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Nov. 6, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Red in a Blue State
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You know, the idea that some people, oh my gosh, the overthinking of what has happened in this election in New York City and New Jersey and the Commonwealth of Virginia is ridiculous to me.
Now, I'm a big believer.
I think one of the biggest mistakes the Democrats made after 2024 is there was no reflection, no introspection, no course correction.
I'm willing to learn after every election, you know, maybe what things Republicans need to focus on.
And I just hear some of this analysis, and it's asinine.
You know, New York City was always going to be going blue.
There was no chance.
You know, it's an eight to one advantage, Democrats over Republicans.
In New Jersey, it's just shy of a million more registered Democrats than Republicans.
You know, you say, well, Glenn Young was elected, you know, in 21.
21 was like the perfect storm.
You had the perfect candidate in Glenn Young.
He is a strong candidate.
And the perfect issue, Loudoun County, DEI woke schools, and it just resonated.
And he barely won.
He won by like two points.
And it was the upset of all upsets.
And I'll be very frank.
I'm a little disappointed in Winsom Sears that I did not think she ran a strong campaign.
And to be honest, I think I put Yunkin on campaigning for her more than Winsom Sears because I felt like she wasn't strong on the stump, strong enough.
In the case of New Jersey, I look at New Jersey and I said, wow, some of these polls are close.
Not one had him leading, but that had it within a one-point race in some polls for a period.
And I'm like, okay, we got a shot here, but it's only a shot.
I knew it was only a shot.
I was honest with you.
I'd never get Pollyannish.
I always tell you the truth.
But even in New Jersey, in the last three years, they lost a quarter of a million people leaving the state.
They have migrated out of New Jersey.
Well, that would have made all the difference because I can pretty much guarantee you 98% of those people that left are likely the ones that would have voted Republican and been enthusiastic for Jack Chitterelli.
I feel bad for Jack, but it is what it is.
Migration is now playing a major part.
Wait till the 2030 census.
And, you know, Marxist, commie, you know, Mamdani in New York, it's not a surprise to me.
That city is so hardcore, radical left.
Does it really surprise you?
But, you know, so I kind of took Frank Sinatra's hit song, New York, New York.
I changed the lyrics.
I can't sing, but my friend Joe Paggs, the great Joe Paggs, can.
And, well, here's what we put together if you missed it earlier.
Start spreading the news.
I'm leaving today.
Don't want to be a part of it.
High-tax New York.
These men, Donnie Blues, are making believe right to the very heart of it.
Bye-bye, New York.
I want to wake up in a city without bad crime and find there's no AOC And no Chucky.
These little town blues, they pull me away.
I'll make a brand new start of it outside New York if I can make it fair.
Save money everywhere.
Goodbye, F you.
New York, New York.
Screw you, New York.
I want to wake up in a city with no man dying and find out pay low taxes.
No crime all day.
Police that are loved.
Criminals go away.
These big city blues.
All right, John McLaughlin, the McLaughlin and Associates group, the great Joe Pagg singing goodbye, New York, New York.
What'd you think?
Well, you know, I listened to you talk about, you know, asinite advice and analysts who don't know what they're talking about, giving bad advice.
And the president's been getting bad advice before this and after this from people who really don't make a living out of doing this.
But you know, I mean, the textbook example of how to win as a Trump Republican happened in Nassau County last night.
I mean, Bruce Blakeman, which is right next door, Nassau County, they have 110,000 more Democrats out of their million voters.
You know the area.
You grew up there.
And the Republicans swept everything.
Trump endorsed them.
Bruce Blakeman has cut taxes.
He's hired hundreds of more law enforcement officers.
He works with ICE.
He's got a couple thousand bad people in his jails.
And they, you know, I mean, he even banned transgender guys from playing with girls in county parks.
And you have a perfect example of how to get Trump voters out yesterday in New York, right next door to New York City.
And it's running on the issues.
It's having a message.
And that's what Joe Cairo and the Republicans did in Nassau County.
And that's what Bruce Blakeman did.
And they won from top to bottom.
And in New Jersey, they left hundreds of thousands of Trump voters home.
We got almost 2 million votes in New Jersey last year, and they didn't come back out.
And the same thing happened in Virginia.
And in 2000, I'm an old timer.
In 2001.
Well, I will tell you, somebody made a decision in New Jersey not to involve Trump in that race.
Somebody, because they weren't, they didn't bring him in.
You know, I think the endorsement was like back in May.
