Things To Be Thankful For: The Democrat Excuse Machine

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Charlie Kirk Show - "Things To Be Thankful For: The Democrat Excuse Machine"

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Thanksgiving Reflections and Gratitude

Timestamp: [00:56] - [10:33]

In the heart of the episode, Charlie Kirk delves into the theme of Thanksgiving, emphasizing the importance of gratitude in both personal and national contexts. He references Dennis Prager's philosophy that "you cannot be happy if you are not grateful," highlighting how gratitude fosters humility and strengthens community bonds. Kirk draws parallels between America's historical resilience and its current political climate, expressing optimism about an impending "American renaissance."

Notable Quotes:

• "Gratitude is a necessary practice and being grateful is a practice. You must be intentional about it." ([04:15])
• "Gratitude is the fruit that makes everything else taste sweet." ([07:30])

Kirk also references biblical narratives to underscore human tendencies toward ingratitude, urging listeners to recognize and appreciate the sovereignty of a higher power. He advocates for a collective sense of thankfulness towards God, family, and country, asserting that such gratitude is foundational to America's renewal and the reclamation of its constitutional values.

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Interview with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton

Timestamp: [17:08] - [28:46]

A significant portion of the episode features an in-depth interview with Ken Paxton, the Attorney General of Texas. The conversation centers around Paxton's recent lawsuit against major financial institutions—State Street Bank, Vanguard, and BlackRock—for alleged collusion in manipulating coal production to influence energy prices. Paxton explains that these actions have led to increased energy costs for consumers, violating federal and state laws, including the Clayton Act and the Sherman Act.

Notable Quotes:

• "They are cutting production. That has a deleterious effect on our economy. It has a deleterious effect on our consumers, and it forces us to buy more energies, more energy overseas." ([19:53])
• "We have to trust our criminal justice system that they're out, that those agencies are out to do justice, not to create injustice." ([26:44])

Paxton elaborates on the broader implications of his lawsuit, emphasizing its alignment with efforts to counteract the Biden administration's climate initiatives, which he argues have negatively impacted energy independence and economic stability in Texas. He lauds the Trump administration's energy policies for fostering energy independence and criticizes the current administration for enabling competitors and increasing reliance on foreign energy sources.

The discussion also touches on Texas's political landscape, highlighting the state's significant shift towards the Republican side in recent elections. Paxton attributes this shift to successful voter protection initiatives and dissatisfaction with Democratic policies, particularly those related to border security and energy.

Notable Quotes:

• "Donald Trump won Texas by 14 points. What happened to the hundreds of millions of dollars they were spending to make Texas blue?" ([22:21])
• "We registered more voters than you. Can I play that again? I'm sorry, that's. That's as good as it gets." ([16:25])

Paxton further criticizes Democratic campaign strategies, accusing them of relying on vanity metrics and ineffective voter outreach methods. He contrasts this with Turning Point USA's approach of fostering genuine community relationships to mobilize voters, which he claims led to substantial Republican gains in traditionally Democratic areas.

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Critique of Democratic Campaign Strategies

Timestamp: [13:47] - [35:13]

Charlie Kirk offers a robust critique of Democratic campaign strategies, particularly targeting figures like Jen O'Malley Dillon and David Plouffe. He argues that the Democrats failed to effectively engage voters despite substantial financial investments, attributing their shortcomings to a lack of genuine voter connection and strategic missteps.

Notable Quotes:

• "You have to have undecided break your way more than your opponents, and you've got to get a little benefit from turnout, which we weren't able to do." ([32:11])
• "You can knock on 10 million doors all you want, but how many new voters did you get into the system?" ([34:36])

Kirk references Pau O'Malley Dillon's and David Plouffe’s statements on voter behavior and campaign effectiveness, challenging their assessments by highlighting Turning Point USA's success in grassroots mobilization. He accuses the Democratic campaigns of prioritizing flashy metrics over tangible voter engagement, leading to ineffective campaign outcomes.

The discussion underscores the importance of authentic voter relationships and strategic targeting of low-propensity voters, which Kirk credits for the Republican successes in recent elections. He emphasizes that genuine community engagement surpasses superficial campaign tactics, resulting in more substantial and committed voter turnout.

