The Charlie Kirk Show - Are Republicans Sleepwalking Into Midterms?

00:00:00.000 Jack Rosovic in for Charlie Kirk.

00:00:02.000 Tyler Boyer and Mike Davis join us for an update on the midterm elections.

00:00:07.000 Are Republicans sleepwalking into this election?

00:00:11.000 Why are Democrats starting to see more signs of enthusiasm and momentum?

00:00:15.000 We are going to break it down.

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00:00:27.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:01:12.000 The emails have been pouring in.

00:01:15.000 I mean, it's just a flood of emails, very emotional stuff that we're reading, very emotional segment, I think, for a lot of people, and hit a lot of people in various different ways.

00:01:25.000 So the emails are flooding in.

00:01:27.000 We just talked to a full segment, Viva Fry out of Canada, one of the best lawyers and commentators up there, who has explained to us that Canada has now authorized medically assisted suicide, euthanasia, government approved, and that the numbers are in for last year and it was over 10,000, which accounted for 3.2% of all deaths in Canada.

00:01:50.000 So let's look at this.

00:01:52.000 This is an email that just came in.

00:01:53.000 Canada is also recommending suicide for veterans who are suffering from PTSD, recommending suicide from veterans.

00:02:00.000 See if we can track that article down.

00:02:02.000 Then another one that says, you better tell Viva that if they don't get a MAGA movement going up there in Canada, I mean, real quick, they are going to be living in Nazism. 0.51

00:02:11.000 That's an email from Kyle.

00:02:13.000 An email in from Erica.

00:02:15.000 No, not that, Erica, but another Erica that said, hi, Jack, filling in for Charlie.

00:02:19.000 I knew a man in 2021.

00:02:20.000 And by the way, this guy, guys, this email, it's a little rough.

00:02:23.000 It's a little rough, but I'm going to read it to you because this is why we do the work here.

00:02:28.000 I knew a man in 2021 that was in his early 70s that had a burst disc, and they told him they couldn't do anything to help him here in Canada.

00:02:35.000 So keep in mind, right, now you got the Canadian socialized healthcare system saying that you can't do anything for you.

00:02:40.000 So he decided to do medically assisted death.

00:02:44.000 He spoke to the team on Saturday.

00:02:46.000 Monday, he decided to do it.

00:02:48.000 And it was supposed to take several days for the process to be finalized.

00:02:51.000 They were going to do it Wednesday, but then they called him on Tuesday morning and told him that he could do it that evening.

00:02:58.000 The man spent all day crying and sobbing.

00:03:01.000 That is not the action of a man wanting to die.

00:03:05.000 It was heartbreaking and has stayed with me.

00:03:07.000 I just wanted to share.

00:03:08.000 Have a great day, Erica.

00:03:10.000 That's going on north of our border.

00:03:14.000 That's what they want here.

00:03:16.000 That's cynicism.

00:03:17.000 That's nihilism.

00:03:18.000 Because deep down, people want to live.

00:03:22.000 That is the human spirit.

00:03:24.000 That is the spirit.

00:03:25.000 If there is anything called a new right in this country, it's not the old right. 0.65

00:03:31.000 It's not your granddaddy's GOP.

00:03:32.000 It's not your father's GOP.

00:03:34.000 It's not your father's conservatism.

00:03:36.000 We're not doing that anymore.

00:03:38.000 This is the love of life.

00:03:40.000 We are the love of humanity.

00:03:41.000 We love being alive.

00:03:42.000 We want to go out, see the day.

00:03:44.000 We want Carpe Diem, but at the same time, we also have a healthy respect for tradition.

00:03:51.000 This is not the worship of ashes.

00:03:54.000 It is the preservation of fire.

00:03:57.000 That's what respect for tradition is.

00:04:00.000 So many emails in, but I want to also bring in.

00:04:02.000 We've got all.

00:04:03.000 Now, I talked earlier about this.

00:04:04.000 I know that segment was very emotional.

00:04:06.000 Maybe we can get our let our next guest comment on it because I know it's an important one for him as well.

00:04:09.000 Tyler Boyer got him on from Turning Point Action.

