Oh, you know, hey, it's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
I'm usually on our big flagship station, WOR in New York.
I'm not a little disoriented because I'm on vacation for two weeks.
You know, I'm taking two weeks off, end of the year, Christmas break.
But I didn't think I could take two full weeks off.
I mean, Linda, could you go without working for two weeks?
I'd miss you too much, Mark.
You can't go that long.
No, you can't not work for two weeks.
So I figured I did a, you know, I did Kudlow yesterday.
We're not liberals.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
I'm not that left-wing, so I can't just sit around and do nothing.
So, and this is the most listened-to radio show in the world.
So who's going to say no?
You come fill in for Sean Hannity.
And we got, you know, I came, you don't just walk in and go on the air.
You got to do preparation.
We had to go over the, Linda had the menu for what they were ordering lunch.
I had to pick something.
The most important part of the day was you getting your lunch order in.
I said, oh, my God, Mark, do you want to be a part of the lunch or yes?
Well, but she never has a simple thing.
Like it's pizza, you want cheese or pepperoni.
It's always someplace with 4,000 items on the list.
Because I want to eat healthy.
I know, but you got to scroll through.
How about salads?
There's 400 salads and you got to look through.
Oh, actually, I forgot the chicken quesadilla, but that's okay.
You're a mess.
See, I told you I wasn't ready to come back.
Actually, I've been on vacation for like five, six days already.
Really?
Yeah, so I'm not used to working.
Do you always wear those glasses?
I never saw you with glasses before.
Oh, yeah.
Oh.
Blind as a bat.
Really?
I am.
I never saw you wear glasses.
It looks like it's like Chuck Schumer now with the glasses.
I'm sorry.
I think I'll be leaving.
You can do this on your own.
You'll be fine.
Very nice.
You'll be fine.
Yeah.
All right.
Take it easy, Romeo.
It's only 3.08.
Oh, my.
You mean I got two hours and like 52 minutes left.
Two more hours in my stink guy now.
No, no, no.
We'll be fine.
We got lots of great guests.
We got, hey, there's actually a lot to talk about.
You would think Christmas week, nothing's happening, but plenty's happening.
And, oh, Christmas Eve is tomorrow night, right?
Wow.
Did you go to confession before our Lord and Savior?
Yeah, I actually went to the confession and I said to the priest, you first.
You're a mess.
Better stop.
No, you're going to get cold, brother.
It's a joke.
It's a joke.
So everybody will tell you New York is dying.
Everybody's leaving with Mamdani getting elected.
Socialism, New York is finished.
It's over.
Go outside where we are right now.
Try to walk down the sidewalk.
It is so crowded in New York.
Yeah, they're all from Europe.
They're used to it.
No, there's plenty of Americans.
You know, this is the busiest Christmas tourist season ever.
You right now cannot get a hotel room in New York.
It's absolutely impossible.
It is packed.
And you're saying, well, that's tourists.
Well, no, go try to rent an apartment in New York right now.
Apartment rentals are through the roof.
There's no apartments left to rent.
People are coming.
Rental means people just moving here usually.
And as far as apartment sales, a record amount of closings last month.
So people are not running away.
Are you sure they're not just making their last run in before Mom Danny takes over?
I don't think it'll be that bad.
And there's a lot of things.
You know, he is a crazy socialist, but we had one before.
His name was Bill de Blasio.
Oh, my God.
He's way worse than Bill de Blasio.
Big bird?
Come on.
Don't count on it.
De Blasio is pretty bad.
And everybody in this new Mamdani administration are former de Blasio, the same people.
Same deputy mayor, same everything.
It'll be very similar, although it'll be different this time because Trump is president and there's things he can do to counter everything Mom Danny does.
Even if Mamdani plays around with the police force or crime, we have a great U.S. attorney, Southern District.
That's New York.
His name is Jay Clayton.
This guy has said he will step in and go after the criminals.
He can do that too.
The feds can actually go on the streets, arrest criminals left and right, shoplifters, muggers, robbers, drug dealers.