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Conclusion

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Final Thoughts

Throughout the episode, Charlie Kirk emphasizes the critical role of gratitude and humility in fostering a resilient and unified nation. He intertwines these themes with a sharp critique of Democratic strategies and policies, advocating for effective grassroots mobilization and ethical governance. The interview with Ken Paxton serves to highlight conservative efforts to combat perceived economic and political adversities, reinforcing the podcast's overarching narrative of reclaiming constitutional values and promoting American sovereignty.

Additional Notes:

• Advertisements and promotional segments have been intentionally excluded to maintain focus on the episode's substantive content.

Transcript

[Charlie Kirk]

Hey, everybody. Happy Thanksgiving. We have a great show in store for you today. Make sure you guys get your tickets right now for AmFest. That is AmericaFest.com AmFest.com AmFest.com I know you're going to enjoy this episode, so become a member. Members.charliekirk.com that's members.charliekirk dot com and just one more thought on America Fest. America Fest is the best event of the year. We are adding more and more speakers. It's remarkable. Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, Don Jr. Ben Carson, Tim Poole, Josh Hawley, Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles, Anna Paulina, you name it. Amfest.comamfest.com and our conversation with Ken Paxman is next. Email us. As always, freedomarlykirk.com Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. Charlie. What you've done is incredible here.

[Ken Paxton]

Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.

[Charlie Kirk]

I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie.

[Ken Paxton]

He's an incredible guy.

[Charlie Kirk]

His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one.

[Ken Paxton]

Of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, created Turning Point usa.

