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Charlie Kirk
Hey everyone, some really exciting personal news. Two elements of personal news that we share here on the Charlie Kirk show and we go through in great detail. Ezra Klein, who is a New York Times podcaster and data guy, explains that young people are not the future of the Democrat Party, they're the future of the Republican Party. Email US as always, freedomarliekirk.com subscribe to our podcast and get involved with Turning Point USA@tpusa.com that is tpusa.com Become a member today. Members.charliekirk.com that is members.charliekirk. com to get behind our program and support our ever growing show. And email us as always freedomarliekirk.com that is freedomarliekirk.com thank you guys for listening to the show. Text this episode to your friends. We, we deeply appreciate it. Buckle up everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
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Senator Rick Scott
Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are.
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Charlie Kirk
Lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
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Ezra Klein
Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
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David Shore
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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Charlie Kirk
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. Noble Gold Investments is the official gold sponsor of the Charlie Kirk Show, a company that specializes in gold IRAs and physical delivery of precious metals. Learn how you could protect your wealth with Noble gold investments@noblegoldinvestments.com that is noblegoldinvestments.com it's where I buy all of my gold. Go to noblegoldinvestments.com Democrats wake up and smell the data. This weekend I had the opportunity to listen to the entirety of the Ezra Klein show podcast. Ezra Klein is a very smart, honest liberal. He's been incredibly critical of the Democrat Party since the election in November. Ezra Klein previously created a thing called Wonk Blog at the Washington Post. Later he founded Vox alongside people like Matt Iglesias. He perfectly represented the white male millennial era of the Obama era. It was very smug. It was overconfident in part because they thought that left wing victory was completely inevitable. If you listen to Pod Save America, it is four of those guys that just talk about how right they are the entire time. After the 2008 election and the subsequent 2012 election of Barack Obama, people like Ezra Klein looked at the numbers and said, old people are conservative, young people are liberal, so the future will be liberal. That is a very fair and honest analysis. There's one thing they did not count on. They did not count on the grittiness and the hustle of Turning Point usa. They did not count on the millions of students that actually wanted to have a future and the ascendant political force of President Donald Trump. Now Ezra Klein, who is the premier explainer of things on the left, is stuck trying to explain why that didn't happen. So we had a Democrat statistician by the name of David Shore on his program. The reason we are leading with this today, everybody, is that there is a generational restructuring happening. It's so obvious to us on this program. We've been warning about this for the last couple years. Not just warning about it, celebrating it. I've been coming in the chair here on this program, Real America's Voice and on the Salem Radio Network telling you guys, there's something happening on these campuses. There's something happening with the next generation. The crowds were drawing the views that we are garnering and reporters would scoff at it. Oh, come on, what are you saying? You're gonna win. Young people and Democrats took the next generation so for granted. And what is remarkable is that it is sticking. This is not just a Trump phenomenon. This is a wide spread restructuring, a widespread realignment. By the way, if you want to know why Democrats lost, here's one of several actual explanations. In 2020, David Shor was fired from the left wing analytics company he worked at because he made a tweet saying that George Floyd riots might hurt Democrats politically. The very same guy that we're about to watch. Now this is something that we've been saying on this program for quite some time. We are ahead of the curve here. We see the trajectory and we lead it. We are the leading indicator here on this program. And, and all of you in this audience understand that we are not followers. We are pace setters, the tip of the spear. Understanding that the zeitgeist will be made here on this program. Ezra Klein and the New York Times, they follow the lead of the Charlie Kirk Show. They follow the lead of War Room, they follow the lead of what we are doing with our Turning Point USA groups on campus. And they're processing information saying, what do you mean the New York Times doesn't sound the trend anymore? It doesn't. The New York Times is reporting on months old data. Now the significance of this, everybody, is that you are dealing With a completely different political climate than any time that you have been alive since Ronald Reagan. In fact, if you take an average 20 something voter that is a young man and an average 75 year old man, and we've said this on this program and it drives some baby boomers a little bit nuts. And of course this audience exempt from that. The paradigm shift is so remarkable that the 20 year old is more conservative than the 75 year old. Let me say that again that the 20 year old is more Conservative than the 75 year old. Don't believe me? Here is Ezra Klein and David Shore who are pulling their hair out, going through all of the numbers, trying to process how on earth is it that the young men, the next generation, are more conservative than their grandparents. Now let me just take a pause before I play this piece of tape. If me mentioning that bothers you, it should actually give you great hope. If you're 75 and you find out that your colleagues that are boomers are more liberal than your grandkids, it actually means that you're going to be handing off a country that is more conservative. Good job. You guys did well. A good legacy. Yes, your fellow boomers are trending left, but your grandkids are taking a hard right turn. There you could see the tens of thousands of students that attend our outdoor campus events. Tens of thousands. We don't just react to culture. You are part of a movement that is shaping it, creating it and pushing it forward. And it was delicious this weekend listening to Smugman Ezra Klein have to explain to the millions of New York Times elite academics what we have helped make happen. Play cut 75.
