Newsom Under Challenge - September 8th, Hour 3
The Sean Hannity Show
Sean Hannity
4.0 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In the latest News Roundup, Sean Hannity dives into California's high-stakes gubernatorial battle, featuring incumbent Gavin Newsom and Republican challenger Steve Hilton. Sean frames Newsom as an absentee "part-time governor" struggling with soaring taxes, homelessness, and sanctuary policies, while highlighting Hilton's energetic campaign to reclaim the California Dream. Hilton discusses his strategies, including a focus on working-class voters, voter ID initiatives, and a federal lawsuit against Democratic redistricting. This conversation matters because it showcases the real possibility of political change in deep-blue California and offers insights into national trends that could impact 2024 and beyond.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Coming up next, our final news roundup and information overload hour. |
| 0:09.7 | All right, news roundup, information overload hour. |
| 0:11.6 | Here's our toll-free telephone number. |
| 0:13.2 | If you want to be a part of the program, it's 800-9-4-1. |
| 0:15.9 | Sean, if you would like to join us, it's very interesting that the part-time governor of California that loves attention, |
| 0:24.9 | the guy that is missing in action, |
| 0:27.3 | you know, |
| 0:27.5 | a guy that has no explanation why fire hydrants in the Pacific Palisades |
| 0:32.5 | during the predictable wildfires and Santa Ana winds |
| 0:37.2 | that knocked out nearly what 13,000 homes |
| 0:39.7 | he doesn't have an answer for ask local officials was one of the answers that he gave |
| 0:44.8 | now he's actually trying to claim the reservoirs were brimming over with water well that's not |
| 0:50.8 | according to reports that we've seen and reported on and he's now a part part-time governor, full-time governor Tweedy Bird, we call him, full-time podcaster, full-time Trump hater. |
| 1:01.3 | And he's garnered a lot of attention. |
| 1:03.6 | He was on the cover of drudge yesterday. |
| 1:05.8 | Democrats, you know, great new hope. |
| 1:08.7 | But if he's going to run a national campaign is going to be very different |
| 1:14.6 | than running a campaign in california especially with his track record especially when you have |
| 1:20.3 | the highest income taxes in the nation the highest sales taxes in the country the highest gas |
| 1:25.1 | taxes in the country the sixth highest corporate taxes in the country, the sixth highest corporate taxes in the |
| 1:28.7 | country. |
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