They have the power to do that.
And people forget when Rudy Giuliani was the mayor, he would one day a week.
I think it was Wednesday, he called it Federal Day.
He'd have the feds come in and arrest everybody.
And there's a reason for that.
You know, if you arrest somebody here in New York, they'll go before one of these lunatic liberal judges or our lunatic district attorney.
He'll just let him out.
But when the feds arrest him, it goes to a federal court where they are sent away.
So it's not as bad as, and count on Donald Trump to keep an eye on Mamdani.
And apparently, they've kept the relationship up.
They talk on the phone once every couple of weeks.
They've kept in touch.
And what are you looking at me like that for?
He'll keep an eye on this.
Well, first of all, I have to say, I did not know that Rudy Giuliani did that.
So that was actually very interesting.
Was it every week?
Yeah, I think every Wednesday was Fed Day.
So that was the day that all the criminals stayed home.
If you watched.
That's why they made it the day for theater.
Yeah.
If you watch Blue Bloods, it's in one episode where this there's a criminal who they got immunity in a plea deal.
He got witness for whatever he got.
There was no way to arrest this guy.
The NYPD could not touch this guy.
So they come back and they arrest him with a couple of detectives.
He says, Don't you know you can't do this?
These are federal guys.
They're not part of the deal.
And the feds took him away.
Oh, man.
I hope they start that up.
Yeah, we can do that.
But a lot of stuff is going on.
Hey, the Epstein files, this is the greatest thing in the world because every time they release another 30,000 things, there's one picture of Trump, and all the left-wing on television go, ha ha, we got him.
It's always the same, though, with Donald Trump's picture.
He's in a suit and tie.
He's in a ballroom with 300 people.
It's usually, it's a ballroom he owns.
It's either the plaza he owned at the time or Mar-a-Lago.
It's in a ballroom at a party that he happened to be at.
Whenever it's Bill Clinton, there's 4,000 pictures.
He's in a bathing suit.
He's naked.
He's in a hot tub.
He's in a massage room.
He's in a swimming pool of eight girls.
And I heard one of these CNN idiots actually tried to, well, you know, many people have taken pictures of Bill Clinton.
Yeah, at an event with clothes on, not naked in a hot tub with him.
So you're not going to get Trump on this.
He has nothing to do with Epstein.
I can explain the whole thing to you.
I was there for a lot of this.
Late 90s, Epstein was a very wealthy guy.
He went down to Florida, bought a house in Palm Beach.
When you're a very wealthy guy in Palm Beach, one of the first things you do is join Mar-a-Lago.
And when you own the hotel, the club, whatever it is, and you find out there's a new zillionaire in town who had just joined.
He's at a party.
You say hello.
You're nice to him.
You invite him to some other events.
That's what it was.
And then very shortly into this relationship, he found out some terrible things about Epstein.
He went after a young girl in the clubhouse who turns out was the daughter of a member.
So he banned him.
That was it.
Fought with him.
Never talked to him again.
This is a million years ago.
Meantime, look at the pictures of Bill Clinton.
He's got dark hair.
He's got light hair.
He's got white hair.
These pictures are going on for like 30 years with Bill Clinton.
And they keep catching people.
First of all, I have a lot of photos on my phone and my computer.
I have like 20,000.
Look at this Epstein stuff.
He had like 400,000 pictures on his computer.
Do you know anybody with 400,000 pictures?
You know, that first patch they released was 90,000, and that was just a tip of the iceberg.
But you're seeing all these liberal icons.
There's Larry Summers in a thousand pictures.
And then we see Noam Chomsky, you know, the great beloved Harvard left-wing kook.
There he is all over Epstein.
So one left-wing guy after another is being destroyed.
They just released another 30,000 today.
There's a picture of Trump in a suit and tie in a ballroom at a party.
And again, aha, we got him this time.
Never going to get him on anything.
Forget about it.
And I love when he, you know, he's doing a great job running things, but also when he really puts his mind to it, what could I do to make them really insane?
What can I do?