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Unnamed Analyst
One of the things you can see here is if you just look at 18 year olds, 18 year old women of color are the only of the four that actually voted that Harris won. Trump narrowly won non white men.
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Ezra Klein
So I do find this part of this chart shocking. I sometimes talk about narrative violations and I think if we knew anything about Donald Trump eight years ago, it's that young people did not like him. But if you look at this chart, among white men who were 75 years old supported Kamala Harris at a significantly higher rate than white men who are 20 years old.
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Unnamed Analyst
That's exactly right.
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Ezra Klein
That's a real shift.
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Unnamed Analyst
It is a real shift. This is the thing I am the most shocked by, I think in the last four years is that young people have gone from being the most progressive generation since the baby boomers and maybe in some ways more so, to becoming potentially the most conservative.
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Charlie Kirk
The most conservative I have no idea who would have made that a stated goal. You're telling me for the first time you see what you're witnessing. There is a PhD left wing struggle session as they're trying to go through the data and they're being honest in front of the audience and they're one of the few people on the left that actually goes into the data. And let me repeat again that an average 20 year old white man is far more conservative than their 75 year old grandparents. And it makes all the sense in the world. Number one, look at the information that they're consuming. The average 20 year old is watching the Charlie Kirk Show. They're listening to the Charlie Kirk show podcast. They're consuming Matt Walsh on TikTok. They are watching the influencer army that we have helped assemble. The 75 year old boomer man is more likely to watch cable news. They're more likely to watch NBC and abc. Young people aren't watching the news, they're getting it in 10 second soundbites of which we are dominant. For those skeptical of polls and sampling size, David Shore study which you just saw in that video is based on 26 million online responses collected over the course of 2024 and filtered to adjust to oddities of modern polling. This trend, if it continues everybody, is one of the greatest points of optimism that we see on the horizon. And this is why we are doing more campus tours than ever before. This is why we are starting more high school chapters and starting more college chapters. This is the sleeper narrative underneath everything. It undergirds the entire society. The subterranean truth that we are living through right now is that there is a political earthquake that you have been praying for and it is sticking and it is only continuing. It is not just a Donald Trump phenomenon. It is a right wing revolution that is happening from the youth to the old, from the bottom up, from the students to the elders, from the Gen Xers to Gen Zers to the boomers. And it's happening across all racial demographics. And it stands to possibly put the Democrat party in a minoritarian position for a generation. If pain is affecting your life, make 2025 the year of feeling good again. The year of moving better, sleeping better, feeling more alive. And do it with Relief Factor. Relief Factor is a daily supplement that fights pain naturally. It doesn't just mask pain temporarily, helps reduce or even eliminate it. Over a million people have turned to Relief Factor. Feel the difference it can make in your Life. Give their three week quick start a try. It's only $19.95 less than a dollar a day and just takes a phone call. Call 1-800-For relief. That is 1-800-For relief. Remember, every day you feel better is a day you live better. So wherever you're hurting back, neck, joints or muscles, make 2025 the year of feeling good again. Try relief factor right now. That is 1-800-for relief. 1,800-for relief. Young Hispanics, young blacks, young whites that are men are all shifting to the right. Young women are too, but not to the same extent. One of the reasons why young men are shifting to the right is the hyper feminization of American politics is how feminine the Democrat party has become. When you are trying to raise young men, you learn that young men do not like taking orders, especially when it comes to discipline from women. Now you can complain about that, you can say it's sexist, you could say it's awful, but it's the truth. 