Three, Young, Conservative Candidates for Congress Who Give Me Hope
On a special three-in-one episode, Charlie interviews three candidates hoping to bring the average age of the US House of Representatives down significantly should they win this November—which is part of why they are each endorsed by Turning Point Action, the political arm of TPUSA. First, Congressman Byron Donalds sits down with Charlie to talk about his journey to Washington DC, fighting off lobbyists and special interests, and being a black conservative in today's GOP. Next, Karoline Leavitt from New Hampshire who is seeking to become the youngest elected member of congress in US history. Finally, Anna Paulina-Luna—a Latina firebrand from the state of Florida who is running to take on Big Tech and redefine what it means to be a conservative woman in Congress. All three of these candidates are staunch, principled, America-First Conservatives—each supported by Charlie and Turning Point Action, and each deserving of your support. Learn more about the sponsors who, along with our Supporters and listeners like you, make The Charlie Kirk Show possible: https://charliekirk.com/show-sponsorsSupport the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Hey everybody, welcome to this episode of the Charlie Kirk show.
With us is congressman Byron Donalds.
Welcome man, it's good to be here.
Thanks for having me on you.
Um, you have a hundred percent voting record with turning point action congratulations.
Thank you, Tpaction.com.
You guys can see our scorecards and our endorsements, and one of the candidates we're enthusiastically getting behind is sitting right in front of me.
And so how did how did you uh, go to Dc and not totally get corrupted?
Um, I had principles before I got there.
Yeah, it's a good idea.
You know, the toughest thing about being elected is that if you don't really know who you are politically, what your philosophies are, if you haven't thought through these issues ahead of time, you can get moved a certain way by leadership or by a lobbyist or whatever.
The whatever the case might be.
Like I didn't come to the Republican Party just because I thought it was cool, like I actually am a self-discovered conservative, and then I became a Republican.
How did you become a conservative?
Financial collapse 2008, it was my career.
I had to investigate what was going on.
I started looking at fiscal policies from the federal level.
I thought that those guys didn't know what they were doing at all.
You were right and yeah, I was right.
And then from there I started, I read the law by Frederick Bashi.
I started reading about political philosophy, not Republican Democrat stuff.
And when you start thinking through these issues, and you're especially, look, as a black man, you're thinking about what your politics really are.
You really have to have this debate with yourself and other people.
So I've thought about a lot of these issues.
Like I've really thought about it and not talking point level like four, five, six, seven points deep to convince myself that I can stand up and debate this with family and friends who might be like, well, why are you a Republican?
Let alone be in elective office.
And a Freedom Caucus member on top of that.
Yeah.
So you said something interesting that I want to ask you about, not be influenced by lobbyists or leadership.
Yeah.
Like, so you're a freshman still.
Is that right?
Yep.
So what is that like?
I mean, you get there and people are trying to make you do what exactly?
Well, the first thing is that the lobbyists and the leadership, they really, the first thing they want to do is get to know who you are.
So you do the dinner circuit.
Everybody comes and talks to you.
Everybody comes and meets with you.
Show pony, right?
They try to figure out, and it's not a lot of coercion, actually.
It's actually quite soft.
It's a soft sell.
They want to know who you are.
They want to know what you're thinking about.
What makes you tick.
So how long does that courting process go on?
About six months, six to eight months.
And then they kind of know who's where in the chamber.
Everybody's counting votes in Congress.
Everybody's counting votes.
So then they figure out who's where.
By the first couple of votes you take, they kind of know whether where you're going to be depending on the issue.
Like if it's an issue where you were exhibiting, like you weren't quite sure where you were, you were wishy-washy.
They know they can move you a certain way depending on the amount of pressure or the things you might want or how your seat looks back home for re-election, so on and so forth.
But if you come in knowing where you are, and that's pretty evident from the initial get to know you stuff, they kind of leave you alone.
And so then, so then once they find out you're a conservative, do they leave you alone or what do they do?
Well, I mean, I don't want to speak for everybody else in the chamber.
They kind of, they leave me alone.
Let's put it that way.
Is that right?
Yeah.
I mean, look, I was asked by a couple of people, they were like, well, does Kevin or Steve tell you what to say?
