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Who Is Zoran Mamdani? - July 5th, Hour 2
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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, as I have said many, many times, the radicals that run New York City and places like Los Angeles and Chicago and San Francisco and other places around the country, these deep blue states and cities, the most radical people are there.
Now you have, according to Polymarket, as of yesterday, I haven't checked today, a 76% chance that Zoran Marxist Mondami is going to be the next mayor of New York City.
Here's Momdani explaining why Palestine is part of his politics.
Listen.
This is how we defeat the occupation.
Style.
So the third holy grail of taboos in American politics, you have socialism, you have Islam, and then you have Palestine.
And you are really going for the trifecta.
Let's go, baby.
Let's go.
Tell me, why is Palestine a part of your politics?
When you grow up as someone especially in the third world, you have a very different understanding of the Palestinian struggle.
It is one that is framed in terms of empathy and solidarity.
What part of what happened October 7th, what part of tens and hundreds of thousands of rockets fired into Israel by enemies in Gaza and Lebanon and the Houthi rebels and the Iranians does he not understand?
October 7th, that would be the equivalent if you extrapolate out the population of Israel, compare it to the U.S. of 40,000 dead Americans in a day.
We lost 2,977 on 9-11 and 01.
I'm not sure what part of murder and rape and kidnapping and torture and beheading people like Marxist Mondani don't seem to understand.
Here's Mondani, you know, defending taxing whiter neighborhoods.
We went on your website and realized there's a policy proposal that says your plan, and I'm going to quote it for folks, is to shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods.
Explain why you are bringing race into your tax proposal.
That is just a description of what we see right now.
It's not driven by race.
It's more of an assessment of what neighborhoods are being undertaxed versus overtaxed.
We've seen time and again that this is a property tax system that is inequitable.
Then why bring up race if it's not about race?
You're making it about race.
You know, then him saying, clearly not a capitalist, but a Marxist, that I don't think we should have billionaires.
This is going to be great for New York City's economy.
Not really.
Florida is going to see growth like they've never seen before if this guy gets elected.
Listen.
I don't think that we should have billionaires because frankly, it is so much money in a moment of such inequality.
And ultimately, what we need more of is equality across our city and across our state and across our country.
To each according to their need, from each according to their ability, and as determined by the big hand of government, that is, by definition, Marxism, communism, statism, call it whatever you want.
And he even went as far as to give the textbook definition, the dictionary definition for socialism, and that is seizing the means of production.
Listen.
We have to continue to elect more socialists, and we have to ensure that we are unapologetic about our socialism.
It is very critical for all of us to remember what it is that we are fighting for and to remember that our agenda is an agenda that must not be dictated by calculus, but by conviction.
And what I mean by that is that the many things that we believe, some of them are already popular in this moment right now, right?
If we're talking about the cancellation of student debt, if we're talking about Medicare for all, you know, these are issues which have the groundswell of popular support across this country.
But then there are also other issues that we firmly believe in, whether it's BDS, right, or whether it's the end goal of seizing the means of production, where we do not have the same level of support at this very moment.
End goal to seize the means of production.
Anyway, this is a return appearance.
It's been a while.
Chris Hahn is the host of the ever-so-popular and growing Chris Hahn show and an acolyte disciple of Chucky Schumer.
You miss me.
How are you?
How many affiliates are you up to now?
I do miss you.
I'm on a lot of affiliates right now.
I don't know how many.
And it's the Chris Hahn.
About how many?
Is it 10, 20, 30?
It's probably in between 20 and 30, somewhere like that.
We're up to about 760 or 770, something like that.
Crazy.
You should be hooking your brother up and tagging me onto your shows, man, so that I could cross endorse.
Let me ask you a question.
If I ask you, Chris Hahn, are you against racism?
What would you say?
I am 100% against racism.
And you're against anti-Semitism?
100%, right?
I'm half true.
You and I, this may be a rare moment of solidarity.
