He began talking about the Senate race in Wisconsin, in which incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson (R) holds a narrow lead in polling. And then, lo and behold, Johnson appeared for an interview as friendly as it was concise. That out of the way, Hannity turned his attention to a different subject: the Senate race in Ohio. And there was Republican candidate J.D. Vance, ready to chat about his positions with the Fox News host.
A commercial break and then Mehmet Oz, Republican candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania, was there to chat with Hannity. And when Oz was done, it was the turn of Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.); he's the GOP's nominee in North Carolina's Senate race. In total, Hannity spent about 14 minutes of his show interviewing Republican Senate candidates — about a quarter of the full hour, even if you don't take out the time spent showing ads.
"We'll do the job of the media mob," Hannity told his audience on Oct. 5 before his friendly chat with Oz: "We'll vet the candidates."
This is how Hannity has been spending his airtime of late: repeatedly welcoming and "interviewing" Republican candidates. He has had 18 candidates on in the past two weeks, 13 of whom are Republicans running for Senate. ... On Monday, he took it a step further: dedicating the entirety of his show to a "town hall" with Herschel Walker, the GOP Senate candidate in Georgia, interspersing wiffle-ball-level questions to him with chats with more established Republican politicians who joined Hannity and Walker on the stage.
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