August 10, 2026 • 24 mins
Pollster Matt Towery joins Sean Hannity to assess the political landscape with only 85 days remaining before the midterm elections. Towery argues that Republicans need a clearer national message, earlier advertising and stronger voter motivation if they hope to hold the House and Senate. Hannity and Towery discuss competitive races in Michigan, Texas, Wisconsin, Georgia and North Carolina, as well as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s potential future role in the Democratic Party. The conversation also examines whether Democratic Socialist candidates can successfully moderate their public image before the general election. Later, Hannity highlights controversial statements from DSA leaders concerning Israel, taxation and socialism, while callers discuss September 11, Abdul El-Sayed and the stakes of the Michigan Senate race.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hour two, Sean Hannity Show told for you our number
this Monday is eight hundred and nine four one, Shawn,
if you want to be a part of the program.
So I keep saying most important midterm in our lifetime,
and this is these are uncharted waters in every respect.
I mean to watch Hassan Piker calling for Democrats who
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oppose Abdul al sayed his bff to be punished. As
I was talking about in the last hour, is pretty unbelievable.
This radical shift that we're seeing before our eyes, leftism
at a level we've never seen before. This is extraordinarily
dangerous for everybody, and anyway, it's bad anyway. Joining us
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now is our friend Pollster. By the way, he's got
a new book coming out. It's called The Honoring of Ignorance.
Matt Towery Insider Advantage, talks about the road ahead as
we begin the countdown to these midterms. So this is
my take, Matt, I think this is these uncharted waters.
This is the craziest group of people I've ever seen before.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
And I think that we don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I think Republicans have the best chance they could ever
have in a mid term based on Democrats, but I
do think that they themselves are off message.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Am I wrong in my observation?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Well, first of all, good to be with you again, Sean.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Let me just say this.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I asked probably fifteen twenty people who are Republicans this weekend.
Can you tell me the three talking points that the
Republicans have for the midterms? Not one person could come
up with them. So I think you hit on something
that's very important. Yes, the Democrats are shredding apart over
this socialism, the communism issue, and it could really do
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a lot of damage. But we are eighty something days away.
And do you know that in the real clear politics average,
which I think is the fairest average, these other averages,
you know, put the thumb on the scale and say
we like this polster, we don't like the other poster.
So that gets you to the Blue and Democrats that
there are only two races the Republicans are winning, and
that is New Michigan and barelely Iowa. In every other
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now Florida, they're winning, but that's not a competitive state.
In every other competitive US Senate race in this country,
the polsters right now have the Democrats winning, And in fact,
new polls came out today to further bury the candidate
in North Carolina and in Texas. Am I saying that
those polls are right. No, I think we tend to
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get those numbers better than other people. But right now,
that's where the averages are. And to sit around and
talk about how the Democrats are socialists and communists and this,
that and the other. You got eighty days to condense
people that that's the case, and I don't see that
being done. So you know, I'm always the pessimist. You
know that I've always delivered the bad news and then
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I've delivered the good news. At the end of it's
looking good, and sometimes they get beat up for it.
Right now, the Republicans a don't have a message, be
squandered months of getting on TV setting up how President
Trump has achieved more the press will let them know,
and also talking about the issues with the Democratic Party.
Now eighty days, so you've got early voting starting in
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some places in what October, and we don't have a message.
And I don't see anything that's really uniting the Republicans
other than the possibility of a convention in September. So
I'm telling Republicans across the country it's time to hit
the alarm button and get things moving, because there's not
much time left for them to defeat the Democrats because
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right now they're favored in almost every state in the
battleground state Senate.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Okay, So agreeing with that, I mean, do you really
think Tella Rico could win Texas? Do you really believe
Elsai ed can win Michigan? Can you really believe the
guy that throws water bottles that women could win Maine?
Do you really believe that, you know, Francesca Hank can
win at the governor ship in Wisconsin?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Do you believe that?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Well? My answer to that is this, tell Rico I
sort of put in the same category as Beto or Rourke.
I think you called him. What was it? Yes? Okay,
So you know, the Texas poem is usually way off
to the blue, to the Democratic side rather, and so
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I do think that Paxton could win, but I think
it is a little tougher this time. Part of it
has to do with voter turnout and what motivates people
to turn out. You know, Hung, I don't know she's
favored heavily in the betting markets. I have no idea right.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Now she's favored in the betting markets for the primary.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I'm talking about the general.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Yeah, I looked at the general too, and it said,
I don't think it's necessarily a favor for her. But
that having been said, I do think there are a
couple of states where like Michigan where else, El sayed,
I think that's definitely going to be a disaster, and
I believe that that Michigan will go to Rogers. That's
just my view. Texas is going to be a push.
Is not gonna be as easy as in the past
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when Cruz was running against a or uh.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Well, but remember the first time that Beto Bozo ran,
Nobody really knew how crazy he was. He did a
good job of hiding it. Tell Rico, you know, there's
so much garbage on him right now, you just can't
even make it up. I mean, you know, even the
news today is pretty spectacular in my view.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
You know about tell Rico.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
You know he spoke at a Pride event featuring drag
queen performances for boys as young as eleven years old.
