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June 14, 2022 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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It’s Time for Conservatives to Play Offense with Blake Masters
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Vaccine Liability Protection Risks 00:08:35
Child-size doses for Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine appear to be safe and effective for kids under five, federal health officials say, in a key step towards a long-awaited decision to begin vaccinating the youngest Americans.
Now, I'm more cynical than this, than kind of the thing on face value.
It's not about child safety because children are not at risk from dying from COVID, period.
Hard stop.
They are not at risk from getting serious COVID cases.
They're not.
Now, instead, there's a very specific and particular liability protection carve-out.
So, what does that mean?
Liability protection carve-out basically makes it so that you cannot sue vaccine manufacturers.
Now, Bobby Kennedy Jr. has the best argument about this.
So, for example, if you were to go to McDonald's and they served you a burger and you got salmonella and you ended up getting very ill and maybe your child got ill and your child, God forbid, died from it, you would be able to go to McDonald's and you would be able to sue them.
Now, whether you would win or not depends on the facts and the circumstances.
Did McDonald's know they were selling spoiled meat?
Did they intentionally try to expedite the process to make more money or more profit?
Did they intentionally not follow food safety rules and regulations?
Who knows?
But McDonald's is not immune from potential civil remedies if they were to do something wrong.
The most famous McDonald's lawsuit is when someone sued saying that the coffee was too hot and they burned themselves saying that the coffee was too hot.
Now, that's a silly example that's usually used in kind of a law 101 class in seventh, eighth grade or in high school.
But the point is that when companies feel as if they might be able to be sued, let me say that differently.
When companies think, not feel, that there's a potential that they could be sued for not offering a proper product or potentially damaging their customers, that requires them to operate at a higher standard.
They are going to be more careful about what they serve and how they serve it.
They're going to be more careful with what they advertise and how they advertise it.
Being able to sue a business is a check and a balance.
It's a necessary check and balance to be able to bring a business to court, to be able to say, you served me bad food.
Or another example of a company that you could sue is airlines.
You remember when the guy was drugged through the poor, poor fellow was drugged through the aisle on the United Airlines flight?
You just kind of assaulted and just kind of dragged him.
We all remember that video a couple summers ago.
If a car all of a sudden, the engine combusts, this allows customers to be able to have accountability.
Now, many of you know this because we have such an informed audience, but I would venture a guess not everyone listening to this knows this, and for those that knows it, it's a good refresher.
Is that Congress, and I forget the actual bill name, it was in the 1970s, late 1970s, I think it was the Vaccine Protection Act or something.
I'm just spitballing here.
Congress made a decision in order to try to expand the amount of people that get vaccines to say that you are not able to sue vaccine companies.
Now, the intention for why they did this might have been fine.
I think some people had sinister intentions.
But largely, the reason was that people felt that vaccines would make the country healthier.
It would make our ability to fight transmissible diseases easier.
And they didn't want vaccine companies tied up in court all the time having to defend the adverse events.
So they made a very simple Machiavellian bargain, the ends justify the means, and they created VARES, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, V-A-E-R-S dot HH.hhs.gov.
You could check it out yourself.
At VARES, you're able to put things into a portal, and so then Congress will actually pay the remedies potentially if you were damaged by the vaccine.
Now, this was all passed in a bill.
I'm sorry, I have my ears a little off.
It was 1986.
It was the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, which created the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, VICP, a no-fault alternative to the traditional tort system.
It provides compensation to people found to be injured by certain vaccines.
Even in cases in which such findings is not made, petitioners still may receive compensation through a settlement.
And so it's a way to try to make people who are damaged by Vaccines whole.
And so it's a federal government subsidy by the vaccine, but this is what's so insane.
I mean, you might be listening to this.
You say, well, that sounds reasonable, but it doesn't fix the problem.
If the vaccines are hurting people and Congress is willing to pay money for it, what is the incentive, economic term, for the vaccine manufacturers to stop producing vaccines that hurt people?
None.
If the federal government is going to swoop in and say, we will pay for the damages potentially done by the vaccines made by these private contractors of Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Johnson ⁇ Johnson, and Moderna, then the vaccine manufacturers have zero incentive to try to make the vaccines to improve them or to monitor them or to gauge them correctly.
Zero.
Now, you go to VARES.hhs.gov, you can report an adverse event in an online downloadable PDF.
