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Charlie Kirk
My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro American student organization in the country, fighting for the future of our republic. My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're gonna end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody.
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Blake
You gotta stop sending your kids to college.
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Charlie Kirk
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Blake
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Charlie Kirk
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Blake
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Charlie Kirk
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Blake
And I encourage you to do the same.
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Charlie Kirk
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Brianna Lyman
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Charlie Kirk
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with Noble gold investments@noblegold investments.com that is noblegoldinvestments.com all right. Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show. It is Friday, July 17th. I am at the remote bit. Why Refi Studios. Almost did it again. Blake. Blake is there with my mic flag
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Blake
and I shall always have it.
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Charlie Kirk
How we doing, Blake?
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Blake
I might, I might move Mike flag over to my microphone. You'd be powerless to stop me.
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Charlie Kirk
I, I, that's not true. Caboose has my back. President Trump had his big speech last night, primetime address, which was obviously not covered by the fake news media. That caused a stir. NBC, abc, CNN all refused to cover it. In it, he alleged that the Chinese had been meddling in our elections, pointing back to 2020. That they have secured voter files for over 220 million Americans, including a revelation that almost 300,000 non citizens are registered to vote and that the intel community has intentionally subverted the President, not informing him. They were massaging intel reports, burying the lead and much, much more. I figured rather than just go through it clip by clip, I wanted to bring in somebody that's been studying this very closely. And that's Brianna Lyman, elections correspondent for the Federalist. Brianna, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show. Thank you for making some time for us this morning. This is what you cover. This is, this is your beat. Boil it down here, distill it for us. We what were to you the biggest takeaways of last night that our audience needs to know?
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Brianna Lyman
Yeah, and thank you so much for having me. I think the overall takeaway is that despite what the left may say, the 2020 election is not beyond reproach and concern. And I go back to John Radcliffe when he was at the DNI back in January of 2021. He put out a statement, and he had said that he had concerns that the intelligence community was essentially downplaying or politicizing their investigations into whether China influenced the 2020 election. And I think everything we're seeing in the past 24 hours actually validates what John Radcliffe had said five years ago. So we did see that apparently the intelligence community was trying to hide from the sitting president intelligence indicating that China did have some attempt to influence the election vis a vis social media campaigns. There was also reports suggesting China may have looked at the 2016 election, identified states and sectors that supported President Trump, and would then use their own leverage to try and basically cripple those entities so that they couldn't help President Trump in the 2020 election. Those are all things that are extremely, you know, cause for concern. We saw other declassified material indicating that the same items that the intelligence community said in the 2021 report that didn't show China trying to influence elections, mainly social media operations, are the same things that the intelligence community then said in 2023 did contribute to China influencing the 2022 midterms. So there's that politicization that we're talking about.
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Charlie Kirk
Yeah. And the politicization is a huge issue here. And the fact that China seems to be intentionally poking at vulnerabilities in the American cultural and political system, including trying to stoke racial animus and discord, and also working with journalists that were anti Trump journalists to write additional anti Trump stories. So it's sort of an attack from multiple vectors. Now, I've seen there's some controversy or disagreement about their access to these 220,000, 20 million voter files. Some are saying you could pay a small fee and get these files at the state level in some states. Break that part down for us, Brianna, is. Is how worried should we be that they have these voter files? I know that there's some concern about troops and where they're stationed and where they're voting. That that, to me, is very relevant. But how accessible are these voter files and how nefarious should we consider it that China has access to 220 million of them?
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Brianna Lyman
Yeah. Well, one of the reports talked about just how China, Russia, Iran, and even North Korea had access or could possibly gain access to. To our election systems themselves. Right. That they are vulnerable to some kind of nefarious action. So I don't think it's beyond the panel to say how secure our election systems, the machines we use, and also how secure are our registrations and our voter files. And remember, these can't be too hard to get to because you have to have local and state officials who can access them because they are the ones conducting and carrying out elections on the day to day basis during election season. Right. So it's not unreasonable that China or another foreign actor could possibly gain access to these. And you would think that this would be a watershed moment, Right? This is something that should be very apolitical and objective. There is a chance for foreign election interference. They can possibly access very important data. What can Republicans and Democrats do to stop it? And instead the response you're seeing to the clips you guys played in the beginning from Newsom and Cory Booker is Donald Trump is a conspiracy theorist. And so it's concerning because these are the same people who told us that foreign election interference was so bad that we had to impeach Donald Trump. And yet now when they're given actual evidence of foreign election interference or the potential for it, they're pretending like it doesn't exist.
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Charlie Kirk
Well, this is a great point you're making, Brianna. The fact of the matter is all of these people are on record having expressed concerns about the vulnerabilities in our own electoral system. And I can play clips of this, right? You have here's Obama in 2018 as a matter of fact, talking about hacking elections. So, okay, sock 20 hosing up to Russia. What happened to the Republican Party? The threat to our democracy doesn't just come from Donald Trump or the current
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Blake
batch of Republicans in Congress or the
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Charlie Kirk
Koch brothers and their lobbyists or too much compromise from Democrats or Russian hacking. The biggest threat to our democracy is indifference. So he mentions it. Here's Nancy Pelosi as a matter of fact, peddling the idea that Republicans are going to be the ones that hack voting machines. Sat 19 we always have concerns, but with this president and these Republicans who have no commitment to the rule of law and doing things appropriate way, we're ready. There's so many things that you can do to protect the election
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Brianna Lyman
and they
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Charlie Kirk
are being done, whether it's litigation or legislation or just mobilization, mobilization, communication, all that. But in addition to that, we have to be on guard as to what they may try to do to the technology. They may try to creep into the technology and create a false count. Oh, create a false count through the technology. So this seems to be something that they're very aware of, I've seen clips in the past of Kamala Harris going through, walking through election facilities, talking about hacking vulnerabilities from foreign actors. So. But all of a sudden this is disinformation and President Trump is trying to undermine the confidence in our electoral system. Please explain that to me.
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Brianna Lyman
Yeah, well, I think the reason they're running with that line that Trump is trying to undermine our, you know, Trump trust in the election system is because they want to try and cast a shadow of doubt on any legitimate things that one President Trump may bring up. Also, let's remember there were legitimate concerns in 2020, specifically in places like Georgia. And if President Trump is able to prove, with the declassifications, that there is evidence that there may have been, you know, some problems in the 2020 election that we should absolutely rectify going forward, it would lead people to say maybe we should take a look back at some other things that had been dismissed by the Democrats and by the propaganda press. So I. They're concerned about that. I also think that they have to realize that the intelligence community lost any shred of credibility it had back in 2020 when they're the same people who said that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. And now apparently they're the same people that were actually trying to hide information from the president in 2020 about China influence.
