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Hey everybody, Dan the Trailer Kirk here.
We talked to Trump's political director, James Blair, about an update on the race.
Alam Bakhari on the latest with Garm and the fight for free speech online.
And finally, are we being gaslit on Kamala Harris?
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We have James Blair here from the Trump campaign.
He does a great job.
I love working with him.
Political director for the Trump campaign.
James, welcome to the program.
Thank you for taking time.
I know we had some tech hurdles, but glad you're on.
James, let's start with this.
People in the audience are asking, we don't know what to believe when it comes to polling.
Are we up?
Are we down?
What is the truth?
What do you see in your political director for the Trump campaign?
What's going on?
Thanks, Charlie.
Good to be here.
And yes, sorry about the technical difficulties.
You know how that is.
First, I mean, it's important to remember that all polls are just a moment in time.
So what we like to look at is the averages over time.
That's historically been a pretty good indicator of where things are headed and historically have also undersampled President Trump's support and underestimated it.
If you look at the RCP averages from the end of 2016 or 2020, President Trump ultimately did better than either of those averages suggested he would do before Election Day.
And I just bring that up to point out where we are right now.
The national polls, obviously, there's lots of national polls out right now.
It's important to note that national polls don't mean anything.
This is a state by state race.
Ultimately, it's all about the electoral map.
But today on the RCP average, President Trump is over six points ahead of where he was in the same day in 2020.
That's a huge shift in our favor, obviously.
And just earlier, I think it was yesterday, CNN was even pointing out that President Trump's favorability ratings are the highest they've ever been.
So it depends on what state you look at, whether or not the president is leading or slightly down in the margin of error, according to the averages.
But he's up in most of the states, according to the averages.
We're on average anywhere from six points to eight points better on the averages today than we were at the same point in 2020.
So understanding that perspective, things look really good.
It's true.
It's a little bit tighter of a race now than it was when President Biden was in the race.
But ultimately, that's mostly being driven by Democrats that should have been with Biden-based Democrats really just at home and expressing some willingness to vote for Kamala Harris.
So we feel very good about things.
Net-net, the president is leading and in a much better place from a polling perspective and an average perspective than he's ever been at this point in the race.
Yeah, and to kind of double on that, President Trump is the best closer in American politics, and he's in a much better spot than he was in 2020.
There was a Carolina Journal poll that just came out in the last couple of minutes, and it's a very good local poll that shows President Trump is currently, even with all this Kamala stuff, is double his winning margin, North Carolina, than in 2020, already at this place in August.
And so he has a lot of room to grow from there.
So James, I now want to get into the ground game here.
I think it's very important.
How can our audience get involved and kind of incorporate that with the paths to victory, Trump Force 47, and talk about the significant ground game operation that you guys are building out at the Trump campaign?
Sure.
First of all, there's a bunch of paths to victories for President Trump.
Many more paths than exist for Kamala Harris when you look at the electoral map.
There's a bunch of iterations, but a few, if all else were held equal from 2020, meaning President Trump holds North Carolina, he would get 270 electoral votes with just Georgia and Pennsylvania.
Or he could get over 270 electoral votes, 271 with Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada.
Also Georgia plus Arizona plus any blue wall state works, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, Nevada, Michigan, Georgia.
So there's a bunch of different iterations within the core battleground states that everyone thinks of.
And in terms of the ground game, things are going really well.
I mean, there's hundreds of paid staff across the battleground states on the ground right now.
There's over 300 Trump and GOP offices across the core battleground states.
We've crossed 12,000 trained Trump Force 47 captains in the battleground states.
We're adding about 2000 a week in change and actually expect that to increase
because we're adding another wave of about 100 staff hires across the battleground states right now.
And I wanna talk a little bit about if it's okay, Charlie, what a Trump Force 47 captain does.
A Trump Force 47 captain signs up and then they have to come to a training,
whether virtual or in person.
And ultimately they're assigned a target list low and mid propensity voters that are within their area.
These voters live in their precinct, often in their neighborhood, and their job is to turn them out to the polls and contact those voters that are the most important to turn out and where a personal voter contact is the most impactful in getting them out to the polls.
So this is really Working within the existing grassroots structure of the party down at the precinct level and using that precinct level energy to drive turnout amongst the voters that we really have to work hard to get to the polls to get our vote math to win in any given state.
And the website again, James, for our audience to get involved?
TrumpForce47.com.
You can go there, sign up to be a captain, reach out to targeted voters in your neighborhood, become a poll watcher.
