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July 16, 2024 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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Republicans are Ready for Trump/Vance 2024 - LIVE at the RNC ft. Dr. Ben Carson, Lee Zeldin, Brigette Smith
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And we have a special guest, a great American who's doing a lot also with my shirt voting early with Project Z and stuff, Congressman Lee Zeldin.
So were you in the room when President Trump entered last night?
I would say that it was one of the coolest, most beautiful moments that I have ever experienced or probably ever will experience in life.
And as far as conventions go, maybe for the rest of anyone's lives, Republican Convention, Democratic Convention, it doesn't get more powerful than that.
And to have Lee Greenwood singing and paying the tribute.
And President Trump coming out after what he just experienced, thank God he is alive.
The man fought.
He clearly is a fighter.
And there are people who have outed themselves as saying that they had not supported President Trump in the past.
But now, for the first time ever, they're saying, you know what, I think I'm ready to vote for Donald Trump in 2024.
It was even Chris Wallace on CNN who is the worst.
He said this was one of the most powerful moments in a convention he's seen in his entire reporting career.
I mean you think about it this is a guy who 48 hours prior was shot and again the media is doing everything they possibly can to not say that or not mention that they're calling it the incident right they're calling an assassination no he was shot in fact you see this viral video of they're going up to democrats and they say oh no he wasn't shot it was shrapnel it was a bb gun the media has done such a disservice these are such disgusting people and but there he is with the bandage Walking up, and there seemed to be a different vibe with President Trump, almost like a reflective, somber.
Did you get that as well?
Oh, 100%.
And you know what's wild is that on the left, some people would be attacking him saying, oh, he looks slower than he normally is.
Like, he's aged so much because of this.
Yeah, I've seen this on social media.
Like, listen, this guy can't win.
He either has, you know, all the energy that we've always seen in 77 plus years of his life, Or for a moment, if he's being reflective after coming so close to death on Saturday, they'll criticize that.
The fact is, people are seeing with their own eyes what we have with Joe Biden.
A person who just last Friday was referring to Zelensky as Putin, referring to Harris as Trump, and saying that he was taking orders from his commander-in-chief.
That was all on the world stage at the end of the NATO summit.
People understand that we have a president right now in cognitive decline in the White House.
And a Donald Trump and a J.D.
Vance ready to come in in January to make America great again.
So you know that I've been a big...
Push her for J.D., both privately and publicly.
He's a friend of both of ours.
He's an outstanding guy.
This audience is very, very pro-J.D., and they've been pushing for J.D., and they've been enthusiastic in many different ways.
We've been doing a lot of polls, and they always vote in them, and I've been showing the president that both publicly and privately.
Tell the audience about J.D.
Vance.
What is the significance of this selection?
And then seeing President Trump end and conclude sitting next to J.D.
Vance, I mean, that is the current and the future.
That is, that is a full, you know, it is a full crystallization of the MAGA movement.
Not to mention you got Tucker Carlson sitting two seats over.
Byron, it's quite, it was quite a first row there.
Yeah, no doubt, and JD is such a great messenger.
I've watched him over the course of the last few months, especially as he was going on to certain networks where maybe it would be a hostile interview, and the anchor would give it the best that he or she can, and JD is always ready for anything.
J.D.
Vance is a force multiplier for this ticket.
President Trump will bust his butt all day, every day, but he can only get to so many places in any given day.
He now multiplies that effort by getting a vice presidential nominee in J.D.
Vance.
Smart.
Ivy League educated law school, Marine, entrepreneur, family man, started with nothing.
He earned his success.
And most importantly, unlike many others who become successful, J.D.
Vance never forgot where he came from.
I think that he is going to be an amazing addition to this ticket.
And I look forward to seeing J.D.
Vance sworn into January as our nation's next vice president.
I love that.
And if everyone understands, the media is saying, well, he doesn't add anything.
There were some people on TV, they said, there's no addition here.
First of all, the data is screaming at us that please put somebody under the age of 50 on the ticket.
