00:01:10.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:03:14.000There's only one other governor that has successfully been able to fight off a recall in recent American political history, and that was Governor Scott Walker.
00:05:34.000That being said, this was a lot less tribal, at least at the beginning.
00:05:37.000Now, we can talk about how the Democrats have fear-mongered their way to scaring folks into thinking Larry Elder is basically Trump incarnate and that he's going to, you know, basically, you know, he doesn't believe in science.
00:05:49.000But the point is that, yeah, there is more mega churches in California than anywhere else.
00:05:52.000There's been massive church planting movements that sprung out of California, which obviously, as you know, Jack Hibbs is part of mobilizing that group, but it's a massive, massive part of the community still.
00:06:03.000So, Benny, you've been following this and kind of covering this and also the movement in general.
00:06:30.000Right now, corporate media, Fox, and ABC affiliates are going to polling stations, and Republicans are coming out in mass saying, they just told me I have already voted.
00:07:21.000This according to the New York Times live reporting feed that we're looking at, they are still hoping to get a massive turnout in the Hispanic community.
00:08:26.000Rick Grinnell, former ambassador to President Trump and also head of DNI and a native Californian who's still living there and doing a lot of change in California.
00:09:51.000No one's going to abuse that or print it twice or print it three times.
00:09:54.000Look, you know, I don't know how conservatives and Republicans got into this corner whereby we're falling down when someone says that a requirement to use an ID to vote is somehow racist.
00:10:10.000How is it that we back down from that?
00:10:12.000I actually think we got to get more aggressive by saying if you don't want people to have an ID to vote, you're clearly trying to cheat.
00:11:00.000They tell you that you're being ridiculous for pointing out fraud.
00:11:04.000But then you watch how their conversations will change.
00:11:07.000They move from there is no fraud to fraud to there's no widespread fraud.
00:11:11.000And I always say, well, how do you know there's no widespread fraud if you're not looking?
00:11:14.000Well, and then also, how do you, how do you define widespread in a state like Nevada, for example, that you were on the front lines for, where Trump was only down like 10 or 15,000 votes.
00:12:07.000Conservatives feel like we've got to do something more.
00:12:11.000We got a whole bunch of frustrated Democrats, a bunch of people who have registered in California as a decline to state.
00:12:19.000Remember, we've got a third of the voters are Republican, a third are Democrat, and a third are declined to state.
00:12:26.000And so we have a momentum on our side.
00:12:30.000I've been traveling the state for the last seven months, and all I've been hearing from our donors is we're tired of being an ATM for the rest of the country.
00:12:39.000We should put the politicians in Washington on notice that the California donors are ready to fight here in California.
00:12:46.000So I started an organization called Fix California.
00:13:04.000We've found 1.3 million conservatives in California unregistered.
00:13:10.000So the problem that we have are gun owners in California are not registered to vote because they don't trust the government knowing who they are.
00:13:17.000Conservatives are extremely frustrated and they have given up and they've become an ATM, a checkwriting organization for other races.
00:13:26.000Over the last seven months, because we've been able to put this to a vote of the people, the recall effort has been successful in galvanizing Republicans to fight.
00:13:37.000We may not win tonight, but I can tell you that we're in this for the long haul.
00:13:42.000And that's why I've always said we need to structurally change the voter roles and get more people involved if we're ever going to win on these fights.
00:13:52.000I think Californians are ready for this fight.
00:13:55.000And whether we win or lose tonight, hopefully we win.
00:13:59.000Hopefully we have a brand new governor.
00:14:01.000But if we don't, I want to encourage every single person who signed the petition and who lives in California to keep going because we made a historic effort like never before.
00:14:51.000Look, we have a phenomenon in California that our young politicos, people who grow up and want to work in politics and who are conservative, they leave the state.
00:15:03.000They go to other states to work or they go to Washington, D.C.
00:15:06.000We struggle to keep talent here in California on the conservative side because, frankly, there's not a single office in Sacramento, statewide office, that is a Republican office.
00:15:18.000We just don't have that many jobs for Republicans.
00:15:22.000And then we get people, you know, who, like Kevin Faulkner, the mayor of San Diego, who think that the best way is to really water down your message and try to be a Democrat light and hope for the best.
00:16:10.000It's unbelievable what's happening here in California, but people are really tired of it.
00:16:16.000And I've never seen more decline to state voters, conservatives, whether they're Democrats or Republicans, but conservatives beginning to fight back.
00:18:20.000So I think the momentum is just with everyday people.
00:18:24.000We'll look at the decline to state registration.
00:18:27.000We're going to dig deep on the numbers.
00:18:29.000I'm working with Susie Wiles group, which is a very good data targeting group.
00:18:36.000We are going to be able to tell you more about where we improved.
00:18:42.000But I'll tell you one thing that's happening.
00:18:44.000And the reason why my organization, Fix California, has launched, we've just put it forward with the Attorney General to have a ballot initiative in 2022, an initiative to every single voter, which will ask, do you want to upend the way the state funds education and have the money that is spent roughly $14,000 per student?
00:19:09.000Do you want to have that money follow the student and the family's decision as to where they go to school?
00:20:05.000I think we're going to see that when all said and done.
00:20:07.000I want to give back on one thing on that.
00:20:11.000I feel very strongly that Gavin Newsom is the typical politician that has mismanaged the programs.
00:20:16.000And to make this a really local issue, I think the top messaging is about just the failure of Gavin Newsom to manage the water programs, the state welfare programs.
00:20:29.000We've got scandal after scandal when it comes to just managing the schools, for instance, and the economy being open.
00:20:39.000And whoever runs for governor in 2022, you've got to hit hard on the idea that Democrats control this whole state.
00:20:47.000It's a one-party state and they've mismanaged every program.
00:20:51.000Yeah, so Rick, I know you only have a couple minutes left remaining.
00:20:54.000Let's, and we just got some good news here.
00:20:56.000It looks like long lines have formed at election sites in Costa, Mesa, and Huntington Beach, Norris County, a traditional GOP kind of red area.
00:21:06.000But, Rick, also, we're seeing that sometimes these Democrats, if you're like, oh, that's a Democrat area, they don't necessarily like Gavin Newsome.
00:21:13.000Is this more kind of an indictment of like California's kind of become an awful place to live?
00:21:17.000I mean, obviously, there's some nice parts, but that's kind of the amazing parts.
00:22:23.000But if you look back to 2018, there was only a 3,000-vote difference in Orange County between Gavin Newsom and John Cox in 2018.
00:22:32.000So that's a predominantly pretty much conservative county.
00:22:35.000If Republicans won back some seats, yeah, yeah.
00:22:37.000And if Republicans are energized and they want to get out the vote and they're really upset about what happened during all the lockdowns, and this is going to be a bellwether county.
00:22:45.000Like every Republican and their mother has to turn out and vote in Orange County in order to flip this thing.
00:23:23.000This week, in 72 hours, Joe Biden went from dark blue state, blue like blue, like the bottom of the ocean, blue, blue, like like under 30,000 leagues onto the sea, blue.
00:23:35.000New Jersey, booed, and miles of Trump supporters trolling Joe Biden through the middle.
00:23:40.000Let's get some of that clip queued up too, Connor, if we can.
00:23:43.000Well, we also have the New York Networks, New York Metals, and the turning point action Gavin signs.
00:23:48.000Then Joe Biden travels to ground zero on September 11th, gets booed at the hollowed ground of ground zero by the survivors of families and first responders.
00:24:32.000You do not see those people showing up to support Joe Biden.
00:24:36.000You still can't find for me a human Joe Biden supporter.
00:24:39.000I've never met a human Joe Biden supporter.
00:24:43.000And you don't see that on the other side.
00:24:46.000Kamal Harris came out to stunt for Gavin Newsom, and more Afghan refugees showed up to protest, counter-protest Kamala, than showed up to hear her cackle like an animorphs hyena.
00:25:10.000He says, I'm writing to ask a question.
00:25:12.000Have any of the people that endorsed Gavin Newsom, Biden, Harris, et cetera, actually mentioned any benefit to his tenure in office other than belief in science?
