The Charlie Kirk Show - ActCon 2023 vs The Federal Government

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, fan to Charlie Kirk Show.

00:00:01.000 Reflections and some breaking news from our Turning Point Action Conference, how the Secret Service threw us a curveball.

00:00:07.000 Same Secret Service that can't find the cocaine in the White House or whose cocaine it is.

00:00:11.000 Whose cocaine is it anyway?

00:00:13.000 And we also talk about straw poll results and more.

00:00:16.000 Email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:00:18.000 Get involved with Turning Point USA.

00:00:20.000 Make sure you listen to the end of this episode for a giveaway opportunity and get involved with Turning PointUSA, TPUSA.com.

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00:00:29.000 Buckle up, everybody.

00:00:30.000 Here we go.

00:00:31.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:33.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

00:00:35.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:00:38.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:00:41.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:00:42.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:00:43.000 His 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.

00:00:52.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.

00:01:01.000 That's why we are here.

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00:01:13.000 I want to say thank you, thank you, thank you to our amazing Turning Point Action staff.

00:01:19.000 We had our chapter leadership summit brought to you by Turning Point USA in the days before it.

00:01:23.000 No other team could have pulled off what we pulled off and what we had to overcome.

00:01:28.000 And I'm going to share that in great detail.

00:01:31.000 For those of you that watched at home, I hope you enjoyed it.

00:01:34.000 It was the largest event of the summer and honestly, one of the largest of the year.

00:01:39.000 We had over 6,000 people, actually had 7,000 people try to attend.

00:01:45.000 Here's a little lesson.

00:01:48.000 When you do events, usually you'll have, and we have an algorithm for this that we've, or the formula we've developed, algorithms, not the right word, formula.

00:01:56.000 You'll have 80 to 85% people show up, and depending on the speaker, 70, 75% people show up.

00:02:01.000 When you have Megan Kelly, you have Tucker, and you have Donald Trump, all one after the other.

00:02:07.000 We had something like 96.5% of people show up.

00:02:12.000 And all at once.

00:02:13.000 It was absolutely, it was unheard.

00:02:16.000 It was the highest turnout we've ever had as far as ticketing in there.

00:02:21.000 And the Turning Point staff handled it amazingly.

00:02:23.000 There was definitely some frustration with getting into the event.

00:02:26.000 I'm going to tell you all about it because some people were definitely upset and they should be.

00:02:32.000 It was a three-hour wait to get in, and it involved the Secret Service.

00:02:36.000 Interestingly, you know, there was no wait on Sunday when the Secret Service wasn't around.

00:02:39.000 The same Secret Service, by the way, that can't tell you who's cocaine.

00:02:43.000 It is in the White House.

00:02:45.000 But first, I want to talk about all the good news, and I wanted to say thank you for you guys that had the patience, that supported the event, that prayed for the event.

00:02:52.000 We were really, really blown away by the people that stopped us in the hall, people that said thank you.

00:02:58.000 Charlie, listen to the show.

00:02:59.000 I watch you on Real America's Voice.

00:03:00.000 Charlie, I listen to you on the Salem Radio Network.

00:03:02.000 Charlie, I listened to the podcast.

00:03:04.000 It really touched us.

00:03:05.000 And you guys were patient, and you guys were amazing, and it was an amazingly successful event.

00:03:10.000 So let's get to the recap here.

00:03:11.000 President Donald Trump gave a 110-minute speech.

00:03:15.000 I got to tell you, President Trump, he goes all in.

00:03:19.000 So he arrives there, and he does like 50 pictures with every police officer that he could find.

00:03:25.000 You want a picture?

00:03:26.000 It was like Oprah.

00:03:27.000 Do you want a picture?

00:03:28.000 And you want a picture?

00:03:29.000 And you want a picture.

00:03:30.000 And then Tucker's there.

00:03:32.000 He talks to Tucker for 20 minutes. 0.81

00:03:33.000 Megan Kelly's there backstage, talks to Megan Kelly for 20, 30 minutes.

00:03:36.000 Guy's a machine.

00:03:36.000 Then he goes up and gives a 110-minute speech.

00:03:39.000 He's 77 years old.

00:03:41.000 We receive thousands of emails criticizing Trump.

00:03:44.000 The energy level of this guy is incredible.

00:03:46.000 Incredible.

00:03:48.000 And then he goes on and has a three-hour dinner afterwards.

00:03:50.000 It's just something else.

00:03:52.000 Biden's State of the Union was 72 minutes, and it felt like a marathon.

00:03:55.000 You're kind of like, is this guy going to make it?

00:03:57.000 Is he going to make it?

00:03:59.000 Is he going to make it?

00:04:00.000 And Trump, I think, gains in energy the more he does this stuff.

