The Charlie Kirk Show - The Makings of a New Conservative Majority with Newt Gingrich
Aired: 2022-05-25
Duration: 33:00


=== Georgia Politics and Trump Endorsements (14:52) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey, everybody.
[00:00:00]  Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, Newt Gingrich joins us with a take on Georgia, black voters, and how the Republican Party is currently doing.
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[00:01:52]  I want to get right to our guest, someone who I have an amazing amount of respect for.
[00:01:57]  I read basically everything he puts out.
[00:01:59]  If there's an op-ed by this man, I read it.
[00:02:02]  He's kind of the senior professor of the conservative movement, and we are honored to have this great patriot with us today, Newt Gingrich.
[00:02:08]  Mr. Speaker, welcome back to the program.
[00:02:11]  Thank you for that warm introduction.
[00:02:12]  As long as you say those nice things, I'll always show up.
[00:02:15]  Well, then we have a deal.
[00:02:17]  So I want to talk about your piece.
[00:02:19]  Democrats' hold on a black community is ending.
[00:02:22]  This is something that people have been talking about for a couple of years.
[00:02:25]  It was a wonderful piece.
[00:02:26]  Walk our audience through it.
[00:02:28]  Well, we've been working on a project that Bernie Marcus launched back in 2018, looking at the question of could you find an American majority that would be large enough and stable enough that you could really get the big things done we need to get this country back on the right road.
[00:02:47]  And because of my background, both working with Ronald Reagan and then with the contract with America in creating the first Republican House majority in 40 years, we had sort of an instinct for how to do this.
[00:02:59]  What's happened, of course, is that Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, I mean, let's be fair, they all work together.
[00:03:07]  They've created such a bad performance record at levels people feel.
[00:03:13]  There was a brilliant article the other day by Selena Zito, who's one of the great students of American politics.
[00:03:21]  And she said she was interviewing people in small towns in Western Pennsylvania who said to her, Look, I can't find baby formula without going to four or five stores, and I can't afford the gasoline to go to four or five stores.
[00:03:36]  So Joe Biden is hitting me in every possible way.
[00:03:39]  And I think what all that's doing is we have to remember, African Americans are as pocket sensitive as Latinos or Asian Americans or for that matter, Caucasians.
[00:03:51]  And they're looking out there that's saying it ain't working.
[00:03:54]  And the stories and the arguments are getting thinner and thinner.
[00:03:58]  And they're watching more and more effective, competent African Americans rise.
[00:04:04]  And so the old battle cries of the left-wing Democrats work less and less well.
[00:04:10]  And I think what you've got is that you have real opportunities with probably a third to 40% of the black community, a real opportunity with 50 to 60% of the Latino community, and a real opportunity with somewhere between 60 and 80% of the Asian American community.
[00:04:29]  And it's now also beginning to affect younger voters.
[00:04:32]  People who initially idealistically may have thought of themselves as belonging to the Democratic Party, now they're looking at all the expenses, the lack of their ability to buy a house, the difficulty of finding a job that pays enough, et cetera, the rising crime rates.
[00:04:48]  You know, if you live in a big city governed by a Democrat, the odds are pretty high that life has gotten more dangerous in the last three years at a rate that's been amazing that returns us to the 1970s.
[00:05:00]  So all these things are coming together, and it does begin to create a new American majority, very much like the Reagan and Nick's majority in 1984.
[00:05:09]  That's so exciting.
[00:05:10]  And I have a couple other theories that I think play into this.
[00:05:12]  I think social media is also helping us a lot, where a lot of black and Hispanic voters otherwise would have been just kind of listening to very like propaganda radio or television, but they're exposed to new and exciting voices like Candace Owens or Brandon Tatum, where they're getting the other side of the story for the first time, maybe 20 or 30 years ago.
[00:05:31]  It wouldn't have been as possible.
[00:05:33]  And also, unfortunately, the dominance of Democrats destroying these cities, it's now 50 years, 60 years.
[00:05:39]  They've had their turn.
[00:05:41]  And there is that kind of narrative that is seeping in, such as look at Detroit before and after Democrat rule.
[00:05:46]  I mean, in certain, you've seen those pictures where almost Nagasaki has done better post-atomic bomb than Detroit under Democrat rule.
[00:05:54]  And then finally, and I'd love your thoughts on this.
[00:05:56]  I think Republicans are doing better at candidate selection and asking for the vote.