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Blake
so we want to, of course, keep this facing forward. President Trump is very concerned with 2020, understandably, but he is the president now. We are in 2026. And I think you and I all would agree what matters most is where do we go from here? And so I think first of all, we should just highlight he President Trump passed the ball to Mark Wayne Mullen. We associate him, of course, with deportations, but he's also been giving a portfolio for the homeland security aspect of our elections. And he was describing this morning the number of non citizens who have gotten onto our voting rolls in just a handful of states. Let's play clip 29. We've identified 250,000 non citizens registered to
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Charlie Kirk
vote in just four states.
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Blake
We also worked with proactive states to identify 28,000 non citizens on their voter rolls, plus 400,000 individuals that are still
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Charlie Kirk
registered to vote, that are deceased. So that's just in four states. That's wild.
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Blake
Just in four states. And even if those are large states, you calculated that out, that's almost certainly going to mean several million people illegally registered to vote. If they vote, it's not going to automatically flag anything as improper. What's the takeaway from this, Brianna? What does this mean for our country that this is possible to. To have happen?
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Brianna Lyman
Yeah, I mean, if this isn't enough to convince some of those Republicans who refuse to get on board with the Save America act to get on board, I don't know what will. And I think what people have to remember with non citizen voting, it's very easy for a non citizen to register to vote intentionally or even accidentally. Right. The only thing standing between a non citizen and our free and fair elections is a little square box, like this big, really this big, that says you attest under penalty of perjury that you are telling the truth about your citizenship status. So it's a very toothless law. And I just did a report in New Jersey a few weeks ago where there are non citizens writing into their county election clerk saying, I didn't even know I was registered. I would like to be removed because otherwise I won't be able to apply for citizenship. And so one of the problems is because of the way Congress works, people can get registered at the dmv and people who may not speak English proficiently may accidentally register to vote. And because they're not prompted to prove that they are a citizen, they may just very well not know that they can register to vote. Of course, you could have nefarious actors as well. And so this should be that impetus that Republicans and even Democrats need to see that our elections are not secure from foreign election interference. Non citizens registered to vote and possibly voting is foreign election interference.
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Charlie Kirk
Yeah, that's such a great point. So you've got nefarious actions of China and others meddling directly in our election. They're sending fake IDs to people, trying to get them registered. But we have a more central fixable problem, which is that non citizens may, whether, whether or not they know that they're doing so or not, are registered to vote in this country. Now, we have proof in four states. Four states of at least 250,000 foreigners that are registered to vote. Okay, let's. That's one aspect, of course. Let's say let's pass the Save America Act. But there's a whole another aspect which is this deep state which seems to be intentionally obfuscating or concealing this intel from the President. Let's play Sat 17. Another official inside the FBI wrote that she was running, quote, a shadow government, unquote, to keep intelligence about China's election meddling from becoming known and to keep it away from the honorable press. Other officials who witnessed such efforts perceived the motivations to be blatantly political. I mean, this seems like treason. Brianna.
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Blake
I think he said elsewhere in the speech, too, that they. They have those CIA presidential daily briefings and they're keeping information away from the president about China trying to influence the election. I think specifically because their research said they're trying to move the election towards Joe Biden. And I guess we compare that with what we saw in 2016, where they allegedly had evidence that Russia was moving it towards Trump. And so they just started a massive investigation of the Trump campaign. I just feel there's a huge divergence there that's very revealing about how they behave in the permanent part of Washington.
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Brianna Lyman
Yeah. And the fact that they said they were massaging those daily presidential briefings, again, to water down the information they gave to the president is concerning. And for some reason, people still want Americans to believe that they should have full trust in our intelligence community. But they have shredded any ounce of credibility starting in 2016 with the Russia collusion hoax, to the Hunter Biden laptop, and now to all of this declassified information. And so I think that when President Trump says that he wants to kind of clean out house, and you have all those leftist detractors say that Donald Trump is upending society as we know it, Donald Trump is doing something that the founders probably would have really respected, which is taking power away from unelected officials who are actively working against the President. Right. If you're concealing information about foreign threats from the President, you're working against the President and the country. So I hope to see that President Trump has his administration crack down on people who did take these actions to conceal they should be fired if they're still employed. If anyone did anything illegal, there needs to be investigations into that. So hopefully this is that first step toward the accountability we've been waiting to see for a decade.
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Charlie Kirk
Yeah. So let's keep our facts here straight, by the way, because the left loses their brains about this stuff. I mean, they just went completely, completely, fully insane about this. Let's just play one clip here, just. Just for fun. This is the left losing the brain. All right? There's so many to choose from. I want to make sure I get the right one. How about this Saudi team?
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Tyler Bowyer
He is claiming that China was able to get access to voter registration information about millions of Americans, hundreds of millions of millions of Americans. What we don't yet know is whether they were able to do anything with that information. There is no evidence that they were again able to change the outcome of votes.
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Charlie Kirk
So that's ABC that was willing to talk about how safe and effective the vaccine was, that Hunter Biden's laptop was actually Russian disinformation, that Joe Biden was at the top of his game, that Kamala Harris was nominated in a fully democratic process, BLM riots were mostly peaceful. And here he is telling you we're not going to air the President's speech. And by the way, there's nothing to see here at all. Brianna Lyman, thank you so much for joining us. For nearly 3,000 years, Homer's the Odyssey has shaped Western imagination. It tells the story of Odysseus as he faces monsters, shipwrecks, false comforts, and impossible choices on his long journey home. As one of the foundational works of Western literature, Homer's epic is more than a mythology. It explores permanent questions about courage, duty, loyalty, family, leadership, temptation, and the search for home. In one of the epic's defining moments, Odysseus rejects the offer of immortality from the goddess Calypso, choosing instead the long and difficult journey home. His decision reveals one of the central themes of the Odyssey. That a life of duty, family, and home is greater than a life devoted to comfort or glory. Achilles chose glory. Odysseus chose home. That's why Hillsdale College has released its newest free online course, the Odyssey, taught by Professor Benedict Whelan. The course reveals why Homer's masterpiece remains one of the greatest works of Western literature. Find this free course@charlieforhillsdale.com that's charlieforhillsdale.com read the classics, study the west. The Odyssey from Hillsdale College. Go to charlieforhillsdale.com Tyler Boyer's in studio. We're gonna do a full Turning Point action primary breakdown. There he is. There's the man, the myth, the legend himself. Here's, here's what I want people to understand it. People don't, people probably don't fully appreciate what Turning Point action is doing and what a massive difference Turning Point action has made in this primary season. So I'm going to do this for you, Tyler, because you're the man who's orchestrating so much of this. But think about this. We got Biggs, Andy Biggs. The primary is on Tuesday. The polls have them up anywhere between 30 and 50 points. I mean, just massive. Iowa, Zach, Lon, Joe, Mitchell, Younger party dynamics. We're bringing young, amazing candidates to the fore. We actually, you know, endorsed people that other people endorsed against. And we won. All right, Put it that way. Indiana, we spoke up. We laid down the law. We got rid of all those senators, those state senators that were standing in the way of redistricting. We had a massive route that night. We have a memory that's about 20 seconds long in this country, and I want everybody to remember that. Texas, we were early on. Paxton, the president followed us. We're grateful for that. Paxton ran away with it and we've got his back in the general. Okay. We got a heck of a fight with Tyreko, but I like our chances there. So, Tyler, all of this combined, like, explain our guiding philosophy, why we're doing what we're doing and what we're doing in the field.
