The Charlie Kirk Show - March 12, 2024


Building A New, Winning RNC


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Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, Congresswoman Nancy M.M. joins the show to discuss her interview with George Stephanopoulos and her thoughts on the recent trial of former Democratic presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy. She also discusses the latest news out of the Republican National Convention.

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00:00:00.000 Today in the Charlie Kirk show, Nancy Mace joins the program and some excellent news out of the RNC.
00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.
00:00:06.000 You're going to want to celebrate listening to this episode, great news out of the RNC.
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00:00:28.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:29.000 Here we go.
00:00:30.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:31.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:00:34.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
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00:01:29.000 We've been receiving a fair amount of feedback on the RFK episode we did yesterday.
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00:01:39.000 And let's get right into it.
00:01:40.000 Joining us now is Congresswoman Nancy Mace.
00:01:43.000 Congresswoman, thank you so much for taking the time.
00:01:45.000 Tell us about your exchange with George Stephanopoulos.
00:01:48.000 Thank you, Charlie.
00:01:49.000 First, I want to say longtime listener, first time caller on the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:01:55.000 It was wild and it was outrageous.
00:01:57.000 So I get asked to go on ABC News this week with George Stephanopoulos. 0.70
00:02:01.000 And we all know what a troll that guy is, but I'm willing to go into that lion's den.
00:02:07.000 I'm willing to go into the hornet's nest and make my argument because the other side needs to hear that.
00:02:11.000 We have a lot of independent voters that we want to bring in to vote for Donald Trump in November of this year.
00:02:16.000 So I'm willing to walk into the hornet's nest and lion's in and have that debate.
00:02:21.000 But when I got there, the first thing he does is confront me about my own rape that happened at the age of 16 30 years ago.
00:02:30.000 I mean, I was shocked.
00:02:32.000 I was dismayed.
00:02:33.000 And you can actually see me.
00:02:35.000 I went at the beginning of the interview because he's showing footage from a speech I gave five years ago.
00:02:40.000 That speech is really difficult for me to watch because it takes a lot of courage to talk about being sexually assaulted, to be taught, to talk about being a survivor of rape.
00:02:50.000 That's not easy to do, especially in a very public forum where you know you're going to get attacked afterwards.
00:02:55.000 And so it's painful for me.
00:02:57.000 But the fact that he went there and not just once, not just twice, three times, it was for like eight out of 10 minutes.
00:03:03.000 He just kept coming back to it.
00:03:06.000 And it was outrageous, completely inappropriate and outrageous.
00:03:10.000 Let's play a piece of tape here.
00:03:12.000 Let's go to cut 39, please.
00:03:15.000 Benny, you've endorsed Donald Trump for president.
00:03:17.000 Judges and two separate juries have found him liable for rape and for defaming the victim of that rape.
00:03:23.000 How do you square your endorsement of Donald Trump with the testimony we just saw? 0.95
00:03:27.000 Well, I will tell you, I was raped at the age of 16. 0.96
00:03:31.000 And at any rate, Vickman will tell you, I've lived for 30 years with an incredible amount of shame over being raped.
00:03:38.000 I didn't come forward because of that judgment and shame that I felt.
00:03:42.000 And it's a shame that you will never feel, George.
00:03:46.000 And I'm not going to sit here on your show and be asked a question meant to shame me about another potential rape victim.
00:03:53.000 I'm not going to do that.
00:03:54.000 Did they give you a heads up, Congresswoman, that this was going to be the entire interview, that you were going to be speaking about your personal history?
00:04:02.000 Not at all.
00:04:02.000 I mean, it wasn't even a topic of discussion going into it.
00:04:05.000 And I went to New York for this interview.
00:04:08.000 I have tough interviews.
00:04:09.000 I like to do in person on set.
00:04:10.000 I'd rather have that debate in person.
00:04:12.000 And there was not a single mention that they were going to make this the crux of the interview.
00:04:18.000 And, you know, we're talking to a guy that was part of the Clinton crew.
00:04:22.000 Right in the 90s covering up so many allegations of of sexual impropriety, sexual assault, sexual crime, sexual trauma against women that made allegations against Bill Clinton.