I know he watches MSNBC and CNN, and as mad as they are, he's just, what can I do to even get him madder?
You know, when you're in the zoo and you want to like hit the bars of the cage and get the tiger crazy, I don't actually know anything about that.
What is happening when you go to the zoo?
People do that.
You see kids do that all the time.
Look at Ethan.
He does that.
You're a grown-up, bro.
No, I don't do.
I'm just saying people.
Oh, okay.
But he comes up with things like renaming the Kennedy Center, calling it the Donald Trump and John F. Kennedy.
He said, they went berserk.
Now, these are the same Democrats.
Remember four years ago, they had to rename everything.
They renamed every park, every military base, every street got named George Floyd Boulevard.
They're renaming everything in the world.
They're painting BLM all over the streets.
We didn't say a word.
Nobody said a word.
He renames the Kennedy Center.
They go insane.
And he had a, there is a right for him to do that.
The Kennedy Center apparently was crumbling, falling apart.
He took a tour of the building after coming back to office, and he's an expert in this.
He's looking inside the building everywhere.
It's crumbling.
It's not being taken care of.
He had to bring in a lot of crews, fix the building, save the building.
And I know they go crazy.
He put in his own board, and they're booking more right-wing kind of, and they were getting nuts.
Look at the numbers, attendance numbers, ticket sales, everything is way up at the Kennedy Center.
So you can put his name on it.
Now, you could make the argument, if you're a crazy left-winger, that, well, he's not the type of person who should be on a performing arts center.
He's not his character.
Hey, we didn't complain about John F. Kennedy, who's, as Mo Green said, banging cocktail waitresses two at a time.
Not for nothing.
Wow, three o'clock.
But, you know, there's also this idea that Donald Trump has a legacy in the performing arts world, whether it was putting on Miss America, whether it was holding grand events, whether it was TV shows.
He actually had the number one TV show in America for three seasons.
There is a little bit of background there.
Yeah.
So you might say, well, we wouldn't need somebody dignified like John F. Kennedy.
I love John F. Kennedy, but this guy's with Marilyn Monroe.
Yeah, I was going to say, let's talk to Marilyn about how dignified he is.
There's a long list of names.
Hey, there's one that just did a podcast.
We didn't even know about, Mimi something, who tells this story.
She was young, like 19, worked in the White House.
The president of the United States said, would you like a tour of the residence?
And according to her, takes her upstairs.
They're in the bedroom.
Mimi Alford was 19 years old when she was seduced by President John F. Kennedy.
She has now written a tell-all.
Oh, yeah.
But she was on some podcast.
There's audio of it.
She said, I lost my virginity that day.
And, well, it's a presidential order.
What are you going to do?
Gross.
No, but you imagine you're 19.
It's the president of the United States.
You're in the White House.
And remember, he had that swimming pool where he had.
He was young.
I mean, I will say he was a young president.
It wasn't like, you know, other presidents prior.
He had a father, Joe Kennedy, who was like 80 and doing the same exact stuff all the time.
But he had a swimming pool and there were two, let's just say, I can't say they were hookers, but there were two young women who were put on staff and they basically were in the pool with them all day.
Pixie and Dixie, or they had some names like that.
That sounds about right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We call them escorts.
They were close to escorts, but if you can put Kennedy's name on, you can put Trump's name on the building.
And then, hey, good for 60 minutes.
They did a piece on the prison in El Salvador where they take the ice people about how conditions are bad there.
It's violent.
It's dangerous.
And they were going to go after Trump with this piece.
And, well, first of all, why would it be so violent?
Because these people are in it.
I think that proves right there what kind of people they are.
You put them in all in one place and they're killing each other.
But 60 Minutes did a piece on it.
And the new head of CBS News, Barry Weiss, looks at it, and she's right.
She said, you didn't ask anybody from the Trump administration to comment.
There's no balance here.
It's an old story.
The New York Times did this two months ago.
And apparently she put it on hold.
She said it'll run, but we're going to interview people in the White House, get the other side, make it a fair piece.
Well, apparently, almost everybody at 60 Minutes is going to walk out.