[00:06:01]  It's almost like there's this new sense of confidence thanks to President Trump where we're going to go and ask for the vote, such candidates like Herschel Walker and others.
[00:06:09]  What are your thoughts on all that?
[00:06:10]  Well, look, I think, first of all, I think you're right on, and I think you put your finger on a very fascinating part of this.
[00:06:17]  Kevin McCarthy set out in 2020 to recruit candidates, and people thought the House Republicans would lose 25 seats.
[00:06:26]  They gained 15.
[00:06:27]  That's a swing of 40 from what the experts thought would happen.
[00:06:31]  Well, the 15 they gained, every single one of them, was either a woman or a minority.
[00:06:35]  And in some cases, as with two Korean American women in Southern California, a woman and a minority.
[00:06:41]  Young candidates.
[00:06:44]  And McCarthy talks constantly about base broadening.
[00:06:49]  And he talks about this opportunity to expand the brand, not just to focus in a narrow way on the old base.
[00:06:56]  All of this was made possible by two things.
[00:06:58]  One was Trump's effectiveness in communicating and in delivering.
[00:07:03]  The fact is, you look at the price of gasoline at 235, I think, when Trump left office.
[00:07:09]  You look at the price of gasoline now.
[00:07:11]  You look at the price of food when Trump left office.
[00:07:13]  You look at the price of food now.
[00:07:15]  You look at the border getting controlled under Trump.
[00:07:18]  You look at the chaos in the border now.
[00:07:20]  You look at the crime rate under Trump.
[00:07:22]  And Trump, I think, by now, would have very aggressively gone after these George Soros-elected district attorneys who are refusing to prosecute criminals.
[00:07:31]  So I think people see the big difference.
[00:07:33]  The other part of that, I think, that's really important is younger African Americans are looking around thinking, you know, there's got to be a better future than what the black caucus and the Democratic side is offering me.
[00:07:47]  And they're watching people who are rising, who are succeeding.
[00:07:51]  And I think as a result, You look at a Tim Scott, for example, or as you point out, you look at a Herschel Walker, all of a sudden, you're seeing people who make sense, are very competent, and represent a totally different worldview from the left-wing Democrats in a sense that big government socialism has failed.
[00:08:12]  Woke ideology has failed.
[00:08:14]  And frankly, woke ideology is very much in conflict with both African-American and Latino fans.
[00:08:21]  I totally agree.
[00:08:21]  That's exactly right.
[00:08:23]  And so, really quick, we only have two minutes left.
[00:08:25]  I want to be respectful of your time.
[00:08:27]  Georgia is going to be a little tricky coming up.
[00:08:29]  You wrote an article where you said that David Purdue probably overcounted on the Trump endorsement and maybe didn't work the state the way he should have.
[00:08:35]  What do you anticipate happening?
[00:08:37]  A state you know very well.
[00:08:39]  And the media is going to try to twist that as like a rebuttal of Trump.
[00:08:42]  I think that's not correct.
[00:08:44]  What are your thoughts?
[00:08:45]  Well, first of all, I think that we don't know yet because the Trump vote is always a hidden vote because of the suppression.
[00:08:52]  The Atlanta Journal Constitution has spent weeks attacking Purdue.
[00:08:56]  The governor went out intelligently, legitimately, and raised a huge amount of money as a governor, spent about $16 or $17 million attacking Purdue, didn't run any positive commercials because people don't like Kemp as a person, but he just pounded away at Purdue, and Purdue didn't have the money to respond.
[00:09:13]  So the question is: what percent of that poll number is people who actually are for Purdue but don't want to say it because the environment's been so poisonous?
[00:09:22]  Trump did a telephone town hall meeting last night.
[00:09:26]  I know that we've had a number of people come in the state for Purdue.
[00:09:29]  I've endorsed Purdue.
[00:09:31]  We've had a number of conservatives endorse Purdue.
[00:09:33]  So there's a real choice here.
[00:09:35]  And we'll see.
[00:09:36]  I would say there's at least a 30% possibility that they'll end up in a runoff, that in fact, Kemp will not be able to win without a runoff.
[00:09:43]  And I think he'll have a tremendous problem.
[00:09:46]  On the other hand, my greatest fear was that a very weak Kemp candidacy would, in fact, cripple us and would hurt Kershaw Walker.
[00:09:56]  But with Stacey Abrams having said that Georgia is the worst state in the country to live in, I think she may have just killed her own campaign.
