Learn English with Charlie Kirk. Charlie is the Founder and President of Turning Point USA, an organization dedicated to educating, inspiring, and empowering young people across the country to join the movement to elect Donald Trump president in 2020.
00:00:00.000Hey everybody, it's in the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:00:01.000My speech at the Palm Beach Republican Club, all about President Trump, how he won the election, and what Turning Point did to help make it happen.
00:00:09.000Become a member today, members.charliekirk.com.
00:00:30.000Glenn Beck, Steve Bannon, Patrick Bet-David, Ben Shapiro, Speaker Mike Johnson, Donald Trump Jr., Matt Walsh, Tim Pool, Ben Carson, the next ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Michael Knowles, Ted Cruz, Rob Schneider,
00:00:47.000Byron Donalds, Anna Paulina, Matt Gaetz, Danica Patrick, Brett Cooper, Jack Posobiec, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Benny Johnson, my wife, Eric Kirk, Riley Gaines, Brandon Tatum, Tom Homan, the deporter-in-chief, George Janko, Allie B. Stuckey, Sage Steele, And more.
00:01:09.000Our annual event, AmericaFest, is held December 19, 2021-22 at the Phoenix Convention Center.
00:01:15.000Those who attend this once-in-a-lifetime four-day event will hear from dozens of the nation's top speakers, as I just mentioned, network with thousands of like-minded attendees, and 100-plus partnering organizations.
00:01:28.000And experience concerts featuring top artists, all while celebrating the greatest country on the planet.
00:01:33.000Following a Turning Point event, all attendees will return to their campus and communities more energized than ever.
00:01:39.000Go to Amfest.com, that is A-M-F-E-S-T dot com.
00:01:43.000We have, again, let me just repeat this, Tucker, Beck, Bannon, Bet David, Shapiro, Walsh, and more.
00:02:09.000His 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.
00:02:29.000Noble Gold Investments is the official gold sponsor of The Charlie Kirk Show, a company that specializes in gold IRAs and physical delivery of precious metals.
00:02:39.000Learn how you can protect your wealth with Noble Gold Investments at noblegoldinvestments.com.
00:02:54.000I want to spend our time tonight talking about what happened and really why it matters to think about this election because it was an election unlike any other.
00:03:05.000And then I want to talk about what is going on as President Trump is building this extraordinary government because I believe we have a once in many lifetimes opportunity that is happening right now.
00:03:16.000And then I want to talk about some of the forces that are within the Republican Party that stand in the way of that once-in-many-lifetime opportunity, which kind of goes to the much work yet to be done.
00:03:27.000What President Trump pulled off is, without a doubt, the greatest comeback in American political history.
00:03:32.000And he and he alone deserves credit for this, from his grit, his resolve.
00:03:39.000When he was exiting office in 2021 after a very unjust election, many of you remember the media said that his entire political movement was dead, it was over, and he was really put in exile just right down the street here.
00:03:53.000I remember I visited him in early February of 2021. That was the easiest meeting I ever got in Mar-a-Lago history.
00:04:12.000And as soon as they couldn't get anything out of Donald Trump, they ran away.
00:04:17.000Well, at Turning Point, and me especially, we never left the President's side because we understood what the President represented.
00:04:23.000And we believe that the 2020 election was so unjust that given any other circumstances, we could build a multi-year movement, right those wrongs, and eventually get them back in the White House.
00:04:33.000It feels as if it's so common sense now.
00:04:35.000But going through these last couple of years, the improbability, and you don't have to agree with me, but it is a fact, I believe the hand of God is on Donald Trump and has ushered him through this entire process in more ways than one.
00:04:49.000So, in order for President Trump to be successful, he needed to do something that was very difficult, that most Republicans would never try to do.
00:04:57.000So the traditional Karl Rove way of looking at elections, who I don't think anyone should take Karl Rove seriously ever again after this election, he's been professionally wrong about everything for 20 years, is he says, all you have to do is win over swing voters.
00:05:11.000Win over swing voters and you become president.
00:05:14.000So we had a different belief at Turning Point Action and we worked in harmony with the great campaign team that President Trump assembled, Susie Wiles, James Blair, Taylor, they did a phenomenal job.
00:05:24.000We said, well, let's think about this a little differently.
00:05:26.000Instead of trying to win over the same voters that are always in the middle, you know the type, they go back and forth, but there's not that many of them, but they have disproportionate amounts of influence.
00:05:35.000Why don't we just make the electorate a little more MAGA? Why don't we make it a little bit redder?
00:05:40.000Now the media said this was impossible.