But what we really need is captains and poll watchers.
So TrumpForce47.com.
Okay, James, talk about voter registration.
What are we seeing in voter registration numbers?
In Arizona, where we are, James, we've seen some very promising expanding on Republican voter registration margins.
It's kind of the buried promising lead of the 2024 election.
Talk about voter registration, how it's also a harbinger, a canary in the coal mine, for enthusiasm voter turnout.
Usually whoever wins the summer voter registration war tends to do well in that November.
It's not a direct correlation, but it's a great sign.
James, tell us about it.
Absolutely.
I mean, the first thing you want to do to win an election is expand your base.
Obviously, you do that through voter registration.
You've got to persuade voters and turn them out too.
But obviously, you want to widen the pool of your base voters that you have to turn out.
And fortunately, we've seen really great trends across the battleground states in favor of President Trump and for Republicans.
We're investing heavily in that effort, and we'll continue to invest all the way down.
I'll give you just a few of the key battleground states that track registration, bipartisanship. Pennsylvania, going into 2020
election, the book close in 2020 election, Democrats had about a 685,000 voter registration
advantage over Republicans in the state of Pennsylvania. Today, that's been cut almost in
half, and I expect you'll see continuing significant gains between now and Election Day. In Arizona,
as you mentioned, going into Election Day on 2020, the GOP had about 130,000 more registered
voters than Democrats.
Today, it's over 259,000 more, so obviously a big swing in our favor there as well.
And then Nevada, Going into 2020, the GOP trailed Democrats by about 86,000 registered voters.
And as of July, because they don't do daily updates, they do monthly, that gap is down to 29,000 voters.
And I would just point out in those three states, as I mentioned in the Path to Victory, in all three of those states, the net improvement for Republican voter registration is greater than the margin of the final posted election results in 2020.
So those are great trends in our favor.
And again, as I mentioned, you know, those three states alone give us 271 electoral votes, assuming we hold North Carolina, even if we didn't flip Michigan, if we didn't flip Wisconsin, if we didn't flip Georgia.
So voter registration is very much in our favor, and we're investing heavily in it.
It goes on in the field and online in various programs you don't always see, but Republicans should feel very good about the expanding base of the party across the battleground states.
Yeah, and just Arizona alone.
So we fell 10,000 votes short, allegedly, in 2020, however you want to analyze that.
And there's 150,000 net new, net new, so net new.
So it's nearly 10 times, even 15 times, you could say, more net new Republicans.
And so, James, that also means we must chase.
That's the work we're doing at Turning Point Action.
We're all working, ground game stuff the best we can.
What is, you know, you did this in Florida.
Talk about the necessary component of early voting activation, chasing ballots, because if we outnumber them with the amount of ballots in the system, the volume, then we have to have the bodies and the energy to actually get those ballots into the system.
Explain for our audience.
Yeah, absolutely.
So getting votes in before Election Day is a huge tactical advantage as you move down the stretch.
For one, it helps you come into Election Day with less votes needed, obviously.
And two, it lets you trim your list as you get closer to election day
and refocus your resources and your energy on ever shrinking groups of voters.
And obviously that gives you the ability to increase your touches and your frequency
and all of that as you get closer to election day.
So we're big believers in in-person early voting.
We want people to vote by mail if they're comfortable with that.
I will point out Republicans, our voters, I will say, are more comfortable voting in person and that's okay.
We want people to vote by mail.
We have to chase the ballots that are out there and continue to increase those ballots, which you guys have done great work on in Arizona and others around the country in increasing the rolls of absentee ballots amongst Republicans.
But I do want to set expectations that look, the Democrats are going to have more early votes than we are.
That's going to be true in most places.
But the good news is our people are very enthusiastic.
We ask them constantly how they plan to vote.
And we have a pretty good sense of how many votes are going to come in before election day if people just behave the way they're telling us they're going to behave, you know, within sort of a statistical margin.
So, you know, just set the table that the Democrats are probably going to have more early votes.
That's okay.
We have great turnout on Election Day, always do, and get-out-the-vote efforts are good all the way until the polls close on Election Day, so that's what we'll be doing.
But anything we can do to move up those ballots, move up the time that people cast a vote, our base, is a huge advantage.
I'll also mention though something that talked about Charlie is persuasion.
We have seen the very small segment of the elect that is still persuadable start to vote earlier.
So we've really worked to start our persuasion efforts much earlier than we have historic.
