The Charlie Kirk Show - Ask Charlie Anything Festivus Edition: Charlie Airs His Grievances About the RNC

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk Show, Merry Christmas.

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00:00:39.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:41.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

00:00:43.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:00:47.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:00:50.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:00:51.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:00:52.000 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.

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00:01:24.000 It's been a long month this week with AmericaFest and many other things.

00:01:30.000 And so email us, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:01:32.000 I want to take your questions.

00:01:34.000 A lot of you have been asking us about AmericaFest and asking us about Turning Point USA and kind of what's going on in the world.

00:01:43.000 And we want to ask, we want to navigate that with you and answer some of those questions as we talk about the deeper things.

00:01:52.000 Christmas is a very special time.

00:01:54.000 I love Christmas.

00:01:57.000 I'll admit, I love spending time in Christmas here with my family in Phoenix, but there is something missing when it's not frigid, cold, and dark.

00:02:07.000 Just the way I was raised in Chicago.

00:02:11.000 For those of you that live in the Midwest, you know exactly what I mean.

00:02:13.000 But it's still, I love Arizona Christmas.

00:02:15.000 It's terrific.

00:02:16.000 It gets a little colder here than I think than people realize.

00:02:20.000 Someone just emailed us.

00:02:21.000 They said, Chicago is the epitome of Christmas.

00:02:24.000 It really is.

00:02:25.000 There's some towns that do Christmas well and some towns that don't do Christmas well.

00:02:31.000 Producer Andrew said, Chicago is the mental image of what Christmas is supposed to be.

00:02:36.000 I think that's exactly right.

00:02:39.000 It's very cold, very dark, very musty.

00:02:46.000 And the whole city lights up.

00:02:49.000 It's very special.

00:02:51.000 Man, what happened to Chicago is just a tragedy.

00:02:53.000 And what's happened to Illinois is just a tragedy in more ways than one.

00:03:00.000 I want to play some tape here.

00:03:02.000 You guys have emailed us your thoughts.

00:03:03.000 You can email us your thoughts right now, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:03:07.000 Charlie, I see a sincerity and heartfelt pain not many people are conveying right now, but probably very much so are feeling.

00:03:14.000 Thank you for your vulnerability and honest portrayal of pain and hurt and disappointment.

00:03:18.000 It's true.

00:03:18.000 I'm so hurt by these Senate Republicans in the midterms.

00:03:23.000 It's not a fulfilling feeling to feel as if the people that you work for hate you.

00:03:35.000 I know that's a very logical and simple truth claim, but when the people that you are trying to rally support for have disdain for you.

00:03:48.000 We talked about Dante's Inferno or Dante's Divine Comedy.

00:03:54.000 Not an easy read, but I encourage you guys to attempt to either read it or to read an analysis of it.

00:04:00.000 For example, you know, people, someone asked me the day, they said, Charlie, do you read Shakespeare?

00:04:03.000 I said, no.

00:04:04.000 I read commentaries on Shakespeare.

00:04:06.000 I mean, I couldn't understand the deeper, beautiful meaning of most Shakespeare plays.

00:04:11.000 So I need an expert who has studied it his whole life or her life to tell me whether or not Shakespeare, not whether or not, but like what is the beauty in this play, Macbeth, or Romeo and Juliet.

00:04:25.000 I'm just not going to pick it up.

00:04:26.000 I haven't committed my life, nor would I have the talent to be able to understand it.

00:04:31.000 So, anyway, in Dante's Divine Comedy, he says the worst thing you could do, or the ninth circle of hell, is betrayal.

00:04:40.000 It's deceit.

00:04:41.000 It's treachery.

00:04:46.000 And the three examples he used is Cassius, Brutus, and, of course, Judas Iscariot.

00:04:54.000 Now, I'm not going to say that all these Republicans are moral equivalents of Judas.

00:04:59.000 You might say that.

00:05:00.000 I'd love your thoughts.

00:05:01.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.

00:05:02.000 But it's a very similar moral behavior, isn't it?

00:05:06.000 Which is, I'm going to tell you one thing, and I'm going to do the exact opposite.

