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00:00:08.000Hey, everybody, I give instant reaction to the Republican National Convention from Tiffany Trump's speech, who I thought was phenomenal, Melania Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and so much more.
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00:00:43.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:52.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:16.000I think today was even better than yesterday.
00:01:18.000There was not one speaker that did not fit the narrative, that did not make an argument from all sorts of different places of the country, all sorts of different age groups, all sorts of different belief systems, that President Donald Trump is worthy of four more years.
00:01:32.000We're going to dive into so many different pieces of kind of that argument that was made tonight.
00:01:37.000But here's some just a couple takeaways.
00:01:39.000Every speaker tonight was able to communicate the humanity of Donald Trump, able to really dispel some lies of the American left and the activist media, which is very important, and was also able to show a compelling truth of how if Donald Trump is re-elected, their life will materially improve.
00:01:57.000Now, look, President Donald Trump was dealt a very difficult hand this year.
00:02:01.000The Chinese Communist Party sent over the Chinese coronavirus, and because of that, our entire country went into bedlam.
00:02:26.000The unified stage, actually having a crowd for Melania Trump, all of that, I think made a tremendous difference.
00:02:32.000The production standpoint was world-class.
00:02:34.000I think the aesthetics were phenomenal.
00:02:37.000And so if you kind of look at how this has been reacted to, you see a lot of people in the middle and moderate Democrats, at least from what we have been analyzing from social media and other places, that are thinking very positively and favorably of this convention.
00:02:53.000So let's start with just a couple of cuts.
00:02:55.000For those of you that didn't watch the entire convention, let's start backwards.
00:03:03.000When you have someone as elegant as Melania Trump, the long intro right through the White House, right to the White House, right by the Rose Garden, and then right up to where she gave her speech was absolutely incredible.
00:03:16.000I mean, the entrance alone was noteworthy.
00:03:20.000And look, I think it was like 150 steps in heels on live national television.
00:03:26.000And look, she was kind of born from that moment, if we're honest.
00:05:02.000It was kind of, I don't want to say it was camo-like, but it almost looked, I'm glad she did not wear a very long dress.
00:05:08.000I thought it was very much, it was if the country right now is in a moment that needs action.
00:05:13.000I thought that her wardrobe perfectly reflected it.
00:05:16.000And I thought her message was terrific, just but also just everything from this convention has been thought out.
00:05:22.000It has been put into action to have a reason for it.
00:05:26.000And so, look, again, we want to go through Melania's Trump's remarks again.
00:05:30.000I thought the most powerful part of her entire speech was how she framed Donald, as she called him, or President Trump, as someone who is going to fight for the middle class of this country.
00:05:40.000And when you say he cannot do something, he is absolutely going to be able to do it.
00:05:45.000Let's play some more tape from Melania Trump's speech.
00:05:48.000To fight for school choice, giving parents more options to help their children flourish.
00:05:55.000My husband knows how to make a real change.
00:05:59.000From the day that I met him, he has only wanted to make this country the best it can be.
00:06:06.000For many years, I watched him grow concerned and frustrated.
00:06:10.000And I'm so proud to see the many things he has done in such a short time.
00:06:20.000So while at times we only see the worst of people and politics on the evening news, let's remember how we come together in the most difficult times.
00:06:33.000So that moment in particular, and she went on to say that when you say that Donald Trump can't do something, that is a great way to say that he can do it.
00:06:41.000She was being able to be a softer, lighter touch of, let's just say, President Donald Trump tells blunt truth and he is able to communicate very directly to the American people.
00:06:52.000Melania Trump has high favorability amongst suburban voters, swing voters, and independents, especially in Midwestern states.
00:06:59.000Tonight, we also heard from Eric Trump and Tiffany Trump.
00:07:38.000Make America Great Again is not a slogan for my father.
00:07:42.000It is what drives him to keep his promise of doing what is right for American citizens.
00:07:49.000The energy of change and opportunity is with us.
00:07:53.000God has blessed us with unstoppable spirit.
00:07:56.000His spirit, the American spirit, my dad has proven to be driven by that spirit.
00:08:02.000He has demonstrated his faith in his uncompromising heart and actions.
00:08:07.000My father has made me believe that America can truly be great again.
00:08:14.000So Tiffany there was able, and there's other part where she talked about big tech censorship, but Tiffany, she really, I think, came up from this moment and stepped up to the plate phenomenally.
00:08:26.000And look, so I think the best phrase there, and I wrote it down, is that make America great again is not his phrase.
00:08:42.000It means that we can get our country back to greatness, back to prosperity, back to how incredible things once were.
00:08:50.000And I think it's really important to say because the Democrats, a lot of their phrases are centered around the strategic brilliance of a specific central planner, where Make America Great Again is about we the people, which is in the preamble of our founding documents.
00:09:03.000And so I think it's also really incredible how all of these speeches fit beautifully together, how we were able to see Tiffany Trump to Melania Trump make arguments for President Trump that were atypical than what you would have seen from just a typical political convention.
00:09:19.000Tiffany Trump had a moment where she said, this is not even just about politics.
00:09:23.000Try to transcend all party lines, try to transcend all political preconceptions, and instead vote around decency and reasonability, freedom of speech, and different ideas.
00:09:36.000One big takeaway I have from this, and this is something I think that we are seeing from a lot of the speakers at the Republican National Convention, is that cancel culture and the idea of destroying people because of opposing ideas is wildly unpopular in the eyes of the American people.
00:09:53.000In fact, we are seeing, I think that we saw at least five or six speakers tonight go out of their way to say that President Donald Trump is going to defend the free speech rights of all Americans.
00:10:04.000I'm so thrilled to hear this and to actually have speakers go out of their way to talk about how President Donald Trump is going to talk and advocate for first principles, freedom of speech, and freedom of expression.
