The Charlie Kirk Show - September 30, 2022


Can the Uniparty Defeat Senator Mike Lee in Utah? | Sen. Mike Lee + George Barna


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Dr. George Barna joins us about the recent revelations of where do Americans stand on their worldview and what is causing them to become less religious. And then, Senator Mike Lee joins us as an update about his race on how the uniparty is trying to derail his candidacy.

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00:01:19.000 There's a fascinating series of studies that are published.
00:01:22.000 The American Values Study, which is just purely data, and it really shows where we're at as a country and what do people want.
00:01:34.000 It's administered by George Barna, Director of Research at Arizona Christian University, another one of the few colleges I think that really does a nice job.
00:01:41.000 ACU is a good school.
00:01:43.000 It is.
00:01:44.000 Arizona Christian University.
00:01:46.000 And I'm just kind of going through this study here, and I have lots of questions.
00:01:51.000 So to help us navigate it all, is George Barna, Director of Research at the Arizona Christian University, and we're talking about his study.
00:01:57.000 George, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:01:59.000 Charlie, thanks for having me.
00:02:00.000 Good to be with you.
00:02:01.000 Thank you.
00:02:02.000 So the floor is yours.
00:02:03.000 Tell us about the major findings in this latest study that I think came out two days ago.
00:02:08.000 Yeah, actually came out yesterday, and it's really interesting because we know that people are very upset with what's going on with government, with politics, with the direction of the country.
00:02:19.000 And they're finally in a place where I think we're in enough pain.
00:02:23.000 That's usually the only time people change is when they're in a situation of pain, where they realize, okay, we've got to figure out what kind of leaders we really want.
00:02:32.000 And as we evaluated both their values personally and what they're looking for for the country at large, what we found is that they want different kinds of leaders.
00:02:42.000 They want people who demonstrate their integrity, don't just promise it and talk about it.
00:02:46.000 They want people who have character, but we know it because we see it in how they act, how they live, how they treat other people, the kinds of policies that they present.
00:02:57.000 And maybe even more than those, they want people who are in this to serve the public.
00:03:04.000 They're not in it for their own best interests.
00:03:06.000 They want government to be something that takes care of the needs of the people as opposed to their own personal needs.
00:03:12.000 And so to them, that means protecting and expanding freedom, taking care of the family, promoting stability, not trying to consistently have major transformation of our systems.
00:03:25.000 The people are saying, you know what?
00:03:27.000 We want things that we know, we trust, we can live with.
00:03:31.000 They're predictable.
00:03:32.000 They're consistent.
00:03:34.000 We want to live our lives.
00:03:35.000 We don't want to have to spend our time worrying about what the government's going to do to us or allow us or not allow us to do.
00:03:43.000 That sounds small C conservative.
00:03:46.000 So this is mostly adults that you polled.
00:03:48.000 Is that right?
00:03:49.000 All adults, people 18 years of age and older across the country, nationally represented sample.
00:03:55.000 So some of these, for example, you know, the kind of a headline here is that Americans want more kindness.
00:04:01.000 Is that right?
00:04:02.000 Is that part of this?
00:04:03.000 That's part of it.
00:04:04.000 They want, oddly enough, they want political leaders who are not going to be arguing with each other.
00:04:10.000 They want political leaders who are going to demonstrate kindness and respect and generosity and compassion, even toward the people that they disagree with.
00:04:20.000 They want to go back to a time when our leaders were willing to sit down and talk about things, see if they could work it out.
00:04:28.000 They don't want all the yelling, the lying, the deceit, the manipulation that's become basically synonymous.
00:04:35.000 I definitely don't think we need more kindness, but I'm in the minority here.
00:04:38.000 I don't think you should be kind to people that chemically castrate children.
00:04:42.000 But so that's an interesting thing.
00:04:45.000 So I understand that because it's like water.
00:04:47.000 They want the easiest path, right?
00:04:49.000 It's this ideal and they don't quite, I think, realize what we're up against.
00:04:53.000 But so there's really interesting questions here, right?
00:04:56.000 As we go through this.
