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Thank you for listening to this Podcast 1 production now available on Apple Podcasts, Podcast 1, Spotify and anywhere else you get your podcasts. Hey, everybody. I am locked out of Twitter. That's right, locked out of Twitter to our 1.8 million followers. All because I tweeted something that was widely reported and then Twitter comes out and locks me out of my account. We get into that and so much more. Email us your questions freedomarliekirk.com and if you want to support us on this program as we deal with the censorship, the backlash, the criticism, everything around it, there's a way to do that@charliekirk.com support charliekirk.com support chip in $20, $50 or become a monthly supporter where we have a private zoom call with all of our supporters@charliekirk.com support. If you want to win a signed copy of the MAGA Doctrine, type in Charlie Kirk, show to your podcast provider, hit subscribe screenshot and email it to us@freedom charliekirk.com we are locked out of Twitter. We have the facts surrounding the case and so much more. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
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Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
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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.
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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 are here. Hello, everybody. Charlie Kirk here. Something happened over the weekend that I think is newsworthy. There's been a lot of talk about social media censorship and these tech companies going after opinions and people that they do not like. As I am speaking to you right now, I am locked out of Twitter. I do not have access to my Twitter account. So over the weekend, our team was going through some tweet ideas and we saw this story that was originally from ProPublica about the Pennsylvania's rejection of mail in ballots. It was rewritten by many other reputable news agencies and in the title it said, Pennsylvania rejected 320,000 ballots. So we just took the essence of the story, it was widely reported and tweeted it out 19 hours later. It turned out that the story added the word applications to it. Now, mind you, at the time we were tweeting was absolutely and completely what was the drumbeat of the media coverage. We are not trying to mislead people. We were not having the intention to try and deceive or to try to interfere in an election. And so then Twitter basically comes to us last evening in a pseudo hostage situation. I said this on Steve Hilton show last night. It went somewhat viral where they said, either you're going to delete this tweet, and until you make a decision on that, you are not allowed access to any of your 1.8 million followers on Twitter. And so we kind of took a timeout and a pause as we were in Nakatomi Plaza, basically in some sort of a die hard scene where they are holding us hostage, saying that if you do not bend the knee and you admit guilt, then you don't get access back to your Twitter account. Now, mind you, it's a lot more nuanced than that though, because as soon as you admit the guilt, you're basically put into a proverbial Twitter jailbox. You're handcuffed, your future tweets are stunted, you have less reach. You are less likely to be able to grow a following count. We experienced this back in the spring when we had a tweet regarding hydroxychloroquine. And then for months we were in proverbial Twitter jail. Before that tweet, we were adding about 4 to 5,000 followers a day. After that, we are adding 40 followers a day. We finally have started to break out of that in the last couple months, adding about a couple thousand followers a day. And then we tweet out what many of the sources were saying. But again, we were not trying to mislead. We are not taking a news story to try and misrepresent a position. And now we are seeing these humongous, gigantic, and all encompassing tech companies use their power, use their monopoly to silence opinions that they do not agree with. They are using their power to go after personalities and people that they don't like. So if Twitter was really interested in taking down misinformation and disinformation, why is it there is still a tweet up about me on Twitter posing with this poor young man in Idaho where they were insinuating that I was trying to be involved in the kidnapping of the Michigan governor. This was trending on Twitter. It was the front page of Twitter trends. It still is up. It had tens of thousands of retweets, hundreds of thousands of likes, and millions of eyeballs. That tweet is still up right now. So those people still have access to their Twitter accounts where they insinuate that I'm connected to the person that tried to kidnap the Michigan governor, Gretchen Whitmer. However, I tweet out a story that was literally the headline, widespread reporting, and Twitter says, now we got you. Now you're going to bend the knee. You're going to give us our demands. You're going to provide to us what we want, which is an admission of guilt and strikes against you. And so all of you that are