The Charlie Kirk Show - A Battleground Election-Eve Update from Arizona with Blake Masters

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, Blake Masters joins us running for Senate in Arizona.

00:00:03.000 My choice and Turning Point Action's choice.

00:00:05.000 If you live in Arizona, make sure you vote for Blake and get your friends to do the same.

00:00:09.000 Email me your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:00:11.000 We talk about the new conservative movement and also walk through with Blake Masters as he begins to ramp up in his fight against Mark Kelly.

00:00:18.000 Very instructive episode if you want to see the future of the Republican Party.

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00:01:12.000 I am joined by the man who will be the nominee for the Republican Party, Blake Masters.

00:01:18.000 The Arizona primaries tomorrow.

00:01:19.000 Blake, welcome back.

00:01:20.000 Great to see you.

00:01:21.000 Thanks for having me back.

00:01:22.000 And you want to say that we don't get too far ahead of ourselves, but voting is 24 hours away from polls closing.

00:01:30.000 I have 36 hours.

00:01:32.000 How do you feel about the race?

00:01:33.000 Feeling pretty good.

00:01:34.000 Every major poll shows me up, kind of by a lot, actually.

00:01:38.000 But we believe the polls.

00:01:40.000 We also don't trust them.

00:01:41.000 I am sprinting to the finish line.

00:01:42.000 You and I are doing an event here today at 4 p.m. in Phoenix.

00:01:47.000 I have an event after that, right?

00:01:49.000 Some stuff going on tomorrow.

00:01:50.000 So we're sprinting through the finish line.

00:01:53.000 And so the race, I think the primary is basically, I think you're going to be the nominee, but we have to can't take anything for granted.

00:02:00.000 Got to get through it.

00:02:01.000 That's right.

00:02:01.000 And so, but you're coming up against Mark Kelly, who is super well funded.

00:02:06.000 Now, Blake, do you feel as if some Republicans have an attitude that a red wave is inevitable and that we have a lot more work than I think they're willing to admit?

00:02:15.000 That there might be a complacency spirit.

00:02:17.000 That's right.

00:02:18.000 And I'm warning every group that I speak to about this exactly.

00:02:21.000 It's like, yeah, God willing, we're going to have a red tsunami, right?

00:02:24.000 More than just a red wave.

00:02:25.000 But paradoxically, you can't take that for granted.

00:02:29.000 Because if you think there's going to be a red wave, well, maybe you'll sit on the couch and you won't do the hard work that we need to manufacture that red wave.

00:02:35.000 So we need to act like the underdog.

00:02:37.000 We need to know that this election is existential and we can't get complacent.

00:02:42.000 But if we don't, we'll crush it.

00:02:43.000 Yeah, and so Arizona, and this is national implications, this is the center of the deciding factor of where the country will go.

00:02:52.000 This state is legitimately, I don't want to say it's even purple, it's just neutral, right?

00:02:57.000 I mean, we elect Republican governors, we elect Democrat senators, and Mark Kelly has a ton of money.

00:03:04.000 I want to play a tape here, an ad here, Cut 12.

00:03:07.000 We played this in the last hour.

00:03:08.000 I want you to respond to it, Blake, because you're going to have to respond to a lot of Mark Kelly stuff.

00:03:11.000 Now, Mark Kelly has, what, $35 million cash on hand?

00:03:15.000 At least, yeah.

00:03:15.000 An extraordinary amount of hard money.

00:03:17.000 That doesn't count in super PACs or C4 money.

00:03:20.000 This is just in hard money.

00:03:24.000 He is putting one after the ad after the other after the other on local television.

00:03:28.000 This is Mark Kelly, who I think this is a very good advertisement.

00:03:31.000 I really do.

00:03:31.000 He's very good at lying and deceiving people where he says, I'm going to take on my own party.

00:03:37.000 Play Cut 12.

00:03:38.000 Arizona families are facing tough choices, like how to fill the gas tank and the grocery cart.

00:03:44.000 And things people count on can be hard to find.

00:03:47.000 We can't afford to wait this out.

00:03:48.000 So I'm pushing for solutions today, even if it means taking on my own party.

00:03:53.000 Like bringing down gas prices by allowing more domestic oil production, temporarily ending the gas tax, and cutting red tape to restock shells faster.

00:04:02.000 I'm Mark Kelly, and I prove this message because I'll do whatever it takes to lower costs now.

00:04:08.000 Blake? 0.98

00:04:09.000 He's just a liar. 0.99

00:04:11.000 Like, you know, nicely produced ad, Mark, but like he means none of it. 0.99

00:04:17.000 Yes.

00:04:17.000 He'll do whatever it takes to lower costs for Arizona families.

00:04:20.000 Dude, you've been in office for almost two years.

00:04:23.000 And all he's done is vote almost in lockstep, literally, like 97, 98% in lockstep with the Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden, pro-inflation, open borders agenda.

00:04:31.000 Like, he's voted for all the trillions and piece of spending has been.

