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Ranked Choice Voting in Alaska
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| Hey everybody, here on the Charlie Kirk Show. | |
| Kelly Shabaka joins us talking about ranked choice voting in Alaska and AOC gets heckled by her own supporters. | |
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| You know, it's quite interesting. | |
| People ask me, they say, Charlie, where are the best opportunities for Senate pickups? | |
| I say, well, it depends how you define a pickup. | |
| Because yes, of course, we hope Herschel Walker defeats Raphael Warnock and Blake Masters defeats Mark Kelly. | |
| We hope Adam Laxalt defeats Cortez Masto. | |
| But what if I told you we have a chance to get an actual Republican and an actual conservative of someone who calls herself a Republican? | |
| I'm, of course, talking about the Alaska Senate race, which technically is not a pickup, but it actually is a very big pickup. | |
| Where there is an Alaska Senate race nail biter, Wall Street Journal reports. | |
| It's by Kimberly Strassel, who I believe actually lives in Alaska, so she has an authority on this topic. | |
| And it is an amazing candidate who we have endorsed at Turning Point Action, who is running a really great race, a grassroots race, against Lisa Murkowski. | |
| It's Kelly Schabaka. | |
| And she joins us in just a second here. | |
| But I want to just make one other point before I welcome Kelly, which is many of you are asking, where is all the Republican money going? | |
| Answer. | |
| It's not necessarily going to Blake Masters. | |
| It's not necessarily going to Oz. | |
| No, no, no. | |
| McConnell is spending his money to defeat a grassroots conservative in Alaska to protect Lisa Murkowski. | |
| And I'm going to ask Kelly all about that. | |
| Kelly Schabaka joins us right now. | |
| Welcome to the program. | |
| I'm so happy to be with you, Charlie. | |
| Thank you so much for having me. | |
| I'm joining you from Anchorage, Alaska, where it's a balmy 38 degrees. | |
| That's a very high temperature, at least for what's about to happen there. | |
| Kelly, tell us about how your race is going. | |
| It looks like, according to Fox News, Trump-backed Shabaka projected to defeat 20-year incumbent Senator Murkowski, but I'm very worried about your ranked choice voting. | |
| Ranked choice voting is a very big problem. | |
| How's your race going? | |
| Tell us about it. | |
| Well, it's looking really good. | |
| Right after our primary in mid-August, there were multiple polls showing us tied 50-50 with Lisa Murkowski. | |
| And then 538 came out just a couple weeks ago and said we now have a 53% chance of defeating Lisa Murkowski. | |
| I think that that shows the grassroots are definitely mobilized to see a change. | |
| That's what I'm hearing across the state. | |
| I've traveled more miles in state than it takes to circumnavigate the globe. | |
| People realize Lisa Murkowski has moved increasingly left throughout her 21-year career. | |
| Project 538 says she votes nearly 80% of the time with Joe Biden. | |
| That's a lot more with Joe Biden than she ever voted with President Trump. | |
| We know up here, the Alaska Republican Party has censured her and removed her from membership. | |
| Functionally, she's a Democrat in the state of Alaska, which is all the more perplexing to your point about why Mitch McConnell is investing up to $9 million in a smear ad campaign of lies against me. | |
| To give you context, in her last election, Lisa Murkowski only raised $7 million. | |
| So $9 million in Alaska is a huge amount of money. | |
| This is probably the closest and least expensive Senate race in the nation. | |
| And he's trying to impose on us who our senator is going to be. | |
| I want everyone to understand that. | |
| It's worthy of repetition. | |
| $9 million that could be spent for Blake Masters or for Herschel Walker. | |
| Mitch McConnell is not counting seats. | |
| He is counting votes. | |
| It is more important that he remains leader than Senate majority leader. | |
| There is no other explanation for Mitch McConnell to pump in $9 million into Alaska to prop up a fake and a fraud that is Lisa Murkowski. | |
| So, Kelly, tell us about ranked choice voting. | |
| This is something that is spreading across the country. | |
| It is very treacherous. | |
| It's very confusing. | |
| I think that if for whatever reason you are not successful, I believe it would be because of ranked choice voting. | |
| Tell us about it. | |
| Well, undercover videos exposed by Project Veritas show us that Murkowski's campaign staff colluded together to deceive Alaskans in order to implement ranked choice voting. | |
