On this episode of the Sean Hannity Show, Sean dissects pivotal Election Day contests across New Jersey, New York, and Virginia. He highlights the dead heat between Jack Ciattarelli and Democratic rivals in deep-blue New Jersey, emphasizing how critical turnout could produce a political earthquake. Pollster Matt Towery joins to break down the late polling, the impact of Trump's absence, and the "energy gaps" shaping Republican prospects. Sean's framing focuses on high stakes, massive turnout, and what these results could mean for the country's political direction. Also featured is investigative reporter John Solomon, revealing bombshell emails implicating former FBI Director James Comey in the 2016 Clinton probe. The episode matters, Sean insists, because today's vote signals national sentiment and future political landscapes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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It is Election Day.
It is what we call an off-year election, meaning it's not a midterm.
It's not a general election.
It's not a presidential election year.
Really, the races that we're watching in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the gubernatorial race in the Commonwealth, Lieutenant Governor Winsom Earl Sears.
Looks like the bottom has fallen out, sadly, in her campaign a little bit against Abigail Spanberger.
But the race really to watch in Virginia is the race for Attorney General.
And that's Jason Mayaris versus this lunatic, Jay Jones.
That's the guy that threatened.
Oh, I have, let's see, three people, Pol Pot, Hitler, and the Speaker of the House of Commons.
And only two bullets.
I'll use both bullets on the speaker and then kill his kids and then piss on their grave.
Great.
The race really that is most fascinating because it's such a deep blue state.
I mean, Democrats outnumber in New Jersey Republicans.
I have just gotten an update, and I am being told that the numbers reflect the five polls.
Let me slow down.
Early voting numbers and day of turnout today reflect that this is a turnout election and that it will be decided today, especially from now until the polls close, I believe, at 8 o'clock.
And in that race, Jack Chitterelli, the Republican, has a real shot of causing what would be a massive political earthquake in the country in deep blue New Jersey by electing a Republican governor.
And again, five separate polls have that a dead heat.
That means turnout election race.
Of course, we're following New York City, New York City on track as of early voting and turnout today.
Massive, massive turnout.
They expect a record turnout for a New York City's mayor race today.
We're also watching in Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvanians will be casting ballots.
Look, this could affect significantly down the line presidential elections in the future if three members of the highest court, the Supreme Court there, are up for re-election.
They don't face opponents.
Instead, voters will decide whether they should remain on the bench.
And if they are retained, they would serve another 10 years.
And I vote not to retain them.
These are not people you want on the bench.
And again, let's go back to this AG race, Jason Mayaris versus this idiot, Jay Jones, threatening to kill the House of Delegates speaker instead of Hitler or Paul Pot and then go after the kids and then piss on the grave.
Proposition 50 out in California.
And anyway, Matt Towery is with us.
One of the best pollsters in the country, Insider Advantage, and one of the most accurate.
He's now the 2016, 2020, 2024 presidential elections.
Most pollsters do not poll Donald Trump well.
Most pollsters don't even know how to poll anything well.
Anyway, he's not been in New York City.
Atlas polling has been there, and Atlas polling has been right up there with you and Robert Cahaley in terms of the best pollsters in the country, along with Rasmussen McLaughlin and a few others, not many others.
Yeah, I mean, I think Atlas does very fine work, and their poll that came out just yesterday showing the race very close in New York are closing, let's put it that way, was encouraging for those who don't want to see a socialist Democrat take over the number one city, largest city in the nation.
It just is, I think you alluded to it earlier, Sean, it's a matter of turnout.
I understand, like you understand, that apparently the turnout is massive in New York City.
I would tend to, my gut would tell me that tends to anure to the benefit of Cuomo with the last few days coming by because I think a lot of people thought that the victory by Momdani was a guarantee and that they really didn't have to worry about it.
So if there are people rushing out to the polls today to vote, they're probably not voting for him.
And they're probably voting either for Curtis or they're voting for Cuomo and making shifts because they realize what could happen if the city actually votes for a socialist Democrat.
So I think it's going to be.
