THE INSIDE STORY OF JD VANCEļ¼ PART 2
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The Inside Story of the Rise of J.D. Vance Part 2: How Donald Trump beat Joe Biden to be the 2020 Republican presidential nominee. On this episode of Human Events Daily, host Jack Posobiec and co-host Charlie Munger tell the story of how Donald Trump defeated Joe Biden for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
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A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran.
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This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard to part two of a very special two-part series here on Human Events Daily.
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So many people were asking, how did this pick take place?
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How was it that Donald Trump stood up to the special interest, the military-industrial complex,
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the moneyed interests, and I'm just going to say it, the Murdoch empire?
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Me, Charlie, and the entire team have got the story, and we're giving it to you.
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And somehow, a real estate developer from New York City by the name of Donald J. Trump was right
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President Trump knew even then that we needed leaders who would put America first.
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Now, thanks to these policies that Biden and other out-of-touch politicians in Washington
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gave us, our country was flooded with cheap Chinese goods, with cheap foreign labor, and
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in the decades to come, deadly Chinese fentanyl.
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Joe Biden screwed up, and my community paid the price.
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Despite the closing factories and the growing addiction in towns like mine, in my life, I
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She was an old woman who could barely walk, but she was tough as nails.
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I called her Mamaw, the name we hillbillies gave to our grandmothers.
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Mamaw raised me as her own, excuse me, Mamaw raised me as my mother struggled with addiction.
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Mamaw was in so many ways a woman of contradiction.
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Now, she once told me, when she found out that I was spending too much time with a local
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kid who was known for dealing drugs, that if I ever hung out with that kid again, she
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And she said, J.D., no one will ever find out about it.
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The only point of today that I actually went into the Pfizer forum was to watch J.D. get
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Now, he didn't speak at the nomination, but he appeared on the floor.
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And I think this was just maybe, maybe minutes after actually receiving word.
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And Charlie, you were just saying, I mean, I've screenshot of my text history because I
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think it's actually going to be really important for like future generations.
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I said at 1.23, I said, I bet you get a call in the next 20 or 30.
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And 2.16, but also so 2.16, that's 12 minutes after Trump's truth post.
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Which means whatever call they had was not long.
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Do you think Trump has made a final decision at noon today?
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But I think that President Trump, first and foremost, he was obsessed with the idea of
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the most eyeballs on a convention where it's like The Apprentice.
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Because every time I spoke to him about this, that was his idea.
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Number two, he was legitimately trying to not make a Pence mistake.
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And because of that, he wanted to exhaustively hear from everybody multiple times, every
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And so everybody was weighing in and calling and from different camps.
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But I think the president started to see similarity between the type of people that were advocating
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for JD and type of people that were not advocating for JD.
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But to your credit, this someone else on the RNC brought up this point to me tonight.
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And they came up to me on this topic and they said, it is so good and refreshing that the
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president spent the time going through all that, hearing from those voices, lining them
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And so he started to hear all the chatter and he started to say, wait a second, the people
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who don't like JD have waffled on me on the past, supported my opponents.
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Now, thanks to that mamaw, things worked out for me.
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After 9-11, I did what thousands of other young men my age did in that time of soaring patriotism
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Now, I left the Marines after four years and went to the Ohio State University.
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Now, after Ohio State, I went to Yale Law School where I met my beautiful wife, and then
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I started businesses to create jobs in the kind of places that I grew up in.
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Now, my work taught me that there is still so much talent and grit in the American heartland.
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But for these places to thrive, my friends, we need a leader who fights for the people who
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We need a leader who's not in the pocket of big business, but answers to the working man,
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A leader who won't sell out to multinational corporations, but will stand up for American
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A leader who rejects Joe Biden and Kamala Harris' Green News scam and fights to bring back our
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great American factories, we need President Donald J. Trump.
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Some people tell me I've lived the American dream, and of course they're right, and I'm
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But the American dream that always counted most was not starting a business, or becoming
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a senator, or even being here with you fine people, though it's pretty awesome.
