The Charlie Kirk Show - Big Tech’s GIANT Mistake

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00:00:49.000 Big tech is on the march.

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00:02:52.000 Yesterday, we led with the breaking bombshell news from the New York Post that published an article written by Emma Joe Morris that really revealed that Hunter and Joe Biden were in on it together, meeting with Ukrainian CEOs, the number three of Burisma, completely contradictory to what Joe Biden had said previously.

00:03:18.000 This story was on pace to be a very big story.

00:03:22.000 This story was definitely going to dominate the conservative news cycle for at least a couple days, but there is no guarantee that this story would have long-term political implications.

00:03:35.000 No guarantee of that.

00:03:37.000 We have had revelations of Hunter Biden and Joe Biden flying an Air Force 2 together to China to help raise capital for Hunter Biden's pseudo-investment fund, something he was vastly unqualified for.

00:03:51.000 There had been revelations of Joe Biden and his brother doing shady business deals together in Iraq that he was unqualified for.

00:04:00.000 So, this was big news for those of us that care about justice and those of us that actually want to see a fair and equal application of the law.

00:04:09.000 But as soon as I read the story, I said, ah, this is going to kind of get swept under the rug.

00:04:13.000 And we talked about yesterday actually focusing the presidential campaign more on Kamala Harris than Joe Biden.

00:04:20.000 And I stand by that.

00:04:21.000 I think that is exactly right politically.

00:04:23.000 However, big tech, the biggest companies with trillions of dollars of market cap value, the capacity, the ability, and the power to censor everything that you consume, they decided that they want more people to know about this story.

00:04:42.000 And I say, what are you talking about?

00:04:44.000 I thought it was the exact opposite.

00:04:46.000 What happened yesterday was nothing short of what is called the Streison effect.

00:04:52.000 The Streison effect, some would call it a social phenomenon.

00:04:56.000 It occurs when somebody in a position of power attempts to hide or remove or censor information.

00:05:04.000 By doing so, it has unintended consequences.

00:05:07.000 The censor actually becomes the PR agent.

00:05:10.000 The censor actually becomes a publicist.

00:05:14.000 This is named after Barbara Streisand, of course, who tried to suppress photographs of her residence in Malibu, California in 2003, which only drew more attention to it.

00:05:25.000 And so this Streison effect has many different examples.

00:05:30.000 You could go through in 2013, there were many examples of this.

00:05:35.000 In 2018, one of the most famous examples is actually in 2019 when Devin Nunez filed a lawsuit against Twitter, which then became a big story about even bigger than what Twitter would have ever imagined when they were trying to suppress the story themselves.

00:05:53.000 But this is probably one of the most politically applicable examples of the Streison effect.

00:06:00.000 By trying to suppress this New York Post story, the tech companies have actually become the publicist for the New York Post.

00:06:09.000 So let's just do a quick recap.

00:06:10.000 In the story, we found out that there was a laptop that Hunter Biden brought to a computer repair shop in Delaware, dropped it off, never followed up for it, by the way.

00:06:24.000 And the computer repair shop.

00:06:25.000 I didn't even know there were computer repair shops anymore.

00:06:27.000 Is this really a thing?

00:06:29.000 I did not know that there were still computer repair shops.

00:06:31.000 Hunter Biden drops off his MacBook Pro with a Bo Biden sticker on it and forgets about it.

00:06:39.000 The computer repair shop owner believes it was Hunter Biden who dropped off the computer.

00:06:46.000 He's legally blind, we have just learned, and can't contact him, makes a copy of the computer, and then contacts the feds.

00:06:54.000 The feds get a federal subpoena and they take the laptop with it, all the emails, the data, but there was a backup.

00:06:59.000 The backup was then given to Mayor Rudy Giuliani's lawyer, Mr. Costello.

00:07:06.000 You just can't put together a narrative more perfect than this.

00:07:11.000 Of course, he's named Mr. Costello.

00:07:12.000 I mean, what else would he be named?

00:07:15.000 And we can only assume that then Mayor Giuliani gave this to the New York Post and then it got publicized.

00:07:25.000 Facebook and Twitter, they both handled this similarly, but a little bit differently.

00:07:32.000 Twitter was out of control.

00:07:34.000 Twitter literally did not allow you to tweet the article, suspending Kayleigh McEnany's account, suspending some of the top accounts in all of the conservative media and even nonpartisan media trying to publicize this article.

00:07:51.000 Jack Pasebek, the New York Post, Kaylee McEnany, Team Trump, Saurabh Amari, the opinion editor at the New York Post.

00:08:01.000 All of which were unable to just share a factual article of real information.

00:08:07.000 So then Facebook came out, and the Facebook communications director, who formerly was head of all communications for the Democrats, he tweeted out, quote, this is part of our standard process to reduce the spread of misinformation.

00:08:19.000 We temporarily reduce distribution pending fact-checker review.

00:08:24.000 He went on to say, while I intentionally not linked to the New York Post, I want to be clear that this story is eligible to be fact-checked by Facebook's third-party fact-checking partners.

00:08:32.000 In the meantime, we are reducing its distribution on our platform.

00:08:36.000 Whoa.

00:08:37.000 Andy Stone admitting that Facebook, the largest social network on the planet, is reducing distribution pending third-party review.

00:08:46.000 Andy Stone, by the way, used to be head of communications for the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee and former press secretary for Barbara Boxer.

00:08:55.000 So of course he has a vested interest to make sure that this information is not distributed.

00:09:01.000 And then Twitter went even further where they said that if you post it, your account is going to be suspended.

00:09:08.000 But by doing so, these big tech companies actually drew more attention to this story.

00:09:14.000 There are more people talking about the dishonorably discharged cocaine addict, Hunter Biden, who just drops off laptops at a repair shop.

00:09:26.000 And doesn't even, by the way, who would drop off your personal information and laptops at a repair shop and then just forget about it?

00:09:34.000 As the great Candace Owens said on Twitter, this is why you shouldn't do crack kids. 0.98

00:09:39.000 I mean, this is one of the dumbest things you could possibly do. 0.97

00:09:41.000 While your father's running for the presidency, you just decide to drop off all of your personal information. 0.85

00:09:48.000 And so as we go deeper into this story, we realize that Hunter Biden and Joe Biden were almost working in tandem, working in harmony to sell access to our government.

00:10:07.000 And so per the contract that Hunter Biden signed when he dropped off the laptop, the computer repairman took legal possession of the laptop and found the emails.

00:10:18.000 And so it was actually legally legal possession.

00:10:24.000 Now, mind you, Twitter and Facebook did not stop the spread of any of the articles or stories pertaining to Trump's tax returns, which were illegally leaked.

00:10:37.000 They did not spread, stop the spread of any of the stories regarding WikiLeaks, didn't stop the spread of any of the other very questionably obtained information in the political news cycle the last couple of years.

00:10:49.000 But for this one, they go all in.

00:10:53.000 They go all in saying that the emails were hacked.

00:10:56.000 There's no evidence whatsoever, by the way, to corroborate this.

00:10:59.000 It looks like it was Hunter Biden being more concerned about his next line of cocaine than actually caring about his computer or his emails.

00:11:10.000 And so National Public Radio, funded by your taxpayer dollars through the stimulus bill, continued the explanation by saying, quote, Facebook was limiting distribution of the New York Post's main story.