Like, please.
And, you know, you have Joe Biden, 81, Donald Trump, 78, but you never know.
You'd never think it.
And then Kamala Harris, late 50s, I think she's 59.
J.D.
Vance is 20 years younger than the next youngest person on the ticket.
If you had two JD Vance lifetimes, that's still not as old as Joe Biden is.
It's wild to think about.
Two lifetimes of JD Vance is still not as old as Joe Biden.
It's remarkable.
And so you have this younger dynamic plus Rust Belt appeal, Western Pennsylvania, Southern Michigan, and his story is remarkable.
Wednesday's a big night because after Donald Trump survives an assassination attempt and gets shot, the country's starting to think, well, who is number two?
And in addition to that, Lee, People were thinking about that anyway with the convictions because we said this is a big VP pick.
What does JD Vance have to do on Wednesday night to really lean into this moment?
There are people who are tuning in across America who actually still haven't made their minds up.
Some who haven't made their minds up who to vote for for president.
Others haven't made their minds up as to whether or not to vote.
There are other people who know they're going to vote but They haven't decided yet to volunteer.
They haven't decided yet to donate $5 to DonaldJTrump.com.
So J.D.
has an opportunity to communicate with Americans.
Blue, state, city Democrats who have for too long voted Democrat, blind partisan loyalty, but they've gotten burnt by the Democratic Party.
They're ready to try something new.
Or that conservative Loyal Trump voter who is going to be ready to step up next level when they're waking up Thursday morning because of that speech.
Now, I don't want to set expectations the wrong way for a Kamala Harris-J.D.
Vance debate, so I'll just say this to make sure that expectations are set where they need to be going in.
Wow, Kamala Harris is going to destroy J.D.
Vance in that debate.
I don't know how J.D.
is going to be able to hold his own.
With that powerful intellect of Kamala Harris.
Oh my gosh.
Good luck to J.D.
trying to handle Kamala.
Kamala should challenge J.D.
to like a debate a week.
She should be so confident about how this is going to go.
He is ready for this moment.
She isn't.
And when you talk about the top issues of the day, like why do we have an open border?
She's the border czar.
She wouldn't go there.
She has been by design creating all of these issues that are leading to not just open border, But Democrats showing up to city council meetings inside of Chicago complaining about their hard-working tax dollars getting taken away with sanctuary city policies.
That's just an example of one of so many ways that Kamala Harris, in reality...
Is really set up for failure, having to be on the same stage as J.D.
Part of the Selection J.D.
Vance that is brilliant, and Susie Wiles and Chris Lasovita deserve a lot of credit here, is they're thinking about this as a regional election, less than a national election.
We've known this for quite some time.
We love working with America First Works.
I see some of our friends over there and Project Z focused on the counties and the areas.
If we're honest with ourselves, it is, can you squeeze an extra half of a percent out of the Rust Belt?
If you can, that could be the margin.
Can you get an extra 1% out of Western Pennsylvania?
And if you look at the numbers in 2020, Donald Trump did well in Western Pennsylvania, but he didn't do as well in certain counties as he did in 2016.
And what happens in Western Pennsylvania can forgive what happens in Eastern Pennsylvania.
And so J.D.
Vance is a regional pick.
And strategically, you could see the campaign team is thinking about this as a series of counties.
Said differently, we are running 30 mayor's races.
Not a presidential election.
Your reaction?
About one minute remaining.
100% right.
Inside of Pennsylvania and Michigan and Wisconsin, JD is going to be able to show up over and over again and win over support.
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So I want to play a series of tapes here.
The first piece of tape I want to play is the reaction from the ground.
I think this is very important.
This is a viral video of a young man.
I don't know what creator did this, but I want to give him credit if you guys can get the name.
He was on the streets.
It looks like LA or California.
He's asking random Democrats, hey, what happened to Trump?
What happened to Trump?
What was your reaction?
This is the malpractice of the American media.
Play cut 96, please.
Oh, it's a false flag.
False flag?
