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| Hey, everybody, today in the Charlie Kirk Show America Fest. | |
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| So, Steve, you said something interesting that I want to focus on. | |
| You said it earlier. | |
| You said that the greatest threat to the CCP is Christianity. | |
| What do you mean by that? | |
| Well, they know if you read the intelligence reports, it's not the American military that they're afraid of. | |
| It's not the Seventh Fleet. | |
| It's not NATO. | |
| It's not even the American economy and the way we could shut down the CCP with our economic power. | |
| Xi's internal memos show that they believe there's at least 100 million evangelical Christians in China, maybe 150 million evangelical Christians in a church that is brutally persecuted, right? | |
| There's another, I think, 25 to 50 million underground Catholics. | |
| So you may have of 1.2 to 1.4 billion people, you've got maybe 200 million. | |
| China's had a history of the Taiping Rebellion back in the 19th century, started as an evangelical Christian movement. | |
| The CCP, the emperor, the central governing apparatus of China, the CCP, and the emperors before that always feared one thing more than anything else, and that was the word of the living Christ. | |
| Somehow, it touches the Chinese people like almost no other, and it's powerful, and they won't back down. | |
| People have to understand there is more persecution in China to evangelical Christians and Catholics today than in first century Rome, right? | |
| And this is this is a great mark. | |
| Remember, they have murdered 400 million to 500 million babies, right? | |
| They forced abortion. | |
| This is what they call the hungry ghost of the Chinese people. | |
| The 400 to 500 million forced abortions that they have had, principally baby girls. | |
| This is why you have such a wide disparity on men and women in China today. | |
| I think it's like 55 or 60, 40. | |
| Oh, yeah, it's horrible. | |
| It's one of the reasons that sex trafficking they never want to talk about is a massive problem inside the city. | |
| By their own design. | |
| The CCP is a transnational criminal organization, atheistic and Marxist to its core. | |
| That the number one victims of it is Lao Beijing, the Chinese people. | |
| The Chinese people and the Russian people were our great allies in World War II. | |
| They are still our allies in taking down the World Economic Forum, Davos, right? | |
| The central control apparatus of the administrative state. | |
| And Lao Beijing, that's why the number one, the existential threat to the Chinese people is this murderous regime in Beijing. | |
| And that's why any member in politics, any member in Washington, D.C., that does not try to take down the CCP, and we don't need a huge military to do it. | |
| What we need to do is economic warfare, economic information and cyber warfare. | |
| We can take down the Chinese Communist Party. | |
| And our ally, our ally, is the Chinese people. | |
| Lao Beijing yearns to be free. | |
| The slave labor of China makes the whole world system work. | |
| This is why they've shifted all the manufacturing jobs from America to China. | |
| The Chinese people are slave laborers. | |
| Look at the apple plant in China. | |
| Look at them running away from Apple in the middle of winter, right? | |
| By the tens of thousands. | |
| It's slave labor, and our economic system supports it. | |
| The world is not free until the Chinese people are free. | |
| Once the Chinese people are free, Lao Beijing, once they're free, old hundred names, once they're free, everybody's free. | |
| All wages in the world will go up. | |
| And that is why, by the way, at the root of it is a spiritual warfare because global secular humanism, atheism despises the Judeo-Christian West and the underlying values of the Judeo-Christian West, and they will do everything to destroy it. | |
| And that's why you're seeing the administrative state that is their partners here in the United States as their partners is trying to destroy Christianity. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| They're trying to eradicate it here in the United States, and that's why we have to stand up for the Judeo-Christian West. | |
| And that's why the Vatican, in concert with the Democratic Party, fired Father Provon, or tried to fire him on Saturday night, the leader of the pro-left, the leader of the pro-left movement. | |
| Steve, this is mercantilism by a different name. | |
