The Charlie Kirk Show - Elon Musk's Big Free Speech Win

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, Dan the Trailer Kirk here.

00:00:01.000 We talked to Trump's political director, James Blair, about an update on the race.

00:00:04.000 Alam Bakhari on the latest with Garm and the fight for free speech online.

00:00:09.000 And finally, are we being gaslit on Kamala Harris?

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00:01:30.000 We have James Blair here from the Trump campaign.

00:01:32.000 He does a great job.

00:01:33.000 I love working with him.

00:01:34.000 Political director for the Trump campaign.

00:01:36.000 James, welcome to the program.

00:01:38.000 Thank you for taking time.

00:01:39.000 I know we had some tech hurdles, but glad you're on.

00:01:42.000 James, let's start with this.

00:01:43.000 People in the audience are asking, we don't know what to believe when it comes to polling.

00:01:47.000 Are we up?

00:01:47.000 Are we down?

00:01:48.000 What is the truth?

00:01:49.000 What do you see in your political director for the Trump campaign?

00:01:51.000 What's going on?

00:01:52.000 Thanks, Charlie.

00:01:53.000 Good to be here.

00:01:53.000 And yes, sorry about the technical difficulties.

00:01:56.000 You know how that is.

00:01:58.000 First, I mean, it's important to remember that all polls are just a moment in time.

00:02:02.000 So what we like to look at is the averages over time.

00:02:06.000 That's historically been a pretty good indicator of where things are headed and historically have also undersampled President Trump's support and underestimated it.

00:02:16.000 If you look at the RCP averages from the end of 2016 or 2020, President Trump ultimately did better than either of those averages suggested he would do before Election Day.

00:02:29.000 And I just bring that up to point out where we are right now.

00:02:33.000 The national polls, obviously, there's lots of national polls out right now.

00:02:36.000 It's important to note that national polls don't mean anything.

00:02:39.000 This is a state by state race.

00:02:41.000 Ultimately, it's all about the electoral map.

00:02:44.000 But today on the RCP average, President Trump is over six points ahead of where he was in the same day in 2020.

00:02:52.000 That's a huge shift in our favor, obviously.

00:02:55.000 And just earlier, I think it was yesterday, CNN was even pointing out that President Trump's favorability ratings are the highest they've ever been.

00:03:05.000 So it depends on what state you look at, whether or not the president is leading or slightly down in the margin of error, according to the averages.

00:03:13.000 But he's up in most of the states, according to the averages.

00:03:17.000 We're on average anywhere from six points to eight points better on the averages today than we were at the same point in 2020.

00:03:24.000 So understanding that perspective, things look really good.

00:03:28.000 It's true.

00:03:29.000 It's a little bit tighter of a race now than it was when President Biden was in the race.

00:03:33.000 But ultimately, that's mostly being driven by Democrats that should have been with Biden-based Democrats really just at home and expressing some willingness to vote for Kamala Harris.

00:03:45.000 So we feel very good about things.

00:03:48.000 Net-net, the president is leading and in a much better place from a polling perspective and an average perspective than he's ever been at this point in the race.

00:03:56.000 Yeah, and to kind of double on that, President Trump is the best closer in American politics, and he's in a much better spot than he was in 2020.

00:04:04.000 There was a Carolina Journal poll that just came out in the last couple of minutes, and it's a very good local poll that shows President Trump is currently, even with all this Kamala stuff, is double his winning margin, North Carolina, than in 2020, already at this place in August.

00:04:20.000 And so he has a lot of room to grow from there.

00:04:23.000 So James, I now want to get into the ground game here.

00:04:25.000 I think it's very important.

00:04:26.000 How can our audience get involved and kind of incorporate that with the paths to victory, Trump Force 47, and talk about the significant ground game operation that you guys are building out at the Trump campaign?

00:04:38.000 Sure.

00:04:40.000 First of all, there's a bunch of paths to victories for President Trump.

00:04:43.000 Many more paths than exist for Kamala Harris when you look at the electoral map. 1.00

00:04:47.000 There's a bunch of iterations, but a few, if all else were held equal from 2020, meaning President Trump holds North Carolina, he would get 270 electoral votes with just Georgia and Pennsylvania.

00:05:00.000 Or he could get over 270 electoral votes, 271 with Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada.

00:05:06.000 Also Georgia plus Arizona plus any blue wall state works, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, Nevada, Michigan, Georgia.

00:05:14.000 So there's a bunch of different iterations within the core battleground states that everyone thinks of.

