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| Hey everybody, today the Charlie Kirk Show live from Arizona, a monster episode with Andy Biggs, Eli Crane, Kerry Lake, and more. | |
| Involved with tpaction.com. | |
| We are here live from President Trump's first address post-conviction. | |
| Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com. | |
| Buckle up, everybody. | |
| Here we go. | |
| Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. | |
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| I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. | |
| Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. | |
| I want to thank Charlie. | |
| He's an incredible guy. | |
| His spirit, his love of this country. | |
| He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created. | |
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| They are counting on your surrender. | |
| If you give up, they win. | |
| But what if we look back and we realize we were just inches away from victory, and that's when we decided to give up. | |
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| With the biggest speakers in the movement, featuring President Donald J. Trump. | |
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| Today, we have President Trump live at Dream City Church. | |
| Producer Andrew is co-hosting as well today. | |
| It is a town hall, Chase the Vote Town Hall in Phoenix, Arizona. | |
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The Great Silent Majority Rises
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| Not too late if you want to get in the car and come here. | |
| We have a couple thousand people outside already. | |
| Andrew, don't you see this? | |
| It's incredible. | |
| As somebody who had to find a way into the venue this morning, I can tell you it is already packed out there. | |
| So it was a wild entry. | |
| And you can get your tickets at tpaction.com slash town hall. | |
| President Donald J. Trump will be here today, a major show of force, his first event post-show trial conviction. | |
| But I want to get into some amazing Arizona news. | |
| But first, today is the 80th anniversary of D-Day. | |
| 80 years where the heroes of the American, British, and Canadian armies stormed Normandy Beach to liberate Europe and Nazi tyranny. | |
| We honor their heroic achievement and sacrifice as we try to fight to salvage the country and the freedoms that they fought to save. | |
| Joe Biden was actually born before D-Day and frankly looks more and more decrepit than the handful of men who fought there who are still alive today. | |
| Today, while in France, to honor the events of that day, President Biden later was mysteriously escorted away while his wife was with French President Macron in the middle of greeting surviving veterans. | |
| Is Biden going to actually make it to next November? | |
| We don't know. | |
| But in some ways, we kind of hope so. | |
| But just this week, the Wall Street Journal published a report quoting both Republicans and Democrats saying that behind closed doors, it's even worse. | |
| Biden is forgetting the details of his own policies, nodding off in meetings more and more. | |
| D-Day, one of the most important days in American history, probably one of the most incredible military accomplishments in American military history. | |
| A amphibious invasion, a land and sea invasion to liberate France from Nazi control. | |
| What we were fighting for was good versus evil. | |
| And unfortunately, those evil forces have now taken over America from within. | |
| Let's play cut 118. | |
| And people don't realize what they have. | |
| They bitch about it. | |
| And then nowadays, I am so upset that the things we did and the things we fought for and the boys that died for it is all gone down the drain. | |
| Our country gone to hell in a handbasket. | |
| We haven't got the country we had when I was brave. | |
| Not at all. | |
| Nobody will have the fun I had. | |
| Nobody will have the opportunity I had. | |
| It's just not the same. | |
| And that's not what I was, that's not what they died for. | |
| Just not it. | |
| That is not what they died for. | |
| You know, we remember the sacrifice of what they did on D-Day. | |
| Andrew, we have another piece of tape here. | |
| Why don't you introduce that? | |
| Well, yeah, this is actually from this year. | |
| I mean, that clip that Charlie just played is a classic. | |
| It's a classic. | |
| I mean, it brings tears to a lot of people's eyes every time they see it because the men and women that served this country so valiantly in World War II, guys like that, that remember a country that the institutions were strong, the values were strong, and we've lost so much of that. | |
| And this is actually a clip, Cut 112, from this year's D-Day celebration. | |
| There are still World War II vets among us, and many of them actually got flown out to Normandy Beach or Omaha Beach for the celebration where Biden was with 20 other heads of state, including Emmanuel Macron, which we mentioned before. | |
| And this guy's saying he feels like a foreigner in his own country. | |
| Let's go ahead and play it. | |
| Cut 112. | |
| The real truth? | |
| Yeah. | |
| I feel like a foreigner in my own country lots of times, and I don't like it. | |
| It makes my heart real heavy. | |
| And I just hope we can pull out of this. | |
| There's too much Hollywood going on in Washington all the time. | |
| The important subjects they don't cover. | |
| Sort of thing is, I hope that I hope all the guys will rally up and we'll go back and straighten it all out. | |
| These are patriots sounding the alarm. | |
| They know what they fought for. | |
| And it really is a question of who actually won the war. | |
| We might have won the military war militarily. | |
| However, culturally, these influences have taken over the entire United States. | |
| Yeah, I mean, what I love about that clip, though, is there's still this optimism in America that he shows at the end. | |
| He said, you know, yeah, I'm upset with a lot. | |
| I feel like a foreigner in my own country sometimes, and that makes my heart heavy. | |
| But I'm hoping that they'll go back and they'll sort it all out. | |
| And, you know, I could say that I feel the same. | |
| You know, the hope in November, the hope that we are going to get better leaders, it's real. | |
| I think a lot of these World War II veterans share a hope in America, a belief in America. | |
| And we can't lose sight of that, Charlie, in my opinion. | |
| There is an undercurrent of evil in every free society. | |
| And when we remember D-Day, these are men that were literally crapping their pants before they were going to that beach. | |
| I mean, imagine it. | |
| You don't know the time or the hour. | |
| In fact, it was planned originally on June 3rd, but the invasion was delayed slightly because of weather. | |
| The Nazis were totally taken by surprise. | |
| They thought the invasion was going to happen at a different part of France. | |
| And in fact, they did not believe it right out of the gate. | |
| They found it to be very, very hard to believe that the Allied forces would actually go to Normandy Beach, which was a harder terrain for them to be able to successfully do an invasion. | |
| And when Dwight D. Eisenhower gave the order, in fact, I want to read from this. | |
| It's incredible. | |
| When he signed the letter and gave the order, the supreme headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Force, soldiers, sailors, and airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force, you are about to embark upon the great crusade towards which we have striven these many months. | |
| I want you to imagine, we're not asking you to storm Normandy Beach, by the way. | |
| We're asking you to go fill in a mail-in ballot and get your neighbor to do the same. | |
| We're not asking you to go up against the Nazi turrets. | |
| We're asking you to go tell your friends to go vote for Donald J. Trump and to campaign and advocate for the restoration of this country. | |
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Anthony Kern Campaigns For Congress
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| 80 years ago, the greatest generation stormed the beaches that we may be free. | |
| And I still believe that there's a fighting spirit left in this country. | |
| I think that the American people are ready to take back this country. | |
| I mean, Andrew, what we're looking at right now, we're going to be cutting there, is 2,000 or 3,000 people already basically ready to come into this event hours before. | |
| I mean, we're talking about five or six hours before. | |
| There are people here at 5:30 in the morning ready to go. | |
| And the American spirit is not dead. | |
| The American spirit is very much alive. | |
| And I want to play that tape of Eisenhower reading the letter. | |
| And we have some breaking news here. | |
| Steve Bannon has officially been sentenced to federal prison, according to the National Pulse. | |
| Steve Bannon must report to jail by July 1st, which, Andrew, I think it's a four-month sentence. | |
| So they're trying to take Steve Bannon out of the election all of July, all of August, all of September, all of October. | |
| It's a four-month sentence. | |
| So unless they're, by the way, monitoring this in real time, so there very well might be. | |
| Yeah, he lost his appeal in Washington, D.C., the swamp, which, of course, so he just, the judge just ruled stories developed. | |
| According to National Pulse, originally was supposed to be, and by the way, you might say, what's his crime? | |
| It's contempt of Congress for invoking executive privilege, the same thing that has Peter Navarro in federal prison. | |
| It says former Trump advisor Stephen K. Bannon, host a war room, must report to jail by July 1st after losing his appeal in Washington, D.C., a judge ruled Thursday. | |
| They're coming after everybody. | |
| And by the way, our next segment, we're going to have everyday Arizona Patriots that are being targeted by the Arizona Attorney General. | |
| The lawfare is all this regime has left. | |
| They cannot win the arguments. | |
| They're losing on policy. | |
| Their radical ideas are out of the mainstream in this country. | |
| So they must use force. | |
| You can govern a country by persuasion, dialogue, and speaking and reason or by blunt force. | |
| Yeah, I'm getting lots of messages here right now. | |
| I want to get to the Arizona news here. | |
| So it seems, okay, yeah. | |
| So Jack Pasobic has just said it's a four-month prison sentence, all of July, all of August, all of September, all of October. | |
| They're effectively taking Stephen K. Bannon out of this election. | |
| That's what this is all about. | |
| They're trying to take Steve Bannon out of this election. | |
| So this is a top-down, bottom-up great squeeze strategy. | |
| Listen carefully. | |
| Take Trump out or make him a convicted felon. | |
| By the way, his sentencing is on July 11th. | |
| Don't be surprised if they put him in prison. | |
| Take out one of the lieutenants of the MAGA movement, Steve Bannon. | |
| Take out Peter Navarro. | |
| Take out Tyler Boyer. | |
| This is orchestrated. | |
| This is coordinated. | |
| This is a desperate regime that is trying to take out one of the most important voices. | |
| Steve Bannon would get out of federal prison, according to this, two days before the election. | |
| So that means the entire early voting month, all of September, all of October, War Room would be without its top lieutenant. | |
| Do you have a reaction to that, Andrew? | |
| Yeah, I mean, we're going to be doing what we can to get him on the phone from jail. | |
| I think it's despicable. | |
| I think this timing is not incidental at all. | |
| I happen to think that Peter DeVaro is going to come out of prison and he's going to then take over as guest host of War Room. | |
| Maybe I don't want to get over my skis here, Mr. Rob Sig, but I mean, that would make sense to me. | |
| So, I mean, listen, next man up. | |
| That's my message. | |
| Next man up, we've got a job to do. | |
| And, you know, frankly, Charlie makes voices like yours all the more important. | |
| So we're going to hold up. | |
| We're going to hold this down. | |
| We're going to pick up the slack. | |
| Geez, this is outrageous. | |
| Steve Bannon is joining us at the People's Convention next weekend. | |
| So all the more reason to get your tickets to the People's Convention and show his support of Steve Bannon. | |
| But that right there, breaking news, Steve Bannon sentenced to four years, four years, four months in federal prison starting July 1st, effectively taking him out of the entire presidential election. | |
| Symmetrical, coordinated, harmonized warfare against Steve Bannon and War Room. | |
| Unbelievable. | |
| We want to go to Brian Glenn first. | |
| We got him all. | |
| So as you guys know, we're doing a live event. | |
| We're going to be here with State Senator Justine Watsack in just a second. | |
| But we have an amazing crowd out here waiting to come into the Turning Point Action Town Hall. | |
| Doors are now open. | |