listening to this and watching this on some of these tech company platforms, what is it going to take for you to demand that these tech companies respect freedom of speech, civil rights, if not be broken up? Because we have now reached a level where the First Amendment of the Constitution is no longer predominantly under the jurisdiction of the federal government or the state government. That's right. For the first time in our nation's history, the federal government does not have the capacity through the courts, to be able to make sure that your free speech rights are protected. So, for example, in the 1960s, if I wanted to plan a massive march or Protest in Washington, D.C. the government would have to honor that. Same today, however, different today than the 1960s, that is no longer the most effective way to communicate, to persuade, or to convince. Instead, in the digital and social era, it requires access to these digital platforms. If you do not have access to your digital platforms, as I do not have right now, being locked out of my Twitter account with 1.8 million Twitter followers, where these companies have donated well over 90 to 95% to Democrats and Joe Biden. Are we really dealing with private companies or are we dealing with pseudo governments? And this all comes right after Twitter decided not to allow direct messages or sharing of the Hunter Biden campaign email story, laptop story. Twitter Deactivated Kayleigh McEnany's account, deactivated the Trump campaign account Team Trump account. Twitter did not even allow you to privately message it or direct message that article from the New York Post, which is the fourth most read newspaper in the country. And so these tech companies have now embarked on the greatest act of election interference in the digital era, if not in American history. All throughout 2016 and the years that followed, we tore our country apart through a sham Mueller investigation, all about Russian interference into our election, all about foreign interference in our election. Dozens of people were indicted and went to jail. Not because they did this, but because they were caught up in the investigation surrounding this. It became a predominant view of the Democrats because the underlying issue, they always told us, was that the integrity of our elections are so important, fair and free elections. And of course they never meant that. Of course they use that as a distraction point to try to justify giving themselves power, such as winning back the House of representatives in 2018. They actually don't care when elections are interfered when it helps them. You see, the Democrats are leaning on these massive tech companies to win the election for them. And there's a bargain between the two of them. If the Democrats get back in power, they will not break up these companies. If the Democrats get back in power, they will protect corporatist crony interests and the tech companies in exchange will run cover fire, throw smokescreen and interrupt the flow of information that could be politically compromising to Joe Biden or the Democrats. And one by one, they want to deactivate and hold hostage the voices that they do not like. So Twitter has given us a false choice. For me to go back on Twitter, they say that I have to delete the tweet, bend the knee and admit guilt and then I can get access back to my 1.85 million followers. That's a false choice. They should not have that kind of power. They should not have the kind of authority to dictate not just what I can say, but whether or not my audience is able to hear from me or not. I want to tell you guys about good ranchers. It's amazing. Connor here, Charlie Kirk show, he is raving about good ranchers. 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Goodranchers.com promo code Charlie I found the word on the journalist Slack channel that they decided would best describe a story that they do not want to. I actually haven't used this word in quite some time, so I wanted to make sure my definition was completely correct. And it was. Which is dubious, which means hesitating or doubting. The front page of the Business Insider New York Post's dubious Hunter Biden article was shared 300,000 times on Facebook, CNN. The Atomy of the New York Post dubious Hunter Biden story Washington Post How Twitter and Facebook attempt to scratch a dubious Biden story backfired. How about this one? New York Post published Hunter Biden story amid newsroom doubts. What is a synonym of dubious doubts doubtful or doubt doubting? I don't think they've ever used the word dubious this much in this coordinated fashion. I mean, what are the chances of the Washington Post, CNN and Business Insider all using the same word in the title around the same story that they don't want to cover within the same news cycle? Sounds like collusion. So the more we dive into this laptop story, the more that we dive into this, the more that we deserve answers from Joe Biden. We have a cut sheet here. The Adam Schiff paraded around go to cut nine. He paraded around on television this weekend on CNN's Wolf Blitzer and he says, we know the Hunter Biden emails are a smear from the Kremlin. Let's play cut nine.
