The Charlie Kirk Show


Democrats: The Party of Elites, Censors, and Warmongers ft. Tulsi Gabbard


Summary

Tulsi Gabbard is a former Democratic National Committeewoman and served as the Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee. She is now a member of the House of Representatives and is running for President of the United States in 2020. In this episode, Tulsi talks about why she left the Democratic Party and why she decided to endorse Donald Trump for president. She also answers your questions and gives her thoughts on the current state of the country and what she would do if she was elected President. She also discusses why she thinks Donald Trump is the best choice for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination and why he should win the election. Tulsi also discusses the importance of voting early and the need for a voting machine on campus in order to make sure that all Americans have a voice in the process. Learn how you can protect your wealth with Noble Gold Investments, a company that specializes in gold and physical delivery of precious metals. That's where I buy all of my gold. That is Noble Gold Investing Investments is the official Gold Sponsor of The Charlie Kirk Show. and it's the place I buy my gold! and I buy it in person at Noble Gold in person in Tucson, AZ. I can't wait to go to Tucson to pick it all up and bring it back to you in person! I'll be back in Tucson in a few weeks! Thank you for listening and supporting the show! Peace, Blessings, Cheers! - Charlie and Joe - The Charlie Kirk - P.S. - AKA The Charlie, AKA the Freedom. - Joe, the Freedom, the Lawyer. . . . , . , , and Joe, The Peace Corps, & the Peace Corps ( ) ... The Peace, Love, Love & Blessings! , Joe, Joe, Kristy, , etc., Thank You, Ms. ( ) . . , Aloha, J. M. , J. & K. ( ? , K. & J. ( ) , P. & Alyssa, etc., etc., J. (?) J. E. (Mrs. ( ), , & the Crew, etc., & P. ? , etc. ) - J. O. (A. & B. (M. & M. & E. )


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.
00:00:00.000 My conversation with Tulsi Gabbard at the University of Arizona.
00:00:03.000 We take questions live from the student audience, and also we discuss World War III, nuclear Armageddon, and men and female sports.
00:00:08.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:00:11.000 Subscribe to our podcast, open up your podcast application, and type in Charlie Kirk Show.
00:00:15.000 And get involved with our show by becoming a member today, members.charliekirk.com.
00:00:20.000 And go vote today.
00:00:21.000 That's right.
00:00:21.000 Go make a plan.
00:00:23.000 Go vote.
00:00:23.000 And vote today.
00:00:25.000 It is the most important thing you could do.
00:00:27.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com and get involved at TurningPointUSA at tpusa.com.
00:00:32.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:33.000 Here we go.
00:00:34.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:35.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:00:37.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:00:41.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:00:44.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:00:45.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:00:46.000 His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:03.000 That's why we are here.
00:01:07.000 Noble Gold Investments is the official gold sponsor of The Charlie Kirk Show, a company that specializes in gold IRAs and physical delivery of precious metals.
00:01:17.000 Learn how you can protect your wealth with Noble Gold Investments at noblegoldinvestments.com.
00:01:23.000 That is noblegoldinvestments.com.
00:01:25.000 It's where I buy all of my gold.
00:01:27.000 Go to noblegoldinvestments.com.
00:01:31.000 A lot of energy here in Tucson for Donald Trump.
00:01:34.000 It's pretty amazing, everybody.
00:01:38.000 So joining us tonight is the amazing Tulsi Gabbard.
00:01:46.000 And we're going to sit here and just have a conversation about the state of the country, and then we'll be taking your questions.
00:01:52.000 But I have the most important question.
00:01:54.000 Who has voted already?
00:01:55.000 Raise your hand.
00:01:56.000 All right.
00:01:57.000 We've got to do better than that, everybody.
00:01:59.000 And I know we're working on a voting location here on campus.
00:02:02.000 We need to make it too big to rig and to vote early, everybody.
00:02:06.000 We need to vote early in this state.
00:02:08.000 We're going to talk about that tonight, and let's get started.
00:02:10.000 Tulsi, welcome.
00:02:11.000 Thank you very much.
00:02:12.000 Thanks, everybody, for coming out.
00:02:13.000 Aloha.
00:02:16.000 Tulsi, for those in the audience that do not know, you ran for President of the United States as a Democrat.
00:02:23.000 You were the former co-chair of the Democrat National Party.
00:02:27.000 You were in the middle of the DNC world, and now you have enthusiastically endorsed Donald Trump.
00:02:36.000 Tell us all about it.
00:02:37.000 It all makes sense, right?
00:02:39.000 For those of us who are paying attention, I first ran for office when I was 21 years old in Hawaii.
00:02:46.000 I ran for a seat in the State House because I saw a bunch of politicians who cared more about the position and the power than they did about the people.
00:02:55.000 At that time, I didn't come from a family that was involved in partisan politics.
00:03:00.000 They were very involved with service and the community.
00:03:02.000 But I didn't have a party that I was attached to, and I had to make a decision of which party that I would join.
00:03:08.000 I joined the Democrat Party because back then, over 20 years ago, it was still a big tent party.
00:03:15.000 It welcomed people from all different backgrounds.
00:03:17.000 It was a party that still actively stood up for free speech and against censorship, even of speech that they found to be offensive or abhorrent.
00:03:28.000 It was a party that fought for civil liberties and civil rights, and it was truly the party of the little guy.
00:03:34.000 Nationally, but also in my home state of Hawaii.
00:03:37.000 Fast forward to where we are today.
00:03:41.000 Everything that drew me to the Democrat Party really are the main reasons why I left the Democrat Party a few years ago.
00:03:49.000 They have become the party of warmongers.
00:03:51.000 They are the party of censorship of free speech.
00:03:55.000 They are the party of power grabs of our civil liberties and freedoms.
00:04:00.000 And they are the party of the elitist and permanent Washington establishment.
00:04:06.000 There are so many examples, and we'll get into them, but ultimately, from my first year in Congress, within six months, we were talking about this earlier, I was two weeks as a new member of Congress.
00:04:20.000 I got a call from someone who said, hey, how would you like to be vice chair of the DNC? And my response was, what is a vice chair of the DNC? I didn't know.
00:04:29.000 I didn't know why they were calling me.
00:04:30.000 I had a good guess.
00:04:32.000 Based on identity politics, I checked a lot of the boxes that they were looking for.
00:04:36.000 But I think that they thought that I was going to be someone who was just going to fall in line, was going to do what the party bosses said to do and use the talking points that they send out in the emails every day.
00:04:46.000 And it took barely six months for them.
00:04:49.000 I sat on the Foreign Affairs Committee at the time.
00:04:51.000 President Obama came and said, hey, I want to get authorization from Congress to start a new regime change war in Syria.
00:04:57.000 I did my research.
00:04:59.000 I listened to their briefings.
00:05:00.000 I heard their case and came to the conclusion that this would be bad for the American people and bad for our security.
00:05:07.000 And I said so publicly, and that was their first indication of knowing I would not fall in line.
00:05:14.000 I immediately got a call from the White House within 24 hours, not saying, hey, Tulsi, why do you disagree with us?
00:05:19.000 You've been a soldier.
00:05:21.000 You are still a soldier.
00:05:22.000 You've deployed to the Middle East.
00:05:23.000 What are you seeing that maybe we're not getting?
00:05:26.000 They didn't say any of that.
00:05:28.000 They called and said, Tulsi, how dare you go against your president?
00:05:33.000 How dare you not fall in line?
00:05:36.000 And from that point on, I think they recognized they had already put me in position as a vice chair of the DNC, that I would continue to be a voice of truth.
00:05:46.000 It got to the point where I tried my best to fix the Democrat Party from within.
00:05:52.000 And I realized that not only were they not interested in that, they would seek to destroy and censor and smear anyone who dared to challenge their positions and their policies.