00:10:16.000Another speaker tonight, and I just consider this guy to be a total hero.
00:10:21.000I thought his speech was beautifully produced.
00:10:24.000I think it could have gone with, I think, I wish the audio was a little bit better because you could hear some people behind it because it was obvious that they filmed it right at the Lincoln Memorial where this entire incident went down.
00:10:33.000And I think it was terrific where they chose it.
00:11:00.000You may be cool, but you'll never be Nick Sandman on CNN bashing CNN and being paid by CNN.
00:11:05.000A common theme throughout this convention is a culture fight, is that outside of just high taxes or low taxes or Democrats bad, Republicans good, this is a culture fight that we are going to lose our freedom of expression, our capacity to disagree, get in the marketplace of ideas and work things out.
00:11:22.000And no one embodies that better than Nick Sandman playtate.
00:11:26.000I learned what was happening to me had a name.
00:11:29.000It was called being canceled, as in annulled, as in revoked, as in made void.
00:11:37.000Canceled is what's happening to people around this country who refuse to be silenced by the far left.
00:11:43.000Many are being fired, humiliated, or even threatened.
00:11:48.000And often the media is a willing participant.
00:12:02.000I look forward to the day that the media returns to providing balanced, responsible, and accountable news coverage.
00:12:10.000I know President Trump hopes for that too.
00:12:13.000So, for those of you that don't remember, Nick Sandman was the individual, and the way he articulated it was perfect.
00:12:17.000And the story leading up to Nick Sandman's speech was phenomenal.
00:12:21.000It's captivating television, where that agitator, that professional Native American activist, goes up and bangs the drum right in his face, trying to provoke him and trying to get the footage that, in Nick's own words, the footage that they needed.
00:12:35.000And then you had Bill Maher, you had Don Lemon, the CNN elitists.
00:12:39.000All of them, by the way, have really regretted what they did against Nicholas Sandman.
00:12:44.000And then Nick was able to explain exactly why he did what he did.
00:12:47.000He said, don't do anything that might embarrass your family.
00:12:49.000And what does the media think of people like Nick Sandman, who are from the heartland of our country, that wear Make America Great Again hats?
00:13:12.000When he put on the MAGA hat, it was one of my favorite moments because at the very end, he said, well, and we're going to make America Great Again, puts on the hat in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
00:13:20.000And while you're paying the severance to him, ultimate level of you are not going to bully us Trump supporters into total and complete submission.
00:13:29.000And so if I was kind of looking from a public polling perspective, it is very persuadable.
00:13:37.000When you talk about people like Nicholas Sandman, you talk about the McCloskeys, you talk about suburban women that are going to determine this entire election.
00:13:45.000That is going to be very hard for Democrats to go up against when they say, oh, Nick Salmon's actually a bad person.
00:13:50.000For every mother out there that has a kid, for a son in particular, and you're worried about him being wrongly accused and his entire life being destroyed, can we put that up right now?
00:14:12.000It's, I'm going to put the hat on, even though you try to destroy my life.
00:14:15.000You just try to destroy my family, publicly humiliate me, and entrap me by some lunatic Native American activist that came up and banged a drum in his face endlessly and filmed it.
00:14:25.000That is exactly what victory looks like.
00:14:27.000God bless you, Nicholas Sandman, for taking on the tough fights and for going out of your way to make sure that you stand for our country and stand for the next generation.
00:14:36.000That's the other thing that I was really pleased to see.
00:14:37.000Nick was a direct appeal to Generation Z. Generation Z, young Generation Z male voters in particular, they rightly feel under attack because they hold different views.
00:14:47.000They feel that they are being assailed because of their beliefs.
00:14:50.000They feel as if their entire life can be over if they put one bad thing on social media.
00:14:54.000And Nick Sandman is the hero personified of all those things together.
00:14:59.000And he deserves so much credit all together.
00:15:03.000Another part of this, we don't have a clip for this, but I want to just mention this, is the Women for Trump montage.
00:15:07.000I just got to give the campaign credit.
00:15:10.000The imagery, the cinematography, the visuals of all of these videos that they play in between speakers that are five or six minutes long are phenomenal.
00:15:19.000They should run them uninterrupted on cable television on any sort of advertising they can get their hands on.
00:15:24.000The Women for Trump montage was phenomenal.
00:15:26.000Brooke Rollins, a friend of mine, Katrina Pearson, Stephanie Grisham, Kaylee McNaney, Ronna McDaniel, Laura Trump, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Mercy Schlapp, and Kellyanne Conway, who of course is the first woman to ever manage a presidential campaign.
00:15:39.000Brooke Rollins, a friend of mine who's head of all domestic policy at the White House, said something incredible.
00:15:43.000That just out of senior staff at the White House, they have combined 75 kids together.
00:15:48.000Never again do we want to hear the criticism that Donald Trump hates women.
00:15:53.000It is baseless and quite honestly should be rejected wholeheartedly.
00:15:57.000It is something that I think is one of the biggest lies that is told about this president: he does not empower women.
00:16:02.000He has more women in senior positions in senior staffing positions at the White House than any other president on record.
00:16:09.000I want to get to Secretary Mike Pompeo, who I thought was terrific straight from Jerusalem.
00:16:16.000But before I also want to make one other point here, is that when our nation's stakes, when things are actually the stakes are the highest, President Trump has entrusted the toughest jobs to women.
00:16:26.000And that is a great quote right from the video.
00:16:28.000I'm just reading from some of my notes I was taking as I was watching this.
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00:16:49.000I want to get to Mike Pompeo, who is actually phenomenal from Jerusalem.
00:16:53.000Now, you know that you're on the right path when House Democrats say they are going to subpoena and hold investigations because you gave a RNC acceptance speech in your personal capacity.
