Charlie Kirk frames James Talarico as a "false moderate," exposing his radical stances—six biological sexes, non-binary God claims—and ties to progressive policies like abortion access for transgender individuals. Meanwhile, Admiral Bob Harward predicts Iran’s collapse amid U.S.-led strikes, with a submarine sinking an Iranian warship and Kurdish opposition groups poised for support, though risks of ethnic civil war loom. Texas’s Senate runoff pits Ken Paxton against John Cornyn, with Kirk predicting a 60-40 Paxton win as conservatives reject establishment-backed moderates, while student activists like Megan Doyle and Brooke Christie decry college indoctrination and warn of declining youth support for Trump amid war concerns. The episode underscores a shift toward populist conservatism, where grassroots energy outpaces establishment control. [Automatically generated summary]
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All right, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show, March 4th, 2026.
Welcome, Blake.
Howdy.
Lots to get to today.
We have a jam-packed show.
I'm excited to announce that we have Steve Toth, who has took down Dan Crenshaw.
Dan Crenshaw.
Dan Crenshaw.
And that was a big upset.
Dan Crenshaw becomes the first incumbent House member to lose his reelection bid.
So he's done.
And so there you go.
That is a turning point action endorsed candidate taking out Dan Crenshaw in Texas's second district.
Kudo to everyone who turned out north of Phoenix, Woodlands area.
North of Houston.
Houston.
Oh, why did I say that?
Wait, because you're living in Phoenix.
Anyway, so we've got him in the second hour at 1:30 Eastern.
So don't go anywhere.
We're excited to talk to him.
We've actually also got an admiral.
We're going to talk tactics, what we know about chessboard pieces moving across the board in the Iran war.
But we want to unpack everything that's going on right now with the primary elections in Texas that happened last night.
Here on Real America's Voice, Steve Bannon did a bang-up job covering the outcomes last night.
So kudos to him, hat tip, big time.
But let's get into the Senate race because this was the big one.
And there's a lot going on on the AGs, on house races.
We get that.
But let's go to this.
John Cornyn looks like he eked out a victory over Ken Paxton.
We endorse Ken Paxton.
But the big story here, Blake, is it's hard to overstate how much of a David versus Goliath story this actually is.
Yeah, they spent approximately, what, $60 million?
Well, I've seen 60.
I've seen 75.
I've seen 105.
It depends.
Huge amounts of money either way.
They massively spent to keep Cornyn in office.
I would say Cornyn has to be one of the Republicans who sparks the least enthusiasm among the base of his state and around the country.
Well, here's the angle here, though.
If you're looking at that, you see Wesley Hunt got almost 300,000 votes.
Okay.
That is a lot of votes.
And mark my words, turnout's going to be even higher for the next, for the runoff, okay?
So what you're seeing is a 41.9% for Cornyn, the incumbent, over 40.7% for Ken Paxton.
I mean, it's just Cornyn.
Cornyn's a guy.
I think it's pretty safe to say Paxton is advantaged in the runoff.
And the reason for this is Cornyn is a pro-Amnesty Republican.
Yes.
Well known for that.
Also, Wesley Hunt, most of those votes for Wesley Hunt are probably going to go to Paxton.
And here's the other thing.
The Senate Leadership Fund was hitting Wesley Hunt.
So if the Senate Leadership Fund obviously wants John Cornyn, they think John Cornyn is the more electable of the two candidates.
But then you go after Wesley Hunt, you're alienating Wesley Hunt's voters.
I'm not exactly sure what the logic was on that.
But the piece here that's important is the establishment wants John Cornyn.
They think that he is more electable.
And maybe he might be.
Maybe, although, okay, he's a vote for Amnesty.
I would rather not have a vote for Amnesty in the Senate.
He's a vote against so many things.
He might be more electable.
But here's the thing.
They have said this about Ken Paxton from the jump.
They have done this to him in every statewide election.
And guess what?
Ken Paxton keeps winning and winning by a sizable majority.
Now, I'm not saying that if you put Cornyn up against Talrico, that Cornyn wouldn't get maybe a percentage point more or a percentage point and a half.
But then you get this senator that's good for nothing in the U.S. Senate.
We have enough of those.
Ken Paxton is a fighter.
He's proven he can win statewide again and again and again.
They always throw the same attack lines at him.
He's absolutely capable of winning the general against.
Well, that is the more important thing because the candidate on the Democrat side, I think we were all hoping we would get to go against Jasmine Crockett.
We all have found her highly entertaining.
She's given us a lot of enjoyment over the years.
But Jasmine Crockett's somewhat long shot primary bid where she opened with a video of President Trump calling her an idiot while sitting there has fallen.
She has fallen short.
We should bid farewell for her with one final video, I think, which is her coming out and saying that the primary was rigged by the Republicans.
We will note primaries in Texas are just run by the parties themselves.
So I guess the Republicans infiltrated the Democrat Party and just set it all up.
We will bid her farewell with one last cry of racism for 71.
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Wait, Hold on.
I have been credibly informed that there is no such thing as election fraud.
I have been credibly informed.
But yet Jasmine Crockett alleges that there was cheating going on.
My favorite thing to see is Democrats alleging other Democrats are cheating.
Or in this case, I guess she did.
She said that Republicans rigged it or something.
I don't know why we would rig it.
Okay, so I begrudgingly am going to give Blake a little hat tip here.
I had a very good line about Talrico.
Now, Talrico.
So that is who won.
James Tallarico.
Talrico.
Presbyterian seminarian, I think is what he was.
But is he moderate?
Well, so that's the thing, is that they're going, we have to kind of reintroduce Talrico to everyone.
You're going to be seeing him a lot.
He is now the standard bearer for the Democrats this midterm.
He is their guy.
He's probably going to get the most money.
If he were to win next November, it will be touted as their biggest win.
Correct.
We're going to see this guy everywhere, James Tallarico.
And they're going to tell you he's a moderate.
He's the new face of the Democrat Party.
He's better than Kamala.
He's Christian.
He's a good old boy.
All these things.
James Tallarico is not moderate.
He's just white.
That's just all it is.
He is a white male.
Can we repeat that for the folks in the back that maybe didn't hear you?
James Talrico is not moderate.
He's just white.
It is the exact same thing they ran with Tim Wallace in 2020.
Well, not a man there, but yeah, Tim Walz.
