The Charlie Kirk Show - Is The GOP Ready For A Midterm Courtroom Brawl? with Matt Schlapp and Robby Starbuck
Aired: 2022-11-03
Duration: 33:16


=== Election Day Cockiness and Ballots (09:34) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey everybody, today the Charlie Kirk show.
[00:00:01]  Robbie Starbuck goes through the latest DHS leaks and the schlaps, Matt and Mercy Schlap.
[00:00:06]  We go around the horn on the races to watch as we are just hours from election day.
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[00:01:10]  Joining us now is the man behind CPAC, great organization, and also really understands what's happening in the midterm elections better than almost anybody else.
[00:01:20]  Matt Schlapp joins us right now.
[00:01:22]  Matt, welcome back to the program.
[00:01:23]  Hey, Charlie, great to be with you from Loudoun, New Hampshire.
[00:01:27]  Tell us, what is the vibe on the ground?
[00:01:29]  You think Bullbick can pull this off?
[00:01:31]  Yeah, for sure.
[00:01:31]  I just talked with the general.
[00:01:34]  He just had a town hall in this tavern.
[00:01:36]  And I just came from Nevada, by the way.
[00:01:37]  Adam Laxalt is closing really strong.
[00:01:40]  And New Hampshire, a lot of people haven't tracked New Hampshire because the DC insiders didn't, they told us it wasn't a pickup opportunity.
[00:01:48]  But I'm here to tell you, Charlie, General's going to win this race in New Hampshire.
[00:01:52]  If you look at just the environment of the issues, it all goes our way.
[00:01:55]  It's all just about defending America.
[00:01:58]  So in New Hampshire, it's a tricky state because Matt, you and I have heard for years that New Hampshire is, you know, possibly able to be won by Republicans, but it always feels like a near-miss state.
[00:02:10]  Why do you think this year is different?
[00:02:13]  Well, I think this year is different because just look at the fundamentals in polling and what the people care about.
[00:02:19]  It really cuts our way.
[00:02:21]  New Hampshire, you know, the big mistake we make in America is we say, oh, there's red states and we say there's blue states.
[00:02:27]  And we assume that's some kind of like a lifetime contract, but politics is different.
[00:02:31]  You know that because you're down there in Arizona.
[00:02:34]  It's always changing.
[00:02:35]  And what I've noticed just being on the ground in a short time in New Hampshire is what made New Hampshire solidly Republican in previous cycles, I think, is at play again.
[00:02:44]  Our constitution, our basic rights as citizens, our right to govern ourselves in our own lives and for the government to get out and not dictate every part of our life.
[00:02:54]  You know, there's a libertarian flair to that that really plays well in a state that whose motto is live free or die.
[00:03:01]  And the Democratic Party plays well in these types of states when it seems like they want to help the little guy or the average guy.
[00:03:08]  This Democrat wants to tell the average guy or the little guy that they're a racist, that they're a hater, that they're ruining their kids and that their country is bad.
[00:03:18]  And it is not playing in New Hampshire, not one bit.
[00:03:20]  Yeah.
[00:03:21]  And so I see that in many different ways.
[00:03:24]  And Maggie Hassan hasn't really built a good name ID for her in New Hampshire.
[00:03:28]  In addition, how do you feel about the Caroline Levitt race?
[00:03:31]  It looks like she's running away with it.
[00:03:33]  Yeah, from what I'm seeing in the polling on the ground is that's really turning our way.
[00:03:38]  You know, the hard part on the house races, Charlie, you know, I feel like I'm so much older than you.
[00:03:43]  Like I feel like I'm your grandpa sometimes, but it is true that, you know, these races on the house side, they come to play late.
[00:03:52]  So what you want to do when you're predicting these house races like Katie's race is to see what's the direction in the country and what's the direction in that state.
[00:04:00]  And I'm telling you this, as I said, I'm 54 years old.
[00:04:03]  I've been doing this my whole adult life.
[00:04:05]  I don't think we're going to see a midterm like this that's this consequential in the rest of my life.
[00:04:11]  I think it's the American people saying, you know what?
[00:04:13]  I don't have to agree with everything the elephant stands for.
[00:04:16]  You know, maybe I'm not even in the Republican Party, but I love my country.