00:11:23.000 That means that the platform's algorithms won't place posts linking to the story as highly in people's newsfeeds.

00:11:33.000 Big tech has now made two big mistakes.

00:11:38.000 They have made two very big mistakes.

00:11:41.000 The first mistake is they have now publicized this story more so than they ever could have wanted.

00:11:46.000 If they actually want a Joe Biden presidency, they should have just allowed this story to spread.

00:11:51.000 Now, millions of more people are talking about this story than would have otherwise.

00:11:57.000 And the second mistake that they made is now Republicans are getting wise to who these tech companies actually are.

00:12:05.000 What do you do when a company becomes more powerful than your government?

00:12:11.000 What do you do when a company infringes on your natural rights?

00:12:18.000 Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of people to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

00:12:37.000 Congress shall make no law.

00:12:39.000 What if Congress did?

00:12:42.000 What if Congress passed a regulation that made it so that these tech companies are allowed to basically become Soviet-style enforcers of speech that they don't like that threaten their political viewpoints and their own worldview?

00:13:01.000 The New York Post bombshell came out, factual in nature.

00:13:06.000 We're not exactly sure how Rudy Giuliani got the emails through Mr. Costello, but we are going to have Rudy on the podcast hopefully soon.

00:13:15.000 Rudy's a friend.

00:13:18.000 And by doing so, the tech companies engage in the Streisen effect.

00:13:21.000 The Streisen effect is when you try and suppress a piece of information.

00:13:26.000 It only makes it more popular and more public.

00:13:29.000 And the tech companies made two big errors here.

00:13:31.000 The first of which is now more people are talking about this Biden story than otherwise would have.

00:13:36.000 If Biden would have ignored it and the tech companies would have ignored it and let it spread, it would have been treated no differently than Joe Biden's comments when he said, if you don't vote for me, you ain't black.

00:13:48.000 Hunter Biden flying on Air Force 2.

00:13:50.000 Most people wouldn't have cared.

00:13:52.000 Now it's actually entering the zeitgeist.

00:13:54.000 I'm still of the opinion it's not going to move the dial politically.

00:13:57.000 I think that the more you attack Hunter Biden's son from the Trump campaign, the more sympathy it gets him.

00:14:04.000 I'm not exactly sure the political physics of that, but that's how the current composition of the landscape is.

00:14:12.000 But the second mistake that big tech made is that they have truly poked the conservative bear.

00:14:24.000 I have never seen Senate Republicans fight so hard on an issue outside of judges as I've seen the last 24 hours.

00:14:36.000 I am very critical of certain Republicans that don't fight.

00:14:41.000 I was critical of the senator from Indiana when he praised BLM Incorporated back in June, where he said it's a great movement.

00:14:48.000 He did retract that comment.

00:14:50.000 We were pleased to say that.

00:14:52.000 See that?

00:14:53.000 I am critical of Senate Republicans when they don't build the wall and they borrow a bunch of money and kowtow to China.

00:14:58.000 But Senate Republicans deserve tremendous credit for how they've handled two things in the last 24 hours: the Amy Coney Barrett hearings and this new issue of big tech censorship.

00:15:12.000 When you're not even allowed to tweet out an article that is factual from the New York Post, An American domestic publication company, because some tech oligarch in his pajamas in Silicon Valley, who went to Caltech and he's 26 and he thinks America's an awful place, wants Biden to be elected and he pushes a button so that you're not able to share the article.

00:15:36.000 I can make the argument that your freedom of speech and your capacity to petition the government for redress of grievances in the digital era has been suppressed.

00:15:49.000 And we have seen a couple senators in particular really rise to the occasion.

00:15:56.000 Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Tom Cotton, and Senator Josh Hawley in particular have been phenomenal.

00:16:05.000 We're going to build out more exactly what they've been saying and how and the positions they've been taking.

00:16:13.000 And we on this program have been long warning about the powers that big tech possesses and the danger that they pose to a decent and fair society.

00:16:23.000 In fact, I've been saying for the last nine months the two biggest threats to Donald Trump's reelection is social media fraud and big tech fraud and mail and balloting fraud.

00:16:34.000 We're seeing both of those play out in real time.

00:16:38.000 And finally, we're seeing Republicans take this seriously.

00:16:42.000 Big tech, if they really want to keep their pseudo-monopolies, they should have just let this story spread.

00:16:49.000 However, discipline is not an attribute that totalitarians possess.

00:16:56.000 When people always want more power, they are not able to stop themselves short of trying to take over more land or try to conquer more territory.

00:17:04.000 In fact, you're seeing that this attempt to censor and suppress a New York Post article very well might spiral big tech's pseudo-monopoly over the landscape and put it into jeopardy.

00:17:21.000 Senate Republicans have been fighting in the last 24 hours, like I have not seen, on this big tech issue.

00:17:33.000 What do you do when a private company grows more powerful than your government?

00:17:39.000 What do you do when a private company is directly interfering in an election and not allowing a factual, credible story from a mainstream press outlet to be shared on your tech platforms?

00:17:50.000 Are you allowed to petition your government?

00:17:52.000 Are you able to speak in the digital age without that?

00:17:55.000 Let's play Cut 15, Senator Ted Cruz.

00:17:59.000 We have seen big tech, we've seen Twitter and Facebook actively interfering in this election in a way that has no precedent in the history of our country.

00:18:11.000 Yesterday, the New York Post broke a story alleging serious corruption of Joe Biden and Hunter Biden concerning Ukraine.

00:18:21.000 The allegations in the New York Post story, if true, indicate that Vice President Biden lied when he said he had never discussed his son's business dealings.

00:18:33.000 That story, once the New York Post broke it, was blocked by Twitter and Facebook.

00:18:40.000 Anyone who attempted to share it was prevented from sharing it on Twitter or Facebook.

00:18:46.000 I wrote an article in the Washington Post, July 11th, 2019, give them credit for publishing this, I will say that, where I zeroed in on earlier than most this idea of Section 230, the Communications Decency Act.

00:19:05.000 In Section 230, the Communications Decency Act, we created a regulation that allowed these tech companies to act with complete immunity, but still silence voices that they don't like or they disagree with.

00:19:18.000 I'm going to read from my own article here.

00:19:20.000 It says, the second obstacle to free market, to the free market is big tech's exploitation of pre-existing laws, namely Section 230, the Communications Decency Act, which was passed in Congress in the 1990s.

00:19:33.000 Social media companies like Facebook and Google have leveraged Section 230 to great effect and astounding profits by claiming they are platforms, not publishers, thereby avoiding under the law billions of dollars in potential copyright infringement and libel lawsuits.

00:19:48.000 YouTube, for example, advertised itself as an open platform, quote, committed to fostering a community where everyone's voice can be heard.

00:19:53.000 Facebook and Twitter make similar claims.

00:19:55.000 Let's be clear: when these companies censor or suppress conservative content, or just any content, they are behaving as publishers and they should be held legally responsible for all the content they publish.

00:20:06.000 If they want to continue hiding behind Section 230 and avoid financial and legal calamity, they must reform.

00:20:12.000 That was July of 2019, and it's only gotten worse since then.

00:20:19.000 Not every tech company acts the same.

00:20:22.000 Twitter has been completely out of control.

00:20:25.000 Google is by far the most powerful of all of them.