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My most important American dream was becoming a good husband and a good dad, of being able
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I wanted to give my kids the things that I didn't have when I was growing up, and that's
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That tonight, I'm joined by my beautiful wife, Usha, an incredible lawyer and a better mom,
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and our three beautiful kids, Ewan, who's seven, Vivek, who's four, and Mirabelle, who's two.
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Now, they're back at the hotel, and kids, if you're watching, Daddy loves you very much,
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But, my friends, things did not work out well for a lot of kids I grew up with.
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Every now and then, I will get a call from a relative back home who asks, did you know
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And I'll remember a face from years ago, and then I'll hear, they died of an overdose.
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As always, America's ruling class wrote the checks.
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For decades, that divide between the few with their power and comfort in Washington and the
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From Iraq to Afghanistan, from the financial crisis to the Great Recession, from open borders
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to stagnating wages, the people who govern this country have failed and failed again.
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That is, of course, until a guy named Donald J. Trump came along.
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President Trump represents America's last best hope to restore what, if lost, may never be
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A country where a working-class boy born far from the halls of power can stand on this stage
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as the next vice president of the United States of America.
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But, my fellow Americans here in this stage and watching at home, this moment is not about
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me, it's about all of us, and it's about who we're fighting for.
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It's about the autoworker in Michigan, wondering why out-of-touch politicians are destroying
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It's about the factory worker in Wisconsin who makes things with their hands and is proud
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Are really pro-Ukraine in, like, a very strange, like, hypersexual way?
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No, I, yeah, I know, but, like, you can just fill in the gaps of who that might be.
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And so, and again, I just, the president did, conducted the most thorough vice presidential
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So, wait, wait, Charlie, what you're saying is that Trump did the vetting himself.
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The campaign team did all of the backgrounding dossiers.
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Yes, so, like, you know, is there a divorce we don't know about?
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So, as soon as all those people, Phil, you know, went through that vetting, he was given
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Here's all the negative stuff they've ever said about you, just so you know, right?
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And so then, from that point forward, it was like, this is your decision.
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And, again, he was hearing from a wide range of voices on this.
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And, again, the list that emerged and why J.D. was selected was loyalty.
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But I never got the, people are saying it's heir apparent.
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I believe that President Trump enjoyed spending time with J.D. the most out of all the finalists.
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I think that President Trump felt warm as if this is someone who gets him, someone who
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is high energy, someone who is high achieving, someone that is very high IQ, that understands
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the MAGA base, plus it checks all the boxes of that region of the world.
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And I think it was as simple as, I want to hang out with him more.
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It's like, again, there were other elements at play.
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I've heard, I'm not going to name names, but I've heard that he made some comments about
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other individuals who were in the running that were hanging out with him a lot lately.
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And so the thing I just wanted to say about J.D.'s are the two things.
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Number one, I think the East Palestinian trip was seminal in the way J.D. put that together
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because that was a very special moment for Trump.
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I think it was a turning point for his campaign.
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There was a lot of discussion of that in the press today about how important that was
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He had announced already, no, J.D. had endorsed, which also plays a role.
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But remember, he went to the McDonald's afterwards.
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That was the first one of the campaign where he did any of those things, and J.D. was seminal
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Understand, J.D. was only a senator for a couple months at that point.
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But then Donald Trump watches a lot of TV, and he noticed something in J.D. that he
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hadn't noticed in other endorsed candidates, which is here's how it usually works.
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They grow close to Trump when they're in cycle.
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They get the endorsement, and then they kind of just do their own thing, and it kind of
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becomes Chamber of Commerce talking points, and there's distance.
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And he was the first senator, I think, to endorse Trump, like one of the first.
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He put in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, and it wasn't just like he tweeted it out.
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He had a whole full summary of why he was doing it, and it was all based in MAGA values.
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It was not this warmed-over Chamber of Commerce or Neocon World talking points about blah, blah, blah.
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I was just going to say this point, too, that this is more of the insider baseball stuff,
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but J.D. surrounded himself with really good people.
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I'm going to tell you this right now, that most people that surround even our best people
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And J.D., on the other hand, is surrounded by incredibly loyal people, not just to J.D.,
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And I can tell you, when things have gone really well for Turning Point and things like
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that, one of the first people to reach out has been J.D. and his team.
