My First Hand Experience at the RNC with Tyler Bowyer
Last Friday, Charlie watched in-person as more than a hundred RNC members voted to ignore their base and betray their interests. Today, he sits down with Tyler Bowyer to discuss what happened at the meeting: What was said, what the votes were, and what the RNC members really believe. Then, they turn to the most important question: What's next?Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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I was in Dana Point, California on Friday.
We took off on this show.
Jack Pesobic did a great job filling in.
I woke up very early after a long day of interviewing Governor Ron DeSantis, flew all the way across the country, Red Eye Flight, got a couple hours of sleep, got dressed up, and met Tyler Boyer, who will be joining us just a second in the lobby.
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And I saw some familiar faces and I started and I put on the best costume, if you will, of a lobbyist.
Literally being in the lobby of the Waldorf Astoria $900 a night hotel.
And I began my charm offensive, shaking hands, asking questions, saying, Hey, who are you voting for?
And I saw a fair amount of Harmeet Dylan and Mike Lindell folks.
And before we go any further, both Harmeet Dylan and Mike Lindell's cause was the same.
Meaning, they weren't working against one another.
They were just trying to get Rana beneath the threshold.
I saw Mike and I had a great conversation with him.
Love Mike Lindell, and I love Harmeet.
So the point is, were you supporting the current regime or not?
And within a couple minutes, I realized I had entered a different planet.
I'd entered a different realm of existence, Middle Earth, Narnia, whatever you want to call it.
Disconnect would do far too much credit to what was happening in Dana Point, California at the Waldorf Astoria.
I started to ask some members.
I was very polite, and I was trying my best to be charming, especially the ones that were wearing the Rana buttons.
And I said, I would, you got to lay it out for me.
What on earth is the case for Rana?
And some were a little sheepish about it.
Some said, you know, she's doing a pretty good job and we want continuity and not chaos.
But others were hyper aggressive.
Others said, first of all, Charlie, we don't like you telling us what to do.
I said, well, first of all, it's not me.
I'm just a conduit for our audience and the hundreds of thousands of people that you guys beg for donations from.
So maybe you should press pause and listen to the very people that you incessantly call and ask for donations.
They're unfazed by that.
But some people went as far to tell me that they thought that Rana was the best chair the RNC has ever had, that the November midterms is one of the best successes in recent memory.
One member told me that it could not have gone any better, except for maybe a couple races that they blamed for candidate selection.
I asked them who.
They said, well, we can't have wackadoodles like Carrie Lake running around.
It's a direct quote from one of the RNC members.
So let me break this into a couple pieces, and I'm going to tell you some inside baseball that I think you need to know.
You need to know actually some of the dynamics that were playing out in Dana Point, California.
Now, before we go any further, I won no friends by being there.
I had one very forceful RNC member come up to me, and it did end well because I had a heart for reconciliation, but he was not happy to see me.
And he made it very clear, largely because I threatened, and we will make good on this promise, to remove RNC members that decided to defy their voters and stick a middle finger at a $900 a night resort while their constituents and their members can barely afford to put food on the table.
Not exactly a recipe for a sustainable political party.
So let me break this.
First and foremost, let me start with the positive.
There's anywhere between 57 to 60 fabulous RNC members.
It's not all bad.
There are some patriots from Wyoming, from Arizona, from Alabama.
They really get it.
And that's one out of three.
There are people that really listen to their voters.
And not a little bit.
I'm telling you, the folks I was talking to from Idaho and from some from South Dakota, from North Dakota, Nebraska, they're in the trenches.
They're listening to their constituents.
They're fired up.
They're tired of the country club.
And that deserves to be mentioned before we go any further.
I was moved.
I felt like I was talking to one of you in our audience.
They're really upset with how things are going.
They did everything they possibly could.
The sentiment when I arrived was they felt as if they were outnumbered and that there was just so much pressure on them, but they held the line.
There were 55 to 57 that I felt a bond with.
I said, we could build a political party around these people.
There are 55 people that are absolute, complete patriots.
They understood the problem.
They were willing to act on it.
They had the courage to try to voice their opinion that it's not acceptable to lose the Senate, spend $700,000 on flowers, $17 million on donor gifts, and act as if everything is okay.
That is not acceptable.
The second category is I think there's probably 10 or 15 members that just kind of go with the flow.
They don't want to upset the apple cart.
They lack courage, even though they know something is wrong.