It was like, you know, yeah, okay, I'll support the Republican.
And then they moved on.
They never asked for any help or any support from the president or the White House.
And I believe they probably made or had the assumption that that might hurt them.
But I agree.
By the way, Bruce Blakeman's a rock star.
He'd be a great governor in New York one day, in my opinion.
He could clean up New York City, but he doesn't live there.
He's a great county executive.
I'm very fond of him.
And the people around him are phenomenal.
Yeah.
And by the way, you, I mean, for Bruce, I mean, we got through this election.
We ran against the Hokul Mundami Democrats.
I mean, Governor Hochul is doing a terrible job in New York.
And he needs the key thing is Bruce Blakeman wins.
And Bruce, we need to win in New York.
And we need to rebuild the Republican Party in New York City.
And we need to win in New York State.
And we ran.
Mundami had a 69 unfavorable in our last poll on October 21st in Nassau County.
I mean, we ran against.
How did Suffolk County do?
Suffolk County was fine.
The county executive was not up.
The Republican DA was running unopposed.
In Nassau County, Ann Donnelly, the Republican district attorney, ran against cashless bails.
That's how she got elected four years ago.
And she's tough on, she's the law in order, tough on crime.
She got re-elected with Bruce virtually the same vote.
I mean, we made no apologies.
And in fact, I'll tell you what was great about Nassau County was President Trump came into the Ryder Cup.
Remember, we had a rally there last year.
It was great.
He won the county, even though it's a Democrat registration county.
He came to the Ryder Cup and Bruce, you know, it was in Nassau County, and Bruce hosted him.
The president brought his granddaughter.
The fans loved him.
They were chanting USA, USA.
You know these.
I mean, we brought our people back out.
In fact, yesterday, there was more Republicans who voted in the early vote and absentees and in person on Election Day than actual Democrats.
We took it to the Democrats.
We basically ran a contrast campaign, and it was a textbook of how to win.
And that's what we used to do in Virginia when I worked for Governor Gilmore in 2001.
Yeah, but the entire population of Virginia, especially Northern Virginia, has dramatically shifted as hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of D.C. bureaucrats, as the bureaucracy's gotten bigger over the last decades, have moved into Northern Virginia, and they've turned that, as far as I'm concerned, into a blue state.
Everyone likes to say purple.
I don't believe it's purple.
I think the anomaly was Glenn Young, and it was, you know, it couldn't have been better timing and a better person and a better candidate than Glenn Young.
That was the outlier.
That is not the exception.
That's not the norm.
You know, by the way, if you look at all the states last night, California, if you look at New Jersey, if you look at New York, if you look at Virginia, Donald Trump lost all of those states three separate times.
Okay?
He didn't win any of them.
Yeah, but by the way, the strategy last year for Donald Trump was to improve our popular vote in those states.
We almost had a shot at New Jersey.
We only lost by six.
And if we were tied with New York City.
Losing by six is, granted, is better than losing by 16 like he did in 2016.
But, you know, we have a major other problem that's happening in these blue states, and that is mass migration.
I mean, New Jersey lost to, you know, nearly a quarter of a million people have left the state in the last three years, John.
You know, let me, I would argue probably 95% of those people, you know, if they stayed, they would have been high-propensity Republican voters.
Yep, that's true, but I tell you, we still have to win in these states.
And I, look, I grew up.
You know what?
We really don't.
We proved that in the last election.
We don't have to win.
We have to win congressional races and gerrymandering has hurt Republicans, and now we're finally fighting back.
I don't care what Gavin does.
My free state of Florida, they're getting into the gerrymandering game, as is a number of other red states.
And Democrats, they're gerrymandered to death.
They've mastered the art.
We're going to catch up and beat them.
Well, I will tell you this, that we would not have won the popular vote with Donald Trump last year if we did not do better in New Jersey and in New York.
I mean, the gains we made in New Jersey and New York allowed us to get the 50% in the national popular vote.
I don't disagree with that.
But, Joe, you know, you're also running against an administration that was the biggest failure of all time.
And Donald Trump had been treated so horribly, the American people had had it and independents had had it too.
Look, I'm not disagreeing.
I agree with your analysis completely, especially on Bruce Blakeman, Nassau County, how to run successfully as a Trump MAGA conservative.
I think there is a path that needs to be studied and duplicated.
But I do think that there are places that are lost causes.
And I think New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and California, the top four.
Tell me if I'm wrong.