00:04:32.000 So the the irony here is that he did this and we coined it rape shaming, right, he rape shamed me this sunday, on this week, and then to see the left come out in defense of all of this uh was really astonishing.
00:04:44.000 But thank goodness for the right and for conservatives that saw it for what it was and independent women in suburban areas that thought it was really disgusting what he did.
00:04:53.000 But this, the third thing, the next thing, is that what he said about Donald Trump was is false.
00:04:58.000 Donald Trump has not been convicted of rape, not in a criminal court, not in a, not in a civil case um, and so that's not what that judgment was about either, and I think that he opened himself and ABC NEWS and ABC this week up to uh huge liabilities and if I were Donald Trump, i'd be suing him.
00:05:16.000 So let's, let's talk about the reaction to it.
00:05:20.000 Uh, you pinpointed this.
00:05:21.000 You know there's been a lot of attempts uh recently, and for good reason, for example, you know, with senator Katie Britt. 0.92
00:05:27.000 I think it was a good intention to try to win over suburban women.
00:05:30.000 I'm sure you get asked this question all the time congresswoman, and yet the Democrat party, who enjoys right now a, let's say, a competitive advantage with suburban female voters, they're the ones that are cheering on the kind of attacking of your personal history. 0.86
00:05:46.000 Comment on a little bit more on that. 0.99
00:05:48.000 And then secondly, what do Republicans need to do to do better with this now very uh, let's say, competitive group of suburban women?
00:06:00.000 Well, the first thing that I would say with the get with this, is that i've received death threats since this all happened um, i've mostly obviously, from the far left, from progressives, from people who have lost their ever freaking mind uh, that have decided that, since George Stephanopoulos attacked and bullied a and shamed a rape victim, that they too can do that.
00:06:20.000 So our phones have been lighting up emails, messages etc.
00:06:25.000 And including even a few death threats.
00:06:27.000 The words that people are using to attack me are really disgusting, and the worst part of it too Charlie, is that I had my daughter, my underage daughter, who's 14.
00:06:37.000 She was on set with me on sunday.
00:06:39.000 She had to sit through this interview and listen to the way, the barrage of questions, the bullying that this man uh was taking me on about my own vic, my own uh issues and trauma that I had when I was raped.
00:06:51.000 My daughter's very well aware of this story, but to hear and watch a man from the left do this, as progressive bully, me live on air like that was, was deeply troubling for her and for me as a mom.
00:07:02.000 Having to have this conversation with her in the car on the way to the airport Was troubling.
00:07:07.000 And now I have to have another conversation with my family about the death threats that we have received in the last 48 hours. 0.84
00:07:13.000 But anyone can go on to X and see these leftists, these progressives who tell you that they support women attacking a woman who's been raped. 0.96
00:07:23.000 And they've made memes, the words that they use, four-letter words, it's really disgusting. 0.68
00:07:28.000 And when the left shows you who they are, when they tell you who they are, suburban women everywhere need to believe them.
00:07:35.000 And we've heard from so many people, conservatives, Republicans, but even left-of-center women, suburban women, that were really offended by the line of questioning and the way that I was treated and bullied by ABC on Sunday.
00:07:48.000 What issue set do you think Republicans need to embrace or do better to win over more women and female voters?
00:07:55.000 Well, let's take the Alabama ruling with IVF.
00:07:58.000 That's a great start.
00:07:59.000 We saw Donald Trump come out in strong support of protecting IVF.
00:08:03.000 There are a lot of families on both sides of the aisle that have relied on IVF to start their families.
00:08:09.000 That's a place where we can all agree.
00:08:11.000 99% of the country agrees with us on that.
00:08:14.000 We should double down on that.
00:08:15.000 When we're talking about abortion, some of the things that I've seen that women really support are access to birth control.
00:08:22.000 A lot of people, even in Republican circles, they say, well, that's not a thing.
00:08:25.000 Every woman has access to birth control.
00:08:27.000 But in my home state of South Carolina, we have 14 counties that don't have a single OBGYN doctor.
00:08:34.000 Think more rural areas where it's harder to have, to set up a practice and have patients.
00:08:39.000 And so, what are we doing?
00:08:40.000 And even my conservative governor in South Carolina, Henry McMaster, with a Republican bill when Roe v. Wade was overturned, they signed a bill that would allow women to get the pill at their pharmacy, not having to go to the OBGYN.