And I was like, no, I say what I want.
I see Kevin and Steve.
We talk every now and again, but I say what I want.
I vote how I want.
The big thing I think that they're concerned about is they don't want to be surprised by something.
So if there's a deal that they're pushing, they want to.
Vote your district and don't lie to me or like the terms.
Just tell me where you are.
And that's kind of their deal.
And so I just tell them where I am.
If they ask me, I tell them.
A lot of times they don't.
And I just vote how I'm going to vote.
Last thing I'll tell you, though, it's easy to be conservative in the minority.
That's the easy stuff.
You could oppose everything, right?
Like, no.
Nancy wants to do this?
No.
You know, Biden wants to do that?
No.
When we're in the majority in the House, that's when the rubber is going to meet the road for a lot of people.
What does that look like?
So I think we're probably going to win 30 seats.
30-seat majority?
30 seats from where we are now.
That's a 20-seat?
20 seats.
Depends on who shows up.
It depends on how it goes.
That's what I think.
That's a big majority.
Could be better.
It is.
It could be better.
I think two things are going to matter into that.
One is redistricting, which is not going well for us.
The second is the mood of voters.
I get text messages from people I went to high school and college with, man.
They're not Republicans and they are not happy.
And so I think that's in spite of, oh, yeah, in spite of how redistricting's gone, I think we can have an even bigger night in November.
Yeah, it could go from like, it could get wildly out of control for these guys.
Yes.
If it's like a bad couple weeks, I think like 20 is baked in, like a 20-seat majority.
I hate to sound cocky, but this thing could be 60.
I mean, it could get just like out of control.
No, it could get real serious.
Because these house districts, it's like 3,000 votes could flip.
You know what I mean?
Like it's super thin margins.
Yep.
We're talking like 5,000 people have a bad week of gas and like pull in our ballot.
Yep.
And it just swings the whole district.
Well, the other part is, and this is where I think the Democrats have really underestimated where the country's going.
It used to be you could count significant, you count very strongly that black voters were going to be monolithically Democrat.
talking like 95%, 90 to 95%.
I don't think that's going to occur this November.
I think the black vote for Democrats is going to be somewhere between 80 and 85%.
That's a massive swing in some of these districts.
The Hispanic vote is 50-50.
Like it's completely up for grabs right now.
Totally.
And so I think those are the things that they are looking at and they're polling, but I don't think they truly believe it's there.
And I think that come November, they're going to see the reality.
So I'm interested in kind of the black Republican outreach.
So I think some people are confused about kind of what will it take to get the black community to be more conservative or Republican.
I'm sure you're tired of answering this question.
You get it all the time.
It's a good job, man.
Yeah, but it's like, I'm equally curious.
So you're going to have to humor me and our audience.
So black community has had a lot of problems.
Democrats basically run the black community.
What needs to change?
Republicans have to actually show up.
Look, it's not about what you do in August of an election year.
If you wait till August, September, you waited.
What would a show up looking like?
Go to churches, like speaking.
Going to the churches, doing the campaign, mail.
You might knock on doors, maybe.
Actually, not likely.
If you do that kind of stuff too late, you've already lost it.
You got to be in barbershops, man.
And the year before an election cycle, you got to go start talking to black pastors, Haitian pastors.
There's a lot of opportunity in the Haitian community.
Massive amounts of opportunity.
One of the most based guys I've ever met is a Haitian driver in Sarasota.
He hates Biden.
Yeah.
That's really good.
Well, look, black outreach is not like any other type of community.
No, you know what I was, you know, I'll put it like this.
I was watching the HBO documentary they just did on Obama.
I was watching it.
I actually watch a lot of MSNBC.
So I watch everything.
And that's just me.
I'm a student of the game, I guess.
So I'm watching, and they were talking about when Obama was actually struggling to get the black vote because they didn't think that he was black enough.
And what he did is he actually engaged in the community.
So I would say the same thing is for Republicans.
It's a longer road than, of course, with Obama.
But if you take the time to develop the relationship, the votes come.
Like you're not going to get some girl to date you if you just show up and say, hey, come get in the car.
We're going to dinner.