[00:10:03]  I totally agree.
[00:10:05]  You know, Georgia is a proud state.
[00:10:07]  I mean, that doesn't work in any state.
[00:10:09]  But if you're going to just insult, that's just not going to, that dog's not going to be.
[00:10:12]  Let me say very briefly, by the way, I'm strongly committed to Jake Evans and the 6th District down there.
[00:10:18]  Very much looking forward to his election.
[00:10:19]  He's a great young guy.
[00:10:21]  He's terrific, and he's going to be instrumental in us helping take back the House.
[00:10:25]  Mr. Speaker, thank you so much.
[00:10:26]  It's Gingrich360.com.
[00:10:28]  And thank you for your wonderful commentaries on that.
[00:10:30]  I do it too.
[00:10:30]  Thank you.
[00:10:31]  Thanks.
[00:10:32]  So I want to just kind of recap a little bit more of what's happening in Georgia.
[00:10:35]  I think it's interesting from a political standpoint.
[00:10:37]  I want to also brace you from some of the headlines.
[00:10:39]  So there's Governor Brian Kemp, who I'm not a fan of, who is the incumbent governor of Georgia, and he is being primaried by David Perdue, who is the former senator there.
[00:10:49]  Now, Brian Kemp, to his credit, he's a clever man.
[00:10:52]  He has run a surprisingly formidable incumbent race.
[00:11:00]  I mean, he really wants to continue to be governor of Georgia.
[00:11:03]  Now, I put a lot of blame On Brian Kemp.
[00:11:07]  In fact, I put all the blame on Brian Kemp as to why we lost the United States Senate.
[00:11:12]  Brian Kemp did not do the right leadership decisions that were necessary to prevent widespread mail-in ballot fraud.
[00:11:20]  He did not use the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to go after criminally the mules that we knew were happening in Atlanta.
[00:11:27]  Brian Kemp defeated Stacey Abrams in 2018, only to then settle with Stacey Abrams with a consent decree in the spring of 2020.
[00:11:36]  So Brian Kemp oversaw the defeat of Kelly Loeffler and the election of John Ossif and Raphael Warnock, which also tilted the balance of the United States Senate, which allowed us to not be able to have any negotiating power with Katanji Brown Jackson, whether it be Biden's nominees, whether it be the potential ratification of WHO treaties.
[00:11:57]  All of that went through Georgia.
[00:12:00]  And so I'm not a fan of Brian Kemp.
[00:12:02]  I've spoken about it openly, and I believe that David Perdue would be a great governor.
[00:12:07]  Now, Donald Trump has endorsed David Perdue as David Perdue was mounting a primary challenge against Brian Kemp.
[00:12:13]  But you must understand that the political landscape of Georgia is very much a good old boys network.
[00:12:21]  It's a lot of local counties back slapping.
[00:12:24]  Did you come to the local high school football game?
[00:12:27]  Did you get good tickets at the University of Georgia football game?
[00:12:30]  And I don't want to accuse Brian Kemp of anything illegal.
[00:12:33]  That's not what I'm doing here.
[00:12:34]  But it definitely is a patronage system in Georgia.
[00:12:39]  Now, some states, that really isn't the case.
[00:12:42]  I could tell you right now, Arizona is not a good old boys' network.
[00:12:45]  There is that kind of McCain group in Arizona, but in Arizona, if you haven't lived here, if you just kind of moved here, you can kind of upstart and you can kind of run.
[00:12:55]  Now, of course, there's an establishment.
[00:12:57]  You have to navigate.
[00:12:58]  But Georgia, it's a very much of a, who were you?
[00:13:02]  Did you check the boxes?
[00:13:03]  You know, were you able to take care of the right people?
[00:13:06]  So Brian Kemp made a brilliant political move where he basically metaphorically neutered David Perdue, where he put the more powerful Purdue, which was Sonny Purdue, I believe his name, which I think they're relatives, I'm not mistaken.
[00:13:22]  I think they're cousins.
[00:13:23]  And he appointed him to some sort of university board, which all but basically destroyed the fundraising ability of the entire Purdue network.
[00:13:32]  So Kemp took care of a fellow Purdue in the family, which kind of, let's say, thwarted a lot of David Perdue's ability to be able to continue to raise capital.
[00:13:44]  Now, David Perdue made a decision not to run for the United States Senate.
[00:13:47]  That looks like it's going to be the great Herschel Walker.