00:04:34.000 Every piece of spending.

00:04:35.000 He was chomping at the bit to vote for Build Back Better, $3 trillion in spending when we already had inflation.

00:04:40.000 Mark Kelly, he's not just a do-nothing senator.

00:04:42.000 He's an enabler of this Biden inflation.

00:04:45.000 What do you think about him being able to pull off an ad like that?

00:04:50.000 Because it's so dishonest, right?

00:04:52.000 And this is something that, and by the way, let's nationalize this.

00:04:54.000 We have a national audience.

00:04:55.000 By the way, Blake needs your help.

00:04:56.000 BlakeMasters.com, if you could help him.

00:04:58.000 We got to flip this Arizona Senate race.

00:05:00.000 He's beyond base to take my word for it.

00:05:02.000 But the question is, Blake, what do you think about this idea of a radical senator that can temporarily play act as a moderate?

00:05:11.000 I think that it's not going to work.

00:05:13.000 I acknowledge it's a challenge.

00:05:14.000 He's got tons of money.

00:05:16.000 He can run.

00:05:16.000 He can make sure every Arizonan sees that ad 30 times.

00:05:19.000 And they will.

00:05:20.000 And they will.

00:05:20.000 But I just think people, man, people are smarter than that.

00:05:23.000 People don't like being lied to.

00:05:26.000 He pretends everything's great, and he's really helping.

00:05:28.000 No, he's causing all of this.

00:05:30.000 And so when I get out there with my message, I think we will just tie him to his left-wing voting record.

00:05:34.000 And in some ways, me and Mark Kelly, like, we're the opposite.

00:05:37.000 He pretends to be a moderate, and then he's actually just a left-wing radical, right?

00:05:42.000 I'm running a bold campaign.

00:05:43.000 I'm a bold candidate.

00:05:44.000 I speak from the heart and I say what I feel.

00:05:47.000 That's why you're winning.

00:05:48.000 But it's all in service of this incredibly commonsensical agenda.

00:05:52.000 What is that common sense?

00:05:53.000 Can we have a border, right?

00:05:54.000 The correct amount of illegal immigration is zero.

00:05:56.000 Let's have zero inflation.

00:05:58.000 Maybe 2% is under 2% with President Trump, but not 20%.

00:06:01.000 My goodness.

00:06:02.000 Can we actually arrest bad people, lock them up, prosecute them?

00:06:05.000 Yes.

00:06:06.000 Like we have a Biden crime wave and Mark Kelly doesn't care about any of this stuff.

00:06:09.000 So it's a common sense America first agenda.

00:06:12.000 And yeah, we're in trouble.

00:06:12.000 So I'm bold in articulating this.

00:06:15.000 I'd much rather be bold in the service of truth than Mark Kelly.

00:06:19.000 He's this radical pretending to be moderate.

00:06:20.000 That's just a lie.

00:06:22.000 Mark tweeted out, Senator Kelly said, this is going to be one of the most expensive Senate races in the country.

00:06:28.000 He's actually not wrong.

00:06:29.000 He's telling the truth.

00:06:30.000 With tens of millions of dollars being spent to flip this seat, every dollar counts, so I need your help to defend it.

00:06:37.000 Can you chip in before our end of month deadline tomorrow?

00:06:40.000 Why is it that Democrats, so this is an article in the New York Times, Republicans confront unexpected online money slowdown.

00:06:46.000 What's your theory as to why?

00:06:47.000 Is it a complacency attitude that's setting in?

00:06:51.000 Maybe a little bit of that.

00:06:52.000 You know, I think the Democrat donors donating to Mark Kelly, maybe they're in the sort of professional managerial class.

00:06:57.000 Maybe they're doing relatively okay.

00:06:59.000 It's Mark Kelly's economic policies.

00:07:01.000 They're devastating normal Americans, normal American families. 0.99

00:07:04.000 Well, that's who supports me.

00:07:06.000 Normal people in Arizona who are just trying to class.

00:07:11.000 People actually do stuff for a living.

00:07:13.000 Yes.

00:07:13.000 Right.

00:07:14.000 And so I think the recession, and it is a recession, even if the Democrats try to redefine it, the recession, this economic downturn, all of the chaos and pain that Biden is delivering, I think that does disproportionately hurt people who might like to support Blake Masters.

00:07:28.000 And so I have to go toe-to-toe fundraising with Mark Kelly.

00:07:32.000 He says he doesn't take corporate PAC dollars.

00:07:34.000 Have you seen this?

00:07:35.000 Yes, I have.

00:07:35.000 I was actually about to bring that up.

00:07:37.000 So tell me your take.

00:07:38.000 I have an angle on that.

00:07:39.000 I want your take first.

00:07:40.000 Well, he's using a little trick.

00:07:42.000 Again, he's being dishonest.

00:07:43.000 He's using a little trick.

00:07:44.000 Corporate PACs, right, can donate up to, I think, $5,000 to a candidate.

