00:00:45.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:58.000That's why this show is doing so well, praise God.
00:02:00.000Not some sort of corporate synthetic thing where we talk about issues that don't matter.
00:02:04.000And so when I hear a candidate say something that I know 90 to 95% of the actual Republican base supports and it's met with booze, I say, time out.
00:02:20.000So at our Turning Point Action Conference, which are actual conservatives, real nationalist populists, Americans, 95% of our 7,000 people in attendance, 7 to 8,000, whatever the final number of the poll was, in Florida at the Turning Point Action Conference about a month ago, 95% say that they did not want any involvement in the war in Ukraine.
00:04:18.000And by the way, what we're talking about is a philosophical realignment: that we will not get involved in the invasion of other countries until we massively prioritize that of our own country.
00:04:29.000Why is it that the DC regime cares more about foreign countries than our own country?
00:04:32.000This is one of the animating forces of America First.
00:04:36.000Now, obviously, Donald Trump not being there last night, it created this vacuum.
00:04:41.000And only Vivek Ramaswamy, which the audience has very strong opinions both ways about, he was the only one, this is a fact, that actually represented the MAGA agenda with the crowd against him, with the other candidates against him.
00:04:55.000So, number one, who was in attendance?
00:05:48.000So the reality is that today, today, Ukraine is not a priority for the United States of America.
00:05:57.000And I think that the same people who took us into the Iraq War, the same people who took us into the Vietnam War, you cannot end it, you cannot start another no-win war.
00:06:05.000And I do not want to get to the point where we're sending our military resources abroad when we could be better using them here at home to protect our own borders, protect the homeland.
00:06:15.000You see how they boot him right out of the gate?
00:06:33.000Where the actual voters in Iowa say that Vivek Ramaswamy was the winner of the debate, not the RNC Republican establishment crony insiders who hate your values.
00:06:46.000They want to invade the world, invite the world, get piles of plastic into America, transing the kids, no big deal, making your grandkids gay.
00:09:10.000Asa Hutchinson comes out and he says Donald Trump, according to legal scholars in the New York Times, won't even be allowed to be president.
00:09:17.000He is citing the article that we talked about earlier this week.
00:09:20.000That's your Republican Party absent Donald Trump.
00:09:24.000Donald Trump, to his credit, he saw a setup.
00:11:14.000He very well could have done the limp wrist thing.
00:11:16.000He could have backed away on the Ukraine issue.
00:11:19.000Nikki Haley trying to lecture him about how aiding foreign countries is the most important thing.
00:11:25.000You know, Nikki Haley, she says, oh, you know, you don't have any foreign policy experience.
00:11:30.000Well, that's awfully good because your experience is about endless wars, no-win conflict, indebting our country.
00:11:42.000There was this kind of understatement from Christie and Neocon Nikki and from Pence, which I hear to a lesser extent all the time.
00:11:50.000So I have some compassion here and some sympathy where I really was pulling for Vivek.
00:11:55.000And it's an argument from authority that those of us in the young conservative space have to overcome all the time, which is sit down, pal.
00:12:48.000Vivek, if we do the giveaway that you want to give to Putin to give him his land, it's not going to be too long before he rolls across a NATO border.
00:12:57.000And frankly, our men and women of our armed forces are going to have to go and fight him.
00:13:01.000I want to let the Ukrainians fight and drive Putin and the Russians back out into rivalry.
00:13:08.000I want to just make that Vice President Pence.
00:14:37.000People didn't even see Ron DeSantis worthy of attacking him.
00:14:41.000That was the most amazing takeaway: Vivek Ramaswamy, fresh politician, everyone had attack vectors against him, and Vivek used it to his advantage.
00:14:56.000But did Ron DeSantis seem like the guy that's going to carry the torch forward?
00:15:02.000It's kind of non-existent, to be perfectly honest.
00:15:06.000And you have some people tweeting out, oh, Ron DeSantis clearing away the winner of the debate.
00:15:11.000You must be on payroll to believe that.
00:15:13.000You can't objectively look at the debate and say that.
00:15:17.000There's so many more takeaways that we're going to explore here.
00:15:21.000But I want to repeat something I said earlier.
00:15:30.000And philosophically and ideologically, the party has changed for the better to represent American citizens, not foreigners, to close our borders, to rebuild the American class, and to challenge the DC regime.
00:15:42.000And it was on full display last night.
00:15:47.000Do you know that the average American spends about 20 years in retirement?
00:15:51.000That's a long time to live without a steady income.
00:15:53.000And we want to make sure you enjoy every moment of it and don't outlive your money.