This guy that says we have six genders, not two.
This guy that says God is non binary, this guy
that wants to run a vegan campaign in the cattle
state of Texas doesn't want drilling in the oil state
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of Texas. I'm not buying it yet, but I have
seen Paul where he is up by like two points.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I'm like, you got to be kidding me.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Look, I'm not buying it in the sense that it's
not Texas. But we're in the midterm, and these are
weird time periods. And as I told your listeners for
probably eight nine, ten years we've been doing this, midterms
are about turnout, about who's motivated to turn out and
who's not. And so my advice to the Republicans are
to hit you know, the gas puddle as hard as
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they can and start educating the public about these things
right now, because we read it, we see it, you
and I do. The average person walking the street. Maybe
in Texas and Georgia, where Asoff allegedly is up twelve
points or eight points, I don't believe that's the case.
But in a lot of these these states, like North
Carolina as well, where while we's way down, I don't
think they're as far down as people think they are.
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But it's incumbent on the Republicans to educate the voters
in these states about what's going on because they don't
read all this stuff. They don't perret through all the
news like you and I do. And I've been you know,
I sound like a broken record, but I'm usually right.
So I'm just saying it's time being.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Well, let's put it this way.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
You're right so often that in the last three presidential
cycles you have nailed it every time.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah, And I was a little bit often the midterms
in twenty two And I'll tell you why. I made
the mistake of believing that Republicans were going to turn
out at a higher level than they did. I'm not
going to be fooled by that at this time. I've
got to see some evidence from the Republicans, from the
various packs and groups and whatever, that they can run
a better or more coherent message type campaign that i'm
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seeing right now. And I will say one other thing.
When you can't pass to say that, and I know
that that looks like a foregone conclusion, it won't happen.
And I'm not going to name any individual senators, but
when you can't pass that, and when you can't do
other issues that Republicans are eighty five ninety percent in
favor of That takes a little bit of the zip
away for people to want to go turn out, and
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both of these folks, and I don't think the people
on Capitol will understand that you got to give them
a reason to turn out.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
What do you make of the new Hampshire poll that
showed AOC the leading candidate for president for the Democrats
in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Well, Sean, you won't remember this, but I think I
said this two or three years ago, that I thought
that AOC would be the leading candidate to be the
presidential nominee for the Democrats back ages ago. And she's
doing a very slick routine in which she's suddenly saying, oh, well,
you know, that woke stuff we had was sort of
not really correct, and she's trying to change and pivot,
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which of course they all do. She's basically an active
any way.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
She's not even facing I'm sorry, she's not even endorsing
Francesca Hang By the way, I am convinced that Bernie
this fight, the oligarchy tour was all an effort to
give her more exposure and pass the mantle onto her
because he's too old.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Oh. Absolutely, so totally right, and I believe that she
I might asks off out of Georgia, who the polls
have now not poll Georgia at months. But I find
it hard to believe any Democrats leading Georgia by eight
or nine points. I think that I know Georgia better
than any state probably other than Florida in this country.
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I don't believe he's leading by that much. But now
the media has taken him and this is a way,
by the way, to win a Senate race. Okay, you say, well, wow,
he's presidential material. Then people say in Georgia, wow, if
he's presidential material, there's no way we can vote against him.
So you know, he's another one they're talking about. And
it basically has the same philosophy as AOC, except on
a few issues. The Democrats are trying to slip through
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these midterms very carefully without getting the socialism communism label
on all of them and the anti Trump stuff having
to do with the war. And I do think the president,
I will say this, this thing has got to conclude,
because every week we go by that the President says, well,
We're going to bomb the hell out of them and
destroy them. And then two weeks. Two days later we here, well,
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we're in talks and the Iranians pulled the rugout from
under him. It weakens President in the eyes of his supporters,
and so it's time to put up or go home.
In my opinion, that's just my advice.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Quick break right back more with Matt Towery Polster. Is
a new book coming out and the Honoring of Ignorance.
More with Matt on the other side than your calls
are coming up eight hundred and ninety four to one, Sean.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
If you want to be a.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Part of the program, all right, our final moments with
Matt Towery Polster inside our advantage, author of a new
book coming out, the Honoring of Ignorance, and how important
this election is eighty five days away. Take it seriously,
I look at real clear politics. I look at the
polling like you do, and as per usual, you usually
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pull in cycle.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
In other words, in cycle.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
To find here for a midterm would be after Labor Day.
That's what I've not taken a lot of these polls.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Seriously, I don't take them. But I'm paying attention.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I mean, I think you should always pay attention, and so,
but I'm watching and I'm witnessing.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You know, the typical people that get that.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
While you got, and Robert Haley got, and Rasmusing got
and John McLaughlin got, you know, the presidential elections, the
last three correct.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
All these other.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
People that are pulling now all got it wrong, all
of them. So I take it with a grain of salt. However,
there's a cautionary tale here in my head. Pay attention.