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Tyler Bowyer
I mean, we're talking about fundamentally changing the Republican Party for the better. Andy Biggs, you mentioned first. And we'll start there because that's the big thing that we're going to cover on Tuesday. We're probably going to live stream Tuesday. And you're going to want to pay attention because Arizona, again, for everybody that's listening at home, is the most important state for 2028. For Republicans, the most bar none, important state. And so explain why. Well, just quickly, and we're going to synopsize this because we're going to talk about this a whole lot for the next two and a half years, essentially, two, two and a quarter years is that if we lose Arizona in 2028, the statistics on winning the presidency for a Republican go way down the drain. The left has some states like this, Michigan, but all the different combinations that you need to win the presidency. Arizona is a part of a vast majority of those for Republicans, especially if you start losing states like North Carolina or Georgia or some others. Right. So you have to win Arizona, and so you have to win. Now, Andy Biggs is. The best way I can describe it for most of the country IS When Ron DeSantis won, Freedom Caucus member got in. People weren't super sure he had the capability of winning at the time. The Democrats put through everything they possibly could. He won by a very small, very small margin. In 2018, it was like 40,000 votes or something.
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Brianna Lyman
Right.
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Tyler Bowyer
Which is nothing in Florida because you're talking about millions and millions to a
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Blake
guy who has since been arrested a few times.
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Tyler Bowyer
Drugs, everything. Yeah. Lots of scandals. And thank goodness that Ron DeSantis won. But when he won, he fundamentally transformed that state and shifted not just Florida, but the entire party ideologically. And a lot of that is again, thanks to the President. The President got behind Ron DeSantis. He didn't have to do that. He did it, and it helped Ron DeSantis win. But Ron DeSantis becoming governor of Florida fundamentally changed how elections happen everywhere because the. The Democrats abandoned that state and went other places. And the same thing could easily happen here in Arizona, another swing state, because Florida was considered a swing state at that time. Where Andy Biggs wins Freedom Caucus member fundamentally changes. And then the Democrats have to rearrange so they abandon the state. They have to go other places. They have to try to win other places. That is what is at stake and how that impacts 2028 is if we do that now, we win. Now the Democrats have to restack the deck. They have to completely change their entire game plan. So this is really important for us strategically as a party to win in Arizona, not just for Arizonans, but for the entire country. You brought up a couple others.
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Charlie Kirk
Well, let's stay on Arizona just for a second here, Tyler. So remember back to 2024, we were having these huge voter reg gains. We were outpacing them. I mean, Arizona has a lot of independents, but if you just look at Republican v. Democrat, we have, we're crushing them. Right. So especially in 2024 was a lot of news on that. How have we done since November 2024 on the voter reg side?
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Tyler Bowyer
So it's actually expanded since 2024. So you'll see a couple of negative news stories because the Democrats have been putting a ton of they're trying to play catch up now in the, in the final months of voter registration ahead of this election. And so they've made some gains in Maricopa County. You know, obviously when you clean the voter rolls, you lose voters. And so if you don't replace them and go out and proactively do that, our team is out there doing it and we're actually slowing the losses, let's say, per se. And we saw plenty of these in 2020. Even ahead of 2022, the Democrats invested a ton into voter registration. But wouldn't you know it, once USAID went away, once, you know, Soros money and international money and C3s and things like that started having a lot more eyes on them after the Trump administration got in, they've had a tougher time, just like freely registering tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of voters across the country. So the Republicans have done a good job at registering voters since 2024, and we've expanded in almost every state. But again, the Democrats are going to last minute try to squeeze in and do everything they possibly can to manipulate voter rolls and get as many people in and try to salvage as many of their voters that they kept. And that's important to keep an eye on.
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Charlie Kirk
But we've expanded our voter reg advantage in the state of Arizona since 2024.
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Tyler Bowyer
That's correct.
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Charlie Kirk
Bottom line.
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Tyler Bowyer
Yep.
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Charlie Kirk
They're trying to play catch up right now, so maybe that they've had a couple good months, but overall we're still ahead even, even since 2024 by a lot. Just great, great news.
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Tyler Bowyer
Hundreds of thousands of voters.
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Charlie Kirk
So great. Yeah. What is the. If you know, the Delta, where it's at currently?
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Tyler Bowyer
Yeah. So we're just over 300,000 right now, more Republicans than Democrats. But keep in mind too, Arizona, like many states, North Carolina is the same as this, has a huge, has a huge faction of independent voters. And so the independents in Arizona lean like California lean a little bit more left. A lot of them are early California transplants, things like that. And so you have a lot of younger people too who don't identify with the party who lean a little bit more left. And so it's not a huge disparity. It's not one of these things where it's like, you know, Democrats have 80% of the independents, but, you know, there's independence, a misnomer. Right. So a lot of people think independent. They think, oh, that person goes back and forth between Republican and Democrat. No, that's not the case. They just don't register the Party. Most people identify as like a liberal independent or a conservative independent.
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Blake
Yeah. I think even like sometimes conservative leaning independents are basically just Republican voters who they're very attached to. Like I'm not a member of a party.
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Charlie Kirk
Yeah.
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Tyler Bowyer
Or there's, or they view themselves as more conservative than the Republican Party.
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Blake
Yeah.