00:05:21.000 And in terms of the ground game, things are going really well.

00:05:25.000 I mean, there's hundreds of paid staff across the battleground states on the ground right now.

00:05:29.000 There's over 300 Trump and GOP offices across the core battleground states.

00:05:35.000 We've crossed 12,000 trained Trump Force 47 captains in the battleground states.

00:05:41.000 We're adding about 2000 a week in change and actually expect that to increase

00:05:46.000 because we're adding another wave of about 100 staff hires across the battleground states right now.

00:05:51.000 And I wanna talk a little bit about if it's okay, Charlie, what a Trump Force 47 captain does.

00:05:57.000 A Trump Force 47 captain signs up and then they have to come to a training,

00:06:00.000 whether virtual or in person.

00:06:02.000 And ultimately they're assigned a target list low and mid propensity voters that are within their area.

00:06:06.000 These voters live in their precinct, often in their neighborhood, and their job is to turn them out to the polls and contact those voters that are the most important to turn out and where a personal voter contact is the most impactful in getting them out to the polls.

00:06:19.000 So this is really Working within the existing grassroots structure of the party down at the precinct level and using that precinct level energy to drive turnout amongst the voters that we really have to work hard to get to the polls to get our vote math to win in any given state.

00:06:33.000 And the website again, James, for our audience to get involved?

00:06:36.000 TrumpForce47.com.

00:06:37.000 You can go there, sign up to be a captain, reach out to targeted voters in your neighborhood, become a poll watcher.

00:06:43.000 But what we really need is captains and poll watchers.

00:06:45.000 So TrumpForce47.com.

00:06:47.000 Okay, James, talk about voter registration.

00:06:49.000 What are we seeing in voter registration numbers?

00:06:51.000 In Arizona, where we are, James, we've seen some very promising expanding on Republican voter registration margins.

00:06:58.000 It's kind of the buried promising lead of the 2024 election.

00:07:01.000 Talk about voter registration, how it's also a harbinger, a canary in the coal mine, for enthusiasm voter turnout.

00:07:07.000 Usually whoever wins the summer voter registration war tends to do well in that November.

00:07:13.000 It's not a direct correlation, but it's a great sign.

00:07:15.000 James, tell us about it.

00:07:16.000 Absolutely.

00:07:17.000 I mean, the first thing you want to do to win an election is expand your base.

00:07:20.000 Obviously, you do that through voter registration.

00:07:23.000 You've got to persuade voters and turn them out too.

00:07:25.000 But obviously, you want to widen the pool of your base voters that you have to turn out.

00:07:30.000 And fortunately, we've seen really great trends across the battleground states in favor of President Trump and for Republicans.

00:07:37.000 We're investing heavily in that effort, and we'll continue to invest all the way down.

00:07:42.000 I'll give you just a few of the key battleground states that track registration, bipartisanship. Pennsylvania, going into 2020

00:07:51.000 election, the book close in 2020 election, Democrats had about a 685,000 voter registration

00:07:57.000 advantage over Republicans in the state of Pennsylvania. Today, that's been cut almost in

00:08:03.000 half, and I expect you'll see continuing significant gains between now and Election Day. In Arizona,

00:08:09.000 as you mentioned, going into Election Day on 2020, the GOP had about 130,000 more registered

00:08:15.000 voters than Democrats.

00:08:17.000 Today, it's over 259,000 more, so obviously a big swing in our favor there as well.

00:08:22.000 And then Nevada, Going into 2020, the GOP trailed Democrats by about 86,000 registered voters.

00:08:28.000 And as of July, because they don't do daily updates, they do monthly, that gap is down to 29,000 voters.

00:08:34.000 And I would just point out in those three states, as I mentioned in the Path to Victory, in all three of those states, the net improvement for Republican voter registration is greater than the margin of the final posted election results in 2020.

00:08:49.000 So those are great trends in our favor.

00:08:50.000 And again, as I mentioned, you know, those three states alone give us 271 electoral votes, assuming we hold North Carolina, even if we didn't flip Michigan, if we didn't flip Wisconsin, if we didn't flip Georgia.

00:09:02.000 So voter registration is very much in our favor, and we're investing heavily in it.

00:09:07.000 It goes on in the field and online in various programs you don't always see, but Republicans should feel very good about the expanding base of the party across the battleground states.

00:09:17.000 Yeah, and just Arizona alone.

00:09:18.000 So we fell 10,000 votes short, allegedly, in 2020, however you want to analyze that.

00:09:23.000 And there's 150,000 net new, net new, so net new.