We get along.
Okay.
Is it hard to condemn the global antifada?
It is not hard to condemn the global antifada.
First, you got to understand what that means, which I don't know that this 33-year-old does.
Well, I think he does know what it means.
If you listen to all the other comments that he has made, he knows damn well what it means.
And, you know, holy war is part of it.
And it is scary.
Do you think that anyone should promote a policy that taxes one race more than another race?
What do you call?
What would Chris Hahn call that?
Because I have a word in my mind.
If I would isolate out one race over another, what would you call that, Chris Hahn?
I suggest that a lot of politicians that don't think they're going to win attention.
Okay, he won, and the polymarket has him at 76% chance as of yesterday to win the general.
What do you call it when you isolate out and want to tax one race higher than another race?
I think there's an easy word to describe that.
I would say that that's race-bait taxation, which I don't race-based taxation.
No, no, no, no.
I think you're, I think you're, no, no, you're, you're trying to water it down.
What do you really call it?
I don't like it is what I call it.
What if a politician said that they want to tax African Americans more than others?
What would you call that?
Yeah, I think we would have the same problem with that.
What would you call it?
Come on, help me out here.
We'd call it a race.
Thank you.
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, jeopardy.
Now our double Jeopardy question.
Are you ready?
Wait, hold on a second.
Everybody is counting out my former radio partner, Curtis Liwa, in this election.
And I think if he tightens it up a little bit, it's going to be a little closer than you think, especially if it's a four-person race.
Oh, we'll see.
I mean, I would think that Eric Adams and Cuomo, who stayed in this, would shocked, I think, a lot of people.
And Marxist Mondami Donnie, I think that might create a lane for Curtis.
No doubt about it.
And I think Curtis would institute the policies of Rudy when Rudy was mayor.
Do you agree with that?
I think some of them, and maybe some of them in a better way.
Curtis is not as dumb as people think he is.
He's very smart.
I've spent a lot of time.
Nobody thinks Curtis is dumb.
He's been a longtime friend.
Don't say that about my friend.
He's my friend, too.
I've known him forever.
And I worked with him for years.
And I think his policies are a little bit more in line with what traditional New Yorkers think than people think.
And I think that counting him out at this point in time, especially if Cuomo stays in, I think if Cuomo stays in, he has a real lane.
He got 28.5% four years ago, Curtis did.
And I know that because I was the first person to talk to him after he lost on the radio, and he kept saying he got 30%, and I reminded him it was 28.5.
Well, if he could turn that 28.5 into 32%, he could win in a four-man race.
If he could turn it into 34%, he has a chance in a three-man race.
I totally agree with you, and I think that's very, very possible, even though Democrats outnumber Republicans nine to one.
Let me ask you the hard question because now I'm going to go straight to the heart of it.
What is Chucky Schumer and Jerry Nadler and people like that, other prominent New Yorkers?
Did Chuck Schumer and Jerry Nadler, did they endorse Mom Donny?
I didn't see an endorsement.
I think they saw an acknowledgement that he won the primary and he won the primary.
An acknowledgement.
An acknowledgement that he won the primary and he won it in a similar way to Trump won his primary.
It was a populist campaign that was very popular that got a lot of people excited.
It didn't, look, you went down a road about statements he made that most people don't know.
And when he campaigned, he campaigned on things like lowering prices.
Sounded a lot like Trump in 2024.
I think that the squishy middle voted for Trump because he said he was going to get down prices.
And by the way, he didn't have to give a plan.
Neither did Trump.
He just wanted people want to know that the person who they're going to vote for cares about the issues they care about and they're going to try to fix it.
And I think he took on all comers.
He went on a lot of different types of broadcasts.
I think he ran a very successful campaign.
I reached out to people on the Cuomo campaign at the beginning of June saying, what are you guys doing?