[00:13:50]  But Kemp worked the state.
[00:13:52]  Kemp was able to maximize corporate donations.
[00:13:56]  There's a lot of powerful corporations in Georgia.
[00:14:00]  CNN, obviously, is headquartered in Atlanta.
[00:14:03]  I don't think they gave money to Purdue.
[00:14:04]  Coca-Cola is headquartered in Atlanta.
[00:14:06]  At least they said they hated Brian Kemp.
[00:14:08]  Home Depot was headquartered for quite a while in Atlanta.
[00:14:12]  Delta Airlines, for a while, was headquartered in Atlanta.
[00:14:16]  There's a lot of companies that have a significant presence in the state of Georgia.
[00:14:21]  It's always kind of prided itself on being a quote-unquote pro-business state to a fault, by the way, where Georgia invited Hollywood liberals for years via this phony and crony tax credit system where you bring in the Will Farrells and the Kevin Harts of the world, where they become like pseudo-citizens of Georgia and they overly finance these elections.
[00:14:42]  One of the many reasons why Georgia has become a battleground state, which never should have become a battleground state.
[00:14:48]  But a lot of this was under the tutelage and the leadership of Brian Kemp.

=== China, Tariffs, and Foreign Policy (11:31) ===

[00:14:52]  Now, Brian Kemp, if he survives tonight, which he looks like he will survive based on the polling, is going to then now face Stacey Abrams.
[00:15:00]  Now, anything can happen.
[00:15:01]  David Perdue might have a massive amount of pent-up support, but the problem is this, is that yes, I think David Perdue was a good senator.
[00:15:09]  He was loyal to the Trump base, but he is not like a Doug Collins or a Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia, where they really would have been able to inspire and motivate the base.
[00:15:20]  There's a lot of Purdue skepticism in the base of the Republican Party in Georgia.
[00:15:26]  He tried to turn this into a referendum on Kemp, which was smart, except it was not enough.
[00:15:32]  Only probably 40% of voters are ready to recall a sitting governor.
[00:15:37]  What he needed to do was give the extra 10 to 15% of people a reason to then vote for him.
[00:15:42]  We'll see if it happens.
[00:15:44]  There might be a hidden Purdue Trump vote, but the media is going to try to blame this on Trump tonight if it goes the way of Kemp, which I think would be unfair and not the right way to cover it.
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[00:16:52]  I want to go to this story here.
[00:16:54]  That's a whole Taiwan and China story.
[00:16:56]  Okay.
[00:16:57]  So you're all going to hear this debate at some point if you listen.
[00:17:00]  I debated a pro-CCP agent yesterday.
[00:17:05]  What was his name again, Connor?
[00:17:06]  Ben something.
[00:17:07]  I've never heard it before.
[00:17:09]  The talking points were exactly as if they were being put Ben Carollo, okay, as if the CCP was saying them.
[00:17:16]  I'm not exaggerating it from the concentration camps.
[00:17:19]  He said that China is more of a democracy than America.
[00:17:23]  Just delusional stuff.
[00:17:25]  Totally different planets, right?
[00:17:27]  Saying that, you know, China is better respecting human rights than America.
[00:17:32]  It's just, at some point, you have to wonder if the whole thing is just kind of a charade, right?
[00:17:36]  So I obviously got sort of heated.
[00:17:38]  We had this back and forth, but I'm no fan of the Chinese Communist Party.
[00:17:41]  I believe the CCP is the great evil of our generation.
[00:17:45]  I believe the CCP is moral equivalents of the great evils of the 20th century, whether it be the National Socialist Workers' Party in the 1930s, whether it be the USSR, whether it be any of these mass totalitarian movements.
[00:17:57]  The extension of Mao Sedong into the CCP is the great evil.
[00:18:00]  And I believe that China is a far greater evil to American well-being and to the future of the West than Russia.
[00:18:09]  In fact, if our leaders were smart and prudent, we would have come up with some sort of neutrality clause with Russia, never have them invade Ukraine, and we would have allied our forces, allied our forces against the true evil, the Chinese Communist Party.
[00:18:23]  We've been consistent on this, by the way, throughout every one of these engagements about how Russia should not be the main focus of our energy or concern.
[00:18:32]  Is Putin a scumbag?
[00:18:34]  Of course he is.
[00:18:34]  Is his regime evil?
[00:18:35]  Obviously.
[00:18:36]  Was he wrong to invade Ukraine wholeheartedly and undoubtedly?