00:06:03.000 So they used the same playbook against me that you saw them use against Bobby Kennedy, that you see them use against anyone who dares to criticize them and who dares to tell them.
00:06:13.000 The truth, which is why I'm here today.
00:06:15.000 And Tulsi, you ran for president and debated Kamala Harris.
00:06:19.000 By the way, she did very well when she debated Kamala Harris, let me tell you.
00:06:27.000 And understand this.
00:06:28.000 She ran for the presidency with the same values that you hold today.
00:06:33.000 And this is what's so important for those out there that might lean liberal, that might think you're a Democrat.
00:06:38.000 Your values might not have changed very much, but the Democrat Party has changed a lot.
00:06:43.000 And you must reconcile those two.
00:06:45.000 Can you speak to that, Tulsi, that the Democrat Party has left a lot of people?
00:06:49.000 Yeah.
00:06:49.000 You know, Charlie, this is such an important point for, yes, those of you here, but you may be having similar conversations with friends of yours or coworkers or family members who don't know what they want to do in this election yet.
00:07:02.000 They may not like any of the choices and feel conflicted about, you know, where the priorities should be placed or feel like the Democrat Party doesn't represent you, but you're not quite sure if you belong anywhere else.
00:07:15.000 We look at the Democrat Party of today, and it hurts when I really think about this, that it was once the Party of Peace, for example.
00:07:25.000 There is not a single Democrat in Congress today who has voted against or spoken out against continuously sending hundreds of millions of our taxpayer dollars, over a billion dollars at this point, to continue this proxy war against Russia via Ukraine.
00:07:43.000 Using the Ukrainian people's lives and what is a regime change war against Russia.
00:07:50.000 That is not only hurting them, but it's hurting us.
00:07:52.000 We've got families in Western North Carolina right now who are homeless.
00:07:57.000 They have nothing left.
00:07:59.000 They are cold and hungry.
00:08:02.000 And I have friends who are working right now.
00:08:05.000 They have people coming to their volunteer medics saying, we've been drinking water from the contaminated lake and streams and their esophagus is burning and my kids are getting sick.
00:08:18.000 Can you please help?
00:08:21.000 And just today we got another message that the White House sent another, what was it, 250, 350 million dollars to Ukraine.
00:08:28.000 And yet they're telling us they have no money for people who are in Western North Carolina right now who are fighting for their lives.
00:08:38.000 Their foreign policy is making us less safe and secure and closer to World War III and nuclear war than ever before.
00:08:45.000 And so as you're having conversations with people, look past the party affiliation or the history or the legacy.
00:08:51.000 Today's Democrat Party would be unrecognizable to someone like President John F. Kennedy.
00:08:56.000 I believe it would be unrecognizable to someone like Martin Luther King Jr., who told us to look past our skin color and see each other for who we really are.
00:09:05.000 Our character, our integrity, our spirit.
00:09:09.000 We have the opportunity in this election to shed those labels and focus on truly what is most important to us as Americans, as people, as humans, to our loved ones And when I say what kind of future we want in this country of freedom and peace and security and prosperity, those aren't just taglines or words that are put on a t-shirt or a bumper sticker.
00:09:34.000 Nuclear war could spark at any time.
00:09:37.000 At any time.
00:09:39.000 So yes, we have a lot of problems to solve, but if we are in a position as we are now closer to nuclear war than ever before, there is no life.
00:09:48.000 There is nothing else.
00:09:49.000 That's why who we choose, all of us, who we choose, regardless of your party affiliation or your history or what you agree or disagree on, who we choose to be our president and commander-in-chief is the most important decision that we'll make on November 5th.
00:10:05.000 Amen.
00:10:06.000 A couple points to that.
00:10:08.000 Number one, I think we can all agree we should not send any more money to Ukraine while our own border remains wide open.
00:10:21.000 Number two, why is it that the people of Western North Carolina are treated so terribly while people who break into our country get food stamps, luxury hotels, and private flights all across the interior of the United States?
00:10:35.000 That is wrong and reprehensible.
00:10:38.000 It is sad to say, but if the people of North Carolina want help, you know what they should do?
00:10:44.000 They should fly to Mexicali, break into America, declare asylum, and they'll get all the help they need.
00:10:51.000 And that is a sad state of affairs.
00:10:53.000 But Tulsi, I want you to emphasize the point you mentioned here.
00:10:55.000 This audience is full of 18, 19, 20, and 21 year olds.
00:10:58.000 This is the audience that will be drafted into a war against Russia.
00:11:02.000 This is an audience that will be involved in a proxy, not just a proxy war, but a hot war.
00:11:08.000 Tulsi, you've served in our military.
00:11:11.000 You've been on the front lines.
00:11:12.000 When people hear, oh, nuclear war, World War III, I think there's some eye-rolling.
00:11:17.000 There's some, come on, that is sensationalizing things.
00:11:21.000 Can you talk how serious it actually is and how immediate the threat is and how lackadaisical Kamala Harris is treating the fact that this audience could soon be drafted to the front lines of a major war against Russia?
00:11:35.000 Thanks, Charlie.
00:11:35.000 I want to focus on three things in this regard.
00:11:38.000 You talk about the draft.
00:11:40.000 How many people here have actively filled out the form and registered for the draft?
00:11:46.000 So for the rest of you, you may not know that Congress snuck in a line into a piece of legislation that would automatically register every male for the draft when you turn 18, whether you know it or not.
00:12:03.000 And another effort underway to make it so that women are drafted and automatically registered for the draft at 18 as well.
00:12:13.000 Why would they be doing this?
00:12:16.000 Why now?
00:12:17.000 Why now, if not the warmongers seeing around the corner, hey, we got multiple wars that we are embroiled with in various regions around the world, They're hanging out and sharing drinks with their friends in the big defense contractors and military-industrial complex.
00:12:36.000 You notice that stocks may be going down in some other areas over these last few years.
00:12:40.000 It's the military-industrial complex.
00:12:42.000 Their stocks are skyrocketing high.
00:12:45.000 They are preparing for you to be forced to go to war, whether you believe in it or not, whether you choose to or not.
00:12:56.000 Second thing, when we talk about nuclear war, we in Hawaii had a very real close call with what that experience may look like a few years ago.
00:13:08.000 It was early on a Saturday morning in Hawaii.
00:13:11.000 Cell phones started going off with an alarm.
00:13:14.000 Some of you might remember hearing about this in the news.
00:13:17.000 That said, ballistic missile incoming to Hawaii.
00:13:22.000 Seek immediate shelter.
00:13:24.000 This is not a drill.
00:13:26.000 7 o'clock on a Saturday morning.
00:13:27.000 Beautiful morning in Hawaii.
00:13:30.000 Everyone's cell phones go off with this.
00:13:32.000 Immediately, what's the first thing that crosses your mind?
00:13:36.000 It says, seek immediate shelter.
00:13:38.000 If we got that message right here today, right now, where would you go?
00:13:44.000 Where would you go?
00:13:46.000 This is what happened in Hawaii.
00:13:48.000 We had our University of Hawaii college students, just like you, literally caught on CCTV cameras sprinting across campus trying to get into any cement-looking building thinking that that might keep them safe.
00:14:01.000 A lot of the buildings were locked.
00:14:02.000 It was a Saturday morning.
00:14:04.000 We had people who were gathering their kids and hiding in their bathtubs as though that somehow might keep them safe.
00:14:11.000 I got a message from a guy who Caught on his iPhone, he lowered his daughter, his seven-year-old daughter, down a manhole and said, stay down here, honey.
00:14:24.000 I hope I see you again.
00:14:27.000 Another parent reached out to me after and said that he was in one town on the island of Oahu where I live, and he had one kid who was 20 minutes in this direction, another kid who was 20 minutes in that direction.
00:14:38.000 And for all the parents in here, you will understand maybe his feeling when he said he had to choose.
00:14:44.000 We got 15 minutes until all of this is over.