I spoke with one of these members, one lady that I've known for a long time, and she said, look, I voted for Rana just because I don't like chaos.
I just want things to remain as is.
And I think Rana's not doing a great job, but I just want peace and calm and serenity.
Now, while I appreciate that argument, I find that to be remarkably naive.
We are in a wartime chapter at the Republican Party.
This is not time for peace and calm and serenity.
This is not time to just watch things remain exactly the same.
They're medically mutilating our children.
They're teaching them bigot, racist, anti-white curriculum.
Our borders are wide open.
They're trying to stumble us into a thermonuclear war thousands of miles away.
Our economy is on the verge of recession.
I'm not exactly enthusiastic around this idea of trying to keep things exactly the same.
I think we have to do the exact opposite.
Okay, and then is the third category.
The third category is the largest category of the Republican National Committee.
Remember, there's 168 of them.
These are people that really don't like you.
I'm not saying they don't listen to you.
They have contempt for you.
It's one thing to say that, okay, you know, I don't agree with them.
No, no, no.
It was evident and clear to some of the people I spoke to that they look at you as the unwashed.
You could almost say they look at you as the deplorables.
One after the other that I talked to would say, these emails that I'm getting from these people, who do they think they are?
Non-stop emails trying to tell us what to do.
We are the Republican National Committee.
You think you guys can tell us what to do?
The smugness, the arrogance, surrounded by the opulence of the Waldorf Astoria, the self-righteousness.
They said, we are the chosen ones.
We are the philosopher kings.
We are the ones in the clouds.
Do not distract us with your messiness, your dirtiness.
These are the people that shop at Walmart.
Now, they didn't say that, but they might as well have.
Now, unfortunately, they are the majority of the Republican National Committee.
They are the country club.
They are impenetrable.
And I did my best.
I tried to challenge them.
In fact, one man, he said, I think Rana is doing a fabulous job.
I said, well, 98% of your constituents disagree.
And you know what he said?
He said, they watch Too Much War Room, Charlie Kirk Show, and Tucker Carlson.
They're not getting the whole story.
I said, well, sir, what exactly is that story?
He said, the story is the Republican Party has never been stronger than it is today.
And I asked him, this is literally what I said.
I said, have you ever read 1984?
You're doing a pretty good job at it.
That conversation didn't end well.
There are some amazing patriots.
There are some winnable people in the middle.
And then there are some people that have deep-seated contempt for you.
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Charlie, name the names.
So I will name the names of the people that supported Harmeet.
There's approximately 45 to 50 of them, and I will name them.
We don't know.
It's a secret ballot.
And so we just know the end result.
So you could subtract the ones that were publicly for Harmeet or approximately for Harmeet, and then we could fill in the gaps.
And so a lot of you say, Charlie, what did this state?
We'll get through that.
Tyler's going to be here.
We're going to talk about the top states.
I could tell you that this clown from Tennessee, what is this guy's name?
We'll see that, who's attacking me in the Associated Press, saying, Charlie Kirk is to blame.
Okay, great.
But let me tell you, there is a dynamic here, and it is summarized in the Associated Press article.
Let me just read the Associated Press article because this is true.
And when I got there, I was shocked.
One member after the other said, well, Charlie, you're pro-Trump, which I am, Donald Trump 2024.
A lot of them said, well, Charlie, Trump's team is here lobbying for Rana.
It's like, what?
What are you talking about?
It's true.
Associated Press reported, Trump had quietly supported Rana Romney, a niece of Republican Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, and dispatched a handful of his lieutenants to Southern California to advocate on her behalf.
President Trump avoided making a public endorsement at McDaniel's request, according to those with direct knowledge of the situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations.
McDaniel's team was confident that she would win without public backing, allowing her to maintain a sense of neutrality heading into the 2024 presidential primary season.
The Associated Press also writes: Trump privately backed McDaniel.
Powerful forces within his MAGA movement lined up while other people lined up behind Dylan.
And so this is true.
When I was walking the halls and I was shaking hands, one after the other said, Well, Charlie, I'm a little bit confused.
Mar-a-Lago is here.
Some of the top Trump lieutenants are here advocating for Rana.
And it became abundantly clear that Rana was the choice of Mar-a-Lago, that the current RNC regime that loses and wastes your money and sends you emails and hates you might have got across the finish line because Mar-a-Lago advocated for it.