00:07:48.000 Yeah, it's either $5,600 or something.

00:07:49.000 But that's basically it.

00:07:50.000 Yes.

00:07:51.000 Even if you're Pfizer.

00:07:52.000 So he says, okay, Pfizer, I won't take your corporate PAC money.

00:07:55.000 And then he runs these ads.

00:07:56.000 I don't take corporate PACs.

00:07:57.000 You know what he does do?

00:07:58.000 He calls up all the executives at Pfizer who can give $5,800 each.

00:08:02.000 And he runs the table.

00:08:03.000 He'll get hundreds of thousands of dollars.

00:08:05.000 It's even worse than that.

00:08:06.000 Corporate money.

00:08:07.000 So here's a good thing nationally, okay?

00:08:09.000 So there's three different types of political advertisements that can legally be run.

00:08:13.000 The first of which is direct straight to camera, right?

00:08:16.000 So you got Blake Masters, vote for me, here's why.

00:08:19.000 That has to be done using what's called hard money, direct to the campaign, right?

00:08:24.000 That is every donor is disclosed.

00:08:26.000 Every dollar is disclosed.

00:08:29.000 It's very hard to raise that money because of limits, and you have to basically build a small dollar army, right?

00:08:37.000 And so how much small dollar are you able to say what was your small dollar?

00:08:40.000 Like, what was your hard money?

00:08:42.000 Hard money, I've raised about $4 million.

00:08:43.000 That's a lot.

00:08:45.000 That was a hard work, right?

00:08:47.000 And you were up against an opponent that put 15 of his own in, right?

00:08:50.000 And so Mark Kelly has upwards of 50, right?

00:08:53.000 The second type of an advertisement is called a PAC, okay, a political action committee.

00:08:58.000 They are able to directly advocate for the election or defeat of a candidate.

00:09:03.000 For example, you should vote for Blake Masters right now.

00:09:06.000 Now, Blake is not allowed to be in that advertisement straight to camera, and they cannot coordinate with campaigns, right?

00:09:12.000 That's a very important thing, but they can raise money.

00:09:15.000 All of it has to be disclosed, but they can't raise it directly from corporations themselves.

00:09:19.000 But wait, it gets interesting.

00:09:21.000 They can raise it from donors.

00:09:23.000 They can raise it from CEOs.

00:09:25.000 So corporate PACs have all this money in support of Mark Kelly.

00:09:28.000 But it's the third category that Mark Kelly doesn't tell you about, which is the 501c4s.

00:09:33.000 And these advertisements are different, and you've probably seen them before, which is Mark Kelly is the most beautiful person who can walk on water.

00:09:40.000 He circulated the moon, cured cancer, and he also is an identical twin, which is actually bizarrely true.

00:09:48.000 And therefore, call Mark Kelly with this phone number on the bottom of your screen and tell him how beautiful he is.

00:09:55.000 That is considered a social welfare lobbying ad that a 501c4 can get unlimited amount of money that is not disclosed and corporations donate to it.

00:10:05.000 So Mark Kelly has these wink and nod favors of tens of millions of dark money that comes in in favor of him.

00:10:12.000 It's blakmasters.com.

00:10:14.000 I'm telling you, if he flips the seat against Mark Kelly, it'll be one of the most amazing flips in American politics in the last couple decades.

00:10:14.000 He's going to bring the fight.

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00:12:01.000 Blake, I was kind of going on a rant here describing the kind of architecture of political funding.

00:12:05.000 Any thoughts on all of that?

00:12:06.000 Yeah, well, you mentioned the corporations are very good at sort of funneling 501c4 money to Mark Kelly.

00:12:12.000 You know, who else is good at it?

00:12:13.000 We just have to mention it's George Soros.

00:12:15.000 That's how Soros does it.

00:12:15.000 Yes.

00:12:17.000 You're not allowed to say that out loud.

00:12:18.000 Oh, my gosh.

00:12:19.000 And the left is really, I mean, you've got to give them credit.

00:12:21.000 I think they're abusing the nonprofit tax code.

00:12:23.000 They use 501c3s and 501c4s to do political stuff, which you're not allowed to do.

00:12:28.000 But they get away with it and they're good at it.

00:12:31.000 Everyone says, oh, there's so much dark money.

00:12:33.000 It's like Republicans just cut checks to super PACs.

00:12:35.000 And like you said, that has to be disclosed.

00:12:37.000 There's nothing dark about that.

00:12:38.000 You know, what's shady is this 501c4 abuse.

00:12:38.000 Yes.

00:12:44.000 And that's how the Democrats prop up.

00:12:47.000 And they're able to give corporate money, which is the important thing, right?

00:12:50.000 They can give it straight from a corporate bank account.

00:12:53.000 It's not tax deductible.

00:12:54.000 But for example, Pfizer or Moderna could give to a 501c4 and not have it be disclosed.

00:12:59.000 That's right.

00:13:00.000 And so that should literally be illegal.

