The Charlie Kirk Show - The Kari Lake Juggernaut with Kari Lake and Mollie Hemingway
Aired: 2022-10-24
Duration: 36:16


=== AmericaFest and Election Action (02:01) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey everybody, today in the Charlie Kirk show.
[00:00:01]  Carrie Lake joins us and Molly Hemingway for an action-packed episode about the election, Arizona, what do Democrats hub up their sleeve and more.
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[00:00:25]  The biggest speakers in the movement with more to be announced.
[00:00:27]  We have Tucker, we have Bannon, we have Candace Owens, Josh Hawley, Kaylee McEnaney, and more.
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[00:00:36]  As always, you can email me your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.
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[00:00:41]  Buckle up, everybody, here.
[00:00:42]  We go.
[00:00:43]  Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
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[00:00:54]  I want to thank Charlie.
[00:00:55]  He's an incredible guy.
[00:00:56]  His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
[00:01:04]  We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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[00:01:28]  There is one race in America that has the media very worried.
[00:01:31]  I could tell you, people are looking at this race and they're seeing a grassroots movement unlike anything I've seen except for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020.
[00:01:41]  And that is the Arizona governor's race.
[00:01:45]  I'm getting messages from people all across the country about Carrie Lake.
[00:01:48]  And I'm telling you, Carrie Lake is going to be America's governor if she wins in 15 days.
[00:01:53]  And she looks like the momentum is with her, but we can't take anything for granted.
[00:01:58]  And Carrie Lake joins us right now.
[00:02:00]  Carrie, welcome back to the program.

=== The Arizona Governor's Race (02:05) ===

[00:02:01]  How are things on the ground in Arizona?
[00:02:03]  15 days to go.
[00:02:04]  We got the pedal to the metal.
[00:02:06]  Our team is all over.
[00:02:08]  We are knocking on doors.
[00:02:09]  I just heard some great news.
[00:02:10]  We had a meeting from our field director.
[00:02:12]  We have the youngest field director in the country, Matthew is his name, 21 years old.
[00:02:16]  He works his butt off every day.
[00:02:19]  And he said that they are concentrating on swing voters and they are blown away that almost every door they go to with the swing voter, they're able to convince them and talk to them about the issues.
[00:02:31]  And they're moving our direction.
[00:02:32]  And I think that's a really good sign with two weeks left.
[00:02:36]  Well, so Carrie, you got two things going for you.
[00:02:38]  Number one, you're a great candidate and you understand the media, but you're also running up against a total clown and a chicken and a coward and someone who's right.
[00:02:48]  And every time you get in front of the television cameras, you say, actually, tell our audience about how despicably racist Katie Hobbs is.
[00:02:55]  I think it's worth repeating.
[00:02:57]  Well, it's horrible.
[00:02:58]  I mean, it's not a laughing matter.
[00:03:00]  She truly is a twice convicted racist.
[00:03:02]  Two juries of her peers unanimously convicted her of racism on two different cases.
[00:03:08]  And because of that, we're paying a $3 million settlement.
[00:03:10]  Turns out that she thought so little of people of color and women that she paid women of color in her office, not just a little bit less than the men doing the same job, $30,000 a year less than the men in her office doing the same job.
[00:03:25]  And when she was called out for it, one of the women said, what the heck's going on?
[00:03:30]  She fired her.
[00:03:31]  And that woman sued her, rightfully so, and won the lawsuit.
[00:03:34]  And because of that, we, the people, are paying nearly $3 million in settlements.
[00:03:39]  Incredible.
[00:03:40]  And when she was being deposed, she said she fired her.
[00:03:44]  The quote is, because of repeated acts of disobedience.
[00:03:48]  I mean, what year are we in, Charlie?
[00:03:50]  This woman's a monster.
[00:03:51]  And we found out last week or a week and a half ago that when she was in high school, she held mock slave auctions during Spirit Week thinking that was funny.
[00:04:00]  This is shocking stuff.
[00:04:02]  And she couldn't come up with one good thing in a forum when they threw her a softball question.

=== Big Pharma and Abortion Rights (07:20) ===

[00:04:07]  She couldn't come up with one nice thing, one positive thing that she's learned from the Latino community, which comprises a third of our state.
[00:04:15]  My children and my husband are Latino.
[00:04:17]  They just, they were in awe, they just shock in awe when they saw her with that softball question.
[00:04:22]  And all she could come up with, um, um, um, it was just terrible.
[00:04:28]  She's a horrible candidate.
[00:04:29]  She can't articulate anything, let alone her policies.
[00:04:33]  And I don't think people want her policies.
[00:04:35]  Her policies, what she wants to do to Arizona, would turn us into LA or San Francisco.
[00:04:40]  And we can't afford that.
[00:04:41]  We need someone who's strong, who can be an ambassador for this state on a national stage, who can fight for Arizonans each and every day, who will secure the border, make sure our kids are not getting brainwashing, but a proper education so they're ready for the real world, make sure our streets are safe again, and tackle this chronic street homelessness so we don't turn into some of these blue cities.
[00:05:03]  One of the commitments you also made is that you will not mandate or force the COVID vaccine for children.
