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Nov. 5, 2024 - Sean Hannity Show
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Election Is Simple - November 4th, Hour 1
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If you want to be a part of the program, it is election eve in America.
I think this is an inflection point for our country.
I think this is the most important pivotal swing election in our lifetime.
I've used the phrase in past years.
I meant it when I said it, but there's never been anybody this extreme, this radical, that has been this protected by a corrupt media establishment as Kamala Harris and Tim Walls.
Now, for I really have one message, and I'll go over a lot of a lot of the things that matter.
I'm going to have a closing argument on Hannity tonight, because nobody else has done it, and I'm frustrated we're here we are on election eve, and she's never been asked about, well, why do you think it's courageous never to say radical Islamic terrorism or illegal alien, and she's never been asked about mandatory gun buyback, but claims she carries a gluck and she's going to shoot the hell out of anybody that breaks into her house.
And meanwhile, her running mate can't even load his own shotgun.
It's just ridiculous.
They haven't been asked about, you know, why they she supports sex change operations, taxpayer funded for illegal aliens and a path to citizenship and free housing, health care, food, education, college education in Minnesota, legal driver's licenses, amnesty, path to earn citizenship.
She hasn't been asked about what she said when she said, and you know, when she tweeted out a bail fund in the summer of 2020, 574 riots.
She did it four days after the Minneapolis police precinct was burned to the ground, or why she went on CBS and said that the rioters won't stop, she won't stop, and they shouldn't stop.
How come how come that's not insurrection?
How does Liz Cheney rationalize that that switcheroo in her mind?
And I can I can go through all of it.
Fracking, drilling.
You know, it all does come down to, you know, are you better off than you were four years ago?
I've got all of Trump's accomplishments, and I'm gonna try to try and go through a lot of them with you in the course of the show today, but that's not my overriding message of the day.
And I don't know how to convey a word called urgency.
You know, we've been given a great gift in this country.
We have, I think it's the greatest country God ever gave man.
I really believe that with all my heart.
I feel my entire life has been a blessing.
Uh, an undeserved life.
If I were to write a book about my life, that's how I genuinely in my heart feel about my life.
And I feel like so many Americans feel the same way I do.
You know, if you think of Lee Greenwood song that Donald Trump plays, you know, and I lost everything and just had my children and my wife.
You know, you think of the little things in your life that actually matter.
I think of the fact that my life would not have been possible but for incredible suffering and sacrifice of my grandparents, all four that came from Ireland legally into this country.
And at a time where there was discrimination against Irish Catholic.
The Irish Catholic need not apply.
It was very common in New York and in Boston and areas like that.
Had a sign of my office for many years.
I don't know, it's probably in a box somewhere in storage.
Um, and where I and then my parents that grew up very poor.
I think of them too.
Because they gave me this life and this opportunity.
My mom grew up in the South Bronx of New York, my dad bed in Brooklyn.
My poor father's mother died with complications giving birth to him, and he was shuffled around from family member to family member as a kid, and he uh even when he delivered papers, he gave the money to his family.
That's that he grew up in the depression, real suffering.
You know, they were desperate times, as my mother would always say, and and people were hungry and got on soup lines, and it was America's been through hard times.
And then I think of me standing on their shoulders.
And I know many of you feel the same way about your families.
And this is a gift that we all share.
And I stand on their shoulders, and it was a big deal after my dad spent four years in the Pacific for when he came back for him to get this, you know, little house, 50 by 100 lots, Levitt style house, it's called in Franklin Square, Long Island.
I'm a rock ribbed all-American conservator for Franklin Square, as my friend Curtis Lee would always say.
And I grew up with three older sisters and a and one bathroom.
I called it hell on earth, but compared to where they grew up, it really wasn't.
And my mother who worked 16-hour shifts, she was the valedictorian of her high school class.
She could do the New York Times crossword puzzle in ink and finish it.
I mean, every day.
I mean, brilliant woman.
One of the best gifts she gave me is when I was leaving home at a pretty young age.
She just said, take these books with you.
They were called the Harvard Classics.
And I read them, Pilgrim's Progress and Dante's Inferno, and I I, you know, included in that a Bible.
And I started reading that, and books like The Road Less Traveled and The Purpose Driven Life all have had a very profound impact on me.
And I'm saying all of this is because she worked double shifts and died at 69.
Um, and my father, I started in Fox in what, October of 96.
I'm now in my 29th year.
And he died six months later in March of 97.
My mother not that long thereafter.
And why am I saying all of this on election eve?
