The Charlie Kirk Show - August 24, 2023


Did We Just Watch the Old GOP’s Funeral?


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Vivek Ramaswamy wins the debate, and we talk about more takeaways from the first Republican Debates of 2020. Today's episode is a mashup of my thoughts on what went wrong in the first debate and what went right.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody, Taylor Charlie Kirk Show debate reaction.
00:00:02.000 Vivek Ramaswamy wins the debate and we talk about more takeaways.
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00:00:23.000 Here we go.
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00:01:06.000 Let's first talk about what happened last evening.
00:01:10.000 It was a setup, and Donald Trump did not fall for it.
00:01:14.000 First, let's talk about the most irritating part of last night.
00:01:18.000 The most frustrating part last night was the crowd.
00:01:23.000 I know it sounds strange, but for those of you that watch the debate, you'll know exactly what I mean.
00:01:27.000 And I'll play a clip to support this.
00:01:29.000 We're rather in touch with the Republican base.
00:01:32.000 We know what you want.
00:01:33.000 We know how you view the world.
00:01:35.000 We talk with you, not to you, every single day.
00:01:38.000 We have a conversation together.
00:01:41.000 You send us tens of thousands of emails a week, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:01:45.000 I meet you at grassroots events tonight.
00:01:47.000 I'm going to be seeing many of you in California.
00:01:50.000 I saw you in Washington.
00:01:52.000 I look you in the eyes and I see the energy, the passion, and the spirit.
00:01:56.000 This is a grassroots show.
00:01:58.000 That's why this show is doing so well, praise God.
00:02:00.000 Not some sort of corporate synthetic thing where we talk about issues that don't matter.
00:02:04.000 And 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.
00:02:15.000 This is not a Republican debate.
00:02:17.000 This is not a Republican debate.
00:02:19.000 Something else.
00:02:20.000 So 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.
00:02:42.000 95%, 95%.
00:02:45.000 By far the most overwhelming poll result of everything we did.
00:02:50.000 And so whenever I mentioned the Ukraine issue, I would get applause for our perspective, which is it's not our fight, not our war.
00:02:56.000 Broker peace.
00:02:57.000 Get America out of it.
00:02:58.000 We spent $200 billion.
00:02:59.000 Why don't we secure our own country?
00:03:01.000 Boom.
00:03:02.000 And yet, yesterday, Vivek Ramaswamy, to his great credit, was the only candidate on that stage that said no more money.
00:03:10.000 We're done.
00:03:12.000 He was representing your views, listening to the grassroots and bringing it right there. 0.99
00:03:16.000 In fact, they do this stupid, and to DeSantis' credit, he called it out early in the debate. 1.00
00:03:21.000 It's so silly. 1.00
00:03:22.000 Raise your hand if you believe. 0.99
00:03:23.000 It's just so nauseating.
00:03:26.000 And they say, who here does not want to send more money to Ukraine?
00:03:32.000 And Vivek Ramaswamy, boom, hand all the way up.
00:03:36.000 And Ron DeSantis does this little thing.
00:03:38.000 No joke.
00:03:39.000 We have the picture.
00:03:40.000 And Vivek, foam, straight up.
00:03:43.000 And they go straight to Vivek.
00:03:44.000 They say, explain yourself, flanked by neocons.
00:03:49.000 You got Neocon Nikki.
00:03:50.000 You got Mike Pence.
00:03:51.000 You got Chris Christie, who visited Ukraine.
00:03:54.000 You got Asa Hutchinson, Doug Bergham.
00:03:56.000 They're all there.
00:03:57.000 Boom, right there.
00:03:59.000 Vivek Ramaswamy with the extended right arm saying no more money to Ukraine.
00:04:04.000 I want to put America first.
00:04:05.000 And Vivek crushed this answer.
00:04:07.000 He said, why don't we stop the American invasion instead of worrying about an invasion thousands of miles away?
00:04:13.000 And Neocon Nikki comes out and she says, oh, we can do both.
00:04:16.000 Apparently, we can't, Nikki.
00:04:18.000 And 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.
00:04:29.000 Why is it that the DC regime cares more about foreign countries than our own country?
00:04:32.000 This is one of the animating forces of America First.
00:04:36.000 Now, obviously, Donald Trump not being there last night, it created this vacuum.
00:04:41.000 And 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.
00:04:55.000 So, number one, who was in attendance?
