SPECIAL THOUGHTCRIME BROADCAST： TRUMP’S HISTORIC SPEECH AND RNC BREAKDOWN
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Donald Trump's speech at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Friday night was one of the most powerful speeches you'll ever see or hear in political history. It was so powerful, in fact, that the entire Trump family was there to witness it.
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Okay, that is one of the most powerful speeches that you will ever see or hear in political
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history. We're going to keep the feed going. I believe President Trump's entire family is
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going to come out with him right here. And I think we're going to do a close-up shot
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there. Yep, looks like Melania, Don Jr., Eric, as they celebrate life. And not just being
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the nominee, there they are together, Melania and Donald. How great is that? It's beautiful
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to see. And I imagine that the entire family is going to follow, as is typically customary
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in convention tradition. As this officially concludes the RNC from Milwaukee. What a
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week this has been. It was really something to watch it from afar. Yep, looks like there's
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Jared and Ivanka and Don Jr., the whole family, Laura, Eric, Michael, Tiffany, Kai. I wish they
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would keep that zoomed in. It's just the pool feed right there. This week reminded us how
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important life is. To be grateful. There are the balloons, the legendary balloons. Donald
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Trump is the nominee. And he is alive. There is Chloe, there is Tristan, there is Spencer,
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there is Don III, Don Jr., Laura, Eric, the whole family. Hey, team, can you guys get the
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picture of when Donald Trump went down the escalator? And let's contrast that back in 2015.
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What? Do you think they'd be dropping balloons if that assassin would have been successful?
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This week reminded us how important it is to be grateful and thankful. Truly stunning.
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The first 30 minutes of Donald Trump's speech is one of the most powerful
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you'll see in anything. I was having reporters texting me from the New York Times,
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Washington Post saying, I've never seen anything like this.
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The entire Trump family there bringing it all in at the conclusion of what I thought was a phenomenal
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RNC. By the way, email me freedom at charliekirk.com. I want to hear from you, your reaction of not just
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the speech, but the entire week. I got to tell you, it's a completely different experience watching on TV.
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And you guys are going to love it. It's actually better on TV. It's actually even better on TV.
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Not as many distractions, not as many like weird applauses in certain pockets. It's a made for
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television production. And the balloons are cascading down in a moment of pure jubilation
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and celebration. And I could tell you the gratitude was so felt inside of this convention all week. It
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was oozing off the walls. And I can say this, it was three of the best days of my life. Not the best
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days, but it's in the list. It will be days I'll never forget and always remember. Look, Donald Trump,
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he's just loving life. And they said, oh, his speech was long. He got shot on last Saturday. Okay.
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He could speak for five and a half hours. If you ask me, I thought it was excellent. I thought it was
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just terrific. Oh, here's the opera music. Donald Trump's favorite.
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In fact, I have the name of this singer. This is Christopher Macchio, Macchio opera singer.
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Donald Trump is a lover of the finer things and the beautiful things, including
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Just want you to soak in that moment right now.
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Amp up that volume, guys, a little bit more. It's about to get really good.
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What other convention would be ending with an opera song?
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You have Hulk Hogan, Kid Rock, and this famous opera singer.
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If you know the name of the song, email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.
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You only get a convention once every four years.
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And I don't think you'll, I mean, very unlikely you'll ever get another convention of Donald
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From 2016 to 2020, we really didn't have much of a convention.
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And this is the last convention you'll ever have with Donald Trump.
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Unless he were to lose and run again in four more years, it would still be about Biden's age
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This is likely the, let's make this, we actually want this to be the last convention.
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By the way, this should be the National Anthem, this song.
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It's much, our National Anthem song, this is a much better song.
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From Saturday night to Sunday, and then I prepared for my speech, and that whole thing was so dramatic.
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I just could not stop thinking about what would have happened if that bullet would have been two inches to the side.
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A party convention every four years is an event unlike anything else.
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We host the largest annual events in the conservative movement, 10,000 to 15,000 people.
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And this doesn't even, this is 50 to 100x the impact, the size.
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And he's not supposed to be here now has two different meanings.
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Remember, he said that in Detroit at the debate, that he isn't supposed to be there right now, that he should be joining old age in one of his many houses.
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And now he means he shouldn't be alive because he's doing what he should be doing.
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I say inches, but about a quarter of an inch he'd be dead.
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All the delegations are now taking the state markers.
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By the way, the next convention is four years from now.
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Donald Trump will, God willing, be speaking at that convention in four years as the sitting president and handing the baton to whomever, hopefully J.D. Vance, if he were to decide to run for president.
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He is a man who is full of zeal and gusto for life.
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Do you notice the delegates aren't going anywhere?
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They are soaking in this moment of divine grace and intervention.
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There is Vanessa, Don Jr.'s ex-wife, mother of his five children.
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Oh, you know, I think that's either Tristan or Spencer.
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These kids will remember this forever, especially after Saturday.
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That's Usha and J.D. Vance, the next vice president of the United States, God willing.
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It's so great to see Melania and Donald Trump there holding hands.
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That's Don the third right behind Donald Trump there.
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That's a first and second fan I've ever seen one.
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You could really tell how Donald Trump embraced J.D.
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that he really looks at him as the next generation.
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There's Kai Trump, who gave a great speech, by the way.
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And Jared is a very de-emphasized role in all this,
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and Ivanka, who had a prominent role speaking at both the 2016 and 2020 convention.
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It's because this bloodsport of politics wears you down.
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You can't say, I'm telling you, it takes a superhuman type energy to keep this up.
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I'll tell you, Kai is going to be a major influence one day.
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are you guys able to show that in the bottom right-hand corner, cut 200?
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I mean, it will take your breath away when you see the contrast.
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He was fruitful and he multiplied, that is for sure.
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Boy, the delegates are not moving an inch, I'll tell you what.
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To watch this from afar, J.D. Vance, Donald Trump,
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You know, I had a pastor once tell me, they said,
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Charlie, you only use the word awesome when it's God.
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They are, there's Tiffany to the right in the all-white pantsuit.
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They are, there's Tiffany to the right in the all-white pantsuit.
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D3, Donald Trump III, is next to his sister, Kai.
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Uh, and then you got Tristan, Spencer, and Chloe all right there.
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If you guys were able to show the contrast, uh, picture in the bottom right-hand corner.
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You got to love the kids kicking the balloons, and this is very hard on the children.
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You just got to understand, it's very, very hard with cameras constantly pointing at you, constantly being ridiculed.
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One of our, by the way, if you guys have any questions, you guys can email me, but also become a member, members.charliekirk.com to ask us questions directly.
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One, uh, one of our members says, do you think D3 will go into politics?
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Every single one of these grandkids are incredibly talented.
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It's very interesting seeing Jared and Ivanka in the back in a more de-emphasized role.
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You got to wonder what he's thinking there, D3.
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Look on the right when he announced nine years ago to last month.
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Kai is being held by her mother, Vanessa, and then look how she's grown in the last nine years.
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Eric and Laura, I don't know if they had any kids at all.
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Baron Trump is now the tallest of all of them by far.
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Three conventions, one presidency, two impeachments,
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four different separate indictments in four different jurisdictions.
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2020, January 6th, January 6th, and yet it feels as if all that's behind us.