All the information is supposed to be made public.
The COVID-19 vaccine VARES data is amazing.
It's amazing because it's just, it blows you away the numbers.
But you have to remember that these vaccine manufacturers get liability protection via the EUA, the Emergency Use Authorization, which is a short-term measure signed by the President of the United States.
Now, I know many of you are probably mixed on the vaccine issue.
Some of you are vaccine skeptics.
Some of you are pro-vaccine.
That's fine.
All voices are welcome here on this program.
I'm not going to shout you down or insult you.
You won't even know my personal opinions on it, which is nuanced and it's moderate.
I think that we just need more information.
We need more discussion.
But what we can all agree on is a very simple economic truth.
It's a very simple economic principle, which is when you have a multi-billion dollar company that is protected by the federal government when it comes to liability protection, that's going to create a mountain, a tsunami of externalities that will not actually improve the products themselves.
Now, why is it that they have to now get it on the childhood vaccination schedule?
Well, look, the fear of lawsuits keeps them honest.
Do we have liability protection for auto manufacturers?
Not that I'm aware of.
Maybe there is one.
I don't think so.
I know we don't have them for restaurants.
We don't have them for most types of companies.
When companies get into the marketplace, they have to assume the risk of potential customers coming after them.
Accountability is necessary and needed.
But the significance of the FDA now adding this vaccine to children is that then it will make the liability protection permanent for all the people that have been damaged or potentially damaged by the COVID-19 vaccine, which is a lot of people.
And we have those testimonials, freedom at charliekirk.com.
We have the VARES data.
We have all this information that is mounting and that is growing.
So it's a lot more sinister and cynical than just, well, we want children to be healthy.
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Wait a second.
You want them to be healthy from a virus that they're not even at great risk from?
You want to inoculate them from something they're not dying from?
Healthy kids are not dying from COVID, so why would we want to give healthy kids a vaccine from COVID?
Oh, the answer is to shield them from potential onslaught of lawsuits.
And that is against all market principles.
This is an anti-free market move to be able to protect consumers and raise the quality of goods.
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I want to tell you, I spent time last night watching Matt Walsh's documentary from the Daily Wire, What is a Woman?
It took me about 20 minutes to figure out how to get it on my TV.
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It was far too complicated.
And it's not even a slight at anybody.
It's just that all the other applications are so incredibly, they all blocked Daily Wire.
So you can't get on YouTube TV.
You can't say you got to get on Roku.
So I had to go to my in-law's house because they have a Roku device.
Got Roku, downloaded the Daily Wire app.
I couldn't remember my password.
Anyway, long story short, I got it done.
I'm sure it would be a lot easier for all of you.
You should support the Daily Wire.
They're great.
And honestly, I'm not one to just kind of blow smoke.
I'm actually a tough critic.
Most things I see, I kind of just dismiss.
I say it's not good enough.
I'm a tough grader.
It was an absolutely spectacular documentary.
It's top to bottom.
And you guys could actually, it's dailywire.com slash Charlie.
I used my own promo code to sign up because I didn't know I had a login.
Anyway, long story.
Long story short, it was brilliant.
It was top to bottom.
And I have to say, the fact that Walsh, a couple of years ago, started to storyboard this, he just goes through the entire documentary.
And the problem with most documentaries is that they meander, right?
They go from one topic to the other, and you can kind of tell that they're just trying to burn time.
He, the whole time, he just kept on asking the question of different quote-unquote experts and professors and, you know, sex chain surgeons and African tribal leaders.
What is a woman?
Here's just a small taste from the movie, Cut 24.
It's one of the most impactful political documentaries alongside 2000 Mules to the most important things you should be watching right now, Play Cut 24.
At what age does the medical transition begin with medication?
So medical affirmation begins when the patient says they're ready for it.
So that could be a kiddo who is just starting puberty and panicking because they're getting breastbuds or their penis is getting bigger and busier and they're worried about all kinds of masculine changes.
And that way, puberty blockers, which are completely reversible and don't have permanent effects, are wonderful because we can put that pause on puberty.
It's like if you were listening to music, you put the pause on and we stop the blockers and puberty would go right back to where it was.
The next note in the song.
First of all, that's just a lie.
You can't just put a pause on.
It's not reversible and it's chemical castration.