00:20:30.000 At times, just based on sharing our content and our capacity, Facebook has allowed us to be able to continue to stream this program live, and we're thankful for that.

00:20:42.000 But we're at the mercy of these tech companies.

00:20:44.000 One person pushing one button at any time could digitally assassinate us.

00:20:49.000 Their entire model is surveillance capitalism.

00:20:51.000 They're selling your data.

00:20:54.000 And we are completely at the mercy, despite the years of intellectual property, the tens of thousands of posts.

00:21:02.000 For example, I've tweeted well over 45,000 times, amassed well over 1.8 million followers, and that all could be vanished almost instantaneously.

00:21:13.000 But why is it that these tech companies have been able to act this way for so long?

00:21:20.000 Why have we allowed a company that basically is in the model of selling you surveillance capitalism to addict our children to your supercomputers to turn us into quasi-cyborgs?

00:21:37.000 Why are we tolerating these companies amassing such incredible market share and also very questionable activity in the marketplace?

00:21:48.000 CNBC in June 9th, 2019, Google is tech's top spender on lobbying.

00:21:56.000 Facebook and Amazon are also at record levels.

00:21:58.000 Google spent $21.7 million on lobbying in 2018, 38% up from two years earlier.

00:22:06.000 Facebook is close behind them.

00:22:08.000 They're spending tens of millions of dollars in Washington, D.C. to make sure that politicians do not scrutinize, subpoena, or question the power that they have over our country.

00:22:22.000 I'm going to do something you're not supposed to do in an election cycle.

00:22:25.000 But that's why you guys listen to us and that's why you guys support us at charliekirk.com/slash support.

00:22:32.000 I'm going to go through a list of names of people in the Republican Party that are funded by Google.

00:22:37.000 You want to know why nothing changes?

00:22:39.000 It's because a lot of our party is funded by these people.

00:22:41.000 That's why.

00:22:43.000 And I know a lot of these people.

00:22:45.000 They're good people.

00:22:46.000 A lot of them just hire fundraisers and they don't even know that they're getting money from Google.

00:22:51.000 But let's start with the big number.

00:22:54.000 Let's start with the House.

00:22:55.000 We'll go to the Senate.

00:22:57.000 Google, in just the 2020 election cycle, contributed $358,000 to Democrats and $304,000 to Republicans.

00:23:07.000 So definitely a Democrat tilt in the House.

00:23:09.000 Why?

00:23:09.000 Because Democrats are in power.

00:23:12.000 Google is not contributing to these members of Congress because they believe in their ideological or philosophical beliefs.

00:23:22.000 They are not donating to these members of Congress because they like their views on social policy.

00:23:30.000 They are donating to these members of Congress for something in return.

00:23:36.000 They want access.

00:23:36.000 They want favors.

00:23:37.000 They want legislative priority.

00:23:41.000 They have predetermined corporate budgets to purchase your members of Congress so that they can get what they want done, which is a congressional hall pass so that they can create a multi-trillion dollar company to spy on your kids, sell your data, customize your content, and become more powerful than our own government.

00:24:01.000 So I can go through the list first and foremost of the people in the House.

00:24:04.000 It's a lot of Democrats, a lot of Republicans.

00:24:07.000 A lot of surprises here.

00:24:11.000 Democrats from Mike Quigley in Illinois.

00:24:14.000 Of course, Nancy Pelosi took the maximum amount.

00:24:19.000 Too many Republicans on this list, to be perfectly honest with you.

00:24:21.000 John Shimkiss, I know him.

00:24:23.000 He should return the money.

00:24:24.000 Steve Scalise, what are you doing, man?

00:24:26.000 Return the money.

00:24:26.000 Jan Schakowsky, of course, she took the money.

00:24:28.000 Adam Schiff, Brad Schneider.

00:24:30.000 This is all publicly available, by the way.

00:24:32.000 And it's through an organization called NetPack, which is Google Incorporated Alphabet's way of contributing.

00:24:40.000 But the House is not nearly as interesting.

00:24:44.000 Almost every House Republican leader is taking money from Google.

00:24:47.000 This is why nothing gets done.

00:24:50.000 If your representatives are talking a good game about regulating the tech companies while then taking money from the tech companies, you got a problem.

00:25:00.000 It's nothing more than vapor.

00:25:01.000 But the more interesting thing is the Senate.

00:25:07.000 The U.S. Senate, this is just the 2020 election cycle.

00:25:10.000 Total contributions from Google, the Democrats, $44,500.

00:25:15.000 Total Google contributions to Republicans, $153,000.

00:25:22.000 Google has given three times the amount of money to Republicans than Democrats in the U.S. Senate.

00:25:27.000 Why?

00:25:28.000 Not because they believe in the philosophical underpinnings of limited government and locking in natural rights.

00:25:34.000 It's not because they are a big believer in Edmund Burke or William F. Buckley or Russell Kirk.

00:25:41.000 It's because Republicans are in power and they want to make sure that they can have input and legislative favor.

00:25:46.000 By the way, this should be illegal.

00:25:48.000 Just so we're clear, this entire process is disgusting.

00:25:53.000 That a multi-trillion dollar company that controls your data can look at your emails, your search results, 92% of all search results in our country, that all of a sudden they can just go make $153,000 in contributions, which is a rounding error of a lunch tab and not even pays the fuel cost for the Google executives to get on their $90 million plane to fly halfway across the country, that all of a sudden they can have legislative priority.

00:26:16.000 This should be illegal, but it's not.

00:26:18.000 So instead, many of our Senate Republicans are taking massive contributions from Google.

00:26:24.000 You guys are worried about big tech?

00:26:26.000 Well, then start challenging your representatives to stop taking money from these companies.

00:26:32.000 Senator Joni Ernst, who's great. 0.98

00:26:34.000 I don't know why she took $10,000.

00:26:36.000 Corey Gardner, $14,000.

00:26:38.000 Bill Cassidy, $5,000.

00:26:40.000 Is it really worth it?

00:26:43.000 Doug Collins, I know him, $10,000.

00:26:45.000 Susan Collins, $10,000.

00:26:47.000 Chris Coons, not a surprise.

00:26:48.000 Democrat, $5,000.

00:26:50.000 John Cornyn, $9,000.

00:26:52.000 And a lot of them will say, I didn't even know I took the money.

00:26:54.000 It's not a big difference.

00:26:55.000 Then return it.

00:26:56.000 Then do a statement and return the check and make something out of it.

00:26:59.000 If it's not a big deal and it doesn't impact you, then why are you still have it?

00:27:04.000 It's self-defeating.

00:27:10.000 This is still the house list here.

00:27:12.000 Ben Sasse, $4,500.

00:27:14.000 Tim Scott, Gene Shaheen, Democrat, $6,000.

00:27:18.000 Dan Sullivan, Republican from Alaska, $9,000.

00:27:21.000 Tom Tillis, $4,000.

00:27:23.000 This should make you sick to your stomach, by the way, guys.

00:27:25.000 While we are under attack and we are fighting these oligarchs, our Republicans are taking money from them to get re-elected, to keep having power.

00:27:34.000 Roger Wicker, who runs the committee that actually can help us keep these people in power, $5,000.

00:27:40.000 I will say this, though.

00:27:41.000 You want to know some positives?

