Sean Hannity opens with 2024 off-year election battlegrounds shifting, focusing on New Jersey where Jack Chittarelli is now even with Democrat Mikie Sherrill amid polling surprises and early voting trends favoring Republicans. Hannity frames this as part of a larger Democratic "implosion," highlighting controversies, migration out of blue states, and Democratic candidates struggling with scandals and policy missteps. He features concerns over Democratic leadership paralysis, with only outliers like John Fetterman speaking up, and underscores GOP momentum in Virginia and deepening anxiety among Democrats. Guest interviews and reports like Caroline Leavitt's breakdown of government shutdown negotiations and Kristi Noem's update on ICE threat add sharp detail to the growing chaos on the left. This episode matters for listeners tracking both the practical electoral stakes and the broader ideological battlelines shaping 2024.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
If you want to be a part of the program, uh and things are changing.
We really, this is an off-year election year.
Um, usually not a a year that is favorable to Republicans when you look at the races that we're following, but things are changing as we speak moment by moment, and and it's getting very, very interesting, maybe with the exception of Commie Marx's Mamdanny in New York, uh, who seems to still have a steady, you know, uh a slide path straight to the you know, Gracie Mansion in New York City.
Um, I don't know what that says about New York City, but I will tell you this.
New Yorkers are getting a little bit nervous because they know when it came out last week that they had more Goldman Sachs employees in Texas that work in Texas, based in Texas, employed in Texas, uh running their business out of Texas than they did New York City.
That the sirens ought to be blaring in New York City because I can tell you, living in the free state of Florida, that Wall Street South is very real.
Every private equity firm, every bank, every big um financial firm that you can name or think of, and every small one on top of it has offices in the free state of Florida, and I can only imagine that those offices are going to get bigger and bigger and bigger, uh, to the point where Wall Street is probably going to be in in Florida and Texas, probably mostly Florida, to be honest, because that's where they seem to be basing their headquarters with the exception of Goldman Sachs, but they're getting the hell out and they're getting out fast.
Uh just quick headlines out of New Jersey, Democrats now, top Democrats are increasingly scared to death and alarmed that they could lose this gubernatorial race in this deep blue state of New Jersey last month because of a series of unbelievable stumbles and controversies uh as a result of the Democratic nominee, Mikey Sherrill.
Uh Jack Chitterelli now is dead even.
And actually, if you look at New Jersey Republicans, they are returning their mail and ballots at a higher clip than Democrats, in which is a huge positive early sign for Jack Chitterelli.
Polls showing a tightening in the race.
Uh but anyway, as of now, so far, Republicans have notched an 18.61 return rate for their mail in ballot ballots outpacing Democrats, 16.55%.
You add to that the possi the controversy that we learned that Mikey Sherrill did not walk with her class at the Naval Academy, uh, is not in the yearbook for the year she graduated and all but admitted she was part of a cheating scandal, although she tries to claim, oh, I didn't want to wrap people out, but that's not what the honor code of the Naval Academy calls for.
Uh and that's just on top of it, you know, she goes into a debate and says in high-tax New Jersey, you know, she's not going to talk about cutting taxes for people that are over taxed, overregulated.
And that that is not resonating anymore.
These high-taxed, overregulated regulated states have had it.
Now, New Jersey does have this history.
Now, New Jersey, like New York too, has a little bit of a demographic problem because migration out of deep blue states is very real.
However, they have shown a level of independence, particularly when it comes to electing uh governors in New Jersey, going back to Tom Kane or Christy Todd Whitman or or um Chris Christie, it's not like it would be that far out of the ranks.
But had I known how close the polls did not indicate how close Jack Chitterelli got in the last election cycle four years ago.
And Murphy could have been defeated, the current governor of New Jersey.
He could have been defeated.
Anyway, and now uh the financial aspects of this are huge.
Uh there's a lot of this tens of millions of dollars on both sides being spent.
The prospect of a close election or a loss for Democrats in the in the state of New Jersey has a lot of Democratic handring going on, so much for the Democratic resistance if we're struggling to win a New Jersey governorship while Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to the Constitution.
You know, Watching the Democrats implode is a sight to see.
And this is what we're seeing before our very eyes.
You see it with the government shutdown, for example.
Uh, Caroline Levitt was great today, and and laying out the truth that Democrats are will only reopen the government if illegals, you know, if they get their 1.5 trillion, which includes health care for illegals.
