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Dec. 22, 2025 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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The Best Moments of the Biggest AmFest Ever
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All right.
Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
It is Monday after America Fest.
We are all exhausted but energized.
What an amazing event.
Blake and the team are back in studio.
Blake, welcome.
Happy Monday.
Happy Monday.
Where are you, Andrew?
I am in an undisclosed location, but excited about the holidays fast approaching.
I told everybody I was, you know, what did I do, like 48 interviews or something during the course of Amfest?
And I told everybody all I want to do for Christmas, all I want for Christmas is to sit on the couch, watch Christmas movies, eat baked goods, and add a few LBs and not even care.
So that is the plan this week.
But, you know, we have to tell the tale that was four action-packed days of America Fest, Blake.
I mean, that was, you know, every side of the political debate seemed to get in on what happened at Amfest.
Everybody had an opinion.
I'm all here for it.
And, you know, more than any other AmFest in the history of Turning Point, this was, we had the eyes of the world, the nation certainly, on this event.
And so you're going to get a lot of opinions either way.
But one thing is very clear.
Anybody that was there absolutely had the time of their lives and realized just how much unity there is in the movement, in the love of the people.
I think it was truly transformative if you were in the space, in the event, and if you were just on Twitter taking pot shots, I guess there's no pleasing you.
But I mean, honestly, what an event.
What an absolutely historic, enormous achievement for the team.
And I'm really proud of everybody that was involved.
It was such a triumph in so many ways.
Blake, you were obviously there.
You were taking part in a lot of the activities and interviews and shows.
What was your take?
Yeah, it's very funny because we were doing so many interviews for the exclusive segments that I kind of had a bit of tunnel vision.
I didn't see that many of the speeches on stage.
So I'm actually looking forward to catching some of the clips that we have here because we did.
As I'm sure a lot of you listening right now know, we had our CK exclusives room.
We talked to Megan Kelly.
We had Michael Knowles.
We had Tom Homan.
We had the sons of that Korean pastor, Pastor Salon, who was arrested in Korea, who we had on the show at Amfest last week.
And so we saw all of that.
But what we were seeing on stage at the same time was, I think what was most interesting about this AmFest is we've had it as a big event.
We've had it as an event to get people fired up.
We've had it as an event for people to celebrate after the 2024 win.
But I think this was probably the most significant America Fest in terms of it really being a space where different members of the coalition, different members of MAGA, go to state their position on what the movement should be, how they should approach significant issues.
I think it stands out.
We built on the debate that we had last summer, and we had several debates on different issues.
And I think that's a very promising theme that we'll be having.
going forward because we can do we can do debates about Israel.
We can do debates about weed.
We can do maybe we'll have a debate about the property tax and everyone can yell at me again.
I think it that's what stood out about this America Fest that there was a certain combativeness over issues.
But as you said, people on the ground, it was a very positive vibe, a very good attitude.
There was a lot of unity coming from everyone remembering Charlie and what he meant for the movement.
And I think most people there, the vast majority of people there, were extremely upbeat and they were remembering the things that we're all fighting for.
Yeah.
And then, you know, like I said, it was like an it was like a play in four acts or something.
You know, it was like night one.
It was, you know, Ben Shapiro came on the stage, kind of name-checked a lot of people, kind of took, as I said, it kind of took like a howitzer to a lot of the online right and had, you know, it was like the festivist for the rest of us.
It was an episode of Seinfeld, aired his grievances, got it out of his system.
And then you had a couple of those people, Tucker on the first night that kind of fired back.
But, you know, I think Tucker was a little bit more restrained.
And then you had Steve Bannon, obviously, Megan Kelly.
So you had a bunch of that kind of chatter.
But by the, I think it was Saturday night, you had Jesse Waters come on and basically just tell funny stories about Trump and kind of talked about how Charlie inspired him and ended the Saturday night.
And then we had Faith Night.
So we had, you know, proclamation of the gospel.
And we had, of course, Sunday where we had the surprise guest, Nikki Minaj.
We had Erica interview her.
We had Don Jr.
We had then, of course, JD Vance, who was the capstone of the entire event.
And I was telling people, I was like, you know, the capstone of this event with JD coming in, it felt like, you know, dad's home.
All right, settle down, kids.
Here's what's going to be the message and the takeaway.