00:04:58.000 So it said individuals should have the rights and freedoms to make legitimate choices rather than having government make those choices for them.
00:05:04.000 76% of people agree.
00:05:06.000 Now, was this amongst any sort of crosstabs or was it just kind of a general, you know, 1,500 adults, meaning when you looked into any, did it get more so as people got over the age of 50 or less?
00:05:17.000 I'm sort of interested in that.
00:05:19.000 Yeah.
00:05:19.000 In fact, all of the questions that we looked at, there were discernible demographic patterns.
00:05:23.000 And one of those is that people 50 and older wanted this kind of more reasonable society.
00:05:31.000 People under the age of 30 were less interested in that.
00:05:35.000 People over the age of 50 don't want the government tinkering in their lives.
00:05:39.000 People under the age of 30 would like government to take care of a lot more stuff for them.
00:05:44.000 But the interesting thing to me across all the different crosstabs we looked at is whether you looked at Democrats, Republicans, independents as one set of crosstabs, young, middle-aged, older as another, different ethnic groups.
00:05:59.000 A majority of Americans said that they wanted all of these things.
00:06:03.000 The one exception was liberals, where we had just a plurality, not a majority, but a plurality of them saying that they wanted government to stop meddling with businesses and they wanted government to stop tinkering with their lives.
00:06:19.000 So, I mean, by and large, we're at a point where I think people are tired of all the rancor that we've seen in campaigns and they want something different.
00:06:30.000 So let's just kind of transition, but it's kind of correlated.
00:06:33.000 What does your recent study show about the state of faith in America?
00:06:38.000 Well, we're constantly doing studies related to faith because we think it all comes back to that and basically your worldview.
00:06:45.000 And so what we found there is that Americans essentially are very confused.
00:06:49.000 If we look at the worldview that people possess, what we discover is that it's not a biblical worldview, even though you've got about seven out of 10 Americans calling themselves Christians.
00:07:01.000 You got half of Americans who believe they have a biblical worldview.
00:07:05.000 Only 6% do.
00:07:06.000 What do most people have?
00:07:08.000 Something that we've labeled syncretism.
00:07:10.000 88% are best described by syncretism, which means that what they do is they pick and choose ideas from many different philosophies of life.
00:07:19.000 And so they'll buy into a few Marxist ideals.
00:07:22.000 They'll buy into some postmodern thoughts.
00:07:24.000 They'll buy into some Eastern mystical ideas about how to live and so forth.
00:07:28.000 And they put all those together into a personal blend that then becomes their own unique worldview.
00:07:36.000 So it doesn't really work very well when you look at that because often there are contradictions within their own worldview.
00:07:45.000 And when we ask them, how do you reconcile those?
00:07:48.000 They say, huh, I didn't know I had those contradictions.
00:07:51.000 And secondly, I'm not really worried about it.
00:07:53.000 We'll just see how it works out.
00:07:55.000 Yeah, there's, there's, that is, I think that's very accurate.
00:07:58.000 So let me ask you then, just from some numbers, the recent poll, or whichever one you want to pull from, maybe in the last month or last year, how religious is America right now?
00:07:58.000 That's totally true.
00:08:09.000 We think we're more religious than we actually are.
00:08:12.000 And so to us, there are two different things you have to measure.
00:08:15.000 One is beliefs, one is behaviors.
00:08:18.000 If your behaviors don't comport with your beliefs, you don't really believe what you told me you believe.
00:08:23.000 And so when we look at the beliefs, what we find is that people say they're very spiritual, they're religious, they're active spiritually.
00:08:30.000 But then when we look at the behavior, we see a downward trend in almost everything that we measure, whether it's church attendance, Bible reading, prayer, worship engagement, confession of sins, talking with other people about their faith.
00:08:45.000 All of those things are on the decline.
00:08:48.000 Yeah, but just some numbers, like what percentage of young people would be religious versus atheist or Christian versus atheist?
00:08:56.000 If you wanted to look at it, say, in terms of what faith people are aligning themselves with, you would find that across the country, about 68% of Americans would say that they're Christian.
00:09:08.000 You'd find that close to 30% are in a category that we call the don'ts, people who either don't know, don't care, or don't believe that God exists.