| People are now flooding in. | |
| Let's cut to Brian Glenn, who is out with some great patriots out there. | |
| Brian, what are you hearing? | |
| What are you seeing out there in that 100-degree waiting line in the shade? | |
| Brian, what's going on? | |
| Oh, it feels good out here, Charlie. | |
| You got it right. | |
| Let's grab the camera real quickly. | |
| There are thousands, and it's safe to say that right now at this point, doors just open here at Dream City Church. | |
| These people are fired up. | |
| They're ready. | |
| We broke the news here earlier in the previous segment about Steve Bannon getting sentenced to four months in prison. | |
| What's your thoughts on that? | |
| That's crazy. | |
| Just crazy. | |
| That goes with the whole plot. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Yeah, it's just unbelievable that they're sending them to prison and other people who need to go to prison aren't going. | |
| It's just another way they're trying to silence MAGA. | |
| And of course, War Room and Steve Bannon is a big part of that, as well as all the lineup here on Real America's Voice. | |
| But let's talk about President Trump. | |
| He's here in town. | |
| Is this the first time you guys have seen the president in person? | |
| It's first time for me. | |
| He's already been to a rally. | |
| I was at a rally at the airport in 2020. | |
| Okay. | |
| So on day one of his administration, what should be his top priority? | |
| I think immigration. | |
| Drill, baby, drill. | |
| Drill, baby, drill. | |
| A lot of energy stuff. | |
| How about you guys? | |
| On day one for President Trump, what should he's first thing to do? | |
| What's your first task of him? | |
| The border and then drill. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Likewise. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Yeah, the border. | |
| Everything that, excuse me, that Biden undid. | |
| Biden really undid all of this stuff for there. | |
| And of course, President Trump is scheduled to speak here a little later today. | |
| And of course, all these thousands of Patriots are here now. | |
| President Trump did come here back a year ago. | |
| And Charlie, you got it right. | |
| I think we've got three times the amount of people at this point before the doors open. | |
| We're glad you're here. | |
| What's your first thing? | |
| Where are you from? | |
| Sue Brady from San Diego. | |
| All right. | |
| What brings you here today? | |
| I'm part of Turning Point Action and Turning Point Faith, but I've never been able to see President Trump in person. | |
| So I'm so excited to be here and brought a couple of friends. | |
| And we just love him so much. | |
| We're so thankful. | |
| He's such a hero. | |
| He really is. | |
| I mean, I think the biggest one ever in American history. | |
| So we want to support him, let him know we love him. | |
| And we're praying like crazy for him. | |
| And of course, Chase the Vote is a great initiative pushed out right now to really go after and get those votes. | |
| We'll talk a little bit about that. | |
| Totally. | |
| Yeah, we've been doing that as part of Turning Point in San Diego. | |
| Our church, Awakened Church, is a, what do they call it? | |
| We're, you know. | |
| A satellite, kind of a satellite for Turning Point. | |
| So we've been going out door to door, canvassing, asking people, you know, who's registered to vote at their address, you know, and just going to take a door-to-door action with these kind of voter fraud, I think. | |
| There's a lot of people on the voting rolls that should not be on the voting rolls. | |
| That's a big part of that. | |
| Let me see if I can bring some other folks in here. | |
| Yes, yes. | |
| Yes, we're, yeah, we're, we're, I love MTG. | |
| She's awesome. | |
| Got a few fans out here, I would imagine. | |
| If I could talk to this gentleman, right? | |
| Yeah, go ahead. | |
| What's your name? | |
| Where are you from? | |
| Dave? | |
| Yes. | |
| Dave from Palo Alto, California. | |
| Okay, real quick, I got about 30 seconds. | |
| What brings you here today? | |
| Obviously, to see Donald J. Trump. | |
| First time to see him? | |
| No, the second time. | |
| There we go. | |
| I saw him in D.C. Day one. | |
| What should he do? | |
| Day one, I think that there's a number of things that he should do. | |
| Give me one. | |
| Okay, border or forest. | |
| Border. | |
| Yeah, I think border's pretty important. | |
| You go, well, hey, I'm going to talk to back inside. | |
| Andrew, Charlie, you've got a big crowd out here waiting to see you guys a little bit later. | |
| We'll check back with you. | |
| Yeah, can't wait. | |
| Thanks so much, Brian. | |
| Really appreciate it. | |
| Thank you. | |
| We are now joined by Justine Watzak. | |
| Did I get that right? | |
| Yes, you did. | |
| Welcome, State Senator. | |
| So first, what do you think of this crowd here in Arizona? | |
| It's going well, right? | |
| This is amazing. | |
| I think I've been to every single Trump rally. | |
| Oh, wow. | |
| Trump event. | |
| One of my favorites was when he actually came to Pima County. | |
| Are you from Pima County? | |
| I represent LD 17, which is the district that surrounds Pima County. | |
| So I represent Tucson, you know, the whole southern Arizona. | |
| And when he came in 2020, I just remember thinking there's no way he could lose. | |
| This is incredible. | |
| There were 20,000 people that were turned away that day. | |
| In Pima County. | |
| In Pima County. | |
| And so I thought, no, he's going to win. | |
| This is amazing. | |
| The people showed up, and that's supposed to be a very Democrat stronghold, but it was not a Democrat stronghold that day. | |
| He should have won. | |
| Do you think we're doing better in Pima than even in 2020? | |
| Oh, 100% we are. | |
| It is. | |
| People are coming out in droves. | |
| You have people that are changing their registration to Republican daily. | |
| So your district then is south of Tucson, is that right? | |
| Or is it? | |
| It's like a giant number seven that goes around Tucson. | |
| Okay, I was going to say, because Tucson is a Democrat stronghold and you being a MAGA faithful is a tougher, is it all Pima County? | |
| Is it a little bit of Cochise or is it Little Pinal? | |
| It's a sliver of Pinnell. | |
| I have saddle broke up in Pinal, but the way I like to describe it is that Tucson being that Democrat stronghold, LD 17 is the Republican district that is built on granite and Tucson is built on quicksand. | |
| So it's my job to go down there and throw out a life raft to them once in a while. | |
| I love it. | |
| So what is your reaction to Attorney General Chris Mays using the Attorney General's office? | |
| She became Attorney General by 270 votes-ish, right around that number, going after Tyler Boyer, going after Kelly Ward. | |
| What is your reaction? | |
| Well, I will tell you that Mays is attempting to create a chilling effect on our freedom of speech. | |
| That's really the bottom line. | |
| She's abusing her power in office by just stopping anyone who questions elections. | |
| Look at what she has done to President Trump on a national level. | |
| And that national threat should scare every American because now it's spilling over into our states. | |
| And, you know, anybody who has the audacity to stand up to election integrity or to protecting President Trump, such as Senator Hoffman, Senator Kern, Tyler Boyer, we have really great Americans that are fighting, and they're all being taken down by one person who thinks she has the audacity to do this, the authority. | |
| If we had another mic, I'd get Anthony. | |
| I want to get Anthony Kern up here in a second, but let me ask you, what is then the call to action? | |
| And do you think this is going to backfire on the Democrat Party for weaponizing the legal system here in Arizona, going after these great patriots? | |
| Absolutely. | |
| You know, I've seen more and more advertising and memes and people just getting out there and speaking their mind out in the streets saying, I am going to defend President Trump. | |
| I don't care if he is convicted. | |
| I don't care if he goes to jail. | |
| President Trump has even said, you know, I'm not afraid of going to jail because everything they do to that man only makes him stronger. | |
| It gives him more power. | |
| I equate it to, I'm a Gen Xer, so I'm a big Star Wars fan. | |
| And when Darth Vader tried to take down Obi-Wan Kenobi, he said, if you strike me down, it will only make me stronger. | |
| And that's exactly what's happening to Trump. | |
| So I'm going to sub you out with Anthony Kern. | |
| Thank you so much for your great work. | |
| Great to see you. | |
| Thank you. | |
| As we get Anthony Kern up here, I apologize for the background noise. | |
| We are hosting an event. | |
| Ooh, let's not get tripped up here. | |
| I want to tell you guys about some amazing news that came out today. | |
| So we have been registering voters every single day at Turning Point Action. | |
| Every day we are out there registering new voters in Arizona. | |
| New update. | |
| This is an exclusive update on voter registration numbers. | |
| Our team requested updated numbers from the Secretary of State's office, and they're very strong. | |
| In just one month, Republicans have increased their margins over Democrats to 243,000, a month net gain of 7,000 voters. | |
| Before, Republicans had 40,000 more registered voters than Independents, and that lead has increased to nearly 65,000 in April, a net gain of nearly 25,000. | |
| We are winning the voter registration war in Arizona, winning it every single day. | |
| We need to keep the pressure on, keep registering neighbors and family, and then chase the votes this October. | |
| Joining us now is Anthony Kern. | |
| How are we doing, man? | |
| You got to get right into that mic. | |
| So like right into there. | |
| So you are one of the alternate electors that has been indicted by Chris Mays. | |
| How are you holding up? | |
| Oh, very well. | |
| Yeah, actually, it's helping my campaign for Congress, Charlie. | |
| And, you know, I remember, I'm old enough to remember when an indictment on a politician, they fled the next day and they almost fled the country. | |
| Today, because of the lawfare that the Democrat Party is doing, when you get indicted by the Democrat Attorney General or the Department of Justice or the FBI, it's a badge of honor because the Democrats have absolutely weaponized our government and it is time to push back. | |
| Yeah, I completely agree. | |
| So the lawfare is one element of it. | |
| They are trying to demoralize us. | |
| Are you fighting even harder now that you are facing this indictment and potential prison time? | |
| 100%. | |
| So I've had the FBI, the DOJ, and the Attorney General at my door at my residence in Glendale. | |
| I've had them at my door so many times that we've had to actually close the shades. | |
| I've had to put up no trespassing signs. | |
| I've put cameras up all around my property. | |
| Wow. | |
| Because I do not trust our government right now. | |
| Here's the thing, Charlie. | |
| Righteousness exalts a nation. | |
| I serve Jesus Christ. | |
| He is my defender. | |
| As long as I serve him and please him, I'm going to please the voters of CDA. | |
| I'm going to stand in the gap. | |
| And it's time for fighters like Donald Trump and Anthony Kern and Charlie Kirk and the Freedom Caucus here in Arizona and the Freedom Caucus at the United States Congress. | |
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| It's time for us to just stand up and push back. | |
| This is our 1776 moment, Charlie. | |
| I love it. | |
| And by the way, just some of the audio background, we're doing a final run-through, final test. | |
| So President Trump is not up. | |
| Look how beautiful that looks. | |
| Doesn't that look great? | |
| It looks great. | |
| By the way Dream City Church, what an amazing venue. | |
| This is a first-class place here. | |
| So I want to ask Arizona: we are winning the voter registration battle. | |
| Is Donald Trump better positioned to win this state than in 2020? | |
| Absolutely, 100%. | |
| Charlie, I get out there every day in my run for Congress and I talk to voters. | |
| The voters do not like what is going on. | |
| They are afraid. | |
| And they do see what has happened to Donald Trump and the sham indictment in New York a few days ago. | |
| And they want to have people in government, not only righteous leaders, but they want to have people that are not part of the system. | |
| And the system is the Republican and the Democrat system. | |
| So we've got to have fighters that push through that, like Donald Trump. | |
| And I think Donald Trump is going to do very, very well in Arizona. | |
| Well, we need to work. | |
| We need to chase the ballots. | |
| We need to work in our area. | |
| How can people support you, Anthony, and get behind what you're doing? | |
| Thank you, Charlie. | |
| My website's kernforcongress.com. | |
| Just get on there, get a sign, donate some money, be a volunteer. | |
| But more importantly, is every Republicans down the ticket starting at Donald Trump? | |