The point is they trot this guy out and they say, look, he's a white, straight guy.
You know, he hunts.
He was on a football team.
Ergo, he's moderate.
He's safe for all of you.
When we know, because he tells you himself, he embraces all of the worst, most radical policies of the Democratic Party.
Like we have Gavin Newsom coming out and sort of signaling, we should maybe chill out on the transgender stuff, guys, when this guy is going out and saying stuff like this, $4.95.
God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between.
God is non-binary.
Or this, where he said, you know, there are six biological sexes, 524.
I want us all to be aware of is that modern science obviously recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes.
In fact, there are six.
But six biological sexes.
Like, this is the moderate sex.
This is the moderate.
Because the radical debs, they believe there's infinity sexes.
At least he's limiting it to six.
So this is, he is moderate.
He's a total moderate.
He only believes in six sexes.
So here's a Bible verse for you, Blake.
James 14, 6.
Jesus answered, I am the way and the truth and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through me.
Now hear Talrico's take on this, 535.
I believe Christianity points to the truth.
I also think other religions of love point to the same truth.
I think of different religious traditions as different languages.
So you and I could sit here and debate what to call this cup.
And you could call it a cup in English.
You'd call it something else in Spanish and French.
But we are all talking about the same reality.
I believe Jesus Christ reveals that reality to us, but I also think that other traditions reveal that reality in their own ways with their own symbol structures.
And I've learned more about my tradition by learning more about Buddhism and Hinduism and Islam and Judaism.
And so I see these beautiful faith traditions as circling the same truth about the universe, about the cosmos.
And that truth is inherently a mystery.
Okay.
Okay.
I think it's worth repeating.
Every time you see these clips, I want you to tell yourself, James Talrico is not moderate.
He's just white.
Okay.
I mean, so I think we have, we can come up with various terms for what Talrico believes, but it's not Christianity.
That is.
Are you a believer in the Christ who said he was sent by God to redeem sins or not?
Answer the question.
Well, and this is the thing.
Left-wing Christianity is an extraordinary intellectual exercise because you can see there, James Talrico is twisting himself into ideological and intellectual knots, trying to carve a way out for a progressive to relate to what he's saying so that they don't think he's a bigot, you know, not like all us MAGA Bible thumpers.
And it's designed, progressive Christianity, to blot out all the aspects of the faith that don't align with the Democrat Party platform.
Said another way, they put their own ideologies, their own wants, their own appetites ahead of the commandments of God in scripture.
And that's why it's completely unrecognizable to your average Christian, to your average evangelical, to your average Catholic, to your average Orthodox.
And this is a verse for James Talrico.
I'd love to get his feedback on this.
2 Timothy 4, 3 through 4.
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
And that's what you're seeing with progressive Christians like James Talrico.
I feel like we're going to need a sustained investigation to find out how many coexist bumper stickers James Tallarigo has bustered on his car, on his computers, on various paraphernalia throughout his life.
Because the answer is not zero.
Yeah, the answer is 100% not zero.
Well, and listen, to make a further point, this is how James Tallrico uses scripture in his Christian faith and going to seminary, of course.
Because no, seminaries are progressive, of course.
To defend abortion.
Not just any abortion, by the way, trans abortion as well.
$490.
Before we go further, I want to acknowledge that our trans community needs abortion care too.
Defending trans Texans is something we have to do every day at the state capitol.
And you better believe I'll be giving sermons on that too.
So when I use the word woman, it should not be understood as an exhaustive term, but rather as a lens through which to understand, examine, and interrogate patriarchy.
Okay, so I'm going to note something.
So for those who can see it, he was preaching at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church.
I want to go back to his whole every religion is true.
St. Andrew is an apostle, and according to tradition, he is martyred on an X cross because he will not follow the Roman gods.
He will not follow the pagan gods.
He preaches that Christ is the Savior and the only, you know, is the way the truth, you know, the way and the truth of life, and that God is the only God.
And for that, he is executed according to Christian tradition.
That is why he is Saint Andrew.
So how can James go out there and say, well, actually, the Romans were also just on their way to the truth.
And he probably should have been more tolerant of things.
Well, he probably would have said, well, the Romans were not practicing a religion of love.
He might have said the Romans were better because the Romans didn't have nearly the problem with abortion that the early Christians did.
But no, he says they were wrong on that one, too.
Listen, be careful and beware of false teachers that will lead you astray.
And they will tell you whatever their itching ears want to hear because they are avoiding persecution for the truth.
That is essentially what this is.
God says, do you fear man?
Do you fear God?
Well, when you water down scripture and when you put your own intellect and your own ideologies and your own political platform ahead of what scripture says, well, that's false teaching and it's extremely dangerous.
But wait, there's more.
James Tallrico is bad on the border.
Can you imagine being a Texan and being awful on the border?
And we have a Republican who's bad on the border in the Senate for Texas, right?
Fair enough.
494.
Our southern border should be like our front porch.
There should be a giant welcome mat out front and a lock on the door.
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We can welcome immigrants who want to live the American dream.
We can build a pathway to citizenship for those neighbors who have been here, making us richer and stronger.
And we can keep out people who mean to do us harm.
Giant front porch.
Welcome.
Again, he is not moderate.
He's just a white guy, and they're going to endlessly do this spin.
And it's really sinister.
As Christians, we have to be especially alert when they put these fake Christians in front of you and they say, oh, you know, he loves Jesus too.
And when they're preaching something that is really evil, when he is preaching literal child sacrifice in a supposed church, that is honestly far worse and far more sinister than if he was just a non-religious Democrat.
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So we have potentially on the show now one of the most accomplished military minds that I think we've ever had.
And I want to talk strategy, chessboard, chess pieces on a board kind of thing.
This is Admiral Bob Harward.
He grew up in Iran, graduated from the Tehran American School, and speaks Farsi, a former Navy SEAL and vice admiral.
He led U.S. operations in Afghanistan, in Iraq, served as deputy commander of the U.S. Central Command.
I mean, counter and terrorism, all the things.
This is a very accomplished gentleman.
Admiral Bob Harward, welcome to the show.
Honored to have you.
There's so much news out of Iran.
Give us the big picture view right now.
How are our troops along with Israel?
How are they performing?
Are we ahead of schedule, behind schedule?
Your assessment, sir.
Incredible.