| As they said in the video, they said, isn't this a desecration of democracy in order to rig the election system in your favor in a bid to try and preserve your Senate seat? | |
| She would already have lost the election. | |
| She would have lost the primary. | |
| And even now, she's trailing me by nine or 10 points in this general election. | |
| Her only chance at possibly preserving her 41-year Murkowski monarchy, where they've handed down this Senate seat like a birthright, her dad literally appointed her to his vacant Senate seat is by this ranked choice system. | |
| So what happened is all of the candidates, there were 19 of us, regardless of party, we were all in the primary together. | |
| The four of us who received the most votes, we go on to the general election. | |
| There were three so-called Republicans. | |
| Murkowski has the R behind her name, even though the Republican Party said she's prohibited from doing that. | |
| Ranked choice election allows her to do that. | |
| Any Democrat can call themselves a Republican. | |
| And the fourth Republican has since suspended his campaign and thrown his weight behind me, as have a Democrat that was down ballot. | |
| He did the same. | |
| He said, we're not getting any results from Lisa Murkowski. | |
| So functionally, there's now three of us, me, Murkowski, and a Democrat who got only 6% of the vote in the primary. | |
| You can see where the Democrat votes are going. | |
| When that Democrat falls off in the ranked choice voting, what happens is everyone gets to go in. | |
| They get to pick their first candidate. | |
| If your first candidate gets eliminated, like the Democrat will, your second choice candidate gets your backup votes. | |
| And that's where the race then becomes a real nail biter, as Kimberly Strassel said. | |
| And we either become 50-50 or 53-47, depending on the most recent polls. | |
| That's where it becomes a nail-biter. | |
| But your viewers can help us at kelly4ak.com. | |
| When we get more of the message out about Lisa's voting record, we're seeing people convert on the doorstep. | |
| My family and I have knocked a couple thousand doors across the state. | |
| Our team has knocked tens of thousands of doors. | |
| Just last week, I was in six communities from rural Alaska to the interior to here in Anchorage. | |
| And when people understand that she's voted for Biden's red flag laws and the tiebreaking vote for the radical nominee who's shut down our oil and gas industry, you want to know why you're paying so high for gas prices and why inflation is so high? | |
| Lisa Murkowski wrote that bill, Charlie. | |
| She didn't just vote for it. | |
| And she was the tiebreaking vote for the radical nominee put in place who's making those decisions. | |
| And she did it knowingly. | |
| This vote affects everybody across America. | |
| It is often the tie-breaking vote that determines the outcome of the nation. | |
| And you can help us change that Senate seat at kelly4ak.com. | |
| Kelly4AK.com. | |
| So in closing here, just kind of tell us about the themes that you're seeing on the ground. | |
| I mean, it will be an amazing thing. | |
| And then also give some instructions clearly about how people should fill out their ballot for ranked choice voting. | |
| It's a little confusing. | |
| We're getting a lot of messages. | |
| Someone from Anchorage, someone from Fairbanks, they said, Charlie, I don't understand it. | |
| Can Kelly walk me through it? | |
| Sure. | |
| And then just kind of talk about, I'll fill in the rest later in the hour of why ranked choice voting is so anti-against the promise of the consent of the governed. | |
| But Kelly, tell us how they should fill out their ballot. | |
| Super simple. | |
| Rank Kelly Chewbacca number one. | |
| And if you want to save time in the ballot box, just move to the next congressional race. | |
| It really does not matter what you do with two, three, and four, but do not do Kelly Chewbacca one and then put Kelly Chewbacca on any of the other numbers because that invalidates your ballot. | |
| They will throw it out. | |
| So rank Kelly Chewaka number one. | |
| If you want to rank another candidate after that, you can, but it won't matter because they won't actually ever get to those backup votes. | |
| So I say you're just wasting time in the ballot box. | |
| Put Kelly Chewbacca number one and move on. | |
| That's the quickest and easiest answer. | |
| And then when I say, you know, what is the top theme? | |
| I think you put it simply like this, and this is the theme across America this year. | |