[00:04:20]  And now there's only one party that defends America and that's the Republican Party.
[00:04:25]  And I think that's why people like Katie will win.
[00:04:27]  Yeah.
[00:04:27]  And so look, I think one of the concerns I have is a little bit too much cockiness going into election day.
[00:04:33]  You and I both shared a lot of concerns about the Trump campaign in 2020 that felt that there was just this kind of prideful attitude towards the end.
[00:04:41]  I talk about this where there was just a lot.
[00:04:43]  There wasn't the election infrastructure that was necessary, poll watchers, election judges.
[00:04:47]  And I just kept on hearing, and Matt, you and I were texting during the time, why is everyone talking about a landslide?
[00:04:52]  Why is everyone?
[00:04:52]  It's like, this is going to be closer than people realize.
[00:04:56]  And I mean, in some ways, I literally saw the champagne was flowing before the ballots were counted, literally in some of the rooms there.
[00:05:02]  So Matt, I want to make sure we correct that.
[00:05:04]  And I understand the attitude of, hey, you know, we think we have all these supporters and all that, but we're dealing up against some very treacherous and sneaky people.
[00:05:12]  Can you expand on that, Matt?
[00:05:14]  Yeah, so let's go through 2020.
[00:05:16]  The reason why you and I were so concerned in 2020 is because we didn't see the legal infrastructure in the Trump campaign at the RNC.
[00:05:26]  And we knew that all these ballots, like I had been on the ground in Nevada, there was all these stray paper ballots.
[00:05:30]  And we're trying to get our own team to wake up because every time they gave us a presentation on how they were going to prepare for the fraud, we could see that it was threadbare and they weren't ready for it.
[00:05:40]  The reason why people like me, the reason why I'm so bullish in saying it's going to be a big red wave is because I feel like when they overturned Roe v. Wade, there was a concerted effort by establishment Republicans and people in the media to say that the Republican Party can't win if it stands up for its pro-life values.
[00:05:58]  So the reason I was saying big red wave is number one, I believe that it's going to be a big red wave.
[00:06:03]  But the second reason is because I didn't want the media to manipulate consumers of media into thinking that somehow the pro-life issue was going to hurt us.
[00:06:13]  It's going to help us all over the country.
[00:06:15]  But your last point is a very, very important point.
[00:06:18]  I do think there's been a lot of learnings.
[00:06:20]  I was just on the ground in North Carolina with Ted Budd, Chairman Michael Watley and the other folks, they have literally hundreds of lawyers ready.
[00:06:28]  He was actually ready in 2020.
[00:06:30]  We didn't need them in North Carolina.
[00:06:32]  You know, it's a strange thing in politics, Charlie.
[00:06:34]  When you prepare for something like voter fraud, it's amazing how many times you don't need to use the infrastructure because the other side knows we're ready.
[00:06:42]  What I'm seeing on the ground in these races is that quietly we've put legal teams together in many of these states, not all of them.
[00:06:51]  You would know better about Arizona, but I think we're ready for the fraud and it could come similar to last time.
[00:06:58]  Yeah, I think that's right.
[00:06:59]  And I just, I don't want to see too much early celebration.
[00:07:02]  And Matt, we got to overwhelm the system on election day.
[00:07:04]  I think we're going to see presidential style Republican turnout.
[00:07:07]  I think people are going to be completely and totally blown away.
[00:07:10]  And independents are already trending and breaking our way.
[00:07:13]  So again, on Nevada, you think Adam Laxalt has it?
[00:07:17]  You know, he'd be mad at me if I said he had it because he wants to run through the tape.
[00:07:20]  That's right.
[00:07:20]  He's going to say this.
[00:07:22]  The only polls that show Adam Laxalt down are polls that are continuing to pull registered voters.
[00:07:28]  And what you want to do is pull registered voters who are also likely voters.
[00:07:32]  So if you're right, we have presidential level turnout.
[00:07:35]  It still means that you want to get that population of registered voters who are going to turn out.
[00:07:40]  When you look at those polls, we're up in every single statewide race that matters, up in every single one.
[00:07:48]  And then you have New Hampshire.
[00:07:49]  You just brought up Blake Masters in Arizona.
[00:07:51]  These races that the DC smart guys told us were impossible to win, I think we're going to win them.