16, 17 and 18 year old men hesitate to take orders from women in authority. You cannot like it, but it is a fact of nature. This is why teenage boys need dads around. They need a man that they can look up to, that is able to exhibit force, that is able to put structure and rules and guidelines and God bless single moms, but they are not able to always get the job done. This is why you need a father and a mother around when you raise a child. The same goes politically. So when a young man looks at the horizon of American politics and on one side you have screeching women telling them to shut up, to watch your pronouns, to watch your language. Young men inherently do not like taking orders from women. Men are wired this way. Now, eventually men will help grow out of that if the women earn their respect. But 16, 17, 18 year old young men, they don't respond well to that. They inherently rebel. So the entire Democrat party is wired in a way against young men's nature. Sit down and shut up. We're going to call you a racist. So young men start to gravitate towards a political party that is not hyper feminized. In fact, who is the most alpha male, both through his language and his body posture? It's Donald Trump. So you have hyper feminized politics of Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren and aoc and then you have alpha male politics of Donald Trump and Ezra Klein and David Shore. They don't understand any of this because they think it's all just a big policy debate. It is so much deeper than that. It's that young men don't want to Take orders from women. It's obvious, you know, that when you're around teenage boys, they need a man that they can trust and a man that has strength. And then they'll shut up and listen. And so what women in the Democrat Party do is they say, you're toxic, you need to be medicated, sit down and let the women handle it. They say, no, I'm gonna go to the right. And they haven't even necessarily thought through all the policy implications of what it means to be a conservative, but it appeals to their reason. And the communicators are typically men that don't apologize to tyrannical left wing politics. Play cut 76.
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Ezra Klein
Democrats are getting destroyed now among young voters.
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Unnamed Analyst
That's right.
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Ezra Klein
I do think there was, even as the idea of the rising Democratic majority had become a little discredited in 2016 and 2020, I do think Democrats believed that these young voters were eventually gonna save them. That this was a last gasp of something. That if Donald Trump couldn't run these numbers up among seniors and you had millennials really coming into their voting power, Gen Z coming in, that was gonna be the end of this Republican Party. And that just completely false.
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Unnamed Analyst
Yeah, I mean, that might be the.
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Ezra Klein
Beginning of this Republican Party.
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Unnamed Analyst
You know, I have to admit, I was one of those liberals four years ago and it seems like I was wrong.
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Charlie Kirk
It's the beginning of our Republican Party. Here is the gender gap and how significant it is. Play cut 77.
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Unnamed Analyst
On the bottom we have age and at the top we have the gender gap in support between women and men and for support for Kamala Harris. And so what you can see is that for voters over 30, the gender gap was fairly stable at around 10%, which is roughly where it's been in American politics.
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Ezra Klein
And voters over 75, it's even lower.
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Unnamed Analyst
That's right.
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Ezra Klein
It's a fairly low gender gap among older.
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Unnamed Analyst
But what's crazy is if you look at people who are under the age of 30, the gender gap has exploded. If you look at 18 year olds, 18 year old men were 23 percentage points more likely to support Donald Trump than 18 year old women, which is just completely unprecedented in American politics.
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Ezra Klein
Is that abortion?
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Unnamed Analyst
I think it's too early to say exactly what the cause is. What's interesting is that this is happening in other countries as well. Obviously different countries have different political systems, but I've seen similar patterns in Canada, in the uk, in Norway.