| It's the same sort of economic model that was used in the slave trade, which is countries basically doing mass labor arbitrage and then getting fabulously wealthy off the slave labor of different countries. | |
| The Chinese Communist Party's business model is the British East India Company in reverse. | |
| That's exactly right. | |
| The British East India Company. | |
| This is how you get the very same stuff we're supposed to hate that BLM preaches against. | |
| Exactly. | |
| And they're doing it in reverse. | |
| This is one of the reasons. | |
| Remember, the Chinese Communist Party is fighting a second opium, a third opium war. | |
| What the British try to do to the Chinese people, which basically make them drug addicts, right, with opium, right now, the CCP with the cartels and quite frankly, TikTok plus fentanyl are the two. | |
| Well, and TikTok. | |
| How, by the way, how did the Democratic Party use the influencers, invite these freaks to the White House and use TikTok on election day? | |
| And now we've got everybody saying, well, TikTok, they agree with us. | |
| TikTok is an apparatus of the Chinese Communist Party. | |
| It's getting information of our children. | |
| Not just that, it's poisoning them with all this content. | |
| How's that a big reveal a month after the election? | |
| How does that work? | |
| It works for many reasons. | |
| First of all, it's Facebook and Google that are pushing it, but it's all a fake fight. | |
| And the CCP has actual fentanyl and then digital fentanyl, which is the opium wars in reverse against the West. | |
| And so what I find to be really interesting, though, about Steve, that whole calculation, Xi Jinping knows the power of the gospel. | |
| He knows that Christianity could break that regime almost overnight. | |
| They have to be atheistic. | |
| They have to be atheists. | |
| They can't compete with the word of the living Christ. | |
| He understands that. | |
| That's why they have to break the Christian church. | |
| That's why they have to break the Catholic Church. | |
| By the way, I think I like doing Charlie's show, Alma's Better than the War. | |
| I'm going to talk more. | |
| 100%. | |
| I like it because I get to listen. | |
| Good point. | |
| I'm going to do Charlie Kirk's show more often. | |
| You should. | |
| But Steve, really quick, I mean, this is critical because the Chinese people are actually very pro-Israel. | |
| They love old history. | |
| They love the idea. | |
| When exposed to the Bible, it illuminates them in a very powerful way. | |
| It touches the Chinese people are very emotional. | |
| It touches their heart. | |
| The gospels have a way of speaking to them. | |
| Remember, the Chinese people took 25 to 35 million casualties against the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II on mainland China. | |
| The Great Land War was fought just like the Great Land War was fought in Russia. | |
| The Chinese people and the Russian people have always been our allies. | |
| They were our allies in the 1940s, and they're our allies today. | |
| Not their corrupt leaders, not the KGB, and not the gangsters. | |
| Those people are our allies in a fight for world freedom and religious liberty. | |
| And so, Steve, there is going to be the left always tells us globalism is inevitable. | |
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Allies In Great Land War
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| They love to make us pessimistic under this lie of inevitability. | |
| It's written in Hegelianism. | |
| It's written in all their literature. | |
| We only have 45 seconds, rather heady topic, but we have to be very clear that their victory is not inevitable. | |
| In fact, they're trying to make us surrender and submit because this is what they always say in the backroom deals, all the hedge fund guys. | |
| Hey, it's going to happen. | |
| You might as well get on the right side. | |
| So, Charlie Kirk show tells you populist nationalism is the present and it is the future. | |
| And it is the solution. | |
| I'm sorry. | |
| God bless you, man. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | |
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| So we have some very special guests with us. | |
| We are focusing on the RNC race. | |
| And I have some very strong opinions about if you lose, you should no longer be in charge of something. | |
| That's how we treat our football teams, our corporations, and that's how we should treat our political parties. | |
| So with us, three members of the 168 that are going to be voting in Dana Point, California. | |