00:04:03.000 It's remarkable.

00:04:04.000 Opening night at the Turning Point Action Conference, standing room only.

00:04:09.000 We had just people all over the place.

00:04:10.000 It was incredible.

00:04:11.000 Fire Marshal had to close us down and say, yeah, enough.

00:04:14.000 And we can't fight the fire marshal.

00:04:18.000 It is what it is.

00:04:18.000 And so we had great attendance.

00:04:20.000 It was incredible.

00:04:21.000 Vivek Ramaswamy spoke earlier in the evening.

00:04:24.000 Now, for those that remember, Chris Christie declined our invitation.

00:04:27.000 Nikki Healy declined our invitation.

00:04:28.000 Mike Pence declined our invitation.

00:04:32.000 And Ron DeSantis declined our invitation.

00:04:36.000 Ron DeSantis is a terrific governor of Florida.

00:04:39.000 I don't like people that are rewriting the history.

00:04:41.000 He has been and remains a great governor of Florida.

00:04:43.000 He's done some amazing things, banning critical race theory, what he's done with the new college, what he did with Disney, I fully support.

00:04:50.000 He's not been running a good presidential campaign, and he made a major mistake to not show up at this event.

00:04:55.000 We'll dive into that in great detail.

00:04:57.000 Vivek Ramaswamy gave a barn burner speech.

00:05:01.000 And so we had a question of, okay, who do you want to be president of the United States?

00:05:04.000 Donald Trump with 85%.

00:05:07.000 The more interesting question, though, is: okay, who is your second choice?

00:05:11.000 Vivek Ramaswamy won with 51% as the second choice.

00:05:16.000 And the obvious lesson is: if you show up, you're going to win.

00:05:20.000 Vivek showed up.

00:05:22.000 He did press.

00:05:22.000 He did media.

00:05:23.000 He was on like no sleep.

00:05:25.000 He did an after-party.

00:05:26.000 He did an influencer meetup.

00:05:28.000 And Ron DeSantis, I think, received 4% in his home state.

00:05:33.000 If Ron DeSantis would have showed up, he would have done very well.

00:05:36.000 Ron DeSantis could have won over a lot of our audience.

00:05:38.000 He would have been treated very respectfully, obviously.

00:05:41.000 In fact, I said this privately.

00:05:42.000 I'll say it again.

00:05:43.000 We're going to play a piece of paper.

00:05:44.000 I said this.

00:05:44.000 Ron DeSantis should have showed up and he should have done an open mic and say, if you disagree with me, go to the front of the line.

00:05:49.000 If you don't like what I'm doing, go to the front of the line.

00:05:52.000 That's what I do on college campuses.

00:05:54.000 Governor DeSantis would have earned people's respect by doing that.

00:05:59.000 Dodging voters you need to win over is not a path to victory.

00:06:04.000 Just a little taste here.

00:06:06.000 You know that they love Donald Trump, but I think it's more interesting, at least in this sense, is how Vivek Ramaswamy is ascendant.

00:06:12.000 In fact, I believe Vivek is going to overtake Ron DeSantis very soon as second place in the Republican primary.

00:06:19.000 I see it.

00:06:20.000 We know the base very well.

00:06:22.000 Almost every prediction we've made.

00:06:23.000 And I'll tell you, when I think Vivek's turning point in his campaign was when Vivek took our public advice, which was to go down to Miami and to say it's outrageous that Donald Trump was being charged federally.

00:06:35.000 I was mocked by Ron DeSantis consultants and influencers.

00:06:38.000 I was mocked by people in many presidential campaigns because that tweet went totally viral.

00:06:43.000 Vivek Ramaswamy went from sixth place to now second place.

00:06:46.000 No one heard of it.

00:06:47.000 No, that's not totally true.

00:06:48.000 Some people had heard of him six months ago, but only if you watch Fox News, especially Tucker, but he was not a household name.

00:06:55.000 Vivek Ramaswamy went down to Miami, Florida, and he benefited from the 600 different media outlets that were there.

00:07:01.000 So you have President Trump, obviously he wins 85%.

00:07:04.000 That was my prediction.

00:07:06.000 And by the way, the poll was done by Trafalgar.

00:07:09.000 We had no access to the poll.

00:07:10.000 We had no inside information about the poll.

00:07:12.000 We had no updates about the poll.

00:07:14.000 It was literally, we got a report at the end, and that was it.

00:07:17.000 It was that simple.

00:07:19.000 I swear to you, people say, oh, Charlie, you manipulated.

00:07:21.000 Okay.

00:07:22.000 If you think we manipulated, you should have just walked in the room.

00:07:25.000 Do you support Trump?

00:07:28.000 You don't need to manipulate what you can see with your own knife.

