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July 20, 2024 - Human Events Daily - Jack Posobiec
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SPECIAL THOUGHTCRIME BROADCAST: TRUMP’S HISTORIC SPEECH AND RNC BREAKDOWN

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Okay, there is one of the most powerful speeches that you will ever see or hear in political history.
We're going to keep the feed going.
I believe President Trump's entire family is going to come out with him right here.
And I think we're going to do a close-up shot there.
Yep, looks like Melania, Don Jr., Eric, as they celebrate life.
And not just being the nominee, there they are together, Melania and Donald.
How great is that?
It's beautiful to see.
And I imagine that the entire family is going to follow, as is typically customary in convention tradition.
As this officially concludes, the RNC from Milwaukee.
What a week this has been.
It was really something to watch it from afar.
Yep, looks like there's Jared and Ivanka.
Don Jr., the whole family, Laura, Eric, Michael, Tiffany, Kai.
I wish they would keep that zoomed in.
It's just the pool feed right there.
This week reminded us how important life is.
To be grateful.
There are the balloons!
The legendary balloons.
Donald Trump is the nominee.
And he is alive.
There is Khloe, there is Tristan, there is Spencer.
There is Don III.
Don Jr.
Laura, Eric, the whole family.
Hey team, can you guys get the picture of when Donald Trump went down the escalator and let's contrast that back in 2015?
Some of those kids were little babies.
What?
Do you think they'd be dropping balloons if that assassin would have been successful?
It's hard to even comprehend.
This week reminded us how important it is to be grateful and thankful.
Truly stunning.
The first 30 minutes of Donald Trump's speech is one of the most powerful you'll see in anything.
I was having reporters texting me from the New York Times, Washington Post saying, I've never seen anything like this.
The entire Trump family there, bringing it all in at the conclusion of what I thought was a phenomenal RNC.
By the way, email me freedom at charliekirk.com.
I want to hear from you, your reaction, not just the speech, but the entire week.
I got to tell you, it's a completely different experience watching on TV and you guys are going to love it.
It's actually better on TV.
It's actually even better on TV.
Not as many distractions, not as many like weird applauses in certain pockets.
It's a made-for-television production.
And the balloons are cascading down.
In a moment of pure jubilation and celebration.
And I can tell you, the gratitude was so felt inside of this convention all week.
It was oozing off the walls.
And I can say this, it was three of the best days of my life.
Not the best days, but it's in the list.
It'll be days I'll never forget and always remember.
Look, Donald Trump, he's just loving life.
And they said, oh, his speech was long.
He got shot on last Saturday, okay?
He could speak for five and a half hours if you ask me.
I thought it was excellent.
I thought it was just terrific.
Oh, here's the opera music.
Donald Trump's favorite.
In fact, I have the name of this singer.
This is Christopher Macchio, opera singer.
Donald Trump is a lover of the finer things and the beautiful things, including opera music and classical music.
Just want you to soak in that moment right now.
Wow.
And Amp up that volume guys a little bit more.
It's about to get really good.
*singing ** singing
*What other convention would be ending with an opera song?
This really is the new right.
You have Hulk Hogan, Kid Rock, and this famous opera singer.
Oh, this is my favorite part of this.
I don't even know what the song is called.
If you know the name of the song, email me, freedomatcharliekirk.com.
Oh.
Soak it in.
He's as good as it gets.
That is Christopher Macchio.
Let's just enjoy a little bit more.
You only get a convention once every four years.
And I don't think you'll... I mean, very unlikely you'll ever get another convention of Donald J. Trump.
This is his third convention.
From 2016 to 2020, we really didn't have much of a convention.
It was more like a live stream.
And this is the last convention you'll ever have with Donald Trump.
I want you to just soak that in.
Unless he were to lose and run again in four more years.
It would still be about Biden's age right now, but let's not even talk about that.
This is likely the- Let's make this- We actually want this to be the last convention.
By the way, this should be the national anthem.
This song.
It's a much better.
Our national anthem is a much better song.
That's some gorma.
Thank you, you guys.
Listeners are the best.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Every day is a gift.
Every single hour is a gift.
Donald Trump was not supposed to be here.
He was supposed to be in a different place.
He was supposed to be in heaven.
He knows that.
Every day is a gift.
We are lucky and thankful to the Almighty.
Almighty, and he lives to save this country.
We're going to keep the speed going here, as the family is still on stage.
Just a reminder, if you want to support our streaming work here, we do this extra hours to support the studio team, the tech team, and also get our Never Surrender shirt.
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What an emotional week, I'll tell you.
This week, I did not, I have not slept well all week.
From Saturday night to Sunday.
And then I prepared for my speech and that whole thing was so dramatic.
I just could not stop thinking about what would have happened if that bullet would have been two inches different.
Two inches to the side.
A party convention every four years is an event unlike anything else.
We host the largest annual events in the conservative movement.
10,000 to 15,000 people.
And this doesn't even... This is 50,000 to 100,000x the impact, the size.
It's not even in the same stratosphere.
There you go right there.
There's JD Vance.
There's Usha.
There's Kai.
There's Lara Trump.
Donald Trump.
Melania.
Don Jr.
You got the whole family there.
He's not supposed to be here right now.
And he's not supposed to be here now, has two different meanings.
Remember, he said that in Detroit at the debate, that he isn't supposed to be there right now, that he should be enjoying old age in one of his many houses.
And now he means he shouldn't be alive because he's doing what he should be doing.
And it's real, again, one-fourth of an inch.
I say inches, but a quarter of an inch he'd be dead.
A quarter of an inch.
Centimeters.
All the delegations are now taking the, uh, State markers.
By the way, the next convention is four years from now.
Houston, Texas.
Get your air conditioning ready.
That's gonna be something else.
Donald Trump will, God willing, be speaking at that convention in four years.
As the sitting president, and handing the baton to whomever, hopefully JD Vance, if he were to decide to run for president.
That's way down, down the runway.
We gotta win, we gotta govern, we gotta do a lot of stuff, but... Look at that man.
He is a man who is full of zeal and gusto for life.
As he should be.
A man full of gratitude.
Appreciation.
Do you notice the delegates aren't going anywhere?
They are soaking in this moment of divine grace and intervention.
I mean, that floor is still packed.
They are not moving an inch.
There's Chloe, one of Don's five children.
There's Tiffany.
There is Vanessa, Don Jr.' his ex-wife, mother of his five children.
I'm not sure who that is.
I know almost all the grandkids.
I don't know who that is.
Oh, you know, I think that's either Tristan or Spencer.
Boy, boy, they've grown up.
They're just enjoying it and soaking it in as the sea.
This is an earned moment.
and also one that is given from the heavens.
These kids will remember this forever, especially after Saturday.
That's Usha and J.D.
Vance, the next Vice President of the United States, God willing.
She's a very impressive woman, by the way.
Very impressive.
It's so great to see Melania and Donald Trump there holding hands.
I've got to tell you, that's terrific.
You've got to imagine she had a very different... I mean, she... Oh, that's great.
You've got a future president and vice president.
Look at how he's embracing them.
You've got to love them.
He has such great respect for J.D.
Look at how he's looking at him.
You can tell that this is a partner and an equal.
This is a fellow fighter in the trenches.
You gotta love that.
That's Don III right behind Donald Trump there.
They call him D3.
Alright, who can read Donald Trump's lips?
Who wants to email me?
Freedom at charliekirk.com Lookit, that's a first and second family I've ever seen one.