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Charlie Kirk
Is that abortion? Actually, it's not. It's just so simple. The men of the west do not want to be told what to do from women that they do not respect, that don't have their own personal lives together, screaming at them for merely existing. Hey, everybody, you know what you need in your life? You need more trees. Did you know that Fast Growing Trees is the biggest online nursery in America with thousands of different plants and over 2 million happy customers? Did you guys know actually having plants around shows that you could have better mental health, better clarity, less depression. You can fact check me on it. It's true. Being around nature is how we're honestly God designed us. Their alive and thrive guarantee ensures your plants arrive happy and healthy. Plus you get support from trained plant experts on call to help you plan your landscape and choose the right plants and learn how to care for them. Fast Growing Trees makes it easy to get your dream yard order online and get your plants delivered directly to your door in just a few days without ever leaving home. Whatever plants you're interested in, Fast Growing Trees has you covered. Find the perfect fit for your climate and space this spring. They have the best deals for your yard, up to half on select plants and other deals. And listeners to our show get 15% off their first purchase when they use promo code Kirk at checkout. That's an additional 15% off at fastgrowingtrees.com using code KIRK at checkout fastgrowingtrees.com promo code KIRK. Now's the time to plant. Use Kirk today. Offers valid for a limited time. Terms and conditions may apply. Joining us now is Senator Rick Scott from the great state of Florida. Senator, you have some thoughts here about young men and younger voters kind of parlaying off of what I was talking about. Your thoughts, Charlie?
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Senator Rick Scott
I loved my mom. Unfortunately, my mom passed away. I had no interest in my mom telling me what to, what to do. I had zero. I think that that's exactly what young men in this country are saying, look, give us our job, let us, you know, we're smart enough, we can go do this on our own. We don't need to. We don't need the nanny state telling us how to lead our lives. We don't need telling us how, what to eat, where to work, any of this stuff. So just give us the opportunity to go live our dreams. And so I think it's as simple to me, it's as simple as that. I am sick and tired of how big government has gotten. And you can't get a permit to build a business, to build a house, to do anything because of local, state and federal government.
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Charlie Kirk
I completely agree and so for a young 17 and 18 year old man, you know what it's like to be that age. The last thing they want is someone who is not their mom but is coming in and telling them, hey, it's terrible that you exist and it's terrible that, that you have white skin color. It doesn't work. So Senator, I do. You're an oppressive.
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Senator Rick Scott
You're white. You're oppressive.
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Charlie Kirk
Right, exactly.
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Senator Rick Scott
If you're white, you're an oppressor. I mean, give me a break. You know what? I'm a kid that grew up in public housing. I joined the Navy at 18, okay? And I just wanted my chance to live the dream. Just give me. My mom said, look, everything is your fault and your success is going to be your fault. Your failure is going to be your fault. So just let me go after my own success and get out of my way.
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Charlie Kirk
That's exactly right, Senator. I want to draw our audience's attention to some of the special elections in Florida. They're getting a lot of attention. We're being outspent significantly. What are the two special elections and why do they matter?
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Senator Rick Scott
Well, Jimmy Patronus is in the panhandle. He's taking Matt Gaetz seat. Okay. Then Randy, fine. The Republican is taking Mike Walt's seat. So we've got to get our vote out. In special elections, often the vote is, there's low voter turnout. And this is when we have, you know, these are both should be all right. In a normal year this would be easy. Republican wins. But what we're seeing now is our Democrats about racist because they know this is the chance to reduce the majority of the Republicans in the House. We've got to win. Jimmy's got to win, Randy's got to win. So here's how what you can do, give them money, you can make, you can make phone calls to people you might know in that district from anywhere in the country. You got to get the vote out. We got to get everybody to go to the polls. We have, you know, you can early vote in Florida right now and, and you can vote on election day. So we've got eight days to go. It's a week from Tuesday. Get the vote out, you gotta get out to vote. That's how I've won my elections in Florida. We've gotta get the people out to vote.