They're going to quit.
They're so up in arms that they're journalists.
Meantime, in Minnesota, you got the biggest fraud in taxpayer history, $9 billion now missing.
How many reporters has 60 Minutes sent to cover this?
I have the exact number here.
Zero, none.
Now, if I were running a news show and I found out somebody somewhere in America just stole $9 billion from taxpayers, wouldn't you send a reporter there?
Wouldn't you say, hey, this is a good story?
Not for 60 Minutes.
The most corrupt.
Are they the most corrupt?
Yeah, well, maybe ABC, the Sunday show.
Just call it even straight across the story.
I love that.
I'm the only one that still watches.
What do they call it?
ABC Sunday, whatever it is, with George Stephanopoulos.
He's ridiculous.
He's never on.
Every week I watch it.
It's Jonathan Carl or that old, weather-beaten old Martha Radditz.
So George Stephanopoulos comes in like two, three times a year.
Why is his name still on the show?
But hey, we got a lot to talk about today.
We got a lot of great guests to get to.
Interesting governor's race here in New York.
We'll go over that.
You're going to find this very interesting.
Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
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Oh, and follow me on Twitter.
They just took away like 10,000 followers.
They think they're bots.
Oh, God.
Oh, so Mark Simone and NY Instagram.
Maybe you'll look it up on the break and give it out the right way.
That would be interesting.
You'll find me.
It's got a check mark on it.
Anyway, we had a lot to get to.
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You're going to play Christmas music every time, aren't you?
No, that's actually, I like that.
We love Christmas music because you get to hear all.
You play Dean Martin next.
Yeah, well, you get to hear all these people.
You know, people never hear them otherwise.
You hear Andy Williams, Bing Crosby, all these people once a year.
Pearl Ives, Linda's favorite.
Pearl Ives.
Pearl Ives.
I stand by that selection.
What song did he have?
Holly Jolly, baby.
Oh, Holly Jolly Christmas, of course.
Yeah.
Oh, he was all right.
But the Nat King Cole, you know, these will be.
Nat King Cole, Karen Carpenter, Bing Crosby, Danny Kay, the Andrew system.
Danny Kay, we could live without.
What's wrong with Danny King?
Oh, he was a horrible guy.
Listen, if we went through every actor for how nice they were, we wouldn't like anybody.
It's very confusing.
You know, like you see Rob Reiner on television, vicious on Trump.
Vicious.
Oh, vicious.
But I knew him.
He was the sweetest, nicest, most wonderful guy.
In real life, we should talk about this later because it's not just, there's a lot of people.
They're really nice people, friends of yours, relatives.
It's wonderful.
Then you bring up Trump and they're like screaming maniacs.
They call it Trump Derangement Syndrome, but it's more than that.
It's like a weird Jekyll and Hyde kind of thing.
Hey, there's going to be a very interesting governor's race here in New York.
John McLaughlin is the best pollster in the world, and we'll talk to him next.
He knows a lot about that, and we'll talk about the midterms and a whole lot more.
It's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
got a lot coming up.
Always get what you want, but you can get Sean Hannity online at Hannity.com.
Hey, it's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
We got a lot to get to today.
But first, let's get to the greatest pollster in the world.
Now, there's two kinds of polls: there's public polls.
You see them in the newspaper.
You see them on TV.
These are cheap, flimsy polls.
They take a few hundred people, not very carefully selected, and they're not that accurate.
But then if you're a candidate, you get the real polls.
These are much, much, much more accurate.
It's not 200 people.
They get like 20,000 carefully selected people, an exact model of the electorate.
Real serious polling.
Now, the best in the world is John McLaughlin.
His website is McLaughlinOnline.com.
Of course, you know his cousin, Linda McLaughlin.
His favorite cousin.
He left out that part.
The absolute.
Ask him yourself.
Actually, no relation, but John McLaughlin, the best pollster in the world.
John McLaughlin, how are you doing?
It's a pleasure to be here.
Thank you for the introduction.