00:08:53.000 And so it's small steps that make a big difference.
00:08:56.000 And, you know, not screaming at the left, but showing them how compassionate we are.
00:09:01.000 Nobody on, you know, no Democrat or left-of-center person, I believe, doesn't want to see the vast majority of them.
00:09:07.000 They don't want to see abortion up until birth.
00:09:09.000 And so talking about how Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have no limits.
00:09:13.000 They won't answer the question when they're asked by media, what are your limits on abortion? 0.98
00:09:18.000 Well, they have no limits.
00:09:19.000 And reminding left-of-center suburban women that the left is okay with this until birth and in some cases after birth, because we've seen states like Virginia, for example, that have gone in and tried to do post-birth abortion legislation.
00:09:33.000 And so just reminding people how compassionate the conservative messages and conservative position really can be is, I think, most important.
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00:10:46.000 So, Congresswoman, can you comment on the budget submitted by Joe Biden?
00:10:51.000 We are borrowing nearly $2.5 trillion this year.
00:10:53.000 Doesn't seem to be much of a concern for the White House.
00:10:56.000 That's correct.
00:10:57.000 And for the third year in a row, he's over, it was a month late on the budget in this thing, and he's spending more money than we have.
00:11:04.000 I would love to know where he thinks we're going to get all this money.
00:11:08.000 It doesn't grow on trees.
00:11:09.000 Raising taxes will not fix the problem that we have in this country.
00:11:12.000 But I have to tell you, Charlie, it's not just Joe Biden that has created this problem with the inflation and the spending that we have, but we've got Republicans who have supported out-of-control spending for years, if not decades now.
00:11:24.000 And it's time to have an honest-to-God conversation about how we're going to get ourselves out of the debt hole that we have right now.
00:11:31.000 Over the last 200 days, we have seen the debt go up by $2 trillion.
00:11:36.000 Every 100 days, we were adding a trillion dollars to the debt.
00:11:41.000 And in fact, it was just last year when the disgraced former speaker, Kevin McCarthy, put together that awful debt ceiling bill that actually had no ceiling to the debt.
00:11:49.000 And for every good idea in there on the next page, there was a loophole for supplemental aid, supplemental spending, all the spending in the world with holding no one and neither side accountable.
00:11:59.000 And it's deeply frustrating.
00:12:00.000 You see this year over year.
00:12:03.000 And nobody ever held to account because they're saddling our children and our grandchildren with all of this debt over the next 10, 20, 50 years for their lifetime if we don't get a hold of this.
00:12:14.000 What is it going to take to culturally change DC so that spending can become a priority again?
00:12:19.000 Because you're right, the vast majority of Republicans and Democrats have no concern that we owe significantly more than the GDP of our country.
00:12:27.000 It's now 135% debt to GDP ratio.
00:12:31.000 What is it going to take to change that culture?
00:12:34.000 It's going to take the grassroots winning elections to get fiscal conservatives, true, tried and true fiscal conservatives elected to Congress.
00:12:43.000 It doesn't happen overnight.
00:12:45.000 For example, I came to Congress having never ever voted for a tax hike.
00:12:49.000 I didn't do it as a state lawmaker.
00:12:51.000 I won't do it now as a member of Congress.
00:12:53.000 But ensuring that we elect people who are willing to make the tough decisions, who are willing to take the tough votes and take all of the attacks and ammunition that gets thrown your way, we don't go along to get along with the Republican Party or Democrats on spending issues.
00:13:08.000 And it's an inherent problem.
00:13:10.000 We've had it for a very long time.
00:13:12.000 But there used to be a time when we could balance the budget.
00:13:15.000 That time is long gone.
00:13:17.000 I work on legislation every session with Rand Paul.
00:13:19.000 It's called the Penny Plan.
00:13:21.000 It's a reasonable way to balance the budget, to get our spending under control.
00:13:25.000 But getting them to take a movement on anything like that or a balanced budget amendment is damn near impossible up here right now with the makeup of Congress.
00:13:33.000 We've got to do better.
00:13:35.000 And just privately, do they ever express concern?
00:13:37.000 I mean, do they care that they're suffocating future generations in debt, destroying the U.S. dollar?