00:27:42.000 I do. 1.00

00:27:44.000 Lindsey Graham did not take money from Google.

00:27:47.000 Good for you, Lindsey Graham.

00:27:49.000 Senator Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley.

00:27:53.000 And Cotton, Senator Tom Cotton, did not take any money from Google.

00:28:01.000 That's a terrific thing.

00:28:03.000 David Perdue, $7,500.

00:28:07.000 Google is not doing this because they believe in these deeply held beliefs, but it's worse than this.

00:28:12.000 A lot of the think tanks that justify not going after big tech, they're also funded through tax-deductible contributions to write these long, meandering, factless and baseless and anti-American white papers to give these senators cover fire so that we don't ever dare ask a question of the multi-trillion dollar empires that control the entire conversation in our country.

00:28:38.000 So it is a deliberate attempt from Google in particular, as you can see here, to try to purchase our politicians to try and steer the conversation.

00:28:50.000 I think it's admirable the amount of innovation that these tech companies have done.

00:28:55.000 I think it's very, you know, worthy.

00:28:58.000 It's very praiseworthy that they've been able to build these companies and computer processing power is up 1 trillion percent since the 1980s and they've done a great job of that.

00:29:07.000 However, when you are a trillion dollar company, that's right, a trillion dollar company, and your basic business model is to sell the data of the people that come to your website or your services, and then you censor opinions you don't like under the guise of trying to have a decent and fair conversation.

00:29:28.000 Don't be surprised when half the country gets pretty upset at you.

00:29:34.000 If you disallow people to speak, all of a sudden you won't have a country.

00:29:40.000 And for Republicans out there, consider this your grace period.

00:29:44.000 Every Republican, return the money now, or you will not have a political future and you will not be able to morally defend your position.

00:29:57.000 You guys have all seen Social Dilemma, Netflix.

00:30:00.000 Well, maybe not Netflix because they're a pedophile network.

00:30:02.000 But if you've seen Social Dilemma, which, again, I'm not exactly sure how you square that, they talk about how tech insiders explain how social media is engineered to exploit users' data for profit.

00:30:14.000 They call it surveillance capitalism.

00:30:16.000 Look, I'm cool with normal capitalism where I'm willing to participate in the transaction, like every time I go to the store, buy food.

00:30:22.000 But when my data is being harvested so tech billionaires can get even richer, that's where I draw the line.

00:30:27.000 And that's why I put a layer of protection around my data with ExpressVPN.

00:30:31.000 Every time you use the internet, big tech companies and the surveillance capitalists and the oligarchs, they track your searches, messages, and video history.

00:30:39.000 But when you run through ExpressVPN, it hides your IP address, which websites can use to personally identify you.

00:30:45.000 That makes your activity more difficult to trace and sell to advertisers.

00:30:48.000 ExpressVPN also encrypts 100% of your internet data to keep you safe from hackers and from prying eyes.

00:30:54.000 Many VPNs slow down your internet, but not ExpressVPN.

00:30:56.000 It's incredibly fast and easy to use.

00:30:58.000 Just one tap of a button and you're protected.

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00:31:08.000 I have an ExpressVPN on right now.

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00:31:16.000 I pray there's a realignment happening where Republicans realize not every corporation out there is actually on your team or on your side just because they give you money.

00:31:27.000 If you look at the massive capital flows from the tech companies that are flowing to Republicans, you just look at Alphabet, which is the Google holding company or the publicly traded company.

00:31:45.000 Their market cap today is about $1 trillion today.

00:31:50.000 That's their market cap with $161 billion in revenue from last year.

00:31:58.000 That's just their revenue.

00:32:00.000 And they spent total lobbying expenses, $12.7 million in 2019.

00:32:05.000 It is a coffee bill for them.

00:32:08.000 They are able to protect their multi-trillion dollar incumbency by giving $2,500 here and $2,800 there to people that want to just continue to get reelected.

00:32:20.000 And this is something that Republicans must realize: the left, they have seen an opportunity in big tech that they have never seen before.

00:32:30.000 You see, the left used to be very interested in using the government to try and penalize, socialize, or take over these tech companies.

00:32:41.000 There's a new kind of wing of the Democrat Party that is a technocratic wing of the Democrat Party.

00:32:49.000 They know they're probably never going to be able to nationalize or socialize the tech companies.

00:32:54.000 Instead, they want the tech companies to be staffed with people that used to work for them, like Andy Stone from Facebook, to be staffed with Caltech and Stanford and Berkeley graduates that are all Marxists.

00:33:09.000 And they can wink and nod and do backroom deals with these private companies that have total immunity to go after political opponents that they don't like so the Democrats can control more power.

00:33:21.000 People say that the tech companies are like wings of the Democrat Party.

00:33:24.000 That's true, but it's even more insidious than that.

00:33:28.000 It's way actually more malevolent.

00:33:31.000 These are wings of the government.

00:33:35.000 These are unchecked, unelected, unknown wings of a tyrannical government that march at the directives of the most radical elements of the Democrat Party.

00:33:50.000 And so if you're going to hide behind your free market dogma and just say, we don't touch these companies ever, like David French tweeted that out or something.

00:33:59.000 Oh, yeah, these tech companies are wonderful.

00:34:01.000 Okay, great.

00:34:02.000 They'll eat you last then, okay?

00:34:04.000 Terrific.

00:34:07.000 Then you're completely inconsequential to this whole conversation.

00:34:11.000 And I think that you're taking an anti-patriotic view in this sense.

00:34:14.000 I really believe that.

00:34:16.000 But if you are concerned about the erosion of speech and the deletion of opposition ideas, this is the fight right now.

00:34:25.000 The First Amendment was always designed to protect minority opinion.

00:34:30.000 And we have sound here of Josh Hawley, Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, one after the other, in complete harmony, recognizing and realizing the threat that big tech poses to a decent and civil society.

00:34:46.000 But we've always known that the left does not want freedom of speech.

00:34:49.000 They do not want different ideas.

00:34:51.000 They consider any sort of capacity of conversation and dialogue to be an annoyance or an obstacle to their power grab.

00:35:00.000 The Democrats have always considered A debate, a discussion, as kind of a roadblock because they know that when you have discussion, then you get nuance and it's harder to assume total political power because it's harder to hate the other side.

00:35:19.000 That's the utilitarian argument for dialogue.

00:35:23.000 And so the left has gotten very smart here.

00:35:27.000 Instead of using the Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders line that they want to break up and nationalize these companies, the Adam Schiff types and the Pelosi types, they say, no, no, no, we can control these companies and they will do what we want them to do.

00:35:41.000 These tech companies will be the Gestapo of the Democrat Party.

00:35:47.000 These tech companies will march around and digitally assassinate people that they want gone.

00:35:56.000 They'll be the disappearing squad.

00:35:59.000 When a story comes out against Joe Biden that they don't like, the tech companies will immediately say, can't share it on our platform.

00:36:08.000 When someone gets a little bit too spicy, when someone gets a little bit too honest, like Jack Pasebik, we're going to ban his account.

00:36:19.000 When all of a sudden there is information that very well might be true being spread against the Democrat power structure, we're going to assassinate it.

00:36:28.000 That's the realignment that's happened here: the Democrats are completely in an unholy marriage with corporate America.

00:36:37.000 Let's go to Senator Lindsey Graham, who I don't know what to expect out of Lindsey sometimes.