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They've reached out and said, great job with this, or awesome job.
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That doesn't happen anywhere else, and people listening at home need to understand this.
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He is an incredible person, but surrounded by incredible people.
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I was like, hey, Lauren, J.D.'s coming because I had to fly home because of a baby issue.
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I was like a three-week-old, all that great stuff.
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She's like, yeah, he's driving himself from Columbus.
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I'm like, again, I'm kind of used to, like, I'm charging a plane.
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Literally on a Sunday morning, woke up at, like, 6 a.m., got, like, a big thing of coffee
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and drove up himself from Columbus, Ohio to Detroit, Michigan, spoke at our event, did
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It's about the energy worker in Pennsylvania and Ohio who doesn't understand why Joe Biden
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is willing to buy energy from tin-pot dictators across the world when he could buy it from
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his own citizens right here in our own country.
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And it's about, our movement is about single moms like mine, who struggled with money and
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And I'm proud to say that tonight my mom is here, 10 years clean and sober.
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And you know, Mom, I was thinking it'll be 10 years officially in January of the year,
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and if President Trump's okay with it, let's have the celebration in the White House.
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And our movement, ladies and gentlemen, it's about grandparents all across this country
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who are living on Social Security and raising grandchildren they didn't expect to raise.
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And while we're on the topic of grandparents, let me tell you another mamaw story.
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Now my mamaw died shortly before I left for Iraq in 2005.
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And when we went through her things, we found 19 loaded handguns.
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Now the thing is, they were stashed all over her house, under her bed, in her closet, in
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And we wondered what was going on, and it occurred to us that towards the end of her life, mamaw couldn't
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And so this frail old woman made sure that no matter where she was, she was within arm's
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length of whatever she needed to protect her family.
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Charlie, let me add more context to that because I was there because, no, no.
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no you weren't there because you had to leave and i saw him i saw him he came by himself walks in
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this doesn't happen okay i remember him being by himself he walks in by himself yeah big hugs
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hey so good to see you yeah yeah we're just chatting hanging out i i had so happy to be
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here i had so happy charlie i had more people there than jd vance did but like my family was
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there he walked in it's not even that he drove himself up normally like oh i drove myself up
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like a staffer will drive up with it or drive up or drive anybody i mean you're u.s senator man
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so he just rolls a staff of 15 because you know i had just come off i had just come off stage when
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he went on to speak and it actually didn't occur to me i thought the staff was you know like in the
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wings or something because we were just in that little like area oh my gosh and he what and he
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walks in it doesn't even make any sense he gives our step he he knows our people he talks he stopped
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he is the number one most like liked human being in turning point events like not even close i mean
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meaning as far as like easy to work with when i was like pushing for jd lauren was like please like
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make a jd please make a jd he's a he's a wonderful human being remember when we did the jd rally in
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ohio yes and his again his team was awesome it was crazy it was absolutely crazy got together before the
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election he i mean i'm i'm not i cannot impress upon the audience this enough he's the vice
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president can't vice presidential candidate we have right now he's one of the greatest the best
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i've ever seen in politics the best vice presidential candidate we've ever had in my lifetime
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by bar i'm trying to think one like maybe who's even better in like the last hundred years ever
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glake's gonna say nixon teddy roosevelt i have my not 100 i have my nixon now sign over there that
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you're right you know you know we're a block away from where teddy roosevelt was shot in the
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constitution yeah block that's crazy the thing i do want to say about jd though is that i saw today
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was i remember people were asking me when he walked out on the floor whether or not he was going to
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speak in and i believe he slated to speak on wednesday night and and i remember i was looking at
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him and from my vantage point you know i wasn't nearby but i could you know i could see him enough to
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see his face and i was looking and i could see i was like i don't think he can speak right now
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because you you could see he had this look on his face with just tears in his eyes and there's that
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choked up smiles and being polite he was with the ohio delegation um but i mean you you could tell that
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he in his head he was thinking about it seemed to me just reading his face he looked like he was
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thinking how did i get here how did i get here and he's been public about his story he's been public
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about his his very not easy childhood and all of a sudden to see that came out eight years ago he's
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not somebody it wasn't about him because it wasn't about him here at the rnc thankfully we're getting
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rid of this old guard the schemers and the plotters and the planners are abundant here the cockroaches
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where it's all about an angle because i want to be dog catcher then i'm county commissioner and then
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i'm state rep and then i'm congressman and then i'm chair of this and then a senator and then one day i
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could become president in my own crazy drama in my own mind jd vance ran as the senate he was pulling
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it like two percent for like forever we endorsed him right out of the gate we endorsed as he came
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to our office we told the story today he came to our office and this is what happened this is literally