Look at that's a first and second fan I've ever seen one.
How about that?
Kids are kicking the balloon.
You gotta love it.
Boy, you got every member of the press taking pictures right now.
What song are they playing?
American man, is that right?
That's Michael Boulos there, the husband of Tiffany Trump, Donald Trump's fourth daughter, who he had with Marla Maples.
Very impressive young lady, by the way.
Very impressive.
Terrific.
All of his kids are impressive.
They're just great.
Honored to call them all friends.
All five of them.
Well, Barron's not a friend.
Yet.
All four.
Four of them are friends.
People are asking where Barron is.
I have no idea.
Maybe he was sick, not feeling well.
Look at that first family.
I love how they coordinated outfits and ties.
You can really tell how Donald Trump embraced J.D.
that he really looks at him as the next generation.
There's Kai Trump who gave a great speech, by the way.
Unbelievable speech.
She also coordinated the dress as well.
He really loves his grandkids.
There's Jared.
Jared is a dear friend.
I've known Jared for quite some time.
And Jared is a very de-emphasized role in all this, which is different.
He was heavily involved in 2016 and 2020.
And there's Ivanka and Jared.
Ivanka, who did not speak at this convention, and Ivanka, who had a prominent role speaking at both the 2016 and 2020 convention.
You might say, why?
It's because this bloodsport of politics wears you down.
You can't fault them.
I'm telling you, it takes a superhuman-type energy.
To keep this up.
I'll tell you, Kai is going to be a major influence one day.
An influencer.
She's got the Trump star power.
She really does.
As they get the next family shot, are you guys able to show that in the bottom right-hand corner cut 200?
Just how all these kids have grown.
How everyone has grown in the last nine years.
I mean, it will take your breath away when you see the contrast.
Now, I don't see Jared and Ivanka's children, who are also very impressive.
How many grandkids does Donald Trump have?
Can I think?
Five?
Three?
Almost ten.
I think he has almost ten grandkids.
Yeah, I think ten grandkids.
He was fruitful and he multiplied.
That is for sure.
Boy, the delegates are not moving an inch, I'll tell you what.
That's awesome to see.
Just seeing this is just next level stuff.
To watch this from afar.
J.D.
Vance, Donald Trump.
It's just awesome.
You know, I had a pastor once tell me, they said, Charlie, you only use the word awesome when it's God.
This is awesome.
This is awesome.
This is the appropriate use of the word.
There's Tiffany to the right in the all-white pantsuit.
All night, party every day.
They are, there's Tiffany to the right in the all white pantsuit.
Eric Trump and Laura Trump.
So, wow.
D3 has really grown.
So, Kai Trump is next to her grandfather.
D3, Donald Trump III, is next to his sister, Kai.
And then you got Tristan, Spencer, and Khloe all right there.
You guys were able to show the contrast picture in the bottom right-hand corner.
You gotta love the kids kicking the balloons.
And this is very hard on the children.
You just gotta understand.
It's very, very hard with cameras constantly pointing at you, constantly being ridiculed.
By the way, if you guys have any questions, you guys can email me, but also become a member at members.charliekirk.com to ask us questions directly.
One of our members says, do you think D3 are going to politics?
I don't know.
Every single one of these grandkids are incredibly talented.
It's a man who's happy to be alive.
It's very interesting seeing Jared and Ivanka in the back in a more de-emphasized role.
You gotta wonder what he's thinking there, feeling.
He doesn't want to leave the stage.
Why would he?
There's Kai.
Don the third.
There's the contrast.
Look at that.
Look on the right when he announced nine years ago to last month.
It's been nine years and one month.
Kai is being held by her mother, Vanessa.
And then look how she's grown in the last nine years.
Tiffany's on the far right.
She is now married.
Eric and Lara, I don't know if they had any kids at all.
baron trump is now the tallest of all of them by far it's incredible How the world changed in the last nine years.
Look what that family has been through.
Three conventions.
One presidency.
Two impeachments.
Four different separate indictments in four different jurisdictions.
Trump getting shot.
An assassination attempt.
COVID.
2020.
January 6th.
And yet it feels as if all that's behind us.
This is one of the greatest American comeback stories in history.
This is a story that I joke around with the team, are we living in a movie?
Are we living in some sort of a simulation?
And J.D.
Vance, who was running for the U.S.
Senate two years ago, is now the vice presidential nominee.
Looking at that wide shot.
Remember, we did not even have a convention in 2020.
We had a livestream convention.
But there was no in-person meeting of the delegates.
There was no such thing.
Delegates are starting to thin out a little bit.
But I just want you guys to soak it in.
One of our members here says, Charlie, thanks for covering this wonderful RNC.
I've never in my 63 years watched a convention for more than one speech this year.
I loved every minute last three days.
I love President Trump.
Tonight I laughed, I cried, I clapped, I pumped my fists in the air, I hooted and cheered.
Greatest production I've ever seen.
God bless you.
And I bought a t-shirt from your website.
Thank you very much.
God bless you.
By the way, can we give a round of applause, like a little to the band?
They were awesome.
Were they really great?
I thought they were really good.
Does Daisy and Emma agree?
I thought they were terrific.
I thought they were really great.
That's not an easy job to do, by the way.
You don't know really when you're gonna be called upon.
You're not really sure how long.
You gotta be interested.
You gotta be engaged.
You gotta have different songs.
You gotta get people moving.
Daisy and Emma are giving them a round of applause right now.
I thought they were really... Whoever they are, those are more than a cover band.
Those guys could play.
And also, they...
I think that was either Tristan or Spencer who hit that.
Donald Trump is now exiting the stage for what we hope is his last convention.
Because that means that he'll win.
And yeah, that band played all week.
I mean, they played for four hours a day, 16 hours, basically, all week.
They were just 10 out of 10.
I thought they were really, really great.
One of the quotes of the evening.
The attacker in Pennsylvania wanted to stop our movement.
The truth is, the movement has never been about me.
It has always been about you.
It's your movement.
It's the biggest movement in the history of our country by far.
Wow.
And all of you, you're part of this.
You are part of frontline history right now.
The band is called the Nashville Band Six Wire.
They're advertised as the go-to guys for television.
We might have them for AmFest.
They're really good.
Really good.
Didn't make it about themselves.
It wasn't about, look at me.
I thought they deserve a lot of it.
That's a tough, tough gig.
I gotta be honest.
Caleb, one of our supporters says, "Love the band.
They're called Six Wire.
What are your plans on tailgating at the Ducks-Michigan game?
I will be there.
That's right.
I will be at the Ducks-Michigan game in November.
Michelle and I would love to come to North Carolina.
I will be there.
That's the Saturday before the election.
I will be there.
By the way, we're doing 21 campus events this fall.
Because we have to go all out.
We have to go all out.
The band is continuing.
Looks like the family is exiting the stage.
I just want to keep soaking this in, though.
It's like the Olympics.
You only get it once every four years.
And in this case, you've not seen a convention in eight years!
Of this intensity, this energy.
And yes, for all of you asking, I know it is the most pressing question right now.
I will be in Chicago for the Democrat National Convention.
I know, I know.
I know all of you have been very curious about whether you're going to see me there.
All right, we can cut that out, guys.
Cut out of that.
Thank you.
I want to replay some of these tapes here as he's going to gavel out the convention.
So guys, let's just understand what happened tonight.
Donald Trump walked through his own assassination attempt.
I don't think that's ever happened before in a convention.