And he just did such a good job of crystallizing, I think, all of the sort of various, I don't know, messaging, like through lines that you could pick apart and you could see.
And then JD Vance just comes in and says, settle down.
Here's the way it's going to go.
We're not going to cancel anybody.
We're not deplatforming anybody.
We're going to have these arguments out in the open.
And by the way, here's where we're going as a movement.
Here's why we're going to win the midterms.
Here's why we're different than the left.
Here's why you're not going to get high-minded collectivism and sit down, shut up, and pipe down.
It was just such a morally clear speech.
I think it's going to go down in history books as one of the most important speeches ever.
Not just because this was the first Amfest of the post-Charlie era, which was on everybody's hearts and minds the entire time.
I mean, by the way, I just want to give a shout out to so many of the patriots that came up and gave me a hug and took a selfie.
I could feel how much Charlie meant to you guys and how much he's still present in your hearts and in this movement and certainly at this event.
But that speech was so important because of all of the storylines that were going into the event and then obviously following the event through the week.
He just added that moral clarity, and it underscored for me, Blake, that this is a politician that's not afraid to, you know, really declare the moral center of the conservative right and to do it forcefully, to do it articulately.
And I just felt so uplifted by that.
And I felt like, you know, for all of the noise and all the contentiousness of the last few days, it was like that was the way to end it.
JD Vance brought the clarity that the movement needed.
And if you really go back and watch that speech where he talks about getting rid of racism and the DEI anti-meritocracy and saying it's okay to be, you don't have to apologize for being white in the country, but you don't have to apologize for being Asian in the country.
That we are a Christian nation, that we are a very diverse coalition, but we are pulling in one direction.
I genuinely think it was historic.
It was important.
And it's going to be looking back this moment that all of us can look to and say that was the moment where things really began to crystallize again.
Yeah, I mean, how about we let's play 130.
The fruits of true Christianity are good husbands, patient fathers, builders of great things, and slayers of dragons.
And yes, men who are willing to die for a principle if that's what God asked them to do.
Because so many of us recognize that it is better to die a patriot than live a coward.
I think that was the biggest applause line of his speech.
It was that line.
It's almost too bad we cut it off there, but it was a good line.
It really crystallized what Charlie stood for.
And I think that's got to be the glue that binds the movement together in this year and probably the years to come.
The legacy of Charlie, that great coalition builder, that great event planner, that great speaker, that great show host, that great man.
And I think that was the biggest thing about Amfest was that we got the opportunity to spend four days remembering him.
Yeah, well said, Blake.
That's perfectly said.
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Blake, did you get any sleep during this event?
I feel like I got like five hours of sleep.
My mom did that thing again where she's like, you look tired.
And I'm like, I know, mom.
I got a medium amount of sleep, I think.
Now I'm remembering how Charlie said he would get eight or nine a night.
And did he do that during Amfest?
It sounds hard to believe, but.
No, but you know what?
He would still really discipline.
I tried.
Don't get me wrong.
I tried.
But it was, you know, you wake up early, you got 48 urgent things to get done.
And by the way, I just want to say that the team, the turning point team, the events team, I've gotten just overwhelmed, inundated with people saying that was just how positive they are, how helpful they were.
Everybody has an interaction with a turning point staff member at these events and they need something and they get help and there's just nobody like it.
Nobody in the space does this.
And these are like from top to bottom, the kids that just got hired, or to the top-level staff, there is so much just grassroots humility.
And this is an event to serve the base, to serve everyday Americans.
If you walk around those halls, it's just average everyday Americans that love their country, that are there to make sure that the movement is in a good place, that they want to honor Charlie, honor his memory.
And it's just we the people, man.
This event is just we the people.
Blake, we do have that clip that you wanted, I believe.
Set it up for us from JD Vance.
All right.
It's just, we're trying to figure out what America's identity is.
We're trying to figure out what the rights identity is.
And that's what a big theme of the event was.
And Charlie would always want to be searching for positive identifications.
You don't define the right by what things offend you or what things you disagree with or what things make you angry.
The best way to build a durable coalition is to find positive, shared things that can unite different peoples.
And JD Vance made a case for one Charlie would agree with, we would agree with America as it's not a nation where everyone is Christian, but it is a Christian nation.
Let's play 171.
More than any time I can recount, people are talking about American identity and figuring out what it is that unites us.
