The Charlie Kirk Show - July 21, 2023


Building the Machine for Victory: My Opening Remarks at ActCon 2023


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My opening remarks at the Turning Point Action Conference. I talk about chasing ballots and how the Democrats could run Jimmy Carter from hospice and still win the presidency. I also talk about why we need to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.
00:00:00.000 Today I'm the Charlie Kirk show.
00:00:02.000 My opening remarks at the Turning Point Action Conference.
00:00:04.000 I hope you'll enjoy them.
00:00:05.000 Talk about chasing ballots and how the Democrats could run Jimmy Carter from hospice and still win the presidency.
00:00:11.000 Email me freedom at charliekirk.com and subscribe to our podcast.
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00:00:52.000 Get involved with TurningPointUSA at tpusa.com.
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00:01:04.000 First of all, I'm not that interested in what happens inside Ukraine because I'm not Ukrainian or Russia, for example. 0.82
00:01:10.000 I'm not saying Russia's a better society than Ukraine, though I'm totally open to that possibility. 0.54
00:01:14.000 I just don't know the answer. 0.99
00:01:15.000 It certainly could be. 1.00
00:01:16.000 Ukraine's pretty awful. 1.00
00:01:18.000 What I object to is the lying around it.
00:01:22.000 We're doing this because we believe in freedom.
00:01:25.000 Well, okay, the people we're funding are putting priests and nuns in jail, raiding convents. 0.74
00:01:29.000 But he said it wasn't true because he talked to some shill on payroll of celena. 0.99
00:01:33.000 He's lying, and he knows it's true. 1.00
00:01:35.000 Of course, it is true.
00:01:36.000 And if you pulled a little more, he was like, well, actually, they're saying bad things.
00:01:40.000 They got the wrong opinions.
00:01:41.000 It's like, all right, but you're allowed in a free society to have the wrong opinions. 0.96
00:01:45.000 And by the way, I would say this if they were rabbis or imams.
00:01:49.000 Like, if you support religious freedom, you can't put clerics in jail for having different views.
00:01:53.000 Like, period.
00:01:54.000 To hear the entire conversation with Tucker Carlson, go to members.charlikirk.com.
00:01:59.000 Members.charliekirk.com.
00:02:01.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:02:02.000 Here we go.
00:02:03.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
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00:02:07.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
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00:02:14.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:02:15.000 He's an incredible guy.
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00:02:18.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:02:24.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:33.000 That's why we are here.
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00:02:46.000 Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here.
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00:03:49.000 Welcome to our Turning Point Action Conference, everybody.
00:03:52.000 We're going to have a couple amazing days here.
00:03:57.000 We have all 50 states represented.
00:04:00.000 We have thousands of student activists that are running Turning Point USA, high school and college chapters across the country.
00:04:11.000 We have hundreds of pastors present.
00:04:14.000 We have some of the most important social media influencers.
00:04:17.000 We have over 150 credentialed media here.
00:04:20.000 So if you sit.
00:04:22.000 Yeah, most of you are booing.
00:04:25.000 We'll see if they tell the truth.
00:04:28.000 We have the people that make the party what it is today.
00:04:33.000 Make it happen.
00:04:34.000 Now, many of you have come to Turning Point USA events in the past or Turning Point Action events.
00:04:39.000 This event's a little bit different.
00:04:40.000 This is the first multi-day event that Turning Point Action is hosting.
00:04:45.000 Now, what is Turning Point Action?
00:04:46.000 Turning Point Action is our political arm.
00:04:49.000 You see, we're best known as going to college campuses so you don't have to.
00:04:54.000 Going to UC Berkeley, going to Harvard, going to Brown.
00:04:58.000 And I'm happy to report that at Turning Point USA, we have more high school chapters than college chapters and hundreds of thousands of young people involved in our student movement.
00:05:12.000 But what we are doing here at Turning Point Action is for all ages.
00:05:18.000 You see, what we're doing at Turning Point USA is so important for education for American values.
00:05:24.000 But if you're like me, I am sick of what the Republican Party has become in the last couple of years.
00:05:32.000 Do you agree?
00:05:38.000 I do not immediately think just because you have an R in front of your name that you're going to go fight.
00:05:46.000 In fact, I'm awfully skeptical of some people that have R's in front of their name.
00:05:52.000 This event is going to be unlike any other.
00:05:55.000 This event, you're going to be hearing from people that are running for office in primary challenges against establishment Republicans.
00:06:03.000 You're going to hear from six presidential candidates.
00:06:07.000 You're going to hear from Mike Lindell.
00:06:08.000 Is there Mike Lindell right there?
00:06:10.000 Stand up, Mike Lindell.
00:06:11.000 The great Mike Lindell.
00:06:15.000 Promo code Kirk, by the way, at mypillow.com, okay?