00:05:10.000 I mean, I would love these Republicans to come on the show.

00:05:14.000 Some of which I have their phone numbers.

00:05:15.000 I've been texting them.

00:05:16.000 They're not texting back.

00:05:18.000 $3 million for LGBTQ Museum in New York, $1.2 million for Pride Center in California, $1 million for Zora's house.

00:05:25.000 I mean, you guys know the list.

00:05:26.000 BLM programs, $400 million for the FBI headquarters. 0.63

00:05:31.000 So the FBI spies on Trump, lies about it, covers it up, destroys evidence, goes to Twitter, executes a coup, lies about that, funds Twitter, blocks people like me, blocks people like Donald Trump, meets with Yole Roth all illegally. 0.64

00:05:45.000 And how does the FBI get held accountable?

00:05:47.000 We're going to give you a new headquarters.

00:05:51.000 We're going to give the FBI a $400 million sterling new building.

00:05:59.000 It really is the trajectory in Washington, D.C., which is to fail upwards.

00:06:05.000 I'm going to be promoted by doing bad things.

00:06:14.000 And you could make an argument.

00:06:15.000 They actually weren't failing.

00:06:16.000 They were doing their job for their benefactors, Democrats and Uniparty Republicans.

00:06:21.000 At a fundamental level, the people that voted for this Uniparty garbage, Roy Blunt, John Boozman, Shelly Moor Capito, Susan Collins, John Cornyn, Tom Cotton, Lady Graham, Jim Inhoff, Mitch McConnell, Jerry Moran, Lisa Murkowski, Rob Portman, Willard Mitt Romney, Mike Rounds, Richard Shelby, John Thune, Roger Wicker, and Todd Young. 0.66

00:06:49.000 They were enthusiastic about the FBI going after Donald Trump, I guess. 0.97

00:06:57.000 I mean, how could you vote for such a monstrosity?

00:06:59.000 What is the rationale?

00:07:01.000 I'll read you this.

00:07:02.000 I'm not going to say who I got it from, but I was very angry yesterday.

00:07:06.000 I went on Fox News and was ranting, and I got a lot of text messages.

00:07:09.000 So this is what somebody said.

00:07:11.000 They said, here's the rationale.

00:07:15.000 The rationale was that it was the best, worst option.

00:07:18.000 The non-insider opinion would be to wait until we take over the House in January and then vote on a spending bill.

00:07:25.000 The problem is that the newly elected Republican freshman will not vote for any spending bill.

00:07:31.000 And because they have a slim majority, Kevin McCarthy will be forced to negotiate with Democrats to get something passed and it will be much worse.

00:07:39.000 The omnibus bill in 2014 was a proxy example of this.

00:07:44.000 Like it or not, his calculus, the calculus was that this is the best option, which was to pass the bill.

00:07:50.000 This is such incredibly flawed logic.

00:07:52.000 I can't even begin.

00:07:53.000 So let me get this straight.

00:07:54.000 You must sell the country out because you're afraid Republicans might have power in two weeks to actually prevent the selling out of the country.

00:08:02.000 Just so you know, that was from a top-tier producer Andrew said, I didn't understand a word of that.

00:08:13.000 That's the explanation I received.

00:08:15.000 I don't know what to tell.

00:08:16.000 I'm not going to tell you who texted me that out of, I promised that I would stay that it would stay private, and I want to be a person of my word, even though I really want to tell you who texts me that.

00:08:29.000 It is Festivus.

00:08:31.000 If you don't know what Festivus is, you should play Cut 83.

00:08:36.000 Dear son, happy Festivus?

00:08:40.000 What is Festivus?

00:08:41.000 It's nothing.

00:08:41.000 It's not.

00:08:42.000 When George was growing up, his father needed all the commercial and religious aspects of Christmas, so he made up his own holiday.

00:08:49.000 Oh, and another piece of the puzzle falls into place.

00:08:52.000 All right.

00:08:53.000 And instead of a tree, didn't your father put up an aluminum pole?

