The Charlie Kirk Show - July 19, 2024


“By The Grace of Almighty God”: RNC Aftermath

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Republican politics affordable crisis
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Charlie Kirk
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Jack Posobiec Joe Biden Tucker Carlson Lady Melania Trump Barack Obama David Axelrod Sam Harris Jake Tapper Jeff Laura Catherine Rosemary Mike Johnson JD Vance Turning Point USA Blake Neff Mary, Zach Phillip Johnny Tricia Arnie Julie and 77 more
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57 minutes

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803

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Trump's historic speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on Wednesday night. President Donald Trump's incredible speech and the incredible response from the Republican Delegates and the massive turnout at the convention. Also, an exclusive update from a Democratic source who has spoken to Democrats in the past 24 hours, and a report from CNN's Van Jones on CNN's "The Van Jones Show" on what's going on with the Democratic National Convention and what it means for the future of the 2020 Democratic nomination race. Plus, a look at the latest on the assassination attempt on Trump and the aftermath of it, and how it may have changed the trajectory of the Democratic nomination process. All that and much more on this episode of The Charlie Kirk Show with Charlie and Blake! Subscribe to the show to get immediate access to all the latest news and analysis. Subscribe today using our podcast s promo code POWER10 for 10% off your first pack! Subscribe, Like, and Share on Apple Podcasts and become a Member! Learn how you could protect your wealth with Noble Gold Investments, a company that specializes in gold and precious metals. Go to noblegold.investments.com/thecharliekirk Learn about Noble Gold Investing and all the great investments that can help you build your wealth in the 21st century. It's where I buy all of my gold and I can't wait to receive my gold! and I'll tell you how you can protect your gold and you can help me protect it! -Noble Gold Investments is the official gold and other precious metals! . I'll send you all of the best in the best investment opportunities in the world! by becoming a member of the Noble Gold Investor? I'll give you the best deal possible! I'm gonna send you the gold I can do that I can t do it in my own brokerage account, I'm not going to tell you where I'm going to send you a review, I'll chat about it, you can get some gold, I won't tell you what you can do it on the best place I'll talk about it in the next episode of the most awesome deal I'll get, and you get an amazing place that I'll do it, I can vouch for me, you'll get a discount on my best chance to win it at the best of my best place in the worst place I get it, AND I'll let you get the most of it all, and more!

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, our instant recap, the Donald Trump's historic address.
00:00:04.000 We go through all of it and including the details of what has been an amazing week.
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00:00:26.000 Buckle up everybody.
00:00:26.000 Here we go.
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00:01:26.000 Okay, let's play some pieces of tape here for those of you that might have been cutting in and out.
00:01:30.000 Also, I just want to give you a little update here, some exclusive update.
00:01:33.000 We have some, we're very well sourced in.
00:01:37.000 Republican politics, but we're unusually well sourced also in some circles in Democrat politics because we have some adjacent donor connections that are very connected in Democrat society circles.
00:01:47.000 Not going to say any names.
00:01:48.000 So while this is what this is just kind of our summary, Blake put this together for us.
00:01:52.000 Okay, so it's this.
00:01:53.000 While Donald Trump gives the Republican Party its most unity since 9-11, a source who has spoken to Democrats in the last 24 hours says the party is in a state of utter collapse.
00:02:03.000 Kamala isn't ready and her staff is not ready.
00:02:06.000 They don't know if Biden has her back.
00:02:08.000 Democrat lawmakers are 100% certain that Biden is gone, yet haven't actually gotten Biden to submit.
00:02:16.000 They're just confident that increasingly ugly tactics will force him out.
00:02:22.000 One of the words Democrats are using, landslide.
00:02:25.000 We don't use that word.
00:02:26.000 That's their word.
00:02:27.000 The entire party is oscillating between panic and doom.
00:02:30.000 Glad I was in Milwaukee this week.
00:02:34.000 Let's do cut. 0.86
00:02:36.000 Let's just kind of... My goodness, the cut sheet here is a reflection of the week, by the way.
00:02:42.000 The cut sheet starts with assassination attempt all the way to convention.
00:02:45.000 Boy, what a week.
00:02:47.000 Let's summarize.
00:02:48.000 Not even a week ago, Donald Trump got shot.
00:02:50.000 He accepts the Republican nomination.
00:02:53.000 We know that J.D.
00:02:54.000 Vance is now the vice president, which was not the case before that.
00:02:56.000 And here's a good summary.
00:02:57.000 Here's Van Jones on CNN, who I thought, again, he's a communist, but he's very honest with some of these things.
00:03:03.000 Let's play Cut 198. 0.69
00:03:05.000 Very powerful here. 198.
00:03:07.000 This spirit that this guy has, you guys think it's because he's drunk?
00:03:11.000 He's not.
00:03:12.000 This whole thing is like this.
00:03:14.000 Hey listen, hey guys.
00:03:17.000 The last time I was in a commission that felt like this was Obama 2008.
00:03:21.000 There's something happening.
00:03:24.000 See Axelrod's really upset.
00:03:26.000 He said that because Axelrod was the designer of the whole Obama thing.
00:03:30.000 And just like Obama, Trump is showing in this convention, he has the capacity to alter the composition of the electorate.
00:03:37.000 That is the difference.
00:03:38.000 The difference between 2008 and now is that Obama was actually popular outside
00:03:42.000 of his own party.
00:03:43.000 And that's not the case.
00:03:44.000 I don't think you should overstate it.
00:03:46.000 Former First Lady Melania Trump in the. 0.98
00:03:48.000 See Axelrod's really upset.
00:03:49.000 He said that because Axelrod was the designer of the whole Obama thing.
00:03:53.000 He's very upset.
00:03:53.000 Can't handle it.
00:03:56.000 The joy from this convention was palpable.
00:04:00.000 Thank you.
00:04:01.000 It didn't feel like victory celebration, though.
00:04:03.000 It just felt like a gratitude to be alive.
00:04:08.000 And every delegate was so sweet and happy and uplifting.
00:04:13.000 And just understand, you're on your feet for hours a day and you're crammed into these small little spaces.
00:04:22.000 And everyone just was thrilled to be alive.
00:04:24.000 You just got to love that.
00:04:26.000 You just got to love that.
00:04:28.000 So President Trump said, I'm only going to mention this once and one time only.
00:04:33.000 And so Donald Trump went through in great detail from his own recollection of exactly what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania.
00:04:44.000 I'm not supposed to be here tonight.
00:04:46.000 President Trump accepts the nomination and this was chilling.
00:04:49.000 175 he says, I'm not supposed to be here tonight.
00:04:53.000 Click at 175.
00:04:54.000 I'm not supposed to be here tonight.
00:04:57.000 Not supposed to be here.
00:05:00.000 Thank you.
00:05:21.000 But I'm not.
00:05:21.000 And And I'll tell you, I stand before you in this arena only by the grace of almighty God.
00:05:31.000 This is a longer tape here and it is worth playing.
00:05:41.000 This is Donald Trump in a two minute clip.
00:05:45.000 Talking about the tragic death and injuries from the Pennsylvania rally.
00:05:50.000 Play Cut 176, the longer tape.
00:05:53.000 Tragically, the shooter claimed the life of one of our fellow Americans, Cory.
00:06:00.000 Compare it to our unbelievable person, everybody tells me.
00:06:07.000 Unbelievable.