00:04:57.000 Were these precinct committeemen, grassroots types, MAGA, carpenters, welders, electricians, police officers, firefighters?
00:05:03.000 No.
00:05:04.000 These were selected by each one of the candidates' campaign RNC allies and friends in the audience.
00:05:12.000 Now, I knew some people in the audience that are some amazing donors, and they were texting me, mocking the RNC the whole time.
00:05:19.000 I have some of the texts.
00:05:19.000 They're hilarious.
00:05:20.000 RNC is terrible.
00:05:22.000 They hate Trump. 0.97
00:05:23.000 They hate America. 1.00
00:05:26.000 This is a clown show. 0.98
00:05:27.000 They were obviously drowned out, and they said, I don't recognize any of these people in the audience. 0.97
00:05:32.000 They said they all look like lobbyists.
00:05:35.000 And you could tell by how the audience reacted to any sort of challenging to neoliberalism.
00:05:43.000 Play cut 119, please.
00:05:46.000 Mr. Ramaswamy, you were mentioned.
00:05:47.000 You get 30 seconds.
00:05:48.000 So the reality is that today, today, Ukraine is not a priority for the United States of America.
00:05:57.000 And 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. 0.77
00:06:05.000 And 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.
00:06:15.000 You see how they boot him right out of the gate?
00:06:17.000 He's talking about a no-win war.
00:06:18.000 By the way, some of these things we've talked about on our show extensively.
00:06:21.000 We use the phrase no-win war, administrative state.
00:06:24.000 He's on the message.
00:06:25.000 You got to give him credit.
00:06:28.000 Now I want to contrast that by playing 132.
00:06:31.000 Get it ready, guys.
00:06:33.000 Where 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. 0.96
00:06:46.000 They want to invade the world, invite the world, get piles of plastic into America, transing the kids, no big deal, making your grandkids gay. 1.00
00:06:54.000 We're not going to talk about it. 0.62
00:06:55.000 But as long as Zelensky gets his $200 billion, sir, yes, sir.
00:06:59.000 Vivek says not so fast, but the American people, they were not represented last night at the debate.
00:07:07.000 Play cut 132.
00:07:08.000 Here's what I want to ask you about: who you thought did the best during this debate?
00:07:12.000 Basically, who do you think won the debate?
00:07:13.000 I'm going to do it in alphabetical order to be fair.
00:07:15.000 Anyone think Doug Bergum did the best?
00:07:18.000 That's zero.
00:07:18.000 Anyone think Chris Christie did the best?
00:07:20.000 He certainly got most of the airtime.
00:07:22.000 A lot of the airtime, not most of the airtime.
00:07:24.000 How about Ron DeSantis?
00:07:25.000 How many of you think Ron DeSantis did the best?
00:07:27.000 That's two people.
00:07:28.000 How about Nikki Haley?
00:07:30.000 One, two, three, four people.
00:07:33.000 Asa Hutchinson?
00:07:36.000 Mike Pence?
00:07:38.000 Zero.
00:07:39.000 Vivek Ramaswamy?
00:07:41.000 One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
00:07:45.000 Tim Scott.
00:07:47.000 Okay, so this panel here thinks Ramaswamy won the debate.
00:07:51.000 Why?
00:07:52.000 Yes, Vivek has a gift from the Lord.
00:07:54.000 He is incredibly charismatic.
00:07:56.000 That's a fact.
00:07:58.000 He doesn't say like or um.
00:08:00.000 He really is a well-spoken man.
00:08:02.000 And he's going to be on our show later.
00:08:04.000 But more than that, because there were some other smooth talkers on the stage.
00:08:08.000 Vivek Ramaswamy understands the Republican base.
00:08:13.000 Imagine if Vivek was not on stage.
00:08:16.000 That would have been a non-stop Trump bashing fest.
00:08:20.000 And forget the Trump bashing stuff.
00:08:21.000 We're talking about ideas.
00:08:22.000 We're talking about principles that drive forward the party.
00:08:27.000 We want a secure border.
00:08:29.000 We don't want to get into another one, no-win war.
00:08:31.000 The administrative state must be destroyed and smashed.
00:08:35.000 And instead, you had the same old Republican Party.
00:08:39.000 And I have to be perfectly honest with you guys.