00:07:31.000 And so we get the results.

00:07:33.000 And I said, boy, I think Vivek is going to do very well.

00:07:36.000 And I do want to ruminate on this because Vivek Ramaswamy is running the campaign that Ron DeSantis should have run, which is he refuses to attack Donald Trump.

00:07:46.000 He refuses to attack his voters.

00:07:48.000 He's reading the room and he's making principled, clear, wise statements.

00:07:54.000 And it goes to show that, yeah, you can actually ascend in the Republican primary if you understand the Republican base.

00:08:01.000 So 85.7% selected Donald Trump for president, 51.2% as their second choice for president.

00:08:08.000 Kerry Lake won our vice presidential straw poll with 30.8%.

00:08:13.000 And there are some other top-line, really important takeaways here.

00:08:20.000 And I just want to make sure I'm making this clear.

00:08:22.000 Had Ron DeSantis attended, people would have been way more positive on him.

00:08:27.000 Ron DeSantis could have worked media row.

00:08:29.000 He could have done an influencer reception.

00:08:30.000 He could have gone and taken selfies and pictures.

00:08:33.000 He could have put his hand around people.

00:08:35.000 In fact, you know, because of just, let's say, less than desirable, the waiting lines that we had to come into turning point made Maricopa County look like an expedited thing.

00:08:46.000 You know, people, I think, appreciate when you go and you look at them in the eyes and you shake their hands and you take pictures.

00:08:52.000 I did it for an hour and a half.

00:08:53.000 And I think Ron DeSantis would have really benefited from doing that.

00:08:58.000 It's a missed opportunity, but it seems as if those missed opportunities are building.

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00:09:44.000 So let's go deeper into the poll.

00:09:46.000 Okay.

00:09:47.000 So we had 7,000 people show up, some of which were unannounced buying day of tickets on the first night.

00:09:55.000 But we had, again, 7,000, I think we've had a total, 7,700 total people pass through the convention center.

00:10:01.000 Amazing.

00:10:02.000 Largest ever turning point action event.

00:10:05.000 I want to just emphasize because, you know, there's these really lazy, overweight people that just tweet, turning point doesn't do anything except events.

00:10:15.000 Like, really?

00:10:16.000 Okay, let me tell you something beyond the obvious. 0.82

00:10:18.000 You have to be really, you have to be a really bitter person.

00:10:21.000 I hate bitterness to say something like that.

00:10:24.000 But let me just kind of give you one number.

00:10:26.000 Over 700 people signed up to become precinct committeemen just at this event.

00:10:32.000 700.

00:10:33.000 Has the RNC done that recently?

00:10:36.000 700 people.

00:10:38.000 In fact, my advice to the Trump campaign is every single time you do a rally, you should be signing people up to become precinct committeemen.

00:10:45.000 My number one call to action was go to tpaction.com or go to the turning point action booth and sign up.

00:10:55.000 700 people signed up who were otherwise not precinct committeemen.

00:11:02.000 These are the grassroots workers.

00:11:03.000 These are precinct captains.

00:11:05.000 We will not win if we don't fill these positions.

00:11:07.000 And that's just one of many.

00:11:09.000 We have over 100 new turning point USA high school or college chapters that are going to be started from this event this last weekend.

00:11:18.000 So yeah, there was the pizzazz, there was all that stuff.

00:11:20.000 But we're about grassroots action.

00:11:23.000 Grassroots action.

00:11:25.000 The event was just a starting point for taking back America, taking that energy and taking that enthusiasm and directing it towards a specific output.

00:11:40.000 We had all 50 states represented.

00:11:42.000 People say, I'm going to run for a school board.

00:11:44.000 I'm going to run for Congress.

00:11:45.000 I'm going to hold my elected officials accountable. 1.00

00:11:48.000 Let the big oligarchs waste their money on the primary. 1.00

00:11:53.000 The best money you could spend is: let's build a grassroots party. 1.00

00:11:56.000 Let's fill up all our precinct committee positions.

00:11:59.000 And we made a big step in that direction.

00:12:01.000 In fact, we're trying to get people that were watching online sign up at tpaction.com to take back your state party.

00:12:08.000 One of many really just awesome takeaways from this weekend.

00:12:15.000 And by the way, if you had not had a chance to watch some of the speeches, I encourage you to do so.

00:12:19.000 We're going to be posting them on Rumble and playing them all throughout.

00:12:22.000 So let me just give you a little bit of taste.

00:12:23.000 Tucker Carlson gave an incredible speech.

00:12:26.000 I have so much respect for Tucker Carlson.

00:12:28.000 Tucker Carlson's a good man.

00:12:30.000 He's gracious with his time.

00:12:31.000 He's just outright hilarious.

