00:00:00.000Hey everybody, today in the Charlie Kirk show, Blake Masters for Senate.
00:00:04.000Our enthusiastic endorsement in the great state of Arizona.
00:00:08.000We got to get Blake Masters across the finish line, everybody.
00:00:11.000If you live in Arizona, vote for Blake Masters.
00:00:15.000If you trust me and you listen to this program, I could tell you why to vote for Blake Masters, and I'm going to throughout the episode, but just trust me.
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00:02:12.000So it's like, why don't more people just do that?
00:02:14.000Like obviously, the whole point of a campaign shirt is to be a walking billboard, but everybody tries to make it cute and the consultants will tell you, if you don't have like a you know silhouette of Arizona with a nice sun setting behind the state well, you're gonna lose.
00:02:26.000And it's like no, actually just advertise the message.
00:02:28.000Blake Masters for senate, there you go.
00:02:30.000I've known, i've known you for a while Blake, and you know we this.
00:02:33.000We at first said okay, we're not sure what we're gonna do in the senate race, we're gonna kind of stay out.
00:02:38.000But honestly, part of the reason I we endorsed you and I endorsed you is just the unbelievably unfair attacks against you.
00:02:44.000I thought just, you know, kind of let the whole process play out, but I just I can't stand slander and it was just that really motivated me.
00:02:52.000I don't want to spend too much time on that, but that was actually for me one of the motivating factors.
00:02:55.000Like I got to do what I can to try to um, you know, get the word out.
00:03:28.000And so I spent a few years in California, Stanford, Stanford Law School, worked in Silicon Valley, linked up with Peter Thiel, who I'm sure we'll talk about.
00:03:35.000But I ran his investment firm, investing in startups, was involved in the Trump 2016 campaign.
00:03:41.000But I moved back to Tucson in 2017, 2018, and I was alarmed at what I saw.
00:04:47.000And so this is one of the reasons why I'm enthusiastically behind you: is you know, I ask all these candidates stuff.
00:04:51.000Again, they're sweet people, there's qualified people, whatever, but they can't answer the most operative question, which is what time is it?
00:04:57.000And if they don't answer it with this almost over-urgent matter, then I don't have time for you, honestly.
00:05:04.000And you said something very interesting in a piece recently, Mark Jones' piece.
00:06:02.000So part of conservatism is recognizing what is true and good and beautiful and then willing to do whatever is necessary as the stakes get higher.
00:06:11.000Then our action will get higher to preserve those things.
00:06:50.000But if we're just the party of low taxes, we'll get crushed.
00:06:53.000And then you don't even have low taxes because you won't even have a country.
00:06:56.000And Arizona is interesting because this has been a state where establishment Republicans have really reigned here for quite a while.
00:07:07.000So you have McCain, and I'm not going to spend time going after McCain, but not a fan, obviously.
00:07:11.000Then Jeff Flake, who ran as a strong conservative and became anything but that.
00:07:16.000You have the current Republican establishment at the state capitol.
00:07:20.000And it's interesting, Blake, the more that the Republican establishment has moved to the middle here, the bluer the state has become.
00:07:28.000Now, they'll say it's actually not one because of the other, but I think that if you don't stand for anything, then what's going to prevent your voters from going gravitation, the gravitational pull to go to the left?
00:09:27.000People, you know, you get to the end of a long business career and you're like, doggummit, I want to give back to my.
00:09:30.000And so you hire a consultant, you know, like Axiom from DC, and they write the script and you stay on message and you say everything, you know, they give you the bullet points.
00:09:39.000And it's just, we've seen that before.
00:09:42.000It's that kind of Republican politician who's basically allowed the present situation to come to fruition.
00:09:48.000And no, I had this theory of the case where if I just get out and speak from the heart and with boldness and clarity on the issues that matter, I bet that's going to be popular.
00:10:35.000But I think there is something to be said, though, that the younger energy in the conservative movement, I think, is really starting to get it.
00:10:42.000And I also think some older voters are also seeing that as well, where they're like, wow, you're going to carry the banner for the next 20 or 30 years.
