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Rep. Byron Donalds for Sen. Scott - November 12th, Hour 3
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Generation X, the people who grew up on WWE and Hulk Hogan and Donald Trump did this.
They did this.
The Biden campaign's own internal polling at the time when they were telling us he was the strongest candidate showed that Donald Trump was going to win 400 electoral votes.
That's what their own internal polling said.
Do you really think that the Democratic Party is going to the max, taking on powerful special interests and fighting for you?
I think the overwhelming answer is no.
And that is what has got to change.
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It is unbelievable to watch the left, the media, the meltdown continue in reaction to last Tuesday's election victory, landslide victory by Donald Trump.
James Carville's getting angrier by the day, you know, blaming Democrats for their GD arrogance and their stupidity.
Gavin Newsom melting down, planning to meet with Biden, vowing to protect California's progressive policies.
By the way, 40% of voters in California went for Donald Trump.
Who would have guessed that?
And, you know, the finger pointing, the blame game, you have groups of women now shaving their heads as a sign of protest, pledging to divorce their husbands, not have sex anymore with whoever they're having sex with.
Federal employees feeling dread experiencing PTSD over Donald Trump's return to the White House.
More Trump derangement.
Trump is prompting some women to reconsider having children, according to one report today.
The Washington Post offering advice on what it takes to immigrate outside of the U.S. after Donald Trump's victory.
Women, as I had told you the other day, stockpiling abortion pills and contraception before Donald Trump becomes president.
I mean, you can't, it's unbelievable.
And it goes on and on and on.
And the madness goes crazy.
You got Nancy Pelosi, Bernie Sanders at each other's throats at Columbia University.
They plan to stage an anti, you know, anti-Trump everything.
I mean, what do they think is going to happen here?
It's unbelievable.
I think they really began to believe their own lies.
You have Kamala's communication director calling on Joe Biden to resign so Kamala can be president for just a few weeks.
Managing stress during this change, Biden-Harris, their State Department, is holding therapy sessions like these kids, you know, needing days off of school and being granted exemptions not to take tests because of such a distress of losing an election that you wanted to win and your person losing.
Anyway, the Biden-Harris State Department is holding therapy sessions and much, much more.
And I can keep going.
And by the way, what happened to the billion dollars?
One Democratic official, DNC official, called it Kamala's billion-dollar disaster.
And then, of course, we have money paid to Oprah Winfrey, but it wasn't paid to Oprah, to be clear.
It was paid to Harpo, her parent company, but she said she didn't get one penny.
Okay, I guess Harpo doesn't pay her.
Washington Free Beacon has an article that Kamala Harris's campaign gave $500,000 to Al Sharpin's nonprofit weeks before this glowing interview with this, you know, with the MSDNC host.
Can you imagine if I got 500 grand from the Trump people prior to an interview?
You know, the outrage in the country, it'd be calling for my firing in no time.
What's also interesting is to watch Democrats kind of turn on each other.
Gail King was interviewing Hakeem Jeffries, and this exchange I found pretty interesting.
Our jobs for far too long have gone overseas.
That was a policy accomplishment that is designed to put working class people first.
Even standing up a clean energy economy, which is designed to make sure, of course, that we have clean air and clean water, but that that clean energy economy creates jobs in the heartland of the United States of America.
That was a policy accomplishment, but we have to better connect why we are doing these things and how it will lead to improving the quality of life of everyday Americans.
It sounds like you're still processing, but were you stunned last Tuesday night?
I'm just curious.
I know lessons learned and all of that, but were you stunned by what happened last night?
Well, we knew going into the election, as Vice President Harris repeatedly stated, including at the convention, this is close and it's going to be close all the way through.
I think at the end of the day, the popular vote will be close.
I think it was an electoral college outcome that most people on the Democratic side didn't expect because everything broke at the presidential level in terms of Donald Trump's direction.
Anyway, joining us now, our good friend of the program, and he'd been out on the campaign trail fighting very hard for President Trump the entire way.
Byron Donalds is with us.
Good to hear from you, my friend.
How are you?
I'm doing good, Sean.
How are you doing?
It's a great day in America, by the way.
Great day.
It's been a good week.
I'm not going to lie.
The alternative is something I honestly can't even imagine.
It's unimaginable to me that we would be there.
You know, people ask me, why are you spiking the football, Hannity?
They'd be shoving it up in your face every day.
And I'm like, because that's not how I'm feeling.
I'm feeling a sense of relief and gratitude to the people of America that legacy media is dead.
