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Hello, America, and welcome to the Sean Hannity Show.

As you probably know, like most sensible people, Sean is taking his annual year-end vacation.

2025 is almost over with, and Sean will be back and ready to go when 2026 arrives.

So, this is Jeffrey Lord, the contributing editor of the American Spectator, filling in for Sean.

And I thought with 2026 arriving, we can start to take a look at what will be a big, ongoing topic next year, that

being the 26 election for state governors and members of the U.S. Senate and House. We have

five interesting Senate races in Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, and North Carolina that are going

to be up for grabs, and Republicans certainly are going to be pouring everything they can into an

effort to win those seats to keep their Senate majority going.

In my own Pennsylvania, and I'll come back to this a little bit more and a bit, but in my own Pennsylvania, we're going to have a very important governor's race with Republican Stacey

Garrity, who is our current state treasurer, who won in unbelievable

margins when she was elected state treasurer, and she is going to be the Republican nominee

for governor running against the Democrat governor, Josh Shapiro. So we will have state

treasurer Garrity on to talk about that.

And she's a very interesting person. I confess she's a friend, but let me fill you in a bit on

her background. She served in the United States Army Reserve for 30 years, notably with three deployments in the Gulf and Iraq wars.

When she left, after those 30 years, she had earned the rank of colonel and earned two bronze stars and the Legion of Merit.

Moving into the private sector, Stacey served as the vice president of Global Tungsten and

Powder's Corporation, a company based in Tawanda, Pennsylvania.

And she was elected the Pennsylvania State Treasurer in 2020 and reelected overwhelmingly

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