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Oct. 30, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Poll Shock and Party Battle
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If you want to be a part of the program programming note, we will be in the great state of New Jersey tomorrow.
We now have another poll, one-point race, and that is Jack Chitterelli versus Mikey Sherrill.
Mikey Sherrill made $7 million in the defense industry, but has no idea, even though she worked on a committee dealing with defense issues, how she made the $7 million.
The person that doesn't know what a pork roll is, the person that keeps giving contradictory answers as it relates to why she was not allowed to walk with her graduating class at the Naval Academy, and the woman that won't commit in the high-tack state of New Jersey to cutting taxes.
I won't commit to that now.
So that is a very close race that we're watching.
Now we have the latest Trafalgar, that's Robert Cahali Insider Advantage.
That's Matt Towery poll on Virginia's governor's race.
Winsome Sears, basically in a statistical tie with Abigail Spanberger.
It has Sears, you know, Spanberger leading Sears by a mere two points.
That means it's a winnable race.
When you get to that number, I mean, when you get to the point where it's that number and it's that close, that means it's winnable.
Now, Glenn Young only won by a little over two percentage points when he won four years ago.
It is very hard in the Commonwealth of Virginia for a Republican to win.
But in the case of Spanberger, it should be a no-brainer, you know, based on all the controversies and strange positions that she's taken too, including defending the right of men to play women's sports and be in women's locker rooms and higher taxes.
I mean, the list goes on and on and on.
We've covered this exhaustively.
So, but New Jersey, I mean, the fact that Mamdani last two polls is up by 10 and up by 15, it tells me that it's out of reach.
That's my own personal opinion.
But I mean, it's just getting interesting.
Independent mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo said that New York City would face economic collapse if candidate Zoron Kami Marx's Mamdani wins, warning the far-left influence is tearing apart the Democratic Party from within, which he's calling a quiet civil war.
He was on with Maria Barr Toromo on Fox Business.
He says New York will not survive under a Mamdani administration.
New York will be a socialist economy if Mamdani wins, and the city will not survive that as we know it and will not recover for a long time.
I don't know if they, how do they recover if they lose more of Wall Street?
Wall Street, I keep telling people, I see it with my own eyes.
I know people that work at all of these companies, all these big Wall Street firms, all the private equity groups, all of the big banks, all the investment firms.
They all have major offices right here in the free state of Florida.
Wall Street South is real.
What's going to happen is, well, they might just pull up to their tent and just say they're done completely.
That's what Ken Griffin, multi-billionaire who runs Citadel did, and he left Illinois and he left Chicago.
And now he's in the free state of Florida.
I keep saying when J.P. Morgan chase, if you look at the history of the men that built America, J.P. Morgan, obviously one of them, so synonymous with New York City, and they have more employees in the state of Texas than they do in New York City, that that ought to be canary coal mine time for people.
But if people want to be, you know, hear no evil, see no evil, whatever it is, then let them put their head in the sand and they're going to benefit.
They're going to get the government that they deserve ultimately.
Now, there are going to be winners and losers in this in terms of like the people that are forced to stay in New York, they're the obvious losers.
They're, you know, the hardworking working men and women that are stuck there.
Now, it may sound great.
We're going to, you know, freeze, you know, rent for stabilized apartments.
By the way, this guy comes from means.
Why is he living in a stabilized apartment?
So he's basically running to keep his rent stabilized.
What does a rent stabilized apartment mean?
That means that through the sheer force of government, you push aside free market forces and that the government will dictate, and he will appoint the rent control board members, and they're all going to be Marxist commies like him, will decide whether you could have a rent increase or not.
There does come a point in no return where landlords are not making any money and they're not going to keep these apartments or they're not going to rent them if it's not worth their while.
And they end up forcing landlords to subsidize renters.
Okay, that is redistribution to each according to the need, from each according to their ability.
Where did we hear that from?
There's this new video of Mamdani trashing the NYPD as agents.
We played it yesterday of the Israeli military, you know, fellow New York State Assemblyman.
Sometimes it's hard to tell if Zoron hates Jews more than he hates cops or if he hates cops more than he hates Jews.
That's from the New York Post today.
Mayoral frontrunner comrade Marxist Mamdani once made a vile pronouncement, you know, tying the NYPD with the IDF, the Israeli military.
