Turning Point USA has become one of the most impactful Christian organizations in the country, and it s all thanks to the work of a man named Charlie Kirk. In this episode, Charlie talks about the impact that Turning Point USA is making on America's colleges and universities, and why it's important to have a Christian presence on campus.
00:00:54.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:02.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:02:21.000Now, we don't tabulate it, but I would make an argument that, because we get hundreds of emails, thousands of testimonials, people that are constantly saying, Charlie, I'm going back to church because of it, because of you, because of your videos, because of your campus attendance.
00:03:24.000I don't think they're really moving the dial.
00:03:27.000I don't think that they're really preaching the gospel in the way that is biblical and scriptural.
00:03:31.000And I would make an argument that what we are doing, even though we are not a quote-unquote ministry the way that young life is, I think that what we are doing is actually bringing more people to faith, more people to a belief in God,
00:03:47.000than even some of these very well-funded Christian ministries on campuses are.
00:03:51.000I'm not trying to criticize Campus Crusade and all that, but I don't see them on campus.
00:03:55.000I don't feel they're There really is no aura where we're able to draw thousands of people and talk about the Lord, talk about Jesus, and of course talk about America, conservative principles, to bring back purpose.
00:04:08.000It goes back to one of my favorite books.
00:04:11.000I encourage everybody in this audience to read this book.
00:04:13.000If there are like five books you should read in life, this is one of them.
00:04:21.000An explicitly biblical argument and spiritual argument in the book, which is outside of food and outside of water, man's greatest need is meaning.
00:04:41.000In fact, he proves in the will to meaning in this book, Man's Search for Meaning.
00:04:47.000He proves that in the concentration death camps of which he was subject to it, the people that happen to live at a much higher correlation and survive terrible sicknesses and diseases were ones that had the meaning.
00:05:01.000And there's a lot of scientific data to show this, that you can literally die of a broken heart, that people that give up hope, they're more likely to die, more likely to have their body just give up, that your immune system is actually tied to your purpose and your teleological aim.
00:06:13.000So the first answer is, we don't know, but probably yes.
00:06:18.000And the reason being, of course, President Trump won the state by nearly 200,000 votes.
00:06:22.000And it's because we embraced early voting and we did ballot chasing, which increases our ability to not have a bunch of machines fail on Election Day.
00:06:31.000So I think we proved in 2024 that we can win statewide.
00:06:35.000Also, just so we are clear, we just had a major legal decision where we just removed a bunch of non-citizens and questionable people from our voter rolls here in Arizona.
00:06:47.000But look, no election is going to be perfect.
00:06:50.000Nothing is going to be, you know, 100% precise.
00:06:52.000But this is a fact, and this is why I believe Andy Biggs can be governor of Arizona.
00:06:57.000Of course, obviously, and that's why we endorsed him, is that Donald Trump won the state in Arizona more than any other battleground state.
00:07:06.000It's the best-performing battleground state.
00:07:09.000And we won House seats, and we won legislative seats, and it was large in part thanks to our Turning Point Action ballot-chasing operation.
00:08:29.000He was a state legislative candidate there, office holder there.
00:08:33.000So for all those reasons, and I believe that Andy Biggs could actually be a better election candidate versus a more moderate candidate.
00:08:40.000And let me make a third argument, is that...
00:08:43.000If we are trying to rebuild the Trump coalition, where Trump won this state by nearly 200,000 votes, yes, of course, moderates matter.
00:08:52.000But do they matter as much as the hundreds of thousands of working men that may not vote in the midterms?
00:08:58.000I can make an argument someone more in the Trump mold in November of 2026 in a statewide election is actually more likely to defeat Katie Hobbs than someone that is a more moderate kind of lookalike of Katie Hobbs.
00:09:12.000Nothing against the attempt to try to run a more moderate candidate.
00:09:38.000Is one, in a lower turnout election like we are going to see in 2026 versus 2024, someone like Andy Biggs is, in my opinion, a no-brainer.