I don't think we've ever had anybody walk through their own assassination attempt.
I actually might want to go back for the prayer, guys, if that's okay.
Can you let me know when that prayer begins?
I think it's appropriate to end with a prayer given all of divine intervention this week.
So, when that, unless we've completed, okay, yeah, can you let me know when his prayer begins?
Let's go to Dr. Mario right now, and I'll bow our heads in a time of prayer.
I want to thank God for being here and granting me this opportunity to address the Republican National Convention 2024.
I'm staying on script, but I got to say one thing.
Just four hours ago, My granddaughter was born.
Ayanna Lea Dickens.
Yes, my granddaughter is here.
I just wanted to welcome her into the world on this stage.
One nation under God.
Reflecting on the significance of this phrase is crucial in the days to come.
The path we have traveled has not been easy, but it must be navigated with dignity and perseverance.
The Holy Scriptures state that the peace of God surpasses all understanding.
I pray for peace in this nation.
Peace on the campaign trail.
Peace on our streets.
And peace in our homes.
We extend prayers for Corey Compratore, who tragically lost his life in Saturday's assassination attempt.
For the innocent bystanders injured, and for their grieving families, may the presence of God be with them.
It is God who establishes governments, as explained in Romans 13, verse 1.
And for that, we are grateful.
My wife, Cherie, I love you.
My parents and my children know that God is the ultimate answer.
As you leave this Republican National Convention, do so with the confidence that he will guide your path and keep you in his grace.
My hope is that we all find joy in the days to come and embrace leadership in the up and coming elections that will guide the next four years with wisdom and peace.
So please stand with me as I end this prayer.
I pledge allegiance To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
In Jesus' name we pray.
God, we give you the honor, the praise, and the glory.
President Trump, Senator Vance, may God lead you and guide you.
Amen.
Thank you.
Great job.
Great job.
Thank you.
The chair Rao recognizes the delegate from the state of Wisconsin for the purpose of making a motion.
Thank you guys.
They're gonna end the convention there as they began it.
Okay, let's play some pieces of tape here for those of you that might have been cutting in and out.
Also, I just want to give you a little update here.
Some exclusive update.
We're very well sourced in...
Republican politics, but we're unusually well sourced also in some circles in Democrat politics because we have some adjacent donor connections that are very connected in Democrat society circles.
Not going to say any names.
So while this is just kind of our summary, Blake put this together for us.
Okay, so it's this.
While Donald Trump gives the Republican Party its most unity since 9-11, a source who has spoken to Democrats in the last 24 hours says the party is in a state of utter collapse.
Kamala isn't ready and her staff is not ready.
They don't know if Biden has her back.
Democrat lawmakers are 100% certain that Biden is gone, yet haven't actually gotten Biden to submit.
They're just confident that increasingly ugly tactics will force him out.
One of the words Democrats are using, landslide.
We don't use that word.
That's their word.
The entire party is oscillating between panic and doom.
Glad I was in Milwaukee this week.
Yeah, and Blake, if you want to head over to the studio, that's fine.
We're gonna be going for a little bit here.
So, uh... Let's do... cut.
Let's just kind of... My goodness, the cut sheet here is a reflection of the week, by the way.
The cut sheet starts with assassination attempt all the way to convention.
Boy, what a week.
It's just hard to even... summarize what's happened this week.
I'm trying to go all the way down to the... cuts here of...
Do we have the cuts from tonight?
Can you guys let me know how that is when they do?
Okay.
So let's summarize.
Not even a week ago, Donald Trump got shot.
He accepts the Republican nomination.
We know that J.D.
Vance is now the vice president, which is not the case before that.
And here's a good summary.
Here's Van Jones on CNN, who I thought, again, he's a communist, but he's very honest with some of these things.
Let's play cut 198.
Very powerful here. 198.
This spirit that this guy has, you guys think it's because he's drunk?
He's not.
This whole thing is like this.
Hey listen, hey guys.
The last time I was in a commission that felt like this was Obama 2008.
There's something happening.
You just wrote a headline, by the way.
You just wrote a headline with that comment.
Just like Obama, Trump is showing in this convention he has the capacity to alter the composition of the electorate.
The difference between 2008 and now is that Obama was actually popular outside of his own party, and that's not the case.
I don't think we should overstate that.
See Axelrod's really upset he said that because Axelrod was the designer of the whole Obama thing.
He's very upset.
Can't handle it.
The joy from this convention was palpable.
It didn't feel like victory celebration though.
It just felt like a gratitude to be alive.
And every delegate was so sweet and happy and uplifting.
And just understand, you're on your feet for hours a day and you're crammed into these small little spaces and everyone just was thrilled to be alive.
You just gotta love that.
You just gotta love that.
Okay, where are the cuts here from President Trump's speech?
So President Trump said, I'm only going to mention this once and one time only.
And so Donald Trump went through in great detail from his own recollection of exactly what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania, exactly what occurred.
And hello to Real America's Voice here, by the way, as we are summarizing the Republican National Convention.
We're going to go through this.
So let's go here.
President Trump accepts the nomination, and this was chilling.
175, he says, I'm not supposed to be here tonight.
I'm not supposed to be here tonight.
not supposed to be here.
Thank you.
But I'm not.
And I'll tell you, I stand before you in this arena only by the grace of Almighty God.
This is a longer tape here.
And it is worth playing.
This is Donald Trump in a two minute clip.
Talking about the tragic death and injuries from the Pennsylvania rally.
Play Cut 176, the longer tape.
Tragically, the shooter claimed the life of one of our fellow Americans, Cory.
Compare it to our unbelievable person, everybody tells me.
Unbelievable.
And seriously wounded.
Two other great warriors.
Spoke to them today.
David Dutch and James Kopenhaver.
Two great people.
I also spoke to all three families of these tremendous people.
Our love and prayers are with them, and always will be.
We're never going to forget them.
They came for a great rally.
They were serious Trumpsters, I want to tell you.
They were serious Trumpsters, and still are.
But Corey, unfortunately, we have to use the past tense.
He was incredible.
He was a highly respected former fire chief, respected by everybody, was accompanied by his Wife Helen, incredible woman, I spoke to her today, devastated.
And two precious daughters.
He lost his life selflessly, acting as a human shield to protect them from flying bullets.
He went right over the top of them and was hit.
What a fine man he was.
Thank you.
I don't think that was planned.
Thank you.
You look at how Trump looked over there.
He heard the crowd.
I just think his instinct says, I'm going to walk over there.
I'm going to embrace it.
And then he's going to kiss the helmet.
I had a New York Times reporter text me again.
I don't want to get you guys too excited about this stuff.
He said he's going to win New Mexico, Virginia, New Hampshire, too, and Maine, if this is how he handles himself post assassination.
Let's play another piece of tape here.
By the way, CNN is predictably attacking his speech.
Predictably, as you would imagine.
Let's go to this one.
Donald Trump says, we will not break.
We will not back down.
We will never bend.
Play cut 178.
We will not break.
We will not bend.
We will not back down.
And I will never stop fighting for you, your family, and our magnificent country.
Never.
And everything I have to give with all of the energy and fight in my heart and soul, I pledge to our nation tonight.
Thank you very much.
I pledge that to our nation.
I'm going to turn our nation around and we're going to do it very quickly.
Thank you.
This election should be about the issues facing our country and how to make America successful, safe, free, and safe, free, and great again.
In an age when our politics too often divide us, now is the time to remember that we are all fellow citizens.
