00:00:11.000Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com and get involved with Turning Point Action, our 501c4 political arm of the turning point machine, tpaction.com.
00:00:45.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:13.000And then bucket number two is they're getting the GO TV operation, aka the ballot chasing operation, to make sure that their lower propensity voters are getting turned in.
00:02:26.000Look, I'm not here to speak on behalf of the RNC, but I can just tell you, obviously, with the results that we saw, not enough.
00:02:34.000And this is the problem that we have right now in the movement that we've been saying over and over and over, that we've been warning about, which is this conversation, which is you can't tell everyone you're going to do the entire job and then not do the job.
00:02:46.000And so the argument that's being had, they did nothing.
00:02:58.000Where was the unification of the movement?
00:03:00.000There wasn't a single major person that came from out of state.
00:03:02.000So the only people that were actually doing work on the ground, rally-wise, notoriety-wise, was Scott Pressler, who with Early Vote Action, who we work with at Turning Point Action.
00:03:13.000And then our Turning Point Action staff was doing things.
00:03:15.000Smaller groups that are in the grassroots groups of great patriots were doing things, but there was no national entity help.
00:03:24.000And the Democrats injected $40, $50 million into the state.
00:03:30.000And the question is, where did all that money go?
00:03:32.000Well, Charlie, we estimate they had probably close to 500 full-time people chasing ballots.
00:03:39.000Yeah, and just in hard money, it was $12 million for the Democrat, $12 million for the Democrat, $2 million for the Republican, $45 million total spent.
00:03:50.000It was about an eight-to-one advantage, Democrat versus Republican.
00:04:13.000I don't know what they spend their money on.
00:04:14.000Now Mark Elias is licking his chops to come in to go do a flurry of lawsuits that the Wisconsin Supreme Court will be willing to be open to.
00:04:53.000Well, it is your job if you gobble up all of the money and tell everyone that you're going to take care of these states, that we must win in order to win the presidency.
00:05:01.000At the end of the day, the numbers are this.
00:05:03.000And this is why this is so infuriating, Charlie.
00:05:06.000We have been saying for a long, long time now, for over a year, you have just overtly, you have three states that matter the most: Wisconsin, Georgia, and Arizona.
00:05:16.000The pathway to the presidency goes through these.
00:05:18.000So if I, and again, this is, this is for everybody, because if I'm Trump or if I'm DeSantis or I'm whoever else, right, I should care about this too.
00:05:26.000Because if we don't win the Supreme Court race, am I more likely to become president?
00:06:20.000And I retweeted probably about once a month.
00:06:23.000But this is the problem: if you care about winning those states, you have to provide the resources, the ground game to do it.
00:06:30.000So if the RNC is going to tell everyone, we've got the ground game.
00:06:33.000We're the best suited to do the ground game.
00:06:35.000And then donors at the national level don't give anyone else money to go do the ground game and you lose, then you're not the best of the ground game.
00:06:43.000So the RNC still raised $25 million last quarter.
00:07:35.000But if Mitch McConnell's not doing it and the NRSC is not doing it and the NRCC is not doing it, then we're not doing our job at the national level.
00:07:42.000And the RNC needs to chide these people until that gets done.
00:09:45.000If you have 500 staff, full-time staff, and I'm giving an average for the rest of the country, but 30 days of early balloting, if each of those staff members is responsible for 10 votes a day, which is legitimate, like it's legitimately possible, you're accruing about 150,000 votes that you normally wouldn't get.
00:10:37.000Our chance of winning the White House in 2024 has now decreased significantly because the RNC and the Republican Unit Party could not be bothered to engage in Wisconsin.
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00:13:09.000What Democrats figured out a long time ago was there's too many X factors that are out there that they can't put their thumb on in places like Ohio and Florida and even Texas, right?
00:13:21.000So a lot of people are worried about Texas.
00:13:22.000Those three states are actually more in our direction.
00:14:31.000Because what people don't realize is this, is how Democrats are winning is they're building the infrastructure of ballot harvesting, ballot chasing in the states where they can do it.
00:14:40.000I sometimes call it ballot tracking, right?
00:14:42.000They know the votes that are out there.
00:14:44.000So why have they pushed for mail-in ballots?
00:14:46.000This is why we all hate mail-in ballots, right?