00:12:33.000 He's humble.

00:12:34.000 He's kind.

00:12:35.000 He's a clear thinker.

00:12:36.000 He's wise.

00:12:38.000 You know, when you have these speakers at these events, some speakers are like, I want to arrive, I want to speak, and I want to leave.

00:12:47.000 Right, Mikey, it's very clear.

00:12:48.000 Tucker shows up.

00:12:49.000 He's like, whatever you need.

00:12:51.000 Hanging out with Turning Point USA chapter leaders, taking selfies with people.

00:12:55.000 So generous, so gracious, so down-to-earth.

00:12:59.000 And I have dealt with, I think, almost everybody in the entire movement.

00:13:04.000 I don't think that there's anybody that we have not hosted at this point.

00:13:06.000 Everyone from Jordan Peterson to Tucker Carlson, right?

00:13:11.000 Basically, all across.

00:13:12.000 And I wanted to say most speakers are wonderful to deal with.

00:13:14.000 Not all of them, but most speakers are fine.

00:13:16.000 No one comes even close, though, to Tucker Carlson and just his grassroots humility.

00:13:21.000 Whatever you need.

00:13:22.000 I'm here.

00:13:22.000 I love you guys.

00:13:23.000 I love the students.

00:13:24.000 I love the movement.

00:13:26.000 I have immense respect for that.

00:13:28.000 And honestly, I have a lot to learn.

00:13:31.000 One of the most insightful things that Tucker Carlson shared is Cut Eight.

00:13:35.000 Listen carefully.

00:13:36.000 Very, very deep point here.

00:13:38.000 Play Cut Eight.

00:13:40.000 If you want to know what they care about, if you want to know what's important, listen to how they respond when you say something unapproved.

00:13:49.000 But the point is, when something is clearly or very likely untrue, it poses no threat to anyone.

00:13:57.000 What's scary and what will elicit a response are true things?

00:14:00.000 No one is punished for lying.

00:14:03.000 People are only punished for telling the truth.

00:14:06.000 What are the crimes that are punished?

00:14:07.000 Thought crimes, thinking the wrong thing, having the wrong beliefs, saying unapproved words.

00:14:16.000 It's the truth tellers that are penalized.

00:14:20.000 We'll get to it.

00:14:20.000 It's not the top thing, but there's this article in the Arizona Republic.

00:14:24.000 Charlie Kirk, literally, the title is Charlie Kirk Says Racist Things.

00:14:29.000 That's the title in the Arizona Republic.

00:14:33.000 I don't, never have, never will.

00:14:36.000 We say true things and we defend the promise of meritocracy.

00:14:43.000 But it's the truth tellers that are criticized.

00:14:46.000 Does Anthony Fauci, John Brennan, James Comey, Merrick Garland, do they get negative articles in the Arizona Republic?

00:14:55.000 No, because lying is rewarded and truth-telling is punished.

00:15:01.000 That's an unbelievably profound point by, in my opinion, the current king of conservative media, Tucker Carlson.

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00:18:16.000 Okay, I want to focus on some of these other poll results, and then I'm going to tell you about the, let's just say, curveball that we were throwing on Saturday that our team did an amazing job adapting to.

00:18:30.000 We asked some other questions.

00:18:31.000 We said, do you plan to donate to the RNC?

00:18:36.000 Do you plan to make the RNC part of your giving strategy?

00:18:40.000 77.3% of the most active, most vocal attendees in the country, activists, say no.

00:18:49.000 77.3% say they have no plan to donate to the Republican National Committee.

00:18:55.000 Now, Harmet Dylan was there.

00:18:57.000 Scott Pressler was there.

00:18:59.000 Wouldn't it have been smart for the RNC to show up and maybe win over these people?

00:19:07.000 I'm very concerned.

00:19:09.000 Actually, I don't know if I'm concerned because I don't know how much I care about that.

00:19:14.000 I do want a strong party, honestly.

00:19:15.000 I do.

00:19:16.000 I'm a registered independent for this exact reason.

00:19:18.000 I've lost trust in the Republican Party.

00:19:23.000 But there is a pattern that is manifesting, which is if I just avoid our voters and our grassroots and activists, things will get better.

00:19:37.000 In life, when you avoid your problems, they rarely go away.

00:19:43.000 That's a truism in almost every part of life.

00:19:46.000 Now, sometimes you do get lucky.

00:19:48.000 Sometimes problems solve themselves.

00:19:51.000 One out of a thousand times.

00:19:55.000 What I've learned, 11 years of doing this, is that when you have a problem, doing the difficult but necessary and sometimes messy thing of confrontation, maybe apology and taking responsibility is almost always the right choice.

00:20:15.000 So the RNC knows that they are not well liked by their voters, by grassroots folks.