We are one nation under God.
So powerful.
I want your thoughts of how you thought tonight went.
Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
I want to hear from you.
Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
What were your favorite moments from the entire convention this week?
And we're going to be just recapping the RNC here.
We're going to have Jack Posobiec and Blake Neff join us in a second.
Donald Trump continued on this as well.
Donald Trump said, we have the greatest movement in the history of our country, and we will not allow them to stop.
I loved this line, though.
I am more determined than ever.
Play Cut 177.
There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for others.
This is the spirit that forged America in her darkest hours, and this is the love that will lead America back to the summit of human achievement and greatness.
This is what we need.
Despite such a heinous attack, we unite this evening more determined than ever.
I am more determined than ever, and so are you.
So is everybody in your show. - More determined than ever.
He gets shot and he is more determined to continue to fight and to continue to win for the American people than he ever has been.
Donald Trump then pivoted and went into some deep policy.
Donald Trump talked about making America affordable again, talked about no tax on tips, and I love this.
This was right consistent with my speech earlier in the week.
Cut 182.
President Trump talks about the affordability crisis brought to you by Biden and Harris's deficit spending.
Play Cut 182.
First, we must get economic relief to our citizens.
Starting on day one, we will drive down prices and make America affordable again.
We have to make it affordable.
It's not affordable.
People can't live like this.
Under this administration, our current administration, groceries are up 57 percent, gasoline is up 60 and 70 percent, mortgage rates have quadrupled.
And the fact is, it doesn't matter what they are because you can't get the money anywhere.
You can't buy houses.
Young people can't get any financing to buy a house.
The total household costs have increased an average of $28,000 per family under this administration.
Republicans have a plan to bring down prices and bring them down very, very rapidly by slashing energy costs.
We will, in turn, reduce the cost of transportation.
Just a second here, we're going to have Jack Posobiec join us and you guys can, as we're live on air, become a member.
I'm going to name everyone who becomes a member here on air and you guys get our shirt, Never Surrender.
Do we have Jack Posobiec piped through yet or we're working on that?
Do we have Jack?
We're working on that.
Okay, let's play another piece of tape here as we work on getting Jack piped through here.
Donald Trump went deep into policy here.
He continued.
by saying we are going to close our borders and drill baby drill, play cut 184, please. - At the heart of the Republican platform is our pledge to end this border nightmare and fully restore the sacred and sovereign borders of the United States of America.
And we're gonna do that on day one.
That means two things on day one, right?
Drill baby drill and close our borders.
And by the way, and I think everybody as a Republican, as a patriot in this room, most Democrats, we want people to come into our country, but they have to come into our country legally.
Legally.
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Do we have Blake ready to be piped through, Blake or Jack?
I know they're both in position right now.
Yep.
And so, CNN, by the way, a panel of people saying, well, they thought they went on too long and complaints that the speech was too long.
Okay, here we have Blake and we have Jack.
Jack, you were in the room or you were nearby?
Jack, what is the vibe on the ground in the convention?
I had to dash back to Arizona.
What is the vibe straight down in Milwaukee?
Yeah, Charlie, how's it going?
Thanks again for having me on.
So, we just finished up this just complete, I would say, rollercoaster of a spectacle of a night.
So I was inside the room for the entire thing from Tucker Carlson's amazing.
And I would point out, by the way, Tucker's completely no notes, no teleprompter speech to Hulk Hogan.
Just this incredible throwback to 80s, 90s hopeful Americana to the incredible Kid Rock.
And then Donald Trump's speech, of course, capping it off, which was just, again, this roller coaster.
The highs, the lows, the ups and downs, these incredible moments.
Not a dry eye in the house, of course, when he brought out that uniform of Corey Campatore and Comparatore.
And then, of course, getting into, as you say, getting into policy, getting into the specifics, getting into what was going on.
And folks who may have been watching my Twitter feed will know I've been going viral for this because I was seated pretty much right in front of Jake Tapper the entire night.
And so I was giving live updates on what Jake Tapper and Dana Bash were doing.
Most of the time, they had their back turned.
They looked very angrily at me at one point.
A big smile and a thumbs up, because guess what, guys?
It's all happening again, and you know it.
So it was a great night.
The vibe was huge.
Yes, it was a long night.
There's no question about that.
I had to get the kids down.
You know, shout out to the beautiful and lovely Tanya Tay for taking care of that and making sure the kids could be here and really participate in what I think a lot of people are coming out saying, a really, really historic night.
I know this is going to sound weird, but for whatever reason, these earphones are making my ear bleed.
And so, uh, I'm not kidding.
Like, it's very weird.
Okay.
Um, Blake, I'm here.
I'm here.
A little ironic.
Trump did tell us that, uh, that the ears, uh, bleed the most tonight.
So I literally have like blood on my fingers.
Very bizarre.
Okay, so Blake, I want to get your comments here.
Tucker Carlson, when he is... Tucker's awesome.
You know Tucker very well.
When Tucker is talking about the populist nationalist movement, he's at his best.
He is by far the most talented, articulate spokesperson when it comes to what is happening in this country as far as the resentments of the forgotten people against the ruling class.
Let's first, though, start with Tucker Carlson riffing Cut 168.
I watched the video of what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania about 15, 50 times.
I think I was one of about 8 billion people around the world who watched it.
And the more I watched it, the more it struck me that everything was different after that moment.
Everything.
This convention is different.
The nation is different.
The world is different.
Donald Trump is different.
When he stood up after being shot in the face, bloodied, and put his hand up, I thought at that moment, that was a transformation.
This was no longer a man.
Well, I think that.
I think it was divine intervention.
But the effect that it had on Donald Trump, he was no longer just a political party's nominee, or a former president, or a future president.
This was the leader of a nation.
And.
One more, Blake, that I want to play and then get your comment here.
You know Tucker very well.
I thought he was on point, which is this one, which is all about representative government.
Play Cut 170.
The entire point from the famous escalator ride nine years ago until today of Donald Trump's public life has been to remind us of one fact.
Which is, a leader's duty is to his people, to his country, and to no other.
That's the point.
That's the only point.
And another word for this is democracy.
Democracy, in case you're a little sick of being beaten in the face with democracy on television, actual democracy is the proposition that the citizens of a country own that country.
They're not renters, they're not serfs, they're not slaves, they are the owners of the country.
And for that to be true, Their leaders have to represent them, which is another way of saying they have to do what the people want them to do, or a close approximation thereof.
But if they completely ignore what people want, not just one year, but generationally, say for 50 years, then it may be, I don't know what, it's not a democracy.
And so I think the entire Trump project, paradoxically, he's attacked as an enemy of democracy, is to return democracy to the United States.
Let's pay attention to what people actually want.
I really wish we had more unscripted speeches at the RNC.
A friend of mine says... Blake, do you know what I would have given?
Blake, you helped me write my speech.
You were very helpful with that.
But do you know what I would have given to be able to do that?
That would have made my life so much easier.
Trump and Tucker, they're both just world-class historic talents at being able to do it.
And in different ways, too.
A friend of mine says the best speech advice he ever gave is like, no one should actually need a script for a speech because you shouldn't be on a stage talking unless it's something that you could just talk about at length for 15 or 30 or 50 minutes or three hours without prompting.
And for Tucker, he's extremely good at that on these topics.
He was hitting the same things that he talked about in an article, I think he wrote it for Politico, all the way back, start of 2016, that was the start of the sort of Tucker-Trump overlap, where he said, Donald Trump is shocking, vulgar, and right.