[00:18:40]  Does that mean we should send $40 billion to nation build in Ukraine?
[00:18:43]  That's a laughable proposition that our leaders implemented.
[00:18:47]  But China for me is one where it really requires some restraint from interventionist impulses.
[00:18:57]  So, when I start to hear that China might want to take Taiwan, it's not as immediate of an easy answer for me.
[00:19:03]  I'll be very honest.
[00:19:04]  The Ukraine thing, it's easy.
[00:19:06]  I say, you've got to be kidding me, that somehow this is some sort of foreign policy conflict.
[00:19:11]  Now, I could actually make an argument that Taiwan does have some national security implications for America.
[00:19:19]  Creation of semiconductors, microchips, its geopolitical significance to America.
[00:19:24]  I think that Taiwan, if you were to say what's in the best interest of America, I'm not totally there.
[00:19:30]  I'm not making the argument yet, but you cannot, and this is one of my problems with both kind of pathological isolationists and pathological neoconservatives.
[00:19:39]  I just want you to be prudent and open-minded.
[00:19:42]  So, the people that are like, we must send money to Ukraine no matter what, you obviously haven't thought it through.
[00:19:45]  Okay, you just haven't.
[00:19:46]  I'm sorry.
[00:19:47]  Or the people that say we must do nothing always, like we'll never intervene under no circumstance whatsoever, that's not smart either.
[00:19:54]  You can't live your life.
[00:19:56]  A lot of foreign policy operates in the gray.
[00:19:59]  It's not black and white.
[00:20:00]  A lot of foreign policy is circumstantial.
[00:20:02]  A lot of foreign policy is what is the state of your country when you're actually making that decision?
[00:20:08]  Are you in a strong position?
[00:20:09]  Are you a weak position?
[00:20:11]  Are you united?
[00:20:12]  Are you divided?
[00:20:13]  These are very important questions when you make foreign policy decisions, which I've said for quite a long time.
[00:20:18]  I am against neoconservatism.
[00:20:20]  I'm against this kind of nation-building project.
[00:20:22]  But I don't ever want to get in a position where we are so committed to the inverse ideology that we are paralyzed and we can never act if it actually is in the best interest of America.
[00:20:34]  And so, if you come from the belief that America is the strongest nation in the world, and you believe that China is quickly becoming not just a competitor, but an enemy in opposition to our national, international dominance, we have to ask ourselves a series of questions, which is what is our current relationship with China?
[00:20:54]  What should our relationship with China be?
[00:20:56]  And what are we willing to do if they were going to try an incursion when it came to Taiwan?
[00:21:04]  Now, again, I have to think pretty deeply about this because my gut instinct is: you know what?
[00:21:08]  We should defend Taiwan.
[00:21:10]  However, I look at the ramifications of what that might mean, and the current commander-in-chief, and the current military leadership, and also about how we are now engaged in a proxy war against Russia.
[00:21:24]  And now I have more restraint where I say, wait a second, are we now in a position, whether it be a position kind of from a national morale standpoint, from a financial standpoint, from a military standpoint, military standpoint, to go fight this battle?
[00:21:45]  Now, if we wouldn't have gotten involved at all in Ukraine, and we instead kind of would have understood that the true test would have been in Taiwan, my answer might be a little different.
[00:21:55]  But to get involved in two separate proxy wars against the two other global powers in two areas very far from America, you got me really pausing here.
[00:22:06]  You have me pausing to really consider whether or not this would be prudent.
[00:22:13]  So, Joe Biden has come out and he has said the following: He said that the commitment we have made is that we will militarily defend Taiwan against China's potential invasion.
[00:22:28]  These are very serious words.
[00:22:32]  This could get us into a military conflict very quickly, a nuclear conflict.
[00:22:37]  Play cut 10.
[00:22:39]  You didn't want to get involved in the Ukraine conflict militarily for obvious reasons.
[00:22:45]  Are you willing to get involved militarily to defend Taiwan if it comes to that?
[00:22:50]  Yes.
[00:22:50]  You are.
[00:22:53]  That's a commitment we made.
[00:22:56]  So, first of all, the question is wrong.
[00:22:58]  We are involved militarily in Ukraine.
[00:23:00]  That doesn't mean we have troops on the ground, but we are sending weapons, assistance.
[00:23:06]  So, we're involved in Ukraine.