James Blair from the Trump campaign.
Great work.
Talk to you soon.
Thanks so much.
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I just want to summarize some of the electoral math.
So if Donald Trump wins Pennsylvania and he wins Georgia and all the other states are solid, which it looks like they are, he's president.
Now, if President Trump wins Pennsylvania and does not win Georgia, then he needs both Arizona and Nevada or He needs Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, and that's enough to bring him across the finish line.
And Georgia is at best a toss-up for Kamala Harris.
This is a very tough map for them.
As the map is going to narrow, and independents and persuadables start to come home, it's a very difficult map for Kamala Harris.
And that's why if we have a grassroots explosion, a grassroots volcano, To chase every ballot, to find every voter.
We're going to be in a great spot.
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Okay, we have Alam Bakari, who is with Mike Benz's organization now, does a great job.
Alam, welcome to the program.
Tell us all about Elon Musk's lawsuit.
He just took out Garm.
Educate our audience on this, please.
Hi Charlie, good to be on.
So yeah, this is a massive win for the cause against online censorship, I would say, because a GARM, this organization that is now shutting down in response to both the lawsuit from Elon Musk and the lawsuit from Rumble, as well as the House Judiciary Committee's investigation of the organization.
The Global Alliance for Responsible Media, and it kind of tells you what it does in the
title there.
They want to oppose irresponsible media and promote responsible media by their own definitions,
of course.
And this was a cartel of the world's biggest advertising companies that created this.
In fact, a group, the World Federation of Advertisers, that represents 90 percent of
global advertising spend.
So basically the entire advertising industry around the world was responsible for creating
this organization, which had one purpose, which was to, as the title says, ensure responsible
That means ensure that social media platforms and news media platforms online adhere to the global advertising industry's idea of good content moderation.
So, you know, they didn't want advertising to appear on what they considered hate speech or misinformation and all the other excuses that they regularly use to demonetize and censor conservative viewpoints.
So what this organization did, Was it it would act collectively to get the entire advertising industry to boycott platforms like X and Rumble and conservative news sources to starve them of ad revenue and put them out of business.
So it was this massive force for financial blacklisting of disfavored news sources and disfavored social media platforms.
So help me understand how this kind of fell apart so quickly.
The lawsuit didn't even proceed.
It was just the threat of a lawsuit and they disassembled.
Is that right?
Pretty much, yes.
It was very, very quick.
It happened all very, very quickly.
Within two days of Elon Musk and X filing the lawsuit against GARM and individuals associated with GARM, GARM decided to shut down.
And this was also just, you know, eight days after we at the Foundation of Freedom Online started exposing its contracts with the federal government, billions of dollars going to members of GARM of U.S.
taxpayer money, essentially meaning that U.S.
taxpayers were funding the forces that are censoring them online or rolling back free
speech for them online.
And just less than a month after Jim Jordan released materials from internal communications
from Garm as part of his investigation of the organization that showed, that really
shone a light on exactly how partisan and biased this organization was.
Some of the emails that Jordan found, you know, that you see members of Garm, you know,
top executives in the advertising industry saying, yeah, you know, we, we hate news sources
like Breitbart and, and, and conservative viewpoints.
And we're constantly looking at monitoring them for violations so that we can pull our
ad revenue from them and, you know, damage them financially.
So you see them clearly in these internal emails admitting that they're looking for any excuse to pull advertising revenue from websites and platforms that they don't like.
So is this enough to impact the 2024 election?
And are we going to see a GARM 2.0 up and running in a couple weeks?
Yeah, GARM 2.0, that's interesting.
I think the lesson the advertising industry might have learned from this is that, you know, if they create an organization like this, it's too easy.
You know, just everyone under one banner.
It's too easy to be accused of collusive behavior, to be accused of anti-competitive behavior.
I think with regards to the election, You go back to 2020 and you see the advertising industry behaving in much the same way.
In 2020, they actually waged a mass advertiser boycott against Facebook, driven by a media panic over so-called disinformation on Facebook.
So the media was upset that Facebook wasn't censoring Donald Trump and Donald Trump supported it enough.
So they went to advertisers and whipped up this huge boycott.
And, you know, that put a lot of pressure on Facebook, which is almost entirely dependent on ad revenue.
I think that's going to be much less likely this time around to see the similar sort of pressure against social media platforms, because now the advertising industry is on the defensive.
It has to answer all these questions.
Why are you pulling ad revenue from these platforms and not these platforms?