[00:07:56]  Well, and that, you know, Matt, that's what really fires me up.
[00:07:59]  And why is it that all, I mean, McConnell, he pulls $9 million to go help Murkowski in Alaska and completely abandons Blake Masters and Boldick.
[00:08:08]  I mean, this needs to be known.
[00:08:11]  The marker needs to be thrown on the field right now that if we win New Hampshire and Arizona, it is not because of McConnell.
[00:08:16]  He can't take credit for this.
[00:08:18]  It's in spite of it, actually.
[00:08:20]  You know, I'm kind of shocked because Senator McConnell's been doing this a long time.
[00:08:24]  He's a smart guy.
[00:08:25]  He loves politics, but he's created a little bit of a perverse situation for himself where he's created some hostility with some candidates who his people around him said couldn't win.
[00:08:36]  But I got news for you, Charlie.
[00:08:38]  You got news for people because you and I agree.
[00:08:40]  We're going to win these races.
[00:08:41]  And when they come to Washington, they're going to be completely independent.
[00:08:44]  And by the way, what is so terrible about that?
[00:08:47]  Someone who's completely divorced from the money and the power and the influence of Washington, D.C. All they have to do is what's right for their constituents.
[00:08:55]  And when I look at the issue set that the American people care about, they want to get back to using American energy.
[00:09:01]  They want to drill, baby, drill.
[00:09:03]  They want to make it so that the staples that we have to buy to take care of our families are affordable.
[00:09:08]  So no more super juice in the economy with a bunch of emergency spending.
[00:09:12]  And let's face it, this president is a disaster.
[00:09:16]  I don't think that he ran a campaign that was fair and square last time.
[00:09:20]  And I don't think he's up to the job.
[00:09:22]  And I think everyone in this country understands that.
[00:09:25]  I think the president's wife understands that.
[00:09:27]  Yeah, I mean, he's not a good person either.
[00:09:29]  He's a very cruel and petty and small man.
[00:09:32]  He's not a good person.
[00:09:32]  That's right.
[00:09:33]  Matt, we have you for another segment.

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=== Virginia Business and New York Races (06:27) ===

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[00:11:45]  I understand we have Mercy Schlapp as well with us.
[00:11:48]  Hello, my son, Charlie.
[00:11:50]  How are you?
[00:11:51]  Great.
[00:11:51]  Good to see you.
[00:11:53]  So, I want to ask both of you: what are some of the sleeper races you have around the country that you think might shock the world on election night?
[00:12:01]  Well, you know, I feel like I'm in the races that are going to shock the world.
[00:12:05]  Like, you know, literally, I was telling everybody, do not give up on this guy, Blake Masters.
[00:12:09]  He can win this race.
[00:12:11]  And now he is.
[00:12:12]  And now you see this, what's going on in New Hampshire.
[00:12:15]  But I want to bring up something on sleeper races real quick, Mercy.
[00:12:18]  I'm going to give you time to figure out what your answer is.
[00:12:20]  Look where we have the most violence in this country, Charlie.
[00:12:24]  Oregon, state of Washington, Minnesota, where the whole George Floyd thing started.
[00:12:30]  New York and New York City, Washington, D.C., and Virginia.
[00:12:33]  Virginia took care of business.
[00:12:35]  Those other four states, these governors' races in these states, they shouldn't even be competitive.
[00:12:40]  I think we could win all of them.
[00:12:42]  Mercy, what do you think?
[00:12:43]  I got to tell you, I mean, just being here in New Hampshire, spending time with Don Bullduck, he is so impressive.
[00:12:51]  I could completely understand why you're seeing so many independents and people from New Hampshire backing this candidate.
[00:12:59]  Let's remember: Democrats, Republicans are being outspent by Democrats, in many cases, three to one, four to one.
[00:13:07]  It's insane the amount of money that's been thrown into these races.
[00:13:12]  And quite frankly, these Republican candidates have been able to close that gap and really start seeing.
[00:13:20]  We're starting to see that the momentum is shifting in their direction.
[00:13:23]  I mean, I definitely think here in New Hampshire, that this is definitely the race to watch.
[00:13:28]  I would love to see an upset in Oregon.