00:13:02.000 So anytime you see a phone number associated with a political ad, and Republicans do a little bit of this, but it's mostly Democrats.

00:13:08.000 Whenever you see a phone number associated with a political advertisement, then that's 501c4 dark money, probably funded by a major corporation.

00:13:17.000 So you actually, and here's how specific they are on it.

00:13:20.000 It can't be more than 15 seconds of the ad can be political.

00:13:24.000 So the first 14 seconds, if they want to look at Mark Kelly, look how beautiful he is.

00:13:28.000 He's amazing the next 15 seconds.

00:13:30.000 Right.

00:13:30.000 And then we're actually going to get to that ad that he's run.

00:13:32.000 Here's the next 16 seconds of all the different things that are happening there.

00:13:37.000 Have you weighed in on the other Arizona races or are you just focused on your own deal?

00:13:41.000 Just focused on winning the Senate race.

00:13:42.000 Okay.

00:13:43.000 Got it.

00:13:44.000 I want to play Cut 19, Mark Kelly's NASA ad.

00:13:47.000 You do know you're running up against an astronaut.

00:13:48.000 I've heard.

00:13:49.000 I've heard.

00:13:50.000 He'll tell you all about it.

00:13:51.000 Play cut 19.

00:13:51.000 Here we go.

00:13:53.000 Compared to Congress, the way NASA operates might seem kind of upside down.

00:13:58.000 Putting the mission first, working as a team, and getting the job done no matter what.

00:14:03.000 But really, isn't it Washington that has things upside down?

00:14:07.000 I'm doing things differently.

00:14:08.000 I don't take a dime of corporate PAC money.

00:14:11.000 I publish my schedule online so you know exactly what I'm working on.

00:14:15.000 And I put aside the party politics so we can accomplish results together.

00:14:20.000 I'm Mark Kelly, and I approve this message.

00:14:23.000 Blake?

00:14:24.000 It's just amazing.

00:14:25.000 It's like, it feels sinister to me.

00:14:28.000 It's so dishonest.

00:14:30.000 He publishes his schedule, Blake.

00:14:31.000 He publishes his schedule online.

00:14:34.000 It's just so dishonest.

00:14:35.000 Yes, here on Earth, we actually have a huge border crisis that he helped cause.

00:14:39.000 Here on Earth, we actually have inflation.

00:14:40.000 We have skyrocketing crime.

00:14:42.000 We have left-wing indoctrination in the schools. 0.94

00:14:43.000 But he wants to go and do a bunch of B-roll stock footage from the International Space Station.

00:14:49.000 I think he's out to lunch.

00:14:50.000 He actually just doesn't understand what's happening.

00:14:53.000 And he surrendered his voting card to Chuck Schumer.

00:14:56.000 But he's a moderate and independent.

00:14:58.000 It's just a lie.

00:14:59.000 Again, I think people see through it.

00:15:00.000 I think so, too.

00:15:02.000 And he, again, is sitting on this boatload of cash and with all these different issues there.

00:15:07.000 Do you feel as if, Blake, Democrats are starting to adjust a little bit?

00:15:12.000 They're trying to, actually.

00:15:13.000 Let's talk about it.

00:15:14.000 They're reading the polls.

00:15:14.000 They know.

00:15:15.000 They know it's trouble in November.

00:15:18.000 They've completely failed, the Democrats in charge.

00:15:20.000 I think they know they're kind of heading towards electoral Armageddon.

00:15:24.000 And so they're scrambling.

00:15:26.000 It's why he's running ads like that.

00:15:27.000 It's why all of a sudden the Democrats are pretending to be all about border security.

00:15:31.000 Yes, or the Reduce Inflation Act.

00:15:33.000 The Reduce Inflation Act.

00:15:34.000 And of course, they don't have anything new in the playbook.

00:15:37.000 If you have horrible economic policies and you cause a recession, you'd think that they'd want to reverse those economic policies and get out of it.

00:15:44.000 No, they double down on the taxing and spending, right?

00:15:47.000 This is a taxing and spending bill.

00:15:48.000 They're going to raise taxes on people who are making under $400,000, by the way.

00:15:53.000 And then they're just going to spend billions and billions of dollars.

00:15:56.000 And somehow, that's supposed to reduce inflation.

00:15:58.000 So the new bill is green energy handouts, expanding the IRS authorities and powers.

00:16:05.000 Manchin said he's going to vote for it.

00:16:07.000 And what I've said on this program, Blake, and this is all public, so you can take it if you want, is why don't we put the pressure on Mark Kelly now and show people, no, this is not some sort of like he's faking a moderate thing.

00:16:19.000 Right now, he's the deciding vote to go spend another $500 billion.

00:16:23.000 That's right.

00:16:24.000 Right now.

00:16:24.000 And he'll try to stay quiet, you know, but we need to force him to answer.

00:16:27.000 Yeah, if we flush him out.

00:16:29.000 All the Arizona media is go ask this guy, Mark, how would you vote on this Inflation Reduction Act?