But if you take the time to get to know her and try to engage with her, you might get her to date you.
You might even build the relationship in the process.
That's what you have to do with respect to the conservative movement and the black community.
Because the black community, in terms of its level of conservatism, is actually fragmented.
West Indian black people of West Indian Caribbean descent are very conservative.
Like St. Kitts, like Turkey Caicos, Turks and Cakes, Haiti.
Super conservative.
Trinidad into Bago.
It's very conservative because that's how West Indian culture is.
Obviously, if you're dealing with black people in the Northeast Corridor, they're probably much more liberal.
If you're dealing with Black people in the South, they actually have a lot of conservative land.
Historically, they vote Democrats.
But you know, even like, I mean, I've said this for a while and Republicans laugh, but I think 90% of blacks don't agree with this trans crap.
No, they don't.
Is that fair to say?
Like, I think they're like the least game for this whole kind of like men, women thing.
So I'm going to tell you a quick story.
It's a buddy of mine.
He's a Dem.
I ran into him, I don't know, maybe a month ago or so.
He walks up to me.
He goes, I'm thinking we're just going to catch up.
He goes, listen, I don't know what's going on, but my party's lost their mind.
This whole, you know, the guy can swim against a girl, that's crazy.
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Very rarely do I get to interview candidates younger than I am.
And usually it's Madison Coffer.
That's like the only one, but we haven't won today.
Yes.
Caroline Levitt, did I say that right?
You did.
You worked in the White House and I asked around about you and everyone said you were terrific.
You weren't one of those people.
I'm glad to hear it.
No, I'm glad to hear it.
Plenty of those people.
Indeed.
Can I tell you, I got my role in the White House by applying on whitehouse.gov.
Is that right?
Says no one ever.
Yes.
I was working in local news in New Hampshire, loved President Trump from the very beginning, was with him during the primary, was the only Trump supporter on my college campus.
Went on whitehouse.gov.
They called, went down.
The second time I'd ever been to DC in my life was to take the job at the White House and rose the rinks and then worked for Kaylee, and the rest is history.
So your race is kind of an interesting one of like an ideological split in the Republican Party.
And I'm not going to attack your opponent, nor do I want you to do that here.
I'm sure he's a nice person, but he definitely represents more of an establishment wing of the party where you kind of come through it from more of like a Trump pro-America, strong country person.
Is that fair description?
Absolutely.
That's a fair assessment.
I am the America first grassroots candidate in this race.
And I have been very unapologetic about that.
You know, I came out on day one and said the election was stolen because it was, and I believe that.
And my opponent actually said Joe Biden legitimately won more votes than Donald Trump.
So that's an egregious statement on his part.
He has been backed financially by Chris Christie, endorsed by Nikki Haley.
She'll be in New Hampshire next week.
I'm proud to be endorsed by Madison Cawthorne, Senator Ted Cruz, true firebrands, turning point action, Charlie Kirk, the one and only.
So we're definitely pounding that message.
And that's why the people love us and they are flocking to our campaign.
And we've raised significantly more money from individuals in New Hampshire than my opponent by far, like hundreds of thousands of dollars more.
In state contributions.
In-state contributions.
So that tells me the people are with us.
And our average donation is under $100.
We've raised nearly a million.
So what's your website?
CarolineforCongress.com.
And it's Caroline with a K.
So no one can ever forget it.
Okay.
And we need all the support we can get because we are up against this establishment candidate in the primary.
And then we have to turn around and beat the Democrat and the general who Pelosi is heavily funding.
Correct.
It's one of the latest in the country, September.
So we have a long, hot summer, but we are.
But that's really where the race is decided, right?
Correct.
All the parades, all the long nights and early mornings.
Northeast summers are kind of like a thing.
It's like where a lot of attention, a lot of these decisions are made.
We're in Arizona.
We really don't do much in the summer here.
It's kind of like our winter, right?
So talk a little bit more about your.
So you worked in the White House.
I try and make a habit not to ask women's age, but I think it's interesting.
What's your age?
How old are you?
So I am 24 and a half.
Okay.
So I'm going to take a look there.
I will be 25.
Well, I say that because people say, well, you're not even old enough.