00:04:13.000 So, Tyler, I know, I don't know if you're listening to that last segment, and I wanted to have you on to talk about everything that Turning Point Action is doing.

00:04:19.000 And we will do that, and we'll do in a midterms update.

00:04:21.000 But man, the emails that we're getting out on this last segment about the it's mass euthanasia.

00:04:27.000 I don't know how else to put it, it's math, mass euthanasia going on up in Canada.

00:04:32.000 What is your take on this?

00:04:33.000 The emails, they're just flying it and they're flying it.

00:04:35.000 It's so sad to see.

00:04:37.000 I mean, look, I mean, this is the reality of what Marxism does to the greater body of a country and leadership really matters.

00:04:46.000 And so, look, at the end of the day, you know, I think you just tweeted this out yesterday: as a world without religion and is a world without purpose and understanding, the less religion that we've seen across the world and in America, and particularly the Western hemisphere, the more sick we've seen some of our massive parts of our society become.

00:05:08.000 And, you know, this, I know, I can tell you this: as I know, I have a lot of friends in Alberta who are sick and tired of this stuff.

00:05:16.000 And I think they would, I think they would, in a heartbeat, join, join the union here if they could, because I think they're sick and tired of the coastal elites in Canada just dictating policy that's anti-religious, anti-God, anti-human.

00:05:33.000 You know, that's where they're at.

00:05:35.000 So, no, I agree with you.

00:05:37.000 I think it is anti-human, and I think it's cynical.

00:05:40.000 I think it's nihilistic.

00:05:42.000 It's believing that life is all about oblivion, that we're just, you know, crude matter and that we evaporate, and that's the end, and there's nothing else for us.

00:05:52.000 And so, why even do anything?

00:05:53.000 Why not just go drink and smoke whatever you want and lose your personal health, your individual health, and then die, right?

00:06:03.000 And then die, because what's the point of life if there's nothing? 1.00

00:06:06.000 And I think that's ridiculous. 1.00

00:06:07.000 I think it's so nihilistic, it's horrible. 0.85

00:06:10.000 But in the if you understand and you've been following the Agenda 21 plan and everything else for years and years and years, like so many activists have, I know, that listened to the show and listened to Rav and they listened to Steve and they listened to Charlie, listen to you.

00:06:26.000 You know, the Agenda 21 plan is they want to eliminate humans off the planet.

00:06:31.000 That's what they, that's what they want to do.

00:06:33.000 And so, when you look at this and you say, Hey, well, why, why are these things happening around us that are so antithetical to life?

00:06:42.000 Um, you know, which was the core of the founding of America, right?

00:06:46.000 Was this entire idea of protecting life and your land and the God-given liberty that we have? 0.53

00:06:54.000 That is that you can find it across the big moat that we have here and the heart of the sick, sick Marxists who are trying to destroy the human race.

00:07:06.000 And that's what that's what we're up against. 0.86

00:07:08.000 And there's going to be kind of a new version of this that we are battling as younger, as the younger generation, as we move forward with Soros 2.0 and everything else, which is that they just want to eliminate and eradicate human life so that because they can control it better.

00:07:23.000 And that's what they want.

00:07:25.000 Well, Tyler, part of that fighting back means organizing, it means rallying.

00:07:29.000 And I don't want to detract from what you and Turning Point Action were able to do in a very short time span last week.

00:07:36.000 You crisscrossed the country, three major events in three of probably the biggest states in the nation going into these midterm elections: Arizona, Ohio, Pennsylvania.

00:07:48.000 You had Governor DeSantis, you had Kerry Lake, Blake Masters, Doug Mastriano, JD Vance, all of which are winnable races.

00:07:56.000 New numbers out for Vance this morning that show that he is actually up five over Tim Ryan.

00:08:01.000 We're also seeing numbers in the rest of those states that say pretty much that all the other candidates I just mentioned, they're within striking distance.

00:08:08.000 These are all winnable races.

00:08:10.000 Tyler, tell me why those events were successful and why do we need organizations like Turning Point Action to fight back against everything that you just outlined?