00:06:10.000 And seriously wounded.
00:06:13.000 Two other great warriors.
00:06:14.000 I spoke to them today.
00:06:17.000 David Dutch and James Copenhaver.
00:06:22.000 Two great people.
00:06:25.000 I also spoke to all three families of these tremendous people.
00:06:30.000 Our love and prayers are with them.
00:06:34.000 Always will be.
00:06:35.000 We're never going to forget them.
00:06:36.000 They came for a great rally.
00:06:39.000 They were serious Trumpsters, I want to tell you.
00:06:41.000 They were serious Trumpsters.
00:06:42.000 And still are.
00:06:44.000 But Corey, unfortunately, we have to use the past tense.
00:06:47.000 He was incredible.
00:06:49.000 He was a highly respected former fire chief.
00:06:51.000 Respected by everybody.
00:06:53.000 Was accompanied by his wife, Helen.
00:06:56.000 Incredible woman.
00:06:57.000 I spoke to her today.
00:06:58.000 Devastated.
00:07:00.000 And two precious daughters.
00:07:02.000 He lost his life selflessly, acting as a human shield to protect them from flying bullets.
00:07:08.000 He went right over the top of them and was hit.
00:07:11.000 What a fine man he was.
00:07:13.000 Wow.
00:07:53.000 He heard the crowd.
00:07:54.000 I just think his instinct says, I'm going to walk over there.
00:07:56.000 I'm going to embrace it.
00:07:57.000 And then he's going to kiss the helmet.
00:07:59.000 I had a New York Times reporter text me.
00:08:01.000 Again, I don't want to get you guys too excited about this stuff.
00:08:03.000 He said he's going to win New Mexico, Virginia, New Hampshire too, and Maine if this is how he handles himself post assassination.
00:08:12.000 Let's play another piece of tape here.
00:08:14.000 By the way, CNN is predictably attacking his speech.
00:08:17.000 Predictably, as you would imagine.
00:08:20.000 Let's go this one.
00:08:20.000 Donald Trump says, we will not break.
00:08:22.000 We will not back down.
00:08:24.000 We will never bend.
00:08:25.000 Play cut 178.
00:08:27.000 We will not break.
00:08:28.000 We will not bend.
00:08:30.000 We will not back down.
00:08:31.000 And I will never stop fighting for you, your family, and our magnificent country.
00:08:36.000 Never.
00:08:46.000 And everything I have to give with all of the energy and fight in my heart and soul,
00:08:51.000 I pledge to our nation tonight.
00:08:54.000 Thank you very much.
00:08:55.000 I pledge that to our nation.
00:08:57.000 I'm going to turn our nation around and we're going to do it very quickly.
00:09:01.000 Thank you.
00:09:09.000 This election should be about the issues facing our country and how to make America successful,
00:09:16.000 safe, free, and great again.
00:09:18.000 Thank you.
00:09:24.000 In an age when our politics too often divide us, now is the time to remember that we are all fellow citizens.
00:09:32.000 We are one nation under God.
00:09:36.000 So powerful.
00:09:37.000 I want your thoughts of how you thought tonight went.
00:09:39.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:09:40.000 I want to hear from you.
00:09:41.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:09:42.000 What were your favorite moments from the entire convention this week?
00:09:45.000 And we're going to be just recapping the RNC here.
00:09:47.000 We're going to have Jack Posobiec and Blake Neff join us in a second.
00:09:51.000 Donald Trump continued on this as well.
00:09:53.000 Donald Trump said, we have the greatest movement in the history of our country and we will not allow them to stop.
00:09:59.000 I loved this line though.
00:10:00.000 I am more determined than ever.
00:10:03.000 Play Cut 177.
00:10:04.000 There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for others.
00:10:10.000 This is the spirit that forged America in her darkest hours, and this is the love that will lead America back to the summit of human achievement and greatness.
00:10:21.000 This is what we need.
00:10:23.000 Despite such a heinous attack, we unite this evening more determined than ever.
00:10:30.000 I am more determined than ever, and so are you.
00:10:32.000 So is everybody in this room.
00:10:42.000 He gets shot and he is more determined to continue to fight and to continue to win for the American people than he ever has been.
00:10:52.000 Donald Trump then pivoted and went into some deep policy.
00:10:57.000 Donald Trump talked about making America affordable again, talked about no tax on tips, and I love this.
00:11:02.000 This was right consistent with my speech earlier in the week.
00:11:05.000 Cut 182.
00:11:06.000 President Trump talks about the affordability crisis brought to you by Biden and Harris's deficit spending.
00:11:12.000 Play Cut 182.
00:11:14.000 First, we must get economic relief to our citizens.
00:11:18.000 Starting on day one, we will drive down prices and make America affordable again.
00:11:22.000 We have to make it affordable.
00:11:24.000 It's not affordable.
00:11:26.000 People can't live like this.
00:11:28.000 Under this administration, our current administration, groceries are up 57 percent, gasoline is up 60 and 70 percent, mortgage rates have quadrupled.
00:11:41.000 And the fact is, it doesn't matter what they are because you can't get the money anywhere.
00:11:45.000 You can't buy houses.
00:11:46.000 Young people can't get any financing to buy a house. 1.00
00:11:48.000 The total household costs have increased an average of $28,000 per family under this administration.
00:11:57.000 Republicans have a plan to bring down prices and bring them down very, very rapidly by slashing energy costs.
00:12:04.000 We will, in turn, reduce the cost of transportation.
00:12:09.000 Just a second here, we're going to have Jack Posobiec join us, and you guys can, as we're live on air, become a member.
00:12:14.000 I'm going to name everyone who becomes a member here on air, and you guys get our shirt, Never Surrender.
00:12:18.000 Okay, let's play another piece of tape here as we work on getting Jack piped through here.
00:12:23.000 Donald Trump went deep into policy here.
00:12:25.000 He continued by saying, we are going to close our borders and drill, baby, drill.
00:12:29.000 Play cut 184, please.
00:12:32.000 At the heart of the Republican platform is our pledge to end this border nightmare and fully restore the sacred and sovereign borders of the United States of America.
00:12:41.000 Okay, we're gonna do that on day one.
00:12:43.000 That means two things on day one, right?
00:12:48.000 That means two things on day one, right?
00:12:52.000 Drill, baby, drill, and close our borders.
00:12:55.000 And by the way, and I think everybody as a Republican, as a patriot in this room, most
00:13:09.000 Democrats, we want people to come into our country, but they have to come into our country 1.00
00:13:15.000 legally.
00:13:16.000 Thank you.
00:13:18.000 Legally.
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00:13:31.000 And so, CNN, by the way, a panel of people saying, well, they thought they went on too long and complaints that the speech was too long.
00:13:40.000 Okay, here we have Blake and we have Jack.
00:13:44.000 Jack, you were in the room or you were nearby?
00:13:47.000 Jack, what is the vibe on the ground in the convention?
00:13:49.000 I had to dash back to Arizona.
00:13:50.000 What is the vibe straight down in Milwaukee?
00:13:54.000 Yeah, Charlie, how's it going?
00:13:55.000 Thanks again for having me on.
00:13:56.000 So we just finished up this just complete, I would say, roller coaster of a spectacle of a night.
00:14:05.000 So I was inside the room for the entire thing from Tucker Carlson's amazing, and I would point out, by the way, Tucker's completely no notes, no teleprompter speech, to Hulk Hogan, just this incredible throwback to 80s, 90s, hopeful Americana.
