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I want you to know we are
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lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
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I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point usa.
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We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives. And we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we, we are here. Hey, everybody. On this flash episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, I am thrilled to have with us today someone that could do something that a year ago, two years ago, would have been, quite honestly, nearly impossible. With us today is Larry Elder. They call him the sage from South Central la. I think I got that right. Who hosts a show, Salem Radio Network. 6 to 9pm I love the show. Super articulate. But most importantly, he is now running to get rid of Gavin Newsom, which I am thrilled about. Larry, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.
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Charlie, thank you so much for having me. It is an honor.
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So, Larry, I must ask, what on earth compelled you to want to go run in the political environment? You have a wonderful talk show. You get to travel the country, say what's ever on your mind, and now you want to go run for governor and tell us why you're running and tell us at this moment why you think you have a chance to become governor of California.
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Well, Charlie, it was an evolution. Dennis Prager first approached me and asked me to run and my response was, hell no. I thought the state was ungovernable. We have a super majority of Democrats in the Senate, a super majority of Democrats in the assembly, and of course we have a Left wing governor. Crime is going up, homelessness is going up, the cost of living is going crazy. Meanwhile, the quality of urban education is declining and I just kind of just threw my hands up. But more and more people I respected Charlie began talking to me about this, including Pastor Jack Hibbs of the Calgary Church. And I began to feel that I almost had a moral obligation to try and do something about it. I'm born and raised here. My father moved here back in 1945 right after the war and working two full time jobs as a janitor was able to afford a house that right now is worth $600,000. That's wonderful for our family because it's still in the, in the family. But if you try to do what my dad did, you work three jobs, you couldn't do it because the cost of living is insane. Because of the anti growth attitude that has been the case in California for the last 30 or 40 years as to why I think I can win. I'm not a, I'm a well known public figure out here in California. I've been on radio for 30 years. I'm in, I'm on an affiliate in Sacramento. I'm on an affiliate in the Bay Area. I'm on, in Riverside, I'm on in the central part of the state, Louisiana of course, Riverside, San Diego. So people know me. I've been talking about these issues for some 30 years and I think I can explain things in a way that Joe and Joe Six Pack can understand. A lot of times, Charlie, people leave California and they go to places like Texas and Florida and they bring their politics with them because they don't understand the connection between high crime and left wing policies out of Sacramento. They don't get the connection between the high price of housing and, and left wing policies. I can make them understand the reason the state is in the situation that it's in. The reason we have rising homelessness is because of asinine policies that have been pushed by Sacramento for decades and have been pushed by this reckless, arrogant, smug governor for the last two years. This is the guy who imposed the most strict coronavirus mandates of all 50 states while ignoring them. There he is sitting up there in the French Laundry and I found out, Charlie, I never even heard of the French Laundry until he was there. It's one of the most expensive restaurants, not just in California, one of the most exclusive restaurants in the country. And there he is dining with the very lobbyists and contributors that made the mandate that they were violating. They weren't engaging in Social distancing. They weren't wearing masks while telling you to do that, which meant that they weren't really afraid, but they wanted you to be afraid. This is absolutely outrageous. And the man had his own kid continue in school, private education, and he exempted his own business, the winery, from the very mandate that everybody else had to suffer. Under most states, two thirds of the jobs have come back. In California, only half the jobs have come back. And it may be even worse because the bankruptcy courts have yet to open up and operate full time. So it's unclear how much damage he's done. All I know is he's done a great deal of damage. Charlie, in preparing for this campaign, I talked to a lot of people. Just yesterday we shot a bunch of commercials and the makeup lady was telling me about her son. She's a single mom and has a 17 year old kid. One of the top wrestlers in the state of California had been wrestling six days a week. And the wrestling coach, of course, is this father figure. Because he's been locked out. The kid has now gotten depressed, came to his mother, had enough class and integrity to tell his mom he felt suicidal. Charlie, he's now in therapy. I talked to another woman whose brother was a football coach up in Oakland. He's a white guy. Most of the players are black. They don't have fathers. He's their father figure. And they had structure. He begged and pleaded with the school board not to shut down training. They could at least do that outdoors without having to wear some masks. But they said no. And two of the kids got into trouble with the law. One of them committed a crime that's going to put him behind bars for years. This would not have happened had Gavin Newsom listened to the science that said in school learning would be okay with certain precautions. He ignored it because he was doing the bidding of the teachers union. They wanted schools locked down while the teachers still kept earning their full salaries. The man has got to go, Charlie. And my website is electelder.com electelder.com and we can't do it without an army of people contributing 5, 100, $200 because I have campaign finance limits. He does it. He can raise however amount of money he wants and spend however amount of money he wants. The union just put in $5 million on his campaign. And by the way, Charlie, he's characterizing the campaign and as an effort to oust him by Trump. Supporting white nationalists. Charlie, you've known me a long time. Am I a white nationalist? I may be a lot of things, but I ain't a white nationalist.
