Texas Turns Red
The Sean Hannity Show
Sean Hannity
4.0 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Sean Hannity breaks down a major political night in Texas as Attorney General Ken Paxton defeats longtime Senator John Cornyn in one of the most closely watched Republican primary battles of the year. Hannity analyzes why President Trump’s endorsements continue dominating Republican politics and what the results could mean heading into the 2026 midterm elections. The hour also explores the growing divide inside the Democratic Party, with Hannity focusing heavily on progressive candidates and cultural issues surrounding gender identity, immigration, and socialism.
The episode features commentary on the future of Texas politics, President Trump’s influence over the Republican base, and the broader national implications of the primary results. Hannity also examines Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico’s controversial comments on gender, abortion, and immigration while arguing that the Democratic Party continues moving further left. Throughout the hour, Hannity mixes sharp political analysis with discussion about the economy, voter turnout, and Republican momentum heading toward November.
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| 0:15.2 | Linda, are you following all the nuttiness that's going on? |
| 0:18.3 | Now, Donald Trump, if you look at the midterms and you look |
| 0:21.8 | at incumbents, Bill Cassidy, Thomas Massey, now John Corny in Texas, they all went down. |
| 0:29.8 | And what do they all have in common is Donald Trump supported their opponent. He is, |
| 0:34.9 | every single person that he has endorsed over a sitting incumbent has lost. |
| 0:42.9 | And let me just give you the overall statistics. |
| 0:46.9 | If you are an incumbent and you're running for reelection, the odds are over 90% that you're |
| 0:53.6 | going to win your seat back. |
| 0:56.2 | I mean, there's a lot of interesting stories to come out of last night, but it was pretty |
| 1:00.9 | fascinating to watch this. |
| 1:02.7 | And not only are his candidates winning, they are dominating. |
| 1:06.5 | They are just devastating these people. |
| 1:09.8 | But anyway, Trump back candidates score major, major victories last night. |
| 1:16.0 | There is this, and Mark Halpern is way smarter than people give him credit for. |
| 1:20.5 | He gives me little clues when we interview him that I know that he knows what he's talking about. |
| 1:26.4 | Most Democrats, they don't know who James Blair is. He's been on my TV show a couple of times. I don't think we've had him on radio yet, Linda. He was on one time. He was on one time. Yeah. Okay. So, and James Blair is, he's a brainiac. I watched him as I was on Air Force One flying to China with the president. |
| 1:45.5 | And of course, you got to interview me on my own show, which was a very, very high risk move on my part. |
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