Well, I'll tell you what you're wrong about is you just repeated to me the message that we had last year against Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, that they were the worst.
He was the worst president in the history of the United States.
That was what Donald Trump said, and that's what we encouraged in the campaign.
That was our strategy.
And to run a contrast campaign against Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
That allowed Donald Trump to raise his job approval and raise his favorable rating.
What we have right now is no message that we need to really get back to having a message.
We need to also, I mean, the guy's done amazing things.
This administration, what they've done with Susie Wiles, what they've done with getting things done, his cabinet, you know, the tax cuts passed, the inflation's getting back in check.
But we need a message to sell them.
The message is this president puts America first.
He puts America first before anything else, and he puts the Americans, the American taxpayers, the hard workers, puts them first.
And that's how we're going to reduce inflation.
That's how we're going to grow the economy.
And we need to get back to those basics.
And people like who are trying to put Sander Engine, like Jerome Powell at the Federal Reserve.
By the way, he's gone in May, and Trump already, between trillions in new manufacturing, energy dominance, and the jobs and the money that is going to be brought in, the largest tax cuts in history.
We're going to have economic growth.
I believe a year from now, everything's going to be very, very different because the president already put those pieces in place.
He's been talking about the economy all day.
Look, John, I'm out of time.
Did you like the song or no?
It's kind of funny, right?
No, I'm still here fighting it, and you are in Florida.
Oh, you don't like it.
You know, my friends in New York don't love me right now.
Oh, listen, I feel bad.
You want me to cry with you or try and make you laugh a little bit and put a smile on your face?
Anyway, John McLaughlin, McLaughlin and Associates.
Thank you, sir.
All right, quick break.
Right back.
We'll continue straight ahead.
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All right, let's get to our busy phones here.
So many of you have been so patient.
Chris in Tennessee.
No, not Chris.
John in Florida, my free state.
What's up, John?
How are you?
I am good, Sean.
And I just want to say at the outset that I agree politically with just about everything you say except the God thing.
Let me ask you this.
Natural disaster.
So wait a minute.
Does that mean you don't believe in God?
You're an atheist?
Correct.
Can I ask you a question?
I wanted to ask you the questions first.
All right.
You asked me a question, then I'll ask you a question.
Go ahead.
There you go.
Thank you, sir.
Okay, the natural disasters, the hurricanes, tidal waves, earthquakes, tornadoes, the recent flooding in Texas that drowned dozens of Christian girls.
Is this the handiwork of some God that cares about you?
How about all the stillborn dead babies, the babies born blind and without limbs, kids with cancer?
Why does your God love to bombard Earth and the moon and just about everything else out there with huge asteroids and meteorites?
What's going on there?
Is that the handiwork of your loving God, Sean?
Well, first of all, I don't sit here and begin to tell you that I know the majesty of God and the mystery of God and the will of God because I don't.
And I'm not going to proclaim that I do.
Just the opposite.
I think that our God is a loving God, and I think there is a purpose, but I also believe the other side of it, which is human beings are fallen beings.
And in our fallen condition, I believe that through one man, sin and evil came into the world, and through salvation, we find our path back to God.
And, you know, but God has always been a mystery.
You know, it's the age-old question, why do bad things happen to good people?
And I wish I could give you a better answer than that.
I honestly can't.
However, with all my heart, mind, body, and soul, I do believe that there is a reason, a purpose, and a plan that far transcends any ability we as human beings have to know that.
That's my heartfelt belief.
Now, my question for you.
So you're an atheist.
You believe we do know through science that we have universes within universes, within universes, within universes.
And we keep discovering new universes all the time.
And you have the sun and the stars and the ocean and plant life and human life and animal life.
And, you know, it's just, it is a mystery and a majesty unto itself.
To be an atheist, I would argue you have to believe if you believe that, you know, somehow all of that came together and we had a big bang, but there was not a creator.
And it raises a question that you have to answer as an atheist.
And that is, and I would argue, you believe something can come from nothing.
Because otherwise, where did the energy come to that created this perfect solar system within solar systems, within solar systems?
Can you explain that?
Because you're telling me that something can come from nothing.
And that seems far less believable than the idea that we have an almighty creator that created all of this.
You're a chance.
Go ahead.
Sean, but you're just getting back to.
No, no, no.
I answered your question directly.
Answered my question.
Let me speak.
Who created God?
then God must have been eternal always there, right?
So you can't hit me with that.
