The Charlie Kirk Show - June 09, 2021


Democrats are Terrified After What Just Happened in McAllen, Texas

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00:00:27.000 Hey, everybody, some amazing news out of McAllen, Texas.
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00:03:01.000 A lot of people are emailing us and they're saying, Charlie, I am not sure if I have hope in our country anymore.
00:03:09.000 Can things change for the better?
00:03:12.000 So on this program, we try to be one of optimism and positivity, try to find solutions and not just complain about the problems.
00:03:19.000 We try to identify them and then we try to present a roadmap on how we can actually solve these issues.
00:03:27.000 We have a lot of things we want to get to today, but the one thing that I think can give you some hope, and it is an amazing possibly canary in the coal mine, is what's happening in Texas.
00:03:41.000 In Texas, one of the most Hispanic communities in America just elected a Republican as mayor in McAllen, Texas.
00:03:52.000 Now, one of my best friends in the world is from McAllen, Texas.
00:03:59.000 And we used to joke, he said that every single position on the city council in Congress was dominated traditionally by Democrats.
00:04:08.000 85% Hispanic town.
00:04:11.000 I want you to think about that.
00:04:12.000 85% of the town of McAllen, Texas is Hispanic.
00:04:18.000 This was not covered by MSNBC or Huffington Post or BuzzFeed, but Javier Villalobos won Saturday in a Mexican-American majority McAllen, Texas.
00:04:30.000 I'm reading from Axios.com, funded by Lorene Powell Jobs.
00:04:34.000 Comes as Latino Democrats say their party has been ignoring Mexican-Americans in Texas, New Mexico, and California, as the Republican Party makes dents in areas once solidly blue.
00:04:47.000 Villalobos, an attorney and former chair of the Hildago County Republican, let me stop there.
00:04:52.000 This guy did not pretend not to be a Republican.
00:04:55.000 He was the chairman of the Republican Party.
00:04:58.000 What this shows you is the Hispanic community in McAllen, Texas, a border town.
00:05:02.000 And if you know anything about Texas geography, as Producer Connor does, that is on the border of the border.
00:05:10.000 In fact, there are buildings tall enough where I believe you can even see Mexico from McAllen, Texas.
00:05:15.000 That is as close to the border as you can get.
00:05:19.000 And Villobos shows that as he was chairman of the Hildago County Republican, he beat Veronica Whitaker by 200 votes in a nonpartisan race where Democrats have traditionally dominated for years.
00:05:34.000 His victory drew praise from Steve Cortez and others.
00:05:37.000 And I look into this and I see that this is a fire alarm for Democrats.
00:05:42.000 Hispanic voters have been the most mentioned talking point in Republican and conservative circles.
00:05:49.000 You see, at Turning Point USA, we have had the blessing of spending a lot of time with the wealthiest and most successful Americans across the country, many of whom we've lost this last year.
00:06:00.000 And a common goal amongst Republican donors, especially, has been, how do we win over Hispanics?
00:06:07.000 How do we win over Latino voters?
00:06:10.000 And I've always shared that concern and that focus.
00:06:13.000 If you ever drive by Wheeling, Illinois, I went to Wheeling High School, where it was 53% English as a second language.
00:06:21.000 Let me say that again.
00:06:22.000 53% of the high school I went to was Hispanic.
00:06:25.000 I was a minority as a white male in my high school.
00:06:31.000 And growing up, I knew that the Hispanics were more conservative than they realized.
00:06:37.000 But only the Democrat Party was presenting them with an ask for their vote.
00:06:45.000 I think the Republican Party has done a much better job over the last decade of communicating and courting Hispanic voters.
00:06:55.000 But one of the biggest lies when it comes to Hispanics is one that a smart man that I completely disagree with, Carl Rove, has been trying to push forward for the last couple years.
00:07:05.000 And I have nothing personal against Karl Rove.
00:07:07.000 I think he says some very smart things at times.
00:07:09.000 I also think he says some things that are totally wrong. 0.52
00:07:12.000 And Karl Rove has said for years that the key to winning the Hispanic vote is immigration, that if we just embrace amnesty and corporate tax cuts, Hispanics are going to come to us in record numbers.
