July 3, 2026 • 32 mins
Sean Hannity sits down with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis during America’s 250 celebration at Mount Rushmore. Their discussion covers Florida’s proposed property tax reforms, education, immigration policy, constitutional principles, and the state’s budget priorities. They also examine national political trends, the upcoming midterm elections, and DeSantis’ reflections on conservative leadership. The interview concludes with a discussion of his upcoming book and America’s founding ideals.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hour two Sean Hannity Show, toll Free. It's eight hundred
and ninety four one, Shawn. If you want to be
a part of the program. We're in beautiful South Dakota
and we are going to be broadcasting tonight two hours
nine to eleven PM at Mount Rushmore. It's gonna be
a great fireworks display tomorrow, by the way, Saturday.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yes, I will be working.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I will be in our nation's capital, and of course
that's going to be the biggest fireworks display apparently in history.
What's kind of cool is my governor, the Governor of
the great Free State of Florida, Ron De Santis, is
actually here. He is in South Dakota. He's going to
be on our TV show tonight, and Governor, always an
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honor to have you. There's a ton of cool stuff
happening in our state. I'll get to that. Before I
do that, I went through this long history of Mount Rushmore,
how it was carved with dynamite, how it took fourteen
years of work, how they put all of this together,
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how there is how it almost wasn't built, and how
there's a hidden chamber behind you know, Abraham Lincoln's face,
Do you know a lot about it because when I
started reading it, I couldn't stop reading it.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
No, this is my first time I'm going to be
able to see it, so I'm looking forward to doing
the show with you tonight. I've just heard it's a
real engineering marvel. I have actually flown over it in
the past, and it's like conspicus even if you're in
the air because it's so big. So I think it's
going to be a fitting Nights is to celebrate the
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beginning of the America two fifty weekend. And this is
a really important anniversary for our country because we have
a unique founding. We had founding fathers who risked everything
and they had a lot to lose because they felt
so strongly about establishing a nation where your rights come
from God, not from government, where we have.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Rule of law, not the rule of individual men.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
And they knew that it had never worked in all
of human history. But by GOLLI in the United States,
we were going to get it done. And that's the
American experiment, and that's what we're fortunate to inherit as
Americans living in the year twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
You know, it really is amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I'd really be negligent if I didn't get your reaction to,
for example, all of these radicals now that the Democratic
Party is now nominating, I keep making the case that
these are uncharted waters for a midterm election. You know,
I've gone through chapter and verse on Grand Platner and
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his Nazi tattoo and every other bizarre thing and position
that he's had in the course of his life and career.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
We have gone over you know, six gender tell Rico.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
By the way, if you know what the other four
genders are, Governor, I'd really appreciate it if you can
inform us. I've I've been putting out the call to everybody.
Nobody can tell me he's fighting for the right of biological.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Oh, shut that down.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
In Florida, we had to battle Disney. We wanted to
make sure that our kids could go to school and
not be told that there are you know, sixty five genders,
and so in Florida, all that's been dead on arrival.
So I must confess I'm a little ignorant about all that,
because when we saw that coming down the pike four
or five years ago, we put the kai bosh on
it very quickly.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
By the way, did you know that tall Rico has
been championing the rights not only for men to play
women's sports, but the right for biological men to have
access to abortion. Now when I read that, I'm thinking,
maybe I need to go back to school and start
taking some biology classes, because obviously I must have missed something.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Oh, look, I think these midterm elections historically, and you've
talked about this, there's a bounce the other way right.
Obama got in, Republicans had a big year, Trump got
in in sixteen, Democrats took the House in eighteen. On
and on it goes, and there's reasons for that. But
I think on this one, questions are going to be Okay,
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you know, the typical instinct is to try to change
a little bit, but what are you changing to? This
is not just the John F. Kennedy Democratic Party. Heck,
this is a lot more radical than than Obama's Democratic
Party froma to twenty sixteen even and even more than
under Biden.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
That they just are.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Accelerating their embrace of very far left ideologies. But I
think the issue, so people think about okay, two fifty
as a country, what's going for? What are the problems?
You know, these candidates that are winning. It's just emblematic
that we don't really have a shared civic culture right
now in America. Because if you have that shared civic culture,
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that same foundation, you have the same basic principles that
you subscribe to, you can color in the lines, you
can argue about on the margins.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Taxes, all this other stuff. You got people that.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Are getting elected that think the America two fifty is
a bad thing. They think the American founding is a
bad thing. They think the founding fathers or villains, and
so they want to refound this country on leftist ideology.
And so so that is something you can't just deal
with it and somehow come to a resolution.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
You have to defeat it.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
So I'm looking at now, you know the people that
are representing the Democratic Party. There's two aspects of this
that I see. You've got Graham Platner, You've got James
tell Erico. You got this guy El Sayad. You saw
this woman win in Colorado against what a fifteen term
incumbent in Colorado that was That was pretty fascinating a lot.
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Kiros is her name, both Kiros and El Sayed in Michigan,
who's running for Senate. You know both have been out
there on the campaign trail with you know, Hassan Piker,
who is on tape. I can play it for you
if you want to hear it, you know, claiming that
America deserve nine to eleven. And so it's the party
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of Ma'm Donnie, Grandpa Bernie. It's the party of Pocahontas
and Mom Donnie and AOC and the squad. So that's
one aspect of it. They are electing now the most
extreme candidates. The other aspect of this is the almost
complete silence from the rest of the Democratic Party. Now,
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if there are radicals or extremists in any movement that
I'm a part of, I don't want anything to do
with these people. And I'm not going to be quiet
about it. What you know what, why won't Chuck Schumer,
Why won't Hakeem Jeffries, Why won't other Democrats? But for
John Fetterman, you know, dare criticize these people?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Well, I mean it's just like you know, you think
that if you if you feed the alligators somehow, they're not.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Going to eat you. I can tell you as a
governor down here in Florida, the alligator is still going
to eat you.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
That's just the way it is, and that's the way
the the this movement is there. They are going to
devour all these people. We had a little bit of
a tussle with Haakim Jeffries when I was doing the
redistricting a couple months ago, and he started threatening Florida.