00:36:42.000 I really hope he wins because he's running up against a far leftist Marxist in South Carolina.

00:36:47.000 He should be okay.

00:36:47.000 Jamie Harrison.

00:36:48.000 Cut 11.

00:36:50.000 Senator Lindsey Graham calls out the hypocrisy and play tape of 11. 0.96

00:36:56.000 That a lot of information to steal dossier was all over the place.

00:37:01.000 They never blocked that.

00:37:03.000 All the allegations about Russian collusion and Trump and every other idea that Trump may have done something bad.

00:37:10.000 Nobody blocked that.

00:37:11.000 So what we're going to do is we're going to finally have an accounting that's long overdue.

00:37:16.000 So here's the best way I can explain it to those of you that don't really use social media, maybe you're 40 plus years old or 50 or 60. 0.65

00:37:23.000 I want you to have the same sort of fear, the same sort of apprehension and skepticism towards these tech companies that you have towards the IRS and the Chinese Communist Party. 0.77

00:37:35.000 That's the type of power these people have. 0.98

00:37:37.000 The power to audit you, the power to target you, the power to silence you.

00:37:42.000 Senator Josh Hawley, who again has been absolutely terrific, I'm going to do whatever I can to help him.

00:37:47.000 He has been the greatest surprise in the U.S. Senate in the last couple of years.

00:37:51.000 Play Cut 12.

00:37:52.000 Tree, we also believe in free elections and the attempt to rig an election, which is what we are seeing here by monopolies, is unprecedented in American history.

00:38:01.000 They have a lot to answer for.

00:38:03.000 And I hope that we'll subpoena both Twitter and Facebook.

00:38:06.000 They should both come.

00:38:07.000 They're both engaged in censorship.

00:38:09.000 They're both massive monopolies.

00:38:10.000 They should answer to the Judiciary Committee.

00:38:12.000 They should answer to the full Senate.

00:38:14.000 They should answer the American people.

00:38:16.000 Let me be very clear.

00:38:17.000 If these tech companies were silencing the Trump tax return story, could you imagine what Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, do you think how they'd be treating these tunk companies?

00:38:28.000 These tech companies are interfering more in the election than Russia or China ever did or ever will.

00:38:34.000 And Kaylee McEnany, the press secretary for the president of the United States, had her account suspended.

00:38:42.000 And people say you can't engage in the slippery slope.

00:38:45.000 Well, Twitter went from censoring Alex Jones to the White House press secretary in just over a year.

00:38:53.000 Senator Ted Cruz, who's been terrific on this issue, has been unafraid.

00:38:56.000 And by the way, Josh Hawley, Lindsey Graham, Tom Cotton, and Ted Cruz, they do not take money from Google.

00:39:03.000 Maybe that's why they're able to speak so freely while their colleagues are worried about offending their corporate donors.

00:39:09.000 Play cut 16 of Senator Ted Cruz, who explains what Twitter and Facebook has been doing.

00:39:16.000 Play tape.

00:39:17.000 That story, once the New York Post broke it, was blocked by Twitter and Facebook.

00:39:24.000 Anyone who attempted to share it was prevented from sharing it on Twitter or Facebook.

00:39:29.000 The New York Post itself, when it attempted to put out its story, was blocked on Twitter and Facebook.

00:39:36.000 The New York Post has the fourth largest circulation of any newspaper in this country.

00:39:41.000 Fourth largest circulation.

00:39:43.000 They're by no means a conservative outlet.

00:39:45.000 They have plenty of covers where they went hard against Trump, being very critical against Trump.

00:39:50.000 They've had opinion pieces.

00:39:52.000 They are, some people say they're tabloidy in nature, but they're never unfactual in nature on the front page reporting that they do.

00:39:58.000 And they have some very thoughtful writers that write for the New York Post, SORAB being one of them.

00:40:04.000 However, these big tech companies now believe that it is their duty, right?

00:40:09.000 And they are now making the power grab that they have always deeply dreamed of.

00:40:14.000 So what does this actually mean for the election?

00:40:17.000 And this is, in some ways, I think that the Trump campaign needs to be very careful here.

00:40:23.000 Because if the Trump campaign focuses too much on Joe Biden, we're going to lose in a couple of weeks.

00:40:28.000 We talked about at length about how the more that we attack Joe Biden, the more his favorables go up.

00:40:33.000 Despite the deluge, which means flood, of corrupt stories that have been coming through against Joe Biden, Joe Biden is more popular and is viewed more favorably amongst independents and moderates than ever before.

00:40:50.000 Despite all of the persistent attacks from people like Pam Bondi and Rudy Giuliani, Joe Biden is still very well liked.

00:40:59.000 Instead, the argument should be this.

00:41:01.000 Here's how you tie it all together.

00:41:04.000 Because of all this Biden corruption, he might be forced to resign and Kamala Harris will become president.

00:41:12.000 Because of all the Biden corruption, they will blackmail Joe Biden into doing whatever socialist wish list that they want.

00:41:21.000 People are not afraid of a Biden presidency.

00:41:23.000 They're not.

00:41:25.000 Corruption in government bothers people slightly.

00:41:27.000 However, a lot of moderates and swing voters have been wrongly convinced that Donald Trump is engaged in even worse corruption because he allows foreign diplomats to stay at his hotels.

00:41:38.000 These are real things that we hear on the ground.

00:41:39.000 We knock on 200,000 doors from turning point action across the country.

00:41:43.000 And swing voters say, well, isn't Donald Trump super corrupt because he stays at his hotels?

00:41:48.000 I mean, just the most out of just out of line thinking that you could imagine that is being held by many swing voters.

00:41:57.000 And I think the overfixation on Joe Biden and the story and not connecting it to what a Harris administration would do, I think would actually not help us politically.

00:42:07.000 And of course, the Biden campaign press secretary, he is just leaning on, they just have inter-institutional coordination here.

00:42:17.000 It is so incredibly Orwellian.

00:42:21.000 It's easy to explain, but it's actually a lot deeper.

00:42:23.000 Let's play cut 13.

00:42:24.000 I'm going to tell you exactly what's going on here.

00:42:26.000 Play cut 13.

00:42:27.000 Well, look, I think Twitter's response to the actual article itself makes clear that these purported allegations are false and they're not true.

00:42:40.000 And glad to see social media companies like Twitter taking responsibility to limit misinformation.

00:42:46.000 Do you see what's happening here?

00:42:47.000 He didn't actually talk about the allegations.

00:42:49.000 He's leaning, right?

00:42:51.000 The press secretary is now leaning on the censorship of a $50 billion company, Twitter.

00:42:58.000 And he's saying, oh, it must be false because Twitter's censoring it.

00:43:02.000 Well, why is Twitter censoring it?

00:43:04.000 He never explains that, never pressed on that, never asked that question.

00:43:08.000 So, this is what ends up happening: is that these campaigns and these politicians and these Democrat leaders, they do not have to explain their corruption away because then they just lean on their communications arm, the tech companies, to explain it away for them.

00:43:26.000 So, instead of actually diving deep and talking about, well, no, Joe Biden did meet with the third head of Barissa, Barisma, with Hunter Biden, they just use censorship as invalidation.

00:43:39.000 Do you see how dangerous this is?

