00:01:07.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
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00:01:27.000On this flash episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, I am thrilled to have with us today someone that could do something that a year ago, two years ago would have been, quite honestly, nearly impossible.
00:02:33.000We have a super majority of Democrats in the Senate, a super majority of Democrats in the Assembly, and of course, we have a left-wing governor.
00:03:02.000My father moved here back in 1945, right after the war, and working two full-time jobs as a janitor was able to afford a house that right now is worth $600,000.
00:03:12.000That's wonderful for our family because it's still in the family.
00:03:16.000But if you try to do what my dad did, if you worked three jobs, you couldn't do it because the cost of living is insane because of the anti-growth attitude that has been the case in California for the last 30 or 40 years.
00:03:26.000As to why I think I can win, I'm a well-known public figure out here in California.
00:03:44.000I've been talking about these issues for some 30 years.
00:03:47.000And I think I can explain things in a way that Joe and Joe Sixpat can understand.
00:03:52.000A lot of times, Charlie, people leave California and they go to places like Texas and Florida and they bring their politics with them because they don't understand the connection between a high crime and left-wing policies out of Sacramento.
00:04:03.000They don't get the connection between the high price of housing and left-wing policies.
00:04:08.000I can make them understand the reason the state is in the situation that it's in, the reason we have riots and homelessness is because of asinine policies that have been pushed by Sacramento for decades and have been pushed by this reckless, arrogant, smug governor for the last two years.
00:04:24.000This is the guy who imposed the most strict coronavirus mandates of all 50 states while ignoring them.
00:04:30.000There he is sitting up there in the French laundry.
00:04:32.000And I found out, Charlie, I never even heard of the French laundry until he was there.
00:04:35.000It's one of the most expensive restaurants, not just in California, one of the most expensive, exclusive restaurants in the country.
00:04:42.000And there he is dining with the very lobbyists and contributors that made the mandate that they were violating.
00:04:49.000They weren't engaging in social distancing.
00:04:51.000They weren't wearing masks while telling you to do that, which meant that they weren't really afraid, but they wanted you to be afraid.
00:04:58.000And the man had his own kids continue in-school private education, and he exempted his own business, the winery, from the very mandate that everybody else had to suffer under.
00:05:07.000Most states, two-thirds of the jobs have come back.
00:05:10.000In California, only half the jobs have come back.
00:05:12.000And it may be even worse because the bankruptcy courts have yet to open up and operate full-time.
00:05:17.000So it's unclear how much damage he's done.
00:05:19.000All I know is he's done a great deal of damage.
00:05:21.000Charlie, in preparing for this campaign, I talked to a lot of people.
00:05:24.000Just yesterday, we shot a bunch of commercials, and the makeup lady was telling me about her son.
00:05:29.000She's a single mom, has a 17-year-old kid, one of the top wrestlers in the state of California, had been wrestling six days a week.
00:05:36.000And the wrestling coach, of course, is his father figure.
00:05:38.000Because he's been locked out, the kid has now gotten depressed, came to his mother, had enough class and integrity to tell his mom he felt suicidal, Charlie.
00:05:54.000He's their father figure, and they had structure.
00:05:56.000He begged and pleaded with the school board not to shut down training.
00:06:00.000They could at least do that outdoors without having to wear some of a mask, but they said no.
00:06:04.000And two of the kids got into trouble with the law.
00:06:06.000One of them committed a crime that's going to put him behind bars for years.
00:06:10.000This would not have happened had Gavin Newsom listened to the science that said in-school learning would be okay with certain precautions.
00:06:17.000He ignored it because he was doing the bidding of the teachers union that wanted schools locked down while the teachers still kept earning their full salaries.
00:06:56.000I may be a lot of things, but I ain't a white nationalist.
00:06:59.000That's going to be an interesting one, Larry.
00:07:01.000I just want to say for my audience, as close as whatever an endorsement is, we're behind you, Larry.
00:07:06.000And I just want to say that because this whole thing has got to get disrupted.
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00:09:17.0002.2 million people signed the petition, which means a whole bunch of independents and Democrats who voted for him wanted him out.
00:09:24.000And so this is a broad coalition of Californians who are fed up with the crime, fed up with the homelessness, fed up with the deterioration of the quality of schools, fed up with the mandate that he ignored himself.
00:10:37.000My dad, as I mentioned, was able to work two full-time jobs as a janitor, stay-at-home wife, my mother, three boys, and was able to buy a house in South Central, which at the time was upscale.
00:10:51.000If you worked four full-time jobs, you would not be able to do what my dad did with his eighth-grade education.
00:10:56.000That California dream is fading, which is why so many young people like you, Charlie, are leaving this state and going to places like Tennessee and Florida and Texas.
00:11:32.000No, all you need is more votes than the next person.
00:11:36.000Again, a plurality, a higher plurality than the next person.
00:11:40.000I don't know what percentage it'll take to actually win.
00:11:42.000It depends on how many people are there and how the vote is all shaved up.
00:11:45.000But the bottom line is once Gavin Newsom is removed, and that takes 50% plus one vote, the highest number of vote-getters to replace him will be the next governor.