[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@noblegold investments.com that is noblegold investments. Com. It's where I buy all of my gold. Go to noblegold investments.com Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. I love Thanksgiving. It's one of my favorite days of the year. I think it speaks very well to our nation that there is a day where we stop and say thank you, as the great Dennis Prager would say. And Dennis Prager is in a tough spot right now. And you should say a audible prayer for Dennis Prager right now. He is. He's in a tough situation, and we want him to have a healthy and speedy recovery. Dennis would say in his happiness hour, you cannot be happy if you are not grateful. The ingrates, the ungrateful, make the world worse. The grateful make the world better. On Thanksgiving, you must be grateful to something. You could be grateful to your parents, grateful to your friends, but of course, grateful to Almighty God. And boy, do we have so much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. What do you think about three, three weeks ago, 22 days ago, there was a nation on edge, nation full of anxiety. We were told that Kamala Harris was up in the polls, and we knew that it was an existential survival question. Was this nation going to continue to exist? Was this nation going to survive? And God shined his grace on this great republic. And I believe our best days are ahead, that we are on the verge of an American renaissance, a restoration. It's as if America is being powered up, it's being booted up. We are emerging from our slumber. And how thankful we are that Donald Trump didn't die on July 13th in Butler, Pennsylvania. How thankful that we are that we were spared from all of the civil chaos. We all dodged a bullet on July 13th and on November 5th. I love Thanksgiving because people from all different walks of life and different faiths can come together and say that gratitude is a necessary practice and being grateful is a practice. You must be intentional about it. We are not naturally a grateful people. In fact, we're very ungrateful. In the book of Exodus, God's chosen people leave Egypt. And how long until they were complaining that they did not have meat like they did when they had. They were slaves in Egypt? I believe it's numbers 14. I could be wrong. The Book of Numbers. No, it's actually maybe 18 or 12. I'm all over the place. I'll find it in a second. Where the people of Israel complain. They complain that they don't have good enough food, even though God sent quail off course and manna from Heaven. It's numbers 11. Thank you. We'll read from numbers 11 here because it's a wonderful story on how the people constantly complain. When the people complain, it displeased the Lord, and the Lord heard it, and his anger was kindled, and the fire of the Lord burnt among them and consumed them in the uttermost parts of the camp. We are a complaining people. You see, Thanksgiving, and the fundamental story of thanksgiving is to understand that there is a God and you are not him, that there is a cosmological order and a cosmological plan above all of us, and that we must have the humility to know that God is sovereign and that we can easily lose perspective. And I encourage all of you today, tomorrow, Friday, Saturday, this Thanksgiving weekend, turn off your devices and just say to the heavens, thank you. Thank you. And yes, there is much work yet to be done. There are many fights left to embark on. But what would have been if Kamala Harris would be president elect right now? Now, that would be a tough Thanksgiving. We would still Be saying thank you because there would be so much for to be thankful for. You got to keep the main thing, the main thing, God, family, country. And you see, when you're thankful, I think it invites humility. I believe gratitude and humility are sister virtues because by definition, when you are thankful, you are not necessarily taking credit for everything. When you are thankful, you're not saying that it's all because of you, that there's something that was given to you, that you are the recipient of something external that you did not make happen. And we are all recipients of this beautiful nation. And look at the remarkable sequence of events that have come together. The world's richest man, a Kennedy, Tulsi Gabbard, former DNC co chair Donald Trump, surviving all together to reclaim our nation. I just, I am blown away with humility at that truth. Humility allows you to grow and improve, to evolve, to strengthen and deepen in your understanding. You see, the left thrives on ingratitude. You look at the last of the Ten Commandments, Thou shall not covet. It's a very interesting commandment because it's the only of the Ten Commandments that deals with the mind. It deals with the inner workings of the being, not just the external. All the other 10 are largely behavioral. You shall have no other gods before me. That's somewhat internal. You shall have no idols. You shall remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy. You shall not use the Lord's name in vain or carry the Lord's name in vain. You shall honor your mother and fathers and may live long in land which you are in. Shall not murder, you shall not steal. You shall not commit adultery. But coveting, Coveting. Well, how can you covet your neighbor's donkey or your neighbor's wife if you're thankful? And the answer is, you can't. Gratitude is the fruit that makes everything else taste sweet. But then you must be thankful. To whom? To the Almighty God. The left feeds off of fear and smugness and ingratitude. The activist energy that fuels so many of these campus radicals is not gratitude. I believe if you graduate from college, you graduate with a degree in. In gratitude. Our side feeds off of love, community and patriotism. And so, as you sit around the Thanksgiving table this Thanksgiving, just be thankful that we still have a country. Thankful that we have the ability and the agency. And the table is set for the greatest reclamation of the Constitution in American history. Be thankful that we have this window in time that was given to us, that we did not earn to fulfill the founder's mandate that we have a 100 year detour that we've been taking post Woodrow Wilson for FDR to Richard Nixon to Lyndon Baines Johnson. It was one president after the other, one decision after the other that grew government that got us off the founder's course, that made the citizens smaller and the Leviathan bigger. And we have this opportunity and we should be thankful for the opportunity. And what I'm saying is we should be thankful that we have an opportunity to fight, that what we do actually matters. And isn't that the greatest of all the things to receive? It's not that we received the end result. We have received a chance. That's what we received. We did not receive the nation back fully intact, but we received an opening. And isn't that all that we were asking for? We were asking for just give us a chance. Give us the ability to use our free will and our agency, our capacity to think, to be able then to restore liberty if the people were to want it. But a prideful and a cocky nation will not be saved. You must be humble before the Lord and say thank you for allowing us this second chance that we do not deserve. That we do not deserve. Because we have, we have taken such a detour away from our founding values, from our foundational ideas, from our birth certificate. And Thanksgiving is a uniquely American tradition going all the way back to the original story of Thanksgiving to today we pause and say thank you. I think it is one of the greatest traditions in American history and just our whole country to say thank you. Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here.

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[Ken Paxton]

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[Charlie Kirk]

Let us watch it. The stakes are high. We have only begun to fight. Amfest.com get your ticket right now. Amfest.com so you would imagine that the Democrat campaign mafia would have some sort of introspection about how they lost. Well, they're on a PR damage tour right now. Jen O'Malley Dillon and David Pluff are doing the rounds. This is Ms. Jen on pod Save America trying to explain away how and why Kamala Harris lost. We were just talking about humility. Maybe they could use a little bit of that. Play cut 52 of Jen O'Malley Dillon.

[Jen O'Malley Dillon]

On the Biden question. We of course got that everywhere we went and we knew what the data was. We knew we had to show her as her own person and point to the future and not try to rehash the past. She also felt that she was part of the administration and unless we said something like, well, I would have handled the border completely differently, we were never going to satisfy anybody. We were trying to tell a story and give the impression that she was different without pointing to a specific issue.