00:05:42.000They said you can't change the electorate, it takes too many boots on the ground, too much voter registration.
00:05:47.000The electorate is set and don't try to change it.
00:05:50.000But you look at actually voter turnout, I don't know what Florida turnout number is, but just take Georgia.
00:05:56.000One out of three eligible adults don't vote in the state of Georgia.
00:05:59.000And those people tend to be men who work with their hands with incomes under the age of 60,000.
00:06:15.000So the big bet that President Trump and his campaign team did, and we from Turning Point Action made, was why don't we reject the premise that every major consultant has made over the last couple of cycles that Mitt Romney made, And even George W. Bush, and we remake the electorate.
00:06:31.000Now, mind you, there's only one other candidate that remade the electorate in politics the last 20 years, and that was on the Democrat side.
00:06:37.000That was Barack Obama, where he remade the electorate.
00:06:42.000They deserve credit for that, and they've not been able to duplicate it ever since.
00:06:45.000And so the idea was this, and it turns out our theory of the case was correct, which is that men especially were ready for a revolt against wokeism in this country.
00:06:54.000And we can remake the electorate across all demographic lines and ignore traditional race politics.
00:07:00.000If you're black, Hispanic, or white, it does not matter as much as the true distinction that should matter, male or female.
00:07:06.000Male-female distinctions matter a lot because they're given to us by God.
00:07:10.000And just observant nature tells us that.
00:07:12.000So we We had this idea that if we could make the electorate three points more masculine, one point more rural, then this would result in not all of the polling would definitionally be wrong because you're polling an old voter file where the electorate looked as if it's not going to look on election day.
00:07:31.000We hired 1,500 people at Turning Point Action, full-time people on the ground in Arizona, Wisconsin, in Georgia, and Pennsylvania.
00:07:38.000In fact, you can go back and look at the articles.
00:07:40.000The media was cheering for our demise.
00:07:42.000Turning Point Action has no idea what they're doing.
00:07:44.000Trump campaign has outsourced this to the Turning Point Action.
00:07:46.000And they were ready for us to take all the blame for what happened.
00:07:50.000So that was the first ingredient, remaking the electorate.
00:07:53.000But then came kind of our sleeper strategy.
00:07:55.000That was our big bet, was the one that we didn't advertise too much, which is hard for us because, you know, we like to run our mouths.
00:08:00.000A fair amount at Turning Point, which was the following, which was Spending 12 years on these college campuses and kind of being known as the college campus guy, we saw an opening, an attack vector about 18 months ago where we said we can move the youth vote by 20 points.
00:09:52.000I can't say enough good stuff about them.
00:09:53.000You can consolidate and pay off all your debt, lower your payments, save thousands in interest, and possibly even pay your home off sooner.
00:11:25.000And we could go through many other examples like that.
00:11:27.000So we saw this as an opportunity that was larger than politics.
00:11:31.000We weren't the only ones, but we were definitely the biggest ones, the ones that went all in.
00:11:34.000That this was a cultural reckoning that was ready to realign.
00:11:38.000That the country was ready to shed itself of diversity, equity, inclusion, critical race theory, pronoun police, they, thems, being fired from your corporate job because you happen to have a cross or you happen to celebrate Easter.
00:11:50.000And we believe that there was this pent-up energy of the men of this country, especially young men, that were experiencing the worst of the COVID terror.
00:12:08.000You must be pent-up all the time and stare at a screen.
00:12:11.000That they are ready to rebel against that, against all the people that stole their 18, 19, and 20 years from them.
00:12:17.000And we created a message that Donald Trump was the man, the vessel, that was the rebuke of all the suffering you've been feeling post-COVID. Where your grandsons and your grandkids that feel something is off, things are rigged against me.
00:12:33.000Well, Donald Trump is the guy that will restore normalcy and restore masculinity back in this country.
00:12:39.000Not just on the podcast strategy, which was obviously significant.
00:12:42.000President Trump, on Joe Rogan, on Theo Vaughn, all these great podcasts.
00:12:46.000But I don't know if this audience necessarily saw some of it, but I guarantee you your grandkids did.
00:12:51.000What we did on the college campuses, did anyone see our campus debates or any of our videos?
00:12:56.000Okay, I'd say about half of you know what I'm talking about.
00:13:00.000By the way, if you don't, that's okay, you're just consuming a dying media.
00:13:04.000Because, it's okay, it's not braggadocious.
00:13:08.000We got three billion views on TikTok, on Instagram, and Understand this, that what used to be considered fringe media is now mainstream media.