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This is one of the greatest American comeback stories in history.
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This is a story that I joke around with the team.
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And J.D. Vance, who was running for the U.S. Senate two years ago, is now the vice presidential nominee.
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Remember, we did not even have a convention in 2020.
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But there was no in-person meeting of the delegates.
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Delegates are starting to thin out a little bit.
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Charlie, thanks for covering this wonderful RNC.
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I've never in my 63 years watched a convention for more than one speech this year.
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By the way, can we give a round of applause, like a little, to the band?
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You don't know really when you're going to be called upon.
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Daisy and Emma are giving them a round of applause right now.
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Whoever they are, those are more than a cover band.
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And also, I think that was either Tristan or Spencer who hit that.
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Donald Trump is now exiting the stage for what we hope is his last convention.
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The attacker in Pennsylvania wanted to stop our movement.
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The truth is, the movement has never been about me.
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It's the biggest movement in the history of our country by far.
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The band is called the Nashville Band Six Wire.
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They're advertised as the go-to guys for television.
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What are your plans on tailgating at the Ducks-Michigan game?
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I will be at the Ducks-Michigan game in November.
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Michelle and I would love to come to North Carolina.
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By the way, we're doing 21 campus events this fall.
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And in this case, you've not seen a convention in eight years
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I know it is the most pressing question right now.
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I will be in Chicago for the Democrat National Convention.
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I know all of you have been very curious about whether you're going to see me there.
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Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back the chairman of the Republican National Committee.
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I want to replay some of these tapes here as he's going to gavel out the convention.
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So, guys, let's just understand what happened tonight.
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Donald Trump walked through his own assassination attempt.
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I don't think that's ever happened before in a convention.
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I don't think we've ever had anybody walk through their own assassination.
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I actually might want to go back for the prayer, guys, if that's okay.
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I think it's appropriate to end with a prayer, given all of divine intervention this week.
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So, unless we've completed, okay, yeah, can you let me know when his prayer begins?
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Let's go to Dr. Mario right now, and I'll bow our heads in a time of prayer.
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I want to thank God for being here and granting me this opportunity
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to address the Republican National Convention 2024.
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I'm staying on script, but I got to say one thing.
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Just four hours ago, my granddaughter was born.
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I just wanted to welcome her into the world on this stage.
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Reflecting on the significance of this phrase is crucial in the days to come.
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but it must be navigated with dignity and perseverance.
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The Holy Scriptures state that the peace of God surpasses all understanding.
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I pray for peace in this nation, peace on the campaign trail, peace on our streets,
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We extend prayers for Corey Comprator, who tragically lost his life in Saturday's assassination attempt.
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For the innocent bystanders injured and for their grieving families, may the presence of God be with them.
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It is God who establishes governments, as explained in Romans 13, verse 1.
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My parents and my children know that God is the ultimate answer.
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As you leave this Republican National Convention, do so with the confidence that he will guide your path and keep you in his grace.
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My hope is that we all find joy in the days to come and embrace leadership in the up-and-coming elections
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that will guide the next four years with wisdom and peace.
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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
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one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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God, we give you the honor, the praise, and the glory.
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President Trump, Senator Vance, may God lead you and guide you.
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The chair, Rao, recognizes the delegate from the state of Wisconsin for the purpose of making a motion.
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They're going to end the convention there as they began it.
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Okay, let's play some pieces of tape here for those of you that might have been cutting in and out.
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Also, I just want to give you a little update here, some exclusive update.
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We have some—we're very well-sourced in Republican politics,
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but we're unusually well-sourced also in some circles in Democrat politics
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because we have some adjacent donor connections that are very connected in Democrat society circles.
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While Donald Trump gives the Republican Party its most unity since 9-11,
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a source who has spoken to Democrats in the last 24 hours says the party is in a state of utter collapse.
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Kamala isn't ready, and her staff is not ready.
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Democrat lawmakers are 100% certain that Biden is gone,
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They're just confident that increasingly ugly tactics will force him out.
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One of the words Democrats are using, landslide.
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The entire party is oscillating between panic and doom.
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Yeah, and Blake, if you want to head over to the studio, that's fine.
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The cut sheet here is a reflection of the week, by the way.
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The cut sheet starts with assassination attempt all the way to convention.
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It's just hard to even summarize what's happened this week.
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I'm trying to go all the way down to the cuts here of—
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Can you guys let me know how that is when they do?
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We know that J.D. Vance is now the vice president, which was not the case before that.
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Here's Van Jones on CNN, who I thought—again, he's a communist, but he's very honest with some of these things.
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This spirit that this guy has, you guys think this guy, he's drunk?
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Hey, guys, the last time I was in a convention that felt like this was Obama 2008.
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Just like Obama, and just like Obama, Trump is showing in this convention he has the capacity to alter the composition of the electorate.
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The difference between 2008 and now is that Obama was actually popular outside of his own party, and that's not the case.
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He said that because Axelrod was the designer of the whole Obama thing.
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It didn't feel like victory celebration, though.
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And every delegate was so sweet and happy and uplifting.
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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.
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Okay, where are the cuts here from President Trump's speech?
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So President Trump said, I'm only going to mention this once and one time only.
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And so Donald Trump went through in great detail from his own recollection of exactly what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania.
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And hello to Real America's Voice here, by the way, as we are summarizing the Republican National Convention.
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President Trump accepts the nomination, and this was chilling.
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175, he says, I'm not supposed to be here tonight.
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Yes, you want, yes, you want, yes, you want, yes, you want, yes, you want.