Yeah, false flag.
People, somebody died and two people injured?
What do you think about that?
False flag.
False flag.
I thought it was magnificently staged.
It was professionally done.
It almost looked real.
I think this whole thing is staged.
You think it was staged?
Yeah.
It depends on everybody's view.
Yeah.
View of the assassination attempt?
One person died in the crowd, two critically injured.
What happened there?
It wouldn't matter to Trump.
Do you think he cares if people die for him to be elected?
Death doesn't mean anything to Trump.
Could be, or it could be the other side trying to make a scene or something.
Yeah, a lot of people are easily fooled by Donald Trump.
Yeah, they're foolish.
Now, remember this.
Mega donor Reid Hoffman's top political advisor pushed the false flag narrative right out of the gate.
This delusion goes all the way up.
Our own journalist at Turning Point USA, Savannah Hernandez, is amazing.
I want to play this tape and get your reaction here, Lee.
She confronted Kirsten Welker.
Is it Kirsten or Kristen?
Ms.
Welker.
And she is unable to defend NBC's reporting.
She is a journalist asking a question.
Hey, why is it that you guys said that it was loud noises and she's unable to even acknowledge the camera?
This is what we need to do.
You need to calmly and directly confront every single one of these journalists and ask them, why do you say these things?
They've never been challenged in their life.
That is one of the beauties of the RNC.
They're all here, right, Lee?
Play cut 95.
Excuse me, Kristen, I have a question.
NBC reported that when Trump was assassinated, attempted assassination, it was popping noises that was initially reported.
Would you like to respond to that?
No?
Alright y'all, this is Savannah Hernandez and this is actually Kristen Welkner right behind me of NBC News, the exact same network that reported after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump that it was just popping noises.
Kristen, would you like to say anything?
No?
Would anybody, a part of NBC, like to say anything about your faulty reporting?
Not at all?
Okay.
This is what every single attendee needs to do when you see a journalist you recognize that has done malpractice against this nation.
Ask him questions.
Lee, your reaction to those clips.
First off, I saw on Twitter during the break, someone asked whether or not I was 5'4".
Just so you know, I'm not even close.
Charlie's just about 7 feet tall.
Those at home may not realize.
We measured with these shoes.
What was I?
I was 6'6", almost, right?
Yeah.
Oh, man.
But that was an official measurement.
With shoes?
Okay, fine.
Here at the RNC, he's 7 feet tall.
Do you want to know why the internet lies?
Wikipedia says I'm 5'11".
Oh man, I could definitely balance.
That's what I am, so no.
You are definitely making a lot of people proud here, Charlie, and continuing this fight towards accountability because the fact is that President Trump was milliliters and milliseconds away from losing his life on Saturday, which would have plummeted this country into a very dark, uncertain disaster.
American politics and our future.
Thank God President Trump is alive, and all we ask for Is just honesty, truth to be out there as far as what happened with this president.
To try to plant this false flag or to put some headline as if President Trump just fell on stage.
No, just shoot straight with your audience because they are following you.
You need to lead them with facts and let Americans make their own judgment as to what they should believe about what is best for their kids' education, what they should believe as far as what is most important for the safety on their streets or how to achieve prosperity and how to protect freedom, instead of trying to brainwash and indoctrinate.
And this is just another extension of it.
Super quickly, about a minute remaining, plug the important work Project Z and the need for our audience to vote early, avoid the lines, register voters, chase ballots.
About 45 seconds.
Yeah, listen, Turning Point, amazing work.
And America First Works, another C4.
There are other groups, Faith and Freedom, come to mind.
And Moms for Liberty and others who are going to be chasing ballots, but we can't do it alone.
None of us can do it alone.
We need everybody out there to understand that it's not an election day.
This is something Charlie talks about all the time.
It's an election season.
Right after Labor Day, people are going to start voting in places like Pennsylvania.
Ballots will go out.
I have the dates here really quick.
Keep going, please.
And you need to be cognizant of where and how to vote, when to start voting.