00:07:25.000 Now, this is a very basic and I think deceiving reading of the Hispanic community.
00:07:32.000 Having spent time in the Hispanic and Latino community growing up, hosting five, or is it six, young Latino leadership summits at Turning Point USA?
00:07:45.000 I have realized that it's not the Hispanic community that wants mass amnesty.
00:07:49.000 Instead, they want something that the conservative movement seem to be getting away from, but they're almost recommitting themselves to, especially in recent years, which is Hispanics first and foremost want law and order.
00:08:04.000 This is an issue that is not talked about enough when we try to communicate to Hispanics.
00:08:08.000 Now, you might say, well, why would they want that?
00:08:11.000 Well, if you travel to Central America or South America, you cannot have commerce in many parts of Mexico because it's run by the cartel.
00:08:20.000 You can't go to school in parts of Nicaragua because of the lawlessness. 0.74
00:08:24.000 Hispanics know that if you do not have police that can keep the streets safe, commerce does not matter. 1.00
00:08:30.000 Schooling does not matter. 1.00
00:08:33.000 In fact, in the Hispanic community, because of the history, because where they've come from, they know that as soon as the windows start getting smashed, the businesses start getting looted, and the drive-by shootings commence, this kind of chaotic destruction of civil society makes it unlivable. 1.00
00:08:53.000 And Hispanics, by the way, have a reverence for law enforcement. 1.00
00:08:58.000 You look at many police departments across the country, they are overrepresented by the Hispanic community.
00:09:04.000 In fact, nearly half of Border Patrol agents are Hispanic.
00:09:09.000 Hispanic voters believe in duty.
00:09:12.000 They believe in participating in something bigger than themselves.
00:09:17.000 Now, this kind of deeper read of the intellectual drivers of why Hispanics might all of a sudden be interested in Republican politics goes right over the head of Republican consultants. 0.77
00:09:29.000 Republican consultants say amnesty is all they care about. 0.88
00:09:33.000 All they want is open borders.
00:09:34.000 And that's just not true.
00:09:36.000 First of all, many of the Hispanics in McAllen, Texas came here legally. 0.77
00:09:40.000 There's plenty that came here illegally, but there's plenty that came here legally.
00:09:44.000 And the Mexicans in McAllen, Texas were thought to be just automatic Democrats, but we're seeing that change.
00:09:52.000 And it's changing first and foremost because of the law and order issue.
00:09:55.000 Secondly, it's changing because of the social issues and the hyper radical, dare I say, degenerate culture that the left seems to be embracing.
00:10:10.000 I'm talking about a new video out from Nickelodeon, new video out from Nickelodeon that shows a drag queen talking to five, six, and seven-year-olds, glorifying sex changes, and Nickelodeon platforming this idea of being a drag queen.
00:10:27.000 A Hispanic voter in McCall and Texas, who is Catholic and has a large family and believes in order and believes in tradition, they see this on their television. 0.68
00:10:37.000 They say, oh, that's not what I want.
00:10:39.000 And they retreat or they choose a different voting choice of someone, any party that wants to keep what works and what is moral and what is timeless the same.
00:10:49.000 Listen to this right now.
00:10:51.000 This is a jingle, I guess you could say, a Nickelodeon of a, I don't know if it's a woman or a man propagandizing six-year-olds that they should become drag queens.
00:11:05.000 Play tape.
00:11:08.000 It's pride, everybody.
00:11:10.000 Every color on the pride flag is a symbol in the sky.
00:11:16.000 And I'm proud to be me every time that I see that pride flag waving high.
00:11:23.000 Breathe means life because living is a gift.
00:11:26.000 Orange means healing and we have to persist in working to heal the world and healing ourselves.
00:11:37.000 And that's just a small taste of it.
00:11:39.000 I just want you to imagine a 45-year-old Hispanic in McAllen, Texas, who grew up going to the Catholic Church, believing in marriage between a man and a woman. 0.55
00:11:51.000 All of a sudden, they turn on Nickelodeon, they see this trash, and they say, hold on a second, there's something wrong here.
00:11:57.000 And their instincts are not incorrect. 0.84
00:11:59.000 There's a couple other issues of why Hispanics are coming in the Republican direction that most Republican consultants do not realize.