00:09:27.000 So it's nearly 10 times, even 15 times, you could say, more net new Republicans.

00:09:32.000 And so, James, that also means we must chase.

00:09:34.000 That's the work we're doing at Turning Point Action.

00:09:36.000 We're all working, ground game stuff the best we can.

00:09:38.000 What is, you know, you did this in Florida.

00:09:40.000 Talk about the necessary component of early voting activation, chasing ballots, because if we outnumber them with the amount of ballots in the system, the volume, then we have to have the bodies and the energy to actually get those ballots into the system.

00:09:53.000 Explain for our audience.

00:09:54.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:09:55.000 So getting votes in before Election Day is a huge tactical advantage as you move down the stretch.

00:10:02.000 For one, it helps you come into Election Day with less votes needed, obviously.

00:10:09.000 And two, it lets you trim your list as you get closer to election day

00:10:12.000 and refocus your resources and your energy on ever shrinking groups of voters.

00:10:20.000 And obviously that gives you the ability to increase your touches and your frequency

00:10:24.000 and all of that as you get closer to election day.

00:10:26.000 So we're big believers in in-person early voting.

00:10:30.000 We want people to vote by mail if they're comfortable with that.

00:10:34.000 I will point out Republicans, our voters, I will say, are more comfortable voting in person and that's okay.

00:10:42.000 We want people to vote by mail.

00:10:43.000 We have to chase the ballots that are out there and continue to increase those ballots, which you guys have done great work on in Arizona and others around the country in increasing the rolls of absentee ballots amongst Republicans.

00:10:54.000 But I do want to set expectations that look, the Democrats are going to have more early votes than we are.

00:11:00.000 That's going to be true in most places.

00:11:02.000 But the good news is our people are very enthusiastic.

00:11:04.000 We ask them constantly how they plan to vote.

00:11:07.000 And we have a pretty good sense of how many votes are going to come in before election day if people just behave the way they're telling us they're going to behave, you know, within sort of a statistical margin.

00:11:17.000 So, you know, just set the table that the Democrats are probably going to have more early votes.

00:11:21.000 That's okay.

00:11:22.000 We have great turnout on Election Day, always do, and get-out-the-vote efforts are good all the way until the polls close on Election Day, so that's what we'll be doing.

00:11:31.000 But anything we can do to move up those ballots, move up the time that people cast a vote, our base, is a huge advantage.

00:11:39.000 I'll also mention though something that talked about Charlie is persuasion.

00:11:43.000 We have seen the very small segment of the elect that is still persuadable start to vote earlier.

00:11:49.000 So we've really worked to start our persuasion efforts much earlier than we have historic.

00:11:54.000 James Blair from the Trump campaign.

00:11:55.000 Great work.

00:11:55.000 Talk to you soon.

00:11:56.000 Thanks so much.

00:11:59.000 Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here.

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00:13:00.000 I just want to summarize some of the electoral math.

00:13:04.000 So if Donald Trump wins Pennsylvania and he wins Georgia and all the other states are solid, which it looks like they are, he's president.

00:13:12.000 Now, if President Trump wins Pennsylvania and does not win Georgia, then he needs both Arizona and Nevada or He needs Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, and that's enough to bring him across the finish line.

00:13:25.000 And Georgia is at best a toss-up for Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:13:29.000 This is a very tough map for them.

00:13:31.000 As the map is going to narrow, and independents and persuadables start to come home, it's a very difficult map for Kamala Harris.

00:13:39.000 And that's why if we have a grassroots explosion, a grassroots volcano, To chase every ballot, to find every voter.

00:13:49.000 We're going to be in a great spot.

00:13:50.000 Email us freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:13:52.000 Okay, we have Alam Bakari, who is with Mike Benz's organization now, does a great job.

00:13:57.000 Alam, welcome to the program.

00:13:58.000 Tell us all about Elon Musk's lawsuit.

00:14:00.000 He just took out Garm.

00:14:02.000 Educate our audience on this, please.

00:14:04.000 Hi Charlie, good to be on.

00:14:05.000 So yeah, this is a massive win for the cause against online censorship, I would say, because a GARM, this organization that is now shutting down in response to both the lawsuit from Elon Musk and the lawsuit from Rumble, as well as the House Judiciary Committee's investigation of the organization.

00:14:24.000 The Global Alliance for Responsible Media, and it kind of tells you what it does in the

00:14:28.000 title there.

00:14:29.000 They want to oppose irresponsible media and promote responsible media by their own definitions,

00:14:34.000 of course.