We are 52 days out from North Carolina ballots coming out.
62 for Pennsylvania.
All of the low propensity and no propensity.
The people who sometimes vote or never vote.
They're in your lives.
Friends, family, neighbors.
Make sure that they know.
Gotta run.
They have to show up and vote this year.
Their vote counts.
Lee Zeldin, American hero, great man, and I have a role, hopefully, for you in the future Trump administration, God willing.
Remember, Election Day is the last day of voting.
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Joining us now is Dr. Ben Carson.
Give it up for Dr. Carson everybody.
Isn't he the best?
Dr. Carson, I mentioned this off-air, I'm still numb over what happened this last weekend.
Your reaction?
I think we're all a little numb for that.
But what an incredible manifestation of God's power.
You know, He says in the book of Isaiah, no weapon can be formed against you.
They've tried everything to get rid of this man, including assassination.
It's not going to work.
All it does, every one of these things that they do, including the lawfare, it just strengthens him and moves him forward.
And I think that's a manifestation of the fact that God is not through with our country yet.
There's still a lot of people in this country who are God-fearing, decent individuals who have moral standards.
And those are the things that allowed this country to go from a bunch of ragtag militiamen to the pinnacle of the world in record time.
That was not a coincidence.
That was because of the principles that we believed in.
And if we bring those principles back, we will begin extending instead of descending once again.
Dr. Carson, Seeing the president be shot, you were both friends of his.
Yes.
I don't cry easily, but I mean, I was, I was visibly shook.
I mean, we were streaming live.
I had to leave the set because you keep watching this.
And at first you say, okay, was it shrapnel?
No, this, this was a bullet that was an inch or less away from upending our entire nation.
Absolutely.
And you know, I, I was around, uh, a long time ago back when The Kennedys were assassinated when Martin Luther King was.
I remember so vividly those days and what happened and the feeling that it generated.
And this was similar, but in a way it was a little more tragic in the sense that our country is so divided right now.
I mean, we've been divided in those times too, but not the way it is now.
This is like it was in the pre civil war days and I stop and I shudder if they had been successful.
What if that had succeeded?
Where would we be now?
We would be here and this would be not a pleasant place.
Right.
I mean, not only, forget not having a nominee, this country would be... Total chaos.
This would be close to a second American Civil War, and I don't say that lightly.
No.
And I wouldn't support it.
You and I would be doing everything we could to calm people down.
We would.
But remember, for tens of millions of people, or at least millions of people, Donald Trump represents their only voice because they were forgotten by their leaders.
Right.
And they're the ones that give sacrificially, wait in lines for rallies, and the one thing that gives them hope beyond Jesus Christ couldn't even be protected by our own government.
Absolutely.
And now as more things are coming out about that, it was either gross incompetence or something worse than that.
So can I ask you about that?
So you did a wonderful job running housing and urban development.
So is it fair to say that most failures are usually incompetence and not malevolence in government?
I would say the majority are incompetence.
There's some malevolence.
So there is some malevolence.
I agree with you.
So build that out.
There are people sometimes in government that have bad motives and bad intentions.
I think a lot of people, when they come into government at first, they have pure motives and you know, they are for their fellow citizens, but there is so much corruption.
There's so much temptation there.
It requires a very strong constitution to avoid that.
And just look at the fact that so many congressmen and senators thought it was okay for them to be investing in stocks when they knew certain legislation that was going to impact that.
Why would anybody think that was okay?
And they probably didn't think it was okay when they came in, but something happens and you begin to believe that maybe you're a little special.
And maybe you get more advantages than everybody else.
And that's what happens, unfortunately.
We need to get rid of that.
And another thing, I emphasize this, I can't emphasize it strongly enough, the people themselves have to get involved.
Volunteer for Trump Force 47.
Get involved as a poll watcher.
get to know the law, understand when somebody tells you you got to stand way over there where
you can't see anything, that they have no authority to do that and that you should as a poll watcher
be able to actually watch the poll. And there's a whole bunch of other things. We need people to
get involved. If we don't get involved, we lose our country.