00:13:43.000 And I want to applaud you for your fiscal discipline on these issues.
00:13:47.000 It's just, it is a moral question now, far more than it is a fiscal or a financial one.
00:13:54.000 There are fiscal hawks up here, but disturbingly, I'll be in meetings behind closed doors.
00:14:00.000 I'll be with leadership.
00:14:01.000 I'll be with Freedom Caucus.
00:14:02.000 I'll be with different factions of the Republican Party.
00:14:04.000 And I've been in conversations where the Freedom Caucus has said, hey, we're willing to do something short-term here, but you've got to be responsible to spend either cut spending or attach HR2, for example, to a spending bill so that we can move this country forward safer, more secure, more prosperous.
00:14:21.000 And then at the same time, at the same table, you'll see a different faction of our own Republican Party say, nope, we're not going to do that.
00:14:27.000 We'll kill the bill.
00:14:28.000 And so we have this behind the scenes, behind closed doors, a circular firing squad where you have Republicans that want to use spending to get, you know, use immigration, for example, border security to as a wedge to get more spending for endless wars, like in Ukraine, for example.
00:14:43.000 I mean, I've seen this stuff going behind the scenes, and we're our own worst enemy a lot of times.
00:14:48.000 Yeah, I just, it is incredibly irritating.
00:14:51.000 Final question here, and it's okay if you don't have an answer.
00:14:54.000 Who do you think would be a good vice president for Donald Trump?
00:14:59.000 Oh, goodness, that'll be his decision.
00:15:00.000 I've heard a lot of great names over the last couple of weeks, and I look forward to seeing who he picks.
00:15:06.000 So, and final question, Nancy, are you in cycle right now with your primary race, or how is it working with your current competitors?
00:15:14.000 And you have a very, I believe, tight district.
00:15:17.000 Is that correct?
00:15:18.000 I won this seat in 2020.
00:15:18.000 I do.
00:15:20.000 I flipped it from Democrat to Republican.
00:15:22.000 I won it by one point in 2020.
00:15:24.000 And in 2022, when they redrew the lines, I got one point better.
00:15:29.000 And so I have a primary and a general election.
00:15:32.000 You can go to nancymace.org.
00:15:34.000 Kevin McCarthy, our disgraced former speaker, loser, former speaker, recruited a candidate that he did not vet.
00:15:40.000 She on Saturday apologized for calling illegals illegal. 0.81
00:15:44.000 That's who Kevin McCarthy recruited to run against me.
00:15:48.000 You can go to nancymace.org.
00:15:49.000 If you want to beat Kevin McCarthy, if you want to beat a Republican in the primary that thinks that it's not okay to call illegals illegal on the same day, Joe Biden apologized for calling Lake and Raleigh's murderer and illegal.
00:16:00.000 My Kevin McCarthy recruited opponent did the same thing and apologized for it.
00:16:04.000 But I need all the help I can get.
00:16:06.000 We were endorsed by Donald Trump on Saturday.
00:16:08.000 Nancy, thank you so much.
00:16:09.000 Appreciate it.
00:16:10.000 Thank you.
00:16:13.000 Hey, this is Charlie Kirk, and I know a lot of you have been suffering under the Biden economy.
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00:17:27.000 So as you know, as you remember, many of you, at Turning Point Action, we have made it a top priority for regime change at the RNC.
00:17:34.000 Again, we're not taking credit for anything.
00:17:35.000 It was a lot of different groups that were working on it, a lot of different voices, but we made it a primary fixation about the lack of investment, the poor spending, the waste within the RNC.
00:17:48.000 This was a bottom-up movement.
00:17:49.000 And you, the audience, deserve credit.
00:17:52.000 You were on top of this from day one.
00:17:55.000 You see, this is what really confused a lot of the reporters.
00:17:57.000 And we sat down with reporters from Politico.
00:17:59.000 We sat down with reporters from the New York Times, sat down with reporters from Daily Mail at our Restoring National Confidence Summit.
00:18:05.000 And one of the questions that they would ask is, you know, there seems to be such a energy around the RNC race.
00:18:12.000 And I would always answer, I said, it's the grassroots that deserve the credit.
00:18:15.000 You, the audience, you got engaged.
00:18:18.000 You became activists.