| It's very important that we ensure we vote Republican and we ensure that all of our sphere of influence, whether it be at our church, whether it be in our neighborhood, whether it be whatever meeting, the Lions Club, make sure everybody that is registered to vote that is Republican gets out to vote, casts their ballot, gets in line, and does their civic duty to turn this country around. | |
| Love it. | |
| Love it, my man. | |
| Thank you so much. | |
| Keep fighting. | |
| We're behind you 100%. | |
| I know you are. | |
| Thank you. | |
| We have your back. | |
| Remember, as a kid, your parents and grandparents making you try all the vegetables on your plate or when they coaxed you to eat fruit instead of sweets? | |
| That's because they knew what was good for you. | |
| And it's truer today than ever before. | |
| You need to eat your fruits and veggies. | |
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| Joining us now is Joseph Traplick. | |
| Say that right? | |
| Yes, you did. | |
| Okay, good to see you, man. | |
| How are you? | |
| I'm doing great. | |
| Arizona State Representative. | |
| So what part of Arizona do you represent? | |
| Scottsdale, Fountain Hills. | |
| So you're my guy. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| So we have to do better in Scottsdale. | |
| It's been going a little blue lately, right? | |
| Only the South part. | |
| Is that right? | |
| Some of those northern precincts, though, we got to run up the score a little bit more. | |
| Yeah, North Scottsdale is pretty safe. | |
| It's mostly South Scottsdale that has the Democrats. | |
| We disavow those guys in South Scottsdale. | |
| So tell us about what you're dealing with here in the Arizona legislature, the big issues in front of you. | |
| So right now, I just want to say, you know, the Democrats destroy everything. | |
| So we have a governor that's a Democrat in the state house, in the state of Arizona. | |
| And so we're fighting on the budget. | |
| That's really, you know, as vice chairman of appropriations, I'm part of the budget process. | |
| And I think a lot of people don't know some of the past that we've had huge successes. | |
| Our 2.5% flat tax here in Arizona for all-income earners, huge success last year. | |
| We also have ESAs, which is the school choice here in Arizona. | |
| And the left just wants to destroy these. | |
| They want to get rid of ESAs in the budget. | |
| They say it's bankrupting our state budget. | |
| And what's interesting, Charlie, is, you know, we have a $17 billion budget this year. | |
| And 50% of the general funds will go towards K-12 public education, 50%. | |
| Yet the ESAs that the school choice will be only 2% of that amount from K-12. | |
| Yet the Democrats say we are going to bankrupt the state with ESA school choice. | |
| And it works. | |
| People like it. | |
| It's popular, right? | |
| ESAs are a terrific thing. | |
| So the governor has been rather quiet on most of these. | |
| Where does she stand on this stuff? | |
| Well, right now, she's pushing against us on almost everything that we're trying to accomplish. | |
| That's good for the state of Arizona, especially on the conservative Republican side. | |
| We have a $2 billion deficit right now. | |
| A lot of people don't know that. | |
| And that's from the governor. | |
| We put a budget up last year that if she would have signed it instead of vetoing that budget, we would have had a $500 million surplus this year. | |
| Instead, we're faced with a $2 billion deficit because of her compromises that he made us do to sign that budget. | |
| Otherwise, we would shut the state down. | |
| So we have to have a budget. | |
| We have to have it signed. | |
| And so we have to work with now a Democrat governor that has no business in that office. | |
| She's destroying that office. | |
| She's obviously destroying the state with a $2 billion deficit. | |
| And we're going to continue to fight to protect the values that we have in this budget, which is, you know, the tax rebate we did last year. | |
| When you have a surplus, it means you tax too much. | |
| You know that. | |
| Our taxes are too high here. | |
| 100%. | |
| And now we're at 2.5% flat tax. | |
| We should be zero. | |
| That's right. | |
| With that surplus, we actually, the Freedom Caucus, I'm a founding member of the House Freedom Caucus here in Arizona. | |
| We actually gave a tax rebate. | |
| We fought for a tax rebate to our citizens of Arizona. | |
| If we paid too much in taxes, let's give the money back to them. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| And that's what we did last year, and we're trying to protect that this year and expand it as well. | |
| I want to talk just for a second about the political environment here. | |
| What does President Trump have to do to be successful here in Arizona? | |
| The voter registration numbers are increasingly good. | |
| What issues does he focus on? | |
| What does he have to do to win this state? | |
| Well, I mean, obviously, we're a border state, and the border is out of control. | |
| And what he was doing in his presidency, securing the border, building the walls, what we need here still. | |
| When we get this wall built and we stop this invasion that's coming into our country, 12 million illegal aliens have entered into this country, and they're not good people. | |
| And we feel it in Scottsdale. | |
| We feel it. | |
| I mean, from the migrant shelters to the crime, the vagrancy, this is not an isolated incident. | |
| Oh, you're seeing people on the streets, on the corners, begging for money. | |
| I mean, you're seeing this right now in Scottsdale, and it's in every city, too, every suburb. | |
| And what you're also seeing is migrant crime. | |
| It's a new crime. | |
| They call it migrant crime. | |
| We're seeing it in all the cities, and Scottsdale's seeing it, too. | |
| That's exactly right. | |
| So how could people follow you, Joseph? | |
| How could people get behind you? | |
| Any call to action for the audience here? | |
| Well, I'm going back for my third term. | |
| I'm running for Speaker of the House. | |
| My website, josephchaplet.com. | |
| And just happy to serve the state of Arizona and be here fighting for the conservatives and being here for the constituents on what we need to do for the state house in the state of Arizona. | |
| Well, thank you, man, for your great leadership. | |
| And we need to win this state back. | |
| Thank you very much. | |
| We need President Trump to win this. | |
| We are going to win. | |
| You feel good? | |
| You feel President Trump's chances are good? | |
| You know, from everything I see, yeah, I mean, the crowd outside is the biggest crowd I've seen in a while. | |
| I mean, every good thing. | |
| This was at 6 a.m. all of a sudden. | |
| They disappeared. | |
| I was here early. | |
| The line was forming down the street with cars. | |
| The traffic is a nightmare. | |
| There's thousands of people out here at 6, 7 a.m. | |
| This is a huge wave coming. | |
| You know, look, they're at the population here in Arizona. | |
| There's more conservatives. | |
| There's more. | |
| Registered Republicans than Democrats by six points now. | |
| Right. | |
| And the independents tilt our way center right. | |
| So it is a turnout election. | |
| You're a great man. | |
| Thanks for joining us. | |
| Thank you, Charlie. | |
| Yeah, we got to keep Scottsdale clean away from all this nonsense. | |
| With us is Andy Biggs and Congressman Andy Biggs and Congressman Eli Crane. | |
| Welcome, guys. | |
| Thanks. | |
| Thanks for having us, Trelawney. | |
| Lots happening here. | |
| First, just, Andy, you've been around Arizona politics a long time. | |
| This is an impressive show of force here. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| Just think of the hours before we even open up here, and you have thousands and thousands of people already out here. | |
| That's fantastic. | |
| Eli, your reaction to this incredible crowd. | |
| This is amazing, Charlie. | |
| This is one of the things I love about your organization, man. | |
| I mean, you guys do such a great job of turning people out. | |
| And the other thing I've told you before is the fact that you guys focus a lot of your attention on colleges, man. | |
| It's like it was one of the areas that I think a lot of us kind of thought was gone and lost, but you guys went into the past. | |
| There's signs of the peace. | |
| And I think, you know, people with courage have always impressed me. | |
| And I just love this event, this organization. | |
| I'm proud to be here with the senior congressman from Arizona. | |
| Well, you guys are doing great. | |
| And, you know, there's a lot of negativity, but these two are two rock star patriots in the state of Arizona, and they're doing great. | |
| And so let's just kind of walk through this. | |
| In the last couple weeks, we had Merrick Garland, we had Fauci. | |
| Your reaction, Andy Biggs, to their testimonies and their, let's say, statements that they gave under oath. | |
| Well, so I think it demonstrates clearly why we need every good, right-thinking patriot to get out and vote this time, because what you saw was how weaponized the government was, whether it's under Fauci, who they admitted that they didn't have any scientific basis for everything from the masks to the six-foot radius thing. | |
| And then you had Merrick Garland with all his weird statements and obfuscations. | |
| It demonstrates to me with what you guys are doing and what so many in Arizona are doing around the country is registering new voters, getting them enthused. | |
| They have to get out and vote. | |
| Otherwise, you get more of the same attack on the American people. | |
| And that's what they exhibited between Fauci and Garland. | |
| They demonstrated that they willfully attack the American people. | |
| And that's the fight we're in right now. | |
| Eli, your reaction to that, to Merrick Garland's testimony. | |
| You know, I saw clips of it. | |
| I'm not on those committees, Charlie, but I think my reaction to it is frustration. | |
| My frustration is, as Republicans, why don't we ever do anything about it, right? | |
| I mean, the American, it's one thing we campaign on, that we're going to hold some of these bureaucracies and some of their leadership accountable. | |
| And we have a lot of these guys dead to rights, but because we don't have backbone and courage in Republican leadership, we never do anything with it. | |
| So my reaction is frustration. | |
| Yeah, I just, so help me understand, guys. | |
| I don't think either of you voted for this, but the lack of the Republican ability to follow through, new FBI building, FISA, what do your colleagues say to this? | |
| Because you don't have 3,000 people at 104-degree waiting because they want a new FBI headquarters. | |
| It's because they want their country back. | |
| And the FBI has waged war on the American people. | |
| And so it's one thing to have performative street theater when you bring Merrick Garland. | |
| It's another thing not to actually, I don't know, defund the FBI or cut their budget at all. | |
| Your reaction to that, Andy? | |
| Well, first of all, you're exactly right. | |
| Our job in Congress, what the founders gave us to check both the judicial and the executive branches is the funding. | |
| We have that. | |
| That's our authority. | |
| That's our number one check. | |
| And I was in a meeting of conservatives yesterday morning, and I said, look, you know, we can talk all we want, but there are people in this room of conservatives who are professing to be conservatives who vote to fund this kind of weaponization over and over again. | |
| And you're talking about doing it again. | |
| And that's part of the problem. | |
| But I'll tell you something else that needs to happen, Charlie. | |
| I know Eli and myself, we have begged the speaker to engage in lawfare back, hire the attorneys, litigate this stuff, because a lot of this is litigable and litigable? | |
| I don't know if I just made up a word. | |
| Able to be litigated. | |
| There you go. | |
| We have to be engaged in the same lawfare because the other side, even though we have the uprising of the people, they're with us. | |
| But the other side uses the courts to their advantage, and we have got to do the same. | |
| I was actually in that meeting, Charlie, and Andy got pretty upset, man. | |
| I thought he was going to start swinging and throwing blows. | |
| And it's hard. | |
| As you know, this guy's one of the nicest guys in the world. | |
| So it's hard to get this guy upset. | |
| But when he sees, you know, us spending money we don't have and not using the power of the purse to hold some of these organizations accountable. | |
| This guy gets upset. | |
| Yeah, I just, the lack of fight from certain Republicans, is it because they think everything is fine or they're worried that they're going to lose re-election? | |
| They actually will be less likely to hold office if they don't fight. | |
| Yeah, I mean, I think so many of them, I was, you know, in a different meeting I was at, I was doing the same thing in that meeting too, Eli. | |
| So I was going for the trifecta yesterday. | |