And it's, you know, Tucker and Trump, much like a lot of other people, they went through phases of the relationship where Tucker, you know, he had that push and pull, sometimes he was frustrated, sometimes he was elated, but it's come full circle back to this is Donald Trump's conservative movement and as he said but it's come full circle back to this is Donald Trump's
The man who was attacked for as a threat to American democracy is the man who can restore authentic American democracy, which is the ability of people to run their own country and decide the policies they want to live under instead of being told this set of policies decided by a bunch of Democrats in Washington is the only thing that's allowed by democracy.
And I also just love that that's just Tucker was probably just practicing that in the car on the way over.
I can say from experience, a lot of viral Tucker speeches are just whatever he happens to have been talking about with someone 30 minutes beforehand, and certain parts of that definitely sounded that way in a good way.
He's incredible off the cuff.
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Jack, I want to get you in on this.
It's harder to do this remote, so thanks for the patience here, Jack.
And by the way, Unhumans should be a New York Times bestseller, so I want you to comment on that.
But first, let's play Cut 170, and Jack, take it right away.
Let's play Cut... No, we just did 170.
Let's go to 169.
This is Tucker Carlson at his best.
But if you think about it, the presidency comes with great power, obviously.
But if you think about it, that is a title that is bestowed by a process of some sort that can be subverted.
And in the end, it does not confer by itself, as no title does, legitimacy.
Just because you call yourself the president doesn't mean that much inherently.
I can call my dog the CEO of Hewlett-Packard.
It doesn't mean she is.
You know, it's true.
And you hate to say it, but it is also true, is a fact, that you could take, I don't know, a mannequin, a dead person, and make him president.
If you... No, you could!
You could!
I'm just saying, theoretically possible.
With enough... With enough cheating, that could happen.
Jack Posobiec.
Just an incredible moment from Tucker Carlson right there, just riffing on all the qualities of leadership and then turning it into this hilarious joke about Joe Biden.
But what he's talking about there is something very deep, something very natural.
It's a spiritual, it is an essence and a vitality.
That a leader has and he took her said, I think one of the other clips that your leader in in the ancient times in Bronze Age times, if you will, to borrow a phrase, the leader would be the strongest warrior, the most capable chieftain, and that would be become the leader of the army, the leader of the war band, they would be become the one who is the undisputed head of the tribe.
And in this case the tribe that we're talking about is Americans and Yes, there has been this process that has been and exactly as Tucker says subverted to change that because in the past of course You know, you may have had other processes, you may have had trial-by-combat and all these, you know, other ancient Bronze Age things, but these days we don't quite do that anymore.
Maybe we should, I don't know, because, you know, we were founded by people that actually would conduct duels to the death.
So I want to remind, this is not that long ago that we're talking, I'm going to go all the way back to the Bronze Age.
But, the idea that a leader is someone that people will follow instinctually, someone that people will follow when you see them in moments of crisis, standing strong, showing resolve, showing bravery.
Those are the qualities of a true, natural leader versus the qualities of someone who is told to be a leader.
That is the absolute difference that you're seeing right now.
Obviously, he's drawing the line between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, but everybody knows this.
Think of a team you've been on, maybe when you were younger and played sports, and you had a bad coach who just yelled at everybody and wasn't sure why they weren't following what he or she was saying.
Or think about a job you've had where you've had a really bad boss, and they keep telling you over and over, I'm the leader, I'm the leader.
Well, you know, to quote the great philosopher Tony Soprano, if you have to keep telling everyone you're the boss, you aren't.
You ain't the boss.
You ain't the boss.
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Blake, you had a very smart point here, which is that rarely, and Blake, Jack was just saying this, I want you to dive deeper.
We rarely ever see the leaders, the people that make decisions, have to face physical combat or opposition.
Almost never.
And this used to be commonplace in the ancient world, not just the Bronze Age, as Jack would say, but also in the American Civil War and also in the revolutionary times.
To a lesser extent, the more modern we've come, our leaders become more disconnected from actual physical confrontation.
Blake, what is your thought on this?
I know you have a strong opinion.
Or even just even in like World War Two, you would still, you know, a general would occasionally get hit.
Like, you'd have to lead close enough.
You could get hit by an artillery shell, by a sniper.
When was the last time a US, like, general was even wounded in action?
I think it was maybe during Vietnam, maybe in the Gulf War, but it's very rare for military leaders, for politicians.
It used to have You used to have that level of accountability, but you also used to be easier to lose your job.
This is something that is so compelling about Iraq.
Could it at least be that if something really bad happens in America, if we have a botched military withdrawal, if we have a blown open border, if we have a massive pandemic that's badly mismanaged, could some people in DC at least Have to go on unemployment for a while?
And that so rarely happens.
You can sort of just, even if you're a colossal screw-up, you can bounce from think tank gig to think tank gig and then just pop back up like a zombie in the next administration.
And I think that's driving such a huge sense of decline and decay in America.
And it's one reason you're allowed to have someone like Joe Biden around forever.
Why is Joe Biden still around?
He should at least have some accountability for Running for president repeatedly, and losing each time, and being attached to all these failed policies.
It was so compelling.
When J.D.
Vance was saying the other night, oh, he was connected to NAFTA.
People didn't like the outcome of that.
He was closely linked with giving China most favored nation status.
That went badly.
He was one of the Democrats who strongly supported the Iraq War.
Big disaster.
And yet, he just hangs around like this zombie of Washington.
And so much of Trump's appeal is the desire to actually say, no, there should be real accountability for this kind of damage to America.
We should have new leaders and the people who are failed leaders should not be getting paychecks from the American people until their end of time.
I think that's very smart.
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Okay, let's go to another piece of tape here.
This is Cut 202.
This gentleman might have given one of the best, most underappreciated speeches of the evening.
My phone was lighting up!
And he's on the show tomorrow.
He's on the Charlie Kirk Show tomorrow, so make plans to watch this.
Reverend Lorenzo Sewell, great American. 202.
President Trump came to a church that is in a democratic stronghold.
He came to a church to listen to average, everyday Americans like you and like me.
He came to a church not to speak to us, but to listen to us.
He came into a church and a lot of people, they were upset.
A lot of people, they would ask me questions.
Why would you allow Donald Trump to come into your church?
How many know that the Bible says we are all sinners and we all need the grace of God?
How many know that the Bible says, "He who has not sinned, let him cast the first stone." President Donald Trump, he came during his birthday weekend.
Let me ask you a question.
Grand Old Party, what would you do for your birthday if you were worth $6.7 billion?
What would you do for your birthday?
Would you come to Detroit?
Would you come into the hood hood?
He came to the hood because he cares about average, everyday Americans.
I thought that was terrific.
And so Jack, can you just riff about the everyday stories that were being told on the ground?
I thought that the convention was the best I've ever seen for selecting stories.
World War II veteran, 98 years old, from the Gold Star families to people that can't afford groceries.
Jack Posobiec.
Yeah, Charlie, and the angel moms, the angel family members that were here as well.
I mean, it was so many times where The political speaker actually said this to Vivek Ramaswamy when he came by on my show the other day, where I said, Vivek, you know, I said it was the best and I caught myself and I said, well, you gave the best political speech of the night.
But so many times these moments from the everyday Americans, whether it be the mother whose son was killed by a violent criminal, let out by Alvin Bragg, To the mother from Southern California whose son was killed by fentanyl sent over by the cartels in the Chinese Communist Party.