00:08:19.000 Well, here at Turning Point Action, we've been at the heart.

00:08:22.000 And we are, for those of you that follow Turning Point USA, Turning Point USA is the nonprofit side of what Turning Point Action is Day, which is the more political side, which is where C4.

00:08:36.000 And we go out and what we do is we organize events to really unify and bring together the entire movement.

00:08:42.000 And that's what we did.

00:08:44.000 So we hosted Governor DeSantis, who is a great dude who has a unique base.

00:08:50.000 I mean, he's the most popular governor in the world, right?

00:08:53.000 He's these beloved.

00:08:54.000 And we went out and we organized people to get behind Doug and JD in a unique way.

00:09:00.000 And JD is, we actually rallied in Youngstown, which is the heart of his opponent's district in Congress.

00:09:07.000 And so there's a lot of people who are pretty ticked off at him in Ohio at the Democrats right now.

00:09:12.000 And so this is an easy vote this year, but it's our job to help unify and support the entire team to work together.

00:09:20.000 And that's what we're doing.

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00:10:20.000 Just this morning, breaking Leonard Leo has received a huge infusion of cash and sort of this corporate transfer.

00:10:26.000 They basically, there was a Republican mega donor that just donated his entire company to Leonard Leo.

00:10:31.000 So 1.6 billion.

00:10:34.000 Hopefully that money will go into this new war chest for what we're talking about, these candidates in winnable races across the country.

00:10:43.000 And Tyler, you've gone through the polling.

00:10:45.000 You've got Trafalgar out there now.

00:10:47.000 You've been on the ground in three states in one week with these rallies with Governor DeSantis.

00:10:52.000 And I really want, Tyler, if you can walk us through some of the stuff that we're seeing with this polling and then also the fact that we now that the Republicans have this war chest, are they going to be able to use that to get up on the air and to start propagating the air game and the airwaves for all of this?

00:11:09.000 Tyler, what should Republicans be looking at both from an inside standpoint of the party and then outside where you're the activist, whether you're one of the people that's just writing into freedom at Charlie Kirk.com?

00:11:21.000 No, Jack, I mean, you and I have seen the energy that exists and the energy is huge.

00:11:26.000 And that's what we saw at these last three events in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Arizona.

00:11:31.000 That the base is, they're on point.

00:11:34.000 They're excited to get out and vote and vote hard against Joe Biden's policies.

00:11:40.000 But for these exciting candidates, I mean, look, Carrie Lake, JD Vance, and Doug Mastriano are three examples of this new right concept, right?

00:11:48.000 Which is we have conservatives who are actually willing to get out there and fight.

00:11:52.000 And so you're seeing these polling come out now, and the polls are showing that all three of these guys are within five points or they're up even in polls, which is a great sign because the polling isn't taking into account the separation and turnout that we're going to see out of our base versus the Democrat base because the Democrat base has nothing to vote for.

00:12:13.000 They are depressed.

00:12:14.000 They're really feeling sheepish about their vote for Joe Biden in 2020.

00:12:19.000 And those that did are not going to show up for this midterm.

00:12:23.000 And so we have to take advantage of that.

00:12:25.000 So just knowing that is that anything, anytime you see a poll come out that's within five points for a Republican, it shows that a Republican is three points down or four points down.

00:12:35.000 Know that they're already winning.

00:12:36.000 But look, we have to win.

00:12:38.000 Tyler, as you're saying that, let's throw up these polls because we've got it.

00:12:42.000 We can put on screen the Trafalgar polls.

00:12:46.000 Let's just go through the polls.

00:12:48.000 And as you talk about it, it's 11, 12, 13.

00:12:51.000 Let's just run through them in a series to show the audience exactly what Tyler is talking about.

00:12:56.000 So you've got Ohio there.

00:12:57.000 You've got JD Vance.

00:12:59.000 He's up by five.

00:13:01.000 Then in Pennsylvania, you're seeing the same thing.

00:13:03.000 It's again, these five-point races, essentially.

00:13:09.000 Here's Pennsylvania Senate.

00:13:10.000 So you've got Oz, who's down by a little bit.