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Well, we know that this whole smear on Joe Biden comes from the Kremlin. That's been clear for well over a year now that they've been pushing this false narrative about the vice president and his son. And you know, the idea that the president, that the White House counsel and others were made aware that Giuliani was being used by Russian intelligence and using
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Russian intelligence, there is zero evidence whatsoever to support what Adam Schiff is saying. He says, we know, look, Russian fear mongering is great business. It's really good business when your sons, your family members sit on Ukrainian boards. So the more that you fear monger against Russia, the more it justifies giving foreign aid to Ukraine. And then that foreign aid finds its way to big natural gas companies. And then people like John Kerry and people like Joe Biden are able to get peripheral financial enumeration when you fear monger against Russia. This is one of the most disappointing moments in American journalistic history. No doubt. Never before have we seen a story so incredibly compelling. At the very least, it's interesting. At the very least, it's not just poll watching and it's not just a horse race. At the very least, like, oh, there might be a laptop out there that contains Hunter Biden's sensitive emails, photographs and business dealings. I want to see it. What do you think? Where do you think the activist media would be If Donald Trump Jr. Forgot to go pick up a computer after 90 days? Where would they be? I'll tell you exactly where they would be. They'd be physically outside of wherever Donald Trump Jr. Was. The activist media is not camped outside of Hunter Biden's home. The activist media, we don't even know where Hunter Biden is. Where's Hunter? And the activist media is now calling it dubious or doubtful. Okay, what about these emails are inauthentic, according to independent analysts. They say the met the metadata lines up. But let's go a level further, a level deeper. Why would the New York Post publish this? Stand by their reporting and really dig in if they had any reason to believe that this wasn't true. Do you know the biggest difference between the New York Post and the New York Times? The New York Post is actually releasing these emails they're reporting on. Unlike the New York Times when they reported on the tax returns. They never actually reported the tax returns. It was all conjecture. They're still private. They just said, well, trust us, we're going to detail them for you in long 600,000 word narrative form. And now we have actual communications from Hunter Biden talking about how his father has been cutting on these deals, about the secret meetings that he had at the State Department as probably an unregistered foreign agent. And I have a very, very simple question. Why didn't the Federal Bureau of Investigation do something about this as soon as they got these emails? I think it's really instructive and very important to walk through the timeline of all these emails, the laptop, how they got there, and the absolute outright fraud that Adam Schiff is trying to sow more seeds, saying it's Russian disinformation. Getting in shape doesn't have to be about losing a specific amount of weight or a magic number on the scale. It's about building healthier habits and feeling better about yourself. 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And the Joe Biden campaign has not denied the authenticity of these emails. And despite that, the activist media is trying to say that they're not corroborated and they're dubious. If Joe Biden and his campaign have not denied the authenticity of these emails and of the laptop, then why should the activist media do that for them? Well, let's go a little back in time to the timeline. April 2019. Hunter Biden walks in to a store owned by Joel John Paul Mac Isaac. That's quite a name. And Hunter Biden walks in and drops off three water damaged MacBooks. Isaac claims to have found very sexually explicit images on one of the laptops. Isaac told the Post. This is from foxnews.com, he extracted a 12 minute video appearing to show Hunter smoking an illicit drug and engaging in some, let's say, unspeakable things. On camera Isaac is a registered Republican and he repairs computers now. Timeout. Hunter Biden dropping off three water damaged computers at a computer repair shop in Wilmington, Delaware, while your father is running for the presidency. Do not do crack, kids. They'll make you do things that are very foolish. Ninety days afterwards, the owner of the laptop, which is Hunter, did not come and retrieve the laptop. Meanwhile, as you might remember, in June and July, impeachment talks started to ramp up. And so maybe that's why Hunter Biden forgot about these emails. Maybe Hunter Biden forgot about this laptop because he all of a sudden became front page news during the impeachment talks around Ukraine and President Zelensky. Is it possible to conjecture that as the Democrats were trying to pursue their lust for revenge against Donald Trump and impeach the president, that it unintentionally created so much confusion in the simple mind of Hunter and Joe Biden that they forgot that they dropped off three laptops in Wilmington, Delaware. Is that why they abandoned these laptops? Because, remember, Hunter Biden was brought out in front of the country and he did some sort of ABC News interview. Wasn't Savannah Guthrie that. Yeah, Savannah Guthrie asked the tough question. Someone from ABC also did a whole thing there. So then Isaac allegedly then started to look through the emails because after 90 days it becomes abandoned property. He looks through the emails and he starts to find that there were a lot of keywords around. Burisma, Hunter, Vadim, Pozorisky, and some of the emails that have now been made public about how Joe Biden and Hunter Biden were, were working together to sell out our government. And so In September of 2019, Isaac, the computer store repair owner, claims he contacted an intermediary about the emails, who then contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the FBI. Then two months after that. That's how long it took for the FBI to care about this, by the way, it took another 60 days for the Bureau to care about these emails. They come, they come through, they get a subpoena and they make