00:13:19.000I mean, we were reaching every single, don't say my word for it, Van Jones, all the major political people are saying what the Trump campaign and Turning Point Action and Charlie Kirk did on social media was unheard of.
00:13:32.000If you don't know what I'm talking about, it's hard to recreate it.
00:13:34.000I would show up on a college campus, sit at a table, let a bunch of people say whatever they want, film it, and then put it on the internet, right?
00:13:42.000And after like the second time, the third time, again, I've been doing this for 12 years, we started drawing crowds of 5,000 people at University of Georgia.
00:14:04.000And it was, by the way, it wasn't just men, it was young women as well, and then it clicked.
00:14:08.000The young women will follow if the men will lead.
00:14:11.000And that is a truth regardless of whether or not it's in politics.
00:14:16.000And all of a sudden, the men are stepping up with masculine energy, and the women of the campus that don't have purple hair and that are not lesbians are following them.
00:14:25.000Because they want to actually eventually do what most women want to do, which is have a family and have a nice life.
00:14:32.000And that is where the directional energy is going.
00:14:35.000And by the way, one of the reasons why wokeism was able to be so successful is that we did not have enough men to stand up to this nonsense and say, stop it.
00:15:12.000But if you guys watch the Charlie Kirk show, which we do every day for a couple hours, you know that we were just nonstop obsessed with trying to change the culture on early voting.
00:15:22.000In fact, I wore a shirt that said, vote early for six months straight.
00:15:25.000We believed, we believed firmly that it was one of the dumbest ideas possible to try to tell all of our supporters to try to just vote on one day when the bad guys get 30 days.
00:15:37.000And understand this, when your theory of the case is that you're trying to get a bunch of people that never voted before, Well then, you fundamentally then need as many days as possible to get those people to vote because they...
00:15:51.000By the way, what we ended up being at Turning Point Action was half of the time A customer service line to answer what they would feel ashamed of questions.
00:16:38.000And so early voting was a huge thing, which goes with this.
00:16:42.000The Democrats invested a lot in their ground game.
00:16:46.000However, our ground game, despite being just a couple of our groups, Elon Musk's group, our group, and of course the Trump campaign and a few others, was able to out-organize the Obama bros at their own game.
00:16:57.000And we did it through a mix of digital media, chasing ballots, early voting, voter registration, and the proof is in a couple different things.
00:17:04.000And I'll share this, and then I'll go to the youth vote totals.
00:17:06.000And then I'll segue to kind of current time here, and we can talk more about this in question and answer, which is this, which is that there was one state more than anything else where we went all in, which is I live in the state of Arizona.
00:19:36.000These haven't been on sale for over a year and are regularly priced at $198.98.
00:19:41.000But for a limited time, they're now for $59.98.
00:19:46.000And their six-piece towel sets are back in stock with extremely limited quantities, but only $29.98.
00:19:53.000With hundreds of MyPillow products, there's something for everyone on your Christmas list, from bathrobes, duvets, quilts, down comforters, and so much more.
00:20:01.000Call 800-875-0425 or go to MyPillow.com, promo code Kirk, and save on all MyPillow products.
00:20:13.000They're extending their 60-day money-back guarantee until March 1st, 2025. Plus, on all orders, $75 or more.
00:20:19.000Go to MyPillow.com and enter promo code Kirk.
00:20:25.000So anyway, I could go state by state, but allow me to then just put a touchpoint on the miraculous nature of this election and what I believe was where Turning Point made a decisive influence.
00:20:47.000However, allow me to indulge you on some data that I think is very compelling of what would happen if Turning Point did not exist with the youth vote.
00:21:13.000All Kamala had to do was get younger voters To vote for the guy that was like 76 and couldn't complete sentences back in 2020. But something changed.
00:21:24.000In fact, younger voters moved 13 points to the right.
00:21:58.000But generally, baby boomers, if you ask them, do you think that our institutions are rotten to the core and deserve to be burned down, a baby boomer will say no.
00:22:38.000We won the youth vote in the state of Michigan.
00:22:40.000We tied it in Wisconsin, and we lost it by one point in Pennsylvania.
00:22:43.000And I could also say there would not be Senator Dave McCormick again.
00:22:47.000With 53 Senate seats if it was not for younger voters and how they move this cycle.
00:22:51.000So we can talk more about the election during Q&A. There's so much we can go through, but here's the good news.
00:22:55.000We are building a political party that is durable to win for the next 50 years.
00:23:00.000Our party is now aligning less around race politics and more around class and male-female distinctions, which I think is a very positive thing.
00:23:08.000In fact, as people get married and have kids, they become radically more conservative.