He's like saying, oh, We're going to wage wool for
all this stuff. And I had never said anything about
the guy. I just kind of ignored him, and so
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you know, I responded. But one of the things I
was saying was he is a very far left guy.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
He's this Brooklyn political machine.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
But yet the far left hates him, They hate Schumer.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
These are very liberal people.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
And yet they can never go far enough for this
very militant movement. So by them kind of acquiescing to it,
all it's doing is going to assure that they may
be the last to be eaten, but it isn't going
to prevent them from being eaten.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
In the end.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
So in my mind, I can't think of a midterm
that has ever been like this. I keep saying, these
are uncharted waters. In other words, you know, think back
one hundred and fifty years. I can't remember any one
major party that has has gone so solidly radical as
we're witnessing now with the Democratic Party. And I think
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anybody that claims that they know how this is going
to play out, I think they're guessing. I don't even
think the issues that will define the outcome of this
midterm have even happened yet. I think a lot will
depend on the economy, what happens in Iran. I think
there are a lot of other factors. But more importantly,
here's the question, are hard working blue collar Democrats in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia,
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North Carolina? Are they going to go along with this
new adopted radicalism and the silence, the deafening silence of
the so called leaders of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Well, they didn't in twenty twenty four. And as much
as I had no interest in Kamala Harris as a
candidate and obviously opposed her vigorously, these people are to
her left in this on twenty six cycle. I mean,
there's no question about it. In twenty twenty four, the
public wanted to change from the Biden Harris regime, but
part of it was I think that they thought Biden
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Harris went too far left, and they did, but this
is much further left than that. So I think midterms
are usually a referendum on the party in power. The
people that don't like the direction, they're motivated to vote,
and that's why we've seen these swings. But I think
this midterm is more a choice. Is it a choice
to turn the reins of power over to people that
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quite frankly hate this country and are more radical than
what we've seen in the Democratic Party in many years.
And that's saying something because the Democratic Party's produced quite a.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Bit of doozies.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I mean, I remember used to play Obama's pastor Jeremiah
Wright and all this stuff he was saying some of
the other stuff through through those years. You know, there's
a lot of serious hard left stuff. This is taking
it to an even more extreme dimension. And I just
think that voters are going to look at that and
it's like, you're not just voting for a change. If
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you vote for them, you know you're voting you're taking
a very risky bet.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
All right, quick break right back more with my greg.
Governor Ron de Santis from the Free State of Florida.
He is with us. He is here in South Dakota.
He'll be with us on Hannity tonight nine Eastern. Your
calls next half hour also coming up eight hundred nine
four one sean as we continue, all right, we continue,
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Governor Ronde Santis, he is here with us.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
We're in South Dakota.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
We are covering obviously the events tonight at Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
We're in South Dakota. It's a beautiful state.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
It's going to be a really special night, two hour
edition of Hannity nine to eleven. I hope you'll tune
in for that. The governor will join us as well
as wife Casey will join us.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
And the question is just this, like, you know, do
you want relief or not? Do you think because you
know when you go to the grocery store and it's
a lot more expensive. And the reality is this state
government doesn't control that. That's not anything you're going to
be able to do by voting in November or electing somebody.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
It just is.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
But at the state level, the one thing you can
control is how much they can tax you.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Do you want to.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Protect your property from the tax collectors or do you
want them to keep using it as an ATM.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
And that's your choice.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
And you know what, God bless you whichever way you choose.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
So as I watch you as my governor in the
Free State of Florida, although I'm in South Dakota today,
I noticed you don't stop. You have now been able
to work with the state legislature, and you now have
an opportunity to lower property taxes in a dramatic way
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for people's primary homes in the Free State of Florida,
which I think is probably one of the greatest opportunities
for people to live there. Now with everything that's happening
in California and states like Washington, in this wealth tax
that is being you know, floated in places like New
York and Illinois and other places, it's resulting and yet
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another wave of migration. I mean, you see Mark Zuckerberg,
you see two of the co founders of Google. You
saw what happened when Ken Griffin got docks by Mom Donnie.
He said, Okay, I'm not going to spend six billion
dollars in New York City.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I'm going to spend it in Miami.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
So you know, again there's another wave as these states
go more radical, especially from California, it seems because if
they passed that referendum, that wealth tax that that's retroactive
to January one of this year.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Yeah, so let's just show you how Florida runs. So
the last four years, we have reduced our budget every
single year. So four years ago, three years ago was
lower than four years ago, two years was lower than
three or the budget I just signed that just went
into effect is lower than all of those. And we've
had population growth and inflation, and yet we're still reducing
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our budget. In fact, Florida's total debt for its history,
we've retired fifty two percent of it just in my
tenure as governor. And that's the more aggressive that it's
ever happened. This is all while we have the most
income moving into our states and has ever moved into
another state.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
But the reason we're doing the property taxes.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
When I became governor, local governments were taking in thirty
two billion in property tax revenue. Today they're taking in
sixty to sixty one billion, seven and a half years later,
and that's purely because the state's done well. Property values
have gone up. They've been able to increase valuations, raise
the tax basis for new construction.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
All this other stuff.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
But and so My vision is your personal residence, your
homesteads should be totally tax free. The legislature is willing
to put kind of the first step on that, where
end up being two thirds off from what you have now,
But the vision is to get that.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
To be one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
We're going to need to do some stuff in future years,
but I think we can do it. But they say, oh,
you're not going to have money for all this other stuff.
Well wait a minute, you're still going to have like
eighty percent more revenue than you did six or seven
years ago.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Are you telling me you can't keep doing with that?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Florida at the state level, we're showing you how it's
done by reducing spending four years in a row, and
it's just unprecedent, and we have the lowest amount of
spending per capita of any state in the country.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
But Sean, you've been able to compare.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
New York to Florida. Is it easier to get a
driver's license here or there? Are the roads better here
or there? The universities and the schools better here or there?
I mean, the results speak for themselves. So what you're
going to see over the next four or five months
in Florida is people are going to say, oh, you know,
if we give people this property tax relief, you know, we're.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Not gonna have cops.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
We're not gonna have any of this other stuff. It's
all just scare tactics. This will be a really big
property tax rollback. To me, it's just the opening salvo.
