00:00:52.000His 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.
00:01:00.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:57.000I'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.
00:04:06.000I mean, I couldn't understand the deeper, beautiful meaning of most Shakespeare plays.
00:04:11.000So 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.
00:05:26.000BLM programs, $400 million for the FBI headquarters.
00:05:31.000So 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.
00:05:45.000And how does the FBI get held accountable?
00:05:47.000We're going to give you a new headquarters.
00:05:51.000We're going to give the FBI a $400 million sterling new building.
00:05:59.000It really is the trajectory in Washington, D.C., which is to fail upwards.
00:06:05.000I'm going to be promoted by doing bad things.
00:06:16.000They were doing their job for their benefactors, Democrats and Uniparty Republicans.
00:06:21.000At 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.
00:06:49.000They were enthusiastic about the FBI going after Donald Trump, I guess.
00:06:57.000I mean, how could you vote for such a monstrosity?
00:07:15.000The rationale was that it was the best, worst option.
00:07:18.000The non-insider opinion would be to wait until we take over the House in January and then vote on a spending bill.
00:07:25.000The problem is that the newly elected Republican freshman will not vote for any spending bill.
00:07:31.000And 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.
00:07:39.000The omnibus bill in 2014 was a proxy example of this.
00:07:44.000Like it or not, his calculus, the calculus was that this is the best option, which was to pass the bill.
00:07:54.000You 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.
00:08:02.000Just so you know, that was from a top-tier producer Andrew said, I didn't understand a word of that.
00:08:16.000I'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.
00:12:35.000It actually turns out that I'm in touch with the audience.
00:12:38.000One 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.
00:13:35.000And the answer is quite a lot, actually.
00:13:41.000And so we responded in rather, you know, public terms.
00:13:48.000We said, Rana, thanks for asking, because she was attacking Turning Point, which is a very puzzling strategy.
00:13:55.000I 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.
00:14:18.000We're just saying that you should no longer be in charge of the RNC.
00:14:22.000Are 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?
00:14:32.000Turning Point Action logged more than 500,000 volunteer hours this cycle.
00:14:38.000Turning Point Action directly contacted and engaged 5 million voters.
00:14:43.000At Turning Point Action, we hosted over 100 major door knocking rallies in target states and districts.
00:14:49.000At Turning Point Action, we recruited over 2,000 new precinct leaders with a goal to be at 10,000 by the end of 2023.
00:14:56.000At Turning Point Action, we registered tens of thousands of new voters.
00:15:00.000We hosted Governor DeSantis in seven states supporting more than a dozen governor, senate, and congressional candidates, including events with President Donald Trump.
00:15:08.000We reached tens of millions of listeners and grassroots folks in our podcast that you guys watch also on Real America's Voice.
00:15:16.000We messaged to Hispanic voters in South Florida, Phoenix, and Tucson.
00:15:20.000We 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.
00:15:30.000By the way, all of this by just spending half a million dollars via Turning Point Pack and a few million dollars via our 501c4.
00:15:41.000I then asked the question: how many hundreds of millions did the RNC spend?
00:15:45.000I 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.
00:15:57.000This is why you should no longer be chair of the RNC.
00:15:59.000This is why 98% of our members and our attendees want you fired.
00:16:04.000And then I continued, I said, instead of attacking us, you should be sending us $700,000 in flowers, thanking us.
00:16:15.000The Washington Post came out with a story today that was actually very, I think, rather fair.
00:16:20.000I mean, has its snark, has the smugness, but on the spectrum of Washington Post articles, it's trending in the right direction.
00:16:27.000It says, Charlie Kirk delivers a warning to the RNC and sparks a backlash.
00:16:34.000I sent out an email to the 168 notifying them of something called the Mount Vernon Project.
00:16:42.000At Turning Point Action, this is our promise.
00:16:45.000Our promise at Turning Point Action will be very simple.
00:16:48.000If 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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00:17:03.000If you're renting or have a friend or family member, that is, now is a great time to make the move to homeownership.
00:17:09.000Look, you got to own renting, that's great reset stuff.
00:17:13.000Andrew Del Rey and Todd Avakian at Sierra Pacific Mortgage have helped so many people make that leap from renting to owning with lots of programs that offer first-time buyers assistance with little to no down payment needed.
00:17:25.000I encourage you right now to visit my buddies, their website.
00:19:43.000And some of you probably give the donation.
00:19:44.000You don't even realize that the box was checked for a monthly donation.