Is because they gave me and your parents, those of you that have similar stories, or maybe you're in this country or an immigrant, welcome to our country, especially if you came here legally.
Uh, I don't care where you come from, just ask, I'm asking you respect our laws, borders, and sovereignty.
We have the background check, health check, means test, not hard.
Is that every generation, and when my father's that they grew up in the greatest generation?
Tom Brokaw wrote a really good book about this.
And we've always left the country in a better shape than what we received.
And my mom worked those 16-hour shifts in prison.
It's like she lived in prison.
And so that all the kids could go not to the public school, but to Catholic school.
And that was important to them.
And I just think this is one of these moments when I look at, and this is just political here.
These are political differences.
It's not personal.
I'm not calling Democrats garbage.
I'm not calling them un-American or anti-American or anti-women.
I'm not lying like Kamala Harris is lying about Donald Trump wanting a national abortion ban when he doesn't, or supporting Project 2025 when he doesn't, or that Donald Trump's responsible for the border crisis that she herself created, and he didn't support her amnesty bill, which is what it was.
I'm not buying her lie that Donald Trump wants to limit contraception.
I'm not buying the lie that Donald Trump is against IVF.
I mean, she's trying to lie her way into the White House.
And the rhetoric is never gotten more sharp.
Uh I just don't.
Socialism has been tried in many forms, many manifestations, many ways.
And it always ends the same way.
I wrote a whole chapter in my book, Live Free or Die.
America and the World on the Brink.
I had no idea how right I would be.
But we're on the brink now again, and tomorrow you can do something about it.
And it's really simple.
Is that, you know, if you want the Green New Deal, $93 trillion and eliminate the filibuster, that's Kamala's stated position.
She co-sponsored that bill with Bernie Sanders.
If you want government health care for all the elimination of private health insurance, she spot co-sponsored that with Bernie Sanders.
If you want wide open borders and offering illegal immigrants to decriminalize what they've done, not obeying our laws and to offer free food, housing, health care, education, legal driver's licenses, free college Education.
Free sex change surgeries.
That's Kamala Harris's position.
If you think a wall is of medieval vanity project of Donald Trump, that's Kamala Harris's position.
If you believe in defund, dismantle no bail laws, reimagining ice and the police, that's Kamala Harris's position.
You know, if you if you don't think that, you know, why do we call them oil rich countries?
Because they produce oil.
We have more oil, natural gas, coal, than all of these countries combined.
We could be the richest country on the face of the earth and create peace in the process by providing the needs of our Western European allies, all of their energy needs, and they wouldn't have to rely on Putin and the mullahs in Iran, and we could provide it even to China, which would give us leverage with them so that they would start behaving.
And we could bankrupt the mullahs in Iran, and then the people in that country would be able to hopefully overturn, you know, this tyrannical regime that's running that place and turned it into this theocracy of convert or die.
So for those of you that believe as I do that it's a blessing to be able to vote.
It's a blessing to live in this country.
It's a blessing to live in a country that has in its founding document a belief in God that we're endowed by our creator.
It's a blessing to have a constitutional republic the way we do.
But if you want to sustain it, you got to participate in it.
For those of you that have voted, I want to say something to all of you.
Thank you.
Because that's a big part of sustaining it.
The choices, the option, we we've never had a bigger choice election in our lifetime.
I've spent the better part of this year going over what those choices are.
I'm tired of being called a Nazi, a fascist, racist, garbage, and now I'm being called anti-American and anti-women like Kathy Hulkel and Joe Scarborough wants to know where the hell do these people come from?
Who are these people?
Who raised these people?
We'll get to that later.
You know, who raised it?
Because they weren't raised by anybody in the neighborhoods I grew up in.
Had a Donald Trump twist their point of view.
I mean, I'm tired of the name calling.
They have done everything to this man that they possibly can do to destroy him.
Kate came to within a millimeter of losing his life.
So what is my point in all of this?
Is I can't make any of you vote.
I can only tell you what is at stake.
And if you want this comes down to fundamental choices, open borders or secure borders, law and order or defund, dismantle, no bail laws.
Economic policies rooted in the greatest wealth creative creating system in the world called capitalism versus socialism, Marxism, whatever name you want to give it.
That's what New Green Deal is.
Energy dominance or America with high energy prices and more poverty and forced EV mandates.
It's a choice between America being the leader of the free world and the cause of liberty and freedom around the world, not getting involved in foreign conflicts.
I'm not talking about any of that.
There is a time and a place, but we've we've now learned how to fight wars and win them, and don't go near them if you're not going to.