00:11:54.000And that will be certified within 30 days or so of September 14th.
00:12:17.000And so you said that the end of voting is the, is this kind of like this new California like voting quarter thing where you kind of like start voting in August and just kind of lasts for a month and a half?
00:12:39.000The first step is, do you want this man out?
00:12:42.000And if 50% plus one wants him out, then you go to who's going to replace him and whoever got the highest number of votes will replace this guy.
00:12:49.000And so, but then the way I'm looking at it though, Larry, is that this is going to be a very low turnout election on their side and a very high turnout election on our side, right?
00:13:02.000There's virtually no enthusiasm on their side.
00:13:04.000And the voter intensity is going to carry this thing.
00:13:07.000And as to how many candidates there are, I really don't know.
00:13:10.000My suspicion is anywhere from 50 to 100.
00:13:13.000I think the last time when the last governor was recalled, there were 250 people.
00:13:18.000And people walked in, many of them thinking that Arnold Schwarzenegger was going to be their guy.
00:13:22.000So you have to walk in with an idea of who you want, not just to get rid of Gavin Newsom, which is step one, but who do you want to replace him?
00:13:30.000And there are some other people in the race who are policy wonks.
00:13:45.000But the bottom line is this guy has got to go.
00:13:47.000And people have to be reminded of how insulting these mandates were, violating science.
00:13:53.000The science said that you could have in-school education.
00:13:57.000The head of the LA Teachers Union, which is the largest affiliate of the California Teachers Union, said the move to have in-school learning during the last year was led by white supremacists.
00:14:08.000Again, a lot of black coaches were out there protesting.
00:14:10.000A lot of Hispanic coaches were out protesting.
00:14:14.000But of course, all Gavin Newsome does is scream Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.
00:14:18.000And he thinks that voters are going to be recoiled and therefore are going to assume that somehow Donald Trump, I guess, is going to come floating into California and become the next governor.
00:14:26.000I'm not quite sure what they think is going to happen, but that's all Gavin Newsom does is yell Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.
00:14:32.000Yeah, and I think it's really smart, Larry, for you to focus on the virus issue and the lockdown issue.
00:14:39.000You don't need to run on like reforming the California pension system.
00:14:42.000That stuff, you know, that's a distraction.
00:14:43.000You figure that out once you're there.
00:14:45.000You focus on the referendum and the energy around that.
00:14:48.000And if you ever get bored, Larry, let me tell you, I'm right now looking at the French laundry website.
00:14:53.000Maybe Gavin Newsom had oysters and pearls or the chilled brand of wine tomato soup, or maybe he had the Applewood smoked wolf ranch white quail with a side of black truffle and ricotta anglinotti.
00:15:14.000And if the governor has a menu that exotic while he shut down the entire state, that means he's got to go.
00:15:19.000I think you're right on for focusing on that, Larry.
00:15:21.000Well, they weren't serving burritos, Charlie.
00:15:23.000And I heard that the bill was not just $12,000.
00:15:26.000I heard it was closer to $30,000 that taxpayers picked up, again, with the very lobbyists and the people that were making the mandate rules that they were violating.
00:15:35.000And don't forget about this big scandal where he, a bunch of lobbyists like days earlier, formed some sort of corporation to buy masks made in China, $500,000, $500 million deal, excuse me, and the masks were substandard.
00:15:50.000And we were able to call back about half of that amount of money.
00:15:53.000But this was a business that was set up fly-by-night by lobbyists connected to Gavin Newsome in order to import face masks that were manufactured in China that were substandard, overpaid for these very face masks.
00:16:08.000The mayor of L.A. was able to get face masks for pennies on the dollar compared to what Gavin Newsom was paying.
00:17:27.000One other thing, Charlie, I just want people outside California to understand why this is important for them, too.
00:17:32.000We have a left-wing president, or at least a president who's telling him what to do, left-wing.
00:17:38.000We've got a left-wing Congress, a left-wing Senate in Washington, D.C.
00:17:42.000And out here in California, as you know, Charlie, we have supermajorities in the Senate and in the Assembly, Democrats.
00:17:48.000And of course, it's left-wing governor.
00:17:50.000And it's rising crime, rising homelessness, rising cost of living, and declining quality of schools.
00:17:57.000This is coming to a theater near you if you don't do something about it.
00:18:01.000So how California goes, the rest of the country goes.
00:18:03.000And so it's a fight not just for California, but it's a fight for the rest of the country because the rest of the country could very well suffer the same fate if we don't turn California around.
00:18:12.000Well, look, and I just want to say go to as many churches as you can.
00:18:15.000Go to Pastor Juergen's church in San Diego.
00:18:17.000Go to Jack Hibbs' church, obviously, in Chino, Rob McCoy out in Thousand Oaks.
00:18:21.000I'm definitely going to be able to help you with that.
00:19:10.000We're on at 10 to 12 every day, but we're going to keep on mentioning your race and make sure we could try to get Gavin Newsom's numbers down because like you said, if that first question says yes, I think you'll be able to get that plurality.
00:19:24.000I mean, if you get to know, and then that next question, anything can happen.