00:14:24.000 To the incredible Kid Rock and then Donald Trump's speech, of course, capping it off, which was just, again, this rollercoaster.
00:14:32.000 The highs, the lows, the ups and downs, these incredible moments.
00:14:36.000 Not a dry eye in the House, of course, when he brought out that uniform of Cori Compitore and comparatory.
00:14:45.000 And then, of course, getting into, as you say, getting into policy, getting into the specifics, getting into what was going on.
00:14:51.000 And folks who may have been watching my Twitter feed will know I've been going viral for this because I was seated pretty much right in front of Jake Tapper the entire night.
00:15:00.000 And so I was giving live updates on what Jake Tapper and Dana Bash were doing.
00:15:04.000 Most of the time they had their back turned.
00:15:06.000 They looked very angrily at me at one point.
00:15:09.000 A big smile and a thumbs up, because guess what, guys?
00:15:12.000 It's all happening again, and you know it.
00:15:14.000 So it was a great night, the vibe was huge.
00:15:17.000 Yes, it was a long night, there's no question about that.
00:15:20.000 I had to get the kids down, you know, shout out to the beautiful and lovely Tanya Tay for taking care of that and making sure the kids could be here and really participate in what I think a lot of people are coming out saying, a really, really historic night.
00:15:35.000 I know this is gonna sound weird, but for whatever reason, these earphones are making my ear bleed.
00:15:39.000 And so, uh, I'm not kidding.
00:15:40.000 Like, it's very weird.
00:15:41.000 Okay, um, Blake!
00:15:43.000 I'm here, I'm here.
00:15:45.000 A little ironic.
00:15:47.000 Trump did tell us that, uh, that the ears, uh, bleed the most tonight.
00:15:51.000 So, literally, I have, like, blood on my fingers.
00:15:53.000 You learned something.
00:15:54.000 Very bizarre.
00:15:55.000 Okay, so Blake, I want to get your comments here.
00:15:58.000 Tucker Carlson, when he is... Tucker's awesome.
00:16:01.000 When Tucker is talking about the populist nationalist movement, he's at his best.
00:16:01.000 You know Tucker very well.
00:16:08.000 He is by far the most talented, articulate spokesperson when it comes to what is happening in this country as far as the resentments of the forgotten people against the ruling class.
00:16:19.000 Let's first, though, start with Tucker Carlson riffing Cut 168.
00:16:24.000 I watched the video of what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania about 15, 50 times.
00:16:31.000 I think I was one of about 8 billion people around the world who watched it.
00:16:35.000 And the more I watched it, the more it struck me that everything was different after that moment.
00:16:42.000 Everything.
00:16:42.000 This convention is different.
00:16:44.000 The nation is different.
00:16:45.000 The world is different.
00:16:46.000 Donald Trump is different.
00:16:48.000 When he stood up after being shot in the face, bloodied, and put his hand up, I thought at that moment, that was a transformation.
00:16:58.000 This was no longer a man... Well, I think that.
00:17:02.000 I think it was divine intervention.
00:17:04.000 But the effect that it had on Donald Trump, he was no longer just a political party's nominee, or a former president, or a future president.
00:17:13.000 This was the leader of a nation.
00:17:15.000 And one more Blake that I want to play and then get your comment here.
00:17:23.000 You know Tucker very well.
00:17:24.000 I thought he was on point, which is this one, which is all about representative government, play cut 170.
00:17:32.000 The entire point from the famous escalator ride nine years ago until today of Donald Trump's public life has been to remind us of one fact.
00:17:42.000 Which is, a leader's duty is to his people, to his country, and to no other.
00:17:48.000 That's the point.
00:17:49.000 That's the only point.
00:17:50.000 And another word for this is democracy.
00:17:54.000 Democracy, in case you're a little sick of being beaten in the face with democracy on television, actual democracy is the proposition that the citizens of a country own that country.
00:18:04.000 They're not renters, they're not serfs, they're not slaves, they are the owners of the country.
00:18:09.000 And for that to be true, Their leaders have to represent them, which is another way of saying they have to do what the people want them to do, or a close approximation thereof.
00:18:23.000 But if they completely ignore what people want, not just one year, but generationally, say for 50 years, then it may be, I don't know what, it's not a democracy.
00:18:34.000 And so I think the entire Trump project, paradoxically, he's attacked as an enemy of democracy, is to return democracy to the United States.
00:18:42.000 Let's pay attention to what people actually want.
00:18:47.000 I really wish we had more unscripted speeches at the RNC.
00:18:52.000 A friend of mine says... Blake, do you know what I would have given?
00:18:55.000 Blake, you helped me write my speech.
00:18:57.000 You were very helpful with that.
00:18:58.000 But do you know what I would have given to be able to do that?
00:19:02.000 That would have made my life so much easier.
00:19:05.000 Trump and Tucker, they're both just world-class historic talents at being able to do it.
00:19:11.000 And in different ways, too.
00:19:12.000 But a friend of mine says the best speech advice he ever gave is like, no one should actually need a script for a speech because you shouldn't be on a stage talking unless it's something that you could just talk about at length for 15 or 30 or 50 minutes or three hours without prompting.
00:19:32.000 For Tucker, he's extremely good at that on these topics.
00:19:36.000 He was hitting the same things that he talked about in an article, I think he wrote it for Politico, all the way back start of 2016.
00:19:44.000 That was the start of the sort of Tucker-Trump overlap, where he said, Donald Trump is shocking, vulgar, and right.
00:19:52.000 And it's, you know, Tucker and Trump, much like a lot of other people, they went through phases of the relationship where Tucker, you know, he had that push and pull.
00:20:01.000 Sometimes he was frustrated, sometimes he was elated, but it's come full circle back to this is Donald Trump's conservative movement, and as he said, The man who was attacked as a threat to American democracy is the man who can restore authentic American democracy, which is the ability of people to run their own country and decide the policies they want to live under, instead of being told, this set of policies decided by a bunch of Democrats in Washington is the only thing that's allowed by democracy.
00:20:32.000 And I also just love that, that's just... Tucker was probably just practicing that in, like, the car on the way over.
00:20:38.000 I can say from experience, a lot of viral Tucker speeches are just whatever he happens to have been talking about with someone 30 minutes beforehand, and certain parts of that definitely sounded that way in a good way.
00:20:50.000 He's incredible off the cuff.
00:20:51.000 I want to thank Laura Catherine Rosemary, Natalie Xavier, Johnny, Avery, Jeff, and Tricia who all have just become members at members.charliekirk.com.
00:21:03.000 We'll be reaching out to you.
00:21:04.000 You guys put 75 up on screen.
00:21:06.000 The limited edition Never Surrender shirt we send to you.
00:21:09.000 Again, that's Laura, Catherine, Rose, Mary, Natalie, Xavier, Johnny, Avery, Jeff, and Tricia, thank you guys so much.
00:21:16.000 We are now on our 30th hour of streaming in just the last five days.
00:21:20.000 That's right, 30 hours of streaming.
00:21:23.000 Jack, I want to get you in on this.
00:21:24.000 It's harder to do this remote, so thanks for the patience here, Jack.
00:21:27.000 And by the way, Unhumans should be a New York Times bestseller, so I want you to comment on that.