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but i'm not and i'll tell you i stand before you in this arena only by the grace of almighty god
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and it is worth playing this is donald trump in a two-minute clip
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talking about the tragic death and injuries from the pennsylvania rally
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play cut 176 the longer tape tragically the shooter claimed the life of one of our
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fellow americans cory comparator unbelievable person everybody tells me
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and seriously wounded two other great warriors spoke to them today david dutch and james copenhaver
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i also spoke to all three families of these tremendous people our love and prayers are with
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them and always will be we're never going to forget them they came for a great rally
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they were serious trumpsters i want to tell you they were serious trumpsters and still are
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but cory unfortunately we have to use the past tense he was incredible
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he was a highly respected former fire chief respected by everybody
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was accompanied by his wife helen incredible woman i spoke to her today devastated
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and two precious daughters he lost his life selflessly acting as a human shield to protect them
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from flying bullets he went right over the top of them and was hit
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i don't think that was planned you look at how trump looked over there he heard the crowd i just
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think his instinct says i'm going to walk over there i'm going to embrace it and then he's
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going to kiss the helmet i had a new york times reporter text me again i don't want to get you
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guys too excited about this stuff he said he's going to win new mexico virginia new hampshire too
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and maine if this is how he handles himself post-assassination let's play another piece
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of tape here by the way cnn is predictably predictably attacking his speech predictably
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let's go this one donald trump says we will not break we will not back down we will never
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bend play cut 178 we will not break we will not bend we will not back down and i will never stop
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fighting for you your family and our magnificent country
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and everything i have to give with all of the energy and fight in my heart and soul i pledge to
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our nation tonight thank you very much i pledge that to our nation
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we're going to turn our nation around and we're going to do it very quickly thank you
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this election should be about the issues facing our country and how to
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make america successful safe free and great again
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in an age when our politics too often divide us now is the time to remember that we are all
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so powerful i want your thoughts of how you thought tonight went freedom at charliekirk.com
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i want to hear from you freedom at charliekirk.com what were your favorite moments from the entire
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convention this week and we're going to be just recapping the rnc here we're going to have jack
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and blake neff join us in a second donald trump continued on this as well uh donald trump said we
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have the greatest movement in the history of our country and we will not allow them to stop i loved
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this line though i am more determined than ever play cut 177
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there is no greater love than to lay down one's life for others this is the spirit that forged
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america in her darkest hours and this is the love that will lead america back to the summit of
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human achievement and greatness this is what we need despite such a heinous attack we unite this
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evening more determined than ever i am more determined than ever and so are you so is everybody
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more determined than ever he gets shot and he is more determined to continue to fight and to continue
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to win for the american people than he ever has been donald trump then pivoted and went into some deep
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policy uh donald trump talked about making america affordable again talked about no tax on tips
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and i love this this was right consistent with my speech earlier in the week cut 182 president trump
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talks about the affordability crisis brought to you by biden and harris's deficit spending play cut 182
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first we must get economic relief to our citizens starting on day one we will drive down prices and make
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america affordable again we have to make it affordable it's not affordable people can't live like this
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under this administration our current administration groceries are up 57 percent gasoline is up 60 and 70
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percent mortgage rates have quadrupled and the fact is it doesn't matter what they are because you
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can't get the money anyway can't buy houses young people can't get any financing to buy a house the total
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household costs have increased an average of twenty eight thousand dollars per family under this
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administration republicans have a plan to bring down prices and bring them down very very rapidly
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by slashing energy costs we will in turn reduce the cost of transportation
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just a second here we're gonna have jack the sobic join us and uh you guys can as we're live on air uh
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we're become a member i'm gonna name everyone who becomes a member here on air and you guys get our
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shirt never surrender do we have jack basobic piped through yet or we're working on that do we have
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jack we're working on that okay let's play another piece of tape here as we work on uh getting jack piped
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through here donald trump went deep into policy here he continued by saying we are going to close our
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borders and drill baby drill play cut 184 please at the heart of the republican platform is our pledge
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to end this border nightmare and fully restore the sacred and sovereign borders of the united states
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of america and we're going to do that on day one
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that means two things in day one right drill baby drill and close our borders
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and by the way and i think everybody as a republican as a patriot in this room and most democrats we want
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people to come into our country but they have to come into our country legally legally
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i want to thank bam frankie dan rodney miriam arnie anissa and lucy for becoming a member
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members.charliekirk.com do we have blake ready to be piped through blake or jack i know they're both
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in position uh in position uh right now yep and and so cnn by the way a panel of people saying uh
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well they thought they went on uh too long and complaints that the speech was too long
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okay uh here we have blake and we have um jack jack you were in the room or you were nearby jack what
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is the vibe on the ground in the convention i had to dash back to arizona what is your what is the vibe
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straight uh down down in uh milwaukee yeah charlie how's it going thanks again for having me on so
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we just finished up this this just complete uh i would say roller coaster of a spectacle of a night
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so i was inside the room for the entire thing from tucker carlson's amazing and i would point out by the
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way tucker's completely no notes no teleprompter speech to uh hulk hogan just this incredible throw
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back to 80s 90s hopeful americana to the incredible kid rock and then donald trump's
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speech of course capping it off which was just again this roller coaster the highs the lows the
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ups and downs these incredible moments not a dry eye in the house of course when he brought out that
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uniform of cory compitore and uh and comparatory and then of course uh getting into as you say getting
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into policy getting into the specifics getting into what was going on and uh folks who were uh
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who may have been watching my twitter feed will know i've been going viral for this because uh
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i was seated pretty much right in front of jake tapper the entire night and so i was giving live
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updates on what jake tapper and dana bash were doing most of the time they had their back turned they looked
00:42:33.820
very angrily at me at one point i gave them a big smile and a thumbs up because guess what guys it's
00:42:39.180
all happening again and you know it so it was it was a great night the vibe was huge uh yes it was
00:42:45.020
it was a long night there's no question about that i had to uh get the kids down you know shout out to
00:42:50.300
the beautiful and lovely tanya tay for taking care of that and making sure the kids could be here and
00:42:54.540
really participate in what i think a lot of people are coming out saying a really really historic night
00:42:59.260
so i know this is going to sound weird but for whatever reason these earphones are making my ear
00:43:05.100
bleed and so uh i'm not kidding like it's very weird okay um blake uh that's uh i'm here i'm here
00:43:12.780
a little ironic yeah trump did tell us that uh that the ears uh bleed the most tonight so yeah literally
00:43:19.580
i like blood on my fingers learned something very bizarre okay so so blake i want to get your comments
00:43:25.580
here tucker carlson when he is uh tucker's awesome you know tucker very well when tucker is talking
00:43:31.100
about the uh populist nationalist movement he's at his best he is the by far the most talented articulate
00:43:39.260
spokesperson when it comes to what is happening in this country as far as the resentments of the
00:43:44.780
forgotten people against the ruling class let's first though start with uh tucker carlson riffing cut 168.
00:43:50.940
i watched i watched the video of what happened in butler pennsylvania about 15 50 times i think i was
00:44:01.100
one of about 8 billion people around the world who watched it and the more i watched it the more it
00:44:06.140
struck me that everything was different after that moment everything this convention is different the
00:44:13.660
nation is different the world is different donald trump is different when he stood up after being shot in
00:44:20.220
the face bloodied and put his hand up i thought at that moment that was a transformation this was no
00:44:27.660
longer a man well i think that i think it was divine intervention but the effect that it had on donald trump
00:44:36.140
he was no longer just a political party's nominee or a former president or a future president
00:44:49.260
one more blake uh that i want to play and then get your comment here you know tucker very well
00:44:53.260
i thought he was on point uh which is this one which is all about representative government play cut 170.