00:08:58.000 Weren't there feats of strength that always ended up with you crying?

00:09:00.000 Can't you?

00:09:02.000 Happy now.

00:09:02.000 No, no, my cookie.

00:09:05.000 I got your message.

00:09:06.000 I haven't celebrated Festivus in years.

00:09:09.000 What is your interest?

00:09:10.000 Just tell me everything.

00:09:12.000 Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son.

00:09:16.000 I reached for the last one they had, but so did another man.

00:09:21.000 As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way.

00:09:25.000 What happened to the doll?

00:09:27.000 It was destroyed.

00:09:28.000 But out of that, a new holiday was born.

00:09:32.000 A festivus for the rest of us.

00:09:35.000 That must have been some kind of doll.

00:09:37.000 She was.

00:09:38.000 The tradition of festivus begins with the airing of grievances.

00:09:43.000 I got a lot of problems with you people.

00:09:46.000 Now, you're going to hear about it.

00:09:49.000 I'm sorry.

00:09:50.000 It's just so good.

00:09:52.000 There's never been a television show like that, and there never will be.

00:09:55.000 It's in so what in so many ways it's so clever what they wrote there.

00:10:00.000 And I think I've been continuing the festivus tradition very well.

00:10:03.000 I got a lot of problems with you, Mitch McConnell, and you're going to have to hear it for the next hour.

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00:11:42.000 We at Turning Point USA hosted AmericaFest And Turning Point Action, our 501c4 political arm, conducted a poll.

00:11:54.000 And the poll results showed that 98% of our attendees, 98% were in support of regime change at the RNC.

00:12:06.000 They said, we don't like what's happening there.

00:12:08.000 We want somebody different.

00:12:09.000 We might, Mike Lindell, Harmeet Dylan, or somebody else.

00:12:12.000 We want to change it.

00:12:15.000 We want to mix it up.

00:12:17.000 Okay.

00:12:19.000 So we publicized that poll and we said, this is what our members want.

00:12:24.000 This is what the grassroots are saying.

00:12:26.000 They're angry.

00:12:27.000 I happen to agree with them, but if 98% of our membership said they're really happy with the RNC, I would have took a pause.

00:12:33.000 Like, wow, maybe I'm out of touch.

00:12:35.000 It actually turns out that I'm in touch with the audience.

00:12:38.000 One of the reasons why I ask for your emails, one of the reasons why I ask you guys to communicate, is so I can learn what is the combined wisdom of our audience feeling.

00:12:47.000 It's how I build a connection to you.

00:12:49.000 It's how I listen.

00:12:50.000 It's how I learn.

00:12:51.000 Sometimes I am in connection with you.

00:12:53.000 Sometimes I'm in disagreement and I feel as if I'm right.

00:12:56.000 But that's the way that a functioning dialogue with the masses is supposed to work.

00:13:01.000 Okay. 0.99

00:13:02.000 So we did a poll and 98% of you said, yeah, we don't want, we don't want Rano.

00:13:09.000 So we publicized the poll.

00:13:09.000 Okay.

00:13:11.000 So then Rana, who I have no personal issue with, she's always been very sweet and kind to me.

00:13:16.000 I need to keep on reemphasizing that because it's true.

00:13:21.000 Goes on Brian Kilmead's show, who I love Brian Kilmead.

00:13:24.000 He asked some good questions.

00:13:24.000 He's terrific.

00:13:26.000 And she said that basically attacked Turning Point and said, how many younger voters did we get out?

00:13:33.000 How many people did you register?

00:13:35.000 And the answer is quite a lot, actually.

00:13:41.000 And so we responded in rather, you know, public terms.

00:13:48.000 We said, Rana, thanks for asking, because she was attacking Turning Point, which is a very puzzling strategy.

00:13:55.000 I want to be in charge of the RNC, so I'm going to attack the only youth organization that just held the largest multi-day event of people across the country with Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingram, Tim Poole, Steve Bannon.

00:14:11.000 Not exactly politically smart.

00:14:13.000 Okay.

00:14:14.000 And so she said, well, they're attacking me.

00:14:16.000 We're listening to our members.