00:16:34.000 Obviously, he'd be a rubber shooter.

00:16:35.000 Yes.

00:16:35.000 Well, tomorrow he's going to have an opponent.

00:16:37.000 That's where things start to change.

00:16:39.000 That's right.

00:16:40.000 And it'll be interesting to see.

00:16:41.000 I mean, I obviously don't want the bill because it'd be bad for the country.

00:16:45.000 But, you know, if Kelly votes no on the bill, it'll probably help him a little bit politically.

00:16:50.000 He votes yes on the bill.

00:16:51.000 He's going to have to own that.

00:16:52.000 Oh, yeah.

00:16:53.000 This bill is a massive boondog.

00:16:55.000 And at this point, he's voted the wrong way basically every single time for two years.

00:16:58.000 He's got a left-wing track record.

00:17:00.000 I know people don't want to believe that an astronaut would be this radical, but sorry, it's true.

00:17:05.000 It's true.

00:17:06.000 He promised to be independent.

00:17:07.000 He lied.

00:17:08.000 And my job this fall will be to tie him to his failed voting.

00:17:11.000 It's not going to be easy, but I'm telling you, this new generation of conservatives is here to fight.

00:17:15.000 Arizona is where it starts.

00:17:16.000 You want to save America.

00:17:17.000 You cannot save America without saving Arizona.

00:17:19.000 Period.

00:17:19.000 Math doesn't work.

00:17:21.000 You got to focus on it.

00:17:22.000 We're here live in Arizona at BlakeMasters, BlakeMasters.com.

00:17:24.000 If you live in Arizona, vote for him.

00:17:26.000 If not, find someone to go vote for him.

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00:18:30.000 All right, I have to issue an apology.

00:18:32.000 I was a little, or at least clarification, okay?

00:18:35.000 Not like a whoopie Goldberg clarification, all right?

00:18:37.000 You saw that whole circus last week, which is, okay, I said Missouri doesn't matter.

00:18:43.000 I didn't mean it that way.

00:18:44.000 Okay.

00:18:44.000 Did they flood in?

00:18:45.000 Oh, like you wouldn't believe it.

00:18:46.000 They're coming from the rivers.

00:18:47.000 They're coming from Cape Girardo.

00:18:48.000 They're coming from the Lake of the Ozarks.

00:18:50.000 They're coming from Springfield.

00:18:51.000 They're coming from Branson.

00:18:53.000 I love Missouri.

00:18:54.000 I was going to say, you know quite a lot about Missouri.

00:18:56.000 I've spent a lot of time in Missouri.

00:18:57.000 See, Missouri is important.

00:18:58.000 It's very important.

00:19:00.000 What I was saying flippantly, all right, is that I live in Arizona and I care about the state I live in.

00:19:05.000 And I was joking.

00:19:06.000 This one says, Charlie, who are you to say that?

00:19:08.000 You know, Missouri has a primary disappointed you.

00:19:10.000 Excuse my attention to what you say.

00:19:12.000 I accept all of it.

00:19:13.000 Missouri, I love Missouri.

00:19:14.000 It's a beautiful place.

00:19:15.000 Missouri is great.

00:19:16.000 Okay.

00:19:17.000 And if Blake wins, he'll be a partner with the great Josh Hawley in the beautiful state of Missouri.

00:19:24.000 Okay, so someone just emailed us, quote, Mark Kelly is guilty of lying in his latest campaign ad.

00:19:29.000 This is not right, and Blake needs to call him out on it.

00:19:31.000 So there's a long email here, but Blake, you're going to run a different type of campaign, not the kind of Martha McSally type campaign.

00:19:36.000 Is that right?

00:19:37.000 That's right.

00:19:37.000 We're going to be bold on the issues.

00:19:38.000 You know, I'm not going to shy away.

00:19:40.000 I'm not going to attack Mark Kelly's character.

00:19:42.000 We don't need to do it.

00:19:43.000 Why would I want to do that?

00:19:44.000 Well, just tell the truth about his record.

00:19:46.000 He promised to be an independent, and actually he's just delivering inflation, open borders, everything that's ruining this country.

00:19:54.000 Cut 20, Mark Kelly.

00:19:55.000 When corporations take advantage of a crisis, that's price gouging, and it's wrong.

00:19:59.000 Cut 20.

00:20:01.000 Even when gas prices go up, Arizonans still have to get to work, take their kids to school, make it to that doctor's appointment.

00:20:08.000 But as families struggle, oil companies are earning record profits.

00:20:12.000 When corporations take advantage of a crisis, that's price gouging, and it's wrong.

00:20:18.000 So I'm leading the fight to hold companies accountable, increase domestic oil production, and cut the federal gas tax.

00:20:25.000 I'm Mark Kelly, and I approve this message because Arizonans can't afford corporate greed.

00:20:30.000 Before I let you chime in on here, Blake, I think this should all give you hope and confidence.

00:20:34.000 He has to run in the middle.