So the dialogues that Matt has.
First of all, I'll just be very honest.
As someone who's kind of in that world, I have no idea how he got these people to agree to talk to him.
So it's extraordinary how he got a child psychiatrist from Boston to sit down with him to talk about, oh, you have a little kiddo and we're going to give them chemical castration.
And Matt Walsh has, he's like, you mean the stuff you give to the pedophiles?
And she just like walks out.
This is brilliant.
I have to tell you, it's one of the great films I've seen.
Dailywire.com slash Charlie.
If you have any confusion about the trans issue, What is a Woman is the film for you.
So I want to go to another cut here from Matt Walsh's film, What is a Woman?
Okay, let's play 25, please.
You can just pause puberty.
No, you can't.
And then pick it up?
No, you can't.
For the future.
No, you can't.
How many studies do they have, long-term studies, on hormone blockers with children?
None.
I just spoke a month or two ago with a mother whose 14-year-old daughter was put on blockers.
They discovered after two years, this 14-year-old girl has osteoporosis.
That's something that like old women get.
How can doctors assure parents that a certain medicine is totally safe?
If based on what you're saying, they can't possibly know that.
How can they be removing the healthy breasts of 15-year-old girls?
How can they be sterilizing kids?
How can this whole thing be happening, Matt?
It's happening because for a couple of reasons, and we talked about this at length, and they touch on this a little bit in the movie, What is a Woman, really brought to you by Matt Walsh in the Daily Wire, is that for the first time in a long time, marginalized groups now have dollar signs over them.
There is a profit motive to actually get more children to embrace this kind of transgender lifestyle.
For every child that says they are transgender, that represents a $1.3 million potential profit for the pharmaceutical company.
So let me say that again.
$1.3 million.
You might say, well, Charlie, why would it be so much?
The amount of drugs that have to now be consumed by 13, 14, 15, 16, 17-year-olds, puberty blockers, chemical castration drugs, and these drugs are no joke.
I know somebody in my general circle that has had to take for a prostate issue, has had to take those kind of drugs, and they are awful.
The side effects are terrible, and the doctors do not notify you about any of them.
These are serious drugs, and you give them to 14, 15, and 16-year-olds.
So how does this happen?
It's because the profit motive is overwhelming.
And it also kind of goes back to a deeper philosophical and structural issue, which is, do you believe that your feelings determine your reality?
And this is a very new age-y belief that your feelings are everything, and that you shouldn't take in account anything that is considered to be real around you.
Don't Trust Democratic Promises 00:15:14
For example, throughout the movie in What is a Woman, there is a kind of peppering throughout the film this idea that it's your truth.
And Matt Walsh brilliantly says, Well, do you agree that we're both in the same room together?
And the kind of psychiatrist says, Well, that's your truth if you believe that.
You can kind of see where this leads.
I mean, what if it's my truth to say you don't exist?
My truth to say that I could wipe you off the face of the earth.
They believe truth can evolve.
We believe in eternal truth.
We believe in things that are always true.
You have to be on team reality at some point.
You have to be anchored to those pesky shackles of reality, as Dr. Gad Saad would say.
One final note on this: Jordan Peterson in the movie What is a Woman?
He had a great quote.
He said, If you go to a therapist to get affirmed, that is not what a therapist is.
You should go to a therapist to be challenged and to get better.
You don't go to a therapist to just get affirmed and rubber stamped.
It's a phenomenal point.
I'm told Blake Masters is here on set very soon.
You can bring him in.
Blake is welcome to come in.
As he comes in, let's play cut 20 that shows that Joe Biden isn't willing to harden schools.
Play cut 20.
I don't know what he said specifically about schools.
I know there's been conversation about hardening schools.
That is not something that he believes in.
He believes that we should be able to give teachers the resources to be able to do the job that they're meant to do at schools.
So that is the new White House press secretary.
We're joined here by Blake Masters.
Blake's a busy man.
Thanks for coming by.
Of course.
Thanks for having me.
How's the race going?
It's going well.
Yeah, I dare say I'm in a position to win this thing.
I'm going to be the nominee.
That's good.
I like the comments.
It's happening.
So you got the Trump endorsement.
Congratulations.
That's huge.
Yeah, thank you.
And you've had some tweets recently.
I want to read one of them.