00:18:19.000 When the RNC would call you for money, you'd say, Rana's got to go.
00:18:23.000 You made phone calls.
00:18:24.000 You made it a point of contention.
00:18:26.000 You asked for the order.
00:18:27.000 They've never had that type of opposition before.
00:18:31.000 The RNC has never experienced millions of grassroots activists.
00:18:37.000 And they doubted the impact of you.
00:18:41.000 In fact, they thought that the noise would just pass.
00:18:43.000 They thought that they could force Rana in in Dana Point last year and that, you know, people would keep on giving money and everything would be fine and people would forget.
00:18:52.000 And mind you, we kind of, we didn't drop the issue, but once Rana won her term in Dana Point, which she won, she had more insiders and cronies in Dana Point last year at the RNC winter meeting.
00:19:07.000 We didn't make, we didn't really mention it for three to six months.
00:19:10.000 We, you know, we take some shots at the RNC should be doing this, not doing that.
00:19:14.000 But they brought this upon themselves.
00:19:17.000 The lack of investment in Arizona, the lack of investment in Wisconsin, the lack of investment in Georgia.
00:19:24.000 And so when new finance reports came out and showed that they were still spending all this money on flowers and donor mementos and donor gifts, not to mention the track record of losing that continued.
00:19:36.000 And what really amplified and I think invigorated many of you in this audience is when the RNC hosted all of these expensive debates with mainstream networks like NBC News, Univision, and they refused to meet with people like Scott Pressler when the RNC was more focused on planting negative stories against Charlie Kirk, against Tyler Boyer, against Turning Point,
00:20:05.000 where they went out of their way to try and hurt groups that they should be allied with, where they start planting stories in the associated press, where they were planting stories in adversarial, combative media outlets.
00:20:20.000 We said, wait a second, why is the RNC spending so much time?
00:20:23.000 Who are these people?
00:20:24.000 And there are still stories I have not told you about how sinister, how dark the RNC was.
00:20:35.000 And one day I will tell those stories.
00:20:36.000 Maybe once after this election, I'll tell you about what they did.
00:20:40.000 These people are not good people.
00:20:42.000 It was modern day hostage taking.
00:20:45.000 But I'm willing to put that aside until after the election.
00:20:48.000 But one day that story will be told.
00:20:51.000 So we made it a focus, as you all know, to remove Rana.
00:20:55.000 And we had the Restoring National Confidence Summit, and it was a big deal.
00:21:00.000 But President Trump deserves the credit.
00:21:01.000 President Trump heard the demands of the grassroots.
00:21:05.000 President Trump heard the cries and the rancor of the precinct committee men and the state party chairs.
00:21:11.000 And he acted and he acted swiftly.
00:21:14.000 Put in new chairman Michael Watley alongside of Lara Trump, who's a superstar, and Chris La Savita.
00:21:20.000 And some of you, and then I'm not going to say any names, would email us and say, ah, but it doesn't change unless you change the staff.
00:21:29.000 I said, I agree.
00:21:30.000 Let's give this new regime a little chance.
00:21:33.000 Politico.com.
00:21:36.000 Bloodbath at RNC.
00:21:38.000 Trump team slashes staff at committee.
00:21:43.000 Donald Trump's newly installed leadership team at the RNC on Monday began the process of pushing out dozens of officials, according to two people close to Trump campaign and the RNC.
00:21:54.000 Over 60 people, over 60 people are expected to be fired, terminated, or asked to resign.
00:22:06.000 That's right.
00:22:07.000 Over 60 people.
00:22:10.000 There is a firing spree going on right now at the RNC.
00:22:15.000 Sean Karinikross, the RNC's new COO, said the new committee leadership was, quote, in the process of evaluating the organization and staff to ensure the building is aligned with its vision.
00:22:26.000 The overhaul is designed at cutting bureaucracy.
00:22:31.000 Over 60 people are expected to be let go.
00:22:36.000 Now, this is just the beginning.
00:22:38.000 And I could tell you right now, having spent time around the RNC building at RNC functions, there are some good people that work there.
00:22:45.000 But there are people that are philosophically and ideologically no different than Democrats.
00:22:52.000 And they're the ones that work on the data team or the PR team.