00:20:36.000 This state is not Massachusetts.

00:20:39.000 He's voting as if it's Massachusetts.

00:20:41.000 Totally.

00:20:42.000 It's no different than Elizabeth Warren.

00:20:44.000 His voting record is Elizabeth Warren.

00:20:46.000 That's right.

00:20:46.000 And yet his ads are like he's running in Texas.

00:20:48.000 That's right.

00:20:48.000 And I just, I think people are over it.

00:20:50.000 You cannot say one thing and do another as a politician and expect to be successful.

00:20:56.000 Like, it's just so dishonest.

00:20:58.000 He's talking about gas prices, crying crocodile tears.

00:21:02.000 Where was he when Joe Biden canceled the Keystone Pipeline?

00:21:04.000 Where was he when Joe Biden literally reversed energy independence?

00:21:08.000 He's complicit with all of it.

00:21:10.000 And now he knows that he's got an election in a couple weeks.

00:21:12.000 He knows I'm coming after him, which is why you see this BS.

00:21:14.000 I actually haven't seen these ads.

00:21:16.000 Oh, is that right?

00:21:16.000 I haven't because I don't watch that much television.

00:21:18.000 But this is important, though.

00:21:19.000 Yes, it's just, I mean, I knew he's doing this.

00:21:21.000 See, that's Connor.

00:21:22.000 We're doing live OPO research for the Masters campus.

00:21:25.000 This is so dishonest.

00:21:26.000 But no, it's important you see it because starting tomorrow, I believe the game is on.

00:21:29.000 Who cares about all these other Republican candidates starting?

00:21:32.000 As soon as you're called as the winner, which I believe you will be, God willing, people show up and they vote, which we can't take anything for granted.

00:21:38.000 You got to go and vote.

00:21:40.000 Then all of a sudden, it's you and Mark Kelly.

00:21:41.000 And you look at the whole country: Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona.

00:21:45.000 Those are the three big ones.

00:21:46.000 Oz is down right now.

00:21:48.000 Hopefully, he'll be able to recover.

00:21:50.000 And I think he's got a lot of things he's got to fix there.

00:21:52.000 Herschel Walker is in a little bit of a crisis in Georgia, and then you got Arizona.

00:21:55.000 But that's basically it.

00:21:56.000 There is no way to get the Senate back.

00:21:58.000 That's right.

00:21:58.000 We need Arizona.

00:21:59.000 So I want to ask you about this, which is this new Republican Party.

00:22:03.000 One of the most just honestly hilarious things.

00:22:06.000 I wish we had the longer clip.

00:22:08.000 The longer CNN clip is worth playing.

00:22:10.000 We'll play the short one first.

00:22:11.000 So you see this clip where CNN went out to the Wyoming, was it some sort of a rodeo or something?

00:22:17.000 We've been talking a lot about rodeos today.

00:22:18.000 So CNN goes out to a rodeo, and this poor reporter, God bless her heart, she definitely had a direction from her editor to go find Liz Cheney supporters at the rodeo. 1.00

00:22:30.000 And she spent like six hours at the rodeo.

00:22:33.000 Did she find one?

00:22:34.000 No, at the end of it.

00:22:35.000 And by the way, the way she covers like a Wyoming rodeo or whatever, Wyoming State Fair is as if it was kind of the best way I could, it's like National Geographic going into the wild, right?

00:22:46.000 It's like, and here we are in the rodeo of Wyoming, the far and distant land where people eat deep-fried corn dogs and ride bulls and don't have air conditioning.

00:22:59.000 It's like, she's like such in a distant land.

00:23:01.000 It's a far cry from Brooklyn.

00:23:02.000 At the end, right.

00:23:03.000 At the end, after five or six hours, she's probably so fed up on being there, like, screw it, we're doing it live.

00:23:07.000 There's no one that likes Liz Cheney here. 1.00

00:23:11.000 All right, play cut 11.

00:23:14.000 Are you planning to vote for Liz Cheney?

00:23:17.000 Can I tell us?

00:23:18.000 Hey, oh no.

00:23:20.000 Are you planning to support Liz Cheney?

00:23:22.000 Absolutely not.

00:23:22.000 What are your thoughts about Liz Cheney running for her fourth term?

00:23:26.000 Personally, I think she said for three too many.

00:23:28.000 Keep in mind, in 2020, Donald Trump won about 70% of the vote in Wyoming.

00:23:33.000 So Liz Cheney's work on the January 6th investigation isn't playing so well with many Wyoming voters. 1.00

00:23:40.000 She's done us dirty. 1.00

00:23:43.000 You got to get the end of it.

00:23:44.000 Clip that up, Ryan and Connor.

00:23:45.000 The end is the best when she's just so sweaty and irritated and she's just done with the cut.

00:23:50.000 Like, I'm just done with this.

00:23:53.000 Your thoughts, Blake, on Wyoming rejecting Liz Cheney's as part of a broader pressure.

00:23:57.000 Poor journalist, right?

