SAVE Act, ICE Crackdown & The 2026 Midterm Battle
The Sean Hannity Show
Sean Hannity
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🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In this powerful hour of The Sean Hannity Show, Sean Hannity lays out what he calls the defining political and cultural fight heading into the 2026 midterms: border security, voter integrity, and sanctuary state policies. Hannity breaks down the House passage of the SAVE Act requiring proof of citizenship for voting and previews the Senate battle ahead, arguing that Democrats are resisting basic election safeguards. He contrasts current immigration rhetoric with past statements from Democratic leaders and accuses sanctuary jurisdictions of obstructing federal law enforcement and putting communities at risk. The program also examines escalating tensions surrounding ICE operations, rising crime statistics tied to illegal immigration, and what Hannity describes as the dangerous consequences of political rhetoric targeting law enforcement. As global tensions rise and America reasserts itself on the world stage, Hannity frames this moment as a choice election about law, order, sovereignty, and national strength.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:22.4 | Guaranteed Human. Thanks to all of you for being with us. Write down our toll-free telephone number. You want to be a part of the program, 800-9-4-1-1-Shon. You want to join us. Hillary Clinton tell the BBC that she and Bill Clinton have no links to Jeffrey Epstein. Did you hear that, Linda? No links at all. You know, we have no links. |
| 0:29.0 | So the pictures of Bill and the pool and the hot tub and with the young girl, I guess that has nothing. My eyes must be deceiving me again. Like for four years of Biden when he was in |
| 0:35.4 | complete cognitive decline, my eyes lie to me all the time, |
| 0:39.9 | or all those people crossing the border illegally into our country that I saw, and we were |
| 0:46.6 | chronicling every day and every night, just like Joe's cognitive decline. I didn't see any of that |
| 0:51.3 | either. I must, I've got to work on my eyes. |
| 0:54.6 | My eyes, I must be blind because I'm seeing things that don't exist, at least according to them. |
| 1:02.3 | It is fascinating to watch Republicans now in some ways they're beginning to get their act together. |
| 1:09.7 | Look, it's never going to be fast enough for me. |
| 1:12.4 | And it's at times, it gets frustrating the way the, you know, the grind of Washington is so slow. |
| 1:19.1 | It's frustrating. |
| 1:19.9 | Now, the House did pass the SAVE Act, which would require proof of citizenship and voter ID for elections. |
| 1:29.4 | The president swears and promises he's going to get this done. |
| 1:32.1 | Now the Senate has met the 50 vote threshold for the Trump-backed voter ID bill as now a Senate fight is looming. |
| 1:42.7 | And again, I refer back to my interview last week with Mike Lee |
| 1:45.9 | and with Senator Ted Cruz on this issue. And they both want and are going to demand that |
| 1:52.0 | Democrats actually do a real filibuster and stand there and talk for as many hours as they're |
| 1:58.1 | humanly capable of talking. And then hopefully we can get a vote on this and get an up or down vote. |
| 2:04.0 | Democrats don't want this vote. |
| 2:06.6 | And it is amazing. |
| 2:08.8 | It was a great piece in the Washington Times today. |
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