I'm a little annoyed with New York City over the way they've handled this.
Why the sudden alarmism that started maybe two, two and a half weeks ago?
What part of Mamdani crushing Cuomo in the primary did they miss?
Well, I've been on TV for two months, and this was no slight to Curtis or anyone else.
But I said there were too many candidates in this race, and it had to be winnowed down quickly because otherwise you're down to the wire like you are right now with at the last minute Trump endorsing Cuomo, with Curtis beginning to drop a little bit.
You know, it's a touch-go situation.
They let it get out of control because no one really knew how to get these candidates out of the race.
Had it been winnowed down earlier, I don't think we'd be facing this situation whatsoever.
The other thing I want to say, I want to touch on this as a broad issue.
I think the Republican Party, and I've been known to say this before, and I'm usually right when I say it, I think the Republican Party in this year has a problem going back to what it had in 2022.
It doesn't have Trump on the ballot.
And what I'm seeing in a lot of these states, New Jersey being an exception, is that turnout is back to that sort of lower turnout model where Republicans don't vote early, where it's the last minute trying to get them out to the polls, and the Democrats are ahead.
Let me give you an example.
There's a bellwether state that not just because you and I used to live there many years ago.
We followed it in many elections, and that's Georgia.
Georgia used to be a solid Democrat state and a solid Republican state, but it's really become the bellwether state of the nation.
There are two statewide races in Georgia.
Republic Service Commission.
Now, that sounds like an insignificant job.
That's critical in that state because it has to do with setting all the energy costs and the like for the state.
It's a powerful position.
The Democrats are leading early voting by 85,000 votes.
Now, that tells me someone severely dropped the ball in the bellwether state of Georgia where next year we have a new governor to be elected and we have a U.S. Senate seat that's up for grabs.
That's not good news to me.
So when I hear that there's big turnout in New Jersey, that's encouraging.
That tells me that somewhere at least there's energy going on.
And you have to have energy, just like in New York City, you have to have energy and momentum for a Republican to win.
It takes big turnouts for Republicans to win in this country these days.
I think that's a good point.
So what I'm being told is in the early vote that Jack Chittarelli performed better than he did four years ago.
And he won on election day by about 250,000 votes.
They believe they are currently on track to meet or exceed that number, but they would like it to be another 200,000 voters out there.
I'm actually getting that deep in the weeds with people that I'm talking to on the ground.
I can only pass that on.
What does that mean anecdotally?
That means if you want change in New Jersey and you don't want to be the 49th highest tax state in the country and you want a change in direction, I mean, you know, I've gone over this in detail and I think it's worth going over again because I don't think enough attention has been paid to this.
I mean, the fact that let me just give you these numbers because I think it'll shock even you and you don't get shocked very easily.
You know, New Jersey has the second highest overall tax burden in the entire country, the highest property taxes in the country, home to the fourth highest income tax rate in the country, 45 cents a gallon gas tax in the country, the highest corporate rate in the country, the state sales tax among the highest in the country.
Get this.
So there's no inheritance tax in the free state of Florida.
New York has 10%, which is insane.
The federal government has 40%.
New Jersey is the highest in the country.
You know, if you die after you pay taxes on all of your money, the federal government will take 40% of it and the state of New Jersey will take 16% of it.
I mean, that's how much you pay to have the honor to die in New Jersey.
It's ridiculous.
So that's what's going to happen.
And, you know, Mikey Sheryl, she wouldn't tell us, you know, why she didn't walk with her class.
She wouldn't tell us, you know, she wouldn't take a commitment to cut taxes.
You're 49th out of 50.
You want to be number one?
Well, you know, Sean, I've talked about this for, what, 10 years, 12 years, how long we've been doing this together.
And I say that people oftentimes vote their self-image.
And for a long period of time in the Northeast, and it's also the case in Virginia with Northern Virginia.
You have people who feel like they're doing well.
They're well educated.
They feel like they're making lots of money.
They don't want to look like someone who doesn't fit in with the crowd.
And the crowd tends to be more liberal and more elitist, which is what the Democratic Party is turning into.