00:45:01.020
the entire point from the famous escalator ride nine years ago until today of donald trump's public life
00:45:08.780
has been to remind us of one fact which is a leader's duty is to his people to his country and
00:45:15.740
to no other that's the point that's the only point and another word for this is democracy democracy in
00:45:23.900
case you're a little sick of being beaten in the face with democracy on television actual democracy is
00:45:30.380
the proposition that the citizens of a country own that country they're not renters they're not serfs
00:45:35.260
they're not slaves they are the owners of the country and for that to be true their leaders
00:45:42.620
have to represent them which is another way of saying they have to do what the people want them to do
00:45:49.740
or a close approximation thereof but if they completely ignore what people want not just one
00:45:56.380
year but generationally say for 50 years then it may be i don't know what it's not a democracy
00:46:02.540
and so i think the entire trump project paradoxically he's attacked as an enemy of democracy is to
00:46:07.580
return democracy to the united states hey let's pay attention to what people actually want
00:46:17.260
i really wish we had more unscripted speeches at the rnc uh a friend of mine says like do you know
00:46:23.660
what i would have given blake you helped me write my speech you were very helpful with that but do you
00:46:27.900
know what i would have given to be able to do that to like to that would have made my life so much
00:46:33.660
easier trump and tucker they're both just world-class historic talents at being able to do and and in
00:46:40.940
different ways too but a friend of mine says the best speech advice he ever gave is like no one should
00:46:47.180
actually need a script for a speech because you shouldn't be on a stage talking unless it's something that
00:46:52.620
you could just talk about at length for 15 or 30 or 50 minutes or or three hours without without
00:47:00.940
prompting and for tucker he's extremely good at that on these topics uh he was hitting the same things
00:47:07.740
that he talked about in an article i think he wrote it for politico all the way back start of 2016 that was
00:47:14.300
the start of the uh sort of tucker trump overlap where he said donald trump is shocking vulgar and right
00:47:21.820
and it's you know tucker and trump much like uh a lot of other people they went through phases of
00:47:28.140
the relationship where tucker you know he had that push and pull sometimes he was frustrated
00:47:32.460
sometimes he was elated but it's come full circle back to this is donald trump's conservative movement
00:47:38.060
and as he said the man who was attacked for as a threat to american democracy is the man who can
00:47:43.660
restore authentic american democracy which is the ability of people to run their own country and decide
00:47:51.100
the policies they want to live under instead of being told this set of policies decided by a bunch
00:47:57.260
of democrats in washington is the only thing that's allowed by democracy and i also just love that that's
00:48:03.180
just tucker was probably just practicing that in like the car on the way over that i i can say from
00:48:09.180
experience a lot of a lot of viral tucker speeches are just whatever he happens to have been talking about
00:48:13.740
with someone 30 minutes beforehand and certain parts of that definitely sounded that way in a
00:48:19.340
good way uh he's incredible off the cuff i want to thank laura katherine rosemary natalie xavier
00:48:28.940
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00:48:34.700
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00:48:39.660
we send to you uh again that's laura katherine rose mary natalie xavier uh johnny avery jeff and trisha
00:48:46.620
thank you guys so much we have now we are now on our 30th hour of streaming in just the last five
00:48:51.900
days that's right 30 hours of streaming jack i want to get you in on this uh it's harder to do this
00:48:56.540
remote so thanks for the patience here jack um and by the way unhumans uh should be a new york
00:49:01.420
times bestseller so i want you to comment on that but first let's play cut 170 and jack take it right
00:49:05.820
away uh let's play cut no we just did 170. um let's go to 169 this is tucker carlson at his best
00:49:13.660
but if you think about it the presidency comes with great power obviously but if you think about it
00:49:17.100
that is a title that is bestowed by a process of some sort that can be subverted
00:49:24.540
and in the end it does not confer by itself as no title does legitimacy
00:49:31.420
just because you call yourself the president doesn't mean that much inherently i can call my
00:49:37.420
dog the ceo of hewlett packard it doesn't mean she is
00:49:43.820
no it's it's true and you hate to say it but it is also true as a fact that you could take i don't
00:49:50.060
know a mannequin a dead person and make him president if you no you could you could i'm just saying
00:49:55.740
theoretically possible with enough with enough cheating that could happen
00:50:05.180
jack the subject just an incredible moment from from tucker carlson right there just riffing and on
00:50:11.420
on all the qualities of leadership and then turning it into this hilarious joke about joe biden but
00:50:16.380
what he's he's talking about there is something very deep something very natural it's a spiritual
00:50:22.380
it is an essence and a vitality that a leader has and he tucker said i think one of the other clips
00:50:29.420
that your leader in in the ancient times in bronze age times if you will to borrow a phrase the leader
00:50:37.660
would be the strongest warrior the most capable chieftain and that would be become the leader of the
00:50:44.060
army the leader of the war band they would be become the one who is the undisputed head of the tribe and
00:50:51.260
in this case the tribe that we're talking about is americans and yes there has been this process
00:50:57.580
that has been and exactly as tucker says subverted to change that because in the past of course you
00:51:04.060
you know you may you may have had other processes you may have a trial by combat and all these you
00:51:07.500
know other ancient bronze age things but but these days we don't quite do that anymore maybe we should
00:51:12.460
i don't know because you know i we were founded by people that actually uh would conduct duels to the
00:51:18.540
death so i want to remind this this is not that long ago that we're talking to go all the way back
00:51:22.300
to the bronze age but the idea that a leader is someone that people will follow instinctually people
00:51:30.460
someone that people will follow when you see them in moments of crisis standing strong showing resolve
00:51:38.380
showing bravery those are the qualities of a true natural leader versus the qualities of someone who is
00:51:46.380
told to be a leader that is the absolute difference that you're seeing right now obviously he's drawing
00:51:51.340
the line between donald trump and joe biden but everybody knows this think of a a team you've been
00:51:56.460
on maybe when you were younger and played sports and you had a bad coach who just yelled at everybody
00:52:00.860
and wasn't sure why they weren't following what that what he or she was saying or think about a job
00:52:04.940
you've had where you've had a really bad boss and it's like oh i'm the and they keep telling you over
00:52:08.540
and over i'm the leader i'm the leader well you know it's it's it's uh to quote the great philosopher
00:52:13.500
tony soprano if you have to keep telling everyone you're the boss you aren't you ain't the boss you
00:52:19.420
ain't the boss i want to thank uh by the way our team is working hard to send all you guys your
00:52:24.140
shirts out we'll be contacting and hearing from our team soon i want to just list uh kurt erica
00:52:28.860
karen leslie dalton anthony dale uh members dot charlie kirk dot com members at charlie kirk dot com
00:52:35.020
blake you had a very smart point here uh which is that rarely and and blake jack was just saying this i
00:52:39.900
want you to dive deeper we rarely ever see the leaders the people that make decisions
00:52:44.700
have to face physical combat or or opposition almost never and this used to be commonplace
00:52:49.660
in the ancient world not just the bronze age as jack would say but also um in world in the american
00:52:56.220
civil war uh and also in the revolutionary times to a less to a lesser extent and more modern we've come
00:53:01.420
our leaders become more disconnected from actual physical confrontation blake what is your thought
00:53:06.860
on this i know you have a strong opinion i think or even just even in like world war ii you would
00:53:11.580
still you know a general would occasionally get hit like you'd have to lead close enough you could get
00:53:16.220
hit by an artillery shell by a sniper when was the last time a u.s like general was even wounded in
00:53:24.540
action i think it was maybe during vietnam maybe in the gulf war but it's very rare for military leaders
00:53:30.460
for politicians you used to have you used to have that level of accountability but you also used to
00:53:38.540
just you used to be easier to lose your job this is something that is so compelling about iraq could
00:53:43.740