00:43:41.000 Do you see how they no longer need to provide a defense for anything that their candidate has done, just as long as one of the largest, most valuable, and powerful companies on the planet decides to censor it?

00:43:52.000 In fact, the Biden press secretary praises the censorship.

00:43:57.000 And so, this is a very important point: is that, and I wish the Trump campaign would do this, but they're not.

00:44:05.000 It's still not too late.

00:44:06.000 And I gave a whole speech about this last week in Utah, which is the emerging threat of the corporatist-government relationship is pseudo-fascist.

00:44:21.000 And it's Donald Trump that's actually challenging corporate interests much more than Joe Biden.

00:44:26.000 And if there's any socialists out there and there's any people in the far left that actually are worried about corporate power, Donald Trump is absolutely your candidate.

00:44:35.000 If centralized power bothers you, which it should, then Donald Trump is your candidate.

00:44:40.000 He wants decentralized corporate power, decentralized federal government power.

00:44:44.000 He wants decentralized power altogether.

00:44:46.000 That's what being a conservative is all about.

00:44:49.000 And what I find to be most stunning is how the Democrats have now just betrayed their decades-old promise to their constituents to fight corporate power to now infiltrate and become allies with that very same centralized corporate power.

00:45:05.000 Let's put on our hat and act as if we were working for big tech.

00:45:10.000 Let's do a little bit of a thought exercise.

00:45:12.000 Why are they doing this?

00:45:14.000 Why are they censoring and suppressing the Trump campaign account?

00:45:20.000 Breitbart.com by the great Alam Bakari.

00:45:24.000 Love that guy.

00:45:25.000 We actually had him on our podcast, think very highly of him.

00:45:29.000 Twitter locks Trump campaign account less than three weeks before presidential election.

00:45:33.000 Has a nice smiling selfie of Jack Dorsey.

00:45:37.000 Why are they doing this?

00:45:38.000 And the obvious answer is not the right answer here.

00:45:41.000 It's like, oh, because they hate Trump. 0.99

00:45:43.000 Well, that's strategically really dumb. 0.98

00:45:46.000 These are publicly traded companies. 0.97

00:45:47.000 They have a fiduciary responsibility.

00:45:49.000 They have shareholders.

00:45:50.000 Why are they doing this?

00:45:51.000 It is not ideological.

00:45:53.000 It's not.

00:45:55.000 If it was ideological, I refuse to, I think it's somewhat ideological.

00:46:00.000 I think it's more than that.

00:46:02.000 I think that Twitter and Facebook to a lesser extent and definitely Google, I think that they're surveying the landscape.

00:46:09.000 I think that they're seeing internal chatter and they're seeing maybe things that we see or don't see.

00:46:14.000 And they think that if they're able to push a little bit, it will make sure that Donald Trump loses and they can get the soft credit from it from the new administration and they will not be regulated and they won't be shut down.

00:46:28.000 So to put on your tech company hat, these tech companies are guessing, they are conjecturing that win or lose, the Republicans are going to make a stance critical of them.

00:46:44.000 So these tech companies have basically stripped themselves of any sort of appearance, of any sort of mirage of trying to be fair and equal.

00:46:57.000 So you see here, Alam Bakari writes that Twitter has suspended the Trump account for calling Joe Biden a liar, as it refers to the New York Post article.

00:47:08.000 Suspends the Trump account, the official campaign account.

00:47:14.000 House Judiciary Committee as well, suspending a part of our government.

00:47:19.000 So what happens when a private company starts censoring our government?

00:47:22.000 Has that ever happened before?

00:47:25.000 Has a private company ever censored?

00:47:27.000 I guess it has.

00:47:28.000 I would imagine a newspaper has probably done that before.

00:47:31.000 This is such unprecedented stuff.

00:47:33.000 A lot of the regulations and a lot of the ideas behind how we treat this is not necessarily applicable in a world where you can share content and information can be spread so quickly.

00:47:45.000 So why are the tech companies doing this?

00:47:48.000 They're doing this because they really believe that their interference 18 days out from an election is necessary.

00:47:59.000 And this is where everyone is missing the story.

00:48:03.000 The tech companies wouldn't be doing this if Joe Biden was assuredly going to win.

00:48:10.000 The tech companies wouldn't be doing this if the internal polling, the enthusiasm index, voter registration, and the ground game was reflecting a Joe Biden wave.

00:48:19.000 They wouldn't be doing this.

00:48:21.000 The tech companies are doing this because there has been a distress signal sent out from the Joe Biden campaign and they need help.

00:48:29.000 That's why the tech companies are doing this.

00:48:33.000 You see, you have to look at this from a business mindset.

00:48:37.000 And this is where I think a lot of the conservative commentary has gone wrong on this, is that they look at it purely ideological.

00:48:44.000 These are still publicly traded companies.

00:48:45.000 They still have to answer to shareholders.

00:48:48.000 The tech companies are doing this because they believe that the conservatives, if they get in power, they're going to get punished anyway.

00:48:56.000 And these tech companies recognize and realize that they don't want to get punished and they want to be protected.

00:49:03.000 Therefore, they are trying to bail Joe Biden out.

00:49:08.000 And Joe Biden needs the help.

00:49:09.000 They do.

00:49:10.000 He does.

00:49:12.000 These tech companies would not be doing this if Joe Biden was gliding to victory.

00:49:16.000 And it's been well documented back in 2016 that these tech companies, being taken by surprise, being able to share stories about Hillary Clinton's corruption, significantly move the dial in Donald Trump's direction.

00:49:30.000 And again, in an unintended way, all of a sudden more people are talking about this in a Streison Effect kind of framework than we could have ever possibly imagined.

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00:50:55.000 We are in the final push towards the presidential election.

00:51:01.000 I believe that Democrats are far more nervous about what's happening in this country than they lead on.

00:51:07.000 And don't take my word for it.

00:51:09.000 Axios.com, Mike Allen.

00:51:12.000 Why Democrats remain nervous about Biden's chances?

00:51:15.000 Thank you.

00:51:17.000 In private, some top Democrats remain nervous about the presidential race, despite Joe Biden's lead in swing state after swing state, and strengths in state that he looked out of reach, including Georgia, Ohio, and Iowa.

00:51:29.000 Tom Edsall, who works for the political science beat for the New York Times, is up with a very smart piece that says Biden is not out of the woods.

00:51:38.000 Maybe he might find Hillary Clinton while he's there.

00:51:42.000 Here's two pieces of information that you might not have heard.

00:51:44.000 Number one, the most interesting piece of data was a massive surge in registration for working-class whites.

00:51:54.000 Registration, meaning these people have never voted before.

00:51:58.000 These are new voters to the roles.

00:52:00.000 These are not convert growth.

00:52:02.000 This is not conversion growth.

00:52:04.000 This is completely new into the body of voters, making the landscape in 2020 different than 2016.

00:52:11.000 Edsall quotes a Democrat strategist privately circulating a newsletter as reporting that white non-college over the age of 30 registration in battleground states had increased by 10 points compared to 2016.

00:52:27.000 And the Democrat margin dropped 10 points to just six points.

00:52:33.000 Another key point, this is a really interesting article, by the way, that Biden is not out of the woods from the New York Times.

00:52:37.000 It's very thoughtful.