00:23:58.000 I mean, it's frustrating to go looking for something for hours and not being able to find a single Liz Cheney supporter.

00:24:04.000 You're running East looking for a sunset.

00:24:05.000 You're not going to find it.

00:24:06.000 That's like going to a rodeo gathering for a...

00:24:09.000 For a Cheney supporter, you're not going to find it.

00:24:11.000 I'm not sure what they were expecting.

00:24:12.000 Of course, that's hilarious.

00:24:14.000 It's also entirely unsurprising.

00:24:15.000 This is what happens when you sell out your base, when you promise people something, and then in Washington, you deliver something else.

00:24:23.000 Turns out people don't like that, right?

00:24:25.000 And we have a problem in the Republican Party.

00:24:27.000 The Democrats, I think they have this ghastly agenda, but you've got to give them some credit for being in lockstep, being organized, working hard, right?

00:24:35.000 I don't like that.

00:24:36.000 We have more intellectual diversity in our party.

00:24:37.000 That's great.

00:24:38.000 But we don't need Republicans who basically act like Democrats when you need them most.

00:24:43.000 And that's what Liz Cheney is. 1.00

00:24:44.000 That's what Mitt Romney is.

00:24:46.000 Yeah, and so that's a fear that some people have.

00:24:47.000 It's like, hey, Blake, you know, you sound great.

00:24:49.000 You're going to get to the general.

00:24:50.000 You're going to be elected.

00:24:52.000 But you're saying, no, I'm going to run a grassroots campaign.

00:24:55.000 That's very bold ideas.

00:24:56.000 And it will be on consensus things, right?

00:24:58.000 We're never going to pander, but we will focus and target on inflation and immigration.

00:25:04.000 But I'm not going to all of a sudden kind of metamorphosize into some sort of moderate.

00:25:08.000 Is that right?

00:25:09.000 That's exactly right.

00:25:10.000 And that's why the left fears me so badly.

00:25:12.000 They know that I'm sincere.

00:25:14.000 They know that I believe what I say and I'm going to deliver on it.

00:25:17.000 I totally agree with that.

00:25:18.000 Someone says here, they said, look, you know, Blake can learn something from Pennsylvania.

00:25:22.000 Oz is down because he doesn't stand for anything.

00:25:24.000 It kind of goes to this general theme, doesn't it?

00:25:27.000 Which is we're not just going to run for the sake of running.

00:25:30.000 We're going to make this also an idea battle.

00:25:34.000 What is the vision then?

00:25:35.000 Because you're going to have a couple debates against Kelly, hopefully, if he agrees.

00:25:39.000 I think he'll agree to debate.

00:25:40.000 You think he'll do it?

00:25:41.000 I've actually lately been thinking that they're going to find some crisis.

00:25:43.000 There's going to be a new COVID variant that comes out just at the right time to cancel the debate or something.

00:25:49.000 If I'm Mark Kelly, I wouldn't want to debate me if I'm Mark Kelly.

00:25:52.000 So we'll see if they let him do it.

00:25:53.000 But yeah, we're going to have some debates.

00:25:55.000 And look, I think one thing that, and this isn't a slogan, but it's something I repeat on the campaign trail.

00:26:00.000 In America, you should be able to raise a family on one single income.

00:26:04.000 This is the most important, this is the most controversial thing you've said according to the media.

00:26:09.000 Let's zero in on that, Blake.

00:26:10.000 We talked about it before in our program.

00:26:11.000 What do you mean by that?

00:26:13.000 Well, you know, you used to be able to do it in this country, right?

00:26:16.000 A couple decades ago before all this crazy inflation and globalization.

00:26:19.000 You used to be able to raise a middle-class family could exist on one single median wage, maybe at a modest house and a car, and you could have a couple kids, take a vacation every year.

00:26:30.000 And all of that's gone now.

00:26:31.000 And maybe there's a complicated story about what happened, again, with globalization and all this.

00:26:35.000 But also, no, shouldn't we talk in this register?

00:26:39.000 Like, why politicians talk about GDP and wage growth?

00:26:42.000 And yeah, that stuff's important too.

00:26:43.000 But how are families doing?

00:26:45.000 That's what I care about.

00:26:46.000 So by the way, the new numbers haven't been updated, but in 1985, you could sustain a family of four with, I think, 36 weeks of labor a year.

00:26:56.000 Is that about right?

00:26:56.000 That sounds good.

00:26:57.000 Sounds right.

00:26:58.000 And by the way, Liz Warren wrote an entire book called The Two Income Trap, where she actually used to believe this stuff.

00:27:02.000 She used to be able to talk about this stuff.

00:27:04.000 Yeah.

00:27:04.000 Now she's snowed.

00:27:05.000 Now she's a corporate hack, which is hilarious. 0.99

00:27:07.000 And so then the next kind of variation, now it takes, before inflation, it took 53 weeks of work, which forced women into the workplace. 1.00

00:27:18.000 And the feminists thought this was wonderful, but in reality, it actually really makes it harder to start a family. 1.00

00:27:22.000 Now it's probably 60 weeks.