Now, I'm a huge Trump backer and I remain that.
I think it was a mistake to do that.
I would have liked to have seen Donald Trump do the exact opposite and send his lieutenants for change at the RNC, not to continue with this Rana Romney pattern of losing.
And so that was really demoralizing.
I'm not going to lie.
Here I am trying to be your voice for the populist nationalist conservative movement.
98% of us want to see some sort of change.
I get emails from you guys saying, Charlie, I give $100 a month that I don't have.
Thank you for going to Dana Point to try to figure out what the heck is going on.
And here I am learning that the guy that I'm backing in 2024 enthusiastically, by the way, because I believe that he's going to upset the establishment and that he's a true conservative, that his lieutenants, at the very least, and I don't know how involved he was, but you can connect some dots, is the one working the halls.
I think it's a big mistake.
I do.
If Donald Trump wants to win in the White House, you don't want Ronna Romney doing that.
How many presidential elections has Rana Romney actually successfully been able to get?
2018, she lost us the House.
2020, we lost the House and the Senate.
2022, we lost the Senate and barely won the House.
What is her track record for leadership and for victory?
It's perplexing, isn't it?
And so you guys all have a right to know that.
And it's just disappointing.
It is.
I'm going to read some quotes here because I wrote them down on my phone.
This is from members.
I did this just as I was there just for accuracy.
And it's an approximation.
Quote from one RNC member, I think Rana does a great job and people are being lied by people like you, being lied to by people like you.
Another one, quote, Charlie, Trump's team was here the last few days.
It is clear that Trump supports Rana.
Therefore, I'm supporting Rana.
What was clear, though, is that they were unmoved by you.
Some members were out of that kind of 51, 55.
However, a vast majority do not care at all what you think.
And I have no regrets at all by asking you guys to email them, but it certainly didn't help.
You might say it would hurt.
It's as if they hate you so much.
It only made them want to defy you more.
I'm curious what many of you think, because I know we have a predominantly pro-Trump audience.
Ron DeSantis came out and said, we need to have change at the RNC.
We need to get rid of Ronald Romney.
Donald Trump, through his more subterranean efforts, said the opposite.
And again, my support of Donald Trump is unmoved by this, but I'm not going to, I'm too connected to all of you and I respect all of you.
It's demoralizing.
Here we are trying to make the party a grassroots party and it remains the party of Romney, literally.
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Tyler, welcome.
Thank you, Charlie.
What a week.
It's been a week.
It's been a, you know, a crazy few months, but, you know, you brought this up.
I mean, there was a number of different re there were a number of different reasons why people had significant concerns about going with the same.
We've talked about that at nauseum.
So that won't be the topic of our conversation, even though that will come up more and more as the months and years go on here.
But look, I mean, the reality is this is the inside of the beast that we saw that a lot of people didn't see was just a lot of people that look like deer and headlights, just very scared.
That's right.
That's the sense of change.
It was just a lot of people I respect.
I've known for a long time.
Even people that we expected to flip, like good conservatives, right, that were not, who I know for a fact are not big Rana fans.
We had talked about this.
There's probably 20 to 30 people on this committee that could have elected new change, that could have elected someone new, but they were, they lacked the confidence.
They lacked the energy.
They didn't spend the time, I think, doing the research and spending the time actually having the conversations.
And here's the point that I'll make that I've been making is there's only a handful of states that are going to be able to win us the White House in 2024.
I got only a handful of phone calls from RNC members.
All of those ended up supporting Harmeat about what's happening in Arizona.
How do we win Arizona?
How do we win this state?
To me, that's what's most critical.
But, you know, you brought up the question, well, what happens now, right?
What happens with these individuals that decided to support Rana, again, for a second term?
And look, I'm all for unity and everything else, but I'm also for making sure that we actually win in 2024.
I'm for clarity more than unity right now.
I want to know what side these people are on.
And I learned a majority are not on our side.
Well, and here's what we were warning.
And I had a good conversation with one of the members.
I won't say what her name was, but she was a national committee woman from a state.
And she came up to me and she was like, Well, now that I voted for Ron, are you guys going to try to take me out?
And I was like, No, look, what Charlie has a different answer than me.
If you actually read the email that Charlie sent out, because Charlie sent out a really, a really well-crafted email that essentially said this: if you don't listen to the grassroots, the grassroots is going to replace you.