Going back to the incompetence and malevolence, there is a report today from Sean Davis that
the Secret Service had eyes on the would-be assassin for 30 minutes prior.
I saw that.
They were in the same building.
They knew he was there.
I mean... I can't come up with a good excuse for that.
Why would you not act if you knew that there was somebody there with a gun That was close enough to do harm to the person.
I didn't understand that.
We're getting closer to the only explanation is that they wanted him unprotected.
I hate even uttering those words because there are some phenomenal people in the service, but is this, this is the territory we're quickly veering into right now.
Well, it's going to be very hard to get a thorough investigation, because who's investigating?
Well, yeah, it's the corrupt mafia investigating the corrupt mafia.
Exactly.
The fox is investigating who stole the chicken from the henhouse.
I was just talking to a couple senators.
Every lawmaker I'm coming up to, I say, you better unleash the metaphorical legislative hell on these people.
Absolutely.
If there is ever a time to go scorched earth, If there was ever a time to, I mean, I'm talking about you should not pass a continuing resolution in the fall unless the Secret Service director is fired.
Well, here's the other thing.
Uh, the president needs better protection.
He needs to plexiglass completely around, uh, the same way Obama used to have, uh, you can't be trusting anymore because the same people who are responsible for this are still responsible for your safety.
Well, and the, If it ends up, it's gonna be very difficult for us to get to the bottom of this, because right now they're probably destroying evidence.
They're probably deleting records, because that is the way in Washington, D.C.
Nobody was fired after the Afghanistan withdrawal.
Nobody was fired with our mishandling of COVID.
And nobody was fired with the Hunter Biden laptop.
In fact, the opposite.
All three of those people are in higher places than ever before.
They've ascended in high society.
Fortunately, that is the reason that people are losing their faith in government.
And that's why it's so important, if we can get through these next five to six months, that we get some people in who actually have the best interests of the people in mind.
It's going to take a while to gain the trust back, but we have to start soon.
It's not going to start with this administration.
And that trust starts with accountability.
The Secret Service is treating this like it's an HR problem.
Right.
I hope everybody understands this.
Since Ronald Reagan was shot, which you remember, I wasn't alive yet.
There has not been a fired round on a former or current president, let alone a current or former president protectee getting shot.
In fact, I spent a lot of time around Secret Service when Trump was president because Don Jr.
had a detail, and Don's a dear friend.
I'm talking probably well over 150 days.
I got to know all the agents by name.
They're wonderful people.
There was, though, a little bit of a We pride ourselves in that we are the best in the world?
You know what I mean?
Well, when I was running for president, I had a full Secret Service detail.
And I don't know that.
Yeah, Donald Trump and I were the only ones who had it.
Because of all the death threats?
Because of the threat level and where you sat in the polls.
Those are the two things that they determine whether you did that or not.
But they were excellent people.
We had a good time with them, but they were incredibly thorough.
Yes, but there was also a belief that we're the best and we will never forsake excellence.
But you have to have the numbers.
Yes.
And the Trump administration has been asking for more.
And they've been denied, denied repeatedly.
And so you have that as a element of this.
And then I don't know if we'll ever get to the bottom of it, but I don't for the, for any, if I was trying to do a devil's advocate argument, how you have a former president and open air rally on, and you have just so everyone understands we had Eric Prince on the program from here to the trade.
That is how far it was for the shooter.
Yeah.
It was a chip shot.
It was.
Yeah.
And if, and in, And they did not have drones.
Can you understand that?
I mean, but every eight-year-old has a drone right now in suburban America.
They don't have a drone that they could fly up and say...
This is Butler, Pennsylvania.
This is not Gotham City.
There's six rooftops in the entire city.
But it's not clear that even if they'd had drones and they'd seen them that they would have done anything.
Because they knew ahead of time, 30 minutes ahead of time, that there was some suspicious guy out there.
Plus they had seen him with a scope or with some kind of distance measuring device.