00:14:35.000 And this was a cartel of the world's biggest advertising companies that created this.

00:14:41.000 In fact, a group, the World Federation of Advertisers, that represents 90 percent of

00:14:46.000 global advertising spend.

00:14:47.000 So basically the entire advertising industry around the world was responsible for creating

00:14:52.000 this organization, which had one purpose, which was to, as the title says, ensure responsible

00:14:59.000 That means ensure that social media platforms and news media platforms online adhere to the global advertising industry's idea of good content moderation.

00:15:11.000 So, you know, they didn't want advertising to appear on what they considered hate speech or misinformation and all the other excuses that they regularly use to demonetize and censor conservative viewpoints.

00:15:22.000 So what this organization did, Was it it would act collectively to get the entire advertising industry to boycott platforms like X and Rumble and conservative news sources to starve them of ad revenue and put them out of business.

00:15:37.000 So it was this massive force for financial blacklisting of disfavored news sources and disfavored social media platforms.

00:15:46.000 So help me understand how this kind of fell apart so quickly.

00:15:52.000 The lawsuit didn't even proceed.

00:15:54.000 It was just the threat of a lawsuit and they disassembled.

00:15:56.000 Is that right?

00:15:57.000 Pretty much, yes.

00:15:58.000 It was very, very quick.

00:16:00.000 It happened all very, very quickly.

00:16:01.000 Within two days of Elon Musk and X filing the lawsuit against GARM and individuals associated with GARM, GARM decided to shut down.

00:16:10.000 And this was also just, you know, eight days after we at the Foundation of Freedom Online started exposing its contracts with the federal government, billions of dollars going to members of GARM of U.S.

00:16:20.000 taxpayer money, essentially meaning that U.S.

00:16:23.000 taxpayers were funding the forces that are censoring them online or rolling back free

00:16:27.000 speech for them online.

00:16:29.000 And just less than a month after Jim Jordan released materials from internal communications

00:16:36.000 from Garm as part of his investigation of the organization that showed, that really

00:16:41.000 shone a light on exactly how partisan and biased this organization was.

00:16:48.000 Some of the emails that Jordan found, you know, that you see members of Garm, you know,

00:16:52.000 top executives in the advertising industry saying, yeah, you know, we, we hate news sources

00:16:58.000 like Breitbart and, and, and conservative viewpoints.

00:17:01.000 And we're constantly looking at monitoring them for violations so that we can pull our

00:17:05.000 ad revenue from them and, you know, damage them financially.

00:17:09.000 So you see them clearly in these internal emails admitting that they're looking for any excuse to pull advertising revenue from websites and platforms that they don't like.

00:17:19.000 So is this enough to impact the 2024 election?

00:17:23.000 And are we going to see a GARM 2.0 up and running in a couple weeks?

00:17:27.000 Yeah, GARM 2.0, that's interesting.

00:17:29.000 I think the lesson the advertising industry might have learned from this is that, you know, if they create an organization like this, it's too easy.

00:17:36.000 You know, just everyone under one banner.

00:17:38.000 It's too easy to be accused of collusive behavior, to be accused of anti-competitive behavior.

00:17:44.000 I think with regards to the election, You go back to 2020 and you see the advertising industry behaving in much the same way.

00:17:54.000 In 2020, they actually waged a mass advertiser boycott against Facebook, driven by a media panic over so-called disinformation on Facebook.

00:18:06.000 So the media was upset that Facebook wasn't censoring Donald Trump and Donald Trump supported it enough.

00:18:12.000 So they went to advertisers and whipped up this huge boycott.

00:18:15.000 And, you know, that put a lot of pressure on Facebook, which is almost entirely dependent on ad revenue.

00:18:19.000 I think that's going to be much less likely this time around to see the similar sort of pressure against social media platforms, because now the advertising industry is on the defensive.

00:18:30.000 It has to answer all these questions.

00:18:31.000 Why are you pulling ad revenue from these platforms and not these platforms?

00:18:35.000 Why are you pulling ad revenue from anti-establishment media, but not establishment media, even when the establishment media engages in disinformation?

00:18:45.000 So it's on the defensive, it's being investigated, it's having its internal communications opened up to the public.

00:18:50.000 I think they're in a much trickier spot and they'll be much more hesitant to engage in these kind of collective boycott actions to influence the election as they did last time.

00:19:00.000 So, so Alam, help me understand that the, can you just, you're a tech expert on this.