The whole thing from cradle to grave is just incredible.
That's the best description I can have: that we had a leader who was finally, after 40 years, willing to take the political risk to stand up to this repressive regime that has been killing our people, attacking our partners in the region, attacking us in cyber and with phonetic activities in Iraq and Yemen.
So, that in itself is incredible.
Then, the actions of our military, a real testament to the long-term investments, the long-term commitment, the professionalism of our military, and the capability and capacity of our military to come in here in a matter of days and really obliterate their integrated air defense system, their ability to project power.
So, it's just unprecedented.
And then, most important, as you've noted, the strategy and what this means.
This changes the geopolitical content of the world as we know it right now.
We've removed one of the axis of evil that everyone's acknowledged for the last three or four decades.
So, it's just incredible in every way.
So, I want to play this clip from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth talking about kind of the initial volley and return fire that we saw from Iran.
He talks about it as a scripted play, like a football team.
482.
But I liken Iran's predicament to a football team who scripted the first 20 plays of a game.
The team knew what plays to run because their first few drives were scripted.
But now that the game has started and the blitz is on, they don't know what plays to call, let alone how to get in the huddle and call those plays.
Iran's senior leaders are dead.
The so-called governing council that might have selected a successor, dead, missing, or cowering in bunkers, too terrified to even occupy the same room.
Senior generals, mid-level officers, enlisted ranks, they can't talk or communicate, let alone mount a coordinated and sustained offensive.
The Iranian Air Force is no more built for 1996, destroyed in 2026.
The Iranian Navy rests at the bottom of the Persian Gulf.
So, now this, I mean, all of this is amazing.
And Pete Hegseth basically said that, you know, their air defense is about, we're about to command the skies over Iran in a day or two, less than a week.
But then the question then, sir, becomes: how long does this take?
Because we are seeing the concerns, Admiral, about missile stockpiles.
Does the U.S. have enough for this to go weeks, months on end?
Can we win that war of attrition with whatever Iran's built up?
That's a concern I'm seeing a lot of people have.
And we are seeing, for example, people are betting money on this sort of thing.
The prediction markets say there's only about a 40% chance that the regime falls by July.
Can the U.S. sustain this if the fight is going into April, May, the summer?
June, July, yeah.
Well, first off, I disagree with that premise completely.
And again, our stockpiles are less relevant once we stop their ability to project power.
If they can't launch missiles, they can't launch drones, they can't mine the straits of Hermuz, who cares how long it takes?
They can't hurt us.
They can't hurt our allies.
Time is on our sides then.
Do we arm the Kurds?
Do we move arms into the people, the opposition?
Look, we've had 30 years of hunting people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, everywhere.
We can apply that same capability here in Iran to the IRGC and the regime that's been killing its people.
So then time is irrelevant.
As long as they pose no threat and we've defanged them, which we're doing now, and as I said previously, we could will be at that tipping point now.
We could take all the time in the world to eviscerate the leaders and those people who want to continue to project this ideology of radical Islam being a legitimate form of government to repress its people and threaten others in the region and us and our allies.
So time becomes irrelevant in that mind.
So we have plenty of time to sustain that for whatever it takes.
And I think back to your timeline, June and July, once we've eviscerated that and focused capacity and capability on the IRGC, you're going to see a lot more people turning.
They're going to have to make that choice.
Do I want to live and be a part of the future or am I willing to sacrifice my life for losing cause that has been proven to be illegitimate?
So that's where I think this thing only accelerates.
So this June and sustainment, I think that's a red herring.
Copy that.
And so you're also a member of the Iran Policy Project at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America.
So one of the things that's striking about this is you've seen, at least in America, but really around the world, you've seen Jews and Iranians celebrating in the streets together, which I think is a really, I mean, you wouldn't necessarily see that or predict to see that.
But you speak Farsi.
You know something about the internal makeup of the people in Iran.
What is the next step then, especially when we're talking about potentially arming the Kurds?
I mean, because then you start worrying about civil war breaking out or something like that.
What is the will of the IRGC and those loyal to the regime to stick and stay fighting?
And what would be the process for turning over the government and getting a new government in its place?
Let me go back to your initial comments about Israelis or Jews and the Iranians.
When I grew up in Iran from 60s to 79, I lapsed, the largest Jewish community outside of Israel was in Iran.
That's right.
And it was a very secular nation.
They worked together business.
It was really a peaceful area.
And I've been in LA a few months ago where I attended a bar mitzvah.
There were more Persians and Iranians than there were Jews in that bar mitzvah.
So this ideology is what's made this whole regime so perverse.
They flipped that on the head and made him their enemy and a threat as well as us.
And the Iranian people have come to realize it's all a lie and facade.
So again, back to this flipping the regime.
Once we've decimated the ability to project power and can go after using signal intelligence, human intelligence, space assets, and can track and watch people not only to finish and fix them, but to identify them to the opposition groups so they can be targeted internally.
And a few of those start occurring, you're going to watch these guys turn very quickly or leave the country if they can.
So I think when you've got a nation of 90 million people where they've spoken very loudly, they've been on the streets protesting and were murdered, they're ready to hold these people accountable and act against them.
And so again, I think that timeline can move much quicker than people realize.
Yeah.
And do we have, have we, you know, I'm looking here at Iranininternational.com, and there's a note here that I logged.
It says the IRGC is also reportedly deeply concerned that once daylight breaks on Sunday, people across various parts of the country may take to the streets, potentially triggering a new wave of gatherings and protests.
Have you heard anything on your end about a potential new wave of protests, people taking to the streets, or is it too early to tell?
No, it's inevitable.
They've already been done it, but they were mowed down.
Now the president, as he said, help is on the way.
The help's there and it's even coming more.
So they're going to be in powder.
I don't know if it happens Sunday, if it happens Monday.
It's coming.
So no doubt about it.
You'd have to be a blind man not to see it coming.
The day of reckoning for this regime and those who stood with it, willing to murder the people of Iran is coming much quicker than people realize.
So this tipping point can occur almost any day now.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, listen, we certainly hope it doesn't devolve into some sort of sectarian fighting or civil war.
And that's why we have people like you that know the people better than we do and understand what's going to happen next.
So last 10, 15 seconds to you, sir.
Yeah, just again, as we started, this is an incredible event, and we got to start bickering phone stones at you.