| But some of them, I was looking at him and I'm thinking, they've been here so long. | |
| They're just happy to be in Congress. | |
| They just want to be in Congress. | |
| They don't want to see a change. | |
| I mean, if it were to change, that'd be great, but they're not going to do anything that is risky for them personally or their political career. | |
| The reality is it takes courage. | |
| We need more people like Eli Crane, who's just been awesome. | |
| He's been the best of his class to come in and actually stand up and fight. | |
| And so, Charlie, and what you guys are doing, there's not a tinker's damn worth of good by even with a lot of people outside who profess to be good. | |
| We need inside and outside, it needs to be a unified approach to attack those. | |
| We have to do a counteroffensive because they're attacking us and beating us. | |
| Yes, but there is no plan right now for a counteroffensive. | |
| Instead, it's just kind of a I hope it gets better. | |
| Is that right, Eli? | |
| To go back to that, Charlie, remember when Chuck Strumer said that the Intel agencies have, you know, seven. | |
| Six ways to Sunday. | |
| Yep. | |
| Getting back to you. | |
| That's another thing right there. | |
| And that's why you see so many people lined up out here is because the guy that they're mainly here to see, President Trump, has shown he has the courage to actually take these agencies and organizations on. | |
| And that's obviously why the entire apparatus in the Uniparty is scared to death about him coming back into power. | |
| So that is why the number one ingredient, we need people, candidates that are intelligent. | |
| We need people that can play well, build teams. | |
| But we need people with courage, Charlie. | |
| We need people with courage. | |
| And that's why I'm so excited to be here alongside other folks with courage. | |
| And I'm excited to hear what President Trump has to say today. | |
| Yeah, courage is so incredibly important. | |
| Where are the subpoenas post-Donald Trump's conviction here? | |
| Why is that so hard to get, Andy? | |
| It's hard to get because we have to go through this rigmarole process of voting on everything. | |
| And if you were to appoint a special House counsel and give them authority to issue subpoenas and then sue for contempt, civil contempt, you would change the whole dynamic. | |
| We have people that won't, they don't, they didn't want to vote for Mallorca's impeachment. | |
| They didn't want to vote to hold contempt for Garland. | |
| And the reality is, Mary Garland is exhibiting contempt. | |
| And if you don't bring the pendulum back completely to the other side and show how uncomfortable it is, so the other side feels uncomfortable, you'll never get the equilibrium again for this country to go forward in a positive way. | |
| And Eli, if you were, what then is the marching order for Speaker Johnson or for the House Republicans to fight fire with fire? | |
| Well, it's the thing that I've been telling Speaker Johnson the entire time. | |
| I always tell him, Mr. Speaker, the American people don't expect you to win every fight, but they expect you to fight, and that's something that you're not doing. | |
| And it has to happen, Charlie. | |
| We have to fight. | |
| We have to be willing to fight because anytime you engage in a battle with somebody who's fighting to win and you're fighting to lose by less, which is what the Republicans do, you're going to lose every time. | |
| That's right. | |
| Andy Biggs and Eli Crane, I want to get both your reaction here. | |
| Steve Bannon has now been sentenced to four years in federal, four years, four months in federal prison during an election year. | |
| That's what I meant to say. | |
| So they're taking him out of the field of battle, if you will. | |
| Your reaction, Andy Biggs? | |
| Well, this is a result of our failure in the House to actually intervene again with the special law affair. | |
| We should have been engaged in law fare. | |
| But this is election interference. | |
| This is the warfare that's out there. | |
| And when I use the term warfare, the other side gets all bent out of shape, but they have no problem executing. | |
| And we've got to execute as well. | |
| And we're still trying to get Peter Navarro so we can actually get him. | |
| He's in federal prison as well. | |
| That's right. | |
| And we want to be able to do podcasts with him and do interviews. | |
| And I have the BOP director who's going to be before my subcommittee in a couple weeks because we're trying to get back at her again because she is the one that refuses to let us talk to Navarro. | |
| I expect Steve's going to get the same thing. | |
| And we're going to have to do everything we can to protect these guys. | |
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| Eli, your reaction. | |
| I want to play this tape here. | |
| This is Steve Bennett outside of the federal courthouse here, being sentenced to four months in federal jail right before an election, Play Cut 121. | |
| Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, the entire Justice Department, they're not going to shut up Trump. | |
| They're not going to shut up Navarro. | |
| They're not going to shut up Bannon. | |
| And they're certainly not going to shut up MAGA. | |
| There's nothing that can shut me up and nothing that will shut me up. | |
| There's not a prison. | |
| There's not a prison built. | |
| There's not a prison built or a jail built that will ever shut me up. | |
| All victory to MAGA. | |
| We're going to win this. | |
| We're going to win at the Supreme Court. | |
| And more importantly, we're going to win on November 5th in an amazing landslide with the Senate, the House, and also Donald J. Trump back as President of the United States. | |
| Eli Crane, your reaction to Steve Bannon going to federal prison. | |
| Well, you know, Charlie, I hope your listeners and people watching this, if this hasn't woken you up yet, Donald Trump says all the time, they come after me to get to you, right? | |
| He's what stands largely in between the tyranny that the Democrats want and our Constitution and the way of life we've had for a long time. | |
| People think that, oh, it's just Donald Trump because he's so bombastic, because he says, you know, he gets in Twitter fights. | |
| No, it's not. | |
| It's anybody that gets in their way, Charlie. | |
| It's anybody that they see as a true threat on the board. | |
| They will go after and they will try and put you in jail. | |
| And so this is why this is so important. | |
| This isn't big taxes, little tax fight anymore. | |
| This is about what kind of country are we going to have? | |
| Is it going to continue to descend into a third world banana republic where political opposition is in prison? | |
| This is one more example of it. | |
| And if I know anything about Steve Banner, Bannon, he considers it an honor to serve jail time for righteousness and for the American people. | |
| The lack of holding this Department of Justice accountable is the whole issue. | |
| Why do we keep on funding this? | |
| Why do we keep on putting up with this? | |
| They actually run the country. | |
| Andy, is it because some of your colleagues are afraid that they're going to get indicted or that they because I mean, one of your friends in the House said that there's a blackmail operation going on. | |
| I mean, is that part of this? | |
| What is going on here? | |
| It's multiple fronts. | |
| Lack of courage for many people. | |
| The intelligence community may have something on some of these people, we suppose, but by and large, it gets down to this. | |
| We have actions we can take. | |
| And until we take action, so where somebody like Americ Garland's held accountable, or May Yorkis is held accountable, or somebody who's on the left that has been weaponized and going after conservatives for political purposes, because that's what this is. | |
| Until we actually take action, you're not going to see this thing stop. | |
| That's right. | |
| And my guys won't, our guys won't do it necessarily, and we have to get them to do it. | |
| Final thoughts, Eli Crane. | |
| And it's easy, Charlie. | |
| It's easy to put this on politicians. | |
| I know I've been guilty of it many times myself, but this message is to the American people. | |
| Quit sending cowards up to Washington, D.C., especially in the House of Representatives. | |
| Every two years, you can fire me if you think I suck, if you think I'm doing a horrible job. | |
| You guys, please quit sending us cowards. | |
| Send us men and women of honor and courage so that we can actually turn the tide for the American people. | |
| Email us, freedom at charliekirk.com. | |
| Final thoughts. | |
| How is Trump going to win Arizona? | |
| Trump's going to win Arizona because a number of things. | |
| First of all, his message is resonating. | |
| The issues that he's winning are 80-20. | |
| You got people on the ballot that are going to dilute the left. | |
| And quite frankly, Joe Biden's support is crumbling because the economy remains bad and the borders open. | |
| Eli, final thoughts? | |
| I think you're seeing right here why he's going to win Arizona and why we're going to win this presidential election because the people of this country, even though they're busy, Charlie, they're not stupid. | |
| They know this isn't what our country is supposed to be. | |
| And they want us to return to a place where we have leadership, strong leadership, because they know that there's peace through strength, not only in the United States of America, but around the world. | |
| Hey, everybody. | |
| This month as we celebrate Father's Day, I'm reminded of my own dad. | |
| He's a man of strong values, went to church, had family dinners, and we always honored the flag. | |
| These values shaped our home. | |
| My dad taught me to stand up for my beliefs, cherish loved ones, and appreciate our freedoms. | |
| This Father's Day, I found a perfect way to honor him with an AMAC membership. | |
| AMAC, the Association of Mature American Citizens, champions the values my father instilled in me, family, faith, and freedom. | |
| AMAC.us slash Charlie is the way you do that. | |
| By joining AMAC, you support an organization that fights for these principles. | |
| For June, you get a two-year membership for just $16, two years for the price of one. | |
| Join me and thousands of others, proud to be AMAC members. | |
| Go to AMAC.us forward slash Charlie. | |
| Let's celebrate Father's Day by standing up for what our dads believe in. | |
| Happy Father's Day, everybody. | |
| And again, that is AMAC.us forward slash Charlie. | |
| Let's celebrate Father's Day together. | |
| AMAC.us forward slash Charlie. | |
| Kerry Lake, how you doing? | |
| I'm doing great. | |
| Just got in, walked through a huge crowd of the most patriotic Americans you could ever find. | |
| It's a great group out there, isn't it? | |
| And a few of them are in. | |
| Some of them are getting their seats. | |
| The parking lot is full. | |
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| We're moving them through. | |
| We're getting them. | |
| We're moving them through. | |
| I'm so excited. | |
| We're happy to have President Trump come to Arizona. | |
| Hey, whether he's here or not, we support him. | |
| But it's always great to have him here, you know, going into such an important election. | |
| So much happening, though, Charlie. | |
| I feel like I woke up today and I feel like we're not in America anymore. | |
| You know, with what's happening with Steve Bannon, locking him up, locking up people who are speaking the truth. | |
| You know, Peter Navarro still sits behind bars and they're going after everyday individuals as well. | |
| And so this election could not be more important. | |
| And I really appreciate what Turning Point is doing to help make sure that we have a little bit more fair election so that we have a shot at it. | |
| We're doing our best. | |
| And some good news this morning, Carrie. | |
| When you ran for the governor's race, and she should be governor of Arizona, shouldn't she? | |
| She should be governor. | |
| And when you ran for the governor's race in 2022, you did an amazing job. | |
| We had about 120,000 more registered Republicans than Democrats statewide. | |
| Now we have 242,000 more registered Republicans than Democrats. | |
| That's huge. | |
| And if we keep the pressure on, and again, we're doing our work, Attorney Point Action. | |
| A lot of groups are doing it. | |
| If we keep the pressure on, we can get 300,000 potentially more registered Republicans than Democrats. | |
| That means that you running for the Senate is a better terrain as far as registered R's versus Ds than even in the governor's race. | |
| And we know exactly what happened there. | |
| We all saw what happened. | |
| And so, Carrie, tell us about your race. | |
| I finally, finally, yesterday, I rejoiced I saw one of your advertisements on television because that creep, that snake, Ruben Gallego, has been running this misleading advertisement for quite some time. | |
| For our national audience, walk us through the framing of your race because you are running against a communist. | |