If you want to help out other countries, let them pay for the weapons.
And don't put one American boot on the ground.
And in future wars, there won't be any boots on the ground.
There's going to be buttons pushed at an office in some small town or city in the country.
But if you care about and you think about in your quiet moments in life and you reflect and you're introspective and you think about how blessed we are.
How God has blessed all of us to live here.
And if this is the one thing that is important to you, I'm looking at all the the it's estimated 30 million Christians won't vote.
I'm like, do you not care?
Well, I don't like Donald Trump supports the states deciding abortion.
Okay, well, Kamala Harris and Tim Walls, they support abortion in months seven, eight, and nine.
If you care about parental rights, you know, why would you support California, Minnesota, where they're from, gender affirming care without parental consent.
Why would you put feminine hygiene products in fourth grade boys' bathrooms?
This is the most radical extreme tw turn this country would ever take based on their stated words.
That's what's at stake.
And if you agree with me, I'm only asking one thing.
Vote.
Vote tomorrow.
If you haven't voted yet, please vote tomorrow.
Don't believe the lie if you're an older person about Social Security and Medicare.
Women, don't believe they're going to limit your contraception or abortion is going to be illegal.
It's not, or IVF is going to be illegal.
Don't buy their lies.
Guys, do you really think Tim Walls, the pheasant hunter that can't load his own shotgun is really the average guy drinking a beer and hanging out with the fellas and shooting pheasants.
No.
Not exactly to me.
Doug Emhoff.
Yeah, should I bring up the issue of the nanny or should I bring up the other allegation at the Cannes Festival?
And I'm just saying, I think that if you if you look at, and I'm not saying Donald Trump's perfect.
I know he says things, tweets things, it upsets people.
But his policies, I believe with all my heart, we'll make this country great again.
And we won't have to settle for a townhouse, as the Washington Post suggests.
It's in your hands, and I pray for all of our children and grandchildren that you vote tomorrow.
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It is election eve in America.
And I hope all of you will vote.
The future of the country, there's never been such competing.
There's never been such a choice election.
And I've been covering a lot of elections over the years.
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We're going to take a quick look at some of these these very close Senate races.
Watching Sam Brown, we're watching Carrie Lake.
Uh, we're definitely watching in Michigan Mike Rogers, we're watching Bernie Marino, we're watching Dave McCormick, uh, we're watching Eric Hovey in in Wisconsin, uh, and the better that Donald Trump does in Wisconsin, uh, I hope people will think,
you know, if you are going to go and and take the time to vote, which I'm urging all of you to take this gift, living in the greatest best country God gave man and vote because there's there's never been such a choice election, such competing visions for the future of the country.
I hope you will consider voting for Republican senators because that will make Donald Trump's job easier in terms of getting things done.
I hope you will vote for Republican congressmen.
The largest majority possible would be nice in the House and in the Senate.
And if Dave McCormick could win in Pennsylvania, Eric Hubdy could win in Wisconsin, Mike Rogers in Michigan, Sam Brown in Nevada, Carrie Lake in Arizona, Bernie Moreno, if he can win, and then we win Wisconsin, um, then we win West Virginia and and Montana, we'll have a really big lead in the Senate.
And please vote for Republican congressman.
Anyway, Eric Hovdy is now in a dead even race in in Wisconsin, and he joins us now for a last minute push.
Uh I've watched you on the campaign trail.
You've been incredibly impressive.
I've learned more about you and your family and your background and your charity and how you founded a business in your twenties.
You went on to build many other businesses.
You've been very, very successful.
Uh you also uh you know have given back to your community.
You have the Hubdi Foundation, you run that along with your brother, and you build built a number of what you call Hubdy homes today, providing shelter care and love to vulnerable children and families in Wisconsin.
Uh good for you for doing all that.
Uh welcome back to the program.
How's it looking on the ground in Wisconsin?
Well, first of all, thanks, Sean, and thanks for having me on your show.
Um look, things are looking really good.
Uh the momentum is clearly on our side.
Uh you can seen it in this race.
Uh it's this tight and tight and tighten, and uh the polls have it dead even, maybe me up a little bit at this point in time.
So I'm feeling really good about where things are.
I I think people are ready for change.
Uh, you know, three quarters of this country feel like we're going in the wrong direction.
I got into this race for one simple reason.
I love our country.
And what the damage that they've done to our can' country in the last three and a half years has been astounding.
They bankrupted our country, caused the worst bout of inflation, they've pushed deep on the police, they opened our southern borders, they've the incompetent withdrawal from Afghanistan, ignited the world in conflict, and and they're experts at dividing us, uh, be it on race, gender, socioeconomic class, or religion.