00:13:13.000 You've got Fetterman, who's up by, you know, Fetterman.

00:13:15.000 They used to say that there's no such thing as Sasquatch, but, you know, they got one running for Senate in Pennsylvania.

00:13:20.000 So I think we may have found the missing link there, a guy who can't even, but I think it's, no, I do think it's nice that Sloth finally got out from under the bed, under the chairs, under the stairs there from the Goonies and is now, you know, doing something positive with its life.

00:13:31.000 But I think, I think Oz can come in swinging and he's starting to.

00:13:34.000 And the same deal with Mastriano.

00:13:36.000 So Tyler, in the last two minutes, break down for us what do Republicans need to do to close this gap and start, look, you got to close the deal.

00:13:44.000 Got voting.

00:13:47.000 I was going to say, I was wondering what Fetterman's been doing since his role in the Princess Bride.

00:13:51.000 So it's been some time.

00:13:53.000 But I mean, look, if you have a Republican that's down just a few points right now, we have to get up as much as possible.

00:14:00.000 So the trajectory that JD Vance is on in Ohio is a good one.

00:14:04.000 We need that in Arizona and Pennsylvania for a very specific reason.

00:14:08.000 Blake Masters and Dr. Oz are going to have the entire world thrown at them in the kitchen sink.

00:14:15.000 And so the higher that Mastriano and that Kerry Lake can get up, they're going to help continue to drag the vote also to the right for conservatives within those Senate races, which are going to be much tougher.

00:14:26.000 By the way, Tyler, that was your work because the New York Times ran the piece over the weekend stating that Republicans are now coalescing around Doug Mastriano.

00:14:35.000 They said they were a little cool to him at first.

00:14:37.000 You know, they weren't sure he wasn't exactly the establishment pick.

00:14:39.000 But I really think that it was your work, turning point action, bringing DeSantis in, saying this is our guy.

00:14:45.000 This is the guy who can win in Pennsylvania.

00:14:48.000 He will be the next governor.

00:14:49.000 Now you're starting to see that roll around.

00:14:51.000 Tyler, where can people go to follow you, to follow more of your work, and to, if they want to get involved with turning point action and actually not just take this passively, but understand you have 78 days until election day with turning point action.

00:15:07.000 Yeah, look, guys, we have to win 10,000 votes per day in Arizona and independents, and we need your help.

00:15:13.000 tpaction.com.

00:15:15.000 You can get involved.

00:15:16.000 You can see what we're doing on the Super Saturday front.

00:15:19.000 We're running Super Saturdays in Arizona, Ohio, Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin, everywhere that we need to win.

00:15:26.000 And we need your help.

00:15:27.000 Say in Georgia, we need your help.

00:15:29.000 So tpaction.com, let's re-energize the base and get ourselves ready to win in 2022 and then set ourselves up for success for 2024.

00:15:38.000 Thanks so much for all you're doing, Jack.

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00:16:57.000 Now, I was digging into this Leonard Leo story, and suddenly I'm getting, look at this.

00:17:03.000 There's, you know, they're sending me these tweets from liberal blue checks are freaking out that Republicans actually have a billionaire on their side because there's no such thing as any left-wing billionaires.

00:17:17.000 There's no such thing as left-wing billions.

00:17:20.000 Can you guys show image 17?

00:17:21.000 Can we show those up?

00:17:23.000 What does this say?

00:17:23.000 So this is from Sarah Kensier.

00:17:26.000 It says, Leonard Leo is a right-wing fanatic stealth operative who bankrolls fanatic, right-wing policymakers.

00:17:33.000 Barry Seed, who bankrolls this bankroller.

00:17:36.000 He has a history of climate change, denialism, and bigotry, which is barely touched upon here.

00:17:43.000 And I also, by the way, I love, so explain to me this.

00:17:45.000 Just hold on a second.

00:17:47.000 You're saying that it's a stealth donation, and you can find so many more tweets about how it's dark money, it's dark money.

00:17:52.000 It's all stealth.

00:17:53.000 It's all doing this.

00:17:54.000 It's what, I mean, it's reported in the New York Times, right?

