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Nov. 4, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Schumer, Obama Withhold Mamdani Endorsement
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If you want to be a part of the program as we head into what is considered an off-year election year tomorrow, obviously, Comrade Marxist Mamdani, Kami Mamdani, is it looks like the bottom might be falling out a little bit on him.
Now, Atlas polling is very interesting.
Nobody really knows who they are.
Nobody's ever interviewed them that I've seen.
If they have, it's news to me.
And it has the race having tightened quite a bit.
And Linda, I know this gives you hope because you have been predicting Curtis Lee was going to pull out an upset of all upsets and win this.
And I hope you are right.
I stand by that.
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
But what the poll finally showed is something that I've been looking to see, you know, the entire time.
And I don't know why in the last two weeks, this panic has now set in.
Suddenly, people have begun in New York City to realize that Zoron, Tommy Marx's Mamdani, is the real deal.
I'm not sure what part of him beating Cuomo handily in a primary that they didn't pick up on, but they obviously picked up on it in this poll.
Now, with all that said, it is still a 6.6 point.
It's a 6.6 lead for Mamdani in this poll.
They have accurate pollsters.
Their track record in 24 and other polling that they've done is right up there with Tehaly and Trafalgar.
They didn't have good news in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
They feel the bottom has fallen out for Winsome Sears, but I don't like to ever count anybody out of the elections.
Had a long talk just texting with Matt Towery about New Jersey.
And this is the bottom line in New Jersey.
There are four polls that have New Jersey a one-point race.
It's a deep, deep blue state.
There's nearly a million more registered Democrats than there are Republicans.
There are a lot of independents in the state, and they had seemingly were breaking for Chitterelli.
And, you know, Obama was out there, you know, campaigning for Mikey Sherrill over the weekend.
By the way, did you see the story in the New York Times?
Obama out there for Mikey Sherrill.
Hannity's in for Jack Chitterelli because we did the town hall Thursday night.
I'm like, oh, okay, I'm right up there with a former president.
That's a joke.
But I guess they took note of the fact that I view this as a race.
I'm just saying to New Jersey this, is it is now a turnout election, and that means voting, that means turnout on election day.
And I'm just telling you, and I'll say the same thing to New York City, and I'll say the same thing to the Commonwealth of Virginia, is polls are polls, votes are votes.
They're two very different things.
And for Jack Chitterelli to win, if you don't want to continue down the path of being the 49th highest tax state in the country, and I've gone over these statistics, ad nauseum, I won't repeat them all now.
If you don't want that to be your future, if you don't want to be New York City 2.0, you have a shot.
You have a shot.
I mean, it's really that simple.
But it's going to take everybody showing up at the polls.
Now, if you are interested in shocking the entire country and watching New Jersey Go in the direction of Republican, a deep state, blue state, go red, then I would argue you should absolutely, positively, you know, get out there and vote.
That's, you know, and assume that your vote is going to decide the outcome of that election.
Because I think it's that important and I think it's that real.
And, you know, I'd like to see that happen for the people of New Jersey, you know, because it just is, it's an opportunity to fix your state.
And, you know, you're 49th out of 50 when it comes to, you know, all of this.
I'm like, I'm trying to understand, you know, from my perspective, I'm just trying to understand what's in the minds of people that would vote, you know, against Jack Chittorelli.
I really am having a hard time understanding it.
But, you know, New Jersey is what it is.
And if people are happy with the government there, when you have Zoron Kami Mamdani is actually out there saying that he's going to raise rates to the level of New Jersey when it comes to the corporate tax rate, I'm like, that's telling you something because that's the highest in the country.
And you already have the highest, you know, 45 cents a gallon gas tax and the highest property taxes in the country and everything else in between.
Again, you're 49th out of 50th in terms of being taxed as a state and the entire nation.
And I think that's pretty spectacular in and of its own.
If we look at what has gone on over the weekend, it's very interesting to watch people's reaction.
We never have gotten an endorsement for Momdani out of Chuck Schumer.
That's an interesting component to me.
That I guess was the one line that Schumer drew in the sand.
He's not going to support, you know, Kami Marx's Mamdani.
Does that mean a whole lot to me?
Not really.
It just doesn't.
I mean, the New York Post had a great cover, by the way.
No, thank you, mom.
Former President Obama talked with mayoral frontrunner Zoron Mamdani by phone, but withheld endorsing him, the 44th president who endorsed the highly ridiculed Bill de Blasio, Comrade de Blasio, as we affectionately called him.