[00:05:10]  That if people want to take it, it's obviously going to be available.
[00:05:12]  But talk about that.
[00:05:13]  You made that proclamation last week.
[00:05:16]  And by the way, 97% of the American people are with you.
[00:05:19]  Talk about that.
[00:05:20]  Oh, yeah.
[00:05:21]  I mean, listen, Charlie, and you've got a precious baby.
[00:05:24]  These babies come to us in this world perfect, and we're not going to inject them with an experimental shot.
[00:05:30]  Our babies, our children are not guinea pigs.
[00:05:34]  And there's way too much controversy with this shot.
[00:05:36]  We now know, and many of us have known for a long time because we've been researching it, there are injuries associated with this shot.
[00:05:43]  We've seen the various reports just because the mainstream media refused to talk about that because they were making a bunch of money from the government and big pharma.
[00:05:53]  And so they stayed mum about it while people were having major issues.
[00:05:57]  They should be ashamed of themselves.
[00:05:59]  Got blood on their hands.
[00:06:00]  And we're not going to force this on our children in order to get an education.
[00:06:04]  And I will do everything in my power.
[00:06:05]  We already have some legislation that protects our children.
[00:06:08]  What we need to do is make sure that our Department of Health Services knows to make sure that that is actually being implemented.
[00:06:15]  And we will do that because our kids are not guinea pigs.
[00:06:18]  And frankly, we aren't guinea pigs either.
[00:06:22]  And I wish every candidate running for office would have the courage to be able to say that.
[00:06:28]  Let's speaking of children.
[00:06:29]  You know, I don't know why.
[00:06:30]  I'm going to be honest, I don't know why that takes courage.
[00:06:33]  That just takes some common sense and a love for our children.
[00:06:36]  It takes courage.
[00:06:37]  I don't know why.
[00:06:38]  Well, and this kind of goes to why they hate you, Carrie.
[00:06:40]  It takes courage because they're afraid of the media saying something, you know, harsh to them where you invite it and you go toe-to-toe with them every day.
[00:06:47]  That's why they're so afraid of you because you're more articulate, more charismatic, and smarter than all these low-life reporters.
[00:06:53]  I want to play a piece of tape here for me.
[00:06:55]  But you know what, really quick, too.
[00:06:56]  They might be getting paid from the they might be getting money from the big pharma.
[00:06:59]  Oh, they almost assuredly are.
[00:07:01]  By the way, the media is going to say, oh, that's conspiracy theory.
[00:07:03]  Oh, yeah.
[00:07:03]  You know, go look at the CNN clips brought to you by Pfizer, brought to you by Pfizer, brought to you by Pfizer.
[00:07:09]  In fact, can we get that tape, guys, just to have Carrie's back on that?
[00:07:12]  Because it's amazing how much the media is subsidized by big pharma.
[00:07:17]  The media totally is subsidized by big pharma, but the candidates might be getting money by big pharma as well.
[00:07:22]  But I'll tell you what, the media is so subsidized by big pharma.
[00:07:25]  And rule number one, I'll give you a little inside secret in the TV and mainstream media.
[00:07:31]  Rule number one is don't make your sponsors mad.
[00:07:33]  Don't make the people paying for commercials mad.
[00:07:36]  And that is a big rule.
[00:07:39]  I mean, if you've got a big advertiser and they get somehow caught up, embroiled in crime or some sort of controversy, just notice how the TV stations barely cover that person or that company because they're making lots of money from them.
[00:07:55]  That's why Carrie's a threat.
[00:07:57]  She was in that entire machine and now she's outside of it calling it out.
[00:08:01]  You had an amazing event this weekend that looked like a Trump rally style turnout, Carrie.
[00:08:06]  It was incredible.
[00:08:07]  And let's play cut eight.
[00:08:10]  Katie Hobbs thinks there are 47 different genders.
[00:08:17]  Since we're here at a rodeo, Katie, I've got a challenge for you, Katie Hobbs.
[00:08:22]  Why don't you go out and try to milk a bull and tell me how that goes?
[00:08:27]  I could see Katie Hobbs actually trying to do that.
[00:08:29]  Carrie, elaborate.
[00:08:32]  You know, the insanity of it all.
[00:08:34]  It's comical if it weren't so scary, to be honest.
[00:08:38]  You know, when they talk about all these different genders, the scary thing is they're now pushing this nonsense on our children when we send our precious kids off to school and trying to confuse them.
[00:08:48]  Our children's minds are so malleable, you know, which is such a sweet thing.
[00:08:54]  You know, you can talk to them about all sorts of imaginary stuff and they'll believe it.
[00:08:58]  But we don't want our schools putting in poisonous stuff and psychological abuse.
[00:09:03]  And that's what they're doing.
[00:09:04]  And that's what Katie Hobbs is for.
[00:09:06]  She supports these, what they call gender affirmation surgeries.
[00:09:12]  Yeah, Katie.
[00:09:13]  This is mutilation.
[00:09:14]  Katie Hobbs is pro-medical mutilation and pro-chemical castration of our children.
[00:09:18]  I don't even think she understands what that means.
[00:09:20]  She's not a very bright person, but her handlers know what that means.
