The future of the U.S. Senate is in Montana, and it's not Jon Tester. Tim Sheehy is running for re-election, and we need to elect him or lose the seat to a Democrat in order to take back the Senate seat in November In this episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, host Charlie Kirk sits down with the next Senator from Montana to discuss his campaign and why he should win the primary and why you need to vote for him to keep the seat for the next generation of conservative men and women who voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and are now ready to back him in the midterms. Charlie and I talk about how important it is to elect the next senator from Montana and why it's a must-win election in a state that has the highest percentage of conservative voters in the country, and the reasons why you should vote for Tim Sheeehy to win this election and take the seat back for the Trump ticket in November. Enjoy! Tweet me if you liked this episode and tell a friend about it! Tweet Me! or text me! to let me know who you think should win in the Montana primary! and what you think of the message and why Tim should win! I'll send it to your friends! Thanks for listening and supporting the show! Love, Charlie and God bless you! Tim - Kristy - The Charlie Kirker Show - P.S.... Thank you for listening! - Teddy Roosevelt - Thank you so much for being a friend of the show, Charlie Kirk and God Blessings, Blessings! - Eternally grateful you're a lot, Tim Tester, Tim, Tim and Thank You, Kristy, Cheers, Cheyenne, and Much More! - Cheyetye! - Charlie, Thank you, Tim & Joe, - - EJ & Glyn Cheyeee - AKA:) Thanks, Charlie - Thank You! - R. - Jon T. ( ) - CHEESEY, R. (A.C. (Charliekirk ( ) - J. (CHILLYKIRK) - JAYE ( ) & R. M. (J. (D. R. P. (R. BOSCOY) (SORRY, J. B. )
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00:02:59.000In fact, you saw it today in what we had happening out there.
00:03:03.000Do you know that we registered 100 new voters for Donald Trump and Tim Sheehy today on campus, University of Montana?
00:03:10.000Isn't that great? 100 new voters, and many of whom are young men, and young men are the most conservative they have been in over 50 years right now.
00:03:25.000As we travel the country, we are seeing in real time the country become more and more conservative.
00:03:32.000You see, in the last couple of years, we've seen the failures of open borders, of inflation.
00:03:37.000In order to buy a home in this country, and in Montana, by the way, you have the highest increases of home prices in the country, largely thanks to Mr.
00:03:46.000Tester. Largely thanks to what he's been doing and how he's been voting.
00:03:50.000He voted for the Inflation Explosion Act in Washington, D.C. In order to buy a home in this country, four years ago when Donald Trump was president, it required $75,000 a year to be able to buy a home.
00:04:03.000Now, upwards of $130,000 a year to be able to buy a home.
00:04:08.000The reason why we are packing out audiences like this and we're seeing young people move in the conservative direction in record ways is that this next generation is the first generation since George Washington to have it worse off than their parents.
00:04:23.000Nobody in this room that is over the age of 40 can resonate with that.
00:04:27.000This generation is sicker, more depressed, anxious, suicidal, and poorer than previous generations.
00:04:32.000And they're looking at the millennials and they're looking at the liberalism that is being force-fed.
00:04:37.000They said, no, I want a country that is strong, that is proud, a country that has borders, a country...
00:04:42.000That puts citizens above foreigners, a country that will employ young people above people coming in this country from distant and far off lands and say, no, we will not allow people in this country illegally when our own college graduates cannot afford homes in this country.
00:05:01.000And we are seeing this amazing unification happen in this country.
00:05:08.000Who would have ever thought that in 2024, Donald Trump would be shot, try to be killed three times, and a Kennedy would be endorsing a Republican?
00:05:20.000You see, the media, they're not covering it, but there is a profound movement where we are rejecting the radical Democrats and their agenda.
00:05:28.000The former co-chair of the Democrat National Committee, Tulsi Gabbard, is all in on Donald Trump.
00:05:35.000The world's wealthiest man, Elon Musk, all in on our movement.
00:05:39.000Bobby Kennedy. You see, these are people that might disagree on certain political issues, but they agree on the big stuff.
00:05:46.000We agree that free speech is a bedrock of this country.