it at least be that if something really bad happens in america if we have a botched military withdrawal if
00:53:49.420
we have a blown open border if we have a massive you know uh pandemic that's badly mismanaged could some
00:53:56.780
people in dc at least like have to go on unemployment for a while and that so rarely happens you can sort
00:54:05.020
of just even if you're a colossal screw up you can bounce from think tank gig to think tank gig and then
00:54:10.220
just pop back up like a zombie in the next administration and i think that's driving such
00:54:15.100
a huge sense of decline and decay in america and it's one reason you you're allowed to have someone like
00:54:20.940
joe biden around forever why is joe biden still around he should at least have some accountability for
00:54:26.780
running for president repeatedly and losing each time and being attached to all these failed
00:54:33.260
policies it was so compelling uh when jd vance was saying the other night oh he was connected to
00:54:38.700
nafta people didn't like the outcome of that he was closely linked with giving china most favored
00:54:44.700
nation status that went badly he was one of the democrats who strongly supported the iraq war
00:54:50.300
big disaster and yet he just hangs around like this zombie of washington and so much of trump's appeal
00:54:59.260
is the desire to actually say no there should be real accountability for this kind of damage to america
00:55:05.420
we should have new leaders and the people who are failed leaders should not be getting paychecks
00:55:11.100
from the american people until their end of time
00:55:16.780
i think that's very smart i want to play a tape here of one of the pastors that spoke at the rnc
00:55:22.300
which is a fan favorite here i want to thank julie philip jeff and tammy diane nicole frank
00:55:28.060
teresa lewis amanda eric carrie mary zach ashley anissa arnie zach lee and susan thank you members
00:55:37.740
dot charlie kirk dot com we've been going all week we're over 30 hours of streaming here
00:55:41.820
and uh we our team will be in touch to send you uh your complimentary shirt uh the never surrender
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shirt okay uh let's go to um another piece of tape here uh this is cut 202 uh this this gentleman might
00:55:54.060
have given one of the best most underappreciated speeches of the evening my phone was lighting up
00:56:00.300
and he's on the show tomorrow he's on the charlie kirk show tomorrow so make plans to watch this
00:56:03.500
this reverend lorenzo sewell great american 202 president trump came to a church that is in
00:56:14.860
a democratic stronghold he came to a church to listen to average every day americans like you
00:56:24.140
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
00:56:32.460
of people they were upset a lot of people they would ask me questions why would you allow donald trump
00:56:40.860
to come into your church how many know that the bible says we are all sinners and we all need the grace
00:56:49.260
of god how many know that the bible says he who has not sinned let him cast the first stone
00:56:56.220
president donald trump he came during his birthday weekend let me ask you a question
00:57:08.780
grand old party what would you do for your birthday if you were worth 6.7 billion dollars what would you
00:57:15.340
do for your birthday would you come to detroit would you come into the hood hood he came to the hood
00:57:22.860
because he cares about average every day americans
00:57:34.460
i thought that was terrific uh and so jack can you just riff about the everyday stories
00:57:40.540
that were being told on the ground i thought that the convention was the best i've ever seen
00:57:46.700
for selecting stories world war ii veteran 98 years old from the the gold star families
00:57:53.260
to people that can't afford groceries jack pasovic
00:57:58.300
yeah charlie and and the angel moms the angel family members that were here as well i mean it it
00:58:03.980
was so many times where the political speaker actually said this to vivek ramaswamy when he came by on
00:58:12.220
my show the other day where i said vivek you know i said it was the best and i caught myself and said
00:58:17.740
well you gave the best political speech of the night but so many times these moments from the
00:58:24.060
everyday americans whether it be the mother whose son was killed by violent by a violent criminal led
00:58:30.940
out by alvin bragg to the mother from southern california whose son was killed by fentanyl sent over
00:58:37.660
by the cartels and the chinese communist party this really was a moment for the people and uh you know
00:58:45.180
i i i know that there was another event that had this name recently over in detroit that called the
00:58:50.460
people's convention but this this really carried a lot of that energy of a people's convention really
00:58:57.020
understanding that look donald trump could have picked anyone as his vice presidential pick and
00:59:02.700
certainly after the events of saturday anyone would have said yes to him he decided
00:59:07.420
deliberately to chose someone who was a deplorable who had a deplorable background someone from a
00:59:13.660
part of the country that nobody cares about anymore and someone who could speak for everyday americans
00:59:20.140
because he knew their their lives he knew their background and i'm not trying to make this a pitch
00:59:24.300
for jd or something i'm just saying that the entire convention was centered around the idea of lifting
00:59:31.020
up people that have been forgotten lifting up people whose stories aren't usually told in in
00:59:36.380
mainstream media or even even in narrative fiction that we see there's no movies about these people
00:59:42.140
there's no uh there's no great stories i mean where's the hollywood movie about abbey gate it's been
00:59:46.860
it's been almost three years hollywood doesn't care about that the 13 soldiers who died who cares
00:59:51.820
jake tapper by the way who was sitting in front of you where where's your book about the soldiers
00:59:56.300
and uh marines who died that day jake oh you you haven't done one that's it's kind of interesting
01:00:01.100
isn't it and so so again it's the idea of the power of narrative which of course uh then trump
01:00:06.940
used himself by telling and i'm sure we'll get to it but telling and what he says for the only time
01:00:12.460
that he'll ever tell the story about the day he was almost killed yep and we we led with that it was
01:00:19.260
so powerful jack i thought that that 30 minutes was one of the best i've ever seen uh that that 30 minutes
01:00:25.500
of television of anything in the history of politics was the best i've ever seen um i want
01:00:31.740
to recap some of the top moments of the week uh yeah go ahead jack please go ahead no it was just
01:00:39.500
you know sitting there it was it was beyond anything i've ever seen and i've been to rally after rally i've
01:00:44.940
been to political conventions my first political convention was all the way back in 2000 in
01:00:49.820
philadelphia believe it or not the republican convention so uh 24 years now and not that i've
01:00:55.260
gone to every one but um since i went to the original that's that's it's more that one came
01:00:59.260
to me because i'm from philadelphia and you know back then it was these were stately affairs very
01:01:07.420
formal a lot more focused on motions and the floor and you know the voting and these types of things
01:01:12.700
this was a larger than life moment and it's it was i i don't know if you want to call it
01:01:19.500
perdition i don't know if you want to call it uh serendipity i don't know if you call it providence
01:01:23.420
rather but this idea that the first time he has a major speaking event after the shooting is also
01:01:32.460
his presidential acceptance speech and he's up there he's telling the story the uniform comes out um i i
01:01:40.540
i struggle to even begin to put it into words just a tremendous wave of emotion that blasted everyone
01:01:47.820
in the entire room again every single eye uh uh was was was wet every single no no eye was dry
01:01:55.500
while we were sitting in there and for folks to understand what he had gone through and continues
01:02:01.180
to be willing to put himself through and then it was talking about the the production quality the
01:02:08.060
production elements i thought the white house backdrop was a 10 out of 10 sorry charlie no white
01:02:12.780
house backdrop i agree man but uh but uh this this this i had i had some i had some goofy illuminati
01:02:26.540
yeah biden hairs uh their campaign was attacking trump i don't i don't need to read that on air i do
01:02:30.860
want to get into some of that palace intrigue guys i think it's very important um with uh everything
01:02:36.140
that's happening with uh joe biden and with uh potentially him not running let's go to some more
01:02:40.540
highlights from the night though blake please well i was just saying i wanted to send uh my
01:02:45.340
friend who's been watching cnn and he was summarizing it this way to me he says cnn is a back and forth
01:02:51.340
where van jones is basically trump is 2008 obama he's the messiah he's god's anointed he has the energy
01:02:59.420
he has the momentum it's jover i'm calling it give up i know the vibes just it's all over and then