| It comes down to who are you standing with? | |
| Are you standing with the American people, the families that are being crushed, and the workers that are suffering? | |
| Or are you standing with Joe Biden, the radical environmentalist and the special interests that have ties to this White House? | |
| That's the decision in every ballot box this November. | |
| And Alaskans have a choice. | |
| Are you going to pick the senator that's standing with Alaska, our Alaskan families, and our Alaskan workers that are paying the price at the pump, our families that can't pick between paying for gas and groceries this week? | |
| I know many of them. | |
| Or are we going to pick the senator who's been standing with Joe Biden, confirming his radical nominees, and has her campaign almost exclusively funded by dark money special interests with ties to this White House, the lower 48 trying to buy our Senate seat? | |
| That's the decision before Alaskans. | |
| I'm the senator standing with Alaska, and Lisa Murkowski is the senator who has been voting with and standing with Joe Biden. | |
| And we get to pick. | |
| And I am guaranteeing you that this November, Washington, D.C. insiders, the establishment, and the machine that is trying to impose itself on the will of the American people is going to get a very loud message from grassroots Alaskans that they're going to be very surprised to hear, despite the millions and millions and millions of dollars they've pumped into our state. | |
| And it's going to be something that is going to reverberate across the nation. | |
| Thank you, Charlie. | |
| I'm at Kelly4AK.com. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Have a great day of campaigning and keep pushing hard. | |
| I just want everyone to understand our candidates are getting outspent like crazy in Arizona and in Georgia and in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. | |
| And where is the Senate Republican money going? | |
| Mitch McConnell is sending it to defeat a conservative, not defeat a Democrat in Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. | |
| I hope everybody knows $9 million is getting diverted up to Alaska to defeat MAGA. | |
| Kelly, thank you so much. | |
| Everyone, support her. | |
| She needs the money. | |
| Thank you so much. | |
| Kelly4ak.com. | |
| Thank you, Kelly. | |
| Thanks. | |
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The Proxy War Within Democrats
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| The folks at Job Creators Network defend and advance policies that help small business owners across America grow their business. | |
| We talk a lot about labor in the media, and we're always responding to the complaints of labor. | |
| And that's fine. | |
| Obviously, it's important. | |
| But who actually creates the jobs that labor actually is able to enjoy? | |
| Big business has their lobbyists, but small ones don't always have the time or money to defend themselves against the forces of global corporations and their crony capitalist pals in the kingdom of Washington, D.C. Job Creators Network, that's right, Job Creators Network, fights for small business owners across America, and they're looking for a few good men and women to join their growing army of small business advocates. | |
| They'll train you to be the face and voice of Main Street in your communities and beyond. | |
| To learn more, go to jobcreatorsnetwork.com. | |
| That is jobcreatorsnetwork.com. | |
| Small business is the heartbeat, the backbone, the lifeblood of our economy and the American dream. | |
| Learn how you can join this growing army of advocates. | |
| Go to jobcreatorsnetwork.com now and hit the red join button. | |
| If you are a small business owner, if you're involved, go to jobcreatorsnetwork.com. | |
| That is jobcreatorsnetwork.com. | |
| Now, there is a proxy war I could get behind. | |
| There is one proxy war I think that we conservatives should be enthusiastic about. | |
| The proxy war we should get behind is reminding the Democrat base that they used to be anti-war. | |
| Like, hello, you guys used to not like sending arms halfway around the world to try to escalate things towards nuclear war. | |
| Now they're all neoliberal warmongers. | |
| I was at the campus of University of Texas Austin yesterday, as I've said a couple times. | |
| And the issue of Ukraine came up. | |
| And it's amazing. | |
| Deep down, they all agree with the Tucker Carlson position, with our position, which is to ask questions. | |
| Why are we getting money to Ukraine? | |
| What does success look like? | |
| Why are we doing this? | |
| And I say, why is it that all your elected officials are pushing arms to Ukraine? | |