00:21:32.000 But first, let's play Cut 170, and Jack, take it right away.
00:21:35.000 Let's play Cut.
00:21:36.000 No, we just did 170.
00:21:37.000 Let's go to 169.
00:21:38.000 This is Tucker Carlson at his best.
00:21:40.000 But if you think about it, the presidency comes with great power, obviously.
00:21:43.000 But if you think about it, that is a title that is bestowed by a process of some sort that can be subverted.
00:21:51.000 And in the end, it does not confer by itself, as no title does, legitimacy.
00:21:58.000 Just because you call yourself the president doesn't mean that much inherently.
00:22:03.000 I can call my dog the CEO of Hewlett-Packard, it doesn't mean she is.
00:22:10.000 No, it's true!
00:22:13.000 And you hate to say it, but it is also true, is a fact, that you could take, I don't know, a mannequin, a dead person, and make him president.
00:22:20.000 If you... No, you could!
00:22:21.000 You could!
00:22:22.000 I'm just saying, theoretically possible.
00:22:25.000 With enough... With enough cheating, that could happen. 0.93
00:22:32.000 Just an incredible moment from Tucker Carlson right there, just riffing on all the qualities of leadership and then turning it into this hilarious joke about Joe Biden.
00:22:41.000 But what he's talking about there is something very deep, something very natural.
00:22:46.000 It's a spiritual, it is an essence and a vitality.
00:22:51.000 That a leader has, and Tucker said, I think, in one of the other clips, that your leader in the ancient times, in Bronze Age times, if you will, to borrow a phrase, the leader would be the strongest warrior, the most capable chieftain, and that would become the leader of the army, the leader of the war band, they would become the one who's the undisputed head of the tribe.
00:23:16.000 And in this case, the tribe that we're talking about is Americans.
00:23:20.000 And yes, there has been this process that has been and exactly as Tucker says, subverted to change that because in the past, of course, You know, you may have had other processes, you may have had trial by combat and all these, you know, other ancient Bronze Age things, but these days we don't quite do that anymore.
00:23:37.000 Maybe we should, I don't know, because, you know, we were founded by people that actually would conduct duels to the death.
00:23:44.000 So I want to remind, this is not that long ago that we're talking, I'm going to go all the way back to the Bronze Age.
00:23:49.000 But the idea that a leader is someone that people will follow Instinctually people someone that people will follow when you see them in moments of crisis Standing strong showing resolve showing bravery.
00:24:05.000 Those are the qualities of a true natural leader versus the qualities of someone who is told to be a leader and That is the absolute difference that you're seeing right now.
00:24:16.000 Obviously, he's drawing the line between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, but everybody knows this.
00:24:20.000 Think of a team you've been on, maybe when you were younger and played sports, and you had a bad coach who just yelled at everybody and wasn't sure why they weren't following what he or she was saying.
00:24:29.000 Or think about a job you've had where you've had a really bad boss, and they keep telling you over and over, I'm the leader, I'm the leader.
00:24:36.000 Well, you know, to quote the great philosopher Tony Soprano, if you have to keep telling everyone you're the boss, you aren't.
00:24:43.000 You ain't the boss.
00:24:44.000 You ain't the boss.
00:24:45.000 I want to thank, by the way, our team is working hard to send all you guys your shirts out.
00:24:49.000 We'll be contacting and hearing from our team soon.
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00:25:00.000 Blake, you had a very smart point here, which is that rarely, and Blake, Jack was just saying this,
00:25:04.000 I want you to dive deeper.
00:25:06.000 We rarely ever see the leaders, the people that make decisions,
00:25:09.000 have to face physical combat or opposition, almost never.
00:25:13.000 And this used to be commonplace in the ancient world, not just the Bronze Age, as Jack would say,
00:25:17.000 but also in the American Civil War, and also in the revolutionary times,
00:25:23.000 to a lesser extent, and more modern we've come, our leaders become more disconnected
00:25:27.000 from actual physical confrontation, Blake, what is your thought on this?
00:25:31.000 I know you have a strong opinion.
00:25:32.000 Or even just, even in, like, World War II, you would still, you know, a general would occasionally get hit.
00:25:38.000 Like, you'd have to lead close enough.
00:25:39.000 You could get hit by an artillery shell, by a sniper.
00:25:43.000 When was the last time a US like general was even wounded in action?
00:25:48.000 I think it was maybe during Vietnam maybe in the Gulf War, but it's very rare for military leaders for politicians it used to have a You used to have that level of accountability, but you also used to be easier to lose your job.
00:26:04.000 This is something that is so compelling about Iraq.
00:26:07.000 Could it at least be that if something really bad happens in America, if we have a botched military withdrawal, if we have a blown open border, if we have a massive pandemic that's badly mismanaged, could some people in DC at least Have to go on unemployment for a while?
00:26:27.000 And that so rarely happens.
00:26:28.000 You can sort of just, even if you're a colossal screw-up, you can bounce from think tank gig to think tank gig and then just pop back up like a zombie in the next administration.
00:26:37.000 And I think that's driving such a huge sense of decline and decay in America.
00:26:42.000 And it's one reason you're allowed to have someone like Joe Biden around forever.
00:26:46.000 Why is Joe Biden still around?
00:26:48.000 He should at least have some accountability for Running for president repeatedly and losing each time and being attached to all these failed policies.
00:26:57.000 It was so compelling when J.D.
00:27:00.000 Vance was saying the other night, oh, he was connected to NAFTA.
00:27:03.000 People didn't like the outcome of that.
00:27:05.000 He was closely linked with giving China most favored nation status.
00:27:09.000 That went badly.
00:27:10.000 He was one of the Democrats who strongly supported the Iraq War.
00:27:14.000 Big disaster.
00:27:15.000 And yet he just hangs around like this zombie of Washington.
00:27:20.000 And so much of Trump's appeal is the desire to actually say, no, there should be real accountability for this kind of damage to America.
00:27:29.000 We should have new leaders and the people who are failed leaders should not be getting paychecks from the American people until their end of time.
00:27:39.000 I think that's very smart.
00:27:40.000 I want to play a tape here of one of the pastors that spoke at the RNC, which is a fan favorite here.
00:27:46.000 I want to thank Julie, Phillip, Jeff, and Tammy, Diane, Nicole, Frank, Teresa, Louis, Amanda, Eric, Carrie, Mary, Zach, Ashley, Anissa, Arnie, Zach, Lee, and Susan.
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00:28:09.000 Okay, let's go to another piece of tape here.
00:28:13.000 This is Cut 202.
00:28:15.000 This gentleman might have given one of the best, most underappreciated speeches of the evening.
00:28:19.000 My phone was lighting up!
00:28:22.000 Reverend Lorenzo Sewell, great American. 202.
00:28:26.000 President Trump came to a church that is in a democratic stronghold.
00:28:33.000 He came to a church to listen to average, everyday Americans like you and like me.
00:28:42.000 He came to a church not to speak to us, but to listen to us.
00:28:48.000 He came into a church and a lot of people, they were upset.
00:28:52.000 A lot of people, they would ask me questions.
00:28:55.000 Why would you allow Donald Trump to come into your church?
00:29:01.000 How many know that the Bible says we are all sinners and we all need the grace of God?
00:29:07.000 How many know that the Bible says, he who has not sinned, let him cast the first stone?
00:29:13.000 President Donald Trump, he came during his birthday weekend.