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00:12:22.000 If you look closely, there is a seismic shift happening in American politics right now where Hispanic voters and voters of color are coming in the Republican direction.
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00:13:46.000 Mayor Alos in Hispanic heavy Texas City sets off Democrats' alarms.
00:13:51.000 Now, here's what's happening.
00:13:54.000 In the Chamber of Commerce circles, in the establishment Republican circles, many of them are saying, aha, Hispanic voters are coming in our direction. 0.93
00:14:06.000 This is now why we need mass amnesty. 0.78
00:14:09.000 In fact, it's the opposite. 0.98
00:14:11.000 The more that Republicans and conservatives embrace traditional social conservative values, emphasize small business and entrepreneurship, protect the muscular class, the more Hispanics are going in the direction of Republicans. 0.91
00:14:26.000 There's another reason, though, why Hispanics are embracing the Republican Party at a record number, and they're not just doing better, they are winning mayor's races. 0.70
00:14:38.000 The other reason is this idea of the macho man.
00:14:43.000 You know, Donald Trump used to come into these rallies to the song Macho Macho Man, and he used to dance as the way Trump would.
00:14:51.000 He wouldn't move his feet at all.
00:14:53.000 He would just do the hands back and forth like he was punching.
00:14:56.000 He was doing his best Muhammad Ali impression.
00:14:58.000 It's probably one of the greatest.
00:15:00.000 I got to say, going to those rallies last fall was one of the greatest memories of my life all across the country.
00:15:06.000 It was a lot of fun.
00:15:08.000 And this idea of the macho man is not something to be overlooked.
00:15:13.000 You see, if you go to a poor Hispanic family in McAllen, Texas, or maybe in Arizona, or maybe in the Central Valley in California, there is this idea for the man to be the provider of the family.
00:15:29.000 And he might be only earning $18,000 a year and his family might barely be scraping by, but he will sit at the head of the table with both hands on the table and say, I am proud of my family.
00:15:40.000 I'm proud of what I am doing.
00:15:42.000 And I believe masculinity is something worthy of protecting and understanding.
00:15:47.000 You see, the American left, with what they are doing with the transgender movement, with what they're doing with almost every single cultural program they are putting forward, they are almost saying to the traditional Hispanic male, you need to be more feminine.
00:16:04.000 That is a losing issue. 0.91
00:16:08.000 I've talked to a lot of Hispanic men about this, and a lot of Hispanic men agree with me wholeheartedly. 0.67
00:16:14.000 They say in the Hispanic community, there's something to be said about the way to win over Hispanics is not through the head, but through the heart.
00:16:26.000 And the Democrats seem to try to be force-feeding the Hispanic culture, this postmodernist, white liberal, Yale-manufactured agenda.
00:16:37.000 And you have Hispanics that kind of look at this, say, hold on a second. 0.91
00:16:39.000 You're trying to tell me that you don't believe in God. 1.00
00:16:42.000 You're trying to tell me there's no such thing between men and women.
00:16:45.000 You're trying to tell me we should only have one kid per family.
00:16:48.000 We have to stop eating meat, get rid of oil and gas, have abortions on demand, no borders at all whatsoever, and get rid of the police. 0.93
00:16:57.000 Basically, Democrats, white liberals from Yale and Harvard, are going to the Hispanic community and poking these Hispanics in the eyes and saying everything your family's family, your grandfather's grandfather has done has been racist, colonialist, and white supremacist.
00:17:15.000 And excuse the voters of McAllen, Texas, 85% Hispanic, which, by the way, used to be one of the most dependable Democrat areas in the country.
00:17:28.000 I want to just reinforce how big of a deal this is. 0.85
00:17:31.000 This would be like a Republican winning a mayor's race in black-dominated Chicago. 0.73
00:17:37.000 That's how big of a deal this is. 0.93
00:17:39.000 In an 80% black area, this is how big of a deal it would be. 0.63
00:17:43.000 Karl Rove, nice guy.
00:17:44.000 I have nothing against him personally.
00:17:46.000 I really mean that.
00:17:46.000 He's just totally wrong on this.