00:14:16.000 We're actually not.

00:14:18.000 We're just saying that you should no longer be in charge of the RNC.

00:14:22.000 Are we at a place now where you're so fragile that you have, you're like entitled to run the RNC for a term that you promised us you would not run for?

00:14:31.000 So here's how we responded.

00:14:32.000 Turning Point Action logged more than 500,000 volunteer hours this cycle.

00:14:38.000 Turning Point Action directly contacted and engaged 5 million voters.

00:14:43.000 At Turning Point Action, we hosted over 100 major door knocking rallies in target states and districts.

00:14:49.000 At Turning Point Action, we recruited over 2,000 new precinct leaders with a goal to be at 10,000 by the end of 2023.

00:14:56.000 At Turning Point Action, we registered tens of thousands of new voters.

00:15:00.000 We hosted Governor DeSantis in seven states supporting more than a dozen governor, senate, and congressional candidates, including events with President Donald Trump.

00:15:08.000 We reached tens of millions of listeners and grassroots folks in our podcast that you guys watch also on Real America's Voice.

00:15:16.000 We messaged to Hispanic voters in South Florida, Phoenix, and Tucson.

00:15:20.000 We successfully supported JD Vance, Ana Paulina, Mike Lee, and Andy Biggs against, and Mike Lee and Andy Biggs in particular against Romney-backed independent plants.

00:15:30.000 By the way, all of this by just spending half a million dollars via Turning Point Pack and a few million dollars via our 501c4.

00:15:41.000 I then asked the question: how many hundreds of millions did the RNC spend?

00:15:45.000 I continued by saying, instead of attacking the only youth organization in the country actually doing something, maybe you should be thankful we're actually doing the work.

00:15:57.000 This is why you should no longer be chair of the RNC.

00:15:59.000 This is why 98% of our members and our attendees want you fired.

00:16:04.000 And then I continued, I said, instead of attacking us, you should be sending us $700,000 in flowers, thanking us.

00:16:15.000 The Washington Post came out with a story today that was actually very, I think, rather fair.

00:16:20.000 I mean, has its snark, has the smugness, but on the spectrum of Washington Post articles, it's trending in the right direction.

00:16:27.000 It says, Charlie Kirk delivers a warning to the RNC and sparks a backlash.

00:16:32.000 That is correct.

00:16:34.000 I sent out an email to the 168 notifying them of something called the Mount Vernon Project.

00:16:42.000 At Turning Point Action, this is our promise.

00:16:45.000 Our promise at Turning Point Action will be very simple.

00:16:48.000 If you are an RNC member or RNC committeeman or state party chair and you don't listen to the grassroots, we are going to do everything we can to remove you.

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00:18:03.000 Okay, so someone asked us, hey, Charlie, how is it that the RNC continues to raise money?

00:18:10.000 This is a very important question.

00:18:11.000 So there are some big-level donors that still support the current regime.

00:18:15.000 Less and less, though.

00:18:17.000 At Turning Point, we've been very blessed.

00:18:19.000 We are so blessed.

00:18:19.000 We have over 160,000 grassroots donors.

00:18:22.000 Many of you guys financially support Turning Point USA.

00:18:25.000 Thank you.

00:18:26.000 You guys dig deep, and I can assure you, your money goes to good use.

00:18:29.000 It goes to students on the front lines.

00:18:31.000 It goes to starting chapters, high school chapters, but we also have some million-dollar plus donors as well.

00:18:38.000 And they're pulling their money from the RNC.

00:18:40.000 They're sick of it for good reasons.

00:18:42.000 So that should give you hope.

00:18:43.000 But another way the RNC perpetually funds itself is through you.

00:18:51.000 And so I encourage you to check out your credit card statements.

00:18:56.000 Are you unknowingly giving money monthly to the RNC?

00:19:04.000 It's possible.

00:19:05.000 The RNC brags that they have a lot of monthly donors.

00:19:10.000 And boy, that pays the bills.

00:19:13.000 Imagine if every single person in our audience said, I'm going to check to see if that money is still flowing to the RNC.