This is not a done deal. In other words, the
crazies can win.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
And I would join you with that, Sean. I mean,
you and I have done how many elections together, so
we've gone through a lot, and you know, something can
change this election. But it has to happen before early
voting starts, because so many people vote early voting now.
And so I think that the Republicans have a very
short period of time held they get your message together
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and set it together, because every candidate I hear has
a different message, and that doesn't That never works. You've
got to have one message that you're carrying across. Secondly,
I would say that the president needs to become I
know he's enthused about about the midterms, but I believe
he has to be able to put ran aside and say, look,
we dealt with it one way or another. If we
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go into these midterms with Iran still hanging over everybody's head,
I don't think there'd be a lot of states would
be lost, and unnecessarily so because the president's record has
been obscured by all this. Think about this. Sean inflation
under Joe Biden in the middle of his administration at
this point was way ahead of what we had with Trump.
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The economy was suffering much more than under Trump. There
are so many things the Republicans could be bragging about
right now. We now have the Trump accounts, we now
have permanent the tax breaks, we have no tax on tips.
But they've got to hear this in ads right now.
They can't wait until thirty days or when they're Democrats
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and Republicans are all firing missiles at the Saint Done
on TV and nobody pays attention, so short period of
time to get their act together. Republicans could hold onto
the House, they could hold onto the Senate. It's certainly
not out of anybody's remponsibility. But they got to get
moving now.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I think they need to start spending money now, start
building out ads now. I would make sure that everybody
in Texas knows whose six gender tell A Rico is,
who El Sayed is, who this lunatic in Maine is
who Francesca Hung is. I would start spending money now.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
One thing Republicans have which they usually don't is money
this time, So there's no excuse for not spending it
early and getting ahead of it.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I think, well, they should have been spending it in
it quite frankly in June, because they did have the
advantage at some point. If the other party doesn't have
that much money, but they look like they're going to win,
they'll get the money. And then the money is even
because you only have so many days to run commercials
in so many spaces, to buy on TV and to
get on the internet, and the buy social media. So
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I've been down this road a thousand times, and I've
seen the Republicans do one thing they've always been critical of.
They sit on their money till the last sixty days
and then they start firing everything they have. But at
that point the other side is firing everything they have
as well. And the average person you just add, listen
to your own listeners out there, they'll tell you they
just turned the TV set off or they just tune out,
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so now.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
We can't have that. Yeah, no, I get it. I'm
just out of time. Listen.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
By the way, Matt's new book I think by far
one of the best posters as countries I've ever seen.
His upcoming book is called The Honoring of Ignorance, coming
out soon, Matt, appreciate you being with us.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Sir, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Sean appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Eight hundred and nine four one, Shawn our number. We'll
get to your calls coming up next. You know, a
lot of us, you know, are into health, wellness, fitness, nutrition, longevity. Linda,
I walk for an hour in forty five minutes yesterday.
Are you not proud of me?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Where'd you go?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
That is? Huh?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Where did you go?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
You was doing it just for exercise.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I just just I had the time, which I rarely have,
and I just went for a walk and I didn't stop.
I mean, our forty five minutes of the lot. All right,
let's talk a little bit about crazy and if you
want to know how insane this this DSA radicalized you know,
liberal left, communist left. I don't care what you call it.
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You know, listen to I guess one of their co chairs,
Megan Romar. And now go back to October seven, twenty
twenty three. You know, the Israelis lost in terms of
their population extrapolated out compared to ours. They lost what
would be forty thousand Americans in a day. Never mind
the rape, the kidnapping, the torture, to be heading that
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also took place. So here is the head of this
radical group that is saying she would have gone on
October eighth to a rally supporting Hamas that murdered, kidnapped, raped,
beheaded innocent Israelies.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Listen because, in other words, you would have gone to
that rally had you been able.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Uh, that's a good question. I probably would have. Yeah, yeah,
I don't live in New York City, so I wouldn't have.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
One day after the slaughter of twelve hundred people and
taking of over two hundred hostages, you would have come
and rallied behind Hamas.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
I think that October seventh was largely inevitable. If you
put people in an open air concentration camp and you
deprive them of rights of dignity, of food, of the
ability to live in safety, you have to expect that
they are going to not take that for that long.
And that is not defending any harm of civilians or
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of non combatants. That is, do you think it is
you're saying you're supporting it. I'm saying I'm saying that
I think it was inevitable. I think that you cannot
put people in a cage and expect them not to revolt.
And I think that that supporting the civilians, the non combatants,
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the children who are being killed, you know, that's really
the primary thing.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
You know, it doesn't get any sicker than that. It's
kind of like a Sam Piker America deserved nine to
eleven having a picture of the twin towers, you know,
behind him and his I guess, you know, I guess
streaming studio. Whatever the hell he's doing with a streaming studio.
It's it's insane. These people are nuts. Now you understand
the urgency for eighty five days unbelievable. All right, Jim
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and Michigan, Hey Jim, how are you glad you called?
Happy Monday?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Sir?
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Hi Sean, can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I can? Thanks for calling, great.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Yeah, thank you for taking my call. And I want
to talk about Elsa Ed and Husain Brinker because it
became personal, and it's been bothering me since he said it.