As long as Donald Trump is president and having done all his campaigns, quite happy to accept.
So it's like, and by the way, there has to be a distant cousin with Linda.
Yeah.
She's definitely on the smart side of the family.
So it's like, but she does a great job.
It's phenomenal.
Yeah, and Donald Trump has used his pollstered, as have premiers, presidents, prime ministers all over the world, lots of people.
Hey, now there's a governor's race.
We have a terrible governor, Kathy Hochl, ineffective, incompetent Democrat.
And she's going to run him against Elise Stefanik, who we all, like Elise Stefanik, but she's a legislator.
She's great running a hearing, interrogation, but none of these skills come into play as a governor.
The other candidate was Bruce Blakeman, who is a manager, who really is a governor.
He's the county executive of Nassau County, best county executive in America.
And that's basically being a governor.
He's phenomenal at it.
So what do you think?
He's now the candidate, as far as we know.
What do you think?
Well, having polled for Bruce, he's done a great job, phenomenal.
And you're exactly right about Bruce where, I mean, Nassau County, it's right next to New York City, and it's bigger than eight states in terms of population.
So he's been running that county for the last four years.
And, you know, to win in New York is really tough as a Republican.
But like Pataki was able to win against Crowley and then served three terms.
Bruce is very similar, and he's very likable.
He also, he just won reelection where while Republicans were losing in New Jersey and Virginia and upstate, where they lost like 50 county legislators upstate and they lost races in Syracuse and other places.
Nassau Kennedy swept everything.
It's an eight-point Democrat county.
And Bruce won by 12 points.
It was a blowout.
And he carried the whole ticket, the DA, the clerk, the controller, every town office in Hempstead.
Hempstead's a large town with like 800,000 people, Oyster Bay, North Hempstead.
The Republicans swept everything.
And it was because they ran on a record of cutting taxes.
That was their affordability issue.
Bruce actually cut taxes, then held them the same for four years, froze them.
And he also hired hundreds of law enforcement officers so that it was named the safest county in America by U.S. News and World Report.
So on the issues that New Yorkers really care about most, he's got a great record, like a governor, as you're pointing out.
And he also did a lot of other good things like, you know, he took the masks off the kids after COVID.
He did, you know, he kept men out of girls' sports and county facilities.
And he's really done a great job as county executive.
And he's earned, I mean, President Trump supported him.
He's earned a lot of support of Ken because he had to run for reelection this year.
And by the way, four years ago, when he was running against the sitting county executive, who was popular at the time, but raised taxes, and the Democrats were trying to bring in cashless bail, Bruce was down 24 points in the first poll I delivered to him.
And it didn't faze him at all.
He's, you know, he's an experienced, he's a candidate where he's run for office before.
He's down 24 points.
He worked really hard.
He ended up winning that race because he stood against cashless bail and he stood against higher taxes.
And what the great thing is now he got re-elected because he kept his word, which is refreshing in politics.
Yeah, and he's a great, great guy.
I've known him for years.
You can tell everybody what a great guy he is, too.
And when he ran for county executive, it was against a woman who was the same thing like you're hearing now.
Oh, nobody's going to beat her.
She's the Democrat.
It's impossible to beat her.
And she was a very nice, likable woman, Laura Curran, unlike the screechy Kathy Hochul.
So this should be actually easier for Bruce Blakeman to win, shouldn't it?
It's certainly, I wouldn't say easier, but it's certainly he's well positioned to win this because the race he just came off, you know, he basically he was taking like a quarter of the Democrats.
He took a third of the African-American vote.
He won Hispanic voters.
He won Asian voters, Chinese, Indian, Korean voters.
He won among independent men, but also independent women.
And he won among Jewish voters.
And it's a very diverse county that reflects the state.
So New York, four years ago, Lee Zeldon ran a good race, but we kind of got frozen in New York City where we only got 30% of the vote.
So Bruce has the ability to get more than that by getting more votes in Queens and the Bronx and Neatboroughs and also Brooklyn.
But he also could do well upstate too because they're not going to want somebody who raises taxes.