And if they vote you out, then that means we have to spend all of our time finding a better replacement for you.
Correct.
The ideal scenario would be: you stay put, you just listen to the grassroots, do what the grassroots asks you to do.
It's very simple.
I, as an RNC member, do not represent Rana to the people.
That is not my job.
My job is to represent the people to Rana.
That's exactly right.
And that was the message that we were trying to deliver and say, hey, if you start becoming just like this flying monkey for the regime, then people are going to shoot you down.
They're going to be very upset.
You're not going to keep your job for very long.
And the unfortunate part, the RNC very rarely has issues that they have to be held accountable for.
This is one of the biggest issues that you maybe ever have ever been aware of, right?
And this is just the beginning because I think people are now going to be more aware of moving forward.
So we sent out this letter.
I had one person come up to me and they said, you're not going to take me out now because they said, I just voted for Rana.
I said, I probably will.
Yeah.
I mean, it's, I mean, we might win, we might not win.
But so, just so everyone understands, we need to have a grassroots movement to hold these people accountable.
So you say, Charlie, who are these people?
Okay, let's go through.
You're comfortable with us sharing this list, Tyler?
Yeah, the public one, yep.
The public one.
Okay.
The reason is that there were some people who we don't know, but okay, we're going to go through 36 names right now of people that were rock-solid Harmeet supporters.
Is that right?
Yep.
Okay.
These are people that deserve to be encouraged, thanked, and congratulated.
The opposite of what we need to do to the rest, okay?
This is only 36 out of 168.
Now, what was the final vote tally?
How much did Harmet and Mike Lindell end up getting?
55 votes combined.
Now, that's so it's 111 to 55.
Now, that really is only losing by what, 28 votes, right?
Yes.
So, because if 28 votes flipped, it would have been a completely different race.
Yeah, so it's, I mean, that's not very many people.
I mean, 28 people in America.
That's all it took.
And the entire Republican Party made up of millions and millions of people.
28 people.
Nine or 10 states, you could do it if you consider it.
All right, let's go through the list.
Okay.
Reynolds from Alabama supported change at the RNC.
Paul, wonderful, wonderful individual who is like literally become one of my best friends on the committee.
He is a wonderful, wonderful guy, big radio guy.
It's great.
Arkansas, it looks like Barnett from Arkansas.
Is that right?
Jonathan as well.
Incredible dude.
Actually, the whole Arkansas delegation was against it.
Yeah, he fostered a lot that's happened with the Huckabee family and everything in Arkansas.
He's been one of the pioneers of Republicanism in Arkansas since it went from a blue state.
Hillard from Arkansas.
Yep.
And McCallan and from Arkansas.
I'm sorry, I can't see that.
It's McCallahan or something from Arkansas.
Yeah.
Tyler Boyer from Arizona.
Good job, whoever he is.
Kelly Ward, who's actually no longer state party chair.
Did Jeff DeWitt win?
Jeff DeWitt, who is the CEO of the Trump campaign in 2016, one of the first public officials to come out for Donald Trump in 2015, just won and became the state party chair.
So congrats, Jeff, but he's a good dude.
Harmeet obviously voted for change.
Then from Delaware, McCrosson from Delaware supported change.
And she stuck her neck out there.
That's a tough state to do that.
She's a wonderful human being.
Then from Feman, Florida, voted for change.
Yeah, Peter Feeman is an incredible patriot and warrior.
And I'll just say this.
He's the national committeeman.
He's been one of the most conservative members on the RNC.
And they're looking at a whole new national committee woman now, I think, in Florida because of this.
Then Thompson from Georgia stuck his neck out too, looks like.
Yeah, the entire Georgia delegation was not on board for Rana publicly at all in any kind of way, which should tell you everything.
When Georgia and Arizona are.
So they think things are going wonderfully in Georgia when I talked to them.
Who told you that?
One of the committeemen for Georgia.
Well, that's Jason.
Jason was on Team Harmee.
Oh, I know, but not every Georgia personally.
Well, the state party chair also there, Dave Schaefer.
I don't know.
I talked to somebody from Georgia, and they thought everything was going great.
Okay, Hawaii, really sweet woman.
Makanelua.
Yeah, Laura.
Yeah.
Fantastic.
She's one of the best.
She's one of the younger members on the committee, and she's incredible.
Iowa Schaefer.
Good man.
Steve Schaefer, I think.
Moon from Idaho.