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what happened came to our office spent basically two days at our office hanging out hanging out
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like tell me about how you guys do stuff and like literally we're telling super curious super curious
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he would ask us questions like what would turning point do in this situation or like what is what do
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you guys think about like literally just normal conversation and i i was really impressed because
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he's i mean he's like my age right so he's like he's he's like my age so it's like talking to
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you know we're the same age so we're all the same age so it's like it's like talking to your friend
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and he left and charlie and i sat down and we were talking about this we're like i think we have to
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endorse him like he's i was like because we we had just like the amount of enemies i created from
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that endorsement i mean well this is what happened so this is the story so we're like i think we have
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to endorse this so i'm like okay we'll put together a graph because we hadn't really started endorsing
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anyone at turning point action at all and so i told our team that was really small at the time
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because we hadn't grown this was before like anything we had started building a team and i
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said put together an endorsement graphic and the team put together an endorsement graphic and tweeted
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it out immediately on accident oh and then so like a thousand so like on accident not that we didn't
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want to endorse them we wanted to endorse them but we weren't like ready to press the we weren't the
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buttons we were gonna usually there's like because i was gonna call josh mandel i was gonna call
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other candidates as where is our policy and let them know we're not endorsing you you know and like
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all our ohio contacts and just like let everybody know donors and talk call donors and stuff i lost
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so many donors over that jd oh it was immediate and so charlie calls me he's like i just got like 50
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phone calls from donors what is going on like what is going on i was like of course we want to do this
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but you have to let me run charlie just tell him i was like yeah i was like charlie it was a total
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accident but like we just should just live with it at this point and we did and we stuck with it and we
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were like the first endorsement out of the gate we were like one of the first ones when he was at like
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one or two percent and then i went while erica was seven months pregnant i can't remember that jd yes
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for half of a week with him in the primary because i was like jd i'm of no help in the general
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right i want to see you become a senator more than anything else because i i literally said i was like
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this guy is the future of the party we were all in in the 2022 midterms we we had to be because
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everyone would like got so angry about it of one of the worst nights ever the 2022 midterms when it
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was just like that was the only consolation yeah that was like that was our we were like jd's a
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senator sucks yeah right and we were like at least we got this done and because i saw in him what we've
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been lacking is like he understands the maga agenda he is one of you he's from that part of the world
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that has been forgotten and looked over he broke through you don't get enough credit though charlie
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because like you could have got really we could have we could have waited we could have not done
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anything and i i just still remember sitting there and it was one of those moments thinking
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there's like god moments clearly we're here you know where we're at where you were like we just
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have to endorse him and then again you don't get enough credit for this but you were one of the first
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people to go do stuff with him right and you know and that does but that led these kind of things lead
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to you know other endorsements and things like that and it like helps build you know the you live in
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activism that's what we do at turning point action it's activism right so building that activist
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space behind a person and voices that matter i mean look we're here today now but there's with a
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now joe biden has been a politician in washington for longer than i've been alive
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39 years old kamala harris is not much further behind
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for half a century he's been the champion of every major policy initiative to make america weaker and
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poor and in four short years donald trump reversed decades of betrayals inflicted by joe biden
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and the rest of the corrupt washington insiders
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he created the greatest economy in history for workers really was amazing there's there's this chart
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that shows worker wages and they stagnated for pretty much my entire life until president donald j trump
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and just imagine what he's going to do when we give him four more years
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months ago i heard some young family member observe that their parents generations
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the baby boomers could afford to buy a home when they first entered the workforce
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but i don't know this person observed if i'll ever be able to afford a home
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the absurd cost of housing is the result of so many failures and it reveals so much
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about what's broken in washington i can tell you exactly how it happened
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wall street barons crashed the economy and american builders went out of business
00:34:25.700
as tradesmen scrambled for jobs houses stopped being built the lack of good jobs of course led
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to stagnant wages and then the democrats flooded this country with millions of illegal aliens
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so citizens had to compete with people who shouldn't even be here for precious housing
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joe biden's inflation crisis my friends is really an affordability crisis and many of the people that
00:34:57.560
i grew up with can't afford to pay more for groceries more for gas more for rent and that's exactly
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so prices soared dreams were shattered and china and the cartels sent ventin all across the border adding addiction to the heartache
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But ladies and gentlemen, that is not the end of our story.