00:20:23.000 Why not show up and talk to them?

00:20:26.000 They're going to say, oh, we weren't invited.

00:20:28.000 Correct.

00:20:28.000 You weren't invited.

00:20:29.000 But you could have reached out.

00:20:30.000 You are the Republican National Committee.

00:20:32.000 By the way, every presidential candidate was invited.

00:20:34.000 Harmee Dillon came, Mike Lindell was there.

00:20:36.000 Scott Pressler was there.

00:20:38.000 Roger Stone was there.

00:20:39.000 Patrick Byrne was there.

00:20:41.000 Asa Hutchinson was there.

00:20:43.000 You will not find a more diverse group of speakers.

00:20:49.000 I don't care about skin color. 1.00

00:20:50.000 It's irrelevant to me.

00:20:51.000 A more diverse mixture of speakers than at the Turning Point Action Conference.

00:20:57.000 And I love Roger Stone.

00:20:58.000 I've known Roger for years.

00:20:59.000 I argued for his pardon.

00:21:02.000 Donald Trump, Asa Hutchinson, Mayor Suarez, Jack Pissot.

00:21:06.000 I mean, it's all over the place.

00:21:08.000 But the point is the grassroots need to be in charge.

00:21:12.000 My immediate mission, our mission at Turning Point Action has been to change who runs the party.

00:21:20.000 The oligarchs, the consultants, the mob bosses, get out of the way.

00:21:25.000 The grassroots are informed.

00:21:27.000 You guys in the audience are the smartest, flipping people.

00:21:31.000 You guys are stopping me and you're talking about, Charlie, have you read all the details of the Green New Deal and there's this thing and you got it like highlighted. 0.87

00:21:39.000 Mikey, I think, has 2,000 pieces of paper that people gave me at the Turning Point Action Conference.

00:21:44.000 And I plan to go through it.

00:21:46.000 And some of it's a little wacky.

00:21:47.000 Some of it is unbelievably wise.

00:21:51.000 I get some of the ideas for our show of you, the audience.

00:21:54.000 You guys know it better than the mob bosses.

00:21:58.000 One person comes up to me, Charlie, I've mapped all of the finances of the homes and the villas that Zelensky is buying.

00:22:05.000 I don't know if it's true or not, but it certainly seemed compelling, and it's like a big stack of paper.

00:22:09.000 Somebody else comes up to me, Charlie, you don't understand all the adverse events that vaccines could be, and they give me a book and all this.

00:22:15.000 The point is the audience is gaining in their knowledge, gaining in their expertise.

00:22:26.000 And I truly believe that the guardians of the Republican Party don't like that.

00:22:31.000 I don't think they want to have to walk through an expo hall like that we had and had to be asked tough questions or have to be given material that they have to read about issues that they're bought and paid for.

00:22:44.000 And I kid you not, this is what I think Ron DeSantis miscalculated, is that these grassroots people, they don't just like attend and then they go away.

00:22:54.000 They talk and they organize.

00:22:59.000 This actually just came to be, and this is the best way I can describe it.

00:23:03.000 I'm so glad I came up with this.

00:23:05.000 Malcolm Gladwell is a mediocre author, but he said some smart things.

00:23:10.000 I'm actually curious what Blake thinks about Malcolm Gladwell.

00:23:12.000 Some of his books are great. 0.74

00:23:13.000 Some of his books are just complete rubbish.

00:23:17.000 There is a book called Outliers, which I think is his best book. 0.78

00:23:23.000 And I think it's his most quoted book.

00:23:24.000 Blink by Malcolm Gladwell's Trash.

00:23:26.000 David and Goliath is not good. 0.98

00:23:28.000 Blake says he's a midwit.

00:23:30.000 What does that mean?

00:23:32.000 That's not a word that I use.

00:23:34.000 Someone who is around average intelligence.

00:23:36.000 Okay, I'll take that.

00:23:37.000 Fine.

00:23:38.000 Malcolm Gladwell in the book Outliers has a term called a maven.

00:23:49.000 So Malcolm Gladwell is a social psychologist and social scientist, and he wants to find out and just observe the world.

00:23:55.000 He's become super lefty.

00:23:56.000 But in the book Outliers, he was trying to find out why hush puppies became so popular.

00:24:03.000 What is it?

00:24:05.000 How do trends and fashion or how do certain recipes become popular?

00:24:14.000 I don't know if it was hush puppies, actually.

00:24:15.000 It was something of that.

00:24:16.000 The point is this.

00:24:17.000 He was trying to figure out what makes something go viral.

00:24:21.000 It's a really interesting question, isn't it?