00:17:56.000 Ken Vogel had the story up.

00:17:59.000 Not really all that stealth, is it?

00:18:00.000 I mean, it's right there.

00:18:01.000 And show, show image 16 if you guys can, because let's just take a look at what's going on the other side here.

00:18:09.000 That a tweet up from Eric Erickson, and he's got it from Americans Republic Trust: left-wing dark money.

00:18:16.000 And all the way, all of the various from Arabella investors all the way to the new venture fund, the 1630 fund, the Winward Fund, the Swiss Billionaire.

00:18:24.000 It just goes on and on and on and on about the insanity.

00:18:27.000 It doesn't even talk about Center for American Progress.

00:18:29.000 Okay, you got the Podesta group there that Neera Tandon and Ron Klain came from.

00:18:34.000 Stacey Abrams was a board.

00:18:35.000 I mean, these huge, massive groups.

00:18:38.000 I will always say this.

00:18:38.000 I will always say that the one thing that the left always was a generation, by the way, ahead of the right on in terms of this, is creating their own infrastructure, creating these institutions that they can go in and out of government.

00:18:51.000 They can work directly with government.

00:18:54.000 I want to bring on Mike Davis to talk about this a little bit because Mike and I were texting on this.

00:18:59.000 And Mike, you and I have been going back and forth.

00:19:01.000 And you've been doing such a great job on the war room.

00:19:03.000 I pulled you in here for double duty to cover down on the Leonard Leo story.

00:19:08.000 And also because the overarching story that we're talking about today on the show is: are Republicans ready for this midterm election?

00:19:16.000 Bloomberg's got the headline up.

00:19:17.000 It says, Democrats are optimistic.

00:19:20.000 Democrats are seeing energy.

00:19:21.000 Democrats are seeing momentum.

00:19:23.000 We're starting to see numbers coalesce around Biden on the left.

00:19:26.000 What does this mean for us?

00:19:28.000 You've got the Leonard Leo story out there.

00:19:30.000 Then we've also got these midterm races.

00:19:33.000 Mike Davis, what say you?

00:19:35.000 Are Republicans sleepwalking into November?

00:19:39.000 Well, the left always out-raises and out-organizes us.

00:19:43.000 And they particularly do this on the 501c3 and 501c4 side with their dark money.

00:19:50.000 And so, what I hope happens with this money is that they instead of spending, and I hope we don't waste a bunch of money on meaningless TV ads that makes the consultants rich and makes and has little impacts.

00:20:02.000 What we need to do is spend this money on the ground game.

00:20:05.000 We need to spend this on organizers and lawyers and people who are on the ground fighting these fights, whether at the national level or in the state level.

00:20:15.000 Because what we can't do is wait until election day and decide we're going to have election integrity.

00:20:21.000 You need to have systems in place, lawyers in place, lawsuits filed long before election weeks.

00:20:27.000 It's not election day anymore.

00:20:29.000 The election happens for weeks, and we need to be ahead of this.

00:20:32.000 We need to be getting injunctions ahead of time and actually get serious this time around about election integrity.

00:20:39.000 Lawyers like Harmee Dylan are great people to lead this type of an effort.

00:20:44.000 We need to make sure that that money that we're raising on the right actually gets to the lawyers and organizers on the ground so they can actually be effective.

00:20:55.000 Mike, I think that's right.

00:20:56.000 I do think that there's a place, you know, we got an email in from Arlene on this that actually had a great point.

00:21:02.000 She said, We're giving millions to these candidates for empty commercials, but then there's already Democrat, highly funded propaganda.

00:21:09.000 Democrats obviously already have the media on their side 24-7.

00:21:13.000 But I do think that there is a role for these ads.

00:21:18.000 I mean, look at Pennsylvania, for example.

00:21:20.000 Why hasn't anyone, I haven't seen it yet, where's the independent expenditure creating a dramatization of John Fetterman chasing down a black jogger with a shotgun when he was the mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania?

00:21:33.000 He did that.

00:21:34.000 Okay.

00:21:34.000 Where's the ad that shows the dramatization of that from the right?