a copy of the laptop, but they leave the original devices. In December, the FBI then comes back again and confiscates the original devices. So the FBI has had this for almost 10 months? Over 10 months. An agent then tells Isaac if Hunter Biden comes looking for the laptop to tell him that it's in storage, inform the FBI through a text and they will bring it back. Isaac then claims members of the FBI buried the investigation. I'm not surprised the Bureau goes after Republicans and conservatives and they protect Democrats, especially sons and daughters of Democrats. Early in 2020, when he heard nothing from the Bureau, he contacted several members of Congress who did not respond. At this point, he felt he had no choice but to reach out to Rudy Giuliani and his attorney, Robert Costello. Then Steve Bannon gets involved. After Rudy Giuliani called in Bannon to help with the China related issues on the hard drive in October, obviously this month, the press, the Post then releases its report on the emails. And then we have to hear that this is Russian disinformation. So the New York Post gets it through that sequence of events. So what does this tell you? Hunter Biden either forgot the emails or the laptop, or he got so distracted, so caught up in whatever he was doing in his life at the time, that this truly was an incredible error. In fact, that could be kind of the same thing. There is another theory out there. That I don't believe that this is some kind of Democrat on Democrat friendly fire dump against the Bidens. I don't believe that. I don't. And this is a pattern for Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden was in Phoenix, Arizona in the fall of 2016, and he left a crack pipe, credit cards and powder cocaine in his rental car at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. So this is a pattern from Hunter Biden to just leave paraphernalia or to leave personal information or personal, let's say personal effects that are of some significance and importance. So John Ratcliffe, who is the Director of National Intelligence, was on Maria Bartiromo this morning and he made it very clear that what Adam Schiff said, that this is Russian disinformation. So their working theory is that. Not their theory, their argument, which is baseless, has no evidence whatsoever, is that the Russians hacked this email, this laptop of Hunter Biden, got the information, then rerouted it back through this guy in Delaware or whatever story. So this was a foreign hack, then they staged this whole operation to get it back to the guy in Delaware. Let's see what John Ratcliffe has to say about that. Play tape.
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It is Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, who, as you pointed out on Friday, said that the intelligence community believes that Hunter Biden's laptop and the emails on it are part of some Russian disinformation campaign. Let me be clear. The intelligence community doesn't believe that because there's no intelligence that supports that and we have shared no intelligence with Chairman Schiff or any other member of Congress that Hunter Biden's laptop is part of some Russian disinformation campaign.
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And so even if it was part of a Russian disinformation campaign, that is a false flag by Adam Schiff because Adam Schiff is not talking about the authenticity of the emails. And by the way, Joe Biden is not even responding. And anyone that is asked about it from the Biden campaign refuses to deny it. Refuses. And Schiff has no information that you do not have. He doesn't regarding this story. And John Ratcliffe has more access to confidential briefings, more access to this intelligence than Adam Schiff does. Let's play Cut four. Biden campaign surrogate Jenna Arnold said that. I don't think anyone is saying they're inauthentic. Play Cut four.
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Can anyone say that these emails are inauthentic? And so far, I haven't heard anybody say that.
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Yeah, I think that's fair. I don't think anybody say.
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Let me ask you about.
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Let's go to cut five, where Jenna continues.
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You say it's unconfirmed. Tell us what parts are not true. Hunter Biden knows what emails he has and hasn't sent. Are you saying in the campaign saying that these emails aren't his?
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It's unclear to me. I would say that what's so important right now from both the American citizen and the media, yourself included, Leland, is to continue to ask clarifying questions about this, why the FBI is investigating, but it's imperative to know.
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And then Joe Biden refuses to answer any question about the FBI seizing his son's laptop. Cut six. Joe Biden just ignores the question completely. And so you have the activist media providing incredible amount of COVID fire for the Biden campaign here. The tech companies are banning anyone that dares mention this. And again, let's listen again to John Ratcliffe. We can listen to it. I can just say here that there is no evidence to suggest that the Hunter Biden emails are part of a Russian disinformation campaign. No evidence whatsoever, none, that they are part of a Russian disinformation campaign. Yet Adam Schiff and the entire activist media continues to peddle this absolute lie. It is pathologically untrue what they are saying. No basis at all whatsoever. And the more I dive into this, the more I realize the baselessness of the activist media here. It's hard to trust anything they say. Let's listen to ratcliffe again. Cut 10.
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It is Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, who, as you pointed out on Friday, said that the intelligence community believes that Hunter Biden's laptop and the emails on it are part of some Russian disinformation campaign. Let me be clear. The intelligence community doesn't believe that because there's no intelligence that supports that. And we have shared no intelligence with Chairman Schiff or any other member of Congress that Hunter Biden's laptop is part of some Russian disinformation campaign.