Well, God answered Moses.
Moses asked the question, right?
And he said, who should I say sent me?
I am sent you.
Now, in that statement, that is predicated in a belief always was, always has been, always will be.
Now, what does that mean?
That is not a concept the human mind can wrap its arms around.
But if you're telling me that what I describe to you, universes within universes within universes, that you're telling me as an atheist, you believe it can come from nothing.
That's what you're saying.
Sean, Sean.
Yes.
Quantum particles.
Look into quantum physics.
Where did they come from?
Where did the particles come from?
Nobody knows.
Nobody knows, but they do just spontaneously.
Okay, so then we're just at a crossroads.
So you, you can't, you're believing that something can come from nothing.
The difference between your belief system and my belief system is that something came from a mysterious that I believe in an afterlife we will know from a God, all-powerful, ever-present, ever-living, that created everything.
And that it's not in this present form on earth, we're just not designed to know.
But I will tell you this.
I believe human beings are of mind, body, and spirit.
And I can tell you in my stillness, in my quietness, in moments of prayer, that I can feel that side of myself that is not myself.
And I believe that God created every human being with a purpose, the word from the Latin education to bring forth from within.
I believe God gave everyone a purpose.
But you're telling me you believe that something can come from nothing.
That is far less believable than the concept that there is an almighty, you know, all-powerful, always has been, always will be God that is a creator.
So that's my belief system, but you can't explain quantum particles to me without you answering.
Where did the quantum particles come from?
Sean, so your God created these babies with cancer and no limbs.
Where did the quantum particles come from?
Stay focused.
He created them for a purpose, right?
Well, I told you, nobody knows where they came from.
Okay, so to go back to your position, you believe there's no God, then you have to believe there's no other option than to believe that you think something can just come from nothing.
We don't know, Sean.
We just don't know.
No, no, no, that's what you're saying.
You're saying you have to, to be an atheist, you have to believe something can come from nothing.
And I think that is far less plausible than a belief in an almighty creator.
I believe that your God is pure evil for creating deformed babies.
You can judge God all you want, but you don't know a thing about him.
You don't even have the curiosity.
I far more respect your call in the sense intellectually, if you are agnostic, that you have an open mind, that there might be a God.
You just don't understand it.
And you're willing to have a more open mind to it.
But to be an atheist, you are hardcore.
You believe something can come from nothing.
There are no quantum particles because nothing can come from nothing.
But there is something that can come from things that we don't intimately know the knowledge of, nor are we designed, I believe.
Like animals don't have a consciousness of their existence, but we do.
That separates us from the animals.
You know, let me ask you a question.
Do you know if you do something wrong to somebody, do you ever feel guilty?
I don't do things wrong to people, so no.
Never?
You've never done anything?
You're perfect.
You've never done anything wrong.
Well, when I was a kid, maybe I smacked my sister.
Now, what about as an adult?
Do you ever snap at somebody and say you're and regret it and have a temper and be mean?
You ever do that?
Sean, I am compelled.
Did you ever, come on, answer the question.
Did you ever snap at somebody and be mean to somebody?
I'm compelled to snap at you because your religious cult screams.
Oh, you want to snap at me, but you, so you're angry.
Now, does it ever bother you?
Does your conscience ever say, you know what, I shouldn't have been such a jerk to that person?
Did that ever happen to you?
No, because I was really never a jerk.
I actually responded to.
Okay, so you're the only perfect person walking on earth.
Okay. All right.
You keep believing something can come from nothing.
I want you to go home.
I'm going to give you a homework assignment.
Ask yourself, where did the quantum particles come from?
Because if you take it to its bare tax, you're telling this audience on 750-plus stations that you think something can come from nothing.
I don't believe that.
All right, but I do appreciate you listening, and I appreciate your call.
And you can go be pissed off at me for the rest of the day.
Mike in Colorado next on the Sean Hannity show.
I'm well.
How are you doing?
Thanks for taking my call.
Try to be fast.
I called to talk about the difference between pasta sauce and gravy, but that gentleman that just called, let's all pray for him.
And everyone, thanks you for everything you do.
And you should be thanked.
It's righteous.
But you should also be thanks for giving thanks for your bold evangelization because there's not enough of that in this world.
And you do it so well.
And so bravely, I'm praying you come back to our Catholic Church with Linda.
I mean, the only problem I have with the Catholic Church is its foundation and the institutionalized corruption.
And I feel that it was all covered up.