00:14:46.000 Which of my children am I going to?
00:14:50.000 How do you make that choice?
00:14:53.000 Because when that attack comes, it's over.
00:14:58.000 And while it may be difficult, and I understand, to conceptualize, this is the reality that we are living in right now, today.
00:15:08.000 Because President Biden and Kamala Harris recently approved long-range missiles to be fired deep into Russia, Putin and Russia responded by changing their authorities that surround their use of nuclear weapons to say if they feel an existential threat, whether it's coming from nuclear weapons or not, they authorize the first strike use.
00:15:36.000 That's the world we're living in right now.
00:15:39.000 It will get exponentially worse if Kamala Harris is elected.
00:15:44.000 The third thing I want to say to you about Kamala Harris, you might remember if you watched the debate between her and Donald Trump, one of the most striking moments to me, there was a lot that went on there, but one of the most striking moments to me was when she chose to look into the camera at all of us and say there is not a single active duty soldier serving in a combat zone anywhere in the world for the first time in a century.
00:16:14.000 And she was so proud to say that.
00:16:17.000 Meanwhile, you have soldiers who are deployed to Syria right now, watching her on TV in what looked like a tent, hearing her say this, saying, what about us?
00:16:31.000 What about people who are deployed to Lebanon, people deployed to Jordan, people who are deployed under fire from the Houthis in Yemen?
00:16:40.000 People who've been killed under this administration.
00:16:43.000 When we have someone who's asking us to give her our trust and our confidence as Americans.
00:16:49.000 I can speak as a soldier who still serves.
00:16:51.000 I'm a battalion commander right now.
00:16:53.000 Asking for us to trust her to be our commander-in-chief.
00:16:58.000 Yet she has no idea that we have tens of thousands of service members when she said that statement as we do today who are putting their life in harm's way in service to our country.
00:17:12.000 How dangerous is it that we have a person who is so clearly out of touch or simply does not care?
00:17:22.000 How do we trust her with the nuclear codes?
00:17:25.000 The last thing I'll say on her with this is that the most dangerous thing, and I said this back in 2020 when we were both running for president on the Democratic ticket, The most dangerous thing that we could see as Americans is a Kamala Harris presidency where in order to try to hide her insecurity and her weakness and her desire to prove strength,
00:17:51.000 That she is a commander-in-chief, the first thing that she will do is use our men and women in uniform and the might of our military to go and try to prove that strength and suck us into yet another unnecessary, counterproductive, costly war.
00:18:08.000 This is someone who cares about power, not the people.
00:18:12.000 And nothing can be more dangerous for us than that.
00:18:17.000 Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here.
00:18:18.000 What an unbelievable start to 2024.
00:18:20.000 We had last month saving babies with pre-born by providing ultrasounds.
00:18:24.000 And we're doing again this year what we did last year.
00:18:26.000 We're going to stand for life because remaining silent in the face of the most radically pro-death administration is not an option.
00:18:31.000 As Sir Edmund Burke said, the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
00:18:36.000 And we're not going to do nothing.
00:18:38.000 Your gift to pre-born will give a girl the truth about what's happening in her body so that she can make the right choice.
00:18:44.000 $280 can save 10 babies.
00:18:46.000 $28 a month can save a baby a month all year long.
00:18:49.000 And a $15,000 gift will provide a complete ultrasound machine that will save thousands of babies for years and years to come.
00:18:55.000 And we'll also save moms from a lifetime of pain and regret.
00:18:59.000 Call 833-850-2229.
00:19:01.000 That's 833-850-2229.
00:19:04.000 Or click on the preborn banner at charliekirk.com.
00:19:07.000 That is charliekirk.com and click on the preborn banner.
00:19:10.000 Also save moms from a lifetime of pain and regret.
00:19:12.000 I'm a donor of this organization.
00:19:13.000 They're terrific.
00:19:14.000 Go to charliekirk.com.
00:19:16.000 Click on the preborn banner.
00:19:19.000 So, on that uplifting note, Tulsi, we talked about nuclear war.
00:19:24.000 I do want to get to some of the other issues here and one that you really care about.
00:19:27.000 Then I want to get to questions.
00:19:29.000 Few people know this, but Kamala Harris and Joe Biden together, they worked very, very hard to repeal Title IX. And Kamala Harris is running to try to be the first female president, which is funny because they can't tell you what a woman is when you ask them what a woman is.
00:19:45.000 However, This is very important for any Democrat out there for you to tell your Democrat friends, which is that according to the policy, not just the rhetoric, but the policy of the current White House administration, that Kamala Harris will continue.
00:20:00.000 Men will be able to enter into female locker rooms, and there will be no distinction between male-female sports.
00:20:06.000 Is that an exaggeration, Tulsi, at all?
00:20:08.000 It's happening right now.
00:20:09.000 It's happening right now.
00:20:10.000 This is a policy.
00:20:11.000 In fact, they say that you will not receive federal dollars of tax dollars if you do not allow men to go into female locker rooms.
00:20:20.000 Now, I remember a time when the Democrat Party used to say that they were defending women all the time.
00:20:24.000 Well, they only say that with one issue.
00:20:26.000 Well, why are they not defending women from perverts going into locker rooms that want to harm women?
00:20:37.000 And if that is not persuasive enough, Tulsi, I want you to talk about where you were yesterday in Reno, which is an issue that I want Donald Trump to mention every day from now to the election.
00:20:47.000 Very simple.
00:20:49.000 Donald Trump believes that men should not be able to compete in women's sports.
00:20:53.000 Period.
00:20:54.000 That men should not be able to be in women's sports.
00:20:57.000 I'm sure we have women athletes here and people that believe in fairness.
00:21:02.000 Tulsi, talk about the San Jose State volleyball team and then talk about how Donald Trump will not put up with this and Kamala Harris is enthusiastic about the destruction of female sports.
00:21:14.000 First of all, isn't it just, like, surreal that one of the top priorities of a presidential candidate is to make it so that men and boys don't play in women and girls sports?
00:21:27.000 This is the insanity of the Democrat Party that we're in today.
00:21:31.000 I was in Reno last night, University of Nevada, Reno, women's volleyball team.
00:21:36.000 They're in the news a little bit lately because they have an upcoming game against San Jose State.
00:21:42.000 San Jose State has one of their players who is a biological male.
00:21:48.000 The players on the women's volleyball team in Reno have taken a stand.
00:21:52.000 The vast majority of players have said, we are standing up for fairness, equality, and safety for women in sports.
00:21:59.000 We refuse to play against San Jose State.
00:22:03.000 They would rather forfeit the game and take the loss.
00:22:10.000 Because they believe in standing up for what's right.
00:22:13.000 Their athletic director, the leadership of their school, came out with a public statement criticizing their own players taking this courageous stand.
00:22:25.000 The school has made it clear that they will still have San Jose State go to the game.
00:22:30.000 The game will still be on and they will force their players and they are standing strong and will not waver to literally stand on that court and refuse to play, which they will do.
00:22:42.000 I'm grateful to have been able to have been there with them last night.
00:22:45.000 They had a great game.
00:22:46.000 They won the game.
00:22:47.000 But just to thank them for their courage and to share with them the inspiration that they're giving to so many other women and girls and men and boys to take that stand and do the right thing.
00:22:59.000 This is an issue that's affecting schools and families and girls across the country.
00:23:05.000 It's one that, as Charlie mentioned, the Harris-Biden administration pushed this policy change of Title IX that's been around for over 50 years.
00:23:15.000 That was the reason why we have so many female Olympians today.
00:23:19.000 Wouldn't exist without Title IX. They didn't go through this by passing legislation through Congress as you are supposed to do in a democratic republic.
00:23:27.000 Instead, they backdoored it and did this rule change in an insidious way that not only made the changes that Charlie is talking about, but for every public school, K-12, that gets federal funding to feed the poor kids who can't afford to buy breakfast or lunch.