Why are you pulling ad revenue from anti-establishment media, but not establishment media, even when the establishment media engages in disinformation?
So it's on the defensive, it's being investigated, it's having its internal communications opened up to the public.
I think they're in a much trickier spot and they'll be much more hesitant to engage in these kind of collective boycott actions to influence the election as they did last time.
So, so Alam, help me understand that the, can you just, you're a tech expert on this.
Can you give an analysis of the conditions to spread information this election cycle versus 2020?
Are we objectively in a better position to be able to challenge narratives, to be able to get out stories like the Hunter Biden laptop than we were in 2020?
I would say so, and I think for a number of reasons, actually.
I think in 2020, the peak of online censorship was really from 2016 to 2020.
That first election of Donald Trump kicked off everything.
It kicked off a panic in Silicon Valley, a panic in the media, panic in the advertising industry.
You had all these establishment corporate forces coming together, trying to figure out how they could stop Donald Trump from winning again, because that was the real catalyst.
Frankly, there was some moves towards online censorship before that, driven by pro-censorship activists.
But, you know, 2016 was a real turning point in Silicon Valley and in the advertising industry and in the media.
And also in the deep state and all of these pro-censorship NGOs.
They were the ones who started off the panic over Russiagate and Russian disinformation.
And they took that panic to the tech companies.
So you mentioned the Hunter Biden story.
Um, a big reason why Silicon Valley platform censored the Hunter Biden stories, because they were told by, uh, by government agencies, by NGOs, that, you know, the Russians were preparing a big information drop to influence the 2020 election.
And of course it was a total lie.
It was just an excuse to censor this story that was damaging to the regime favored, establishment favored candidate.
And I think a lot of Silicon Valley companies and people who worked in the Silicon Valley companies, they trusted a lot of these so-called experts on Russian disinformation.
And then slowly over time, they realized they were being hoodwinked.
They realized they were being taken for a ride.
If you look at the Twitter files, in fact, you even see people like Yoel Roth, who's a very left-wing guy, saying, hang on a minute, all of these people who are being accused of being Russian bots on our platform, they're actually just Americans commenting on politics.
So, you know, I think Silicon Valley is less naive than it was in 2020.
They're less likely to believe people who say you have to censor your platform because, you know, foreign agents are trying to influence the elections.
There's less of that.
And you also have the censorship industry on the defensive, as we see with Garm shutting down, as we see with the Election Integrity Partnership, which the Foundation for Freedom Online has done a lot of work exposing them and how they contributed to 2020 election censorship.
They've been put on the defensive.
And that's in large part because of all the scrutiny they've received and all the investigations coming from lawmakers on the Hill.
So I think there's a lot of reasons why censorship is not as bad this year as it was in 2020.
But of course, we still have to be cautious.
All of these platforms still have hate speech regulations.
They still have regulations against disinformation.
And you still have things like the Digital Services Act in Europe.
And, you know, UK lawmakers now demanding more censorship, even from free speech platforms like Elon Musk's X. So there are still forces in favor of censorship that are very, very powerful.
But I think they're less unopposed than they were in 2020.
So, Alam, how can people support you?
Learn more about your work.
Very important to allow us to speak freely online.
Go to the Foundation for Freedom online dot com.
We have a couple of reports up about the advertising industry and Garm and its role in online censorship,
exposing how many of Garm's leading members, some of the world's biggest advertising agencies,
are getting billions of dollars in U.S. taxpayer money through government contracts, which
really shows the U.S. government pays little attention to whether the companies it gives
all these contracts to are supportive of the First Amendment or American free speech values
They'll continue to pay these companies regardless if they undermine free speech online.
Alan Bakari, thank you so much.
Excellent work as always.
Thank you.
Thanks, John.
Good to be on.
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I want to play some piece of tape here from the Trump press conference yesterday.
And look, one of the things that people are asking here is, what is the state of the race?
That's a difficult question.
Because there's polls going in every direction.
There's people asking, what is the current status in Pennsylvania, in Georgia, in Arizona?
So Donald Trump held a press conference yesterday.
Let's play a piece of tape here from that.
Let's go to cut, um, yeah, I don't know if we want to do that one.
Let's actually go to this one.
This was President Trump on Fox News.
Let's go to cut 72.
She's for no fracking.
She's for defund the police.
You know, she's a big, she was the original defunder of the police.
She was the original no cash bail, cashless bail, which has caused havoc.
And look at how she's destroyed San Francisco.
And then she went to Attorney General.