And I believe the Catholic Mass is beautiful.
I go to a church that actually celebrates a Mass.
But the fact that on the parish level, the priest level, the bishop level, the cardinal level, all the way to Rome, they knew and they didn't weed out evil that was like growing like a cancer in their church.
And to this day, they still cover up a lot of it.
And I just can't be a part of that.
But if my mother gets cancer, if my wife gets cancer, I'm not cutting them out of my life.
And certainly there's cancer in our society everywhere.
But the reason for my call was Linda said it's pasta sauce or pasta grave, and you'll recognize it's a good Catholic boy.
I firmly resolve to help that grace to do my penance and my license no more and try silver plate or pasta sauce.
I used to make, I'm half Sicilian, my wife's half Italian.
I used to make red sauce, but it was marinara and it's not maninad.
There's no D in Marinara.
That's how my husband says it.
There is no D.
The whole family is a mess, trust me.
Keep it.
No, they do.
He says Caramad and Marinad.
And my in-laws, they all say, I'm Sicilian, too.
So, you know, but my heavy talking about you.
Bro, I'm Irish and Sicilian.
I'm sorry.
Were you on the ancestry board and I didn't know it?
What's going on?
No, I am.
I'm 100% Irish.
I'm not 100% Irish.
Anyway, will you let the Paula talk?
He was talking to me, but go ahead.
Listen, he likes pasta sauce.
My kind of guy.
Every Sunday, bolognese or marinara.
And I get omitting the vowel at the end of a word, like spaghette or projuke.
But calling pasta sauce gravy is as erroneous as calling barbecue sauce barbecue grape.
It's like right out of the Godfather.
That's where she got that from.
No, that's from my in-laws.
I say sauce.
I do not watch mob movies.
Bro, I watch Rocky, Braveheart.
Godfather.
Are you serious?
No.
I've seen, well, no, watch it.
I saw, what's the one where he goes to Italy?
I know that one.
I'm making the gravy, put a little sausage in, you know, what makes it.
Oh, yeah, you're Irish.
He's got to go back to meat and potatoes.
Gravy is fat and flour and drippings.
And I know this may ignite some of your base listeners, but the drippings are the brown bits of meat.
I make biscuits and gravy.
I make turkey gravy, but I make spaghetti sauce, sauce.
You get no argument from me.
You said it right the first time, but spaghetti sauce, not sauce.
My in-laws say gravy.
By the way, have you tried silver pala pasta sauce?
That's what I'm going to do.
Time's at a premium, so we use jar pasta sauce nowadays.
I will, at your behest, be trying silver platter pot to source.
Get a free plug for why you're there.
Listen, man, he's the caller of the day, in my opinion.
Oh, I love you.
Look, anybody that sucks up to Linda, caller of the day, you mentioned me.
You suck it up to Linda, or you suck up to Katie, or you suck up to everybody.
So is everyone sucking up to you because you're Sean?
It's a Sean Hannity show?
I don't need that.
You seem to be stuttering.
No, I'm not stuttering at all.
I love my audience.
They can say whatever they want to me.
Although I think I did piss off the atheist guy.
I don't think he likes it.
Oh, please.
He came in pissed off.
You were fine.
He did come in pissed off.
He did.
He came in hot.
I was like, oh, good luck.
Listen, it's an age-old question about, you know, why do good things happen?
Yeah, which came first?
The chicken organization.
Why do bad things happen to good people?
And I wish I could give a better, more spiritual answer.
I don't know the mind of God.
I know in my heart and in my mind and in my soul.
And we're mind, body, and soul.
I try to take good care of my body.
I try and, you know, take good care of my mind.
And I try to nourish my spiritual life as well.
And through that, I do that through prayer and quiet time.
And, you know, some nights I just sit quietly and, you know, or I'll walk to the beach and I'll just listen to the ocean.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
We have full analysis of last night and what it means going forward.
But more importantly, we are going to look at what is going to happen to this economy, what's going to happen with the shutdown, what the Democrats are demanding yet still, and they don't care who gets hurt by it.
Speaker Johnson, Lindsey Graham tonight, Ted Cruz tonight, Howard Luttnick tonight.
Also, we'll have a follow-up to Jesse Waters' interview with Erica Kirk, and we'll get reaction from Mikey McCoy and Andrew Colbett and Riley Games and much, much more, all coming up on the edition of Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern, SetU DVR, Fox News.
Hope you'll join us.
See you back here tomorrow.
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