The Charlie Kirk Show - EXPOSED: Democrats' NEW Dropbox Scheme to Undermine Arizona Elections

00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody.

00:00:00.000 Today in the Charlie Kirk Show, we go through some disturbing election integrity news out of Arizona.

00:00:06.000 And then we talk about one industry that is experiencing a boom in the kingdom of Washington, D.C. Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

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00:01:08.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:01:50.000 Who's doing well right now?

00:01:52.000 What business is booming?

00:01:56.000 Well, oil's doing okay.

00:01:59.000 Tech is down.

00:02:02.000 New home sales are down.

00:02:03.000 Restaurants are down.

00:02:04.000 Consumer spending is down.

00:02:06.000 We are on the cusp of a recession.

00:02:09.000 But there is one industry that if you are fortunate enough to be in, that you are seeing record hauls.

00:02:16.000 Business is better than ever before.

00:02:19.000 You can't believe the amount of new interest and clients that you're able to recruit.

00:02:26.000 The amount of people you have to hire just to be able to sustain the volume of work.

00:02:35.000 OpenSecrets.org reports unprecedented $1 billion first quarter lobbying haul puts 2022 on track for a record year.

00:02:47.000 This year is on track for record lobbying spending after lobbyists collectively clocked the first biggest, the biggest first quarter haul in history with more than $1 billion disclosed during the first quarter of 2022 alone.

00:03:03.000 The federal budget was the most lobbied issue from January through March with 3,394 clients paying for lobbying on the issue.

00:03:13.000 Health issues are also heavily lobbied with 2,068 clients.

00:03:20.000 You see, the bigger the government, the more the opportunity for corporations not to worry about how to make better products or to persuade you to buy their products or to be able to develop better services, but instead, they want to be able to sneak their way in to the federal treasury, your taxpayer money, and get their part.

00:03:44.000 This is all while Business Insider, which is a rag of a website, says a wave of layoffs is sweeping the United States.

00:03:53.000 Here are the firms that have announced cuts so far from Compass to Coinbase.

00:03:57.000 Layoffs are coming.

00:04:00.000 You know, for months, employees thought they could just show up late to work, expect a 15 to 20% raise, get their stimulus check.

00:04:09.000 No more.

00:04:10.000 Layoffs are here.

00:04:12.000 Peloton has already laid off thousands of employees.

00:04:14.000 Online car dealer Carvana has slashed 12% of its workforce.

00:04:18.000 Companies like Netflix are making cuts.

00:04:21.000 Business growth is slowing while labor costs are increasing.

00:04:25.000 This is the crash crashflation that we've been talking about for some time.

00:04:30.000 But what we're seeing now is the economy is in such fragile footing unless you work for a lobbying firm.

00:04:41.000 Lobbying related to health continues to dominate spending as recovery from the coronavirus pandemic continues.

00:04:48.000 So while they were always talking about public health and stopping the spread, while they were pushing forward to pushing aggressively to try to have more spending against COVID, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna, and Johnson Johnson, amongst many others, bio and tech, saw a once-in-a-generation opportunity to be able to skim off the federal treasury off your money to make them rich.

00:05:14.000 So what do they do?

00:05:15.000 They hire lobbyists.

00:05:17.000 The larger the government, the more opportunity for corruption.

00:05:22.000 This is one of the things I laugh at Bernie Sanders and all of his supporters.

00:05:26.000 They say, well, we want to stop corruption in government.

00:05:28.000 Oh, how?

00:05:28.000 By making government bigger?

00:05:30.000 We want corporations to be weaker.

00:05:31.000 Oh, by how?

00:05:32.000 By making the government bigger that would actually make the corporations stronger.

00:05:36.000 You ask them, do you trust the government?

00:05:38.000 And they say, oh, no, we hate the government.

00:05:40.000 We don't trust the government.

00:05:41.000 Then why would you want to make that government bigger and more powerful?

00:05:48.000 Why would you make the government stronger?

00:05:52.000 Pharmaceutical research and manufacturers of America ranked third overall in the first quarter of 2022, with nearly $8.3 million in spending during that period.

00:06:01.000 The pharmaceutical industry trade group was the third largest spending of 2021 at over $30 million for that year.

00:06:08.000 So you have a billion dollars being spent on corporate America, an unprecedented sum, according to Open Secrets.

00:06:14.000 Think about what they're not spending money on.

00:06:16.000 They're not spending money on new products.

00:06:18.000 They're not spending money on research and development.

00:06:20.000 They still are, but that money isn't being allocated as much for those things.