[David Plouffe]

Can I ask just why not a specific issue? Is it something she was unwilling to do? You worried you would feel disingenuous?

[Jen O'Malley Dillon]

She felt like she was part of the administration so why should she look back and cherry pick some things that she would have done differently when she was part of it? She had tremendous loyalty to President Biden.

[Charlie Kirk]

Cherry pick things you wouldn't. Oh, this is Just delicious. Let's keep going. Play cut 54.

[Unknown Speaker]

And he had an army of super PACs that were so coordinated. I'm sure there's some legal way they were communicating coordinated, but like, I'm sure it was legal.

[Jen O'Malley Dillon]

Yes, right, or illegal.

[Unknown Speaker]

But they, you know, from the beginning they were, you know, week to week all. You know, one super PAC would take a couple weeks and hit Pennsylvania and then the next one would come in and do the same. And they're all coordinated. We didn't have the benefit of that.

[Charlie Kirk]

Wait, hold on. Time out. Time on. What happened to all your outside money? Not only did you guys have $1.5 billion in hard money, what happened to the multiple billion dollars outside? And shame on you, Jen O'Malley Dillon even suggesting we do something illegal. What exactly illegal? What we would we have been doing that? You're legally allowed to coordinate activity with campaigns now, according to the Mark Elias FEC ruling. You guys are so smug. You guys are so self righteous that you can't actually acknowledge that we out organized you. You were leaking to the press. Oh, Turning Point doesn't know what they're doing. No, we chase more ballots than you. We registered more voters than you. Can I play that again? I'm sorry, that's. That's as good as it gets. I gotta play that again just for my own personal delight. She's saying, oh, wow. Next thing you know, one super PAC comes into Pennsylvania, one comes into North Carolina. Yeah, that's right. We came in and we out organized you. The rag tag rebels of Turning Point that were made fun of and smeared and slandered by everyone in the media. We went up against all the outside groups on the left. Where did all those outside groups go exactly? All these national action networks and BLM and local community groups and the C3s and the C4s and the super PACs. Let's play that again. Play cut 54.

[Unknown Speaker]

And he had an army of super PACs that were so coordinated. I'm sure there's some legal way they were communicating coordinated, but like, I'm sure it was legal.

[Jen O'Malley Dillon]

Yes, right, or illegal.

[Unknown Speaker]

But they, you know, from the beginning they were, you know, week to week, all, you know, one super PAC would take a couple weeks and hit Pennsylvania and then the next one would come in and do the same. And they're all coordinated. We didn't have the benefit of that, man.

[Charlie Kirk]

She's just acknowledging that Turning Point beater, Elon Musk beater, we out organized the organizers. It's just such a lie. By the way they have nothing but outside groups. They have like 600 outside groups. Maybe the unions didn't actually want to go work for you. Jen O'Malley Dillon ever heard of Arabella Advisors? If your approach to everyday aches and pains is to mask them, you know, feel better for a few hours only to have the pain return and then repeat the cycle all over again, it's time to try relief factor. And the good news is relief factor makes it quite easy. Their three week quick start is just $19.95, less than a dollar a day. Instead of masking pain, relief factor helps eliminate it. How? Well, its unique formula of natural ingredients helps support your body's response to inflammation. Relief factor was developed by doctors. It's 100% drug free. And for so many people, the results are game changing, even life changing. So give it a try. Right now, their three week quick start is just $19.95. Go to relieffactor.com or call 1-800-for relief. That is 1-800-for relief. See how in a few weeks or even a few days, relief factor can reduce your pain. So don't mask your pain. Fight naturally with relief factor. Relief factor.com okay, we have Ken Paxton, the Attorney General of Texas with some breaking news and a breaking story. Great to see you, General Paxton. Share the breaking news with our audience, please.

[Ken Paxton]

Well, happy Thanksgiving, you and your audience. Yeah, we just filed today, you're the first person I'm talking to. We just filed a lawsuit against State Street Bank, Vanguard and BlackRock for colluding, buying up shares, large groups, large numbers of shares, to suppress the, I mean, to suppress, to increase the price of coal by cutting production. They make a lot of money. Unfortunately for consumers, when that occurs, that means that consumers are paying a lot more for energy. And under federal law and some state law, that's illegal. And we were joined by 10 other states in filing this lawsuit today.