| We have Lori Hines from North Dakota, Hinns, Lori Hinns from North Dakota, and we have Sanshan from Nebraska and Tyler Boyer. | |
| So Tyler, why don't you introduce this whole kind of group of rebels we have here? | |
| Well, yesterday, actually, these two actually put out a letter to the entire 168 in the Republican National Committee. | |
| And we can read a little clip from it. | |
| But basically, it came out and said, we need new blood. | |
| We need to listen to the grassroots. | |
| And we have to represent the Republican Party from the grassroots level. | |
| And so these two wonderful women are some of the biggest leaders that we have in the country. | |
| Lori is one of the most famous individuals that we have in North Dakota. | |
| We love her to death. | |
| And Fan John just led a rebellion in Nebraska, which should be the way that we do things in the Republican Party in every state. | |
| And so why don't you guys talk a little bit about your letter that you put out yesterday and what you said? | |
| Well, we collaborated on this letter. | |
| Is this on? | |
| Yes, it is. | |
| All right. | |
| We collaborated on the letter with another National Committee woman, Laura Nakane Lua from Hawaii. | |
| I love Hawaii. | |
| I do love it. | |
| Aloha, Laura. | |
| Aloha, Laura. | |
| And she went with us and we went and we put the letter together and collaborated via messages back and forth. | |
| What we did is we decided that we all wanted to go together and do this at the same time, make sure that people know that our grassroots are, we are listening to our grassroots in our state. | |
| In my case, I held off. | |
| I did not sign the original letter for Ronna McDaniel like the other two in my state did. | |
| But I thought I wanted to see, first of all, who was running before I even signed on to anybody. | |
| So I held my powder dry a little bit there and hung on and then decided that after I had done some due diligence on Hermit, and I want everybody to know, first and foremost, go to her website and see when she says on her website, she says why I'm running. | |
| It's fantastic. | |
| It's great. | |
| Go to dylan4rnc.com. | |
| D-H-I-L-L-O-N-F-O-R-R-N-C.com. | |
| So Fanchon, tell us, you know, people are very fired up about these last reports. | |
| $700,000 spent on flowers, $17 million in donor mementos. | |
| We lost the Senate seat. | |
| We barely won the House. | |
| This should have been a red wave, and yet we're spending our money on flowers and Lululemon. | |
| People are really angry because people from Nebraska and people from North Dakota, they're given $20 a month, they're given $50 a month. | |
| You're a member of the RNC. | |
| Were you just shocked when you learned that we spent $700,000 on flowers? | |
| Well, I'm the newest member in the RNC, and I was very shocked. | |
| I believe that I need to be listening to all of my constituents. | |
| And pretty much every email that I receive wants me to support Harmet. | |
| And I'm very vocal in Nebraska. | |
| I'm one of the leaders of the grassroot movement. | |
| And I just believe that, like Nebraska football. | |
| That was the analogy I used. | |
| Did you hear me do that? | |
| Yes. | |
| Scott Frost, great guy. | |
| Both three and six. | |
| I'm sorry. | |
| We win national titles around here. | |
| You're fired. | |
| Exactly. | |
| If you can't win and produce, then you're gone in Nebraska. | |
| And I relate that to the RNC. | |
| I've been a member since August. | |
| I told Lori last night, Ronna's never even called me. | |
| And she was mortified. | |
| Like, she hasn't called you. | |
| I said, no, she hasn't. | |
| But there are three of us in every state. | |
| And our national committee man, J.L. Spray, immediately signed on to support Rana. | |
| So what the heck is the argument to support a loser? | |
| Well, when you're part of what I call the establishment, old guard, that's who they vote for. | |
| So in Nebraska on July 9th, a Saturday, we had our state convention. | |
| I was one of the delegates that was decredentialed. | |
| They weren't even going by the Constitution in Nebraska. | |
| Today, I'm happy to say that everyone that runs the NEGOP are born-again Christians. | |
| They pray about everything they do there. | |
| And we run by the Constitution, just like we do in Lancaster County. | |
| Well, I'll just tell you, Charlie, What these individuals on the RNC are doing right now in order to stand up for the grassroots really is laudable. | |