00:21:38.000 They'll say, you know, they'll cry for havoc and all this when the left does it, but the right, you know, we just kind of sit back and play these Namby Pamby ads that don't really do very well.

00:21:48.000 I do think that there's a role for them, but I think you're also 100% correct that you need to start fighting the election integrity front before all of this comes up.

00:21:56.000 I want to also ask you about the role of the Dobbs decision.

00:22:00.000 Obviously, you're the head of the Article III project, very focused on the judiciary, but we know the Dobbs decision came down and we're starting to see this narrative.

00:22:08.000 This is what Bloomberg talks about.

00:22:10.000 And I've seen a lot of the talking heads this past Sunday were saying, oh, the Dobbs decision, that's really what's rallying Democrats.

00:22:16.000 Also, the climate change rallying behind Biden, this huge, I call the, you know, they say it's the Inflation Reduction Act, but it's actually a backdoor Green New Deal.

00:22:26.000 What is the role of Dobbs in these midterms?

00:22:29.000 I think it's going to be state by state.

00:22:31.000 And it's, you know, in some states, it may be helpful for Democrats.

00:22:35.000 In other states, it may not be helpful for Democrats.

00:22:39.000 But I will say this.

00:22:39.000 So if you're a suburban mom right now, I think you're a heck of a lot more concerned about oil prices, gas prices, inflation than you are about some hypothetical abortion that you're never going to need.

00:22:52.000 So I think people are overplaying what Dobbs is going to do in this election.

00:23:00.000 At the end of the day, this is going to be about inflation.

00:23:02.000 This is going to be about their kids.

00:23:04.000 It's going to be about their kids' safety.

00:23:07.000 It's going to be about oil prices.

00:23:09.000 And it's going to be about crime.

00:23:11.000 And it's going to be about schools.

00:23:13.000 I just don't think that Dobbs is going to be the decisive issue this election.

00:23:18.000 One thing that I've said as well, that even though that is the media narrative and they're trying to push this, I also say, and there certainly are some people out there for which abortion, whether you're pro-life or pro-choice, is looking at it from political analysis, that is your single issue.

00:23:33.000 And so do those, so people say, oh, well, it mobilizes people on the ref on the left.

00:23:37.000 Sure, but it also mobilizes people on the right.

00:23:39.000 It also mobilizes pro-lifers.

00:23:41.000 So at some point, you're going to achieve some kind of parity there.

00:23:44.000 And then the real question is what you're saying is that what happens with these suburban voters, what happens with these moderates, these independents?

00:23:51.000 And when you look at it, law and order, crime, so many of these issues out there.

00:23:56.000 But I do also want to bring up what about Kansas?

00:23:58.000 Remember, Kansas had that ballot measure.

00:24:00.000 It went down in flames.

00:24:01.000 And I'm just going to say it went down in flames.

00:24:04.000 This was something that it wasn't nationalized.

00:24:06.000 And I think that was a huge problem in Kansas.

00:24:09.000 But we saw that.

00:24:10.000 Was Kansas potentially, do you think, a bellwether for where this movement stands on that question of Dobbs?

00:24:16.000 Well, I mean, it's, again, it's going to be state by state.

00:24:19.000 I think part of it was that ballot measure was written so poorly in Kansas.

00:24:23.000 But, you know, part of this is that each state has to figure out how far can you push one way or the other without enraging the other side's base.

00:24:32.000 And if you do, I'm pro-life.

00:24:34.000 I think that we should outlaw abortions, except for in the most rare circumstances where the life of the mother is at stake.

00:24:41.000 But, you know, that's not where all of America is.

00:24:44.000 So I think that, you know, people are saying that with Dobbs, they, you know, that this is an attack on democracy.

00:24:50.000 It was actually quite the opposite.

00:24:52.000 It returned abortion regulations back to the states where they were for the first 200 years of our republic before 50 years ago when a majority of unelected men on the Supreme Court decided that they were going to rule by judicial fiat when it comes to abortion regulations to protect the abortion industry.

00:25:10.000 Now it's going to be decided in all 50 states and democracy is actually going to work itself out.