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Tyler Bowyer
Also that. And so those, those people exist on both sides. They're slightly more left leaning. And so again, the Republicans have, have an advantage. They've gotta chase every single Republican voter, plus all of your Republican independent leaning voters in the state.
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Charlie Kirk
So, Tyler, just so everybody's aware, every week I get pictures sent from trainings that are going on at hq. Whether it's in Arizona HQ or if it's in Nevada. We've got a field office in Nevada now or field office New Hampshire. We're training up hundreds and hundreds of these ballot chasers in what we're calling the red wall as we seek gains in the midterms, but also looking ahead to 2028 to make the math really, really, really hard on Democrats. Tyler, maybe just since we're talking about Arizona and Andy Biggs right now, focus on that. How are things going and are we ahead of where we were in 2024 as far as staffing up and building that machine to get out the vote? Final minute?
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Tyler Bowyer
Yeah, way ahead, Andrew. Actually in, we're in really good spot because we, we brought back so many of those ballot chases that we had in 2024. So we were able to start, you know, at kind of a rocket point right now, just running head start this year. And so we've been able to get out ahead of even where we were in 2024 with full time people on the ground, which this is part of the reason why you're seeing such a huge advantage in the primary here in Arizona because obviously turning points, name ID and with, with, with what we call high propensity Republicans. People trust the brand with low propensity Republicans. That's who we're really working with who don't typically vote. The more we can get them out to vote in the primary, the further out ahead we get before the general. And we're doing that work, man.
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Charlie Kirk
I'm very proud of the work that you guys are doing, Tyler. I mean genuinely it is. People don't understand how much you're doing behind the scenes and it's tremendous. So good job. We're really proud of you. Let's talk about Iowa. Iowa is a state that we're talking to Rich Barris, for example. It's closer than People want it to be Trump's not on the ballot, but we had a huge, huge primary season there. We've, you know, talk about Joe Mitchell. Let's talk about the governor's race. The floor is yours.
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Tyler Bowyer
Yeah, so, so you have a Senate race that opened up this, this time. So.
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Blake
Joni Ernst.
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Tyler Bowyer
Joni Ernst. That's right.
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Charlie Kirk
Joni Mitchell. Joni Ernst. Joni Mitchell.
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Tyler Bowyer
Joni Ernst stepped down, which was kind of a shocker to people.
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Blake
He's not that old, right?
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Tyler Bowyer
She's really not that old. She's, she's well enough liked. I think she just kind of, she
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Blake
had the admirable trait of hating Congress a little bit.
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Tyler Bowyer
Yeah. Which I think is good. You know, I don't think she was the worst. I mean, it's a transition period for Iowa. Iowa kind of went from this like really a little bit bluish state to purple state to kind of what's viewed as a red state now, a little bit like a Trump state. And, you know, Joni Ernst was like, I'm out. And so Hinson, who's the, you know, cute blonde congresswoman, stepped up and is running and she's well liked and she's doing pretty well in the polls. Joe Mitchell, who actually ran an organization that we partnered with called Run Gen Z, which focused on recruiting Gen Z members of the public to run for office, like mostly state legislature, city council, things like that. I mean, he's really put in the time. He ended up working for the Trump administration for a little bit, doing a really tremendous job, threw his hat in the ring, young guy, and pretty handily won his race for Congress. So he'll be one of the youngest members of Congress out of Iowa, which is awesome. Huge, huge fan of the president, vice president, which you haven't always had that in Iowa. You've had some kind of establishment people who have kind of been a little bit anti Trump. If you remember, the governor endorsed against Trump in the primary, which was huge mistake. She ended up kind of just kind of going into obscurity a little bit. Although I think she's a good lady. But Joe is going to be kind of this up and comer that really crushes it there. That laid the foundation for, for what was coming, which was this governor's race and Zach Lane threw his hat in the ring. He's kind of known, a lot of people forget this, but he's known for throwing a tough question at Barack Obama when he was a young man.
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Blake
What was the question?
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Tyler Bowyer
I'm spacing on it right now, but we could pull the video of it where he kind of asked Barack Obama a tough question when he was a young, young guy when he was running originally and got some notoriety from that, has become a pretty significant business leader since that time. That was obviously, you know, 15, 20 years ago now at this point. And threw his hat in the ring as a long shot for governor and ran probably one of the most underrated campaigns in this cycle where he went from not an unknown, effectively business leader, kind of similar to JD Vance in a lot of ways, to all of a sudden having this real shot and becoming really likable. And he was propped up by the whole Maha coalition. So he's a big, he's huge on embracing the Make America Healthy Again crowd. There's a huge RFK contingency I think that you could, you could argue is in the Midwest.
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Charlie Kirk
Rfk. He's so impressive, Tyler.
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Tyler Bowyer
And we.
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Charlie Kirk
This guy is so impressive.
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Tyler Bowyer
We endorsed him late. Yeah, go ahead, go ahead, Andrew.
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Charlie Kirk
No, we had him on the show right after his primary win. We endorsed him. He won. I mean, he was so gracious, gave us so much credit for getting behind his campaign. And he. I genuinely believe this is one of the most impressive candidates in the entire country. He's an entrepreneur. He loves Iowa. He came back to Iowa because he wants to the young people to have the American dream and be able to build a life there. Because so many of them leave, they've got the brain drain problem. It was just. He hit all the right notes. The guy is just completely on point.
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Tyler Bowyer
He'll be one of the youngest. I think he will actually be the youngest governor in America on our side, at least in the Republican Party.
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Charlie Kirk
Hey, you know who else was the
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Blake
youngest governor in America and had a bright future?
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Charlie Kirk
Bill Clinton. Yeah, so. So Zach ahead of things.
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Tyler Bowyer
Zach has a huge future ahead of him right now. He's winning in the polls. He's up against an absolute freak of a candidate. Just a really weird, creepy looking guy that's on the Democrat side there and which we're seeing. We're seeing a lot of this. Obviously. Talarico is another example of that. And so that's a good transition to Paxton. We got behind Paxton super early. Charlie was very fond of Kim Pax.
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Blake
Sorry, I was. I just got. I did that because I just looked up the photo of the Iowa Democrat. Looks like he looks like he came out of a ufo.
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Tyler Bowyer
He looks like he came out Rob Sand, a documentary for serial killers. I mean, he has that vibe.
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Charlie Kirk
All right.
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Tyler Bowyer
And so.
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Charlie Kirk
Hold on, Tyler. Tyler we're running out of time here and I want to make sure we get to this. I want you to quickly touch on New Hampshire and then the action item for Arizona on Tuesday got the big primary.