| This is patriotism because it's really hard when you're in a small group where there's a lot of money involved to look someone in the eye and say, Look, you've got to be you've got you got it, you've got to be replaced. | |
| And I don't think, again, we've talked about this. | |
| You know, you can like Rana, but I there's a lot of people I like that shouldn't run the RC. | |
| They're sweet people, they're kind. | |
| I don't love or hate Rana, I just want to win elections. | |
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| Laura, you said two of your colleagues in North Dakota are still in favor of losing and just basically getting paid. | |
| Like, what is the argument you hear from your fellow RNC people in North Dakota? | |
| Well, their argument is that things are just going fine and we just need to do more of what we're doing and try to, you know, do better next time. | |
| And after three to five times, that kind of does not ring true for those of us. | |
| Things are going fine. | |
| We're losing our country very quickly. | |
| 100%. | |
| Fetterman won. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Well, one. | |
| But you know what I mean? | |
| I mean, Fetterman will be a senator. | |
| Okay. | |
| That's the way I should word it. | |
| Arizona got no money. | |
| And what's going well exactly? | |
| I think rhetorically, there is a fear of change. | |
| There is a fear of change and there is a trepidation to do something that's different and out of the box. | |
| Nobody wants to try something new or do something different. | |
| And it's very frustrating because we're at the point where we have to. | |
| We have to do something different or we're going to have the same result over and over again. | |
| And at some point, that's the definition of insanity, as everybody says. | |
| Yeah, and they get fabulously rich while doing it. | |
| Ben, you have some people. | |
| I want to, this is what's interesting about what's happening: is that typically the RC race is 168 people, not even that. | |
| It's really 90 to 100 people that are either on payroll or they're getting favors or they just don't care that much. | |
| And there's no press, there's no attention, there's no conversation, there's no chatter, and the grassroots really have no idea what's going on. | |
| And you just wake up, you're like, why is that person still running the party? | |
| Shut up, citizen. | |
| Stop asking questions. | |
| But we're doing the opposite. | |
| We have opened this up to millions of people. | |
| And do they hate it? | |
| Do they hate it? | |
| My phone blows up every day. | |
| And I answer all those emails. | |
| I do too. | |
| I answer all of these. | |
| Some of the RNC people are going to Politico, and one of them says, I don't know who these people think they are. | |
| Right. | |
| Trying to weigh in on the RNC risk. | |
| The grassroots. | |
| Yeah. | |
| You mean the people that knock on doors that give 20 bucks a month? | |
| The voters, the base of the party. | |
| We're changing all of that. | |
| Ben, do the people want the current RNC regime? | |
| Let me ask you: do you want the current RNC? | |
| Does anyone want McDaniels? | |
| No! | |
| That's zero. | |
| What is your, you had a perfect answer for this? | |
| Tell me that again. | |
| Have to get rid of the mix. | |
| Not only McDaniel, but McCarthy and McConnell. | |
| And who do you want? | |
| Let's go. | |
| Let's go. | |
| Harmeed? | |
| Yeah, let's get it. | |
| Harmeed! | |
| Harmeed! | |
| Raise your hand. | |
| Okay, Mike Lindell. | |
| We got some Mike Lindell's. | |
| It looks like more Harmead's, but zero, zero. | |
| We got a Lee Zeldon thrown in there too, but zero McDaniels. | |
| I know, right? | |
| So, so I hope everyone at home just heard a little bit of that on radio, and I want to get your guys' thoughts. | |
| You're probably seeing the same thing, right, Lori? | |
| Yeah, regular people, the plumbers, electricians, the GOP voters, the pastors, the people that are not in the club, right? | |
| They say this is insane. | |
| Has there ever been a greater disconnect? | |
| No, it is very disconnected. | |
| Now, the good news is, is that when I got elected two years ago and Fanshon got elected, what they ended up with in the RNC was grassroots people. | |
| We came from the grassroots, right? | |
| Straight from the grassroots in our cases. | |
| And Laura Nakane Lua, same deal, came from the grassroots. | |
| So we're right there. | |
| We know and we listen to the people because we came from there. | |
| We haven't been in the club. | |
| We're still not in the club. | |