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President Trump's vision is so simple and yet so powerful.
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We're done, ladies and gentlemen, catering to Wall Street.
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We're going to fight for American citizens and their good jobs and their good wages.
00:36:23.000
We're done by an energy from countries that hate us.
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We're going to get it right here from American workers in Pennsylvania and Ohio and across the country.
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We're done sacrificing supply chains to unlimited global trade.
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And we're going to stamp more and more products with that beautiful label, Made in the USA.
00:36:46.040
Let's just be like, Blake, I want to get this direct question to you because Trump was being pressured.
00:37:00.940
Again, let's talk about stereotypical, like what people think Trump is, what Trump actually is.
00:37:05.440
People think Trump is very manipulatable, that Trump will just cow to like a small collection of certain people on TV and or donors' interests.
00:37:15.380
Donald Trump really kind of gave the finger to a lot of people by doing this.
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And the pressure went up and up and up and up the whole time.
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And they're all thinking, OK, we can get our hooks in him over this or that.
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And I think it really is a testament to his instincts, as you said.
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But I think he really has those very powerful, raw instincts.
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And those guided him the whole way on this, where he's thinking, as you said, what will it look like at the convention?
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And what do the people pushing him look like versus what do the people who are against him look like?
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And I don't just mean physically, but also what are they saying?
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What has been their standing in the entire movement since I've started running?
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And I think all of that is working in his head as he's approaching this decision.
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There is one thing that I would like to get across before we say that.
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And I'll put it to Charlie because, Charlie, you, you know, blah, blah, blah, had the vision for Turning Point, et cetera, et cetera.
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But seriously, this is a moment where Trump came in.
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But he's in a moment where the odds are kind of in his favor.
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And as a true entrepreneur knows that you bet big when you're in a moment like that.
00:38:45.120
And he's betting on the future with this because it's a generational pick.
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I will say, though, that even if Trump was behind in the polls, J.D. makes the most sense politically.
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Because the way that Fox was talking about it today drove me nuts.
00:39:08.700
Well, it goes back to what you talked about earlier, which is what we talked about.
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Also, you want to win Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin.
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Over, like, nominate someone from that region of the world.
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And they literally said, well, this is a mark of a very overconfident candidate.
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And then finally, you know what the data is screaming at us?
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Please put someone on the ticket under the age of 50.
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Two J.D. Vances are still younger than Joe Biden.
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But J.D. Vance is doing what for us, what Obama did for them, in that Obama campaigned
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to a base of voters that had never been campaigned to before and expanded their pool.
00:40:27.280
Just so we are clear, and I'm going to say this publicly and privately, if we are to win
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the presidency, and if J.D. wants to run in the future, his immediate goal needs to
00:40:35.800
be in voter registration, 501c4 build-out, of making the coalition permanent, not just
00:40:43.000
This goes back to the Elon money, though, we just talked about.
00:40:47.820
If we do it right, J.D. Vance could, because he's such a strategic, smart thinker, say,
00:40:52.840
you have an opportunity, because of the Teamsters thing, muscular class, low-prop voters, to
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do what the Dems did with Obama, where they all of a sudden found 15% of new Americans
00:41:05.720
Well, they've also been increasing that number of new Americans as a way to...
00:41:10.660
And we need our own amalgamated bank, and we need our own...
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But that's the smart that J.D. will give us that everybody else wouldn't have.
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Now, we won't agree on every issue, of course, not even in this room.