I had a cousin in Tower two from Michigan, and
I hope you have some Michigan followers listening to this.
And my cousin lived, and he lived to tell a
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story he want he went to He wanted to tell
her two because he wanted to learn to improve his life.
He's just a middle class band that lived south of
Detroit in the suburb we called.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
So he was able to get out before the towers
came tumbling down.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Absolutely, And I could tell you if you let me,
if you allow me, I don't know how much time
I got, but if you allow me, I can tell
you a little bit about what he went through going
getting out of that tower. He what happened was Morgan
Stanley was taking a break. He was studying to be
a financial advisor to improve his life. And by the
way he was his wife was at home with terminal
cancer with three little kids, and so she was going
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to die within a year or so, and so he
went to try to improve his life to help his
kids out. And so they took a break. On the
third day. It was a three week program, and he
said he was looking out the window of all things
at the Statue of Liberty, and then he saw on
Tower one. He witnessed it and he told me, he said,
by the way, he gave me permission to tell you this,
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and he told me he saw a balifire and he
heard a noise. He can never get out of his
head up to today. He's got PTSD. He has it.
At twenty five years later, Sean, he didn't become he
didn't become that financial advisor. He became a school teacher
to teach kids every year about nine to eleven. And
he's a history teacher in a middle school in the
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down River area. And this year he wanted to make
it a special year and even went to the local
newspaper to ask him, and they shunned him. And he's
trying to do it himself to tell people about what
nine to eleven was all about. They sent him down
the stairs and if he was going down the stairs
off the sixty first floor, he said, between the thirtieth
and fortieth floor, with a whole bunch of people leaving
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the building got hit. He said that building swayed four
feet to the left and four feet to the right,
and the stairs dropped. He thought he was dead. He
prayed to God that he hoped that something hit his
head and he didn't have to suffer. He lucked out.
The building stopped, the stare settled, and he got to
the bottom. And the best thing that happened to him.
And you can tell lind of this if he ever
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heard the New York accent. With a great sense of humor.
He got to the door. He said, there are only
two excits. He got to the door and he saw
a police officer and he grabbed his arm and he said,
God bless you, officer, and the officer said God bless
you too, and then New York's accent. He said, now
get your ass out of here. And I thought that
was great. And he took off and he ran down
the street and he got into a safe zone with
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thousands of people. And I can't understand that my cousin,
My cousin deserved this. All he is is a middle
class kid with a family, that's all.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
He was, just like me.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
He didn't deserve it. He's an American. I don't want
this guy to be elected. That's good. He's going to
be his constituent. How can that happen. That can't happen.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Elsaia's best friend is Assan Piker and was there campaigning
with him often, and he's been defending him. And worse
than that, this guy said America deserved that, you know
the I'll add one amazing part of that story too.
While your while your cousin was coming down those stairs
and he ran into that wonderful police officer. We don't
even know if that guy's alive today. And you know,
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all those firemen, all those first responders, all those policemen,
they were racing up in the other direction to help
save other lives. Two thousand, nine hundred seventy seven Americans
died that day, and then many have died from you know,
nine to eleven related illnesses since then. And it is
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unbelievable that anybody would ever vote for this guy. Al
saied based on his associations, his radicalism. That's why I
keep telling people you better treat this as the most
important election in your life. If those people get in power,
we know what their crazy agenda is.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I hope people are listening. I am trying.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
I feel like Paul Revere and I'm trying to say
the crazy is coming don't do.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
It, but we will in the end get the.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Government we deserve if people sit on their asses and
they're too lazy to participate. So I am trying to,
in the nicest way, urge people to understand with urgency
what is in play here.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Well, thank you, Sean, and I appreciate it. In just
one final comment, he locked eyes with one of those firefighters,
and just like you said, he locked eyes and watch
a fighter fire go upstairs and knew he wasn't going
to come back downstairs.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
They all knew. They all knew their odds were very low.
All of them all knew. I I three hundred and
forty three. You know, firefighters died that day. So and Jim,
I'm glad you told the story for him. Please tell
him from me that I'm glad he got out, and
you know in that thank you for sharing his story
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on our airways, and that I hope he and his
wonderful children are okay.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
His wife ever survived, it sounds like she didn't.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
She died within a year.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I'm sorry, and please send my deepest condolences. Okay, thank you, Sean,
Thank you. I bless you. I'll say it to you unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Uh, John, Sandy Ago, John, you're on the Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Hi, okay, Sean. I got two things, first, ivermectin and
then the idiotic things that Sayad told you on Thursday.
For ivermectin, everyone says, oh, it doesn't work on viruses
or COVID because it's an anti parasitic.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
What people are too stupid to.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Understand is that all viruses are obligate parasites. So since
COVID is a virus, that makes it a parasite. So
of course iron mecin works on it. And anyone who
claimed with authority that it doesn't work really needs to
go to prison for lying or talking out of there.
You know, well whatever, But because they don't know what
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they're talking about, and they got people killed, you.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Know, John, let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
This is why all these promises of all these lunatics,
not only will they never be fulfilled, people are.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Believing the BS.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
There is no reason to have confidence that they can
do anything right. That's a problem many Americans have anyway,
Thank you, my friend. Eight hundred and ninety four one, Shawn.