00:29:23.000 Let me ask you a question, grand old party.
00:29:27.000 What would you do for your birthday if you were worth 6.7 billion dollars?
00:29:32.000 What would you do for your birthday?
00:29:34.000 Would you come to Detroit?
00:29:35.000 Would you come into the hood hood?
00:29:38.000 He came to the hood because he cares about average, everyday Americans.
00:29:50.000 I thought that was terrific.
00:29:51.000 And so, Jack, can you just riff about the everyday stories that were being told on the ground?
00:29:59.000 I thought that the convention was the best I've ever seen for selecting stories.
00:30:04.000 World War II veteran, 98 years old, from the Gold Star families to people that can't afford groceries.
00:30:10.000 Jack Pasovic.
00:30:12.000 Yeah, Charlie, and the angel moms, the angel family members that were here as well.
00:30:17.000 I mean, it was so many times where The political speaker, I actually said this to Vivek Ramaswamy when he came by on my show the other day, where I said, Vivek, you know, I said, yo, it was the best and I caught myself and I said, well, you gave the best political speech of the night.
00:30:34.000 But so many times, these moments from the everyday Americans, whether it be the mother
00:30:41.000 whose son was killed by a violent criminal led out by Alvin Bragg, to the mother from
00:30:48.000 Southern California whose son was killed by fentanyl, sent over by the cartels in the
00:30:52.000 Chinese Communist Party.
00:30:54.000 This really was a moment for the people.
00:30:58.000 And I know that there was another event that had this name recently over in Detroit that
00:31:03.000 called the People's Convention, but this really carried a lot of that energy of a people's
00:31:09.000 convention, really understanding that, look, Donald Trump could have picked anyone as his
00:31:15.000 vice presidential pick, certainly after the events of Saturday, anyone would have said
00:31:19.000 yes to him.
00:31:20.000 He decided deliberately to choose someone who was a deplorable, who had a deplorable background, someone from a part of the country that nobody cares about anymore, and someone who could speak for everyday Americans Because he knew their lives, he knew their background, and I'm not trying to make this a pitch for JD or something.
00:31:39.000 I'm just saying that the entire convention was centered around the idea of lifting up people that have been forgotten, lifting up people whose stories aren't usually told in mainstream media, or even in narrative fiction that we see.
00:31:54.000 There's no movies about these people.
00:31:56.000 There's no great stories.
00:31:58.000 I mean, where's the Hollywood movie about Abbey Gate?
00:32:00.000 It's been almost three years.
00:32:02.000 Hollywood doesn't care about that. 1.00
00:32:04.000 The 13 soldiers who died, who cares?
00:32:05.000 Jake Tapper, by the way, who was sitting in front of you, where's your book about the soldiers and Marines who died that day, Jake?
00:32:12.000 Oh, you haven't done one.
00:32:14.000 That's kind of interesting, isn't it?
00:32:15.000 And so again, it's the idea of the power of narrative, which of course, then Trump used himself by telling, and I'm sure we'll get to it, but telling And what he says for the only time that he'll ever tell the story about the day he was almost killed.
00:32:30.000 Yep.
00:32:31.000 And we led with that.
00:32:32.000 It was so powerful, Jack.
00:32:33.000 I thought that 30 minutes was one of the best I've ever seen.
00:32:38.000 That 30 minutes of television, of anything in the history of politics, was the best I've ever seen.
00:32:43.000 I want to recap some of the top moments of the week.
00:32:47.000 Yeah, go ahead, Jack.
00:32:49.000 Please.
00:32:50.000 Go ahead.
00:32:51.000 No, it was just, you know, sitting there, it was it was beyond anything I've ever seen.
00:32:55.000 And I've been to rally after rally.
00:32:57.000 I've been to political conventions.
00:32:59.000 My first political convention was all the way back in 2000 in Philadelphia, believe it or not, the Republican Convention.
00:33:04.000 So 24 years now, and not that I've gone to every one, but Um, since I went to the original.
00:33:10.000 That's, that's, it's more that one came to me because I'm from Philadelphia.
00:33:13.000 And, you know, back then it was, these were stately affairs, very formal, a lot more, a lot more focused on motions and the floor and, you know, the voting and these types of things.
00:33:25.000 This was a larger than life moment.
00:33:29.000 And it's, it was, I don't know if you want to call it perdition.
00:33:32.000 I don't know if you want to call it serendipity.
00:33:34.000 I don't know if you call it, or providence rather.
00:33:37.000 But this idea that the first time he has a major speaking event after the shooting is also his presidential acceptance speech and he's up there, he's telling the story, the uniform comes out.
00:33:53.000 I struggle to even begin to put it into words.
00:33:55.000 Just a tremendous wave of emotion that He blasted everyone in the entire room.
00:34:01.000 Again, every single eye was wet.
00:34:06.000 No eye was dry while we were sitting in there.
00:34:09.000 And for folks to understand what he had gone through and continues to be willing to put himself through.
00:34:17.000 Talking about the production quality, the production elements, I thought the White House backdrop was a 10 out of 10.
00:34:24.000 Sorry, Charlie, no White House backdrop for you, man, but, uh, but, uh, this, this, this.
00:34:28.000 I had some, I had some goofy Illuminati thing.
00:34:33.000 I had some goofy Illuminati thing.
00:34:35.000 Charlie had the Illuminati backdrop.
00:34:37.000 Yeah.
00:34:37.000 Biden hares, uh, their campaign was attacking Trump.
00:34:40.000 I don't, I don't need to read that on air.
00:34:41.000 I do want to get into some of that palace intrigue, guys.
00:34:43.000 I think it's very important, um, with, uh, everything that's happening with, uh, Joe Biden and with, uh, potentially him not running.
00:34:49.000 Let's go to some more highlights from the night though.
00:34:52.000 Blake, please.
00:34:52.000 So I was just saying, I wanted to send my friend who's been watching CNN, and he was summarizing it this way to me.
00:34:58.000 He says, CNN is a back and forth where Van Jones is basically, Trump is 2008, Obama, he's the messiah, he's God's anointed, he has the energy, he has the momentum, it's Jover, I'm calling it, give up, I know the vibes, just, it's all over.
00:35:15.000 And then David Axelrod comes in to say, well it was a long speech, and that's CNN apparently right now.
00:35:22.000 That sounds about right.
00:35:24.000 So, all right, let's go to a cut here.
00:35:27.000 Donald Trump got into some very specific policy.
00:35:31.000 Let's go to, and by the way, so some people are saying the speech was long.
00:35:34.000 Understand, it was longer because he had to add a 20 to 30 minute recounting of him almost dying.
00:35:41.000 And I just like, okay.
00:35:42.000 I mean, it's just like, guys, really?
00:35:44.000 Oh, it was too long.
00:35:45.000 Okay.
00:35:45.000 Oh, you want to go to bed?
00:35:46.000 You weren't shot.
00:35:47.000 Okay.
00:35:48.000 You weren't shot.
00:35:49.000 tough life. But here's what's important is that some people say, okay, well, Charlie,
00:35:54.000 he should have just done the assassination thing, wrapped it up. You run a great risk of that
00:35:59.000 because a nomination speech, you're supposed to articulate the party agenda for the entire party,
00:36:05.000 right, Jack? The whole point and like the point of a nomination speech is here is my vision for
00:36:10.000 the next four years. And that is just the only criticism they have is it was too long.