[00:13:30]  And then I think Lee Zeldon has made such a compelling case in New York to win that governor's race.
[00:13:36]  And school boards.
[00:13:37]  Don't forget school boards.
[00:13:38]  Everywhere I go, I meet two or three school board candidates.
[00:13:41]  These folks are going to win.
[00:13:42]  And in addition to that, it looks like that we might see some things happen in the state of Washington with Patty Murray and Tiffany Smiley.
[00:13:51]  That seems like to be a very close race.
[00:13:53]  Colorado seemed to be kind of left for dead.
[00:13:55]  There were some rumblings in the summer, but a new Trafalgar poll shows that Joe O'Day is within two points of Bennett.
[00:14:02]  New Mexico, that governor's race could go anyway.
[00:14:04]  I mean, it is, it could be a very, very interesting evening.
[00:14:07]  What do you guys think about the Midwestern governorships, especially Michigan and Minnesota?
[00:14:12]  Yeah, I think so.
[00:14:13]  We just came out of helping Tudor in Michigan.
[00:14:16]  We're a totally believer in her ability to win that race.
[00:14:20]  You know, Minnesota, I know less about the candidate, but I do know, you know, states like Minnesota, they're always gettable if it goes the right way.
[00:14:29]  And so it goes back to our previous conversation, Charlie.
[00:14:32]  Are the issues laying down in the right way for us in this election?
[00:14:36]  And they just are.
[00:14:37]  It turns out the Democrats' strategy to not debate was a better strategy than debating because when they do debate, like they did when Maggie Hassan debated here in New Hampshire last night, she doesn't have answers to all the issues that voters care about.
[00:14:50]  Price of gasoline, what's going on with our border, escalating crime, and all the stuff that's going on in schools.
[00:14:58]  Yeah, I think that's exactly right.
[00:15:00]  And so the final kind of call to action, guys, is we need to not just get people to vote, but get four, five, 10, 20 friends also to vote.
[00:15:07]  If we overwhelm the system on election day, we're going to be able to really shock the world.
[00:15:13]  Just talk about that a little bit, Mercy or Matt, about how we can't be complacent, even if you think the polls are going well.
[00:15:19]  That's my biggest worry.
[00:15:20]  That's my biggest remaining worry is people just sitting at home and not taking this seriously.
[00:15:25]  You're right, Charlie.
[00:15:26]  And first of all, start with prayer.
[00:15:28]  This is a moment in time that we have to get down on our knees and pray and know that this red wave is so important just for saving this country.
[00:15:37]  Secondly, it's making sure that you are involved in being in the room where they're counting the votes.
[00:15:43]  See, my biggest concern in cities like Detroit and Philadelphia is what could happen there.
[00:15:49]  I mean, Matt, you were in Nevada and you saw what happened in Carson City.
[00:15:53]  And so, and I think really, Charlie, being able to be in the room where the votes are being counted, being present is important.
[00:16:00]  Volunteer for the job.
[00:16:01]  You know, take or take the job.
[00:16:03]  Take the job.
[00:16:04]  A part-time job, 10 bucks an hour.
[00:16:06]  Get in that room.
[00:16:06]  Take your cell phone with you.
[00:16:08]  Right.
[00:16:08]  And I think that's going to be the key because remember, Pennsylvania, Charlie, they're already saying the Secretary of State, oh, it could be days before we learn about the final start of the election.
[00:16:17]  That never goes well for Republicans.
[00:16:19]  It very rarely goes well for Republicans.
[00:16:21]  And it's just ridiculous.
[00:16:22]  We had the winner of the election the night of 2016.
[00:16:25]  We knew Trump won in an orderly fashion, and now it has to take five to seven to 15 to 20 days.
[00:16:29]  It's an insult.
[00:16:30]  Mercy and Matt, thank you guys so much.
[00:16:32]  Appreciate it.
[00:16:33]  Talk to you soon.
[00:16:33]  Thank you.
[00:16:34]  Great to see you.
[00:16:35]  Thanks, Charlie.
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=== DHS Leaks Ignored by Media (15:09) ===

[00:18:06]  But he has some really important commentary and information to share about the bombshell story the media has ignored of the Department of Homeland Security leaks.
[00:18:14]  Robbie joins us now.