But I want to say something here.
The only thing that has truly served as an anchor of the United States of America is that we have been, and by the grace of God, we always will be a Christian nation.
And he continued for a bit after that and elaborate on what he meant.
It wasn't just a throwaway line.
He talks about that not everyone in America is Christian.
Many follow other religions.
As we know, his own wife is not a Christian.
But it's that America is, it's built on this bedrock of Christian values, that it undergirds all of American history.
It undergirds its founding documents.
It's what drove America to become the greatest nation in the world.
It's what makes America such a desirable nation today.
And even if you are not Christian, you live in a world that is completely pervaded by those Christian values and that the preservation of them is central to keeping America great.
And I think he made a very strong case for that.
Yeah, you know, he says Christianity is America's creed, the shared moral language from the Revolution to the Civil War and beyond.
And I thought that was a beautiful way to sum it up because, you know, we've been talking about what is an American a lot on this show.
Charlie was talking about it and he was contemplating that notion a lot.
And we played clips or not clips.
We showed quotes from Teddy Roosevelt talking about what they were believed an American to be in the early 1900s.
Christianity as America's Creed 00:15:03
And that idea is something that we have to contend with generation after generation, especially after the mass migration that we have absorbed as a country over the last 40 years.
And I think especially poignant was that moment because we do have a lot more people in this country that are not Christian.
Church attendance rates have dropped among those who used to be Christian, right?
That come from Christian families and heritage and backgrounds.
And so for him to go out there and to state definitively, I think especially given the fact that his own wife is not a professing Christian, was a powerful, powerful moment.
And it truly is uniting if you let it be, because it doesn't matter if you profess that same faith.
You are drawn to this country because of the freedoms that are afforded us by the fact that our moral framework, our laws, our customs are built upon the foundation of Jesus Christ and the Christian faith.
And that's something that we can never lose sight of.
That's something that Charlie never lost sight of.
We are a Christian nation.
And amen, yes and amen.
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Blake, we have to get into the big surprise guest yesterday that as I'm going through social media right now, it seems the whole world is still talking about.
And that is, of course, Nikki Minaj on stage with Erica Kirk.
It was a pretty profound moment, I have to say.
You know, there was a lot of, you know, people were guessing, was it Elon Musk?
Was it, was it going to be some other person?
Was it going to be POTUS himself?
Actually, the president called in when Don Jr. was on stage, and that was a really special moment.
But we had even more surprises in store, and that, of course, was Nikki Minaj.
Some people might kind of scratch their head a little bit and go like, oh, Nikki, you know, what's, you know, what's, why would she be invited to something like this?
Well, I'll tell you why, because Nikki Minaj has shown a lot of courage, actually.
Obviously, she's lived a life that I'm not here to endorse or say is the model for young women.
But she showed a lot of courage.
And more recently, she's been speaking out and advocating for the persecuted church in Nigeria and helping get even the U.S. government to take action on our brothers and sisters in Christ that are suffering devastating losses, devastating attacks and murder.
It's persecution in the truest sense of the word.
And so, you know, I was honored that she agreed to come on stage.
And what I was struck by, Blake, and I'd be curious to get your thoughts on this, is, you know, as a huge rap fan that you are, is she, that was a joke in case people are wondering.
Yeah, yeah, the radio viewers can't see my grimace right now.
Yeah, exactly.
No, I'm definitely not a rap fan either, I have to say.
But, you know, I do appreciate somebody in her position that's willing to have to have the courage to speak out and advocate for things that are unpopular in her position to advocate for, to cut against the grain.
I was very impressed also with just the depth of her wisdom, Blake.
I said to her backstage, I said, I have to be honest, I was surprised at how I was riveted by what you said, how I was hanging on every word that you said, because it felt like you have wisdom that only comes through like kind of a hard knock life, only through hard-fought wins and courage in the face of a lot of opposition.
That's the only time, you know, somebody can really drop truth on you and it kind of makes you sit back and you're like, you earned every ounce of this wisdom the hard way, and you can feel that.
So, what was your take, Blake?
And then we'll play some of her clips.
Well, I think let's get into the clips first.
I think that's what people who may have missed it want to see.
We have quite a few, but let's just start with 129.
I've performed for huge crowds all around the world.
And no matter how many songs I do on that stage, it didn't mean as much as this because this is a direct link for younger people.