00:22:56.000 And Trump is going in there with a sword and he is saying no more.
00:23:00.000 We are going to turn this into an RNC that can win.
00:23:05.000 Watley is replacing Rana, who stepped down last week after serving more than seven years in that post.
00:23:11.000 Let's just ask the question.
00:23:12.000 The seven years that Rana was chair, is the party stronger?
00:23:18.000 Nope.
00:23:18.000 Her last year had the worst fundraising year, 30 years inflation adjusted for the RNC.
00:23:25.000 Trump and McDaniel have been longtime allies.
00:23:27.000 The former president soured on the chairman because he felt she was not doing enough on voter integrity related issues and because she hosted Republican primary debates that he refused to participate in.
00:23:37.000 Trump advisors have described the RNC structure as overly bloated and bureaucratic, which they believe has contributed to the party's cash woes.
00:23:46.000 The RNC had about $8 million at the end of December cash on hand, while the Democrats had $24 million cash on hand.
00:23:55.000 Under the new structure, the Trump campaign is looking to merge operations of the RNC.
00:23:59.000 Key departments such as communications, data, and fundraising will effectively be one and the same.
00:24:06.000 You guys should take a victory lap.
00:24:08.000 You deserve incredible amounts of praise here.
00:24:13.000 You didn't give up.
00:24:14.000 You stayed on the case.
00:24:17.000 And the mission statement is very simple.
00:24:19.000 Victory is the only option at the RNC.
00:24:22.000 Not leaking stories to the press, not keeping your chairmanship, not the perks and not acting like it's some sort of incestuous country club, which is how Rana was running it.
00:24:31.000 She was running it as if she wanted this permanent kind of, it's like she's running it as if she was like an ambassador to the Turks in Caicos or something, as if it was just some sort of a cush job and you just got to keep the people happy. 0.59
00:24:48.000 It was her fiefdom.
00:24:52.000 It was her rule and just to kind of, at least you keep 60 to 70% of the voting members happy, throw a little money here, a little building fund here, a little state deal here.
00:25:01.000 So be it. 0.89
00:25:02.000 It doesn't matter if you lose elections.
00:25:04.000 You just kind of check the boxes.
00:25:05.000 You keep the right people happy.
00:25:07.000 But after disappointing results, after disappointing result, you would have thought that there'd be some self-awareness.
00:25:14.000 Like, get out of the way.
00:25:16.000 But they did not feel that urgency.
00:25:18.000 And President Trump deserves huge praise here for coming in straight to the RNC.
00:25:23.000 They even say that vendor relationships are being cut.
00:25:28.000 Also, the expectation is more that 60, more than 60 RNC staffers who work across the political communications and data departments will be let go.
00:25:36.000 You just got to ask the question, what were they doing?
00:25:40.000 If Trump can come in and his team and cut 60 RNC staffers, ramping up for a presidential year, what were these people doing exactly?
00:25:53.000 Running opposition research on turning point, maybe.
00:25:57.000 Creating relationships with mainstream reporters.
00:26:01.000 You got to wonder, what are those 60 people doing?
00:26:03.000 Trump comes in and says, you're fired, you're fired, you're fired, you're fired.
00:26:05.000 By the way, this also should give you some excitement of how Trump is going to govern the executive branch on day one.
00:26:13.000 This should give you some excitement that RNC first, FBI next.
00:26:17.000 RNC today, CIA tomorrow.
00:26:21.000 RNC today, Department of Justice next year.
00:26:25.000 And this is not going to be an easy type thing.
00:26:27.000 Okay, so you fire a bunch of people, fire 60 people.
00:26:31.000 There's going to be people that leak.
00:26:33.000 They go to the reporters.
00:26:34.000 Oh, you can't do this job.
00:26:36.000 You got to get down to the essence of it.
00:26:37.000 And by the way, you got to fire and then rehire.
00:26:40.000 You got to get the body count.
00:26:41.000 But the thing about these 60 people, political communications and data departments, they're probably all DC based.
00:26:46.000 They probably all, you know, just play Rapitap Dap on their laptop all day long.
00:26:51.000 We need warriors in Georgia right now.
00:26:54.000 It's the advice I gave Laura Trump.
00:26:56.000 The RNC should say we are opening three field offices, one in Maricopa County.