With everything they've thrown at Donald Trump, three big networks, every major newspaper, all these liberal cable channels.
And here's talk radio.
Here's podcasters.
Here's social media.
Here's Fox News.
And those of us that were supporting and all-in for Donald Trump.
And people, they didn't listen to the celebrities.
They didn't listen to the legacy media.
No, you're absolutely right.
I think you witnessed the end of the real control of legacy media, podcasts, radio, alternative viewpoints.
That's what the American people were looking for.
And this didn't just happen during the presidential cycle.
This had been happening, Sean, really over the last four to six years.
People have been saying to themselves, I just want to get normal television.
I want to be preached to by Hollywood.
I don't want woke stuff in my shows.
And people have been starting to go to other forms of information.
Couple that with the fact that Joe Biden did a terrible job as president.
Kamala Harris, she was a nothing burger.
And when you stick her out on the campaign trail, I don't care if it's $1 billion or $5 billion.
She had nothing of substance for the American people.
That's why they rejected her.
But it was led in part by the fact that you had alternative media places like yourself, Sean.
Sean, you're a pioneer in this, but so many others that have come along the way that have gave the American people the information they needed to make the right decision.
You know, I'm happy about that fact.
People ask me all the time, you know, how do you feel about this person?
How do you feel about that person?
There's a great line in the Bible, you know, he or she who is not against us is with us.
If you're not against us, you're with us.
And unfortunately, too often, especially in my business, and I guess your business too, you know, there's this competitiveness.
And I'm like, do we not realize we're all on the same team here?
And anybody out there that was pushing hard, advocating, you know, to get the country back on track, I am grateful for their efforts, and I appreciate their efforts.
And nobody else's success, my success is not predicated on their failure.
And if anything, a rising tide lifts all boats, in my view.
You're completely right.
I think that's the case.
And look, look at what happened in this election.
30% of black men went to Donald Trump.
Why?
They remember he was president.
You had people out there advocating and speaking the truth in spite of being called all types of names, being called racists, being called Nazis, being called fascists, all the stuff that they were throwing at not just President Trump, but even supporters of President Trump.
And you had enough people with the courage to stand in that breach and speak the truth.
30% of black men, half of the Hispanic population in the United States, when the Democrats were losing their mind talking about how, oh, people are xenophobic and wanting to secure our borders, Hispanic people in our country are saying, no, that makes sense.
We need to follow the law.
We have to be legal.
We have to be orderly when it comes to immigration.
But, Sean, I'm telling you, one of the key issues, and President Trump stepped right into this issue.
He was a warrior on it.
Getting men out of women's sports.
You have voters in this country who saw that and they said, this is pure insanity from the Democrats.
You know, not having boys in women's sports, not paying for transgender surgeries.
That's the kind of stuff that had independent voters already sour on the Biden-Harris administration, basically say, you know what, these people are nuts.
We can't give them the country.
We need to go back to Donald Trump.
At least it was common sense and things made sense.
It did.
You were out on the campaign trail a lot with the president, especially in the final weeks.
What was that experience like for you?
Honestly, it was epic.
The two memories that are really clear in my mind are Madison Square Garden.
I was there.
You know, Sean, I was one of those Nazis in MSG.
It's so crazy.
Those people are nuts on the other side of the aisle.
But MSG, the energy was electric.
It was a great event.
And being from Brooklyn, New York, it was just personally, it was a great moment just to be there.
And then I was in Green Bay when the garbage truck came out.
I was there when Donald Trump came out and gave the...
By the way, did you know it was going to be there when he landed?
I found out about 30 minutes on the plane before we landed that the garbage truck was going to be there.
Well, we didn't.
That McDonald's was pretty epic.
The Al Smith dinner wasn't bad, and Rogan was pretty good, too.
Oh, yeah.
But it was all great.
I think overall, no matter where you were, whether you were with the president or on the bus tour, I did a bunch of that, going into different communities, the energy was higher than it was in 2016.
You could really feel it on the ground that voters were going to get to the polls.
They really wanted change.
They wanted an America First Agenda led by Donald Trump.
It was an awesome experience.
I keep hearing your name being mentioned as somebody that might possibly go into the administration and serve.
Would you do it if asked?
Well, first, I mean, look, if the president calls on you to do something, you know, in this moment, you step up and you do it.
If he calls me, I'm not going, but he never would call me for that.
Trust me.
I don't think they could, honestly, Sean, I don't think they could pay you enough to go into the government, just going to be honest with you.
It's not about the money.