00:06:21.000 You're going to hear from grassroots leaders.
00:06:23.000 You're going to hear about how we secure our elections.
00:06:26.000 You're going to hear about how we hold our elected officials accountable.
00:06:30.000 You're going to hear about how we're going to win in 2024.
00:06:39.000 And this event is not just about Democrats bad, Republican good.
00:06:44.000 It's about a new conservative movement.
00:06:47.000 It's about a conservative movement that is in harmony with you, the voters.
00:06:55.000 It's about a conservative movement that cares far more about the southern border invasion than getting involved in this proxy war in Ukraine. 0.67
00:07:09.000 It's a conservative movement that believes that this trans zealotry has no place in public life or near our children.
00:07:22.000 It's a conservative movement that is ready to fight and win.
00:07:27.000 You know, a lot of people are asking me, they say, Charlie, who's going to be the candidate in 2024?
00:07:32.000 Now, I think it's going to be Donald Trump.
00:07:33.000 It's really hard to beat him.
00:07:34.000 I think we all agree, right?
00:07:37.000 And by the way, he thinks so highly of you.
00:07:41.000 One phone call, he said, Charlie, I'll be there because I know there is no more crowd more important than Turning Point for the energy, the enthusiasm, the passion, and the grassroots activity.
00:07:52.000 Not every presidential candidate believes that, by the way.
00:07:56.000 Wonder why.
00:07:58.000 Makes you think, right?
00:07:59.000 They must have something more important to do than talk to you.
00:08:04.000 But honestly, that's not the most important question.
00:08:09.000 The most important question is: what are we doing today to make sure that we have the infrastructure and the machinery to win the necessary states in the 2024 election?
00:08:22.000 You see, the entire 2024 election is going to come down to three states, maybe four, but probably three.
00:08:30.000 The electoral map has changed a little bit.
00:08:32.000 With the new census, I think we can all agree that if President Trump is the nominee, he'll win Iowa, he'll win Ohio, he'll win Florida, he'll probably win Florida by a million votes.
00:08:44.000 He'll most likely win North Carolina.
00:08:47.000 But the states that, let's just say, are going to be a challenge, my home state of Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin.
00:08:58.000 The whole ballgame comes down to three states.
00:09:01.000 Three states that Donald Trump won twice, so he has to win it a third time.
00:09:06.000 But Donald Trump has to then show that he has more pieces of paper than the other side.
00:09:11.000 This is a new ballgame that we're playing in, everybody.
00:09:14.000 It's no longer about candidate quality or messaging.
00:09:17.000 It's now about who has the machine.
00:09:20.000 Now, you might say, oh, Charlie, I think it's all about winning independence and messaging.
00:09:25.000 It's part of it.
00:09:28.000 We have Senator John Fetterman from Pennsylvania, everybody.
00:09:37.000 We have Joe Biden as President of the United States.
00:09:46.000 I could tell you this in Arizona, that, I mean, they sabotaged Kerry Lake's election.
00:09:52.000 I could tell you that with all those failures.
00:09:54.000 Those lines out there, by the way, it felt like flashbacks to Nom to trying to go vote in Scottsdale back in November.
00:10:00.000 I'm like, this feels awfully similar.
00:10:04.000 If we do not have a robust machine that is willing to go after our low-propensity voters, do ballot chasing, secure our elections, and pour hundreds of millions of dollars in Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin, it does not matter if we run the best candidate ever and they try to run Jimmy Carter from hospice because they're going to have full-time grassroots workers chasing the ballots, doing the mule activity.
00:10:33.000 What we need to start to realize is that if we want to win in 2024, we have to start to play the game the Democrats have been beating us at.
00:10:42.000 We have to start to get in the arena.
00:10:44.000 And it starts with securing our elections, everybody.
00:10:48.000 It starts with filing lawsuits and making sure that we do not have this mass mail-in balloting.
00:10:54.000 Now, everybody has a role to play.
00:10:57.000 At turning point action, we feel that our role to play is to try to expand the window of voting.
00:11:04.000 I'll be honest.
00:11:05.000 I'm a day of election guy.
00:11:07.000 I like to vote on Election Day.
00:11:11.000 At the same time, I saw what they did with Kerry Lake in Arizona.
00:11:17.000 We are broadcasting our play and say, hey, everybody, show up on one day.
00:11:22.000 And the Democrats just want us to fall into that.
00:11:24.000 In certain states where actually they've embraced ballot harvesting, like in California and in others, Republicans can do better and better. 0.58
00:11:33.000 For low-propensity voters, we have to embrace the same legal methodology of harvesting votes and chasing votes where legal to increase our chances to defeat the Marxist Democrats in November of 2024. 0.64
00:11:50.000 So what does this look like?