00:25:15.000 In some states like California, you're going to have, you know, you're going to have abortion up until the moment of birth.

00:25:21.000 In other states, you're not.

00:25:22.000 So I always say that if you don't like COVID restrictions, move to Florida.

00:25:26.000 If you don't like abortion restrictions, move to California.

00:25:30.000 You know, that is part of the federalism that's out there.

00:25:32.000 But of course, they're trying to nationalize every single one of these.

00:25:35.000 Now, when we look at some of the races, and we just had Tyler Bouron talking about he was campaigning out in Arizona, in Pennsylvania, he was campaigning in Ohio for these candidates.

00:25:46.000 Three races, three states where also DeSantis came up, key Senate races there.

00:25:51.000 Do you think, and you spent a lot of time in the Senate, do you think that Republicans have a path to victory in the Senate?

00:25:58.000 Yes, I mean, we're definitely going to take back the House and the Senate.

00:26:02.000 What we need to do is just come together as a party and realize that if you want to stop Biden's radical agenda, if you want to stop his radical judicial nominees, we need to win back the Senate.

00:26:14.000 So, you know, there are places like in Pennsylvania where people didn't like Oz, but you know what?

00:26:19.000 We're just going to have to, some of us are just going to have to hold our nose and vote for him because controlling the Senate is a lot more important than one candidate who we think is flawed.

00:26:29.000 Well, it does seem like it's coming down to a game of inches.

00:26:32.000 And that could be, and so a seat like Pennsylvania.

00:26:34.000 So Pat Toomey is retiring.

00:26:36.000 That is a Republican hold.

00:26:38.000 So that's a Republican must hold seat when you look at it in terms of numbers.

00:26:41.000 In Arizona, what they're trying to do is flip.

00:26:44.000 So that's, you've got Mark Kelly, who's been in there for the special term.

00:26:48.000 Now Blake Masters coming up, first-time candidate against him trying to actually flip that.

00:26:53.000 So that tips one other.

00:26:54.000 Are there any other flips that you're looking at out there?

00:26:56.000 Well, there's the Nevada race with Adam Laxolt, who can easily win in Nevada.

00:27:03.000 He's a dynamic candidate.

00:27:05.000 You have Blake Masters, like you said, in Arizona.

00:27:09.000 Maybe look for New Hampshire.

00:27:10.000 See what's happening up in New Hampshire.

00:27:13.000 And so, you know, it's going to be tight.

00:27:15.000 And the key is turnout.

00:27:17.000 We need to, Republicans need to understand that we can't sit it out.

00:27:20.000 We need to get out there.

00:27:21.000 We sat back during the Georgia runoffs and lost two Senate seats in Georgia.

00:27:26.000 We lost the Senate.

00:27:27.000 And now we have this Marxist takeover.

00:27:29.000 We can't let this happen again.

00:27:31.000 You can't let Biden appoint his radical judges.

00:27:33.000 I think that there is a real potential here that if you nationalize these races, you have the potential, Republicans have the potential to run the table.

00:27:42.000 And I think that's something that's the missing piece.

00:27:45.000 That's the missing ingredient.

00:27:46.000 That's the missing jigsaw piece in the whole puzzle country right now.

00:27:50.000 That if you nationalize this and you have a real ethos of the party, an ethos of the movement, and it has to be a new right ethos.

00:27:59.000 You can run the table and you can not only win the House, but you can also take back the Senate.

00:28:04.000 Ron Johnson, they're saying he's down in the polls.

00:28:08.000 We're looking at Georgia, Herschel.

00:28:10.000 They say Herschel Walker can't win.

00:28:12.000 You go over to some of these other states, they're saying there's no way you're down by five.

00:28:15.000 But then Tyler Boyer just came on last segment and said, well, if you're down by five, that means that a solid ground game can push you over that gap.

00:28:15.000 You're down by five.

00:28:24.000 Do you believe that?

00:28:25.000 Do you believe that if you're down by five in these points that you can win?

00:28:28.000 Yeah, I mean, we're not, I don't even think they're looking at likely voters right now.

00:28:31.000 They're looking at registered voters.