| That's right. | |
| Well, and you talked about how many Republicans we have voting over Democrats and Independents. | |
| And the good news is that he's pumped in roughly $7 million and he's going to put 20 million more in ads. | |
| We're never going to be able to keep up with that. | |
| That's kind of money that God knows where it's coming from. | |
| Soros money. | |
| Soros money. | |
| It truly is. | |
| And so the good news, though, is that he's kind of topping out at about 46%. | |
| And people don't know him yet. | |
| And once people learn about his record, and we're working to make sure they know about his record, we're running ads right now. | |
| We have a $10 million ad buy. | |
| And that's important to just lay out what this is about. | |
| Look, if you like a wide open border, if you love giving amnesty and asylum to the millions of people pouring across and you want to give them our jobs, our housing, and the ability to vote, if you like crime soaring on the streets, a growing homeless population, an economy that's in the toilet, and World War III, then you might like Ruben Gallego because he truly is a guy. | |
| He's your guy. | |
| He's a Joe Biden mini-me. | |
| And this should send a shiver down your spine. | |
| He voted with Joe Biden 100% of the time. | |
| He is like Joe Biden, but 40 years younger. | |
| So imagine sending someone like that to D.C. and having Joe Biden for 40 more years. | |
| Carrie, I'll go a step further. | |
| I think he's even more radical than Joe Biden. | |
| I think he is Bernie Sanders type. | |
| I mean, Joe Biden hates the country. | |
| I think Rubin hates the country. | |
| He's younger. | |
| He has terrible ideas. | |
| He doesn't believe in borders. | |
| He wants to destroy the U.S. dollar. | |
| He's a Marxist. | |
| And if you want to just take it from, you know, the economic point of view, we're all struggling. | |
| I mean, everyone's struggling. | |
| Even if you're doing well, you're still struggling more than you were five years ago under President Trump. | |
| And in January, we're going to have some really big decisions that are made in the United States Senate and in Washington, D.C. when it comes to whether we keep President Trump's historic tax cuts. | |
| Everybody got a tax cut under President Trump. | |
| Those expire in January. | |
| Do you want someone like Ruben Gallega making those decisions? | |
| He's already said those tax cuts are going away. | |
| That means we're going to have a 20 or 30 percent spike in our taxes come January on top of the inflation that keeps creeping up, up, up. | |
| So it's really, if you want to look at it just from your pocketbook, he's a disaster. | |
| If you want to look at it from your safety and security, he's a disaster. | |
| And if you want to look at it on the ability to have your rights and freedoms, your inalienable rights, your God-given rights, he and Biden are a disaster. | |
| We've seen that. | |
| And we just talked a little bit about, you know, Steve Bannon is going to be locked up. | |
| They're locking up Peter Navarro for coming after literally everyone. | |
| I met a woman the other day, Charlie, in 2020. | |
| She's just a mom with a nine-year-old boy, and she was flying some Trump flags from her car. | |
| And they noticed as they were going down the freeway, the Biden bus was right next to them. | |
| So they took a video and it went viral. | |
| It was them with their Trump flags going by the Biden bus. | |
| And that video went viral. | |
| She has been under a lawsuit for four years since then. | |
| They said that was voter intimidation. | |
| A bunch of Soros-linked attorneys have filed a lawsuit against her, suing her under some old KKK law, saying that she was trying to intimidate voters by flying her Trump flag. | |
| So if you don't think they're coming after everyday individuals, they are. | |
| And this is why we have to get out and vote. | |
| We have to, I tell everybody everywhere I go, download the Turning Point app. | |
| Thank you, Turning Point Action app. | |
| Download it, right, everybody? | |
| It's a great app. | |
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| And honestly, if you have 10 minutes of spare time a day or 10 hours, you can help these people that want to get involved to learn how to do it, make it easy, and have an impact. | |
| Not just get involved with busy work, but actually have an impact. | |
| You can set them up in their neighborhood. | |
| Which door should they knock on? | |
| Who can they have the best chance of bringing over and making sure they get registered to vote? | |
| So, Carrie, I want to now just speak about the individual issues. | |
| One of the top issues that I think you're going to run on and that you can exploit Ruben Gallego on is the issue of housing. | |
| It is harder than ever for Arizonans to afford a home. | |
| That used to be the reason people would move here. | |
| I mean, you remember it 20 or 30 years ago. | |
| Arizona used to brag about being the most affordable state in the country. | |
| I bought a house when I moved here in 1994. | |
| I was 24 years old. | |
| It cost $87,000. | |
| It was a three-bedroom home with a big bag. | |
| What would that cost? | |
| So, what neighborhood generally? | |
| It was North Phoenix. | |
| Okay, North Phoenix. | |
| So that home would be $600,000 or $700,000. | |
| I'm guessing at least half a million now, and it was $87,000. | |
| And so my daughter. | |
| Unsustainable. | |
| My daughter, who's incredible, she's 21. | |
| She said to me the other night, we were reading dinner. | |
| She said, Mom, I did the math. | |
| If I work every waking hour and save as much money as possible, I still won't be able to afford a house in Arizona. | |
| This is, our young people have no hope for their future because even if they do everything right, there's just no way to attain that American dream. | |
| And frankly, Charlie, we are giving up. | |
| You know, 12 million people are here right now, illegally under the Biden invasion. | |
| And we're compassionate people. | |
| That's not how you come into our country. | |
| We have a legal immigration system. | |
| But these 12 million people, guess what? | |
| They have to have housing. | |
| And so we're competing. | |
| American citizens are competing for housing with people here illegally. | |
| When people say the border doesn't affect the economy, I disagree. | |
| We have 12 million people coming in. | |
| They are taking jobs and driving down wages. | |
| Many of them will work for peanuts. | |
| Yes. | |
| And that means you, the American citizen who's a working class, middle class, your wages get depressed because of that. | |
| Then when it comes to your rent prices, all of a sudden, 12 million people are competing for housing. | |
| It's a basic supply and demand. | |
| You don't have to be a world-renowned economist to figure that one out. | |
| When 12 million people are here, they need housing, your rent price goes up. | |
| And it's really the middle class and working class Americans who are bearing the brunt of this. | |
| We're paying their way. | |
| We're paying for their airline ticket. | |
| We're paying for their cell phone. | |
| We're giving them jobs. | |
| We're paying for their Medicare. | |
| And the left will stop at nothing to make these people citizens, give them amnesty, and get them voting because they want to change our country forever. | |
| And they know that people don't like the policies of Joe Biden and the left. | |
| Those policies don't work. | |
| And that's why you're seeing people standing out here in 100-degree heat, soon to be 110-degree heat. | |
| And they are fighting so hard to make sure that their vote counts. | |
| 99 right now. | |
| 99. | |
| It's unbelievable. | |
| They want their vote to count. | |
| They want President Trump, the one guy that's been fighting for them, to win this election. | |
| They want me to win for Senate and turn this nightmare around. | |
| And I assure the people of this great country that when I get to D.C., I'm going to work for the people of this country. | |
| No lobbyists will own my vote. | |
| Nobody can bribe me and nobody can blackmail me. | |
| My vote belongs to the people of Arizona. | |
| Terry, that's so important. | |
| Joe Biden, the Democrats, and Ruben Gallego, they have gone on a spending spree of money we do not have that has made the dollar worth less and has essentially inflated the price of assets. | |
| And so your daughter and young people or working class people, they all of a sudden realize that they are not able to upgrade their standard of living. | |
| And you couple that with mass migration, as you say. | |
| Those are the two big issues: cheap money and mass migration. | |
| Cheap money and mass migration. | |
| You previously had a three-way race and it was kind of goofy and we weren't sure it was happening. | |
| Now it is one-on-one. | |
| It is Carrie Lake Patriot versus Marxist Communist Ruben Gallego. | |
| One-on-one. | |
| He should be very, very beatable, especially we have more registered Republicans than Democrats. | |
| Donald Trump is going to, I hopefully, build this beautiful movement across Arizona. | |
| State 48 loves Trump. | |
| He's had a wonderful relationship with the state for quite some time. | |
| What areas are you focusing on in Arizona? | |
| Where do you need help the most? | |
| Well, we're working to reach every part of Arizona. | |
| And we're not just working to bring in more Republicans. | |
| I mean, I feel that the Republicans are going to show up and vote, and they're going to vote to vote Biden out and make sure that Ruben Gallego is out. | |
| We're working really hard right now to reach in and grab all those independents. | |
| I'm finding that when I talk to independents on the campaign trail, they're very much conservative leaning. | |
| A lot of them are MAGA, and they just don't want to be part of the Republican Party. | |
| They're upset by what they see in Washington, D.C. | |
| But guess what? | |
| Every event we go to, we're seeing disaffected Democrats. | |
| The Democrats that used to think the party worked was for the working class, and now they're realizing it's not. | |
| They're realizing that the open border, the steady drumbeat of war is not working for them. | |
| We were down in Nogales. | |
| Nogales is 99% Hispanic. | |
| And Nogales, Arizona, right there on the border for people across the country who don't realize where it is. | |
| It's really, everyone registered there is primarily Democrat and independent. | |
| We had a big crowd of over 200 people, and everyone came up to me afterward and said, I'm a truck driver. | |
| It's $6,000 more a month to haul the loads that I haul. | |
| When I leave at 2 a.m., I work the 2 a.m. to 2 p.m. shift. | |
| My wife and children are home alone, and I'm worried for their safety. | |
| They're doing huge drops of illegal immigrants into Nogales. | |
| These are people from Asia, Africa, all 170 different countries. | |
| They don't speak the language. | |
| They're roaming around the streets, and people don't feel safe anymore. | |
| So, Carrie, let's talk more about the issues. | |
| Federal spending is out of control, inflation, and war. | |
| Where do you stand on all these foreign wars? | |
| Well, obviously, we've seen so many wars start up. | |
| They go on for years. | |
| They're called the endless wars. | |
| And we were really happy when we had a president like Donald Trump come in and say, we're going to end the endless wars. | |
| These are multi-trillion dollar wars. | |
| Now, I'm not somebody who is an isolationist who wants to stick my head in the sand, but we shouldn't be starting up wars. | |
| And right now, it sure looks like Joe Biden is beating the war drums. | |
| And sadly, it's gotten to the point, Charlie, where it's now gotten away from him. | |
| He doesn't have the power to pull this back anymore. | |
| There's no respect for Joe Biden, and this is why we need a strong leader like President Trump. | |
| So there are no noble fights, but there are a lot of wasted wars, and we lose so many of our young people. | |
| So many innocents die, and that's why President Trump was trying to bring peace to the world. | |
| We had the Abraham Accords, and I want to see us going more in that direction. | |
| The problem with peace, of course, is that it doesn't bring a lot of money in for the war machine. | |
| But peace brings prosperity to everyday individuals, and that's what we want. | |
| We want to return. | |
| You talked about Arizona being an affordable state. | |
| It used to be the most attractive state to come to. | |
| We had the great weather, beautiful views, and people could come here and retire, maybe have a second home, retire here as a snowbird, and it was affordable. | |
| And now it's not that way anymore. | |
| It's gotten to where it's way too expensive. | |
| And people right now, because of the interest rates, are afraid to sell their house because, guess what? | |
| They're never going to get a 3% interest rate again. | |
| And so, the inventory is not there for people who do want to buy a home. | |