00:36:15.000 He had to be very methodical about how he talked about the once in a time of him getting shot five days ago.
00:36:22.000 And secondly, when he went into policy, you are casting out the platform and the vision.
00:36:29.000 For every state rep, every congressman, every senator, and you are showing America this is what we believe in.
00:36:36.000 And everything he talked about from a policy perspective was wonderful.
00:36:39.000 It was absolutely terrific.
00:36:41.000 I want to play a piece of tape here, then, Jack, you can kind of go nuts here.
00:36:45.000 On day one, we're going to drill, baby, drill.
00:36:48.000 And by the way, actually, I want to go to a different one.
00:36:50.000 This was chills.
00:36:51.000 This was chills.
00:36:52.000 How could you criticize this?
00:36:54.000 Play cut 185.
00:36:55.000 But you can see on the chart that saved my life.
00:36:58.000 That was the chart that saved my life.
00:37:00.000 I said, look at it.
00:37:01.000 I'm so proud of it.
00:37:02.000 I think it's one of the greatest.
00:37:04.000 It was done by the Border Patrol.
00:37:06.000 One of the greatest charts I've ever seen.
00:37:08.000 It showed everything just like that.
00:37:09.000 You know the chart.
00:37:11.000 That's pretty good.
00:37:11.000 Oh, there it is.
00:37:12.000 Wow.
00:37:15.000 Last time I put up that chart, I never really got to look at it.
00:37:22.000 But without that chart, I would not be here today.
00:37:26.000 Never got to look at it.
00:37:33.000 Thank you.
00:37:44.000 I said, you got to see this chart.
00:37:46.000 I was so proud of it.
00:37:47.000 And by the time I got to there, I never got to see it that day.
00:37:53.000 But I'm seeing it now, and I was very proud.
00:37:56.000 Jack?
00:37:57.000 You know, it was amazing, actually, as we were walking out of the event, and we were just, you know, heading over to where the set is over here.
00:38:06.000 I happened to be, I was with my family.
00:38:07.000 We were getting some of the balloons for the kids, and a lot of people move in at once, and I bump into somebody.
00:38:16.000 I was holding my toddler, my three-year-old, and I said, oh, I'm so sorry.
00:38:19.000 And I turn over and it's of course it's Senator Ron Johnson.
00:38:22.000 I kid you not, just one of those serendipitous moments.
00:38:26.000 And it was Senator Johnson, of course, and he's told the story so many times now, who
00:38:30.000 made that chart.
00:38:32.000 And it was quite a moment as well when President Trump stands there and says, you know, the
00:38:38.000 last time that I put that chart up, and it's like, did he just make a joke about his own
00:38:44.000 assassination attempt?
00:38:45.000 And of course he is, because that's Donald Trump, it's that dark humor, it's that black humor that he always uses, that he just says the most inappropriate thing.
00:38:52.000 Although, usually he says it about someone else.
00:38:55.000 Here this time, he says it about himself.
00:38:59.000 And it's an incredible thing to see, but it also is, by the way, part of policy.
00:39:04.000 I mean, Charlie, can you imagine the state of the party right now when just a few years ago
00:39:12.000 the idea of talking about saying something like mass deportation on the stage would get you
00:39:17.000 would get you uh booed it might get you censored it might get you banned and it would
00:39:21.000 certainly get you kicked out of the rnc now our our leader is cheering it on the entire crowd that
00:39:29.000 They had placards.
00:39:30.000 They had placards that say mass deportations now that people were holding up.
00:39:34.000 They're talking about this problem because it's gotten too far.
00:39:38.000 And so I've heard some people say that the speech was soft.
00:39:42.000 And you know, I can certainly, I mean, come on, soft.
00:39:45.000 I mean, he was, he was, you know, maybe give him a week.
00:39:48.000 How about this?
00:39:49.000 He was stoic, but yeah.
00:39:51.000 He was stoic.
00:39:52.000 He was like a Roman general returning from the front lines, bloodied and shot at, to address his most loyal people.
00:40:01.000 Anyway, Jack, hold that thought.
00:40:02.000 I have to say thank you to some of our members here.
00:40:04.000 And victorious.
00:40:06.000 That's right.
00:40:07.000 I want to thank Rebecca.
00:40:08.000 I want to thank Joyce.
00:40:09.000 I want to thank Deborah.
00:40:10.000 I want to thank Christine.
00:40:11.000 I want to thank Connor.
00:40:11.000 I want to thank Dr. Kristen.
00:40:13.000 I want to thank Caroline, Emily, Doris, Rick, David, Rayford.
00:40:19.000 Julie, Phillip, Jeff and Tammy.
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00:40:28.000 So it is the role of the candidate in the convention speech to cast a vision of the entire agenda.
00:40:36.000 Also Shannon.
00:40:37.000 Blake, it is very, you have to give Trump credit though.
00:40:42.000 Trump could have done... He could have... By the way, there's a new New York Times video.
00:40:46.000 I'm not going to play this right now.
00:40:47.000 I need time to digest this.
00:40:49.000 It's so bad.
00:40:49.000 It's so unbelievable.
00:40:51.000 It's not against New York Times.
00:40:52.000 They actually did a great job of compiling this.
00:40:53.000 Can I read the headline, Blake?
00:40:56.000 The headline is this.
00:40:57.000 New York Times.
00:40:57.000 Go for it.
00:40:58.000 Video, audio, and photographs collected by the New York Times of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at an election rally shows how a clear threat emerged minutes before the shooting and how law enforcement failed to protect Mr. Trump.
00:41:10.000 I mean, that's the New York Times saying it.
00:41:12.000 Donald Trump did not criticize law enforcement.
00:41:15.000 He did not criticize the Secret Service.
00:41:16.000 In fact, he praised them.
00:41:17.000 He did not say, why did they not put me off stage?
00:41:20.000 Like, for a guy who gets attacked all the time for saying that he just, you know, lashes out, he was filled with gratitude and joy, not with
00:41:29.000 anger or bitterness.
00:41:30.000 Blake, help us understand that.
00:41:33.000 I mean, it's been this way for a long time.
00:41:36.000 You know, they They say he's a threat to democracy while they do everything possible to undermine democracy by forcing him out of the race, forcing him into a jail cell, rigging the process as much as possible.
00:41:50.000 And now here they would say he's the one who's injecting hate or darkness into the race, yet they do that a lot more than him.
00:41:59.000 Donald Trump has been, for the most part, very positive energy this race.
00:42:05.000 You know, he's upbeat.
00:42:07.000 He talks a lot about accomplishments he had in his first term and how he will
00:42:11.000 bring them back and the stuff he bashes Biden for is really no different from what
00:42:16.000 you'd be able to see even turning on CNN or MSNBC.
00:42:20.000 They're all pretty bleak a lot of the time, too.
00:42:22.000 There's a huge amount of projection that goes into everything the modern left does
00:42:29.000 these days.
00:42:31.000 And while we're talking about headlines, by the way, apparently the headline on CNN right now, since I have it up, is, Top Biden Officials Believe He Must Drop Out.
00:42:39.000 So we've gone from the media to Democrat lawmakers to Biden officials, which means we might have the 25th Amendment getting invoked by this time next week, Charlie.
00:42:50.000 Boy, I want to get into that into great detail.
00:42:53.000 I really do.