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Charlie Kirk
And these special elections can sometimes sneak up on us. It is an R + Trump 30 district. It is pure turnout. Is that correct, Senator, your turnout?
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Senator Rick Scott
It's all who's gonna show up? You Know how you lose these special elections is, you know, people say, oh, gosh, we always win. Oh, I didn't, I wasn't even tracking the race. So, like, I've done, I've, I've done telephone town hall for Randy just the other day. Just do one thing. We have an election. You have to, if you're a Republican, you have to get out there and vote. We should, if we get our voters out, we're going to win.
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Charlie Kirk
It is, it is truly pure Turnout. Let's put 109 up on screen here. Just a. This is from Jake Shermer from Punchbowl. Just a massively stunning cash disparity in Florida 6, which where there will be a special next week to replace Mike Waltz. Democrat Josh Weil raised $9 million and has $1.2 million cash on hand. Republican Randy Fine raised $987,000 and has just $92,000 on hand. Senator, how is it possible that we keep on getting outspent so significantly here?
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Senator Rick Scott
Well, and no one took the race seriously. No one thought, you know, in a, in a, you know, a Republican seat that Mike Walsh had won handily, that there would been any risk that we wouldn't win here. And so what's happened is the Democrats have shown up and they have all, you know, they have all this act blue money that they can raise. And so, you know, and when, when you have just ads attacking you, attacking you and attacking you and you can't raise money, it makes it hard. And that's exactly what's happened to Randy Fine. So this is going to come down to do our voters show up? If our voters show up, we're going to win because, you know, it's getting late. But if you can, if you can donate to Randy Fine or donate to Jimmy Petronis, donate to him. If you have the time to make phone calls to get the vote out, you can call their campaigns, you can get on their websites and you can, you know, you. I know vote. I think Randy finds it's vote randyfine.com. you can get on there and you make phone calls for them. You can send texts for them. So we've got to get our votes out.
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Charlie Kirk
What?
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Senator Rick Scott
We know where the votes are.
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Charlie Kirk
What part of Florida is this again? I mean, some people don't even know their congressional district. Remind people, please.
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Senator Rick Scott
So Jimmy Petronis is up in the Panhandle. Yeah, no, that's Matt's gate.
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Charlie Kirk
But Randy Fine.
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Senator Rick Scott
Yeah, Randy Fine. Randy's. Randy's at Melbourne area. Okay, so, so the. A Little bit south. So those are conservative country there. Oh yeah, we should win handily. It's just the fact that no one took the race seriously. Big Republican seat, Mike Waltz won easily. So Josh is, you know, the other candidate has been able to raise a lot of money and he's run terrible ads. Just complete lies about Randy. But, you know, we gotta, we gotta go hustle.
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Charlie Kirk
Yes, we do. Senator, give us the latest update from Capitol Hill as far as the schedule for second tier nominations and also the one big beautiful bill.
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Senator Rick Scott
So we've been, last week was our vote, our recess, we're back in our districts or our states and now we're back up here for three weeks. So in three weeks we're going to work our tail off to try to get this reconciliation done. So we're going to work with our House colleagues on doing these things. Number one, we've got to, we've got to make sure Trump has the money to get rid of the illegals, the criminals, the terrorists, the narco traffic and people selling a drugstore kits. He needs $175 billion to do that. We've got to plus up our military to be able to defend ourselves. And then third, we got to balance the budget and we got to get the Trump tax cuts extended. So we've got to work with our House colleagues really hard to get this done. We, we can balance a budget. We can do all these things right now. It's going to take a lot of work over the next three weeks.
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Charlie Kirk
And the, the spending cuts, where are we at with the DOGE recommendations? And I know those negotiations are ongoing. What, what is the latest update there?