01:03:06.700
david axelrod comes in to say well it was a long speech and that's cnn apparently right now
01:03:15.260
that uh it sounds about right and so all right let's go to uh a cut here donald trump got into
01:03:21.020
some very specific policy let's go to and by the way so some people are saying the speech was long
01:03:26.700
understand it was longer because he had to add a 20 to 30 minute recounting of him almost dying and
01:03:33.740
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
01:03:38.540
you weren't shot okay you weren't shot tough life but here's what's important is that some people say
01:03:46.380
okay well charlie he should have just done the assassination thing wrapped it up you run a great
01:03:50.540
risk of that because a a nomination speech you're supposed to articulate the party agenda for the
01:03:56.460
entire party right jack the whole point and like the point of a nomination speech is here is my
01:04:02.860
vision for the next four years you know and that is just the only criticism they have is it was too long
01:04:08.780
because he had to be very one sec yes because he just went let me finish the thought he had to be
01:04:15.580
very methodical about how he talked about the once in a time of him getting shot five days ago and
01:04:22.380
secondly when he went into policy you are you are casting out the platform and the vision for every
01:04:29.580
state rep every congressman every senator and you are showing america this is what we believe in and
01:04:35.740
everything he talked about from a policy perspective was wonderful it was absolutely terrific i want to
01:04:41.340
play a piece of tape here then jack you can kind of go nuts here um on day one we're going to drill baby
01:04:46.540
drill and by the way i actually i want to go to a different one this this was chills this was chills how
01:04:52.220
could you criticize this play cut 185 but you can see on the chart that saved my life that was the
01:05:00.540
chart that saved my life i said look it i'm so proud of it i think it's one of the greatest
01:05:05.980
it was done by the border patrol one of the greatest charts i've ever seen it showed everything
01:05:10.380
just like that you know the chart oh there it is that's pretty good wow
01:05:16.940
last time i put up that chart i never really got to look at it
01:05:22.220
i said you got to see this chart i was so proud of it and by the time i got to there
01:05:50.460
i never got to see it that day but i'm seeing it now and i was very proud
01:06:02.380
you know it was amazing actually as we were walking out of the uh the event and we were just
01:06:08.540
you know heading over to uh where the the set is over here uh i happen to be i was with my family
01:06:13.100
we're getting some of the balloons for the kids and uh hey a lot of people moving at once and i i i
01:06:20.460
bump into somebody it was as i'm holding my my uh toddler my three-year-old and i said i'm so sorry
01:06:25.180
and i turn over and it's of course it's senator ron johnson i kid you not just one of those you know
01:06:30.140
one of those serendipitous moments and it was senator johnson of course and he's told the story so many
01:06:35.260
times now who made that chart and it was you know quite quite a moment as well when president trump
01:06:41.260
stands there and says you know the last time that i put that chart up and it's like did he make just
01:06:47.500
make a joke about his own assassination attempt and of course he is because that's donald trump
01:06:52.460
it's that dark humor it's that black humor that uh that he always uses that he just says the most
01:06:57.180
inappropriate thing although usually he says it about someone else here here uh here this time he
01:07:02.540
says it about himself and it's it's an incredible thing to see but but it also is by the way part of
01:07:09.100
policy i mean charlie can you imagine the state of the party right now when just a few years ago the
01:07:17.740
idea of talking about saying something like mass deportation on the stage would get you would get you
01:07:23.660
uh booed it might get you censored it might get you banned and it would certainly get you kicked
01:07:28.140
out of the rnc now our our leader is cheering it on the entire crowd they had placards they had
01:07:36.220
placards that say mass deportations now that people were holding up they're talking about this problem
01:07:41.980
because it's gotten too far and so i i've heard some people say that the speech was soft and you know
01:07:48.220
i can certainly i i would say like i mean the guy was just shot i mean wait hold on no no he was he
01:07:54.380
was but yes he was stoic he was stoic he was like a roman general returning from the front lines
01:08:02.780
bloodied and shot at to address his most loyal people i just anyway jack hold that thought i have
01:08:09.660
to say thank you to some of our members here and victorious that that's right i want to thank rebecca
01:08:15.660
i want to thank joyce i want to thank deborah i want to thank christine i want to thank connor i
01:08:19.100
want to thank dr kristen i want to thank caroline emily doris rick david rayford julie philip jeff and
01:08:28.380
tammy uh that is members.charliekirk.com you guys get a never surrender shirt that is members.charliekirk.com
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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
01:08:44.060
shannon um blake it is very you have to give trump credit though trump could have done he could have
01:08:52.220
by the way there's the new new york times video i'm not going to play this right now i need time
01:08:55.420
to digest this it's so bad it's so unbelievable and it's not against new york times actually did
01:09:00.140
a great job of compiling this can i read the headline blake go for it the headline is this
01:09:05.020
new york times video audio and photographs collected by the new york times of the attack that
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attempted assassination of donald trump at an election rally shows how a clear threat emerged
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minutes before the shooting and how law enforcement failed to protect mr trump i mean that's the new york
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times saying it donald trump did not criticize law enforcement he did not criticize the secret
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service in fact he praised them he did not say why did they not put me off stage blake for a guy who
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gets attacked all the time for saying that he just you know lashes out he was filled with gratitude and
01:09:35.500
joy not with anger or bitterness blake help us understand that i mean it's been this way for a
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long time uh you know they say he's a threat to democracy while they do everything possible to
01:09:48.860
undermine democracy by forcing him out of the race forcing him into a jail cell uh rigging the process as
01:09:56.380
much as possible and now here they would say like he's he's the one who's injecting like hate or
01:10:02.460
darkness into the race yet they do that a lot more than him uh donald trump has been for the most part like
01:10:09.420
very positive energy this race uh you know he's he's upbeat he talked he talks a lot about accomplishments
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he had in his first term and how he will bring them back and the stuff he bashes biden for it is really
01:10:22.700
no different from what you'd be able to see even turning on cnn or msnbc they're all they're all pretty bleak a
01:10:29.340
lot of the time too uh there's there's a huge amount of projection that goes into everything the
01:10:35.580
modern left does uh these days and while we're talking about headlines by the way apparently the
01:10:41.340
headline on cnn right now since i have it up is top biden officials believe he must drop out so we've gone
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from the media to democrat lawmakers to biden officials which means we might have the 25th
01:10:54.460
amendment getting invoked by this time next week charlie boy i i want to get into that into great
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detail i i really do so uh jack let's kind of put a final cap on this speech tonight where does this
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go from here donald trump is the nominee he's alive and well melania was there he leaves on a total high
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jd vance is the vice president what are the marching orders from there then i would do something
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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
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perfect convention for the republicans in terms of what they needed out of it did i love every single
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little piece of it look i'm not going to sit here and go through all of that but in terms of the top
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lines of the things that people will remember from this it was perfect and so the democrats are going
01:11:46.540
to be looking at this saying what are we going to do any potential democrat by the way contender