00:05:49.000We agree that when decisions must be made, citizens must always be prioritized above citizens of another country.
00:05:57.000Very basic. We believe that if you do not have a border, you do not have a country.
00:07:23.000I am a father of two, two kids under two.
00:07:26.000The most important thing in the world is being able to raise kids in a country, in a stable country.
00:07:31.000Do you know that there's over 320,000 missing kids under Kamala Harris coming across the southern border?
00:07:39.000320,000 kids, many of whom are being sold into sex slavery and labor slaves.
00:07:44.000You don't hear the media talking about that.
00:07:46.000You see, the media, they will not mention that according to the Department of Homeland Security, Over 13,000 of the people that have come into this country were convicted of murder in the country they fled from.
00:09:17.000You go to D.C., he's all chummy on these committees that are doing these radical policies.
00:09:22.000Chummy with all of them in the inside of Washington, D.C. Instead, we have an opportunity to send a Navy SEAL, someone who is a job creator, and a true conservative of the U.S. Senate, and his name is Tim Sheehy, and we need to rise up in huge numbers and tell the people of Montana about this.
00:09:39.000You see... I'm going to welcome them out here in just a second.
00:09:43.000This will only happen if every single one of you get to work and you're able to cut through the television propaganda.
00:09:51.000You need to tell your family and friends, first and foremost, you vote the entire ballot, right?
00:09:57.000It's not just president, you vote the entire ballot, and as you work down, you need to make sure that Donald Trump has a unified government to work with.
00:10:06.000You know, day one, if they control the U.S. Senate or the U.S. House, they will impeach Donald Trump for breathing.
00:10:11.000I guarantee it. They will impeach him.
00:10:14.000Also, how are we going to get good Supreme Court justices?
00:10:17.000Supreme Court justices that support our Second Amendment rights and religious liberty.
00:10:23.000And Supreme Court justices that will say, you are not allowed to put a mask on my child in middle school.
00:10:29.000Thank you very much. Those are the justices that we want.
00:10:32.000You see... Today, Senate Democrats, did you see this?
00:10:38.000They introduced a bill to expand the Supreme Court.
00:10:57.000You understand what is happening right now and that we're losing it to a small, unelected oligarchy that is constantly coming after our core cherished values and freedoms.
00:11:08.000And I know that when all the chips are down, I know you'll vote for Donald Trump.
00:11:12.000I'm not worried about that one. But I also know that you guys are going to send a message to the rest of the country.
00:11:18.000And also, God forbid, Donald Trump doesn't win the White House.
00:11:22.000We better make sure that Kamala Harris does not have a unified government if, God forbid, she becomes president.
00:11:28.000So not only are you guys important for the future of the Senate, but you could be an insurance policy To prevent her from getting rid of the filibuster and giving amnesty to 20 million illegals.
00:11:42.000And they would give them all voting rights, and that would be the end of the country as we know it.
00:11:45.000However, there's something that stands in the way.
00:11:48.000And who stands in the way is a great man, loves the country, family man, someone that he needs your help and support.
00:11:54.000Join me in welcoming the next U.S. Senator from Montana, Tim Sheehy, everybody.
00:11:59.000So I was told that we weren't going to draw much of a crowd in Missoula.
00:12:02.000This is pretty good. Yeah, well, it's a beautiful fall day.
00:12:05.000Thanks for spending your time with us.
00:12:07.000So, Tim, you know, you had an opportunity to run a business during both Trump and under the current Harris regime.
00:12:15.000What do you see as the big difference between the two attitudes between business and entrepreneurship, comparing and contrasting the two administrations?
00:12:22.000Well, it's a great question, because when you think about what the magic of America has always been, you know, it's not our government.
00:12:32.000What set America apart from the very beginning is we were the first nation to be founded around the idea, the concept that the potential of every individual is unique and every individual has a very unique mind, spirit, heart and trajectory in life and our founding documents were written around Protecting the potential of every single individual.
00:12:53.000We're the first country ever founded on the concept that every individual has a unique future and we're going to try to unleash that future and allow them to reach the greatest potential ever.
00:13:02.000We're the first country that's ever done that.