00:52:39.000 I'm sure that someone's going to get fired for publishing it, so it's terrific. 0.53

00:52:44.000 That the Pew Research Center polling shows what Edsall calls a modest drop in the Democrat margin of support among Hispanic Catholics and modestly weakened support among black women. 0.98

00:52:59.000 And of course, operatives worry about hazards in properly returning mail in ballots.

00:53:05.000 The bottom line, as Mike Allen says in Axios.com, the Biden campaign manager, Jen O'Malley Dillon, said, There is still a long way to go in this campaign, and we think this race is far closer than folks on this website think, a lot closer. 0.86

00:53:20.000 And so I actually went and saw Jen O'Malley.

00:53:23.000 She is the campaign manager for Joe Biden.

00:53:25.000 And she's doing something that guy named Robbie Mook.

00:53:28.000 He was running Hillary's campaign.

00:53:30.000 She's doing something that they didn't do.

00:53:32.000 They are communicating, they are leaning in that this race is very close.

00:53:38.000 Smart.

00:53:40.000 I got to give Jen O'Malley Dylan credit. 1.00

00:53:43.000 That will motivate the Democrat base. 0.51

00:53:45.000 They will get a one-to-two-point surge that they otherwise would not have got because they are scaring their Democrat base that Donald Trump might win again.

00:53:55.000 So that's a smart strategy, but I also think it's true.

00:54:00.000 It's a very interesting piece by Nick Stamatakis.

00:54:06.000 It's a nice Greek name.

00:54:08.000 And it is actually on a website called The Hellenescope.

00:54:11.000 So, of course, it's a Greek website. 0.55

00:54:14.000 A flood of good news for Trump's reelection. 0.93

00:54:18.000 Did you know that 19 million guns were sold so far in 2020?

00:54:26.000 Who do you think those people are going to vote for?

00:54:28.000 The firearm issue is a primary issue for President Trump's reelection.

00:54:35.000 The Democrats can dismiss any dominance that they once had over the Hispanic vote.

00:54:41.000 Puerto Rico's governor, Wanda Vasquez, endorsed Donald Trump, which is a big deal in Florida.

00:54:49.000 I was just in Florida in Miami.

00:54:51.000 I could tell you, I think President Donald Trump is going to win Florida.

00:54:54.000 And I think the Biden campaign knows that too.

00:54:57.000 The Biden campaign has two states that they think they can win to prevent Donald Trump from getting a wave, and that is Arizona and Pennsylvania.

00:55:06.000 Maybe a Wisconsin on top of that. 0.58

00:55:09.000 However, Pennsylvania can go from trending to Biden to out of control like that if the black vote does what it might do. 0.88

00:55:18.000 In 2016, Trump received 9% of the black vote, but some polling shows that it could be as much as 20%. 0.99

00:55:30.000 You look at other information that is coming through.

00:55:33.000 There's no way to be able to articulate the enthusiasm gap.

00:55:37.000 Every Trump supporter is going to show up, every single one, and they're going to bring other people to the polls.

00:55:44.000 And we have to also just understand the unreliability of many of these polls.

00:55:50.000 An incredible statistic just came out from some of the internal polls of the Trump campaign, that 30% of participants in Trump rallies have never voted before.

00:55:59.000 Can you believe this?

00:56:01.000 They have not voted in 2018.

00:56:04.000 They had not voted in 2016.

00:56:06.000 And people are showing up to rallies and they are new on the landscape.

00:56:11.000 And you look at new voter registration numbers, and the skeptic and the cynic will say, oh, these are just former Democrats that have re-registered to Republicans.

00:56:17.000 That's why Republicans are outpacing Democrats in Pennsylvania and Florida.

00:56:21.000 I don't think that's correct.

00:56:24.000 There might be millions of new people that vote here in 2020 that don't vote, that didn't vote in 2016.

00:56:30.000 And so I have a screenshot on my phone that I was looking over four years ago.

00:56:35.000 Do you know how many Twitter followers Donald Trump had four years ago?

00:56:39.000 28 million.

00:56:43.000 You know how many Twitter followers Donald Trump has now?

00:56:46.000 I think it's like 64 million, 65 million.

00:56:48.000 Now, you might say, oh, Twitter followers doesn't mean anything.

00:56:50.000 He's obviously been tweeting, became president.

00:56:52.000 I think those are all fair things.

00:56:53.000 There will be millions of people that voted for Trump this election that did not vote in 2016.

00:56:59.000 And I think there will be hundreds of thousands of people that will vote for Biden that voted for Trump in 2016.

00:57:05.000 But I think far more people are going to be added to the rolls than subtracted, no doubt.

00:57:12.000 You're starting to see an ever-emerging drumbeat of nervousness and anxiety from Democrats.

00:57:19.000 I think that they've hit their ceiling.

00:57:23.000 I think Donald Trump has not.

00:57:25.000 So if you kind of look at this from a political strategy standpoint, Joe Biden, the reason why he's hiding, the reason why Joe Biden now is trying to retreat is Joe Biden has maxed out the amount of voters that can vote for him.

00:57:37.000 Persuadables, independents, I'm sure that there's a couple people, but basically statistically, he can go nowhere but down.

00:57:43.000 Donald Trump, not the case.

00:57:46.000 That's why I think that I wish Donald Trump would have agreed to the virtual debate.

00:57:50.000 Donald Trump has a lot of voters he can still win over, has a lot of voters he can still turn out, has a lot of people in the middle and the center right that he has to give a reason for them to vote for him.

00:58:03.000 Talk to the 19 million people that have bought firearms this country.

00:58:06.000 Talk to the Hispanics that have Puerto Rico descent that would look kindly about Wanda Vasquez endorsing him.

00:58:14.000 Speak to the fact that he has put Amy Coney Barrett almost on the U.S. Supreme Court.

00:58:23.000 And I went to NARAL's website.

00:58:25.000 I'm here right now.

00:58:27.000 And they are softly opposing Amy Coney Barrett.

00:58:35.000 There have been, and I guarantee this, Democrat marching orders and internal Democrat memos to say lean off Amy Coney Barrett.

00:58:43.000 It's not working. 0.67

00:58:44.000 In fact, Democrat support for Amy Coney Barrett has doubled in the last week.

00:58:49.000 Trump campaign, run ads of Donald Trump and Amy Coney Barrett together in Pennsylvania.

00:58:55.000 That's a winning issue. 0.93

00:58:57.000 The Democrats are asking very vanilla questions of her. 1.00

00:59:00.000 I mean, they're asking some foolish questions. 0.96

00:59:01.000 Maisie Hirono, who I don't know how she became a senator. 0.98

00:59:05.000 Corey Booker is insufferable, but we know those people.

00:59:08.000 But the tone is way softer, way more careful, because the Democrats know that if they misplay this confirmation hearing with Amy Coney Barrett, it will ensure a red wave.

00:59:20.000 And with it, the court will be permanently, not permanently, will be a five-three constitutional majority with John Roberts doing whatever John Roberts does.

00:59:33.000 And so, as we look into this deeper, this is why big tech is doing what they're doing.

00:59:42.000 I believe that the Biden campaign sent out a distress signal.

00:59:46.000 And then the Biden campaign is very worried that in the final 18 days of this race, Republicans are going to do what Republicans do best: close strong.

00:59:54.000 When Republicans win, they win gradually than suddenly, to use an Ernest Hemingway quote.