00:09:19.000 And so those people then get strewn across other faith groups that don't necessarily believe in the God of Israel, the God of the Bible, but they would say that we're all gods.
00:09:29.000 The universe is our God.
00:09:31.000 The environment is our God.
00:09:32.000 Those types of things.
00:09:34.000 Yeah, that's interesting.
00:09:35.000 I mean, you know, there has to be a correlation here of how, you know, people are just disconnecting from this culturally for a lot of different.
00:09:47.000 I think wokeism has a lot to do with this and just deconstructionism and postmodernism and all of that.
00:09:52.000 So we can keep on going through these studies.
00:09:53.000 I'm just kind of going through some of them.
00:09:55.000 It's very interesting.
00:09:57.000 And the National Moment of Truth one that we've just been going through is super, super fascinating.
00:10:02.000 So Dr. Barna, let me ask you about this other study that came out a couple of weeks ago.
00:10:05.000 America's values identify possible means to national unity.
00:10:08.000 Tell us about it.
00:10:10.000 We looked at 48 different values that people might possess trying to figure out what really matters to Americans.
00:10:17.000 And what we discovered is some interesting things.
00:10:19.000 Number one, far and away, the most important value to eight out of 10 Americans is their family.
00:10:26.000 Eight out of 10 Americans said they would die to protect their family.
00:10:30.000 They would fight to protect their family.
00:10:32.000 They would sacrifice precious resources to take care of their family.
00:10:36.000 That's what they're looking for.
00:10:38.000 Related to that, we found that seven out of 10 said happiness was something that they're pursuing in their life.
00:10:45.000 And then there are other things that are very important to most people, personal goodness, demonstrations of that in terms of their character, their integrity, their personal responsibility.
00:10:56.000 Things like personal maturity.
00:10:58.000 They want to have the opportunity to keep growing as a human being, to understand their purpose in life, to work hard to get ahead.
00:11:05.000 These are the kinds of values that really matter to Americans.
00:11:08.000 So how do we then reconcile some of these findings with how half the country seems to not believe this?
00:11:16.000 I mean, I guess is it kind of back to this contradiction?
00:11:19.000 I mean, you're talking about how family is a core value and the data shows that, and I agree.
00:11:26.000 But at the same time, we have this mass movement of children being sexualized and a destruction of the nuclear family.
00:11:34.000 So is it, can it be that the values are there and that they're not connecting them culturally and politically?
00:11:41.000 Do you think that might be the case?
00:11:42.000 Yeah, I think that's a great way to put it.
00:11:44.000 You know, one of the things that we've seen is that people possess these values.
00:11:49.000 But if you then challenge them and say, well, why does family matter to you?
00:11:52.000 What does family mean to you?
00:11:54.000 Where did that come from?
00:11:56.000 They really don't get it because as Americans, we're people of action.
00:12:00.000 We're not people of reflection.
00:12:02.000 And so what happens is we're constantly keeping ourselves busy.
00:12:06.000 We're trying to achieve things.
00:12:07.000 In many ways, that's what made America great.
00:12:09.000 We're not people who sit back and wait for stuff to happen.
00:12:12.000 We try to make it happen.
00:12:13.000 That's exactly right.
00:12:14.000 So you've been doing this for a long time.
00:12:16.000 What trend...
00:12:17.000 Do you think is most important?
00:12:19.000 Not individual study, but trend over a period of time.
00:12:22.000 Do you think is most important for our audience to know about?
00:12:25.000 Good or bad?
00:12:27.000 I think it's the fact that we're losing touch with the moorings of the things that are most important to us.
00:12:32.000 And so that comes back to worldview.
00:12:35.000 We've got to help people go back and figure out why these things matter, how they came about, what it could look like in their life, what the implications of other choices are.
00:12:45.000 Your worldview is nothing more than your personal filter that you use for making every decision that you make every moment of every day.
00:12:51.000 Everybody has a worldview.
00:12:53.000 The problem is we don't think about our worldview.
00:12:56.000 We've let other people dictate our worldview.
00:12:59.000 It's time for us to take control of that as well.