00:14:48.000It's because if they flood the system, flood the zone with mail-in ballots, then all they have to do is inject $20, $30, $40 million worth of capital into a state and they can go basically pick up those ballots.
00:19:06.000Look, we have a lot going on in the turning point machine.
00:19:08.000Tyler's dedicating his life and his what's remaining of his young age and his vitality, right?
00:19:16.000To a largely thankless endeavor, which is this.
00:19:23.000He's basically, Tyler says, look, turning point action, in harmony with all our turning point initiatives, we're going to become the most sophisticated ballot chasing operation, Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, right?
00:20:00.000So, there's going to be, there's been a lot of people who have made promises to do things that are going to win elections.
00:20:06.000At the end of the day, we now know what wins elections for Democrats.
00:20:09.000One is manipulating the elections, which they can only do if they take over your boards, your judiciary, right?
00:20:16.000Which is what they just did in Wisconsin.
00:20:18.000Once you're past that, your only viable option for success is putting eyes on the field and everywhere you can.
00:20:25.000So, a lot of people are like, well, what's election integrity?
00:20:28.000Election integrity looks a lot like for us is if we had a thousand people on the ground in Arizona who could put eyes on these houses that they're trying to use to manipulate.
00:20:38.000So, but you're saying volunteers are not necessarily enough.
00:20:42.000Volunteers are, we're ahead of the game.
00:20:45.000We're almost winning elections as the Republican Party and conservatives in a lot of places with better candidates than we've ever had in some places, right?
00:20:52.000Like in Arizona, we had better candidates that were more ideologically centered than anyone that we've ever had before.
00:20:58.000Now, the problem is, is that we don't have the ground troops in the army.
00:21:48.000Our baby boomers are carrying the party in a lot of these states.
00:21:51.000It's these young people now that we have to train, make sure that we train out of the gate to have this mindset of like, we've got to compete with Democrats on the ground now and teach them properly so we can actually win these elections.
00:23:08.000I'm just, I'm just walking you through it.
00:23:09.000How long does it take to hire someone?
00:23:11.000It takes months to hire someone into a senior level position.
00:23:14.000So if you become the RNC chair in January, it takes you months to organize your, and this is, this is not, I'm not giving Rana a pass because she's been in for six plus years.
00:23:23.000So she should already have all this organized, right?
00:23:25.000But like it takes you months and months to organize this.
00:23:28.000So now you're only a year out from the election.
00:23:31.000Well, if you're only a year out from the election, you have no time then you've got to build all this.
00:23:35.000And if you're out fundraising, you have to raise the money to spend the money.
00:23:39.000There's not enough time in the two years.
00:24:12.000So there's kind of a Democrat war council of these billionaire oligarchs that bundle their money and pool it together and they have accountability.
00:24:20.000And so they'll go fund, you know, progressive door-knocking organization A, Wisconsin, and it's accountable and they can give unlimited, whereas to the DNC, you only can give up to $800,000.
00:25:12.000And so, look, it's an ambitious project.
00:25:14.000This is the only way anybody who tells you differently, and I just want to close with this: we are not pessimists, we're not doomsdayers, we're not apocalypse people.
00:25:22.000But if things continue as they are with this Wisconsin news, I don't care how big the rallies are, I don't care how popular Trump is, we will fall short.
00:25:31.000We got to know that and do something so that we can win.
00:25:56.000Well, it's incredibly significant for obvious reasons.
00:26:00.000I think, however surprising it might be and however powerfully it represents this new phase of dystopia that we're in, I think it is important to point out that it was always kind of in the works.
00:26:15.000I think of it as an inevitable result, inevitable culmination of the energies unleashed in 2016 when Trump ran against the coordinated opposition of every single powerful institution in the country, and he won and he humiliated the regime in doing so.
00:26:38.000And ever since then, there's been this phenomenon of Trump derangement syndrome.
00:26:44.000It defies any attempt at kind of strategic discipline.
00:26:50.000Many people rightly point out that this helps Trump politically.
00:26:54.000That's not really even relevant to this.
00:27:01.000It's about giving vent to giving a tangible expression to this underlying emotional response, this hysteria, this term used in another context.
00:27:20.000And this is, if not a culmination, clearly a dramatic and critical inflection point in this whole process of the regime doing everything that it could possibly think of to silence, suppress, neutralize, ultimately destroy not only Donald Trump, but the energies associated with his movement and his victory in 2016.