00:17:49.000 He says that Republicans have to stop talking about the culture war issues.
00:17:53.000 Instead, that Republicans should just talk about tax cuts and the size of government.
00:17:57.000 And I think those things are important, but they are not everything. 0.99
00:18:00.000 In fact, you want to win over Hispanics. 1.00
00:18:02.000 We need to wage the most aggressive counteroffensive in the American culture war we've ever seen. 0.91
00:18:10.000 So now we have evidence that what happened in 2020 with Donald Trump and Hispanics is not a one-off trend. 0.89
00:18:17.000 It's not one-off. 0.70
00:18:18.000 It is a trend.
00:18:19.000 It's something that is now manifesting itself in real local politics, which is the greatest canary in the coal mine, the harbinger of things to come.
00:18:27.000 So how do we accelerate this?
00:18:29.000 If we do our job, Hispanics will be reliable Republican conservative voters.
00:18:36.000 Karl Rove writes in the Wall Street Journal, this was last week. 1.00
00:18:41.000 He says, yes, it's still the economy stupid. 0.99
00:18:43.000 Now, I don't disagree with that. 0.99
00:18:45.000 I think the economy is very important.
00:18:47.000 But Karl Rove says, quote, swing voters dislike big spending.
00:18:51.000 The GOP can't focus only on the culture war.
00:18:55.000 And he goes through and he says that the way to win over swing voters is to talk about GDP growth.
00:19:00.000 And he has all these statistics that he puts forward.
00:19:03.000 Now, here's the problem with Karl Rove, is that he comes on television, he comes and does these op-eds with a whiteboard.
00:19:11.000 Everything to him is focus grouped.
00:19:13.000 Everything to him is charts and graphs.
00:19:15.000 What if I told you, Karl Rove, that your polling is not going to necessarily indicate to you that what has been does not have to be what will be?
00:19:25.000 What do I mean by that?
00:19:27.000 That the Republican Party generally has struggled with the Hispanic community, but now we are winning in record numbers.
00:19:36.000 What do Hispanics want? 0.98
00:19:38.000 Do Hispanics want a long discussion about corporate tax rates?
00:19:42.000 Here's what Karl Rove says: He says that pluralities in seven of these congressional districts, he's talking about swing districts, now think both the country and the economy are on the wrong track.
00:19:53.000 Voters are closely divided on raising corporate taxes, but strong majority in all 10 districts say taxes overall should either be lowered or kept the same.
00:20:02.000 And he has all these numbers to reiterate that.
00:20:05.000 It's what he says here at the end.
00:20:07.000 Democrats may continue on Republicans, maybe counting on Republicans to emphasize culture war issues, rather than deliver a focused, principled attack on the president's orgy of spending and tax increases.
00:20:18.000 Let me stop there.
00:20:18.000 Mr. Rove, how did Mitt Romney do with the Hispanic community?
00:20:24.000 Did Mitt Romney win the Rio Grande Valley?
00:20:27.000 How did Mitt Romney do in McCallan, Texas?
00:20:29.000 Krall Rove continues.
00:20:30.000 This isn't to suggest issues like defunding the police, critical race theory, and border security are unimportant.
00:20:35.000 But in 2022, as in most years, the economy will likely be the real congressional battleground.
00:20:40.000 The sooner Republicans can recognize that, the better.
00:20:45.000 Now, he cushions his language a little bit because I think he doesn't want the inevitable backlash of the I told you so.
00:20:52.000 My favorite Karl Rove story is when he goes on Fox News right before the 2016 election, and Donald Trump is down in every single poll imaginable.
00:21:02.000 And Karl Rove holds up his whiteboard.
00:21:05.000 He goes through something, and I don't know if I'm ever going to be able to find this clip.
00:21:09.000 I've looked for it, and I'm paraphrasing, but this is the essence of it.
00:21:13.000 It was a beautiful piece of television.
00:21:15.000 I just wish that he would have a follow-up question.
00:21:17.000 It was either Martha McCallum or Sean Hannity or someone.
00:21:19.000 They said, so, Mr. Rove, tell us, do you think there is a hidden Trump voter?