00:13:04.000And that's why we've been the strongest country in the history of the world in a very short period of time.
00:13:14.000We're the first country that really was founded as an entrepreneurial republic.
00:13:17.000We were a mercantile republic when we were founded, and still largely are today.
00:13:21.000And so it's so important for our government to ensure that we don't snuff that out, because when you look at countries that have done that, you know, there was also disastrous.
00:13:31.000The innovation leaves, the brain drain.
00:13:34.000I mean, Iran was a pretty impressive economy.
00:13:36.000Now, yes, they had some, you know, monarchy issues, and I mean, there are details I'm not going to gloss over, But now you look at the brain drain from Iran.
00:13:43.000So many amazingly smart people fled Iran since the rise of the Ayatollah and their radical regime now.
00:13:49.000And we've been the beneficiary of that.
00:13:52.000They've come here. They've come to somewhere that's fertile ground for entrepreneurship.
00:13:57.000But these last four years, especially during COVID, you saw what the heavy hand of an unaccountable bureaucracy can do Not just to businesses, but to families, to schools.
00:14:07.000You know, they'll decide whether your job's essential or not.
00:14:12.000And, you know, I'm really disappointed that a lot of folks have started to forget quickly the pains of what happened during COVID. About the greatest constitutional, you know, trampling of our rights in the history of this country.
00:14:25.000And, you know, we can't forget that that happened.
00:14:27.000Because that basically is a preview of what the Democrats want America to look like.
00:14:30.000Which is, we're going to decide where you eat.
00:14:32.000When you eat, whether you go to school, whether you don't go to school, what you learn, what you put in your body.
00:14:37.000And oh, by the way, whether your job matters or not, or whether your business matters or not.
00:14:41.000So, you know, what we saw during the Trump years as a business owner was growth.
00:14:47.000I mean, what you saw was a government that wanted you to succeed.
00:14:49.000And what we've seen here in these past three and a half years was just a massive wind shift to empowering bureaucrats, unaccountable bureaucrats, unelected bureaucrats, That they want to make the decisions of what's best for you and your business and your family.
00:15:04.000And that's been the most insidious, I think, change we've seen, is the growth and empowerment of an unaccountable bureaucracy, because that's very unconstitutional.
00:15:12.000Our Constitution did not imagine an executive branch this overreaching and this aggressive in going after its own citizens.
00:15:21.000It's important we get back to a pro-business set of policies.
00:17:03.000So, Tim, you served in Afghanistan, and if I could speak candidly, the withdrawal from Afghanistan that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris oversaw was one of the most humiliating chapters in American history.
00:17:17.000Watching what happened in Afghanistan Was disgusting and should never happen again.
00:17:23.000And Joe Biden should have resigned in disgrace after what happened when those 13 Marines were killed.
00:17:32.000Talk about your perspective and how your fellow veterans reacted to that, that dark day in American history.
00:17:40.000Well, what you obviously know, thank you for saying that.
00:17:42.000You're absolutely right. You know, we're spending like two and a half times more money per head on legal immigrants right now than we own our veterans, you know?
00:17:48.000We got homeless veterans in the street, but illegals get free housing, right?
00:17:51.000But back to your point, I mean, that's exactly why I'm here.
00:17:54.000I mean, I've never run for student council before.
00:17:56.000I've never run for Congress or city commission.
00:18:00.000And it was Afghanistan that got me into politics.
00:18:03.000You may not know my wife was also a Marine, also a veteran of Afghanistan.
00:18:07.000Thank you. And interesting fact, as a result of both of us deploying at the same time, multiple times, you know, we saw each other about 45 days spread across six years or so, which is the secret to a happy marriage, right? It's never... No, I'm lucky she's still with me.
00:18:27.000But I'm a mail-order husband, literally.
00:18:46.000It's the old law left over from the gold mining days, the frontier days, when they were trying to encourage settlement in the Homesteading Act, because, you know, the territories were competing to be states, so they were trying to encourage people to come.
00:18:57.000And this old law was on the books, and she found it, and we notarized a couple forms, mailed them into Kalispell Courthouse up in Flatted County, and about 11 days later, we get them back, and hey, we're married.