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Tyler Bowyer
So New Hampshire, we're kicking butt right now. Actually, one of the closest under watched, not watched Senate races right now is John Sununu polling only one point below the Democrat opposition that's there. New Hampshire is about the size of a medium sized city and so we have a real chance to pull off a Senate race in New Hampshire. The team is kicking butt on the ground Tuesday. Arizona has this election. Andy Biggs needs to win by a huge amount of points because remember, here in Arizona we have a lot of snowbirds that haven't come back yet. We have a lot. So we don't want to take anything for granted. We have a lot of families on vacation right now in July. And so every person that's in Arizona or has friends or family in Arizona, you have to make a plan to vote for Tuesday. You have to get out the vote. You have to show up in person. We're expecting a huge Republican advantage on Tuesday where Republicans just demolish the Democrats and turnout on Tuesday, we cannot take that for granted. I would like to see an advantage that's more significant than we had in 2022 for the primary that would scare the living daylights out of the Democrats. I would love to see that. But the team is working incredibly hard to make sure that happens and making plans to vote across the state of Arizona.
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Charlie Kirk
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Blake
I think our first guy, our first person, Anthony. Oh, all right, Elizabeth. I think, I think Elizabeth is who we have queued up.
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Charlie Kirk
All right, here we go. Are you able to hear me?
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Blake
Yeah, yeah. Yes, we can.
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Charlie Kirk
Yes. Welcome to the show. Thank you so much for taking my call. Also, before I begin, this would be my second reminder to Vice President J.D. vance that Charlie would be a great baby name.
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Blake
Ooh, good point, good point.
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Charlie Kirk
I apologize. Thank you. So the reason I was calling today is because of the birthright citizenship decision through the Supreme Court. So they're saying that it's constitutional and we have a hard time passing a law unless we did another constitutional amendment. But there's nothing in the Constitution that
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Brianna Lyman
doesn't make it illegal.
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Charlie Kirk
So if we just made it illegal for anybody on any kind of temporary visa, whether it be awaiting asylum, tourist visa, H1B visa, you can go through all of them. Anybody who's your, any type of temporary status. If you give birth on American soil, it's 10 years in prison and up to a 1 million dollar fine. Also, we had to go with COVID
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Brianna Lyman
If you wanted to leave the country,
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Charlie Kirk
you needed to have a negative COVID test within 48 hours. Anyone between like 14 and maybe like 52 would have to have a negative pregnancy test to get into the country. Yeah, I think, yeah, so I think
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Blake
that's definitely the way to go about it. It's exactly as you say. The Supreme Court can say this is you have a constitutional right to citizenship if you're born here. But we absolutely can also say it is criminal behavior to conceal a pregnancy, to knowingly come here pregnant. There's so many ways we can go about this where we just make it very punitive. We could just say if you're a tourist or non permanent resident who has a kid here, you're on the hook for like, yeah, maybe six, seven figure amount of money to, you know, compensate for the cost of this new citizen you've created. And you are permanently barred from ever coming to the US or seeking family reunification. Because what so many people, they get this birthright citizenship stuff. They do it. They do the birth tourism so that their citizen child can sponsor them to immigrate 18 years from now. And if you just shut that down and say that is categorically banned, a lot of this I think would go away.
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Charlie Kirk
Yeah, yeah. So that, here's my issue with what you said. And I love directionally where you're going because I completely agree. My concern is that if you start asking people to do a pregnancy test, that that's going to be politically untenable because we just have a lot of weaklings in Congress. Trust me, I met these people, I talked to these people, and a lot of them have no spine. Okay? So if you start making, they're gonna talk about medical autonomy, that it's an invasion of privacy, all this stuff. But what you can do, you've got a couple acts that are already on the board, right? Ban Birth Tourism act from Senator Marsha Blackburn. So it amends the Immigration Nationality act to make aliens inadmissible. If the primary purpose is giving birth for citizenship, it adds it as a deportable offense. You've got the Back off act, which among others is Senator John Cornyn put forward. I think he was trying to save face and win some votes. It makes birth tourism inadmissible, deportable. You've got the Anchors Away act, which is from Rep. Andy Ogles. He's come on this show to explain clarifies subject to the jurisdiction thereof in statute. And it limits travel on pregnancy. Enhanced penalties for facilitators of birth tourism. Basically there are ways to legislate. If you're coming here and having a baby, that's not okay. And we can outlaw it. All right? So those things should happen. But again, we've got the 60 vote threshold in the Senate. We got where we've talked with Mike Lee extensively about the talking filibuster. You could talk about maybe adding certain things like this to a reconciliation package, but then you got to deal with the parliamentarian and you got to make it tied to the budget. Bottom line is we're all sick of the excuses why we can't have common sense legislation when it comes to immigration and ensuring that non citizens aren't voting in our election. And we're sick of the excuses. We're sick of political failure theater. Just get it done. These things are absolutely requisites to a functioning democracy, a representative, representative democracy, what we have. So they just need to get Done. And the Supreme Court let us down. We got that crazy clip from Amy Coney Barrett this week where she admitted to being terrified of being a Supreme Court justice. So if that's the case and we're let down, we've got to find other workarounds. So, yes, we've got to put all of our energy into this, and we need to demand that our elected officials are pursuing these. These ends. Absolutely agree with that. All right, I think we have final questions.
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Blake
I think we have Anthony next.
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Charlie Kirk
Hi, guys.
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Blake
Howdy.
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Charlie Kirk
How you doing? What's going on, Anthony?
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Blake
Doing pretty well.
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Charlie Kirk
Not too much. Well, two things. First, Blake, did you see an email I sent earlier to the email address of two photos?
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Blake
I might have missed this one. I do try to police it, but I think. I think I missed that one.
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Charlie Kirk
Check it out, because you're going to want to see the two photos. Actually, everybody in the office may like those. So now here's my question. We all joke about Mandami and the people that are part of the DSA and how crazy they are, but does anybody understand, like, how much of a threat they can be, especially if they start getting into, like, local government, like, state level? Because we see in New York that half a dozen of the state assembly and Senate seats went to DSA members. Like, do people understand that, like, it's spreading now through the state? It's not just staying, like, in New York City. We see it in Colorado and other states. Do people understand that, like, the DSA is a huge threat? Or are we just, like. Or are they just, like, laughing at them because we know they're crazy and it's never going to work?