This really was a moment for the people.
And you know, I know that there was another event that had this name recently over in Detroit that called the People's Convention, but this really carried a lot of that energy.
of a people's convention, really understanding that, look, Donald Trump could have picked anyone as his vice presidential pick, certainly after the events of Saturday, anyone would have said yes to him.
He decided deliberately to choose someone who was a deplorable, who had a deplorable background, someone from a part of the country that nobody cares about anymore, and someone who could speak for everyday Americans Because he knew their lives, he knew their background, and I'm not trying to make this a pitch for JD or something.
I'm just saying that the entire convention was centered around the idea of lifting up people that have been forgotten, lifting up people whose stories aren't usually told in mainstream media, or even in narrative fiction that we see.
There's no movies about these people.
There's no great stories.
I mean, where's the Hollywood movie about Abbey Gate?
It's been almost three years.
Hollywood doesn't care about that.
The 13 soldiers who died, who cares?
Jake Tapper, by the way, who was sitting in front of you, where's your book about the soldiers and Marines who died that day, Jake?
Oh, you haven't done one.
That's kind of interesting, isn't it?
And so, so again, it's the idea of the power of narrative, which, of course, then Trump used himself by telling and I'm sure we'll get to it, but telling and what he says for the only time that he'll ever tell the story about the day he was almost killed.
Yep, and we led with that.
It was so powerful, Jack.
I thought that 30 minutes was one of the best I've ever seen.
That 30 minutes of television, of anything in the history of politics, was the best I've ever seen.
I want to recap some of the top moments of the week.
Yeah, go ahead, Jack, please.
Go ahead.
No, it was just, you know, sitting there, it was, it was beyond anything I've ever seen.
And I've been to rally after rally.
I've been to political conventions.
My first political convention was all the way back in 2000 in Philadelphia, believe it or not, the Republican Convention.
So 24 years now, and not that I've gone to every one, but
Since I went to the original that's that's it's more that one came to me because I'm from Philadelphia and You know back then it was these were Stately affairs very formal a lot more focused on motions and the floor and you know the voting and these types of things this was a Larger-than-life moment, and it's it was I don't know if you want to call it perdition I don't know if you want to call it Serendipity I don't know if you call it or Providence rather
But this idea that the first time he has a major speaking event after the shooting is also his presidential acceptance speech, and he's up there, he's telling the story, the uniform comes out.
I struggle to even begin to put it into words.
Just a tremendous wave of emotion that blasted everyone in the entire room.
Again, every single eye was wet.
No eye was dry when we were sitting in there.
And for folks to understand what he had gone through and continues to be willing to put himself through.
Talking about the production quality, the production elements, I thought the White House backdrop was a 10 out of 10.
Sorry, Charlie, no White House backdrop for you, man.
I agree.
But this backdrop is a 10 out of 10.
No, I had some goofy Illuminati thing.
I had some goofy Illuminati thing.
Charlie had the Illuminati backdrop.
Yeah, Biden-Hares, their campaign was attacking Trump.
I don't need to read that on air.
I do want to get into some of that palace intrigue, guys.
I think it's very important.
With everything that's happening with Joe Biden and with potentially him not running.
Let's go to some more highlights from the night though.
Blake, please.
I was just saying, I wanted to send my friend who's been watching CNN, and he was summarizing it this way to me.
He says, CNN is a back and forth where Van Jones is basically, Trump is 2008, Obama, he's the messiah, he's God's anointed, he has the energy, he has the momentum, it's Jover, I'm calling it, give up, I know the vibes, just, it's all over.
And then David Axelrod comes in to say, well it was a long speech, and that's CNN apparently right now.
That, uh, it sounds about right.
And so, all right, let's go to a cut here.
Donald Trump got into some very specific policy.
Let's go to, and by the way, so some people are saying the speech was long.
Understand it was longer because he had to add a 20 to 30 minute recounting of him almost dying.
And I just like, okay.
I mean, it's just like, guys, really?
Oh, it was too long.
Oh, you want to go to bed?
Okay.
You weren't shot.
Okay.
You weren't shot.
Tough life.
But here's what's important, is that some people say, OK, well, Charlie, he should have just done the assassination thing, wrapped it up.
You run a great risk of that because a nomination speech, you're supposed to articulate the party agenda for the entire party.
Right, Jack?
The whole point, and Blake, the point of a nomination speech is, here is my vision for the next four years.
And that is just the only criticism they have is it was too long.
It is the dumbest thing to say.
It is the dumbest thing to say.
Because he had to be very methodical about how he talked about the once in a time of him getting shot five days ago.
And secondly, when he went into policy, you are casting out the platform and the vision For every state rep, every congressman, every senator, and you are showing America this is what we believe in.
And everything he talked about from a policy perspective was wonderful.
It was absolutely terrific.
I want to play a piece of tape here, then, Jack, you can kind of go nuts here.
On day one, we're going to drill, baby, drill.
And by the way, actually, I want to go to a different one.
This was chills.
This was chills.
How could you criticize this?
Play cut 185.
But you can see on the chart that saved my life.
That was the chart that saved my life.
I said, look at it.
I'm so proud of it.
I think it's one of the greatest.
It was done by the Border Patrol.
One of the greatest charts I've ever seen.
It showed everything just like that.
You know the chart.
Oh, there it is.
That's pretty good.
Wow.
Last time I put up that chart, I never really got to look at it.
But without that chart, I would not be here today.
Never got to look at it.
I said, you gotta see this chart.
I was so proud of it.
And by the time I got to there, I never got to see it that day.
But I'm seeing it now and I was very proud.
Jack?
You know it was amazing actually as we were walking out of the event and we were just heading over to where the set is over here.
I happened to be, I was with my family, we were getting some of the balloons for the kids and A lot of people move in at once, and I bump into somebody as I'm holding my toddler, my three-year-old, and I say, oh, I'm so sorry, and I turn over, and it's, of course, it's Senator Ron Johnson.
I kid you not, just one of those, you know, one of those serendipitous moments, and it was Senator Johnson, of course, and he's told the story so many times now, who made that chart, and it was, you know, quite a moment as well when President Trump stands there and says, you know, The last time that I put that chart up, and it's like, did he just make a joke about his own assassination attempt?
And of course he is, because that's Donald Trump, it's that dark humor, it's that black humor that he always uses, that he just says the most inappropriate thing.
Although, usually he says it about someone else.
Here this time, he says it about himself.
And it's an incredible thing to see, but it also is, by the way, part of policy.
I mean, Charlie, can you imagine The state of the party right now when just a few years ago the idea of talking about saying something like mass deportation on the stage would get you booed, it might get you censored, it might get you banned, and it would certainly get you kicked out of the RNC.
Now our leader is cheering it on the entire crowd.
They had placards.
They had placards that say mass deportations now that people were holding up.
They're talking about this problem because it's gotten too far.
And so I've heard some people say that the speech was soft.
And, you know, I can certainly I would say, like, I mean, the guy was just shot in the head.
I mean, wait, hold on.
No, no, no.
He was he was.
How about this?
He was stoic.
He was stoic.
He was like a Roman general returning from the front lines, bloodied and shot at, to address his most loyal people.
Anyway, Jack, hold that thought.
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So it is the role of the candidates in the convention speech to cast a vision of the entire agenda.
Also Shannon.
Blake, you have to give Trump credit though.
Trump could have done.
He could have.
By the way, there's a New York Times video.
I'm not going to play this right now.