This is a direct link between young people and God.
That was a good one.
And let's see.
How about let's just go into 124.
So, why now have you been involved with speaking about politics?
What was kind of the turning point?
What was the turning point?
I just got tired of being pushed around.
Sometimes you just get tired of it, and then you realize, wait a minute, I have something inside of me that's stronger than what's out there.
That's right.
So when you've had enough, you realize, wait a minute, why do I even care about these people and what they think?
Who are they?
They don't even know who they are.
So I'm not going to, I'm not going to back down anymore.
I'm not going to back down ever again.
Amen.
Any others you want to do, or should we dive into it?
Yeah, I just want to make a comment really quick.
You know, I was talking about this with Tyler Boyer, and, you know, this is a position that Erica Kirk has not been placed in a whole lot, honestly, where she's the interviewer on stage.
And it was like, you know, she was a mix between, you know, Barbara Walters and I don't know, and sort of just a godly representation of a woman of Christ.
I mean, it was really amazing.
And, of course, I mean, I don't want to call it the elephant in the room, but, you know, Nikki said something kind of awkward when she was about to praise JD Vance.
And, you know, she called, she was trying to give a compliment to the vice president because she had just complimented President Trump.
She went and complimented JD Vance, but she used kind of a very awkward word in that setting, right?
I'm sure Blue Sky went crazy with it.
But Erica Kirk then covered over it with such grace and with such poise.
I was sitting back there.
I mean, honestly, I got, I was like, what's going to happen next?
And then Erica completely made it okay.
And I was just so, I was so impressed, you know, because again, you know, if Charlie's put in those kind of situations, he was a pro.
He knew exactly how to handle it and roll with it.
But I think Erica did as well as anybody in the whole entire world could have done with that moment.
And it didn't even, like in the end of the day, it didn't even matter.
And I was just so impressed with her.
So, but here were some other things that she did that ended up playing into JD's Vance's speech later when JD was talking about it's okay to be a white American, it's okay to be an Asian American.
You don't have to talk around the color of your skin anymore in Trump's America.
Let's go ahead and play cut 137, this Nikki Minaj.
If as black women, we felt that we were not being represented and not being admired for our beauty.
If we felt like that as black women, why would we want to do that to other women?
Why would we now need to make other people downplay their beauty so that we can feel no, that's not how it works.
I don't need someone with blonde hair and blue eyes to downplay their beauty because I know my beauty.
Do you understand?
It doesn't bother me that a woman feels and says that she's beautiful.
Why shouldn't she feel that?
Why have we gotten to a point where certain colors or certain kinds of people have to be afraid of loving themselves and loving the way they look?
Like, it's isn't that wild?
Yeah, the message of everybody is equal before God, and we need to stop attacking people for this anti-white sentiment.
She hit it right on the head, and as a black woman doing that, as a rapper doing that, I thought it was a pretty profound moment of moral clarity.
Blake, yeah, it was strong.
I did like also, you know, you mentioned the dynamic between her and the vice president, where I think JD Vance said he was worried that Nikki Minaj would think he looks like the JD Vance face that we've used.
And he said he was glad she didn't.
But I think it actually would have been funnier if she did.
It would have been a good clip.
She walks in.
He's like, he looks different from what I was expecting.
But can't win them all.
Should we dive into, should we get into Rob Schneider?
I think that was one of the big favorites of people during the event.
He was one of the people I heard most about, most of the feedback about.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, you know, someone pointed out that he was really good because he's a comic.
Comedians, they need to know when something is discongruent because that is what drives comedy.
But then as a result, they also know what congruence is.
They know how to make a good serious point.
And I've always been very impressed with him when we've had him on the show.
He's very good at speaking to faith topics and so on.
And he gave a very good testimony about Charlie and about the attacks against him and the attacks against all of us.
Let's play 141.
The left is trying to reframe Charlie into something he wasn't, and by extension, all of us.
Extremists, Nazis, fascists, white supremacists, by taking moderate people with views held by the majority and turning them into monsters hides the real monsters among us.
So when actual extremists show up, people can't tell the difference anymore.
Now here's the warning.
If the right doesn't learn from the left's mistakes, if we start embracing our extremists the way the left embraced theirs, we'll go down the same path they did.
And another one, because it's very quick, 142.