We got to do more after that. And it's not
all that I.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Wanted the legislature to do.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
But still I'll take it, and I think it'll be
good for a lot of people. But they're going to
try to tell you the sky is going to fall.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Don't believe it.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
We reduce the budget at the state level, they can
reduce their budgets at the local level.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
So people need to understand when this is a referendum
come November, people in Florida, our free state, need to
vote for that property tax reduction. I quick break right
back more with my great Governor Ron de Santis from
the Free State of Florida. He is with us, he
is here in South Dakota. He'll be with us on
Hannity tonight, nine Eastern your calls next half hour.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Also coming up, more Hannity Less big Government. This is
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the Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
All right, twenty five now till the top of the hour,
toll free. Our number is eight hundred and ninety four
one Shaw on your calls. Coming up straight ahead, a
few more moments with my Governor Ron De Santis. You
announced yesterday that the Florida Cabinet officially designated ANTIFA, the
Muslim Brotherhood, the Council of American Islamic Relations as quote
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terrorist organizations under the law.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Primarily, it means any state or local government or any
entity that receives any taxpayer funding will lose that funding
if they have relationships with any of those groups. Now Antifa,
you know a little bit more on the outskirts, although
we believe there's some tools we're going to be able
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to use to be able to bring them to heal.
But if you look at CARE, they're an unindicted co
conspirator and the largest terror financing trial in American history.
If we have universal school choice, you as a parent,
get the scholarship you go to where you want. But
if you're going to a school that is affiliated with CARE,
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that scholarship is not going to be eligible to go
to a school like that. If a local government has
a program where they're funding things involving the Brotherhood or care.
You know that money is going to dry up, You're
not going.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
To do that.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
So this is kind of an innovative approach for the
state to be doing it. But we feel that there's
potential entanglements that we need to steer clear of.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
So we're being very aggressive to get out of this.
And look, I'm.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Just looking around the country and seeing some of the
noxious ideologies that are starting to become even mainstream Florida.
We want to remain the free state. We don't want
that getting a foothold here.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I want to ask you about this. You have a
new book coming out as called Dreams from our Founding Fathers.
Kind of appropriate considering we're celebrating America's two hundred and
fiftieth birthday. I did read that one thousand, seven hundred
and seventy six copies will be printed and each one
will be individually numbered and I guess signed by you
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limited edition?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Is that all your printing? That's it?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Yeah, because this was actually a book I did fifteen
years ago to kind of show how Obama, the Democratic
Party then was going off the rails, and I was
I think very right on a lot of the things
I was saying. But I was showing how has the
country founded? What were the ideas at the founders? And
so if you read the book, you're going to get
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a great X ray over all the building blocks that
made America what it is. But we thought for America
two fifty. People have been asking me over the years,
because it had been out of print, how do I
get to the one?
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Will? Will you redo it?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
And it even sold for a couple thousand dollars on
eBay at one point, and I said, listen, I don't
want to do a mass marketed book. I'll do a
new introduction. The rest of the book from fifteen years ago.
We'll only do seventeen seventy six. I'm signing and numbering
all of them. So if you're interested in doing that,
you go to DeSantis seventeen seventy six dot com. I
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think you'll find that the themes in that book are
very relevant today and the things that I was kind
of showing that that was concerning with Obama. If anything,
I undersold the danger now we see it, you know, really,
So you can go to Disanta seventeen seventy six dot
com Sewan, I'll reserve one copy.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
I'll just give you one tonight.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
I appreciate. I appreciate that. You know what's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Oh, Governor DeSantis is trying to bribe Hannity, and I'm like, no,
Hannity's been a DeSantis fan forever. But I'll gladly donate
pay for it, whatever whatever I have to do. I
really would like a copy of it. I think it's
pretty cool. I noticed you commented on the birthright citizen decision.
I'm not sure if you paid attention. We covered this
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story last night on television, but you got Tim Walls
and you've got you know, these lunatics on this pardon
board in Minnesota. There was a guy convicted of raping
a multiple times, a ten year old girl, a ten
year I mean, I can't even make this story up.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
It's such a it's such evil insanity.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
And you know, tampon, Tim ends up giving this guy
a pardon, and he got the support of the of
the Board of the pardon to do this for the
only reason, the only reason they did this so he
would not be deported back to his home country.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
It's ideology.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Run a mock And I think part of it is
going back to twenty sixteen, what did President Trump run
on on the wall immigration? And I think the left
has just gone opposite that to the point where they
give more rights and benefits.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
To people that come into this country illegally, you know,
than they do.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
If you're a working class American in California, you want
to start a small business, you know, you get hit
from all sides.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
You want to go illegally, you're gonna.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Get healthcare, you're gonna get education, you're gonna get all
these benefits. And they really turned the world upside down.
But I think the birthright citizenship decision was faulty. I
think a lot of the scholarship, particularly in recent years,
has shown that fourteenth Amendment was not originally understood to
apply to birth tourus or people who were here in
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violation of the law. That was certainly not the intent
of it, but nobody understood it to mean that. But
I think what happened sean because you know, when I
was in law school, we were just taught, oh yeah,
anybody on soil, that's it settled law. All that that
kind of just got bad for so long.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
So the challenge to this. People are like, well, wait
a minute, that's not what I was taught.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
But the reality is Justice Thomas and Justice Alito were.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Right on that.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
I think it was a very shaky decision, and I
wouldn't be surprised that to see a lot more pressure
both in future legal cases. I think there's a lot
of Congress can do to respond politically, but it was
a bad decision by Chief Justice Roberts.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Now, I know you're dialed in to finishing out your
term and finishing strong. It's kind of an obligatory question,
and I kind of hate asking it, but I have to.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
It's my job.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Do you have future plans, political plans at all?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
You're thinking about anything politically?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
You know, I'm taking it one day at a time,
Like you said, I'm going to run through the tape.
As you know, the whole political process is very volatile.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
There are things that are up and down, left and right.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
I mean, I think about when the early days of COVID,
I was taking contrary positions to Fauci and some of
the other in the media and all this stuff, and
I was getting obliterated, and a lot of my supporters.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Are like, dude, you're getting killed. You've got a reverse course.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
And I dug in and I said, and then six
months later everyone's like, oh, yeah, he's our hero.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
He's standing up for us.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
But at that time people thought that it was the
dumbest thing ever.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
So these things kind of go up and down politically.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
But I will be able to say, I think after
two terms that you're not going to find an example
in the modern history of the Republican Party with as
many conservative wins where the left has been defeated on
so many fronts. And just look at I inherited a
state with three hundred thousand more registered Democrats. We're leaving
the state with over one point five million more registered
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Republicans than Democrats. So that see change in that type
of period, I think is something that doesn't have a
peer throughout the country.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
And my vision when.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
I got in wasn't to just say, as a conservative,
you know, like Bill Buckley used to say, just stand
up for our history and yell stop. I had recognized
the left had won a lot of these battles and
we needed to recover ground from them and ultimately defeat them.