00:27:22.000And these people, a particular friend of our family, owns a chain of grocery stores, small localized grocery stores and kiosks, like bodegas in these LA neighborhoods.
00:27:33.000And everyone is voting for the recall.
00:27:36.000Not many, not many, according to who is informing me, not many of them are super hyped about Larry Elder.
00:27:49.000But they're saying they're voting for the recall.
00:27:51.000They're voting to recall this guy because there's something in politics, there's a paradigm shift that happens when someone affects your life.
00:27:58.000See, when politics is far off and quiet and mood muted, no one really cares.
00:28:10.000When you affect the safety of human beings and the places where you work and the lifestyle of your children and the air that they can breathe when you fill the skate parks with sand, people forget that.
00:28:22.000When you use the dump trucks to dump sand into the skate parks on Venice Beach, you start messing with people's lives.
00:28:30.000And when you're messing with someone's lives, they suddenly become motivated, perhaps not to vote for Larry Elder, but to vote to get your ass out of office.
00:28:37.000What Pastor Rob is like obviously so known for.
00:28:49.000When you start going after the absolute freedom of what America is all about, our freedom to practice our faith, our religion, whatever we feel that we need to do every single week to communicate with one another, to practice our beliefs.
00:29:03.000That's actually a public safety issue.
00:29:05.000I'm like, you mean to tell me that some woman dancing around with no clothes on is less of a safety issue than me going to church and worshiping and praying for them?
00:29:15.000The pursuit of virtue, which is to come in congregation, to be able to worship your creator, to talk about moral absolutes, to talk about things that are objectively true.
00:29:24.000That is what the American system always meant by liberty, not the ability to go to your local strip club and, you know, to have some sort of priority on that.
00:29:33.000I want to thank Buddy Allen for your $50 contribution.
00:29:38.000You guys can do that on the Superfeed chat or charliekirk.com/slash support.
00:30:42.000Like people watching and are like, this guy's got it going on.
00:30:44.000It's like, there's that Twitter feed that was like the accidental hostage Zoom calls that made you like the Zoom calls that most look like a hostage situation.
00:30:51.000They're like, Andrews, I think you made that feed once.
00:30:53.000Explain twice if Charlie's holding you off because it's not.
00:30:56.000And we have all these code words such as, you know, I'm here.
00:32:12.000It was through the Tenderloin in San Francisco.
00:32:14.000If you want to see a failed state, you want to see what third world looks like inside of the first world, go to the Tenderloin in San Francisco.
00:32:20.000Now, Nancy Pelosi's district in San Francisco is like the head of a pin.
00:32:23.000It's like the teeniest little segment.
00:32:25.000It's like a perfect gerrymandered, win forever, plus 40 details.
00:32:44.000But what we also saw were hydrants hooked up to giant water faucets that looks like the United Nations had come in so that people, homeless people, could bathe in the street, so that people could clean their bodies after defecating in the street.
00:35:17.000And we're eating, and we come back to our two Chevy Suburbans that we rented from the airport, and all the windows of the cars are smashed.
00:35:36.000And they're like, oh, yeah, window smashed on two Chevy suburbans right near literally JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo and the Trans-America Building.
00:35:43.000Mortons are like, oh, yeah, this is normal.
00:37:37.000Freedom is not the pursuit of pleasure.
00:37:40.000It's not to try to make yourself feel good in a moment.
00:37:42.000It's the value of the greater things, right?
00:37:45.000It is trying to pursue the eternal, to try to inculcate wisdom, to protect children, to preserve a society.
00:37:53.000This is the American founder's idea of liberty, where on the other side, the kind of leftists, if you will, their idea of liberty is doing drugs.
00:38:02.000Their idea of liberty is instead short-term pleasure, which is the complete opposite.
00:38:08.000We know this, that actually makes you less free, that you actually might be, in some ways, beholden to those things, that you might be actually beholden to those substances, beholden to those behavioral patterns.
00:38:21.000And there's some things that we as conservatives are willing to say, you know what?
00:38:24.000We might have some preferences, but we don't use state power to enforce it.
00:38:38.000Like, that's not exactly what we want to use police power for.
00:38:40.000But when all of a sudden, the governor of Arkansas comes out and he says, and by the way, Connor, we can get some tape there because I think this would be fun as we kind of wait for these results.
00:38:48.000Potentially, Connor's running all over the place.
00:40:38.000That is have something else, some foreign agent having a control over your body and its systems.
00:40:45.000Freedom and the ability to be free and live free, the lack of slavery is having no one having control over your body.
00:40:54.000You breathe the sweet, fresh air of earth because that's the way God made you and because you have natural rights between you and God.
00:41:03.000There is no intermediary that is going to mess with those, muddy them, darken them, and control you.
00:41:08.000The definition of slavery, as prescribed by Webster's dictionary, is the lack of bodily autonomy.
00:41:16.000So if you want to talk about the current totalitarian fascism of the Biden administration, fully endorsed, by the way, yesterday by Gavin Newsom in California with Joe Biden on stage, Joe Biden's biggest argument in favor of Gavin Newsom is that you would get Donald Trump as your governor in California.
00:42:09.000Like we mentioned before, Gavin Newsom only won Orange County by just over 3,000 votes, 3,093 votes in 2018.
00:42:16.000The next one is going to be Riverside County.
00:42:18.000John Cox, who was the Republican nominee for governor in 2018, he won it by just over 2,300 votes, almost 2,400 votes, only 2,398.
00:42:28.000That's going to be another really important county for all Republicans to turn out and vote yes on the recall.
00:42:33.000The other one is San Bernardino County.
00:42:35.000Gavin won that by 16,000 votes this last time.
00:42:38.000But if the Democrat turnout is down, Republican turnout is going to be up.
00:42:42.000Obviously, from everything we've been reading and people that we've talked to on the ground, Charlie and I were in California last week for two days and Orange County turning point.
00:42:50.000Yeah, just trying to run up the score.
00:42:52.000Like this election is going to be entirely on turnout, Republican turnout versus Democrat turnout.
00:42:57.000And then the other county that we really wanted to bring up that I didn't want to forget is some of these smaller rural counties that actually turn out favorably well for Republicans.
00:43:05.000There was one turnout county this last time around in 2018, which was really unique to me, which was Fresno County.
00:43:12.000124,000 people voted for Gavin Newsom.
00:43:23.000So Fresno County, Orange County, and San Bernardino counties.
00:43:26.000Those three ones are going to be instrumental to the yes on this recall here.
00:43:31.000It's still got 30-something minutes here.
00:43:33.000We're going to have three different types of ballots come through today, tomorrow, and the days that he upset.
00:43:39.000So, the votes that are going to come out at 8 o'clock tonight or just shortly after 8 o'clock are going to be the mail-in ballots, which we already covered.
00:43:45.000That are going to be, you know, 7 million ballots that have already been mailed in.
00:44:35.000Again, to Rick Rinnell's point earlier, there is a massive, massive number of conservatives that do not register as Republicans in the state of California because they do not trust the state.
00:44:46.000Now, Benny, to your earlier point on that reporting that we saw out of Fox about KTLA.
00:46:15.000Are you upset with what's been happening with forced vaccinations?
00:46:19.000This is a recall election, is so hard for the incumbent to beat because you have to persuade somebody that you're doing a little bit better than not.
00:46:28.000Not that you're better than the alternative, which is what Gavin Newsom do.
00:46:31.000He turned this into a binary election.
00:46:54.000I mean, you know, I was driving through the Central Valley from North Cal Northern California down to Southern California a couple weeks ago.
00:47:02.000I saw multiple stations over $5 in the Central Valley.
00:48:47.000For millennials, that number spikes to 63%.
00:48:50.000And the people that are looking the most are young people and middle to low income people who can't afford to stay in California any longer.
00:48:58.000So, man, Iser Connor was in San Diego this weekend.
00:51:02.000And they said, oh, it's because of California fires.
00:51:04.000I said, North Dakota should pass a tax every day that California pollutes the great air of North Dakota for destroying the health of North Dakota.
