Today's episode is from Grand Canyon University, where thousands of students turned out to support Turning Point USA's campaign to elect a conservative president on November 6th. The energy and enthusiasm on the campus was incredible, and we are here to remind you that this is more than just a rally. This is a movement. And we can win the 2020 election on the college campuses of America's colleges and universities if we continue to do what we are doing right now. Tune in to The Charlie Kirk Show with Charlie and his team to learn more about the incredible results at Grand Canyon and how you can do the same in 2020. You can't ask for much more. You're not going to get more information on how to get involved with Turning Point on the ground level than right here. Tweet Me! if you like what you hear, tweet me! and let me know what you think! Timestamps: 1:00:00 - What was your favorite moment of the day? 3:30 - What did you think of the Grand Canyon rally? 4:15 - What do you think about the energy on campus? 5:40 - What does it mean to you? 6:00 - How can we win on the College Campuses? 7:00- What is the future of the modern college campus look like? 8:20 - What is your biggest takeaway from this movement? 9: What is it like on college campuses? 10: What are you looking forward to in 2020? 11: Can we lose by less than a point? 13: What does the establishment do to win by less? 14: What's your biggest challenge? 15:30- What do we need to lose by more? 16:50 - How do you want to win the vote? 17:15- How do we win the next election? 18:40- What's the best thing? 19:10 - What are we going to do next? 21:10 22:40 21 - What s the most important to you think you can we do in 2020 and what do you need to win? 26:10: What can we learn from this? 27: What s going to win in 2020 from this experience? 25:00 | What are the biggest thing we can do to improve the future? 28:30 | What s your answer?
00:00:29.000Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:31.000Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.
00:00:33.000I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:00:36.000Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:00:40.000I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy.
00:00:42.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:02:46.000I was just there to come take selfies and shake some hands.
00:02:48.000Went out there, asked some questions, talked to some folks.
00:02:51.000The energy and the spirit was unlike anything we've grasped before.
00:02:55.000But understand, the takeaway from these events is more than just a rally and more than just enthusiasm.
00:03:02.000No, no, no. This is what makes Turning Point different.
00:03:05.000This is work that has never been done in the modern conservative movement.
00:03:10.000In fact, I don't think since the advent of the modern college campus there has been a conservative movement nearly as successful as what we're seeing right now.
00:03:20.000Not even close. In the history of the modern college campus.
00:03:24.000Look at those videos. Thousands and thousands of students.
00:03:27.000And this is not just at the private Christian school of GCU. We saw this at Penn State.
00:03:31.000We saw this at Arizona State University.
00:03:33.000We saw this at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
00:03:35.000What we are doing at Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action is working.
00:03:40.000And mind you, the establishment has tried to take out...
00:03:45.000They still are trying to plant stories.
00:03:47.000They're still trying to launch investigations against us.
00:03:49.000The Republican establishment hates Turning Point because you are seeing the results right there.
00:03:55.000But again, it's more than just a rally.
00:03:58.000What we did at Grand Canyon University is sending shockwaves across the Arizona political universe because we are now becoming very friendly with the Arizona Secretary of State and Maricopa County Recorder's office.
00:05:22.000And I'll tell you the number in a second. So we register voters for three and a half hours at Grand Canyon University.
00:05:27.000The RNC didn't do this under RANA. No one's done this work.
00:05:30.000Turning Point is doing the difficult work to lose by less.
00:05:33.000So we have these piles of voter registration forms, and we show up to the Arizona Secretary of State office, and they're rather annoyed to see us.
00:05:43.000You see, the Arizona Secretary of State office is controlled by Adrian Fontes, a Democrat.
00:05:47.000Here we have all these first-time voters, and instead of them being super excited, They're like, oh boy, here they come again.
00:05:54.000They're annoyed. And they're annoyed because it wasn't just that we came with 30 voter registration forms or 80 voter registration forms or 150 voter registration forms.
00:06:05.000No, no, no. Yesterday, Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action in particular being the political arm...