So the left, the strength of the left today in
Florida is virtually non existent. When I first got elected,
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that was a stronghold. Soros was pouring huge amounts of
money into the state. So I think we've shown you
can beat the left. It not easy, but if you're strong,
you can get it done well.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
I think the left in many ways is creating obstacles
themselves that I never anticipated.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Let me play for you. Believe it or not. Fake
news CNN.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
They have a pollster, his name is Harry Enton, and
this phenomenon now is showing up in poll after poll
after poll where Republicans are very proud to be Americans,
Democrats are not.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
And I want your interpretation of this. Let me play
this piece for you.
Speaker 8 (24:53):
You know, among Republicans, ninety three percent are extremely or
very proud. Just one, a single one say they have
little to no pride in being an American. But look
over at the Democratic side. This is where we've seen
this extremely or very number. It's been taking a tumble
at twenty seven percent.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
But look at this. The little or no proud.
Speaker 8 (25:12):
To be an American actually among Democrats eclipses is greater
than the extremely or very proud number.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
How is it possible that ninety three percent of Republicans
and only one percent or not are very proud of
their country, and only twenty seven percent of Democrats, and
there are more Democrats that are not proud of this country.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
What has happened?
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I think it's really concerning. I mean, part of it
is because we've become so polarized. We have President Trump
Republican in the White House. Some of these Dems, you know,
obviously they have derangement syndrome, so they're bleeding.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
They're letting that bleed in.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
To their view of the country as a whole. But
I also think it's larger than that. I do think
you have a more militant leftism that's taken hold produced
by a lot of these liberal univers cities over the years,
mind you, and they really do think America is the problem,
and they identified they identify more with third world critiques
of the Republic and American power through the years. So
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that puts us in this situation where we're not all
on the same sheet of music as a population in
terms of the foundational principles of this country. And what
I tell people is there's always things that are up
and down and politically this that there are definitely issues.
I would like to see a dressed or you would
like to see a dressed But when you take a
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step back from the daily political food fight, you have
to acknowledge we have inherited a unique legacy of liberty
that no other country in human history can say. We
had founders who were willing to risk at all because
they cared about freedom for future generations.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
And to be good stewards of that and to.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Do what needs to be done to preserve the republic
is a duty that we all share and be something
that We're glad that we have that inheritance, but it
also gives us a responsibility to not screw it up
going forward.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
All right, Governor Ronda Santis, my free state of Florida.
Glad you're with us here in South Dakota. Glad you're
gonna be on Hannity tonight. We got a two hour show,
nine to eleven PM, Eastern local times seven to nine.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
I think it's seven to nine.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Did I get that right? I think I did. Yeah,
all right, I got it right. You know, I got
to keep track of my times local, you know, Eastern time.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Whatever.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Governor, We always love having you, appreciate you being with
us it's I'm glad you are running through the tape,
and you know you keep working and keep trying to
you know, dot every I, cross every tea before you
leave office. You've done a phenomenal job for the state
of Florida. You never thought I'd move there. I'm now
heading into my fourth year in Florida. If you can
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believe it, you never thought it would happen.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Well, God bless you, buddy, and you've been a good
friend over the years to our state. And we look
forward to the show tonight.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Right, we'll take a quick break here, we'll come right back.
We're in South Dakota. We will be covering all of
tonight's events at Mount Rushmore. We've got a who's who
list of everybody that's going to be on the program tonight,
including Governor DeSantis, who was just on with us. We'll
hit the phones when we come back. It's toll free.
It's eight hundred and nine four one, Sean. If you
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want to be a part of the program.
Speaker 7 (28:30):
The final hour roundup is next. You do not want
to miss it, and stay tuned for the final hour
free for all on the Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
All right, let's get to our phones eight hundred and
nine four one show on our number if you want
to be a part of the program. Uh should I
do this?
Speaker 7 (29:13):
Mo?
Speaker 2 (29:13):
The Liberal?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Mo the Liberal has claimed I am the most dangerous
man in America.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
He's been saying it for years.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
If I'm that dangerous, how come your party's imploding?
Speaker 5 (29:26):
My party is not imploding at Mike.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Really, it's moving on.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Listen, Sean, before we get started here. Uh, happy birthday America,
all that kind of great stuff. Today is my granddaughter's birthday,
Maxine Ray. What's your happy birthday?
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Were you happy birthday? Maxim Ray? God bless you.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
I'm sorry that your grandpa is a little nutty, but
that's okay, all right. I got to ask you a question, Mo,
because you're in New York and you know your mayor
is Mumdani. Mamdanie endorsed three candidates that went against incumbents.
One of the candidates has said that they want to
seize the means of production, seize private property, seize people's homes,
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wants all police to be abolished, wants also to abolish
America's prisons, America's borders, and doesn't want anyone deported even
convicted illegals that are convicted of rape and murder. Now
that's your party. Will you vote for that, lady, and
don't duck that question.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
I have a unfortunately I live in the district of
Dan Goldman.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
If you could vote for her, would you.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Lost the primary to Brad Leander?
Speaker 2 (30:42):
If you could vote for her, would you?
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Coops, come on, what are you going to say? But
I'm irish, right.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Okay, So you're saying you would not vote for her?
Speaker 5 (30:52):
It blew up, lord and then back and well.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
I want you on record. You're saying you would not
vote for her if she was in your district?
Speaker 5 (31:00):
Would I? Yeah, I probably wouldn't vote for her. Why not?
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Probably wouldn't vote for her. That's not a no.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Who would be?
Speaker 2 (31:07):
So you may vote for her? And you did vote
for Mamdanni?
Speaker 5 (31:11):
No, I didn't vote for Mondani. I don't vote Joan.
I didn't have to vote. He was gonna win. I'd
vote in the last president, Joe.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
If you did vote, you would have voted for ma'mdannie.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
Oh Democratic.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
If you did vote, would you or would you not
have voted from ma'm donnie?
Speaker 5 (31:28):
Oh? Sure? I went to his party. It was great
down at the Palmont after he won. Yeah, hey, he's
a mayor. I worked for Mayor Lindsey.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
All right, listen, MO, At least I'll say this, you're
not part of the what seventy three percent of Democrats
that are not proud of their country. At least you're
wishing America happy two fiftieth. But there's really no hope
for you. You're done, You're gone, You've you've you've lost the plot.