[00:09:23]  And I'm sure all the people watching this.
[00:09:25]  And she's for pro-full-term abortion too, Carrie.
[00:09:28]  Is that right?
[00:09:28]  I mean, abortion on demand.
[00:09:30]  Absolutely.
[00:09:31]  You know, sick thing.
[00:09:33]  And I want to talk a little bit about that because for a long time, the media has had people who are pro-life, some of the most wonderful people on this planet running scared because they care about women and they care about babies and they care about moms.
[00:09:46]  And we know we don't need to run scared.
[00:09:49]  We are on the right side of this, Charlie.
[00:09:51]  We want to save as many babies as possible.
[00:09:54]  And I finally have gotten the media to pin down my racist opponent on where she stands on abortion.
[00:10:02]  I said, you know what?
[00:10:03]  We're not the radical ones.
[00:10:04]  We want to save babies, okay?
[00:10:05]  I want to save as many babies as possible.
[00:10:08]  They are the radical ones.
[00:10:09]  My opponent is for abortion right up until you could be in labor, walking into the hospital.
[00:10:15]  And if you want an abortion, she's okay with that.
[00:10:18]  And she's also, her voting record proves it.
[00:10:21]  When presented with a piece of legislation that would save babies who would somehow survive an abortion, that would give them life-saving treatment if they survive an abortion.
[00:10:31]  She voted no on that.
[00:10:33]  She would rather see a baby who survives an abortion die on a cold metal tray than get any medical care and get help.
[00:10:40]  This is this is a she's a monster, frankly.
[00:10:43]  And so we're getting them to pin down where they stand.
[00:10:47]  And it used to be they would say we want safe and rare abortions.
[00:10:51]  Now it's anything but.
[00:10:52]  It's anything goes right up until the moment of birth and then after.
[00:10:57]  And this is diabolical stuff.
[00:11:00]  I agree.
[00:11:00]  Everyone, check out CarrieLake.com and support Carrie right now.
[00:11:04]  We have Carrie for another segment.
[00:11:05]  Carrie needs your help and we got to get Carrie across the finish line.
[00:11:08]  She's going to be America's governor.
[00:11:12]  Look, in the good old days, we Americans argued about which policies to pursue to improve this beautiful country.
[00:11:18]  Charlie Kirk here.
[00:11:19]  Too often we find ourselves arguing about whether or not America is great or not or whether we should be ashamed or whether we should love America.

=== Winning the Narrative Shift (07:56) ===

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[00:12:12]  So, Carrie, I've been telling people that it's ideal to vote on Election Day if possible.
[00:12:16]  But if you have any question that you might be busy or your friends might not be as enthusiastic as you, in-person early voting is also a good option.
[00:12:24]  I'm afraid that Maricopa County is not going to be able to have the infrastructure, the ink, the personnel, the printers to be able to facilitate what I think is going to be the greatest game day election surge.
[00:12:35]  Because, Carrie, I've never seen energy like what we see for you right now in Arizona.
[00:12:39]  It's Trump-esque.
[00:12:40]  What are your thoughts?
[00:12:41]  Should we encourage some people to vote early and in person?
[00:12:44]  I'm going against what some people, you know, who are hardcore say, bring your ballot.
[00:12:48]  If you get a mail and bring it on, vote.
[00:12:51]  Just vote.
[00:12:51]  If you've got a ballot sitting on your counter and that's how you always vote, fill it out.
[00:12:56]  You can walk it into one of the early mailing, early voting centers, or you can send it through the postal service.
[00:13:03]  We just have to get out and overwhelm.
[00:13:06]  And that's what we're going to do.
[00:13:07]  I think they're going to have numbers like they've never seen.
[00:13:09]  I'm worried that incompetent Katie Hobbs is not prepared because we've seen her incompetence time and time again.
[00:13:16]  I'm worried that our county recorders aren't prepared for the number of people who will show up on Election Day.
[00:13:21]  I want everyone who is an Election Day voter to show up on Election Day and stand in line.
[00:13:27]  Bring your own ballpoint pen if you want.
[00:13:29]  I would.
[00:13:29]  I'm going to bring my own ballpoint pen.
[00:13:32]  And we're just going to make sure we vote like our lives depend on it.
[00:13:36]  But I want to make sure that the incompetent Secretary of State who I'm running against is ready.
[00:13:42]  Because we saw what happened on the 2nd of August when she gave bad advice on how many ballots to have ready in Pinal County.
[00:13:48]  They ran out one hour into voting with only Republican ballots.
[00:13:53]  How convenient.
[00:13:54]  Yeah, but I'm going to go a step further.
[00:13:55]  And I mean, you don't have to go there.
[00:13:57]  I think, Katie Hobbs, the last ditch effort she might have is to sabotage this election.
[00:14:01]  I mean, if we do not have the ballots, if we don't have the personnel, you're right, Katie Hobbs is incompetent.
[00:14:06]  Who cares if it's incompetent or malevolence?
[00:14:08]  But I mean, how is it, let's talk more broadly here, Carrie.
[00:14:11]  How is it that someone who is running for an office is allowed to administer their own election?