00:06:12.000We registered not 300 new voters for Trump, not 500 new voters for Trump, not 600.
00:06:19.000No, no, no. 750 new first-time voters for Donald Trump in three hours.
00:06:29.000750 first-time voters for Donald Trump at Grand Canyon University.
00:06:35.000So Eric goes to the Secretary of State's office with this massive pile of voter registration forms.
00:06:41.000And instead of processing them, they made him go to the Maricopa County Recorder's Office.
00:06:48.000Eventually they accepted them and processed them.
00:06:51.000But the Democrats are getting used to us showing up every day with these piles of first-time voters.
00:06:58.000And mind you, this used to be an exclusive Democrat project.
00:07:01.000It used to always be the Democrat groups of the Latino outreach groups, the youth vote groups.
00:07:06.000They would show up in the days before the voter registration deadline, and they would flood the zone with voter registration forms, maybe some of them erroneous.
00:07:14.000Let me say, the 750 forms that Turning Point Action submitted yesterday, those were not erroneous.
00:07:19.000Those were legit, right there, real forms, real students.
00:08:09.000And now I am here to announce, which is a big deal, since June, Turning Point Action has far exceeded the registration deficit of the amount that Donald Trump fell short in the state of Arizona.
00:08:48.000It's not just that we registered 750 new first-time Trump voters to vote at Grand Canyon University.
00:08:53.000These people that love Trump, I mean, I'm talking about on fire for Trump.
00:08:57.000But if you don't believe it, wait till you see the video.
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00:09:04.000This is not normal to have this response Blake, I want to get you on this about a minute remaining.
00:09:10.000Blake, to have this kind of response on a college campus is unique.
00:09:15.000This is not something that we see every election cycle.
00:09:17.000It's 100% a new trend, and I've only been with you two years, but I remember your events that you're doing in late 22, early 23.
00:09:26.000Much more hostile crowd, smaller crowd.
00:09:29.000And it's very jarring to go to relatively big schools, Kansas State or Penn State, as you mentioned, and just very large crowds.
00:09:40.000And it's not just the number of people.
00:09:42.000They're much more assertive and confident about what they think.
00:09:46.000It's just much more acceptable and even...
00:09:50.000I hesitate to use the word, but it's kind of cool to be supporting this movement.
00:09:54.000It's so much less dorky or embarrassing.
00:09:58.000There used to be this weird shame that would attach to being a right-of-center person on a college campus, and it was like they almost reveled in it.
00:10:07.000And that was such a loser attitude to have.
00:10:09.000And so that's the coolest thing that we see now is they've transcended this old like born loser attitude and they want to win and they think their ideology is correct and they don't concede that the left is somehow like morally better than them.
00:10:23.000Well said, everybody. There's something happening on these college campuses.
00:10:29.000And I just want to thank the educational work of Turning Point USA that's been changing the culture and the political work of Turning Point Action.
00:10:36.000There are no more important organizations, I believe this, I'm a little biased, than Turning Point USA, Turning Point Action in the country doing the work out in 104 degree heat to try to save the civilization.
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00:11:40.000I want to just reiterate to all of you, this is by no means normal.
00:11:45.000The trends are generally in our favor right now.
00:11:48.000It is hard to find, I mean this sincerely, that could there be a non-candidate Democrat that could draw a crowd like that?
00:11:57.000I mean, maybe like George Clooney or Brad Pitt, Taylor Swift, probably, Katy Perry.
00:12:02.000I mean, I'm sure. But I'm talking about someone who's just maybe in the political punditry world.
00:12:09.000I don't think so. And we're seeing this on campus after campus after campus.
00:12:13.000And again, I don't want to misrepresent.
00:12:16.000It's almost a guarantee that Kamala Harris will win the youth vote.
00:12:19.000But I don't think she's going to win it nearly by the margins that previous youth The youth totals that we saw in 2020, and certainly not in 2016, and definitely not with Barack Obama back in 2008 and 2012.
00:12:30.000These are waves and waves of patriots.