We have that tape.
Let me play it for you.
And he says we have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it's been laced by the IDF.
What the hell is he even talking about?
Listen.
For anyone to care about these issues, we have to make them hyper-we have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it's been laced by the IDS.
Oh.
Anyway, that's just a bunch of garbage.
Now, Mamdani is already dragging Kathy Hokul, dragging her down big time.
And she now has come out in support.
Hakeem Jeffries came out in support.
Interesting, no word from Chucky Schumer.
Not a word yet.
I'm wondering if between now and next Tuesday, if Chucky Schumer jumps on the bandwagon.
Two months ago, the New York governor was leading her likely GOP challenger, Elise Stefanik, by a whopping 14 points.
Then Governor Hokul decided to hop on the socialist Marxist Kami Mamdani bandwagon and give a full-throated endorsement.
Her 14-point lead is now evaporated into thin air, and Hokul now trails Stefanik by a single point in this gubernatorial race.
This was in the Hill today.
And they point out in a poll released by the Manhattan Institute, it finds now they had Mamdani up by 15.
Remember, it was Quinnipiak that had Mamdani up by 10.
And anyway, it finds Stefanik getting 43% support compared to Hokul's 42% support.
Look, I'm still a skeptic, but I am an optimist.
If it's a one-point race, or a two-point race, it's a winnable race.
That to me then becomes, you put that in the too close to call column, and it officially becomes a turnout election.
Now, there is, you know, there's the predictable, you know, radical left is going off the rails and, you know, Michael Moore blasting the media for what he called racist and disgusting attacks against the New York Democratic mayoral candidate.
This is, you know, taken right from the candidate himself.
I mean, remember, he said after 9-11, my aunt was afraid to go on the subways until it was discovered that his aunt didn't live in New York City, or I believe even in the United States at the time.
Then he switched it to some other relative, you know, suggesting that one of the real victims of 9-11, the victims of 9-11, the majority of whom died in the trade center, many died at the Pentagon in a field in Pennsylvania, but the majority of victims were from New York City, 2,977.
Many died thereafter from 9-11-related illnesses because they're desperately trying to find any possible survivors and clean out the rubble, and they didn't have the proper equipment.
But anyway, in the Substack post, Moore predicted Mamdani's win.
Gee, that's a real, he's really going out on a limb here.
And he said it would be nothing short of miraculous.
Okay, they're missing the whole point.
Now, this story is getting a little bit more viral.
With Election Day looming, allegations have surfaced that Mamdani accepted illegal foreign campaign donations, prompting criminal referrals to federal and local prosecutors.
I wouldn't expect anything to happen locally in New York, to be honest, because his name's not Trump, and they only want to go after politically people that are associated with Trump.
But the Coolidge Reagan Foundation filed two criminal referrals this week alleging Mamdani's campaign accepted nearly 13 grand from donors outside the U.S. Also, some congressmen are saying that they want a deep dive into whether he dotted every I and crossed every T when he came into the country.
But, you know, we'll see where these referrals go.
I wouldn't expect that they're going to go far.
A Mamdani victory would be the biggest win in history for socialist Marxism.
But I'm telling you, the implications are much deeper than all of this.
And this is where we get to, this is a referendum on the power of who runs the Democratic Party.
This is where Bill Maher was dead on accurate, and that is who runs the Democratic Party.
And that is, is it who's going to come out on top?
Because he will now be the face of the new radicalized Democratic Party, along with AOC, along with the squad, along with our favorite congresswoman, Jasmine Crockett, along with Bernie Grandpa Bernie, along with Pocahontas.
I mean, you know, this new Manhattan Institute poll shows Cuomo trailing Mamdani by 15 points.
I mean, I don't know, you know, it frustrates me.
I mean, I've been watching from a distance and talking to friends in New York.
Everybody is freaking out.
And I'm like, why did it take you so long to wake the hell up?
Linda, have we been not, have we not on this program been loud enough warning that this thing is real for a long time?
It's been pretty loud.
For a long time.
It's been pretty loud.
And all of a sudden, in the last two and a half weeks before the election day, oh, oh, man, he can win.
I'm like, yeah, what part of him winning the primary against Andrew Cuomo did you guys not pick up on?