And I'm telling you, mark my words, MO, your party
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is disintegrating before.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Your very eyes. Let's see if I'm right.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Quick Break, We're in South Dakota, Mount Rushmore. We will
be covering all of tonight's festivities from Mount Rushmore nine
to eleven Eastern on the Fox News Channel. Quick Break
right back, we'll continue
Hour two Sean Hannity Show, toll Free. It's eight hundred
and ninety four one, Shawn. If you want to be
a part of the program. We're in beautiful South Dakota
and we are going to be broadcasting tonight two hours
nine to eleven PM at Mount Rushmore. It's gonna be
a great fireworks display tomorrow, by the way, Saturday.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yes, I will be working.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I will be in our nation's capital, and of course
that's going to be the biggest fireworks display apparently in history.
What's kind of cool is my governor, the Governor of
the great Free State of Florida, Ron De Santis, is
actually here. He is in South Dakota. He's going to
be on our TV show tonight, and Governor, always an
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honor to have you. There's a ton of cool stuff
happening in our state. I'll get to that. Before I
do that, I went through this long history of Mount Rushmore,
how it was carved with dynamite, how it took fourteen
years of work, how they put all of this together,
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how there is how it almost wasn't built, and how
there's a hidden chamber behind you know, Abraham Lincoln's face,
Do you know a lot about it because when I
started reading it, I couldn't stop reading it.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
No, this is my first time I'm going to be
able to see it, so I'm looking forward to doing
the show with you tonight. I've just heard it's a
real engineering marvel. I have actually flown over it in
the past, and it's like conspicus even if you're in
the air because it's so big. So I think it's
going to be a fitting Nights is to celebrate the
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beginning of the America two fifty weekend. And this is
a really important anniversary for our country because we have
a unique founding. We had founding fathers who risked everything
and they had a lot to lose because they felt
so strongly about establishing a nation where your rights come
from God, not from government, where we have.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Rule of law, not the rule of individual men.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
And they knew that it had never worked in all
of human history. But by GOLLI in the United States,
we were going to get it done. And that's the
American experiment, and that's what we're fortunate to inherit as
Americans living in the year twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
You know, it really is amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I'd really be negligent if I didn't get your reaction to,
for example, all of these radicals now that the Democratic
Party is now nominating, I keep making the case that
these are uncharted waters for a midterm election. You know,
I've gone through chapter and verse on Grand Platner and
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his Nazi tattoo and every other bizarre thing and position
that he's had in the course of his life and career.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
We have gone over you know, six gender tell Rico.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
By the way, if you know what the other four
genders are, Governor, I'd really appreciate it if you can
inform us. I've I've been putting out the call to everybody.
Nobody can tell me he's fighting for the right of biological.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Oh, shut that down.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
In Florida, we had to battle Disney. We wanted to
make sure that our kids could go to school and
not be told that there are you know, sixty five genders,
and so in Florida, all that's been dead on arrival.
So I must confess I'm a little ignorant about all that,
because when we saw that coming down the pike four
or five years ago, we put the kai bosh on
it very quickly.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
By the way, did you know that tall Rico has
been championing the rights not only for men to play
women's sports, but the right for biological men to have
access to abortion. Now when I read that, I'm thinking,
maybe I need to go back to school and start
taking some biology classes, because obviously I must have missed something.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Oh, look, I think these midterm elections historically, and you've
talked about this, there's a bounce the other way right.
Obama got in, Republicans had a big year, Trump got
in in sixteen, Democrats took the House in eighteen. On
and on it goes, and there's reasons for that. But
I think on this one, questions are going to be Okay,
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you know, the typical instinct is to try to change
a little bit, but what are you changing to? This
is not just the John F. Kennedy Democratic Party. Heck,
this is a lot more radical than than Obama's Democratic
Party froma to twenty sixteen even and even more than
under Biden.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
That they just are.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Accelerating their embrace of very far left ideologies. But I
think the issue, so people think about okay, two fifty
as a country, what's going for? What are the problems?
You know, these candidates that are winning. It's just emblematic
that we don't really have a shared civic culture right
now in America. Because if you have that shared civic culture,
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that same foundation, you have the same basic principles that
you subscribe to, you can color in the lines, you
can argue about on the margins.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Taxes, all this other stuff. You got people that.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Are getting elected that think the America two fifty is
a bad thing. They think the American founding is a
bad thing. They think the founding fathers or villains, and
so they want to refound this country on leftist ideology.
And so so that is something you can't just deal
with it and somehow come to a resolution.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
You have to defeat it.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
So I'm looking at now, you know the people that
are representing the Democratic Party. There's two aspects of this
that I see. You've got Graham Platner, You've got James
tell Erico. You got this guy El Sayad. You saw
this woman win in Colorado against what a fifteen term
incumbent in Colorado that was That was pretty fascinating a lot.
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Kiros is her name, both Kiros and El Sayed in Michigan,
who's running for Senate. You know both have been out
there on the campaign trail with you know, Hassan Piker,
who is on tape. I can play it for you
if you want to hear it, you know, claiming that
America deserve nine to eleven. And so it's the party
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of Ma'm Donnie, Grandpa Bernie. It's the party of Pocahontas
and Mom Donnie and AOC and the squad. So that's
one aspect of it. They are electing now the most
extreme candidates. The other aspect of this is the almost
complete silence from the rest of the Democratic Party. Now,
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if there are radicals or extremists in any movement that
I'm a part of, I don't want anything to do
with these people. And I'm not going to be quiet
about it. What you know what, why won't Chuck Schumer,
Why won't Hakeem Jeffries, Why won't other Democrats? But for
John Fetterman, you know, dare criticize these people?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Well, I mean it's just like you know, you think
that if you if you feed the alligators somehow, they're not.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Going to eat you. I can tell you as a
governor down here in Florida, the alligator is still going
to eat you.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
That's just the way it is, and that's the way
the the this movement is there. They are going to
devour all these people. We had a little bit of
a tussle with Haakim Jeffries when I was doing the
redistricting a couple months ago, and he started threatening Florida.