[00:14:15]  Why is this legal?
[00:14:16]  It shouldn't be.
[00:14:17]  It really shouldn't.
[00:14:18]  We've been calling for her since I got into this race to recuse herself for over a year.
[00:14:23]  Last July of 2021, we started requesting that she recuse herself.
[00:14:29]  She still hasn't.
[00:14:30]  And I know that there are some good lawmakers, some legislators who are going to next session introduce a piece of legislation to prevent that.
[00:14:38]  If you're running an election and running for a higher office, you shouldn't be able to run that election.
[00:14:44]  It's a pretty scary thought.
[00:14:45]  Unfortunately, that won't be a law in time for November 8th.
[00:14:50]  So we got to vote like our lives depend on it.
[00:14:52]  We've got to bring out friends to vote.
[00:14:54]  Even if your friend tells you the night before they're going to go vote, call them that morning and say, are you heading out?
[00:14:59]  What's your plan?
[00:14:59]  Do you want me to give you a lift?
[00:15:01]  Yeah, absolutely.
[00:15:02]  I mean, so let's go cut 21.
[00:15:04]  This is something you just said recently.
[00:15:05]  They hide and they put out bogus polls and make people think it's close.
[00:15:10]  I can tell you, it is not close.
[00:15:12]  We drew 3,500 people to a rally and a concert that we had on Saturday night.
[00:15:17]  Conversely, my opponent had her biggest campaign event of the season and there were 15 people there.
[00:15:24]  These polls are not close.
[00:15:25]  We have a movement and nothing's going to stop it.
[00:15:28]  We have a movement, Carrie.
[00:15:29]  And then Politico is saying, Biden administration set to warn about threats to nation's election infrastructure.
[00:15:36]  Are they trying to get ahead of the narrative here?
[00:15:38]  What's going on here?
[00:15:39]  I don't know.
[00:15:39]  I mean, you know, get with it.
[00:15:41]  This is where we need to vote these bureaucrats.
[00:15:43]  Get rid of the bureaucrats.
[00:15:45]  Vote these lifer political pawns out of office.
[00:15:50]  And let's get we the people in charge of our government where we actually bring some competency in.
[00:15:56]  I was wrong, by the way.
[00:15:57]  We had more than 3,500.
[00:15:58]  We just had our weekly meeting with my team.
[00:16:00]  We had more than 4,000 people at our event.
[00:16:03]  For a governor's race.
[00:16:04]  This is unheard of, Carrie, in a state like Arizona.
[00:16:08]  I mean, you're not running for president.
[00:16:09]  That's 4,000 people.
[00:16:10]  It's unbelievable.
[00:16:12]  And I'm going to tell you, this is not about me.
[00:16:14]  This is about we the people realizing that what's happened to our lives the last two years has been so outrageous, so un-American, so disgusting that these moms and dads and grandmas and grandpas and people from all walks of life and our young, our young people as well are rising up and saying, we're going to, we are going to chart the course for our future and we're getting involved.
[00:16:36]  We've got a republic if we can keep it.
[00:16:38]  Yes.
[00:16:38]  Those were the famous words of Benjamin Franklin.
[00:16:41]  We are in the if we can keep it part.
[00:16:42]  And I'm telling you, Charlie, people of Arizona are ready to keep it.
[00:16:45]  Yeah, amen.
[00:16:46]  I'm telling you, independents are coming your way.
[00:16:48]  It's a really beautiful thing.
[00:16:50]  The Parents Party is strong in Arizona.
[00:16:53]  It is broadening.
[00:16:54]  It is strengthening.
[00:16:55]  And everyone in the national audience, we have got to get behind Carrie Lake.
[00:16:59]  You want the Board of Secure?
[00:17:00]  You need Carrie Lake.
[00:17:02]  You want the Beachhead for Freedom?
[00:17:03]  You want Kerry Lake.
[00:17:04]  You want to win back the White House in 24?
[00:17:06]  You need a Republican governor in Arizona to set that framework, to set the precedent.
[00:17:11]  It is a national race.
[00:17:12]  I don't say this about a lot of races.
[00:17:13]  Arizona is a national governor's race.
[00:17:16]  And Katie Hobbs has just raised all this money from Silicon Valley oligarchs.
[00:17:20]  We need to defeat her.
[00:17:21]  Carrie Lake has a movement unlike anything I have seen in my 10 years of doing this, absent Donald Trump, and the first time I've ever seen it on the state-based level.
[00:17:28]  And the media hates her.
[00:17:29]  We've got to help her out.
[00:17:30]  CarrieLake.com.
[00:17:32]  And Carrie, I think I'm doing an event with you a week from tomorrow or maybe the next.
[00:17:36]  Ask Me Anything.
[00:17:36]  I'm excited to do that.
[00:17:38]  Oh, I can't wait.
[00:17:38]  That's going to be great.
[00:17:39]  K-A-R-ILA.com.
[00:17:41]  Okay, vote Republican down the ticket.
[00:17:43]  We need to vote these leftists out of office.
[00:17:45]  That's generous of her to say.
[00:17:46]  Not every candidate will say that.
[00:17:48]  They only care about themselves.