| And one of them says, oh, no, no, no, they're not. | |
| Bernie Sanders is standing up against. | |
| I said, no, he's not. | |
| I said, his AOC is Rashida Taliban, is Elon Omar. | |
| They are all part of the war machine now because we stand with Ukraine. | |
| It's the only voices that are dissenting are actually on the right, bizarrely enough. | |
| This is exactly why Tulsi Gabbard left the Democrat Party. | |
| This is what this is. | |
| There is a massive fault line. | |
| There is an internal Democrat revolt waiting to happen. | |
| And the proxy war that we should support is not the war in Ukraine. | |
| It's not the war in Yemen. | |
| The proxy war we should support is the proxy war of Democrats rising up against their elected officials and saying, hey, we sent you to not, let's just say, embroil us in more conflicts. | |
| The Democrat base, the infrastructure that put Barack Hussein Obama into office was an anti-war movement. | |
| It was Michael Moore. | |
| It was the celebrities. | |
| It was the Iraq war, anti-Iraq war stuff. | |
| And by the way, so many of their concerns were actually legitimate. | |
| We never should have invaded Iraq. | |
| Success was never definable. | |
| Spent a trillion dollars. | |
| Tons of lives lost. | |
| PTSD veteran issues didn't get the oil in return. | |
| It was all this sort of things that was going to say, we never should have invaded Iraq. | |
| Massive mistake. | |
| Trump says it. | |
| Other people say it. | |
| And so now there's this incredible clip, and it is raw, and it is real. | |
| It's authentic. | |
| It's such a nice clip for me to look at. | |
| Nice is not a good word. | |
| We shouldn't use the word nice. | |
| It's too simple. | |
| It is a beautiful clip to look at because it's the opposite of what I'm so used to seeing on the Democrat Party, which is synthetic. | |
| Everything in the Democrat Party has become fake, artificial, manufactured. | |
| And for once, I'm finally starting to see the Democrat grassroots have a little bit of life in them and no longer be astroturfed and holograms and vapor and smokescreen. | |
| Finally, they challenge their celebrities and say you're a fraud. | |
| So at a town hall with Alexandria Akaziokes, she was taking questions. | |
| And a person of color, God bless him, I don't know who it is. | |
| I only say person of color because I think that's the only reason that AOC felt not convicted to interrupt him. | |
| He just went after AOC. | |
| You're a warmonger. | |
| You're the establishment. | |
| You're getting us closer to nuclear war, of which I just want to applaud this young man for calling out the corporate fraud that AOC has become. | |
| Play cut 84. | |
| Congresswoman, none of this matters unless there's a nuclear war, which you voted to send arms and weapons to Ukraine. | |
| There will be no neighbors if there's a nuclear bomb. | |
| You voted to mobilize and send money to Ukrainian Nazis. | |
| You're a coward. | |
| You're a progressive socialist. | |
| Where are you against the war mobilization? | |
| I believed in you and you became the very thing you sought to fight against. | |
| I could tell you right now, AOC better really pray. | |
| I don't think she prays. | |
| What does she do? | |
| Meditate? | |
| Is that what she, what she thinks? | |
| Whatever she does. | |
| I don't know. | |
| I don't know. | |
| I hope she really contemplates that because that is a political death sentence to hear from a voter. | |
| Nothing in politics is more powerful than betrayal. | |
| Nothing. | |
| When somebody states, you betrayed me, they will do anything to displace you from power. | |
| Just ask Congresswoman Liz Cheney, how's she doing? | |
| Or how about Peter Meyer? | |
| How about John Kasich? | |
| Is he still governor? | |
| Is he popular? | |
| Oh, the politics of betrayal gets raw. | |
| It gets real. | |
| And when he says, you're a fake, I believed in you. | |
| Ooh, AOC, you better watch out, you warmongering fake socialist. | |
| The proxy war Republicans should be supporting is not to give Ukrainian Nazis arms, of which we are doing in the Azov battalion. | |
| No, no, no. | |
| The proxy war we should support is to have the base of the Democrat Party challenge the new face of the warmongers, which is the squad. | |
| Hey, Charlie Kirk here. | |
| When it comes to liberals in Congress, there's no way they would accept term limits on themselves. | |
| And yet now they're fighting tooth and nail to impose term limits on Supreme Court justices. | |
| Term limits for thee, but not for me. | |
| Sounds completely hypocritical. | |
| Of course it is. | |