The Center for Immigration Studies showed a whopping 39% of illegal aliens currently living in the U.S. now are uh accessing free health care, taxpayer funded health care.
But what's happening, what's amazing to watch in this moment is the Democratic Party implode.
And the leaders in name only like Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are completely powerless and impotent, and there's nobody that will emerge.
The only voice that has tried to emerge is John Fetterman to try and rein in the radicalism of this party, and no one else is doing it.
And Donald Trump now is winning on every issue.
I've never seen a party on the wrong side of every major issue that this country faces.
You know, how does a party justify voting against the largest tax cut in American history, and they're gonna run on that?
Uh I think most people like tax cuts.
I really do.
Most people feel they're overtaxed, not undertaxed.
You know, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on social security.
Pretty favorable things to run on as well.
But watching the Democrats fretting and in a state of panic over New Jersey is interesting, even as they invest all this money.
This early voting advantage is huge.
I mean, Chitterelli is very competitive.
He's got about $30 million versus uh Mikey Sherrill's forty-two million dollars.
I'm sure a lot more is going to be spent in the last month in the state of New Jersey.
Uh, you've got a couple of Democrats now jumping ship, and they're supporting uh Jack Chitterelli.
So if you're in New Jersey, you know, I'm not I'm I'm not promising you an outcome.
I'm promising you that you're in the game.
And the same thing is now evolving in Virginia as both the AG candidate and the gubernatorial candidate, uh Abigail uh Spamberger are in a whole heap of trouble.
In the case of Spamberger, she got in trouble over the issue of this guy, Richard Cox, a biological man claiming transgender status, who you know exploited local bathroom laws to repeatedly expose himself to women and children in Northern Virginia locker rooms, and then Fairfax County police said they had you know no intention of charging him with a crime.
Then it gets worse.
Now we got this attorney general candidate who's an absolute lunatic and consumed with hate, and we'll get into this in in the next hour, uh, and you know, fantasizing about uh about the speaker of the House in Virginia and saying I three bullet, three people, two bullets, he sends in a text.
I mean, you know, uh Gilbert, Hitler, Paul Pott, the former member of the Virginia House of Delegates continue.
Gilbert gets two bullets to the head.
This guy's running for A. G. You know, uh, you know, spoiler.
Put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know, he receives both bullets every time.
Every time.
National Review reported this late on Friday.
And, you know, and then even the person that he was writing said, please stop.
Stop writing this stuff to me.
I've said this to people in my life.
It bothered not about this, but it bothers me when you talk about hurting people or wishing death on him.
Anyway, this guy goes on, as Democratic AG candidate, you know, who initiated this exchange uh and bemoaning the glowing tributes of of people.
If those guys die before me, he said of Republicans praising, I will go to their funerals and piss on their graves.
Wow.
Send them out a washing something.
And then it even gets more, you know, gross or grotesque, you know, calling for the assassination of the Speaker of Virginia, the state speaker, and then suggesting that he wished that his wife would watch her children die.
Who thinks like this?
Anyway, the Republican AG candidate's going to join us.
You weren't trying to understand, he said, you know, you were talking about hoping that children would die.
And here's the worst part of this.
Now, President Trump has weighed in on this, and he's called on Virginia's Democratic candidate for attorney general to drop out of the race for this.
But the worst part, the very worst part of this, is not one Democrat, including their gubernatorial candidate in this race that has the courage, and I'm talking about Abigail Spamberger that has the courage to disavow this attorney general candidate with graphic assassination threats against the state's House Speaker.
What is going on here?
Winsome Sears is an awesome candidate.
And she and Winsome Sears now, I think has an opportunity to get this thing in play.
On the New York side, I don't see a whole lot of hope.
I wish Curtis would win.
Curtis Sleewa.
It would be Rudy 2.0.
He'd cleaned it up with the news that JP Morgan Chase now employs more workers.
I think it's a Goldman Sachs in Texas than New York City.
That is a huge development.
I'm telling you from experience, I'm seeing it.
But, you know, the city's financial services sector, you know, shrank by eighty, four hundred jobs on Wall Street from January through August of this year.
And you know where they're well, where those jobs are growing going, they're going to Florida.
My free state.
They're going to Texas, the free state of Texas.
Anyway, two years ago, Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, rang the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange to promote an index that tracks the stocks of Texas companies visiting the post editorial board, celebrating the state zero personal corporate income tax rates, as well as reasonable, predictable regulatory environment that they have.