00:12:33.000My greatest concern, and Blake shares it, is that yes, we have that crowd, show that one more time, and just only a handful of them show up.
00:12:43.000This is why our obsession at Turning Point Action is to chase ballots and to drive turnout.
00:12:48.000Turnout will make or break this entire election.
00:12:51.000This is not a persuasion election anymore.
00:12:53.000And the question is, what are we doing to drive turnout?
00:12:56.000Well, at Turning Point Action, we're doing quite a lot.
00:12:58.000Hundreds and hundreds of full-time people, thousands of volunteers.
00:13:02.000But Blake, can you support me in this?
00:13:04.000I don't know if you agree or disagree that it seems that turnout is the ingredient That is the most worrisome if it does not manifest for Donald Trump.
00:13:15.000It definitely is. We've remarked on this throughout the summer that there has the polling indicates there's been at least a bit of a shift in what Donald Trump's coalition is.
00:13:27.000Historically, the Republican coalition was high turnout voters and the Democrat coalition was lower turnout voters.
00:13:34.000So the Democrats would go absolutely hog wild.
00:13:37.000They need turnout to be as high as possible.
00:13:40.000And that still kind of held in 2016, in 2020, but it shifted a lot.
00:13:45.000Donald Trump is doing better than before with young voters.
00:13:49.000He's doing better than before with black and Hispanic voters, Asian voters, naturalized immigrant voters.
00:13:56.000But the most straightforward way to put this is, if you poll people and ask them, did you vote in 2020?
00:14:04.000Or have you not voted at all in the last few elections?
00:14:07.000Donald Trump wins big, massively, with people who did not vote in either 2022 or 2024.
00:14:16.000Which means, if we're able to get people who passed on the last presidential election to vote, it is very likely they will be voting for us.
00:14:26.000And if you didn't vote in the last election for any reason other than you were under 18, chances are you're a person who's not super engaged.
00:14:59.000There are people out there that you've got to ask, nag to vote.
00:15:03.000And the truth is, this is just being truthful, is we don't have coming out of the Trump campaign itself or the RNC, we don't have the same Exactly.
00:15:23.000to do that work, to ask that question. It's your job to talk to the people in your church,
00:15:28.000in your basketball league, in your friend group, in your book club, in your discord group, in your...
00:15:35.000I don't know. Do people still play Halo?
00:15:54.000It's just that 10% of swing that's going to decide everything.
00:15:59.000And I'll be very honest. The Democrats have a far superior turnout operation than we do.
00:16:02.000And that's why if it's tied, it's advantage Democrats.
00:16:05.000I'm just going to be honest. Now, how much organic turnout does Trump generate because of the attachment people have to him and the energy?
00:16:13.000We don't know. But we do know this, that Democrats, this is a fact, and I'm not trying to freak you guys out.
00:16:18.000I'm trying to get you to work. I'm trying to get you to do something.
00:16:21.000Democrats have overperformed every public poll since the reversal of Roe versus Wade.
00:16:26.000They have overperformed every single poll.
00:16:29.000They have the machinery, the apparatus, and the sophistication.
00:16:32.000They're the ones overperforming polling now because they have hundreds of millions of dollars spent on a turnout operation.
00:16:37.000And so if we lose, it'll be because there was not an investment done in turnout and we did not do the work.
00:16:43.000We've won the argument. We've won the debate.
00:16:45.000The debate is over. The country's with us.
00:16:47.000The country's center right on every issue except abortion.
00:16:49.000Now can we get the people that agree with us to go vote?
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00:17:29.000Men, this is what you've been looking for.
00:18:36.000That means that there are millions of people out there that we have not yet found and we have not yet registered to vote that are supporting us, that love our movement, that share our worldview.
00:18:46.000We've won the debate. And how much low-hanging fruit out there is there?
00:18:50.000And this is my biggest concern in November.
00:18:53.000My biggest concern is that we have all these crowds and all this enthusiasm, and we think we're going to have a high turnout, and it turns out that we're 2% or 3% lower.