Yep.
And Illinois, DeMonte.
Demetria DeMonte.
I've known her for a while.
Louisiana, Villary.
Yep.
And Roger was one of the first ones to come out to support Harmee.
Good man.
Good dude.
Lions from Massachusetts, it looks like.
Yeah, Jim is actually in a re-election battle on Tuesday.
We should help him out then.
So Massachusetts, if you're in Massachusetts, you need to get the word out and support Jim Lyons.
He has been a lion for patriotism on the committee.
Ron Kaufman, who just got, you know, ended his term as treasurer is one of the oldest committee members.
They're in a massive battle of grassroots versus not grassroots.
I want to get through this really quick.
And then we have Lamb from Montana, it looks like L-A-M-M or Lehman.
Deborah Lamb.
Wonderful.
Yeah, great.
Hines from North Dakota, wonderful woman.
Nebraska, Blythe, right?
Is that Fanshan?
Fanchong?
Yep.
Then another Nebraska, Underwood, looks like.
Yep, the state party chair who's awesome.
They just took over that state party not too long ago.
New York, Chala.
I'm sorry.
I can't read that.
C-H, starting from New York.
I'll get the name in a second.
Pollard from Oregon and you from Oregon.
No, Pollard's from Oklahoma.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Pollard from Oklahoma and then you from Oregon.
Yep.
And Solomon, you is one of the longest tenured.
He was part of the removing Michael Steele thing years ago.
It was awesome.
Kating from South Dakota.
Campbell from Tennessee.
Brock from Tennessee.
Armstrong from Texas, who gave a beautiful speech for Harmeet.
Probably one of the strongest voices that we have on the committee.
Incredible dude.
Texas really anchored the delegation really well.
Lyman from Virginia.
Yeah, Patty Lyman is a warrior on the committee.
Morton Blackwell.
Love him.
Morton.
He's a legend, man.
Shepard from Vermont.
Yeah, and Jay, I can't speak highly enough about Jay.
Jay has been, he listens to the grassroots.
And in the Northeast, that's tough.
That's rare.
McArdle from West Virginia.
And then my guys from Wyoming, all three of them publicly supported.
I love it.
Ethorne, Steinance, and Weber from Wyoming.
All three.
All three are incredible.
Frank Ethorne has been the change maker that helped get rid of Liz Cheney.
And their entire committee has been.
And then Corporal Rennan from Colorado.
Yeah, Randy.
And Randy is wonderful on the radio lawyer.
He's incredible.
Now, but just looking at this, Tyler, just really quick before we go to a break, I don't see anybody from Kansas.
I don't see any.
I see one person from Oklahoma.
No one from Missouri.
No one from Indiana.
No one from Kentucky.
No one from Mississippi.
Well, Kentucky had a lot of support just more quietly in the bathroom.
Okay.
No, but what I'm getting at, and maybe I'm wrong, is there's some deep red states that were supporting Ronna Romney.
Yeah, you brought them up.
Kansas, Missouri, a lot of the Midwest, unfortunately, you know, New Mexico, Connecticut, the entire state, South Carolina.
Yeah, those are the states, North Carolina.
Yep.
Yeah.
Those states all.
you know, decided before even Harmie got in that it didn't matter what they were going to do.
They were going to vote for Army.
People are saying, well, Charlie, how do I get rid of these people?
We've been telling you about that for many months, but we're going to remind you they're elected by precinct committee men in most of these states, not all of them, but most of them.
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And you could become a precinct committee man and you should.
We're getting a lot of emails about Mar-a-Lago being dispatched into Dana Point to advocate for Rana.
I say this as an enthusiastic supporter for Donald Trump in 2024.
I was demoralized by that.
And to see that the efforts that I was trying to put forward, it's not just me, it's you.
I was just trying to be a conduit for you that there was.
You saw that too, right, Tyler?
Yeah, I mean, a lot of this is just educational.
So what's bothered me the most about the Republican Party, and I think this is what bothers most of you that are listening and watching at home, is that the Republican Party, like the Democrat Party and like every party, kind of operates in the shadows.
So if you ask, why do I hate the Republican Party?
It's well, they're always constantly doing crap in the background that nobody knows about.
And then it's, it's antithetical to like what the majority of us want.
That's the, if you can oversimplify what's going on here.
And this is like the biggest public awareness campaign ever of that happening.
Them becoming aware of it.