00:19:19.000 It might be, it might not be.

00:19:21.000 Just do a quick check of your credit card statements.

00:19:23.000 And if it is, just cancel it.

00:19:25.000 Just say, I'm not going to support the party under current leadership.

00:19:30.000 They can't fund themselves without you.

00:19:33.000 One of the things they brag about most is how the grassroots continues to support the RNC.

00:19:40.000 Okay, well, what if that stops?

00:19:43.000 And some of you probably give the donation.

00:19:44.000 You don't even realize that the box was checked for a monthly donation.

00:19:49.000 And in some ways, this is a little bit of a trick because a lot of people I don't even realize are doing the monthly donations.

00:19:56.000 And look, if I was running the RNC, I would do everything I possibly could.

00:19:59.000 So in some ways, you can't blame them for trying to get sustained monthly donors, but they don't listen to their voters or their constituents.

00:20:07.000 In fact, they're saying publicly they don't like you.

00:20:12.000 So yeah, the new Washington Post article is out.

00:20:15.000 Washington Post says, Charlie Kirk delivers a warning to the RNC and sparks a backlash.

00:20:22.000 Isaac Stanley Becker for the Washington Post writes what is relatively a very fair article here.

00:20:30.000 And let me pull it up here.

00:20:33.000 I guess this paywall.

00:20:34.000 I refuse to pay for these articles, by the way.

00:20:37.000 So there's a, there it is.

00:20:39.000 Thank you.

00:20:41.000 So it says here, Charlie Kirk delivers a warning to the RNC and sparks a backlash.

00:20:45.000 Charlie Kirk, this is the Washington Post.

00:20:46.000 Charlie Kirk, 29-year-old activist who leads Turning Point USA and Network of Conservative Affiliates, wrote with a warning in Monday.

00:20:52.000 By the way, this is all during America Fest that we did this.

00:20:58.000 Wrote an email to 168 members: How do we plan to win in 2024 if you so boldly reject listening to the grassroots, our donors, and the biggest organizations and voices in the movement?

00:21:07.000 If ignored, we will have stunted and muted the Republican Party in the history of had the most stunted, I'm sorry, and muted Republican Party in the history of the conservative movement, the likes of which we've not seen in generations.

00:21:18.000 It goes on with lots of quotes here saying that they don't like me and that they don't like Turning Point, which again is a very perplexing thing to attack the single organization that is working the hardest and doing the work and putting points on the board.

00:21:34.000 The RNC responded saying that people have rallied around Rana because of her unprecedented investment in the grassroots, election integrity, and minority communities for taking on big tech and the biased commission on presidential debates.

00:21:52.000 The debate thing's legit.

00:21:53.000 That actually is a real thing.

00:21:55.000 I'll give them that.

00:21:56.000 The rest is nonsense.

00:21:57.000 The debate thing's real.

00:21:58.000 They did.

00:21:59.000 They did a good job of actually breaking that up.

00:22:02.000 We'll continue speaking with each and every member about how the party can continue to build upon our investments and make the necessary improvements to win in 2024.

00:22:13.000 Ben Proto, a member from Connecticut, dismissed our email by saying, celebrities who claim to have the pulse of voters, but who talk in an echo chamber to people who already agree with them.

00:22:25.000 So he's trying to smear me as a celebrity, like I'm Brad Pitt or something, I guess.

00:22:30.000 Look, I'm first and foremost an organizer.

00:22:32.000 We just had 11,000 people in a multi-day event in Phoenix.

00:22:35.000 I visit college campuses.

00:22:38.000 And with all due respect, Ben, I don't know if I've ever met you, but I'm not going to receive advice on how to win the Republican Party back from people from Connecticut. 0.94

00:22:50.000 Not exactly a shining star in the tapestry of Republican success.

00:22:57.000 I'm sure you're a nice person, but thanks for the quote.

00:23:03.000 He says, when I hear that some of these same celebrities, he puts in quotes, are going to start a pack to take over state committees and county committees and the national committee, I don't know whether to laugh or cry because it is clear they truly do not understand how elections at any level work or more importantly, how they're won.