[00:17:49]  That's who Carrie Lake is.
[00:17:50]  Support her, CarrieLake.com.
[00:17:54]  Let me ask you this.
[00:17:55]  Do you know the real story of George Floyd?
[00:17:58]  Look, we know about BLM, the organization, not the movement, used Floyd's name to raise $90 million.
[00:18:04]  But where did all the money go?
[00:18:06]  Well, we finally have answers.
[00:18:07]  Because Candace Owens interviewed the people who were closest to George Floyd and uncovered the parts the media will never tell you.
[00:18:13]  I am so excited to see this.
[00:18:16]  The great Candace Owens, who, by the way, is doing some stops with us at Turning Point USA.
[00:18:20]  We're honored to have that.
[00:18:21]  She has the new documentary, The Greatest Lie Ever Sold, and it will bring all the answers to light.
[00:18:26]  Candace, she went there.
[00:18:28]  She went to Minneapolis to the scene of the violent, racially divided aftermath that tore our beautiful country apart.
[00:18:34]  And she followed the money to uncover BLM's executives living in million-dollar mansions.
[00:18:39]  But that's only the beginning of where the money has gone.
[00:18:42]  You'll be disturbed by how the $90 million worth of well-meaning donor funds have been used.
[00:18:46]  If you want to hear the reality and not the narrative, you need to see this movie.
[00:18:50]  Go to dailywire.com slash Charlie and become a Daily Wire Plus member.
[00:18:55]  It's well worth it.
[00:18:56]  They got great people there.
[00:18:57]  You'll not want to miss it.
[00:18:59]  Support Candace Owens and see her new movie.
[00:19:01]  I can't wait to watch it.
[00:19:02]  We have plans.
[00:19:03]  As soon as it comes out, boom, we're going to watch it.
[00:19:05]  Dailywire.com slash Charlie.
[00:19:07]  Check it out.
[00:19:10]  Joining us now is Molly Hemingway from The Federalist, and you got to check out her book.
[00:19:14]  Her book on the 2020 election, Rigged, was just such a great book.
[00:19:18]  Molly, welcome back to the program.
[00:19:20]  Thank you for joining us.
[00:19:21]  Molly, I want to talk about something here that's really firing me up.

=== Election Integrity Concerns (15:22) ===

[00:19:24]  The Turtle is spending $9 million in Alaska to prop up Lisa Murkowski.
[00:19:29]  Meanwhile, Blake Masters and Herschel Walker and Oz and Ron Johnson and JD Vance and Adam Laxalt are in a fight for their political life.
[00:19:36]  And now Republican Lisa Murkowski pledges to vote for the Democrat in the Alaska House over Sarah Palin.
[00:19:43]  This is what the turtle is subsidizing.
[00:19:45]  Molly, what's going on here?
[00:19:46]  Yeah, it's just a very weird situation in Alaska because the general election is pitting two Republican candidates against each other.
[00:19:56]  You have Lisa Murkowski, who, as you note, has promised to vote for the Democrat running for the House race versus Kelly Shabaka, who's the conservative endorsed, Republican endorsed candidate in that race.
[00:20:09]  So no matter who wins, you get a Republican.
[00:20:12]  So why is Mitch McConnell devoting 7 million plus of his PAC money to that race when you have these races that are where that money could be much better utilized for a larger Republican majority?
[00:20:25]  And so people are frustrated and just it's a it's a good example.
[00:20:29]  It's not the only situation where Mitch McConnell's choices have been bizarre.
[00:20:33]  You know, he famously abandoned the Arizona race, which is, which really needs money because that's the race that Democrats have focused, laser focused on in their attempt to keep Blake Masters from winning that race.
[00:20:45]  And also in the New Hampshire race, he pulled money out of there, which is a surprisingly close race, given that Democrats were supposed to have an easy hold.
[00:20:53]  But this is his approach.
[00:20:55]  But what do you think his calculus is?
[00:20:57]  Counting votes, not seats.
[00:21:00]  Basically, he wants to be leader, whether it's in the majority, the minority.
[00:21:03]  Do you think that's the calculus?
[00:21:05]  Yeah, I think, you know, and I think that's a reasonable thing.
[00:21:08]  He has an interest in his power.
[00:21:11]  Everyone kind of, everyone who's involved in this, they do want Republicans to win, but they want Republicans to win in the way that most matches where their ideas are.
[00:21:22]  And right now, there is this big debate in the Republican Party about whether the former leaders, the former establishment figures get to regain control and push the policy proposals that they really enjoyed pushing, you know, in the early aught, or whether the party has moved on and become a more multiracial working class party where the policy ideas are supposed to be focused on the needs of the people, the voters, whether that's economic or social or foreign policy or, you know, focusing on borders, whatever the issues are,
[00:21:51]  there are people who really want to kind of drag it back to that Bush-Cheney era.
[00:21:55]  Yeah, I mean, I know Mitch McConnell, his top priority is obviously to serve, you know, Ukraine because that really matters to him and to make sure that Zelensky gets all the money he needs while Americans can't put food on the table and the border remains wide open.
[00:22:08]  So as long as Mitch McConnell gets money to Ukraine, I'm sure the Unit Party remains super happy.