00:06:24.000 Instead, they see the greatest bang for their buck hiring a lobbyist for $150,000 a month.

00:06:31.000 By hiring a lobbyist for $150,000 a month, they're able to navigate the halls of Congress.

00:06:36.000 So here's how it works.

00:06:38.000 Let's say you are Pfizer.

00:06:40.000 And number one, Pfizer doesn't want to be aggressively investigated by the federal government.

00:06:44.000 They want to continue to be able to approve vaccines for children.

00:06:47.000 They want to continue to be doing all sorts of sneaky and deceitful and treacherous things.

00:06:53.000 But Pfizer also wants to continue to receive billions of dollars from the federal government in mandatory vaccine expenditures, in all sorts of different things.

00:07:02.000 So what Pfizer will do is they will go hire a lobbying firm on what is metaphorically called K Street in Washington, D.C.

00:07:09.000 It's literally called K-Street.

00:07:11.000 And so on K-Street, it's kind of known as the lobbying capital of Washington, D.C.

00:07:16.000 They will hire, let's just say, Sal and Moe's lobbying shop. 0.92

00:07:20.000 So they will pay Sal and Moe an extraordinary amount of money.

00:07:25.000 Now, this is one of the ways that corporations are able to give money directly to politicians without giving money directly to politicians.

00:07:32.000 So what they will do is they will give these lobbyists, let's say, $150,000 to $200,000 a month.

00:07:38.000 And these lobbyists will, of course, take some of it for themselves.

00:07:41.000 They'll pay some overhead.

00:07:43.000 They'll pay for some office space.

00:07:44.000 But they'll use a lot of it to then go give direct contributions to Senator Chuck Schumer or to Senator John Cornyn.

00:07:53.000 So what they'll do is Sal and Moe's lobbying shop will take that amount of money from Pfizer.

00:07:58.000 They'll take that amount of money from AstraZeneca.

00:08:00.000 They'll take that money from Raytheon.

00:08:02.000 They'll take that money from Northrop Grumman.

00:08:04.000 And they'll host a fundraiser at the Capitol Hill Club saying, join us in support of the candidacy for Chuck Schumer for Senate Majority Leader or join us for this fundraiser for Nancy Pelosi.

00:08:16.000 And by the Republicans and Democrats are equal offenders of this.

00:08:19.000 So they'll do this fundraiser.

00:08:20.000 Now, by law, corporations cannot give money directly to these politicians.

00:08:26.000 There's ways they get around it.

00:08:27.000 We'll talk about that in a second.

00:08:28.000 This is one of them.

00:08:29.000 This is the easiest way they get around it.

00:08:30.000 So they hire the lobbyist, but the lobbyist is then able to give money directly to these candidates.

00:08:36.000 But they don't just write the check.

00:08:38.000 They have to do a whole event.

00:08:40.000 And then they have a briefing with the politician before the event.

00:08:43.000 So then before the event at the Capitol Hill Club, they'll rent a small room next door.

00:08:47.000 And since they're a registered lobbyist, they're allowed to do this legally.

00:08:50.000 I'm not accusing anything of illegal.

00:08:51.000 Is it unethical and sloppy?

00:08:53.000 And is it just gross?

00:08:56.000 Yes, but it's not illegal.

00:08:57.000 These lobbyists know what they're doing.

00:08:59.000 So they sit down with the politician.

00:09:00.000 They'll say, yes, we have all these people waiting for you in the next room, all of whom, by the way, are lobbyists that work for them, who all give the $1,000 or $2,000.

00:09:08.000 And there's kind of a wink and a nod that you're supposed to give to these candidates.

00:09:11.000 Now, you're not allowed to reimburse campaign contributions.

00:09:14.000 That is illegal.

00:09:15.000 But there's an expectation that if you work at the highest levels of these lobbying firms, that you better put aside money every single year to give money to politicians.

00:09:22.000 It's kind of baked into the deal.

00:09:24.000 Now, that's borderline legal and illegal.

00:09:27.000 And that's something that lobbyists are always kind of on the edge with.

00:09:30.000 But they'll sit down with the politicians.

00:09:31.000 They'll say, okay, Senator Schumer, you know, I think it's really important that we send $40 billion to Ukraine.

00:09:41.000 And they'll be saying this to the politician, and Schumer will be listening to all of this or whomever, Pelosi or Cornyn or whatever, and they'll be listening to this.

00:09:50.000 And the politician knows why the lobbyist is saying that.

00:09:52.000 The lobbyist is being paid to say this.