01:11:53.580
who's thinking about maybe getting their their name in the ring getting their hat in the ring in chicago
01:11:58.860
in just a couple of weeks time in august here is suddenly realizing that they've got to go up against
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a massive unified front from the republicans i mean you even had like like lauren bobert was standing
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next to mike johnson and all of this it was just this huge kumbaya we are going to get together and
01:12:17.260
save america moment it was so much bigger than the party so much bigger than any one specific person with
01:12:25.180
with donald trump simply at the head of everything so the republicans got what they needed the democrats
01:12:30.380
are in an absolute state of disarray they've got no idea what they're going to do in chicago in just a
01:12:35.740
couple of weeks time and so the republicans have the wind at their sails they do but at the same time
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i'm going to throw this out there that we must must must not get complacent we cannot be complacent
01:12:48.300
complacency is the biggest danger right now all this talk about biden dropping etc etc we have so
01:12:54.780
much work to do because you know what the democrats are doing right now they're banking ballots and while
01:12:59.660
they switch out their candidate and play kabuki theater and rearrange the deck chairs on the titanic
01:13:04.780
they're going to be banking ballots where in misconsin in pennsylvania and in michigan that's why they're
01:13:10.620
talking about governor josh shapiro that's why his name keeps coming up because he's a popular
01:13:14.700
politician popular governor in pennsylvania and so people need to keep their eyes on the ball this
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is a great week this is a great week it was an astounding week it was an emotional week it was a
01:13:23.900
great week for the good guys but we need to remember the work starts monday yes it does all right so
01:13:31.180
blake let's get into some inside baseball here what is the future of joe biden look like what is the process
01:13:35.260
here oh man so we've been uh talking to some some people we know who are you know more in the middle
01:13:43.420
of the political divide so they actually talk to democrats as well and it it's wild because people
01:13:49.260
make confident predictions yet it seems they don't necessarily have a strong basis for this so i've been
01:13:54.860
hearing there are democrat democrat lawmakers like like real figures in the party who say 100 joe biden is
01:14:02.940
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
01:14:08.460
himself admitted he is gone he is not you know secretly said okay we're out next sunday we're out
01:14:14.460
next monday we're just writing the speech he has not admitted this yet they're just confident they can
01:14:19.100
force him out because they can do way uglier tactics so they're thinking we will be able to turn
01:14:24.380
up the heat so bad he will not be able to stick around that is that is the conversation they're having which is
01:14:30.220
is i guess you have to admit from our perspective that is what we wanted to see if you're going to
01:14:36.140
have biden be forced out you don't want it to be a nice little clean switcheroo you want it to be
01:14:42.220
protracted you want it to be ugly you want it to be bitter and that's what we're hearing reported we're
01:14:47.580
hearing that donors are saying you know forget the presidential race we'll be boycotting house races
01:14:54.220
and senate races just to make it clear you have to make this switch we're going to turn up the pain
01:15:00.140
we see on cnn that biden officials are admitting he has to go which means i think 25th amendment is on
01:15:07.020
the table another thing i've been hearing uh from a friend who has a friend of a friend who has been
01:15:13.580
in contact with like kamala world is well kamala's team is not ready for this we've been hearing for
01:15:20.940
years she can't keep staff because she's a horrible boss and her team is all messed up so we have these
01:15:27.180
very junior staff on kamala's team who are suddenly about to be tasked with trying to run either a
01:15:33.500
presidential campaign or you know at least a campaign for the nomination for the next month and they're not
01:15:39.820
ready for this they apparently don't even know whether biden will be in her corner or not that's still
01:15:46.700
up in the air and so you just have maximum division in the democrats maximum chaos and you love to see
01:15:56.060
i want to go through some data here so morning consult shows donald trump up four points on biden
01:16:03.900
uh rmg research has donald trump up five points on biden so socal research uh on point politics
01:16:09.820
has donald trump up six points on biden and eight points on kamala harris jack pasobic i want to go to
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you here members.charliekirk.com members.charliekirk.com just name a couple more names
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here jeremiah shan chelsea emily rebecca thank you guys for becoming members jack you think that
01:16:25.660
kamala could potentially be even easier to defeat and beat is that correct i do actually i do and i'll
01:16:34.300
tell you why because kamala harris so number one she comes with all the baggage of the biden
01:16:41.500
administration plus the fact that she was the one who was put in charge of the two biggest failures
01:16:48.620
of the biden administration she was made the face of it the border and then ukraine remember she's
01:16:53.100
the one who went over to the munich conference and said ukraine will be in nato ukraine will be in
01:16:57.340
nato we will stand up for this and then putin invades like two days later literally two days later
01:17:02.060
this is going to play be played again and again and it's going to be shown that her weakness was one
01:17:07.900
of the things that led to the decision matrix of crossing the border crossing the rubicon in ukraine
01:17:13.500
the other part of this is that she does not have the legacy name recognition the legacy um goodwill
01:17:21.100
that joe biden enjoyed with many segments of the democrat party from being obama's wingman from being
01:17:26.300
the guy who was ride or die with barrio weren't the guy who was always there you know this the this
01:17:31.820
like totally fake bromance that um you know that they let led people to believe that existed between
01:17:37.740
him and barack obama again all of that work all of that time as vice president doesn't apply to kamala
01:17:43.820
harris and remember kamala harris is deep deeply disliked even within her own party she had to drop out of
01:17:51.260
the presidential race in 2020 before iowa she did not even make it to the first contest so no i don't think
01:17:59.020
there's someone in four middle and by the way finally we've seen kamala try the prime time run
01:18:05.580
she does not have the chops she's never going to have the chops uh you want to talk about what
01:18:10.940
tucker carlson was saying about the difference between leadership versus someone who's good at
01:18:15.980
subverting the system i think uh yeah she knows a lot about subverting the system
01:18:20.300
no doubt so so blake in closing here because uh it's 130 right on the east coast here uh in closing
01:18:30.540
let's kind of recap the week you were there on the ground blake uh helping us show out what was the
01:18:35.580
takeaway what was what were you most surprised about as a onlooker here uh at the republican national
01:18:41.420
convention in milwaukee most surprised about you know it's hard to say because actually i would say
01:18:47.100
you know in what has been a very a very surprising election year a very surprising election month
01:18:54.420
a very surprising election week i think we'd say all of those are we might literally be at the point
01:19:00.240
where the narrative of this year is passing 2016 which i would have never thought was possible yet
01:19:06.320
i would say the one part that was just not a shock at all was what i saw this week in milwaukee i would
01:19:13.260
i would have said okay they took a shot at trump so that's going to unite the party they're going to
01:19:19.300
be very positive energy people will be grateful that their candidate is alive that their candidate is here
01:19:24.160
to give the speech that they're the man that they indicted that they censored off off the internet that
01:19:30.440
they took a shot at that they sued that they took the companies of that all of this failed and he's there
01:19:35.920
to receive the nomination and everyone's there good vibes all around the band is back together and
01:19:42.500
they're ready to retake the white house and that's the thing they're really there was no monkey wrench
01:19:48.560
in that there was no shock it was what we would have hoped for this is exactly the convention republicans
01:19:55.600
wanted to hold it's the exact convention they plan to hold and especially looking at what's going on with
01:20:02.540
the democrats right now they have every reason to feel very confident going into this fall's election
01:20:08.340
and now they just for the next 90 days they just need to execute well and i also say there was