So you get a state like New Jersey where it's just not cool to vote for a Republican.
Now, this year, it's changing because now, at some point, that self-image stuff works until you realize that you're not going to be able to pay for it.
And suddenly you wake up.
Whether or not the Republicans have been able to pull this off or not, I don't know.
We won't know until tonight.
Our poll head very close.
I don't know how they count votes in New Jersey.
I don't know how they do their ballot.
I saw the New York City ballot, for example, is a disgrace.
I looked at it.
You mean you didn't like that ballot?
It's the most confusing bunch of bull I've ever heard.
By the way, people are just getting in the car.
I mean, it's the most bizarre thing in the world.
You got Zoran Kwame Bamdani, Curtis Lewa, then you have a conservative.
Then you have, again, on the top line.
Then you have Zoron again, Curtis again.
Eric Adams is on the top line.
Then you have on the second line, Jim Walden, who I never heard of.
Andrew Cuomo in the middle.
He's on the fight and deliver party platform ballot.
And some guy, Joseph Hernandez.
I don't know who any of these people are.
I don't care.
How in the holy hell you can be the most sophisticated, allegedly, city in America and get away with that nonsense?
Oh, you don't, by the way, if you're in New York, when I live there, you don't have to show voter ID.
Oh, of course not.
Which is in Florida, okay?
We get it.
And by the way, I don't want everybody moving to Florida when this thing goes bad in New York.
And if you do, go to Hannity's side of the state on the East Coast.
Don't come to the West Coast.
won't like it.
No, that's really like the meanest thing you've ever said to me.
Linda, don't you think that's mean?
Matt is being mean.
Matt is never mean.
He's just a wealth of knowledge.
We're just so lucky to have him.
Listen, if people want to leave, they can, but don't bring your dopey politics that ruined your state that you're coming from.
And I don't care if you're going to Florida, Texas, the Carolinas, Tennessee.
Otherwise, stay home.
If you want to vote for Marxist, stay with Mom Donnie.
Go live in New York City.
What I fear, Sean, is that the Republican, the folks in New York who wanted to get out, who share the politics of most people in Florida, already left.
And so the people who are going to be left are the people who are going to say, well, I can't afford to live here, but by gosh, I'm going to take my same elitist politics down to Florida.
So in that case, go over to the East Coast.
Don't come to the West Coast.
That's all I had to say.
You'll love it.
Sean's place is great.
Staring, Sean.
Linda, that's not being mean.
I think you're sensitive today.
You know, you're typically a tough guy.
You're a little sensitive today.
You really are.
Being sensitive.
Right, Matt?
Doesn't he seem sensitive?
I think he's tired from all the election coverage.
Telling people to vote for Marx's mommy camdani, Martin Donnie.
Calm Donnie.
Calm, Calmie, Donnie.
It's easier.
Commi Donnie.
But all right, in the end, let's get to predictions.
Mom Donnie win or Cuomo or Curtis?
The Socialist Democrat wins by a little bit.
Well, I'd say the Communist Marxist wins.
In New Jersey, Chitterelli, Mikey Sherrill.
I'll go on a ledge and say a miracle takes place and Chitterelli wins.
People in New Jersey, it's real.
Go and vote and tell your friends, your family, your neighbors, your co-workers, get out and vote between now and the time the polls close.
It matters.
We probably need, you know, for margin purposes, too big to rig another 200,000 people on top of what we had four years ago.
And then it will be Jack Chitterelli's if you people vote and want to change your state and not be New York City 2.0.
Commonwealth of Virginia?
Well, you know, unfortunately, Winston Earl Sears just started to plummet.
And there are a lot of reasons behind that.
The campaign was poorly run.
As a candidate, she was a very appealing candidate four years ago.
She wasn't quite as appealing this year.
And Virginia is just a very liberal state.
You know, the Republicans have to wake up and realize that Glenn Young was a miracle because, A, he was a magnificent candidate.
B, he could sort of self-fund a lot of what he was doing.
And C, he had the perfect time period when all the woke stuff was at its absolute apex.