00:27:25.000 You have to go into debt to raise a family.

00:27:27.000 It's not 60 weeks in a year.

00:27:29.000 The math doesn't work.

00:27:30.000 The math does not work.

00:27:31.000 And so the middle class is getting crunched.

00:27:32.000 It's getting harder and harder for people to actually raise families.

00:27:36.000 People, young people, right? 1.00

00:27:37.000 They're not getting married as often.

00:27:38.000 When they do, it's later.

00:27:39.000 When they have kids, you know, they're having fewer and later in life.

00:27:43.000 And no, I want Arizona to be the best state to raise a family.

00:27:46.000 I want America to be the best country in the world to raise a family.

00:27:48.000 And all that's under assault because these crazy left-wing Democrat economic policies.

00:27:53.000 And so I'm going to still run on this and deliver on it.

00:27:56.000 You know, that's what I care most about.

00:27:58.000 Families are everything.

00:27:59.000 We have the Parents' Party here that is rising up in Arizona.

00:28:03.000 And then we have, I call it, the Groomers Party on the other side.

00:28:07.000 Okay, Cut 23 is they go to find a Liz Cheney supporter and doesn't go well in Wyoming.

00:28:13.000 Play Cut 23.

00:28:14.000 Here in Cheyenne, more than 1,600 miles from Washington, D.C., almost everyone we spoke with told us they believe Liz Cheney is too focused on Donald Trump and the January 6th committee and not paying enough attention to what they believe matters to the people here in Wyoming.

00:28:31.000 She doesn't know what her constituents want here anymore because she's lost touch with the values of the people. 0.67

00:28:37.000 I don't feel like she supports her people here in Wyoming anymore.

00:28:41.000 The things that she's voting for don't really reflect what the people here in Wyoming feel.

00:28:49.000 Blake, any closing thoughts?

00:28:51.000 It's exactly it.

00:28:52.000 You know, the Democrats, and I guess I lumped Liz Cheney in there. 0.99

00:28:57.000 They're focused on the wrong stuff.

00:28:59.000 You know, every time I get a media inquiry from the left, you know, they want to talk about January 6th, January 6th.

00:29:04.000 And I'm like, why are you guys so obsessed with this?

00:29:06.000 Nobody's watching these fake show hearings.

00:29:08.000 You know, it's a kangaroo court.

00:29:12.000 You know what I want to talk about is inflation.

00:29:14.000 I want to talk about open borders.

00:29:16.000 I want to talk about the indoctrination in our kids' schools.

00:29:18.000 And it turns out that's what like 60, 70, maybe even 80% of Arizona.

00:29:22.000 Everyone wants to talk about inflation.

00:29:23.000 That's right.

00:29:23.000 Everyone does.

00:29:24.000 You guys can go to blakemasters.com.

00:29:27.000 You'll see Blake's beautiful family there, three kids and his wife.

00:29:31.000 And Blake, the biggest sacrifice if you win, you have to move to Washington, D.C.

00:29:36.000 I just don't know how that's going to work.

00:29:39.000 Endorsed by President Trump, might I add.

00:29:41.000 An enthusiastic endorsement.

00:29:43.000 That's right.

00:29:43.000 And you've been running ads with that with him throughout the campaign.

00:29:47.000 I just love the entire edginess of the whole campaign, the kind of font.

00:29:50.000 It's just so different.

00:29:52.000 It's just amazing.

00:29:54.000 And by the way, Phoenix is hit hardest of any city in the country by inflation.

00:29:59.000 Yeah, they say inflation is 9.1% nationwide or whatever.

00:30:02.000 In the Greater Phoenix Metro, it's literally general inflation is between 20 and 30%.

00:30:06.000 Yes.

00:30:06.000 Which is that that just makes it impossible for people to live.

00:30:10.000 This is really crazy.

00:30:10.000 But Mark Kelly's really concerned.

00:30:12.000 You know my favorite sign of yours?

00:30:14.000 What?

00:30:14.000 Is Blake Masters won't ask for your pronouns in the Senate?

00:30:17.000 True.

00:30:19.000 Fauci will be in prison.

00:30:20.000 So BlakeMasters.com.

00:30:23.000 Blake, I know you have to get running here.

00:30:25.000 4 o'clock tonight.

00:30:26.000 Yep.

00:30:27.000 If people are listening, I know this is rebroadcast for a while.

00:30:29.000 4 o'clock tonight at the Ainsworth in downtown Phoenix.

00:30:32.000 We're going to be rallying support for Blake Masters.

00:30:34.000 I hope the media shows up.

00:30:35.000 We'll have a lot of fun with them.

00:30:37.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.

00:30:38.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:30:41.000 Thanks so much for listening.

00:30:42.000 God bless.

00:30:45.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk. com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - August 02, 2022

A Battleground Election-Eve Update from Arizona with Blake Masters

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