00:27:01.000 And by the way, we would be thrilled to have the RNC open a field office in Maricopa County, not some sort of victory thing, an actual RNC staffed field office.
00:27:09.000 Boom, Waukesha County, number two, Fulton County or Cobb County or Gwinnett, pick whichever one.
00:27:15.000 Doesn't matter.
00:27:16.000 One, two, three.
00:27:18.000 And if they really want to go to the next level, which they won't do, sell the DC building.
00:27:23.000 Sell the building.
00:27:24.000 You don't need it.
00:27:25.000 Send a statement.
00:27:26.000 We no longer need DC operations.
00:27:30.000 Sell it to some developer or some sort of country club.
00:27:33.000 It literally is right next to Congress.
00:27:36.000 What in the RNC's modus operandi necessitates their presence in Washington, D.C.?
00:27:42.000 What?
00:27:44.000 They're not a lobbying group.
00:27:45.000 They shouldn't be around lawmakers.
00:27:46.000 They should be in the states, in the counties, in the weeds of the places that they need to win.
00:27:52.000 The RNC exists for a lot of different things, but one major thing, which is to elect a president.
00:27:56.000 And that's not going to happen on K-Street.
00:27:59.000 It's not going to happen on L Street.
00:28:01.000 It's going to happen in Maricopa, Waukesha, and Cobb County.
00:28:06.000 By the way, we are going to do a segment at some point on Boeing.
00:28:10.000 Another plane today.
00:28:12.000 It seems like an almost daily occurrence.
00:28:14.000 One bound for SFO, San Francisco, had to turn around mid-flight because of mechanical issue.
00:28:19.000 It's the sixth United flight in the last week.
00:28:22.000 Yikes.
00:28:24.000 And then you have this whistleblower that suspiciously kills himself, and he is due to testify further on a Boeing-related matter.
00:28:31.000 I'm sure it's just a coincidence.
00:28:33.000 So we're getting questions here.
00:28:34.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
00:28:36.000 Charlie, is it time to now donate to the RNC?
00:28:40.000 And I got to be honest, so far they're earning our trust.
00:28:43.000 I had a major donor and I sent this, you know, because there's a fair amount of, I'd say we have a couple enemies.
00:28:51.000 Would you think that's true, Andrew?
00:28:53.000 We got a couple enemies out there.
00:28:55.000 So I got a text message from a very top-level donor.
00:28:59.000 I want to read this to you.
00:29:02.000 Charlie, happy weekend.
00:29:04.000 This was a couple of days ago.
00:29:05.000 I have a question.
00:29:06.000 I've been an RNC supporter for years.
00:29:08.000 I took your advice to not renew next week.
00:29:12.000 Now that they have changed leadership, is it safe to reinvest?
00:29:16.000 I so want a Trump victory.
00:29:18.000 Blessings to you and your sweet family.
00:29:20.000 I won't say who it is.
00:29:22.000 And I said, yes, I believe so.
00:29:24.000 I would mention you are reinvesting because of a new leadership and vision.
00:29:26.000 I want a strong RNC.
00:29:28.000 And I sent that to Laura and to Michael Watley, and they were very appreciative.
00:29:28.000 We need it.
00:29:32.000 We got to build it back up.
00:29:33.000 You got to fire these deep state people.
00:29:36.000 You got to go in.
00:29:37.000 Here's the thing.
00:29:38.000 You got to fire the Peter Strz of the RNC, the Lisa Pages. 0.99
00:29:42.000 You got to go in there and you got to fire the Christopher Rays. 1.00
00:29:46.000 And they're lurking.
00:29:47.000 I'm telling you, these people hate Trump.
00:29:48.000 They hate MAGA.
00:29:49.000 They hate populism.
00:29:50.000 They hate nationalism.
00:29:51.000 They don't like anything.
00:29:54.000 I kid you not.
00:29:55.000 I did a tour.
00:29:56.000 I don't know if this is still the case.
00:29:58.000 I do not know if this is still the case.
00:30:00.000 But in 2019 and 2020, right before COVID, I did a tour of the RNC.
00:30:05.000 And one of the digital guys had a Romney flag up.
00:30:09.000 And so I gave him the benefit of the doubt.