00:53:15.000We have Alpine County, Amador County, Butte County, Calaveras County, Colusa County, Contra Costa County, Del Norte, El Dorado, Fresno, Glenn, Humboldt, Imperial, Inyoy, Kern, Kings, Lake, Lassen, Los Angeles, which is the beast.
00:53:27.000Los Angeles County, just so you guys know, in the 2020 presidential election, had 3 million votes for Joe Biden.
00:54:33.000The people that voted in these congressional districts, because obviously Trump didn't win California, but Republicans in general did very well in California.
00:55:02.000So the Michelle Steele voters that voted in 2020 need to have turned out already or need to turn out today on election day in the next like, what, 15, 20 minutes.
00:55:12.000The next one would be CD42 in California, which is still just north of San Diego County, just north of San Diego.
00:55:22.000All of these congressional districts, which would be CD21, CD25, CD39, 42, and 48, all of those areas, all of those precincts that have hundreds and hundreds of precincts in that one whole area, the turnout thing is the most important thing.
00:55:36.000We're going to be talking about it all night.
00:55:37.000We talked about it all today already: is that Republican turnout is going to be the make or break of this thing.
00:55:42.000Andrew brought it up earlier about Latino turnout being a little bit lower.
00:55:46.000Also, youth turnout is being a little bit lower than what it's expected.
00:55:50.000Young people don't know about the recall.
00:55:54.000So you can tell by the way these elections are going to go just by voter enthusiasm when they mail in their ballots, obviously with Democrats because they're afraid of their own shadow, they're going to be able to send it in.
00:56:03.000But Republicans are going to be turning out today, which they've done since 8 o'clock this morning, 7 o'clock, whenever poll is open, until 8 o'clock tonight.
00:56:09.000So if you're still online, stay in line.
00:56:31.000The first is they're going to do all the Democrat mail-in voting to try to win the media narrative.
00:56:36.000They're going to try to win the media narrative early, but I'm telling you that then all of a sudden the same day is going to come in and the Republicans are going to come in.
00:56:44.000So it's going to kind of be a mess, right?
00:57:55.000Younger voters, I'm going to get to some numbers, have the lowest turnout of any group by far, and they are the most reliable Democrat base and younger voters of color.
00:58:06.000Younger voters, 28% of all the ballots mailed for this election went to voters, but those voters have returned the fewest ballots so far of any Democrat.
00:58:16.000So while just 20%, or excuse me, Latinos and young voters could have a large impact on the outcome of the recall.
00:58:24.000Vote totals show that last week, 40% of registered voters who are white had returned their ballots compared to 22% of registered voters who are Latino.
00:58:32.000More than half of the state's registered voters, 65 and older, had returned their ballots, while just 20% of those ages 18 to 34 had done so.
00:58:40.000This goes back to what Richard Barris, Big Data Poll.
00:58:43.000Yeah, he was saying this is an older and whiter electorate, which helps the challenger.
00:58:49.000Newsome wants younger and people of color, whatever that means.
00:58:53.000And to be honest, one of the things that you have to understand about elections in general is that the incumbent is favored, except for recalls, you are super vulnerable, everybody.
01:00:35.0001880s, more than likely, when California was just becoming of age.
01:00:39.000But being Speaker of the House, you've got Feinstein, who's been a senator since the American Revolution.
01:00:44.000Like, none of that, I mean, that is institutional power, though.
01:00:47.000So they're going to do everything in their power to help Gavin Newsom stay alive because this is a huge blow to the Democrat leadership, the Democrat stronghold that they've had on California.
01:01:47.000Where Newsome basically said, yeah, you don't have to register if you're a pedophile, not a big deal, but you better register if you're unvaccinated.
01:01:53.000So Gavin Newsome is declaring war on the unvaccinated, but is perfectly fine with pedophiles, SB 145, but also the one that if you want to go after people's livelihood, go after their home.
01:02:05.000On Gavin Newsom's desk right now is a controversial bill that would allow duplexes in a single family neighborhood.
01:02:11.000Andrew, talk about this in California.
01:02:23.000I mean, not to say that's like a unique thing, but New York definitely doesn't have that.
01:02:27.000Yeah, there's a lot of neighborhoods in LA that have already been basically ruined by apartment buildings being put right next to a single family home.
01:05:02.000I didn't get married in Mexico via printer.
01:05:06.000Massive lines in conservative areas because, but he's saying that the conservative areas have real problems because there are so few polling places.
01:05:16.000I'm hearing this like you wouldn't believe it.
01:07:39.000I can tell you that all the local Republican groups that I get emailers from, they were all saying, you know, be on heightened alert, be watching for inconsistencies.
01:07:49.000Actually, I think Larry Elder has a, let's look this up.
01:07:52.000Larry has a reporting mechanism on his website.
01:09:36.000Up on screen soon, you're going to see one of the reasons the recall happened and certainly the reason why Andrew and Charlie and Austin are talking about how Democrats cannot, cannot count on the youth vote.
01:10:14.000And that is, as someone who was born in California, someone who spent a ton of time there, that is the vibe of the human, the energy of the humans in California is let me vibe.
01:10:24.000The opposite of vibe is what Gavin Newsom did during the COVID lockdown.
01:10:29.000In order to emphasize the power of the state, there are many ways to do that.
01:11:14.000And the Republican areas are seeing turnout like they've never seen before.
01:11:17.000And even the Democrat strongholds, you have to understand this.
01:11:21.000This is an important thing about politics: that if you have someone that voted for Biden and then all of a sudden they go and vote for Trump, it's not just plus one, it's plus two because it's no longer plus one for them and it's plus one for you.
01:17:54.000So these first numbers that we're seeing reported in California right now represents the blue wave.
01:17:59.000So to Charlie's point, if you're getting the blue wave as your first ballots being counted and you're only matching the percentage that we saw in 2020 of all ballots cast, that means you are underperforming.
01:19:23.000And yet, so Republicans right now on the early voting dump, if I'm reading this correctly, we're overperforming by five points right now in Trinity County.
01:19:32.000That could be a bellwether for the rest of the state.
01:24:03.000More votes are going to continue to come in.
01:24:05.000Obviously, what we talked about earlier in the live stream was the 7 million votes that got sent back in.
01:24:11.000There's still another millions of votes.
01:24:13.000I can't do the math out of my head thinking about it.
01:24:15.000But the people that voted today, they might have filled out their ballot or filled out a couple of days ago that still have seven days to have sent it in prior to today.
01:24:26.000So that's going to continue to go on for another seven days.
01:24:28.000The state of California is kind of like Arizona, like Charlie had mentioned before when we were doing like the 2020 stuff.
01:24:34.000It's like a third world country when it comes to counting these votes.
01:24:36.000One thing that I liked about Ron DeSantis is when he became governor, he told the legislature, he said, give me a bill that says at 9:30 on election night, if you don't have your county results in, you're going to stand before a judge the next day and tell me why exactly you don't have that.
01:24:50.000So all the other states need a model after that.
01:24:56.000If I'm reading, I'm looking at this data correctly.
01:24:58.000You know, Lassen County is another county, Northeast California.
01:25:01.000It's traditionally a 74% Republican county, but with the Democrat ballots being dropped, it's 81% in favor of getting rid of Gavin Newsome.
01:25:09.000And that's right on the border of Reno, Nevada, I think, right?
01:29:28.000Trust me, I did not pick up the tab, but neither did Gavin Newsome.
01:29:32.000The French laundry workers came over to our table.
01:29:36.000They recognized some of the people in our party and they talked so much smack about Newsome.
01:29:41.000They said that the entire story was fake news because they said that he had 12 people.
01:29:46.000He actually had 30 people through French laundry and that he was breaking every COVID rule, wandering around with his mask through the French laundry.
01:29:58.000This is at the height of like, don't be around other people, close your restaurants, don't look at anyone in the eyeballs.
01:30:04.000And the staff at the French Laundry, who do not look like conservatives, again, they look like your archetypical Democrat voters were just livid at Gavin Newsome.
01:30:13.000This is why, this is why it's like, yeah, to your guys' point, it's hard to believe.
01:30:20.000It's hard to believe that even 4 million people in a state want this man to stay.
01:30:24.000So there is, I'm not seeing any good numbers for them out of any of this, right?