00:17:03.000I just think they were mad that someone that is as well-respected and as popular as Senator Mike Pompeo made the arguments that he made at the Republican National Convention play tape.
00:17:14.000He's pulled back the curtain on the predatory aggression of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:17:18.000The president has held China accountable for covering up the China virus and allowing it to spread death and economic destruction in America and around the world.
00:17:28.000Now, look, I'm not going to take credit for anything, but I was one of the first people to put the phrase China virus on Twitter.
00:17:35.000I love the fact that Senator Mike Pompeo is unafraid to go after these fights, unafraid to take on China, call it the Chinese coronavirus, talking about lowering the temperature in North Korea, about how we armed Ukraine, we killed Qassam Soleimani, we moved the embassy to Jerusalem, the United Arab Emirates and Israel peace deal, and also bringing hostages home.
00:17:56.000President Trump is the first president in my lifetime not to go start a foreign and reckless war overseas and send our loved ones and our middle-class patriots right into the conflict.
00:18:05.000Senator Mike Pompeo articulated that beautifully and perfectly.
00:18:09.000And he actually became the first ever Secretary of State to address a convention.
00:18:13.000Of course, the House is trying to endlessly investigate him.
00:18:16.000And that just shows that you're right over the mark.
00:18:18.000Even though there were no government resources made in the creation of the speech, there are no public assistance at all whatsoever.
00:18:23.000Mike Pompeo talks about the successful foreign policy accomplishments of President Donald Trump.
00:18:29.000And Senator Rand Paul also touched on this as well.
00:18:32.000Senator Ram Paul is probably my favorite senator in the entire United States Senate.
00:18:35.000He's a friend of mine, playtape of Rand Paul.
00:18:38.000I'm supporting President Trump because he believes as I do that a strong America cannot fight endless wars.
00:18:47.000We must not continue to leave our blood and treasure in Middle East quagmires.
00:18:53.000I flew with him to Dover Air Force Base to honor two soldiers whose remains were coming home from Afghanistan.
00:19:27.000Presidents who end wars get re-elected.
00:19:31.000And this is something that President Trump is doing that no other president in the modern era has actually had the courage to go out of their way to try to end these endless wars.
00:19:40.000And this is something that, quite honestly, is contrarian to the Republican orthodoxy.
00:19:45.000This is contrarian to how the Republican establishment is supposed to view political strategy.
00:19:51.000However, President Trump says, why are we spending hundreds of billions of dollars in Afghanistan, losing thousands of our loved ones, so that we can try and bring ideas that are not palatable at all in the region for people that brutally hate us and do not share our worldview?
00:20:05.000President Donald Trump heroically and is correctly trying to end the endless wars.
00:20:11.000President Trump being the voice for middle-class Americans, by the way, if you want to win Wisconsin, you want to win Minnesota, you want to win Ohio, it is those states paired with the southern states that are sending the most people into our armed forces.
00:20:23.000They are the ones that have had to see their loved ones go overseas to die for a cause that they themselves cannot clearly articulate after 15, 16, 17 years.
00:20:33.000And so President Trump, I'm so pleased to hear Rand Paul talk about that.
00:20:37.000My conversations with President Trump echo that completely.
00:20:40.000When I spend time with the president, he talks about how ridiculous these wars are.
00:20:44.000And he asks, what does success look like?
00:20:47.000What does victory look like in the Kandahar Valley?
00:20:50.000Why did we invade Iraq in the first place?
00:20:52.000Which I believe, and President Trump has said this for years, that the invasion of Iraq was one of the worst foreign policy decisions in American history.
00:21:01.000And so you saw, you heard Mike Pompeo talking about how President Trump has not been a dove in the Middle East, but instead he has been a tactician, picking off certain terrorists when they dare come up against American interests, negotiating peace against the United Emirates and Israel, moving the embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing the Golan Heights, but also withdrawing from Afghanistan and recognizing that endless quagmires 3,000 miles away, where 2,216 people have died in Afghanistan.
00:21:30.000And if Afghanistan in that much better of a place since we have invaded it, where 2,216 of our young warriors, men, and women have died overseas, it is unacceptable that we have been in that region for as long as we have been.
00:21:44.000The Democrats have nothing to say about this.
00:21:46.000They have no response at all whatsoever.
00:21:48.000They always like to think of themselves as the party of peace.
00:21:51.000One of the reasons why President Trump is able to win over traditional Democrat voters is because President Donald Trump is able to communicate to middle-class workers that he is no longer going to send their sons and their daughters halfway around the world to go fight for something that quite honestly is a mission that victory cannot be clearly argued for.
00:22:13.000Oh, we're going to be there endlessly, or we have to be there or else they're going to kill us here is no longer an argument that is going to resonate with the middle class of this country.
00:22:20.000And that is how you go win the Midwest.
00:24:15.000How President Trump is a grandfather, that he looks at things in a term of multi-generations.
00:24:21.000That he looks through things as a prism of, I am going to try to make sure not just my kids, but my grandkids can live a better life.
00:24:29.000And then you heard another word, dad, casual.
00:24:32.000As if President Trump is, yes, a president, he's a businessman, he's a billionaire, he's a mogul, but he's also a father.
00:24:38.000And the fourth thing that I really got to take away from there is Uncle Robert.
00:24:42.000And our condolences go to the entire Trump family that is mourning the loss of President Trump's brother and the uncle of Don and Tiffany and Ivanka and Baron and Eric this week.
00:24:53.000I thought that Eric Trump's little segment right there was one of the most effective.
00:24:58.000Now, whoever on the political team came up with the brilliant idea to have the naturalization ceremony filmed, make them in charge of all of the programming decisions.
00:25:09.000I have a feeling that Jared Kushner was involved because it's very, very smart what they did.