00:13:02.000 And so the trend you're seeing is that people are becoming just disconnected from having a stable or rational worldview, would you say, or a biblical one?
00:13:10.000 Yeah, what they're doing is they're letting the culture influence them rather than them influencing the culture, letting it reflect who they really are, what they really want, what they really believe in.
00:13:21.000 And so this is one of those things where, again, children are so critically important because a worldview begins developing at 15 to 18 months of age and is almost fully formed by the age of 13.
00:13:32.000 Teenagers in 20s, they can modify it somewhat.
00:13:35.000 It doesn't change very much.
00:13:36.000 And then by the time you reach your 30s, you become an evangelist for your own worldview.
00:13:41.000 So it's very important that we be focusing on children.
00:13:44.000 This is why schools matter.
00:13:46.000 What they're learning in schools, the kind of experiences they're being given, the kinds of philosophies they're being taught.
00:13:52.000 It's going to stay with them for the rest of their lives.
00:13:54.000 And so that's why we as parents have to protect them from the things that ultimately are going to cause harm to them and our society.
00:14:01.000 In closing, about 30 seconds remaining, have you seen a disturbing uptick in nihilism or let's just say kind of nothing matters and I don't care?
00:14:12.000 It's one of the faster growing trends of thought, patterns of thought.
00:14:16.000 And it goes back to the fact that young people are saying, I don't have any sense of purpose in life.
00:14:21.000 So why should I keep living?
00:14:23.000 Why should I care about so many of these other things?
00:14:26.000 That goes back to worldview.
00:14:27.000 Yeah, that's what these people have done.
00:14:29.000 Dr. Barna, great work.
00:14:30.000 You're welcome back anytime.
00:14:31.000 It's really great research.
00:14:32.000 Thank you so much.
00:14:33.000 Thank you, Charlie.
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00:16:04.000 Senator joins us now from the great state of Utah.
00:16:06.000 Senator, welcome to the program.
00:16:08.000 Thank you, Charlie.
00:16:09.000 Good to be with you as always.
00:16:10.000 So we spent a lot of time on this Federalist story.
00:16:13.000 I'm not sure if you saw it or not.
00:16:14.000 It's a great story.
00:16:15.000 Well, it's not great because it's happening to you, but it's actually well written, I should say.
00:16:19.000 I have a question, though, a very direct one.
00:16:21.000 What do you have to say to your colleague Mitt Romney in the Senate, who hasn't endorsed you inexplicably?
00:16:30.000 Well, look, each of my colleagues has the right to make up his or her mind on what to say, what not to say, whom to endorse and not to endorse.
00:16:40.000 He's made his choice, but I will say this: voters in Utah have a choice to make in the coming weeks.
00:16:47.000 They can choose between me, one who is a solid Republican, stands behind conservative principles, defends the Constitution at every turn.
00:16:57.000 I don't think you'll find anyone in the Senate more committed to defending those principles than I am, or the principles of our party generally.
00:17:07.000 My opponent is endorsed by the Democratic Party.
00:17:11.000 He voted for Joe Biden.
00:17:13.000 He encouraged other people to vote for Joe Biden.
00:17:15.000 He praised everything Joe Biden has done as president, and he criticized everything Donald Trump ever did as president.
00:17:21.000 It's a clear choice.
00:17:23.000 And I don't think it should be something people struggle with if they are, in fact, Republicans.
00:17:29.000 And I think it's very important to point that out.
00:17:32.000 We've got a lot of voter confusion in Utah because my opponent, who is the de facto Democrat in this race, even though he's selling himself as a Democrat, is not someone who shares our views.
00:17:48.000 And I need all the support I can get because this race is tightening.
00:17:51.000 And according to one of our two statewide newspapers, the Deseret News, I'm only two points ahead of this guy.
00:17:58.000 And he's raising money through Act Blue, the National Democratic Progressive Donor Network, and over FIST.
00:18:05.000 And I've got to be ready to match that.
00:18:07.000 So any within the sound of your voice, I'd encourage to go to my website at leafersenate.com and help me get through this.
00:18:14.000 Yeah, so Senator, let's just dive into this a little bit more so our audience understands.