[00:18:15]  Robbie, welcome back to the program.
[00:18:17]  Thanks for having me, Charlie.
[00:18:18]  Good to see you.
[00:18:19]  Robbie, for those in our audience that are not caught up to date to this story because they're just got a lot of things going on and we've been so focused on the election, which is where we should be focused.
[00:18:27]  Walk us through this story.
[00:18:28]  Yeah, so I mean, it's pretty wild.
[00:18:31]  This is honestly groundbreaking in many different ways in terms of the lines crossed by the U.S. government.
[00:18:36]  But essentially, Department of Homeland Security and State Department both coordinated with a group called the EIP, which stands for the Election Integrity Partnership.
[00:18:44]  It's composed of four entities.
[00:18:46]  Those four entities have been given over $12 million in grants by the Biden administration, including over $3 million specifically earmarked for going and fighting misinformation through the EIP.
[00:18:59]  And as a part of this whole project, the EIP created an enemies list that includes you and me and about 20 other people on it.
[00:19:09]  What's unique about this list is when they made this, I was an active candidate for federal office.
[00:19:16]  So this would be the first time the U.S. government has essentially engaged in open censorship, paying a group, an outside group, to go and get involved in a political race.
[00:19:28]  I'm sure, given all the abuses we've seen from the FBI and DOJ, that this is stuff that may have been going on for a very long time without people knowing, but they did this in a very bold manner, you know?
[00:19:40]  And so we saw the story from the intercept this week that kind of furthered this, showing the portals that DHS and other entities had access to.
[00:19:48]  And these portals would allow outsiders within the EIP and within governments to go and make specific requests to the social media companies.
[00:19:58]  Now, the question is, you know, were they successful in censoring their political opponents?
[00:20:03]  Yes, absolutely.
[00:20:04]  And so they even brag about it in their report that they were successful in censoring these individuals, including you and I.
[00:20:12]  And so in my case, you know, what they were able to do is get me search banned.
[00:20:16]  And so if you don't already follow me, you were unable to search my name out despite having verified accounts on all platforms.
[00:20:23]  You couldn't search the name out on Instagram or Twitter or those platforms because they would just hide it from you and you would just see fake accounts.
[00:20:31]  Now, in the case of you and I, what we suspect, and this is something that's going to take discovery, is that there was de-boosting used.
[00:20:39]  And you can see that just in the engagement levels.
[00:20:41]  I'm sure you can attest to after, you know, the time the EIP put this stuff out, the engagement dropped dramatically in ways that just didn't make any sense.
[00:20:49]  I don't mean to interrupt, Robbie, but you know, we sounded kind of so, I don't know, people accused us of being petulant and childish because I was like, oh, I'm not getting as many retweets as before, but it's legit.
[00:20:59]  I mean, we used to get 110,000 retweets a day.
[00:21:02]  I know that's hard for people to believe.
[00:21:03]  We have the data to prove it.
[00:21:05]  We had the third most popular Twitter account for a period of time.
[00:21:07]  And now it's hard to get more than 5,000.
[00:21:09]  You have to really work at it.
[00:21:10]  I mean, this is, but it's the federal government doing this.
[00:21:13]  How is it legal?
[00:21:15]  It's not legal.
[00:21:16]  It's illegal.
[00:21:17]  And honestly, you know, I think one of the next steps is groups of us have to band together and sue the federal government over this because if we don't, it's going to continue.
[00:21:25]  And we're sort of the stopgap.
[00:21:27]  And honestly, they need to pay us damages because they did incredible damage to you, your organization, me, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Donald Trump Jr.
[00:21:34]  And think about the numbers of people who are not woken up because of this.
[00:21:38]  You can attest to this.
[00:21:39]  I get messages all the time, and I know you do too, from people who have their own story about how we helped wake them up and get them out of the Democratic Party or just ignite them as a voter and say, you know what, okay, I'm going to get active.
[00:21:52]  And so the suppression was about stopping that because people like you and I are doing something dangerous to the elite, to the Democratic Party, to really just the entire state of being that we've seen for the elite throughout the World Economic Forum, everything.
[00:22:06]  This is a global movement, not just the U.S.
[00:22:09]  And so everything they can do to suppress that is also why they're so angry about Elon Musk buying Twitter because the threat of it possibly actually becoming a free speech platform, and we're not there yet, but I believe we can get there.