Quote, this is from yesterday, the day before.
Quote, oh, you don't want to have your kid be taught transgender ideology or the 1619 History Project.
You must be mentally ill, so now we're taking your guns away.
You say, no way.
Expand on that a little bit.
The thing that the left tries to do is they prey on us.
They want to say that red flag laws are just reasonable.
How could you possibly be against it?
You want mentally ill people to own guns, right?
It sounds reasonable, but you can't trust them.
Look at what they've done to us.
Look at what they've perpetrated over the past two years.
As soon as you give them an inch, they will just redefine mental illness.
Pretty soon they'll say, Charlie, if you want an assault weapon at all, that's evidence of mental illness.
And that's evidence for why you shouldn't have one, right?
It's not logical, but they just want a gun grab by any means necessary.
And they call people that show up to school board meetings domestic terrorists, terrorists.
You know, Department of Homeland Security.
They have to mobilize the Department of Justice.
And so, I mean, I think you and I agree that a lot of people that support the red flag laws, they mean well, they have good intentions.
I don't think a lot of the Democrats have good intentions, but we have to kind of go a step further and say, wait a second, you're going to give the very same government that is willing to use these very loose definitions an extraordinary amount of power to then be able to confiscate weapons from us.
That's right.
No, it's death by a thousand cuts.
This is how liberties get eroded, right?
The left is always just playing offense.
They just chip and chip and chip away.
And so many, you know, these 10 Republicans, they just, they're the kind of Republicans that only want to play defense.
And if you only play defense while the left plays offense, eventually you lose and we're losing our freedoms.
So you'll want to play offense in the Senate.
Tell us about what will you play offense?
You know, you're going to be the nominee, it looks like, against Mark Kelly.
It looks like that's going to happen.
I agree with you.
People are, you know, the grassroots are on fire for you.
Trump's endorsement came early and decisively.
So you against Kelly, that's a tough race.
Like, let's make no mistake, right?
That's tough.
Even on this gun issue, you know, like Mark Kelly is a gun grabber, and we need to run a candidate who's bold enough to say, like, hey, I'm sorry about what happened to your wife.
Like, it's truly horrible.
Like, his family and Gabby Giffords, a real victim of a horrible gun crime, right?
And so that doesn't give you the right, though, to disarm Arizonans.
It doesn't give you the right to take away our guns.
And Martha McSally, you know, I mean, she's sort of the perfect candidate on paper, but she never wanted to play offense.
She never wanted to hit Mark Kelly on this gun issue.
I think the gun issue alone is worth three or four points in Arizona.
Yes.
People are, nobody wants murder, right?
We have laws against murder.
It's actually the left that doesn't want to do anything about street crime, but we're not going to let Mark Kelly take away our guns.
And I hope he makes that an issue in the general election.
I genuinely do.
Yeah, and it's been interesting, though.
I agree he's a gun grabber.
He has been suspiciously quiet on the gun issue, though.
Would you agree?
For him.
For him.
And it's because he has to be.
So after this horrible school shooting in Texas, Mark Kelly came out and said, I think he actually used an expletive, right?
I'm sure it was carefully crafted by his PR team, but he's like, we have to effing do something.
We have to do something, right?
There's this rage.
And I understand the rage.
Like, I share it too.
It's crazy to see evil like that manifest, right?
But it's like, okay, Mark, what do you want to do?
And then he won't actually come out and say what he wants to.
Everybody knows he would love to pass an assault weapons ban.
He would love to do that.
But he won't actually say that because he's reading the polls.
He knows that that's not popular with Arizonans.
If he comes out and admits what he wants to do, that he wants to take away your AR-15, boom, he loses the general election.
He's in trouble.
I'll tell you.
I mean, he has got, what, 50 million bucks?
It's going to be, you know, it's going to be a tight, tough race.
The stupid Arizona primary, how late it is.
We got to change that.
Whatever.
We have to change that.
If you become the next senator from Arizona, which, you know, would be a blessing.
We got to get, and you get rid of Mark Kelly.
We got to have like a June primary.
This is insane.
It's a pretty quick turnaround.
Two and a half years ago.
He gets all this time.
He's going to be going to Aspen.
He's going to San Francisco.
He gets to run against the event.
He gets to run negative ads against whoever looks to be the nominee the last couple of weeks.