00:10:50.000You're invested in this in a very profound way.
00:10:57.000Something quite interesting and radical about a young person who's conservative because, again, you basically have to be worrying about what kind of country are our kids and our grandkids in like 50 or 60 years.
00:11:08.000Like, what's going to be the normal baby boomer conservative who just hires a consultant to tell him what to say?
00:11:15.000You know, it's just a very different program.
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00:13:36.000Mark Kelly is the incumbent senator here in Arizona.
00:13:40.000You don't really hear much from him unless it's a beautifully produced television advertisement that makes himself seem infinitely more moderate than he actually is.
00:13:58.000He doesn't do anything except, yeah, occasionally he'll issue a press release or a carefully scripted video in which he pretends to be moderate, right?
00:14:29.000Mark Kelly is just perpetually concerned about all the problems that he's voting to go.
00:14:32.000You know, I think it's an interesting line of attack here, and it would be something that we, you know, could talk about and think about publicly is, wait, Mark Kelly, if you were so into the consensus thing, why didn't you do what cinema did?
00:14:45.000Why didn't you support protecting the filibuster?
00:14:47.000Because you're actually not as moderate as you say.
00:15:44.000Four weeks ago, the whole Democrat caucus in the Senate, except Manchin, but all the others voted to, they said they were codifying Roe v. Wade.
00:15:53.000Actually, their pro-abortion bill was so much more radical.
00:15:56.000It would have legalized abortion nationwide up until the moment of birth.
00:16:24.000And I know our national audience is interested in this because they say, Charlie, what races are really going to make the difference?
00:16:29.000I mean, you're looking, I'm telling you right now, guys, if for any trust that I've built with you over the last couple of years and all the traveling I've done, I went all in on really two candidates, JD Vance and Blake Masters.
00:16:41.000And they all think and view the world the same way we do, right?
00:16:44.000Great reset's a major threat, internationalist globalism, open borders, all this stuff.
00:16:49.000But it's interesting because the way that the Democrats think they can hold on to power here in Arizona is this mass masquerading of voters are so stupid that they actually don't look at voting records.
00:17:04.000And if you spend $35 million, and by the way, he's going to raise more on top of that, right?
00:17:09.000And he'll probably spend down to zero because this is a wavier.
00:17:13.000How do you even spend $35 million in a Phoenix media?
00:17:17.000Is he just buying every single slot from now till November?
00:17:20.000And you'll see three or four Mark Kelly ads in a row, right?
00:17:23.000They'll just send 20 pieces of mail out to every voter.
00:17:26.000And they'll call me all the worst things, right?
00:17:27.000It's just going to be character assassination.
00:17:29.000That's what they'll try because they don't have issues to run on because the border is wide open and your kids' school is trying to teach them to be trans.
00:18:05.000Yeah, so another issue I want to ask you about here, which is what's your thoughts on BlackRock and these big companies coming in and buying up all of our homes here in Arizona?
00:18:40.000I know a lot of our employees at Turning Point USA, they are getting outbid by cash offers on astronomical valuations of homes.
00:18:48.000And again, you don't always know who the home is going to, but these are closeted LLCs going to cash offers for $400,000 to $600,000 homes.
00:18:58.000Could be China, it could be BlackRock, but we've got to investigate and put a stop to it.
00:19:01.000So you have an LLC paying with cash going above offer, probably BlackRock or China.
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00:19:55.000Blake, why is it that everyone gets, what is this?
00:19:58.000In Illinois, we don't even have the mail-in balloting.
00:20:01.000At least when I grew up, it wasn't as bad as this.
00:20:03.000Think it would work in theory in a high-trust society?
00:20:05.000Maybe we used to have that, but now nobody trusts it.
00:20:09.000And I don't know, I just saw on Twitter, like people check the box to remove themselves from the early mail-in voting system, and Merico County Recorder's Office is still sending them ballots.
00:21:26.000We won't have the votes to remove him, but man, I hope the House impeaches him because he's just failed at doing his duty to protect this country.
00:21:32.000So I want to play one of your advertisements you have running on TV right now.