You know, if we're mayor in 2013, joined New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mikey Sherrill, who's desperate.
It was interesting that Sheryl did not bring in the big guns, and that would be AOC and Bernie Grandpa Sanders, but they brought out Obama.
But Obama refusing to endorse Momdani is very interesting to me because he's a spread the wealth around guy.
And, you know, Hakeem Jeffries actually went as far as to say, and I got the tape of this, let me play it for you.
He smacked down the notion that Zoron Marx's Momdani is the future of the Democratic Party.
They already know the damage that this is going to cause Democrats nationwide.
Listen.
You've already cast your ballot for mayoral candidate Zoron Mamdani.
Do you see Momdani as the future of the Democratic Party?
No, I think the future of the Democratic Party is going to fall as far as we're concerned relative to the House Democratic caucus and members who are doing a great work all across the country as it relates to our need to both take back control of the House, but in doing so, make sure that we're communicating to the American people like we understand.
You deserve better.
Well, I mean, I'd ask you, I asked you if Mom Dani was the future of the party and you didn't answer the question.
You said the House Democrats are.
I would note that at least a couple House Democrats from the New York area are not endorsing Momdani.
Your endorsement took a long time.
Schumer still has not endorsed him.
Are you concerned about Republicans using him as a lightning rod so as to hurt your ability to win back the House in 2026?
No, the lightning rod in terms of what's going to impact the ability of either side to win control of the House or hold control of the House in 2026 is going to be the failure of Republicans to actually deliver on the promises that they've made and to actively make life worse for everyday Americans.
Let me play Congresswoman Omar, squad member, herself, you know, obviously anti-Israel.
We played those comments over the years.
It makes no sense why Schumer hasn't endorsed Mamdani.
So this schism, this split, you know, widens.
Listen.
Hakeem Jeffries, your leader, has somewhat reluctantly, but has endorsed Zoran Mamdani.
Chuck Schumer still has not.
Why do you think Chuck Schumer has not endorsed Zoran Mamdani?
I really don't know.
It makes no sense.
We as Democrats have always believed that in an election, we support our party's nominee.
Schumer has pressured other Democrats to do just that, and he should be following his own advice.
Okay.
As you can see, it makes no sense.
Now Schumer's under fire for not going with the radicals.
And what have I been saying?
The people that dominate now the Democratic Party are the radicals.
That's the AOC, the squad members.
That's Jasmine Crockett.
That's Pocahontas, and that's Grandpa Bernie.
And people like Schumer are scared to death.
Why do you think the government is shut down?
Something Schumer's been against his entire adult career in Washington, the only time he's ever gone along with this and holding the entire country hostage.
We'll get into that as the program unfolds.
You know, the New York Post today had a great, great analysis of Mamdani.
20 reasons to vote against Zoron Mamdani.
One, he hates the police, calling the NYPD racist, anti-queer, and a major threat to public safety.
His apology rings hollow, saying that it was for the language that I used, but not the sentiment.
And his plan for, you know, we know for public safety is, you know, no bail, decriminalization of a lot of crimes, including some violent crimes, including, you know, legalizing or decriminalizing prostitution and drug use, et cetera.
Reason number two, he hates the police.
The number of police officers now is at the lowest levels in 20 years.
Outgoing Mayor Adams wants to increase the ranks to 40,000.
Mamdani is insisting no additions necessary.
He wants to hire social workers.
Number three, he hates the police.
We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it's been laced by the IDF.
Clearly, to me, I interpret that to be anti-Semitic and ridiculous.
And four, his mental health plan is half-baked.
He's right.
We need to help the mentally ill get on our streets, but he doesn't have any realistic plan.
His outreach teams will provide counseling, but any treatment program will be voluntary.
You know, and then what are you going to do when we're going to have somebody in a subway threatening to kill everybody?
And you're going to send in a social worker.
Sir, ma'am, is there anything that triggered you in your past that might have brought you to this moment that you want to kill everybody on this train?
That's not going to fly.
Promises, you know, this buzz boondoggle.
The only thing he needs, he might actually help end the homeless problem if he were to add hookers and free booze on the buses.
Then the homeless people would just live on the buses full time and it'd be one big party.
But, you know, he says it'll be $700 million annually, though the head of the MTA predicts that that's over a billion dollars.
Easy.
It's been tried before and it has failed.
He's never met a failed idea he didn't like, doesn't like capitalism.
He wants city-run grocery stores.