| The people who do want to sell their home are afraid to sell it because they're never going to be able to find that kind of an interest rate. | |
| It's just, it is a snowball spiraling out of control. | |
| And Joe Biden and his administration are trying to fluff the pillows on the Titanic while they are the ones that steered it straight into an iceberg. | |
| And so, we got to make a big change. | |
| This is just this election about do you want peace, prosperity, and safety, or do you want to see America's last days? | |
| Ronald Reagan said we plunged into a thousand years of darkness, and I feel like that's kind of what's on the ballot: peace and prosperity, safety, and security, or a thousand years of darkness, losing America, losing our rights. | |
| And so, it's very clear which direction we need to go. | |
| And we're on the campaign trail. | |
| We just went across northern Arizona. | |
| We went from the New Mexico border across Navajo Nation through the White Mountains into Flagstaff and Williams and ended at Bullhead City on the Nevada border. | |
| And I will tell you, everywhere we went, record crowds, the enthusiasm has picked up. | |
| People who weren't even involved in the last election, maybe they just were like, yeah, whatever, I'm not really going to vote, or all I do is vote. | |
| Now they want to get involved. | |
| How do I get involved? | |
| How can I become a volunteer? | |
| How can I make sure that this next election is secure or at least more secure? | |
| We're going to swamp the vote. | |
| We are going to vote, make it too big to rig. | |
| Stay right there, Carrie. | |
| Brian, really quick. | |
| I want to go to Brian here. | |
| He's right a couple feet away. | |
| Brian, what are you hearing? | |
| Hey, Charlie Kirk. | |
| By the way, there's thousands of people outside waiting to get in here. | |
| This place is going to be packed. | |
| I'm talking to a few Carrie Lake supporters. | |
| Obviously, we talk about saving America. | |
| Not only does it happen to the White House, it also happens here in Arizona with this citizen. | |
| Of course, it does. | |
| We're the state that everyone's looking at, and we need Carrie to help us help get Trump in. | |
| What should Carrie Lake do on day one of being in the Senate? | |
| What should her top priority be? | |
| Anything she can do to help restore the power back to the people is what we're interested in. | |
| And that's why we support Carrie because she's on the same page as President Trump of giving the people the power back where it belongs. | |
| How about you? | |
| I agree with her. | |
| I agree with her. | |
| Nice thing about Carrie Lake is what? | |
| Her determination. | |
| She's a very powerful, very powerful woman, very strong. | |
| And it's somebody that this state needs. | |
| This data has been pretty much left in the dunks for so long. | |
| We can see it. | |
| I mean, look what's going on at the border. | |
| Look what's going on with veterans. | |
| Veterans are kind of ignoring in the state nowadays. | |
| And somebody like Carrie Lake can really put her fist down and make sure that we get what we need. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| Charlie, back to you. | |
| Thank you so much. | |
| I don't know if that's a veteran, but thank you for your service. | |
| We appreciate you. | |
| And how can people support you? | |
| CarrieLake.com, K-A-R-A-N-A-L-A-K-A-K-A-K-K-A-R-I-L-A-K-E.com. | |
| We have 455,000 veterans living in Arizona. | |
| And right now, Joe Biden, that administration, wants to take our veteran health care and make it accessible to people here illegally. | |
| Veterans have fought for this country. | |
| We're on the 80th anniversary of D-Day. | |
| These are the most brave men and women in our whole country, and they have not been treated well. | |
| We're going to start treating them the way they should be as heroes and give them the services that they've earned and make sure that they are in Arizona. | |
| It's a great place for veterans. | |
| Carrie Lake, thank you so much. | |
| Give it up for Carrie Lake, everybody. | |
| Email us, freedom at charliekirk.com. | |
| Joining us now, someone who understands the border issue and has been on the for quite some time. | |
| Corey McGarr, Arizona State Rep, welcome to the program. | |
| Thank you very much. | |
| So what can the state do to help curtail the invasion on the southern border? | |
| Well, actually, we can do quite a lot, actually. | |
| The federal government, to say it's been a travesty what they've done on the border would be an act of unmerited grace. | |
| They have absolutely, but maybe you actually would say that they've been successful. | |
| When you draw people in, when you incentivize them, and then you give them priority passes all around the country, it seems like that's what they wanted. | |
| And so, what we can do, and what we've done in Arizona, which mimics in some ways the Texas law, but actually is enhanced, we can actually start enforcing this at the local level, in the state level. | |
| And so, we passed a bill a couple days ago, the Secure the Border Act. | |
| And what we do is we define lawful presence in the state. | |
| And it is contrary to what the federal government has been doing, where they are giving basically endless amounts of parole to people who come across the border illegally. | |
| So, we've passed this bill. | |
| It's going to go to the ballot, and the state will vote on it to enact this. | |
| So, it bypasses our crazy government. | |
| And so, what we're able to do is, again, we're able to enforce border security. | |
| We're able to actually arrest and deport here in the state. | |
| Yeah, and so that's remarkable. | |
| We're always told the states can't do anything, the states can't enforce this, but states actually have a lot of power. | |
| Well, absolutely. | |
| See, the thing is, the naysayer is exactly why Republicans and conservatives have been losing for decades. | |
| The left constantly pushes the envelope, they try to see what they can do, and then when they get their hands slapped, they start again. | |
| We've never even tried, and so we're going to do this. | |
| Texas has been successful. | |
| We take ours a little bit further. | |
| We actually de-incentivize this going forward. | |
| The drawing magnet that they've had, where they give benefits, they give money, we're going to stop that. | |
| We have e-ferrified for any benefits that they would receive. | |
| So, if they're not lawfully present, we exclude the people who've been paroled by the president. | |
| We exclude them in lawful presence. | |
| So, let's just kind of take a step back. | |
| How many people are coming into Arizona illegally every day, would you say? | |
| I think the last number I saw was about five or six thousand come across the border every day. | |
| And quite frankly, I mean into Arizona. | |
| I mean, I'm sure if that was Arizona if that was Arizona, okay, wow. | |
| That's remarkable. | |
| And so, is there any concern from Governor Hobbes to do anything about this? | |
| No, and the reason why I could say that with absolute confidence is we have passed this type of bill as a bill, and she has vetoed every way along the long line. | |
| We've even passed things that call the drug cartels terrorist, and she's vetoed that. | |
| I mean, she's defending the drug cartels at this point. | |
| Anything that stops with fentanyl, she has vetoed anything that has to do with this, she is contrary to. | |
| So, why do you think that is? | |
| You know, I'd like to say that she has some maniacal plan, but I would give her too much credit. | |
| I don't think she's that smart. | |
| There are people who want to implement this type of mass amnesty. | |
| They want to bring in new Democrat voters, and so she's just a willing pawn in this whole thing. | |
| The good thing, again, the state legislature's taken action. | |
| We're able to put a bill forward that goes to the people and avoids her completely, and we're going to find out what the people really want. | |
| So, tell me then, as it is being laid out today, the Democrat Party seems to be completely for open borders. | |
| Where is your race? | |
| Tell us about your race. | |
| My race specifically, yes. | |
| So, my race is a right-leaning district. | |
| Thank you. | |
| What part of the valley? | |
| So, we're actually down in Fima County. | |
| Oh, you're out in Pima. | |
| Okay. | |
| So, it's Marina Oro Valley side of Wilkinson. | |
| I know it's two sides. | |
| And so, the race was a right-leaning district. | |
| The Democrats came out super hard, and they made it fairly close in the last election. | |
| We have, and just like the state, where we've grown in Republican representatives. | |
| Registration, which is great news today. | |
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| Huge news out of Arizona. | |
| We're growing there, and the Democrats are coming back. | |
| So, we're actually gaining more representation. | |
| You feel that on the ground in Pima? | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| I mean, you're just talking to independents. | |
| So, that's where we go when we knock our doors as independents. | |
| And the independents last time were closer. | |
| Not 50-50, that would be an exaggeration, but we're seeing people across the board. | |
| Democrats are coming to our side. | |
| They are tired of what they're seeing. | |
| So, Donald Trump did not win Pima County last time. | |
| Do you think he'll do better this time in Pima County? | |
| I think it's going to shock a lot of people. | |
| When you see the polling for Biden and he's got 20% on approval with his own party, he's got 20-30% of his party that's not happy with him. | |
| So, I talk to people all the time. | |
| I'm originally born and raised in New Jersey. | |
| I see Democrats all over the place, tired of him. | |
| He's going to make it much closer. | |
| So, in Pima County, in particular, Tucson, right near the border, what are the biggest issues facing the voters when you talk to them? | |
| Well, I mean, that's number one, is always going to be the border in this case because they're being overrun. | |
| They're doing street releases in Pima County. | |
| And so, they see these people coming through. | |
| It's leading to the So, what do you mean by street releases? | |
| What are those? | |
| They're just letting people go. | |
| They're letting people that have that have been from all over the world. | |
| Yes, they're literally letting people from all over the world loose. | |
| And legal Hispanics don't like this in Pima County. | |
| No, actually, they're the most angry because if they came across in a legal fashion, they went through the process, and now these people have been given front row to the country. | |
| They're kind of upset about this. | |
| And so, there's no group that is happy about this except for the people literally being shipped around the country on our dime. | |
| And so, help me understand. | |
| In Pima, it's been a Democrat stronghold. | |
| And a lot of small business owners, a lot of Hispanics, we see movement with the Hispanic community towards Donald Trump's direction. | |
| Totally. | |
| And so, tell us about your race then. | |
| It's a pretty tight race, would you say? | |
| I'm going to say somewhat competitive. | |
| Somewhat competitive. | |
| Okay. | |
| We're coming around. | |
| I mean, the good thing is, is we went from having a lot of great things under Trump to a lot of bad things under Biden. | |
| So, people get to see the results very, very firsthand. | |
| And they're seeing it quickly. | |
| So, what you're seeing is people who were maybe wishy-washy and people, maybe they don't even like Trump, but they liked what the results were. | |
| And so, Trump's going to have a huge downballot effect. | |
| He's going to draw out people. | |
| He's going to get people to switch over. | |
| So, we're going to, I think, look, I think we're going to have a red wave in Arizona, but that means we need to do all the right things first. | |
| Yeah, we have to do the work, get into the grassroots, and register voters, and do the difficult but necessary type of gritty type of effort. | |
| So, when we're focusing on the grassroots and the state house in particular, what is the composition of the Arizona State House right now? | |
| It's very, very close. | |
| It's a one-seat majority in the House and a one-seat majority in the Senate. | |
| We are one seat away from having this turned into California. | |
| And so, turnout and getting people out this cycle is more important than ever. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| The Democrats in my district turned out at 90%. | |
| The Republicans, we missed 20,000 Republicans that didn't vote in the district. | |
| They made it incredibly close because we just didn't show up. | |
| Say that again? | |
| How many? | |
| 20,000. | |
| 20,000 Republicans that didn't show up? | |
| Did not show up. | |
| What is the reason for that? | |
| They're just apathetic? | |
| They don't believe? | |
| No, I think that there's a lot of conservatives that didn't show up because they've been told that your vote doesn't count, that if you do this, it's just going to be rigged anyway. | |