[Charlie Kirk]

Well, that's huge news. So tell us how you came to want to file this and how it affects Texans in particular.

[Ken Paxton]

Well, we knew that there was this effort among banks and other large corporations to follow this climate initiative, the Paris Accord that Trump got away from, that Biden came back to. And it's affecting consumers in all kinds of ways. And we started looking at banking, we started looking at other things. So we're dealing with the banks and in Texas and we're actually stopping some of them from doing business here if they, if they discriminate against energy. But in this case, we realized that this was having a dramatic impact on Energy prices. And over a period of time, over the next 10 years, it was going to drive up energy, and people who can least afford it are going to be paying higher energy costs. So we saw that the purchase of all these shares and the controlling of, through proxy votes of share other shareholders, that they were controlling these coal companies and causing them to do the opposite of what you'd expect, which is to produce more and make more. They are doing just the opposite. They're cutting the production. That has a deleterious effect on our economy. It has a deleterious effect on our consumers, and it forces us to buy more energies, more energy overseas.

[Charlie Kirk]

Yeah. I mean, just to have American companies want the price of energy to go higher, I mean, that's, that's criminal. I know that you're suing in a civil way, but I mean, they literally want to break the pocketbook of everyday Americans so that they can make more money. Is this right?

[Ken Paxton]

That's exactly right. Because it's driving up the price. So for they produce less and yet they're making more on less volume because their margins are stronger. And, you know, it has a negative impact on the country. And it's clearly a violation of two different acts, the Clayton act and the Sherman Act. It also violates our deceptive trade practices in Texas and other state laws. So there's obviously interest, if we have 11 states in dealing with this and protecting our consumers.

[Charlie Kirk]

What other states have signed onto this?

[Ken Paxton]

I don't have a list in front of me, but it's probably some of the same. Usually we have states like South Carolina and Kansas and Indiana. I don't have the whole list, but that's, that's the type of states that typically are with us.

[Charlie Kirk]

So. And this is a big harbinger of things to come. Drill, baby, drill. And a departure from the ESG nonsense. What would President Trump's energy portfolio and program mean for the state of Texas?

[Ken Paxton]

Look, I think it's. It's amazing for my state because we produce a lot of energy we like and we were exporting energy. That was all, you know, a lot of that was cut off by the Biden administration when they shut down the Keystone pipeline and then they opened up the Russian pipeline. So the Trump administration did just the opposite. They wouldn't let the Russian pipeline open. They kept. They opened up ours and allowed us, for the first time, I think, at least in many, many, many years, decades, to become energy independent. That's good for Texas, that's good for the whole country. Instead of buying energy from some of our enemies. We are now buying energy from ourselves and we're exporting, we're making money off of it. It's all good. There's no downside to this, unfortunately, for the last four years, it's been a fight with the Biden administration. They've gone the opposite direction. They've enabled our enemies and hurt us.

[Charlie Kirk]

So let me dive deeper into this in Texas in particular, and I know that you are a Texas political expert. Ken, the final results in Texas are remarkable. I mean, for years, Democrats have been trying to spend money to make Texas blue. It's been one of their top efforts. The final report here shows that Donald Trump won Texas by 14 points. Ken. I mean, that is breathtaking. What happened to the hundreds of millions of dollars they were spending to make Texas blue?

[Ken Paxton]

Look, we fought them. We had 22 election initiatives related to voter fraud. We got pushed back after we were successful four years from stopping the mail in ballot scheme that happened in Georgia, in Arizona and Pennsylvania. And you can see we were successful last time. But this time we had all kinds of different initiatives focused on making sure that our elections were protected. I knew if we protected our elections, if we made that our number one priority, I had over 200 lawyers working on this throughout the last year. I knew if we protected our elections that the results would be Republican. And you'll notice that a lot of our South Texas counties that had been Democrat have moved Republican. Some of them have become fully Republican. And I think that's because they can see the negative impact of the Biden policy, both internationally on the border, most affecting them because they're on the border. And then also economically, they realize how they were under Trump and how they are under Biden. It's much worse. All of that, shockingly to the Democrats, moved them our way. So their strategy of bringing in illegals to vote did not overcome the strategy of bringing in Hispanics and other ethnic groups that are now voting Republican because they're being negatively impacted by the Biden administration.