00:27:48.000Well, therefore, how should we respond, Darren?
00:27:50.000What is the way that our movement should respond to this?
00:27:53.000Well, I mean, that's a very big and important question that lends itself to a lot of kind of easy and fake answers, easy and potentially satisfying and fake answers, but it really evades any real and meaningful answer, at least in the short term.
00:28:21.000I mean, we're in a very weaponized environment.
00:28:24.000We've moved from deplatforming in the sense of the regime taking people off of social media for opinions they don't like or getting them kicked out of their bank accounts so they're not able to earn a livelihood by expressing opinions the regime doesn't like.
00:28:45.000We moved into the next stage of deplatforming through the criminal justice process, through the weaponization of the Department of Justice, putting people in prison.
00:28:55.000That's the next stage of deplatforming.
00:28:58.000You don't just see hints of it with this unprecedented indictment of a former president and current frontrunner for president for the nomination of the GOP.
00:29:08.000You see it in things like what happened with the case we've talked about from the very beginning, the case of Doug Mackey, who unfortunately was not only indicted for memes against Hillary Clinton, he was subject to a felony conviction.
00:29:28.000No, we actually haven't updated our audience on that.
00:29:31.000Douglas Mackey, a young man who created memes and some jokes in the 2016 election, has now been convicted and faces, what, a decade, decade and a half in prison, Darren?
00:29:49.000In some ways, this is an argument I've not heard people make, is that they were building towards the Trump indictment for quite a while, raiding O'Keefe, raiding Giuliani, Bannon, then they're going Michael Flynn all the way up, and then they crossed to Trump.
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00:31:19.000Darren Beattie tweets, quote, breaking senior Biden State Department officials boldly protest political weaponization of Justice Department condemns a, quote, escalating pattern of arrests against perceived critics of the government.
00:31:38.000You know, it's all part of this banana republic reference.
00:31:41.000And what's really hilarious, darkly ironic, at least, about the whole thing is that Imprisoning political opposition is not simply something that we associate with the quote-unquote third world.
00:31:56.000It's something that our State Department and diplomatic force routinely condemns when it's practiced in other countries.
00:32:06.000And one of the recent pieces on Revolver News is sort of a compilation of various high-profile, semi-high-profile cases of the U.S. government, Biden officials, State Department officials condemning foreign nations for imprisoning political opposition.
00:32:29.000There are a bunch of other examples, but it's funny, there's a twist at the end of the article, which I'll give away because still there's a lot of great content in it.
00:32:37.000The twist is when Zelensky penalized and imprisoned his political opposition, the U.S. State Department actually called it an encouraging step toward democracy.
00:32:51.000So, I guess with Ukraine and with the United States, it all gets down to the who-whom question.
00:32:59.000That's really what determines everything else, whether it's an expression of democracy or whether it's a dangerous trend toward what they call democratic backsliding.
00:33:10.000All depends on whether the U.S. regime and the corrupt officials in it approve of the person doing it or not.
00:33:19.000And in the case of poor Douglas Mackey, the Biden regime does not approve.
00:33:24.000And in the case of Donald Trump, who has challenged and humiliated the system more than anyone else, perhaps in American history, this system most emphatically does not approve.
00:33:41.000We've moved from the deplatforming phase of shutting people up to shutting people down by putting them in prison.
00:33:48.000If Nicaragua arrested a former president, a leading broadcaster, humorist, and satirist, and raided the home of an investigated reporter, we would have UN hearings and potential sanctions against Nicaragua.
00:34:04.000When our government has Steve Bannon, leading broadcaster, investigative reporter, James O'Keefe, the former president, President Trump, and humorist and satirist, Douglas Mackey, all under criminal indictment and conviction, we're told it's democracy.
00:34:21.000If this was happening in another country, we would potentially mobilize the Central Intelligence Agency and tell them that this is undemocratic, and yet it's happening right here.
00:34:38.000There are exceptions, but absolutely so.
00:34:42.000As always, it's the insult added to the injury.
00:34:46.000The underlying injury is the complete erosion of democratic norms, complete evaporation of any of the principles of liberty originally envisaged by our founders.
00:34:59.000But the injury, the insult added to that injury is the enduring and in this case, manifestly ridiculous hypocrisy whereby we, at least, our elected representatives and key government officials still dare to look themselves in the mirror and say they represent a free country.