I mean, I'll say this if Chinnarelli can win New Jersey, I'm telling you the only I do feel confident because if you look at the map of New York in terms of elections, New York State is mostly red.
It is not blue.
You got a problem, though.
You got a densely populated area.
You've got New York City.
You got the outer boroughs that slant solidly Democrat.
New York City, you know, 10 to 1, 12 to 1, whatever the latest registration numbers are, Democrat to Republican.
But if Commie Marx's Mamdani gets in, I don't, I just see people fleeing in droves.
There's going to be another wave of massive migration out of New York City.
Um we've got a big, big problem that we've got to deal with here today, and that is we now have in this country drug cartels that are offering bounties for anybody that kills an ICE agent.
I'm going to give you the details of that in a second.
We do have a federal judge that has cleared the way for President Trump to defund finally sanctuary cities.
I'd like to see that happen.
But then you have another federal judge in Oregon claiming Trump doesn't have the authority to call up the California National Guard for deployment, just like they couldn't bring in the Portland National Guard.
I mean, nobody's really understanding how dangerous it is getting for ICE agents in these cities.
And one of the major reasons are these Democratic politicians.
I'll give you an example.
You have two longtime ranking Chicago police officers and sources sharply rejecting the department's assertion that officers responded to calls from help from ICE agents who were being rammed and surrounded by protesters on Saturday and saying that, you know, this is C-Y-A-B-S.
And anyway, their comments come.
Fox News was able to obtain an internal dispatch revealing that Chicago Police officers ordered by their chief of patrol not to respond after border patrol agents called for help not to respond, saying that they were boxed in, surrounded following a ramming incident against ICE vehicles outside of the city.
Anyway, after reviewing the computer aided dispatch uh dispatch message sent to Chicago police officers, the message instructed officers not to respond to this ramming on the southwest side of the city in which an armed woman was shot, and agents were being boxed in and surrounded by lunatics.
Police chief of parole.
No units will respond to this.
Approximately 30 armed patrol ice agents are being surrounded by a large crowd of people requesting Chicago police department assistance.
And I'll give you the details of it.
And it gets worse when you listen to this idiot governor J.B. Pritzker.
I mean, it was a complete, they were boxed in by 10 cars.
They were being surrounded by a mob.
It's unbelievable.
Then in Portland, you have the police chief, you know, touting crowd support approach as ICE facilities facing a hundred plus nights of attacks without any police response.
This is insane.
But if you listen to J.B. Pritzker, it's Trump that's inciting the anti-rice pro anti-ICE protesters.
Oh, Donald Trump's fault.
Donald Trump's trying to help these cities and protect our law enforcement agents, our ICE agents.
You know, two years ago, tomorrow.
As I mentioned, cartels, gangs, terror groups have now put bounties on the heads of several federal immigration agents offering $10,000 to kill them, $2,000 for their capture.
Here's Christy Gnome talking about it.
They're making plans to ambush them and to kill them.
We have specific officers and agents that have bounties that have been put out on their heads.
It's been $2,000 to kidnap them, $10,000 to kill them.
They've released their pictures.
They've sent them between their networks, and it's an extremely dangerous situation and unprecedented.
So we've put protective detail around those individuals, changed some of our operations to keep our officers safe.
And then you have states like California.
You have a thousand percent increase in threats against ICE agents after they repeatedly are called Nazis and fascists and brown shirts and gestapo and every other name in between.
And Gavin Newsom, you know, just in the sanctuary state of California, you know, is now he signs a bill that would prevent ICE agents from wearing masks.
Thankfully, he does not he's not read the Constitution Supremacy Clause and doesn't understand the jurisdiction of enforcing federal law lies with the federal government.
This doxing is out of control.
One major win, a federal judge ruled against two sanctuary cities last week, ensuring President Trump could move forward with blocking the Department of Justice grants to jurisdictions that refused to cooperate with IC.
That is a win.
And now you have another federal judge whose district is in Oregon, go figure, temporarily blocking the Trump administration's late Sunday from deploying National Guard units to Oregon, and then, you know, from California.
It's just I mean, these ICE agents, I'll give you an example.
Immigrate ICE agents were rammed and boxed in by ten cars in Illinois on Saturday.
Ten cars.
You know, Homeland Securities, Trisha McLaughlin, you know, confirming to Fox News.
They were forced to deploy their weapons, fire defensive shots at an armed U.S. citizen.