[Charlie Kirk]

Yeah, I mean, this is, this is a game changer that Texas is now R +14. I mean, in what world do you think that Georgia goes for Trump by 2 points and Texas goes to Trump for 14 points? Let's continue on the border here. General Paxton, you've been filing a lot of lawsuits trying to secure our border and do everything you can. What can Trump do to assist you in those lawsuits, specifically going after the NGOs on the southern border?

[Ken Paxton]

Well, actually, now we can find out hopefully where that money went, how it was Spent because the way the program worked under Biden, they sent billions of dollars to these NGOs, and they were washing this money. And then those NGOs, we believe, were illegally helping the illegal aliens that were coming into our country by moving them around and providing all kinds of services, whether it was giving them a place to live. And then the ultimate goal was to put them in the right states, the swing states, to vote, and they were helping them get registered to vote. We saw that in Texas. We shut it down when we realized our state police were allowing people who could not get legally registered at DPS offices. They would let these NGOs set up and register other people, which the only people that need to register there are people who can't qualify as citizens and vote. So that's what I want to know. I want more information. I also want to know. We had 450,000 people on our roll who we asked the federal government to tell us, are these people citizens? And we're only one of, I think, three or four states that asked for that information. Of course, the federal government wouldn't give it to us, even though we're required. They're required to tell us, and we're not allowed to ask. We're not allowed to force people to tell us whether they're citizens or not. So I want to know. I want those lawsuits now to tell us. I want the federal government to tell us the answers to those questions so we know who was voting.

[Charlie Kirk]

So, Ken, a lot of people were floating out your name for Attorney General. I know that you are a big fan of Pam Bondi. What is your advice for the incoming Attorney general and what should her top priorities be?

[Ken Paxton]

Yeah, I worked with Pam when she was Attorney General, Florida. I came in after her, and she was part of a leadership team that sued the Obama administration. So I would just encourage her to be very aggressive. We have a huge job at DOJ and FBI to root out the corruption. I think the Obama administration was the beginning of entrenching people at different levels of those organizations. And now instead of justice, those.

[Charlie Kirk]

Those.

[Ken Paxton]

Those agencies operate on injustice. They're political. They went after Donald Trump. And I sued Jack Smith that were destroying files and tried to stop those destruction. I know that they investigated me for four years, and I would love to see the files because I'm. I have feelings that they did things that they weren't supposed to do and that some of those files are going to disappear. But it's not just me. A lot of conservatives were targeted, and that cannot be the way our government operates, we have to trust our criminal justice system that they're out, that those agencies are out to do justice, not to create injustice. And we are so far from that. And Pam has a huge job in front of her and there'll be internal fights to try to stop her, to hurt her, and she's just going to have to be strong and overcome that and bring in the right people to overcome that.

[Charlie Kirk]

Yeah. And so let's dive deeper into that. What are some of the top targets you think should Trump Department of Justice should go after criminal enterprises that have not been prosecuted or looked into in the last couple of years?

[Ken Paxton]

So look, I know that the Public Integrity Unit has targeted people. We need to dig into that unit and find out who they are, what they're doing. I certainly know some of them. I've been dealing with them for four years. Ever since Biden came into office. I've been under investigation. And I think that now is obviously over because they spent four years trying to either dig something up, which was unsuccessful, or they tried to create something for me. And I think that's the way they've operated. I also think we need to start focusing on prosecuting things that have not been prosecuted. They need to go back to doing their job of focusing on terrorism and focusing on actual crime, organized crime. They were created to stop organized crime and they became organized crime funded by taxpayer dollars. We're a long way from where we started and we need to get back to the Department of Justice and the FBI doing the things that they were created to do.