He's like saying, oh, We're going to wage wool for
all this stuff. And I had never said anything about
the guy. I just kind of ignored him, and so
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you know, I responded. But one of the things I
was saying was he is a very far left guy.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
He's this Brooklyn political machine.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
But yet the far left hates him, They hate Schumer.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
These are very liberal people.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
And yet they can never go far enough for this
very militant movement. So by them kind of acquiescing to it,
all it's doing is going to assure that they may
be the last to be eaten, but it isn't going
to prevent them from being eaten.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
In the end.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
So in my mind, I can't think of a midterm
that has ever been like this. I keep saying, these
are uncharted waters. In other words, you know, think back
one hundred and fifty years. I can't remember any one
major party that has has gone so solidly radical as
we're witnessing now with the Democratic Party. And I think
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anybody that claims that they know how this is going
to play out, I think they're guessing. I don't even
think the issues that will define the outcome of this
midterm have even happened yet. I think a lot will
depend on the economy, what happens in Iran. I think
there are a lot of other factors. But more importantly,
here's the question, are hard working blue collar Democrats in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia,
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North Carolina? Are they going to go along with this
new adopted radicalism and the silence, the deafening silence of
the so called leaders of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Well, they didn't in twenty twenty four. And as much
as I had no interest in Kamala Harris as a
candidate and obviously opposed her vigorously, these people are to
her left in this on twenty six cycle. I mean,
there's no question about it. In twenty twenty four, the
public wanted to change from the Biden Harris regime, but
part of it was I think that they thought Biden
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Harris went too far left, and they did, but this
is much further left than that. So I think midterms
are usually a referendum on the party in power. The
people that don't like the direction, they're motivated to vote,
and that's why we've seen these swings. But I think
this midterm is more a choice. Is it a choice
to turn the reins of power over to people that
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quite frankly hate this country and are more radical than
what we've seen in the Democratic Party in many years.
And that's saying something because the Democratic Party's produced quite a.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Bit of doozies.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I mean, I remember used to play Obama's pastor Jeremiah
Wright and all this stuff he was saying some of
the other stuff through through those years. You know, there's
a lot of serious hard left stuff. This is taking
it to an even more extreme dimension. And I just
think that voters are going to look at that and
it's like, you're not just voting for a change. If
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you vote for them, you know you're voting you're taking
a very risky bet.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
All right, quick break right back more with my greg.
Governor Ron de Santis from the Free State of Florida.
He is with us. He is here in South Dakota.
He'll be with us on Hannity tonight nine Eastern. Your
calls next half hour also coming up eight hundred nine
four one sean as we continue, all right, we continue,
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Governor Ronde Santis, he is here with us.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
We're in South Dakota.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
We are covering obviously the events tonight at Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
We're in South Dakota. It's a beautiful state.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
It's going to be a really special night, two hour
edition of Hannity nine to eleven. I hope you'll tune
in for that. The governor will join us as well
as wife Casey will join us.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
And the question is just this, like, you know, do
you want relief or not? Do you think because you
know when you go to the grocery store and it's
a lot more expensive. And the reality is this state
government doesn't control that. That's not anything you're going to
be able to do by voting in November or electing somebody.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
It just is.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
But at the state level, the one thing you can
control is how much they can tax you.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Do you want to.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Protect your property from the tax collectors or do you
want them to keep using it as an ATM.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
And that's your choice.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
And you know what, God bless you whichever way you choose.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
So as I watch you as my governor in the
Free State of Florida, although I'm in South Dakota today,
I noticed you don't stop. You have now been able
to work with the state legislature, and you now have
an opportunity to lower property taxes in a dramatic way
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for people's primary homes in the Free State of Florida,
which I think is probably one of the greatest opportunities
for people to live there. Now with everything that's happening
in California and states like Washington, in this wealth tax
that is being you know, floated in places like New
York and Illinois and other places, it's resulting and yet
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another wave of migration. I mean, you see Mark Zuckerberg,
you see two of the co founders of Google. You
saw what happened when Ken Griffin got docks by Mom Donnie.
He said, Okay, I'm not going to spend six billion
dollars in New York City.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I'm going to spend it in Miami.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
So you know, again there's another wave as these states
go more radical, especially from California, it seems because if
they passed that referendum, that wealth tax that that's retroactive
to January one of this year.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Yeah, so let's just show you how Florida runs. So
the last four years, we have reduced our budget every
single year. So four years ago, three years ago was
lower than four years ago, two years was lower than
three or the budget I just signed that just went
into effect is lower than all of those. And we've
had population growth and inflation, and yet we're still reducing
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our budget. In fact, Florida's total debt for its history,
we've retired fifty two percent of it just in my
tenure as governor. And that's the more aggressive that it's
ever happened. This is all while we have the most
income moving into our states and has ever moved into
another state.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
But the reason we're doing the property taxes.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
When I became governor, local governments were taking in thirty
two billion in property tax revenue. Today they're taking in
sixty to sixty one billion, seven and a half years later,
and that's purely because the state's done well. Property values
have gone up. They've been able to increase valuations, raise
the tax basis for new construction.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
All this other stuff.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
But and so My vision is your personal residence, your
homesteads should be totally tax free. The legislature is willing
to put kind of the first step on that, where
end up being two thirds off from what you have now,
But the vision is to get that.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
To be one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
We're going to need to do some stuff in future years,
but I think we can do it. But they say, oh,
you're not going to have money for all this other stuff.
Well wait a minute, you're still going to have like
eighty percent more revenue than you did six or seven
years ago.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Are you telling me you can't keep doing with that?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Florida at the state level, we're showing you how it's
done by reducing spending four years in a row, and
it's just unprecedent, and we have the lowest amount of
spending per capita of any state in the country.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
But Sean, you've been able to compare.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
New York to Florida. Is it easier to get a
driver's license here or there? Are the roads better here
or there? The universities and the schools better here or there?
I mean, the results speak for themselves. So what you're
going to see over the next four or five months
in Florida is people are going to say, oh, you know,
if we give people this property tax relief, you know, we're.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Not gonna have cops.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
We're not gonna have any of this other stuff. It's
all just scare tactics. This will be a really big
property tax rollback. To me, it's just the opening salvo.
We got to do more after that. And it's not
all that I.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Wanted the legislature to do.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
But still I'll take it, and I think it'll be
good for a lot of people. But they're going to
try to tell you the sky is going to fall.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Don't believe it.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
We reduce the budget at the state level, they can
reduce their budgets at the local level.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
So people need to understand when this is a referendum
come November, people in Florida, our free state, need to
vote for that property tax reduction. I quick break right
back more with my great Governor Ron de Santis from
the Free State of Florida. He is with us, he
is here in South Dakota. He'll be with us on
Hannity tonight, nine Eastern your calls next half hour.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Also coming up, more Hannity Less big Government. This is
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the Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
All right, twenty five now till the top of the hour,
toll free. Our number is eight hundred and ninety four
one Shaw on your calls. Coming up straight ahead, a
few more moments with my Governor Ron De Santis. You
announced yesterday that the Florida Cabinet officially designated ANTIFA, the
Muslim Brotherhood, the Council of American Islamic Relations as quote
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terrorist organizations under the law.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Primarily, it means any state or local government or any
entity that receives any taxpayer funding will lose that funding
if they have relationships with any of those groups. Now Antifa,
you know a little bit more on the outskirts, although
we believe there's some tools we're going to be able
(17:09):
to use to be able to bring them to heal.