00:19:05.000 Can you give an analysis of the conditions to spread information this election cycle versus 2020?

00:19:13.000 Are we objectively in a better position to be able to challenge narratives, to be able to get out stories like the Hunter Biden laptop than we were in 2020?

00:19:24.000 I would say so, and I think for a number of reasons, actually.

00:19:29.000 I think in 2020, the peak of online censorship was really from 2016 to 2020.

00:19:34.000 That first election of Donald Trump kicked off everything.

00:19:38.000 It kicked off a panic in Silicon Valley, a panic in the media, panic in the advertising industry.

00:19:43.000 You had all these establishment corporate forces coming together, trying to figure out how they could stop Donald Trump from winning again, because that was the real catalyst.

00:19:52.000 Frankly, there was some moves towards online censorship before that, driven by pro-censorship activists.

00:19:58.000 But, you know, 2016 was a real turning point in Silicon Valley and in the advertising industry and in the media.

00:20:06.000 And also in the deep state and all of these pro-censorship NGOs.

00:20:11.000 They were the ones who started off the panic over Russiagate and Russian disinformation.

00:20:15.000 And they took that panic to the tech companies.

00:20:18.000 So you mentioned the Hunter Biden story.

00:20:21.000 Um, a big reason why Silicon Valley platform censored the Hunter Biden stories, because they were told by, uh, by government agencies, by NGOs, that, you know, the Russians were preparing a big information drop to influence the 2020 election.

00:20:36.000 And of course it was a total lie.

00:20:37.000 It was just an excuse to censor this story that was damaging to the regime favored, establishment favored candidate.

00:20:45.000 And I think a lot of Silicon Valley companies and people who worked in the Silicon Valley companies, they trusted a lot of these so-called experts on Russian disinformation.

00:20:54.000 And then slowly over time, they realized they were being hoodwinked.

00:20:58.000 They realized they were being taken for a ride.

00:21:01.000 If you look at the Twitter files, in fact, you even see people like Yoel Roth, who's a very left-wing guy, saying, hang on a minute, all of these people who are being accused of being Russian bots on our platform, they're actually just Americans commenting on politics.

00:21:13.000 So, you know, I think Silicon Valley is less naive than it was in 2020.

00:21:17.000 They're less likely to believe people who say you have to censor your platform because, you know, foreign agents are trying to influence the elections.

00:21:24.000 There's less of that.

00:21:26.000 And you also have the censorship industry on the defensive, as we see with Garm shutting down, as we see with the Election Integrity Partnership, which the Foundation for Freedom Online has done a lot of work exposing them and how they contributed to 2020 election censorship.

00:21:40.000 They've been put on the defensive.

00:21:41.000 And that's in large part because of all the scrutiny they've received and all the investigations coming from lawmakers on the Hill.

00:21:51.000 So I think there's a lot of reasons why censorship is not as bad this year as it was in 2020.

00:21:58.000 But of course, we still have to be cautious.

00:22:00.000 All of these platforms still have hate speech regulations.

00:22:02.000 They still have regulations against disinformation.

00:22:05.000 And you still have things like the Digital Services Act in Europe.

00:22:09.000 And, you know, UK lawmakers now demanding more censorship, even from free speech platforms like Elon Musk's X. So there are still forces in favor of censorship that are very, very powerful.

00:22:20.000 But I think they're less unopposed than they were in 2020.

00:22:23.000 So, Alam, how can people support you?

00:22:25.000 Learn more about your work.

00:22:26.000 Very important to allow us to speak freely online.

00:22:29.000 Go to the Foundation for Freedom online dot com.

00:22:32.000 We have a couple of reports up about the advertising industry and Garm and its role in online censorship,

00:22:38.000 exposing how many of Garm's leading members, some of the world's biggest advertising agencies,

00:22:44.000 are getting billions of dollars in U.S. taxpayer money through government contracts, which

00:22:51.000 really shows the U.S. government pays little attention to whether the companies it gives

00:22:58.000 all these contracts to are supportive of the First Amendment or American free speech values

00:23:04.000 They'll continue to pay these companies regardless if they undermine free speech online.

00:23:09.000 Alan Bakari, thank you so much.

00:23:10.000 Excellent work as always.

00:23:11.000 Thank you.

00:23:11.000 Thanks, John.

00:23:12.000 Good to be on.

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00:24:16.000 I want to play some piece of tape here from the Trump press conference yesterday.

00:24:25.000 And look, one of the things that people are asking here is, what is the state of the race?

00:24:30.000 That's a difficult question.