Well, I will be.
I will turn 25 just before the primary.
So I will be.
Younger than Madison was.
Yes.
So I have to say this.
I will be younger than Madison.
And Madison, he's a great friend.
He endorsed me.
He came to New Hampshire.
We had a great event.
He likes to say he's the first Gen Z candidate in American history.
He is not.
Generation Z starts in 1997.
He was born in 96.
So I need to make that.
He's a millennial.
He's a millennial.
I'm the first Gen Z candidate elected to Congress.
So I have to be part of Madison's generation.
Yes, indeed.
Yeah, we guess we share a generation.
So you're Gen Z. Gen Z.
So you're like the super problem.
Like millennials are the problem.
Gen Z is the super problem.
My generation is the plague of America.
Yes.
No, it's not.
I think they're going to be more conservative.
So like you're running for Congress.
You should be like, I don't know, working for Goldman Sachs.
Why are you doing this?
You know, I ask myself that every single day.
No, I'm kidding.
I'm doing it because I really believe it's a fight worth taking.
You know, when I called my parents to tell them, my parents are not political at all.
My dad served in the Marines.
They never knew about politics until I got involved.
And now they're deeply entrenched, obviously, no choice of their own.
My parents said, you're going to ruin our lives.
And I said, I probably will, but I really believe it's a fight worth taking.
I saw the political opportunity in my home district.
I love the state I grew up in.
It provided me with exceptional opportunities, obviously.
And I love this country.
And I live amongst a generation that is totally brainwashed and doesn't believe in America.
And I really feel passionate about changing that.
That's a great answer.
So September primary, what part of New Hampshire?
You don't know yet.
The district is undefined.
How do you run then in a district that's undefined?
So it won't change dramatically.
We only have two congressional seats in the state.
I am running on the one on the eastern part of our state.
Two in the whole state.
Yeah.
Two seats, four electoral votes.
But people care about us because we're the first in the nation primary, which we have to protect, by the way.
Yes.
With all costs.
And my Democrat opponent voted to threaten it.
So you're the eastern part of the state closer to the University of New Hampshire is in my district.
I spoke there once.
Yeah.
In fact, we are hosting, we are launching this upcoming week our own college campus tour.
We're calling it Wake Up Gen Z.
Okay.
I'm going to go to University of New Hampshire, Southern New Hampshire University, my alma mater, St. Anselm College, and then Dartmouth.
God bless us when we head up there.
So I'll be traveling to all of those campuses in the next month to target these voters.
And we're targeting them on Facebook and we're investing in the community.
So you're right up on the main border.
Is that right?
Yes, that's the district.
Yes, yes.
It's everything east of Manchester, which is the biggest city in the state.
So very rural.
So it's a very conservative area.
I'm sure.
Yes.
But also the campuses and like weird Massachusetts people that leave, right?
Exactly.
Unfortunately, we've seen a lot of that, especially during COVID because we're live free or die.
We care about freedom.
And so I pray that people come and vote the right way.
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Yeah, New Hampshire is such an interesting state.
I love it.
I've been there many times and I just don't understand like how it's become so liberal.
You know what I mean?
Like it's just, I think, I thought it was like a freedom-loving state and your governor's been a disappointment in more ways than one.
So I will disagree with you on the liberal, your comment on it being a liberal state.
I vehemently disagree.
I think our maps. have had been a disadvantage for us, which is why we have redistricting.
And I hope it turns out the way it should.
We have elected Republicans up and down the ballot at the state and local level.
Our legislature is controlled by Republicans.
You have a really big legislature, like the amount of people, right?
It's like 4,000.
Biggest in the world.
Yeah.
400.
It's about 430.
They get paid 100 bucks a year.
True citizen legislature.
So, well, that's probably why you guys remain free.
But I mean, like Jean Shaheen, she's like a commie.
Yeah.
Our whole federal delegation is a bunch of communists.
I'll tell you, because our elections are unfair because we have, we allow college students, non-resident college students to vote in our state.
It's a major problem that needs to be.
It's not constitutional.
It's not.
It's not.
And so there has been some push before this election.
I pray that it passes because these college students literally stuff ballots in their dorms.
