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Nov. 6, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Florida State of Mind
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I'm leaving today.
Don't want to be a part of it.
High-tax New York.
These Mam Donny blues are making me leave 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 way of seeing and no chunky.
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 wanna wake up in a city with no manatee and find out pay low taxes.
No crime all day.
Police that are love.
Criminals go away.
These big city blues have pushed me away.
I'm gonna make a brand new start of it the hell away from New York and if I can make it there.
No, Hillary is anywhere.
I'm sick of you.
New York.
New York.
Go F yourself, New York.
You're a complete New York.
The great Joe Paggs.
So I got this idea.
And I rewrote New York, New York, but I can't sing.
And Joe Paggs, a dear friend of mine, great radio host in his own right, but he's great at it.
And we've played his songs before.
And I contacted Linda.
I said, do you think Pags would cut this for me?
And he, what did he do?
Turn it around in like a day.
It was nothing.
And Linda's going to me right now.
Man, you are really pissing people off today by playing that.
Why am I pissing people off by playing it?
What do you want me to sit here and come on the air?
Because we're all here, bro.
We got to live under this lunatic.
No, you don't.
No, sorry.
You don't live there wrong.
Oh, my God.
In the Commonwealth City.
I am in that city.
I take that subway.
I'm not lying.
Like once a week.
Stop.
You don't pay taxes in New York.
You're not employed in New York.
You don't work there.
And you work in Pennsylvania.
Cut the crap.
You're full of Adam Schiff.
And I'm sorry that the people of New York elected a Marxist communist, you know, and everything that I warned everybody about.
I fought hard for New York, even though I have articles in front of me.
Oh, look at this one.
New York City election fears drive a $100 million Florida real estate surge as nervous New Yorkers flee south.
Miami Developer reports twice last year's volume as buyers concerned about Mamdani's platform.
And they talk about this one, just one Miami-based BH group telling Fox News Digital the company closed more than $100 million in signed contracts from New York buyers in just the past couple of months, twice of last year's volume.
And now that it's real, it's going to happen.
Look, I will say this.
Now, congratulations to Nassau County, Suffolk County, Nassau in particular.
Bruce Blakeman is a rock star, and they swept everything in Nassau County.
That's, by the way, the county that I was born in and the county I left two years ago.
And Bruce Blakeman is a great guy.
And you know what?
I should have probably waited until after being in New York tomorrow because I'm emceeing the Patriot Awards.
But one day I am flying in in the morning and I'm leaving that night.
I'm in and I am out.
That's it.
One day.
Good New York, New York.
Come on.
You've got to admit it's a little bit funny.
You want me?
Okay, I can do Rosie O'Donnell for you.
I can come on the air.
I'm going to Ireland.
I can't take it.
I can't live under Mamdani.
You know, I just, I'm not that person.
Over the course of my radio career and TV career, I started radio when Ronald Reagan was president.
There's been plenty of elections that we've lost.
I'll never forget there's a great, great Fox Nation documentary.
It's in parts, and I'm actually part of it as a commentator in it about Rush, the era of Rush.
And Rush went through this his entire career and laughed about it.
You know, we have Bill Clinton becomes the president, and people are, oh, that's the end of Rush's career.
That's it.
No, just the opposite.
He was the loyal voice of opposition.
I remember once Mary Madeline said that she could not imagine the Clinton years without hearing and having Rush on the air.
We've went through tough times.
I've lost elections.
I wanted to win.
I didn't pack my bags and leave for Ireland or like Rosie or Ellen DeGeneres.
I'm not going to spend the next year of my life, you know, calling Mamdani Marxist Kami Mamdani, which I say affectionately.
I don't say it.
I mean, he is a Marxist.
He is a communist.
He just likes to say socialist.
But, you know, just his radical positions are what they are.
We've gone over them in great specificity and detail.
And why are you giving affection to Mom Donnie?
Not affectionate.
I think I feel.
Listen.
And for the record, even if I live in Pennsylvania, I'm a commuter.
I'm a commuter like millions of other people that work in New York City.
Part-time commuter.
You go in occasionally, cut the crap.
Why are you honest with the audience?