Because obviously you missed it.
There's an interesting article on FoxNews.com that Mamdani's housing platform includes the rent freeze and higher taxes on top earners.
Now, real estate experts are sounding the alarm over what could happen to New York City, especially townhouse owners, because now more people are going to want to be in a building with a doorman.
In other words, a level of security outside of your building.
And the other thing that is happening, I saw Bruce Blakeman, who's the Nassau County executive, he's appealing to New York City residents, come move to Long Island.
I mean, O'Reilly, who's going to join us later, he said his property went up 20% since Momdani got in this thing.
And I think you will see an exodus out of the city into the suburbs, that being Nassau County, Suffolk County, Westchester, and upstate New York.
And if you look at a map in the last election, you'll see all of this red that is New York State.
You have this big problem.
You got 12 million people in a densely populated island known as Manhattan.
That's a big problem.
But I would also say then you're going to have the mass exodus problem that is also going to be very, very real for New York.
It's going to be another wave for Florida, for the Carolinas, for Tennessee, for Texas, et cetera.
And the Democrats, you know, this is now your leadership.
This is it.
You know, squad members enjoy a donor-funded resort weekend in the Virgin Islands.
It's certainly doing well.
Yasmin Crockett's secret portfolio and her failed attempts to become a marijuana magnet.
I didn't know she liked weed.
You know, but we're going to see.
I mean, I think the are you still holding out hope that Curtis can win this?
I know you've been clinging to it.
I want it to be true.
I don't want to.
It's not hope.
It's talking to people on the street.
It's not looking at polls.
You think quiet vote out there?
I do.
I don't think people are voting for someone who's been a citizen for seven years, hates the NYPD, hates Jewish people, can't condemn the global Intifada, and talks about all the free stuff he's going to give away from departments and administrative aspects that he has zero control over.
Right, but he's got no control.
Everything he talks about is not within his purview as mayor of New York City.
And you don't think Kathy Hochl and the legislature and that the courts in New York City are going to favor him?
They're the same people that valued Mar-a-Lago at $18 million when it's $1.5 billion.
I think Elise Stefanik is going to crush Hochul.
I think Alvin Brett, well, I think you certainly have a better shot there.
Look, I'm just reading numbers.
I have an obligation to be honest with this audience and not be Pollyannish.
The odds are.
But you can't crush them, too.
You can't crush them.
I'm not crushing them.
I'm telling them, go out and vote.
I am saying New Jersey, look, New Jersey is so real.
I'm going up to do my town hall with Chittarelli tomorrow.
That's how real I believe it is.
Winston Sears can win in Virginia, but it's going to be, in both cases, turnout elections.
If you don't want Momdani, get your ass out and vote for Curtis Lewa.
I'm not giving into the, oh, Andrew Como, not a single poll does he beat Momdani head-to-head bandwagon.
I don't believe it either.
We are going to freeze the rent for more than 2 million rent-stabilized tenants and use every resource at our disposal to build housing for everyone who needs it.
We are going to eliminate the fare on every single bus line and make what are currently the slowest buses in the nation move around this city with ease.
And we are going to create universal child care at no cost to parents.
So New Yorkers can raise their family in the city they love.
Together, New York, we're going to freeze up.
Together, New York, we're going to make buses faster.
Together, New York, we're going to deliver universal.
They didn't even know what to say.
Everything's going to be universal child care, universal health care, universal daycare, universal, universal, universal.
This is the fallacy of socialism.
It's why I've devoted an entire chapter to socialism and its history of failure.
You can call it whatever you want to call socialism, Marxism, statism, redistributionism.
Whatever name you put on it, it always ends the same way.
It's like Obamacare, unfulfilled promises.
Millions lost their doctor, millions lost their plans.
The average family not only didn't save $2,500 per family per year, they ended up paying over 300% more, and it's going higher.
And over 40% of the country has one Obamacare exchange option.
It's a disaster.
You end up with unfulfilled promises.
You end up with more poverty than when you started.
And you end up, you know, in the case of New York, you will be a poor city and state if this guy is elected.
And then you end up with a loss of freedoms that's incalculable until all the dust finally settles.
And I don't even know if I don't forget about what Cuomo said.
There may be a point and no return or will take a very long time to resolve it.