00:24:32.000 Because there's polls going in every direction.

00:24:35.000 There's people asking, what is the current status in Pennsylvania, in Georgia, in Arizona?

00:24:45.000 So Donald Trump held a press conference yesterday.

00:24:47.000 Let's play a piece of tape here from that.

00:24:49.000 Let's go to cut, um, yeah, I don't know if we want to do that one.

00:24:53.000 Let's actually go to this one.

00:24:54.000 This was President Trump on Fox News.

00:24:55.000 Let's go to cut 72.

00:24:57.000 She's for no fracking. 1.00

00:24:59.000 She's for defund the police. 0.99

00:25:01.000 You know, she's a big, she was the original defunder of the police. 1.00

00:25:04.000 She was the original no cash bail, cashless bail, which has caused havoc. 1.00

00:25:10.000 And look at how she's destroyed San Francisco. 1.00

00:25:13.000 And then she went to Attorney General. 0.96

00:25:15.000 She's destroyed California. 0.99

00:25:16.000 Her and Gavin Newsom have destroyed, absolutely destroyed, California.

00:25:22.000 And what a shame.

00:25:23.000 What a beautiful place it was.

00:25:25.000 But it's not beautiful anymore.

00:25:27.000 She cannot get away because if she does this to America, every one of us are going to either be leaving or we're going to be living like dogs. 0.91

00:25:37.000 Kamala Harris is going around the country doing her rally campaign.

00:25:43.000 She's actually here in Arizona today with Mr. Walz.

00:25:48.000 She has yet to do a press conference.

00:25:49.000 She took, I think, one or two questions yesterday from some reporter.

00:25:52.000 It was kind of a joke.

00:25:55.000 And it's important to know this whole race will come down to just a couple of states.

00:26:00.000 Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona.

00:26:02.000 Those are the big three.

00:26:04.000 Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona.

00:26:06.000 If Donald Trump wins Pennsylvania and wins one of two of Arizona, Georgia, of which hopefully he wins both, he's president of the United States.

00:26:15.000 John Fetterman knows Pennsylvania very well.

00:26:18.000 He is making a prediction of who is going to win Pennsylvania.

00:26:22.000 Play cut 125.

00:26:23.000 I think if you match up Trump, And Harris, which I think that's really what that this is really about.

00:26:30.000 And I do believe he's going to win Pennsylvania.

00:26:33.000 And of course, it's going to be close.

00:26:35.000 But I've been maintaining that whether it's Biden, whether it was Clinton or whether now it's with Vice President Harris, it's going to be very close.

00:26:43.000 It's going to come down to just a handful of key counties.

00:26:45.000 Allegheny County.

00:26:47.000 Luzerne County.

00:26:49.000 Bucks County.

00:26:50.000 Center County.

00:26:52.000 So this is going to come down to just a couple of key counties and that's what's so important is we must look at this race with precision.

00:26:59.000 That this is not about how well you do in California or Idaho or New York.

00:27:04.000 It's going to come down to how well are you able to chase ballots in Allegheny County?

00:27:09.000 How well are you going to be able to do in Maricopa, Pinal, Pima, Yavapai, Cochise, Navajo, Apache, Gila, Coconino, How well are you going to do in the counties that are going to make or break the entire election cycle?

00:27:30.000 The voters on the ground are telling us that President Trump is dominant when it comes to the core issues of economy, of inflation, of market stability.

00:27:43.000 Democrats have lost nearly 60,000 active voters since April in Pennsylvania.

00:27:49.000 This is Scott Pressler reporting.

00:27:51.000 Every day we are beating Democrats in voter registration numbers on the ground in Pennsylvania and in Arizona and in Georgia.

00:27:58.000 We are outnumbering them in these states.

00:28:00.000 So it's going to come down to, can we deploy the appropriate force to be able to chase the ballots, to get the mail-in ballots into the system?

00:28:10.000 And I'm not telling you you have to change your method of voting.

00:28:12.000 If you're a game day voter, terrific.

00:28:15.000 But if you are a passive low propensity voter that doesn't listen to the Charlie Kirk Show, And you're a plumber, you're an electrician, you're a welder, a police officer, firefighter, and you vote passively?

00:28:25.000 I much prefer that you vote by mail than not vote at all.

00:28:29.000 I want to go to another piece of tape here, which is questions that were being asked on the ground of voters in Pennsylvania.

00:28:38.000 Fox News was there.

00:28:39.000 I think it was Rachel Campo-Stuffy, who does a great job, of asking direct people, what do you think about this election?