01:00:00.000 When Republicans win, it looks bad a couple weeks out, and all of a sudden it changes.

01:00:04.000 Why?

01:00:05.000 Because Republicans are late breakers.

01:00:07.000 We always are.

01:00:08.000 We communicate to people's pocketbook.

01:00:10.000 We communicate to people's livelihood.

01:00:12.000 We communicate to people's values.

01:00:13.000 It's just a matter of just getting more decent people out to the polls.

01:00:17.000 The bitter, venomous, malevolent crowd, they're going to show up no matter what.

01:00:21.000 And our base will show up for gratitude and for our country and for an appreciation and respect to preserve this incredible gift we've been given.

01:00:31.000 But if President Trump, in my opinion, frames the race against the Harris administration, kind of sidesteps Biden, crushes the debate, this race is still very much to be determined.

01:00:44.000 And Jen O'Malley Dillon, the campaign manager for Joe Biden, is very smart.

01:00:49.000 I give her credit. 0.59

01:00:50.000 She knows what she's doing.

01:00:54.000 President Donald Trump has millions of people out there that he can convince to vote for him.

01:01:00.000 Joe Biden has plateaued his support.

01:01:03.000 Joe Biden has got his coalition.

01:01:06.000 His coalition will not expand dramatically from this point forward.

01:01:09.000 Everyone knows what Joe Biden stands for, Kamala Harris.

01:01:13.000 You can still take a couple people away from them, though.

01:01:20.000 And so if you look at when Republicans win, they break late.

01:01:25.000 Look at Donald Trump in 2016.

01:01:28.000 He was down in every major poll.

01:01:30.000 In the last 10 days, things just broke in his direction.

01:01:33.000 Same with Ronald Reagan in 1980 against Jimmy Carter.

01:01:36.000 Down in every poll, he surges to victory.

01:01:38.000 Same with George W. Bush in 2000 against Al Gore.

01:01:42.000 He's down in every poll and he breaks late, barely wins.

01:01:46.000 Al Gore loses his home state of Tennessee, and George W. Bush wins New Mexico by like 600 votes.

01:01:52.000 Same could be said for H.W. Bush in 1988.

01:01:55.000 Michael Dukakis was up double digits in every major poll in August, September, early October.

01:02:00.000 Willie Horton ad, H.W. Bush breaks in that direction.

01:02:04.000 Donald Trump has an opportunity.

01:02:09.000 If he gets the messaging correct and very disciplined, this thing could get out of control for the Biden campaign very quickly because the fundamentals are there: the registration, the ground game, and the enthusiasm.

01:02:21.000 These polls tighten, this thing might get out of control for Joe Biden.

01:02:26.000 A lot happening in the country.

01:02:27.000 I want to get to a cut here.

01:02:29.000 Cut number two, where Joe Biden was asked a question about his son, Hunter Biden, at the Democrat presidential debate.

01:02:37.000 My son did nothing wrong.

01:02:39.000 I did nothing wrong.

01:02:40.000 Let's get to cut two.

01:02:41.000 Play tape.

01:02:42.000 Look, my son did nothing wrong.

01:02:46.000 I did nothing wrong.

01:02:47.000 I carried out the policy of the United States government in rooting out corruption in Ukraine.

01:02:55.000 Joe Biden previously said at a campaign rally, number one, cut number one, in Iowa after a man confronts him about selling access to the presidency, play tape.

01:03:05.000 You're selling access to the president just like he is. 1.00

01:03:09.000 So you've been a damn liar, man. 1.00

01:03:11.000 That's not true. 1.00

01:03:12.000 And no one has ever said that.

01:03:15.000 So the question should be this, though: is Mr. Biden, if George Stephanopoulos was actually doing his job, what exactly was the contractual relationship between Hunter Biden and yourself?

01:03:32.000 And why did you meet with George Soros right before you met with the person from Burisma?

01:03:39.000 And that's the story that everyone is missing.

01:03:41.000 CharlieKirk.com article that has just been posted.

01:03:44.000 Why did Biden meet with Soros the day before the Burisma email to Hunter?

01:03:51.000 Biden denial of Ukrainian meeting leads to more questions.

01:03:56.000 So what does George Soros have to do with this?

01:03:59.000 And we should be unafraid to ask that question.

01:04:02.000 There is something here that is very suspicious with Ukraine, the European ATM, the Eastern European ATM, which is the Ukrainian conflict where they fearmonger against Russia, and then all of the family members of the elected leaders make unlimited sums of money from being connected to Ukrainian proxy companies while they meet with the sitting vice president of the United States, Joe Biden.

01:04:29.000 And none of this will change if Joe Biden gets elected president.

01:04:32.000 Under Harris administration, Joe Biden would not be calling the shots, but they would allow the Biden campaign, the Biden crime family to continue on.

01:04:45.000 And so will this actually move the dial in the election?

01:04:48.000 Probably not.

01:04:49.000 This is a bombshell that should be a considerable blow to the Biden campaign.

01:04:55.000 This is a bombshell that should move things in the president's direction.

01:04:59.000 And a new Florida poll just released today from the Trafalgar group has Donald Trump up two points in Florida.

01:05:05.000 As I have said for the last couple of weeks, President Trump will win Florida, and I will proudly vote for President Trump in Florida next week.

01:05:12.000 And another new poll out from Insider Advantage.

01:05:18.000 Insider Advantage, which is a very fair polling firm, has Biden only up three points with the margin of error being four in Pennsylvania.

01:05:30.000 And the Trafalgar group has Biden up only two points in Pennsylvania.

01:05:35.000 This race is tightening.

01:05:38.000 This race is narrowing.

01:05:40.000 A ground game and a focus on a Harris administration can bring this thing over the top for President Trump.

01:05:46.000 And yes, this corruption talk is not good for Biden.

01:05:49.000 And the American people have a tolerance for a lot.

01:05:53.000 But the one thing that I think that President Trump has to lean in on more with this recent revelations is how these tech companies are in bed with the Democrat Party.

01:06:04.000 Because when I even talk to moderate and swing voters, when I talk to people on the left, they've seen the social dilemma.

01:06:10.000 They've seen a lot of these different pieces of information.

01:06:12.000 They don't think highly of these companies.

01:06:13.000 And all of a sudden, if they think Joe Biden is in bed with the same companies that are making their teenage daughters think less of themselves, that their kids are on their smartphones all day long, all of a sudden, the argument for Trump must be that the Harris administration and the tech companies are one together.

01:06:30.000 The ones that are selling your data, the ones that are propagandizing your children, all of a sudden, Biden is going to have to defend the incumbency of the multi-trillion dollar corporate empire.

01:06:42.000 And that is a winning political issue.

01:06:44.000 And I'm telling you right now, there's a surge happening.

01:06:47.000 I'm looking at this polling in Pennsylvania and Florida.

01:06:49.000 This race is tightening.

01:06:51.000 It is Donald Trump's race to win.

01:06:53.000 He's got to lock in and focus.

01:06:55.000 Win Arizona.

01:06:56.000 Win Florida.

01:06:57.000 Win Pennsylvania.

01:06:59.000 The fundamentals of this campaign remain very much in the president's favor.

01:07:05.000 In the last 18 days of the election, what are you going to do about it?

01:07:09.000 The republic rests on your action.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - October 16, 2020

Big Tech’s GIANT Mistake

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