Let's see it through to fruition, and then we can debate afterward.
But we're in the middle of the fight now, and this thing's going at a great rate of speed.
Don't diminish it.
Let's get it.
Nobody, sir.
Nobody is.
I mean, we're all impressed by our military might.
It is incredible to watch.
Thank you.
Your perspective is invaluable and your accomplishments for this country are.
We respect them greatly and are grateful for you and your service, sir.
Thank you so much.
Thank you, guys.
God bless you.
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Our U.S. military is second to none.
We love our military.
We support them.
And again, once this conflict began raging, we want to win.
All right.
Once you press go, like, I think the patriotic thing to do is not take it blindly, not ask questions or anything like that.
I disagree with all of those things.
But we hope and pray for the safety of our troops, for the success of our troops, and that this will ultimately prove to be a good thing for the world.
Now, you may have disagreed with this going on.
By the way, Blake, Blake is going to pull emails.
We talked about this.
I don't know if you've already done this.
Oh, yeah, I've been looking at them throughout.
We've got emails.
I feel like we've done our best on this show to talk about how we think Charlie would have reacted to the buildup to this war and the outbreak of it.
And I feel a sign that we're hopefully getting it right is we have competing emails that say we are betraying Charlie by being too supportive of the president.
And we are betraying Charlie by being too critical of the lead up to the war and that we are skeptical of it.
So do you think that's about the position you're doing?
Yeah, that was exactly Charlie's experience when it came to these things.
But a couple cool things have happened, actually, just and cool in the sense that, like, listen, I love our military.
There's nothing that is going to make me not love the military.
My brother serves.
I have family members that serve.
And we're proud of them when they do cool things.
And, you know, you could disagree with the premise of the war and still think that what they're doing is cool.
And one of them is that we have sunk a ship.
We have sunk ship in battle, an American submarine.
Let's throw up the B-roll 498.
An American submarine sunk an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean.
It had apparently gone to some sort of naval review in India.
And then it was departing.
It was in international waters and it was sunk about 30 miles off the coast.
I'm going to go to the back.
I want to see that.
I'm going to go to Sri Lanka.
Yeah, play it again.
That's amazing.
I mean, the whole thing is going to be a little bit more.
You can see it there.
We have a powerful torpedo, blew its back off.
It's only the second time a nuclear-powered submarine has sunk a ship with a torpedo.
The British famously took out the General Belgrano of Argentina during the Falklands War.
But this is the first time an American submarine has done it since they were sinking Japanese ships 80 years ago.
And you've got to think, it's got to be very exciting.
Can you imagine that crew?
Yeah, the first time for decades they've trained for this, and they're finally going into action.
And listen, that is a huge, huge deal.
Taking out the naval capabilities of the Iranians frees up the Strait of Hormuz.
So just to reiterate, about 20% of the world's energy flows through the Strait, and 14 to 15% of all world trade flows through the strait.
Part of President Trump was saying what his specific objectives are with this conflict, and it was remove the Supreme Leader, remove their nuclear program, and sink their Navy.
These are explicit objectives he has stated.
So it takes us closer to achieving those objectives that this happened.
And that's what we want to see.
We want consistently from this administration, we want to see signs that they know what their objectives are and are working towards them.
And what you want to avoid are signs of a conflict becoming open-ended, becoming unclear, just we will fight until victory without saying what that is.
This is a story that we need to get to here.
And so CNN yesterday was reporting that the CIA is working to arm Kurdish forces.
This was reported, the lead reporter on this was Natasha Bertrand, who you will know from the 50 former Intel officials believe that Hunter's laptop laptop is disinformation.
Natasha Bertrand is notorious for basically publishing press releases from deep state intel operatives.
Okay.
This was a story that was leaked, meaning that, in my opinion, the people that leaked it are trying to harm the president.
So here's CNN trying to explain this 470.
We spent some time this evening with a senior Iranian Kurdish politician who basically told us that he the expectation among Iraqi, sorry,
Kurdish-Iranian opposition forces is that they will be going into western Iran as part of some kind of a ground operation over the course or at some point during the next few days that they will have support from the U.S. and from Israel, though he would not be drawn as to what exactly that support will look like.
He also told us that President Trump himself had called the leader of the KDPI, which is one of these Iranian Kurdish opposition parties, today and that they had what he categorized as a characterized, I should say, as a positive constitution.
All right.
So what's our history arming Kurdish?
Well, we've done it for a long time.
Israel also has extensive connections with the Kurds.
So the Kurds are an ethnic group in the mountainous area.
They've never had their own state, notably.
They're the largest ethnic group in the world that does not have their own state.
Yes.
So they have, so they're all across northern Iraq, Iran.
They're in Turkey.
I think most of them are in Turkey.
There are some in Syria.
They've repeatedly popped up because they tend to be a fractious minority.
I don't know that they're more Western.
A lot of them are communists.
They're more Western friendly.
They're more Western friendly.
That would be true.
And we've armed them in a lot of conflicts.
And sometimes it's helpful.
Sometimes it's not.
We encouraged them to launch an uprising against Saddam Hussein.
And they were gassed by Saddam Hussein before the Gulf War.
After the Gulf War, we encouraged both Kurds and Shia Muslims in Iraq to rise up against Saddam.
But we didn't support them directly, so they were suppressed.
And they've also been heavily involved in the Syrian civil war.
So I would find it pretty plausible if we were in communication with them to have some sort of on-the-ground presence in Iran because President Trump, we know, doesn't want U.S. troops there.
But I would voice a note of concern here, which is once you're kind of bringing in these ethnic militias, we have seen how that can end, which is you're turning a conflict into an ethnic civil war.
We had that in Afghanistan.
We had that in Libya.
We had that in Syria.
All those conflicts went for a very long time and became difficult.
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Yep.
Well, exactly.
So, these are part of the unintended consequences of regime change that we have talked about.
We don't want our message, we don't want it to be possible for the Iranian regime to say President Trump is trying to dismember Iran as a country.
That will make it so the Iran, you know, the Iranians themselves, the Persians, who are the main ethnic group there, would be more likely to rally around the regime if it's going to say they're going to break apart our country.
Yeah, the hope is that within Iran itself, if you start seeing these street protests take action, if you start seeing command and control breakdown within the IRGC and the Quds force, and obviously the naval apparatus has been dismantled, you want to see a natural sort of takeover.