00:24:24.000 Why do some things catch on? 0.98

00:24:26.000 For example, that stupid ice bath thing that we did in the summer, like five or six years ago, right? 0.99

00:24:30.000 Like ice bath challenge for autism or something, right? 1.00

00:24:34.000 It was something like that.

00:24:35.000 Was it autism?

00:24:36.000 I think it was.

00:24:40.000 ALS.

00:24:40.000 Okay, I apologize.

00:24:43.000 Or what are some other fads?

00:24:45.000 Like, remember Kony 2012?

00:24:47.000 Like, what made that go viral?

00:24:49.000 Or any of these things.

00:24:51.000 What Malcolm Gladwell argued in the book Outliers, the Harlem Shake is a great example. 0.84

00:24:56.000 That's a great example.

00:24:58.000 Is that there's a community of people that if you're able to find them, they can make something go from an unknown to popularity.

00:25:07.000 And it's called a MAVEN.

00:25:11.000 He uses the term a MAVEN as a way of somebody who works hard and is well connected in their community that reaches thousands of people and they make it go viral, make it go popular.

00:25:26.000 What Ron DeSantis missed out was on 6,000 MAVENs at the Turning Point Action Conference.

00:25:34.000 These are 6,000 people that independently help make something get into the mainstream, into the Zeitgeist.

00:25:42.000 There are 6,000 conservative MAVINs.

00:25:46.000 And you can read it.

00:25:47.000 You type in MAVEN Malcolm Gladwell.

00:25:49.000 He's written extensively about it.

00:25:51.000 You'll see it.

00:25:52.000 Rutgers University has a whole piece on it.

00:25:56.000 Are you a connector, a MAVEN, or a salesman?

00:25:59.000 It's an early adopter strategy.

00:26:01.000 And so if you want to win the thing, actually, the book is tipping point, actually.

00:26:05.000 He wrote about this in the tipping point or outliers?

00:26:07.000 I get it all confused.

00:26:07.000 I've read all this stuff.

00:26:09.000 I'm doing this live here.

00:26:14.000 I think it is the tipping point, actually.

00:26:16.000 Not the most important point.

00:26:17.000 The point is that this was not just your average, quote-unquote, average audience.

00:26:21.000 These are people that will make or break your entire presidential campaign, period.

00:26:26.000 Make or break your entire career.

00:26:28.000 And they felt scorned.

00:26:30.000 They were very unhappy that certain candidates ignored them and they said they had more important stuff to do.

00:26:36.000 I had some sharp but honest comments on this.

00:26:40.000 Play cut 14.

00:26:41.000 Charlie, I know it is a delicate subject.

00:26:43.000 I wanted to ask, you guys had a great relationship with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

00:26:47.000 Oh, I think he's a great governor.

00:26:48.000 It's not delicate.

00:26:49.000 I'm happy to talk about it.

00:26:50.000 I mean, I think he's a great governor of Florida.

00:26:52.000 I think it's an unbelievable stake for him not to be here.

00:26:55.000 I don't take it personally.

00:26:56.000 You just kind of get over things and every day is a new day.

00:26:56.000 It's politics.

00:26:59.000 It's really a tragedy for the conservative movement because he is a great governor.

00:27:03.000 I mean, I'm on Team Trump, so whatever, who am I to give advice?

00:27:07.000 But like Ron DeSantis could have come here, said, you know what?

00:27:10.000 I'm just going to take questions from the audience and I'm going to tell you about what I've done.

00:27:13.000 And he has done some things that are noteworthy, banning critical race theory, the crime stuff's been good.

00:27:17.000 Instead, he's running a Chamber of Commerce campaign where he thinks dollars mean votes.

00:27:21.000 Like, no, that's not how it works, actually.

00:27:23.000 You need people.

00:27:24.000 And he turned his back on 6,000 of the most important people in the Republican primary.

00:27:28.000 6,000 of the most important people in the Republican primary.

00:27:32.000 That is exactly right.

00:27:34.000 So you have 6,000 MAVENs.

00:27:35.000 They don't want to talk to him.

00:27:36.000 Let me also highlight some other poll findings.

00:27:40.000 89% of attendees support the Republican Party embracing early voting and vote chasing.

00:27:48.000 89.7% support the Republican Party embracing early voting and vote chasing.

00:27:57.000 This is telling.

00:28:00.000 And the most lopsided question we asked, I'm going to tease and tell you about in the next segment.

00:28:07.000 I want to see, though, is this is this parallel to what you believe?

00:28:14.000 Do you plan to donate to the RNC?

00:28:17.000 Email us, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:28:19.000 Do you plan to support the Republican establishment?

00:28:25.000 If you want to win back your base, you have to speak to them.