00:18:17.000 You're an incumbent liberty-loving senator who loves the Constitution, and you've been so good on the Ukraine stuff.
00:18:24.000 You've been so good on overseeing the abuses of DOJ.
00:18:28.000 You understand separation of powers, and you've just been great.
00:18:31.000 You have.
00:18:32.000 And yet you have a challenger that is not running as a Democrat, but is a Democrat.
00:18:38.000 We call him McMuffin McMullen, who is a former CIA agent who's running as a quote-unquote independent, but that's not what he is, confusing the decent people of Utah, appealing to their sense of decency, saying we need to de-escalate our politics, all this nonsense, and then coming after you.
00:18:55.000 Can you just explain that more to our audience?
00:18:57.000 Because this is a very unusual, stealthy set of circumstances that really has bubbled up in the great state of Utah.
00:19:05.000 Yeah, it's interesting.
00:19:06.000 You know, this guy ran for president in 2016.
00:19:08.000 He ran ostensibly to the right of Donald Trump, claiming that he would be more fiercely pro-life.
00:19:14.000 He would fight more aggressively to overturn Roe versus Wade.
00:19:18.000 And he lost.
00:19:20.000 After he lost, he went out and served a nonprofit through which he paid himself a lot of money, ostensibly a conservative one.
00:19:29.000 That one dried up, so we formed a more left-leaning nonprofit, paid himself a lot of money out of that.
00:19:35.000 Now he's running as an independent for the U.S. Senate, trying to sort of trick people into thinking that if they're Republican, he's their kind of Republican.
00:19:43.000 If they're Democrats, he's their guy.
00:19:46.000 If they're independents, he's there kind of independent.
00:19:49.000 He says a little bit about as little about his own policy views as he possibly can.
00:19:56.000 And so he's tricking a lot of people.
00:19:58.000 Deep down, when Bush comes to shove, he's been endorsed by the Democratic Party.
00:20:03.000 He voted for Joe Biden, encouraged other people to do that.
00:20:06.000 If you look at what policy positions he has put out, even though he couches them as I'm a conservative, he uses the word conservative and redefines it.
00:20:15.000 He's appropriating the term, Senator.
00:20:17.000 To mean something.
00:20:18.000 Yes, exactly.
00:20:19.000 Complete grammatical appropriation, misappropriation of the term.
00:20:24.000 But he redefined it to mean, you know, all things that Evan McMullen likes.
00:20:29.000 But the guy's turned into a progressive.
00:20:31.000 He's trying to trick people in Utah into voting for him.
00:20:35.000 And that really is tragic.
00:20:37.000 Yeah, and it's too bad because he's getting a lot of support, obviously, from Mitt and from these national groups and these Silicon Valley people that see this as a way to steal one away.
00:20:49.000 And, you know, for example, I mean, Evan McMullen, he was the one that launched the ads attacking Republicans as racist and GOP as rotten to the core.
00:21:00.000 He was the one that ran as a third-party candidate as a potential sabotage campaign in Utah.
00:21:05.000 And I think it was Bill Crystal who was really behind his campaign.
00:21:09.000 Like, oh, yeah, McMullen, you go.
00:21:12.000 And he has some, you look at his website.
00:21:16.000 It is so bland.
00:21:17.000 It is full of abstractions, Senator.
00:21:20.000 And he's like, well, here's my 12 points for renewal of America.
00:21:24.000 And I like the Constitution.
00:21:26.000 Like, okay, tell us more about it.
00:21:27.000 When he very well might caucus with the Democrats and might give more power to Chuck Schumer and give more power in D.C., not to mention the great work that you have done.
00:21:37.000 And so just talk a little bit more about Senator how complacency is the enemy here, isn't it?
00:21:43.000 That absent really focusing on this in the proper context, being complacent, the Democrats could steal one from us here.
00:21:52.000 They absolutely could.
00:21:54.000 Because if, as the Deseret News, one of our two statewide papers has suggested, if this really is a race that's within two points, within the margin of error, that means he could beat me.
00:22:06.000 And if he beats me, that could deprive Republicans of the majority this fall.