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We may disagree from time to time about how best to reinvigorate American industry and
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But never forget that the reason why this united Republican Party exists, why we do this,
00:41:48.340
why we care about those great ideas and that great history, is that we want this nation
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Now, eventually in that mountain cemetery, my children will lay me to rest.
00:42:11.920
And when they do, I would like them to know that thanks to the work of this Republican Party,
00:42:17.100
the United States of America, and as strong and as proud and as great as ever.
00:42:38.380
And the only thing that we need to do right now, the most important thing that we can do
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for those people, for that American nation that we all love, is to re-elect Donald J.
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Donald J. Trump, President of the United States.
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Mr. President, I will never take for granted the trust you have put in me.
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And what an honor it is to help achieve the extraordinary vision that you have for this country.
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Now, I pledge to every American, no matter your party, I will give you everything I have
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to serve you and to make this country a place where every dream you have for yourself, your
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family, and your country will be possible once again.
00:43:46.720
And I promise you one more thing, to the people of Middletown, Ohio, and all the forgotten communities
00:43:53.380
in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, and every corner of our nation, I promise
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I will be a vice president who never forgets where he came from.
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I promise you this, I will be a vice president who never forgets where he came from.
00:44:08.920
And every single day for the next four years, when I walk into that White House to help President
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Trump, I will be doing it for you, for your family, for your future, and for this great
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And I just comment about how many, like, creatures are walking around this thing that
00:45:20.320
Oh, I could tell stories about some of these people.
00:45:21.900
No, I mean, just, I mean, just, by the way, we have all week, and all of a sudden I'm like,
00:45:28.580
But Jonah Goldberg called me an anti-Semite on CNN tonight.
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He is literally one of, like, five people who have been harassed in public for being
00:45:48.640
And CNN did a five-minute thing about how I'm anti-Semite.
00:45:58.140
And it's sort of like, compare this, I was thinking about this earlier today, and I was just like,
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what is so, and I'm having a great time, it's a great convention, et cetera, but there's
00:46:09.540
something that just felt a little bit off in the back of my head, like, as I'm walking
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And, you know, Turning Point events, there's so, no, no, no, it's like, there's a vibe,
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it's vibrant, it's looking at the future, and it's like all of the things that, you know,
00:46:28.520
that people are trying to say here, but Turning Point just does it.
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It just is the future, as opposed to being like, we're the future.
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But I do have to say, though, Charlie, your choice of the all-seeing eye and the giant
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pyramid behind you on stage was just, was absolutely masterful.
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Sorry, because we were here just blowing you up, man.
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We were like, Charlie is going full Illuminati.
00:47:03.160
Bro, WTF, is this the Illuminati that took this over?
00:47:10.100
Now, if this means we'll all be able to join, then I'll reconsider what I just said.
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And literally, I sent a picture of Marjorie Taylor Greene coming out of the pyramid.
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Ladies and gentlemen, there was all a fight between the Freemasons and the Illuminati.
00:47:23.640
Like, what, so was my face literally coming out of the...
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Anyway, I thought the speech delivery was what I could control.
00:47:43.920
It's like, hey, guys, how about, I don't know, Old Glory, the red, white, and blue.
00:47:52.120
I want to say, all kidding aside, I'm very touched to the convention that they had me
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They gave me, like, a lot of time, more than most people's.
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You got the most applause out of just about anybody.
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So I think it was you and the governor from Virginia.
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He does the Byron thing where he goes, you know...
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By the way, something that I, for my own personal reasons, up until today, didn't actually
00:48:42.000
But one of the blurbs that we got on the back is actually J.D. Vance.
00:48:48.240
And I, you know, I kind of knew this was in the works.
00:48:50.640
And, you know, there were a few names that I was thinking about.
00:48:53.140
You know, when you're getting blurbs on a book, you reach out to a few folks that you
00:48:56.760
And I was like, I don't want to, you know, use like a personal relationship or something
00:49:01.760
But some of the guys said, no, but he really speaks to this stuff.
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And I said, well, there's no way that he would do it because, you know, he's under consideration.
00:49:12.760
Well, then, yeah, I had to do the, perform this like ritual with like the, you know, there