00:28:30.000 I'm going to tell you how I know this is true based on a let I have two things I want to finish in this hour because we have a lot to cover. 0.85

00:28:40.000 I need to tell you about the most lopsided piece of information from our polling, and then I need to tell you a story of how big government truly does suck. 0.98

00:28:50.000 And I could prove it to you because we have that mantra at Turning Point USA, big gov sucks.

00:28:55.000 And we saw it in real time, but we overcame and our attendees are awesome.

00:29:00.000 Our attendees wanted to be there so bad, they waited three hours in a 98-degree parking garage.

00:29:07.000 You might say, Charlie, why'd you put him in a parking garage?

00:29:09.000 We didn't.

00:29:10.000 I'm going to tell you that full story.

00:29:12.000 The honest, and I haven't told this story publicly yet.

00:29:15.000 And wait till you hear it.

00:29:18.000 It's something, but you guys deserve great credit for overcoming that.

00:29:21.000 Our staff, too.

00:29:22.000 It's really something.

00:29:24.000 95.8% of turning point action attendees oppose United States involvement in Ukraine.

00:29:30.000 95.8%.

00:29:32.000 Yet 99% of your elected officials are cheerleading for a war against Russia or funding it or supportive of it.

00:29:39.000 What a major disconnect.

00:29:43.000 That is unsustainable, everybody.

00:29:45.000 If 95.8% of your voters don't want something and 99% of your elected officials are still jamming it through and not listening and basically force-feeding a neoliberal internationalist agenda, that is a recipe for a political revolution.

00:30:03.000 Listen to your voters or be honest with them.

00:30:06.000 Try to persuade them.

00:30:08.000 Not a single speaker, well, that's not true.

00:30:10.000 The couple speakers came and they was not exactly well received.

00:30:15.000 But none of the speakers that were well received were defending the war in Ukraine.

00:30:19.000 Why are so many of your elected officials trying to get us in a war with Russia?

00:30:24.000 You are smarter than your politicians on this, or you're not bought and paid for.

00:30:27.000 Mixture of both.

00:30:28.000 Okay, story time.

00:30:29.000 Night before the event, we did our typical walkthrough with the Secret Service.

00:30:33.000 When you have President Trump, a former president, or the Secret Service, they take over everything.

00:30:37.000 Every nook or cranny, every door, every closet, every chair is regulated by the federal government.

00:30:43.000 We've worked with the Secret Service for years.

00:30:45.000 They are traditionally wonderful, terrific, transparent, engaging.

00:30:50.000 Give us what we want.

00:30:52.000 Yes, they are focused on security, but they've always been excellent.

00:30:56.000 Traditionally, just awesome.

00:30:58.000 So when you try to go into an event, we made all these recommendations and they shot them down, like, hey, why don't you have the check-in in air conditioning, not outside?

00:31:05.000 And they gave us assurances.

00:31:06.000 And assurances based on past events.

00:31:09.000 By the way, this is our 12th event with the Secret Service between former Vice President and President Trump, not our first rodeo, not our first circus, not even close.

00:31:18.000 And so we were promised, there's a thing called MAGs, not getting too technical.

00:31:21.000 You guys go through them when you go to airport security.

00:31:23.000 We were promised at least seven MAGs.

00:31:26.000 We show up, all of a sudden in the morning, there are three.

00:31:29.000 Traditionally, they're able to process 1,300 people per hour to come into an event.

00:31:34.000 They were going in at a rate of 180 people an hour.

00:31:37.000 We were getting texts, Charlie, why are they going through everything in my bag?

00:31:41.000 Why are they going so slow?

00:31:44.000 So it was 90% slower.

00:31:46.000 And we were literally screaming at some of these Secret Services.

00:31:50.000 Like, why can't you speed it up?

00:31:51.000 And they said, the smugness and the arrogance.

00:31:53.000 Now, I don't think that's a picture of the entire Secret Service.

00:31:56.000 Whatever happened there, and I'm not saying it was intentional sabotage or whatnot, resulted, somebody could have died, and the federal government could not have cared less.

00:32:03.000 We were telling them, like, guys, can we get these people in the building?

00:32:07.000 We had 4,000 people in 98-degree heat in a parking garage.

00:32:11.000 Totally unacceptable.

00:32:12.000 To say I was pissed is an understatement.

00:32:15.000 And I went out there and I shook as many hands as I possibly could, apologizing.

00:32:19.000 Three-hour hot garage wait.

00:32:21.000 And were people safer?

00:32:22.000 Well, let me show you the contrast, and I'll prove it to you.

00:32:25.000 Because you might say, oh, Charlie, you're just spinning it.

00:32:27.000 Look at the contrast.

00:32:27.000 Oh, yeah?

00:32:28.000 Put this up on screen.

00:32:30.000 On the left side of the screen is what happened on Sunday.