They'll start on August 2nd as soon as results are in.
As soon as results are in, and you have to then kind of do a turnaround, re-raise all the hard money.
But I still think he's in trouble.
I mean, inflation in Arizona, I think, is 35 to 40%, especially in Phoenix.
You know, I mean, I think that the school issue is a big issue.
So playing offense, what does that look like actually in the U.S. Senate?
Well, I mean, pick your issue, right?
I'm tired of 19 Republicans voted for that $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill.
At least 10 Republicans here are on board for this gun control bill.
Part of it is making sure that that stuff doesn't pass and that I whip the votes and make sure that I'm putting to shame any senators like Romney or Murkowski or Collins, right?
With Republicans like these, it's almost like who needs Democrats?
But look at the big tech issue, right?
I see my competitors running around saying we have to repeal Section 230.
And it's like, well, yes, we do.
But that's the bare minimum, right?
That's just what their consultants told them to say.
I think playing offense actually means showing leadership and coming up with a new legislative agenda.
So it's like, what if we treat Facebook and Twitter as common carriers, regulate them like the phone company?
So we just ban them from being able to discriminate against us politically, right?
Let's embed a team of software engineers into Google.
We're going to force them into Google in the weeks before an election so that we can make sure that Google's not changing their search engine algorithms to put their thumb on the scale to rig an election.
That's what playing offense looks like.
And you can sort of run this test for every single issue.
What do conventional Republicans say?
That's playing defense.
Sometimes you've got to play defense, but it's not enough.
We need to go on offense.
Otherwise, we're going to lose the country.
Also on immigration as well.
That's like the big one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, defense, you know, immigrate.
So the joke here, remember when the Biden administration wanted to pay certain kind of illegals $450,000?
Well, the joke was Republicans got outraged.
That's way too much.
It should be $200,000.
You know, like that's what the conventional defense says.
I say like, no, the correct amount of illegal immigration is zero.
We need to work back towards zero illegal crossings.
We probably need to tighten up legal immigration, too.
That system is a mess.
And that's what playing offense looks like.
It's very compelling.
And so you still have a primary.
It's not over, but the momentum is certainly with you.
And we haven't made an endorsement in the race.
I've known Blake for a long time.
I think very highly of him.
But I just want to say the ads they're running against you are reprehensible and disgusting.
I tweeted that out.
I mean, it's one of the most disgusting things I've seen in politics.
And then one, they say, oh, you know, Blake Masters is with big tech.
What they are, the only source they have is Peter Thiel, who sat on the board of Facebook, who supports breaking up Facebook, has donated to your campaign.
It's one of the most disgusting lines of attack.
It shows that there's really not much to attack you on when they have to go that deep.
Yep, really quick.
Oh, they're just trying to interview my friends in middle school.
You know, was Blake ever mean to anybody in the 10th grade?
Like, this is bottom of the barrel stuff.
They did that to me a long time ago.
Yeah, good luck with that.
Yeah, exactly.
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All right, everybody.
Blake Masters is here.
I've known Blake for a long time, and he has earned his spot as the frontrunner, but it's not over.
You know that.
That's right.
There's a lot of money being spent.
A lot of people that want to be senator.
Here's a cool little straw pull, though.
Just fun.
We have so many great listeners.
This person sends us an email, honestly, kind of a depressing email.
They said, Charlie, I know you don't like answering the question, is there any hope?
I agree with you that hope is active.
How are we winning anywhere?
If I'm being honest, I feel like Patriots are losing.
We're becoming a socialist country.
Are Republicans holding the line?
Just like not exactly an uplifting email.
I respond, we'll answer this on air.
And then the next emails, thanks so much.
Already encouraged by this AZ Senate candidate.
Hey, Arnold.
So there you go, Blake.
There you go.
That's a good straw pull.
You're kind of giving people hope.
There you go.
So you're traveling the state in Arizona.
I'm sure that there is this feeling.
And when I talk to the base, the sense of frustration that I think most people have is not just that the country is going poorly and going the wrong direction, but that we're doing it to ourselves.
Can you expand on that?
This is like a self-inflicted decline.
That's right.
Yeah, no, I think the modern left, I mean, man, they took such a wrong turn, and it's interesting to diagnose exactly where it happened.