| So it's a completely different. | |
| And there are a group of new RNC members from two years ago who are in that same group. | |
| So either Tyler or Franchon, I love your thoughts. | |
| So we are being told that she has the votes, the race is over, everything is signed, sealed, and delivered, which is hilarious because there's no early voting in the RNC. | |
| And it's a secret vote. | |
| So it's a secret. | |
| You say you're going to vote for her, but are you really going to vote for her when it comes down to it? | |
| Part of me actually, part of me hates that it's a secret ballot. | |
| Part of me loves that it's a secret ballot. | |
| I agree. | |
| See, I don't like it because I want to expose these people for voting if they do vote that way. | |
| I agree. | |
| But then part of me is like people that might be telling Rana, they might be able to make kind of a private vote. | |
| Tyler, walk us through the process and when is it happening? | |
| Charlie? | |
| Charlie, there's a lot of people that are doing just that. | |
| So there's a lot of people that were asked to sign on in a support letter for Rana before the election actually even happened and certainly before the Georgia election happened. | |
| And as it was brought up, there are many of our friends that are on that letter that aren't necessarily feeling all the warm fuzzies about keeping leadership exactly the same. | |
| And so this is where the grassroots comes in. | |
| Every single person that's here, all of the tens of thousands of people within the sound of our voice, the hundreds of thousands of people within the sound of our voice, you have to contact your members and say, I expect you to represent the grassroots. | |
| And if you do that, we're in a better place for that. | |
| Like you said, because it's a secret vote that 168 of us get a vote in January on January 27th. | |
| Every day matters. | |
| Every hour matters. | |
| And we have to hear from the grassroots. | |
| So Ronna was very upset that our emails were given out. | |
| I absolutely disagree. | |
| I love it. | |
| I want to hear from the people across this country. | |
| We represent millions. | |
| Just the three of us here represent over probably 15, 20 million people. | |
| Well, and Nebraska and North Dakota are two of the most conservative states in the country. | |
| By the way, anyone watching online, podcasts, radio stations across the country, I know of one website you guys can contact all of your RNC members. | |
| It's hire, like you're hiring somebody, H-I-R-EHAME.com. | |
| You don't have to be for Harmeet. | |
| It's just right there. | |
| Maybe you say, hey, I want to voice my support for Rana, of which I have not met a human being that supports her that is not being paid by her. | |
| But if anyone does, I'd love to meet you and ask you why. | |
| But maybe it's Mike Lindell or maybe it's someone who's not running, Lee Zeldin, and it's hireharmeet.com. | |
| I want to read a quote here in Politico this morning. | |
| Thank you for Scott Pressler, my friend. | |
| Isn't Scott Pressler? | |
| Oh, I love him. | |
| We've had a lot of people. | |
| We love Scott Pressler. | |
| Isn't he great? | |
| We love Scott Pressler. | |
| All right. | |
| So Reince Priebus said this. | |
| He said, my guess is the RNC has probably the best value for every dollar donated than any other organization in DC, including all these super PACs that talk a big game. | |
| I've got three words. | |
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| Out of touch. | |
| He's out of touch. | |
| There's no good value in D.C., Charlie. | |
| So, like, any person that tries to sell you on good value in the District of Columbia is probably from the District of Columbia. | |
| So, Ben, I want you to, and we're going to kind of do a line change like a hockey substitution here. | |
| Ben, I want you to ask people: do they think the RNC spending $700,000 on flowers, $17 million on donor mementos, $100,000 on clothes? | |
| Is that the best use of everyday donations, Ben? | |
| What are the grassroots? | |
| What do you guys say to that? | |
| No! | |
| Could you guys figure out a way of spending the money better than that? | |
| Yes! | |
| Outrageous. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| They're out of touch. | |
| She's out of touch. | |
| Out of touch, baby. | |
| Okay. | |
| I guess we're still going out here. | |
| This is just, I mean, it is. | |
| It's absolutely outrageous. | |
| What do you want to see? | |
| What should the RNC actually be doing? | |