00:42:54.000 So, Jack, let's kind of put a final cap on this speech tonight.
00:42:59.000 Where does this go from here?
00:43:00.000 Donald Trump is the nominee.
00:43:02.000 He's alive and well.
00:43:03.000 Melania was there.
00:43:04.000 He leaves on a total high.
00:43:05.000 J.D.
00:43:06.000 Vance is the vice president.
00:43:07.000 What are the marching orders from there?
00:43:08.000 Then I would do something on Biden and we'll close the night out.
00:43:11.000 Look Charlie, this was a, I'm just going to say it, this was a pitch perfect convention for the Republicans in terms of what they needed.
00:43:21.000 out of it.
00:43:22.000 Did I love every single little piece of it?
00:43:25.000 Look, I'm not going to sit here and go through all of that, but in terms of the top lines of the things that people will remember from this, it was perfect.
00:43:33.000 And so the Democrats are going to be looking at this saying, what are we going to do?
00:43:39.000 Any potential Democrat, by the way, contender who's thinking about maybe getting their name in the ring, getting their hat in the ring in Chicago and just a couple of weeks time in August here is suddenly realizing
00:43:51.000 that they've got to go up against a massive unified front from the Republicans. I mean you even
00:43:58.000 had like like Lauren Boebert was standing next to Mike Johnson and all of this it was just
00:44:03.000 this huge kumbaya we are going to get together and save America moment that was so much bigger
00:44:09.000 than the party so much bigger than any one specific person with with Donald Trump simply at the head
00:44:15.000 of everything so the Republicans got what what they needed. The Democrats are in an absolute state of
00:44:20.000 disarray.
00:44:21.000 They've got no idea what they're going to do in Chicago in just a couple of weeks time.
00:44:25.000 And so the Republicans have the wind at their sails.
00:44:28.000 They do.
00:44:29.000 But at the same time, I'm going to throw this out there that we must, must, must not get complacent.
00:44:35.000 We cannot be complacent.
00:44:37.000 Complacency is the biggest danger right now.
00:44:40.000 All this talk about Biden dropping, etc., etc., we have so much work to do because you
00:44:45.000 know what the Democrats are doing right now?
00:44:46.000 They're banking ballots.
00:44:48.000 And while they switch out their candidate and play Kabuki theater and rearrange the
00:44:52.000 deck chairs on the Titanic, they're going to be banking ballots where?
00:44:55.000 In Wisconsin, in Pennsylvania, and in Michigan.
00:44:59.000 That's why they're talking about Governor Josh Shapiro.
00:45:01.000 That's why his name keeps coming up because he's a popular politician, popular governor in Pennsylvania.
00:45:05.000 And so people need to keep their eyes on the ball.
00:45:08.000 This is a great week.
00:45:09.000 This is a great week.
00:45:10.000 It was an astounding week.
00:45:11.000 It was an emotional week.
00:45:12.000 It was a great week for the good guys, but we need to remember the work starts Monday.
00:45:16.000 Yes, it does.
00:45:17.000 All right.
00:45:17.000 So Blake, let's get into some inside baseball here.
00:45:19.000 What is the future of Joe Biden look like?
00:45:21.000 What is the process here?
00:45:23.000 Oh man, so we've been talking to some people we know who are more in the middle of the political divide, so they actually talked to Democrats as well, and it's wild because people make confident predictions, yet it seems they don't necessarily have a strong basis for this.
00:45:40.000 So I've been hearing there are Democrat lawmakers, like real figures in the party, who say 100% Joe Biden is gone.
00:45:50.000 He's not going to make it.
00:45:51.000 But if you push at it, if you poke at it a little bit, Joe Biden has not himself admitted he is gone.
00:45:57.000 He has not, you know, secretly said, OK, we're out next Sunday.
00:46:01.000 We're out next Monday.
00:46:02.000 We're just writing the speech.
00:46:03.000 He has not admitted this yet.
00:46:04.000 They're just confident they can force him out because they can do way uglier tactics.
00:46:09.000 So they're thinking we will be able to turn up the heat so bad he will not be able to stick around.
00:46:14.000 That is that is the conversation they're having, which is I guess you have to admit from our perspective, that is what we wanted to see.
00:46:22.000 If you're going to have Biden be forced out, you don't want it to be a nice little clean switcheroo.
00:46:28.000 You want it to be protracted.
00:46:30.000 You want it to be ugly.
00:46:31.000 You want it to be bitter.
00:46:32.000 And that's what we're hearing reported.
00:46:34.000 We're hearing that donors are saying, you know, forget the presidential race.
00:46:39.000 We'll be boycotting House races and Senate races just to make it clear you have to make this switch.
00:46:45.000 We're going to turn up the pain.
00:46:46.000 We see on CNN that Biden officials are admitting he has to go, which means I think 25th Amendment
00:46:53.000 is on the table. Another thing I've been hearing from a friend of a friend who has been in contact
00:47:01.000 with Kamala world is, well, Kamala's team is not ready for this.
00:47:07.000 We've been hearing for years.
00:47:08.000 She can't keep staff because she's a horrible boss and her team is all messed up. 1.00
00:47:13.000 So we have these very junior staff on Kamala's team who are suddenly about to be tasked with trying to run either a presidential campaign or, you know, at least a campaign for the nomination for the next month.
00:47:26.000 And they're not ready for this.
00:47:27.000 They apparently don't even know whether Biden will be in her corner or not.
00:47:32.000 That's still up in the air.
00:47:35.000 And so you just have maximum division in the Democrats and maximum chaos.
00:47:40.000 You love to see it.
00:47:41.000 I want to go through some data here.
00:47:45.000 Morning Consult shows Donald Trump up four points on Biden.
00:47:48.000 RMG Research has Donald Trump up five points on Biden.
00:47:51.000 So SoCal Research, On Point Politics, has Donald Trump up six points on Biden and eight points on Kamala Harris.
00:47:58.000 Jack Posobiec, I want to go to you here.
00:48:00.000 Members.CharlieKirk.com, Members.CharlieKirk.com.
00:48:03.000 Just name a couple more names here.
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00:48:09.000 Jack, you think that Kamala could potentially Be even easier to defeat and beat.
00:48:14.000 Is that correct?
00:48:16.000 I do actually, I do, and I'll tell you why.
00:48:18.000 Because Kamala Harris, so number one, she comes with all the baggage of the Biden administration, plus the fact that she was the one who was put in charge of the two biggest failures of the Biden administration. 1.00
00:48:32.000 She was made the face of it.
00:48:33.000 The border, and then Ukraine.
00:48:35.000 Remember, she's the one who went over to the Munich conference and said, Ukraine will be in NATO, Ukraine will be in NATO, we will stand up for this.
00:48:42.000 And then Putin invades like two days later, literally two days later.
00:48:45.000 This is going to be played again and again, and it's going to be shown that her weakness was one of the things that led to the decision matrix of crossing the border, crossing the Rubicon in Ukraine.
00:48:56.000 The other part of this is that she does not have the legacy name recognition, the legacy
00:49:03.000 goodwill that Joe Biden enjoyed with many segments of the Democrat Party from being
00:49:07.000 Obama's wingman, from being the guy who was ride or die with Barry O, the guy who was
00:49:12.000 always there, this totally fake bromance that they led people to believe that existed between
00:49:20.000 him and Barack Obama.
