Trump's Primary Power and Midterm Test
The Sean Hannity Show
Sean Hannity
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🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Gregg Jarrett continues with a breakdown of Tuesday’s primary results and President Trump’s influence over Republican voters. He points to Trump-backed candidates winning across multiple races, including major contests in Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. Doug Schoen joins to discuss what those results may mean for the midterms, the strength of Trump’s endorsement, the risks facing Republicans, and whether affordability, redistricting, and fraud scandals could shape the November election. Jarrett also takes listener calls on Iran, military pressure, voter ID, the SAVE Act, and the filibuster. The hour connects campaign strategy, election integrity, foreign policy, and the political fight over whether Trump’s movement can carry Republicans through a difficult midterm cycle.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. And we're back with the Sean Hannity show. I'm Greg Jarrett, filling in for Sean Hannity. I'm a Fox News legal analyst, former trial attorney. Sean's taken a few days off. We're going to be taking your phone calls very shortly, and we do have some callers here and I'll ask them to stand by. |
| 0:22.1 | Thank you for calling. Just hang in there. We'll get to you in just a moment. For those who would like to |
| 0:27.3 | pose some questions or offer comments, please give us a call. The number is 1-800-9-400-941-7326. |
| 0:43.4 | All right, on Tuesday, primary elections were held, coast to coast, and the endorsement |
| 0:50.4 | power of President Trump was on full display. The candidates that he backed went, |
| 0:58.8 | according to the president, 37 to zero. In other words, they all won, and that was no small |
| 1:07.1 | accomplishment because, you know, several of them were high-profile ballot box showdowns. |
| 1:13.2 | For example, Trump was determined to get rid of GOP representative Thomas Massey, Kentucky's |
| 1:20.5 | fourth congressional district, who had developed into a very outspoken critic of the president. |
| 1:28.4 | Massey denounced Trump's foreign policy, including the Iran conflict, and he also blamed Trump |
| 1:35.4 | for slow walking the release of the Epstein files. Well, guess what? It turned out that |
| 1:41.9 | the voters in Kentucky got fed up with Massey and his efforts to undermine the president's agenda. |
| 1:48.9 | The congressman who had held that seat for 14 years was soundly defeated by a newcomer for whom Trump had campaigned. |
| 1:59.4 | Massey lost by almost 10 points, which is an astonishing |
| 2:04.5 | rejection of an incumbent. In the Senate race in Kentucky, the Trump-backed candidate |
| 2:12.5 | cruised to the nomination to succeed retiring Senator Mitch McConnell, rejecting McConnell's |
| 2:19.2 | handpicked candidate. Trump's chosen candidate also move forward in Alabama, in Georgia, |
| 2:27.2 | in Louisiana. In that last state, Louisiana, Trump went out of his way to get rid of incumbent Senator Bill |
| 2:36.0 | Cassidy, who has long been a thorn in the president's side. Cassidy got absolutely crushed. |
| 2:45.0 | So what's the message? Well, it seems to be this. Oppose Trump at your own peril, because he will flex his political muscles to exert payback on Republicans who defy him. |
| 3:00.3 | And the question now is, will any of that translate to the general elections in November? |
| 3:10.1 | Well, joining me now to talk about it. My old friend Doug Sean, who's a lawyer and a veteran political analyst, and I always turn to |
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