00:23:45.000 It's called free and reduced lunch funding.
00:23:49.000 The Harris-Biden administration are telling the administrators of every one of these schools, unless you allow boys into girls' bathrooms, unless you allow boys to play in girls' sports, we will refuse to provide you with free and reduced lunch funding, therefore taking food away from the kids who are coming who need help the most.
00:24:10.000 It's 100% legit, by the way.
00:24:12.000 This is coming from the people who claim to care about the most vulnerable, who claim to care about the poor, who claim to care about the hungry, who claim to care about opportunity for women and girls and equal pay for equal work, all of their lines.
00:24:25.000 But when you look at their actions, they don't care about it at all.
00:24:30.000 They are pushing this radical agenda.
00:24:34.000 The most recent one that we're hearing about is their overt support For parents to lose their children to the government if you refuse to abide by gender-affirming, quote-unquote, care and pronouns.
00:24:49.000 They want the government to be able to take your child away from you if you don't call the child by the pronoun that they want you to call them.
00:24:57.000 This is what a Kamala Harris presidency will be if we allow her in office.
00:25:03.000 So one final topic here that I want to hear from the audience is there's an amazing thing happening, everybody, and I hope you guys understand it And are able to take pause and understand you're living through history.
00:25:14.000 That there's a realignment occurring.
00:25:17.000 And there's very few realignments in American political history.
00:25:21.000 A realignment is where all of a sudden constituencies realize that their values are better fit with another political party and things start to change in real time.
00:25:30.000 There's not been a serious realignment in American politics since the Civil Rights Act in the mid-1960s.
00:25:35.000 There just hasn't been.
00:25:36.000 Republicans and Democrats have generally had the same constituencies.
00:25:39.000 Republicans have generally been the party of college-educated voters, more managerial class, more Northeastern, Rockefeller, Mitt Romney types.
00:25:48.000 And the Democrats were more the party of laborers, people that would work at their hands.
00:25:52.000 And they were always, the Democrats were always supporters of free speech, They were always supporters of civil liberties, and they were always skeptical of foreign war.
00:26:01.000 But something has changed over the last 20 years, where the uniparty, which means that the establishment in both political parties, are indecipherable.
00:26:08.000 They're basically the same.
00:26:10.000 But thanks to Donald Trump running, you're seeing a massive change.
00:26:14.000 Where now the Republican Party is the party of the muscular class, is the party of families, is the party of people that shower before work and shower after work.
00:26:23.000 The Republican Party is now, by the way, You can laugh at them, but they're the ones that deliver your Uber Eats at 2am every night, okay?
00:26:30.000 They're the ones that drove the trucks during COVID to make sure you guys had food, okay?
00:26:37.000 I see you.
00:26:38.000 You're the one getting Uber Eats at 2 o'clock in the morning.
00:26:41.000 They're the ones that you say, oh my goodness, I don't know how to fix, you know, I need a plumber, electrician, a welder.
00:26:46.000 They're the ones that are the invisible voter of this country.
00:26:50.000 They don't vote.
00:26:51.000 They're not always talked to, but Donald Trump has brought them back in the fold.
00:26:54.000 You see, the Republican Party is no longer the party of war.
00:26:57.000 The Republican Party used to be the party of Bush and Cheney.
00:27:00.000 They are now endorsing Kamala Harris.
00:27:02.000 The Republican Party is now seeing a growing movement of young people.
00:27:06.000 Look around you guys.
00:27:06.000 This is supposed to be Liberal University of Arizona, and this is a standing room only event.
00:27:14.000 The Republican Party is the party that allows agreement and disagreement.
00:27:20.000 I want to bring this home.
00:27:22.000 I am a conservative.
00:27:24.000 She ran for the presidency as a Democrat, and yet we agree on the big stuff.
00:27:29.000 And you are living through a unification moment, where now, getting behind Donald Trump are people as conservatives like myself, Tulsi Gabbard, Bobby Kennedy, the first Republican, the Kennedy ever to endorse a Republican.
00:27:44.000 Elon Musk and others.
00:27:46.000 And who is getting behind Kamala Harris?
00:27:48.000 The warmongers of prior generations?
00:27:51.000 The people that want more power in Washington, D.C. This is team unity versus a uniparty.
00:27:58.000 Can you speak to this, Tulsi, as a final kind of element, and then let's get some questions.
00:28:02.000 It's a beautiful thing, and it's something that I hope gives you hope, as it does me, because we have people who are coming together as we should, as Charlie said, around the most important and fundamentally American values and principles, things that we all share in common, recognizing, as President Trump has, I had a reporter who talked to me, and they're like, oh, you're going and doing all these events for Trump, and you're speaking at all these town halls.
00:28:30.000 They must give you some pretty tight talking points to use.
00:28:33.000 Where I said, no, they never have.
00:28:35.000 They've never given me talking points.
00:28:36.000 They never said, Tulsi, you're not allowed to say this and don't talk about that.
00:28:40.000 Not once.
00:28:41.000 This reporter was shocked.
00:28:42.000 They're like, are you kidding me?
00:28:43.000 I said, no, not at all, because President Trump isn't afraid of someone who might disagree with him on something.
00:28:49.000 He knows why I've endorsed him.
00:28:51.000 We've had these conversations.
00:28:52.000 I talk about the issues that are most important to me and why I believe his presidency, his next presidency, is our best hope to have a future in this country that is free and secure and peaceful and prosperous.
00:29:06.000 We have the opportunity in an incredibly divided country, we have the opportunity to come together as Americans and bring we have the opportunity to come together as Americans and bring about the most significant historic change in a government that is so deeply corrupt.
00:29:29.000 Thank you.
00:29:30.000 Thank you.
00:29:31.000 Through electing Donald Trump, he cannot do it alone.
00:29:34.000 He cannot do it alone.
00:29:36.000 And for my friends, and I hear from them who are skeptical, like, Tulsi, how do you know that you're not going to have neocon warmongers in a Trump administration like there was last time?
00:29:45.000 Well, don't take my word for it.
00:29:47.000 Look at the fact that he has asked both Bobby Kennedy and I and others to serve on his transition team to make sure that we get the people in those positions.
00:30:00.000 Which we are actively doing right now.
00:30:02.000 Get the people in those positions who are not just going to feed into the bureaucracy and put the bureaucracy over the interests of the people, the administrative over the interests of the people.
00:30:12.000 Put people in these positions from top to bottom who are interested in the best well-being and interests of the American people first.
00:30:22.000 Not people who are looking for their next job in Washington or looking to write some tell-all book.
00:30:27.000 People who are passionate and experienced They care about Pete.
00:30:34.000 They care about securing our border.
00:30:36.000 They care about the things that we all share most in common.
00:30:40.000 This is what I am excited about.
00:30:42.000 This is what over these next 20 days I hope you share with those in your lives.
00:30:47.000 You might need a little bit of convincing.
00:30:49.000 We can bring about a government.
00:30:51.000 I really believe this.
00:30:53.000 We can bring about a government that our founders envisioned that is truly of the people, by the people, and for the people.
00:31:00.000 If your approach to everyday aches and pains is to mask them, you know, feel better for a few hours only to have the pain return and then repeat the cycle all over again.
00:31:10.000 It's time to try Relief Factor.
00:31:12.000 And the good news is Relief Factor makes it quite easy.
00:31:15.000 Their three-week quick start is just $19.95, less than a dollar a day.
00:31:20.000 Instead of masking pain, Relief Factor helps eliminate it.
00:31:24.000 How?
00:31:24.000 Well, its unique formula of natural ingredients helps support your body's response to inflammation.
00:31:30.000 Relief Factor was developed by doctors.
00:31:33.000 It's 100% drug-free.
00:31:34.000 And for so many people, the results are game-changing, even life-changing.
00:31:38.000 So give it a try.
00:31:39.000 Right now, their three-week quick start is just $19.95.