00:49:22.000 Again, all of that work, all of that time as vice president doesn't apply to Kamala
00:49:27.000 And remember, Kamala Harris is deeply disliked, even within her own party.
00:49:33.000 She had to drop out of the presidential race in 2020 before Iowa. 1.00
00:49:38.000 She did not even make it to the first contest.
00:49:41.000 So no, I don't think there's someone in for middle.
00:49:43.000 And by the way, finally, we've seen Kamala.
00:49:47.000 Try the primetime run.
00:49:48.000 She does not have the chops. 1.00
00:49:51.000 She's never going to have the chops. 1.00
00:49:53.000 You want to talk about what Tucker Carlson was saying about the difference between leadership versus someone who's good at subverting the system.
00:50:00.000 I think, yeah, she knows a lot about subverting the system. 1.00
00:50:04.000 So Blake, in closing here, let's kind of recap the week.
00:50:04.000 No doubt.
00:50:07.000 You were there on the ground, Blake, helping us show out.
00:50:10.000 What was the takeaway?
00:50:11.000 What were you most surprised about as an onlooker here at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee?
00:50:19.000 Most surprised about?
00:50:21.000 You know it's hard to say because actually I would say you know in what has been a very a very surprising election year a very surprising election month a very surprising election week I think we'd say all of those are we might literally be at the point where the narrative of this year is passing 2016 which I would have never thought was possible yet I would say the one part that was just not a shock at all was What I saw this week in Milwaukee, I would have said, okay, they took a shot at Trump, so that's going to unite the party.
00:50:54.000 They're going to be a very positive energy.
00:50:57.000 People will be grateful that their candidate is alive, that their candidate is here to give the speech, that the man that they indicted, that they censored off the internet, that they took a shot at, that they sued, that they took the companies of.
00:51:10.000 That all of this failed and he's there to receive the nomination and everyone's there.
00:51:15.000 Good vibes all around.
00:51:17.000 The band is back together and they're ready to retake the White House.
00:51:20.000 And that's the thing.
00:51:21.000 There really, there was no monkey wrench in that.
00:51:25.000 There was no shock.
00:51:26.000 It was what we would have hoped for.
00:51:28.000 This is exactly the convention Republicans wanted to hold.
00:51:33.000 It's the exact convention they planned to hold.
00:51:36.000 And especially looking at what's going on with the Democrats right now, they have every reason to feel very confident going into this fall's election, and now they just, for the next 90 days, they just need to execute.
00:51:48.000 Well, and I also say there was, Jack, and this is from a viral question, I want your take on that too, there was no viral scandal that distracted from the main thing.
00:51:56.000 I mean, there was little things here or there, but Jack, that's a big deal, right?
00:51:59.000 Conventions sometimes get derailed with online chatter.
00:52:03.000 Can you comment on this, Jack?
00:52:05.000 That did not happen for four days.
00:52:07.000 There was no speaker that said something they shouldn't have done, or no—you know what I'm saying?
00:52:10.000 It was beautifully produced, and the main thing kept to be the main thing.
00:52:15.000 Yeah, the narrative that was put out, and by the way, this is why CNN is out there saying, oh, well, the speech was long, because they don't have anything else.
00:52:24.000 They don't have that one serious gaffe.
00:52:27.000 They don't have that one big mess up.
00:52:29.000 They don't have that one piece where somebody went totally off script and started messing around with people.
00:52:35.000 No, they have none of those things.
00:52:37.000 And so to be able to put on an event like this, For several days, which I know, Charlie, is something that you and the entire team at Turning Point and at Turning Point Action do time and again, several times a year, multiple times a year, when you consider all of the events that Turning Point does.
00:52:54.000 It's not something that's easy to do, and especially when you know the eyes of the world are on you, and you have so many speakers.
00:53:00.000 I mean, this was jam-packed with speakers, and the idea that you've only got one, and there were times in the past, by the way, especially some of those You know, and look, it's just true.
00:53:10.000 With those everyday American stories, you never know because these aren't people that do, you know, presentation on a regular basis.
00:53:19.000 You're kind of rolling the dice with some of those sometimes, and in the past, there have been a few that don't really work out so well.
00:53:26.000 Every single one of this, just pitch perfect, no gaffes, no flaws, everything on message, total execution, and in a way, it showed that this is a group of people that has competence in the face of the incompetence that is being described in the current administration of our government.
00:53:47.000 It's beautifully said.
00:53:49.000 I could tell you this was my, I went to convention in 2012.
00:53:51.000 So 12, 16, 20 didn't really count, but I guess that counts.
00:53:55.000 And this is my fourth convention, the third one in person.
00:53:58.000 And this was the most joyful, exuberant group I've ever been around.
00:54:02.000 This is a determined group that's ready to go to work.
00:54:04.000 And again, don't be surprised.
00:54:06.000 They're going to pull Biden and maybe it's Kamala, maybe not. 0.81
00:54:09.000 And this race might completely and totally reset.
00:54:12.000 And, but we have a unified party and we are battle ready.
00:54:14.000 I can tell you, no one's going to be surprised that Biden gets pulled.
00:54:17.000 That was kind of the unspoken truth of this last convention.
00:54:21.000 I want to thank you guys for becoming members.
00:54:24.000 I want to thank Larry.
00:54:25.000 I want to thank Glenn.
00:54:26.000 I want to thank Mike.
00:54:27.000 I want to thank Joe.
00:54:28.000 I want to thank Dan.
00:54:29.000 I want to thank, let's see here.
00:54:32.000 Let's go through the list here.
00:54:34.000 I want to thank Jill.
00:54:36.000 And I want to thank Greg.
00:54:38.000 I want to thank Beth.
00:54:40.000 I want to thank Kathy and Ryan.
00:54:42.000 Noah!
00:54:45.000 And Daisy's sending them in.
00:54:46.000 It's members.charliekirk.com.
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00:54:49.000 I want to thank Ben as well.
00:54:51.000 Thank Jerry.
00:54:54.000 Let's play a piece of tape here as we compile the final list here of just a recap.
00:54:59.000 By the way, how amaz- do we have the video that they were playing, that documentary on Trump?
00:55:03.000 Wow, that was amazing.
00:55:04.000 That was just absolutely spectacular.
00:55:07.000 That video they played.
00:55:08.000 So good.
00:55:08.000 Wasn't that just absolutely incredible?
00:55:10.000 It was just really unbelievable.
00:55:13.000 Let's play Cut 178 and then we will close it out.
00:55:15.000 Let's go to 178.
00:55:17.000 We will not break.
00:55:18.000 We will not bend.
00:55:19.000 We will not back down.
00:55:21.000 And I will never stop fighting for you, your family, and our magnificent country.
00:55:26.000 Never.
00:55:36.000 And everything I have to give with all of the energy and fight in my heart and soul,
00:55:41.000 I pledge to our nation tonight.
00:55:44.000 Thank you very much.
00:55:45.000 I pledge that to our nation.
00:55:47.000 I'm going to turn our nation around and we're going to do it very quickly.
00:55:51.000 Thank you.
00:55:59.000 This election should be about the issues facing our country and how to make America successful,
00:56:06.000 safe, free, and great again.
00:56:08.000 Thank you.
00:56:14.000 In an age when our politics too often divide us, now is the time to remember that we are all fellow citizens.
00:56:22.000 We are one nation under God.
00:56:26.000 Beautiful.
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