00:11:52.000 Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin.
00:11:54.000 This event is not just about, you know, oh yeah, super excited, get fired up, and then you go home.
00:12:01.000 This is an event of action.
00:12:05.000 You know you're losing our country.
00:12:07.000 And I hate when people say this, but it is darn true.
00:12:09.000 If we do not win back the White House in 2024, this country's going to be in an almost irreversible position.
00:12:19.000 But here's what I know at my core: there are more of us than them.
00:12:24.000 There are more of us than them.
00:12:27.000 All we have to do is get that translated into more pieces of paper counted at the end than them, and we will win back the White House in 2024.
00:12:41.000 It's going to require a mentality shift.
00:12:44.000 I think it's a waste of money to have $1.5 billion spent on a primary when we do not have the full-time infrastructure in the states that matter.
00:12:56.000 I think it's a waste of money when I see these attack ads.
00:12:59.000 I'm doing $50 million, $100 million, and all this.
00:13:01.000 I ask the question: how many full-time people do you have on the ground right now in Wisconsin registering voters, getting ready to chase ballots and do the early voting work?
00:13:11.000 So at Turning Point, we're no longer going to complain.
00:13:14.000 For those of you that know us well, we are people of action here at Turning Point.
00:13:18.000 And so we are launching an effort, and you know this if you watch our program or our podcast, called Chase the Vote.
00:13:23.000 I think we have a whole thing here where we are going to have the most aggressive, early voting, low-propensity voter campaign.
00:13:30.000 Because I'll tell you this: if we say, hey, everybody, show up on Election Day, you're going to have machine failures and tabulators.
00:13:38.000 We need to have our low-propensity voters show up. 0.57
00:13:41.000 And I think we have something here.
00:13:42.000 You guys can follow the QR code.
00:13:44.000 Where we're going to be talking about this for the next couple of days, where if we have ballot chasers in the states that matter, then the Democrats will have no way to be able to get towards what they call victory.
00:13:57.000 It's not possible because we've been playing for one day, Election Day.
00:14:01.000 They've been playing for 30 days.
00:14:04.000 Imagine if we just do a little bit of it.
00:14:06.000 Imagine if we just get some of our low-propensity voters and we get them to turn out.
00:14:10.000 They want to call everything a democracy, by the way.
00:14:12.000 We're a republic, not a democracy.
00:14:13.000 I'm so sick when I hear this.
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00:15:21.000 But do you know what democracy is?
00:15:24.000 Democracy is not what they think it is.
00:15:26.000 Democracy's become a game.
00:15:27.000 Who can get the most pieces of paper and put them in the ballot box in a 30-day period?
00:15:33.000 I don't like it.
00:15:34.000 But you know what I hate more?
00:15:36.000 I hate losing.
00:15:39.000 I hate not being in the White House. 1.00
00:15:42.000 I hate seeing this craven, sinister, evil traitor that calls himself the President of the United States defecate on our country every single day. 0.99
00:15:53.000 He's an evil man, and I will not be able to tell my daughter in good faith that I did everything I possibly could if we keep on doing the failed old strategy of just show up on election day, just show up on election day. 0.98
00:16:08.000 There's a reason, in my opinion, why they are indicting our frontrunner because they are going after a man who's able to bring out hundreds of thousands of voters that otherwise would not vote in three core states.
00:16:22.000 And we have a lot of you represented here, and they also know something else.
00:16:26.000 Look around.
00:16:26.000 The Republican Party is now a grassroots party.
00:16:29.000 We are not a party of the oligarchs.
00:16:31.000 We're not a party of the ruling class.
00:16:34.000 And what we are going to be talking about through our breakout sessions, through our speakers, through talking to the great experts of how we secure our elections, of how we stop this ridiculous pattern of mass mail and voting, if possible, through the legislature, is this: we know the majority of Americans do not approve of what Joe Biden is doing.
00:16:54.000 We know a majority of Americans think it is insane that our federal government says that men can give birth.
00:17:03.000 Why is it that a majority of people believe something and yet our government is totally out of touch with that?
00:17:09.000 It's because they have designed and concocted a game.
00:17:15.000 And the game came post-COVID.
00:17:18.000 Our reaction to COVID will go down as one of the most reckless responses.
00:17:22.000 We never should have shut down our schools. 0.57
00:17:24.000 We never should have had all these mRNA vaccines, huge mistake. 0.99
00:17:27.000 And we never should have allowed mass mail and voting to become the law of the land.
00:17:34.000 And for some Republicans, you think everything is about candidate equality.
00:17:39.000 Everything is about messaging.