I don't do this for the money, but I mean, what job could you possibly give me that I'm qualified for?
White House press secretary, I'd sit there and I'd rip them to shreds every day, which might be entertaining as hell.
Do I need to make a call?
I mean, we can start up.
You're breaking up on me.
I have no desire, but thank you anyway.
But on a serious note, I am curious.
If called, what would you do?
If called, you'd answer the call.
But look, I know that in the House, we're trying to make sure that we keep our majority intact, and there's some good people that are already going in.
So, you know, look, my time will come.
I'm not too concerned about that.
The focus really now is about the agenda.
But if the call came, yeah, I would go in and serve.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
What happens in Florida?
I'm not sure of the exact process.
What happens in Florida?
For example, Mike Waltz, I believe, is going in, and he's a friend of yours and a friend of this program.
And now, how does that replacement occur?
Well, the governor would have to call the special election the second you resigned.
I think it's probably a two to three month process, probably two months, if I remember correctly.
So the seat will be vacant for two months until we were able to get a new elected person out of the 19th district or Waltz in Florida's 6th District.
About two months or so.
But with a small majority, we're going to have to be careful if you have Elise Stefanic and Congressman Waltz going in and maybe you going in.
You know, at that point, we're now risking the majority.
And wouldn't we need to kind of wait on some of these appointments?
Yeah, I think right now you're giving Speaker Johnson heart palpitations right now as you talk to me.
I think you're probably right.
You know, but look, I think, you know, I think everybody just wants to make sure we're in position to get this job done.
Because the truth is, if President Trump has a new four-year term, grateful for that.
I think we have a year to get this business done to demonstrate to the American people that not only can we talk about it, but we can do it.
And then for the American people to see just truly how America is better off with Donald Trump leading our nation and with the right policies and with the right vision for the country.
So, you know, if it means you've got to stay in the House to make that happen, then that's what I'm going to do.
You know, like you, I endorse and support Rick Scott for Senate Majority Leader.
I heard your comments about this.
And why do I think with the secret vote, why do I believe with the secret vote that they're going to do everything they can do to prevent him from getting that position?
Because that's the ways of Washington.
These secret ballot elections behind closed doors are designed to favor the leadership.
I'm just going to cut straight with you, Sean, no BS.
It's designed to favor the leadership.
That's how it always is.
And what happens behind the scenes is you'll have members who are principled, but there is also not a favorite, but there's a position they're in line to get.
And the fear, especially with how House and Senate leadership has been in the past, is that if you buck the leadership or you decide to go a different way, that you now lose your opportunity to still do a great job in that position you are going to get.
So it puts a lot of pressure on people.
And I think that's why these elections should be out in the open.
Let people stand for their convictions.
We have to stand in public to the voters in order to get elected.
And the voters are allowed to go by secret ballot and vote.
But here on Capitol Hill, when you got elected dealing with each other, it should just simply be all of us standing out there in the open, making sure people know our constituents, they know what we're doing.
We have to do it on the floor when we vote for a policy.
We should be able to have to do the same thing when we vote for leadership.
All right.
We appreciate it.
800-941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Byron Donalds, we appreciate you being with us.
Thanks for all you do and all you've been doing.
And you are a real star within the party and a principal conservative.
And your voice is desperately needed.
We appreciate all you do every day.
Thank you, my friend.
Take it easy.
800-941-Sean, our number, if you want to be a part of the program.
When we come back, we'll hit the phones.
800-941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, you know what?
Let's get to our business.
One thing that somebody, there was a funny New York Post editorial today, Hurricane Elise.
Elise Stefanik.
Remember Elise Defonic took on all of those pro-Hamas university presidents and just eviscerated them.
And a lot of them ended up being fired or resigning and being put out.
Anyway, Donald Trump chose Elise Stefanik as the U.S. ambassador to the UN.
Can you imagine when she does this to the UN?
Now, I happen to be against globalism.
And what does that mean?
Why we are even a part of an organization with a history of virulent anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism.
And we pay the bulk of monies for the UN, billions and billions and billions of dollars every single year.
And that includes like the pathetic WHO, which was the propaganda wing for the communist Chinese during COVID.
That includes the World Economic Forum, all these globalist organizations.
Remember, Biden and Harris wanted us to get into a corporate minimum tax, which is the dumbest idea ever.
What does a corporate minimum tax do?
That would be every nation agrees that every corporation pays X percent.
So this way, no one country has an advantage by incentivizing businesses to move to their country.
Now, that's the dumbest idea I've ever heard.
And they think, well, this is fair and just and it's a worldwide economy.