And they elected him to fix some of that, which he did.
That was Loudoun County at the time.
For people to remember, that was four years ago.
Absolutely.
It's been an amazing four years.
Listen, Matt, we appreciate your time.
And thank you for being with us this election day.
Our election day coverage will continue.
Pam Bondi posting earlier today during the Arctic Frost investigation, we found that special counsel seized President Trump's government-issued phone.
Now, this means the Biden administration turned over President Trump's phone to the special counsel, which is an unprecedented action.
In addition, the special counsel subpoenaed all of President Trump's personal phone records.
We can never again allow this kind of government weaponization in America to happen.
I submitted these new documents to our partners on Capitol Hill.
I commend our team at the FBI for working diligently to expose this.
Now, on top of all of this is this big breaking story that we told you about yesterday.
Of course, it's John Solomon, justthenews.com.
What a shocker.
Best reporter in the country.
It looks like they found a trove of personal emails showing that the then FBI director, James Comey, openly talking in the days before the 2016 election.
Oh, he expected he'd soon be working for president-elect Hillary Clinton and was kept apprised by a top aide on efforts to anonymously to provide information to the news media, which is the very thing he is being charged with.
And well done, my friend.
You know, one quote, for example, Comey wrote in an email.
And this is the guy, Rickman, who briefed the FBI director on the efforts to provide information and guidance to the New York Times on an article involving Clinton's email scandal.
Now, this case against Comey in Virginia being prosecuted by Lindsey Halligan, John Solomon got a hold of the documents presented to the court.
They were looking for summary judgment and unfair prosecutorial conduct against Comey.
That was dropped immediately.
The evidence, John Solomon, editor-in-chief, founder, chief investigative reporter, justthenews.com, seems rather overwhelming in light of that filing yesterday.
Your thoughts?
Yeah, listen, James Comey invited this barrage of documents to be released.
He tried to say, I'm being selectively prosecuted.
I'm a victim.
He played the victim card, and that opened the door for the government in the form of Lindsey Halligan and Cash Patel, who found these documents, to respond and say, oh, well, take a look at the evidence, Your Honor.
And what is that evidence?
Well, it turns out that James Comey was using a private email account to work with Daniel Richmond, a special government FBI employee, so official business, trying to manipulate or try to spin or try to control the media narrative about his investigation into Hillary Clinton using an improper email account.
You can't make this up.
But most importantly, for the purpose of the case, as you mentioned, you see these quotes like, good job, my friend, or maybe you can make him smarter.
These are conversations where Comey is affirming what Richmond's doing, meaning that Richmond is trying to work anonymously or on background with the New York Times, and Comey's sanctioning it with his emails, which is opposite of what he told the senators in 2017 and then reaffirmed that testimony in 2020.
He didn't approve anonymous contacts with the media by his aides.
It sure looks like that in these emails here.
But let's step back at some of the other big things we know.
We now know what James Comey's mindset was when he was opening up Crossfire Hurricane, signing those FISA warrants, which contained false information or misleading information.
He believed he was going to be working soon for Hillary Clinton.
He said that soon there'll be a president-elect Hillary Clinton.
And that also he expected her to be, quote unquote, grateful, grateful, that's his words, for the way he handled her email case.
Yeah, if I'm Hillary Clinton, I'd be grateful I got off the hook on the case because James Comey took action that he wasn't supposed to do.
He overruled the Justice Department and did his own thing.
So that mindset puts into a perspective everything that Comey was doing in the fall and then all the way through the spring and summer where he's keeping book on President Trump, trying to get a special prosecutor.
That's a really big revelation.
For a guy who was arguing partisan motives, now his own documents raise questions about whether he had a partisan moment.
He was expecting to work for Hillary Clinton, the Democrat, not Donald Trump, the president.
Then there are two other very important things.
One is that some of this evidence was found right around the time President Trump was being inaugurated in January of this year in burn bags and in a skiff room, a locked secret room where a set of intelligence is.
That raises questions, was somebody trying to make it disappear or hide it so it would be hard to find.