00:30:12.000 I said, oh, is this, you know, some sort of like antique or, you know, okay, you guys used to work for Romney or is it some sort of joke?
00:30:18.000 And with like a stone cold face, he's like, no, Mitt Romney is one of the most important Republicans we have.
00:30:23.000 And I'm honored that he's fighting.
00:30:25.000 This was at a time, by the way, when Mitt is like writing op-eds about why Trump needs to be impeached.
00:30:30.000 And remember that Mitt Romney comes right out of the gate when the first thing he did as a senator, that Mitt, you know, Mitt Romney, I said, holy crow, we got a problem here.
00:30:38.000 And the big problem in 2020, I'm not going to say in 2020, the RNC was actively working against Trump, but in the politics, in politics, when you're talking about 10,000 votes here and 9,000 votes here and 20,000 votes here and 30,000 votes here, every ounce of energy matters.
00:30:53.000 And so you need dedicated warriors.
00:30:55.000 You need loyalists.
00:30:56.000 They're going to be the ones that stay up to 1 o'clock in the morning versus 11 to make sure that whatever project they're working on is perfect because a deep believer will give you that extra 5%.
00:31:05.000 They'll give you that extra 10%.
00:31:07.000 They'll give you that extra 20%.
00:31:08.000 The RNC was staffed with people that looked at it as a job.
00:31:10.000 They would tolerate Trump.
00:31:12.000 They would have secret group Slack messages.
00:31:14.000 Oh, my goodness, I don't like him.
00:31:16.000 Or, oh, these people are terrible.
00:31:17.000 No, no, no.
00:31:18.000 You need stalwarts.
00:31:19.000 It's Lara Trump with Maria Bartaromo. 0.58
00:31:22.000 Priorities for the RNC under new leadership, Play Cut 57.
00:31:26.000 What is your priority leading the RNC right now?
00:31:29.000 We have to ensure that when people go vote, they feel like their vote counts, that they are inspired to go vote.
00:31:35.000 We can never allow what happened in 2020 and the questions surrounding that election to ever happen again.
00:31:42.000 To anyone out there who is thinking about cheating in an election, we will go after you.
00:31:47.000 You will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
00:31:50.000 It is not worth it.
00:31:52.000 Boom.
00:31:53.000 What a difference than Ronna McDaniel or Rama McRomney.
00:31:56.000 This is a big deal.
00:31:57.000 You got the RNC that's now purging the deep state.
00:32:01.000 You got Laura Trump going on national TV saying, handcuffs, leg irons, prison time is coming if you cheat.
00:32:07.000 I love that.
00:32:08.000 We're going to do everything we can to find you.
00:32:10.000 The RNC, by the way, should be uniting Republican sheriffs, DAs, and AGs, and at least getting them on a unified message.
00:32:18.000 If you cheat, you go to prison.
00:32:20.000 And you know what's really promising?
00:32:22.000 Lara Trump is a fan of what we're doing with ballot chasing at a turning point.
00:32:28.000 And I'm a fan of theirs.
00:32:29.000 I want them to succeed.
00:32:30.000 They want us to succeed because it's not about us succeeding.
00:32:33.000 It's one victory.
00:32:34.000 It's just one thing we want.
00:32:35.000 We want victory in November.
00:32:36.000 Done.
00:32:37.000 Every single decision, every single thing we are doing from now to November is a question, does it get it closer to us winning in November or further away?
00:32:45.000 AKA, save the country.
00:32:48.000 And the RNC now has a regime of leadership that is demonstrating.
00:32:53.000 They very well could have assumed leadership.
00:32:54.000 Oh, these 60 people, we keep them. 0.61
00:32:56.000 You know, we put them out here.
00:32:57.000 It's not easy to slay a bureaucracy.
00:33:00.000 It's not popular in that building.
00:33:02.000 I'm sure there's clamoring of the gnashing of teeth and leaking to the press.
00:33:07.000 So what?
00:33:08.000 Theweek.com.
00:33:09.000 Trump allies fold RNC into Trump campaign.
00:33:12.000 About time.
00:33:14.000 We need a one consolidated vision and machine.
00:33:19.000 It'll get us closer to victory.
00:33:23.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:33:24.000 Email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:33:27.000 Thanks so much for listening and God bless.
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