00:08:42.000 They're going to try to take over the party again. 0.98
00:08:45.000 They're going to try to co-opt and hijack the entire party. 0.78
00:08:49.000 Last night, if you haven't watched the debate, that's fine.
00:08:51.000 I'm not going to recommend it.
00:08:52.000 I studied it closely.
00:08:54.000 It was so clear.
00:08:55.000 It was a reminder.
00:08:56.000 Christie, Pence, Neocon Nikki, Assa, all these guys.
00:09:01.000 They are at odds with the majority of the Republican Party's value system.
00:09:07.000 They think they know better than you.
00:09:10.000 Asa 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.
00:09:17.000 He is citing the article that we talked about earlier this week.
00:09:20.000 That's your Republican Party absent Donald Trump.
00:09:24.000 Donald Trump, to his credit, he saw a setup.
00:09:27.000 The crowd was against him.
00:09:29.000 The moderators would have been against him.
00:09:31.000 The fellow debate participants would be against him.
00:09:33.000 And Trump said, as Steve Bannon perfectly put it this morning, I'm not walking into the dealy plaza of debates.
00:09:41.000 It's a setup.
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00:10:45.000 By the way, we're getting a lot of emails.
00:10:46.000 People have questions about Vivek Ramaswamy.
00:10:49.000 He's joining us later in the program.
00:10:50.000 So send me what questions you want to ask him.
00:10:52.000 By the way, we're 100% Trump MAGA here.
00:10:54.000 You guys know that.
00:10:56.000 But I think that Vivek's candidacy is interesting, helpful to the movement.
00:10:59.000 He says things I agree with.
00:11:01.000 And honestly, he was punching so hard against people I find to be morally reprehensible last night.
00:11:07.000 I was glad to see it.
00:11:09.000 Donald Trump not showing up was the right move.
00:11:12.000 And Vivek had courage last night.
00:11:14.000 He very well could have done the limp wrist thing.
00:11:16.000 He could have backed away on the Ukraine issue.
00:11:19.000 Nikki Haley trying to lecture him about how aiding foreign countries is the most important thing.
00:11:25.000 You know, Nikki Haley, she says, oh, you know, you don't have any foreign policy experience.
00:11:30.000 Well, that's awfully good because your experience is about endless wars, no-win conflict, indebting our country.
00:11:42.000 There was this kind of understatement from Christie and Neocon Nikki and from Pence, which I hear to a lesser extent all the time.
00:11:50.000 So I have some compassion here and some sympathy where I really was pulling for Vivek.
00:11:55.000 And 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.
00:12:04.000 You're a rookie.
00:12:05.000 You haven't been around as much.
00:12:07.000 You're young.
00:12:08.000 I hate that line of thinking.
00:12:10.000 I hate it.
00:12:10.000 Wait your turn.
00:12:12.000 We've been around.
00:12:13.000 We're older than you.
00:12:14.000 Amateur hour.
00:12:16.000 It's cheap.
00:12:17.000 It's shallow.
00:12:19.000 Go after his ideas.
00:12:20.000 They can't go after his ideas because the base supports them.
00:12:24.000 Vivek has started and sold billion-dollar companies.
00:12:27.000 That's something.
00:12:29.000 How many people has Mike Pence ever had on his payroll?
00:12:32.000 I bet I've had more people on my payroll than Mike Pence or Neocon Nikki or Chris Christie.
00:12:39.000 Being an entrepreneur is hard.
00:12:41.000 I want to play a piece of tape here.
00:12:43.000 Boy, there's so many that we can kind of go through.
00:12:46.000 Let's go to 131, please.
00:12:48.000 Vivek, 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.
00:12:57.000 And frankly, our men and women of our armed forces are going to have to go and fight him.
00:13:01.000 I want to let the Ukrainians fight and drive Putin and the Russians back out into rivalry. 0.98
00:13:08.000 I want to just make that Vice President Pence. 0.55
00:13:10.000 I have a newsflash.
00:13:11.000 The USSR does not exist anymore.
00:13:13.000 It fell back in 1990.
00:13:16.000 Did you hear what Pence said?
00:13:18.000 I want to let the Ukrainians fight. 1.00
00:13:20.000 So Mike Pence and the whole neoliberal agenda is about using people in other countries as human shields to fight your wars.
00:13:29.000 And by the way, this is why these kind of short debates aren't helpful.
00:13:33.000 But somebody should have said, why do we hate Russia?