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Blake
Andrew, you'll probably have thoughts on this as well, but I think you're correct to point that out. I think we are badly underappreciating this. I think the right. If the right has a weakness, one of their weaknesses is we have an unfortunate tendency to get very smug if the left is having a big spaz out when they go abolish the police. When they really run wild in cities. We think, oh, try that in a red state. Oh, you know, wait until they encounter the real world if it's something on campus. And what we really need to recognize is any these young DSA people, they are literally taking over the party. I was just sent a new book that came out from a longtime Democrat. That's basically the warning of, guys, our party's been taken over by lunatics. And we can laugh at that. That might bail us out this election. That might bail us out in 2028. But 2032, 36, you're gonna have this party that is way more pro socialism, outright communism, if you want to use that term. They're way more radicalized across the board and that's popular with a lot of young people. And one reason America's been so successful is we haven't had this hysterical radical communist movement in America. And I think they're going to go mainstream, they're going to run wild. They're going to do a lot of damage to this country if it's not arrested. Now this is why we have to care so much about young people. If they just decide, oh, actually I love radical communism, we're going to be in deep trouble as the country.
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Charlie Kirk
Let's just. I'm gonna play this and we'll cover both sides of the DSA rise in the debate that's happening in the Democrat side of the aisle. Sat 36. These people are so stupid. I don't know what to say about it. So now we have this idea that these insurgent Democrats and what is their solution? Is their solution to beat Republicans, to run against Republicans? No, their solution is to beat Democrats.
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Blake
Like they're part of the problem.
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Charlie Kirk
No, you are part of the problem, cuz you're a idiot. Okay, so there's a lot there. I mean, Carville is worried about the rise of DSA because he's more of an old school Democrat, but I think he represents an older, dying wing of the party that is frankly incapable of fighting off the rise of dsa. And to Anthony's point, they are taking over local races. The local races are a feeder ground for national elections and we're already seeing that where you have Chevalier who took out Goldman. This is a person that fundamentally hates America, wants the destruction of the West. This is something that she said in the past. And she's now going to be a seated member of Congress, most likely. I actually think that Congress should look at ways to keep her from being seated because I don't think you can hate the country that you claim to represent. So that's a huge thing. But yeah, I mean, people underestimate just how disaffected young people are, right? Young people, if they don't have a stake in the American dream, if they don't own anything, if they don't have a mortgage, if they don't, if they're not married with children, they want to burn down the system that they feel is rigged against them. All right, and this is what Charlie warned about so much. You can have a whole nation of renters. And that's exactly what you need in place to have a radicalized electorate. Okay? People that don't want the system that our founders envision to survive, that don't want the rule of law, that don't want a capitalist market and economy with capital that you can access and pursue the American dream and invest in different companies. They want to burn all that down. And they want to seize the means of production, they want to freeze rents so that landlords can't afford to fix the furnace when it goes out. I mean, this whole thing is. Is a disaster. And you're already seeing an exodus out of New York City, but you're seeing these people pop up all over the country. That is where the energy is on the left. And so the choice remains clear. It's something we talk about a lot. We have. We have Mamdaniism or we've got MAGA and the road is in front of us. And we are in a race against time to make sure that our ideas can actually work, that young people can afford a home, that they can afford to get married, they can afford to have kids, that they can believe in the system as it's currently structured and situated. But the one point that I make a lot, and Blake, I know you believe the same, is that at a very fundamental level, there's a structural issue here. Bannon calls it the lords of easy money. We have printed so much money, whether it's Covid, whether it's the Great Recession, whether it's just every year with these massive budget deficits. When you put more dollars into the system, then there are goods then, and they don't keep up. You get inflation. We had massive inflation under Joe Biden. What that does is it makes rich people with equities, the economic incumbents. They have assets that inflate in value and they become more and more out of reach for salary workers, for middle class.
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Blake
I mean, we've talked about this, but I think the most impressive thing is JD Vance was actually talking about this, and I think he was channeling.
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Charlie Kirk
Yeah.
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Blake
Charlie as he did that. We have this clip ready to go. Let's do 37.
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Charlie Kirk
We ran the experiment. We ran the experiment of offshoring all of our industrial jobs, of becoming a services and finance economy and allowing Wall street to come in and buy every asset of modern life and turn it into an investable, you know, line goes up asset. And what has that done? It's created a generation of kids who kind of are attracted to socialism. You have to fix that problem. Totally agree. Totally agree. So we ignore this threat at our own peril. And you know, people, I remember. Who was it? It was. It was some reporter that said, let New York find out the hard way about communism. I think that's a complete wrong way to look at this. Every inch of ground in this country is America. And it's should not be an occupying force taking over. A Muslim from Uganda taking over as mayor of New York City, the amount of damage that he can do to that city, it could be irreparable, and that's that. We should not stand for that 100%.
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Blake
All right, I think we have Carol next. Carol, unmute yourself. And what's your question?
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Charlie Kirk
Hold on, Carol, we can hear you. There you are. So I was, you know, looking forward to the press conference last night with Donald Trump. I was expecting Donald Trump to say there is a national emergency with elections.
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Brianna Lyman
He didn't.
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Charlie Kirk
He stopped short of that. And I mean, is that. Is my perception correct? And I just kind of wanted you guys to know, like, what do you think about that? Do you think he should have declared a national emergency? Or do you think that's going to come later? Or what's your take on that?
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Blake
Andrew, you might have your own thoughts on this. My gut feeling, I don't know that declaring a national emergency would accomplish that much. We know it would be immediately enjoined by a judge. Would that be worth trying to overrule a judge rapidly? I'm not sure. I think it would be very easy for Democrats to frame this as a. As a big power grab as him trying to. They'll say he's nullifying the elections. He's trying to become a dictator. You have to think about these in political terms. And I don't know if we're in the position yet to make that political sell for what would be a challenge.
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Charlie Kirk
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Blake
Well, I think we might as well. This was a writing question, but it's related to that, that Joe wrote in. If, at this point, the Save America pact is passed, is it reasonable or possible for it to be implemented before the midterm elections? At this point, you might know more on this than I do, Andrew. My guess is it would be tough again, because especially anything you do these days has to be laundered through six or seven Hawaii judges swoop in and say, actually, this violates everything the framers wrote 250 years ago. You're not allowed to do this. And so you always have that delay until the courts say, actually, you're out of line. But that's my gut feeling.