| They should be helping our candidates. | |
| Yep. | |
| Yes, definitely contributing instead of to the RNC directly to America First. | |
| What about you, young man? | |
| Well, maybe instead of buying miscellaneous goods that have no use, maybe they should spend money back in Canada. | |
| It's like Kerry Lake here in Arizona. | |
| Do whatever Charlie Kirk tells them to do. | |
| Supporting our country. | |
| Yes. | |
| Supporting God. | |
| Supporting God. | |
| All right, there you go. | |
| Hey, the best one I heard there, they should have been here in Arizona supporting Kerry Lake and the candidates all across the country, the MAGA candidates. | |
| By the way, how great does Ben Berquam do? | |
| This guy works so hard. | |
| No, he really does a great job. | |
| I love it, Charlie. | |
| We successfully did the hockey substitution here, and now we have Speaker Newt Gingrich. | |
| Coming up for Newt, everybody. | |
| Such a great job. | |
| We love Newt. | |
| Mr. Speaker, welcome back to the program. | |
| Charlie, it's always great to be with you, and it's fun to be here in person. | |
| Thank you. | |
| So, midterms didn't go the way a lot of people wanted them to. | |
| You and I had a good conversation, and we said we're still thinking and exploring as to why. | |
| What is your takeaway? | |
| Well, look, I think, first of all, on the Senate side, you have to stand for something. | |
| You can't just be anti-Biden because people just shrug and say, fine, he ain't doing a good job, but you aren't going to do any job. | |
| And frankly, the behavior of some of the Senate Republican leadership recently, if they roll over and cave to this huge spending bill, there's no wonder the grassroots is disgusted. | |
| Yes, their argument, though, is that, well, it's going to help the new Congress by, it robs their term, doesn't it? | |
| Well, first of all, since Kevin McCarthy has the biggest single interest in the new Congress, and he's saying publicly, they're just plain wrong. | |
| Yes. | |
| He does not want it passed. | |
| Furthermore, apparently they've agreeing like an extra $100 billion in spending. | |
| And the way these bills are written, who knows what's in them? | |
| I mean, look, the system is sick. | |
| The FBI is sick. | |
| The way CDC is operated is sick. | |
| And frankly, the way the Congress right now, and I hate to say it, but a significant part of the Senate Republican leadership is part of that process. | |
| I mean, they don't represent the American people. | |
| They don't represent the Republicans who elect them. | |
| They just think it's their power and they can do what they want to. | |
| And I say this very sadly. | |
| I mean, I've been actively involved, as you know, a long time. | |
| And I think the system is worse today than any point in my lifetime. | |
| And so, Mr. Speaker, this breeds cynicism, disdain, and a lot of negativity. | |
| And Senator McConnell believes you should only run negative campaigns. | |
| Well, he's totally wrong. | |
| And I said that to him personally. | |
| I said it publicly. | |
| Look at the Senate record of losing races they should have won. | |
| And then look at what the House Republicans have gained seats two elections in a row. | |
| They've recruited people. | |
| They've gone out. | |
| They ran on a commitment to America. | |
| I think they probably could have done a somewhat better job of communicating it. | |
| But you go to commitment to America.com, there are 150 positive ideas. | |
| You go to McConnell's site. | |
| It's not. | |
| I don't think he has a site. | |
| No, but instead, he's so focused on raising a bunch of money and then supporting people like Lisa Murkowski and not even supporting people like Herschel. | |
| I mean, Herschel was not just an electable candidate, but he should be a U.S. Senator. | |
| He should be. | |
| Well, Blake Masters should be a U.S. Senator from here. | |
| That's exactly right. | |
| You know, and it was McConnell's team who pulled out in the middle of October and sent the signal, this guy's going to lose, don't help him. | |
| Well, he came close enough that maybe if McConnell had been aggressively for him, he would have won. | |
| And you can go around the country and see what he said. | |
| McConnell spent $4 million against the Republican nominee in New Hampshire. | |
| Don Bullbick. | |
| Against the Republican. | |
| I mean, I thought the idea was to give money to McConnell to help elect Republicans, not to help defeat Republicans. | |