01:20:15.400
jack and this is from a viral question i want your take on that too there was no viral scandal that
01:20:20.160
distracted from the main thing i mean there was little things here or there but jack that's a big
01:20:24.160
deal right conventions sometimes get derailed huge uh with online chatter and can you comment on this
01:20:30.720
jack that did not happen for four days there was no speaker that said something they shouldn't have
01:20:35.080
done or no you know i'm saying it was beautifully produced and the main thing kept to be the main
01:20:39.500
thing yeah the the narrative that was put out and by the way this is why cnn is out there saying oh
01:20:48.020
well the speech was long because they don't have anything else they don't have that one serious gaffe
01:20:54.060
they don't have that one big mess up they don't have this that one piece where somebody went totally
01:21:00.700
off script and started messing around with people no they have none of those things and so to be able
01:21:05.420
to put on an event like this for several days which i know charlie is something that you and the entire
01:21:11.600
team at turning point and at turning point action do time and again several times a year multiple times
01:21:18.040
a year when you consider all of the events that turning point does it's not something that's easy to do
01:21:22.920
and especially when you know the eyes of the world are on you and you have so many speakers i mean this
01:21:28.160
was jam-packed with speakers and the idea that you only got one and and there were times in the past
01:21:33.760
by the way especially some of those um you know and look it's just true with those everyday american
01:21:38.940
stories you never know because these aren't people that that do uh you know present presentation on a
01:21:45.540
regular basis you're kind of rolling the dice with some of those sometimes and in the time in the past
01:21:50.080
there have been a few that don't really work out so well every single one at this just pitch
01:21:55.840
perfect no gaffes no flaws everything on message total execution and in a way it showed that this
01:22:05.360
is a group of people that has competence in the face of the incompetence that is being described
01:22:12.000
in the current administration of our government
01:22:14.320
it's beautifully said uh i could tell you this was my i went to convention in 2012
01:22:21.120
12 so 12 16 20 didn't really count but i guess that counts uh and this is my fourth convention
01:22:26.040
the third one in person and this was the most joyful exuberant group i've ever been around
01:22:31.040
uh this is a determined group that's ready to go to work and this again don't be surprised they're
01:22:35.860
going to pull biden and maybe it's camel maybe not and this race might completely and totally reset
01:22:41.280
and but we have a unified party and we are battle ready i could tell you no one's going to be
01:22:45.700
surprised that biden gets pulled uh it was kind of the unspoken truth of this last convention i want
01:22:52.280
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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
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amazing do we have the video that they were playing that documentary on trump wow that was
01:23:35.420
amazing that was just absolutely spectacular video they played wasn't that just absolutely
01:23:41.840
incredible it was just really unbelievable let's play cut 178 and then we will close it out let's
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go to 178 we will not break we will not bend we will not back down and i will never stop fighting
01:23:55.120
for you your family and our magnificent country
01:23:58.880
and everything i have to give with all of the energy and fight in my heart and soul
01:24:13.640
i pledge to our nation tonight thank you very much i pledge that to our nation
01:24:19.180
we're going to turn our nation around and we're going to do it very quickly thank you
01:24:24.060
this election should be about the issues facing our country and how to
01:24:35.800
make america successful safe free and great again
01:24:40.380
in an age when our politics too often divide us now is the time to remember that we are all fellow
01:24:57.260
it's beautiful i want to end our time together here uh with this incredible video and it's six
01:25:05.280
minutes long it's worth it you guys got to watch carefully and closely kudos to our team for doing
01:25:09.600
that but quickly thank you for those that are becoming members members at charliekirk.com thank
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members.charliekirk.com okay we're going to play you this video it's six minutes long it's
01:25:39.400
worth it i will sign off afterwards and throw it back to parker enjoy this drop what you're doing
01:25:44.980
i'm going to re-watch this with you and then we'll say good night maybe sign up to be a member during
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this video this is the country we're fighting to restore donald trump is a larger than life figure
01:25:55.500
play cut 181 and enjoy this this is a story as uniquely american as the ideals and freedoms we all
01:26:03.280
cherish a story of a life dedicated to dreaming big a story about giving back to the people in his
01:26:11.440
beloved city but most of all this is a story about putting his country first and it's a story best told
01:26:20.200
young and confident donald trump wasn't afraid to think big and build even bigger and he left his
01:26:32.160
mark on the new york skyline that greeted visitors from around the world but he wasn't just an american
01:26:39.460
entrepreneur he became a folk hero celebrities and sports stars wanted to be seen with him
01:26:47.300
politicians sought his approval and new yorkers just loved him and he loved them back and he gave back
01:26:56.380
just one example saving the walman skating rink the walman skating rink in central park is open again
01:27:04.820
the city spent nearly six years and 12 million dollars trying to fix it and then to the rescue
01:27:10.340
developer donald trump as tracy egan tells us now he accomplished in three and a half months
01:27:17.340
service there was no denying that donald trump was the toast of the town but he was also something
01:27:29.600
even more important a patriotic american and like many others he was becoming increasingly troubled
01:27:37.020
by the direction of our country because i really am tired of seeing what's happening with this country
01:27:43.800
how we're how we're really making other people live like kings and we're not you've said though
01:27:48.500
that if you did run for president you believe you'd win well i don't know i think i'd win i tell
01:27:53.560
you what i wouldn't go in to lose i've never gone in to lose in my life and and if i did decide to do it
01:27:58.380
i think i'd be inclined i would i would say that i would have a hell of a chance of winning because i
01:28:02.540
think people i don't know how your audience feels but i think people are tired of seeing the united
01:28:06.180
states ripped off but who would ever run for president and leave such a glamorous life
01:28:11.580
appearances in movies best-selling books a widely popular tv show
01:28:17.380
but for donald j trump the calling to save his country was even stronger the mission more
01:28:25.660
important the number of americans being left behind too large and so in donald trump fashion
01:28:33.840
he announced he was running for president in it to win and he did
01:28:40.840
from his first day in office the washington politicians learned something about president
01:28:56.500
trump he's not afraid to fight for what he believes in they call that having the courage of your
01:29:04.860
convictions first up the trump tax cuts largest in america's history and it led to higher take-home
01:29:14.580
pay for working families unfortunately today taxes are up and incomes down the politicians just never
01:29:26.520
learn next for president trump secure our border check miles and miles of wall built
01:29:37.820
isisis and other terrorists deterred but now we have the barney fife of border security leading to a
01:29:50.420
quarter of a million americans dead from fentanyl coming in brutal migrant crime spreading across america
01:30:00.220
and isis now here president trump promised he'd keep america out of endless wars welcome words to the
01:30:16.300
families of our young men and women who serve and another promise kept he started by strengthening our
01:30:26.620
military then traveled the world meeting with our allies and even with our main adversaries
01:30:35.260
just so they understood that america's strength and resolve was back because that's what a strong
01:30:44.940
commander-in-chief does and it led to a stable world at peace and our troops safe
01:30:56.620
today a different story our enemies smelled weakness then set the world on fire putin saw it then invaded
01:31:07.840
ukraine hamas saw it then started a war in the middle east
01:31:13.300
there's one more thing we've learned about president trump
01:31:26.360
he believes so strongly in america so optimistic for our possibilities and so committed to fighting
01:31:38.600
to once again to once again make our country great that there is nothing that is going to stop him