00:22:13.000 It'd be catastrophic.
00:22:15.000 Now, he's doing everything he can to avoid being accused of that.
00:22:20.000 He's now claiming, well, I wouldn't caucus with either party.
00:22:23.000 You and I both know that.
00:22:24.000 That's a bunch of balls.
00:22:25.000 You and I both know that.
00:22:26.000 It's not how it works.
00:22:27.000 Nobody does that.
00:22:28.000 You couldn't get any committee assignments if you could.
00:22:30.000 And so, look, the fact is that if this came down right down to it, he beats me, and there are 50 Republicans, and if there were 49 Democrats, he'd be in a position to choose the majority leader.
00:22:46.000 You can be darn certain he's not going to caucus with Republicans.
00:22:49.000 He's not going to support a Republican leader.
00:22:52.000 We know that because it's the Democrats who will have elected him.
00:22:55.000 It's the Democrats who endorse him.
00:22:57.000 It's the Democrats who are funding his campaign.
00:22:59.000 And it's the Democrats whom he has incessantly praised for the last five years and everything that he departs.
00:23:05.000 And while criticizing everything calling us racist.
00:23:08.000 That's right.
00:23:09.000 And he would become the most powerful senator.
00:23:11.000 So, Senator, we got a question here from one of our audiences.
00:23:13.000 Dear Charlie, love the show.
00:23:15.000 I'm very confused.
00:23:16.000 I thought Utah was really conservative.
00:23:18.000 Why is this even close?
00:23:20.000 Help explain it.
00:23:21.000 Senator, it's a lot of voter confusion, as you mentioned, right?
00:23:26.000 Yeah, I think it's a lot of voter confusion.
00:23:28.000 I think it's a lot of people not understanding the fact that this guy, well, he used to be, or at least claimed to be a Republican.
00:23:36.000 He no longer is.
00:23:37.000 And because he uses the word conservative, some people are tricked into thinking, oh, this is a race that involves basically two Republicans.
00:23:45.000 You've got Mike Lee, one kind of Republican, and Evan McMullen, another kind of Republican who's just running as an independent.
00:23:53.000 And if he does that, he's going to trick a number of people into supporting him.
00:23:57.000 I think a lot of the people who currently support him fall into that camp somewhere.
00:24:03.000 And that is made more complicated by virtue.
00:24:08.000 And just in defense of Mitt Romney, he hasn't actually made an endorsement of this race.
00:24:13.000 He's said that he's staying out.
00:24:15.000 But him staying out is an endorsement.
00:24:17.000 The hard part about that is.
00:24:18.000 Yeah.
00:24:18.000 Right, right.
00:24:19.000 And that's the concern.
00:24:22.000 And it's of great concern to me and all of my Republican colleagues who recognize that we absolutely have to retake the majority so we can stop the madness of Joe Biden, so we can stop the dramatic inflation of Joe Biden, the horrible policies of Joe Biden that have left us with open borders, left us vulnerable to tons of setting aside the illegal immigration and the human trafficking for a minute,
00:24:52.000 the fentanyl that's coming in.
00:24:54.000 It's enough to kill millions and millions of Americans while enriching the drug cartels to the tune of billions of dollars a year.
00:25:01.000 This madness has to stop.
00:25:04.000 Evan McMullen will perpetuate that madness.
00:25:06.000 He will be Joe Biden's guy.
00:25:08.000 He will be Chuck Schumer's 51st vote in the Senate.
00:25:12.000 We can't let that happen.
00:25:13.000 Not in Utah, not on our watch.
00:25:16.000 Amen.
00:25:16.000 So that's why I issue this desperate plea.
00:25:19.000 Anybody who agrees with me, we've got to stop Joe Biden's madness.
00:25:22.000 Please go to leeforsenate.com.
00:25:25.000 And if you can contribute $5, we'd appreciate it.
00:25:29.000 If you can get more than that, we'd appreciate that too.
00:25:32.000 The only way that they're able to even get close is by lying, because if they ran someone who had a D, Mike Lee would win by 20 points.
00:25:39.000 I want to play a piece of tape here.