But if you look at CARE, they're an unindicted co
conspirator and the largest terror financing trial in American history.
If we have universal school choice, you as a parent,
get the scholarship you go to where you want. But
if you're going to a school that is affiliated with CARE,
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that scholarship is not going to be eligible to go
to a school like that. If a local government has
a program where they're funding things involving the Brotherhood or care.
You know that money is going to dry up, You're
not going.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
To do that.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
So this is kind of an innovative approach for the
state to be doing it. But we feel that there's
potential entanglements that we need to steer clear of.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
So we're being very aggressive to get out of this.
And look, I'm.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Just looking around the country and seeing some of the
noxious ideologies that are starting to become even mainstream Florida.
We want to remain the free state. We don't want
that getting a foothold here.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I want to ask you about this. You have a
new book coming out as called Dreams from our Founding Fathers.
Kind of appropriate considering we're celebrating America's two hundred and
fiftieth birthday. I did read that one thousand, seven hundred
and seventy six copies will be printed and each one
will be individually numbered and I guess signed by you
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limited edition?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Is that all your printing? That's it?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Yeah, because this was actually a book I did fifteen
years ago to kind of show how Obama, the Democratic
Party then was going off the rails, and I was
I think very right on a lot of the things
I was saying. But I was showing how has the
country founded? What were the ideas at the founders? And
so if you read the book, you're going to get
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a great X ray over all the building blocks that
made America what it is. But we thought for America
two fifty. People have been asking me over the years,
because it had been out of print, how do I
get to the one?
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Will? Will you redo it?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
And it even sold for a couple thousand dollars on
eBay at one point, and I said, listen, I don't
want to do a mass marketed book. I'll do a
new introduction. The rest of the book from fifteen years ago.
We'll only do seventeen seventy six. I'm signing and numbering
all of them. So if you're interested in doing that,
you go to DeSantis seventeen seventy six dot com. I
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think you'll find that the themes in that book are
very relevant today and the things that I was kind
of showing that that was concerning with Obama. If anything,
I undersold the danger now we see it, you know, really,
So you can go to Disanta seventeen seventy six dot
com Sewan, I'll reserve one copy.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
I'll just give you one tonight.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
I appreciate. I appreciate that. You know what's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Oh, Governor DeSantis is trying to bribe Hannity, and I'm like, no,
Hannity's been a DeSantis fan forever. But I'll gladly donate
pay for it, whatever whatever I have to do. I
really would like a copy of it. I think it's
pretty cool. I noticed you commented on the birthright citizen decision.
I'm not sure if you paid attention. We covered this
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story last night on television, but you got Tim Walls
and you've got you know, these lunatics on this pardon
board in Minnesota. There was a guy convicted of raping
a multiple times, a ten year old girl, a ten
year I mean, I can't even make this story up.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
It's such a it's such evil insanity.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
And you know, tampon, Tim ends up giving this guy
a pardon, and he got the support of the of
the Board of the pardon to do this for the
only reason, the only reason they did this so he
would not be deported back to his home country.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
It's ideology.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Run a mock And I think part of it is
going back to twenty sixteen, what did President Trump run
on on the wall immigration? And I think the left
has just gone opposite that to the point where they
give more rights and benefits.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
To people that come into this country illegally, you know,
than they do.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
If you're a working class American in California, you want
to start a small business, you know, you get hit
from all sides.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
You want to go illegally, you're gonna.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Get healthcare, you're gonna get education, you're gonna get all
these benefits. And they really turned the world upside down.
But I think the birthright citizenship decision was faulty. I
think a lot of the scholarship, particularly in recent years,
has shown that fourteenth Amendment was not originally understood to
apply to birth tourus or people who were here in
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violation of the law. That was certainly not the intent
of it, but nobody understood it to mean that. But
I think what happened sean because you know, when I
was in law school, we were just taught, oh yeah,
anybody on soil, that's it settled law. All that that
kind of just got bad for so long.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
So the challenge to this. People are like, well, wait
a minute, that's not what I was taught.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
But the reality is Justice Thomas and Justice Alito were.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Right on that.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
I think it was a very shaky decision, and I
wouldn't be surprised that to see a lot more pressure
both in future legal cases. I think there's a lot
of Congress can do to respond politically, but it was
a bad decision by Chief Justice Roberts.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Now, I know you're dialed in to finishing out your
term and finishing strong. It's kind of an obligatory question,
and I kind of hate asking it, but I have to.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
It's my job.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Do you have future plans, political plans at all?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
You're thinking about anything politically?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
You know, I'm taking it one day at a time,
Like you said, I'm going to run through the tape.
As you know, the whole political process is very volatile.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
There are things that are up and down, left and right.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
I mean, I think about when the early days of COVID,
I was taking contrary positions to Fauci and some of
the other in the media and all this stuff, and
I was getting obliterated, and a lot of my supporters.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Are like, dude, you're getting killed. You've got a reverse course.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
And I dug in and I said, and then six
months later everyone's like, oh, yeah, he's our hero.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
He's standing up for us.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
But at that time people thought that it was the
dumbest thing ever.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
So these things kind of go up and down politically.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
But I will be able to say, I think after
two terms that you're not going to find an example
in the modern history of the Republican Party with as
many conservative wins where the left has been defeated on
so many fronts. And just look at I inherited a
state with three hundred thousand more registered Democrats. We're leaving
the state with over one point five million more registered
(23:44):
Republicans than Democrats. So that see change in that type
of period, I think is something that doesn't have a
peer throughout the country.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
And my vision when.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
I got in wasn't to just say, as a conservative,
you know, like Bill Buckley used to say, just stand
up for our history and yell stop. I had recognized
the left had won a lot of these battles and
we needed to recover ground from them and ultimately defeat them.