If you want to be a part of the program,
Hour two, Sean Hannity Show told for you our number
this Monday is eight hundred and nine four one, Shawn,
if you want to be a part of the program.
So I keep saying most important midterm in our lifetime,
and this is these are uncharted waters in every respect.
I mean to watch Hassan Piker calling for Democrats who
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oppose Abdul al sayed his bff to be punished. As
I was talking about in the last hour, is pretty unbelievable.
This radical shift that we're seeing before our eyes, leftism
at a level we've never seen before. This is extraordinarily
dangerous for everybody, and anyway, it's bad anyway. Joining us
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now is our friend Pollster. By the way, he's got
a new book coming out. It's called The Honoring of Ignorance.
Matt Towery Insider Advantage, talks about the road ahead as
we begin the countdown to these midterms. So this is
my take, Matt, I think this is these uncharted waters.
This is the craziest group of people I've ever seen before.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
And I think that we don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I think Republicans have the best chance they could ever
have in a mid term based on Democrats, but I
do think that they themselves are off message.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Am I wrong in my observation?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Well, first of all, good to be with you again, Sean.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Let me just say this.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I asked probably fifteen twenty people who are Republicans this weekend.
Can you tell me the three talking points that the
Republicans have for the midterms? Not one person could come
up with them. So I think you hit on something
that's very important. Yes, the Democrats are shredding apart over
this socialism, the communism issue, and it could really do
(01:46):
a lot of damage. But we are eighty something days away.
And do you know that in the real clear politics average,
which I think is the fairest average, these other averages,
you know, put the thumb on the scale and say
we like this polster, we don't like the other poster.
So that gets you to the Blue and Democrats that
there are only two races the Republicans are winning, and
that is New Michigan and barelely Iowa. In every other
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now Florida, they're winning, but that's not a competitive state.
In every other competitive US Senate race in this country,
the polsters right now have the Democrats winning, And in fact,
new polls came out today to further bury the candidate
in North Carolina and in Texas. Am I saying that
those polls are right. No, I think we tend to
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get those numbers better than other people. But right now,
that's where the averages are. And to sit around and
talk about how the Democrats are socialists and communists and this,
that and the other. You got eighty days to condense
people that that's the case, and I don't see that
being done. So you know, I'm always the pessimist. You
know that I've always delivered the bad news and then
(02:51):
I've delivered the good news. At the end of it's
looking good, and sometimes they get beat up for it.
Right now, the Republicans a don't have a message, be
squandered months of getting on TV setting up how President
Trump has achieved more the press will let them know,
and also talking about the issues with the Democratic Party.
Now eighty days, so you've got early voting starting in
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some places in what October, and we don't have a message.
And I don't see anything that's really uniting the Republicans
other than the possibility of a convention in September. So
I'm telling Republicans across the country it's time to hit
the alarm button and get things moving, because there's not
much time left for them to defeat the Democrats because
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right now they're favored in almost every state in the
battleground state Senate.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Okay, So agreeing with that, I mean, do you really
think Tella Rico could win Texas? Do you really believe
Elsai ed can win Michigan? Can you really believe the
guy that throws water bottles that women could win Maine?
Do you really believe that, you know, Francesca Hank can
win at the governor ship in Wisconsin?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Do you believe that?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Well? My answer to that is this, tell Rico I
sort of put in the same category as Beto or Rourke.
I think you called him. What was it? Yes? Okay,
So you know, the Texas poem is usually way off
to the blue, to the Democratic side rather, and so
(04:24):
I do think that Paxton could win, but I think
it is a little tougher this time. Part of it
has to do with voter turnout and what motivates people
to turn out. You know, Hung, I don't know she's
favored heavily in the betting markets. I have no idea right.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Now she's favored in the betting markets for the primary.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I'm talking about the general.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Yeah, I looked at the general too, and it said,
I don't think it's necessarily a favor for her. But
that having been said, I do think there are a
couple of states where like Michigan where else, El sayed,
I think that's definitely going to be a disaster, and
I believe that that Michigan will go to Rogers. That's
just my view. Texas is going to be a push.
Is not gonna be as easy as in the past
(05:05):
when Cruz was running against a or uh.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Well, but remember the first time that Beto Bozo ran,
Nobody really knew how crazy he was. He did a
good job of hiding it. Tell Rico, you know, there's
so much garbage on him right now, you just can't
even make it up. I mean, you know, even the
news today is pretty spectacular in my view.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
You know about tell Rico.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
You know he spoke at a Pride event featuring drag
queen performances for boys as young as eleven years old.
This guy that says we have six genders, not two.