00:25:14.000So if you, I don't know if you guys saw this or not, but the president and acting Department of Homeland Security director Chad Wolf, they decided right near the top of the hour, right before I believe it was Mike Pompeo and Eric Trump and Melania Trump, there was a decision to film a naturalization ceremony.
00:25:34.000Now, this was phenomenal for a couple reasons.
00:25:36.000Number one, it shows the humanity of Donald Trump.
00:25:39.000Number two, it shows and it dispels the lies of the left.
00:25:50.000You had this illegal immigrant on the couch that said, we deserve free stuff.
00:25:54.000Meanwhile, in this beautiful presidential fashion, you have President Donald Trump looking at five legal immigrants, all of which that were just so thrilled to meet their president, get naturalized, become citizens.
00:26:05.000I think we have an abbreviated clip from this.
00:26:06.000I want you guys, if you didn't see this, it is so powerful.
00:27:23.000And just the entire picture of it was just a total and complete repudiation of how the left has been trying to build up President Donald Trump as the anti-immigrant president.
00:27:35.000Now, I agree with President Donald Trump.
00:27:37.000It's long past time to pass the RAISE Act to restrict immigration.
00:27:42.000And I supported President Trump and having a complete and total moratorium into our country, especially past, especially past the pandemic.
00:27:52.000But the left has degraded the value of citizenship.
00:27:55.000Do you know what I loved most about that?
00:27:57.000You saw the entire swearing-in ceremony.
00:28:00.000One of the parts of that that I was like, wow, that's right, they do have to do that.
00:28:03.000Where the citizens put up their hand and they said, we denounce any allegiance to a foreign power or prince.
00:28:10.000Now, some of that is, of course, just historical reciting of tradition, but it's actually really important that you are now a member of the great American family.
00:28:19.000And they all had flags and they seemed so excited.
00:28:21.000And they all, based on the descriptions that were provided, were working, spoke English.
00:28:26.000All five of those individuals, based on the criteria that President Trump has put forward as what a citizen should be in our country, they met them beautifully off the charts.
00:28:38.000And that's what I thought was so cool about it: throughout the Democrats had that ridiculous moment where these illegals were on the couch and they said, we deserve free stuff.
00:28:50.000Yet, Donald Trump comes through the door.
00:28:53.000They say, ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States walks right into a naturalization ceremony.
00:28:57.000You could just see the people on the left lose their mind the moment that Donald Trump goes straight up to the podium and talks about the need for legal immigration, not illegal border jumping, not illegal border hopping into our country.
00:29:12.000And this is a great difference because, and look, I think that if we really talk about what differentiates President Trump from the Democrats, it is President Trump stands for the rule of law.
00:29:26.000He stands for sane immigration policy.
00:29:29.000And I thought this was, I get more messages on this particular moment, more so than any other moment tonight, except maybe Tiffany's speech, which a lot of people texted me because they knew I know Tiffany, I know Eric, and also Melania's speech.
00:29:42.000So if we look at what citizenship actually is, citizenship should always benefit the country of which they are immigrating into.
00:29:50.000And if all of a sudden we view citizenship as this degraded, devalued border jumping exercise that anyone can become a citizenship, sitting citizen, and citizenship means nothing, then all of a sudden we have destroyed and disintegrated this tradition that we have in our country.
00:30:06.000And it was connected beautifully, indirectly, but it was done beautifully when Melania Trump also talked about how she was an illegal immigrant in this country and she struggled to get into America.
00:30:19.000And there was another really beautiful moment.
00:30:21.000I think we have this clip of Lydia Brodine when she was talking to Vice President Pence.
00:30:27.000Vice President Pence is also a friend of mine.
00:30:30.000Vice President Pence was playing Oprah tonight.
00:30:32.000He was basically, he had the documentary special where he was kind of playing a host.
00:30:39.000I thought Vice President Pence was better than Oprah back when Oprah wasn't a mean, bitter, angry person that wanted to destroy our country and talks about how awful our history is.
00:30:47.000I thought Vice President Pence was terrific as being able to get people to tell their stories about the beauty of America.
00:31:48.000I did not hear that message communicated once throughout the entire Democrat National Convention.
00:31:53.000Everything was about gratitude, not anger, that they live in the United States of America.
00:31:57.000It was about we are thankful that we are citizens of this beautiful gift that we have been given and the sacrifices that were made before us.
00:32:04.000And of course, America has made mistakes and individuals in America have made missteps.
00:32:08.000But how do we approach those missteps?
00:32:10.000Is it with anger and venom and repudiation of everything that we have been given?
00:32:14.000Instead, it is an embrace of this heroic journey of our country that the next 100 years can be even better than what predated us or what preceded us.
00:32:24.000And again, I want to just give Vice President Mike Pence.
00:32:40.000Every single story, every second of programming was basically saying like California, New York, you guys are citizens of this country, but this is a political convention.
00:33:04.000Maine is one of my favorite places in the country.
00:33:06.000If you're watching from the state of Maine right now, email us freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:33:10.000The first person who emails us from the state of Maine, I'm going to send you a signed copy of the MAGA Doctrine.
00:33:14.000Maine has suffered from opioid addiction.
00:33:16.000Maine has been absolutely abused by the political elites for years.
00:33:20.000Maine is sometimes one of the most forgotten states in the entire Union.
00:33:24.000Maine has the hardest working people, I think, in the entire country.
00:33:27.000No, I shouldn't say in the whole country because every state has hardworking people, but some of the hardest working people I've ever been around.
00:33:54.000And actually, if you look at the lobster industry, they're suffering a lot under opioid addiction.
00:33:59.000And President Donald Trump, because he was tough on border security, because he was tough on the flow of drugs coming into our country, he's actually improved those communities.