The audience knows I live in Pennsylvania.
Audience knows I commute into New York City as does occasionally.
As does Ethan.
Occasionally?
That's correct.
Yeah, that's gross.
That's not true.
I'm not being stupid.
What are you talking about?
I'm not, nobody's calling you stupid.
What are you talking about?
I'm saying that you live in Pennsylvania and you work a lot from home.
That's perfectly fine.
And Ethan works in Long Island.
So Ethan is from there.
But a lot of people live there.
Look, I tried hard.
I didn't look at this from my own self-interest here or wanting this to benefit the free state of Florida.
I mean, I will tell you, there's some funny memes out there.
And it made me laugh when the Statue of Liberty was on top of a New York City building, you know, drinking a lot of cans of whatever and smoking a cigarette and sitting down saying, Effort, I'm going to move to Florida.
I did get a kick out of the meme that had a picture of Zoron Kami Marx's Vomdani saying, you know, Florida real estate, realtor of the year in Florida.
I could have gone that direction, but for the sake of people that I know, love, and care about in New York, I didn't want this to happen to them.
So I tried hard.
I can tell you that the analysis of so many is dead on wrong about all of this.
Let's start with the four main states we were looking at yesterday.
They are all deep blue states.
New York City is the deepest and deepest of blue states, along with California, Prop 50.
I told you yesterday the odds were next to nothing, but I wish the people of California the best, gave it some attention.
Some of the polls showed it might be closer in New Jersey for a period of time.
I was very well aware on the air yesterday that Winsome Sears, that the bottom had dropped out.
Robert Cahali and Robert and Matt Towery had her, you know, they just said the bottom fell out and she was losing by double digits.
That was not a surprise either.
You know, if you want to know what the outlier in Virginia was, the outlier was when Glenn Young actually won four years ago by two points, but it was almost a perfect political storm with the perfect candidate.
He is a great, great campaigner and a great candidate, but he doesn't have coattails in a state like Virginia, Commonwealth of Virginia, which, you know, Northern Virginia is solidly dark, dark blue because all the bureaucrats in D.C. have moved there.
So there was no surprises last night.
The only thing that was a surprise was that polls showed that things might be tighter than they would be in New Jersey.
And I had hoped.
But here's the biggest problem.
And I said this back, if you go back a year ago on Dana and Bill Hemmer's show at 9 a.m. in the morning, I was their first guest, and it was Election Day for the presidential election.
And I started out my commentary by saying, we are starting this day out, and Kamala Harris has a math problem.
And then I went on to explain what the math problem was, and that she was, in terms of early voting, down about 750,000 votes from where Joe Biden had been four years earlier.
That's a math problem.
That means she would need a historic day of turnout for her to compete in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
It was the same story, down 45% in North Carolina, 45% in Georgia.
Same thing with Wisconsin and Michigan and Arizona.
And I was pretty much at that moment 100% confident, but you can't on election day.
You still need those day of votes.
So I never want to project any unrealistic confidence.
Then 12 hours later, when I was on with Brett and Martha, that's when I, you know, Brett was making fun of me last night.
Everybody at the table, there was a whole big, you know, all of my Fox colleagues were at the table.
Brett and Martha were anchoring.
And they get to me and I'm like, all right, maybe some of you at this table will think I'm getting over my skis here.
And if I'm wrong, you can print out Hannity's wrong t-shirts.
You remember that moment, Linda?
Because at that moment, I can't tell you how many people said to me, they knew at that point I knew something that most people didn't know.
And I did.
And a lot of people, because I have my own methods.
And we had kind of telegraphed it with Mark Halperin, who we put on radio a lot.
He's a smart guy.
I like Mark a lot.
And we had telegraphed where this was headed.
And he kept saying, if you want to believe primetime MSDNC and believe the big lie, you go with it.
But I'm telling you that this is not working out for Kamala Harris.
So I was giving little signs and signals to my audience without creating a sense of overconfidence because I want everybody to believe in every election that your vote is going to be the deciding vote because in many close elections it might be.
So I don't get Pollyannish.
I get real with my audience.
I tell them the truth.
