Politics, Crime, Economy, and School Security Roundup - September 2nd, Hour 3
The Sean Hannity Show
Sean Hannity
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🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Sean Hannity surveys off-year gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey, tying them to migration, redistricting, and a broader law and order debate amid criticism of Chicago's leadership. Newt Gingrich joins to argue that Trump's multitiered agenda on the border, crime, taxes, tariffs, spending, and foreign conflicts created short-term confusion but could yield stronger growth, energy dominance, and major manufacturing gains by next year. They discuss potential Fed rate cuts, defenses of tariffs, and intra-Democratic tensions, including Virginia sanctuary policies and speculation about Chuck Schumer facing pressure from AOC. Other notes include Space Force's move to Huntsville. Hannity closes by defending his proposal for school security and metal detectors and retired law enforcement/military volunteers with tax incentives after backlash to his comments following a Minneapolis school shooting.
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| 0:04.1 | All right, news roundup and information overload hour. |
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| 0:09.5 | Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, |
| 0:12.6 | on if you look big picture, you know, |
| 0:15.4 | I know a lot of people are going to probably put a lot in the gubernatorial races. Again, it's kind of an off-year |
| 0:24.6 | election, and we have Glenn Yonkin in the Commonwealth of Virginia. You can only serve one |
| 0:31.3 | consecutive term. And it's unfortunate because I think it would be a great, but he also has |
| 0:37.1 | Winston Sears, who would be a great governor in my view, although she's down on the polls right now. |
| 0:41.8 | And then we have a New Jersey gubernatorial race, and New Jersey, like California, in New York and Illinois, has experienced the mass migration, people that I believe would otherwise vote Republican. |
| 0:53.4 | I don't think it's going to be a harbinger |
| 0:55.5 | of things to come in the midterms, although Donald Trump will have to defy history if he's going to |
| 1:03.9 | win, keep the House and keep the Senate. But I do believe the billion five that Republicans |
| 1:09.6 | have cash on hand and the fact that states like Texas and others, Missouri seems to be next, are going to do exactly what the Democrats have done, which with gerrymandering. |
| 1:21.2 | And that is that they're going to create more Republican districts and follow the same rules the Democrats have perfected. |
| 1:27.7 | I think it's going to be helpful. |
| 1:29.5 | But more importantly, I think on issues, Democrats are upside down and sideways. |
| 1:34.2 | On the issue of law and order and safety and security, you know, listening to the mayor of |
| 1:38.8 | Chicago, berating Donald Trump, the governor of Chicago, J.B. Pritzker, berating Donald Trump. And meanwhile, |
| 1:45.8 | 58 shot and eight dead over the Labor Day weekend. What, that's not enough to encourage people |
| 1:51.4 | to bring law and order and safety and security to the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago. |
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