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Charlie Kirk
Yeah, no, it wouldn't be in time for the midterms. So in Blake's right, there'd be court Challenges, things like that. But even the states that are willing to implement it, namely red states, it wouldn't, there wouldn't be enough time to implement it, at least fully in any meaningful way. But you still got to get it passed. And the reason why we have to get it passed now is we have the Senate, we have the House, we have the White House. So you do it while you have the political power to get it over the finish line. And so, you know, we're, we're in a race against the clock to get the same America act passed. Now we have a lot of other good things that are in our favor. Right. The census is coming up where redistricting is going to move a number of states, about a dozen into our category. It doesn't matter that we cannot allow citizenship requirement to vote in our elections to go another cycle without addressing it. And the last night's press conference, Secretary Mullen this morning certainly just underscore that. But sadly it wouldn't be in time for 2026.
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Blake
That's rough. But that's how it is and we still need to pass it because we might not have Congress after this one. Let's go to. We have another written question you might like, Andrew, which Brenda wrote in and she wants to know what inspired you to start hitting back on X more recently. I think you know of whom she is speaking of.
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Charlie Kirk
Ah, well, I mean, listen, the, the truth is, you know, you're kind of always caught between a rock and a hard place with this stuff, right. You don't want to get in the mud with the pigs. But ultimately when somebody's invoking your name to justify a whole myth and fantasy that has been concocted, you know, at some point you have to sort of push back. And you know, I think it all worked out for the best. The timing, you know, we've done everything we could possible to stay out of some of this garbage and nonsense. I know we get a lot of emails from you guys in this audience asking us to do that. But ultimately Charlie was a guy who avoided online feuds. He avoided the infighting that is so endemic to so many people on the right. You know, the right wing mentality. Blake, Blake can appreciate this. I know is different than the left. The left is a bunch of hive minded socialists. They act in unison, in concert. They're very good at staying unified whether it's votes in Congress or beyond. So. But the right is a bunch of unruly self starters. They think independently, they act independently and they're not willing. They're not afraid of brawling.
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Brianna Lyman
Right.
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Charlie Kirk
And sometimes you can look at that from afar and think that it's messy and our side can't get its act together. Part of that is true. Part of it's just the way we're hardwired, I think, as conservatives. So, you know, but Charlie avoided that because he was building a coalition. We tried that, but ultimately, enough's enough. It's. Every man has their break, his breaking point. And, you know, with the preliminary hearing coming up, it was the right time because, you know, the evidence coming, you know, back, the support was truly an avalanche of facts. And, you know, I think every reasonable person looking at the preliminary hearing understands that the state has an incredible case, and it's. I mean, I wouldn't want to be the defense, put it that way. And, you know, there was fundamental myths that were being told that frankly, we've known around turning point circles in the Charlie Kirk show for a long time that certainly were not true. And I needed to disabuse people of those. And I was grateful as soon as we started doing that. And Blake's been out front talking about this and continues to do so. It was like a whole army of people just stepped up and, you know, we're gonna get accused of, you know, some sort of paid op or coordinated campaign. No, I think it's just a lot of people were waiting for the evidence, and they were waiting for somebody like myself to kind of rip the band aid and go for it. And then Man X X responded, social media responded, and I was so grateful to see everybody's support. I think people were just. We just had enough. So hopefully that answers your question.
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Blake
Yeah. And of course, I've. I've been chomping at the bit the whole time to shoot back, and I'm glad that. I'm glad that we see so many other people really doing it. And I think you're right. I think a lot of people are waiting for the trial. The evidence was so clear. It's overwhelming. It's in the news, so they have a reason to talk about it, even if they're not around here, around us. And it's been good to see.
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Charlie Kirk
Well, and let me just say one other thing, too. And I think. And I look at social media as a series of pathogens that emerge, and then the movement has to build up antibodies to them to fight back properly. Okay. So you have seen over the course of years, and by the way, some of these I defend and respect, but we've become very distrustful of government officials. You know, official narratives, official explanations, whether that's Covid, Hunter Biden's laptop, you know, Joe Biden's at the top of his game, whatever. We've been lied to a lot. So I'm very sympathetic to people that want to distrust and be skeptical at first, but ultimately we have to build up an antibody to the conspiracy slop that's out there. And namely you have to demand facts. What they're really good at is pushing the, the, the burden onto the accused to defend yourself and to sort of say, I did nothing wrong here. And you play defense. No, no, no. When you make a reckless accusation, when you make a cruel accusation based on a whim or a vibe or some other intuition, the burden of proof is on you. You cannot burden shift to the, to the accused. And I think that is a muscle that our side is getting better at and we're learning. It's like, hey, if you're going to come out with some crazy thing, some crazy theory of the case that's not substantiated by any evidence, then you've got to prove it. So let's, let's stop assuming that the person accused or smeared or maligned is somehow guilty. No, let's assume the person that's making the accusation is full of crap until proven otherwise. So that's my final thought there.
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Blake
Precisely. Precisely. All right, let's go to Mick. We will read mixed questions.
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Charlie Kirk
Related 1.
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Blake
Alrighty. Yep. Good morning, fellows. With the information that was revealed by the President last night, does that change your opinion on the 2020 election? I personally do not believe it was full on stolen from the President purely through ballots, but I believe they manipulate it via censoring us on the social platforms. But I could be convinced. Would love to hear your guys takes. Andrew, you want to go first?
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Charlie Kirk
You first, Blake. Well, you first.
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Blake
I think I'm, I'm pretty much still in about the position I have before. I personally don't think I've ever seen super strong evidence. Even last night where we saw that the Chinese seem to have penetrated. They can hack these systems, but we still don't know if they changed votes. And I've never seen strong evidence that votes were manufactured outright. But that's always been my mentality that they were able to. It was a manipulated and essentially rigged. It was a legally rigged election. If you have a completely fake media environment that's going to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop, that's going to suppress narratives about COVID I know people hate the vaccine stuff, but I think it would have given the President a polling boost. If the news had been that the vaccine had a successful trial, that they suppressed, that they delayed that to get that past the election. There were so many ways they were putting their thumb on the scale throughout 2020. It was stolen in ways that don't require directly manipulating ballots, if that makes sense.