He wants to globalize the Antifada.
To this day, he refuses to condemn the phrase that calls for the destruction of Israel and killing of Jews.
He's had many, many times to make that issue right, four times in one appearance on NBC's Meet the Press.
They predict he'll cause an international incident.
He doesn't like the NYPD, but he's happy to order the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, which he wouldn't have authority to do because the U.S. does not recognize the International Criminal Court, but that shows where he's coming from.
They have reason number nine.
He sides with Hait.
He wrote and sang a rap song giving love to the Holy Land Five, the Americans who helped finance Hamas, a known terror group whose charter calls for the destruction of Israel, were sent to prison for 65 years, gleefully, you know, posed with the Imam Wahaj, who, by the way, was a witness for the blind sheikh after the World Trade Center bombing in 93.
He sits for pleasant interviews with Twitch streamer Hassan Piker, who says the U.S. deserved 9-11.
His mentor was the anti-Semite Linda Sarsour.
We have a cut of her on Instagram.
We'll play it later.
If Mamdani wins, she will hold him accountable on his promises.
In other words, she will be beholden to these very radicals that are endorsing her.
And then he claims that he's the victim and that, you know, he says that Muslims were really the injured party here.
And welling up at that press conference about a relative who feared going on the subway, except that relative never lived in New York City at the time.
Said he'd flood the streets with criminals.
You know, said he'd close Rikers Island by 2027.
There's no replacement jails in the boroughs.
They're behind schedule.
That means they're going to release 7,000 people onto the streets of New York that are in Rikers, not exactly a prison camp.
And they have eight more reasons that I'll get to on the other side.
And then we'll get to the issue of Mikey Sherrill in New Jersey.
And we'll get to the issue of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Didn't like my call with Matt Towery and Robert Cahaley on Virginia today.
Their new poll shows the bottom for some reason has fell out on Winsome Sears.
You know, we'll talk about that more on Wednesday.
My friend, for some 35-plus years, he would be Rudy Giuliani 2.0 of New York City would just wake up and he is a rock-ribbed all-American conservative from Brooklyn, New York.
Curtis Lewa has been fighting his guts out.
Well, $10 million wouldn't get you out of the race.
And by the way, I could have told anybody that if they would have asked me.
There's no amount of money.
The one thing Linda had suggested, Curtis, was that maybe Andrew Cuomo, the one thing that might have appealed to you, if he said to you, Curtis, I want you to join me, and we're going to be commie Marxist Mamdani, and I'm going to put you as a deputy mayor in charge of law and order.
I'm going to eliminate this idiocy that I put in place as governor, no bell.
He started it, and maybe that might have been tempting to you.
He was too stupid to figure that out.
Well, let me tell you, Sean, I probably would have had to make my first arrest by arresting Andrew Cuomo for all the corruption.
So that would be like two scorpions in a brandy glass.
Man, that was the famous phrase coined by the great Barry Farber, which nobody knows who we're talking about, one of the greatest pioneer talk show hosts in the history of this medium.
Look, the bottom line is something happened over the weekend.
Atlas Polling is a real polling company.
They really do a great job, but nobody really knows who they are.
And the bottom seems to be falling out last minute against Kami Marx's Mamdani, which means that I'm telling everybody in New York City, assume that you have a shot.
They have it a 6.6 race.
You know, I want you to win in the worst way.
I'm not Pollyannish, though, Curtis.
We've been friends for too long.
I know it's been an uphill battle.
You've got, you know, 10 to 1 registered Democrats, half of them Marxists against you coming out of the box.
But I'm hoping that New York City wakes up and doesn't want this lunatic.
Well, let me explain.
If you're basing it on that poll, look at the pull-out tab, Sean, and look at the favorable ratings.
They rated national figures, state figures, local figures, Democrats and Republicans.
Do you know who graded the highest at 52% in a Democratic city?
Barack Obama, 52%.
Curtis Schleeway, 52%.
Andrew Cuomo was unfavorable.
And Johan Mandami was unfavorable.
That's in a Democratic city.
And you know, people will never vote for you if they have an unfavorable feeling about you.
So let's see where this election goes.
We've had an unprecedented turnout of Republicans.
I've been doing micro-targeting for months.
We have our vote out there.
The votes will be tabulated by tomorrow night.
We should determine who the next mayor is.
By the way, the polls close tomorrow night when I come on the air at 9 Eastern.
And by that point, we'll know where the turnout is.