I don't see a window of opportunity that this is going to happen.
Understand, the left's embrace of Mamdani is going to be the doom of Democrats nationwide, nationwide.
This is going to have repercussions we can't even calculate today, but it's that real.
So it dovetails into, you know, while Mamdani is making all those promises we just played for you, and he's going to get everything's going to be free, everything.
And everyone's all whipped up.
By the way, he did have a big crowd.
There is a lot of enthusiasm around it.
You know, freezing the rent, universal child care, everything's free.
Tax the rich.
No billionaires should exist.
Defund, dismantle the police, send in the social workers, the whole thing.
And at the same time, these are the same party that now, as of Saturday, money for the SNAP program, it's a whole different issue.
How come 42 million Americans have become dependent on supplemental assistance, food assistance, basic nutrition?
I mean, that number is way too high.
And with the number of jobs that are about to come online, I mean, look, if you're sick, we're talking about the elderly, we're talking about the infirmed.
I have no problem.
We're the most generous people on the face of the earth.
You want to bet Americans are going to donate greatly to the people in Jamaica that have been impacted by this hurricane and other Caribbean nations?
Yeah, of course we will.
That's the way we roll.
That's who we are.
It defines us as a nation.
We're the most generous people on earth with the greatest country God ever gave man, and we always step up when there's a need.
But now, Democrats, they had an opportunity yesterday to fund the government and fund SNAP programs.
They run out of money on Saturday.
And if I have to come on the program on Monday and they haven't resolved this because Schumer and the Democrats want their leverage, as multiple congressmen and senators have said, well, I know people suffer, but it's the only leverage we have.
I'll play it later.
The last one to say it is Senator Chris Koons.
I mean, air traffic controls across the U.S. got their first zeroed-out paychecks.
Now, there were 3,300 flight delays on Monday alone.
How's this working out for everybody?
But the Democrats now voting for the 13th time yesterday to keep the federal government shut.
And Jon Thun said, you know, that there's an easy fix to all of this, and millions of Americans won't lose access to SNAP programs.
And he says the way to end it and the way to make sure assistance they need is to pick up the bill and give us five votes.
And I think, Democrats, I think we're beginning to see a weakening here because now the polls are showing Republicans, even fake news CNN, I showed it on TV last night, is marveling at the encouraging poll numbers for the GOP because people rightly know that the Democrats have done this.
And I mean, when you have even fake Jake Tapper calling out Democrats for letting, you know, SNAP benefits expire, you know, they're in for a lot of trouble.
Now, there is some movement on one front.
Chucky Schumer is now beginning to seize on the vote that they voted against yesterday that Republicans said, you know, to soften the shutdown for some federal workers and aid beneficiaries.
And in other words, Schumer's strategy to withhold all votes, not deal with Republicans across the board.
It's their only leverage, as they say, you know, and, you know, and they're demanding $1.5 trillion to keep the government open for seven weeks, including hundreds of millions for health care benefits for illegals.
They want what was supposed to be a temporary COVID assistance measure.
People 800% above the poverty level were beneficiaries of this Biden program that was supposed to be short-term just through COVID, and they want to make it permanent.
And Republicans are not going to do that.
They're also demanding funding for NPR and PBS.
They're not going to do that either.
Anyway, the Democrats now are now acutely aware of the pain that they are causing.
So Democrats are going to supposedly introduce a clean standalone bill to keep SNAP benefits flowing.
And, you know, Jon Thune's decision not to pursue, quote, a rifle shot strategy is, you know, they think this is their opportunity to flip the narrative and say they're against poor people eating.
No, why don't you just pass a clean CR?
Just keep a clean CR.
It's that simple.
Anyway, we'll see what happens.
I mean, there is a question.
The Washington Times wrote about this today.
Why is the food stamp program held hostage by Congress?
Now, it once served just a very small fraction of U.S. families.
It has grown massively in recent years.
I would argue in part because the horrible Biden-Harris economy putting it now at the center of this stalemate, but low-income families now begin, you know, are going to have to go to food banks.
And I'm going to advise if you can afford it.
If this continues and these people have their SNAP benefits cut off, I'm probably going to encourage a lot of you to, you know, give to your local food bank.
And I did this to my local food bank during COVID.
They were in dire need.