00:31:44.000 Go to relieffactor.com or call 1-800-4-RELIEF. That is 1-800-4-RELIEF. See how in a few weeks or even a few days, Relief Factor can reduce your pain.
00:31:53.000 So don't mask your pain, fight it naturally with Relief Factor, relieffactor.com.
00:31:59.000 Okay, so if you guys have questions, you guys can start lining up.
00:32:02.000 We have a mic here, and I just want to summarize that.
00:32:05.000 If you want to be able to own a home, an end to the endless wars, if you want free speech and a government that represents you, you vote Donald Trump.
00:32:12.000 And vote early, everybody.
00:32:14.000 We're going to go through that.
00:32:14.000 Okay, let's start doing questions.
00:32:16.000 Raise your hand.
00:32:17.000 Tulsi has to, we have to, we have about 25 minutes.
00:32:21.000 All right.
00:32:22.000 A very crisp 25 minutes.
00:32:23.000 Let's do some questions here.
00:32:25.000 And remember, they are questions.
00:32:26.000 They are not statements of your life biography, needs, wants, interests, and your favorite recipe with a question mark.
00:32:32.000 It is a question.
00:32:33.000 Okay, yes.
00:32:34.000 Well, hi, Charlie.
00:32:35.000 My name is Kendall.
00:32:36.000 I was actually at Calvary Church and I was 10 seconds away from asking you a question.
00:32:43.000 This is my chance.
00:32:45.000 I feel like I could speak collectively for all of us as a generation, a community when I say that it's discouraging to live in this generation right now.
00:32:56.000 So my question for you is if you could choose one message of faith to tell everyone, what would it be?
00:33:05.000 Well, thank you for that.
00:33:06.000 One message of faith would be really simple.
00:33:07.000 There is a God and you are not Him.
00:33:09.000 And that God loves you so much that He sent His Son, Jesus Christ.
00:33:16.000 And that whoever gives his or her life to Jesus Christ will find life and life more abundantly.
00:33:23.000 That you must understand you aren't the center of the universe.
00:33:25.000 It's not about what you want to do, it's what you ought to do.
00:33:27.000 That we serve a perfect God and we submit to His will.
00:33:30.000 And that you will go searching and seeking for quote-unquote your truth.
00:33:35.000 And you will end up in a very dark place most likely.
00:33:37.000 As soon as you realize that there is a divine order, that there's a cosmological truth above all of it, then all of a sudden life starts to have more meaning.
00:33:44.000 You start to realize why you are here.
00:33:46.000 You realize that you're not just a random clump of cells bouncing around University of Arizona.
00:33:50.000 That you are created in the image of the divine.
00:33:53.000 That you have a purpose.
00:33:54.000 That there is a plan for your life.
00:33:56.000 And that comes with obligations, responsibilities, and a destination.
00:33:59.000 If you want to end depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, you want to end what's happening in this country, yes, we can talk about mental health all you want, but it is a spiritual sickness in this country at its foundation, and we need to have people give their life to Jesus.
00:34:12.000 Thank you so much.
00:34:17.000 Hi, Charlie.
00:34:18.000 I've been following you for years.
00:34:20.000 I mean, I love all the work that you've done.
00:34:22.000 You've definitely saved a lot of us, especially economically and everything.
00:34:27.000 I just want to say thank you for that first.
00:34:30.000 And second off, I know the economy as bad as it is now.
00:34:34.000 I just want to know how much worse you think it could possibly get.
00:34:37.000 A lot worse.
00:34:38.000 Let me tell you right now.
00:34:39.000 All of you guys want to be able to own a home, right?
00:34:40.000 This is not a political issue.
00:34:42.000 By the way, home ownership is a good thing for a country.
00:34:45.000 When a nation is renting, you are subservient to somebody else.
00:34:50.000 When you are owning, you are able to say, this is my land, I'm able to build value, create wealth, and that I have a stake in the country that I live in.
00:35:00.000 Home ownership should be accessible to all Americans.
00:35:03.000 However, what's happened, thanks to Kamala Harris, They've decided to spend $6 trillion unnecessarily, $200 billion of it on Ukraine, which therefore when you flood the zone with cheap money, asset prices go up.
00:35:16.000 So when you have more of something, all of a sudden when you have a finite limited resource, those prices go up.
00:35:22.000 To own a home in Arizona in 2020 when Donald Trump was president, you needed to earn $75,000 a year.
00:35:31.000 Now that Kamala Harris is VP, want to become president, you need to be able to earn $135,000 a year for a single starter home in this country.
00:35:41.000 Starter homes in the Valley and Phoenix have gone from an average of $450,000 a year to $600,000, not a year, $600,000.
00:35:51.000 This is out of reach for many of you, because they are creating a nation where you will rent for the rest of your life.
00:35:56.000 If Donald Trump becomes president, he will bring down the price of housing, he will bring up your wages and end inflation, and make home ownership achievable for everybody in this audience.
00:36:06.000 And I'm going to tell you how.
00:36:08.000 I'm going to tell you how.
00:36:10.000 The most obvious is this.
00:36:12.000 We have a big heart, and we welcome immigrants that come here the right way and the legal way.
00:36:17.000 But when you have Ten million people that come here uninvited as newcomers that broke our customs and you're competing against them from homes, prices go up.
00:36:29.000 This is called supply and demand.
00:36:31.000 It is the first law of economics.
00:36:33.000 This is why sand is cheap and diamonds are expensive.
00:36:37.000 When you have a lot of something, it gets cheap.
00:36:40.000 When you have a little of something, it gets more expensive.
00:36:43.000 So Donald Trump will facilitate the largest ever deportation effort in this country to put Americans first and to prioritize legal immigration.
00:36:55.000 And finally, and most importantly...
00:36:58.000 When you have energy prices that go up, everything gets more expensive.
00:37:03.000 It gets more expensive to get the lumber to go build a home, more expensive to get the windows there.
00:37:07.000 The green energy policies of Kamala Harris are making you pay more at the pump, are making your groceries more expensive.
00:37:15.000 Donald Trump will drill baby drill, bring down the price of gas, and make it more achievable for you guys to be able to afford basic necessities.
00:37:21.000 We need a president who understands how the economy works.
00:37:31.000 you First sign of how things could get much worse when you look at the last three and a half years and how Kamala Harris and Joe Biden and all of their spokespersons have been patting themselves on the back for years saying how great Bidenomics is as the cost of living has gone up, as inflation has gotten worse, as the dollar is worth less and less.
00:37:53.000 They refuse to listen to you and understand the reality of the struggles of your life and instead look at each other and say, well, gosh, if only the American people knew what a great job we were doing, then we would be more popular.
00:38:06.000 If only we messaged this differently, everything would be better.
00:38:12.000 They are so far out of touch with the reality of our everyday lives.
00:38:16.000 That should be warning sign number one.
00:38:19.000 Warning sign number two, their answer is to print more money.
00:38:23.000 Without any care or regard for how it impacts us today and how it will impact us for generations to come.
00:38:30.000 The biggest suspense that we have is money going over to places like Ukraine.
00:38:36.000 They just sent another couple hundred million dollars yesterday.
00:38:41.000 We look at Kamala Harris' solution to many of the challenges that we've brought up today and that Charlie has talked about.
00:38:47.000 Housing, for example.
00:38:48.000 What's the solution?
00:38:49.000 Oh, well, I'll just give you $25,000 to put towards a down payment.
00:38:52.000 You talk to any realtor, and I've talked to a lot, or you find them on social media, every single one says all that's going to do is drive up the cost of housing.
00:39:02.000 They say, okay, you're getting 25 grand from the government.
00:39:05.000 Cool, we can jack the price up.
00:39:06.000 Another 50 grand.
00:39:07.000 It will do nothing.
00:39:08.000 You hear about her latest black economic opportunity agenda that she just put out yesterday.