00:25:41.000 I asked our team to get some tape here of McMullen.
00:25:43.000 They could only find him on MSNBC.
00:25:45.000 That's the only media we could find him on.
00:25:48.000 This is 128 back in 2017 on him.
00:25:51.000 This is him on CNN.
00:25:51.000 I stand corrected.
00:25:53.000 You know, a lot of cable news diversity hits for him.
00:25:55.000 128 back in 2017 saying it's taboo that racism is taking over the Republican Party.
00:26:01.000 Play Cut 128.
00:26:03.000 The reason why they don't do that, and I know because I've been a part of it, I've seen it myself, is that there's a taboo within the Republican Party about attacking racism in America.
00:26:15.000 And I know that that's the case because when you do it as a conservative, you get attacked by elements within the party.
00:26:22.000 So Senator Lee doesn't have good things to say about conservatives or Republicans, goes on CNN very quickly.
00:26:30.000 Share the website one more time and make the closing pitch to our audience.
00:26:34.000 Leeforsenate.com.
00:26:35.000 That's leeforsenate.com.
00:26:37.000 And you're right.
00:26:38.000 He also goes on MSCNBC a lot.
00:26:40.000 And you know what he did recently on MSNBC?
00:26:42.000 He went on NBC and said he did not support, does not support, he opposes overturning Roe versus Wade, and that the conservatives on the court were wrong.
00:26:53.000 So look, this is playing with live ammo here.
00:26:57.000 This is a big deal.
00:26:58.000 We've got to stop this guy.
00:27:00.000 And the best way we can do that is to give us the MO we need to win this campaign, is go to leafforsenate.com.
00:27:09.000 Amen.
00:27:10.000 Well, and what's so funny is he ran against Donald Trump in 2016 for president.
00:27:14.000 I put in quotes because he said Trump was inadequately pro-life.
00:27:18.000 The whole thing is such a fraud.
00:27:19.000 He is a fraud.
00:27:20.000 He's a synthetic creation of the worst parts of the unit party.
00:27:24.000 Senator Lee, we're behind you.
00:27:26.000 Keep campaigning hard.
00:27:27.000 Any way we can help, let us know.
00:27:28.000 Thank you, Senator Lee.
00:27:30.000 Thank you, Shelly.
00:27:31.000 Email us freedom at charliekirk.com.
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00:27:44.000 I've spent a lot of time with Senator Lee.
00:27:46.000 He really gets it.
00:27:47.000 He understands where rights come from.
00:27:50.000 He understands our system, the structure of our government.
00:27:54.000 He's a very deep thinker.
00:27:56.000 He's not going to DC to go be somebody, and D.C. changes a lot of people.
00:28:00.000 No, he goes there and he fights for liberty, especially against endless wars.
00:28:04.000 He's been so good on that topic.
00:28:06.000 He's really been good on it.
00:28:07.000 And it's been a great treat to be, you know, to get to know Senator Lee throughout the years.
00:28:11.000 And he speaks at our turning point USA events, and he's so humble.
00:28:14.000 He's so direct in how he communicates.
00:28:16.000 And so it'd be a shame if we don't wake this up.
00:28:19.000 Utah is a great state.
00:28:20.000 Let's get everyone educated and get Senator Lee across the finish line.
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00:29:29.000 We could make this whole segment into a joke, and I'm going to try to pepper in some humor because humor is the only way you could survive with just the tragedy that has become the United States government.
00:29:38.000 And so we'll do a little of that.
00:29:40.000 But it is a very serious thing.
00:29:43.000 Cami is in Korea, South Korea.
00:29:47.000 I think she's in South Korea.
00:29:48.000 We'll find out if she even knows where she is.
00:29:51.000 And I think that some of the kind of Joe Biden dementia is rubbing off on her.
00:29:57.000 So Cammy is at the DMZ and she gives a speech.
00:30:03.000 And in this speech, she mentions the wrong Korea.
00:30:09.000 Now, not only is this administration full of resentment towards America, not only are they very deceitful in how they communicate, not only are they arrogant in their posture and in their attitude, but they're also ignorant and just not very smart.