Like Hochl said, because she's trying to keep Mandami happy, who's going to be the mayor, the new big government socialist mayor in New York City.
She's talking about raising the corporate tax from 7% to 11% in New York State.
And Bruce came out against that instantly because that would drive jobs away from New York.
And upstate, you can't afford to lose any more jobs, whether it's Buffalo or Plattsburgh or Syracuse.
I mean, you just can't the southern tier, you can't afford to lose these jobs.
So Bruce is already, you know, he's challenging her on her record and he wants to run on against her record.
You know, he'll compare his record versus hers on taxes, on jobs, on crime, and and he'll certainly have new ideas to, you know, improve education in the state and as well as handle some of these homeless and mental health issue problems.
So I think we could have a really good campaign going on this year.
Yeah.
Hey, these Democrats, like as you mentioned, Kathy Hochle or Mamdani, Bernie Sanders, all these Democrats yellow, increase corporate taxes, increase corporate taxes.
Do they realize that's a tariff?
It's basically the same thing as having tariffs.
So it's Democrat tariffs.
I mean, you raise taxes on a business, they'll just pass it on to the consumer.
But the other part, what's worse in New York, what we've seen is they leave New York.
They're more than happy to go.
They could go to New Jersey.
They could go to Georgia, North Carolina.
They can go to Tennessee, Florida, Texas.
How many jobs have we lost to Texas?
So that's, you know, it's just not a good idea.
And by the way, you go upstate New York, you know, you go to Buffalo and Rochester, et cetera.
You know, you're looking at the downtown and say, where have the businesses gone?
Where's Carrier gone?
Where's it in Syracuse?
Where's Xerox, Kodak, et cetera?
Go over the border to Toronto.
Toronto, the corporate tax in Canada is like 15%.
And New York, you have a 21% federal tax.
And then New York, they want to raise it 11 on top of that.
More jobs.
They'll go out of the country again.
Hey, let's talk about midterms.
This is very important.
The midterms.
Now, I think is it kind of crazy to predict anything now?
Because it's like asking who's going to win the Super Bowl in 2027.
I mean, who knows?
I mean, anything could change between now and the midterms, or am I wrong?
Well, I mean, it's close.
We have a new national poll that we just posted today where the Republicans are down by a point 46 to 45, but that's really close.
It's in the margin of error even for a national poll of 1,000, plus or minus 3%.
So you're going to have a close midterm election that's focused on maybe 50, 60, 70 seats.
But you got, like you said, you've got 10 months and 10 and a half months to decide that election.
And there's going to be a lot of things, a lot of factors.
The good news is Donald Trump has a, his job rating, we have him at 50% job rating.
It's holding from, and again, we do a thousand likely voters.
It's modeled after a national election.
It's not like these other polls where they have adults and illegal immigrants and whomever in the polls that don't like Trump.
So that's a poll of likely voters.
And you're looking at it a year from now and it's close.
But, I mean, the economy is starting to grow.
And one of the things, one of the most important things we found in the survey was that a lot of, they don't know the facts.
They think the economy is getting worse because they don't know the facts.
And President Trump was censored in the speech that he made this week.
I mean, they literally cut out the graphs showing lower inflation under Trump, showing higher wages under Trump, showing lower gas prices.
I mean, the networks, a whole bunch of them, wouldn't, I mean, the president of the United States does a national address and they won't let him show the graphs.
They censored it out.
And it was just absolutely ridiculous.
But when they learn of the facts that the economy is growing, et cetera, they're more likely to say the economy is getting better 61 to 33.
But right now, they're not getting those facts.
And it's a real challenge because we had to do that in this campaign in 2024.
I mean, they were trying to censor.
I mean, in 2020, Biden, I believe Biden won because they censored us.
And there was with that Hunter Biden laptop.
We did a post-election poll, and I've talked about on the show with Sean and Linda before, where among the Biden voters, 36% were not aware of the Hunter Biden laptop story.
And if they were aware, enough would have changed that Donald Trump would have won the election.