00:09:47.000So one out of three voters from the East Valley, and not to mention the rules.
00:09:51.000If you run a more moderate candidate, the counties like Cochise and Yuma, the counties that are very, very conservative, they tend to have an under-representation.
00:10:52.000Well, good afternoon here on the East Coast, and thanks for everything you do.
00:10:55.000My question would be around Senate candidates for Georgia and North Carolina, certainly pivotal states.
00:11:01.000Kemp, obviously, choked, I think, probably with pressure.
00:11:05.000Along with kind of the Sununu GOP establishment type kind of crew to keep MAGA from advancing in 28 or 26. Any thoughts on candidates in those, Georgia and North Carolina?
00:15:38.000She is not currently ranked nationally, and she has been outperformed by over two meters in her jumps by girls competing in states that have banned gender-affirming care.
00:15:48.000All I thought was, I don't think you understand that this puts your No, no.
00:16:10.000You may already own a firearm, but before you face the financial and emotional weight of pulling the trigger, consider Berna.
00:16:16.000Berna's less lethal launchers fire tear gas and kinetic rounds designed to incapacitate attackers for up to 40 minutes, giving you time to escape and call for help without deadly consequences.
00:18:35.000And honestly, I mean, the Democrats, the fact that they are holding onto this, it's only going to continue to be a political win for us in the midterms and a political win for us in the general election.
00:18:45.000So the more they hold on to it, the worse they're going to be politically.
00:18:49.000But eventually, I think we are going to deliver a final death blow to this cult.
00:20:43.000That's not nice either, and it's counterproductive.
00:20:46.000So if we're not supposed to call them out, or we're not supposed to call them fake Republicans or rhinos, how are we supposed to root them out?
00:20:57.000You are a victim of your own success, and you are a great listener and member because the fact you mentioned the, quote, red state paradox warms my heart, which means that something I'm saying is being listened and internalized.
00:21:07.000So if people understand, the red state paradox is when a state becomes too red and becomes too conservative.
00:21:12.000It actually can work against you because then the Democrats run as Republicans and there is not a competitive Republican-Democrat dynamic.
00:21:19.000Therefore, they infiltrate the Republican Party and these are people that just want to be elected to anything.
00:21:23.000They are the kind of quasi-narcissistic sociopathic types that will do whatever possible to get political power and say the things and learn the phrases and learn the mantras and they will infiltrate your party.
00:22:15.000Number two, as the state continues to get more conservative, it's very clear of what a Republican actually stands for and what that means.
00:22:23.000And a great example, and I'll just kind of leave it here because I could do a whole show on this, is the fact that more Republicans are not up in arms about Epic City, East Plano Islamic City, that is being put in Plano.
00:23:27.000You are in the middle of a good problem.
00:23:29.000And let me just leave you off with some encouragement.
00:23:31.000It is much better to be stuck in a red state paradox than a blue state terror.
00:23:37.000Our listeners right now in Colorado and in Illinois and in New Jersey to some extent and to Rhode Island, they say, I wish that we had a red state paradox.
00:25:42.000We, everyone is so, everyone in that crowd was so open-minded to just hearing what you have to say and you're able to just change a lot of minds and a lot of perspectives.
00:25:52.000We saw, I mean, we've completely, since the 7th, I mean, we've completely changed the culture on campus.
00:27:02.000And for Democrats as well, it's like they're all open and willing to discuss, you know, whatever's on their mind.
00:27:08.000And that's what I really tried to make our weekly chapter meetings about is just engaging in and facilitating, you know, civil conversations and debates.
00:28:17.000It got me thinking that there were a lot of...
00:28:20.000I remember he was addressing the housing crisis and how the Trump administration is taking measures to ensure that we're bringing manufacturing back into the U.S. with...
00:28:43.000Bringing steel and semiconductors back into the U.S. for manufacturing domestically.