This guy that says God is non binary, this guy
that wants to run a vegan campaign in the cattle
state of Texas doesn't want drilling in the oil state
(05:53):
of Texas. I'm not buying it yet, but I have
seen Paul where he is up by like two points.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I'm like, you got to be kidding me.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Look, I'm not buying it in the sense that it's
not Texas. But we're in the midterm, and these are
weird time periods. And as I told your listeners for
probably eight nine, ten years we've been doing this, midterms
are about turnout, about who's motivated to turn out and
who's not. And so my advice to the Republicans are
to hit you know, the gas puddle as hard as
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they can and start educating the public about these things
right now, because we read it, we see it, you
and I do. The average person walking the street. Maybe
in Texas and Georgia, where Asoff allegedly is up twelve
points or eight points, I don't believe that's the case.
But in a lot of these these states, like North
Carolina as well, where while we's way down, I don't
think they're as far down as people think they are.
(06:48):
But it's incumbent on the Republicans to educate the voters
in these states about what's going on because they don't
read all this stuff. They don't perret through all the
news like you and I do. And I've been you know,
I sound like a broken record, but I'm usually right.
So I'm just saying it's time being.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Well, let's put it this way.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
You're right so often that in the last three presidential
cycles you have nailed it every time.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah, And I was a little bit often the midterms
in twenty two And I'll tell you why. I made
the mistake of believing that Republicans were going to turn
out at a higher level than they did. I'm not
going to be fooled by that at this time. I've
got to see some evidence from the Republicans, from the
various packs and groups and whatever, that they can run
a better or more coherent message type campaign that i'm
(07:35):
seeing right now. And I will say one other thing.
When you can't pass to say that, and I know
that that looks like a foregone conclusion, it won't happen.
And I'm not going to name any individual senators, but
when you can't pass that, and when you can't do
other issues that Republicans are eighty five ninety percent in
favor of That takes a little bit of the zip
away for people to want to go turn out, and
(07:55):
both of these folks, and I don't think the people
on Capitol will understand that you got to give them
a reason to turn out.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
What do you make of the new Hampshire poll that
showed AOC the leading candidate for president for the Democrats
in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Well, Sean, you won't remember this, but I think I
said this two or three years ago, that I thought
that AOC would be the leading candidate to be the
presidential nominee for the Democrats back ages ago. And she's
doing a very slick routine in which she's suddenly saying, oh, well,
you know, that woke stuff we had was sort of
not really correct, and she's trying to change and pivot,
(08:34):
which of course they all do. She's basically an active
any way.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
She's not even facing I'm sorry, she's not even endorsing
Francesca Hang By the way, I am convinced that Bernie
this fight, the oligarchy tour was all an effort to
give her more exposure and pass the mantle onto her
because he's too old.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Oh. Absolutely, so totally right, and I believe that she
I might asks off out of Georgia, who the polls
have now not poll Georgia at months. But I find
it hard to believe any Democrats leading Georgia by eight
or nine points. I think that I know Georgia better
than any state probably other than Florida in this country.
(09:18):
I don't believe he's leading by that much. But now
the media has taken him and this is a way,
by the way, to win a Senate race. Okay, you say, well, wow,
he's presidential material. Then people say in Georgia, wow, if
he's presidential material, there's no way we can vote against him.
So you know, he's another one they're talking about. And
it basically has the same philosophy as AOC, except on
a few issues. The Democrats are trying to slip through
(09:41):
these midterms very carefully without getting the socialism communism label
on all of them and the anti Trump stuff having
to do with the war. And I do think the president,
I will say this, this thing has got to conclude,
because every week we go by that the President says, well,
We're going to bomb the hell out of them and
destroy them. And then two weeks. Two days later we here, well,
(10:03):
we're in talks and the Iranians pulled the rugout from
under him. It weakens President in the eyes of his supporters,
and so it's time to put up or go home.
In my opinion, that's just my advice.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Quick break right back more with Matt Towery Polster. Is
a new book coming out and the Honoring of Ignorance.
More with Matt on the other side than your calls
are coming up eight hundred and ninety four to one, Sean.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
If you want to be a.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Part of the program, all right, our final moments with
Matt Towery Polster inside our advantage, author of a new
book coming out, the Honoring of Ignorance, and how important
this election is eighty five days away. Take it seriously,
I look at real clear politics. I look at the
polling like you do, and as per usual, you usually
(10:49):
pull in cycle.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
In other words, in cycle.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
To find here for a midterm would be after Labor Day.
That's what I've not taken a lot of these polls.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Seriously, I don't take them. But I'm paying attention.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I mean, I think you should always pay attention, and so,
but I'm watching and I'm witnessing.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You know, the typical people that get that.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
While you got, and Robert Haley got, and Rasmusing got
and John McLaughlin got, you know, the presidential elections, the
last three correct.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
All these other.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
People that are pulling now all got it wrong, all
of them. So I take it with a grain of salt. However,
there's a cautionary tale here in my head. Pay attention.
This is not a done deal. In other words, the
crazies can win.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
And I would join you with that, Sean. I mean,
you and I have done how many elections together, so
we've gone through a lot, and you know, something can
change this election. But it has to happen before early
voting starts, because so many people vote early voting now.