00:39:14.000 What's the first thing?
00:39:14.000 That she wants to give out a million, $20,000, 100% forgivable loans to black entrepreneurs.
00:39:24.000 What's a forgivable loan?
00:39:27.000 A loan means you pay it back, right?
00:39:28.000 Which, by the way, they're saying about all the money to Ukraine as well.
00:39:31.000 That money is not getting paid back.
00:39:33.000 Her answer to everything is print more money, hand out money, whether it's for forgivable loans or to pay off other people's college debts, not recognizing or understanding the direct implications of that and how much worse it will make our economic environment.
00:39:50.000 Thank you so much.
00:39:51.000 And just said succinctly to your question that I didn't answer, She will lead us into a Great Depression, the likes of which is hard to comprehend.
00:39:59.000 We're about to hit some very, very tough economic waters.
00:40:02.000 You guys are feeling it right now.
00:40:03.000 It'll get really bad.
00:40:05.000 Only Donald Trump can save us from that.
00:40:06.000 Thank you so much.
00:40:07.000 much.
00:40:07.000 I appreciate it.
00:40:08.000 Hi, I'm a freshman here at the U of A and I have a very, my roommate is born and raised as a Democrat and we obviously have very different views.
00:40:25.000 We normally just avoid the topic, but as we're getting closer to the election, I really don't think that is something that I can do anymore.
00:40:32.000 What do you recommend I bring up, and how do you recommend that candlest situation?
00:40:35.000 And do you also have any good talking points that would spark your interest in learning more about the conservative movement?
00:40:41.000 I would just encourage you to ask your roommate what are the things that she's thinking about and that she cares about as she's thinking about who she wants to vote for.
00:40:49.000 If she says, well, I have to vote for Kamala because she's a Democrat, encourage her to go a little deeper.
00:40:55.000 None of us, none of us, and I would never ask anyone to be a blind follower of any group or any party of any kind.
00:41:02.000 There is so much at stake here.
00:41:04.000 I'd find out what are the things that she really cares about and use that as the opportunity where if she says, well, you know, I'm worried about women's rights.
00:41:12.000 Maybe you can share a little bit about some of the things that we're talking about here today.
00:41:15.000 The economy, the border, security, crime, safe communities, peace and war.
00:41:21.000 There is such a huge contrast on all of these...
00:41:24.000 Freedom of speech and censorship that allows us to disagree in public in the way that we sometimes do.
00:41:31.000 So...
00:41:31.000 Learn what she cares about most and use that as the opportunity to open the door.
00:41:35.000 Perfect answer.
00:41:36.000 Thank you so much.
00:41:40.000 Hello, Charlie, and my name is Josiah Jackson.
00:41:43.000 I'm a biosystems engineering student here at the University of Arizona, and I'm currently focusing on controlled environment agriculture.
00:41:50.000 How can we maximize the agricultural output for set resources?
00:41:54.000 And I sit on the AgriLife Council and lead a student organization that builds those systems and that provides the food for the campus pantry.
00:42:01.000 So my specific question for you guys is while the environmentalism movement and the Green Deal and all that stuff is primarily focused on the left party, what is your guys' perspectives on the continued funding and subsidizing of research what is your guys' perspectives on the continued funding and subsidizing of research that would maximize agricultural yield for the in need areas of the United States, like North Carolina, like Arizona, where we have limited water where we have limited water use in a sector of research that's primarily dominated by the Democratic Party?
00:42:31.000 Well, you seem pretty impressive.
00:42:33.000 I'd fund your research, so I'll tell you what.
00:42:37.000 I don't know much about it, but what you're talking about is smarter and better ways to be able to harness our agriculture.
00:42:43.000 I'm all for that.
00:42:45.000 And I think I will say one thing.
00:42:47.000 There is this, and I would love to have Tulsi's thought, there is this belief that we as conservatives don't care about the environment.
00:42:52.000 That of course is not true.
00:42:54.000 We love the environment.
00:42:55.000 We also love people, and we believe that people exist in the environment, and that when there is a decision to be made of people get harmed because you want to have some unknown Delta smelt survive in central California, then that's not good for people.
00:43:10.000 However, it's important to know that Donald Trump's record on the environment is one of his Wins, that does not get credit.
00:43:15.000 In fact, carbon emissions went down during the Trump administration.
00:43:18.000 Natural gas exploration went up, which is very, very good for the environment.
00:43:21.000 Donald Trump believed in free market principles that allowed more entrepreneurs to invest in cleaner and more renewable ways for us to do energy.
00:43:29.000 He just did not believe in a heavy hand of subsidies to do it.
00:43:32.000 Do you want to talk about that, Tulsi?
00:43:34.000 The farm bill that goes through Congress every five years is one of the most massive pieces of legislation that gets through, and it covers so much, unfortunately, that very little has to do with how do we better grow healthy food to feed Americans in our country.
00:43:52.000 I'll give you one quick example because this was one of the first votes that I took as a member of Congress in 2013 when the Farm Bill was coming around, and I was shocked that we had to vote on this, but there was an amendment to the Farm Bill that came through that would have allowed frozen pizzas to qualify for the fruit and vegetable nutritional requirement in the food pyramid in our public schools.
00:44:14.000 I thought this was like a prank or something.
00:44:15.000 I was like, are you kidding me?
00:44:17.000 So we're going to vote to have frozen pizza meet the fruit and vegetable requirement, but this is the kind of thing that gets into the farm bill that benefits, obviously, some of the biggest mass-produced food corporations that are more interested in profits and don't care about the fact that they're poisoning people.
00:44:33.000 So this is something that Bobby Kennedy is very focused on in the Make America Healthy Again movement of growing healthy food...
00:44:41.000 To feed people so we can have a healthy America again.
00:44:44.000 Thank you so much for what you're doing.
00:44:49.000 Hey there.
00:44:49.000 Good evening, Charlie and Tulsi.
00:44:51.000 I'm Arturo.
00:44:52.000 I'm a sophomore here at U of A. And in these last two years, I've been really invested into politics, getting to know more about politics.
00:45:00.000 I even thought about going into a career into politics as well.
00:45:03.000 And Tulsi, you've gone into the business.
00:45:06.000 You're a representative of Hawaii.
00:45:09.000 I'd like to know from both of you, what was it like running to be representative?
00:45:13.000 And Charlie, do you have any plans to join a political career, senator or president even?
00:45:20.000 No, but tell us to you.
00:45:22.000 How old are you?
00:45:24.000 I'm 19.
00:45:25.000 You're 19.
00:45:26.000 So I was 21 when I first ran for office.
00:45:28.000 I've been in and out of different public offices.
00:45:30.000 My goal was never to have a political career or a business, so to speak.
00:45:34.000 Really, my heart is committed to finding ways where I can best be of service to God and to the people of this country.
00:45:42.000 And when I was 21, that's where I saw the opportunity to do that.
00:45:46.000 I ran for Congress when I was 31 after I'd been deployed twice to the Middle East with the Army.
00:45:52.000 I've been told throughout my life so many times, you're too young, you're too inexperienced, why don't you wait 20 years and then go back and try again?
00:46:02.000 And respectfully, with all of the aloha in my heart, I would smile and say thank you, but isn't it time that we have fresh new ideas and new energy in our government that actually is fighting for the people?
00:46:18.000 So the one piece of advice that I always share with anyone who's thinking about running for office, whether it's the Board of Education or State Legislature or Congress or President, You don't have to go to an Ivy League school.
00:46:30.000 You don't have to check some artificial boxes that some political pundit tells you you have to check.
00:46:36.000 What's most important is your motivation, what's in your heart.
00:46:40.000 Why are you doing this?
00:46:41.000 What are you hoping to accomplish?
00:46:43.000 If you want to have a fancy resume and a title, I would beg you, please don't run for office.
00:46:49.000 Run for office to be of service.