00:15:57.000Retirement is about more than just investments.
00:16:36.000Also, I think it's like, wow, I guess not closing Florida schools is the reason anyone even considers you a serious contender because that's basically what got him reelected in Florida, which is why he had the donor base, which is why he was seen as a Trump alternative.
00:16:52.000I mean, maybe that's the reason because it's certainly not any talent for talking to people realtor politics or actually explaining why he's a viable candidate.
00:17:01.000She's talking about Ron DeSantis there.
00:17:03.000And she, I think it's Alex Wagner, not going to comment on her.
00:17:06.000But I will say, I wish I would have seen more fight out of DeSantis.
00:21:56.000So you have everybody on stage except Vivek saying more money to Ukraine, even though we've spent $200 billion so far in an unaudited fashion, escalating war, escalating nuclear conflict, no pursuit of peace, while our country is collapsing.
00:22:12.000So one of the co-sponsors last evening of the debate was Rumble, who did a great job.
00:22:20.000As you can see, we have our Rumble thing behind us here.
00:22:23.000And the other co-sponsor of the debate is an organization called Young America's Foundation that we at Turning Point USA have far surpassed.
00:22:31.000They came after us in a very nasty way years ago, and they didn't succeed.
00:22:37.000I have a lot of friends over there, Matt Walsh, Scott Walker.
00:22:40.000They've been very, some of them have been very, not those guys, but other people there who are remaining were very nasty towards me and tried to destroy my career.
00:22:50.000Anyway, so on a national stage, YAF, Young America's Foundation, this is going viral.
00:22:56.000They had an opportunity because they co-sponsored the debate, and the RNC did that for a lot of reasons, also to try to get back at us for trying to take out Ronald Romney as RNC chair, but that's a separate issue.
00:23:07.000Their one opportunity to ask a question.
00:23:20.000Polls consistently show that young people's number one issue is climate change.
00:23:24.000How will you, as both president of the United States and leader of the Republican Party, calm their fears that the Republican Party doesn't care about climate change?
00:23:32.000Calm their fears that the Republican Party doesn't care about climate change.
00:23:37.000That's the best that they have to offer.
00:24:10.000So, what a missed opportunity that was.
00:24:12.000I wish they would have had a question of how many people here on stage pledge that biological men masquerading as women will not be allowed in bathrooms, female sports, and what are you going to do to stop the castrating of kids?
00:24:25.000That would have been a great question.
00:25:44.000It was a reminder to me that we have to be vigilant.
00:25:50.000This old, diseased, broken Republican party, the old guard, they feel entitled to continue to run your party and bring the country down and manage decline.
00:26:05.000Thank goodness that Donald Trump is up 50 or 60 points.
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00:27:33.000I don't know if I'm allowed to keep playing tape from the debate because there's all these rules that if you play more than three minutes of the tape from the debate last night, you're in violation to Fox News's rules.
00:27:44.000So I don't know where we're at on that.
00:30:13.000You know, in New Jersey, honestly, if somebody had the drinking game of Chris Christie, New Jersey, they would be dead of alcohol poisoning if he said every time New Jersey.
00:30:23.000You know, in New Jersey, New Jersey, in New Jersey, New Jersey, and in New Jersey.
00:30:46.000We are in the middle of something we've never lived through before, as bad as 1860.
00:30:52.000And you wouldn't have, if you would have just woke up from a coma and you watched that debate, do you get the sense that that is the opposition party against the regime last night?
00:31:02.000That they are ready to go to war against the administrative state, against the shadow government, against the Leviathan?
00:31:07.000You would have thought, oh, things are basically the same and there might be some out of control prosecutors.
00:31:11.000No, literally today, DOJ is going after Elon Musk.
00:31:15.000This weekend, D.C. Attorney General going after Leonard Leo's very successful financing network, $1 billion going after him.
00:31:22.000James O'Keefe, Westchester DA, Fulton County, Georgia going after 18 people, Michigan alternate electors, everyday rank and file MAGA voters.
00:31:30.000This is an all-out crusade using the lawfare apparatus to go after any effective person that challenges the regime.
00:31:37.000But you wouldn't have gleaned that from the chatter last night.
00:31:41.000And then you have these exhausting, oh, well, you know, our best days are ahead of us.
00:31:46.000Or Mike Pence, we need a government as good as the people.
00:32:09.000I got the impression that they are comforter bowl, more concerned about Ukraine than America.
00:32:16.000I would have liked to see a little bit of unified spirit about regardless of your hatred of Trump, that if they are successful in this, there's no going back.
00:32:26.000Last night was a massive disappointment in that regard.