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00:23:18.000 So Mitt Romney lost McAllen, Texas 71% to 29%.
00:23:23.000 So when we were putting forward the Romney agenda of Bain Capital, corporate tax cuts, private equity running the world, 29% of voters in McCall, Texas wanted that agenda.
00:23:35.000 Now they're electing Republicans as mayor.
00:23:39.000 So what happened?
00:23:40.000 What's happened is that Republicans have now been unafraid to engage on culture war issues.
00:23:45.000 Mitt Romney intentionally avoided culture war issues.
00:23:50.000 Mitt Romney would run the other way anytime anyone would say anything that wasn't able to be proven on a graph or a chart that didn't include deindustrializing our economy, shutting down manufacturing plants, or cutting taxes for Jeff Bezos, Mitt Romney didn't want to talk about it.
00:24:07.000 And a lot of you listening to this program probably voted for Mitt Romney.
00:24:11.000 I voted for Mitt Romney.
00:24:13.000 It was the first vote I ever made.
00:24:14.000 I was enthusiastic about it because I thought the conservative movement was all about economic freedom for corporations.
00:24:23.000 And as long as we were socially moderate and accepting of the internationalist globalist order, then we are going to win and everything's going to be terrific.
00:24:34.000 Now, mind you, as I look back at the time, at 2012 and the years leading up to that, I realize we were bamboozled and swindled by a corporate class that took advantage of Barack Obama and the hatred for Barack Obama and infiltrated and co-opted and hijacked a grassroots movement centered around freedom and liberty and a reclamation of America and pivoted it towards an agenda that, quite honestly,
00:25:01.000 was indifferent about the decay of America as long as we were having a rising stock market and robust economic growth.
00:25:10.000 Mitt Romney was a pro-choice governor of Massachusetts.
00:25:15.000 If you want to find someone who's been on every issue of every side of every issue, that's Mitt Romney.
00:25:22.000 He was for abortion before he was against it.
00:25:26.000 He was in favor of China before he was against it.
00:25:30.000 And so the Mitt Romney Republican Party won 28% of the vote in McCallan, Texas, 29%.
00:25:42.000 And now we are having Republicans win races there.
00:25:44.000 And so what is the lesson for the rest of the Republican Party?
00:25:51.000 Well, first, we have to dive into how Donald Trump did.
00:25:54.000 And how Donald Trump did is pretty remarkable.
00:25:59.000 Well, Donald Trump increased the Republican vote margin to 41%.
00:26:05.000 Mitt Romney won 28, 29%, 28.6%.
00:26:11.000 Donald Trump won 41%, a 13-point increase.
00:26:15.000 And now Republicans are winning mayor's races.
00:26:19.000 So Republicans went from winning 28% of the Hispanic vote to 41% to now a majority and winning a mayor's race.
00:26:33.000 I'm going to go to cut 26 here.
00:26:35.000 Camala, Harris, Kamala, whatever.
00:26:39.000 I can never remember the right way to pronounce it truly.
00:26:42.000 This is going viral.
00:26:43.000 This is her with Lester Holt from NBC.
00:26:47.000 And this all ties together with this issue of McCall and Texas and how to win over Hispanics and whether or not we are going to be able to win elections and broaden our party.
00:26:56.000 And I could just tell you right now, the people that wear three masks and that go around screaming at people if they are not vaccinated in Brooklyn, they're very nervous.
00:27:07.000 They're nervous because the people that they've never met in places they've never visited and towns they can't find on a map and people that aren't necessarily traditional white conservative voters are rising up in record numbers and embracing Republicans.
00:27:21.000 Play cut 26.
00:27:23.000 Okay.
00:27:23.000 Do you have any plans to visit the border?
00:27:26.000 At some point, you know, we've been to the border.
00:27:29.000 You haven't been to the border.
00:27:31.000 And I haven't been to Europe.
00:27:33.000 And I don't understand the point that you're making.
00:27:37.000 All I could say is Lester Holt will be audited next month and thoughts and prayers for his family as they go through a financial colonoscopy.
00:27:45.000 Because how dare he ask a question like that of Kamala?
00:27:50.000 Is it Kamala or Kamala?
00:27:51.000 I really mean no offense.