But help me understand.
You see a guy with a gun and your reaction is, oh we're gonna let him shoot?
I don't understand.
It's, there's no logical explanation.
Or, or at the very least, we're not asking you to be a hero.
Say, get him off stage.
Yeah.
Right.
At least, I mean, when you're in the protective business, overreaction is the correct reaction.
Absolutely.
And they're going to say, oh, we're going to let him continue to do this speech and show charts only by divine, his head tilt saved him.
Or at the very least, when they knew he was there.
They could have taken the president to a safe place until they were able to determine what's going on.
As soon as that there were people yelling and commotion, you get the protectee off stage, and then they figure out and they neutralize the threat.
Right.
Or if it's not a threat, you bring them back on stage.
And if they don't know that, we got a problem.
Houston, we have a problem.
The last part of this segment, Dr. Carson, the audience.
They were getting shot at and the audience basically just stood still.
They didn't panic.
It's unbelievable.
They didn't stampede.
Our people are built differently than the average leftist.
I'm sorry, I'm going to say it, like these people were just kind of like looking around and it was not, that should have been panic at the disco.
I mean, you're talking about people dying in a stampede and a guy gets shot and they're administering first aid and most people are just kind of looking around.
I just, it's hard for me to even comprehend that.
I don't think I would have reacted that way.
But Americans are different.
I keep telling people, you know, when you look at the history of the world and how they have succumbed to Marxist ideology, I don't think we're going to do that.
I think we have people here who have a different sense of right and wrong and values and courage.
And I believe that's going to play a big part in saving this country.
And that's why I'm working the way I am.
That's why you're working the way you are.
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And we need some of the good people in there to balance things off.
I have to say, you are one of our most demanded speakers on campus.
And we love hosting you.
I think we have more coming up in the fall, I hope.
We do.
And you are such a great man.
I know I speak for the audience.
You're one of the greatest living Americans.
I really believe that.
Well, thank you.
And you're one of the greatest ones, too.
Well, that's very... And you represent... Nowhere even in the galaxy of Dr. Ben Carson.
But, Dr. Carson, thank you so much.
Thank you, Charlie.
God bless.
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We have my new friend here.
Bridget!
Hi Bridget, how are ya?
Oh good, excited to be here!
Alright, so you had such energy I told Andrew to bring you up here.
You are using the Turning Point Action mobile technology, is that right?
Oh my gosh, yes we are!
And let me do a shout out to Donna Miller back home because she sent over 4,000 text postcards from your app.
Oh, I am not kidding you.
They are on it like flies on stink.
Okay, so let's... I love it.
So, let's take a step back.
What part of Florida are you from?
Oh, Calamarian County.
Where is that?
Central Florida.
Awesome.
And so, we are partnering at Turning Point Action.
We give our technology free to anyone who wants to use it.
So, you say... It's very autonomous.
Yeah, and you can... Any person in the audience can download the Turning Point Action app, right?
Absolutely.
It's GPS... I could be your spokesperson.
Is it boomer-friendly?
Yeah, hello.
Yes.
No, because some people say I don't know how to use mobile technology.
So I call it KISS.
Keep it simple, stupid.
You basically turn it on.
I could be your spokesperson, right?
You turn it on.
You say, what I want to do today.
I want to walk doors.
I want to text.
I want to send postcards.
You just simply click that box and it populates everybody that's Republican or MPA right outside your space.
So, so for people that say, I want to get involved, I want to, this actually identifies the potential low propensity voters for you.
Oh, completely.
Completely.
How would you contrast our application with some of the other ones?
Okay, yours is so very easy.
And I'm gonna tell you right now, I just got a text two days ago from Donna because she said to me that she's having more, more responses, even with the phone numbers from yours, from your data, as opposed to WebElect.
And the other ones that we are using.
Yeah, and I don't want to bash the other ones.
I just want to lift ours up.
But this is why we did it is because there is there are such issues with the mobile technology space and we want to make it easy.