[00:22:14]  $75 billion we have spent on Ukraine and McConnell couldn't lift a finger to go secure the southern border.
[00:22:20]  But at least Lisa Murkowski gets her $7 million while Blake Masters just can't struggle against Mark Kelly.
[00:22:27]  That's Mitch McConnell.
[00:22:28]  Charlie, could I point out really quickly too, Liz Cheney, who was ousted by the Republican Party in Wyoming, is of course the media darling.
[00:22:37]  She was on all these Sunday shows and she said that spending nearly $80 billion on Ukraine's war with Russia makes you an isolationist because what you actually have to spend is literally unlimited money.
[00:22:53]  She says that Kevin McCarthy, by saying that it can't be a blank check to Ukraine, which is to me just the most sensible moderate position in the world, it can't be a blank check after $80 billion.
[00:23:05]  She says that's isolationist and makes you pro-Putin.
[00:23:09]  And the idea that after taxpayers who don't have a functioning border, who have a drug crisis, who have an economic crisis, who can't afford groceries or gas, and give $80 billion to Ukraine to call those people Putin lovers is just a great example of why the Republican Party is moving on from that neocon interventionist form.
[00:23:31]  Again, Liz Cheney calling us pro-Putin is the same as the Democrats calling everything racist.
[00:23:36]  They just don't think anything through.
[00:23:37]  It's just weaponizing name-calling.
[00:23:39]  And she literally can't make a coherent argument.
[00:23:42]  But she really wants to make sure that Zelensky gets his money because she has a lot of benefactors in Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed, Martin, and Boeing that pay the bills of the Cheney family.
[00:23:51]  But God forbid they actually represent their voters.
[00:23:53]  That's why Liz Cheney lost by, what, 38 points, 40 points?
[00:23:56]  Okay, I want to get to your story here, though, Molly.
[00:23:58]  Very important.
[00:23:58]  And I'm so glad you wrote it.
[00:24:00]  Thank you for writing it against this really snake of a guy, Stephen Richer.
[00:24:05]  You said Stephen Richer ran on election integrity.
[00:24:08]  Now he's accused of law breaking and politicking.
[00:24:11]  I called him an accused criminal yesterday.
[00:24:13]  Tell us about it, Molly.
[00:24:15]  Yeah, so Stephen Richer, so first of all, Maricopa County in Arizona is the second largest voting district in the country.
[00:24:22]  It contains like 62% of Arizona voters.
[00:24:26]  So the person who runs elections in Maricopa County is the person who kind of controls elections in Arizona.
[00:24:32]  And of course, Arizona being a swing state means it's a very influential nationwide role.
[00:24:36]  This guy, Stephen Richer, ran pretending to be a conservative Trump supporting Republican.
[00:24:41]  He ran multiple audits.
[00:24:43]  He had no experience running audits, but he ran multiple audits on Maricopa County and the guy who was the Democrat head of elections there prior to 20 to 2020 when Stephen Richer won and was elected on this platform, that he would kind of deal with some of the shenanigans that were happening in Maricopa County.
[00:25:02]  The moment he gets elected, he immediately renounces his previous positions, defends the integrity of his predecessor, who's now running for Secretary of State of Arizona as a Democrat, defends the integrity of everything that happened in Maricopa County, including, you know, this is a state where millions of dollars of Zuck bucks went into the election administration.
[00:25:23]  That's where, you know, private entities took over government election offices to juice up Democrat get out the vote operations.
[00:25:31]  Richer, this guy, knew that was going on and critiqued it when he was running for office, but now defends such activities.
[00:25:38]  And he said he would be less political than his predecessor.
[00:25:41]  He actually set up a crazy never Trump funded PAC to support candidates running in Arizona who share his viewpoint that election integrity is a bad issue.
[00:25:52]  Unbelievable.
[00:25:54]  So what laws is he accused of breaking?
[00:25:56]  Well, most recently, you know, there's this election integrity initiative to bolster voter ID in the state of Arizona.
[00:26:04]  It's supported by every conservative group, every Republican elected official, and it is opposed by Stephen Rich, head of Maricopa County's recorder's office.
[00:26:16]  And he took taxpayer resources to lobby for that.
[00:26:21]  He posted on the county website a demand that people not vote for it.
[00:26:26]  And he used taxpayer-funded resources in the form of employee hours to put together that information telling people not to vote for this election integrity measure.
[00:26:36]  That's against the law in multiple ways in Arizona, according to people who are election law experts there.
[00:26:42]  And so a complaint was filed with the Attorney General of Arizona.
[00:26:46]  He actually admitted he was wrong to have done this and pulled it from the site.
[00:26:52]  But the investigation into the use of county taxpayer resources to do this illegal thing is ongoing.
[00:26:59]  Unbelievable.
[00:26:59]  And so, but this is a national issue because what happens in Maricopa County impacts the rest of the nation.
[00:27:05]  It is one of the largest counties in the country.
[00:27:07]  The largest Republican county in the country.
[00:27:09]  And Stephen Richer, as you put in this article, styled himself as a hardcore libertarian.
[00:27:14]  Yeah, how many weak people end up, I'm a hardcore libertarian.
