Charlie Kirk (13:29)
Of course he was terribly wrong. The Abraham Accords were signed between the uae. This was before Trump, between uae, Israel, Bahrain, Sudan. Historic peace in the Middle east brokered against John Kerry's predictions and his wishes. Well, maybe it's actually not John Kerry's goal to have peace. Maybe John Kerry wants a partnership. Maybe John Kerry has been working for quite some time to release the Iranian economic might against the West. Iran gets a nuclear weapon, all of a sudden the entire geopolitical landscape changes. Now, I am not someone who wants to just clamor for the drums of war against Iran. I think that would be a huge mistake. The same time undermining the peace process, which the goal should be peace and foreign policy, obviously. And we get peace through strength, as Ronald Reagan said and Benjamin Franklin said it before him. Differently should be the goal. Will John Kerry be investigated? Probably not. Will John Kerry be called to testify? 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And Nancy Pelosi, she's going out just. It is her battle, the bulge, let's put it that way. Every artillery shell, every single mortar, you name it, she is going to fire it. She doesn't care. D.C. is a new state. H.R. 1, H.R. 5. She's like, if I'm gonna go down, I'm gonna go down with the most radical Congress in American history. I don't care about governing the middle. I don't care about committees, I don't care about bill markups. Let it fly. And so how do we actually start to get questions of why is John Kerry running our climate policy? Who's actually working for Joe Biden? How do we take back these committees so we can have transparency on the executive branch? You take back the House. So yesterday was some really big news. Some really big news because the census data got released. The census is constitutionally required. Every 10 years there's a census that's done. And we just kind of take a tabulation of who's in our country and not now. The big controversy that shouldn't have been a controversy. By the way, did you know that the U.S. chamber of Commercial, the U.S. the Department of Commerce, not the Chamber of Commerce, the Department of Commerce does the census. Wilbur Ross executed the census. Now, we never should have counted illegals in our census. I want you to think about this. We counted foreign nationals illegally harbored in our country in our census data. So this is where we redraw our maps every 10 years. So every 10 years, your congressman or congresswoman could change. And the way that we actually appropriate representation in Congress changes based on population. Again, this is constitutionally required. And the big takeaway, and I'm going to get into the specifics first and foremost, was that almost every single state came in less than even the most moderate projections. So, for example, Florida, some were saying that, oh, Florida's going to get at least two seats, if not three, possibly four seats. Florida's getting one new seat. Colorado is getting one new seat. California lost a seat, Oregon is getting one new seat, which is hard to believe that Oregon gained population. Montana is getting one new seat. Illinois is losing a seat. Michigan is losing a seat. Ohio is losing a seat. West Virginia is losing a seat, Pennsylvania is losing a seat. And New York is losing a seat. Now, what is West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan have in common? Those four seats, those four states that are losing a seat, Trump won them, surprisingly and historically. Maybe there's something to this idea of losing population in the industrial Midwest and wanting someone who's going to reinvigorate it. Do you hear what I'm saying, Republicans? North Carolina gaining a seat because New York, New Yorkers have decided to go bring their metropolitan values down to Asheville and Raleigh. And Texas is the big winner, two new seats. So what does this mean for taking back the House? Let's start with Montana. The governor of Montana is Greg Gianforte. The House in Montana and the Senate is Republican. So the new map in Montana, they're probably just going to cut the state right down in half is what they're going to do. Billings is in the East. Kalispell is in the Northwest. Missoula is more in the West. They're probably going to cut it right down the center of Bozeman is what they're going to do and will probably be two Republican seats likely. Texas, the House is Republican, the Senate's Republican. The governor's Republican. Now, let me be clear. Just because They're Republican. Does not mean you get good maps and that does not mean you get Republican maps. Okay? In fact, it's illegal to do that. What it does mean though is you're not going to get