00:30:36.000 And I wish that was not the case.
00:30:38.000 I wish that these people were very smart and humble.
00:30:43.000 I find zero joy.
00:30:46.000 This is one of the problems when you fail up in California.
00:30:49.000 You're just super corrupt.
00:30:50.000 You're willing to cut deals and do whatever Kamala Harris did to get into power.
00:31:00.000 Just ask Willie Brown.
00:31:02.000 Kamala Harris on the DMZ, who, by the way, may become president at some point.
00:31:10.000 This is not a joke.
00:31:13.000 She says we have a very important alliance with the Republic of North Korea in prepared remarks.
00:31:19.000 Play cut 120.
00:31:22.000 The United States shares a very important relationship, which is an alliance with the Republic of North Korea.
00:31:31.000 And it is an alliance that is strong and enduring.
00:31:35.000 Does she not even hear herself when she talks?
00:31:38.000 This stuff can create wars.
00:31:41.000 And they used to go after Donald Trump for what exactly?
00:31:45.000 For having too many Diet Cokes?
00:31:48.000 Or, oh, he's slurring his words.
00:31:52.000 Meanwhile, you have Joe Biden on the other side of the planet in our country speaking to the dead.
00:31:58.000 Play cut 94.
00:32:00.000 I want to thank all of you here for including bipartisan elected officials like Representative Governor, Senator Braun, Senator Booker, Representative Jackie, are you here?
00:32:10.000 Where's Jackie?
00:32:12.000 I didn't think she was supposed to be here.
00:32:14.000 Jackie Wolorski is dead.
00:32:19.000 Jackie died in August in a car accident in Indiana.
00:32:23.000 You got to listen to that tape again.
00:32:25.000 This is Joe Biden saying, where's Jackie?
00:32:27.000 I didn't think Jackie would be here.
00:32:29.000 Play cut 94.
00:32:31.000 I want to thank all of you here for including bipartisan elected officials like Representative Governor, Senator Braun, Senator Booker, Representative Jackie, are you here?
00:32:41.000 Where's Jackie?
00:32:42.000 I didn't think she was supposed to be here.
00:32:45.000 Yeah, she's not going to be there, Joe.
00:32:47.000 She's deceased, tragically.
00:32:49.000 We don't do a lot of this on our program.
00:32:51.000 We don't do the Biden-Gaff thing.
00:32:53.000 We do it here and there.
00:32:54.000 I think it's overdone at times because we get it.
00:32:56.000 But this is no longer a joke.
00:32:58.000 It isn't.
00:32:59.000 And this is why, you know, we had Dr. Barna on earlier in the program.
00:33:03.000 He's like, yeah, Americas want more kindness.
00:33:04.000 I'm sorry, I'm not going to be kind to these people.
00:33:06.000 These are dangerous fools.
00:33:07.000 Kindness is over.
00:33:09.000 Resign, impeach, get out of office.
00:33:11.000 It's not a joke.
00:33:12.000 It's not playtime.
00:33:13.000 You're not a mayor of some mid-level city.
00:33:16.000 Even if you were a mayor of a mid-level city, you made these gaps, it wouldn't be acceptable.
00:33:19.000 You're the leader of the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:33:22.000 Implemented.
00:33:24.000 She's on the DMZ.
00:33:25.000 She's the vice president.
00:33:26.000 And then Joe Biden just starts wandering off.
00:33:29.000 Man, this is so hard to watch.
00:33:31.000 Cut 129.
00:33:33.000 Okay, thank you.
00:33:34.000 Thank you.
00:33:45.000 He just wanders into the distance.
00:33:48.000 Kamala Harris is supposed to be in charge of our border.
00:33:50.000 She's at the DMZ stoking nuclear war, saying we have an alliance with North Korea.
00:33:55.000 In prepared remarks, Joe Biden is speaking to the dead and also just wandering off after remarks.
00:34:01.000 We deserve a lot better than this.
00:34:03.000 Onward, 40 days to November 8th.
00:34:06.000 Victory is the only option.
00:34:08.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:34:09.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:34:12.000 Thanks so much for listening.
00:34:13.000 God bless.
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