You're running Elliot Spitzer's failed comeback for controller campaign and this guy is coming up on you and he's going to pass you because he's exciting and young and hip and you're staying in your bunker like Harris did against Trump in 2024 and it just doesn't work.
When you're running for public office, you need to appear in public.
All right, quick break.
We'll come back.
Chuck Schumer's former disciple, our friend Chris Hahn of the Chris Hahn Show.
More with him on the other side.
Then we'll get to your calls coming up.
Straight ahead, 800-941, Sean, as we continue.
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All right, Chris Hahn is with us, host of his own podcast, and he's on a couple of radio stations around the country.
And we appreciate him being back with us, friend of Chuck Schumer.
Do you not think that this is a now a big problem?
Like, I know a lot of people in your party have they're scratching their heads and they're wondering why they lost against Donald Trump, for example, right?
Okay.
Anyway, by the way, Chuck Schumer did call and he did congratulate Mom Donnie on social media.
I've known Mom Donnie since we've worked together, et cetera, et cetera.
He ran an impressive campaign, connected with New Yorkers about affordability, fairness, and opportunity.
Impressive.
Where is his criticism about the issues we just discussed?
Why isn't Chuck Schumer?
I'm going to tell you what the answer is.
I'm not even going to ask you because you're too close to him and you're not going to want to hear it.
Chuck Schumer is afraid of Mom Donnie.
He's afraid of AOC.
He has a 17% approval rating, your friend.
And AOC would wipe the floor with him according to recent polls in a primary in New York, and he would lose.
So Chuck Schumer, I don't think, likes Mondami in his heart, but doesn't have the courage of his convictions to go out there and say it.
And you're going to tell me I'm wrong, but you know deep down in your heart, I am dead on accurate.
I think that in a campaign, Chuck Schumer would beat anycomer for his wrong.
You're wrong.
Then put your money where your mouth is.
If AOC primaries him, I'll take that bet.
All right, steak dinner, baby.
You're on.
You're bothering.
No, bigger.
I want it to hurt.
On Long Island, Rothman.
I don't go back to New York.
I'm not welcome in New York anymore.
That might hurt me.
It won't hurt you.
Well, the thing is, okay, he wants to not only freeze rent and seize buildings if he deems it necessary, raise property taxes, corporate taxes.
He wants to, quote, tax the rich at record levels.
Do you believe in replacing police with social workers?
Because that's what he wants to do.
Do you believe in free buses and government-operated grocery stores?
Do you think that we should have free child care so we can indoctrinate kids from the moment they're born?
Do you think that each new parent should get a goodie bag with resources, diapers, baby wipes?
Do you think that why don't you why don't you why don't you Democrats get together and generously donate it if you see a need?
Tax deductions for all sorts of things in this country.
We give brands I give donations all the time.
I don't talk about it, but if I see somebody in need, I absolutely give them money.
Winners and losers in our tax policy all over the place.
Why can't parents and renters and people that take the bus, why can't they be winners?
And here's the point you're missing about Mom Dami and about Trump.
They appealed to what people were caring about at the moment.
And it still seems to be the affordability issue, which Trump appealed to in 2024.
It's the same campaign.
These are very similar campaigns.
I've compared Mondami favorably to Trump and to Trump's campaign.
This is the future of campaigning.
What Chuck Schumer and what other traditional Democrats need to understand that going forward, you can't just talk about the policies that you passed and the accomplishments you've had.
Because if that was the case, Cuomo would be running for mayor right now.
You got a lot of accomplishments in this.
All right, last question.
What you got to do is you got to focus on what people care about at the time, and you've got to say, look, this is what I care about.
All right, so here's where we are.
You're supporting Mom Dami.
You got the squad.
You got AOC.
You got Grandpa Bernie, you know, and now you have Democrats on record voting to champion the rights of men to play women's sports in Chuck Schumer's Senate.
Then you had the Senate last night or early this morning vote for the largest tax increase in history.
They didn't stand up for working men and women and cut tax on tips in overtime.