00:28:47.000 Let's play Cut 65. 0.64

00:28:48.000 I personally feel like the economy is sucking right now.

00:28:52.000 Less pay, more expenses, bills going up, rents going up, so it's pretty bad.

00:28:59.000 I work three jobs just to break even every month and I have a master's degree from Columbia.

00:29:04.000 The economy is pretty rough.

00:29:07.000 Everybody is concerned about economic situation, I certainly am.

00:29:11.000 I think the economy, you know, in large part has done well.

00:29:14.000 Our current government has absolutely ruined everything, can't afford life.

00:29:19.000 I make six figures a year, live in the city, still can't afford life, can't even afford to go out like we used to.

00:29:25.000 Can't afford to go out like we used to.

00:29:28.000 Pennsylvania voters said two years ago everybody hated Trump.

00:29:31.000 Now they'll say they vote for him.

00:29:32.000 This is the vibe on the ground.

00:29:34.000 Therefore, if you win Pennsylvania, you have to win one other state.

00:29:39.000 Either Arizona or Georgia.

00:29:41.000 Arizona or Georgia.

00:29:42.000 And we are going to fight and scrap and hustle.

00:29:45.000 To try to deliver Arizona.

00:29:47.000 There's no guarantees.

00:29:48.000 It's gonna be tight, tight, tight.

00:29:50.000 You live in Arizona here, we gotta chase ballots and register voters.

00:29:53.000 This is going to be trench warfare.

00:29:55.000 But we do outnumber them.

00:29:56.000 And if we chase, we win.

00:29:58.000 But it's gonna be tight, tight, tight.

00:30:00.000 Play Cut 117.

00:30:01.000 I'm a registered Democrat.

00:30:04.000 I was loyal to vote for Trump.

00:30:09.000 Current moment right now, the way everything is going, I still need to see what's on the table.

00:30:13.000 Who are you voting for this year?

00:30:15.000 President Donald Trump.

00:30:16.000 You're more open to voting for someone other than the Democrat ticket this time than last time?

00:30:23.000 There's a possibility.

00:30:24.000 I've seen a lot of people leaning towards Trump right now.

00:30:28.000 Even people who were bided before?

00:30:29.000 Even people that were bided, you know.

00:30:31.000 I'm hoping that President Trump wins again.

00:30:33.000 So were the tips higher when Trump was in office?

00:30:35.000 Of course!

00:30:37.000 We gotta get Trump in office.

00:30:38.000 Think that'll fix the problem?

00:30:40.000 I know it will.

00:30:45.000 are so unaffordable.

00:30:45.000 That's why I believe President Trump should just go to a grocery store in every battleground state and just say, I'll pay for your groceries.

00:30:52.000 He'd be so good at that.

00:30:54.000 The cost of food is increasingly unaffordable for people.

00:30:57.000 You know, people used to say that pocketbook issues are the key.

00:31:01.000 Now it's a stomach issue as more and more people are going hungry and are not able to afford the food that they once were able to afford.

00:31:07.000 How many people, I'm sure many of you in this audience, were not able to take the summer vacation that you wanted to because of inflation.

00:31:15.000 People are getting crushed right now.

00:31:17.000 And by the way, if Iran does end up retaliating against Israel, which we've been waiting for a couple of days, I don't know what's going on there.

00:31:23.000 But if Iran ends up retaliating against Israel, oil will skyrocket.

00:31:28.000 And Joe Biden has already spent down the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. 0.96

00:31:34.000 The new strategy for Kamala Harris, it's not that dumb, but I don't know how it's going to work. 0.89

00:31:40.000 We'll see, is that she's running on joy. 0.98

00:31:43.000 Now, her thinking is this, that we live in a depressed country, which we do.

00:31:47.000 We have the most depressed, suicidal, anxious, alcohol-addicted generation in history.

00:31:52.000 And that if she kind of force-feeds joy, people are going to vote for her. 0.78

00:31:56.000 This is Joy Reid talking about how happy of a person Kamala Harris is.

00:32:01.000 You know, there's a lot of words I would use to describe Kamala Harris.

00:32:05.000 Happy is not one of them.

00:32:07.000 Play Cut 107.

00:32:09.000 And I mean, the thing about her, just since I've experienced her as a political figure, is that she is not, she hasn't become this happy person.

00:32:17.000 Like she actually is this happy person, right?

00:32:19.000 She and her sister are hilarious together.

00:32:21.000 They adore each other.