I need time to digest this.
It's so bad.
It's so unbelievable.
It's not against New York Times.
They actually did a great job of compiling this.
Can I read the headline, Blake?
Go for it.
The headline is this.
New York Times.
Video, audio, and photographs collected by the New York Times of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at an election rally shows how a clear threat emerged minutes before the shooting and how law enforcement failed to protect Mr. Trump.
I mean, that's the New York Times saying it.
Donald Trump did not criticize law enforcement.
He did not criticize the Secret Service.
In fact, he praised them.
He did not say, why did they not put me off stage?
Like, for a guy who gets attacked all the time for saying that he just, you know, lashes out, he was filled with gratitude and joy, not with anger or bitterness.
Blake, help us understand that. - I mean, it's been this way for a long time.
They say he's a threat to democracy while they do everything possible to undermine democracy by forcing him out of the race, forcing him into a jail cell, rigging the process as much as possible, and now here they would say he's the one who's injecting hate or darkness into the race, yet They do that a lot more than him.
Donald Trump has been, for the most part, very positive energy this race.
He's upbeat.
He talks a lot about accomplishments he had in his first term and how he will bring them back, and the stuff he bashes Biden for is really no different from what you'd be able to see even turning on CNN or MSNBC.
They're all pretty bleak a lot of the time, too.
There's a huge amount of projection that goes into everything the modern left does these days.
And while we're talking about headlines, by the way, apparently the headline on CNN right now, since I have it up, is Top Biden Officials Believe He Must Drop Out.
So we've gone from the media to Democrat lawmakers to Biden officials, which means we might have the 25th Amendment getting invoked by this time next week, Charlie.
Boy, I want to get into that into great detail.
I really do.
So, Jack, let's kind of put a final cap on this speech tonight.
Where does this go from here?
Donald Trump is the nominee.
He's alive and well.
Melania was there.
He leaves on a total high.
J.D.
Vance is the vice president.
What are the marching orders from there?
Then I would do something on Biden and we'll close the night out.
Look Charlie, this was a, I'm just going to say it, this was a pitch perfect convention for the Republicans in terms of what they needed.
out of it.
Did I love every single little piece of it?
Look, I'm not going to sit here and go through all of that, but in terms of the top lines of the things that people will remember from this, it was perfect.
And so the Democrats are going to be looking at this saying, what are we going to do?
Any potential Democrat, by the way, contender who's thinking about maybe getting their name in the ring, getting their hat in the ring in Chicago in just a couple of weeks' time in August here is suddenly realizing that they've got to go up against a massive unified front from the Republicans.
I mean, you even had like Lauren Boebert was standing next to Mike Johnson and all of this.
It was just this huge kumbaya, we're going to get together and save America moment.
That was so much bigger than the party, so much bigger than any one specific person with Donald Trump simply at the head of everything.
So the Republicans got what they needed.
The Democrats are in an absolute state of disarray.
They've got no idea what they're going to do in Chicago in just a couple of weeks time.
And so the Republicans have the wind at their sails.
They do.
But at the same time, I'm going to throw this out there that we must, must, must not get complacent.
We cannot be complacent.
Complacency is the biggest danger right now.
All this talk about Biden dropping, etc, etc.
We have so much work to do because you know what the Democrats are doing right now?
They're banking ballots.
And while they switch out their candidate and play kabuki theater and rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic, they're going to be banking ballots where?
In Wisconsin.
In Pennsylvania and in Michigan.
That's why they're talking about Governor Josh Shapiro.
That's why his name keeps coming up because he's a popular politician, popular governor in Pennsylvania, and so people need to keep their eyes on the ball.
This is a great week.
This is a great week.
It was an astounding week.
It was an emotional week.
It was a great week for the good guys, but we need to remember the work starts Monday.
Yes, it does.
All right, so Blake, let's get into some inside baseball here.
What does the future of Joe Biden look like?
What is the process here?
Oh man, so we've been talking to some people we know who are more in the middle of the political divide, so they actually talked to Democrats as well, and it's wild because people make confident predictions, yet it seems they don't necessarily have a strong basis for this.
So I've been hearing there are Democrat lawmakers, like real figures in the party, who say 100% Joe Biden is gone, he's not going to make it.
But if you push at it, if you poke at it a little bit, Joe Biden has not himself admitted he is gone.
He has not, you know, secretly said, OK, we're out next Sunday.
We're out next Monday.
We're just writing the speech.
He has not admitted this yet.
They're just confident they can force him out because they can do way uglier tactics.
So they're thinking we will be able to turn up the heat so bad he will not be able to stick around.
That is that is the conversation they're having, which is I guess you have to admit from our perspective, that is what we wanted to see.
If you're going to have Biden be forced out, you don't want it to be a nice little clean switcheroo.
You want it to be protracted.
You want it to be ugly.
You want it to be bitter.
And that's what we're hearing reported.
We're hearing that donors are saying, you know, forget the presidential race.
We'll be boycotting House races and Senate races just to make it clear you have to make this switch.
We're going to turn up the pain.
We see on CNN that Biden officials are admitting he has to go, which means I think 25th Amendment is on the table.
Another thing I've been hearing from a friend who has a friend of a friend who has been in contact with like Kamala world is, well, Kamala's team is not ready for this.
We've been hearing for years.
She can't keep staff because she's a horrible boss and her team is all messed up, so we have these very junior staff on Kamala's team who are suddenly about to be tasked with trying to run either a presidential campaign or, you know, at least a campaign for the nomination for the next month, and they're not ready for this.
They apparently don't even know whether Biden will be in her corner or not.
That's still up in the air.
And so you just have maximum division in the Democrats, maximum chaos.
You love to see it.
I want to go through some data here.
So Morning Consult shows Donald Trump up four points on Biden.
RMG Research has Donald Trump up five points on Biden.
So SoCal Research, On Point Politics, has Donald Trump up six points on Biden and eight points on Kamala Harris.
Jack Posobiec only I want to go to you here.
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Jack, you think that Kamala could potentially be even easier to defeat and beat.
Is that correct?
I do actually.
I do.
And I'll tell you why.
Because Kamala Harris, so number one, she comes with all the baggage of the Biden administration, plus the fact that she was the one who was put in charge of the two biggest failures of the Biden administration.
She was made the face of it.
The border, and then Ukraine.
Remember, she's the one who went over to the Munich conference and said, Ukraine will be a NATO, Ukraine will be a NATO, we will stand up for this, and then Putin invades like two days later, literally two days later.
This is going to be played again and again, and it's going to be shown that her weakness was one of the things that led to the decision-making of crossing the border, crossing the Rubicon in Ukraine.
The other part of this is that she does not have the legacy name recognition, the legacy goodwill that Joe Biden enjoyed with many segments of the Democrat Party from being Obama's wingman, from being the guy who was ride or die with Barry O, the guy who was always there.
Or this totally fake bromance that they led people to believe that existed between him and Barack Obama.
Again, all of that work, all of that time as vice president doesn't apply to Kamala Harris.
And remember, Kamala Harris is decadent.
deeply disliked even within her own party.
She had to drop out of the presidential race in 2020 before Iowa.
She did not even make it to the first contest.
So no, I don't think there's someone to formittle.
And by the way, finally, we've seen Kamala try the prime time run.
She does not have the chops.
She's never going to have the chops.
You want to talk about what Tucker Carlson was saying about the difference between leadership versus someone who's good at subverting the system.
I think, yeah, she knows a lot about subverting the system.