00:34:07.000But also, he has been talking about deregulating their industry.
00:34:30.000If we didn't, we'd be putting ourselves out of business.
00:34:34.000Four years ago, the Obama-Biden administration used the Antiquities Act to order thousands of square miles of ocean off limits to commercial fishermen.
00:34:43.000They did it to cater to environmental activists.
00:34:46.000Although Maine's lobstermen don't fish there, Obama's executive order offended us greatly.
00:34:51.000It circumvented the Fisheries Council's input.
00:34:54.000President Trump reversed that decision, reinstating the rules that allow stakeholder input.
00:35:00.000And he supports a process that seeks and respects fishermen's views.
00:35:05.000And so that is a middle-class American that had his life almost destroyed under President Donald Trump in the state of Maine, where Donald Trump won one electoral vote.
00:35:14.000And President Donald Trump delivered real results for Mainers and lobstermen.
00:35:19.000And a lot of us enjoy lobster, maybe all across the country, but we kind of forget that it's American citizens and American jobs that are reliant on American jobs that are producing the lobster that all of us enjoy as a luxury item all across the country.
00:35:34.000And so that's just one example of the brilliance of the political strategy that I think the Trump campaign was employing tonight was being able to say, we want to go win Maine.
00:35:44.000The mayor from Minnesota was also terrific.
00:35:46.000And these kind of real-life middle-class testimonies were phenomenal.
00:35:50.000Another part of the evening that I just thought was so moving, the language and the narrative, was Billy Graham's granddaughter, Sissy Graham Lynch.
00:36:30.000Our right to worship freely and live our faith in every aspect of life.
00:36:35.000The Biden-Harris vision for America leaves no room for people of faith.
00:36:41.000Whether you're a baker, a florist, or a football coach, they will force the choice between being obedient to God or to Caesar, because the radical last God is government power.
00:37:13.000And for a lot of any of the Christian pastors that are going out there and they are saying that we're going to go vote for Joe Biden, well, what does Billy Graham's granddaughter have to say?
00:37:22.000Billy Graham's granddaughter talks about how marijuana and cannabis dispensaries remained open while churches were forcibly closed.
00:37:30.000I talked about in my remarks last night that churches are more important than casinos, that churches are more important than strip clubs like they are in New Jersey, why churches are more important than even Lowe's or Home Depot.
00:37:42.000And yet this entire lockdown has gone to show that our government, absent Donald Trump, our state and local leaders, do not believe that salvation is essential and they do not believe that church is essential.
00:37:54.000Now, a lot of people are going out of their way to attack Billy Graham and Franklin Graham.
00:37:59.000But by doing so, they do not even recognize that it is Franklin Graham and it is their organization that mobilized the Central Park to go help their fellow Americans that were suffering from the Chinese coronavirus.
00:38:13.000And we forget the horror that people of faith had to live through under Barack Obama.
00:38:19.000Thank you, Sissy Graham, for reminding us what Joe Biden and Barack Obama did to people of faith.
00:38:25.000The Joe Biden campaign, they are freaking out tonight.
00:38:28.000The Biden campaign knows they have a messaging deficit to make up from.
00:38:32.000And there's a lot of structural problems with how the Biden campaign is now going to try to make up for this.
00:38:38.000They're going to try to run even more paid advertising that is rooted in complete and total falsehoods.
00:38:43.000But the Trump campaign, by elevating and platforming people like Sissy Graham, people of faith, to talk about these cultural issues, like the Maine lobsterman or the Wisconsin dairy farmer, which I think we're going to get to in a second.
00:39:14.000But all of a sudden, if you start talking about winning some of these states, like Maine, and of course, carrying Arizona, Iowa, Ohio, North Carolina, as I call the core four, and then, of course, taking Florida, all you got to do is win one more on top of that.
00:39:29.000So in the core four, core four, Florida, and then plus one.
00:39:33.000And that one, and of course, you got to hold Georgia, which I think is a no-brainer, hold Texas, which is going to happen.
00:39:38.000But if you hold, if you do the core four, which is Arizona, Iowa, Ohio, North Carolina, which is four states that Barack Obama won in 2008, if you do the core four plus one, President Donald Trump gets re-elected as president of the United States.
00:39:51.000However, if you win the core four plus Minnesota and you do not win the first congressional district in Maine, then forget it.
00:40:00.000You are not elected president of the United States.
00:40:01.000That one vote in Maine, which President Donald Trump is probably going to win again, could bring him over the top.
00:40:07.000Pennsylvania is going to determine a lot of the electoral vote, by the way, a lot of it.
00:40:11.000But I think Minnesota is absolutely in play.
00:40:13.000You know what's so funny about Minnesota?
00:40:14.000And I think we have the mayor of Minnesota in there, and we're going to get there in a mayor of a town in Minnesota, which is from the Iron Belt.
00:40:20.000Is that what he called the Iron Belt or the Iron Ring?
00:40:25.000But the one funny thing about Minnesota, it is the only state outside of the District of Columbia that Ronald Reagan did not win in that triumphant win in 1984.
00:40:34.000If Donald Trump wins the White House for re-election, similar to Reagan by winning the one state that Reagan did not win, Washington, D.C., of course, not being a state.
00:41:28.000Later in August, my supervisor assigned me a new quota to meet, an abortion quota.
00:41:35.000I was expected to sell double the abortions performed the previous year.
00:41:40.000When I pushed back, underscoring Planned Parenthood's public-facing goal of decreasing abortions, I was reprimanded and told abortion is how we make our money.
00:41:52.000But the tipping point came a month later when a physician asked me to assist with an ultrasound guided abortion.
00:42:00.000Nothing prepared me for what I saw on the screen.
00:42:05.000An unborn baby fighting back, desperate to move away from the suction.