01:30:30.000I mean, their greatest push, they are behind in every single metric that they possibly can in every single one of the major counties.
01:30:45.000But then you look at like Fresno County, that's coming in really well.
01:30:48.000San Diego is still performing very well.
01:30:51.000No, like it's only like a 21% difference right now.
01:30:54.000Think of all these other counties I'll added up.
01:30:56.000Republican enthusiasm is going to be continued through the roof.
01:30:59.000Like these numbers, I mean, it's only been half, not even half an hour yet since the polls have been closed.
01:31:05.000The number is only going to continue to shrink.
01:31:08.000The best thing that, I mean, obviously we can do for this entire thing is that the Republicans who turned in their ballots is like, don't get discouraged.
01:31:16.000Just, you know, hopefully everybody turned in their ballots.
01:31:19.000Hopefully everybody turned out to show up to vote.
01:31:21.000You know, I don't know how California runs those elections, but maybe some of those Democrat precincts probably kept their polling locations open a little bit longer.
01:31:27.000If you're a Republican, stay in that precinct right there and just continue to vote, man.
01:32:45.000That tells you that when Republican ballots drop, this thing could get out of the way.
01:32:49.000So what it's telling me is that voters that declare, that do not declare, that refuse to declare their party affiliation, you could also call them independents.
01:33:01.000There are technically two categories, but nevertheless, those people that are unaffiliated in the middle, this is where the whole election will swing.
01:33:09.000Will they break and vote for this recall?
01:33:13.000Will they vote yes, even if they're not dyed in the wool Republicans?
01:33:16.000Or are they going to say, let's stick with the status quo because conservatives are not going to be affected by the people?
01:34:03.000That doesn't really obviously cover the independents that were counted in that voting thing.
01:34:10.000But recall elections with Charlie mentioned earlier.
01:34:12.000Scott Walker in the last decade was the only Republican to be recalled, the only governor to be recalled at that time.
01:34:18.000Before that was Arnold Schwarzenegger, obviously talking about California.
01:34:22.000All recall elections are just turnout, turnout, turnout.
01:34:25.000So whoever, if it's Democrats, their party, the Republican Party of California, whoever turns out the most voters of their party is going to win that election.
01:34:34.000The independent voters are going to swing it one way or another.
01:34:37.000But if you do not get the vast majority of your base out from those parties, you're not going to win elections.
01:34:42.000So I want to just kind of refute one thing that Nate Cohn from the New York Times says, where he says, look, Newsom got 65% of Napa Valley in 2018.
01:35:06.000So we're talking about independent voters, and I want to compare the polling from 2017 to recent polling about how independents in California tend to vote.
01:35:37.000In 2017, 29% of independent voters leaned Republican.
01:35:42.000That number went up by seven points in four years.
01:35:45.000So in 2021, 36% of independents in California now lead Republican, which is really, to dive in a little deeper, independent, likely voters are more likely to be moderate, 44% than liberal, which is liberal 29% and conservative 27%.
01:36:03.000When you say moderate in California, I think those voters are breaking towards yes, recall Gavin Newsom.
01:36:12.000Yeah, and we're also seeing this manifest in the numbers.
01:36:14.000So let's use another county, for example.
01:36:33.000We got exit polls, which are largely useless, but we got some.
01:36:36.000Shasta County, which is usually about a 60-30 Republican area, is exactly that with the best Democrat ballots they have to drop, which means that margin is only going to increase as time goes on.
01:36:51.000New York Times reports, long lines reported in Irvine, California.
01:38:07.000I want to show a picture up on the live stream of Wendy, who shows 50 people who are still in line right now to vote in a Republican stronghold.
01:40:31.000So these people have been affected by it way more than people in rural counties.
01:40:34.000So don't expect it or would not be surprised if some of these counties are the ones that just absolutely blow the rural ones out of the water compared to like the percentage-wise for their votes.
01:40:44.000And now, if any of you guys get stupid, push notifications or alerts that we declare this.
01:41:31.000So they're saying this is a strong showing.
01:41:33.000We disagree with that analysis completely.
01:41:35.000This is, again, the early blue vote we're going to see.
01:41:38.000I don't know how you could possibly say it's a strong showing when they're already underperforming all of the results that were happening previously without all the results.
01:41:51.000But Danny Klobuchar, the snow woman, says lots of cool graphics and enthusiastic commentary tonight, but looks like a blowout to me.
01:42:31.000In 2020, Joe Biden got 53% of the vote, which was 528,000 people.
01:42:38.000President Trump got 45% of the vote, which was 449,000.
01:42:42.000Obviously, turnout is a lot lower this time.
01:42:44.000But don't be surprised if the recall numbers go higher than from what Trump got in there in Riverside County because in 2018, John Cox got 322,000 votes, which was 50% of the vote there.
01:42:58.000So obviously in non-presidential election cycle years, Republicans more than likely do better unless that Republican is in office.
01:43:37.000It means he's only a point better than what he did in all of 2020.
01:43:42.000Without any of the Republican election results yet.
01:43:47.000Yeah, so it's basically in Riverside County.
01:43:53.000Just to give you an idea of how much Joe Biden won California, 63% to 34%.
01:43:59.000Just to give you an idea of how blue California is, it's 30 points, right?
01:44:05.000So the fact that with all the best ballots that they have at the beginning, that they're right on par or below where they need to be shows that they got some major problems.
01:44:15.000Yeah, it was a 5 million vote deficit in 2020.
01:44:51.000Lowest ever black unemployment, criminal justice.
01:44:54.000Yes, but in the vote tallies, in the increasing of margins, in Latino votes.
01:44:59.000And in black votes, you're seeing the same trends now.
01:45:03.000The party of the establishment, the party of the wealthy, elite, and educated.
01:45:08.000According to verified Twitter user Nate Cohn, New York Times writer for the upshot, Nate Cohn says that Gavin Newsom is faring extremely well with white college graduates and that non-white voters and especially Latinos are turning on Newsome.
01:45:39.000There was Newsom's team was saying to some reporter somewhere, we expect, and we're actually depending on high Hispanic turnout.
01:45:49.000I said at that time, I said, that is a warning to me that they don't know the electorate and the way it's turning.
01:45:55.000What happened in Texas was a precursor to what is now finally happening in California, and that is the Hispanic community is finally waking up to the fact that Democrats don't represent their values and don't represent their interests and that Hispanics want, what do they want?
01:46:11.000Andrew, your jaw is going to be on the floor.
01:46:14.000More than more, by percentage, Latinos are outpacing white voters for voting for recalling.
01:46:21.000Look at the numbers hard right in front of you.
01:46:57.000McAllen, Texas, a dark blue Democrat city that just elected its first Republican mayor in a generation, a Latino man who won the Latino vote in a dark blue city.
01:47:07.000You're seeing now Latino voters outpacing white voters in California in favor of the recall.
01:47:14.000It might be the strongest, the strongest vote for the recall, maybe the Latino vote in California.
01:47:29.000And I could tell you that without same-day voter registration, without the same-day kind of ballot drops and voting here, these are not the benchmarks that you want to see from the Newsom campaign at all.
01:48:29.000I had to be here today, so I had to sort of trust the most secure drop boxes.
01:48:33.000But the best thing that can happen is that people that were voting today stay in the line or they went and dropped it off.
01:48:39.000So this could go on to the end of the night, midnight, 2 a.m., 3 a.m., or go on for the next couple of days.
01:48:44.000So, you know, it's always up in the air in this era.
01:48:47.000Well, and listen, listen, I don't want to sound defeatist in any way, but what I will tell you is that if this doesn't work out the way we want it to work out, when all is said and done, every vote's counted, plus then some.
01:49:01.000If the Hispanic vote does what it seems very well could do, political dynamics national.
01:49:07.000No, it changes the trajectory of California.
01:49:14.000Well, in a state where you have that many Hispanic voters, and I don't know the exact numbers, maybe somebody can look that up for me, but it's like 40% of registered voters is Hispanic at this point.
01:49:25.000I mean, it's something incredibly high in California compared to the national.
01:49:28.000Daniel emails us, freedom at charliekirk.com.
01:49:30.000I surround myself, people, the gym, church.
