking to every voter.
He's telling you what he's going to do.
Believe him.
Internment camps?
Yes.
They just 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 with different groups of people.
Well, I've heard him talking about rounding up undocumented migrants.
And obviously for that, you would need some sort of camp.
But what do you mean internment camps for Muslims and Arabs?
He has spoken about that in different audiences.
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.
She now got such criticism for lying to the degree that she has.
Just like Kamala 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 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 backtrack on this.
Oh, I was joking when I said that he'd put me in an internment camp.
Suggested that if elected, former President Trump would put you in an internment camp.
What makes you think that?
Okay, I mean, I will be serious and say I said that as a joke 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 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 this show, my even, do you want me to tell you the truth?
I don't know what he means sometimes when he says things.
Unbelievable.
It's sort of like Kamala Harris.
You know, 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 going to continue to, I'm going to 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 going to stop.
And you know what?
Nobody's going to stop him.
And I'd be the first person to stand up for all anybody if any such movement ever emerged.
It's just unbelievable.
Sandy, in my free state of Florida, 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 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 a bunch of 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.
Look, 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 mean, it's so shocking to me, you know, the things that they're saying, you know, and saying he's never around strong, intelligent women.
I'm like, every woman around him is strong and intelligent.
And I love people.
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, 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 great to see that.
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, if they choose to bring the baby to term.
So many good groups out there and so many people that are willing to help in such a case.
And listen, adoption is not a horrible option if you find the right adoptive family.
You could be giving life to this beautiful child and ensuring that good people will raise them.
And we never really talk about it.
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.
And although I think the amendment is so extreme that I'm not supporting this amendment, I think the country is more around Dobbs' 15 weeks.
And the other thing is he's not going to limit contraception.
He's not going to stop IVF.
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 lying repeatedly about the borders 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 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 are feeling that they're not getting enough votes and support from women and from African-American men and from Hispanic American, Hispanic Americans.
And so you could see that demographic identity politics is in play, too.
Anyway, Sandy, I appreciate the call.
Calls back anytime.
All right, back to our busy phones.
Carl in Texas.
God bless Texas.
What's up, Carl?
How are you?
How you doing, Sean?
First time caller here.
The only way Kamala Harris becomes president is if Joe Biden falls down a long, off a long ladder and lands on his head.
I wanted to give a perspective.
I'm a, from my perspective, I'm a soon-to-be 70-year-old, retired from the oil business from Houston.
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 in 50 years of voting.
It's just too important.
I'm married to a ex-Hollywood actress in the 70s and 80s.
She's like the second Jill Foster on Young and the Restless and Lieutenant Claire Reed on Operation Petticoat.
And she's not voting.
She won't vote for Kamala.
Kamala, I've already voted.
She wanted to wait till.
So she's not going to take Julia Roberts' advice and say to her husband she's voting for Trump and then vote for Kamala and lie to her husband.
That's a great set of family values to be teaching our young women.
No, she's not going to be.
She's an intelligent woman who's offended by talking about dumb women and stuff like that voting for Trump.
Again, she has some issues regarding the abortion, which it's a women's right.
I get it.
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 run 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 had got five pill making machines and arrested these people.
You know, a lot of great people came over from across the border.
Our neighbors, our 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 that.
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, you know, 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 of them.
And a lot of kids more than ever are, you know, 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 job is done.
I've come to realize that's a lifelong commitment.
And 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 good luck to you, Carl.
Real quick, Aaron in Colorado, we have about a minute.
Aaron, it's all yours.
Go ahead.
Yeah, Sean, I wanted to say Liz really misunderstood what he said because she's a senator's child.
They took it out of context on purpose.
It's just their latest smear.
I've explained it in detail.
It was obvious.
These war hawks, yeah, they're willing to put everybody else's line, life on the line, but not their own.
If he wanted to make it relatable, all he had to do was ask her how she would feel if somebody volunteered her to go hunting with her father.
Ouch.
Ouch.
Truth is truth.
Well, he did shoot his friend.
There's no doubt about it.
That's a true story.
I'm sure it was an accident.
I don't want to say otherwise.
But the reality is that we have had these people.
They start these wars.
These wars then get politicized.
They're all gung-ho.
And then they say, never mind.
And then you have to ask yourself, well, why did one American have to die if you were not committed to winning the war?
And unfortunately, that's what happened in Vietnam.
That's what happened in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And it was run poorly.
And, you know, it just, there's no other way to put it.
Anyway, appreciate the call.
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