| But since when has that ever been a problem for the American left? | |
| They do whatever they want to try to seize more power, even if it means purging the Supreme Court of its most experienced justices. | |
| To no one's surprise, their new court purging scheme would remove long-serving, amazing justices like the super brilliant Clarence Thomas and the courageous Samuel Alito. | |
| They would then replace these new justices with a rubber stamp and their radical agenda. | |
| Since Democrats are working hard to pass court purging with term limits, we need to work even harder to stop it. | |
| Or the Supreme Court, as we know it, will never be the same. | |
| If you care about the integrity of the Supreme Court and don't want to see it taken over by political hacks, go to supremecoup.com. | |
| That is supreme COUP.com. | |
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Democrat Hypocrisy on Term Limits
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| I can feel it in my bones. | |
| I could feel it. | |
| I've been doing this a decade. | |
| Actually, I've been doing it longer than a decade. | |
| I really started in elections knocking on doors in the suburbs of Chicago for a bunch of rhinos when I was in eighth grade. | |
| No, it was like seventh, eighth grade, 2008. | |
| So I've been doing it for 14 years. | |
| Geez. | |
| My birthday's tomorrow, so it's like 15 years almost. | |
| Wow. | |
| 15, 14 years. | |
| And so I could feel it in my bones. | |
| I've been through a lot of these things. | |
| I have a feel on the ground, and I talk to our amazing activists at Turning Point Pack and Turning Point Action. | |
| And I talk to them. | |
| I ask them questions. | |
| How does it feel? | |
| What do you hear? | |
| And I just talk to all people. | |
| And I live in one of the most important states in Arizona. | |
| And I just pepper people with questions, regular, everyday people, whether they watch the news or not, when you get coffee, when you go get pickup. | |
| How do you feel? | |
| And I'm telling you, I can feel it. | |
| It's about to get out of control for Democrats. | |
| It is about to get wildly out of control. | |
| They are about to have their heads spinning. | |
| When it's all said and done, I believe Democrat donors are going to be irritated, frustrated, mad, despondent, divided, that they spent all those hundreds of millions of dollars over the summer in their Napa Valley and Aspen and Martha's Vineyard fundraisers to Nancy Pelosi and Adam Shifty Schiff, who raised all this money, these pockets of resources, only at the last minute to have the people rise up and do something dramatic. | |
| Now, I'm not resting on our laurels. | |
| I'm not saying it's over, but I could feel it. | |
| I see it. | |
| I see the, it's kind of an interesting word when we're talking about Pelosi, the crumbs, if you will. | |
| I see the little warning signs of the Democrat Party. | |
| I see the fault lines. | |
| I could see it happening in real time. | |
| And these prognosticators, Nate Silver, who should be shut down as a fraud artist at 538.com, he lies for a living and is wrong all the time. | |
| I can't believe people still take him seriously. | |
| He's slowly changing his predictions, by the way, on 538.com. | |
| He's considered to be the spengali of midterm or elections. | |
| Like, oh, yeah, I could see things where they happen. | |
| I'm very clairvoyant. | |
| Like, okay. | |
| If you just pull the thread a little bit, you see the Democrats unraveling. | |
| I see it on the ground. | |
| I hear it. | |
| Now, the smart people are saying what we have been saying for quite some time. | |
| All of a sudden, now we are seeing people say out loud, like, well, that's not exactly trending great. | |
| And as Ernest Hemingway says, and it just seems to happen all the time, it is the great description of Republican politics of the conservative movement, which is things happen gradually and then they happen suddenly. | |
| A couple months ago, we were very worried and things looked out of grasp. | |
| And you got to wonder, were they actually ever out of grasp, or was it that the activist media was telling us they were out of grasp? | |
| And there's one piece of evidence after the other that is showing the Democrat Party is imploding. | |
| Independents are tracking in Republican directions. | |
| Conservatives are going to show up in massive numbers. | |
| And tragically and unfortunately, U.S. inflation hit 8.2%. | |
| And the market, the last time I checked, was tumbling. | |
| I could check it right now. | |
| I bet it's a bloodbath. | |
| Well, it's up a little bit. | |
| Now it's up and it's down. | |