| And that, quite frankly, is probably the left trying to plant that seed and grow it. | |
| If your vote doesn't count, don't vote. | |
| Well, if you don't vote, they don't have anything to steal. | |
| Well, no, I mean, if you don't vote, they have anything to steal. | |
| And so, the losing by less in these areas like Pima County is critically important. | |
| Of course. | |
| And so, what other parts of the state are necessary for us to improve our House and state Senate majority? | |
| So, Maricopa County is going to be huge. | |
| There are several swing districts where you have in the House one Republican and one Democrat. | |
| In a lot of these, we have voter advantages. | |
| And we should, if we were turning out like we should, we should run the House in this way. | |
| We should run the table. | |
| We'd probably pick up four seats in just the House and be able to get some really conservative stuff done if we had them there. | |
| Well, you know, we wish you great luck on this. | |
| What is the best way people can help you and support you? | |
| So, my website is Magar for Arizona. | |
| Spell that out. | |
| M-C-G-A-R-R for Arizona. | |
| Again, it's a semi-competitive race, so anything that you can give would help. | |
| Very good. | |
| All right. | |
| Thanks, man. | |
| Appreciate it. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here. | |
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| As you know, our elections are not what they should be here in the state of Arizona. | |
| And someone is running to help change that. | |
| Justin Heap, who is challenging Stephen Richard. | |
| Welcome to the program. | |
| Thank you for having me, Charlie. | |
| So tell us all about it. | |
| What you're running for recorder. | |
| I'm running for Maricopa County Recorder. | |
| So Maricopa has been nationally known for its inability to run effective elections. | |
| And it's not just the last one or 2020. | |
| This goes back the last five election cycles have been disasters and embarrassments, honestly. | |
| Yeah, in the last election cycle, we had half our voting machines in Maricopa County went down the day of our polling stations were shut down. | |
| We had a three-week delay before we knew who would even won the election. | |
| And that is fully put on the election officials that are current that have been running our elections. | |
| They said everything was smooth. | |
| It was the greatest election ever. | |
| Yeah. | |
| It was unbelievable. | |
| Half the machines go down. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And I mean, and it's certain that that disenfranchised tens of thousands of voters having it go in, especially for Republicans and for our party. | |
| Day of voters are majority Republican. | |
| So if half the Day of voting polling centers go down, we know that hurts Republicans a great deal more than it does Democrats. | |
| So let's talk about what you would do different as recorder. | |
| The first is, I think we need to get back to precinct-based voting and not this voting center stuff. | |
| Explain to our audience what this voting center stuff is. | |
| Yeah, so we in Arizona until 2018, we used to vote by precinct. | |
| I'm a big, I totally agree. | |
| That's the best system back to. | |
| A precinct is a very small voting block. | |
| It's in your neighborhood or at a local church. | |
| There's a thousand people on the voter rolls. | |
| You come in, you show ID, they give you your ballot, and you run it through the machine. | |
| In 2018, we decided to go to what we call the voting center model, which has been a disaster. | |
| So now we have voting centers all over the county with 50,000 voters there. | |
| You can go to anyone. | |
| They can print out your ballot there. | |
| It has made every change we've done, we've made since we left precinct voting has made voting take longer, more difficult, and caused more frustration. | |
| And in this last time, it failed us totally. | |
| So why did we get rid of precinct voting? | |
| What was the reason for that? | |
| It works too well? | |
| Honestly, it seems from my perspective, after having talked to a lot of people, it seems that the election officials in Arizona have decided that their job is to make it as easy as possible on election officials. | |
| And they've said it's difficult to find all the precincts and to staff them. | |
| So wouldn't it be nicer if we just had a few voting centers that we could just staff and do it large? | |
| This is so stupid. | |
| I'm sorry. | |
| Like, it's just, it centralizes voting, not decentralizes it. | |
| Not to mention the voter fraud elements of it, which are a whole separate thing. | |
| But just from a logistical infrastructure running election standpoint, this is silly. | |
| No one would think it would make more sense to consolidate. | |
| And so then the other part is confusion because people don't know where to vote. | |
| Right? | |
| So, I mean, for example, my neighbors were like, well, I used to go vote at this school and now it's over here. | |
| And then you can also vote in different voting centers. | |
| And it's also, it creates longer lines and congestion, does it not? | |
| No. | |
| Were they trying to kill day of voting? | |
| It really does feel if the goal is to kill day of voting, I think we are going in that direction with the voting center models. | |
| We have lots of voters who are constantly contacting us. | |
| They now have to drive 18, 20 miles to the nearest voting center just to vote and then stand in line for three to four hours. | |
| It's been an absolute disaster and the people are losing confidence. | |
| No, and this is really important, everybody. | |
| And again, as Arizona goes, the country goes. | |
| As Maricopa goes, Arizona goes. | |
| And the way that Maricopa elections are done is just awful. | |
| Does Stephen Richard agree with this voting center model? | |
| Apparently he does. | |
| Yeah, he does. | |
| As you said, Stephen Richard can't understand why anyone was upset after the last election. | |
| He said, this is one of the best-run elections. | |
| And his general modus operandi is to say, if there are problems, he blames the voters. | |
| But this is what, I mean, if you make a mistake in life, this is my Fauci thing. | |
| Just own it and say I made a mistake. | |
| What drives me nuts about Stephen Richard is his arrogance and his hostility and his ferocity towards critics. | |
| Like, oh, no, everything was great. | |
| Actually, I went to a voting center on Election Day and the machines all went down. | |
| People were getting out of line and left and did not end up coming back to vote. | |
| It was a disaster. | |
| I saw it with my own eyes. | |
| Yeah, I was at a voting center too. | |
| I saw tons of people leaving. | |
| Then in Stephen Richer, after the election, it took three weeks for us to count the ballots and get a result. | |
| And if you run an election that badly, nobody's going to have confidence in it. | |
| So we're behind you 100%. | |
| I'm voting for you. | |
| We've endorsed you. | |
| How can we get behind you? | |
| How can people support you? | |
| Tell us what that's all about. | |
| Well, the biggest thing I think is we need, we are fundraising right now. | |
| We need to be able to get the message out because the truth is a lot of people honestly don't know what the reporter's office is. | |
| They don't know that the recorder's office is the person in charge of elections. | |
| And in Arizona, Maricopa County Reporter is the most important election official in the state. | |
| If you care about fixing the system and getting people and restoring trust, we've got to replace Stephen Richard, but we need funds to get that. | |
| And your website. | |
| Okay, so it's just real simple. | |
| It's my name, JustinHeap.com. | |
| Right. | |
| JustinHeap.com. | |
| Thanks so much, man. | |
| Appreciate it. | |
| Jake Hoffman, welcome to the program. | |
| Thank you for having me, Charlie. | |
| So tell us, man, you are indicted as an alternate elector. | |
| We stand with you 100%. | |
| How are you hanging in there? | |
| You know what? | |
| I'm doing great. | |
| Today, I actually went to the courthouse, pled not guilty. | |
| The reality is that this is a sham political witch hunt, as you know, and it has nothing to do with the people who were alternate electors back in 2020. | |
| This has everything to do with a corrupt Marxist attorney general named Chris Moore. | |
| She should not even be attorney general. | |
| She should not. | |
| And she is. | |
| She put 280 votes. | |
| She is putting her finger on the scale, trying to influence illegally the 2024 election. | |
| She wants to get at President Trump. | |
| And we're not going to let her. | |
| So we're going to fight this because we know the truth is on our side. | |
| We will be vindicated. | |
| And so the judicial process will ferret that out. | |
| And as you can see here today, the crowd is massive. | |
| There are smiles on everybody's face. | |
| This is a group of happy warriors ready to re-elect President Trump. | |
| Now, the energy here is absolutely incredible. | |
| And it's very clear that the AGs are coordinating with other state AGs, right? | |
| They're coordinating with each other, Wisconsin, Michigan. | |
| To your best of your ability, what you're able to say publicly, Jake, you guys were using your constitutional ability to petition your government as alternate electors in the case that it was conclusive that Donald Trump won the state of Arizona. | |
| Well, listen, I'm not going to comment on our specific case, but what I will comment on is if you look at the Michigan case right now, it's falling apart because there was no intent to defraud whatsoever. | |
| This was a constitutional process that the Michigan electors undertook that was intended if the law, the lawsuits turned out that the election should have gone towards President Trump, Congress would have had the ability to act. | |
| That's plain and simple. | |
| All it was that Michigan did. | |
| And so, you know, you can see the case falling apart because of that. | |
| The truth is on their side as well. | |
| No, that's right. | |
| And so, Jake, we see the lawfare operation increasing. | |
| I think the American people are not going to put up with it. | |
| If you're trying to put together a political battle plan to win this state, what do you think is necessary for Trump to win the state and for us to expand our majorities? | |
| Well, listen, we have to focus on the fact that the government should not be weaponized against political opponents. | |
| We have to focus on the fact that under the Biden administration, more than 10 million illegal aliens have been allowed to come into this country. | |
| They are set up to be future Democrat voters. | |
| That is rigging the system, literally rigging the system in favor of Democrats. | |
| We have to focus on the fact that the economy is in complete shambles and on the verge of total collapse. | |
| Our dollar is being devalued. | |
| Our wages are stagnating. | |
| We have to talk about the issues that President Trump is talking about, the issues that impact people every single day at their kitchen table. | |
| When we talk about those, we win. | |
| Yeah, and so again, I want to talk about your district, Queen Creek area, is that right? | |
| Yeah. | |
| So just in that district, how many Republicans are there that did not vote in 2022, that voted in 2020? | |
| So we had over 25,000 voters just in my district alone that did not cast a ballot. | |
| They left those ballots sitting on the bottom. | |
| How is that possible? | |
| You know, honestly, I think apathy. | |
| I think the fact that we've got, you know, folks have sowed dissension within the Republican Party about casting your ballots and whether they count. | |
| But the reality is that you cannot win if you don't try. | |
| And so we have to make sure that we're chasing every single one of those votes, that we leave no low propensity votes sitting on kitchen counters. | |
| Because when you turn those votes in, the margin of victory becomes so overwhelming that there is no possible chance that the funny business that we see out of people like Stephen Richard and Adrian Fontes can occur. | |
| Yeah, and so mail-in is so easy. | |
| And again, I understand that there's some issues with it, but it's better to vote by mail than not vote at all. | |
| Well, and keep in mind, under the current system, we actually have 28 days of early in-person voting as well. | |
| So you can go into it. | |
| So talk about this. | |
| What is IPEV? | |
| In-person early voting. | |
| Walk us through. | |
| Yeah, so in-person early voting is where you show up to a poll, a polling place. | |
| Now, there aren't as many of them as on election day, but they are quite, you know, they're all over the place. | |
| You show up, you scan your ID, so you've identified who you are using government-issued ID, and then you cast a ballot, and that ballot goes through the tabular. | |
| That's a good one for all of us. | |
| The biggest concern we have is dirty rolls and the amount of ballots going out. | |
| But that doesn't necessarily invalidate if you yourself go vote. | |
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| That's correct. | |