And I said that night, and I went through all the math that I just described to you and I added to it, this is what's going to unfold.
We're soon going to call North Carolina and Georgia for Donald J. Trump.
Donald J. Trump is going to win the state of Arizona.
He's likely going to win Nevada.
That means as of this hour, I said, for Kamala Harris to be elected president, she would have to sweep the blue wall.
That would be Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan.
Here's why she won't.
And then I went through the math and I had spent all day, every single second, every break I had, calling people in heavily blue districts, you know, the suburbs of Philly, Allegheny County, you know, in Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Michigan, Detroit, all these different areas to see if there was unnatural turnout and record day of voting turnout for Kamala.
There was not.
I knew it was over.
You remember that, Linda?
I do indeed.
Well, you should give me props.
I mean, I can come on and act all depressed.
There's nothing that happened last night that I'm surprised at.
These are four blue states, radically deep blue states.
What do you expect?
All right, let me give you some serious analysis.
Number one, I'm not surprised by any of it.
We have been probably more than anybody been warning everybody that the Democratic Party is now dominated by radicalism.
It seems to have been taken to a whole nother level in the last year.
All we've heard is, you know, racist, you know, sexist and Nazi and fascist and Hitler and Stalin and Mussolini, and that was their reaction.
No introspection, self-reflection, no course correction by Democrats.
And now they have doubled down.
Now, there's a great danger for them in this, but there's also a warning admonition for Republicans that, you know, maybe simple slogans.
Like, for example, I am very confident that, in fact, by the way, Linda says the phones are blowing up.
People are mad at me, insulted by the song that we played about my version of Frank Sinatra, New York, New York.
I'll get to that in a minute.
But, you know, there's something happening here.
Chuck Schumer is no longer, he's leader in name only.
Hakeem Jeffries, oh, no, no, no.
Mamdani's not going to be the face of the Democratic Party.
I mean, Obama himself couldn't endorse him.
Chucky Schumer, you know, didn't tell anybody who he voted for.
He voted for Cuomo.
There's no doubt about it.
D.C. Democrats now are doing everything that they can do to distance themselves from Mamdani.
And, you know, we're now going to have a, you know, test rung.
And this is what I've been saying.
I've been saying it for a long time.
The real leaders of the Democratic Party are AOC.
And by the way, you should give her credit.
Bernie Sanders, you know, once thought to be radical and extreme.
Elizabeth Warren, the squad in general.
Jasmine Crockett.
And now the face of the Democratic Party, as much as they try to distance themselves from him, is Zoron Kami marks as Mamdani.
And he will now take one of the world's largest economies towards this radicalism, endorsed by the likes of Kathy Hochl, the governor of New York.
But outside of New York, few Democratic lawmakers were celebrating.
Well, this isn't my election, Federman said, a Democrat from the swing state of Pennsylvania.
It's not going to impact my life.
I don't think hopefully it will impact our party's future.
I disagree with him on that part.
Schumer wanted no part of it.
Hakeem Jeffries is trying to distance themselves.
And Mike Johnson said, we're watching New York City very closely.
And by the way, I would add to that, New Jersey.
You know, New Jersey losing nearly a quarter of a million people in the last year is very telling.
Now, just be logical about it.
Who are the people that migrated out of New Jersey?
They are people that probably, in all likelihood, the vast overwhelming supermajority of them would have voted for Jack Chittarelli.
By the way, in Kansas City, for example, tried a Mamdani-style free bus plan for five years.
It was a miserable failure.
Those free buses, you know, controlled by the MTA under the jurisdiction of Kathy Hochl.
Hochl now is in a bad spot.
However, I'm not going to buy into this notion that, oh, somehow Elise Stefanic is going to step in and become the governor of New York.
I like Elise Stefanik.
I'd like that to happen for New York.
I'm not so convinced it can happen because of mass migration.
I went through Wall Street South in great detail and specificity in the last months on this program.
There are more J.P. Morgan.
J.P. Morgan identifies with New York City, more employees in Texas than there are in New York City.
Citadel, Ken Griffin, multi-billionaire, investment firm, private equity guy.
He's down in the free state of Florida.