00:17:41.000 That's important. 1.00
00:17:43.000 Why do you think the Democrats are comfortable running a brain-dead idiot who obviously can't speak in sentences? 1.00
00:17:51.000 They are confident that their machinery is so good they can run anybody. 0.99
00:17:56.000 But they are also afraid that if we as Republicans wake up and notice, adapt with agility, and we start to change the way that we do our grassroots activity.
00:18:07.000 I firmly believe this, everybody.
00:18:09.000 We are going to win by so much that they will not be able to cheat to come even close if we fix our elections in these states.
00:18:18.000 I firmly believe it.
00:18:22.000 I'm going to say this as blunt as possible, but we have to fix it.
00:18:25.000 If nothing changes in November of 2024, we're going to get really excited on election night.
00:18:34.000 It'll seem that our candidate, which will probably be Donald Trump, is up by a lot in Georgia.
00:18:41.000 Up by a lot in Arizona.
00:18:45.000 Up by a lot in Wisconsin.
00:18:48.000 And you're going to go to bed.
00:18:50.000 And you're going to wake up.
00:18:52.000 Like, that's weird.
00:18:54.000 Where did all those ballots come from?
00:18:57.000 And all of a sudden, the 200,000 Trump lead will become 120,000.
00:19:03.000 And then it will become Thursday.
00:19:05.000 And it will become an 80,000-vote lead.
00:19:07.000 And then it will be Friday.
00:19:09.000 And it will be a 60,000-vote lead.
00:19:11.000 And then it will be Saturday.
00:19:12.000 And it will be a 10,000-vote lead.
00:19:14.000 And then it will be Sunday.
00:19:15.000 And then it will be, Joe Biden is up by 4,000 votes.
00:19:21.000 And then it will be in Arizona, which we have a tradition of taking entire quarters to count votes, 90-day minimum.
00:19:29.000 And it will just be that kind of 6,000 or 7,000-vote threshold where you just fall so short where you wonder if you could have done more.
00:19:35.000 Same in Wisconsin, Arizona, or Georgia.
00:19:39.000 If I'm terrifying you, I'm doing my job because that's where we're on pace to land.
00:19:45.000 5,000 votes there, 6,000 votes there, 10,000 votes there.
00:19:49.000 We outnumber the Marxists.
00:19:55.000 And what we are committed to doing at Turning Point Action is playing to win.
00:20:00.000 The Republican establishment has failed us.
00:20:02.000 They will not do this.
00:20:04.000 The Republican establishment will not do this.
00:20:07.000 You know what?
00:20:07.000 We have to do this.
00:20:09.000 The people do.
00:20:10.000 We're going to step up.
00:20:11.000 We're going to do the tough but necessary work.
00:20:13.000 And I'll tell you, they're afraid of you.
00:20:16.000 They hate you and they're afraid of you.
00:20:18.000 We have an opportunity to do something that will be unprecedented and historic.
00:20:24.000 Have a people-led movement in defiance of all of the regime power, all the regime machinery.
00:20:31.000 Corporate power, FBI, Department of Justice, and social media.
00:20:35.000 And it comes down to who could get the most pieces of paper and put them in the ballot box.
00:20:41.000 And then who can count them?
00:20:42.000 And there's other things that are involved there.
00:20:44.000 But I'll tell you, I'm excited for these next couple of days.
00:20:47.000 I'm excited for you to make an informed decision in our straw poll.
00:20:50.000 And you're going to hear from the best candidates that want to show up and that think that you're worthy of it.
00:20:54.000 But this is a clear call to action.
00:20:57.000 Call to action to become a precinct committeeman if you are not already and you can sign up at tpaction.com.
00:21:05.000 I'll close with this and we'll begin our speaker lineup, which just gets better and better and better as the night goes on.
00:21:12.000 I get asked all the time, Charlie, what can we do?
00:21:16.000 What can we do?
00:21:17.000 What can we do?
00:21:18.000 I feel like I'm losing my country.
00:21:23.000 They are counting on your surrender.
00:21:27.000 If you give up, they win.
00:21:30.000 But what if we look back and we realize we were just inches away from victory and that's when we decided to give up?
00:21:36.000 I believe that this evil crime syndicate that has current occupation of our country are the most paranoid and fragile group of oligarchs running a nation in human history.
00:21:48.000 And I know this.
00:21:50.000 I travel the country and I talk to so many of you that there is a volcanic eruption that is about to occur against these people that have been keeping January 6th defendants in gulags.
00:22:04.000 A volcanic eruption that is about to explode against the people that are indicting Donald Trump.
00:22:10.000 A volcanic eruption that's about to explode against the people that say our democracy is safe and secure.
00:22:17.000 You send a message these next couple of days.
00:22:19.000 We play to win to defeat the Marxist Democrats.
00:22:22.000 God bless you guys.
00:22:23.000 Enjoy the next couple of days.
00:22:27.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:22:28.000 Email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:22:31.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.
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