00:23:12.000The most conservative voting blocs are the ones that are getting older.
00:23:16.000In fact, Gen X, Millennial, and Gen Z are all becoming more and more conservative.
00:23:20.000They're showing no signs of going back.
00:23:22.000In fact, the baby boomers moving three points to the left was the first time we've seen, since Barack Obama, older populations move back a little bit to the Democrat Party.
00:23:31.000They almost always tend to get more Republican redder, more Republican redder.
00:23:34.000Now, mind you, when I say three points to the left, that was just against Trump.
00:23:37.000The baby boomers voted overwhelmingly for Republican Senate candidates and overwhelmingly for Republican House candidates.
00:23:43.000So it's not that they've moved liberal.
00:23:44.000There was something about Trump that bothered some folks.
00:23:48.000Okay, so we can talk more about the election in a second.
00:23:50.000Let's talk about this transition really quick.
00:23:52.000What President Trump is doing is he's assembling a team of changemakers.
00:23:56.000We will never have this opportunity again.
00:23:58.000From Kash Patel at the FBI, Bobby Kennedy at HHS, Tulsi Gabbard at DNI, from Pam Bondi as Attorney General, This is a team of all stars that we're presenting to the American people.
00:24:12.000Here comes the more uncomfortable portion of our talk tonight, which a lot of you guys can help because a lot of these people come and ask you for money, and some of you give them money.
00:24:19.000So, therefore, you can really be helpful.
00:24:22.000A lot of the people that are going to be coming here for nice receptions and wine dinners in January, February, and March, a very simple question needs to be asked of them, which is, why are you giving Pete Hegseth a harder time than Lloyd Austin that was Joe Biden's DOD secretary?
00:24:37.000Why is it that you are giving Donald Trump's cabinet a much harder time Than any of Joe Biden's nominees.
00:24:44.000Can you show me one instance, because I know the answer, where any of their nominees had to walk through the halls when a bunch of media was asking them questions and senators were flaky?
00:25:28.000There's still a lot of talk and rhetoric.
00:25:30.000However, we need to build a Republican Party that is as conservative as its voters.
00:25:36.000It should reflect the will of the people, not the will of the ruling class or lobbyists in DC that want to overturn the will of the people.
00:25:44.000And while we're at it, they only have a Senate majority because of President Donald Trump.
00:25:48.000They're only in a majority because President Donald Trump was able to give them 53 seats.
00:25:53.000So putting that all together, we need to be very serious about launching primary campaigns.
00:25:58.000I know this might not be what you want to sit here.
00:26:00.000You will not actually, you'll just win elections and lose the country if the Republican Party governs like moderate Democrats and does not fulfill the agenda of President Trump.
00:26:10.000And let the message be very clear, and Joni Ernst was kind of central casting for this this last week, If you oppose the President's nominees, you'll receive a primary challenge quickly and we'll remove you from office immediately.
00:27:05.000Why do we have a Department of Education?
00:27:07.000Has that been tested to the Supreme Court?
00:27:09.000We're getting back to first principles that the Founding Fathers authored as original intent to send things back to the states, to give more power to parents and families and citizens, to be able to live the lives that you see fit, and to try to shrink the size of Leviathan in D.C. This is not going to be easy.
00:27:26.000And this is a time to celebrate, don't get me wrong.
00:27:29.000What's going to come next is this $6 trillion beast per year is not going to go down easy just because we won an election.
00:27:36.000It's going to require citizen vigilance.
00:27:39.000It's going to require us holding people accountable.
00:27:41.000Because we have an opportunity to deliver on permanent border wall security.
00:27:48.000We have an opportunity to have the greatest economic growth miracle that we've seen in modern history.
00:27:52.0005% growth in people being lifted out of poverty, the likes of which we've never seen.
00:27:56.000We have an opportunity to abolish the Department of Education, which we should, by the way.
00:28:00.000We should abolish the Department of Education.
00:28:03.000And You put all of this together, I can just say that if we are complacent and we no longer are active Communicating or what's happening in D.C., we just say, oh, we won, things are going to get better.
00:28:17.000We all know the lesson that comes after that.
00:28:20.000That is why vigilance is critically important.
00:28:22.000And the president is not going to rest, I'm telling you, both metaphorically and literally.
00:28:35.000From no tax on tips, to protecting Social Security and Medicare, from liberating the American economy from its current shackles, To drill baby drill, to no men in female sports, to building the southern border wall, to supporting our allies in Israel.
00:28:50.000Every single decision this man makes is through a simple prism, one of which no other politician in modern presidential history has ever actually used.