00:42:12.000And I'll never forget what the doctor said next.
00:42:19.000The last thing I saw was a spine twirling around in the mother's womb before succumbing to the force of the suction.
00:42:30.000Beam me up, Scotty, as if this is some sort of Star Trek video game.
00:42:34.000If you guys don't know the reference to Beam Me Up Scotty, it is James Tiberius Kirk in the first Star Trek series used to say that when he wanted to get beamed back up to the Starship Enterprise, as if it's just some sort of casual game that they're playing.
00:42:47.000This is the sinister nature of Planned Parenthood.
00:42:50.000If you're watching this right now and you're pro-choice, thank you for watching.
00:42:53.000I hope that you are being exposed to something that you might not have heard before.
00:42:56.000But what Abby Johnson said is a former pro-choice Planned Parenthood abortion factory supervisor.
00:43:02.000She saw a human life get sucked up and the casual nature that the abortion factory supervisors have, and I don't even call them doctors because doctors believe in first doing no harm.
00:43:13.000And by definition, abortion factory supervisors, or whatever you want to call them, abortionists, by definition, they do harm.
00:43:21.000By definition, they are taking innocent life and they are destroying lives that never had a chance to actually speak for themselves.
00:43:29.000Now, some people do not understand the statistics when it comes to abortion.
00:43:35.000We did an entire podcast, and I just want to say right now, please email us your questions right now in real time.
00:43:40.000Freedom at CharlieKirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:43:44.000Please email us your questions because we want to actually answer some of your questions here in just one second.
00:43:50.000But according to the Guttmacher Institute, and I want to try to get the statistic right here.
00:45:30.000And working men and women of America will get crushed yet again.
00:45:36.000This is not time to hand our government over to a washed-up career politician who will be nothing but a puppet of the radical left Democrats.
00:45:49.000As a lifelong resident of Wisconsin, I'm a fan of the Badger football team.
00:45:54.000Many may not realize that the Wisconsin...
00:46:25.000And she talked about how Trump's economic boom helped farmers all across America more than any other president in my lifetime understood and supports American farmers.
00:46:35.000You know, for me, as someone who has to endure nothing but negative commentary when it comes to President Donald Trump, I really enjoyed these last two days.
00:46:44.000I enjoyed the different picture that was being portrayed to the American people.
00:46:47.000And I was actually very thankful that, God willing, some people that think nothing but negative things about President Donald Trump were actually getting a positive perspective on the president, what he was doing, what he's been doing to our country, actually bring our country back to greatness.
00:47:05.000What President Trump and the Republican National Committee and what the Republican Convention have had to do these last couple days is very, very difficult.
00:47:14.000It's very difficult because President Trump was dealt a very unfair hand when the Chinese Communist Party sent this virus in from halfway across the world.
00:47:24.000It is very hard to get a president re-elected when you have to endure something like President Trump has had to endure this past year.
00:47:31.000However, President Trump has not only endured it, he has rebuilt our country.
00:47:37.000The economy, we believe, is on a V-shaped recovery.
00:47:40.000And the left, more than any other time in my lifetime, and I think in the history of our country, they want to pathologically destroy this country from within.
00:49:23.000And for those of you that did not catch it towards the first part of it, John Ponder runs an academy to help former prisoners be able to get back into their life underneath them and John Ponder being a former prisoner himself.
00:49:36.000We want to take some of your questions.
00:49:37.000Email us, everybody, freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:49:47.000I think Pam Bondi was a really, really effective speaker and focused clearly on the corruption on Joe Biden.
00:49:54.000She took down Joe Biden's family dealings, Hunter in Ukraine, Hunter in China, the brother of Joe Biden, James in Iraq, Costa Rica, Jamaica, and so much more.
00:50:14.000When millions of Americans voted for Donald Trump, they knew he'd be different, and he is.
00:50:21.000He's a tough, no-nonsense outsider who can't be bought or intimidated.
00:50:27.000He won't even take a paycheck from the American people.
00:50:31.000He donates his paycheck to charities across this country.
00:50:36.000Democrats have been lecturing America about integrity for four years, while their nominee has been writing the textbook on abuse of power for 40 years.
00:50:46.000If they want to make this election a choice between who's saving America and who's swindling America, bring it on.
00:51:20.000I love Pam Bondi's speech because she is the former Attorney General of Florida for eight years, and she was acting as a prosecutor towards the Biden crime family, which is something that is not talked about enough about how Joe Biden was saving America versus swindling America.
00:51:35.000I like rebuilding America and swindling, but saving and swindling is also really good.
00:51:39.000But I don't think it's talked about enough about how the Biden family used their proximity to power to be able to enrich themselves.
00:51:46.000And no one delivered that message better than Pam Bondi.
00:51:49.000And I think that in some ways, it was a little bit of a different message throughout the entire evening because the whole message was building up President Trump and reinforcing his humanity and dispelling lies and showing the truth of what the president has done for this country and the beauty that we have in this country of the greatest civilization ever to exist in the history of the world and our moral prerogative to fight for it and to defend it.
00:52:12.000And this kind of came out of nowhere, to be honest with you.
00:53:05.000A V-shaped recovery is pointing to better than 20% growth in the second half of this year.
00:53:12.000Now, looking ahead, more tax cuts and regulatory rollback will be in store.
00:53:17.000Payroll tax cuts for higher wages, income tax cuts for the middle class, capital gains tax cuts for investment, productivity, and jobs.
00:53:27.000Much more regulatory relief for small businesses.
00:53:31.000In economic terms, folks, this is no time for a $4 trillion tax hike.
00:53:39.000And so that framing right there, and I know this might sound very simple, but people are not going to go out of their way to go vote for higher taxes.
00:53:49.000People are not going to go out of their way to reduce their incomes, especially at a time like this.