00:19:08.000We weren't even there. But, you know, I tell that story because, you know, our 20s were characterized by our nation's longest war.
00:19:17.000And, you know, a lot of folks, nothing wrong with this, the ski bumming or surf bumming, and that's great.
00:19:21.000But my wife and I and almost all of our close friends, we spent our 20s.
00:19:25.000Going mud hut to mud hut, ridge line to ridge line, fighting our nation's longest war.
00:19:30.000And when you come back from that, it changes you.
00:19:33.000War changes you. But when I watched those bodies falling from the C-17s, when that was going on, I was flying water bombers out in Chico, California.
00:19:43.000So I was operating by day out of Chico, California, water bombing fires by night.
00:19:47.000I was on my phone talking to former interpreters, pilots, commandos, Folks that have volunteered to fight alongside us that knew they were now marked for death by the Taliban.
00:19:58.000You know, and these friends back here, they're just calling me a racist.
00:20:01.000It's like, you know what? I fought alongside Muslims, Jews, Hindis, you know, like every possible race you could imagine.
00:20:08.000You know, I was in foxholes with him and gunfights with him.
00:20:10.000We were covered, you know, in the same mud in the same spots.
00:20:15.000And I was on the phone with my interpreter trying to get him and his young children out of Afghanistan before they were murdered by the Taliban.
00:20:22.000And I'll never forget him being on the other side of the phone, begging me to get his kids out.
00:20:25.000He's like, fine, just leave me, but get my children out of here.
00:20:46.000I mean, they impeached Trump over a phone call with, you know, a Ukrainian president.
00:20:50.000Meanwhile, like, Biden collapses a whole country that we spent 20 years fighting, and nothing happens.
00:20:56.000And here's a really scary thing for you.
00:20:58.000We just talked about the bureaucracy of the American government and how it's unaccountable and ineffectual.
00:21:03.000The Russians invaded Afghanistan, and they were there for about nine and a half years.
00:21:09.000When they left Afghanistan, which, of course, was a huge focus of, you know, we didn't go to the Olympics because they had invaded Afghanistan.
00:21:17.000When they left, the government that the Russians built lasted for about three years before it collapsed.
00:21:22.000We were there for 20 years, and the government that we built lasted less than a day.
00:21:29.000So if this doesn't scare you about how incompetent our own governments become, that they can't solve any problems, whether it's our border, whether it's healthcare, whether it's our budget, or whether it's a foreign war we spent 20 years fighting, I don't know what'll scare you.
00:21:40.000So when I saw that happen, I got involved in politics.
00:21:50.000Just, you know, as an organizer, as a speaker, and Ryan Zinke, our Western congressman, had pinned my purple heart on me back when I was a SEAL. He was also a SEAL, so I'd known him for years, and I told him, hey, I said, listen, I've got a personal vendetta against this administration.
00:22:03.000I'm pissed off, and I want to get involved.
00:22:05.000Let me help out. I'll host fundraisers.
00:22:07.000I'll be a surrogate speaker. You tell me how, but put me in.
00:22:09.000We've got to save this country. We've got to take this country back, and I want to be a part of the solution.
00:22:14.000And... About a year and a half after that conversation, a few folks pulled me aside and said, hey, you said whatever you can do with the party.
00:23:38.000If you wore the uniform and you have an opinion on a matter, people listen.
00:23:42.000A lot of times they'll tell everyone else to shut up, but if you say, hey, I'm a combat veteran, I serve here, and you start talking about an issue, they will stop talking and they'll listen to you.
00:23:49.000So you have a really important responsibility these next 35 days because we have to save this country on and before November 5th, and you guys are going to be a huge part of that.
00:24:31.000100% were. I mean, I had several interpreters, but my closest one I did several deployments all over the world, but my closest one, who him and I were in so much together, I personally saw him run across an open alley in gunfire grabbing an American soldier and pulling him after he'd been hit.
00:24:49.000They fought alongside us every step of the way.
00:24:51.000And the mission we had was so important to have an interpreter.
00:24:55.000Because it's not just, you know, you don't just Google translate what you're saying, you know.