00:19:49.000And 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.
00:19:56.000And look, if I was running the RNC, I would do everything I possibly could.
00:19:59.000So 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.
00:20:07.000In fact, they're saying publicly they don't like you.
00:20:12.000So yeah, the new Washington Post article is out.
00:20:15.000Washington Post says, Charlie Kirk delivers a warning to the RNC and sparks a backlash.
00:20:22.000Isaac Stanley Becker for the Washington Post writes what is relatively a very fair article here.
00:20:41.000So it says here, Charlie Kirk delivers a warning to the RNC and sparks a backlash.
00:20:45.000Charlie Kirk, this is the Washington Post.
00:20:46.000Charlie Kirk, 29-year-old activist who leads Turning Point USA and Network of Conservative Affiliates, wrote with a warning in Monday.
00:20:52.000By the way, this is all during America Fest that we did this.
00:20:58.000Wrote 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?
00:21:07.000If 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.
00:21:18.000It 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.
00:21:34.000The 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.
00:21:59.000They did a good job of actually breaking that up.
00:22:02.000We'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.
00:22:13.000Ben 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.
00:22:25.000So he's trying to smear me as a celebrity, like I'm Brad Pitt or something, I guess.
00:22:30.000Look, I'm first and foremost an organizer.
00:22:32.000We just had 11,000 people in a multi-day event in Phoenix.
00:22:38.000And 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.
00:22:50.000Not exactly a shining star in the tapestry of Republican success.
00:22:57.000I'm sure you're a nice person, but thanks for the quote.
00:23:03.000He 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.
00:23:19.000Oh, so you know how they're won being a Republican in Connecticut.
00:23:47.000So, yeah, Washington Post, Charlie Kirk delivers a warning to the RNC and sparks a backlash.
00:23:51.000Look, my promise to all of you, our audience, is we're going to represent you.
00:23:57.000I'm going to represent those of you that give 50 bucks, that give $20, that give $100.
00:24:04.000Someone says, Charlie, how much money is in the RNC war chest versus Turning Point?
00:24:09.000So the RNC raises $300 to $400 million.
00:24:13.000Our political arm at Turning Point raised about $3 to $5 million.
00:24:17.000Yeah, about $5 million is the right term.
00:24:19.000So it's about $300 to $400 million versus $3 to $5 million.
00:24:22.000Now, 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.
00:26:29.000I'm not waging war against the RNC, just so we're clear.
00:26:39.000I'm trying to make the RNC accountable again to the grassroots.
00:26:48.000Let's play Cut 55, David Pachman, who is a lefty, who compliments the power of Turning Point, play Cut 55.
00:26:58.000I told you earlier in the show that AmericaFest held an event over the weekend, and it was horrible and dystopian.
00:27:06.000And we are going to look at a few clips.
00:27:08.000And 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.
00:27:19.000I'm with you that it is hard not to laugh because it's so absurd.
00:27:33.000They've got AmericaFest as one of them.
00:27:35.000They've got the Turning Point Summit, all these different things.
00:27:38.000This stuff actually does get people engaged.
00:27:40.000And 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.
00:27:56.000The closest thing we had at one point was Net Roots Nation, which I used to go to but no longer do.
00:28:01.000It'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.
00:28:13.000So we're going to have like it's a mess.
00:29:00.000And 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.
00:29:17.000We have a strong following, including many of you.
00:29:19.000So 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.
00:30:12.000My 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?
00:30:34.000We have to be above all approach when it comes to life.
00:30:39.000Your 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.
00:30:50.000$140 can do this for five girls and women.
00:30:54.000And a $15,000 gift will provide an ultrasound machine that will save lives for years to come.
00:31:01.000This Christmas, we are just a couple days from Christmas.
00:31:09.000Maybe give to something that is literally life-giving.
00:31:14.000Maybe 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.
00:32:23.000You 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.
00:32:39.000Friend of mine who passed away, the amazing Rush Limbaugh.
00:32:47.000I don't think we have enough time to play his last Christmas address right before he died in 2020.
00:32:53.000But I actually think his 2015 Christmas address is more fitting.
00:33:20.000Just 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.
00:35:16.000We're going to summarize that next week.
00:35:21.000But 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.
00:35:49.000You correct me when I'm wrong, sometimes politely, sometimes not so politely.
00:35:57.000But this show is made possible thanks to you.
00:36:01.000The same way that Rush would say that he had a connection to all of you, I feel exactly the same way.
00:36:09.000And 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.