| It was down 500 points. | |
| Now it's up 800 points. | |
| This is how you know you got funny money in your economy. | |
| Did the Fed make an announcement? | |
| How is it that last time I checked, it was down 400 points. | |
| Now it's up 800 points. | |
| What on earth could possibly cause that? | |
| That's amazing. | |
| Okay. | |
| I stand corrected on that. | |
| Literally, right before the show, I checked it and it was down 400 points. | |
| Now it's up. | |
| That's a 1,200-point swing. | |
| What could possibly inflation is crushing people. | |
| That's what it says. | |
| Stock rose in volatile trading Thursday, recovering from steep losses in the session as traders assess the latest inflation data, what it means for the Federal Reserve going forward. | |
| I mean, so it goes down by 800 points and then up by 800 points. | |
| That's one of the more volatile days I think we've ever seen. | |
| And it's starting to manifest in the polling. | |
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Polling Shifts and Market Volatility
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| This is how you know the Democrats are getting very worried. | |
| They're saying that if you don't vote for our candidates, you're very insecure. | |
| Al Sharpton, always brilliant. | |
| Play cut 79. | |
| I literally have black men calling my radio show since I don't know if I want to vote for Stacey Abrams. | |
| Who would not be proud of Stacey Abrams unless you're so insecure as a man? | |
| That's right. | |
| If you don't vote for Stacey Abrams in the Georgia governor's race, you're insecure as a man. | |
| Obama has made a decision not to campaign for Democrat candidates. | |
| I wonder why. | |
| Obama is saying that he's not really going to hit the midterm elections. | |
| It's a very big tell. | |
| I think he knows what's going on in more ways than one. | |
| Obama has only obviously cared about himself. | |
| He's a total and supreme narcissist. | |
| Obama is also a very, very lazy person. | |
| He does not work hard. | |
| One of the reasons why I think we're going to defeat the left is they're lazy. | |
| Anyone who's ever been around Obama, he does not work hard. | |
| He just doesn't. | |
| He's talented. | |
| He's charismatic. | |
| I don't think he's dumb. | |
| I think he's evil and sinister, but he's so lazy. | |
| Martha's Vineyard, why leave it? | |
| As soon as he left the White House, it was all Netflix, book deals, smug condescension. | |
| And then, of course, Tulsi Gabbard announces she leaves the Democrat Party. | |
| Play cut 27. | |
| Now, I believe in a government that's of the people, by the people, and for the people. | |
| Unfortunately, today's Democratic Party does not. | |
| Instead, it stands for a government that is of, by, and for the powerful elite. | |
| Now, I'm calling on my fellow common sense, independent-minded Democrats to join me in leaving the Democratic Party. | |
| If you can no longer stomach the direction that the so-called woke Democratic Party ideologues are taking our country, then I invite you to join me. | |
| And that has gone far and wide and very viral, where Tulsi Gabbard says the Democrat Party has become the party of warmongers. | |
| The Democrat Party has become the party that no longer represents voters, but woke fringe special interests. | |
| The Democrat Party is no longer a party that even pretends to represent their voters. | |
| It's an oligarchy. | |
| It's a defense of the few against the many. | |
| If you vote for a Democrat Party, you're a sucker right now. | |
| You are. | |
| They're using you, so blatantly using you. | |
| Cut 40, MSNBC admits the top two issues are ones that Republicans have a 30-point lead. | |
| Play cut 40. | |
| Said, when you look at our most recent NBC poll here and he asked folks, what is the single most important issue that's going to drive your vote in this year's midterm elections? | |
| A combined 34% cite either jobs in the economy or inflation. | |
| And you combine those two, that's the biggest single number you're going to get. | |
| And on that question, the Republicans have a nearly 30-point advantage. | |
| A nearly 30-point advantage. | |
| Now, there's a journalist by the name of Terry Moran. | |
| I don't think he's great, but he is very honest in this regard. | |
| I want to play two pieces of tape from him. | |
| Cut 10 is he admits, look, polls are broken. | |
| So if you look at these polls, if it's close, it's going to be a Republican win. | |
| It's like they're telling you that the polling industry is a fraud. | |
| Maybe they should spend less time going after payday lenders and all these things that they focus so much. | |