But, you know, a lot of people compare Joe Biden and his failed presidency to Jimmy Carter, right?
And you can see why.
It's like, you have the stagflation and the sort of oil shortages, stuff like that.
But I actually think Jimmy Carter, as incompetent and as horrible as he was, he actually probably had America's best interest in mind, right?
He was triggering and just failing.
His intentions were right.
Biden, it's like, first of all, it's like Biden's not even fully there, right?
So when we say Biden, we really mean like who's pulling the streets over the White House, the regime.
But they don't have America's best interest in mind.
And this is just totally transparent.
It's not like Biden is trying to enforce federal law at the border, right?
Illegal immigration should be zero.
That's what federal law says.
It's illegal.
And they're not even trying.
Instead, they just willfully violate federal law.
They invite millions of people to come here.
You know, we'll give you a lawyer and a hotel room and all this.
And of course, you're going to create a border crisis.
And that's just, it's so un-American.
Obviously, it makes this country worse for every single American citizen.
And you just have to conclude, they don't care about America.
They're ashamed of this place.
They want it ruined.
They believe in, you know, whatever, internationalism, globalism, socialism.
It's downright un-American, and that's scary.
Yeah, I mean, Carter served on a nuclear submarine, peanut farmer, Christian.
I just think he was a terrible president, bad ideas.
But I don't get the sense from Biden or the regime that they're like, you know, we now need to make broad changes or abrupt changes.
It's as if they almost feel as if it's going in the direction they want it to, which is perpetual decline and inevitable transformation.
And that's where it gets people really angry.
And I think it's a righteous indignation, which is that every one of our most major problems we've done to ourselves.
It's not that space aliens came in and bombed Midland Texas and our oil fields, but that's the kind of the way they try to frame it with the Putin price hike or whatever.
Are people in Arizona buying that garbage?
No.
I say zero people.
Probably one-third of the people will, but two-thirds of the people won't.
The Republicans won't, the conservatives won't, but even the independents and the moderates.
And let's be honest, like, it's kind of a swing state now.
I think people lean conservative.
It's still more red.
Especially this year.
That's right.
We're, you know, God willing, and we have to do the hard work to make this happen, but we are going to have a huge red wave.
The Democrats in power have failed us.
They've delivered nothing but chaos, chaos at the border, skyrocketing inflation, widespread wokeness, indoctrination in the schools.
Like nothing is going well.
And it's by design.
And even non-ideological people, just normal people who aren't paying attention to politics, they know that Biden is not only failing, but that somehow there's something more sinister going on.
So as a senator, you'll be able to look into Fauci, the school board drama.
Talk about some of the things that you're really going to focus on as a United States Senator.
Absolutely.
You know, a lot of people say, Blake, do you support accountability for Fauci?
And I say, yeah, although let's stop using that word, accountability, right?
Accountability.
Doesn't that just sound like a politician legal word?
When someone says we need accountability, it's almost code for like nothing's going to happen.
What we need is investigations and jailings.
I literally think Fauci needs to see the inside of a prison cell, and I think he's going to this decade.
We can tee up the investigations.
We can do that hardly.
Senators can do a lot if you and JD really focused on it with Rand and Holly.
Now you're talking about a you got four or five senators looking into something.
Let's have a COVID-19 hearing.
Let's get to the bottom.
I want to know what people in the government knew and when.
Okay.
And we're going to tee up that prosecution.
We can't prosecute until we get the DOJ back in January 2025.
But when we do, we'll have done the legwork.
And I think Fauci needs to be prosecuted.
We'll put together reports that are so overwhelmingly convincing that people can't help but then proceed accordingly.
Blake Masters, when is the race?
August 2nd, but early voting starts right after the 4th of July.
Oh, he's got voting month in Arizona.
We got voting month, voting season, right?
Obviously, it needs to be one day, one vote, but another thing we need to change in Arizona.
Yes.
It's a very interesting state as far as demographically.
You have the East Valley.
It's a very suburban state, but also you've got to win the roles.
You can't forget the rules, especially in the primary.
That's right.
And you know that.
Blake Masters running for Senate in Arizona.
I think he's going to be a great senator if he gets through the primary and it's looking better and better.
Blake, thank you for joining the program.
Thank you, Charlie.
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
Email me your thoughts.
As always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
Thanks so much for listening.
God bless.
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