00:28:50.000But really, what caught my ear was the housing crisis.
00:28:56.000I feel like people my age are being forced to rent because of bigger corporations buying houses.
00:29:06.000And those corporations are forcing people my age, Gen Zers, To rent and not buy, but we want to buy.
00:29:17.000So my question to you, is the Trump administration taking any actions to mitigate this, what I could call a renting crisis, where bigger corporations will stop buying up houses?
00:29:43.000This is by a tangent, by the way, why we went so hard on the Invest America idea earlier in the week.
00:29:51.000We're going to have a whole other program when I get back from the debating at Oxford and Cambridge about the Invest America because owning stuff matters.
00:30:01.000It's worth considering the penalties on the ownership of tons of housing by large firms.
00:30:07.000I think that a prohibition on major firms buying single-family homes is something we should entertain because the problem is this, is that there are kids that are then being outbid of their dream home by Chinese cash buyers and major private equity firms with $10 trillion.
00:30:28.000BlackRock comes in and buys a home, buys a single-family home, and a young...
00:30:34.000The person's like, well, I finally got...
00:30:47.000I mean, in today's economy, it's not as well as it used to be, and they really want to own a home.
00:30:51.000And they found their home, and they went to the bank, and they had to wrangle the bank.
00:30:55.000It was months of meetings with the bank.
00:30:57.000And back and forth with the bank, and finally, they were able to get...
00:31:00.000A loan approval, and it was like their dream, and so they go and they put an offer on the house, and as soon as they finally have that house and everything is finalized, boop, they get a phone call from their realtor.
00:31:12.000Sorry, you've been outbid by a cash offer.
00:31:18.000And so then they go back to the bank, and they have to go back to this whole process, and so they have to go find another house that fits their criteria.
00:31:53.000So while I'm not excited to have prohibitions on who can buy what, Number one, I think we can all agree the Chinese Communist Party coming in with cash buyers should not happen.
00:32:07.000I think President Trump should sign an executive order prohibiting foreign nationals from China to be able to buy single-family homes.
00:32:15.000I bet he could do that by just a national security executive order.
00:32:18.000I have no idea the technicalities of it, but I bet he could.
00:32:21.000Number two, which is more complicated, is why is it that our young people, that we have a social compact to, That we have sowed into, then have to go into the world.
00:32:39.000They're 28 years old, and they want to start a family.
00:32:41.000And they have to go pile together all of their savings from families, from their family, and maybe even take out a loan from a family member to just get the down payment for their dream home.
00:34:02.000What does a mechanic and auto shop owner in Georgia, a taco restaurant operator in Arizona, and a life-saving medical innovator in Tennessee have in common?
00:34:10.000They're all small business owners, and they're all thriving on TikTok.
00:34:14.000Across the U.S., over 7.5 million businesses, from family-owned shops to entrepreneurs, are using TikTok to compete and grow.
00:34:21.000We use TikTok all the time on The Charlie Kirk Show.
00:34:23.000In fact, 74% of businesses on TikTok say TikTok has allowed them to scale their operations, increasing sales, and expanding to new locations.
00:37:03.000Do you know if there's any plans or actions and plans, even financial burden of child care, making it easier for parents to have more time at home, or just...
00:37:27.000Yeah, I mean, look, first of all, God bless you guys.
00:37:30.000Actually, I would love to do a longer conversation about this.
00:37:35.000It is increasingly economically impossible for the wife to stay at home, and that is bad for the country.
00:37:43.000It is bad for America if the wife wants to stay at home and the mom wants to stay at home, and you can't make that happen.
00:37:51.000I do encourage families to try to think outside the box.
00:38:13.000And I have a lot of more thoughts on this, but it's more of a macro tragedy that it is not economically simple for a father to work and support the family and the wife or the mother has to go back into the workforce.
00:38:30.000There is something structurally wrong with our economic configuration if moms are able to give birth and then 90 days they have to be back at a cubicle.