And that was Media Research Center Brent Bozel published that, and that was a survey that we did.
And, you know, they're trying it again.
They're going to, I mean, literally, they want to censor, they want to censor the Trump record so that the Democrats retake Congress.
But this is going to be the roughest race ever because they've got to stop him this time.
They can't let him have two more years of Congress on his side.
So they're going to do everything to stop him.
Now, what can President Trump do?
What did he do to counter this?
Go directly to the people.
I mean, first of all, one of the things he always did was, and again, he had been inside the below in Washington.
He's running the government.
You've got to get back out to the people.
He's got to do his rallies.
He's got to go out there for the candidates.
And when he goes out there, it generates a lot of untraditional media coverage.
People go to these things, and the Trump campaign had it down to a science.
When you go to that, you sign up with your email.
We get your cell phone.
We text you.
We email you.
We send you a lot of information.
You send that out to your friends, whether it's Facebook, et cetera.
But they hear the president's message.
They hear that he wants to, you know, he wants to lower taxes.
You'll know that the tax cut he passed is going to save you money.
You should get a refund back if you're paying taxes.
Most Americans will.
And there'll be no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax.
You'll get tax credits for Social Security.
So, you know, those kinds of things where people get the real facts, that changes.
That's how we won the election.
That's how we won the popular vote, swept the battleground states by just getting out there directly to the people.
Yeah.
Now, people may not realize this.
Well, not everybody's going to watch the rally, but as you point out, that's interesting.
They collect the email, the phone number of every single person at every rally.
And that in the end, that could be millions of people in the end, right?
Oh, it's tens of millions of people.
And what they do is they, you know, they send it, not just the ones who attend.
Like, remember when he came to Madison Square Garden?
Yeah.
Anybody who wanted to get inside had to sign up via email or text.
So we got that information.
Same thing when Blakeman had Nassau County.
Nassau County, they had the Nassau Coliseum rally.
It was great.
Great event.
And we had that information.
And we could go directly to the voters and give them the truth so that you wouldn't have to be censored by the press.
So it was a tough lesson to learn in 2020 when they said the Hunter Biden laptop wasn't real.
And John Brennan and the gang were saying, oh, it's Russian disinformation.
Now that we know that it's totally not true, what they said, thanks to Tulsi Gabbard and thanks to John Ratcliffe.
They've shown what frauds there were.
So we just have to get the facts out to the people.
But the economy today, the GDP, it's over 4%.
It hasn't been this high in years.
And the economic growth is going.
And they're growing.
You're now having wages grow again faster than the rate of inflation, which is what people need to feel better, to recover from the four years of Biden inflation.
Yeah.
Well, John McLaughlin, great stuff.
You can take a look at his website, McLaughlinOnline.com.
And if you ever need the best pollster on earth, it's John McLaughlin.
And great stuff.
We'll talk again soon.
Thanks for being with us.
Merry Christmas, Mark.
Thank you.
And Merry Christmas, Linda.
Thanks for being with us.
Take care.
Are we allowed to say Merry Christmas?
Do we have to say happy holidays?
Absolutely.
Merry Christmas.
There you go.
So I hear Christmas music behind me again.
You switched songs there, right?
It was Paul McCartney.
Then it was.
Oh, it's all a blur.
All these Christmases.
We love Christmas.
Hey, we'll take some calls next.
800-941-Sean is the number.
Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
Ted Coppel spins the truth for you and me.
Sean Hannity again with the Christmas music It's getting to me.
Mark, did you know that we are only two days away from Christmas?
Hence the inspiration that makes us play said Christmas music.
Well, I know they got those radio stations where the last four weeks of the year they play nothing but Christmas music 24-7.
And whenever I'm at one of them, all the DJs are like, like, I guess can't take it anymore.
We love it.
But yeah, hey, I love Frank Sinatra, but I wouldn't lose him 24-7 for a month.
Hey, speaking of which, do you have Fox Nation?
You know, the Fox streaming service?
Absolutely.
There's a new documentary about Sinatra called something, Sinatra Icon.