Illinois style maps like in the Illinois 14th congressional district. If you guys want to go see the goofiest congressional district in the country, go look at Illinois's 5th congressional district, I think is Mike Quigley. And go look at Illinois's 14th congressional district. Illinois's 14th congressional district is a, is a barbell. It literally goes from the border of Wisconsin all the way down to nearly DeKalb. DeKalb all the way down to Joliet. It does a handlebar. Do you see that, Conor? Are you looking at it? It's literally like a C. We could put it on the live stream. That's what happens when Democrats draw districts. So here's what happens when Democrats draw districts and Republicans play this game too. I have to be honest, Republicans gerrymander a lot. And quite honestly, if Democrats are gonna do it, we let the courts decide. And North Carolina actually got rulings that they had to redraw their maps because they were too partisan. And look, I'm actually a fan of fair redistricting. I'm actually somewhat of a centrist on this. However, I leave it up to the states so that they can govern themselves the best. So anyway, Illinois has a Democrat House, Democrat Senate, and J.B. pritzker as governor. And so we're gonna get awful maps out of Illinois. This is Illinois's 14th congressional district. What do those people have in common with each other except that they live in the same hundred mile radius. You literally have people down in Plainfield, Illinois, in the same congressional district as Zion. If you know anything about Illinois a little bit different now, you're going to get this when you have politicians drawing maps. So. But when you have the new census data, every state by law redraws their maps. So Arizona was supposed to gain a seat. It didn't. The Democrats are absolutely losing their mind in Arizona because they want an extra seat, because they wanted a Democrat seat. So here's what happens. If you were to game the process, which again, I'm actually more in the camp of fairy district. Let me be very clear, however, Democrats game the process every time. Here's what you do in Illinois, they did this. They say, okay, what's the most conservative part of Illinois? Which is Illinois 16th congressional district, which is currently represented by Adam Kinzinger. Right, Adam Kinzinger, who's got to go Whoever's primary, Adam Kinzinger, you have my full support. But they'll go find the most conservative part and they'll make it A R Republican plus 30 district, like so they'll put all the conservatives in one district. Now, why would they do that? You'd say, well, doesn't that help Republicans? No, they give away one seat to go win five more. So they'll make one seat super Republican, and they'll go make the next five seats slightly Democrat. You see how that works? And so they'll make the other ones like D plus 5, D plus 4, D plus 3, D plus 6, and then the other one R plus 30. So basically, they'll say, okay, Republicans, you get one seat. We're gonna go win all the other collar county seats. In Illinois, we're gonna go win the sixth congressional, which used to be a winnable seat. We're gonna go win. They won the 14th. You look at that, you see how rural that district is in Illinois. Lauren Underwood won that against Jim Oberweis and formerly Randy Holtgren. That's a very winnable seat. I grew up around those folks. Or how about Illinois's 8th congressional district, which used to be very winnable and not so much anymore? Anyway, I'm using Illinois as a test case. Illinois, I happen to know that. So here's how I know it. I got my start in politics working on behalf of these maps. That's why I know these maps so well. I got my start in politics when I was a sophomore in high school, literally in rooms when we were advocating and arguing for fair maps and fair redistricting in Illinois. So we lost the Illinois governor's race. In 2010, it was Bill Brady who lost a very winnable race against Pat Quinn. And then we got bad maps as a result of that. So we look at this. Oregon, you're gonna get terrible maps. Kate Brown is the worst. Montana, you're gonna get really good maps. Colorado, bad maps. But I think Colorado has some precedent or decision where they have to have some sort of fairness there. Texas, you're gonna get good maps. Florida, you're gonna get great maps. North Carolina, you're not gonna get great maps. Democrat, governor. Ohio, you'll get good maps. West Virginia, you're gonna get good maps. They lost population. Pennsylvania, you're gonna get awful maps. Now. New York, lost population. This is the most controversial one. Being close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. Cut 52. New York lost a seat because they were 89 people. Short play. Cut 52.