[Charlie Kirk]

Yeah, absolutely. And finally, Ken, you have experienced a lot of inter party shooting towards you in Texas and you survived it. You mentioned this. What is the type, what should Pam Bondi look for in the type of deputies, chief of staff and the team to be able to withstand the ferocity of the regime in Washington D.C. look.

[Ken Paxton]

The kind of people you have to have that I've had to survive this, the internal fights and the external fights, you got to have really tough people who don't care what is being said about them and who are really smart and tenacious. Because if you're not tenacious, if you're not persistent, they will perceive you as weak, they will try to hurt you, they will try to damage you. They will leak information constantly. She will have to deal with, she's actually doing her job. They will be leaking negative things about her constantly. And she's going to have to be willing to just ignore that and keep going and she's going to have to have people working for her who are tough and who are willing to get in there and not worry about what's being said about them and endure the pain of the first year to two years of extricating the people that need to go.

[Charlie Kirk]

Ken Paxton, we're behind you 100%. Thank you for the advice, the guidance and the leadership. Have a great Thanksgiving. Thank you so much. You too.

[Ken Paxton]

Thanks, Charlie.

[Charlie Kirk]

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[David Plouffe]

You know, she was on tape. You know, surgery for trans for people who want to transition in prison was part of the Biden Harris platform in 2020. It was part of what the administration did. So we took it very seriously. But it wasn't something. At the end of the day, what matters in election is, is something causing someone to behave differently, either who they vote for or whether they vote. And our sense was, in the battleground states, this was not driving vote behavior to the same extent. Like the economy was generally, even immigration. So I think that it's important to understand, I think that we were very much in voyeuristic listening mode here in terms of how are voters processing this.

[Charlie Kirk]

That is David Plouffe, the former Obama campaign manager, author of Audacity to Win, and also came in at the late moment to be the campaign manager for Kamala Harris. They were unable to debunk the fact that Kamala Harris wanted surgeries for illegal immigrants, paid for taxpayers for gender transition, because it was true. I want to continue this. Let's play cut 51. 51 is all about public polling. Play cut 51.

[David Plouffe]

When we got in, my recollection is some of that snap back. But, you know, we were behind. I mean, I think it surprised people because there was these public polls that came out in late September, early October, showing us with leads that we never saw. You know, I mean, it was just basically a race that in the battlegrounds was 46, 47, 47, 48. So that's not where we started. We started behind. She was able to climb out. I think even after the debate, we might have gained, what, 0.51. It wasn't a race that moved a lot. And so I think when you think about our own internal analytics, you know, if you have Wisconsin at 47, 47, or Pennsylvania, 48, 47. Trump, let's say, which I think is where we had it at the end. You know, you've got to have undecided break your way more than your opponents, and you've got to get a little benefit from turnout, which we weren't able to do.

[Charlie Kirk]

Will benefit from turnout. I thought you guys had the turnout machine. You guys were mocking us because you guys knocked on so many doors. Remember all the stories. Oh, Kamala Harris knocked on 11 million doors. The media scum. This cycle will never, ever be brought to justice. They need to for what they put us through. Nonstop media increase. Well, how many doors did you guys knock on this weekend? Well, actually, we're chasing ballots. Well, the Kamala campaign knocked on 11 million doors on election night. You have Joy Reid mocking us before the returns come in. She's like, well, I'm really betting on Kamala Harris's ground game. This was not a ground game. This was a grift game is what it was. A lot of people made a lot of money, and we don't know where that money went. He knows. They were never up in the polls. Their analytics never showed that. We were targeting 400,000 low propensity voters in Arizona and 400,000 in Wisconsin. Our plan was better and ours worked. They were using vanity metrics. And we said that the entire time. We said that this is a vanity metric driven campaign the entire time we made that argument. 400,000 low propensity voters in Arizona, and we got a lot of them out to vote. And Donald Trump won Arizona by 197,000 votes. 197,000 votes. You can knock on 10 million doors all you want, but how many new voters did you get into the system? The answer is they were just kind of paying these canvassing firms and they were probably taking 20% off the top and getting nothing for it. They were trying to get strangers to vote. Our team was getting friends and relationships to go vote. People that they've developed relationships with. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Email us. As always, freedomarlykirk.com thanks so much for listening and God bless.

[Ken Paxton]

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