| Why doesn't? | |
| Why don't we just for a second talk about how suppression polling impacts our behavior, our donations, our activism, our enthusiasm? | |
| The entire thing is synthetic, and he knows it. | |
| Play cut 10. | |
| In this country and in other countries, polls are broken, right? | |
| It is clear that lots of people on the right just don't answer anymore. | |
| They were worse in 2020 than they were in 2016. | |
| And so you look at those polls, it's close. | |
| If it's close, it's a Republican win. | |
| The polls are lies. | |
| I just find it so funny because the entire ABC politics department pushes out these polls that they're trying to tell you are accurate. | |
| And then their senior journalist basically says, yeah, you could just basically, if it's close, the Republicans are going to win. | |
| By the way, he's right. | |
| And so all these polls that we hear about, and by the way, one of the reasons they released the summer suppression polls against Oz, against Vance, against Johnson, against Bud, against Walker, against Laxalt, against Masters was why? | |
| To get Republican donors not to believe the race is winnable. | |
| They're suppression polls for donors. | |
| That's not a poll. | |
| That is a political operation. | |
| There's got to be a massive upheaval in the way we do polling in this country because these races actually could have some sort of equilibrium with polling. | |
| I'm sorry, actually, with funding, excuse me, if the polling over the summer would have been at least remotely accurate. | |
| Remember, can we go look up one of those polls? | |
| Actually, I could probably find it. | |
| I have Real Clear Politics pulled up. | |
| I really like Real Clear Politics. | |
| They're fair. | |
| And they're just kind of, they're an aggregator. | |
| If you don't like them, I can't imagine what the complaint is about Real Clear Politics. | |
| So let's just go back in time, right? | |
| So back in, yeah, this is my favorite one. | |
| Back on August 15th, I remember exactly where I was when this poll came out. | |
| It had John Fetterman up 13 points. | |
| I mean, anyone, it's not even, there's no way that's true. | |
| John Fetterman up 13 points in mid-August? | |
| No way. | |
| John Fetterman up nine points in a USA Today poll. | |
| No, we always knew that wasn't true. | |
| But it was done to try to keep donors out of the Oz race, try to keep people on the sideline. | |
| The same thing in the Ohio Senate race. | |
| You go all the way back in time. | |
| You go back to the early polls, Ryan up, Ryan up. | |
| Or how about the Johnson race? | |
| That one in particular, they wanted donors not to engage and they wanted to give up. | |
| They do this to get you to stay on the sidelines. | |
| Johnson is up in every poll. | |
| In fact, this is going to show the fraud that the American polling industry has become. | |
| We're out of nowhere. | |
| All of a sudden, they're trying to save themselves because I think they're actually very worried that this thing is going to just get completely and totally out of control. | |
| Which is the latest Marquette poll shows Ron Johnson up six points. | |
| Yeah. | |
| But then if you go back to the fraud poll that Marquette did back in August, it showed Mandela Barnes up seven points. | |
| I can feel it. | |
| Don't rest on your laurels. | |
| Write down your 30 friends. | |
| You're going to make sure you're going to go vote. | |
| If every person in our audience did that, we could create a red wave. | |
| How many doors are you knocking on? | |
| Are you a precinct committee man? | |
| How many phone calls are you making? | |
| Are you able to give any money? | |
| $1, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100 to any candidate. | |
| Are you fasting and praying every single week for your nation? | |
| Are you encouraging your pastor to speak openly and boldly about what's coming up in this upcoming election? | |
| Are you posting on social media? | |
| Are you texting your friends? | |
| Are you staying active? | |
| Are you staying on top of things? | |
| Or are you just kind of hoping things get better? | |
| No, no, no, no. | |
| Shoulder to the wheel, full court press, acceleration right now. | |
| We have the Democrats on defense. | |
| We need to create an annihilation event of the Democrat Party. | |
| I want to just kind of briefly expand on something I was saying, which is what do you do? | |
| Look, we are up against a moment. | |
| A moment has presented itself, is the better way to say it, where we can have an annihilation event of the Democrat Party, and we should take advantage of that. | |