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And so Ratcliffe has the access to these classified briefings. Ratcliffe knows exactly where this information is and where it comes from. And despite that, the Biden campaign and Adam Schiff, who is providing cover fire for them, is refusing to answer any of these questions at all around it at all. And then you have the big tech companies that are providing cover fire. How about Senator Josh Hawley here who then talks about the big tech censorship issue, how this all comes together? Cut 12.
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You know, if you've been locked out of Twitter or if you can't distribute this New York Post article on Facebook. You ought to be able to sue them. You could do that with another company, but you can't do it with Facebook and Twitter, Google, because of the special sweetheart deal they get from the federal government. And by the way, that's how they've gotten so big and powerful. They haven't done this on their own. They've gotten to be these monopolies because the government 20 years ago gave them this sweetheart deal. And it's time, time for it to end.
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Call 800-655-2157 and mention code Kirk or visit card shield.com use the code Kirk to save 10%. That's carshield.com code Kirk a deductible may apply. The activist media's commitment to provide cover fire for Joe Biden is really incredible. Washington Post by Max Boot. He's a real gem. As one of Trump's conspiracy theories bites the dust, he moves on now to pseudo scandals. And we already went through the dubious, dubious, dubious Washington Post How Twitter and Facebook attempts to squelch a dubious Biden story backfired. The anatomy of New York Post's dubious Hunter Biden story. Do you know what's wrong with all of these headlines? All these headlines? Every single one of them says Hunter Biden. This is not about Hunter Biden. The revelations in this email trove and this laptop is about Joe Biden, not about Hunter Biden. It's about Joe Biden being cut in on the deals. About Joe Biden knowing about the deals. It's about Joe Biden being involved in his international business dealings. It's not about Hunter Biden. We know Hunter Biden's a crackhead. We know Hunter Biden is a loser. It's well known. And I hope he finds recovery and sympathy. I don't want to say I feel bad for him if some of these allegations are true about some of the other things there. But Hunter Biden here should not be the focus. Joe Biden is the focus of this entire new, of all these new discoveries. And so the Biden campaign is not denying it. House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff says it comes from Russia, which is completely and totally baseless. And John Ratcliffe has said that there is no information at all to support that. And the emails say clearly that Joe Biden did meet with Burisma board members, that Joe Biden was cut in on foreign business deals regarding the China, that Hunter Biden did get secret access to the State Department building to have meetings that favored Burisma. And Joe Biden acted on all of those things in firing the prosecutor, which financially benefited his family and his son. He was incentivized to do that. So American foreign policy was being crafted and directed for the financial benefit of the Biden campaign. And what's really interesting about this is I would conjecture that this is not anything new. What's new about this and what Joe Biden's probably regretting is getting his crackhead son involved in all of this. What I mean by it's not new, I would venture a pretty logical guess that for the last 40 years this has been a pattern from the ruling class families across our country, that it's not just the Bidens. We know the Hillary, the Clintons, we know the Kerry's, we know the Pelosi's. If I were to build this out, I bet Joe Biden got the playbook on how to do this from prior administrations. Joe Biden just employed the wrong person. Joe Biden, instead of using a son or a daughter that was somewhat competent, he used a criminal. And so our entire American foreign policy portfolio over the last 30, 40 years was probably created, was probably at the direction of some family's financial interest. And that should anger you that the ruling class elites are able to get very rich off of these decisions of whether or not they're going to give foreign aid, whether or not they're going to saber rattle at a certain country. And that is not in the best interest of the middle class of our country. And that is the deeper point behind this story, is that it's less about Joe Biden and it's more about the pattern that he represents. The pattern that decade after decade a smaller and smaller group of people grows richer and richer and more powerful and they don't provide any value to your life except that they're in a position of authority to exploit you, to sell you out, and to get very rich while doing so. That's Joe Biden. That's also Nancy Pelosi. That's also Bill and Hillary Clinton. And now Barack Obama is falling in the footsteps and Mitt Romney and John Kerry, all of them have acted in this pattern of behavior. And Donald Trump is the only thing that has disrupted this. We have been unpacking the Hunter Biden email scandal and it seems like this is actually moving things with swing voters. It seems that despite the activist media's best attempts, despite the ruling class deluge of interference that they have been running, such as the Daily Beast, Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and Rupert Murdoch's dubious. Oh, there's that word dubious again. Hunter Biden, October Surprise reeks of