And so I think that the Republicans have a very
short period of time held they get your message together
(12:02):
and set it together, because every candidate I hear has
a different message, and that doesn't That never works. You've
got to have one message that you're carrying across. Secondly,
I would say that the president needs to become I
know he's enthused about about the midterms, but I believe
he has to be able to put ran aside and say, look,
we dealt with it one way or another. If we
(12:22):
go into these midterms with Iran still hanging over everybody's head,
I don't think there'd be a lot of states would
be lost, and unnecessarily so because the president's record has
been obscured by all this. Think about this. Sean inflation
under Joe Biden in the middle of his administration at
this point was way ahead of what we had with Trump.
(12:42):
The economy was suffering much more than under Trump. There
are so many things the Republicans could be bragging about
right now. We now have the Trump accounts, we now
have permanent the tax breaks, we have no tax on tips.
But they've got to hear this in ads right now.
They can't wait until thirty days or when they're Democrats
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and Republicans are all firing missiles at the Saint Done
on TV and nobody pays attention, so short period of
time to get their act together. Republicans could hold onto
the House, they could hold onto the Senate. It's certainly
not out of anybody's remponsibility. But they got to get
moving now.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I think they need to start spending money now, start
building out ads now. I would make sure that everybody
in Texas knows whose six gender tell A Rico is,
who El Sayed is, who this lunatic in Maine is
who Francesca Hung is. I would start spending money now.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
One thing Republicans have which they usually don't is money
this time, So there's no excuse for not spending it
early and getting ahead of it.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I think, well, they should have been spending it in
it quite frankly in June, because they did have the
advantage at some point. If the other party doesn't have
that much money, but they look like they're going to win,
they'll get the money. And then the money is even
because you only have so many days to run commercials
in so many spaces, to buy on TV and to
get on the internet, and the buy social media. So
(14:08):
I've been down this road a thousand times, and I've
seen the Republicans do one thing they've always been critical of.
They sit on their money till the last sixty days
and then they start firing everything they have. But at
that point the other side is firing everything they have
as well. And the average person you just add, listen
to your own listeners out there, they'll tell you they
just turned the TV set off or they just tune out,
(14:30):
so now.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
We can't have that. Yeah, no, I get it. I'm
just out of time. Listen.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
By the way, Matt's new book I think by far
one of the best posters as countries I've ever seen.
His upcoming book is called The Honoring of Ignorance, coming
out soon, Matt, appreciate you being with us.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Sir, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Sean appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Eight hundred and nine four one, Shawn our number. We'll
get to your calls coming up next. You know, a
lot of us, you know, are into health, wellness, fitness, nutrition, longevity. Linda,
I walk for an hour in forty five minutes yesterday.
Are you not proud of me?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Where'd you go?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
That is? Huh?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Where did you go?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
You was doing it just for exercise.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I just just I had the time, which I rarely have,
and I just went for a walk and I didn't stop.
I mean, our forty five minutes of the lot. All right,
let's talk a little bit about crazy and if you
want to know how insane this this DSA radicalized you know,
liberal left, communist left. I don't care what you call it.
(15:29):
You know, listen to I guess one of their co chairs,
Megan Romar. And now go back to October seven, twenty
twenty three. You know, the Israelis lost in terms of
their population extrapolated out compared to ours. They lost what
would be forty thousand Americans in a day. Never mind
the rape, the kidnapping, the torture, to be heading that
(15:52):
also took place. So here is the head of this
radical group that is saying she would have gone on
October eighth to a rally supporting Hamas that murdered, kidnapped, raped,
beheaded innocent Israelies.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Listen because, in other words, you would have gone to
that rally had you been able.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Uh, that's a good question. I probably would have. Yeah, yeah,
I don't live in New York City, so I wouldn't have.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
One day after the slaughter of twelve hundred people and
taking of over two hundred hostages, you would have come
and rallied behind Hamas.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
I think that October seventh was largely inevitable. If you
put people in an open air concentration camp and you
deprive them of rights of dignity, of food, of the
ability to live in safety, you have to expect that
they are going to not take that for that long.
And that is not defending any harm of civilians or
(16:52):
of non combatants. That is, do you think it is
you're saying you're supporting it. I'm saying I'm saying that
I think it was inevitable. I think that you cannot
put people in a cage and expect them not to revolt.
And I think that that supporting the civilians, the non combatants,
(17:12):
the children who are being killed, you know, that's really
the primary thing.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
You know, it doesn't get any sicker than that. It's
kind of like a Sam Piker America deserved nine to
eleven having a picture of the twin towers, you know,
behind him and his I guess, you know, I guess
streaming studio. Whatever the hell he's doing with a streaming studio.
It's it's insane. These people are nuts. Now you understand
the urgency for eighty five days unbelievable. All right, Jim
(17:40):
and Michigan, Hey Jim, how are you glad you called?
Happy Monday?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Sir?
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Hi Sean, can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I can? Thanks for calling, great.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Yeah, thank you for taking my call. And I want
to talk about Elsa Ed and Husain Brinker because it
became personal, and it's been bothering me since he said it.
I had a cousin in Tower two from Michigan, and
I hope you have some Michigan followers listening to this.
And my cousin lived, and he lived to tell a
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story he want he went to He wanted to tell
her two because he wanted to learn to improve his life.