No, what I want is America to have the lowest corporate minimum tax and incentivize, you know, multi-billion dollar corporations to invest their money in America to create high-paying career jobs for Americans and that we control the means of production for the entire world and we're not dependent on countries that don't like us.
You know, this is the same group of people that want the Iranian deal or the Paris climate accords.
These are all things we could say bye-bye to, thankfully, because all of you voted for Donald Trump.
And I'll add one other thing on the economy.
You know, for example, Donald Trump, you know, Lee Zeldon is going to be the head of the EPA, and they're going to roll back all of these electric vehicle mandates.
Remember, Ford lost $4.5 billion in a year because the government forced them to produce cars that their clients, their customers didn't want.
I am not against electric vehicles.
I'm not against hybrid vehicles.
I had a hybrid vehicle once.
I have friends of mine that have Teslas.
They love Tesla.
And Tesla is in the business of electric vehicles because they want to be in the business of electric vehicles.
And by all accounts, all the people that I talk to anecdotally, it is the best, it is the best car out there for people that want this.
Anyway, but think about this.
We're not going to be told what refrigerators we can buy.
We're not going to be told what cars to put in our driveway.
You know, Ford is not going to lose $4.5 billion.
Ford keeps losing $4.5 billion.
And you work in the auto industry and you're a UAW member.
Well, guess what?
Your high-paying career job that allows you to buy a house, have a nice car in your driveway or a nice truck in your driveway and produce a nice living for you and your family with good benefits, retirement benefits, and healthcare benefits, et cetera.
They all go away if Ford starts losing that kind of money.
I mean, we can't have these mandates.
I don't want to be told what refrigerator, what washer and dryer.
I don't want to be told what appliances I can and cannot have.
Just leave us alone.
You know, the Republican Party's got to be the freedom party.
And on the issue of abortion, which they demagogue all the time, look at a red state like Ohio.
You know, Roe v.
Wade overturned.
Hysteria then ensues.
The demagoguing, the hyperbole off the charts.
And then what happens?
A state like Ohio has a referendum.
The people decide in a very red state that they want pretty liberal laws on abortion.
I think it went too far, but that's my opinion.
The state of Florida had a referendum and it was defeated because it went so far the other way.
I mean, into the later terms of pregnancy, it was crazy.
Anyway, 800-941-Sean is a number.
Let's go out to Seattle in Washington.
Say hi to Ron.
Ron, you're on the Sean Hannity show.
Glad you called.
Hey, good morning.
This is the first time caller.
I've tried several times, but I finally made it.
I'm glad you made it.
And good afternoon, by the way.
Glad you're out there.
We love our friends in Seattle.
I don't know why you're still out there because it's a little loony out there.
It absolutely is.
I canvassed and I even flagwaved.
And about one-third of the people would do nothing.
One-third of them would give me the finger and one-third of them would honk.
I can only tell you in my free state of Florida, you know, with the exception of maybe one or two times, I've gotten nothing but very nice people welcoming me to a state that I've owned property in for over two decades.
Yeah.
Well, I work at Boeing, so I guess if things get any more south, I'll probably leave, but I'm happy for now.
I have a feeling of almost a 400-pound gorilla off my back.
That's how good I feel with Trump going to be at the wheel.
Well, I just think everything's going to change.
I just mentioned one small change.
We're getting rid of appliance and electric vehicle mandates.
And if you want to buy an electric vehicle, let the free market determine what companies are going to make them.
Because the companies that want to produce them are going to be the companies that make the best ones.
And don't force companies to spend billions and billions and billions of dollars and then lose billions of dollars because of a government mandate.
It's insane.
Oh, yeah.
Just within the last six months, the president of Toyota of Japan, he said, I don't know why everybody wants to go to electric cars.
Gas cars are more efficient and better and cheaper.
And he says, you know, he doesn't know the future of electric cars.
I drive a hybrid, a Toyota hybrid, and I love it.
Yeah.
No, well, a lot of people like it.
I'm just in favor of freedom of choice here.
I really am.
Whatever vehicle you want to drive, I'm fine with.
I would like, I prefer, and even you can buy a foreign car that's still made in America that benefits American workers.
So, you know, a lot of companies like Honda, Toyota, et cetera, they have plants in America.
And as long as we have the benefit of American jobs, I'm happy with it.
Ron, got a roll, man.
Appreciate it.
God bless you and appreciate you being with us.
800-941-Sean is on number if you want to be a part of the program.
Tom is in Kentucky.
Tom, hi.