She's destroyed California.
Her and Gavin Newsom have destroyed, absolutely destroyed, California.
And what a shame.
What a beautiful place it was.
But it's not beautiful anymore.
She cannot get away because if she does this to America, every one of us are going to either be leaving or we're going to be living like dogs.
Kamala Harris is going around the country doing her rally campaign.
She's actually here in Arizona today with Mr. Walz.
She has yet to do a press conference.
She took, I think, one or two questions yesterday from some reporter.
It was kind of a joke.
And it's important to know this whole race will come down to just a couple of states.
Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona.
Those are the big three.
Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona.
If Donald Trump wins Pennsylvania and wins one of two of Arizona, Georgia, of which hopefully he wins both, he's president of the United States.
John Fetterman knows Pennsylvania very well.
He is making a prediction of who is going to win Pennsylvania.
Play cut 125.
I think if you match up Trump, And Harris, which I think that's really what that this is really about.
And I do believe he's going to win Pennsylvania.
And of course, it's going to be close.
But I've been maintaining that whether it's Biden, whether it was Clinton or whether now it's with Vice President Harris, it's going to be very close.
It's going to come down to just a handful of key counties.
Allegheny County.
Luzerne County.
Bucks County.
Center County.
So this is going to come down to just a couple of key counties and that's what's so important is we must look at this race with precision.
That this is not about how well you do in California or Idaho or New York.
It's going to come down to how well are you able to chase ballots in Allegheny County?
How well are you going to be able to do in Maricopa, Pinal, Pima, Yavapai, Cochise, Navajo, Apache, Gila, Coconino, How well are you going to do in the counties that are going to make or break the entire election cycle?
The voters on the ground are telling us that President Trump is dominant when it comes to the core issues of economy, of inflation, of market stability.
Democrats have lost nearly 60,000 active voters since April in Pennsylvania.
This is Scott Pressler reporting.
Every day we are beating Democrats in voter registration numbers on the ground in Pennsylvania and in Arizona and in Georgia.
We are outnumbering them in these states.
So it's going to come down to, can we deploy the appropriate force to be able to chase the ballots, to get the mail-in ballots into the system?
And I'm not telling you you have to change your method of voting.
If you're a game day voter, terrific.
But if you are a passive low propensity voter that doesn't listen to the Charlie Kirk Show, And you're a plumber, you're an electrician, you're a welder, a police officer, firefighter, and you vote passively?
I much prefer that you vote by mail than not vote at all.
I want to go to another piece of tape here, which is questions that were being asked on the ground of voters in Pennsylvania.
Fox News was there.
I think it was Rachel Campo-Stuffy, who does a great job, of asking direct people, what do you think about this election?
Let's play Cut 65.
I personally feel like the economy is sucking right now.
Less pay, more expenses, bills going up, rents going up, so it's pretty bad.
I work three jobs just to break even every month and I have a master's degree from Columbia.
The economy is pretty rough.
Everybody is concerned about economic situation, I certainly am.
I think the economy, you know, in large part has done well.
Our current government has absolutely ruined everything, can't afford life.
I make six figures a year, live in the city, still can't afford life, can't even afford to go out like we used to.
Can't afford to go out like we used to.
Pennsylvania voters said two years ago everybody hated Trump.
Now they'll say they vote for him.
This is the vibe on the ground.
Therefore, if you win Pennsylvania, you have to win one other state.
Either Arizona or Georgia.
Arizona or Georgia.
And we are going to fight and scrap and hustle.
To try to deliver Arizona.
There's no guarantees.
It's gonna be tight, tight, tight.
You live in Arizona here, we gotta chase ballots and register voters.
This is going to be trench warfare.
But we do outnumber them.
And if we chase, we win.
But it's gonna be tight, tight, tight.
Play Cut 117.
I'm a registered Democrat.
I was loyal to vote for Trump.
Current moment right now, the way everything is going, I still need to see what's on the table.
Who are you voting for this year?
President Donald Trump.
You're more open to voting for someone other than the Democrat ticket this time than last time?
There's a possibility.
I've seen a lot of people leaning towards Trump right now.
Even people who were bided before?
Even people that were bided, you know.
I'm hoping that President Trump wins again.
So were the tips higher when Trump was in office?
Of course!
We gotta get Trump in office.
Think that'll fix the problem?
I know it will.
are so unaffordable.
That's why I believe President Trump should just go to a grocery store in every battleground state and just say, I'll pay for your groceries.