00:27:52.000 I get this wrong all the time. 0.94
00:27:54.000 It's a complete dumb look when I get it right. 0.93
00:27:57.000 How about this? 0.98
00:27:58.000 Vice President Harris. 0.77
00:28:00.000 And so she goes down to Guatemala and she says many things that she wants to help Guatemala.
00:28:08.000 In fact, she was protesting when she went down to Guatemala and she told them, don't come to America and amongst many other things.
00:28:14.000 But Lester Holt presses her, why haven't you visited the border? 0.90
00:28:18.000 Now, that's a very good question.
00:28:20.000 Why wouldn't Kamala Harris visit the border?
00:28:23.000 Well, for one, they don't actually believe that we have a border.
00:28:26.000 They believe that we have an arbitrarily drawn colonial line between Texas and Mexico of illegally assumed land.
00:28:34.000 You think I'm joking?
00:28:36.000 That is the viewpoint that is expressed in college campuses.
00:28:40.000 Nations are merely a construct put forward by white supremacist colonialists, that there should be no difference between Macau and Texas and Mexico City, Mexico.
00:28:50.000 The U.S. Constitution does not have limits, boundaries, or borders.
00:28:53.000 We're all citizens of the world.
00:28:56.000 Now, those of us that actually have our viewpoint rooted in reason and logic, we know that countries are not acts of randomness.
00:29:08.000 We know that countries are deliberate.
00:29:10.000 That it's when a people come together, hopefully through the consent of the governed, give up a little bit of their freedom and liberty in exchange for some form of a civil government, and hopefully and prayerfully in return, will get a free society.
00:29:27.000 And the difference is quite stark.
00:29:30.000 In Mexico, they have a cartel running their entire country.
00:29:35.000 Now, in America, we have a different cartel running our country.
00:29:38.000 It's called Congress, but that's a different topic for a different time. 1.00
00:29:42.000 But why would Kamala Harris visit the border? 1.00
00:29:44.000 Well, if she visited, she would have to take responsibility. 1.00
00:29:48.000 The longer she doesn't visit, the less responsibility she has to take.
00:29:53.000 And to her, visiting Paris and visiting Uvalde, Texas is a moral equivalent or Nahales, Arizona.
00:30:02.000 So to her, to Lester Holt, she says, well, I haven't been to Stockholm.
00:30:05.000 What's your point?
00:30:06.000 Well, here's the point, Kamala.
00:30:10.000 In Stockholm, they don't have 3,000 people coming across the border from Stockholm into Texas every single day.
00:30:18.000 That would be one difference.
00:30:20.000 Number two, Stockholm or Paris is not bringing in tons of drugs into our country every single day, or guns, or thousands of women are not getting raped every single month coming from London into our country.
00:30:36.000 But for her, we're all citizens of the world.
00:30:38.000 What crisis?
00:30:39.000 There is no crisis.
00:30:41.000 You see, the Democrats are governing as if they never actually have to face another election again.
00:30:47.000 So there's two explanations here.
00:30:49.000 The first explanation very well could be that Democrats think that because of the way that they are able to manipulate mail and balloting, because of the way that they are able to control the voting systems, that they never actually have to face another election again the way they used to.
00:31:11.000 Or, number two, they are so confident in their own press releases and their own nonsense coming out of the New York Times and the Washington Post that they think they're actually doing such a wonderful job.
00:31:24.000 How could people not possibly support them?
00:31:27.000 But Democrats almost always make this mistake.
00:31:29.000 Governing for them is something they've never been good at because governing takes consensus, it takes perseverance, it takes focus, it takes the ability to take responsibility for your actions.
00:31:44.000 Democrats are awful at governing, they're really good at running bureaucracies inefficiently for their own personal gain.
00:31:52.000 But as far as governing a state or a country, that is a skill that most Democrats do not have because for them, governing takes looking at the world empirically through practical wisdom and using prudence and then putting forth public policy.
00:32:07.000 Democrats are ideologues.
00:32:10.000 They're ideologues in pursuit of power. 1.00
00:32:12.000 And that's why Kamala Harris does not want to visit the border.
00:32:19.000 Thanks so much, everybody.
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