It's one of the reasons Republicans have lost in the past.
And you look at where they lost those votes and it was always in our college towns.
And so it's a major issue that we need to fix.
And I think once we get rid of these non-residents voting in our elections, we will be a truly red state in the Northeast.
So your race is tightening.
And you have a very different vision for the country.
Like you believe in borders and you believe in all these.
I'm not saying your opponent doesn't.
I'm just saying just based on some of the endorsements, probably not exactly of that.
So what do you need to win?
Resources and support.
And that's what we've been earning every single day.
You know, six months ago, seven months ago now, when I said I wanted to run, literally all but two people who I worked directly for in D.C., one of them, Kaylee McInani, said, you don't have what it takes.
I don't believe in you.
And I said, they said, wait your turn.
No, no, no.
Everyone except for Kaylee.
No, Kaylee said, absolutely, you have what it takes.
So everyone in Washington told me to wait my turn.
You're a waste of time.
Exactly.
So we have smashed expectations.
We came out hot in the first quarter, raised over $330,000.
And everyone was like, who is this girl?
And it's because I go out on the trail every day and I speak truth and I push back and I fight and I speak my mind and I get.
I am attacked more viciously and more constantly than my opponent, by the Democrats, by Republicans.
Black Lives Matter is after me.
The Dartmouth Democrats think I'm a Nazi.
I mean, it comes, it comes from all angles.
But we always have a campus tour in New Hampshire.
Yes, we'll come for our.
I don't think so.
Gen Z yeah um well I, you don't want me for a couple of reasons, that that would be a that would be a problem.
Um, but I would love to, but I want you to win.
So uh, you'll help us win.
All right, all publicity is good publicity.
That's yeah, that's.
Come on up.
Sure.
But we've endorsed you.
We're behind you at Turning Point Action.
We enthusiastically endorse you.
So, yeah, like in closing, I guess that's a good way to ask a final question, which is like, Gen Z, like, how do we win over these people?
It starts by electing young candidates like myself up and down the ballot, whether it's for Congress or for school boards.
So, when young candidates come along, people need to support them both financially and very vocally.
And then, secondly, it's we have to be better messengers.
Our party has sucked at messaging for way too long, and that's why we're losing the young vote.
So, we need to get out there, share our message, make conservatism cool, right?
The left has seized every institution.
They made socialism really cool.
We know that it's not.
It won't be cool when we're waiting in breadlines as a country, and then it will be too late.
So, we need to make conservatism cool now.
We need to have better messengers for our party, and we have to, unfortunately, meet these voters where they are, which is on these big tech platforms and social media sites.
But that's where that's where they are.
That's where they read the news, and that's what you guys are doing so well here.
What I seek to do as a young candidate, Cawthorne certainly has, Byron Donald certainly has.
These other young leaders that are stepping up are really going to make the difference.
And it's a daunting challenge, you know, but we can win the war.
Gives me hope.
More young, the younger the candidate, the more based they are.
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No, that's, I mean, I'm being very honest.
Like, there's very few like young moderates running for office.
It's true.
I'm sure Austin knows of a couple, but like you're running for a reason.
Like, it's really cool.
Madison is phenomenal.
Byron just had Anna, who's like more conservative than I am, which is hard to believe.
You, it's great.
And I'm really, I'm really encouraged by that.
And I want our listeners to support all three of you because we've had all of you guys on the episode.
So, it's again, it's K-A-R-O-L-I-N-E F-O-R-Congress.com.
That's right.
Caroline for Congress.
And the max is $2,700 per person.
Charlie, let's not dumb it down.
It's $5,800.
Per couple, though, right?
Per person.
But that's for the case.
Well, that's for the primary and the general.
You have to refund it if you don't win it.
Exactly.
But it goes towards our numbers.
So we'll take it.
$5,800.
But you can spend on $5,800 or you can only spend it.
You can only spend $2,900.
But the max for the primary is $2,900.
All right.
Max for the primary is $2,900.
It went up with inflation.
Is that right?
That's so funny.
That's funny.
CarolinesForCongress.com and September.
That's right.
That's a long ways away.
It's going to be a long summer.
It's going to be a long summer.