The armed attacker, a woman who is a U.S. citizen who was named in the Customs and Border Protection Intelligence Bulletin, doxing agents posting online, hey, to all my gang, let's F those mother effers up.
Don't let them take anyone.
Firefight takes place.
Agents, this is in Zero Hedge, reportedly performing routine patrol, a suburb of Chicago called Broadview.
No agents, thank God, were injured in this incident.
If we're not good, people are gonna die here.
And these politicians are just they're brain dead, and frankly, uh some of them are gonna end up with blood on their hands.
Today in Chicago, members of our brave law enforcement were attacked, rammed, and boxed in by ten vehicles, including an attacker with a semi-automatic weapon.
Wrote DHS Secretary Christy Noam in a post on X. I'm deploying more special operations to control the scene.
Reinforcements are on the way.
Hours earlier, in response to plans by President Trump to federalize 300 members of the National Guard.
This idiot J.B. Pritzker posted a barrage of statements on X, accusing the Trump administration and federal law enforcement of unprecedented escalations and aggressions against Illinois citizens and residents.
And he goes on to, you know, say, against our will.
Well, they're not keeping anybody safe in Chicago.
Not keeping anybody safe in Illinois by any stretch.
And this idiot Pritzer claims that uh Trump incited all this.
Listen.
That's the case.
He was claiming that the, you know, it's mayhem on the grounds of on the streets of Portland.
He's saying that, you know, Chicago is a war zone.
None of that is true.
They're just making this up.
And then what do they do?
They fire tear gas and smoke grenades and they make it look like it's a war zone.
And they, you know, get people on the ground are frankly incited to want to do something about it.
Appropriately.
I mean, if you are on the ground and you're being having tear gas pellets fired at you, as they have been doing in Broadview, uh, Illinois.
Uh, you know, you want to you want to react, you want something to happen, and unfortunately, they're using every lever at their disposal to keep us from maintaining order.
You know, all these decades now, we've covered all these innocent people shot, shot, and killed, and nobody like J.B. Pritzker or any of his predecessors or any of the mayors in Chicago have lifted a finger to keep the innocent people in Chicago safe.
There's no law and order there.
There's no safety and security there.
And, you know, here the president is trying to keep agents safe in Chicago.
Then you have this dopey mayor, Brandon Johnson, uh, claiming that ICE lies and people die, announcing an executive order establishing ice-free zones in Chicago.
Hate to tell you, he has no authority to do so.
None.
Listen.
They told us that this was about the worst of the worst.
In reality, they are going after anyone who objects to families being ripped apart and community members being disappeared.
Ice lies and people die.
We cannot allow this to continue.
We must take action more drastic than what we have taken before, because what we are seeing is a more radical attempt to undermine our democracy.
And today we are signing an executive order aimed at reigning in this out of control administration.
The order establishes ice-free zones.
That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as staging grounds for these raids.
Yeah, well, sorry, you don't have the authority to do so.
You don't have the authority, Mr. Mayor.
And then, of course, blaming the extreme right, and then trying to play the race card, comparing this to the civil war and the right not accepting the results of the civil war.
How we got to this point, I can't explain.
The Trump administration is seeking to destabilize our city and provoke chaos.
Yes.
We said that they would use ICE as a pretext to send in the National Guard.
And now they are doing just that.
I've also said for the last couple of years that the extreme right in this country refuse to accept the results of the civil war.
They have repeatedly called for a rematch.
But in the coming weeks, we will use this opportunity to build greater resistance.
Chicagoans are clear.
Militarizing our troops in our city as justification to further escalate a war In Chicago will not be tolerated.
Where's the passion to stop the violence to predictable shootings and murders that will take place every weekend in Chicago?
And not to be outdone just to show how lost and how pathetic and what a lost cause Illinois is.
Their Senator Tammy Duckworth accuses ICE of being Gestapo.
Now, ask yourself does this incendiary kind of language repeated over and over and over again?
You know, does this have the ability to, you know, tip people to the point where they would act thinking they're doing God's will?
Listen.
We know the Trump administration lies consistently.
Uh, and what I am hearing is that for the large part, people are being very quiet, uh, are being very respectful, um, but ICE is being very aggressive.
Remember that they are zip tying children.
They are raiding apartment blocks in the middle of the night, separating children from their families, pulling people out onto the streets naked.
Uh, they are using Gestapo tactics uh in Chicago.