00:13:37.000 Why is Russia an enemy of the United States?
00:13:39.000 They're not a good country.
00:13:40.000 They're not a great country. 0.92
00:13:41.000 Putin's not a good person.
00:13:42.000 But why are they an enemy?
00:13:44.000 Why do we have to be at war against them?
00:13:46.000 How is that against our, like against our own ambitions and aims as a country?
00:13:56.000 No one can answer that question.
00:13:58.000 They just kind of go back to, oh, Russia is terrible. 0.96
00:14:00.000 Really?
00:14:00.000 Why?
00:14:00.000 How many people, how many American citizens have Russia killed?
00:14:03.000 Has Russia killed?
00:14:04.000 They can't answer that question.
00:14:06.000 This is an interesting one.
00:14:07.000 This shows you everything you need to know about the debate.
00:14:09.000 By the way, do you notice who we're not talking about?
00:14:12.000 Ron DeSantis.
00:14:15.000 He didn't really show up.
00:14:17.000 Ron DeSantis had a huge opportunity.
00:14:19.000 Say what you will about Neocon Nikki.
00:14:21.000 She made contrast.
00:14:22.000 She has the regime media slobbering over Nikki Haley. 1.00
00:14:26.000 I'm curious, what do you guys think of Nikki Haley?
00:14:28.000 Would you support her?
00:14:31.000 I think I know the answer to that.
00:14:33.000 Ron was just sort of there.
00:14:35.000 No charisma.
00:14:37.000 People didn't even see Ron DeSantis worthy of attacking him.
00:14:41.000 That was the most amazing takeaway: Vivek Ramaswamy, fresh politician, everyone had attack vectors against him, and Vivek used it to his advantage.
00:14:56.000 But did Ron DeSantis seem like the guy that's going to carry the torch forward?
00:15:02.000 It's kind of non-existent, to be perfectly honest.
00:15:06.000 And you have some people tweeting out, oh, Ron DeSantis clearing away the winner of the debate.
00:15:11.000 You must be on payroll to believe that.
00:15:13.000 You can't objectively look at the debate and say that.
00:15:17.000 There's so many more takeaways that we're going to explore here.
00:15:21.000 But I want to repeat something I said earlier.
00:15:24.000 This is still Donald Trump's party.
00:15:27.000 This is still a MAGA party.
00:15:30.000 And 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.
00:15:42.000 And it was on full display last night.
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00:16:28.000 Okay, let's go to some tape here to kind of keep this going.
00:16:32.000 Play cut 143.
00:16:34.000 He's so bad at politics.
00:16:36.000 Also, 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.
00:16:52.000 I 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.
00:17:01.000 She's talking about Ron DeSantis there.
00:17:03.000 And she, I think it's Alex Wagner, not going to comment on her.
00:17:06.000 But I will say, I wish I would have seen more fight out of DeSantis.
00:17:12.000 He is a great governor.
00:17:14.000 And the text messages I was receiving throughout the debate is what is going on with Ron DeSantis?
00:17:20.000 They said, where's the fight?
00:17:21.000 Where's the spark?
00:17:22.000 It's so scripted.
00:17:25.000 I mean, I almost gagged when I hear it's so obvious they rehearse these things in the mirror.
00:17:30.000 And he says, let's not keep spending our time on January 6, 2021.
00:17:36.000 Let's talk about January 20th, 2025.
00:17:42.000 Okay, you obviously didn't come up with that right then and there.
00:17:45.000 We don't need more pre-scripted politicians.
00:17:48.000 That's exactly why people like Donald Trump.
00:17:52.000 That's why they trust Donald Trump.
00:17:55.000 In fact, I mean, just listen to this.
00:17:58.000 Do you think that this is organic and authentic and real?
00:18:03.000 I want to contrast this.
00:18:04.000 And I'm not trying to go out of the way and pick on DeSantis.
00:18:09.000 I was actually hoping he was going to come out with some spark, with some spirit, because he has a record worthy of talking about.
00:18:17.000 But we did not see that on display last night.
00:18:19.000 Just listen to this.
00:18:21.000 Does this sound like something he just that he's speaking from the heart or that he's reading from some script?
00:18:29.000 Play cut 126.
00:18:31.000 So here's the thing: why are we in this mess?
00:18:34.000 Part of it and a major reason is because how this federal government handed COVID-19 by locking down this economy.