They allowed the border to be invaded over the last four years and Democrats lied about it.
And that allowed in terrorists and murderers and rapists and carteling gang members.
You have a party that's against energy dominance.
You have a party that literally allowed our military to be depleted and our strategic oil reserves to be depleted.
I mean, do you not understand why you lost when you had a candidate that wants taxpayer-funded sex change operations for illegals?
I don't think you understand, Sean.
I don't think any of that matters.
Right now, you had a party that just voted to take away health insurance for 14 million people.
Not true.
No, no, they put in a work requirement, so you have to tell the truth.
I'll tell you what, stay right there.
I'm going to hold over Chris Hahn.
This is the biggest opportunity for a real radio audience in his life.
I'm going to give him a chance.
And I have one remaining question for you, okay?
On the other side.
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All right, 25 now to the top of the hour, 800-941.
Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, I didn't want to rush off the air.
Chris Hahn, I kid him because Chris is actually a pretty good guy for a liberal, but he's crazy.
And he's, are you still best for BFF with Chucky?
I wouldn't say I'm BFF, but I am still part of the Schumer family, without a doubt.
Okay, I bet he wasn't sad when I left town.
Did he make any comment to you?
Like, I'm so glad he left a couple of years ago.
Oh, he called me up.
He said, you know, Chuck, I saw one had it.
He left town, Christopher.
What's going on?
That's pretty good.
Did he really call you or no?
No, but he called me every day for six years when I worked for him, so you never forget the freaking old voice.
That is funny.
Chuck doesn't seem to like me.
He's never come on my show.
He doesn't like me.
I don't dislike the guy.
But here's the fundamental problem for Chuck, and you're just denying the reality of it.
So you have Marxist Mondani win this mayoral race.
You have AOC, who might primary Chuck.
We'll see what happens.
You have this radicalism, and this is what happened in the last election.
Your party, the Democratic Party, you had a candidate that supports that, well, first of all, that was part of an administration that lied and said the borders were closed and the borders were secure.
We have known terrorists, murderers, rapists, cartel members, gang members, all came in under Biden and Harris.
And she wants, as part of that open border mentality, she wanted taxpayer-funded sex change operations for illegals and for convicts.
Her running mate wanted taxpayer-funded college tuition for illegals.
Then, of course, he wanted gender-affirming care without parental consent.
And then he wanted to put tampons in grade school boys' bathrooms, if that makes, you know, if that's your policy.
And now you got a guy that wants to replace police with social workers, wants to tax white people more than people of other races.
This is a guy that wants to freeze rent, raise taxes on everybody, offer everything as free, free, free across the board, and promote the trans agenda, raise the minimum wage to 30 bucks.
Then he wants to eliminate all guns in New York and swears that he's going to fight ICE and deportation.
And I'm just trying to understand if you and Chuck realize that you can't win on these platforms, that your party has become way more extreme than it's ever been.
Do you see that reality?
I'll let you have the last word.
Well, there was a lot to what you just said there.
But here's the reality.
The reality is nobody can win when you're drilling down into small components of people.
You need broad-based appeals.
That's why Trump won.
That's why Mondami won.
If he wins in November, that is going to be why he wins, because he appealed to a broad base of people across demographics, across party lines, across wealth.
Respectfully, you're not addressing where your party is, championing the rights of men to play women's sports, putting the rights of illegals like Brego Garcia over the safety of others.
Address the real issues.
The party, the Democratic Party, needs to focus on core issues.
They need to come up with them, four core values that they stand for that appeal broadly.
You're talking about issues that appeal very narrowly that have been blown up out of proportion, I think, successfully by challenges to Democrats.
But Democrats can push back on that with broad, popular policies.
Mom Donnie is the embodiment of all these radical policies.
He's doubling down and taking it further.
Global antifada.
Oh, great.
Yeah, well, look, I mean, you know, a lot of the policies of the right were unpopular, and then Trump doubled down on them and said, here's why they're popular.