00:23:19.000 Oh, so you know how they're won being a Republican in Connecticut.

00:23:25.000 Got it.

00:23:27.000 How about you get in line and give me advice the minute, I don't know, you send any statewide elected office that's a Republican.

00:23:34.000 Not exactly caught up on Connecticut politics recently.

00:23:37.000 I don't think they've elected a Republican governor or senator in quite a while.

00:23:42.000 Maybe they have a state treasurer or something.

00:23:44.000 I don't know.

00:23:47.000 So, yeah, Washington Post, Charlie Kirk delivers a warning to the RNC and sparks a backlash.

00:23:51.000 Look, my promise to all of you, our audience, is we're going to represent you.

00:23:57.000 I'm going to represent those of you that give 50 bucks, that give $20, that give $100.

00:24:04.000 Someone says, Charlie, how much money is in the RNC war chest versus Turning Point?

00:24:09.000 So the RNC raises $300 to $400 million.

00:24:13.000 Our political arm at Turning Point raised about $3 to $5 million.

00:24:17.000 Yeah, about $5 million is the right term.

00:24:19.000 So it's about $300 to $400 million versus $3 to $5 million.

00:24:22.000 Now, if you count our educational programming, which is by law prohibited from any political engagement, we follow that rule very closely, it's about $50 to $60 million budget a year.

00:24:33.000 But that is non-political resources.

00:24:35.000 That's educational, that's chapters, Turning Point Academy, TPSA Faith, all that good stuff.

00:24:41.000 So that's the contrast.

00:24:45.000 Someone says here, Charlie, I stopped giving to the RNC after the 2020 election. 0.99

00:24:50.000 They're all a bunch of liars. 0.94

00:24:50.000 So glad I did. 0.94

00:24:55.000 And then, so now Rana has another very interesting strategy, which you got to scratch your head. 1.00

00:25:02.000 She's going after Carrie Lake. 1.00

00:25:06.000 Play cut 80. 1.00

00:25:10.000 Look at Arizona.

00:25:11.000 You've had the state party at war with the governor in that state for four years.

00:25:17.000 The two candidates for governor, one wouldn't endorse the other.

00:25:20.000 You had one candidate saying, if you're a McCain voter, get the hell out of my rallies.

00:25:24.000 And then the McCain voter said, yeah, I'm not going to vote for you.

00:25:27.000 So she's effectively blaming.

00:25:30.000 That's a shorter clip than I would have liked because I don't want to take things out of context.

00:25:33.000 I really don't.

00:25:34.000 I want to be very factual here. 1.00

00:25:36.000 But she's blaming Carrie Lake for what she considers a loss because she told McCain voters to get the heck out of the room.

00:25:45.000 I don't think that is a widely held belief from the audience.

00:25:51.000 Charlie, tell your viewers this every day about giving to the RNC every month.

00:25:55.000 I got scammed for this.

00:25:57.000 Yes, I say scammed when I gave one time.

00:25:59.000 I'm not a dumb person, but I did not realize this happened to me.

00:26:02.000 The RNC kept taking money out of my account.

00:26:04.000 I immediately canceled it when I realized it.

00:26:07.000 Please, please, please say this every day to your viewers.

00:26:09.000 I will never give to the RNC again.

00:26:11.000 Now, I will say, though, if Harmeet Dillon or Mike Lindell become RNC chairman, I would encourage you guys to give money to them.

00:26:23.000 So look, they're coming after Turning Point.

00:26:25.000 They're coming after this show.

00:26:26.000 I know you guys have our back and we appreciate that.

00:26:29.000 And this is it.

00:26:29.000 I'm not waging war against the RNC, just so we're clear.

00:26:39.000 I'm trying to make the RNC accountable again to the grassroots.

00:26:48.000 Let's play Cut 55, David Pachman, who is a lefty, who compliments the power of Turning Point, play Cut 55.

00:26:58.000 I told you earlier in the show that AmericaFest held an event over the weekend, and it was horrible and dystopian.

00:27:06.000 And we are going to look at a few clips.