Charlie Kirk was only interested in the pursuit of the divine truth and love of family and country and freedom and saving the republic.
It was a good testimony, and I like that line about having to learn from the left because I think that's a lesson we do need to take in, that we have to remember one reason we're blessed enough to be here is that the left had a lot of wild radicals that they indulged and indulged and indulged, and then it boiled over.
And I guess we should be grateful that it derailed their movement.
But I remember being there in 2019, 2020, 2021, and people saying, Yeah, you have to get used to the woke moment.
That's going to be the rest of our lives is going to be totally dominated by these people.
And I think he gave a very good spiritual perspective on that.
Yeah.
Blake, I think what was really hashed out, again, everybody's got an opinion.
Everybody's like, no, we need to shut down these people and block them out.
And that's why I thought JD Vance's speech was so critically important because it gave that moral clarity, that leadership.
As a final speech of the event, it kind of made it all make sense.
It crystallized everything and synthesized everything that people had just experienced over the last four days.
But what we are trying to do, what Turning Point's always been about, what Charlie's always been about, is finding that dominant center, that core center of the movement, and that is big enough and broad enough and dynamic enough, energized enough to win, right?
To win those kind of tough fights that we're going to have in 2026, 2028.
So where is that dominant center of the movement?
That center cut.
And I feel like that was what Rob Schneider was getting at.
That was what Glenn Beck was getting at.
That was what Jesse Waters was getting at.
Greg Gutfeld.
And of course, JD Vance.
And then, you know, so it's like you're going to have people on either end of that center cut feeling like it needs to go that way more, feeling like it needs to go this way more.
But what you saw and what Charlie was always so genius at was finding where that dominant core is.
And I feel like we really landed in that good spot.
Well, I think I like all of the clips we got from him.
So let's do another Robin, which I think laid that out well, 143.
I don't know about you, but when I voted November 5th, 2024, I voted for closed borders.
I voted for affordable groceries.
I voted for lower gas prices.
I voted for no more censorship.
I voted for no more men in women's sports.
And I also voted to blow up small boats off the coast of Venezuela.
What I like best about that is he is basically saying, I voted for the things that President Trump actually promised to do during the campaign, because I think so much resentment ends up being driven by people who they decide they wanted things that weren't the campaign issues that everyone agreed on even a year ago.
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You know, it is not every day that you get 31,000 grassroots activists in a space.
I mean, these are door knockers.
These are phone bankers.
These are precinct committeemen.
These are the grassroots volunteers that make the whole country work.
They are the firewall to freedom.
And one of the things that I don't think online you get as much because you get the sort of more intense statements made by some high-profile people, you know, some of the inviting or the division or whatever.
One of the things I don't think people appreciate enough, Blake, was just how much Christian faith was shared on that stage and within the people attending the event.
And one of the best moments, I believe, is when Matt Shaw, who plays third base for the Chicago Cubs, just a few weeks before Charlie was murdered, I was with Charlie at Wrigley Field and we got to hang out with Matt.
Matt was a neighbor of Charlie's in the offseason in Phoenix.
And he came and he got a really amazing question.
Let's go ahead and play it.
He gave a great answer, 172.
How do you share Jesus with your fellow teammates?
The best thing that I can do isn't to talk to them and disciple them, but it's to show what my beliefs look like in my life.
And sometimes it's not a conversation, but it's simply the light that you shine around to other people.
And because of how much love you have for other people and for Jesus, it's going to show them, hey, maybe this is something I'm interested in.
Maybe this is something that can provide me fulfillment in my life.
And I hope that for everyone.
And I hope it for you, Camden.
Just a beautiful moment.
Really heartfelt, really simple.
It's great.
It's great.
And I'm looking at the same people who, I'm looking now online at the same people who freaked out that he went to the memorial.
And of course, they're freaked out he went to this in the offseason.
They're just, there's some really hateful, crappy baseball fans out there, but I'm very glad we have them in our corner.
The loudest critics probably have very sad lives.
That's what I've concluded.
Very, very sad.
Blake, you know, this Grandma Jeannie from Chico, not to be confused with another totally different California towns.
We have Soki versus NorCal.
I mean, this was an amazing, amazing story because she gets accosted as she's working at Target.
She was retired.
She came out of retirement, we found out, because she loved working with people.