| Make calls for candidates. | |
| Write your homework: take out a piece of paper and write down 30 people. | |
| And just throughout the next month, make sure they are voting. | |
| Hopefully, securely, voting early in person or voting on Election Day, which I prefer. | |
| I'm an Election Day guy. | |
| I know everyone has their own way of voting, but boy, after what we saw in 2020, maybe you should go vote in person. | |
| Just write down your 30 names and just go, one, did I get that person vote? | |
| This is free of charge. | |
| This is pure grassroots grittiness. | |
| And maybe you say, oh, Charlie, 30 stuff, and then do 100. | |
| You know, 100 people. | |
| And say, hey, are you voting for this candidate? | |
| Educate them on that candidate. | |
| Get out the vote. | |
| Become your own GO TV operation. | |
| That doesn't require any money. | |
| It doesn't require any infrastructure. | |
| Just write down your names and just hit the pavement. | |
| You could change the arc of history. | |
| And you might say, oh, you know, it's not going to make a difference. | |
| Wrong. | |
| Stop being cynical. | |
| Don't be apathetic. | |
| I got mine lists even in my own little micro community. | |
| You better believe I make sure people are turning in their ballots in Arizona and securely. | |
| You better believe. | |
| I follow up and say, Did you vote? | |
| Did you vote? | |
| Did you vote? | |
| Because look, yes, it's only 35, 40 people. | |
| That was kind of what I maxed out at in the primary. | |
| But I believe that if every person did that, or even 10% of people did that, the country would be saved. | |
| And isn't it the moral thing to do to say, I want to do what everybody else would do, and hopefully it will spread ripples of goodness throughout the world? | |
| Do not be cynical. | |
| Don't be apathetic. | |
| Write down those 30 names. | |
| You're like, okay, Charlie, I've done that. | |
| I got 100 people to go vote. | |
| Praise God. | |
| Good for you. | |
| Then can you donate to campaigns? | |
| If you can, I totally understand. | |
| Inflation is crushing people. | |
| The economy is in total shatters right now. | |
| Totally get it. | |
| Are you able to go volunteer for a campaign in addition to getting your friends to go vote? | |
| Are you able to go maybe put up yard signs? | |
| Can you go to an early Super Saturday brought to you by Turning Point Action at tpaction.com? | |
| Are you able maybe to support local campaigns by just reaching out to them and saying, hey, is there anything you guys need? | |
| Do you guys need assistance? | |
| Do you need help knocking on doors? | |
| What do you guys need? | |
| Can you dedicate a weekend or two or three now to the election? | |
| Because look, here's the thing. | |
| On November 9th, my call to action is going to be over. | |
| November 9th, it's going to be all about getting back to ideas and getting back to formulation of persuasion and governing and holding people accountable and all that. | |
| So you got a short window. | |
| A goal is a dream with a deadline. | |
| And you got a deadline on November 8th. | |
| The clock is ticking. | |
| How many days we got to November 8th? | |
| Like 26 days or something. | |
| You got 26 days. | |
| It's going to be three weeks on Tuesday. | |
| Everything, we got to deploy everything, every ounce of energy, everything we can. | |
| Okay, we finally got this tape, play cut 85. | |
| The Republicans started rising in almost all of these states about two and a half to three weeks ago. | |
| But in general, what we're seeing are the Republican candidates in all of these states hanging in there even against incredible attack. | |
| These gubernatorial candidates in states like Florida, with Hasantis, Georgia, with Kemp, they're running even stronger. | |
| And it tells me that something's going on. | |
| There is a new wave developing. | |
| Whether it will hold, you don't know, but it's certainly beginning to develop. | |
| It's certainly beginning to develop. | |
| Are we going to hope it happens or are we going to make hope happen? | |
| That's the question. | |
| The least of this is every person in our audience, you get your 30 and you get them to vote, especially if you live in Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada. | |
| You get your 30 people and you get them out to vote. | |
| We're going to talk more about what you can do. | |
| Thanks so much for listening, everybody. | |
| Email me your thoughts as always. | |
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| Thank you so much for listening. | |
| God bless. | |
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