I'm trying to press Cash Patel today for answers.
Hopefully we'll get some new news on this tomorrow, but opens up the possibility.
Maybe down the road, is there an obstruction case?
We don't know yet, but certainly the fact that they were in burn bags makes you wonder what was up with these documents.
And then finally, there's one other big conflict that emerges from these documents.
It's not something that Comey's been charged with.
In fact, I'm told they tried to get the grand jury to charge him with this, but it didn't happen.
But you see in Comey's handwritten notes, he clearly knows about what we call the Clinton plan intelligence.
This is that intercept in the summer of 2016 that the U.S. intelligence community got that showed that Hillary Clinton had, in fact, approved a plan to hang a fake Russia scandal around Donald Trump's neck going into the 2016 election because she wanted to make her email caper go away, her email case and all of the controversy around that.
Now, with that, why is that important?
Because when Comey's been questioned about that in Congress, he's done the Ropo-Dope.
He's done the feigning.
I don't know.
I don't think that doesn't sound right to me.
I don't think I knew that.
I don't remember that.
Well, his own notes show he remembered it.
In fact, he was briefed on it.
And specifically from information from former CIA director John Brennan.
You'll see the initials JB and then the information.
So that raises the question, does this come back in some form of a superseding indictment?
Do they start to look at this lying that he's charged with now for these false statements of Congress as a larger conspiracy to constantly fool the American public or the Congress or the Justice Department will see?
But those are the five big revelations you find in these documents.
Pretty spectacular.
What do you make of the post that Pam Bondi put up today about during the Arctic Frost investigation, the special counsel seized President's government-issued phone, which means the Biden administration turned over that phone to the special counsel, which is unprecedented.
Yeah, well, I'm glad she must be reading just the news because as you know, we broke down a couple of months ago.
We even talked about it on your show previously.
I'm glad to see her affirm that.
We think that is something very, very important that people need to understand.
Joe Biden in his White House was facilitating these criminal investigations.
Remember some of the stories that we broke on your show.
One of them is that back in 2022, it was the White House Counsel's office that tried to get the National Archives to get the FBI to open up on the classified records investigation of Donald Trump treating him as a criminal for taking some of his presidential records for him.
Now we know that the same White House, the same White House Counsel's office, was negotiating with Jack Smith to turn over Donald Trump's phones as president and cell phones, also Mike Pence's phones, and waiving his executive privilege, not giving Donald Trump the opportunity to contest that.
Clearly, the Biden White House was driving some of these investigations, just like Merrick Garland was driving some of them.
And Chris Ray, remember, they signed off on these investigations.
So the partisan and political nature of the origins of Arctic Frost, of the January 6th case, of the classified documents case, they become more and more clear every day from the documents we have.
So glad to see Pam Bondi affirming some of the stuff that we've reported.
So when the indictment first came down, and obviously they didn't put all this information out until yesterday against Comey.
Now, we've got to remember the reason that this was even, we were even able to go down this route is because this has happened long after he was the FBI director.
A lot of issues involving Comey, the statute of limitations, have long run out.
And that's troublesome to me.
And I felt like if I was to use the term based on all of the things that we've covered over the years about James Comey, I viewed this as low-hanging fruit, lying to Congress.
But however, with this new filing yesterday, I have a strong degree of confidence that this is a very strong case.
Now, I don't consider this a particularly friendly jury pool in terms of I think it's probably leaning very solidly left and Democrat, but hopefully people are fair-minded and they'll do a good job.
Yeah, listen, Northern Virginia is a bluish area.
It used to be redder.
Now it's more blue.
That jury poll will be remembered, but it was that same jury poll that gave us the grand jurors who decided that this evidence that we now see that we hadn't seen before warranted charging the former FBI director with these crimes.
Remember, it's the first time since Watergate that a senior law enforcement official of the United States, the Attorney General FBI, has been charged with a crime.
This is a very rare moment, and there's no chance that the grand jurors didn't weigh that before handing up this indictment.