01:49:33.000I've heard almost everyone say yes on the recall.
01:49:35.000I live in Northridge, just to give you an idea of where all this is coming from.
01:49:40.000As county results continue to come in county by county, let's go to another kind of bellwether county here as it kind of comes in.
01:49:50.000Here, the election day vote is coming in.
01:49:54.000Nate Collins says it could take as long as 24 hours to count.
01:49:58.000After that, the late mail-in ballots could take weeks.
01:50:01.000And so this is their best push that they have.
01:50:04.000And there's a lot more that's going to be coming in.
01:50:07.000And so just also, this is some interesting.
01:50:12.000So there's no way it's 42.5, but let's just, let's talk about who's winning the Republican side of it, which I think is another interesting thing, right?
01:50:19.000So which Larry Elder, 42% of all Republican votes.
01:50:54.000And then it recorded right from the Rio Grande Valley.
01:50:57.000He did better in South Phoenix in 2020 than did in 2016 and did worse in like Scottsdale Paradise Valley here in Arizona than he did 2016 compared to 2020.
01:52:20.000And you'll be able to hear conversation about everything that's happening in our country, including the Benny Show, including the Arizona audit.
01:52:35.000So just to take it back, like the audit was never about overturning the election.
01:52:39.000It was never about, you know, taking electoral votes away, even though that's what we would sometimes hope that would happen.
01:52:45.000But it was about like the people of Arizona had asked for this to happen.
01:52:49.000The people immediately went to the state legislature, the state senate, who has the audit power, which has the subpoena power, went and said, like, you know what?
01:52:57.000The people have asked for this audit, so it went and happened.
01:53:00.000And it's been a long, kind of drawn-out process, but we want quality over quantity.
01:53:06.000We want the best results rather than just speed.
01:53:08.000And so hopefully, you know, it's supposed to be by the end of the, it was last week, should be by the end of this week, that there's going to be some results coming out from it.
01:53:16.000The guys that were doing the audit all got struck with the Chinese coronavirus, so they weren't able to go in front of the Arizona State Senate some of their results.
01:53:23.000Yeah, so they were going to be able to get it.
01:54:36.000But obviously, the mainstream media, the Democrats, and establishment Republicans here in Arizona, the McCain machine, the Chamber of Consultants, even though they're supposed to be the people that are the business ones, they were so anti-about it.
01:54:52.000There's probably going to be some irregularities that are going to come out from it.
01:54:56.000But at the end of the day, the Arizona State Senate, in my opinion, the legislature as a whole has done a phenomenal job to correct these types of things.
01:55:03.000It's set off a trigger, I think, across the country.
01:55:06.000Pennsylvania is looking into doing one.
01:55:07.000Potentially, Georgia is looking into doing one.
01:55:09.000I know Wisconsin has kind of set the ball rolling for a little bit, but Arizona set the precedence of what it means to listen to your constituents, to follow through in these types of audits deals.
01:55:18.000So hopefully, you know, every single election after it happens, obviously, the counties kind of do their own.
01:55:23.000The state should be able to do their own, and then the state should be able to hire an independent person to do it.
01:55:27.000Every state should be able to do an audit.
01:55:29.000This is not like a crazy radical thing.
01:55:32.000If the people have asked you to do this, you do it.
01:55:34.000And for anybody for Republicans, like the COO of Turning Point Action, Tyler Boyer, had mentioned it during our rally to protect our elections.
01:55:43.000If any politician within the Republican Party tells you that election integrity is not the most important thing, tell them they're wrong.
01:55:50.000Charlie mentioned it, resign, go run as a Democrat and get the heck out of the Republican Party.
01:55:54.000Like election integrity is everything.
01:55:56.000Hopefully, after this, you know, they do the recall with Gavin Newsome.
01:56:00.000They have a Republican in there like Larry Elder.
01:56:02.000They do massive election integrity overhauls.
01:57:19.000Austin was talking about that, how Donald Trump won more of the Latino vote in 2020, and in Georgia, negative 4%.
01:57:29.000It's almost unbelievable with these kinds of numbers that the Democrats could hold together a coalition of the dispossessed in future elections when Hispanic voters start to swing towards Republicans.
01:57:41.000Just a quick, just a quick note here: we're taking the Benny Show.
01:57:44.000We're taking our podcast down to the border on Thursday.
01:57:48.000We're going to be doing a live podcast, half in Mexico, half in America.
01:57:52.000I am going to stand from the I'm going to call it the Benny Show on one side and the Benito show on the other side.
01:58:01.000And so we are going to do our podcast.
01:58:03.000We're going to show you all on the Betty show, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you can find podcasts, and on our social media at BennyJohnson.com, Betty Johnson, on all platforms.
01:58:15.000You will be able to see how easy it is to just straddle the border.
01:58:19.000We'll do a full podcast on the border.
01:58:22.000We'll stand there in the middle of the border.
01:58:24.000We're bringing all of our equipment down.
01:58:25.000We're just going to stand and do a podcast from the border on Thursday.
01:58:27.000Maybe that's why Latinos are fleeing the Democratic Party, specifically the ones who immigrated legally to this country and are furious at what is happening with our poorest open borders.
01:59:01.000So Mariposa County is 58% yes to get rid of Gavin Newsome, which is overperforming the regular Republican numbers back in 2020 without the in-person ballot.
01:59:17.000New York Times says here that we are going to see Election Day results come in, which will normalize this vote count.
01:59:25.000What other counties are we looking at here, Austin?
01:59:38.000One thing everybody should also keep in mind when it comes to these recall elections is that these mail-in ballots, I'm not exactly sure how California works, but I'm pretty sure it's like the same as all the other states.
01:59:49.000They get them, they sit in, they count those ballots.
01:59:51.000They're already put into a data system.
01:59:52.000They're ready to be published as soon as they come out.
01:59:54.000We have not gotten a count yet of these new mail-in ballots yet.
01:59:58.000There is going to be a surge of Republican voters in Orange County.
02:00:01.000Correct me if I'm wrong, but there's a lot of people in Orange County that are Republican voters.
02:00:04.000Charlie and I were there this last week where we had a rally in Newport.
02:00:09.000And those folks were saying, when I talked to all of them, we had probably 200 people show up to this really grassroots rally to go and knock thousands of doors after.
02:00:16.000They said is that people are going to be voting in person or they're taking their ballot there at that time.
02:00:21.000So Orange County is going to be one of those big places.
02:00:23.000San Diego County is going to be one of those other big places where it's going to be like kind of a long drawn out process.
02:00:30.000It's kind of funny because like all these people that mail in their ballots that the Democrats, they don't want to go and vote in person.
02:00:35.000So the key to victory is in these counties is just Republicans, show up at your polling place and go vote.
02:00:40.000That's all you got to do is just show up your place of vote.
02:00:42.000The Democrats have reached their ceiling.
02:01:29.000Just get an idea of like all the different votes that have been reported and haven't been reported.
02:01:34.000And anything else that would be there would be completely and we believe preemptive.
02:01:38.000But also, we kind of want to see the margins and what this tells us for other California races and also Democrats nationally, right, Austin?
02:01:47.000And so we talked about the districts that Republicans flipped in 2020.
02:01:53.000There is a few battleground congressional districts.
02:01:55.000Going forward in California, like obviously, if you're not familiar with what redistricting is, every 10 years, the Constitution requires that all states redraw their congressional and local legislative district maps.
02:02:07.000Hopefully we have a Republican governor at the time in California and can have a little bit of help in redrawing some of those districts.
02:02:13.000But the thing that Charlie was talking about earlier is that these down ballot races and nationally, Andrew mentioned it too, is that the House is going to run through California.
02:02:21.000You're going to have five Republicans that came from very swing-hard districts that favor Democrats, that go kind of in the middle, but they're really trending towards Republicans right now.
02:02:30.000This is a good sign, regardless of how the recall turns out.
02:02:34.000We believe that Gavin Newsom is going to be recalled.
02:02:38.000But down ballot stuff is going to be critical for the future of the conservative movement going all the way through California.
02:02:43.000Those districts, but if this is any indicator how the rest of the country is going to turn out in 2020, the fact that this recall has even happened.