How are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean, I'm doing just fine.
Listen, I missed you yesterday, but I do want to, God bless our veterans.
We love them.
Amen.
By the way, we don't have any freedom without them.
God bless them.
And, you know, my dad was a vet.
The weirdest thing is my father was a good man.
He had the hardest life.
His parents were dirt poor.
His mother died from complications giving birth to him.
And he was shuffled around as a kid, you know, from family member to family member because his dad was working all the time and didn't have the ability to raise him the way he would have liked to.
And he came here very poor from Ireland, all before my grandparents did.
And anyway, then he signed up after Pearl Harbor, fought four years in the Pacific, and just good salt of the earth people that, you know, we all know about.
Anyway, I appreciate the greatest generation.
I appreciate every vet that has put their life on the line for our liberty, our freedom, and people express their freedom in this election, which is why I can't say thank you enough to all of the people in this audience that took the time to vote and did their part.
Whatever your part was, thank you.
Because we were all spokes in a wheel.
You know, this was about our country.
It was an inflection point.
And America didn't listen to legacy media.
They didn't listen to big tech.
They didn't listen to all the celebrities and all the musicians.
And they went out and in spite of all of the lies and distortion and propaganda, smear, slander, lawfare, all of it, they just, they listened to their gut.
And I'm so grateful that Americans were that smart.
Well, a couple of things I'm calling for.
Number one, I want to thank you and your staff for the unbelievable effort that you guys have put out to get the truth out to as many people as possible.
You've done a wonderful job, and I thank you for that.
The other thing is, ever since I heard about this $1.2 billion that the campaign for the Democrats kind of put together and got in, I was kind of wondering, is there any way that we can put on your website where that money came from?
I'm not talking about the dark money.
I'm talking about the corporate money and the businesses that have contributed to.
Yeah, all of that is becoming public.
I mean, do we have Linda Oprah Winfrey responding to TMZ about the million dollars that was reported that Harpo, her parent company, got paid for the event that she did where she claimed this may be the last time we ever get to vote again?
Let me see if I can get that for you, boss, and we'll bring that up.
Okay, boss.
Thank you, boss.
You know, no, she said, well, I didn't get paid a penny, but then according to the FCC, FEC, according to Fox, which is where I got the information from, that her parent company did get paid that money.
And so, you know, does it really make a dime's worth of difference whether it's your corporation or not?
Yeah, exactly.
Well, you know, I'd like to see it out there where our the conservatives who are out there spending their money every day can make better decisions on who they want to spend their money with and who they may not want to spend their money with.
Yeah, exactly.
Listen, I just want every American, the people that make this country great, I want their lives easier.
I want to make sure they can afford the groceries they want and put food on their table.
And let's go back to paying two bucks a gallon for gasoline.
And let's become the most energy-rich country on earth.
Let's secure our borders.
Let's get rid of the people that were unvetted, that are part of cartels, gangs that have backgrounds and have been murdering Americans, raping Americans, committing violent crimes against Americans.
You know, let's let the world know that America is back.
That's what I'm hoping for here.
And that is a great aspirational dream.
We're heading into Thanksgiving.
And for that, I'm thankful.
By the way, let me play for you.
This is Oprah.
She was confronted by TMZ.
She was on a walk to her car and she was asked about being paid a million dollars.
She denies it.
Listen.
How are you, darling?
You're looking very good.
How do you think the election went?
Not talking about the election.
Oh, is it true that they paid you a million dollars for the endorsement for Kamala?
Not true.
Not true, okay.
I was paid nothing.
What do you think about all the celebrities with their mass exodus?
Do you think Prince Harry's going to lose his visa now that Trump's president?
Well, according to FCC filings, a million dollars did go to Harpo Productions.
You know, I'll let you decide.
But to me, it sounds like, oh, well, if it goes to your company, doesn't that kind of mean it went to you?
I don't know.
I'll let the audience decide.
800-941-Sean is a number if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
Hannity, tonight, 9 Eastern on the Fox News channel.
We are loaded up.
Mike Huckabee, Ambassador to Israel.
He will join us tonight.
All these legal cases, hopefully now dead, gone, and buried.
We'll check in with Alina Haba, the left, and their emotional breakdown.
We'll check in with Dr. Drew Pinsky.
And then, of course, this case of Sergeant Penny and what he's going through after trying to save people's lives as has been testified in court in New York.
Greg Jarrett, Alan Dershowitz, Nine Eastern, Hannity on Fox.
We'll see you tonight back here tomorrow.
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