[00:22:23]  If that truly happens, they know the outcome.
[00:22:25]  They know they can't debate people like you and I. Their ideas lose in the court of public opinion if it's actually tested.
[00:22:31]  And on a free speech platform, it's going to be tested without us having to fear, oh, are we going to lose our accounts?
[00:22:37]  But, you know, back to what I said about...
[00:22:39]  Smart.
[00:22:39]  Yeah, keep going.
[00:22:40]  Back to what I said about the engagement levels.
[00:22:42]  I mean, that's huge.
[00:22:43]  I mean, I can tell you in 2020, we were getting somewhere on an average of 70 to 80 million impressions just on my Twitter a month.
[00:22:49]  And in some months, it was 100 million plus.
[00:22:52]  And, you know, when you flip that into after the EIP takes action, you're talking about 20 million, you know, 15 million, things along those lines over the course of every 30-day period.
[00:23:03]  And that's dramatic, dramatic drop off where you're still affecting people, but nowhere near the same numbers and breaking through that message to new communities.
[00:23:12]  And that was really what they were trying to protect against is how do we keep these people from reaching new communities while making it look semi-believable.
[00:23:20]  And the truth is they failed because, like the left often does, they like to brag about their censorship and their fascist tactics.
[00:23:27]  And so they brag too much.
[00:23:29]  And that's how this got out into the public sphere to the point where now even the intercept has admitted that, you know, this is happening because that was their first step is they tried to pretend this isn't happening.
[00:23:39]  And the Intercept, a pretty left-leaning news organization, has now admitted it.
[00:23:43]  And I reached out to the writer, Lee Fang, and I said, on the record, are you able to say there's actually a connection here between your story and what the EIP did to us?
[00:23:52]  And he told me, yes, 100%, there is a connection here, and it's something he hopes to write more about.
[00:23:59]  So I think the Intercept is going to have further reporting on this.
[00:24:03]  But I mean, if you go there, it's on my Twitter page, and it's the very first thing.
[00:24:08]  Um, pinned on my account so people can read through the whole thread, because it explains everything.
[00:24:14]  And I think the best way to think about this is like, you know how you know the government for a long time has done this in foreign countries, where they'll have you know say, the CIA get involved in an election in South America somewhere.
[00:24:29]  Well, this is them doing the same thing domestically that people have had a problem with them doing internationally for a very long time, and people need to understand that this is a testing moment.
[00:24:40]  If we allow this, this will not just become the norm.
[00:24:43]  They will press further and further down this road until we don't have elections.
[00:24:48]  Yeah, no kidding.
[00:24:49]  And so here's another wrinkle of this.
[00:24:52]  I think we're going to do well on tuesday if everybody votes and get your friends to vote 5 10 15 20, get them out to the polls vote vote, vote.
[00:24:59]  But this is what's so interesting is, did Congress authorize this or did DHS just do this on their own?
[00:25:05]  I mean, is this is a massive example of the fourth branch of government, isn't it?
[00:25:10]  They just did it on their own.
[00:25:12]  And again, this is the enemy of the people.
[00:25:14]  Is that administrative state?
[00:25:15]  Is that fourth branch of the government.
[00:25:17]  It is the enemy of the people.
[00:25:18]  It does not get talked about enough.
[00:25:20]  I mean there's there's a couple of news stories in our country that just don't get talked about.
[00:25:24]  One is excess deaths.
[00:25:25]  It should be the biggest you know story in the world, in my opinion, yeah.
[00:25:29]  The other one is the administrative state in in our government.
[00:25:32]  It is a monster and it has taken on a life of its own where it essentially runs day-to-day government life for everything and surreptitiously overrules Congress and the people's elected representatives.
[00:25:44]  Now here's the other thing.
[00:25:45]  That's concerning what Republican representatives Charlie have come out and said.
[00:25:49]  When we take the majority, we are going to crush DHS over this and we are going to get to the bottom of it.
[00:25:55]  Not enough people.
[00:25:56]  I mean I got to give Blake Masters credit and Jd, and they're in heated campaigns, so I mean they got to stay focused.
[00:26:01]  I think they would do.