02:02:48.000Happened in the House back is unbelievable.
02:02:52.000No, I just, I've been sitting here kind of diving into the Hispanic vote.
02:02:57.000I mean, I'm trying to get, obviously, I think there might be some exit polling that we'll see and how, you know, shedding some more light on where the Hispanic vote is.
02:03:06.000But between 2016 and 2020, Trump, for example, won, he got an 8% point swing towards Trump between 2016 and 2020.
02:03:19.000This is pretty amazing news, actually.
02:03:22.000So basically, the way this is a Democrat polling firm that estimated that about, it was about 60-40 Hispanics went for Biden versus Trump.
02:03:40.000So I don't know where they're getting this eight-point swing, but it was 29% of the Hispanic vote that Trump got in 2016.
02:03:47.000Now, Benny, I don't know if you have new data on this on the Hispanic vote or where it's trending, but if I'm, I can't overstate this enough.
02:03:57.000Regardless of what the election outcome is tonight, if Hispanics are trending in a conservative direction in California, that could change everything.
02:04:08.000It is everything about the future of California.
02:04:11.000And we have 32% of Orange County that has reported.
02:04:14.000So anyone that's out there that's calling anything, just time out, folks.
02:04:45.000There is 1,801 precincts in Orange County alone.
02:04:50.0001,800 precincts in Orange County alone.
02:04:52.000That takes a long time to count that type of stuff.
02:04:55.000It takes a long time for them to procure those ballots.
02:04:57.000It takes a long time for them because I know in places like Orange County and some of these bigger counties, obviously, give you a perfect example.
02:05:04.000Maricopa County, it's a more meticulous process when it comes to counting these votes, your early ballots, your provisional ballots.
02:05:10.000Now we're looking at, obviously, there was this first big drop with the Democrats, which we talked about earlier, that it was going to be favorable to these Democrats.
02:05:16.000You're still waiting for these ballots that were day of voting.
02:05:19.000You're still waiting for these ones that were people that voted on election, or excuse me, that voted today, maybe mailed it in, or voted three or four days ago, and then still mailed it in.
02:05:28.000Every single county, every single precinct has their own specific way on how they go about counting these ballots and the deadline that they have to do.
02:05:35.000Obviously, we would like for 9:30 Western time or 9-3rd of the time when those election results come in that they are counted right away.
02:05:43.000There is estimated over 1.8 million registered voters in Orange County alone.
02:05:50.000Ballots cast so far have only been 721,000.
02:05:56.000If you look back in 2018, Newsom only won Orange County by just over 3,000 votes.
02:06:03.000If there's any indicator from what 2018 is going to be showing this 2021 recall, is that Orange County is still going to continue to go down to the wire.
02:06:46.000Look, you have to look at the totality of this entire thing.
02:06:50.000And anyone who's trying to go quick to the trigger figure here, I think is a massive mistake.
02:06:55.000You just kind of look county by county.
02:06:56.000You look at Plumas County, look at Laston County, look at MODOC County.
02:06:59.000You look, I can't even pronounce some of these counties, Del Norte County.
02:07:02.000And they're vastly underperforming at their best surge of ballots.
02:07:06.000But I'm just super interested also just in the general margins here.
02:07:11.000Like they are, San Bernardino County, I mean, they are way below what they were before.
02:07:16.000I mean, we're talking about almost double digits below of what happened in 2020.
02:07:21.000And so there's this question of if you take the entire state and all of a sudden it's within single digits, that is way, way, way, way too close to call in a variety of different ways.
02:07:33.000Get some questions here that you guys have emailed us, freedom at charliekirk.com, where people are saying, Charlie, what do you have to say about other people calling it?
02:07:42.000We're just going to go county by county.
02:09:18.000Well, look, and we said this all along, and you know, which is no, the idea that this is even going to be within single digits is rather remarkable, right?
02:09:26.000We don't even know what the final outcome is.
02:09:28.000I'm telling you that there's going to be this surge that's going to happen, but all of a sudden it goes from like 66% to no, and all of a sudden be like, oh, wow, this is within five points, right?
02:10:31.000We're saying we're going to keep watching the numbers come in, and we're not going to just jump to conclusions.
02:10:36.000Because if you know anything about the media, like my friend Benny definitely knows something about the media, there is a propensity to follow the leader, right?
02:10:47.000Okay, so one outlet calls it, then the next calls it, then it's like safe to jump in.
02:11:47.000He said, early voting is always Democrat heavy.
02:11:49.000They are underperforming in every county.
02:11:51.000Day of voting is always heavy Republican.
02:11:54.000California elections always go blue wave early, red date way of, and then blue wave corruption ballots after election.
02:12:00.000Let's get Rob on just to kind of give a different perspective on all of this.
02:12:04.000And if I was Gavin Newsom, I would go out immediately and try to take whatever credit that you might be just because you have an early mail and voting lead.
02:12:12.000And it might be he ends up getting one more vote than the other side or 5% more votes.
02:12:21.000Why does it always happen when it's like, we're going to, you always hear if a Democrat is ahead, like by a single half percentage point, call it, call it, 2% of the electric, call it, call it, done.
02:12:35.000But if Trump is leading by 10 points in Ohio with 98% reporting, it's like, you know, it's like, it's like going to be something very stoic, very stoic.
02:12:45.000We must wait for all of the ballots to be counted.
02:12:48.000But there's only 1% vote outstanding, and he's up by 10 points.
02:12:51.000You don't want to, you don't want to disenfranchise, you see.
02:13:03.000But it's like doesn't, I mean, I feel like I'm having a little bit of a deja vu and also reminding me of like some of the worst days I've ever spent as an American, which are the days directly after the 2020 election as you like sat in this malaise, you know, watching the, like, watching these gears like like work and work and work.
02:13:24.000And so it's like, why doesn't that happen in this instance?
02:13:32.000I didn't want to say it, but like an hour and a half ago, some of the more extreme left-wing outlets, I have an entire feed of my tweet deck of like, I call it lib hell.
02:13:43.000And it's the most, it's the craziest Aaron Rupar and all the like absolute galaxy brain libs.
02:14:12.000They waited way longer than I expected them to, to be honest.
02:14:15.000So to all of you emailing us, yes, we see your emails and yes, we see the news reports.
02:14:19.000Again, our philosophy on the show is different.
02:14:22.000The other thing I want to talk about is trends.
02:14:24.000So when we see these trends and what's happening with Hispanic voters, when we see what's happening with older white voters, we see what's happening with younger voters.
02:14:43.000I think the major story out of this night, as far as what we're seeing from verified reporters at the New York Times, the major story from tonight is that the Democratic Party has lost the working class.
02:14:54.000Yes, the Democratic Party has lost the working class and has become the party of the elite egalitarian class.
02:15:03.000So we have, sorry to interrupt, but we have Rob, who's Pastor Rob McCoy from Thousand Oaks, California.
02:16:11.000We're patient zero for ballot harvesting.
02:16:14.000All the misery you've seen across the country was first developed in California.
02:16:19.000And you can give up and whine and complain about a corrupt system and then quit, you know, quit fighting and figuring out how to do it.
02:16:29.000But then you see guys like Jack Hibbs who collects the ballots with his church.
02:16:33.000The one thing I wish Jack hadn't done was tell the total because you want to keep that secret because they're just going to try to print them at the last minute to see how many they can come up with.
02:18:02.000So those lines, all those people who voted, those numbers are still going to come in.
02:18:06.000So the first thing that Governor Nussalini has to do is he's got to get the narrative because that's what they do.
02:18:15.000They try to put the narrative and then the press follows in line and they all play the game and you get, you know, Abrams from Georgia declaring the race and everybody else so that they can get the narrative out there.
02:18:27.000But the reality is we're getting savvy.
02:19:02.000Some of my biggest heroes have folded during this time of tyranny and they have complied with the state while we have a virus that has a 99.5% survival rate.
02:19:29.000They've destroyed our businesses over a supposed pandemic where we're watching as now we're getting mandated vaccines and we're watching first responders.
02:19:40.000Last night in our church, we had to turn people away.