He'd be so good at that.
The cost of food is increasingly unaffordable for people.
You know, people used to say that pocketbook issues are the key.
Now it's a stomach issue as more and more people are going hungry and are not able to afford the food that they once were able to afford.
How many people, I'm sure many of you in this audience, were not able to take the summer vacation that you wanted to because of inflation.
People are getting crushed right now.
And by the way, if Iran does end up retaliating against Israel, which we've been waiting for a couple of days, I don't know what's going on there.
But if Iran ends up retaliating against Israel, oil will skyrocket.
And Joe Biden has already spent down the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
The new strategy for Kamala Harris, it's not that dumb, but I don't know how it's going to work.
We'll see, is that she's running on joy.
Now, her thinking is this, that we live in a depressed country, which we do.
We have the most depressed, suicidal, anxious, alcohol-addicted generation in history.
And that if she kind of force-feeds joy, people are going to vote for her.
This is Joy Reid talking about how happy of a person Kamala Harris is.
You know, there's a lot of words I would use to describe Kamala Harris.
Happy is not one of them.
Play Cut 107.
And I mean, the thing about her, just since I've experienced her as a political figure, is that she is not, she hasn't become this happy person.
Like she actually is this happy person, right?
She and her sister are hilarious together.
They adore each other.
But she's always sort of presented herself as sort of like the approachable, you know, prosecutor.
And that's how she ran in 2020.
I still remember her ads then were like, Shirley Chisholm inspired me.
It's like she's not play acting it.
And obviously neither is Tim Walz.
Guys, I'm telling you, we are being gaslit so hard right now.
Kamala's obviously a miserable person.
It's obvious.
Fake smile, fake laugh.
I mean, can we learn something about Kamala Harris' background?
As far as what are her hobbies, what brings her joy?
Everything she likes is just faking for clout.
And if you are supporting Kamala Harris, or someone you know, you guys are being taken for a ride.
It is the most... This election is quite interesting to me.
Other than the entire civilization hanging in the balance and my life's kind of obsession this year is trying to get Donald Trump.
But you know, if we lose, I did everything I could and I could live with that.
And so, I can't say the same for everybody.
Other people are kind of coasting and not working as hard as they should.
But for me, I did everything I could.
But from an objective analysis standpoint, this election is a test of the power of Soviet propaganda.
And I learned a lot during COVID.
And if you want to know, people are asking me all the time, Charlie, Do you think, is there any way that Kamala wins?
Of course there is.
I mean, obviously, not just because of all the voter fraud and all that, but during COVID and the lockdowns, I learned at how people can be manipulated when the media all gets on the same page.
We had people wearing masks alone driving cars.
We had people jogging around in around lakes with a mask.
Now have people woken up and learned post-COVID?
I hope so, but we're still human beings.
We're still broken.
Groupthink and mass propaganda and mass formation psychosis has not changed.
And they're using the COVID playbook for Kamala Harris.
The same COVID playbook of safe and effective, 15 days slow to spread, death totals on TV.
We're going to intimidate you.
We're going to come after you.
The same propaganda techniques.
That were used in 2020 with the Mockingbird Media is now being used for Kamala Harris.
The template was tested in 2020 and it's interesting.
We thought that 2020 was a trial run for a World Economic Forum takeover in a very dystopian sense.
Little did we know that the COVID playbook that was used in 2020 of all the lies of lockdowns and the gaslighting and the double speak was actually a trial run for the most unlikable politician named Kamala Harris.
They worked out the kinks and they are using it in full force.
The lying during COVID was some of the darkest in American history, from ivermectin being
horse dewormer, from hydroxychloroquine being some sort of a fish drug, to drinking bleach.
Donald Trump wants you to inject bleach.
All the lies that were happening there and the people that unnecessarily died because
of it.
That was a template.
It was a trial run.
And so yes, Kamala Harris absolutely can become president because they just need 47% of people
to believe Kamala Harris is the right choice, the same way they got 80% of people to take
the vaccine.
The same way that they got 75% of people to believe that they should wear masks outside.
Do you know that 75% of all Georgia voters in 2020 believe that it should be mandatory to wear a mask outside?
That's according to Fox News exit polling data.
That's while the election was happening.
Mandatory masks outside.
That's where we were in 2020.
So I hope we can overcome it.
I hope we've learned our lesson.
But do not underestimate the power of aggressive Soviet-style propaganda.
It worked during COVID, and I pray it doesn't work with Kamala Harris.
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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