| I have sadly concluded that I think it's fair to say I am no longer a fan of Senator McConnell, and I don't understand what he's doing, and I don't understand why he thinks he has the power to do this except by sheer raw power. | |
| Yeah, and that's, I want to explore that with you. | |
| We only have a couple seconds here, though. | |
| Does he just want to be leader, whether it's minority or majority? | |
| Is that basically where he's at? | |
| I think he'd rather be the minority leader than one member of a majority. | |
| That's really sick. | |
| I got to be honest. | |
| I mean, the country's falling apart. | |
| Look, it's understandable, and history's filled with people who serve themselves instead of their country, but it's tragic for the country to have a Republican leader who clearly is not a Republican leader. | |
| Mr. Speaker, there is a fervent and excited, still MAGA Trump energy. | |
| However, talking to some people here, they're saying, I really want to see Trump get back to the Trump of 2016 or, you know, the Trump that would talk about the open border, you know, kind of a little bit of confusion on this NFT announcement. | |
| Mr. Speaker, help me make sense of this as someone who is kind of the philosopher of the conservative movement who also understands Trump rally well. | |
| Well, let me say, first of all, anybody who's not been here, this is an amazing turnout. | |
| Oh, thank you. | |
| And you should feel like this is a historic event here in Phoenix. | |
| So I'm honored to be part of it. | |
| Look, I can't say this too directly. | |
| If President Trump would focus on being the leader of the American people and drop every other thing, he'd be 20 times stronger. | |
| Yes. | |
| Every time he gets off message, he weakens himself. | |
| He took what was potentially an unchallengeable position and has turned it into a race. | |
| I mean, whether it's DeSantis or somebody else, there will be a race for the nomination. | |
| And that would not have been true if Trump had been focused. | |
| But every time he does something like these NFT cards that are, you don't want to see a president of the United States looking like he's part of some kind of program. | |
| Yes, well, and also, but the lead-up was, I think, what he said a major announcement, right? | |
| And what's so upsetting to me is he actually sent out a video that day about big tech that was amazing about what he would do to rein in big tech from a policy standpoint. | |
| He had a huge win, and it was overshadowed by... | |
| Well, and this is a major problem that he's had for the last couple years, that he does five really smart things in a row, and then he manages to do something which overwhelms them. | |
| And so, of course, all of his enemies in the media skip the five really good things and magnify the one bad thing. | |
| But I think it has eroded his support. | |
| A good friend of mine said to me, my heart is with Trump and my head hopes he won't run. | |
| And that's something that Trump should take very seriously. | |
| That he has a lot of people out here who know he changed history. | |
| He could change history again. | |
| But he's not going to change history if he doesn't calm down, slow down, and focus on it. | |
| Yes. | |
| And my love and support for Trump remains the same. | |
| And I know the grassroots, but there is chatter of, we love you so much. | |
| We want to see you excellent. | |
| Right? | |
| We want to see you in stride. | |
| And I think the grassroots understand that what's at stake here isn't Donald Trump. | |
| What's at stake here is America. | |
| Yes. | |
| And they want to have a leader who rises to the occasion of leading 330 million free people to the kind of future we could have with good leadership. | |
| And I think that's why they're particularly hurt when he falls below that standard. | |
| And I'm not saying anything to you that I haven't communicated with him for six years. | |
| No, and it's also just from a perspective of we want to see the fullest potential reached. | |
| Because in 2016, interestingly, after the Billy Bush tapes, he actually hit a stride for 28 days there where he told all the consultants, get out of the room, and he was talking about the border trade deals, the kind of hollowing out of America, and it resonated in a very powerful way. | |
| Look, Elon Musk, by unveiling all the Twitter stuff, has given Trump enough material for three weeks of speeches. | |
| Yes. | |
| I mean, if he would just relax, you know, Biden does something at least once a week that would legitimately create a Trump speech. | |