02:19:43.000It was packed to capacity of first responders educating themselves and preparing to get their unions to vote in opposition to mandated vaccines.
02:20:33.000But like we've seen in every Democrat-controlled city, the minute that they create the chaos that they do in every city they dominate, they then turn on the police and fire and defund the police as we watch these cities burn.
02:20:47.000These firemen, these police officers see this across the country.
02:20:51.000They're not going to put up with it anymore.
02:20:53.000And no matter what the narrative is by this elite class that has dickered with, and that's a good word, dickered.
02:21:15.000Gone are the days where you can think you put your vote in and everything's fine.
02:21:19.000No, you must be vigilant to defend liberty.
02:21:23.000And I would just simply say to the folks out there that if you're frustrated and you want to quit and give up because you think it doesn't work, do me a favor.
02:21:32.000It moves somewhere else because one in nine Americans fought in the Revolutionary War.
02:21:36.000And you've been given unprecedented freedom for 245 years.
02:21:41.000And you're going to look at your kids and your grandkids and say, oh, the election was filled with fraud and I gave up.
02:22:14.000And people watching, you can email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com and support us at charliekirk.com/slash support.
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02:22:41.000What are your final thoughts, Benny, before we get back to Rob McCoy?
02:25:28.000As I was sharing with you about those firefighters, our church has grown 400% because we're committed to contending for liberty.
02:25:39.000And for the folks who've given up on the system and think that California is too corrupt to save, I love the illustration that I first heard from you, Charlie, with Governor DeSantis.
02:25:49.000You had Dade County, Gore versus Bush, dimpled ballots and hanging chads, and one man made a difference.
02:25:58.000And we're watching that this recall election is within the margin, regardless of what Governor Nussalini is spouting in his declaration of having won.
02:28:10.000And again, this was at the, I believe at the county level.
02:28:14.000They diverted so many funds towards your race that you realized that it was a victory even in the end.
02:28:19.000I think that, you know, regardless, I'm not saying that this is over, but I'm saying regardless, there is a victory in the fact that they just spent how much money in California and they're not spending that to go ruin the country elsewhere.
02:28:49.000I went into the general election depleted in funds and the Democrats spent over $6 million against me in a lower house state legislative seat.
02:29:01.000And as a result, it was the last time that Republican, or excuse me, it was the last time that the Democrats didn't have a supermajority because they lost so many seats they weren't counting on because they had to put so much money into my race.
02:29:16.000And I got to speak at the California Republican convention when the Republicans didn't even like me.
02:29:20.000I'd been a Republican my whole life and they had fought me in the primary, but they ended up letting me speak there because the money, the hits I took, 6.6 million hits, allowed them to win races they weren't counting on winning.
02:30:34.000This is going to be a long, drawn out process.
02:30:36.000Obviously, everybody in America for some reason, obviously until now, where elections are a little bit more paid attention to when it comes to the balloting process, like a third world country.
02:30:46.000We're not going to know the results until like Thanksgiving for some reason.
02:31:40.000And my whole family, I can tell you, is, you know, bleeds red.
02:31:45.000California, my wife's family, especially, California natives go back, kind of like you, Rob, and they're all dropping off their, or they're all going day of voting, day of voting.
02:31:55.000I mean, nobody is mailing in their ballots.
02:31:57.000So, and what I can tell you is that similar thing that we saw, and Rob, I'd love to get your feedback on this because I'm a firm believer that we need to absolutely change the paradigm.
02:32:07.000We can't say, oh, we're going to do, see, I'm totally against this Georgia law.
02:32:20.000I'm sick of this, this mail-in voting.
02:32:22.000I'm sick of the 58 voting days and sort of the Republicans taking the standpoint of, look, look how much extra voting we just passed into law because we're scared of being called racist.
02:32:34.000No, I want to go back to paper ballots.
02:33:10.000And then we approach the election in another capacity.
02:33:14.000But, you know, one of the things you guys pointed out earlier on was the businesses leaving California.
02:33:19.000And I don't know if you saw that Hoover Institute report, but more businesses have left California in 2021 through August than all of 2020 combined.
02:33:29.000And 2020 was a banner year for businesses leaving.
02:33:33.000And that doesn't, those are large businesses.
02:33:35.000That doesn't include the mom and pops and the 100 employees or less that have left the state.
02:33:41.000More people have left the state than came here during the Dust Bowl.
02:33:48.000Everyone, you know, I love as it says in 1 Samuel, those who were drawn to David in the cave of Agilum were distressed, indebted, and discontented.
02:33:58.000That's because Saul was just like Nussalini.
02:34:01.000He was a tyrant, and anyone who had a business was indebted.
02:34:05.000Anyone who wanted to be in charge of their own health care was distressed because of mandates.
02:34:11.000You know, distressed, indebted, and discontented.
02:34:17.000And though they are manipulating the election, though the press is playing in, don't lose sight of the fact that this is how an election goes.
02:34:43.000Just kind of, you've been hearing from a lot of congregants that constantly are under this barrage of should you leave or should you fight for the place that you're in.
02:34:52.000Rob, you've made the decision to fight for California, and Nussalini comes out rather preemptively and tries to declare victory while there's still massive amounts of votes still to be counted.
02:35:03.000Talk about why you decided to actually fight for your state and not just go to what people would call greener pastures in other states.
02:35:12.000Yeah, my family's three generations California.
02:35:20.000You can be snow skiing that same afternoon in the mountains, and you can be riding a dirt bike in the desert at sunset.
02:35:27.000This is the most remarkable place in all the world.
02:35:30.000And as Congressman McClintock said, there's only one thing that can cause people to leave the beauty of California for the deserts of Nevada and the wastelands of Texas, and that's bad government.
02:35:49.000We're the ones who created the California aqueduct that brings water from the Sierras into the most fertile fruit or fruit basket on the planet where we produce more cotton than the entire South combined.
02:36:30.000And if your answer to that is to move out, you're taking your apathy to another state that's going to be poisoned with the cancer of your unwillingness to be a citizen in a republic that is of the people, by the people, and for the people.
02:36:45.000For those of us who remain, we know what it's going to take.
02:36:50.000Those of us who are left will do whatever's necessary to win this state back.
02:36:55.000They're going to change the rules on us.
02:36:56.000They're going to move the goalpost just like they did in the COVID mess where they had the six boxes and the color tiers and the 15 days to flatten the curve.
02:37:04.000And now it's 100 employees or less in your business to be a mandated vaccine.
02:37:33.000And one of the things that is so important, and I think what this recall establishes is you've had essentially single party rule in California.
02:37:42.000And we see all the nasty fruit that comes off of that.
02:37:45.000Corruption, runaway policy agendas that are basically shouted by 10% of the minority, but yet everybody in the party goes along with it.
02:37:53.000So you're just getting this acceleration to radical leftist politics.
02:37:58.000What this does is it establishes a baseline that says we still have a voice, we still have a backbone.
02:38:05.000And as a matter of fact, there's something that was said on a podcast that Charlie actually did.
02:39:05.000It wasn't a party, it was a reception.
02:39:08.000And here you're talking about a right-wing, evangelical, fundamentalist Republican pastor.
02:39:16.000And I'm at a party with Bobby Kennedy Jr., lifelong Democrat, liberal left-leaning.
02:39:23.000And the two of us are knitted in our defense of liberty.
02:39:29.000And we realize the tyranny that we're under and how big pharma has destroyed our state and destroyed our nation.
02:39:37.000And I'm looking, and it's an eclectic crowd that's gathered, and it almost looks like the bar scene out of Star Wars.
02:39:45.000And yet it's all of those, again, who are distressed, indebted, and discontented.
02:39:50.000We are unifying as citizens, wanting to have the ability of those inalienable rights that were given to us that we're not going to compromise on.
02:40:03.000But speech is critical, and they've censored us.
02:40:07.000The governor violated the First Amendment when he declared the church to be non-essential.
02:40:14.000Abortion clinics were essential while they were harvesting the parts of the children and then flushing the remainder into the sewer systems of our state.
02:40:25.000Costco, somehow, the virus doesn't affect, but every mom and pop business, it does.