[00:27:17]  In fact, I just want to be loved.
[00:27:19]  And so then he has this crazy text exchange.
[00:27:21]  Talk about this that you catalog in your piece.
[00:27:25]  Stephen Richer writes lengthy screeds against his political opponents.
[00:27:29]  And he did these audits, you know, beforehand that were hundreds of pages long.
[00:27:34]  And when he began trashing Republican voters and their leaders who care about election integrity, it was in the form of like 60-page diatribes.
[00:27:42]  But in one of these audits that he did before he was elected, one of his critiques was that his predecessor was very inappropriate with constituents and other interested parties, that he would drop the F-bomb all the time.
[00:27:55]  And just like weeks ago, he unsolicited texts someone, drops the F-bomb, you know, is cussing him out because this guy, who's a Republican election attorney, had given a fairly anodyne quote about why they were pursuing a legal strategy.
[00:28:10]  And this Stephen Richard guy just goes after him and attacks him.
[00:28:16]  And the guy just kind of is calmly responding the whole time and he just keeps cussing him out.
[00:28:20]  And it was just a great example of how he didn't even believe that part of what he'd been saying in order to get elected.
[00:28:25]  He claimed he cared about civility and discourse, and yet he is known by many of his constituents to have a horrible temper, just like his predecessor.
[00:28:34]  Yeah, so what is the broader lesson here?
[00:28:35]  Because this guy ran as to try to reform Maricopa County elections from a really bad guy, Adrian Fontes, who now it just seems it's even more frustrating.
[00:28:44]  I don't want to say it's worse, certainly not better.
[00:28:46]  It has different problems than when Fontes was in charge.
[00:28:49]  So what's the lesson here, Molly, that we can't trust these, you know, super libertarian people when they want to run.
[00:28:55]  I don't want to make it too ideological in that way, but he certainly is a snake at the very least.
[00:29:00]  It's interesting.
[00:29:01]  The whole reason I found out about this story is that some of his earliest supporters and funders were just horrified that they had fully endorsed this guy and helped him out.
[00:29:10]  And then he had turned on them.
[00:29:12]  And so this is, you know, I don't think this happens altogether that often, but there were some red flags.
[00:29:18]  You know, he had worked at Cato.
[00:29:19]  He had worked at AEI, which is an institution that is known for opposing Republican policies.
[00:29:25]  I mean, it presents itself as like a Republican supportive think tank, but it's really kind of become a red flag.
[00:29:31]  They, of course, supported Liz Cheney in her attacks on the Constitution.
[00:29:35]  On Constitution Day, they brought Liz Cheney in to talk about the Constitution.
[00:29:40]  Meanwhile, she's actually attacking people's First Amendment rights, whether that's freedom of Liz Cheney on the Constitution.
[00:29:45]  That's rich.
[00:29:46]  Yeah, it's really freedom of assembly, due process.
[00:29:49]  And so I think AEI has really discredited itself.
[00:29:52]  And so anyone who's affiliated with it, I'm not saying everyone there is bad.
[00:29:55]  There are some good people there, but you really have to check it out.
[00:29:59]  And the thing is, though, it's hard to protect against complete liars.
[00:30:03]  The sad thing is that a lot of people kind of sell out over time.
[00:30:06]  They're elected with a claim that they will be fiscally conservative or socially conservative, and then they just keep squishing out.
[00:30:12]  In this case, I think it's interesting because he just did it immediately, just immediately.
[00:30:17]  It was clear that he didn't actually believe the things he was saying.
[00:30:20]  I mean, I should say maybe there was some miraculous change overnight, but it was a real quick sellout.
[00:30:26]  Yeah, he saw political expediency in this whole nonsensical incantation of the left.
[00:30:32]  It's a threat to democracy.
[00:30:33]  In fact, actually, he even says that in his text message, his expletive filled text message.
[00:30:38]  He's such a weak, shallow, fragile person.
[00:30:40]  And he texts this, he says, only one of us is lying before a court of law and prostituting ourselves at the expense of democracy.
[00:30:47]  Yeah.
[00:30:47]  Okay, Stephen Richard.
[00:30:48]  I mean, you're the guardian of democracy.
[00:30:50]  Sure.
[00:30:51]  Yeah, he just sounds as shrill as anybody.
[00:30:54]  And it's just, it's just a really remarkable thing.
[00:30:57]  I will say I got a lot of comments from people after I published this saying they'd known him for years and that they found him to always be this kind of smarmy guy.
[00:31:05]  Molly, let's go through what could the Democrats possibly have up their sleeves in the next 15 days.
[00:31:10]  I mean, what I really worry about is that they have something globally significant up their sleeves, like nuclear war with Russia, but praying that nothing like that happens, which would be a really extreme measure.
[00:31:22]  I do think that they have put a lot of time, energy, and focus on election rules, laws, and processes.
[00:31:32]  And so they are feeling comfortable in places where they've really been able to engage in election administration shenanigans.
[00:31:40]  A great example is Pennsylvania.
[00:31:42]  This is a completely lawless state in terms of election integrity.