| And you can show up in person. | |
| So the get out the vote operation that is necessary is we have to work the districts, work the precincts, chase the ballots. | |
| What have the Democrats been doing so successfully in the state and what can we learn from them? | |
| Well, Democrats have been doing what's called relational canvassing. | |
| So that means they've been actually paying people to go and knock on the doors of their neighbors and help them vote and then make sure that those ballots get in the mailbox, right? | |
| But look, to your point in underperformance, we had in 2022 compared to 2018, Mojave County, which is a deep Ruby reduction. | |
| Yeah, the western part of Arizona. | |
| R plus 50, Republican plus 50 county, they underperformed by almost 6%. | |
| In 2020? | |
| In 22 compared to 2018. | |
| Oh, and really? | |
| Yes. | |
| In 22 versus 18. | |
| Midterm to midterm. | |
| Wow. | |
| How is that possible? | |
| Well, in Yalapai County, which is another big Prescott area, they underperformed by over 5%. | |
| Oh, wait, overperformed? | |
| Sorry, underperformed. | |
| Okay, so what do you mean by turnout or you mean performance? | |
| I mean in turnout. | |
| So, okay, got it. | |
| So you're saying that Mojave County from a presidential year to a midterm had a 6% drop-off in turnout. | |
| Correct. | |
| That's under. | |
| It's tough because midterms have lower turnout. | |
| But if it would have been only a 3% drop-off. | |
| They do. | |
| But if you look at the margins of loss, right, the margins of defeat for Kerry Lake, for Abe Homeday. | |
| 18.5%. | |
| So Abe Homeday is the best argument. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| You wouldn't be indicted right now. | |
| That's correct. | |
| It's 280 votes. | |
| So if just, I don't know, 300 people in Mojave County would have just sent in a piece of paper, Abe Homeday could be attorney general. | |
| That's correct. | |
| And the margin of victory would have been overwhelming even for Chris Finchman, Secretary of State, and Blake Masters for you. | |
| No, no, no, no, I understand that. | |
| But Kerry Lake is back. | |
| Kerry Lake and Abe Homeday's. | |
| Abe Homeday is so simple. | |
| I mean, right now, Jake, I want you to look at this crowd. | |
| I'm looking at 250 people right now. | |
| That's right. | |
| This is the margin of indictment, no indictment, right? | |
| Indictment, no indictment. | |
| So what else have Democrats done well that we can learn from in the state? | |
| Because here's the good news, Jake. | |
| Antony Point Action is working every single day. | |
| The voter registration numbers are good in this state, and they're getting better. | |
| In fact, in 2020, when Trump only fell 10,000 votes short, there's 120,000 more R's and Ds registered. | |
| Now it's 242,000. | |
| So it just keeps on getting bigger and bigger and bigger. | |
| So we have a structural built-in advantage, Rs versus Ds in the state. | |
| We have 6% more registered Republicans than Democrats. | |
| What else can we learn? | |
| Because it's really ours to lose. | |
| It is. | |
| Well, look, we have to continue to get better at messaging and messaging not only what we stand for, but also messaging the actions of Democrats. | |
| When you look at things like just broke yesterday, a pay-to-play scandal unfolding in the governor's office with Katie Hobbs. | |
| Yes, walk us through that one. | |
| So that's 400,000. | |
| There's an Arizona group home provider that's been very, very friendly to the Hobbes campaign and to the Arizona Democratic Party. | |
| Well, they got denied for a 20% increase in their fees. | |
| Three days later, they donated $200,000, $100,000 to Katie Hobbs, $100,000 to the Arizona Democratic Party. | |
| And two months later, they get a 60, almost 60% increase in their fees, amounting to millions and millions of new taxpayer dollars because they spent $400,000 to support Katie Hobbs and Democrats. | |
| When people hear these things, it polarizes them our way. | |
| Because what the average everyday person wants, they don't want a corrupt government that cronies and benefits itself. | |
| They want a government that works for them. | |
| They want a government that creates a vibrant economy that secures the border. | |
| That's what Republicans offer. | |
| Democrats don't offer that. | |
| They're the party of death, destruction, and chaos. | |
| They really are. | |
| And so the path forward from a voter turnout standpoint is that low-propensity voters, especially, we need to try to drive out those votes in voting month. | |
| Is that correct? | |
| That's correct. | |
| And also, we need to then say, hey, if we do voting month and we do better in voting month, and then election day comes, we get another pass at those that don't engage in voting month to do drop-offs of their ballot or vote in person. | |
| That's right. | |
| So in traditional times, though, Republicans used to win early voting in this state. | |
| Is that right? | |
| They did. | |
| And so then what changed? | |
| Well, you know, look, there's a lot of people who have concerns about early voting. | |
| And I think right now. | |
| No, I share those concerns. | |
| I have bigger concerns about losing, though. | |
| Yes, absolutely. | |
| Not voting is not an option, period. | |
| I mean, that's just stupid. | |
| And look, there's an education process that has to occur. | |
| We all know that there are problems with early voting. | |
| I mean, hell, President Jimmy Carter, after he left office, did a report saying that there's a problem with early mail and voting, right? | |
| So this is not a Republican-only concern. | |
| This is Democrats, too. | |
| But the reality is we have to understand that there are people who are going to vote early. | |
| We have to make sure that they turn in their ballots. | |
| We can't tell them, no, no, no, don't turn it in come day of. | |
| If they're only going to vote early, they have to vote. | |
| And if they're going to vote early in person, they have to vote. | |
| And then if they're going to vote on election day, we have to make sure that occurs as well. | |
| So, um, so, so, Jake, how can people support you in particular? | |
| How can you do that? | |
| Well, thank you, uh, Charlie. | |
| So, uh, when it comes to the legal fight, uh, the Center for, oh, God, what's Harmin's? | |
| I don't know. | |
| What is your legal? | |
| Uh, I'll figure it out. | |
| Jakehoffman.com is a great way to get in touch with me. | |
| Jakeoffman.com, uh, Center for American Liberties. | |
| That's the uh, that's the uh, the nonprofit where you can support all the electors in Arizona. | |
| So, the uh what is your trial date? | |
| Are they going to try to rush this trial before the election? | |
| Uh, you know what? | |
| I don't think they are. | |
| They're going to drag this out. | |
| As from what I've been told, this could take 18 to 24 months. | |
| The reality is, as I said at the beginning, this is not about necessarily convicting us. | |
| They know that the truth isn't on their side, the facts aren't on their side. | |
| This is about tipping the scales in the 2024 election this November. | |
| So, they want to see this thing continue through them so that they can have as many headlines trying to attack Republicans and attack President Trump as possible. | |
| We're not going to let that happen. | |
| We're going to make sure President Trump wins in a landslide. | |
| Yeah, and that's going to take the grittiness. | |
| That's going to take the work. | |
| And you're going to be working your district. | |
| You're going to be chasing every ballot in Queen Creek. | |
| We need to chase every single, and we're working through that. | |
| And it's going to require a grass. | |
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| I mean, look at this, Jake. | |
| This is MAGA country. | |
| Do you think Joe Biden could draw a crowd like this? | |
| No, absolutely not. | |
| This is unbelievable what we see out here. | |
| I mean, again, we're going to run out of seats for some of these folks here. | |
| I mean, it's unbelievable. | |
| We did tell people it's first come, first serve, right? | |
| So we've got people parked 15 blocks away right now. | |
| I mean, it's unbelievable. | |
| As I drove in, I saw people hiking their way in. | |
| Are you serious? | |
| Yes. | |
| Geez. | |
| Jake Hoffman, you're a good man. | |
| We stand with you 100%. | |
| And we're going to see you at the People's Convention in Detroit next week. | |
| Is that right? | |
| Absolutely. | |
| TPaction.com/slash peoples. | |
| That one, we have even more space. | |
| So tpaction.com slash peoples. | |
| Thanks, man. | |
| Appreciate it very much. | |
| Thank you. | |
| I want to go to Brian Glenn, who's on the press risers right now in the Chase the Vote Auditorium, just right here. | |
| Brian, what are you seeing? | |
| What are you hearing? | |
| What is the vibe from the attendees? | |
| Well, the music is pumping in here and people are starting to flow in. | |
| We all saw the long lines earlier. | |
| And I think we spoke before we came on, it's going to sell out. | |
| When Trump's name or your name is a part of this whole organization, it's an event. | |
| People come out. | |
| Let me step aside and show you what I'm talking about. | |
| There's mass amounts of people coming in. | |
| And it seems like when you see a section that doesn't have a body in it, just give it about a minute and someone's going to sit down. | |
| But it has a very much, it has a feel to a rally. | |
| People are excited. | |
| The music is on very much like you would hear at a rally. | |
| But there is a sense of concern because this is the first public speech, if you will, from President Trump since the 34 indictments came down. | |
| So that is the buzz amongst a lot of people in here. | |
| And obviously with the news breaking earlier on Steve Bannon, that's what's on a lot of people's mind as well. | |
| So there is optimism. | |
| Arizona, as you know, you're out here all the time. | |
| They're fired up. | |
| They know the road to the White House comes through Arizona. | |
| And it's so important. | |
| And you had Kerry Lake on earlier, that that Senate seat here in Arizona, that's the way we win the majority in the Senate is through Kerry Lake. | |
| And she's got a ton of supporters here. | |
| I was out front when he walked up. | |
| When she walked up to the building, you would think that, you know, President Trump was out front. | |
| A lot of support here on the ground in Arizona, but the vibe is very positive. | |
| But, you know, we have been talking off camera and the seriousness of what's going on with Steve Bannon. | |
| And in my opinion, this ongoing effort to silence Tamaga's voice. | |
| I mean, obviously, War Room is one of the biggest megaphones for the MAGA agenda, the America First agenda. | |
| And Steve Bannon has been a tip of the spear on that. | |
| So a lot of people are concerned. | |
| You got Peter Navarra who's serving time. | |
| Bannon's up on deck. | |
| And then, of course, what's on everybody's mind, and it's the number one question I get, Charlie, is is Trump going to jail? | |
| What are they going to do? | |
| And I think that we have to be very, you know, cautious, I think, by going ahead and assuming that he's going to be sentenced to jail. | |
| None of us want that. | |
| But if you look at the track record of the left, Charlie, they do not care. | |
| They did not go this far to give a slap on the wrist. | |
| And if I could for just one second, I want to try to let people know that the Republican Party, in my opinion, has not done enough up to this point. | |
| We get a lot of, you know, strongly worded letters. | |
| We get some maybe some C-SPAN clips. | |
| We get a one-minute floor speech clip. | |
| But in my opinion, the House Republicans have completely dropped the ball in this. | |
| They have not been out in front of what eventually happened. | |
| And so I'm very disappointed in the Republican Party right now. | |
| I'm very disappointed in the conference. | |
| And it's for what I understand the first day back on the floor, Charlie, it was like a break from a summer vacation. | |
| This is the first time that the House Republicans met after the 34 indictments. | |
| And it was like a school break. | |
| It was school kids talking about what they did over the break, laughing and smiling. | |
| And that's not the conference I want, Charlie. | |
| I want a conference that knows that their leader of the Republican Party is in jeopardy of being put behind bars. | |
| And what's the plan? | |
| We have a speaker. | |
| What is the plan? | |
| So, you know, all these things that are happened after the fact, you know, subpoenaing, you know, Alvin Bragg, that should have happened a year ago. | |
| That should have happened a long time ago. | |
| And so I'm a little upset on the conference, Charlie. | |
| And I wish that we would have got ahead of this a little earlier, but that's the reality we have. | |
| Brian Glenn doing great coverage there. | |
| I know Real America's voice is going to be taking this live. | |
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