No doubt.
So Blake, in closing here, because it's 1.30 on the East Coast here, in closing, let's kind of recap the week.
You were there on the ground, Blake, helping us show out.
What was the takeaway?
What were you most surprised about as an onlooker here at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee?
Most surprised about?
You know, it's hard to say because actually I would say, you know, in what has been a very, a very surprising election year, a very surprising election month, a very surprising election week, I think we'd say all of those are, we might literally be at the point where the narrative of this year is passing 2016, which I would have never thought was possible.
Yet I would say the one part that was just not a shock at all was
What I saw this week in Milwaukee, I would have said, okay, they took a shot at Trump, so that's going to unite the party, they're going to be a very positive energy, people will be grateful that their candidate is alive, that their candidate is here to give the speech, that the man that they indicted, that they censored off the internet, that they took a shot at, that they sued, that they took the companies of, that all of this failed, and he's there to receive the nomination, and everyone's there, Good vibes all around.
The band is back together and they're ready to retake the White House.
And that's the thing.
There really, there was no monkey wrench in that.
There was no shock.
It was what we would have hoped for.
This is exactly the convention Republicans wanted to hold.
It's the exact convention they plan to hold.
And especially looking at what's going on with the Democrats right now, they have every reason to feel very confident going into this fall's election.
And now they just, for the next 90 days, they just need to execute.
Well, and I also say there was, Jack, and this is from a viral question.
I want your take on that too.
There was no viral scandal that distracted from the main thing.
I mean, there was little things here or there, but Jack, that's a big deal, right?
Conventions sometimes get derailed.
Huge.
Huge.
With online chatter.
And can you comment on this, Jack?
That did not happen for four days.
There was no speaker that said something they shouldn't have done or no, you know what I'm saying?
It was beautifully produced and the main thing kept to be the main thing.
Yeah, the narrative that was put out, and by the way, this is why CNN is out there saying, oh, well, the speech was long, because they don't have anything else.
They don't have that one serious gaffe.
They don't have that one big mess up.
They don't have that one piece where somebody went totally off script and started messing around with people.
No, they have none of those things.
And so to be able to put on an event like this for several days, which I know, Charlie, is something that you and the entire team at Turning Point and at Turning Point Action do time and again, several times a year, multiple times a year, when you consider all of the events that Turning Point does.
It's not something that's easy to do, and especially when you know the eyes of the world are on you, and you have so many speakers.
I mean, this was jam-packed with speakers, and the idea that you've only got one, and there were times in the past, by the way, especially some of those You know, and look, it's just true.
With those everyday American stories, you never know, because these aren't people that do, you know, presentation on a regular basis.
You're kind of rolling the dice with some of those sometimes, and in the past, there have been a few that don't really work out so well.
Every single one of this, just pitch perfect, no gaffes, no flaws, everything on message, total execution, and in a way, it showed that This is a group of people that has competence in the face of the incompetence that is being described in the current administration of our government.
It's beautifully said.
I could tell you this was my, I went to convention in 2012.
So 12, 16, 20 didn't really count, but I guess that counts.
And this is my fourth convention, the third one in person.
And this was the most joyful, exuberant group I've ever been around.
This is a determined group that's ready to go to work.
And again, don't be surprised.
They're going to pull Biden and maybe it's Kamala, maybe not.
And this race might completely and totally reset.
And, but we have a unified party and we are battle ready.
I can tell you, no one's going to be surprised that Biden gets pulled.
That was kind of the unspoken truth of this last convention.
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Let's play a piece of tape here as we compile the final list here of just a recap.
By the way, how amaz- do we have the video that they were playing, that documentary on Trump?
Wow, that was amazing.
That was just absolutely spectacular on that video they played.
Wasn't that just absolutely incredible?
It was just really unbelievable.
Let's play cut 178 and then we will close it out.
Let's go to 178.
We will not break.
We will not bend.
We will not back down.
And I will never stop fighting for you, your family, and our magnificent country.
And everything I have to give with all of the energy and fight in my heart and soul, I pledge to our nation tonight.
Thank you very much.
I pledge that to our nation.
Gonna turn our nation around, and we're gonna do it very quickly.
Thank you.
This election should be about the issues facing our country and how to make America successful, safe, free, and great again.
In an age when our politics too often divide us, now is the time to remember that we are all fellow citizens.
We are one nation under God.
Beautiful.
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This is the country we're fighting to restore.
Donald Trump is a larger-than-life figure.
Play Cup 181 and enjoy this.
This is a story as uniquely American as the ideals and freedoms we all cherish.
A story of a life dedicated to dreaming big.
A story about giving back to the people in his beloved city.
But most of all, this is a story about putting his country first.
And it's a story best told in pictures.
Young and confident, Donald Trump wasn't afraid to think big and build even bigger.
And he left his mark on the New York skyline that greeted visitors from around the world.
But he wasn't just an American entrepreneur.
He became a folk hero.
Celebrities and sports stars wanted to be seen with him.
Politicians sought his approval.
And New Yorkers just loved him.
And he loved them back.
And he gave back.
Just one example.
Saving the Wollman Skating Rink.
The Wollman Skating Rink in Central Park is open again.
The city spent nearly six years and twelve million dollars trying to fix it.
And then to the rescue, developer Donald Trump.
As Tracy Egan tells us now, he accomplished in three and a half months what the city couldn't do in six years.
Service. - Yes.
There was no denying that Donald Trump was the toast of the town, but he was also something even more important, a patriotic American.
And like many others, he was becoming increasingly troubled by the direction of our country.
Because I really am tired of seeing what's happening with this country, how we're really making other people live like kings, and we're not.
You've said, though, that if you did run for president, you believe you'd win.
Well, I don't know.
I think I'd win.
I tell you what, I wouldn't go in to lose.
I've never gone in to lose in my life.
And if I did decide to do it, I think I'd be inclined... I would say that I would have a hell of a chance of winning.
Because I think people... I don't know how your audience feels, but I think people are tired of seeing the United States ripped off.
But who would ever run for president and leave such a glamorous life?
Appearances in movies, best-selling books, a widely popular TV show.
But for Donald J. Trump, the calling to save his country was even stronger.
The mission, more important.
The number of Americans being left behind, too large.
And so, in Donald Trump fashion, he announced he was running for president, in it to win.
And he did.
From his first day in office, the Washington politicians learned something about President Trump.
He's not afraid to fight for what he believes in.
They call that having the courage of your convictions.
First up, the Trump tax cuts.
Largest in America's history, and it led to higher take-home pay for working families.
Unfortunately, today, taxes are up and incomes down.
The politicians just never learn.
Next for President Trump, secure our border.
Check.
Miles and miles of wall built.
ISIS and other terrorists deterred.
But now, we have the Barney Fife of border security.
Leading to a quarter of a million Americans dead from fentanyl coming in.
Brutal migrant crime spreading across America.
And ISIS, now here.
President Trump promised he'd keep America out of endless wars.
Welcome words to the families of our young men and women who serve.
And another promise kept.
He started by strengthening our military, then traveled the world, meeting with our allies, and even with our main adversaries.
Just so they understood that America's strength and resolve was back.
Because that's what a strong Commander-in-Chief does.
And it led to a stable world at peace and our troops safe.
Today, a different story.
Our enemies smelled weakness, then set the world on fire.
Putin saw it, then invaded Ukraine.
Hamas saw it, then started a war in the Middle East.
There's one more thing we've learned about President Trump.
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