[00:31:47]  You have had the Secretary of State publicly state a refusal to comply with the Supreme Court of the United States ruling on whether to accept undated ballots in their election processes.
[00:31:59]  You have a state Supreme Court that has completely conflicting guidance based on whether a given issue will benefit Democrats or Republicans.
[00:32:08]  You have rampant unsupervised balloting in the form of mail-in balloting throughout the state.
[00:32:14]  And you have an aggressive litigation team there for Democrats as well.
[00:32:18]  Now, I know that Democrats say that if you challenge any election administration process, that makes you an election denier.
[00:32:24]  So certainly they won't challenge anything in these upcoming midterms, I'm sure.
[00:32:30]  But if they are going to instead just do whatever it takes to do this, this thing is so dishonest.
[00:32:35]  I mean, you've done a Brazil saying it's Jim Crow 2.0.
[00:32:38]  Wait a second.
[00:32:39]  Isn't that you accusing the integrity of our elections?
[00:32:42]  You're going literally the other this weekend, it's Jim Crow 2.0.
[00:32:45]  Okay, so are our elections fair and free or is it the antebellum South?
[00:32:49]  I mean, they're allowed to criticize every outcome that they don't like, every single little inch of our elections.
[00:32:55]  But we all of a sudden ask questions about mule operations and ballots and zucker boxes and they go raid our homes, Molly.
[00:33:01]  Oh, Charlie, I mean, you look at the history of election challenges from the Democrat Party.
[00:33:06]  That's what they're known for.
[00:33:08]  They're really good at it.
[00:33:09]  They've done it for decades.
[00:33:10]  The last time they fully accepted a presidential election they lost was with George H.W. Bush.
[00:33:16]  And yet we had in 2020 the weirdest election of our lifetimes with the changes, radical changes.
[00:33:22]  Sometimes they were legal, sometimes they were illegal, of hundreds of laws and processes.
[00:33:27]  And you're not allowed to question anything.
[00:33:28]  And it's just, I mean, they're pushing hard on this right up till the bitter end.
[00:33:32]  So it'll be funny to watch them switch overnight after election day into challenging election results and processes.
[00:33:39]  Yeah.
[00:33:39]  So Molly, I'm also trying to warn people about Election Day issues, right?
[00:33:44]  And so I know, so for example, we did a big grassroots event yesterday on AM 960, the Great Salem radio network, and there were probably 500 people there.
[00:33:53]  I said, how many of you plan to vote on Election Day?
[00:33:55]  I got to tell you, every hand went up.
[00:33:56]  And that worries me about backlogs, about traffic jams.
[00:34:00]  I mean, in Arizona, the way we do elections, it makes Honduras look ethical and transparent and clean, where they print the ballots the day of the whole thing's a mess.
[00:34:08]  Do you think there might be an issue that there is too much of an emphasis on game day voting, Molly?
[00:34:14]  Only, now, I don't actually worry about people voting on election day, which is a great day to vote.
[00:34:18]  And there's something very healthy about people all going to the polls on a single day and finding out that day what the results are.
[00:34:24]  What I am worried about is that because Republican voters vote on Election Day, they don't realize that their poll observation, that their election observation needs to have been already starting weeks ago.
[00:34:35]  So if you were worried about ballots being accepted that don't follow the law, you should have been signed up and trained to be an election observer months ago, because other people have been voting for weeks.

=== Unsung Poll Observation (01:29) ===

[00:34:46]  And it's those votes that you're probably going to be more concerned about because they are so unsupervised.
[00:34:51]  They are so prone to coercion or other problems, you know, harvesting or other problems.
[00:34:56]  So that is what people need to understand.
[00:34:59]  Even if they vote on election day, election day has become election season and it all needs oversight, not just the final day.
[00:35:05]  Seriously, there's going to be a lot of questions around this.
[00:35:09]  And I'm telling people, you know, we're going to be streaming live here on Real America's Voice.
[00:35:13]  We're going to be streaming live on Rumble.
[00:35:14]  We're going to be doing election night coverage.
[00:35:16]  But Molly, do you think we're actually going to know a winner on election night of the U.S. Senate?
[00:35:20]  Your thoughts?
[00:35:21]  30 seconds remaining.
[00:35:23]  No, and it's really, it makes me feel like we're in a third world country.
[00:35:27]  Other countries were able to tally nationwide ballots within minutes or hours.
[00:35:32]  And particularly in Pennsylvania and Arizona, which have a reputation for very slow counting, we are not going to know.
[00:35:39]  And there is nothing good or normal about it.
[00:35:41]  And it's why people are more prone to critiquing or even rejecting election results because delays are not healthy for the body politic.
[00:35:50]  No kidding.
[00:35:50]  It creates dissension and cynicism and it creates all sorts of fracturing.
[00:35:54]  Unnecessarily quick election results are good for everybody, like Florida does it.
[00:35:59]  Molly, great job as always.
[00:36:00]  Thank you so much.
[00:36:02]  Thank you, Charlie.
[00:36:03]  Thanks so much for listening.
[00:36:04]  Everybody, email me your thoughts as always.
[00:36:05]  Freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:36:07]  Thanks so much for listening.
[00:36:09]  God bless.
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