00:32:22.000 But she's always sort of presented herself as sort of like the approachable, you know, prosecutor.

00:32:29.000 And that's how she ran in 2020. 1.00

00:32:31.000 I still remember her ads then were like, Shirley Chisholm inspired me.

00:32:34.000 It's like she's not play acting it.

00:32:36.000 And obviously neither is Tim Walz.

00:32:38.000 Guys, I'm telling you, we are being gaslit so hard right now. 0.98

00:32:43.000 Kamala's obviously a miserable person. 1.00

00:32:44.000 It's obvious. 1.00

00:32:46.000 Fake smile, fake laugh.

00:32:48.000 I mean, can we learn something about Kamala Harris' background?

00:32:53.000 As far as what are her hobbies, what brings her joy?

00:32:56.000 Everything she likes is just faking for clout. 1.00

00:32:58.000 And if you are supporting Kamala Harris, or someone you know, you guys are being taken for a ride.

00:33:03.000 It is the most... This election is quite interesting to me.

00:33:08.000 Other than the entire civilization hanging in the balance and my life's kind of obsession this year is trying to get Donald Trump.

00:33:14.000 But you know, if we lose, I did everything I could and I could live with that.

00:33:17.000 And so, I can't say the same for everybody.

00:33:20.000 Other people are kind of coasting and not working as hard as they should.

00:33:23.000 But for me, I did everything I could.

00:33:25.000 But from an objective analysis standpoint, this election is a test of the power of Soviet propaganda.

00:33:33.000 And I learned a lot during COVID.

00:33:36.000 And if you want to know, people are asking me all the time, Charlie, Do you think, is there any way that Kamala wins?

00:33:43.000 Of course there is.

00:33:43.000 I mean, obviously, not just because of all the voter fraud and all that, but during COVID and the lockdowns, I learned at how people can be manipulated when the media all gets on the same page.

00:33:56.000 We had people wearing masks alone driving cars.

00:33:59.000 We had people jogging around in around lakes with a mask.

00:34:04.000 Now have people woken up and learned post-COVID?

00:34:06.000 I hope so, but we're still human beings.

00:34:08.000 We're still broken.

00:34:10.000 Groupthink and mass propaganda and mass formation psychosis has not changed.

00:34:16.000 And they're using the COVID playbook for Kamala Harris.

00:34:20.000 The same COVID playbook of safe and effective, 15 days slow to spread, death totals on TV.

00:34:26.000 We're going to intimidate you.

00:34:27.000 We're going to come after you.

00:34:28.000 The same propaganda techniques.

00:34:31.000 That were used in 2020 with the Mockingbird Media is now being used for Kamala Harris.

00:34:37.000 The template was tested in 2020 and it's interesting.

00:34:41.000 We thought that 2020 was a trial run for a World Economic Forum takeover in a very dystopian sense.

00:34:48.000 Little did we know that the COVID playbook that was used in 2020 of all the lies of lockdowns and the gaslighting and the double speak was actually a trial run for the most unlikable politician named Kamala Harris. 0.99

00:35:02.000 They worked out the kinks and they are using it in full force. 1.00

00:35:05.000 The lying during COVID was some of the darkest in American history, from ivermectin being

00:35:11.000 horse dewormer, from hydroxychloroquine being some sort of a fish drug, to drinking bleach.

00:35:17.000 Donald Trump wants you to inject bleach.

00:35:19.000 All the lies that were happening there and the people that unnecessarily died because

00:35:22.000 of it.

00:35:23.000 That was a template.

00:35:24.000 It was a trial run.

00:35:25.000 And so yes, Kamala Harris absolutely can become president because they just need 47% of people 1.00

00:35:32.000 to believe Kamala Harris is the right choice, the same way they got 80% of people to take

00:35:37.000 the vaccine.

00:35:38.000 The same way that they got 75% of people to believe that they should wear masks outside.

00:35:42.000 Do you know that 75% of all Georgia voters in 2020 believe that it should be mandatory to wear a mask outside?

00:35:48.000 That's according to Fox News exit polling data.

00:35:51.000 That's while the election was happening.

00:35:53.000 Mandatory masks outside.

00:35:55.000 That's where we were in 2020.

00:35:57.000 So I hope we can overcome it.

00:35:58.000 I hope we've learned our lesson.

00:36:00.000 But do not underestimate the power of aggressive Soviet-style propaganda.

00:36:06.000 It worked during COVID, and I pray it doesn't work with Kamala Harris.

00:36:11.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:36:12.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:36:15.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - August 09, 2024

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