So the left, the strength of the left today in
Florida is virtually non existent. When I first got elected,
(24:16):
that was a stronghold. Soros was pouring huge amounts of
money into the state. So I think we've shown you
can beat the left. It not easy, but if you're strong,
you can get it done well.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
I think the left in many ways is creating obstacles
themselves that I never anticipated.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Let me play for you. Believe it or not. Fake
news CNN.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
They have a pollster, his name is Harry Enton, and
this phenomenon now is showing up in poll after poll
after poll where Republicans are very proud to be Americans,
Democrats are not.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
And I want your interpretation of this. Let me play
this piece for you.
Speaker 8 (24:53):
You know, among Republicans, ninety three percent are extremely or
very proud. Just one, a single one say they have
little to no pride in being an American. But look
over at the Democratic side. This is where we've seen
this extremely or very number. It's been taking a tumble
at twenty seven percent.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
But look at this. The little or no proud.
Speaker 8 (25:12):
To be an American actually among Democrats eclipses is greater
than the extremely or very proud number.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
How is it possible that ninety three percent of Republicans
and only one percent or not are very proud of
their country, and only twenty seven percent of Democrats, and
there are more Democrats that are not proud of this country.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
What has happened?
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I think it's really concerning. I mean, part of it
is because we've become so polarized. We have President Trump
Republican in the White House. Some of these Dems, you know,
obviously they have derangement syndrome, so they're bleeding.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
They're letting that bleed in.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
To their view of the country as a whole. But
I also think it's larger than that. I do think
you have a more militant leftism that's taken hold produced
by a lot of these liberal univers cities over the years,
mind you, and they really do think America is the problem,
and they identified they identify more with third world critiques
of the Republic and American power through the years. So
(26:13):
that puts us in this situation where we're not all
on the same sheet of music as a population in
terms of the foundational principles of this country. And what
I tell people is there's always things that are up
and down and politically this that there are definitely issues.
I would like to see a dressed or you would
like to see a dressed But when you take a
(26:34):
step back from the daily political food fight, you have
to acknowledge we have inherited a unique legacy of liberty
that no other country in human history can say. We
had founders who were willing to risk at all because
they cared about freedom for future generations.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
And to be good stewards of that and to.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Do what needs to be done to preserve the republic
is a duty that we all share and be something
that We're glad that we have that inheritance, but it
also gives us a responsibility to not screw it up
going forward.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
All right, Governor Ronda Santis, my free state of Florida.
Glad you're with us here in South Dakota. Glad you're
gonna be on Hannity tonight. We got a two hour show,
nine to eleven PM, Eastern local times seven to nine.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
I think it's seven to nine.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Did I get that right? I think I did. Yeah,
all right, I got it right. You know, I got
to keep track of my times local, you know, Eastern time.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Whatever.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Governor, We always love having you, appreciate you being with
us it's I'm glad you are running through the tape,
and you know you keep working and keep trying to
you know, dot every I, cross every tea before you
leave office. You've done a phenomenal job for the state
of Florida. You never thought I'd move there. I'm now
heading into my fourth year in Florida. If you can
(27:56):
believe it, you never thought it would happen.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Well, God bless you, buddy, and you've been a good
friend over the years to our state. And we look
forward to the show tonight.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Right, we'll take a quick break here, we'll come right back.
We're in South Dakota. We will be covering all of
tonight's events at Mount Rushmore. We've got a who's who
list of everybody that's going to be on the program tonight,
including Governor DeSantis, who was just on with us. We'll
hit the phones when we come back. It's toll free.
It's eight hundred and nine four one, Sean. If you
(28:24):
want to be a part of the program.
Speaker 7 (28:30):
The final hour roundup is next. You do not want
to miss it, and stay tuned for the final hour
free for all on the Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
All right, let's get to our phones eight hundred and
nine four one show on our number if you want
to be a part of the program. Uh should I
do this?
Speaker 7 (29:13):
Mo?
Speaker 2 (29:13):
The Liberal?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Mo the Liberal has claimed I am the most dangerous
man in America.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
He's been saying it for years.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
If I'm that dangerous, how come your party's imploding?
Speaker 5 (29:26):
My party is not imploding at Mike.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Really, it's moving on.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Listen, Sean, before we get started here. Uh, happy birthday America,
all that kind of great stuff. Today is my granddaughter's birthday,
Maxine Ray. What's your happy birthday?
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Were you happy birthday? Maxim Ray? God bless you.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
I'm sorry that your grandpa is a little nutty, but
that's okay, all right. I got to ask you a question, Mo,
because you're in New York and you know your mayor
is Mumdani. Mamdanie endorsed three candidates that went against incumbents.
One of the candidates has said that they want to
seize the means of production, seize private property, seize people's homes,
(30:11):
wants all police to be abolished, wants also to abolish
America's prisons, America's borders, and doesn't want anyone deported even
convicted illegals that are convicted of rape and murder. Now
that's your party. Will you vote for that, lady, and
don't duck that question.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
I have a unfortunately I live in the district of
Dan Goldman.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
If you could vote for her, would you.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Lost the primary to Brad Leander?
Speaker 2 (30:42):
If you could vote for her, would you?
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Coops, come on, what are you going to say? But
I'm irish, right.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Okay, So you're saying you would not vote for her?
Speaker 5 (30:52):
It blew up, lord and then back and well.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
I want you on record. You're saying you would not
vote for her if she was in your district?
Speaker 5 (31:00):
Would I? Yeah, I probably wouldn't vote for her. Why not?
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Probably wouldn't vote for her. That's not a no.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Who would be?
Speaker 2 (31:07):
So you may vote for her? And you did vote
for Mamdanni?
Speaker 5 (31:11):
No, I didn't vote for Mondani. I don't vote Joan.
I didn't have to vote. He was gonna win. I'd
vote in the last president, Joe.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
If you did vote, you would have voted for ma'mdannie.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
Oh Democratic.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
If you did vote, would you or would you not
have voted from ma'm donnie?
Speaker 5 (31:28):
Oh? Sure? I went to his party. It was great
down at the Palmont after he won. Yeah, hey, he's
a mayor. I worked for Mayor Lindsey.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
All right, listen, MO, At least I'll say this, you're
not part of the what seventy three percent of Democrats
that are not proud of their country. At least you're
wishing America happy two fiftieth. But there's really no hope
for you. You're done, You're gone, You've you've you've lost the plot.
And I'm telling you, mark my words, MO, your party
(32:01):
is disintegrating before.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Your very eyes. Let's see if I'm right.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Quick Break, We're in South Dakota, Mount Rushmore. We will
be covering all of tonight's festivities from Mount Rushmore nine
to eleven Eastern on the Fox News Channel. Quick Break
right back, we'll continue
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