All right.
Thanks, Caroline.
Thank you.
You bet.
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Bending The Knee00:09:07
All right, everybody, we continue our endorsed candidate series, TurningPointAction TPAction.com, someone we enthusiastically support.
Known her for a while.
We spoke all across the country together.
I think we did Michigan State together.
All over the University of South Carolina, Anna Paulina.
Thank you so much for having me back on.
For those who may not know, it was actually Turning Point NU that first, I think, discovered me literally day before I was supposed to go to medical school.
You called me way out of the country too, like Grenada.
Yeah, it was like some random place, right?
Yeah, I was supposed to leave.
But the reason I ultimately chose to stay and fight is because even in 2018, I saw what was happening with the progressive left.
I saw what organizations like Justice for Democrats were doing and running candidates.
And I realized that identity politics is indeed alive and well on the left.
And I was kind of born with a certain amount of assets that I could use to fight that.
And so here I am, obviously pro-life, pro-God, pro-gun, and anti-globalist.
And you're running in like Pinellas County area.
Is that right?
We're redistricting, but the projected district is, yes, northern Pinellas area.
So your primary is looking good?
Yes.
Yes, we're projected to win by 64%.
So in the general, though, what's the tilt of the district?
So we don't know yet because we don't know the...
That's right.
DeSantis hasn't finished the maps.
Is that right?
Correct.
And we're hoping he holds the line.
Yes.
And I think he's setting the standard.
Obviously, there's a lot of people that I think claim to be conservative and then are working against him.
And so I think DeSantis is, he's not budgeting.
He's been phenomenal.
Yes.
So the district could be anywhere between a lean D to a lean R.
We don't know yet, right?
Correct.
But if it's the DeSantis maps, it's going to be an R plus four.
Wow.
That's really good.
And that'll perform way better, especially right now.
Totally.
So tell us about what you're going to do when you get to DC.
You're going to be offered all these dinner invites and opportunities for leadership.
Here's a young Hispanic congresswoman from Florida.
What's your agenda going to be?
So I can tell you one of the biggest things that I'm afraid of for this country is what big tech has been doing.
This is something that I don't care what dinner parties, I don't care what lobbyists, I don't care what billionaires come to try to talk to me in my office pending I'm elected, which I think I will be according to our polling.
That's going to be something that I want to help fix.
What we're seeing right now is there's many elected officials that understand what big tech might be, but they don't actually use it in the way that someone within my age demographic would.
And they don't understand the impact that it's having on elections.
So to give you an example, last election cycle, I noticed that as we were nearing the primary election and then into the general election, I could see my engagement on all of my social media platforms, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, throttling.
And I realized that they were censoring me.
Breitbart did a few articles on it.
I was not the only one, but then it progressively got worse.
And so I actually chose to sue the FEC and basically hold them accountable.
They're the ones that are ultimately at the end of the day responsible for enforcing election law.
And they said that it was not their job and that if we really wanted to help what was happening, we had to actually rewrite compliance for election law.
So I'd like to help rewrite that and actually help break up big tech.
I think that that's yeah.
So just so our older listeners understand, this is such an important point and it's going to be lost if we don't reinforce it.
So you have a tech company that can privately limit the reach, the people that can see your Instagram posts.
Correct.
Voters.
And that is election interference and without them ever even having to acknowledge it, right?
Exactly.
That's like a multi-billion dollar Democrat super PAC.
Exactly.
And I think the more important thing, too, is that you actually had, in my case, profiles that were popping up.
I don't know who was making them, but claiming to be affiliated with the campaign.
They were fundraising on behalf of the campaign.
Clearly, they were taking away messaging and then also to donations from us, but also to, I mean, there's something in donations called an in-kind contribution.
And that's basically something that someone can give as long as it's on record, somewhat like a donation.
Let's say it's food, for example, for an event.
You can make that as an in-kind donation.
But in these companies boosting or throttling engagement of candidates or elected officials, they are absolutely engaging in something that you typically have to report.
And so I think right now, not just from an information war perspective, but from an election integrity perspective.
I mean, we saw what happened with Hunter Biden with national polling.
This is going to be one of the top issues, not just for us, but for the rest of the world.