desperation, as we already read, I should say, the anatomy of the New York Post dubious Hunter Biden story. How Twitter and Facebook's attempt to squelch a dubious Biden story fired Washington Post, Business Insider, New York Post Dubious Hunter Biden article. And how about the networks? This is the Washington examiner by Andrew Mark Miller. Major television networks largely ignored a bombshell report about former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Hunter's overseas business dealings. They dedicated 9 minutes and 47 seconds to this story. MSNBC dedicated 4 minutes to the story. So this story is really interesting. There's many dimensions. You can look at it and it's not. It's actually one of the most, and I hate to use this word because it's such a left wing word, intersectional stories of this entire cycle because it shows and reveals the corporatist Democrats, social media and tech bias, the corruption of the Biden campaign, how American foreign policy is decided based on the financial interests of a very small ruling class, how Joe Biden has pathologically lied about his involvement in foreign business deals. All of these things come together in this one singular story. And so people say we're only two weeks out from an election and understand that time as you get closer to an election becomes weighted heavier, not quicker. What do I mean by that? That every day is more important than it would be back in March. So yes, there are two weeks out to the election, but it's gonna feel like two months to the election, because every day operates in its own independent, almost yearly news cycle where everything you say, everything you do has such higher and heavier weight. And so a lot of the national polls are telling us that Donald Trump is losing. And we've already broken apart a lot of those polls. We've already added, I think, our fair share of skepticism towards those polls. However, how about the actual early voting returns? This is from the Washington Examiner. It's a great story. It's a little bit of a confusing headline. Let me see if I can pull it up here. But basically it's talking about early voting returns. Early voting data in battleground states shows Trump is outpacing the national polls, giving Biden an edge. Okay, that's again, the title is so misleading. It's good news for Trump. Let me put it this way. When you say it out loud, it feels like Biden has an edge. But here's the essence of the story. The Republican Party is keeping pace in mail in and early voting in three key swing states, despite polls showing early voting could clearly favor Joe Biden. You see, Republicans vote traditionally, do not vote early. Republicans vote on Election Day, just like people go to Easter and Christmas service or they have a barbecue on Memorial Day, July 4th and Labor Day. There are some things that are just built in to the behavioral patterns of a Republican. And one of the things that is built into the behavioral pattern of a Republican is you show up on Election Day to cast your ballot, and I don't think that Democrats will beat Republicans on Election Day. Democrats usually crush Republicans in early voting, and it's up to Republicans on Election Day to make up that difference. So in Michigan, as of Wednesday, just over 1 million ballots have been returned. 40% from registered Democrats and 40% from Republicans. That is unheard of. 40% of the 711,000 return ballots in Wisconsin have been from Democrats, 38% from Republicans. The Republicans actually lead early voting in Ohio with 45% of the 475,000 early ballot returns coming from Republicans, compared to 43% from registered Democrats. So there's two explanations here, and they're both pretty good for Trump. There's one that is really good and one that is pretty good. The pretty good explanation is that Donald Trump supporters are so excited that they're voting early and they just cannot wait and they want to make sure they vote as soon as they possibly can. The even better explanation for Donald Trump is that, yes, they're excited and they're voting early, but they're not done, meaning that this is not the complete body of the Republican base. It is not the complete picture of the body politicians. This is just the beginning of the Republican surge. So now, in order for Democrats to win this election in these key states, they're going to have to beat Republicans on election day, which is something Democrats have not done since 2008. They haven't to get Democrats to show up on election day for many different reasons that are just difficult to explain. A lot of complexities, not easy to do. And so you go even a level deeper. Not all the Democrats that are sending in ballots are voting for Biden. A lot of registered Democrats are also voting for Trump. So this also tells me something else. This also tells me that if we do not know the winner on election night and some of these mail in ballots have yet to be counted, it's not going to be unlimited good news for the Democrats. Meaning that if Donald Trump is winning on election night and they say, oh, we still have to count the mail in ballots, understand that it's not going to be an overwhelming deluge to compensate for the margin that they might need. So, for example, in previous years, almost always Republicans surge because the ballots that are counted on the day, night of unelection night, and then the Democrats say, well, we got to count the mail in ballots. They pair them together and sometimes Democrats win. What's looking like the trend currently. And we got plenty of time and things can change. And as Donald Trump says, let's see what happens. Republicans are going to win on election day and then