“I am done”: Sean Hannity of Fox abandons New York and relocates to Florida.

Sean Hannity, like Donald Trump, Jerry Seinfeld’s screen parents, and other elderly and rambunctious New Yorkers, has relocated to “the free state of Florida” full-time.

“I’ve been threatening to do this for quite a while,” the 62-year-old Fox News prime-time presenter said on his iHeartRadio show on Tuesday, “but we’re now beginning our first broadcast from my new home, which is in the free state of Florida.” I’m leaving. I’m finished. “I finished.”

Hannity, a longtime Trump booster who has spoken at campaign rallies and collaborated on a campaign ad, said the move was motivated by politics.

“Finally, for the first time that I can think of in my adult life, I actually have representatives in the state that I’m living in that share my values,” he went on to say.

Florida is led by Ron DeSantis, a hard-right Republican who is competing for the Republican presidential nomination this year. Attempting to “Make America Florida” by extending his extreme principles nationwide, DeSantis has struggled, turning out less “Trump without the baggage” than “Ted Cruz without the personality,” in the words of operative Stuart Stevens.

Hannity also cited Cruz’s fellow Republican senators, failed presidential candidate Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, who headed a corporation involved in one of the greatest Medicaid fraud cases in history, as sources of inspiration for his decision.

Hannity recently hosted a debate between DeSantis and California’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom. Several of Hannity’s queries were on demographic transfers between Democratic and Republican-controlled states, citing taxation, crime, and other things as reasons for such movements.

“Like so many Americans, I left New York for good and am now in the state with, let’s see: warmer weather, law and order, better education, more freedom, higher quality of life – and guess what? There is no state income tax.”

Democratic-led states, such as New York, had “high taxes, burdensome regulation, high crime, and horrible school districts,” Hannity stated.… And, if anything, I’m probably late and behind the curve, since many people have made the move ahead of me, and there isn’t a single person I know who made a move like this who isn’t happy they did.”

Hannity has long maintained a house in Florida, telling Naples Illustrated in 2013 that his apartment in the “Golf Capital of the World” was “definitely my future home.”
The commentator’s property interests extend beyond a beachfront home. The Guardian reported in 2018 on a real estate enterprise that has expanded to Georgia, Alabama, New York, North Carolina, Texas, and Vermont.

Hannity remarked on Tuesday, “New York, New York, goodbye.” If you can make it in Florida, you can make it anywhere. But it’s wonderful to be here.”

The original article can be found at The Guardian