Yes.
I'm not on Twitter anymore.
I'm also off.
Are you off?
Yes.
I could get back on if I pushed the red button.
I refuse.
Don't do it.
Not going to happen.
True social.
Yeah.
Not going to bend the knee.
There's a lot of competitors.
So you go to DC.
I suppose my question is, what promises can you make?
How are you not going to get corrupted by leadership?
I know you well enough that you're not going to be, but tell us, tell our listeners about that.
One of the biggest things that I pride myself on is that I don't just take any money.
I'm actually very careful about PAC money that I do take.
I do that because Turning Point, absolutely.
But I say that because what I found is by the time people get into office, many of them are controlled because they're controlled by the DC delete, the Beltway, Washington, D.C. money.
I've been fortunate enough to be able to fundraise off of a national voting base and many people within my community who realize that I am a true conservative.
I promise everyone listening that I will never bend the knee on pro-life issues.
I will never bend the knee on Second Amendment issues.
The Second Amendment is one of the most important amendments.
It protects all of us in the entire Constitution.
But also, too, I am vehemently anti-communist and anti-globalist.
And I actually, when I met with President Trump, I told him that.
And so I think that you'll be able to see in who I'm fighting, the attacks that will be used against me, that I'm clearly not a part of the good old boy system.
And if I was, they wouldn't be working so hard against me to keep me out.
That's smart.
And that's exactly what is necessary.
So in closing here, just talk about like the state of the Republican Party in general.
I feel that they're out of touch with their voters on a lot of key issues.
You mentioned tech, definitely immigration, also kind of corporate issues as well.
I'm really pleased that you'll be very careful about what PAC money you take because a lot of these candidates will take money from anyone.
You can't do that.
It's a bribery system is really what it ends up being.
So talk about that.
So I can tell you that, like, let's talk on immigration, for example.
You know, the Republican Party under President Trump's leadership has had the largest show of support from the Hispanic demographic in a very, very long time.
I think the only other president previous to that was President Bush, but Donald Trump blew it out of the water with the Hispanic Demographic.
What we're seeing right now is the Republican Party, instead of, I think, hammering those issues, hammering the issues of human trafficking, what happens when you have an open border, they're not being as vocal.
It's organizations like Turning Point USA that are really taking the lead on that.
And I do believe that the Republican Party needs to get better at doing outreach to the Hispanic demographic.
And I'll tell you why.
Just this past week, I actually had a MSNBC film crew come down and film me.
And a lot of people kind of cringe when they say IMSNBC.
The agreement was that I would let them film me if I could film them so that they couldn't cut the content.
They proceeded to debate with me and tell me that human trafficking, specifically child trafficking, was not an issue at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Anyone with a bunch of people?
Have they been to Yuma?
Yes, have they been there?
But they're doing that because they realize that a lot of people will just turn on the TV and absorb it, not verify, not look into it.
So I debated those issues.
But the Republican Party with this whole, I guess, notion of going up to DC to get along is going to kill us.
Okay.
We can't do that.
Yeah, I totally agree.
And so you have to be a fighter.
I think that the Republican Party through Turning Point USA will have very good rebranding.
And I think that that rebranding will help save the Republic.
And also too, you know, what I found is that we need to work with candidates who might not necessarily fit the mold of what a traditional politician would be.
It shouldn't be that DC is the party of politicians and of people that basically have never had real life experiences.
That's exactly right.
And so that's what you guys are really doing.
And that's, I think, why, you know, you, you are going to be very instrumental in this next election cycle.
Thank you.
Yeah.
I mean, through Turning Point Action, for sure.
We have to be careful what words we use.
But yeah, Turning Point Pack and all that, I think, and Turning Point Action, where, look, we want to try to help the good guys and girls, and you're one of them.
We believe the difference is between a man and woman.
You can define a woman.
That's the last question.
Ana, what is a woman?
Double X chromosome.
Women can give birth and men cannot.
And that's science.
Yeah, that's right.
What is your website for people to help you out?
People can head over to www.voteapl.com.
That's alphapapalima.com.
So vote, www.vot.com.
Okay.
Thank you, Anna.
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