Wall Street South, I keep telling you, is real.
And that is every big bank, every investment firm, every private equity firm, every Wall Street firm, they're in South Florida.
You look at Goldman Sachs.
They're going to build 800,000 square feet of facility in the state of Texas.
Okay, this migration is real.
And ultimately, we're going to get to a point where it's going to impact presidential elections because there's going to be a lot more electoral votes in red states than there's going to be in these blue states as the radical socialists take over.
You watch Mamdani uses his victory speech last night to give a shout out to Eugene Debs, an early 20th century radical socialist that vowed to abolish capitalism.
Quote, Eugene Debs, the Socialist Party proposes to abolish the capitalist system.
This was in the New York Post today.
Mamdani, the sun may have set over our city this evening, but as Eugene Debs once said, I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.
Now, Debs was not your run-of-the-hill socialist, you know, like the prime ministers of, say, Canada and Great Britain or a lot of Western Europe.
This was an admirer of the Russian Revolution.
Debs even called for the complete abolition of capitalism, you know, enthusiastically supported the Russian revolution and certainly read, you know, uh, his, you know, Marx and Engels.
You know, Depps railed relentlessly against capitalism and capitalist exploitation in the most searing language.
The Socialist Party is not a reform party, Debs thundered in a speech to miners in 1902, who proposes to abolish the capitalist system, to transfer from private hands all the means of production and distribution.
That's where they're headed.
If you look at the New York City, they have a fire commissioner who happens to be Jewish.
His name is Robert Tucker, handed in his resignation first thing this morning.
Tucker happens to be a Jewish philanthropist, businessman, will step down from his role.
He has held for the last 12 months.
He'll go back to running a private security firm, which he headed before Mayor Adams tapped into him.
The New York Poll Post calls on Kathy Hochl to rein in Mamdani to save the city.
Good luck with her because she's got her election coming up.
Al Sharpton, of course, praising Mamdani as the new Obama.
He makes Obama look like a moderate.
Nice election.
Not since the election of Barack Obama in 08 have voters been this energized and hopeful about a candidate.
An Islamist group that lawmakers say have radical ties was one of Mamdani's biggest backers.
And I've gone through all of this.
Look, I went through all the reasons not to support Momdani.
He hates the police.
And remember, call the NYPD racist, anti-queer, major threat to public safety.
The NYPD is at a level of ranks lowest in 20 years for crying out loud.
Never mind, we have to make clear when the boot of the MYPD is on your neck.
It's been laced by the IDF.
Nice little dose of anti-Semitism here.
You know, send in the social workers.
Sir, is there a reason you're threatening to kill all of these people?
I mean, it's ridiculous.
You know, free buses for everybody.
Well, that may solve the homeless problem, especially if they offer free booze and hookers, which he wants to decriminalize hookers.
I mean, yeah, why would you ever leave the bus?
That could solve one problem, but cause another.
The guy that wouldn't condemn globalize the antifada, he sides with a lot of the hate group.
His love of, you know, in this rap song of the Holy Land Five, the, you know, Americans who helped finance Hamas that were sent to prison 65 years, the radical Imam he hung out with, Linda Sarsour that we chronicled.
He's going to flood the streets with criminals and let all these people out of Rikers Island.
You know, he's going to make the housing crisis worse and, you know, force landlords to lose money.
Those landlords are going to either go bankrupt or sell and get out.
This is going to be a disaster, but I warned you ahead of time.
All right, I got to go to this call.
Why are you telling me to go to V in my free state of Florida?
V, what's up?
How are you doing?
Hey, I'm doing good.
I'm from Long Island, New York, Self-County, but I don't like what you did with Frank's song.
I mean, I have major respect for you.
I mean, no disrespect, but you had a little bit of cussing in there, and I'm selling by the grace of God right now.
Well, we took a lot of the cuss out, but we implied it for sure.
Yeah, it was a little edgy, I'll acknowledge, but it was funny.
Don't you think it was a little funny?
No, not really.
I don't think it was a little funny because Frank Sinatra is amazing.
And yeah, it was kind of insulting, but I do still support you.
So please, can you take that down or maybe change it a little?