00:53:54.000Now, the Kentucky Attorney General, Daniel Kamara Camera, he had one of the greatest lines.
00:53:59.000He quoted Lincoln by saying, Any nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.
00:54:05.000I think that he gave one of the best speeches of this convention so far.
00:54:09.000He called out Biden's you ain't black comment better than any other person, except maybe Senator Tim Scott last night.
00:54:16.000Very effective, talking about diversity of thought and then powerfully said, Look at me.
00:54:21.000Do we have that clip poll that we get in that one up of the Attorney General of Kentucky?
00:54:26.000And he is definitely a rising powerhouse in the Republican Party.
00:54:31.000You can just tell that he has a very bright future ahead of him.
00:54:34.000And I thought he gave a phenomenal endorsement of the president.
00:54:38.000I thought he gave one of the best summaries of what the president is doing to actually fight for forgotten America and actually being able to bring dignity to parts of America that have been so incredibly disenfranchised.
00:54:50.000So, and you guys can email us your questions: freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:54:56.000One thought that has came to me: look at all of the rising stars that have been speaking at this convention of black leaders.
00:55:01.000You have Kim Klesick, Tim Scott, Attorney General of Kentucky.
00:55:06.000You also have other leaders that are scheduled to speak throughout the week.
00:55:10.000You have Jeron, who works in the White House, who's a dear friend of mine, who does a terrific and a phenomenal job.
00:55:15.000You know what was so refreshing for me is Republicans are usually not very good storytellers.
00:55:19.000And in this instance, in this instance, Republicans told better stories than even the Democrats did last week.
00:55:25.000And of course, we can't forget Vernon Jones.
00:55:29.000Email us, freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:55:32.000Jenna C says, why does the Democrat Party, by the way, you have now won a signed copy of the New York Times bestseller, the MAGA Doctrine, why does the Democrat Party denounce wealth with so much wealth so much, yet many of their donors are mega wealthy?
00:55:46.000It's because the Democrat Party has made a calculation that they want to serve the interest of the permanent ruling class, the 1 to 2% of our country, or even more so, the 1% of the 1%, and they want to create a permanent underclass.
00:55:59.00045 to 50% of our country that are addicted to government programs have very little future of actually making any sort of decent living for themselves and actually increase the pie of people that are perpetually dependent on the federal government.
00:56:12.000Their big bet is to be ruling over the most unequal parts of America, Silicon Valley, New York City, Manhattan, Los Angeles, where the wealthiest and the poorest people in America are going to vote for Democrats.
00:56:25.000Now, we have talked about this quite often on the Charlie Kirk show, where if you do not have a vibrant and sustainable middle class where people can have many children, people can affordably pay for health care, people can buy a home and see their life get materially better, then that is how you're going to see a Marxist revolution happen in your country.
00:56:43.000If you do not have a sustainable middle class, your country will deteriorate.
00:56:48.000And so that's exactly why the Democrats no longer want to represent the middle class in our country.
00:56:53.000They're almost annoyed by middle class voters.
00:56:55.000They do not want the workers that shower before work and shower after work in their party.
00:57:01.000In fact, they don't want the manufacturing jobs.
00:57:03.000They do not want people that actually work with their hands.
00:57:05.000Instead, they would much rather have a country that people are permanently addicted to government programs.
00:57:13.000They have absolute and total power, and the ruling class is more important.
00:57:16.000Donald Trump actually seeks to make the ruling class less important.
00:57:24.000I think often about my ancestors who struggled for freedom.
00:57:28.000And as I think of those giants and their broad shoulders, I also think about Joe Biden, who says, if you aren't voting for me, you ain't black.
00:57:38.000Who argued that Republicans would put us back in chains?
00:57:42.000Who says there is no diversity of thought in the black community?
00:58:03.000He is calling out Joe Biden for the racist that he absolutely is.
00:58:07.000And if you look at the record of how the Democrats have treated the black community, black people should be defecting from the Democrat Party in record numbers.
00:58:17.000Here's a tweet of mine that I've sent out previously.
00:58:19.000If politicians wanted to keep black people poor, they should just send them the Baltimore public schools.
00:58:24.000A recent report in 2017 found that 13 high schools in Baltimore had zero students proficient in math.
00:58:29.00090% of black boys in Baltimore cannot read at grade level.
00:58:34.000That is run by Democrats at the local level, the state level, and at the, honestly, the congressional level or the federal level as well.
00:58:41.000And yet they go out of their way to try to blame Republicans.
00:58:45.000Justin Clark, do you think that all the Californians moving to Texas could present a problem for Trump winning the state of Texas, Justin Clark?
00:58:51.000That is the conventional wisdom, but actually out-of-state voter registration, meaning that new people moving to the state of Texas are actually favoring Republicans.
00:58:59.000It is immigration and people that have come to the state of Texas that have had children, illegal immigrants that have had children, and the Hispanic trends that are voting, that are trending Democrat.
00:59:08.000That is one of the reasons why Texas is skewing blue.
00:59:12.000Zachary F. asks, how would you compare Michelle Obama's message with Melania's tonight?
00:59:17.000And how do you think that Trump's message should be when he addresses the American people on Thursday?
00:59:21.000Well, I will be there in person on Thursday when the President of the United States accepts the nomination and gives his address to the American people.
00:59:28.000I think it's going to be one of the most important speeches of his presidency, one of the most important speeches of Western civilization for that.
00:59:35.000First of all, I think that Melania's speech was far better than Michelle Obama's speech.
00:59:41.000I think that Melania's speech was forward-thinking.
01:00:29.000And then Bette Midler, who I didn't even know was still a thing, tweeted that, quote, she still doesn't know how to speak English about Melania Trump.