00:24:58.000If you're interrogating somebody, which is a lot of what we were doing, or if you're talking to some locals trying to, you know, they're going to be very hesitant about telling you whether the Taliban or Al-Qaeda or the Haqqani Network are using their village as a stopover point or whether the rat lines for the smugglers are nearby.
00:25:13.000So it takes more than just language translation.
00:25:19.000And then you may ask a question and they may know what you're trying to ask and change it to be asked the right way To somebody else.
00:25:25.000So they become more than just co-soldiers.
00:25:27.000They become, you know, partners with you.
00:25:29.000They become, you know, very, very close friends.
00:25:32.000I mean, him and I would sit there, you know, hours, hours, you know, days on end in the mountains.
00:25:37.000And, you know, I remember showing him a magazine I had with me and it had an astronaut on one of the pages.
00:25:42.000And you have to remember that, you know, Afghanistan in many parts is still like third century BC. And it totally blew his mind that First of all, outer space was a thing, but then America would send people into outer space.
00:25:56.000And walking him through that process, I'll never forget the conversation I had with him about it.
00:26:02.000I also learned a tremendous amount from him.
00:26:05.000Because it's a totally different lifestyle.
00:26:07.000Living in the mountains of Afghanistan is a different world that they live in, literally.
00:26:12.000And we have a lot to learn from them as well.
00:26:14.000So the U.S. dollar and our global hegemony is built on the U.S. military as it should be, which is the finest fighting force ever assembled.
00:26:23.000What is the current state of our military under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris?
00:26:28.000I'm far from an expert, but I hear from a lot of people, it's not where it should be.
00:26:34.000We are seeing record levels of non-readiness in our military.
00:26:39.000Our air wings. We literally have guys in our squadrons, I won't name names because, you know, I'm always being recorded by some sort of, like, you know, liberal tracker, and they'll take someone's name I mentioned, so I won't mention the guy's name, but he's a close friend.
00:26:53.000And he still works active duty military and is responsible for aircraft maintenance.
00:26:57.000And they will go out, if you've ever been to a military base, you'll see aircraft parked by the gate basically as props.
00:27:02.000They'll still go out to some of those aircraft and take parts off of them.
00:27:05.000You know, planes that have been sending out in the rain and the dust and the wind for years because they have to keep the aircraft running.
00:27:26.000Like, the bureaucracy in that organization is so thick and it's terrible.
00:27:31.000And so much money is soaked up in these layers of bureaucratic sclerosis and innovation doesn't happen.
00:27:39.000NASA's a perfect example. Yes, it's not military, but this is a great example of when you have a government-run, bureaucratic, rule-by-committee organization that, if you saw, couldn't even send a capsule to the low-Earth orbit and back a few weeks ago with the Boeing Starliner.
00:27:51.000And they've been developing the SLS program for like two decades.
00:27:54.000Meanwhile, you have Elon Musk and his organization SpaceX, which are commercially driven.
00:27:58.000Yes, the taxpayer pays the bill, but they're developing products to a standard for excellence.
00:29:02.000So we have serious problems in our defense industrial base.
00:29:05.000We absolutely have to re-energize that.
00:29:07.000We've got to work on deconsolidating it.
00:29:09.000We have so many, you know, just massive companies that control so much of that space.
00:29:14.000Return innovation and free market principles to it.
00:29:16.000Most importantly, the number one priority in the military should be combat lethality.
00:29:20.000That's it. Be able to close with and kill the enemy.
00:29:23.000All this other DEI, ESG, you know, equality stuff.
00:29:26.000Listen, you know, sure, my wife is a Marine, female Marine, so it's not like I'm against women in the military.
00:29:31.000She's a total stud. But she'll be the first one to say, I don't want to be given a free pass because I'm a woman.
00:29:36.000I want to earn my spot in the Corps just like she did, and that's the standard we ought to have.
00:29:39.000So in order for Jon Tester to win, he needs to try to get one out of three Trump voters.
00:29:51.000And so Trump is going to win this state handedly, maybe by 15, 20, 25 points, maybe even 30 points, who knows.
00:29:57.000Why is it important for Trump to have a U.S. Senate that is Republican for him to work with?