The question is: what is it going to take?
I think it would be helpful if the admin probably said overtly, we promise to not take apart Iran.
That they're not going to be able to do it.
I don't think they want to.
I don't think they do.
So they should say it.
Yeah, they just want to apply maximum force to make them fall quickly.
And I understand that, but unintended consequences, regime change, it's always the concern.
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We are joined by a couple of our college students.
Every so often, we like to do a segment devoted to them because it's kind of what it's all about.
It's what Charlie dedicated his life to reaching the next generation.
And today we have Megan Doyle from Rutgers University and Brooke Christie from Appalachian State University.
Welcome to the show, both you ladies.
Thank you so much for having us here.
It's exciting to be here.
Absolutely.
All right.
Well, thank you so much.
So, which one's Megan and which one's Brooke?
I'm Brooke.
I'm Andrew.
There you go.
Hey, Brooke.
Hi, Megan.
All right.
So I want to start off by asking you guys to give us the vibe on campus of the strikes against Iran.
What's the vibe?
What are people saying?
Let's go ahead and start with- Be honest with us.
Yeah, be honest.
Be bad.
Tell us.
We want to know.
We want the unvarnished truth.
Brooke, you first.
Yeah, I think at my campus especially, people are very upset with the United States and their involvement.
I think that a lot of direction is pointed at Israel and questioning our allies and the motives in that way.
And Megan?
Yeah, I definitely agree.
That's the same vibe that we're having on campus.
And I think more people don't want to see another war.
Copy.
So are you seeing protests?
Are you seeing people gathering in the square, in the quad?
What kind of activities are you seeing this manifest in?
I'm mostly seeing things through online platforms, people on Instagram or Twitter just, you know, really going in at President Trump and being upset that gas prices might go up and forever war.
Like people really, really do not want boots on the ground in this circumstance.
Are you seeing that even from people that you know voted for Trump in 2024?
Or is it more, is it still mostly from people you know would be left-wing regardless?
I think the idea of starting a new foreign war is really, even for Trump voters, really deterring people from wanting to align with the administration and their actions.
I can't speak for everyone, but I've definitely seen those opinions on campus.
Copy.
Megan, you seeing the same thing?
Yes.
And I think more people want to focus on our country.
They don't want another war.
They want to focus on affordability and housing and the gas prices.
Yeah.
And I mean, listen, you know, we've gotten a lot of emails from our audience that are upset that we're not, I guess, more full-throated in our support of the war.
And this is a big reason why is because, you know, Charlie was very in tune with Gen Z.
He visited college campuses at turning point.
That's all we do is work with students.
And I can tell you that the vibe on college campuses, even on high school campuses, that young people do not want to go to war.
They want to focus here on domestic issues, affordability, college, that sort of thing.
Free speech.
Are they going to have a job?
Is AI taking over the job market?
So that's a big reason why we're always a little reticent when we see this penchant for starting wars in the Middle East.
could end up being the absolute right decision from a national security perspective, but it does come with political costs and we need to be honest about those.
So thank you.
Thank you guys for being honest about those.
All right.
We're going to move on just a little bit here.
There's a new report that says 51% of Gen Z view their college degree as a waste of money.
This has been reported by multiple outlets, but yeah, both of you are in a college right now.
So explain yourselves and tell us how you feel about that.
Megan, let's start with you.
Do you find your degree to be a waste of money?
Well, I think my degree, I want to be a lawyer one day, so I kind of have to have a degree in order to get to law school.
However, I do think that colleges are ripping each other, ripping students off from getting a proper education.
We have colleges that are forcing students as a graduation requirement to take indoctrination classes.
And it really devalues our degree.
Brooke?
Yeah, I think that personally for me, I'm going into the education field and my degree will help me there.
I think that a lot of students these days go into college with the expectation that the degree is the objective when, you know, college is really supposed to be for finding your life's work.
And a lot of people are not going in directionally or thinking ahead of their career.
So they're letting college really scam them instead of taking accountability for their classes and outside learning.
And I don't think college, even with all of the social sciences and maybe like DEI classes and what we could call brainwashing, I think that just, you know, taking that accountability, really understanding the investment that you're making and going in with a purpose could really help with that statistic and letting kids know that when they go into college, it's not just a four-year vacation,
that it's purposeful and academia has a purpose in that exactly.
And Charlie would, you know, we like, we emphasize the college scam because Charlie called it the college scam, but he would always make that important point that you make the scam less of one if you know what you're, if you're studying something useful, if you're making the most of it, if you're not going on autopilot, going in with no plan, going in spending too much money and taking too long.
Let's play Charlie on why he thought college was a scam.
523.
Just to be clear, the vast majority of people going to college should not go.
Just one number off the top is that 40% of kids that enroll in college, they drop out.
They don't graduate at all.
And the vast majority of kids are studying things that humanities, sociology, or gender studies.
There is, of course, a role for some people to go to college that requires some technical proficiency.
But what happened, Brian, is that the entire value proposition was turned on its head.
Whether it be the $200,000 plus of cost that it occurs for over four years, the bad ideas, the woke ideology, we're really playing with some very dangerous elements here.
And so I encourage young people to think twice before going to college.
And not everyone needs to go to college to succeed in America.
Do you resonate with that, Megan?
Do you feel like there's a lot of indoctrination going on?
Yes, definitely.
There is quite a lot of indoctrination going on in our college campuses.
We're forced to take these liberal woke classes that are supposed to are in quotes kind of supposed to help us, but in reality, they're just ripping us off and making us more woke.
Yeah, and you have to pay for that credit by credit, right?
Don't call it when I was in class.
There's a price per credit that they put on that.
I don't know what it is at Rutgers.
I'm assuming pretty high, actually.
You know, Rutgers University, by the way, Blake, was the, we had Dr. Antifa was at Rutgers.
That was a guy that wrote the Antifa handbook and then fled to Spain when it got hot because he was advocating that politics should, we should be preemptively, liberals should be preemptively attacking fascists.
So, and then when he got a little criticism for that, he tucked tail and ran to Spain.
All right, Megan, you keep saying talking about this, these courses you have to take, these indoctrination courses you have to take, but it sounds like maybe you're not there yet.
You're not, juniors and seniors have to take these courses, which is ironic, right?
So before you send them out into the world, then it just says in our summary, there's apparently literal and Antifa classes.