[00:26:01]  I think senator Vance will take this on.
[00:26:03]  I do I, oh yeah no, I think they will.
[00:26:05]  The new, the new school, you know this new right of people like Jd Vance, Blake Masters, so critical to get them in because they will go and attack this stuff.
[00:26:13]  Now, in terms of current members, the only people who I know of, who have been Marjorie and Rand Paul yeah yeah, and and look.
[00:26:23]  I think part of it though is, you know, politicians are singing off of the song sheet that we provide them right.
[00:26:29]  So when they win and if we get them into office, we have to have an agenda here.
[00:26:34]  Right, we have to have marching orders, and one of them needs to be an all-out attack on the administrative state and, interestingly enough, going after the administrative state, I think, can actually unite some of these other weaker Republicans because philosophically, they should be on board for that Right.
[00:26:51]  I mean, there's a lot of kind of moderate think tank energy that has tried for years to go after the administrative state.
[00:26:57]  But now, those of us on the new right with the, you know, the real enthusiasm, I think we can really go after this.
[00:27:01]  But what is the call to action?
[00:27:03]  I mean, we need to have a church and pike committee against DHS.
[00:27:05]  How can you use taxpayer money to then go shut up the leading influencers on social media?
[00:27:11]  How is this even remotely okay?
[00:27:13]  Honestly, in my opinion, I think people need to actually go to jail over this.
[00:27:18]  It's one of those lines where if Republicans crossed it, people would go to jail for it.
[00:27:22]  And so we need to create a level playing field when it comes to justice.
[00:27:25]  And I think that's going to take till 2024, probably.
[00:27:28]  But in 2022, we need to get those hearings and they need to be serious.
[00:27:32]  We need people under oath.
[00:27:33]  We need there to be consequences.
[00:27:35]  And we need to strip DHS of funding for anything remotely like this when we get into these omnibus bills.
[00:27:42]  And honestly, we need to fight to get rid of the omnibus bills.
[00:27:45]  But beyond all that, we need our members to speak up.
[00:27:48]  And so your casual person listening right now, if you can take five minutes to reach out to your representative and tell them that you expect them to go and demand hearings over this and to stop DHS from censoring people, do that.
[00:28:02]  It actually makes a difference.
[00:28:03]  Yeah, it does.
[00:28:04]  And the new guys, hopefully, Senator Masters and hope that definitely look like Senator Vance and some of these new people, Senator Bulldock, which would be really interesting to see, and Senator Laxalt, who's a great guy, right?
[00:28:16]  I'm just saying this.
[00:28:17]  I'm trying to speak it into existence, right?
[00:28:19]  With these guys right on the edge, because I also want to give our base some motivation to go vote.
[00:28:22]  They're like, oh, what's the difference?
[00:28:23]  This is a big difference.
[00:28:24]  I'm telling you right now, Senator Masters, Senator Vance, or Senator Laxalt, they will take this seriously.
[00:28:30]  And they will get some of these old bulls to actually care about it because a lot of these old bulls, they don't know what Twitter or Facebook is.
[00:28:36]  They don't have no idea.
[00:28:37]  A lot of them don't know what's going on.
[00:28:38]  But this is just one of the many issues, isn't it, Robbie?
[00:28:42]  But if we are allowing DHS to use taxpayer funding to go shut up political dissidents, I mean, we're already in Soviet times.
[00:28:51]  Oh, a thousand percent.
[00:28:52]  I mean, I would argue we're there and it's really a matter of survival.
[00:28:56]  Are we going to choose to survive as a nation and get back to the underpinnings of what we were founded on?
[00:29:01]  Or are we going to essentially relinquish all control and authority to a group of Marxist bandits who want nothing more than to destroy everything we know and love?
[00:29:11]  And you're right.
[00:29:12]  A lot of the people who have been there for too long on our side, even though they may agree with us on issues, they don't get it.
[00:29:17]  They don't know what time it is.
[00:29:19]  And it's so critical people get out and vote and elect these new people because getting just some of those voices in there is going to bring just such important change to our Congress to get people on the right messaging.
[00:29:35]  You know, first, that's step one.
[00:29:37]  But number two, to get the right bills done.
[00:29:39]  And so I'm so enthusiastic.