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Charlie Kirk
Yeah. And the truth is, is that Blake's right. I mean, when you use Covid as a predicate for, you know, mass mail in voting, you relax signature verifications. You basically remove every check and balance in protection in the system. This is how you end up with 2020. So to Blake's point, I think that remains. And Molly Hemingway, by the way, in her great book rigged that everybody should still read, explains this very well. I mean, this election was rigged in multiple, multiple ways in 2020. And I disagree with some of this pushback that says Trump needs to look forward. I think that you are looking forward by correcting a flaw in the very fundamental way that we do elections. So I completely disregard that commentary and that critique of President Trump. We've got to fix our elections. We have to. And that is the most forward looking thing that we can do. Foreign interference is obviously unacceptable in any way, shape or form. For nearly 3,000 years, Homer's the Odyssey has shaped Western imagination. It tells the story of Odysseus as he faces monsters, shipwrecks, false comforts, and impossible choices on his long journey home. As one of the foundational works of Western literature, Homer's epic is more than a mythology. It explores permanent questions about courage, duty, loyalty, family, leadership, temptation, and the search for home. In one of the epic's defining moments, Odysseus rejects the offer of immortality from the goddess Calypso, choosing instead the long and difficult journey home. His decision reveals one of the central themes of the Odyssey. That a life of duty, family and home is greater than a life devoted to comfort or glory. Achilles chose glory. Odysseus chose home. That's why Hillsdale College has released its newest free online course, the Odyssey. Taught by Professor Benedict Whelan. The course reveals why Homer's masterpiece remains one of the greatest works of of Western literature. Find this free course at charlie for hillsdale.com that's charlie for hillsdale.com. read the classics, study the west. The Odyssey from Hillsdale college. Go to charliefillsdale.com
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Blake
Kyrie, are you there?
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Brianna Lyman
Hey, I'm here. Can you all hear me?
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Blake
Yes. Yes, we can. What's your question?
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Brianna Lyman
Okay. Last week I watched hours of the preliminary hearing. I didn't watch the entire thing. I did watch all of Yalls evening coverage though, and it was really hard. I never, obviously never met Charlie personally. I know that it was extremely hard for those that actually had to be there in that courtroom, those that did know him personally and love him. I, I wanted to say thank you. I don't know if they'll hear this, but I wanted to say thank you to Officer Tatum and Graham Allen and Jack. I think there were some others too, that actually were there in person. They didn't represent just themselves, but thousands of other Americans that would have loved to have been there in support. And also, selfishly, we're glad that we didn't have to be there in person. Some of it just, it was just so hard. I, I know. I'm trying to, I'm trying to be fast. I. My main thing is I just wanted to say God bless Charlie's family. I don't know if I'll ever get to meet Erica in person. I think she's kind of a, a touchy feely person, though. I'm not really. But if I ever get to meet her, I, I want to just give her the biggest, tightest hug. The Lord has really showed his strength and grace through her. It is impossible for someone to be so dignified and gracious and strong like she has without the Lord's help. And I just want to reiterate that there are thousands of Americans that love and support her and all of Charlie's family and friends and pray for her every day. I pray for all of you all regularly. I pray for Erica every day at 10:14. I saw that someone posted on social media a few weeks ago and I thought that was a great idea. So I've tried to do that. Anyway, there's more I could say, but I'll get to my second little thing that's not nearly as, as weighty, I guess, maybe a little more humorous. But you all were talking earlier this week about Daylight Savings Time and how we might be stuck with it forever. Is there a way that those of us that love Standard Time can dissuade those that like Daylight Savings Time and maybe get it to be standard Time instead? I don't know if there's anything that we can do out here, but do you all have any suggestions for that?
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Blake
Well, first of all, thank you. God bless you for watching as much of the hearing as you did. And of course, thank you for your well wishes and your prayers for Erica. Massively appreciated. We love getting messages like that from yourself in our Emails all over those keep coming in, and we really do genuinely love and appreciate them, as does Erica. On daylight Savings time and standard Time, my favorite argument is that it's God's time. We went into revolt against having noon when the sun is overhead. And I feel maybe our nation has been in decline ever since we did that. The other argument, of course, is Maha stuff. I know that Huberman guy is a big chill for standard time. I know Alex Clark is a big fan of standard time. And it's that argument that you want the sun up when you're getting up, that'll be healthier for you. You want the sun to be going down a little bit before you're going to bed. And that matches what our body's natural rhythms are. And it's a little unnatural for us to keep trying to extend daylight later and later into the day. That's my take about things. I think Arizona is great the way we have it, and I wish others would get on board and I wish they would learn to appreciate the joys of standard time.
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Charlie Kirk
Well, I do think that it's going to be optional for states to opt in. So that's one thing that you should keep in mind. I think Hawaii and Arizona have it right. I'm a big standard time believer. It's just amazing, though. It is literally one of those 50, 50 issues. You know, nobody can decide if they want daylight savings time or standard Time. And, you know, it's. You wonder how we got into the situation where we have to switch the clocks twice a year. Well, this is why, because people can't make up their minds. And I think if daylight savings time gets standardized across the board, people are going to end up revolting and we're going to go back either to a switching back and forth or we're going to try standard time. So, yeah, I agree with Blake. I think you got to have morning sunlight. It's what starts your internal clock. And you got to have evening dark is what. It's what gets your body ready to go to sleep. So it is God's time. It's healthier, it's better for your circadian rhythm. And there's a lot of experts and reports that would. Would back us on that. So, yes. And by the way, thank you for your prayers. Thank you so much. That means. That means the world to us. And I know Erica feels the prayers of everybody, Blake, and I feel the prayers of so many of you across the country that are continuing to pray for us and pray for Charlie's legacy to be be carried forward. And we couldn't do without you guys. Genuinely. I've said it before, but I feel the prayers of strangers. I still do. And I still meet so many people out on the street. They stop me and they say they're praying for us. And they. It's. It's amazing. It. It means the world. Absolutely.
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Blake
We have only a minute. We could either go long, Andrew, or we could just read it real quick and answer it quick. What do you think?
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Charlie Kirk
Well, I think. Go ahead. Go ahead and read it real quick.
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Blake
Alrighty. We have Mary. She wrote. She wrote. And we'll read it quick. What was Charlie's dating advice for young women as well as what's your advice? Well, I don't want to. I don't want to presume on that, but I can repeat Charlie's also. I started StrongCell last month and it has helped with fatigue during chemotherapy. So that's a great endorsement for strong cells. Send it over to them. I know Charlie's advice for young women was be deliberate, be speedy. Don't think you have an infinite amount of time because your time is running out, especially if you're a woman. You have a biological clock. And you are more appealing when you're younger, when you have a lot of years to potentially have kids in front of you. So if you're going to college date, deliberately try to find a man to marry.
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Charlie Kirk
Don't be cruel. When men ask you out and you turn them down, that just keeps people away. We learned that from some of our kids at Chapter Leadership Summit. Don't be cruel, women. Be nice to the men.
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Blake
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