So I'd love more information on that.
Mark Bray, Dr. Antifa, is still employed by Rutgers University.
A taxpayer-funded institution.
Yes, a public school.
It's ridiculous.
He fled to Spain and he still got a job.
So Megan, tell us about that.
What are some of the courses you've heard about?
So some of the courses that I've heard about was the history on abortion.
And like you said, Mark Bray is in fact teaching the history of anti-fascism, which he employs his Antifa rhetoric onto students.
And along with the history on abortion, we have professors that are trying to push this pro-choice view onto students.
Yeah, that's not education.
That's activism.
Do you see that at Appalachia State, Brooke?
I do see some of it.
I think there are certain classes that focus on critical theory and Marxism.
But a lot of teachers and professors, I think, try and express their opinions on that.
A lot of them are very much pro-leftist, and some of them do do a great job of, you know, actually engaging students in real education.
What's troubling to me is students not wanting to break outside of their own thought circles and completely disregarding other or conservative ideas.
So I think it's really like a student issue that professors, you know, put forward as well.
So what is it like, you know, in the aftermath of Charlie's assassination for you at Turning Point a member tabling on campus?
Like what's the stat?
How's the club doing?
What's it like?
What's the reaction for other students at Appalachia State?
Since Charlie has passed, we've gained about 200 students.
We started our chapter this semester with about 30 and now we're up to, I think, 213.
So it's been really great community building.
We've had really helpful communication with staff and administration, putting on events and we had a cow on campus the other day.
But students are very much anti-turning point and I don't think that they truly want to engage with us as much if they're in those leftist circles.
And that's something that I want to work on is just overall campus communication.
Yeah, getting out of people.
Inviting them to see that we're not all like crazy fascists, that Mark Bray is.
No, we're really just friendly.
Yeah, exactly.
Turns out conservatives are happy and nice and really welcoming if you give us a shot.
Not that they would expect it, no.
No, exactly.
What about you, Megan?
What's the vibe on Rutgers University?
You guys have some great student leaders, especially on the club level, that helped blow up that Mark Bray story in the first place.
Yes, yes.
Thank you so much.
Yeah, the vibe with Turning Point being on campus is quite negative.
I remember when we did our tabling and students often want to engage with us, but they don't, they really want to engage in a negative way.
We've had students that mock Charlie Kirk's stuff.
We have students that openly insult us for our conservative and traditional beliefs.
And it really just shows how divided we are, not only as a country, but in campuses as well.
And that shouldn't be the case.
We should have open debate and open discussion, which is definitely something that colleges need to work on.
Yeah, Danny's telling us, he said, at Ohio State, the college Democrats would threaten their members and people if they interacted with the chapter, the turning point chapter there.
It's very real.
And for those who aren't young people who aren't on campus, we want to drive this point home that we did well in 2024.
We did have a shift of young people towards Trump, but due to events such as the war, some of that might be reversing.
And all I've seen stuff is.
There was stuff where, you know, you had more freedom to be conservative on campus and the left was cowed a bit, but they're charging back.
They're going to be aggressive again.
They might be violent again.
And some of these people look at Luigi as a model.
They might even look at Tyler Robinson as a hero.
Yeah.
It's, it's, do you guys feel that they're the level of antagonism, the aggressiveness of left, the progressive culture on campus has escalated in recent months?
I think in a way it has.
We have had a few cases after Charlie Kirk's assassination and the ICE raids in Michigan that people, you know, write very nasty things on campus, like shoot your local ICE agent.
And we've we've had to communicate that with our staff.
And so it's sort of disheartening that people are taking these lines and protesting against our federal government.
It's an interesting time to be on campus for sure.
Yeah, Megan, have you seen the energy from the left ramp up in recent months?
Yeah, it has definitely ramped up, especially after Charlie Kirk died.
And, you know, with Rutgers turning point being involved with the petition to remove Mark Bray, it has definitely made Turning Point quite a target on campus.
Like I said before, we have seen major acts of aggression towards me, other leaders at Turning Point.
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What did they do to you?
I've been openly insulted to my face when I'm doing a tabling at Turning in my college campus.
And, you know, with my involvement in the Antifa petition, not only have I been doxxed, I've been, my personal identity has just been thrown into the internet for everyone to see.
I'm so sorry, Megan.
Well, thank you for holding firm in the face of that.
You guys are the tip of the spear.
You are so courageous.
And we just, we have your back and you guys are doing God's work.
Yeah.
And thank you for coming on.
And thank you for giving us raw honesty on stuff like the war.
We appreciate hearing that.
Charlie looked to you guys to understand the truth of what was going on.
Thank you for giving it to us.
See you later.
Look and Megan.
Thanks so much.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
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Very excited about our next guest.
And we have actually welcomed Tyler Boyer, who runs Turning Point Action for us, to join us for this segment.
And that is state representative Steve Toth.
He has been victorious in his primary battle with Dan Crenshaw, won by a decisive margin in Texas's second district.
Steve Toth, welcome to the show.
It's Toth, by the way.
Toth.
What did I say?
Toth.
Oh, I actually knew that.
I don't know why.
You get distracted with the reads.
Steve Toth.
Steve, I told him it was Toth all day yesterday.
I said Toth a lot.
I don't know what my problem is.
What's so funny is that Dan Crenshaw spent $3 million teaching everybody how to pronounce my name.
And Tyler, the reality is that 99.9% of all people that have ever met me the very first time say talk, they don't know how to pronounce it.
You know what's the funny thing?
Go ahead, sir.
The funny thing is in the parking lot, for two weeks of early voting, people kept coming up to me saying, Steve Toth, I'm voting for you.
I'm like, man, I'm so grateful for Dan Crenshaw and all the negative ads that he's put out there that people finally know how to pronounce my name.
Hey, huge congratulations.
Huge congrats.
We're so thrilled.
I know so many great, yeah, great Texans that are just so relieved is, I guess, I guess, the best word to have somebody that they know they can trust representing them in Congress.
So tell us about what kind of the feedback was.
I'm sure it was an emotional night last night for you.
We were just so pumped.
But you know what's crazy is that I've got a background in linear aggression modeling and polling.
And people were like, don't do this.
You haven't got a chance.
And we're like, no, we're going to win.
We're going to win with 57% of the vote.
And I was wrong.
We got 58% of the vote.