00:27:08.000 And really, it reminds me these people are dangerous, but they also are way better than the left at organizing these sort of pump-up events.

00:27:19.000 I'm with you that it is hard not to laugh because it's so absurd.

00:27:23.000 But I've spoken so many times before.

00:27:26.000 The right knows how to throw these events, coalesce people.

00:27:31.000 Turning Point USA does events.

00:27:33.000 They've got AmericaFest as one of them.

00:27:35.000 They've got the Turning Point Summit, all these different things.

00:27:38.000 This stuff actually does get people engaged.

00:27:40.000 And part of the reason that the youngest voting group, 18 to whatever, isn't even more left-skewed is that the right does a way better job of activating and getting people together and the pyrotechnics and the music and the entire thing.

00:27:55.000 The left doesn't have it.

00:27:56.000 The closest thing we had at one point was Net Roots Nation, which I used to go to but no longer do.

00:28:01.000 It's very milquetoast, it's very mediocre, a lot of infighting, a lot of like, you know, all the people that actually have success that should be leading sessions, we have political disagreements with them.

00:28:13.000 So we're going to have like it's a mess.

00:28:16.000 It's a mess.

00:28:17.000 The right is actually better this.

00:28:20.000 The right is better.

00:28:22.000 I agree.

00:28:24.000 It's funny.

00:28:25.000 David Pachman, a left-wing commentator, understands the power of Turning Point more than the chairperson of the Republican Party.

00:28:34.000 And so look, we're going to continue this forward.

00:28:38.000 It's called the Mount Vernon Project at Turning Point Action.

00:28:42.000 It's not about going to war against the RNC.

00:28:42.000 And it's very simple.

00:28:45.000 It's very simple.

00:28:46.000 We actually acknowledge the necessity of an accountable, robust, strong, technologically innovative Republican National Committee.

00:28:58.000 We know that it's necessary.

00:29:00.000 And so when members of the RNC are not going to listen to their voters, then we're going to use some of our resources, albeit limited versus the 400 million of the RNC, to remove some of those members.

00:29:15.000 We have members in all 50 states.

00:29:17.000 We have a strong following, including many of you.

00:29:19.000 So for example, if the guy from Connecticut or some person from Washington is critical and says, I don't care about my voters and I think everything at the RNC is doing well, then we're going to rally the precinct committee men at the state conventions and we're going to try to remove you.

00:29:36.000 We might not be successful.

00:29:38.000 We might win.

00:29:39.000 We might not, but no one else is even thinking of doing this.

00:29:43.000 And so Turning Point Action's Mount Vernon Project is already making a lot of people at the RNC nervous.

00:29:52.000 But look, what if I told you you could save a baby's life for just $28?

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00:30:03.000 I'm 100% pro-life.

00:30:06.000 I encourage you to view the world the same, and I know many of you are.

00:30:10.000 You're amazing pro-life warriors.

00:30:12.000 My challenge, though, is: can we also support causes that are not just in the politics of pro-life, but also in ultrasound, in helping pregnant girls and women see their babies and persuade them to choose life?

00:30:34.000 We have to be above all approach when it comes to life.

00:30:39.000 Your gift today at charliekirk.com by clicking on the pre-born banner of just $28 can give a mother who is abortion-minded the chance to see the truth of the baby that is growing inside of her.

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00:31:01.000 This Christmas, we are just a couple days from Christmas.

00:31:05.000 I encourage you.

00:31:07.000 There's so much bad news out there.

00:31:09.000 Maybe give to something that is literally life-giving.

00:31:14.000 Maybe those of you that are giving to the RNC, maybe say, you know what, I'm going to stop giving to the RNC and I'm going to give money to help save lives.

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00:31:36.000 I know some of you say, you know, Charlie, I do all my charitable giving between Christmas and New Year's.

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00:31:43.000 This is something that should be on the top of your list.

00:31:45.000 I've got to know the team at Pre-Born.

00:31:47.000 They do a terrific job.

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00:31:53.000 And maybe you can only afford 10 bucks.