00:19:31.000But think about it. We don't have a right to complain about fraud if we have 750 people at Grand Canyon that aren't voting.
00:19:38.000So don't lecture me about fraud if our own side isn't turning out.
00:19:43.000By the way, I hope there are a lot of groups, I know there are, doing lawsuits, cleaning up voter rolls, all that stuff's important.
00:19:48.000But there are one way to first solve the issue of our deficit with balloting is to turn out more of our own people.
00:19:55.000So right now, we have states that are already doing early voting.
00:19:59.000If you live in Virginia, you can go vote.
00:20:02.000Go vote right now. Minnesota, you can go vote.
00:20:04.000South Dakota, Blake's people, I think Trump's gonna win South Dakota.
00:20:07.000Vermont, go vote. Pennsylvania, 22 counties right now.
00:20:11.000Are allowing early voting, including Allegheny County.
00:20:15.000Allegheny County, home to Pittsburgh, began hosting over-the-counter voting in the lobby of the county office building on Monday and said people who applied for mail-in ballots have started receiving them in mail this week.
00:20:27.000Now, let me tell you why voting early is important.
00:21:04.000Good guy. He got his car flipped over.
00:21:06.000That's that blizzard. On election day, in northern Nevada, the reddest part of Nevada, and Adam Laxalt fell short.
00:21:14.000How much did he fall short of, by the way, Blake?
00:21:16.000Can you find that? Back in 2000 against Cortez Masto?
00:21:19.000Or how about right now, like 5,000 votes?
00:21:22.000Thank you, Andrew. And they say that the snowstorm depressed turnout by about 15,000 votes.
00:21:28.000That right there. So if all those people would have voted early, they could have circumvented the blizzard or whatever happened in Northern Nevada.
00:21:38.000It was a day of chaos, is what it was.
00:21:40.000And then, of course, the example that's right in front of us.
00:23:24.000We all know that college kids are not exactly known to be the most timely, the most, let's just say, the greatest memory of when to show up.
00:23:32.000And let's just say they're college kids, okay?
00:23:34.000And that's fine. You should cut them some slack.
00:23:35.000They're figuring their life out. That's where you develop, where you grow.
00:23:38.000It's where you become a better version of yourself.
00:23:40.000So you're able to put points on the board during voting month instead of just saying, show up on election day.
00:23:46.000Show up on election day. We will fall short and we will lose with that mentality.
00:23:49.000We will lose if we act as if our major movement can all fit in a 12-hour period.
00:23:55.000And if you want to vote on election day, that's great.
00:23:56.000I hope you don't get sick. I hope your house doesn't get flooded.
00:23:58.000I hope it's not a snowstorm. And I hope that the machines don't fail like they did in the Carrie Lake election.
00:24:02.000If those things don't happen, great, go vote on election day.
00:24:04.000By the way, what if you have to travel for work?
00:24:06.000What if your car breaks down? What if you're a single mom and you have to go to the pediatrician office and you've got a lot of problems on your hands?
00:24:14.000I understand. But the logical way in front of us is that for lower likely voters, like college kids, single moms, plumbers, electricians, welders, police officers, nurses, go do it now.
00:24:25.000Get it done early. And then also, you're telling the campaign, because we have all the access, the campaign does, and so do we at Turning Point Action.
00:24:31.000Once you vote, you're crossed off the list.
00:24:33.000Blake, is there a way to win if we only vote on Election Day as the Trump movement?
00:24:41.000I think the Democrats have built up a method that allows them to get their people to the polls over an entire month-long period that's more efficient in terms of resources.
00:24:53.000It's more efficient in terms of who they can focus on.
00:24:59.000Beat it. It's like, you know, we make fun of the Kamala campaign for running on vibes, you know, the whole brat summer thing and saying we're just going to win because we're going to be so intense.
00:25:09.000We're all going to vote on Election Day and nothing can stop us.
00:25:13.000That's that's putting your trust in vibes instead of putting your trust in actually doing the work to win.