00:18:41.000 It was a mistake.
00:18:42.000 It should have never happened.
00:18:44.000 And in Florida, we led the country out of lockdown.
00:18:47.000 We kept our state free and open.
00:18:50.000 And I can tell you this: as your president, I will never let the deep state bureaucrats lock you down.
00:18:56.000 You don't take somebody like Fauci and coddle him.
00:19:00.000 You bring Fauci in, you sit him down, and you say, Anthony, you are fired.
00:19:06.000 Would love your thoughts on that.
00:19:07.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
00:19:10.000 Contrast that with Cut 94.
00:19:13.000 A guy like Chris Christie, a guy left with an 8%, think of it, 8% approval rating in New Jersey.
00:19:19.000 Now he's running for president, and he runs solely on the basis of let's get Trump. 0.98
00:19:23.000 He's like a savage maniac. 1.00
00:19:26.000 He's like a lunatic. 1.00
00:19:27.000 And that's all he talks about. 1.00
00:19:28.000 His poll numbers are very, very low.
00:19:30.000 He's about 2%.
00:19:31.000 What's he like?
00:19:32.000 You know him well.
00:19:33.000 So I've had, I've been friendly with him over the years, but I couldn't give him a job because I just never trusted him very much.
00:19:40.000 I was just never one of his people that really trusted him.
00:19:44.000 I never gave him the job.
00:19:45.000 And that's one of the reasons he feels so hurt and so betrayed.
00:19:48.000 And I understand that.
00:19:49.000 I really do.
00:19:50.000 I understand it.
00:19:51.000 I never gave him, you know, he wanted to be different things.
00:19:54.000 He was looking at different elements of the administration.
00:19:58.000 And we decided, I decided just I didn't want to, I didn't want to do it.
00:20:02.000 One of the buried leads from last evening is an open question of how important is corporate-run GOP debates.
00:20:10.000 Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson's conversation now has over 200 million views.
00:20:17.000 200 million views.
00:20:19.000 They're estimating about 20 million people watched the debate last night.
00:20:22.000 That's probably overly generous.
00:20:24.000 I think it's probably closer to 15 to 17 million.
00:20:27.000 200 million views.
00:20:29.000 That is more than the entire 2020 election had voters, even if you believe the official numbers.
00:20:36.000 200 million and 20 people in the debate.
00:20:39.000 10 times more.
00:20:41.000 10 times more than what watched the debate last night.
00:20:46.000 And what we're seeing, I think, is this realignment and the old right, the old Republican Party last night, they didn't have a debate.
00:21:00.000 That was a funeral procession.
00:21:02.000 102, in the midst of all of this, we saw an advertisement of why you as a Republican need to support Ukraine.
00:21:13.000 Do you notice you don't get any advertisements for supporting Maui, supporting East Palestine, for closing our border? 0.79
00:21:22.000 Play cut 102.
00:21:23.000 I'm a Republican.
00:21:24.000 I'm a lifelong Republican.
00:21:26.000 Ukraine is fighting a war that was imposed by Russia.
00:21:28.000 I do not think the Republican Party is doing enough to Ukraine.
00:21:31.000 I get very concerned when elements of the Republican Party are warrifying.
00:21:36.000 Republican Party has always supported democracy abroad.
00:21:40.000 I support sending more aid to Ukraine.
00:21:43.000 Republicans have to support aid to Ukraine.
00:21:45.000 It's a battle we have to help them fight and win.
00:21:48.000 Go to gopforukraine.com to stand with your fellow Republicans and support Ukraine.
00:21:54.000 That's playing during the debate.
00:21:56.000 So 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.
00:22:12.000 So one of the co-sponsors last evening of the debate was Rumble, who did a great job.
00:22:17.000 All their tech worked.
00:22:18.000 Good job, Rumble. 0.75
00:22:20.000 As you can see, we have our Rumble thing behind us here.
00:22:23.000 And the other co-sponsor of the debate is an organization called Young America's Foundation that we at Turning Point USA have far surpassed.
00:22:31.000 They came after us in a very nasty way years ago, and they didn't succeed.
00:22:37.000 I have a lot of friends over there, Matt Walsh, Scott Walker.
00:22:40.000 That's fine.
00:22:40.000 They'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.
00:22:49.000 Didn't work.
00:22:50.000 Anyway, so on a national stage, YAF, Young America's Foundation, this is going viral.