00:28:33.000 And once you put on the likely voter screen, this is going to tighten up.

00:28:36.000 Once Republicans start fundraising, this will tighten up.

00:28:40.000 Once Trump gets out there and does the rallies, this will tighten up.

00:28:44.000 We're going to win big this November.

00:28:46.000 We're definitely going to win the House and we need to come together.

00:28:49.000 Like you said, Jack, we need to nationalize these races and we can win back the Senate.

00:28:53.000 Oh, against President Biden.

00:28:55.000 But also, and then Mike, you know, now that I have you on, let me ask you about the role of, and obviously you've been talking about this on War Room day in, day out, this raid, this completely illegal raid that I think even has moderates and independents taking pause and saying, wait a minute, our Department of Justice is not supposed to be doing things like this.

00:29:16.000 And certainly not within the confines of a midterm election, certainly against a guy who's more than likely going to be the leading opposition candidate.

00:29:24.000 What kind of a role does the Mar-a-Lago raid actually play in the midterms, if any at all?

00:29:30.000 Well, it has, if you look at President Trump's poll numbers, they've gone up by like 12 points since this raid happened.

00:29:36.000 This raid is managing to unify Republicans for President Trump.

00:29:40.000 Even people who had questions or were skeptical of President Trump are now getting fully behind him and he's even pulling in independents.

00:29:48.000 They misstepped badly with this raid.

00:29:50.000 It was unlawful.

00:29:51.000 It was unnecessary and it was unprecedented and it's going to backfire the Democrats badly.

00:29:58.000 Mike, you've been in the game for a minute.

00:30:00.000 What do you think is the most effective way?

00:30:03.000 So we've talked about activism.

00:30:05.000 We talked about organizing.

00:30:06.000 What about donation?

00:30:07.000 What about people?

00:30:08.000 Because there are people out there in the audience that say, look, I don't have time, but I do want to give it the office.

00:30:12.000 I do want to help.

00:30:12.000 I can help by funding, putting some fuel in the tank.

00:30:15.000 What is the best way for people to donate?

00:30:18.000 Is it donating to the party?

00:30:19.000 Is it donating to individual campaigns, independent organizations?

00:30:23.000 What do you think?

00:30:24.000 If I were a small dollar donor, I would donate directly to the campaigns.

00:30:27.000 And if, you know, only give what you can afford to give.

00:30:30.000 I know the times are tight right now, but if you can give directly to the political campaigns, that's the most effective use of your money to build up that small dollar donor base.

00:30:40.000 I think that's right, because that small dollar donor base, not only does that put fuel in the tank, gives you that cash on hand, but it also gives you the ability.

00:30:49.000 It gives you the ability to have that data.

00:30:52.000 You can mobilize them.

00:30:53.000 So you're actually kind of building both at the same time.

00:30:55.000 And I really do think when it comes to the numbers, Mastriano, only something like 400K in the book.

00:31:01.000 Bruising primary for Mastriano.

00:31:03.000 That is a state specifically where he's going to need fuel in the tank if he wants to take on the extremely well-funded Josh Shapiro, spoiled rich kid, Josh Shapiro.

00:31:11.000 I've known that guy since probably 2008, back when he was a state rep. Just complete, complete spoiled rich kid.

00:31:19.000 And I think people need to start going after him because nobody is.

00:31:22.000 Mike, where can people go?

00:31:23.000 Where can they follow you?

00:31:24.000 Where they can get access to the work?

00:31:25.000 Yeah, so I'm at article3project.org, article number3project.org.

00:31:30.000 It at Article 3 Project on Getter Truth Twitter.

00:31:34.000 And my personal is MRD DMIA, M-R-D-D-M-I-A.

00:31:38.000 And thank you for having me on, Jack.

00:31:39.000 Really appreciate it.

00:31:41.000 Go follow Mike Davis.

00:31:42.000 The only guy, the only guy who might work as hard as Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk, and everybody else who's out there is Mike Davis.

00:31:50.000 So thanks again.

00:31:51.000 Thanks so much for listening.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - August 22, 2022

Are Republicans Sleepwalking Into Midterms?

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