00:31:55.000 Awesome.

00:31:56.000 20 bucks.

00:31:56.000 Great.

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00:31:58.000 Maybe the Lord has blessed you with a lot of resources.

00:32:00.000 Well, check it out, CharlieKirk.com.

00:32:02.000 Click on the Pre-Born banner.

00:32:05.000 My challenge is for our audience to give more than we receive this Christmas season.

00:32:15.000 CharlieKirk.com and click on the Pre-Born banner.

00:32:18.000 They're a wonderful organization.

00:32:23.000 You know, being on radio the day before Christmas Eve, it's impossible not to honor the man that really paved the way for all of us on talk radio.

00:32:39.000 Friend of mine who passed away, the amazing Rush Limbaugh.

00:32:47.000 I don't think we have enough time to play his last Christmas address right before he died in 2020.

00:32:53.000 But I actually think his 2015 Christmas address is more fitting.

00:32:59.000 This was during a dark time.

00:33:02.000 Hard to believe it was darker than this.

00:33:04.000 It was seven years ago.

00:33:06.000 And Rush had some very powerful words then, as he does now.

00:33:11.000 I mean, for us now.

00:33:15.000 Let's play Cut 77.

00:33:20.000 Just a brief moment, folks, to once again express all my gratitude to all of you in more ways than I know are possible for helping to make my life an adult Christmas every day.

00:33:41.000 Never take any of it for granted.

00:33:43.000 I am grateful for all of you each and every day.

00:33:47.000 And I never assume day to day you're just going to be here.

00:33:53.000 I've also told you when I thought it was time to panic, and I don't think we've gotten it yet.

00:33:57.000 But I do want to repeat one thing: don't look for hopeful signs on the news.

00:34:03.000 That's not where you're going to find it.

00:34:05.000 Might find now one here and there.

00:34:07.000 It's Christmas time.

00:34:11.000 Don't let the news frustrate you.

00:34:14.000 Turn to God.

00:34:16.000 Put all your worry, your hope, your faith, trust, particularly this week, to God.

00:34:23.000 If there's hope, and if there is hopefulness, if there are good signs, that's where you'll find them.

00:34:30.000 God bless.

00:34:30.000 Merry Christmas.

00:34:32.000 See you next year.

00:34:37.000 And we love you all.

00:34:42.000 The great Rush is looking down from heaven, telling us: do not find hope on the news.

00:34:52.000 He also famously said, I will tell you when to worry.

00:34:58.000 He never told us to worry.

00:35:00.000 He was always so full of hope and optimism.

00:35:04.000 And one thing I learned from Rush is to be thankful for you, the audience.

00:35:13.000 It has been a wild year.

00:35:16.000 We're going to summarize that next week.

00:35:21.000 But you guys stood by me through a very chaotic election, Through my travels all across the country, through the Arizona primary, through all the nonsense with Maricopa, you guys were so good to this program.

00:35:39.000 And I want to thank you for that.

00:35:42.000 You guys support our podcast.

00:35:44.000 You show up to our events.

00:35:47.000 You pray for us.

00:35:49.000 You correct me when I'm wrong, sometimes politely, sometimes not so politely.

00:35:57.000 But this show is made possible thanks to you.

00:36:01.000 The same way that Rush would say that he had a connection to all of you, I feel exactly the same way.

00:36:09.000 And so we are going to sign off a little bit early and play Rush Limbaugh's favorite Christmas song that all of you that were Rush Limbaugh loyalists know that he ended his broadcast before Christmas playing this song.

00:36:23.000 We have Tucker Carlson in hour three.

00:36:24.000 Subscribe to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast.

00:36:27.000 Enjoy Mannheim Steamroller.

00:37:35.000 Merry Christmas, everybody.

00:37:37.000 God bless you.

00:37:39.000 And we will see.

00:37:40.000 Merry Christmas, everybody.

00:37:41.000 God bless you.

00:37:42.000 And we will see you next

The Charlie Kirk Show - December 24, 2022

Ask Charlie Anything Festivus Edition: Charlie Airs His Grievances About the RNC

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