But people were just like so shocked.
And I'm like, he was 55% unfavorable in Montgomery County, which is 53% of the district.
He was 44% unfavorable in Harris County, which everyone was like, there's no way you can beat him.
We're like, no, we're going to beat him.
We're going to beat him.
Trust me on this.
And so it was just, we were just overjoyed last night to see it finally nine months later come to fruition.
Well, I have family in the North Houston area, and they are so thrilled.
And just in general, just about, I mean, it's just been, It feels like for the many years since about 2020, it's just been a lot of back and forth shenanigans with people.
And people are just done with that in Congress.
They want people who are going to go, you know, be who they are, represent them well, communicate well with the people.
I mean, what is some of your primary goals that you're looking to achieve, you know, kind of stepping into that and helping rebuild some trust maybe for Texas and again, that Houston metropolitan area where some people kind of had felt like they were being ignored for many, many years by kind of the Hollywood levels type stuff that was going on.
I mean, what's your take?
What's your plan?
So Congressional District 2 in Texas is a tale of two communities.
It's the western, it's Montgomery County portion of Congressional District 2 and the Harris County portion of Congressional District 2, which the eastern portion of this in Harris County has been really, by and large, overlooked.
It's the red-headed stepchild, if you will, of the city of Houston.
And they flooded badly 10 years ago.
That's right.
And so bad.
Homes were washed off their foundations.
People were drowned in the middle of the night.
A terrible situation.
And since that time, millions has been brought back.
I mean, I was on the appropriations committee and I appropriated $1.6 billion for flood mitigation efforts in the state of Texas.
And yet none of it, really, none of it has found its way to this area.
And so here we are 10 years later, and we're every susceptibility as susceptible to a flood as we were back then.
And I want to fight for these guys and really help them realize that you can live in a place, beautiful place like this and not have to worry about your home being washed off its foundation in the middle of the night.
So we've got a lot of work to do, and I've got a lot of work to do to really impress upon them that I'm serious about this.
Well, I appreciate that.
That was actually my family.
My family's home was completely destroyed by those floods 10 years ago.
And it impacted their life in so many more ways.
I mean, they're rebuilding.
You still have, you know, like you're mentioning, elements of where that community hasn't been rebuilt.
And so many people left that really shouldn't have left.
Like great, great people who are like, I'm not doing this.
And they got to different parts of Texas or went to different parts of the country.
And that's really sad.
So I'm glad that you brought that up.
Well, and so you talk about restoring the trust with the grassroots and the base.
You are the grassroots candidate.
You pulled out a massive, massive win.
Crenshaw is out now, essentially.
So you are going to be the Republican nominee and you are going against a Democrat, though.
This is an R-plus district, but he's got a lot of money.
He's got a lot of money.
And His consultant is, from what I'd heard, this is the guy that ran the campaign for Bernie Sanders when he ran for president.
So, full-blown socialist.
That's who these loons are in Texas.
There is just like nothing moderate about them.
You think, hey, it's Sexist, right?
They must be a little bit, you know, almost like a Lynn Baines-Johnson kind of demonstrate.
Now, those guys are Lynn Baines, Johnson, Democrats, are all gone.
They're as far loony as you can possibly imagine.
And so, we're going to have our hands, our work cut out for us, and we're going to work hard and we're going to win this.
I'm just looking at an old James Tallarico tweet one of our staff just sent us where he, I guess, must be reacting to someone saying something right of center.
And he goes, There, but for the grace of God, go I. As a white man, I'm susceptible to radicalization.
Thankfully, I was exposed to diversity at a young age and explicitly taught the values of equality, inclusion, and justice.
But not every young white boy is so lucky.
We've got some loopy people coming out of Texas, unfortunately, Steve.
And we need a very strong GOP to push back on it.
And maybe that's, you know, we could talk about that.
There's been a lot of frustrations, I think, with turnout, and just with the Texas GOP generally.
I run into conservatives who make that, they'll make the comparison between Texas and Florida a lot.
They're both very big states.
They're both longtime Republican states.
They're both very critical for our election prospects nationally.
And it feels like Florida is almost always like on, you know, they're really with it.
They're very high-functioning.
They churn out a lot of high-quality legislation.
They get it done.
And it feels like with Texas, we have these problems.
We're always hearing, oh, in the Texas legislature, they get, they literally pick their speaker with Democrat support and they put Democrats in senior committee spots.
And sorry if I'm rambling a bit.
I guess I just wonder, you're the third most conservative guy in the Texas House, according to a study by Rice.
So maybe you have some thoughts on why those parties seem so different and what went wrong in Texas.
62 Democrats joined 21 Republicans to give us the speaker of the House.
So three quarters, two-thirds, you know, 20, yeah, two-thirds, two-thirds Democrat, one-third Republican.
That coalition of Democrats runs the Texas House.
So when I put forth legislation to secure our elections, it gets killed by the Democrats.
When I put forth legislation to end the social transition of children, it gets killed by the Democrats.
It is, it's evil.
Tellerico is part of that group.
I served with James Tellarico from 2019 through to today.
This guy is as evil as they come.
There is a darkness to this man's life that if you doubt that there's a wickedness and an evil and a demonic presence in the world, you only have to look at James Tellerico.
He is an awful, awful person, awful person.
Well, there's news on that race, by the way.
President Trump has just announced that he will make an endorsement soon in Texas's GOP Senate primary, and he's asking the candidate that he does not endorse to drop out, which is quite the truth social.
He has not announced yet, but he says he will soon.
That scares me.
Yeah, me too.
That really seriously scares me.
Well, my hope is, Steve, that your race actually will push the president to, because, I mean, your race was one of the few that the White House.
It's a bellwether.
It's a bellwether race.
That the White House didn't engage in.
And again, I appreciate that because I think it would have been awful had they endorsed Dan Crenshaw.
Dan still would have lost.
Dan still would have lost.
I agree with that, but my point is I'm hoping that, you know, and would love to get your thoughts, especially after we get out of the break here, is, you know, maybe this is a new day for Texas because of your race, you winning your race so decisively.
What do you think about that?
$80 million spent and the most expensive center race in the history of the United States.
$80 million spent on one candidate and he could not even get 50%.
And it tells you that America and Texas especially is done with John Cornyn.
And America, there is only one person that had higher unfavorables in the state of Texas.