And this is what Trump wants to do, right?
He wants to intimidate the people of Chicago.
That's not gonna happen.
Now, as these as these ICE agents were being surrounded and their cars were being rammed, um, the ICE agents that were working in Chicago, you know, asked Chicago police for help and assistance,
and we have now learned that they the police department, rank and file, were ordered not to respond to this ramming incident on the southwest side of Chicago, in which an armed woman was shot and agents were boxed in and surrounded.
Uh, this batch said, please, chief of patrol.
No units will respond to this.
Approximately 30 armed patrol agents, ICE were being surrounded by a large crowd of people requested Chicago police department.
And then the Chicago Police Department disputed the claims, and then you had two whistleblowers come out, long long time ranking Chicago police sources, outright rejecting it as complete CYA total BS.
The night the nation's largest police union condemning these reports that officers told not to help ICE agents when they called for help after being surrounded, calling it shocking, a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers in danger.
Presidents of the National Fraternal Order of Police and Illinois State Police Union expressing shock at reports that Chicago's chief of patrol directed officers not to assist ICE agents as they were surrounded by these protesters.
Let me be clear.
Believe that when an officer calls for assistance, you answer no matter what.
Anyway, it's uh pretty unbelievable.
Number one unwritten rule in law enforcement.
We respond to any calls from officers in distress.
What would have happened if the local police were facing threats and nearby federal officers were told not to assist, which would never happen under Donald Trump.
What a d what an unmitigated, disgusting, repulsive reaction.
You know, DHS confirming these ICE agents in Chicago, boxed in by 10 cars and armed uh armed people.
We have the doxing of these agents, the never-ending, you know, uh the never-ending calls of Nazi fascist, never-ending uh comparisons to brown shirts and gestapo.
And in Portland, it's not any better.
Their police chief defending his department's reforms and crowd support policing, even after federal agents facing violent anti-ICE protesters without any help there.
I mean, you have a hundred plus nights of attacks without a police response.
Anyway, the director of Portland's ICE office said the facility has endured more than a hundred straight nights of violence with Portland police largely absent under the direction of the mayor and the city council.
What is wrong with these people?
David Marcus wrote a piece.
Residents are in denial about how awful their once great city has become.
And it has become that bad.
Unbelievable.
And then Pritzker turns it around.
Oh, ICE Trump, Donald Trump incited the anti-ICE protesters.
You know, Pritzker says Trump ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard to Illinois and Oregon and other locations.
By the way, Greg Abbott's sending them.
Greg Abbott is an amazing governor.
Greg Abbott understands law and order.
Greg Abbott had to go it alone.
Uh, as did other states, border states.
And, you know, probably the greatest political jujitsu move of all time is when he started sending all of these illegals on planes, buses, trains, whatever, to sanctuary cities and states.
Trump is going to federalize the Illinois National Guard.
You know, and then they're going to sue.
And then we'll have to take it to court.
Uh by the way, um, did you know that Bush and Obama sent uh the military to the border?
Just pointing that out.
Key details about the president's plan to deploy National Guard tree troops.
But uh it's not the first time that's happened.
Looks like George W. Bush and Barack Obama both did it in two operations.
They spent over 1.3 billion dollars.
George Bush announced the plans in 2006.
In 2010, Obama ordered the deployment of up to 1,200 troops to the U.S. Mexico border.
Well, seems to me that that's called the double standard inconsistency.
There was no calls of Nazism or, you know, the uh or whatever other names there.
I mean, I can't even keep up with the names.
One ICE video has gone viral as the agency uses a cart, uh cartwheel, uh, a cart to wheel a Portland protester into custody.
If you've refused to walk, we'll give you a ride.
Now, a second of videos emerged to the second attack, as I told you.
This is scary.
These are scary times.
By the way, all of this as the Schumer shutdown continues.
By the way, Caroline Levitt was great today, pointing out yeah, here's all the money they want, and how much we're spending, and what's in their plan for government-funded health care for illegals.
New study pointed out, Centers for Immigration Studies that 39% of illegals currently living in the U.S. have access to taxpayer funded health care.
And the Democrats, they just keep doubling down on stupid.
Dumb, dumber, stupid.
You know, they're on the wrong side of every issue.
The border, law and order, safety and security, taxes, even Iran, even radical Islamic terrorism.
Unbelievable.
How soon we forget.
800 941 Sean is our number if you want to be a part of the program.