01:00:42.000When it comes down to it, they go out of their way to attack people on their immutable characteristics or the fact that Melania Trump grew up in a communist country and is a freedom-loving American and is the first first lady of the United States to be a naturalized citizen.
01:01:19.000Again, it is incredible how the Democrats will not focus on the content.
01:01:23.000They are going to try to find procedural reasons as to why Donald Trump should not become president of the United States.
01:01:31.000They're not going to talk about the fact that President Donald Trump actually had a naturalization ceremony, not to mention there were two service members in the Democrat National Committee nominating video, which is far worse than an actual, nothing in that naturalization video was political.
01:01:47.000It was all just a government ceremony that was aired.
01:01:50.000And of course the Democrats are going to try to attack it because they're trying to attack it because it was effective.
01:04:54.000And so, Jacob, thank you for your question.
01:04:56.000When I look at this poll right here, let's take this poll, for example, in Minnesota that has Donald Trump tied in Minnesota.
01:05:03.000That's right, according to the Trafalgar group, which had actually was the most accurate polling going into the 2016 election, has Donald Trump polled with, tied with Joe Biden.
01:05:14.000They're still going with likely voters.
01:05:53.000And you go through this, that in all the battleground states, more Republicans are registering than Democrats in the states of Florida, Colorado, Maine, North Carolina, Pennsylvania.
01:06:01.000Democrats have made up a smaller share of new registrants than ever before.
01:06:06.000Something's happening in this country.
01:06:08.000It's not going to be reflected in the polling, everybody.
01:06:46.000Also, I think that record amounts of millennials and Gen Z are going to vote for Donald Trump.
01:06:50.000I mean, you just look at this YouTube stream right now.
01:06:52.000We got 4.2,000 people watching, most of which are young people.
01:06:56.000We filled up the entire convention hall, which was a church in Phoenix, Arizona, with 3,300 young people in the midst of the pandemic.
01:07:06.000It was 107 degrees outside for the Students for Trump turning point action rally back in June.
01:07:11.000There's something very special happening in this country that I do not think is getting really articulated by any of the public polling.
01:07:16.000But you're starting to see it in just the amount of people that are engaging into this convention, the ratings, the people that are defecting the new voter registration.
01:07:23.000I think you've got to factor all those things in together for some very sizable trends that are happening.
01:07:32.000I think that Donald Trump is going to win the youth vote in certain states.
01:07:34.000I think he's going to lose the youth vote in New York and California.
01:07:37.000But there is no enthusiasm for Joe Biden.
01:07:39.000Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have no enthusiasm whatsoever for younger voters.
01:07:43.000In fact, younger voters, Generation Z and millennials, they are repulsed by Senator Harris and they think that Joe Biden is a complete and total mockery.
01:07:50.000I think that Donald Trump has an amazing opportunity to make gains in these communities.
01:07:56.000And that's something that we are doing every single day at Students for Trump.
01:07:58.000And I think that young people actually might be one of the deciding reasons as to why Donald Trump wins four more years in the White House.
01:08:06.000I actually think that is one of the reasons why Donald Trump is going to win and why Joe Biden is going to lose.
01:08:51.000You are looking at the Sunbelt, like Arizona, Florida, and Texas.
01:08:54.000A lot of their summer peaks are actually going down.
01:08:57.000And so President Trump, I think on Thursday, has to communicate that.
01:09:00.000And look, by mid-September, if the virus becomes a backseat issue, President Trump is going to have a phenomenal coalition of support to get him to win four more years.
01:09:12.000From Maggie V, she says, I'm from Wisconsin.
01:09:14.000We are seeing riots like never before due to the recent shooting.
01:09:16.000How do you see the riots affecting the polls?
01:09:19.000And if you are seeing the riots, Maggie Vee, tell your friends right now, say, you have to go vote Republican right now.
01:09:25.000Go register as a Republican right now and get your ballot and vote as soon as you possibly can and go vote in person.
01:09:33.000The riots are going to be one of the main reasons why the Republicans, I believe, are going to keep the Senate and God willing Donald Trump is going to win reelection.
01:11:32.000The RNC tonight showed the humanity of President Trump.
01:11:35.000It really dispelled a lot of the bitter and sinister lies of the left.
01:11:39.000It showed the truth of the president, and it celebrated our country, this gift that we have been given, this gift that has been preserved and protected and fought for.
01:11:50.000It talked about school choice more effectively than Republicans ever have.
01:11:54.000And we've been talking about this on this program for so long.
01:11:56.000That school choice for black kids, school choice for all Americans is going to be a winning issue.
01:12:00.000And people are going to support that politically coming into November.
01:12:04.000It talked about Trump rebuilding while Biden was swindling.
01:12:07.000Nick Sandman gave one of the greatest, I think, cultural arguments as to why President Trump deserves four more years in epic, dramatic form.
01:12:15.000The Democrat mayor from Minnesota gave one of the best arguments for why President Trump can preserve our steel industry and the iron backbone of America.
01:12:25.000150 steps in heels, coming down the rose garden, taking that epic left turn, giving a speech to unite our country as an immigrant, someone who speaks six languages, someone who loves her husband and loves her country, all capped off while President Trump and her walk past that.
01:12:40.000And she's her fashion choice, aesthetic, incredible.
01:12:45.000The Republican National Convention, a celebration of the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world.
01:12:50.000The Democrat National Convention, inherent contradictions, sparring past each other.
01:12:58.000Not celebrating America, but condemning America.
01:13:01.000That's what's going to be on the ballot coming into November.
01:13:03.000Whether we want to have quiet and peaceable lives, whether we want to believe that church is more important than a casino, whether we want pastors to not be locked up, but instead we want violent prisoners to go to jail and stay in jail.
01:13:14.000In California, 17,000 violent criminals have been released from California.
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