00:22:56.000 They 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.
00:23:07.000 Their one opportunity to ask a question.
00:23:10.000 This is the old guard.
00:23:12.000 This is exactly, you want to know why Turning Point exists?
00:23:15.000 They have a national audience, millions of people watching.
00:23:19.000 Play cut 98.
00:23:20.000 Polls consistently show that young people's number one issue is climate change.
00:23:24.000 How 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?
00:23:32.000 Calm their fears that the Republican Party doesn't care about climate change.
00:23:37.000 That's the best that they have to offer.
00:23:40.000 You know what I would say?
00:23:41.000 I'd tell them to go make your bed, stop doing weed, and actually reconnect with reality.
00:23:49.000 What a false premise question from a conservative youth organization.
00:23:53.000 I'm getting so many emails about it.
00:23:54.000 They said, Charlie, what is this all about?
00:23:56.000 You know, and I don't even agree with it.
00:23:57.000 You know what the number one concern for young people is?
00:23:59.000 The number one concern is depression, suicide, purpose, economic anxiety, the fact they can't own homes.
00:24:09.000 Such a failed premise.
00:24:10.000 So, what a missed opportunity that was.
00:24:12.000 I 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?
00:24:25.000 That would have been a great question.
00:24:27.000 100%.
00:24:29.000 And to their defense, they host Matt Walsh all the time on campus who talks about this stuff.
00:24:36.000 That was honestly really shocking.
00:24:38.000 On the climate change thing, Vivek was again booed by the lobbyists, the donors, the warmongers.
00:24:43.000 Here's Vivek Ramaswamy booed by an RNC audience because he spoke clearly about climate change.
00:24:49.000 PlayCut 97.
00:24:53.000 Let us be honest as Republicans.
00:24:55.000 I'm the only person on the stage who isn't bought and paid for, so I can say this.
00:24:58.000 The climate change agenda is a hoax.
00:25:01.000 The climate change agenda is a hoax.
00:25:04.000 And we have to declare an independent school.
00:25:06.000 And the reality is, the anti-carbon agenda is the wet blanket on our economy.
00:25:12.000 That's Vivek Ramaswamy booed by your RNC.
00:25:17.000 Your RNC for saying that the climate change agenda is a hoax.
00:25:24.000 It's not my RNC anymore.
00:25:26.000 Vivek was right.
00:25:27.000 He is the only candidate that is not purchased or bought and paid for.
00:25:31.000 Some of you guys disagree with that.
00:25:32.000 You're getting a lot of questions.
00:25:35.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
00:25:36.000 We'll ask Vivek all the questions.
00:25:37.000 He comes on the show a lot.
00:25:38.000 We'll ask him.
00:25:39.000 We ask him the tough stuff here.
00:25:41.000 Last night was a reminder.
00:25:44.000 It was a reminder to me that we have to be vigilant.
00:25:50.000 This 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.
00:26:05.000 Thank goodness that Donald Trump is up 50 or 60 points.
00:26:10.000 Seriously.
00:26:11.000 They have smugness towards you, not just the elitism, but they truly are annoyed by you.
00:26:18.000 And they try to create this simulation as if the crowd was on their side.
00:26:22.000 I know where the Republican base stands.
00:26:25.000 You know where the Republican debate stands.
00:26:27.000 They have contempt for what you care about.
00:26:30.000 You could see it last night at the RNC debate.
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00:27:33.000 I 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.
00:27:44.000 So I don't know where we're at on that.
00:27:48.000 I can't remember or keep track.
00:27:49.000 Literally, it's just so totalitarian.
00:27:53.000 At the current moment, the Republican Party is going through a time of choosing.
00:27:58.000 And the regime media is slobbering over Nikki Haley, saying that she is far and away the debate.
00:28:07.000 Winner.
00:28:08.000 Let's play another piece of tape here.
00:28:10.000 I guess we're allowed to do this.
00:28:12.000 I can't figure all this out.
00:28:16.000 Play cut 118.
00:28:20.000 I think the American people deserve to know whether everyone on this stage agrees that I kept my oath to the Constitution that day.
00:28:29.000 There's no more important duty.
00:28:31.000 So answer the question thing.
00:28:33.000 I've answered this before.
00:28:34.000 So yes.
00:28:35.000 Why are we?
00:28:36.000 Mike did his duty.