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Senator Rick Scott
So Elon's done a great job giving information to our Secretaries of Ways. They can reduce staffing, reduce wasteful spending. Now what we've got to do is we've got to one do rescission package. What the White House can do, they can send us a rescission package. It only takes 218 members of the House, 51 members in the Senate, and we can get rid of that spending. I know the White House is looking at that. I spoke with OMB last week about it. So I know they're looking at that. And then as we do our Budget 2026, which will be part of this reconciliation, we can dramatically reduce that spending and take those DOGE cuts and put them in that in our reconciliation bill.
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Charlie Kirk
The fiscal calamity that we are experiencing is immense. And the lack of Washington DC's appetite to cut spending and get down to baseline budgeting. Is horrifying. My hope is that we'll be able. Please talk about the stakes. Think about.
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Senator Rick Scott
So, Charlie, think about. What was the election about? The election was about secure the border, make us safe, get inflation under control. Inflation will not come down. Interest rates will not come down. If we don't balance the budget, they're not going to. It's just that's. It's all caused. It's a monetary. It's. It caused. It's caused. Because of wasteful spending, we're spending $2 trillion more than we take in. We've had a 2% increase in our population, a 53% increase in spending in five years. So what we've got to do is. We've got to do what you do. I mean, Charlie, you do it. Everybody does it. You go, you get your credit card, you look at all the lines and say, well, was that one right? I'm not going to do that one again. We're not going to spend money like that. That's what you do. We've got to do the same thing at the federal level. We did it. My business life, constantly. When I was governor, I went through all 4,000 lines of the budget. Ron Johnson just had not been the Wall Street Journal saying, let's get the House, the Senate, the White House together, and let's go line by line through the budget. I did that as governor. That's how we balance the budget. We reduce this, we reduce spending, and we reduce wasteful spending because we had a purpose for every line. That's what you should expect out of your tax dollars. There should be a purpose. Not $600,000 to study the menstrual cycle of transgender men or $800,000 to do gardening and new chicken gardening in El Salvador. I mean, this stuff is crazy. This is all doable. We can't balance this budget, and that's what if we're going to get inflation under control, get interest rates down so you can afford that house or afford that car, it's gonna be because we balance the budget.
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Charlie Kirk
And if it doesn't happen, it's simply because of certain Senate and House colleagues of yours that do not have the will to cut spending and do not want to face the music. Senator, we will not have a country anymore if we do not dramatically cut spending.
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Senator Rick Scott
Absolutely, Charlie. It's simple. What the way to do it is we right now, they're anticipating that we're going to collect about five and a half trillion dollars. What do you do with your personal life? Okay, you say, I'm not spending more than that. So what we should do is say our spending level will be the same as our revenues or less. Right. When I was governor it was less and I paid off a third of the state debt. So we should say, okay, there's a lot of nice to haves, but we don't have the revenues for that or the taxpayers are not willing to give us the money to do those things. So the way to do it is to say I'm not going to cut anything. I'm going to say this is what I'm going to spend money on. All right? These are my highest priorities, but nothing else. This is the only amount of money I have to spend. It's just like what every family does with their personal life. We've got to do it with your, with the federal government.
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Charlie Kirk
Senator, thank you for your leadership. We'll be watching very closely and keep on telling your colleagues that we, the base are demanding spending cuts. Demanding spending cuts.
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Senator Rick Scott
I agree with you, Charlie.
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Charlie Kirk
Thank you.
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Senator Rick Scott
Have a great day.
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Charlie Kirk
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Scott Galloway
For the first time in our nation's history, a 30 year old man or woman isn't doing as well as his or her parents were at 30. That is the social compact breaking down. People age 30 to 34, 60% of them in 1990 had one child. Now it's 27%. People are opting out of America. They're not optimistic about it. They're not having kids. Young people aren't having sex. They're not meeting, they're not mating. Pool of emotionally and economically viable men shrinks every day, which lessens household formation. So we have a real issue. Young people are enraged. So it turns every cut, every movement into an opportunistic infection because quite frankly, they are just off.