00:30:04.000And also, I want you guys to listen carefully to tell everybody in your life that is voting for Trump and is not sure yet on the U.S. Senate pick.
00:30:12.000Tim, please. So today, already now, this is the most expensive election in American history ever per vote, the Sheehy Tester election, which is crazy to think about, you know, in a state of million-ish people with probably 575,000 voter turnout, but it's because the stakes are high.
00:30:28.000And like Charlie pointed out, if Trump wins and he doesn't control the Senate, you can assume that he'll be impeached on day one.
00:30:36.000And if he wins and does have the Senate, he can get things done like appoint Supreme Court justices Keep in mind, the two oldest justices on the court are conservative judges.
00:30:47.000So the next president has a very likely opportunity to appoint two more judges.
00:30:51.000Cabinet nominees. As we talked about earlier, our executive branch of government has more authority over your life, your business, your dollar, your family than ever before in the history of this country.
00:31:01.000The cabinet nominees appointed by the president have tremendous power over you, your families in this country.
00:31:07.000Those are appointed by the president and they're approved by the Senate.
00:31:10.000So the Senate is critical for Trump to have.
00:31:12.000If he doesn't win, the Senate is the firewall against more progressive lunacy.
00:31:17.000It is the firewall to make sure we don't expand the court, add two more states, open the border more, print another eight trillion dollars, whatever, what have you.
00:31:30.000If Trump's leading the state by about 20 points, which he is, and I'm running basically even with Tester, maybe a few point lead, that means a lot of people are going to vote for Trump and vote for Tester.
00:31:40.000Which I can't blame them because they're inundated with $150 million of ads that are telling them John Tester is basically a Republican.
00:31:47.000And John Tester loves working with Donald Trump.
00:31:50.000And John Tester is going to secure the border even though he hasn't.
00:31:53.000And he's going to protect your guns even though he's gotten enough from the NRA. And you know, what they'll leave out is John Tester voted to impeach Donald Trump twice.
00:32:04.000He voted against all of his Supreme Court nominees.
00:32:06.000He, even on CNN, said, hey, we should punch Trump in the face.
00:32:10.000I mean, he was a party line, complete supporter of Chuck Schumer, Biden, Harris' agenda.
00:32:16.000He was part of the resistance when Trump was in office, and as soon as he was out, he was part of the deconstruction of the America First agenda.
00:32:22.000So if you know those people that are buying the whole...
00:33:36.000People who are confident don't act this way.
00:33:38.000So it's good to know who that guy was.
00:33:40.000So that guy has been shorting the stock of our company intentionally to try to put us out of business.
00:33:45.000He's buddies with Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Schumer and the Democrats got him to try to drive our company out of business just to make us look bad.
00:33:52.000That's it. That's the only reason you can see he's erratically comes here today and does that.
00:33:56.000So he's been leading an effort to try to put hundreds of Montana employees out of business.
00:34:01.000And guess what? We fight wildfires for a living.
00:34:03.000We're not making, like, dating pants, dating apps, and yoga pants.
00:34:56.000If you look at democracies and republics and parliamentary governments around the world, we're obviously a constitutional republic in America.
00:35:05.000Yes, we're democratically elected, but we are a constitutional republic.
00:35:09.000And that's a different structure than a pure democracy.
00:35:12.000And that gets lost in translation far too much.
00:35:20.000And what really sets our constitutional republic aside from everything else in the world is the American Senate.
00:35:27.000If you look at how our founders framed our country, the Senate is really the most unique port.
00:35:32.000Lots of countries have Supreme Courts.
00:35:34.000Lots of them have House of Commons and prime ministers and presidents.
00:35:37.000The American Senate and how it's structured is specifically built to be a firewall.
00:35:42.000A firewall against radical change of any kind, either direction.
00:35:45.000And it's really meant to be deliberative, steady, and glacial.
00:35:49.000A lot of people hate the Senate because they say it doesn't get anything done.
00:35:51.000It's almost exactly what it's meant to do, is not get anything done.
00:35:54.000It's almost meant to be there and say, yeah, we're supposed to be the rock that radical progress smashes itself upon to ensure that constitutional intent is still present.