So it's very easy.
I have a lot of retirees that are over the age of 55.
I'm over the age of 55.
And for us, but you're the backbone of the party.
Right.
And it's so easy to do it.
It's a simple click.
You download it and click.
It's that simple.
And so you have a lot of energy.
You have a lot of spunk and fire.
We love it.
You guys are on fire though.
And so a lot of people are saying, but what can I do?
What can I do?
The biggest thing is to change your attitude and say that you have to be the force multiplier.
Completely.
Oh my gosh, completely.
Because this is so simple and you have to touch voters.
I don't care how you touch voters, just reach out and touch them via text, via phone call, door knock.
This gives you the ability to do that in a simple manner.
What are you hearing in the grassroots from low propensity voters?
That this is the first time we're voting for Trump.
I can tell you right now, long story getting here, but I was at a Starbucks and I was at a hotel.
They told me that I had my shirt.
So is this here in Wisconsin?
No, no, no.
This was in Florida.
Okay.
I had the shirt that says, Never Surrender, with Trump's picture on it.
I love that.
Because it causes a conversation.
So if anything else, wear your shirts, wear your hats.
Yes, this is so important.
She's reading my script.
And let me tell you, we made coins, okay?
Challenge coins.
I see a veteran, I walk over and give it to them, and it causes conversation.
They flip it over, it says the RAC on the back of it.
You can have one.
There you go.
I love that.
And so what you're constantly doing is trying to spark engagement.
That conversation, yes.
And so whether it be wearing a MAGA hat, a Never Surrender shirt, which by the way, you guys can get that Never Surrender shirt at members.charliekirk.com.
We have one with the President Trump with his fist up.
So once that conversation starts, what's the hook?
Give me the best, the essence of this.
What's the hook is and are you registered to vote?
And they'll say, oh, but... Right, and then if we had this conversation, they're like, well, you have no other choice but to vote for Trump because he is the best.
I mean, there's no other, I mean, this is it.
And this, our country's on the line.
There is this wrong assumption where people think everybody is registered to vote.
Is that correct?
That's a very, yes.
And they're not all registered to vote.
That's correct.
And it requires grassroots hustle to find those people.
Yeah, I was in the positions office myself last week and the aid It's not registered.
We had a conversation before we even talked about my health.
I said, what are you doing?
How old?
Millennial?
Late 20s maybe?
That makes sense.
Were they pro-Trump?
Pro-Trump!
But she's not registered.
So the RPF has provided us with cards that takes them directly to the Secretary of State for Florida.
So I've actually hand-delivered one of those over there to them so she can get registered to vote.
It's one voter at a time, folks.
We've got to get this done.
So we have millions of people that watch this show, social media, and all this.
If everybody had the fire that you have, this country would be safe.
Everybody better get this fire, that's all I've got to say.
I mean, we have no excuses left.
No, we don't.
No, exactly.
They shot President Trump.
That's right.
And he took a bullet for us.
He did.
Now let's take the bullet for him.
The least that we can do is get off your fannies and go to work.
What do you have to say for people that say, this is too hard, I'd rather watch it at home?
If it's too hard for you, get your app, and while you're sitting there watching the Charlie Kirk Show, get your handy-dandy postcards, or whatever, or your texts.
Let's talk about the postcards really quick.
That's so important.
Everybody can do this from at home.
Yes, you can.
So we ordered on Amazon, or Donna Miller did, little postcards that had an American flag on it, with a blank space in the back.
And she wrote a simple note, you know, register, whatever she writes, and so forth.
But on your app, you click the app, and it gives you all your MPAs, or Republicans, in your particular precinct, and you start mailing those out.
And you say, hey, please vote for Trump and it's personalized.
It's personalized.
It's not a matter of just knocking on doors.
That's great.
Or going out into public places.
You can write a hundred postcards to neighbors and they're very persuasive.
God bless you, Bridget.
Thank you so much.
Yes.
You are the best.
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
Email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com.
Thanks so much for listening and God bless.
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