I want to see heavy turnout in Republican areas in the five boroughs.
Well, so far, early voting there have been.
And I anticipate nothing less than a much heavier turnout.
We have unprecedented turnout throughout this city.
We'll probably have 2 million votes cast when all is said and done.
But remember my appeal, Sean.
It goes beyond Republicans and conservatives.
It's independents.
It's moderate Democrats.
And it's the large group of animal lovers who, for the first time, can vote for me on an independent line, protect animals, no kill shelters, animal abusers, go to jail.
And you know that resonates with a lot of women.
And women are the majority of the voters, and sometimes they're one-issue voters.
Well, look, the one thing that I know about you and love about you is that you live, eat, breathe, bleed New York.
I mean, you and Mark Simone are two of a kind.
And, you know, but crime has always been the big issue for you.
Law and order has always been the big issue for you.
And you've lived out your love of the city by protecting innocent people for all of these years.
And, you know, I know that your heart is in it.
I mean, it was funny when you came out publicly and said you've been offered a ton of money to get out of the race.
I laughed to myself.
I'm like, they don't know this guy.
He's not getting out based on money.
You know, the only thing you could appeal to, that you might appeal to, if you put him in charge and gave him, you know, unfettered, complete control over law and order, and you got rid of defund, dismantle, no bail, and reimagine the police and send in the social workers.
Curtis, you've been down.
You've lived your life in the subways.
Can you imagine, you know, you have a madman in a subway car and he's threatening to kill everybody in that car and in comes a Mamdani social worker.
Sir, is there anything that may have, or ma'am, is there anything that may have triggered you that brought you to this point in your life that you feel the need that you want to kill everybody?
Maybe we can sit down and have a cup of tea and discuss it.
Who do you think the first person that's going to be killed is?
The social worker.
Absolutely.
And by the way, the social workers won't do that, Sean.
I know many social workers.
If they were not accompanied by an armed, trained, professional police officer, that would be like going into a cage of Doberman pinchers with pork chop pants on.
They would stand no chance, Sean.
And they know that.
Social workers understand what their limitations are.
But let me say this to your national international audience.
Sean, we're Republicans.
We're the party of principle, law, and order.
We back the blue.
We're the party that fights, fights, fights.
Look at the Democrats.
They've sacrificed their party to the socialists.
They have only themselves to blame.
And they resurrected this zombie who was responsible for the crime crisis in New York, Andrew Cuomo.
On every level, Sean, he told us, leave New York if you're Republicans and conservatives.
America was never that great.
Things that are an anathema to Republicans and conservatives.
This isn't about just a fight against Zoran Mondami.
This is a fight against all Democrats who are destroying our country.
My city is at stake.
Our state is lost.
You elect me mayor, the Republican mayor, like they did Rudy Giuliani in 93.
And I guarantee you, just like we had Pataki in 94, who beat the better Cuomo, Mario Cuomo, and we brought back prosperity, lower crime, no corruption, no chaos to New York.
I'll do that this year in New York City.
And it paves the way for Congresswoman Elise Stefanic next year to beat Kathy Hoko.
And then we stem the flow of everybody exiting and turning your red states into purple states and blue states.
Come on, Sean.
I'm helping stem the flow of evacuation from New York.
Well, it's going to get worse.
And, you know, I've been putting out the numbers and the statistics.
And it's real.
Look, there's an article in the New York Post today.
Go look at page 35.
And it's the beginning of the business section.
You know, it talks about Goldman Sachs, David Solomon, is spending $500 million on an 800,000 square foot campus in Dallas.
Apple is now investing, half a trillion dollars in Texas for a new facility.
J.P. Morgan Chase has thousands of more employees.
J.P. Morgan Chase, now think of that, in Texas than they do than in New York City.
I can tell you, look down here in Florida, my free state, and guys like Ken Griffin moved Citadel out of Illinois.
Every single Wall Street bank, financial firm, every single private equity firm, investment firm, they're all down here.
And there's going to be more employees down in the free state of Florida than there are in New York.
It is going to be a jailbreak.
They're going to leave.
By the way, did you notice Obama declined to appear with Mamdani and wouldn't endorse him?
Yeah, I know.
I saw that, but I got to tell you, Sean, there's only one way to end this.
We have to cut taxes, income taxes, corporate taxes, property taxes.
These Democrats, they just want to keep raising taxes.
We got to shrink the budget.
We have a bigger budget than your entire state of Florida has in Tallahassee.