Which policy was unpopular with Trump?
I don't know, rounding up people that are making your bagels in the morning and shipping.
No, they're deporting people like in Los Angeles.
They were arresting child molesters, murderers, gang members, and other violent criminals.
Do you think that Harris and Biden did the right thing, but with open borders, and Chuck sat idly by and did nothing?
Do you think that was the right call?
I think that there was a piece of legislation that would have solved this problem that Trump stopped because he wanted.
Oh, Trump wasn't in office.
This is Biden's policy.
Stopped the bill that bought.
Okay, but Trump has proven you don't need legislation.
His policies have not been codified into law.
He just put out presidential directives, which Biden could have done.
Yeah, and I remember being on your show when Obama was president and you railing against that kind of action by a president.
I remember it.
Actually, actually, no, that's not true, but we'll go back and we'll listen to the tape.
But you're trying to avoid my question.
These are, this is now your party.
Your party lied to the American people for four years and said the borders closed the borders secure.
They lied and said inflation is transitory.
They lied and said that Joe was not cognitively impaired.
When did you notice his cognitive impairment?
Well, look, I wasn't in the campaign.
I didn't ask you if you're in the campaign.
I'm not in the campaign, and I started reporting on it in 2019.
When did you first notice?
Let me tell you, I've been on your show a few times during the Biden administration, and I didn't reach out to people inside, and I was given the runaround, too.
When did you first notice it?
I first started thinking about it in like 2019, and I started saying, not 2019, 2022.
I started thinking of it regardless.
Like, what is going on here?
Didn't think he would run again.
And then when we saw the disastrous debate, I was one of the first people to say, get this guy out of here.
But, and again, I think.
And do you think that running a candidate that supports taxpayer-funded sex change operations for illegals was a good idea?
That was a Trump administration policy.
And that clip was not a Trump administration policy.
Nobody had a sex change operation.
She's on tape saying she supported it.
Find that with Trump.
Never.
Not happening.
That tape was made in 2019 when Trump was.
Do you think Tim Walls was a good choice supporting tampons in grade school boys' bathrooms?
I don't think the policy was to put it in boys' bathrooms.
I think it's a block.
It was.
No.
And taxpayer-funded tuition for illegals.
Was that a good policy?
I think having tuition for college for people who get ahead or here who are dreamers, I think that's something Americans support.
No, for illegal immigrants, people that didn't respect our laws, border, and sovereignty.
They were doing it for dreamers who people actually, if you poll them, want to see them stay here.
And there was a process.
So you're avoiding the question.
Why couldn't members of your party stand for the family of Lake and Riley when President Trump gave a speech, a joint session speech?
Why couldn't they stand for the mother, Alexis Nungari, who we've interviewed on this show, who lost her 12-year-old little daughter to Biden-Harris illegals that brutally raped and murdered her?
Why didn't your party stand for them?
Look, I think they should have stand for them.
You think they should have?
Doesn't that show a lack of heart, soul, and a conscience?
I think when somebody loses a loved one, you want to respect them and have empathy for them.
But your party didn't.
What does that tell you about your party, your friends with these people?
Again, elections are about appealing to broad bases of people, broad groups of people, not bases, I should say.
You're giving me clichés and platitudes.
Why didn't your party stand?
And why don't you just say it was a disgraceful moment for my party?
I said they should have stand, Sean.
Did you not hear me?
I said it.
Yeah.
I mean, is your reception bad in Texas or wherever you are today?
I mean, it's in New York, we're here.
But it is something they should have done.
Why they didn't, I don't know.
I don't answer for them.
But what I would suggest is they don't give their opponents these openings and they just stick to a mantra of issues that are broad.
I'm going to make two predictions.
One is Chuck Schumer will not have the courage to condemn Mom Donnie.
And two, if he is primaried by AOC, he will lose, and he will lose spectacularly.
I don't know why.