00:46:51.000 These are public service jobs, and that's what we have to bring back into our government.
00:46:58.000 Everyone, I want to tell you to vote no on Amendment 3.
00:47:01.000 On November 5th, Florida residents will vote on Prop 3, which is to legalize marijuana.
00:47:06.000 Look, Amendment 3 does not have time, place, or manner restrictions.
00:47:10.000 It goes too far.
00:47:11.000 This means if it passes, recreational marijuana would be allowed everywhere.
00:47:14.000 11 million registered voters in Florida and an estimated 36% intend to vote no on Prop 3.
00:47:21.000 So why are we against this?
00:47:22.000 What does marijuana have to do to the minds of young people?
00:47:24.000 Do you know it could reduce IQ points in young adults by an average of 8 to 10 points?
00:47:28.000 This is about corporate greed.
00:47:30.000 It's not about the voters.
00:47:32.000 It's about making them wealthier.
00:47:33.000 Now, here's the call to action, everybody.
00:47:35.000 Vote no on 3.
00:47:37.000 You should learn more about it.
00:47:39.000 It goes too far.
00:47:40.000 Let me say it again.
00:47:41.000 It goes too far.
00:47:42.000 For more information, go to no-on3.com.
00:47:46.000 Vote against the legalization of marijuana.
00:47:51.000 Hey Charlie, my name is Jacob, and my question for you is, do you touch paper receipts, and how can I avoid this wave of estrogen spreading among young males?
00:48:03.000 I mean, you're half trolling, but I try to not have any estrogenic, let's just say, forces on my body.
00:48:12.000 What about paper receipts in general?
00:48:14.000 What are your thoughts?
00:48:15.000 I actually never take a receipt.
00:48:18.000 I just try not to take them.
00:48:21.000 I don't know.
00:48:21.000 Great.
00:48:22.000 Thank you.
00:48:22.000 Next question.
00:48:26.000 Tucson.
00:48:27.000 It's always something.
00:48:28.000 Yeah.
00:48:29.000 Hello.
00:48:29.000 Hey.
00:48:29.000 My name is Joe.
00:48:30.000 I'm a father.
00:48:32.000 I have three kids, but I have been alienated from my kids.
00:48:36.000 I see my two sons only one weekend a month.
00:48:40.000 It's been a five-year battle since my divorce that I've been trying to get back in my kids' lives, and I've been hearing you talk about how the statistics show that not having a father in the home leads to so many different negative things in their lives.
00:48:55.000 What can government do to help fathers get more time with their children or even keep families together and promote the nuclear family?
00:49:08.000 It's a tough issue.
00:49:09.000 There's not an easy answer to that.
00:49:11.000 And because I'd imagine there's court orders that you have to abide by, right?
00:49:15.000 So I guess the best piece of advice I could give is the time you have with your kids, really lean into it and really cherish it and you have to maximize it.
00:49:23.000 Look, there's a whole father's rights movement that has been going around for quite some time, and I think it deserves a fair hearing because there are a lot of dads that deserve and want more time with their kids, and they're not able to have it.
00:49:34.000 And so, unfortunately and tragically, half of all marriages in this country end in divorce, which means there's a lot of broken families and relationships.
00:49:40.000 So, thank you.
00:49:41.000 I appreciate it, and I'm sorry to hear about that situation.
00:49:43.000 Thank you.
00:49:48.000 Hi, Tulsi.
00:49:49.000 Hi, Charlie.
00:49:50.000 My name is Christine.
00:49:52.000 My question is, 20 years ago, my husband and I would have been solidly in the middle class.
00:49:57.000 Today, the middle class is rapidly disappearing.
00:50:00.000 What do you think has been the biggest factor in the death of the middle class?
00:50:04.000 There's a couple things.
00:50:06.000 The first of which, and this actually supersedes all the others, you have leaders that don't care about you.
00:50:12.000 And that's not a policy.
00:50:13.000 That's an attitude.
00:50:15.000 And Tulsi can speak to this.
00:50:18.000 There is a self-righteousness and an arrogance towards the American body politic where they just want your vote and they could not care about your well-being.
00:50:29.000 This is why they hate Donald Trump so much, everybody, because he has brought you into the room.
00:50:35.000 He has involved you in the process, and he's given you a voice.
00:50:39.000 You're not supposed to have a voice.
00:50:41.000 You're supposed to just fill out the ballot and shut up every couple years and keep on giving them power.
00:50:47.000 And so it used to be in this country, if the middle class was suffering, our leaders would worry, and then they would go deliver results for the American people.
00:50:57.000 Let me tell you even more concretely, This audience, Republican or Democrat, if you are under the age of 30, you are the first generation since George Washington to have it worse off than your parents.
00:51:11.000 To have it worse off.
00:51:12.000 You will be poorer, sicker, more likely to be addicted to drugs, more likely to kill yourself.
00:51:17.000 We have broken the social contract in this country.
00:51:20.000 If there was one thing that unifies governments, it should be, we're going to try to leave something as good or better for our kids.
00:51:27.000 Can we agree with that?
00:51:28.000 We have failed in that mission.
00:51:31.000 We are handing the next generation $36 trillion in debt.
00:51:34.000 10 million foreigners that we don't know who they are in just the last four years.
00:51:39.000 We have two proxy wars going right now and looming nuclear war.
00:51:43.000 Young people cannot afford homes.
00:51:45.000 Grocery prices are out of reach.
00:51:47.000 The social contract is broken because the leaders don't care.
00:51:51.000 Now, I could go deeper into policy if you'd like, but that is the fundamental through line as to why you are now part of a vanishing middle class.
00:52:00.000 One thing that goes along with that arrogance that you're seeing, largely from the Democrat elite in Washington, is this idea that, well, we know what's better for you than you do for yourselves, for your family, and for your kids, so let us make the decisions.
00:52:16.000 Let us tell you what you're allowed to say and do.
00:52:19.000 Let us tell you how you're supposed to raise your children.
00:52:22.000 Or better yet, just let the government do it, and you just step aside.
00:52:28.000 I've had, when I was in Congress, a number of people would come in and talk to me and meet with me and warn me about this rise of populism that was happening during President Trump's first administration.
00:52:39.000 And they're terrified of that, this rise of populism.
00:52:42.000 And you're seeing it happening in different countries around the world.
00:52:45.000 Because the Democrat elite are not alone here.
00:52:47.000 The permanent Washington are not alone here.
00:52:50.000 They are terrified of what?
00:52:51.000 The rise of the people making our voices heard saying, if you don't represent us, we're going to fire you and send you home.
00:53:00.000 That is their worst nightmare and why we're seeing them throw everything in the kitchen sink at Donald Trump to try to keep him off the ballot, to try to throw him in jail, unfortunately to try to even assassinate him.
00:53:12.000 Because they recognize that he has brought voice and is listening to the people and is promising to fight for us.
00:53:21.000 We are only powerful if we use our voices now and when we cast our votes.
00:53:27.000 If we don't do that, which they hope we won't, Amen.
00:53:43.000 Okay, thank you.
00:53:45.000 One thought, everybody.
00:53:46.000 So we have time for two more questions.
00:53:48.000 Is this a joint question?
00:53:49.000 Am I looking at it correctly?
00:53:50.000 And then can I get a student question after that as the final question?
00:53:53.000 So if someone who is a student, you're welcome.
00:53:55.000 Yes, the young lady there in the blue sweatshirt.
00:53:57.000 Thank you.
00:53:58.000 Because we are on a university.
00:54:00.000 So, okay.
00:54:01.000 I want to say one thing.
00:54:02.000 Who here is registered to vote here in the state of Arizona?
00:54:04.000 Raise your hand.
00:54:05.000 Boy, almost every hand is raised.
00:54:07.000 Everybody.
00:54:07.000 If you guys are convinced tonight, I have to implore you, make a plan to vote.