I'm the only person who's been talking about that.
I'll do it.
I have great advisors and concigliaries, the great Rudy Giuliani, who has endorsed me tenfold, George Bataki, Larry Kudlow, and who better than the Rockwood Dole American Conservative Voice Areas from Franklin Square, Long Island, Sean Hannity.
Let me tell you something.
When two and a half, I saw this emerge about two weeks, two and a half weeks ago, all of this panic set in.
I'm like, are you people in New York City that stupid?
What part of Mamdani kicking Cuomo's ass in the primary did you miss?
Because that should have been New York City's wake-up call.
And then they wait to the last minute and they try to get you out of the race.
And I'm like, well, it would have been on, I think, on Cuomo, you know, if he wants to be the leader.
Now, let me play Cuomo.
Not only did he institute no bail in New York, you're right about that.
Never mind how horribly he acted during COVID.
Never mind whatever scandals existed with him.
Put that aside for a minute.
This is a guy, these are things that he said.
Listen.
Their problem is not me and the Democrats.
Their problem is themselves.
Who are they?
Are they these extreme conservatives who are right to life, a poor assault weapon, anti-gay?
Is that who they are?
Because if that's who they are, and if they are the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York.
Because that's not who New Yorkers are.
Salt stop, stop, stop.
Hold on.
So, okay, I'm not anti-gay, but I am pro-life and I am pro-Second Amendment.
So he's basically asking me to leave.
Then he said this, Curtis.
Listen.
Salt encourages high-income New Yorkers to move to other states.
And what you have to remember is even if a small number of high-income taxpayers leave, it has a dramatic effect on this tax base.
Tax the rich, tax the rich, tax the rich.
We did.
Now, God forbid the rich leave.
Oh, let me, just for kicks and giggles, play Kathy Hochold telling conservatives to leave the state.
Listen.
And we're here to say that the era of Trump and Zeldon and Molinaro, just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong, okay?
Get out of town.
Get out of town.
Because you don't represent our values.
You are not New Yorkers.
They were begging me to leave.
I mean, I'm not saying anyone in New York misses me, but, you know, I didn't feel welcome.
Oh, no.
And by the way, on the buses coming back after they deposited the Republicans, conservatives, patriots, they filled them up with illegal aliens at taxpayers' expense to fill the void.
Look, Democrats have led us down this disastrous path.
First, they let Bernie Sanders in the Fox and the Chicken Coop.
He's never been a Democrat.
AOC beat Joe Crowley, who never campaigned.
And now Zoran Mondami on March 1st, nobody knew him, not even his neighbors.
And he was able to beat Andrew Cuomo, who was 40 points ahead, who continues not to do retail politics.
You cannot expect Andrew Cuomo to rescue a state that he destroyed.
In fact, he's going to put the last nail in the coffin of New York City if he's elected mayor.
I'm the only one who can save New York City.
And for me, Sean is personal.
Remember, my oldest son, Anthony, was almost beaten to death on the streets of New York City.
Raise the age.
The architect, that was Andrew Cuomo saying, no, no adult crimes being charged to you.
The apprentice Zorhan Mandami.
As a result of that attack on my son, when the five eventually were arrested, they were given a pat on the wrist, turned loose by family court, and they went out and they continue to do it again and again.
This is personal for me.
This crime crisis is a result of the Democratic Party.
I have the energy of Rudy Giuliani 2.0.
I will save this city, and Elise Stefanik will rescue New York State from Kathy Hochul next year, and we will have no corruption, no chaos, crime reduction, a better quality of life, and people won't feel that they have to flee in fright and fear and create Cursed Russell sequel, Escape from New York Part II.
We'll keep them here.
We'll improve.
We won't move.
Let me ask you this.
Do you, as you look at the scenario, why won't Chuck Schumer endorse Mamdani?
And why did Hakeem Jeffery say, no, no, no, he's not going to represent the Democratic Party?
That was an interesting comment, although he did endorse him.
Real quick.
Chuck Schumer is in fear of AOC, that she might challenge him.
He is, let's face it, he's a puppet now.
It's time for him to retire.
The DSA has taken over the Democratic Party.
We Republicans, we have to fight, fight, fight to save New York City, New York State, and our country, which is under siege by the DSA.
Curtis, we wish you the best tomorrow.
We'll be following it closely.
Again, turnout is everything in elections.
At this point, the polls don't matter.
The only poll that will matter is the votes that are given.
Curtis Lewa, thank you, my friend.
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