[00:23:07]  Ukraine has now become a proxy war of the American regime to the tune of $55 billion against the Russian Federation.
[00:23:17]  So, it's very similar to some of these proxy wars that were fought in the 1980s through the Contras and through our intervention in Nicaragua or in other South and Central American countries.
[00:23:28]  We're involved in that.
[00:23:30]  To give an idea, Russia only spends $65 billion a year on their military.
[00:23:37]  In 12 weeks, we've basically matched their spend in a proxy conflict against a country that very well could have been a partner against the Chinese.
[00:23:51]  Now, so then Biden was asked about Yellen's comments about tariffs on China.
[00:23:55]  So, Joe Biden says we might militarily go after China, but we're also going to remove tariffs.
[00:24:01]  This is not thought through.
[00:24:02]  Play cut 11.
[00:24:03]  Secretary Yellen said recently that some of the tariffs on Chinese imports impose more harm on consumers and businesses and aren't very strategic.
[00:24:15]  Do you share that view?
[00:24:17]  And are you considering taking down some of those tariffs?
[00:24:21]  I'm talking with the Secretary when we get home.
[00:24:24]  I am considering it.
[00:24:25]  We did not impose any of those tariffs.
[00:24:27]  They were imposed by the last administration, and they're under consideration.
[00:24:31]  This whole thing is a mess.
[00:24:33]  If he really wants to put China on defense, we should have put tariffs on day one to rebuild the American industrial manufacturing base.
[00:24:42]  Now, Taiwan is a sovereign nation.
[00:24:47]  Taiwan is far less corrupt than Ukraine.
[00:24:54]  Taiwan is fighting against a legitimate existential evil where if I worry about my grandkids and future generations, it's going to be the Chinese Communist Party threat, not the Russian threat.
[00:25:05]  Instead, we've kind of provoked and created the Russian threat because of the insanity and the idiocy of our current leadership class.
[00:25:15]  Now, by the way, the White House has walked back the Taiwan claim, saying that we're actually not going to defend Taiwan militarily, completely contradicting the statement.
[00:25:28]  As the president said, our policy has not changed.
[00:25:31]  He reiterated that our one-China policy and our commitment to peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.
[00:25:35]  He also reiterated our commitment under Taiwan Relations Act to provide Taiwan with the military means to defend itself.
[00:25:41]  What's so interesting, though, is that they talk a game against standing good against China, but they don't want to put the economic sanctions or tariffs on China that would actually help the American worker because that would actually hurt the American financing class.
[00:25:58]  For those of you that are worried about China, the only peace of mind I can give you is that the American business class, which helps run parts of our government, they are not going to let anything happen with China.
[00:26:09]  They're just not.
[00:26:10]  I want to put that's the only peace of mind.
[00:26:13]  I'm not saying that's a good thing.
[00:26:14]  I'm not celebrating it.
[00:26:16]  But make no mistake, the military-industrial complex with Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, and Lockheed Martin, they love nothing more than a kinetic conflict against China.

=== Early Voting Numbers and Turnout (06:35) ===

[00:26:24]  That would boost their stocks like you wouldn't believe.
[00:26:26]  And let me just, how perverse is it that you have companies that their profit motive is war?
[00:26:36]  I just want you to think about that.
[00:26:37]  There's something wrong about that.
[00:26:38]  There is.
[00:26:39]  As a capitalist, I say that.
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[00:27:42]  Turnout in the Republican primary in Georgia is way up.
[00:27:47]  Republicans lead Democrats by 113,360 votes in early voting.
[00:27:51]  Georgia early voting trends are the following: Republicans have a near seven-point advantage, seven-point swing towards Republicans.
[00:28:01]  These are all early indicators that November is going to be a catastrophic bloodbath for the Democrats.
[00:28:09]  That remember, if the whole premise of 2,000 mules is that this was done on the margins, and if they were able to run enough negative attack ads against Trump, able to gin up enough COVID hysteria, the ballot trafficking was just, trafficking was just enough to be able to get it over the edge.
[00:28:26]  That's always been the argument.
[00:28:28]  Because remember, Chris Cuomo and the CNN people, they always say, of course, there's voter fraud, but it isn't enough to turn an election.
[00:28:35]  It isn't a, that's kind of the repeated incantation.
[00:28:39]  However, if you're talking about an election like Arizona that's determined by 10,000 votes or a Senate election in Georgia that's determined by 1,800 votes, that sort of shenanigans on the margins ends up being the deciding factor.