00:36:04.000So the filibuster is the 60-volt threshold to ensure legislation gets through and truly has a strong voice.
00:36:11.000And for a state like Montana, With, you know, now we just crossed the million resident mark here recently.
00:36:16.000For a state like Montana, the Senate is our most potent expression of political power in the nation because we only get, now we have two congressional representatives.
00:36:25.000We don't have a whole lot of say in who becomes president, but we have just as much say in the U.S. Senate as New York, California, and Florida.
00:36:33.000That's the great equalizer, and the framers built it that way for a very specific reason, because they said, we're going to make sure rural states with not very many people have just as much say in the Senate as everyone else.
00:36:50.000The move from the left to eliminate the filibuster is very simple.
00:36:54.000They're frustrated that, you know, their criticism of our Constitution, their criticism of how our nation's structured, they want that to go away.
00:37:02.000They want to fundamentally alter the nation.
00:37:04.000And the Senate is what's going to stop that.
00:37:06.000So they want to get rid of the filibuster so that they can push through any legislation they want.
00:37:11.000And there's a couple ways they want to do that.
00:37:13.000One way is just vote to eliminate it, which Harry Reid did, you know, many years ago with the nuclear option for certain nominees.
00:37:19.000And then what they want to do is add two more states, DC and Puerto Rico.
00:37:22.000That's four more Democrat senators inserted into the Senate.
00:37:25.000That basically builds an almost quasi-permanent majority for the foreseeable future.
00:37:31.000Then they want to move right to the court and pack the Supreme Court.
00:37:35.000So the filibuster is really a critical step that ensures our constitutional republic will continue to function the way that it is.
00:37:42.000And that's at stake right now because Kamala wants to get rid of it.
00:38:43.000It impacts everybody. Right now, especially, unfortunately, our tribal members stood up earlier and decided to tow the party line that they've been told to by somebody.
00:38:52.000Our reservations are getting devastated by fentanyl influx onto the reservations.
00:38:56.000I mean, devastated. And we don't have enough law enforcement officers on the reservations to provide a basic level of public safety.
00:39:02.000And they're using, many times, they're using our reservations as jumping off points to supply other areas around the country.
00:39:08.000And I've talked to folks at Haver, even.
00:39:11.000You know, Haver's a nice old railroad town.
00:39:13.000And they're like, man, our cars are getting broken into.
00:39:15.000Our homes are getting broken into now.
00:39:18.000So whether it's overdoses or whether it's just criminal activity that's a second or third order effect of the drug trade, the worst thing we're seeing is human trafficking increases.
00:39:27.000Like 230% increase in human trafficking along our interstate corridors in Montana.
00:39:31.000That's disgusting. No other way to say it other than disgusting.
00:39:34.000And it's come directly as a result of our open southern border.
00:39:37.000So you're absolutely right. The number one priority our elected officials have is to keep us safe.
00:39:42.000And they have failed at that just incredibly these past three and a half years, and the border ties right into it.
00:39:48.000So that'll be my number one priority when elected.
00:40:55.000I'm a big believer if you don't like two and a half hour waiting lines and you don't like chaos, voting early in person is a great option that must be embraced and entertained by our base.
00:43:05.000Chrissy Jacobson, our Secretary of State, is doing a fantastic job.
00:43:09.000She has totally locked this election down.
00:43:12.000I have full faith that your ballots are going to be counted, whether they're mailed in or early.
00:43:16.000Have faith. I think this Montana election is going to be the securest one we've ever seen.
00:43:19.000And we've got so many grassroots groups out there that are doing great.
00:43:23.000They're just doing the Lord's work door to door to door.
00:43:25.000I mean, young Republicans, Americans for Prosperity, AFP, led by, you know, Jesse and Henry Kriegel, done an amazing job going door to door in this election, informing people not just about the issues, but about what I just said, about how to vote.
00:43:37.000So those groups, we knew we were going to get outspent on the air from day one, so that grassroots, in-person, handshake, door knocker approach has been absolutely critical.
00:43:45.000And if we win November 5th, it'll be because of those grassroots efforts.
00:43:48.000But we're only going to win if you invest.