Uh so, you know, I think people are ready for change, and Senator Baldwin's one of the most extreme leftist liberals, and I think people are ready to move on from her policies of pushing guys to play in girls' sports and go in to get uh g girls' bathrooms and locker rooms.
So I I I feel really good, Sean.
You know, I was watching her doing an interview earlier today, and she's actually said, Well, you're against Obamacare.
And I'm like, Yeah, I like them more because in spite of the promise that millions of Americans would keep their doctors and their plans and save on average twenty five hundred dollars a year, well, millions of Americans lost their doctors, lost their plans, and we're paying an average of two hundred and fifty to three hundred percent more for health insurance.
What is she talking about?
Yeah, it's it's astounding that she's trying to defend it, and it tells you how disconnected she is.
Because the reality of it is oh uh Obamacare made three promises.
It's slow the cost of health care, uh it would improve the access, and you would be able to keep your family doctor.
Every one of those has failed.
Uh, the cost of health care only accelerated faster and higher.
The access to care is collapsed, particularly in smaller and rural communities, and the family doctor has basically been wiped out.
You don't have them anymore in this country.
So she she can go on and talk about that.
Uh, but you know, most Americans and people in Wisconsin are looking around going, yeah, our health care system is broken.
Uh, but you know, again, Senator Baldwin spent her whole life in politics.
She's never had to buy herself health insurance.
I've not only had to buy myself, but thousands of employees' health insurance.
And I see uh how badly our health care system is today, and we need change there as well.
Yeah, agreed.
What percentage of the time I forgot you but you mentioned the other night on TV does uh Tammy Baldwin vote with uh uh Harrison uh and Biden?
Ninety-five point five percent.
She is a absolute rubber stamp for the progressive left.
And if she disagrees with them because she wants them to go even more further left.
She's voted right up there with Kamala Harris and uh Elizabeth Warren as the most liberal senators.
She's actually vo her her voting record's actually more liberal than Bernie Sanders, if you can believe that one.
So yeah, she runs back in our state, Sean, outside of the Madison area, which is the heart of the progressive area because our state capital and university, she uh she runs in the rest of the state as this moderate and she's finally been exposed to uh to the the people of Wisconsin for who she really is.
So that's why I think people are tired and they and they want to move on and I I feel really good about the energy on our side.
We really appreciate you being with us.
You've run a great race.
I hope the people of Wisconsin, we really need them.
I actually got a text from a friend of mine that lives in Wisconsin that is up to his eyeballs in politics there, knows the state really well.
And it was a pretty encouraging note.
Is this what you're seeing on the ground as well?
And I don't want people to take anything for granted, but the early vote for Democrats being down about 40% and the election model that has been used in Wisconsin for four years, 14 years you know has Donald Trump and you up by a point and a half to two points do you believe that's accurate and that the Democrats would have to win tomorrow in numbers that they've never reached in Wisconsin ever before do you believe that's the state of the race going into the tomorrow?
You know I I'm like you I'm cautiously optimistic but I really feel the energies on our side and the amount of people that are coming up and just saying you have to win we have to take our country back.
The crowds uh the crowds for us versus the crowds for them are night and day different if you drove around our state the amount of signs you see for Trump and Hubdy versus Harrison Baldwin it it's a uh 90 10 ratio.
So I feel really good but you know Sean it all comes down to the people that are listening the people that live in our state you you not only have to get out and vote you got to get your friends your neighbors your colleagues the people you go to church with or go hunting or fishing or whatever uh activities you do with if everybody gets out and gets them out to vote we will win this thing and then we can start taking our country back in a positive direction.
We really appreciate it you've run a great race uh thanks so much Eric Hovey in Wisconsin and the states that matter the most are simple it's Georgia it is North Carolina Pennsylvania it is Wisconsin Michigan Arizona Nevada and that's what it's going to come down to.
You know if you want to sum up Kamala Harris she was asked a question a comment on what is it Prop 36 in California and it it actually is laughable she won't answer a question as usual.
And so like Kamala do you still stand for uh taxpayer funded sex change surgeries for illegal immigrants did you know I was born in a middle class family I mean and it's it's like you just can't make it up because she never answers anything.
Listen.
How did you vote on Prop 36?
So I have my ballot is on its way to California.
The ballot's on her way trust the system that it will arrive there.
Um and I am not going to talk about the vote on that because I honestly it's the Sunday before the election and I don't intend to create an an endorsement one way or another around it.
But I did vote.