00:28:37.000 I got no beef with him.
00:28:38.000 But here's the thing: is this what we're going to be focusing on?
00:28:41.000 I'm really happy.
00:28:41.000 Going forward, the rehashing of this?
00:28:44.000 I'll tell you, the Democrats would love that.
00:28:46.000 They will win if we let them get away with it.
00:28:49.000 I'm not letting Biden hang out in the basement this time.
00:28:52.000 We're going to run him racket around this country and we're going to hold him accountable.
00:28:57.000 Do you notice what was missing from the debate?
00:28:59.000 Because that was an opportunity and nobody stepped up.
00:29:02.000 Nobody stepped up.
00:29:04.000 Election integrity.
00:29:07.000 Do you notice how that was not even mentioned?
00:29:10.000 It's a massive priority of yours.
00:29:13.000 I know that.
00:29:14.000 Early ballots, chasing votes, securing our elections, signature verification, the way that we conduct our elections in this country.
00:29:25.000 All of this is just a silly coffee table debate if we do not have secure elections, keeping Zuckerboxes out of our elections. 1.00
00:29:34.000 And also, it was very muted.
00:29:37.000 The conversation on the criminalization of Donald Trump, John Eastman, Jenna Ellis, the Michigan alternate electors.
00:29:46.000 You know, some people, Rudy Giuliani, some people on stage, like, oh, why don't we, why doesn't the base like me?
00:29:51.000 Because you don't understand that we are living through a cultural revolution right now.
00:29:56.000 Vivek is the only one that got even close to mentioning it, but I think he could have gone even harder.
00:30:01.000 This is not a policy debate time.
00:30:04.000 They're acting like it's 2012.
00:30:06.000 Oh, under my administration, we're going to open up fracking.
00:30:10.000 I got that, Doug Bergham, okay?
00:30:11.000 Or Chris Christie leaning in.
00:30:13.000 You 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.
00:30:23.000 You know, in New Jersey, New Jersey, in New Jersey, New Jersey, and in New Jersey.
00:30:27.000 I'm a Jersey girl.
00:30:28.000 You're a Jersey girl. 0.57
00:30:28.000 I'm a Jersey guy. 0.57
00:30:29.000 New Jersey, New Jersey, New Jersey.
00:30:30.000 Enough.
00:30:31.000 This is not 2012.
00:30:32.000 They've declared war on us.
00:30:35.000 It's a top-down color revolution unfolding, bottom-up, top-down.
00:30:39.000 Post-Floyd Apalooza, post-15 days to slow the spread.
00:30:44.000 We are in the midst.
00:30:46.000 We are in the middle of something we've never lived through before, as bad as 1860.
00:30:52.000 And 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?
00:31:02.000 That they are ready to go to war against the administrative state, against the shadow government, against the Leviathan?
00:31:07.000 You would have thought, oh, things are basically the same and there might be some out of control prosecutors.
00:31:11.000 No, literally today, DOJ is going after Elon Musk.
00:31:15.000 This weekend, D.C. Attorney General going after Leonard Leo's very successful financing network, $1 billion going after him.
00:31:22.000 James O'Keefe, Westchester DA, Fulton County, Georgia going after 18 people, Michigan alternate electors, everyday rank and file MAGA voters.
00:31:30.000 This is an all-out crusade using the lawfare apparatus to go after any effective person that challenges the regime.
00:31:37.000 But you wouldn't have gleaned that from the chatter last night.
00:31:41.000 And then you have these exhausting, oh, well, you know, our best days are ahead of us.
00:31:46.000 Or Mike Pence, we need a government as good as the people.
00:31:50.000 How about this?
00:31:52.000 Our Constitution is under attack.
00:31:54.000 The fourth branch of government is swallowing the nation.
00:31:57.000 They are trying to refound America. 0.95
00:32:00.000 That's what they're trying to do.
00:32:02.000 Did you get any sort of sense that the people last night were mad, angry, spirited?
00:32:07.000 But I guess I'm just a rookie here.
00:32:09.000 I got the impression that they are comforter bowl, more concerned about Ukraine than America.
00:32:16.000 I 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.
00:32:26.000 Last night was a massive disappointment in that regard.
00:32:31.000 That is not an opposition party.
00:32:33.000 That is controlled opposition.
00:32:38.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:32:40.000 Email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:32:43.000 Thank you so much for listening, and God bless.
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