00:32:33.000 On Sunday, our team was able to take over security at Turning Point USA because the Secret Service got out of the way and the TSA, literally, the TSA came and they got out of the way.

00:32:42.000 You see those?

00:32:43.000 Those are modern technological mags that are able to detect weapons.

00:32:47.000 On the right, you see what happens when the Secret Service takes over.

00:32:50.000 We processed 3,800 people in one hour.

00:32:55.000 And guess what?

00:32:56.000 We picked up weapons that the Secret Service missed.

00:32:59.000 Yeah.

00:33:00.000 You know, we detected 50 knives and weapons.

00:33:03.000 They said, well, the Secret Service didn't make me take it out the other day.

00:33:07.000 So the Secret Service slowed down our entire event and missed 50 weapons that we were able to detect instantaneously.

00:33:15.000 So they slowed down the event.

00:33:17.000 They put 4,000 people in a parking garage.

00:33:19.000 50 people passed out.

00:33:21.000 They couldn't care less to administer medical assistance.

00:33:25.000 Our staff is coming there.

00:33:26.000 We have people coming in.

00:33:27.000 We had to call five ambulances.

00:33:30.000 People are passing out from heat stroke, and the Secret Service is moving at a molasses pace.

00:33:34.000 We are screaming at them.

00:33:36.000 Like, can we speed this up?

00:33:38.000 Can we get people in?

00:33:39.000 They said, well, safety is safety.

00:33:40.000 We know what we're doing, sir.

00:33:42.000 No, you don't.

00:33:43.000 And it is a disgrace because most Secret Service agents are awesome.

00:33:47.000 And, you know, we talked to the President Trump's team and they said, oh, they sent in a team from D.C., it was a direct order from D.C. Again, I don't want to get too into the speculative of the motives.

00:33:54.000 I'm getting into the facts.

00:33:55.000 And on Sunday, everyone was like, wow, this is so much better.

00:33:58.000 Did you guys get rid of the security?

00:34:00.000 No.

00:34:00.000 And we actually caught weapons the Secret Service missed.

00:34:05.000 By the way, we handed out water to the fans.

00:34:07.000 We found people that were struggling with the heat and got them to the front.

00:34:10.000 And I went there and I shook every hand.

00:34:12.000 Lynn says, Charlie, the three-hour garage rate was brutal.

00:34:15.000 The fact you acknowledged it, apologized, and even paid for the parking showed your courage and speaks to the wonderful man you are.

00:34:20.000 Okay, whatever.

00:34:20.000 Thank you.

00:34:21.000 By the way, it was worth the wait.

00:34:22.000 Even without paying for parking, I enjoyed every minute.

00:34:24.000 The conference next time, I'm bringing at least 10 people with me.

00:34:27.000 Lynn, thank you.

00:34:29.000 And for the people that just got so mad and they said, I can't take it, I said, fine, we'll refund it.

00:34:33.000 We will take ownership and responsibility for something that is not our responsibility.

00:34:38.000 It's totally on the federal government.

00:34:39.000 It's completely unacceptable.

00:34:41.000 We have a reputation at Turning Point for hosting the best events.

00:34:44.000 That reputation, I believe, has been earned.

00:34:47.000 And I'll just tell you, Sunday was beautiful.

00:34:50.000 Zero issues of security, zero issues through the line.

00:34:52.000 You know how people passed out?

00:34:54.000 Zero.

00:34:55.000 Put that picture back up, please.

00:34:58.000 Choose your future. 0.96

00:35:00.000 Federal government, big government sucks, regime, Leviathan, deep state on the right. 0.98

00:35:05.000 On the left, that's private free enterprise. 0.99

00:35:09.000 Turning point USA.

00:35:11.000 Choose your future.

00:35:12.000 It should be on the other way, left or right, but whatever.

00:35:14.000 It's a little inverted.

00:35:17.000 So to say I'm upset is a little bit.

00:35:19.000 For all of you guys that had to wait and all that, it's unacceptable.

00:35:22.000 I'm not one to shift blame, but I am to say that we did everything we could to fix it.

00:35:28.000 All's well that ends well.

00:35:29.000 It did end well, but it is what it is.

00:35:32.000 And that's the truth of the story.

00:35:33.000 And now you heard it.

00:35:34.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:35:35.000 Email us your thoughts.

00:35:36.000 As always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:35:38.000 Also, email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:35:41.000 Who you think Donald Trump should pick as the vice president for a chance to win a signed copy of the college scam?

00:35:46.000 Email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:35:48.000 It's a debt in the running.

00:35:50.000 Thank you so much for listening, and God bless.

00:35:55.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk. com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - July 17, 2023

ActCon 2023 vs The Federal Government

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