We'd appreciate it.
How about I just use it this one day and then I'll put it down after today.
Just give me a little slack for today.
All right, you're a fluoridity.
I'm trying to put a smile on people's faces.
I don't react the way Democrats react after an election loss, even one that I want to win.
You know, I don't react that way.
You know, I'm just, I'm not going to tell you I'm moving to Ireland.
Now, I made a decision to leave New York because it was untenable for me.
I couldn't live there.
I mean, I mean, I'd walk into a restaurant.
I felt like I was putting friends of mine's lives in jeopardy with the daggers that were thrown my way.
And I'm treated very differently in the free state of Florida.
But just give me one day of grace, V, and then I'll put it to rest, okay?
All right.
Well, you have a wonderful day.
Keep trucking, okay?
God bless you.
I appreciate your call.
Linda's more mad than her.
I feel like I'm not.
But she's nice.
She's a listener.
Okay.
Well, you're more mad at it than me.
Don't blame me.
I tried to help.
You have to admit I went all in, even though probably it would be my own best personal interest to see more economic growth in Florida.
For the sake of my friends, I went in and I wanted Mamdani to lose, and I tried my hardest to get there.
I tried.
Is everyone getting all bent out of shape at me over this?
Yeah, but don't you think there's a problem with ranked choice voting?
Don't they think there's a problem with candidates being listed two and three times on one ballot?
Don't you think there's a problem with no voter ID?
Do you think there's a problem with people voting two, three times a day?
I think there's a problem if you don't have voter ID, signature verification, chain of custody controls, updated voter rolls, partisan observers watching the vote counting all day and the voting all day and the vote counting all night.
I think there's a problem we don't use paper ballots.
My goodness, I say it all of the freaking.
So everything you just said is perfection.
Here's the problem.
Thank you.
We need progress on the perfection.
We are not getting any movement.
I have tried exhaustively.
I'm trying to make it happen with everything I have in my heart, mind, and soul.
You know who I feel bad for too today?
I really do.
And for my friends in New Jersey, I didn't went up there to help.
I didn't want to waste my time.
I like Jack Chitterelli.
I feel bad for him.
But, you know, you go into this race yesterday with the second highest overall tax burden in the country, the highest property taxes in the country.
You have, you know, your New Jersey home, your fourth highest income tax rate in the country, highest corporate rate in the country.
When Momdani's quoting, you know, New Jersey as a model to raise taxes, you got a problem in New Jersey.
45 cents a gallon for taxes, a gallon of gas.
The state sales tax among the highest in the country.
You have the highest death tax in the country, a whopping 16%.
Nobody beats that.
It's insane.
All right.
Okay.
Everyone wants to beat me up.
Jeff in Florida, what do you want to beat me up over?
Go ahead.
I just want to tell you that Frank Sinatra is probably rolling over in his grave, but not because of the thumb, because Mondavi's going to turn the big apple into a rotten apple.
And just unbelievable what happened in New York City.
I totally agree with you.
You know, and if, listen, you know, Bill Maher was the only Democrat leading into the election last year that said, I'll tell you what I'm doing if Trump wins.
I'm doing my show every week, and I'm going to make fun of Trump, and I'm not going to change.
You know what?
Elections don't change me.
And then, if anything, I dig down deeper and I try to do a better job and be the loyal opposition and lead the way out of it.
And that's what I'm doing here.
I'm going to try my best, and I hope the people of New York wake up.
The people of New York wake up.
Then, you know what?
It'll be my great pleasure to try and help them.
But I did try.
Anyway, 800-941-Sean is a number if you want to be a part of the party.
I'm going to play it one time in full, and I'll play it a half a time.
All right, 10 seconds.
Andy in Texas.
Quick comment, Andy.
Hey, I think you should keep playing that song.
That is a great song from the great state of Texas here.
That's called Freedom of Speech.
Also, Texas is the biggest beneficiary, you know, like Florida, of New York stupidity.
Oh, oh, unbelievable what they did there.
I mean, it's unbelievable.
I hope the rest of the country wakes up and says, not here, no way.
And if you want to move out of New York City, don't bring your dumb politics with you.
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