And I think that that same jury poll that gave us the indictment is also going to be drawn from to decide whether he should be convicted.
What you now know now is what the grand jury saw, and you see some pretty clear evidence that connects the dots on why the government alleges James Comey did this.
It looks less political now.
It looks more fact-based.
And I think that's what's going to be interesting in the future.
Quick break more with investigative reporter, editor-in-chief, founder, justthenews.com, John Solomon on the other side.
Later, we'll check in with our friend Steve Hilton on Prop 50 out in California as we continue our Election Day coverage.
The final hour of the Sean Hannity Show is up next.
Hang on for Sean's conservative solutions.
John Solomon, founder, editor-in-chief, chief investigative reporter, justthenews.com.
Any thoughts on today's elections?
Well, listen, I think Mom Dani probably wins in New York if the polling holds true, and the early voting really seems to lean in that direction.
We're going to have a socialist governing the capitalist capital of the world.
I take issue with one thing.
Maybe our first disagreement.
I know.
I think this guy is a radical communist Marxist.
I really do.
Yeah, that's true.
Listen, he has.
No, I do affectionately call him Kami Marxist Momdani.
Yeah, listen, his views are much more radical than even the traditional socialist.
We're going to have a fun story tomorrow.
We were allowed to come in and listen in on some of the socialist anti-war groups meetings this weekend.
And you're going to see what they believe Mom Dani has promised them and what they're going to press them to do.
It's going to scare people to realize where Mom Dani is on this spectrum of American value.
So, you know, New York's going to be the big story because it's a story for the world.
How could the capitalist country, a capital of the world, suddenly be governed by socialist communist Marxists?
And I think that's a big thing tomorrow morning.
But New Jersey is going to be very close.
I think Jack Cedarelli has a big chance.
Your town hall with him last week was such an instrumental moment.
Donald Trump did some really great teletown halls last night, getting the base fired up.
So there's a good chance Republicans could take that governorship with the right turnout today.
Virginia is a little tougher for Winston Sears.
She wasn't the strongest candidate on the trail.
I think Jason Mayaris, who was on your show last night, has a good chance of winning that one and defeating an extremist.
But if not, if Democrats have a good night last night, think of who the faces of the Democratic Party will be tomorrow morning.
A socialist Marxist in New York, a mayor in perhaps in Seattle who wants to tax people if they don't rent their homes or buildings, apartments fast enough, a guy in Virginia who wanted to wish death upon his opponent and his opponent's children.
That will be the face and that will be the storyline that Republicans will own going into 2026.
I think Republicans will do a lot better than people think.
And there'll be some surprises throughout tonight.
And I'd keep an eye also on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court where three Democrat justices are up.
A chance for Republicans maybe to swing that court back to the right ahead of the 26 and 28 elections.
Unfortunately, I think it is.
And that's the gerrymandering proposition.
We'll talk to Steve Hilton about that.
All right, John, what's on the horizon?
Anything breaking in the next five minutes?
Because with you, it's hard to keep up.
I think we're going to get you some new details about what Caspatel is doing about the hiding of these documents, the ones that were in the burn bags, what we know.
We'll try to break that out for you tomorrow morning.
And then we'll have this story about what the socialist anti-war groups in New York believe they've been promised by Mom Donnie.
We got to sit in on their private meetings this weekend.
I think that that's going to open people's eyes.
This is a radical alliance of groups that have never before been in the mainstream of politics.
New York's going to be subject to their influence now.
Both of those stories, I think, will educate people tomorrow morning.
Is there a chance that we may one day magically find servers that were erased with bleach pit?
I'm hearing rumors.
Interesting people want to know.
Is that just a yes or no?
We got a roll.
Yeah, I think so.
I think that a possibility that some of the missing emails of Hillary Clinton could be found.
There were foreign countries that believed that they had gotten them at different times.
There's also those five thumb drives that were suddenly the information President Trump declassified recently we found had a lot of emails on them.
I think we're going to find out that some of the missing emails have been located and they probably have a relationship or relevancy to the activities of the Clinton Foundation, whether that was a paid operation.