02:40:32.000And then they say it's science, and he does a curfew from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. as though the virus somehow knows that it wakes up at 10 p.m.
02:40:44.000And that's supposedly science, while he goes out, as Benny so wonderfully pointed out, to the French laundry, where the appetizers that each cost more than the average welfare check of those that the government promised to give.
02:41:00.000So there is a unifying across the board of dissatisfied citizens in California.
02:41:06.000And this elite group is going to isolate themselves just like Nancy Pelosi did with the wall around the Capitol.
02:41:20.000Well, and this is a good reminder to everybody watching, Rob, that if, as all the media outlets have called, that this goes Gavin Newsom's way, he has to face election again in November of 2022.
02:41:36.000So If this holds, and listen, again, we're going to wait till the fat lady sings and we're going to wait till day of ballots get counted.
02:41:48.000If this holds, though, he's got a little over one year before he has to do this all over again.
02:41:55.000So he spent a lot of money, spent a lot of capital.
02:41:58.000Now, the media is going to try and spin this as Gavin Newsom emerges victorious, strengthened, and poised to make a national run.
02:42:07.000But what this really means is that he's been, in my opinion, he's been vastly weakened.
02:42:13.000But, you know, what do you think your take on that is going to be?
02:43:10.000I will stand upon it because liberty is God's idea, not man's idea.
02:43:15.000And as a minister, that is my calling.
02:43:17.000And the greatest joy for me, the greatest joy and the biggest victory, and Charlie, turning point, turning point faith, all you folks there, you get all the credit as far as I'm concerned.
02:43:28.000We're watching pastors across this state activated in the Ecclesia, the public square, because of the efforts of Turning Point.
02:43:41.000It's an awakening theologically that we are the ones that have to contend for our neighbors whose freedom is being usurped and taken.
02:43:49.000And we're having to do more than just truncate the gospel and make it simplistic by raising your hand and collecting a tithe.
02:43:55.000We actually have to contend in the public square for the freedom of our neighbors and to proclaim that liberty from the scriptures and to defy a tyrant, which is in conjunction with Romans 13.
02:44:09.000When he doesn't do good, he no longer has the authority to be an authority.
02:44:15.000And in a constitutional republic, it declares that it's our right and our duty.
02:44:20.000And Charlie, seriously, all of these pastors you listed and many more that you haven't because there's not enough time, every one of them had a prayer service.
02:45:33.000He's going to go up for re-election again in 2022.
02:45:36.000They spent a lot of money coming in this way.
02:45:38.000They were very skeptical to bring in the president of the United States, the vice president of the United States, the Speaker of the House to be from that state.
02:45:44.000She probably had to pour in a lot of money, try to transfer a lot of money from the NR or CB, the DNCC, whatever the heck it is, the George Soros slush fund, whatever they want to call it, going over to the Democrats in California.
02:46:02.000The conservative movement as a whole is in a very good position.
02:46:05.000For us to go in 2018 to win some counties in California or win seats for congressional races in California to win them again in 2020, flip some of them, hold some of them again, is a very good indicator.
02:46:17.000The House is obviously going to run through California.
02:46:19.000These precincts in Southern California are going to be extremely critical.
02:46:23.000And you can't, you know, just go away from the rural counties.
02:46:27.000Turning out every Republican as humanly possible is going to win these elections.
02:46:30.000We're getting to a place now in our politics where it's not going to always depend on what we do after the primary to get some of these independent voters.
02:46:39.000If you don't turn out your Republican voters in your general election or in your recall election, pack it in, you're done, and you're over with.
02:46:46.000Democrats have politicized and hyper-partisaned everything in this country that if we don't turn out as many Republicans as humanly possible to win these elections, we're not going to do it.
02:46:55.000So as the way it's looking, there's still a lot of votes that need to be counted.
02:46:59.000If only 4 million of those mail-ins went for Democrats and they're getting to a point somewhere, I'm going to look to see where the numbers are.
02:47:05.000If they've gotten close to counting all those 4 million mail-in ballots, there's still a lot of Republicans that filled in those mail-in ballots, dropped them off on election day, or mailed them in on the election day.
02:47:14.000We're going to have a few days of just counting ballots.
02:48:03.000Well, I'm going to say it's like Fox News calling Arizona.
02:48:08.000They had to set the narrative so that they could justify what we're now seeing in the as they're looking at the election results and they're doing the auditing.
02:48:32.000Now, granted, that the numbers are heavy in favor of him, but as we're looking at the counties underperforming and seeing the lines and noting that the people who are voting now are the ones that totally distrust, distrust this election system in California.
02:49:19.000Now, granted, that was back in the day when they didn't have as much, but this is really premature because, you know, they know how these elections work.
02:49:30.000They know that they're underperforming and they have got to set the narrative.
02:49:34.000And this is similar to election night during the presidential election of Fox News calling Arizona.
02:50:23.000Closing thoughts, Andrew, as it's becoming more clear that as we approach one o'clock Eastern, they're not going to, they're not going to drop this anytime.
02:51:07.000Here's the thing that I will tell you: is some of the polling that's coming out from very liberal polling groups like Quinnipiak have Biden underwater by six points.
02:51:16.000Now, again, this is, you know, Raspinson has him underwater by eight points.
02:51:21.000What they want to do is they want to move on and they want to change the narrative.
02:51:25.000And they think that this is going to be an example of that.
02:51:27.000And I can guarantee you that's going to be what the op-eds written by the liberal intelligentsia are saying.
02:51:33.000No, they're going to completely overlook the fact that this happened in the first place.
02:51:37.000They're going to completely overlook the fact that Biden is a walking disaster and everybody knows it.
02:51:41.000And his polling is dragging down the entire party.
02:51:44.000One of the reasons they were so nervous about this recall in California was precisely because Biden is bringing down the entire party and there's no enthusiasm.
02:51:55.000So I would say, listen, stick to the facts.
02:51:57.000Understand that this was the fact this even happened was a miracle.
02:52:01.000The fact that we got this far was a miracle.
02:52:03.000Our friend Larry Elder deserves a lot of praise and credit for diving into this race and really energizing it.
02:52:13.000And frankly, he had them terrified, which should tell you a lot.
02:52:18.000Yeah, I mean, at the end of the day, Andrew kind of hit the nail on the head there is that this was a really good indicator of where the country is going, where we are as a conservative movement going.
02:52:30.000A lot of the grassroots people, the outside groups that are there on the ground in California and have been for months now doing the work necessary to initiate this, the moms and dads from the school boards tired of their children being masked up and forced to sit in front of a computer for nine to 10 hours a day to learn.
02:52:46.000Hats off to the pastors that initiated this, that didn't shut down their churches, that didn't shut down their places of worship, that said, we're going to take a stand about this.
02:52:54.000We're actually going to stand up for what this country is all about.
02:54:31.000Based on what I'm seeing, if we keep this up with the grassroots focus and the conservative base from turning point action standpoint and from a Republican standpoint, the Republicans are going to take back the House in 2022.
02:55:01.000I mean, so remember, this was a long shot to begin with, but the fact that to Charlie's point, when all is said and done, you count the ballots.
02:55:08.000And if he wins this thing with eight to 10 points, I'm not kidding.
02:55:27.000I will tell you that they are going to try and spin this in a way that says, oh, from strength to strength, bigger and better, national optimism for Gavin Newsom's future.
02:56:11.000And if you guys are inspired and you want to support this program and our live streams and our two podcasts today, three hours of radio today, give you an idea.
02:57:31.000One of the outcomes that could end up being a massive, massive key to future victories, one of the outcomes that could come out of tonight is pay attention.
02:57:42.000Pay attention to any allegations of voter fraud.
02:57:48.000There is a possibility anytime there's something this big and this statewide, and we're already seeing images on social media that we could pull up if we wanted to.
02:57:59.000Clip 13, if you guys want to do that for the stream here, of the ballot, the see-through battle on the light.
02:58:04.000We're seeing stuff like this reported, okay?
02:58:06.000Now, if this keep a lookout because this could be the thread that unravels the whole sweater.
02:58:39.000So he wasn't saying Texas is a wasteland.
02:58:41.000So here we are, just clarifying the record.
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