So every single member of the 168 was completely aware that this is how the grassroots felt.
And then they did the opposite anyways.
Right.
So, you know, to me, it was like, hey, all we can do is I told people this is like, I'm not your enemy.
You know, a couple of the people were really angry with us because we was real fired up.
Because, you know, heaven forbid people contact them and tell them what they think.
But, you know, it was, I told them, I said, look, this isn't about, this is a warning.
I'm your, I'm your friend.
I'm trying to warn you.
I'm trying to, I'm just trying to tell you that like you're going to get yanked.
Right.
And I don't care.
Like if the people don't want me anymore, like they can yank me out anytime.
I don't, I don't care.
And by the way, I'm a big Jeffersonian guy.
I think I should only be running one term and replace myself.
And we would have a better country if we did that.
But, you know, there's some guys that have been in there since H.W. Bush, like in Massachusetts.
Ron Kaufman's been there since George H.W. Bush was president.
I mean, I was in diapers, you know, you were, you know, I don't know if I was alive.
Not even born, probably.
So like that's, that's a scary thing that that's where we're at is that we have an RNC that's operating literally 50, 60 years ago.
So what are the ramifications then?
I mean, look, there's a couple of different things.
One is what we've been warning, which is that, hey, people are going to be really upset with you and they're going to become obsessed with this because I know the grassroots.
You guys are obsessive about this stuff and you should be rightfully so.
They're fired up.
We're getting hundreds of emails a minute.
Instead of focusing on getting a president elected now, now we're going to have a lot of people focused rightfully on retaking the party.
Because again, how can you expect to win the presidency if you don't even have the party, right?
So you have to have the grassroots believing in your party.
And unfortunately, I'll tell you, I'm one of the youngest members.
I'm like, I think I'm the youngest national committee man in the country by a lot.
And, you know, I look at this.
I go in and nobody asks me questions.
Nobody's like, hey, what, what do millennials think or what?
You guys run the largest grassroots organization in the country.
Like, what are people saying?
I don't get any of those questions.
And I even told Rana that.
She got up and had the gall in front of the 168 to tell them in a members-only meeting, you know, we're doing a youth advisory committee.
It's like, well, Rana, I got up and I said in front of everybody, I said, you've never called me about youth issues.
And like maybe the right like, I mean, maybe there's something that we could share, but but it's like that, it's like silliness, right?
It's almost like it's like living in the Soviet Union where it's like everything is you know, backwards day, it's like upside down, very orwilling, the whole thing.
I mean, I had some, I had a member tell me this was the best midterm we've had.
Yeah, it's and that's what the repetition was.
And there was a look, I have nothing in common with Bill Palatucci other than my wife's from New Jersey.
Bill Palatucci is the National Committee man from New Jersey.
He hates Rana.
He got up and he hates Trump.
You know, you know, again, I have nothing in common with this guy, but he was like, you just got up and just said that this was like the greatest election of our lifetime.
And like, so like all of us that are like big, you know, pro-Trump people, we're like, I mean, Bill's right.
Like, well, and I mean, like, we didn't have success.
Like, why can't we have like a normal conversation about how do we if you want to, if you want to get really fired up?
So I'm sitting in the back of the room while the vote is being prepared and they have these treasure reports.
They come up and they say, oh, yeah, by the way, we ended the cycle with $14 million cash on hand.
I almost stood up.
I said, wait, $14 million cash on hand?
Why didn't you just do $2 million for Kerry Lake, $2 million from Adam Laxalt?
You guys are ending the cycle with money on your hand while Kerry Lake is battling in the courts.
This is unbelievable to me.
$14 million cash on hand?
You guys should be going into debt.
It's worse.
So I discovered something.
This is going to send, you're going to send your audience off the rails here.
I read a 40-plus page election integrity report from the staff at the RNC saying that there were significant issues with the legal strategy that was prepared by the RNC.
They did not want that to get out ahead of the election for Rana, especially because Harmeat has been saying these things for years now.
And it is mind-blowing stuff that I think we'll be able to get out there because people should be aware of this.
Yeah.
I mean, the RNC, they basically said to you, the grassroots, the people they begged for money from, yeah, we really don't think very highly of you, and we're going to keep the status quo.
The regime continues.
I, in good faith, am I going to say this, stop giving money to them.
Support the good guys, not the problem.
Tyler, keep fighting.
Thanks, Charlie.
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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