And here she is at Target wearing a red freedom shirt with Charlie's name on it, gets accosted, said that she's a racist, said that she's all these terrible things.
And she just handled it with such grace and humility.
And of course, the internet went wild wondering if we were going to have Genie at turning point.
And I mean, I had reached out to her, multiple other people, Glenn Beck had reached out to her, Jack Pesobic and Benny Johnson.
And so we were going to get Genie at Amfest.
There was come hella high water.
We were going to get Genie to Amfest.
And there's a beautiful moment here with Glenn Beck with Jeannie on stage.
Let's go ahead and play Cut 173.
She said she didn't understand why everybody was asking her for a selfie.
Can you explain what you're curious about, but you don't understand?
Because I'm just a normal person.
And that is why you're here.
Okay.
This is, we were talking backstage, and I said, when I was young, when I was your age, when she was your age, there wouldn't have been somebody like this up on stage because it was the normal thing to do.
Now it's not.
And I wanted to thank you for being normal.
Thank you.
Thank you for being normal.
Okay, all right.
I should shout out, by the way, because we mentioned it on the last thing.
Her Give Send Go is up to $285,000.
And if any of you feel inclined to donate to that, it's givesendgo.com slash genie from Target, G-E-A-N-I-E.
Again, that's givesendgo.com slash genie from Target.
Give that a look.
Maybe we can get that over 300.
But we were super glad to see her.
I think that was a great moment.
It was a great moment.
And again, just everyday people, that's what this event is about.
And, you know, I spoke with Jeannie backstage and I just said, you know, are you going to go back to work for Target?
And, you know, she's like, well, you know, if I can.
And her daughter was with her.
And I said, I said, Jeannie, you know, I hope you'll, because there was some concern that she would refuse the money.
And I told her daughter, I said, don't you dare let her refuse the money.
Like, she's, she's just, I mean, no more deserving, maybe.
We don't care what she does with it, but she shouldn't refuse it.
Exactly.
I just told, I told Jeannie, I said, do something nice for yourself with it.
Like, God bless you.
Like, take, like, do something nice, you know, whether that's like fully retire or take a trip or whatever it is.
Like, we people wanted to bless you and don't deny them of the blessing of blessing you.
And she was really sweet about it.
And just a very, very sweet, sweet moment.
And she also went up on stage with Jack Pisovic and Benny Johnson.
That was the big reveal.
And then I love that Glenn got a chance on Sunday to bring her back out onto stage.
Yeah, you can see the B-roll right there.
Benny Johnson and Jack Pisovic.
And she's just sitting there kind of going, why does everybody care about me so much?
And I think Glenn said it well, because you're normal.
Because in a world gone mad, Jeannie, you are normal and you're sweet and you're kind and you don't repay hatred with more hatred.
You repaid it with graciousness.
And it was just a beautiful model.
Yeah, that was the best thing about what she did.
She doesn't own the woman who was filming her in some dramatic way.
She was just very kind to her and really acquitted herself very well in a very Christian way.
Yeah, well, we're getting some great emails, by the way, from some of you who were at Amfest or were merely watching it.
I love Claire just sent us one into the inbox.
So send us stuff at Freedom.
We're looking at it.
I would like to take a minute to tell you how fabulous, totally fabulous this past weekend was.
And looking at the magnificent crowd that gathered to honor Charlie, I want to give a shout out.
She gives a shout out to Glenn Beck as well as to Erica coming out with Nikki.
She says Rob Schneider was equally amazing.
It was an uplifting weekend.
And the youth that were represented there were totally inspirational and dynamic.
It was the best of the best.
And I admire everybody in the Turning Point family who put that program together.
I wish I was there to witness it.
Well, pre-sales, I believe.
I think I got an email from Turning Point yesterday that pre-sales for 2026 have opened.
So we'd love to have you next year, Claire.
And anyone else who has thoughts, please send them in.
Yeah, there were so many people, by the way, and I've reposted some of them on my X feed if you want to check it out there.
But, you know, as a first-time attendee, this is from Walter Kurt.
I can confidently say this was the best political event I ever attended.
Your staff was nothing but friendly and helpful from the second I walked in to the moment I left.
I will never miss another one.
You should all be proud.
Charlie would be.
And amen.
That's a good note to end our one on.
But we hope we did Charlie proud.
It was a lot going on.
We hope we did him proud.
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