[00:28:52]  What is now percolating and bubbling up is great because I don't think we've made the necessary changes for ballot drop boxes or mail-in ballot reform.
[00:29:00]  Is that this is not going to be an on-the-margins race in Georgia in November?
[00:29:06]  If all goes according to plan, which it looks like it's trending that way, and the Democrats' window to change sentiment is changing very, very, it's closing.
[00:29:15]  Do you think gas prices are going to go down by early voting?
[00:29:18]  Because remember, our early voting starts like October 1.
[00:29:21]  So we're talking about the month of June, July, August, September.
[00:29:24]  There are four months left for Democrats to try to convince people they aren't terrible.
[00:29:28]  What is their plan?
[00:29:29]  Roe v. Wade?
[00:29:30]  Boy, did that sputter out.
[00:29:33]  I mean, for all the kind of protests and nonsense besides the paid agitators, I have to tell you, I was, I am blown away at the lack of interest people have to protest that.
[00:29:47]  Yeah, I mean, there's some people here and there, but I was expecting like Floyd stuff.
[00:29:53]  We're an exhausted nation.
[00:29:55]  You can't be in a perpetual state of protest and hysteria.
[00:29:58]  People are like, all right, I'm going to go out with my friends.
[00:30:01]  You mean that abortion is still going to be legal in California?
[00:30:03]  Like, whatever.
[00:30:04]  Yeah, of course, you have kind of the super angry activists, but it hasn't been the kind of bellwether they hope.
[00:30:09]  In fact, Democrats get this, have gone down in the generic ballot since the Roe v. Wade league.
[00:30:16]  They've gone down.
[00:30:18]  Yes, but elite, you know, white liberal women donors are going to pump money through Emily's list and all of that.
[00:30:24]  That's going to continue to happen, obviously.
[00:30:28]  So they might get a couple point boost here and there, but it's nowhere near the realignment that they wanted.
[00:30:33]  So you don't think gas prices are going down.
[00:30:35]  Inflation is certainly not going to be solved.
[00:30:37]  Economic anxiety won't be solved.
[00:30:38]  The border won't be solved.
[00:30:41]  Critical race theory won't be solved.
[00:30:42]  People's negative opinion of Joe Biden.
[00:30:44]  So you're looking at this combination effect that you're starting to see bubble up in Georgia.
[00:30:47]  And we saw this in other primary states as well.
[00:30:49]  We saw this in Ohio.
[00:30:50]  We saw this in Pennsylvania.
[00:30:52]  Record turnout, record turnout, record turnout.
[00:30:55]  Where the Democrats are going, they are close to hitting the point of no return.
[00:31:01]  They are very close to hitting the point where they are not going to be able to turn this ship around under any circumstance at all, whatsoever.
[00:31:11]  And the numbers are showing it.
[00:31:14]  The numbers are showing that Democrat approvals are in the gutter.
[00:31:21]  And ABC News has just come out, AP News.
[00:31:25]  Biden approval dips to lowest level of presidency.
[00:31:29]  Even if Joe Biden goes up by two or three points, only two in 10 adults say the U.S. is heading in the right direction or the economy is good.
[00:31:39]  I wonder if they removed Silicon Valley and the suburbs of Washington, D.C., if that two in 10 would still.
[00:31:45]  If two in 10 Americans think America's heading in the right direction and eight out of 10 Americans say it's not, that's going to be a catastrophe.
[00:31:53]  So what does this mean?
[00:31:56]  This is where Republicans, I think, we need to start to dig in and we need to reach for more.
[00:32:01]  Districts and states are Senate races that otherwise might have seemed inconceivable for us to win.
[00:32:07]  We have to field candidates in every district, in every state.
[00:32:11]  We're going to be surprised like Ed Durr in New Jersey, where he unseated the New Jersey Senate president, or they almost defeated Governor Murphy.
[00:32:20]  I'm telling you that this is, we need to have the best candidates we can have in every corner of the country because we are just, there are going to be some races like, wow, I didn't see that one coming.
[00:32:30]  Wow, I didn't see that one coming.
[00:32:32]  And that all seems to be bubbling up in all this early data.
[00:32:35]  And the Democrats, they are pulling the fire alarm.
[00:32:38]  Expect them to get even more desperate because they're getting to the place where they know they're going to be displaced from power for how long?
[00:32:43]  I certainly hope a while.
[00:32:45]  Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
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