Why can't you just answer?
You know, I am hesitant to share with you where I think this campaign is.
I was on Fox and Friends this morning.
I'll be on America's Newsroom tomorrow and be a part of election coverage tomorrow night on Fox.
But look, right now, going into tomorrow, just to give you some hope, is it is obvious that Kamala has a math problem.
the math problem is this simple is it's not just demographics it is actual turnout.
And now if you listen to Democrats and the media state run media mob they would have you think she's the most popular person ever to run for the presidency.
She's not because you would think if everyone was so jacked up about voting for Kamala and so hyped up about it that they'd be out voting.
Well they're not turning out the vote as a matter of fact she's having more trouble I mean you have dramatic declines, massive declines by hundreds of thousands of votes with key demographics.
They are not meeting the numbers that they would need.
Now, what does this mean?
Does this mean, Hannity, that contradicts what you just said that you that we have to assume that that our vote is going to decide the election?
It doesn't assume it at all.
However, to based on these early voting numbers, as I look at, you know, for example, um, it was actually written up by a Democratic data expert, Tom Bonyer is his name, and he said he broke it into three demographics urban turnout, female turnout, rural turnout.
And what the one thing that we have in common is urban turnout is down, hundreds of thousands in every single swing state.
Female turnout down, you know, by either tens or hundreds of thousands, depending on the individual state, and rural turnout is up dramatically for Donald Trump.
And it is uh you can say through the roof.
Now have Republicans by voting early cannibalize day of voting.
The problem with even giving you any of this data is I don't want any of it to impact you.
Because yeah, uh the one thing that I think the Republicans did pretty well is they weren't just targeting what you know, you might call in in radio or TV P1 or your your everyday viewer or listener, but maybe you know, lower propensity or mid-propensity voters is is the terms that they use.
They did make a strong effort to get people that were lower propensity, mid-propensity voters, a mid-propensity voter might be somebody that votes every four years, but they won't vote in a midterm.
Or they vote every other election year, a lower propensity voter.
So they did turn out more, and that and that means that they can focus on people showing up tomorrow.
But uh, I wouldn't if I if you're gonna take one thing out of the aggregate polls, I would take one, and that is they're all dead even close.
Now, the pollsters that have nailed it in 2016 and 2020, you know, for example, that we have on regularly on this program, uh Robert K. Haley Trafalgar, insider advantage, that's Matt Towery.
You know, they now, for example, uh Trafalgar has Georgia at 48-3.
I'm sorry, uh, yeah, 48-3 to 45-9.
Uh, he has North Carolina 49-4 to 46-2.
He has, well, Ohio, he has Bernie Moreno in a dead even race, which is if you're gonna vote for Trump, I don't understand why you wouldn't vote for a Republican senator and Republican congressman, because otherwise you're just hurting the president's ability to get his agenda done.
Uh, Trafalgar has in Wisconsin, the opposite of Matt Towery, uh, so I would put the two of them together.
It has Trump down by a point in Wisconsin.
And in the Senate race there, it's literally, and we just had on Eric Hub Hubde, you know, 484 to 47.9.
That's a 0.5% difference.
That's how close this all is in Pennsylvania.
It's 48-4 to 46-7.
And the Senate race, Dave McCormick is up in in the Trafalgar poll, 47-4 to 45-9.
Uh these are all neck and neck races.
Now, do you understand why I'm messaging one thing to you?
And that is very, very importantly, that everybody understand or think that that their vote will be the deciding vote.
Uh also Trafalgar Trump up by two in Arizona, very, very close.
The Arizona Senate race, two-point race out there.
Insider advantage in Arizona, it's a three-point race in favor of Trump.
Michigan, it's dead even according to Matt Towery, 4747.
In Wisconsin, it's Trump 4948, the exact opposite of Trafalgar.
So that's how even that is.
Pennsylvania, one point race, 4948.
You know, North Carolina, 4947.
Do you understand?
This is why I'm saying, if you're in Georgia, if you're in Pennsylvania, if you are in North Carolina, if you're in Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, just assume that your vote will be the deciding vote in this election.
And otherwise, and and please take the time to vote.
Plan on it tomorrow.
Either do best thing to do would be to get up early.
Get up early.
Get it out of the way.
Be there when the polls open.
Wait.
Call your boss.
You might be late.
Anybody on my team that works for me, that wants to vote, is online and they're late.
If they're late, but if they don't, if they can't make it to work that day, I'm gonna be fine with it.
Day off.
Anyway, 800-941-Shawn, our number if you want to be a part of the program.
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