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Charlie Kirk
And that's why they voted for President Donald Trump. So two pieces of personal news, the first of which, this happened about a week and a half, two weeks ago. Very honored. The president of the United States, President Trump selected me to serve on the Air Force Academy Board of Visitors. Yes, it is true. I've never served in the military. However, I do know something about kicking woke out of institutions. The Air Force Academy is a very far left wing institution as it has been running the last couple of years. And honored that the president has given me this opportunity alongside some other great change agents like Senator Tuberville and many others to make the Air Force Academy great again. If we are serious about fighting the communist Chinese and our enemies abroad, we need the Air Force Academy to not be one that is focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, but instead on excellence and meritocracy. The second piece of personal news that I am very honored and quite honestly humbled that starting next week, a week from today, we will be taking over Dennis Prager's radio slot. Dennis is still recovering from a very difficult spinal cord injury that he sustained in November. I've visited Dennis a couple times in the hospital. And so starting next week, we are very humbled to be taking over his radio slot. It means that our radio audience will be growing by about 40% and we will be doing an entire show in his honor. Now, Dennis is still alive and Dennis is going to be coming back on radio hopefully in June in the third hour of this program. But Dennis is in a tough spot and we keep him in our prayers and we keep him in our thoughts every single day. And I think I am one of the greatest Dennis Prager fans alive. I listen to him almost every single day. I read the rational Bible. I listened to all of his rational Bible lectures that he did over the course of 25 years. So honored and very humbled to be receiving his radio portfolio starting a week from Today, continuing here, how do young people get their information? Well, this is from the conversation between ezra Klein and Mr. Shore I talked about on this program. I said, hey, guys, there's something to this TikTok thing. We have to lean into TikTok. People said, oh, you know, like Tom Cotton, who doesn't Even know what TikTok is, we must ban it. Okay, I used to believe that too. But did you realize that one of the reasons why we're singing a right wing revolution is because of TikTok? One of the reasons why we saw so many people go in our direction is that we used something that we did not otherwise like, and we used it for good and virtuous and righteous purposes. Play cut 103.
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Unnamed Analyst
You know, what I have here is we have the share of voters who get their news from TikTok. By year, the share of voters, of young voters who get their news from TikTok more than quadrupled in the last four years. This is the biggest and probably fastest change in media consumption that, as happened in my lifetime, and it was quite correlated with support change. Now, obviously, TikTok users are younger, they're less politically engaged. It's not surprising that we dropped among this group. You'd expect that from demographics when you zoom in, particularly to people who get their news from TikTok who don't care very much about politics. This is a group that's 8 percentage points more Republican than they were four years ago. And that's a lot.
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Charlie Kirk
So this is the muscular class. These are young folks that are taking out your trash. They're serving you the food at In N Out Burger. They're driving your Uber Eats. They're just trying to make it work. Our hypothesis was correct. We said, hey, there's something to this TikTok thing. Democrats are trying to ban it. Let's go all in. And you know, with two and a half billion views on TikTok later, looks like the macro data pointed in our direction. And President Donald Trump also embraced TikTok. We had the third most popular TikTok of any TikTok accounts behind President Trump and Trump's campaign. When President Trump, Trump's campaign, we were more popular. The Charlie Kirk Show TikTok page. Good job. Ryan was more popular than Kamala Harris. TikTok diluted the power of the mockingbird media. TikTok allowed us to go straight into the pockets of of millions of young people. And so did X, to be fair, and so did Rumble and all the others. But nothing came close to the potency of TikTok. Nothing came even close because we were reaching non political young people, which is what I realized about a couple months into doing this. We went to our people's Convention in Detroit and all of a sudden all the janitors are coming up giving me fist bumps, and these are blacks and Hispanics. I said, okay. Then I went to the DNC in Chicago, and all the people working at the DNC in Chicago said, we like you. We hate Kamala Harris. We follow you on TikTok. I said, oh, we are sitting on something enormous. We embraced it all throughout the election. The Democrats are still trying to figure out what happened. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Email us. As always, freedomcharliekirk.com thanks so much for listening and God bless.
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David Shore
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