I just left a standing message.
Tell me when you're running low.
Tell me when things are bad and let me know.
I mean, a lot of people were desperate during that time.
And we do what we do as Americans.
We help our fellow Americans out in need.
But Democrats now have staged this month-long filibuster of a spending bill to reopen the government and fund even the SNAP program that impacts 42 million Americans.
That's one in eight Americans that rely on SNAP money to buy food each and every month.
If the shutdown persists, they're rightly going to get blamed, and they refuse to vote for an extension of government funding until the Republican Congress caves on every other demand that they have, which I just listed.
And I'll tell you right now, the reason Democrats are doing this is because it's the Mamdani AOC effect.
They know who controls this party.
But, you know, some Senate Democrats are beginning to wobble.
I mean, they see the handwritings on the wall.
I mean, we saw this with Osoff and Warnock in Georgia.
You know, if any state's a purple state, it's Georgia.
They know that their political futures are hanging in the balance here if they do this and they continue to go along.
So I think it's just a matter of time and the dominoes will begin to fall.
The vice president confirmed that troops will be paid during the Schumer shutdown.
I saw Gavin Newsom invoking scripture and an attack on the GOP over the shutdown, affecting food assistance.
Cruelty is the policy.
Why doesn't he call Chuck Schumer and say, go along with this continuing resolution?
You know, if you want the program to continue, Lee Zeldon blasting Schumer because 4,000 people at the EPA have been furloughed.
Democrats don't seem to care about that.
Look, I've never been, you know, shutdowns usually don't last this long.
I've never been one of these doom and gloom shutdown people, but, you know, if it's going to impact that many Americans, you know, get your ass to work, fund the government, then sit in a room and don't come out and order pizza until you hammer out some kind of deal.
I'm so sick of this.
Now, the president is meeting with President Xi.
He gave a, he telegraphed that he expects the meeting to be about four hours long, which is pretty amazing, discussing a lot of issues.
The Chinese importing American agriculture, resolving the TikTok technology issues so it can't be a spying tool and America will actually run the algorithms on our side of the equation.
Russian imported oil by China, which they have committed to now reducing their imports.
That will then lead to a deal where the president will pull back on his 100% tariffs that he was putting in.
But the most important, I think the biggest win, and the president was very, very clever.
The president got both Australia and Japan to agree to rare earth mineral deals while we're ramping up our own production because we have enough natural resources in this country.
We don't need China imports.
Right now, the communist Chinese have about 60% to 80% of the market when it comes to rare earths.
Rare earths are critical for building what we need for our Pentagon and our next generation of weaponry.
And they're also critical for automobile production, for example.
The president will also make sure that Beijing stops their rollback and their production of fentanyl.
That's another issue on the table, which is heightened tensions.
I think all of this is going to be resolved before the November 1st deadline, which was when the president threatened 100% tariff on Chinese goods.
I expect a lot of good is going to come out of this.
By the way, as a side note, the president said floated the idea of working with Democrats on an alternative to Obamacare, saying the two parties should come up with a much better option because Obamacare has been the biggest flop failure.
It's like everything else in government.
Social Security money that you paid into your entire working life, they don't have it in the lockbox like they promised.
They squandered it.
It's why it's headed towards insolvency, like Medicare, like Medicaid, rather.
Anyway, so the meeting is scheduled to be a good four hours long.
China controls 60 to 70% of the rare earths.
I think that is the biggest part of it.
TikTok's a big part of it.
Importing Russian oil, that is a big part of the equation as well.
I think the ladies at the View can calm down on Air Force One.
The president said that I'm not allowed to serve a third term.
Did you see the meltdown?
I mean, he trolls people constantly, and they don't even know that they're being trolled.
And by the way, the president's war on drugs and narco-terrorists continues.
They took out, what, another four fast-moving vessels that were transporting drugs into the U.S. And the message has been sent loud and clear to these countries.
Don't do it.
By the way, Toyota, $10 billion, new auto plants in the U.S. We have the U.S. has only scratched the surface, a report out today of its oil potential as emerging technology strengthening that outlook.
Want a high-paying career job?
Look in the oil industry because it's about to grow by leaps and bounds.
High-paying career jobs.
The same with Apple, half a trillion dollars they're building out in Texas.
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