| If Trump would rise to who he's capable of being, he would both be the nominee and win the presidency. | |
| But if he doesn't rise to that, there will be a point next year, I think, where people who love his policies and would like him to be the person he was are going to say, gee, you know, I got to really think about this. | |
| It's a race. | |
| I think that's legitimate. | |
| And I think that if people say it's automatic, I don't think they're looking at it honestly or correctly. | |
| And that's without even a serious, you know, actually no contender or serious contender in that way. | |
| But, you know, Mr. Speaker, I want to kind of focus on one element of this, which I find to be very interesting, which is regardless of who the candidate is, we have to build the machinery. | |
| That's right. | |
| And you went on television, you said it's time for us to embrace in-person early voting. | |
| Yes, secure the process. | |
| I'll be honest, I'm very skeptical of that, but I do think it's necessary because here in Maricopa County, you just can't tell everybody to show up on election day. | |
| They sabotage or ambush the process that way. | |
| Well, I still don't understand Maricopa County because apparently there are like 25,000 ballots they can't validate. | |
| That's correct. | |
| That strikes me as a problem. | |
| I mean, but I have to tell you, my very first election, I dropped out of college in 1964. | |
| I ran a campaign in North Georgia. | |
| And on election day, I have a presidential election. | |
| On election day, the Forsyth County clerk decided they wouldn't count the votes. | |
| And I called him and I said, you got to count the votes. | |
| This is a presidential said, no. | |
| He said, my folks are all tired. | |
| I have sent them home to have dinner with their family. | |
| And we'll count the votes in the morning. | |
| And I said, I'm going to come over there. | |
| You can't do this. | |
| He said, I wish you'd come over. | |
| I've heard a lot about you. | |
| And my cousin, the sheriff, has a nice place you can stay overnight. | |
| And in the morning, you can be with us when we count the votes. | |
| Now, that was my introduction to Maricopa County in Forsyth County. | |
| And so that if we don't first obviously fix the problem, but also expand the window that our voters can participate. | |
| We've got to look. | |
| This is like in the olden days when they invented the forward pass, teams that said, you know, I just don't want to do that figured out they weren't going to win. | |
| And so they had to learn to do it. | |
| And I think we're in a situation where I personally think early voting is a big problem. | |
| I think because you now have like five or six weeks. | |
| That's correct. | |
| It's voting season, more than voting months. | |
| That's right. | |
| And I think that's wrong for the country. | |
| But as long as it's true, we have to be prepared to be competitive if we intend to win. | |
| And frankly, because of the Senate races and because our expectations, and I was one of them, were so high, we're more disappointed than we should be. | |
| You look at Florida, you look at Ohio, you look at Iowa, you look at Texas. | |
| Huge victories. | |
| North Carolina was size. | |
| North Carolina was huge. | |
| And then you look at we did pick up control of the House finally. | |
| So you have places where we're gaining ground, and you look at state legislatures. | |
| There are a lot of reasons to believe that, and since the election, you've had a number of Democrats switch and become Republican, city councilmen, state senators, et cetera. | |
| So I'm an optimist in the long run. | |
| The American people are smarter than the elites, and the American people ultimately know the current system isn't going to work and has to be changed. | |
| I totally agree. | |
| And my closing frustration is the country is far more conservative and Republican than is currently being reflected in election totals. | |
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| People can go to America's NewMajorityProject.com. | |
| We have there tons of data. | |
| One example: 84% of Americans believe parents have the right to know what's being taught their children. | |
| 84% of Republicans would have ran on that. | |
| More, we would have won more. | |
| Mr. Speaker, thank you so much. | |
| Thanks for being here. | |
| Thanks so much for listening, everybody. | |
| Email me your thoughts as always: freedom at charliekirk.com. | |
| Thank you so much for listening, and God bless. | |
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