And I told this to the president.
There's only one person that is higher unfavorables in the state of Texas than John Cornyn, and that was Dan Crenshaw, but it was only by one point.
And so, yeah, I am hoping that the president considers that in his endorsement because John Cornyn is not going to be the next.
He's not.
It does not matter how much money they spend.
It does not matter how many endorsements John Cornyn gets.
He will not win.
Well, by the way, Cornyn will stab him in the back as soon as he is done with this election.
He was doing that before he realized he was in a dogfight.
So then he fell in line and voting MAG all the way.
But guess what?
If he gets another six-year lease on life, he's going to go back to his old ways.
So that's a good transition here.
So, Steve, your race is a bellwether for the state.
It shows that the grassroots is fed up with the establishment in Texas.
A lot of what ails us looks like we, there you go.
A lot of what ails Texas is this sort of Bush hangover, establishment, Republican.
We experienced this in Arizona, but Tyler knows this better than anybody, this war between the old guard and this new wave of populist conservative energy.
The early reports suggest that President Trump is going to endorse Cornyn.
That's what everybody's expecting here.
Your race could be the key to making sure that doesn't happen.
What is the energy of the grassroots in the state of Texas?
Is it ready for this?
Yeah, it's off the charts.
Ronald Reagan told us nearly 50 years ago it's bold colors that will inspire the next generation of Americans to turn out and vote.
And we've seen that in Florida, right?
Like you take a bold governor in DeSantis, and he is inspiring a whole new generation.
And look at our border, guys.
Our border has gone from bright blue to bright red under President Trump.
Why?
Because Hispanics, as well as young people, want to see bold leadership.
The problem with the Bush wing of the Republican Party is that whenever they won elections, they took office.
Meanwhile, Democrats, when they won elections, they wielded power.
People want to see bold leadership.
They don't want to see people like John Cornyn that have been there, been in office for 40 some odd freaking years and hasn't done anything.
He has done nothing for the movement.
He's done nothing for the conservative movement at all.
He's just stood in the way of it.
We need a guy like Ken Paxton that's going to go and fight.
And we need the president to get behind him.
Why do you think the Senate Leadership Fund and the Establishment Republic?
I mean, if you watch Fox News, it's all these senators going, we need Cornyn.
We need Cornyn.
Is this just good old boy stuff?
Like they know him.
I mean, they've been attacking Paxton, saying he couldn't win a statewide race every time he's run, and yet he keeps winning.
So what's the deal?
It's just Rhinos taking care.
I hate using that expression, but it's just incumbents taking care of incumbents.
And it makes me just completely sick.
What do you, I agree.
What are you looking at in terms of the state AG race?
I think it's going to be a battle, but honestly, I hope the president does not, you know, I just not support Cornyn, but if he does, Ken's going to win at 60-40, maybe 63-37.
Well, what about Chip Roy, the Texas Attorney General, that race?
Chip Roy, and then we've got to go.
Yeah, that's going to be a shootout between Middleton and Chip Roy.
And I couldn't call it.
I really have a hard time calling it.
But here's the thing is that you're going from 1 in 10 voters in the primary to 100% in the general.
And I think you're going to see, I'm sorry, as you go into the runoff, I apologize.
Yes.
If you go into the runoff, you're going from 1 in 10 to about 1 in 20.
And it's only the most conservative, committed people that are going to turn out for a runoff, which means that John Cornyn is going to get blown out of the water in this race.
I mean, it's not going to be close.
It doesn't matter who endorses John Cornyn.
John Corny is going to go down and he's going to go down big.
All of the polling shows that too, Steve.
So all the polling has shown a vast majority of the individuals that voted for the third place candidate in the Senate rate and Congressman Wesley Hunt are going towards Paxton.
That's a turnout question, though, is an interesting aspect of this.
But this is the point.
Exactly what you're saying is what almost everyone from Texas that follows Texas closely is that the runoff has produced a more conservative outcome and almost every single and every single outcome for the past number of times that this has happened.
You see that not changing is what you're saying this election cycle.
It's not going to change, although the Karl Rove wing of the party, one of the things that they're really good at, they're going to identify tens of thousands of Democrats that did not vote in the primary.
And they're going to spend millions of dollars encouraging them to turn out and vote for John Cornyn.
And so, yeah, there's going to be this really freakish coalition of moderates and Democrats that are going to try and turn out for him.
But the problem is that probably 30% of the Republicans that voted for John Cornyn are not going to turn out for a runoff.
Although the vast majority, 90 plus percent of the conservatives will turn out for Kent.
Well, and that may be the difference maker in this race.
But you're bringing up something that's super important.
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You know, the Democrats wanted to make sure they didn't have a runoff in the Senate race so that they could try to influence negatively the Republican runoff to that point.
What are the rules, though?
So if you're a Democrat, you can just vote in a Republican runoff?
No.
Yeah, so we have open primaries in Texas.
But what it means, though, is that if you're a Democrat and you voted in the Democrat primary, you can't vote in this runoff.
But if you're a Democrat and you just didn't vote in the primaries for whatever reason, then yeah, you could vote.
You could vote in our runoff.
That's a rule that should be changed.
My goodness.
We would love to do that.
We would love to do that.
We've been trying to do that.
But unfortunately, the Texas House, in the Texas House, it's controlled by Democrats.
And Democrats keep killing that legislation.
Last question, Steve, here.
We've got 45 seconds left for you here.
A lot of noise was made about turnout being low versus Democrats.
Are we concerned about that going into the runoff in the general?
Well, you're going to see record low turnout in the general.
It's going to be high concentration of real in the runoff.
I'm sorry.
In the runoff.
Yes, but I'm not concerned about turnout in the general.
It'll be fine.
We'll do great.
Okay, good.
Steve Toth, by the way, you're in good standing here because I did this to Representative Burchett.
I kept saying Burchette, I think.
And he corrected, yeah, he corrected me.
But it's so great to have you and to get to meet you.
We're so ecstatic that Turning Point Action got behind you and you pulled it off.
It's such an upgrade for Texas.
And God bless you, sir.
We're going to have you back on because you're good at this political commentary stuff.
So we'll have you back on again soon.
God bless you and congrats.
Lord bless you and keep you.
I'm so thankful for what God is doing in and through Turning Point to raise up a new standard and a new generation of followers of Christ and patriots.