[00:29:41]  I mean, I voted yesterday because, and I'm a big proponent of voting the day of on election day, but I did it yesterday because I'm so excited about Blake Masters and Carrie Lake that I'm going to make a surprise.
[00:29:53]  Don't tell Carrie.
[00:29:54]  I'm going to surprise Carrie and come down there to see her and Blake win because I think they're going to win.
[00:30:00]  And I love Carrie and I want to see it happen.
[00:30:03]  It's a big deal, Robbie, to have your support here.
[00:30:05]  I live in Arizona.
[00:30:06]  And I want to thank you for that.
[00:30:08]  And I think it's really, really important.
[00:30:09]  So, Robbie, walk us through some of the candidates that you're most excited about.
[00:30:13]  House candidates, Senate candidates that you're really looking at.
[00:30:16]  Obviously, Carrie and Blake, which are great.
[00:30:18]  I'm going to try to steal you to come on our live stream, by the way, on election night, which is a really magnificent thing.
[00:30:23]  Our team will be in touch.
[00:30:24]  But tell us, what candidates are you looking at?
[00:30:26]  I mean, I have to just go back to Carrie first because Carrie and I spoke long before she came out about politics.
[00:30:32]  And we like, I just knew she was so incredible, so smart, right on the issues.
[00:30:37]  And I was like, Carrie, you have got to run for office.
[00:30:39]  So I'm very proud of the fact that was her very first endorsement when she ran for governor.
[00:30:45]  And I just love her.
[00:30:47]  She is going to be a superstar, and I think is going to set the standard in the way DeSantis sort of has as governor, where everybody's going to be going, Hey, my governor, you need to be more like Kerry.
[00:30:57]  Um, and so it's good that we're getting these people in there that can set that standard of the new right and set that path forward.
[00:31:03]  So, the norm becomes eventually, you know, 10 years from now, that the entire Congress and governors' mansions and everything are filled with people like that.
[00:31:12]  Um, but in Congress, you know, I'm very excited about Anna Paulina.
[00:31:16]  I think she's going to bring incredible change and challenge the squad in ways they've never been challenged before.
[00:31:22]  So, I think she's an incredible one for people to get behind and can really, you know, she can be somebody who ends up in the Senate, ends up being governor one day.
[00:31:31]  I think she's got a bright, bright, bright future.
[00:31:34]  Um, I love Blake Masters because, again, I think he's one of those standard setters in JD dance as well.
[00:31:39]  It's about setting that new standard.
[00:31:42]  And Bull Dock, I think, is very interesting because nobody expected him to win in the establishment, but I think he has a very good chance of winning in New Hampshire.
[00:31:51]  Caroline Levitt, as well, I think she also has a very good chance of winning in New Hampshire and can be one of those young voices to challenge the squad and to challenge that progressive movement overall.
[00:32:02]  But again, you know, it's the entire group that's so important because getting all of them in is so critical to having alliances built within there that the establishment can't go and suppress them.
[00:32:15]  They can become change makers that have the power collectively to stop bad establishment uniparty bills from happening.
[00:32:22]  And so, that's what's critical.
[00:32:24]  And it's why, even if there's somebody I didn't name who, you know, is part of that group, they're also critical to get out and vote for because if you take a couple of them out, then you don't have the numbers to stop those uniparty bills.
[00:32:37]  I totally agree, Robbie.
[00:32:39]  We're out of time.
[00:32:39]  I hope to see you in Phoenix when you're here.
[00:32:41]  You're a great voice.
[00:32:42]  We'll get you to Congress soon.
[00:32:43]  Don't give up.
[00:32:44]  That whole thing was such a ridiculous theatrical nightmare.
[00:32:48]  But you're doing a great job and we're behind you.
[00:32:50]  And thank you.
[00:32:51]  The DHS thing, let me know where to sign up, when to sue the government.
[00:32:54]  I'm all on board for that.
[00:32:55]  So I got enough stuff going on.
[00:32:57]  You take the lead.
[00:32:57]  I'll happily join forces with you on that.
[00:32:59]  So, Robbie, thank you.
[00:33:00]  I appreciate it, buddy.
[00:33:01]  Thanks.
[00:33:02]  Thank you.
[00:33:02]  See you soon.
[00:33:03]  Thanks.
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