the Democrats are going to say, oh, let's wait for the mail in votes. And absent fraud, absent duplicate ballots, absent voter registration issues, all those sorts of things that we got to keep a close eye on. The Democrats are not going to have the ballot surge. I think that they need if they're trying to have a pathway to victory. And President Donald Trump is. He's going bold, everybody. I love the man quote, we're gonna win. I wouldn't have told you that maybe two or three weeks ago, but we're gonna win. Well, he did say two or three weeks ago that they were going to win, but now he really believes they're gonna win. And I think the President is looking at exactly what we're looking at. I think the President is looking at the very same data. And look, I'm not as bullish as the President. It is my job to look at these things with more nuance than if I was the actual candidate. It is my job to try to look at the problems so we can identify them and spot them and try to prevent them from happening. But Nate, make no mistake, President Trump is in a infinitely better position right now than he was a week ago. No question. And in fact, Gallup has a very interesting poll that I want to dive into, extremely interesting, about voter identification, voter registration, where there is data now to show that more and more people are self identifying as Republicans than they were in 2016 or either in 2012. It might not feel like it in California or New York, but in the Midwest and in other states, the country's becoming more Republican. Nationalreview.com the pollster who thinks Trump is ahead, Trafalgar. They believe that Donald Trump is winning, may have come out with a series of polls to reflect that. They believe that there are at least five or six points of hidden Trump voters out there that will show up and have shown up as we have just been detailing. This is a fire alarm for Democrats right now. The early voting numbers that are coming in are incredible. As someone who has worked on political campaigns, as someone that has been involved in campaigns Since I've been 14 years old, it is one of the bedrock rules of American politics that Democrats crush early voting. Republicans have to make up for it on election day. And yet Republicans are tied if down, only down a couple points in early voting in the key battleground states of Ohio and Michigan. Gallup has come out with a new poll which shows that In September, from September 14 to September 28, question was this in politics as of today, do you consider yourself a Republican, Democrat or an Independent? The answer to that question back a year ago in September of 2019 was 26% of the country thought of themselves as Democrats and 29% of the country thought of themselves as Republicans. Today, 28% of the country thinks of themselves as Republicans and 27% of the country thinks of themselves as Democrats, 42% independents. But let's go back on the time machine to 2016, 2016, when they commissioned a similar poll. 20 that's right, 29% of the country consider themselves Republicans, but 31% of the country considered themselves Democrats. So Democrat favorability has been dropping dramatically. And that's why you're seeing Republican voter registration, Republican numbers go up in historic fashion. None of these trends are positive for Democrats. It's a six point shift. And this is according to Gallup, a very reputable mainstream polling outlet, a six point shift. And so a lot of people are in the prediction business trying to tell us what's going to happen. It's impossible to know the exact outcome. Because we are living in such uncertain times, everyone's just going to guess. What I will tell you, though, is what is good news and what is bad news. And you can make your own conclusion how they contribute to the desired outcome that you may or may not have. And what I can tell you is that if I was Joe Biden and I saw this Gallup poll, I saw the early voting numbers, I saw the voter registration numbers, I saw the 22,000 people that showed up just to be standing on the side of the street when it was 95 degrees in Santa Ana, California. I was there yesterday for an unrelated event just to see President Trump's motorcade drive by where Donald Trump has tens of thousands of people coming to his rallies. I'd be very worried. I saw a segment this morning on Fox News. He was a nice enough guy, a Democrat strategist, and the only argument that he had for Joe Biden's enthusiasm is the amount of money that he is raising. What he's not telling you is that a lot of those small dollar donations are from California, Illinois, New York, Washington, D.C. oregon and the state of Washington. That there's not an overwhelming surge of small dollar donors from the Midwest of this country. Now, mind you, the Democrats have an incredible apparatus of small dollar donations through Act Blue, only helped by the domestic terror organization BLM Incorporated, that helped get the data and the donor profiles of small dollar donors all across the country. And with all of that we have looming over all of this one of the most egregious, one of the most outrageous examples of non journalism in American history where laptops are literally handed over to a mainstream news outlet, reported on and they run cover fire saying it's a conspiracy theory. It's dubious. It's unproven. Despite the fact that Joe Biden has yet to deny it, none of the people on the campaign are saying it's inauthentic. And as we played tape, one of the Biden surrogates, Jenna Arnold, said, I don't think anyone is saying they're inauthentic. Well, that is like saying they are authentic. 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