The Shutdown About Nothing
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Salem Podcast Network
4.4 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Hugh discusses the Schumer shutdown and talks with Virginia Lt. Governor Winsome Earle-Sears, David Drucker, Bret Baier, Rep. Tom Emmer, Sen. Jon Husted, Bethany Mandel and James Lileks.
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| 0:48.7 | Morning and morning, evening, Grace, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt. Good Tuesday to you. Long after, I've been looking for this interview for a long, long time. |
| 0:57.0 | Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earl Sears is the lieutenant governor of my state, Virginia. I will be voting for her when I get back to Virginia. I'm going to do it early. I want everyone out there to do it early. |
| 1:07.7 | Lieutenant Governor Sears, welcome to the Hugh Hewitt Show. How goes the campaign? |
| 1:12.3 | Oh, hello, Hugh, and hello to your listeners. God bless all of you. The campaign is going very well. |
| 1:19.4 | Let me tell you, there's only one poll that really matters, and it's the one that the voters show up to. |
| 1:24.4 | And based on what's been happening, we've had a whole week now of early voting, |
| 1:28.9 | and we're showing that when we look at the data, Republicans are voting at 84 to 90-some of |
| 1:36.2 | their capacity in the red-leaning polls. But in the Democrat polls, they are voting at somewhere |
| 1:43.7 | between 30 to 45, maybe 4750. |
| 1:47.8 | So the enthusiasm is on our side. |
| 1:50.9 | The momentum is on our side. |
| 1:53.3 | And that's great because the people understand that this is serious times. |
| 1:57.6 | And this election is not just for the next four years. |
| 2:00.2 | It's for how Virginia is really |
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