00:25:20.000And in the end, the winner is the person who gets the most pieces of paper into the box.
00:25:26.000And I don't know why you would want to only have one day to put your paper into the box instead of 25 or 30 or 40 days to do it.
00:25:35.000Do we have our issues with mail voting, early voting?
00:25:38.000Yes, we do. We have our issues with a lot of things.
00:25:41.000We have our issues with the stuff they do with polling places.
00:25:44.000We have our issues with all sorts of stuff.
00:25:47.000But we work within the rules of the game as it is played.
00:25:51.000I have issues with rules in the NFL and how they run that game, but you still play by the rules of the game, not by this fantasy different game that you wish existed.
00:26:01.000And in the system we have right now, we have a large window to vote, and we should take advantage of that.
00:28:58.000If you watch this show regularly, you should chase at least 100 ballots during that early voting period.
00:29:07.000That is tpaction.com slash 100 or tpaction.com slash chase.
00:29:13.000Both of them work. And if you live in California, if you live in Utah, if you live across the country and you want to take time off of work to go do this work in Arizona, we have just put down deposits on over a million dollars of hotel rooms.
00:29:29.000For 30 days. It might sound like a lot, but I mean, actually, think about it.
00:29:33.000What a hotel room costs in Arizona in the month of October for 30 days.
00:29:37.000It's over a million bucks. And we've raised the money.
00:29:39.000We've done it. And what is that hotel room for?
00:31:00.000You can put all of your focus on the marginal voters that you need to put in effort to turn out.
00:31:06.000There's a huge amount of wasted effort when you do all of your get out the vote on Election Day because there are people who are 100% going to vote no matter what, but because they weren't banked, because they weren't locked in already, you still have to worry and fret about those people because you can't easily tell who the 100% voters are at a distance.
00:31:30.000You can get just as much mileage for driving people to places.
00:31:33.000You can get just as much mileage out of one car that can work 10 days as you can out of 10 cars working one day.
00:31:40.000It's a lot cheaper to have one car than to have 10 cars or vans or whatever vehicle you want to work with.
00:31:46.000It's so much more efficient in terms of election resources if you're 10 out of 10 Votes every election people get their ballots in early.
00:31:58.000That's exactly right. And so the someone asks here, Charlie, my question is, why didn't these kids register to vote before you showed up on campus if they intended to vote?
00:32:06.000Well, first of all, many of them were registered in other states.
00:32:09.000Like California, Oregon, and Washington.
00:32:11.000Number two, a lot of people don't think about registering to vote actually.
00:32:14.000They just think you can show up to vote.
00:32:39.000You have to go after people where they are.
00:32:42.000And a lot of people, they'll respond when you ask them, when you make the pitch, when you make the effort.
00:32:48.000Yes, and so the takeaway here is this, and we can read data after data.
00:32:51.000In fact, there's an article here from the New Republic, which is a communist website, which is, will this election be decided by non-voters?
00:33:02.000And it says here, quote, James Blair told Reuters, who's great, we'll have him back on the show, we know that they favor us, but we have to get them to the polls.
00:33:10.000According to Reuters, Elon Musk's America PAC and Charlie Kirk's Turning Point Action are both targeting people who don't vote in the hope that this year they will.
00:33:17.000And so, look, the thought process is this.
00:33:20.000High propensity voters, those of you that watch this show, I don't need to bother you to go vote.
00:33:24.000You guys have been waiting for years to go vote.
00:33:27.000But the 750 new college kids on campus, they're new voters.
00:34:49.000I will say it one more time. If Trump is to not win, if Kamala Harris is to win, it will be because we did not do the work to turn out our voters.
00:34:57.000That simple. Turnout is the missing ingredient.
00:35:00.000If we turn out at 2020 levels or even better, we're going to be in the driver's seat.
00:35:04.000The debate is over. We win on every major issue.
00:35:07.000Can we get the people who agree with us to fill out a piece of paper and put it in a box?
00:35:11.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:35:13.000Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:35:16.000Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.