I'm a former New Yorker.
I don't even go back to New York.
I have not been to Rothman's in two years.
Do you know that?
Well, you know, you'll be coming next year or two years from now after the primary when you're buying me a steak.
No.
No, I'm never going back.
And you know you love Rothman's.
Just come back.
I'll give you a pass.
I love Rothmans.
The guys from Rothmans are building a place not far from me.
Well, then, you know.
Like every other New York company, they're getting out.
And if you were smart, you'd get out too.
You could send your jet for me and I'll have dinner with you at Rothman's in Texas, wherever you are.
Why don't you be the typical liberal?
You want something for free?
I'm not paying for your plane fare.
I'm going to lose the bat.
So, of course, I want it.
You can either come up here or I'll come there.
But, you know, if I'm coming there, you're flying me.
Listen, you and I both know that deep in Chuck Schumer's heart.
He knows that this is crackpot stuff.
I know he knows it because he never advocated this crap in his life.
I've never really liked him, but I don't think he's a total nutjob like the squad.
I don't.
And I think that, you know, unfortunately, he's getting more extreme.
But the thing is, he fears his party now more than ever.
Chuck Schumer is afraid.
And rather than just do the honorable thing and just realize this party doesn't represent my values anymore and just, you know, let his term run out and let somebody else take over.
He's going to try and fight it out.
And it's not going to be pretty for him.
We'll see, Sean.
We'll see.
Maybe that gets you to New York.
No, never.
I'm not.
Not happening.
Not coming back.
I am gone.
Sold my house.
I don't have a house there.
I got a spare room.
You could crash here.
No, I'd rather forget it.
I get a free hotel room at Roosevelt Hotel.
That's the city.
They'll give it to you.
You'll fit in.
They closed.
Linda Cole said closed.
You'll fit in perfectly.
You got to admit the case against your party is weak.
Just admit it.
And you just admit we're in a bad spot right now.
You're right, Hannity.
We've been taken over by radicals.
We've got to refocus our attention.
We've got to get back to bread and butter issues.
But here's your problem.
The problem is you can't with Jasmine Crockett and AOC and Mom Dani, the Marxist.
You can't.
You cannot recover.
Kamala Harris, Timmy, Tampon Tim.
You can't recover from that.
I just said we got to get back to bread and butter issues.
You know, I didn't say bread and butter, but yeah.
Why don't you just support Trump and suck it up?
Go ahead, say, I support Trump's policy.
I support Trump.
I don't hate Trump, but I'm not going to support Trump.
I don't like.
Everyone in your party hates Trump.
They all hate him.
Look, I think.
They hate him.
I think hate is not worth it.
I don't like hating anyone.
Yeah, why did they lie about the value?
You know, I can go through the chapter in verse.
They had no problem with all of the lawfare and the weaponization against him.
Seems like he's doing a little law affair of his own right now, don't you think?
No.
Oh, no?
You don't think the arrest of the Congresswoman in New Jersey was warranted?
You don't think that...
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
That...
First of all, Donald Trump did not make that decision.
Are you saying that it's perfectly acceptable for a congresswoman, as the allegation goes, is interfering with the police, law enforcement, and doing their job?
You think that's acceptable?
Is that part of your defund dismantle no-bail law mentality?
I think she was doing her job and I think that disrupting, disrupting law enforcement.
No, I mean, they were interfering in their work.
That's called obstruction where I grew up.
Congress, last time I checked, the Constitution says Congress is going to be a check and balance on the presidency, and that means you get to visit federal.
You can check and balance all you want, but you can't interfere in law enforcement in the middle of an operation.
There was no operation going on.
They were going.
It actually was.
You're wrong.
Okay.
Well, let's see what the court says.
But it seems like a little lawfare there.
It seems like a little law fare against the Attorney General of New York.
Seems like that's going on right now.
So if they really think that it was lawfare, maybe they wouldn't engage in law.
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