00:23:51.000Charlie, would you mind asking Blake Master about what he'll do once elected to stop the Chinese from buying land and businesses in America?
00:23:59.000How does he see business interests in China, Tesla, and other major corporations reacting to the new Chinese laws?
00:24:05.000Will he try to bring American businesses back to the homeland, basically?
00:24:09.000Yeah, I do think we need to be bringing businesses back.
00:24:14.000There's this economic logic that says, yeah, you know, you have to always ship productive industrial capacity to whoever in the world can do it cheapest.
00:24:21.000And maybe that makes sense in an economics textbook, and it doesn't actually make sense in the real world.
00:24:25.000And so I think we need to reindustrialize and make stuff here in America again.
00:24:29.000But I think in terms of what to do about, you know, Chinese ownership of land, farmland, houses, you just ban it.
00:24:37.000It's like China's a communist totalitarian.
00:27:18.000And in fact, we have a heart's desire to go live in the America where virtue and justice and self-government reign.
00:27:25.000But when those things start to fall apart, do we just keep on repeating those talking points, or do we say there can be necessary, appropriate, hopefully local, not national interventions that can save the good, the true, and the beautiful?
00:27:40.000That's the difference between a new right conservative and a libertarian, infected 1980s Republican.
00:28:24.000When you have, though, these other power centers that are created, and this has kind of been the big enlightenment for me, companies are acting like the government, and we're supposed to be like, well, that's the market at work.
00:28:35.000Actually, I'm not going to put up with that.
00:28:36.000I'm not going to put up with Pfizer lying about vaccines.
00:28:39.000I'm not going to put up with Disney putting forth pedophilia to kids and put up with this nonsense infecting our society.
00:30:00.000Let's play a piece of tape here from some of the Roe versus Wade drama.
00:30:05.000How do you see that playing out here in Arizona?
00:30:07.000I think the Democrats will try to gin up outrage about it.
00:30:10.000I predict that they'll try to run on abortion and how crazy, and they'll try to gin up outrage about school shootings and, but that's all they have.
00:30:21.000It's just they'll try to manufacture outrage.
00:30:23.000Actually, most people, when they actually understand what the Dobbs decision did, which is just send the issue back to the states, most people find that quite reasonable.
00:30:32.000And so we're not going to let the Democrats distract from their failures at the border and inflation.
00:30:36.000I actually just don't think it's going to be a huge issue.
00:32:06.000What else do you want to convey to our audience about your race and why you're running and what's going on, how people can help you?
00:32:11.000Yeah, I have a, I think, a good, healthy, growing lead right now, but it's always awkward to be in first place.
00:32:18.000Everybody's just training their fire on me.
00:32:20.000But you know what I'll say is we're sprinting to the finish line.
00:32:23.000I take nothing for granted, and we're going to run.
00:32:25.000What percentage of people vote before Election Day in Arizona?
00:32:27.000You know, I think we were thinking 30 or 40% of ballots would be in by now.
00:32:32.000And you never quite know what the final turnout is going to be until Election Day, but it seems like people are holding on to their ballots.
00:32:37.000People have not been turning them in quite as much.
00:32:39.000You think that's probably skepticism, though, of the mail-in balloting?
00:32:42.000I think a lot of people check the early vote, but then you hold on to the ballot and you go turn it in on Election Day because people mistrust the mail and all this.
00:32:51.000So unclear what the turnout's going to be, although we like the numbers, I'm just going to keep sprinting hard because you can't take it for granted.
00:32:59.000Yeah, I know at least for my family here in Arizona, they've been lifelong Arizona voters and they would typically just mail it in.
00:33:07.000They went through the research and the calling of where can I go drop my ballot off to a human being?
00:33:13.000How do I know that it's going to be what, you know, can I do it on election day?
00:33:16.000Like they went through all this extra work and they're planning it into their schedule to go to the actual office, to drop off, because they're like, I'm not putting it into the mail anymore.
00:36:28.000But we also use the two years to prepare for January 2025.
00:36:32.000Well, we also, I mean, this is not what you're running for, but the next governor of Arizona should secure the border independent of the federal government.