He's just a middle class band that lived south of
Detroit in the suburb we called.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
So he was able to get out before the towers
came tumbling down.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Absolutely, And I could tell you if you let me,
if you allow me, I don't know how much time
I got, but if you allow me, I can tell
you a little bit about what he went through going
getting out of that tower. He what happened was Morgan
Stanley was taking a break. He was studying to be
a financial advisor to improve his life. And by the
way he was his wife was at home with terminal
cancer with three little kids, and so she was going
(18:44):
to die within a year or so, and so he
went to try to improve his life to help his
kids out. And so they took a break. On the
third day. It was a three week program, and he
said he was looking out the window of all things
at the Statue of Liberty, and then he saw on
Tower one. He witnessed it and he told me, he said,
by the way, he gave me permission to tell you this,
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and he told me he saw a balifire and he
heard a noise. He can never get out of his
head up to today. He's got PTSD. He has it.
At twenty five years later, Sean, he didn't become he
didn't become that financial advisor. He became a school teacher
to teach kids every year about nine to eleven. And
he's a history teacher in a middle school in the
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down River area. And this year he wanted to make
it a special year and even went to the local
newspaper to ask him, and they shunned him. And he's
trying to do it himself to tell people about what
nine to eleven was all about. They sent him down
the stairs and if he was going down the stairs
off the sixty first floor, he said, between the thirtieth
and fortieth floor, with a whole bunch of people leaving
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the building got hit. He said that building swayed four
feet to the left and four feet to the right,
and the stairs dropped. He thought he was dead. He
prayed to God that he hoped that something hit his
head and he didn't have to suffer. He lucked out.
The building stopped, the stare settled, and he got to
the bottom. And the best thing that happened to him.
And you can tell lind of this if he ever
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heard the New York accent. With a great sense of humor.
He got to the door. He said, there are only
two excits. He got to the door and he saw
a police officer and he grabbed his arm and he said,
God bless you, officer, and the officer said God bless
you too, and then New York's accent. He said, now
get your ass out of here. And I thought that
was great. And he took off and he ran down
the street and he got into a safe zone with
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thousands of people. And I can't understand that my cousin,
My cousin deserved this. All he is is a middle
class kid with a family, that's all.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
He was, just like me.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
He didn't deserve it. He's an American. I don't want
this guy to be elected. That's good. He's going to
be his constituent. How can that happen. That can't happen.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Elsaia's best friend is Assan Piker and was there campaigning
with him often, and he's been defending him. And worse
than that, this guy said America deserved that, you know
the I'll add one amazing part of that story too.
While your while your cousin was coming down those stairs
and he ran into that wonderful police officer. We don't
even know if that guy's alive today. And you know,
(21:17):
all those firemen, all those first responders, all those policemen,
they were racing up in the other direction to help
save other lives. Two thousand, nine hundred seventy seven Americans
died that day, and then many have died from you know,
nine to eleven related illnesses since then. And it is
(21:38):
unbelievable that anybody would ever vote for this guy. Al
saied based on his associations, his radicalism. That's why I
keep telling people you better treat this as the most
important election in your life. If those people get in power,
we know what their crazy agenda is.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I hope people are listening. I am trying.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
I feel like Paul Revere and I'm trying to say
the crazy is coming don't do.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
It, but we will in the end get the.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Government we deserve if people sit on their asses and
they're too lazy to participate. So I am trying to,
in the nicest way, urge people to understand with urgency
what is in play here.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Well, thank you, Sean, and I appreciate it. In just
one final comment, he locked eyes with one of those firefighters,
and just like you said, he locked eyes and watch
a fighter fire go upstairs and knew he wasn't going
to come back downstairs.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
They all knew. They all knew their odds were very low.
All of them all knew. I I three hundred and
forty three. You know, firefighters died that day. So and Jim,
I'm glad you told the story for him. Please tell
him from me that I'm glad he got out, and
you know in that thank you for sharing his story
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on our airways, and that I hope he and his
wonderful children are okay.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
His wife ever survived, it sounds like she didn't.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
She died within a year.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I'm sorry, and please send my deepest condolences. Okay, thank you, Sean,
Thank you. I bless you. I'll say it to you unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Uh, John, Sandy Ago, John, you're on the Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Hi, okay, Sean. I got two things, first, ivermectin and
then the idiotic things that Sayad told you on Thursday.
For ivermectin, everyone says, oh, it doesn't work on viruses
or COVID because it's an anti parasitic.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
What people are too stupid to.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Understand is that all viruses are obligate parasites. So since
COVID is a virus, that makes it a parasite. So
of course iron mecin works on it. And anyone who
claimed with authority that it doesn't work really needs to
go to prison for lying or talking out of there.
You know, well whatever, But because they don't know what
(24:00):
they're talking about, and they got people killed, you.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Know, John, let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
This is why all these promises of all these lunatics,
not only will they never be fulfilled, people are.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Believing the BS.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
There is no reason to have confidence that they can
do anything right. That's a problem many Americans have anyway,
Thank you, my friend. Eight hundred and ninety four one, Shawn.
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