00:54:12.000 How many of you guys have mail-in ballots that have arrived or arriving?
00:54:15.000 Raise your hand.
00:54:15.000 Okay.
00:54:16.000 That means a lot of you guys have to go and go into the early voting booth.
00:54:20.000 Now, I understand in this building, on the 25th of October, where's Brett?
00:54:24.000 Brett knows all this stuff.
00:54:26.000 This building, early voting starts, yes, literally right next door, okay?
00:54:30.000 So if you live here on campus, on the 25th of October, you can go to this building, and you can go cast a vote for Donald Trump.
00:54:37.000 If you have a mail-in ballot, you can get it into the mail, and you can send it in, and that will count.
00:54:42.000 Everybody, you need to make a plan to vote.
00:54:44.000 Your individual vote matters.
00:54:46.000 Our Attorney General race in this state was decided by this seating section.
00:54:53.000 240 votes.
00:54:56.000 In a state as large as Arizona, our Attorney General was elected by 240 votes.
00:55:03.000 Your vote absolutely matters.
00:55:05.000 With Donald Trump in 2020, it was 10,000 votes that determined the entire state.
00:55:10.000 So this room alone, if everyone voted for Trump, could account For nearly 18% of the entire vote margin in 2020.
00:55:19.000 Your vote matters, and you need to make a plan to vote.
00:55:21.000 Secondly, you need to go find people that are, ah, I don't know if I'm going to go vote, and you need to get in their eyes and repeat what you heard tonight, and you need to get them out to the polls and vote.
00:55:29.000 You need to find five people, ten people.
00:55:31.000 That is your mission, that is your purpose, because we're up against billions of dollars, everybody.
00:55:35.000 We're up against the most entrenched machines.
00:55:37.000 You have to do the work to save the country.
00:55:39.000 Two final questions.
00:55:40.000 Yes.
00:55:41.000 Good evening, Tulsi and Charlie.
00:55:43.000 We appreciate you being here in Tucson.
00:55:44.000 I'm a board native here, Michael Vasquez, and you just recently met my son in North Carolina, and I want to thank you for your support there.
00:55:51.000 He was part of a task force going into Chimney Rock and Lake Lur, and we appreciate everything you've done.
00:55:57.000 What's his name?
00:55:58.000 Ryan Vasquez.
00:55:59.000 Thank you.
00:56:00.000 He's part of 82nd Airborne Veteran.
00:56:02.000 How much of an impact has 101st and 82nd, having said that and been there personally, have an impact now?
00:56:16.000 And has FEMA butted them out or engaged?
00:56:20.000 And how much has the government failed?
00:56:22.000 And can you give us an update on North Carolina?
00:56:25.000 Yeah, sure.
00:56:26.000 We're in touch on a daily multiple calls.
00:56:29.000 I have a nonprofit called We Must Protect.
00:56:31.000 We're providing support Two groups that Ryan and others who are either on active duty and taking leave or those who are veterans are filling the gap in the failures of government.
00:56:42.000 We're in touch with them and deploying.
00:56:43.000 They're sending us shopping lists.
00:56:45.000 We're sending people out and getting them the supplies they need.
00:56:48.000 The active duty component, 101st, 82nd, they made a tremendous impact, unfortunately, because of state politics.
00:56:56.000 I just talked to a two-star general yesterday, and he said they told us to go home.
00:57:02.000 There are people still in towns in Western North Carolina who have not seen anyone from any government agency, who have lost their homes, their vehicles, every piece of clothing that they have, every belonging that they have, but this is their home.
00:57:17.000 And they refuse to leave.
00:57:19.000 There's tremendous work that's being done on the ground by organizations like Samaritan's Purse, the Savage Freedom Operations crew.
00:57:27.000 Look them up online if you haven't heard of them.
00:57:29.000 They are literally saving people's lives.
00:57:32.000 They are asking for cadaver dogs because there are dead bodies that they are still recovering.
00:57:37.000 They are doing everything they possibly can, but there are incredible limitations because of the failures of FEMA. The Harris-Biden administration and Governor Roy Cooper, who, I hate to be, these things should not be partisan, but he is a Democrat who has not gone out there and made sure that every single North Carolinian life matters.
00:58:01.000 We got to keep lifting these people up in our prayers and providing them with all of our support because it's getting cold out there and they still desperately need a whole lot of help.
00:58:10.000 Thank you.
00:58:11.000 We'll get to the final question.
00:58:12.000 Thank you, Tulsi.
00:58:14.000 Alright, yes ma'am, you have the final question.
00:58:17.000 Hi, my name is Alyssa and I wanted to talk about white privilege.
00:58:23.000 I just wanted to know your opinion on it and see if you think it's a thing because I feel like nowadays it's not a thing and a lot of people think it still is.
00:58:32.000 Like as I was applying for school and scholarships, there were so many scholarships for African Americans and Hispanics and all that and there was nothing for White.
00:58:40.000 And I just, like, with all the, like, feminists nowadays, everyone says that, like, white men have it the best, but really they have no one supporting them nowadays.
00:58:55.000 And I just wanted to know, like, what your opinion was on that.
00:58:58.000 I'll start with the end of the question.
00:59:00.000 You're exactly right.
00:59:01.000 And look, no group should ever be targeted, stereotyped, or prejudiced against based on their immutable characteristics, their skin color, or your chromosomes, period.
00:59:10.000 But unfortunately, there is a subtext that it's okay to kind of crap on white men in this country.
00:59:15.000 And that's wrong and it needs to end.
00:59:16.000 And I think right now that we're seeing a lot of people...
00:59:21.000 Of all backgrounds and skin colors, agree.
00:59:23.000 I will just, I will, I've been on the record about the white privilege stuff, which I think it's far overblown and doesn't exist.
00:59:29.000 I will say about other political context, though, I think is really important, because we're here to talk about the election, is that what Donald Trump stands for.
00:59:35.000 Donald Trump stands for meritocracy, not race-based admissions to our institutions.
00:59:40.000 Donald Trump believes the most qualified person should get the job.
00:59:43.000 Not the person that fits a specific criteria of a race, sex, gender box that fits some sort of woke DEI category.
00:59:51.000 Donald Trump wants your surgeon to be the best surgeon, someone that graduated the top of their school, not someone that just happened to be hired because You need to fill some sort of a quota.
01:00:01.000 We are a country that has done excellent things under the belief that skin color does not matter and what you do and how you act absolutely matters.
01:00:10.000 And Donald Trump will restore that belief in all forms of government.
01:00:14.000 And it will start with no DEI, no critical race theory, and putting merit back in how we hire in our federal government.
01:00:21.000 Thank you so much.
01:00:24.000 Final thoughts here, Tulsi.
01:00:30.000 The most precious thing that any one of us has in our lives that we can give is time.
01:00:36.000 It's the one thing that we can never take back.
01:00:39.000 You've chosen to spend your time here with us tonight, and I want to thank you for that.
01:00:48.000 We have 19 days and a wake-up until Election Day.
01:00:54.000 Your votes and those you bring with you, Charlie said bring five, bring ten people, your votes could change the course of our country forever and humanity.
01:01:08.000 This is the most important election of my lifetime.
01:01:11.000 I hope you feel the same way.
01:01:14.000 And when you think things get hard, When sometimes maybe here at school when you speak up and you bring up a good point, or you try to speak the truth and people may call you names or criticize you, remember what's truly at stake.
01:01:29.000 It is times like this that we need people of courage and strength to speak the truth, just like those female volleyball players are doing in Reno, Nevada.
01:01:39.000 Because if we are not ready to fight for our country now, we will wake up and find that our country is gone.
01:01:46.000 Let's save our country, everybody.
01:01:47.000 Thank you so much for coming out.
01:01:48.000 Vote early.
01:01:49.000 God bless you guys.
01:01:50.000 Thank you.
01:01:51.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
01:01:52.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
01:01:54.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.