00:09:55.000 The politician knows that when they walk into the next room in the fundraiser, they're going to receive money under kind of the wink and nod promise that they're going to advance the interests of the corporation, whatever that corporation might be.

00:10:08.000 Now, this system has been getting more and more broken, but these corporations have just become so cavalier and brazen.

00:10:16.000 And we live now in a situation where the wealthiest counties in America are surrounding Washington, D.C. Instead of trying to extract oil or trying to develop new products or build cars, the wealthiest counties are where you don't make anything of value.

00:10:31.000 You extract from everywhere else and you redistribute it and launder for your own part.

00:10:36.000 As you struggle to pay your bills, lobbyists are richer than ever.

00:10:40.000 And it's boomtown in Washington, D.C. We're blessed to live in the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world.

00:10:49.000 Luke 12, 48 says, quote, to whom much has been given, much will be required.

00:10:54.000 We as Christians can shape our world.

00:10:56.000 One of these ways is how we steward our finances and our money.

00:10:59.000 If you have money and stocks, you have the power to affect change through your investments.

00:11:03.000 Jesus spoke about money in roughly 15% of his teachings and 11 out of 39 of his parables.

00:11:09.000 How do we follow his teachings about money?

00:11:11.000 Well, my friends at PAX Financial can help.

00:11:13.000 I've opened an account with them.

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00:11:16.000 They are fiduciaries that will make sure you have a responsible plan to retire.

00:11:19.000 I trust them with my money, and I hope you will as well.

00:11:23.000 But look, they'll also help you invest in companies that align with your beliefs.

00:11:26.000 No companies that engage in pornography or in excessive drinking or in a degenerate lifestyle.

00:11:34.000 If you have $150,000 to invest, please text my name, Charlie, to the number 74868.

00:11:40.000 And even if you don't have $150,000, maybe they'll make an exception for you.

00:11:44.000 I don't know, but just learn more about them.

00:11:46.000 Look, text Charlie to 74868.

00:11:49.000 Take advantage of the power to make a difference with your money.

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00:11:52.000 It was great for me.

00:11:53.000 I think it will be terrific for you.

00:11:57.000 One of the great scenes of all time: Brad Pitt with Christoph Waltz in Glorious Bastards and Quentin Tarantino movie.

00:12:04.000 A little vulgar, a lot of swearing.

00:12:06.000 It's a great film.

00:12:07.000 I'll tell you what.

00:12:08.000 And business is a booming.

00:12:12.000 That is what they are saying at the lobbying center.

00:12:16.000 Now, what are the richest counties in America?

00:12:19.000 And what used to be the wealthiest counties in America?

00:12:22.000 Well, the kingdom of Washington, D.C., by extracting your money, has created an unprecedented concentration of wealth.

00:12:35.000 The wealthiest counties in America are all around Washington, D.C.

00:12:42.000 The wealthiest county in America is Loudoun County, Virginia.

00:12:50.000 What do you use on a daily basis that is made in Loudoun County, Virginia?

00:13:00.000 Anything?

00:13:02.000 What are they known for?

00:13:04.000 Why would such a high concentration of wealth occur in Loudoun County, Virginia?

00:13:14.000 It's because their proximity to Washington, D.C., that's why.

00:13:17.000 The three wealthiest counties in America, Loudoun County, Virginia, median household income, $115,000 a year.

00:13:23.000 City Falls, City of Falls, Virginia, $114,000 a year.

00:13:27.000 Fairfax County, Virginia, $105,000 a year.

00:13:30.000 Fifth wealthiest county, Howard County, Maryland, $103,000 a year.

00:13:34.000 Eighth County, City of Fairfax, Virginia, $97,000 a year.

00:13:37.000 11th County, Arlington County, Virginia, $94,000 a year.

00:13:44.000 13th, Montgomery County, Maryland.

00:13:46.000 14th, Stafford County, Virginia.

00:13:48.000 15th, Prince William County, Virginia.

00:13:50.000 16th, Calvert County, Maryland.

00:13:52.000 All the surrounding counties of Washington, D.C., they're having a heyday.

00:14:00.000 While the health industry dominates overall, OpenSecrets.org writes, the top spender of this year's first quarter was the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, about $19 million in lobbying spending.

00:14:11.000 A longtime top lobbying spender with more than $1.7 billion spent since 1998, the chamber spent over $66 million on lobbying in 2021 alone.

00:14:23.000 The business lobbying group's heavy spending made it the top lobbying spender, despite fallout among Republicans after the chamber's endorsement of 30 Democrats seeking House seats in 2020.

00:14:33.000 The Biotechnology Innovation Organization spent $3.2 million on lobbying in the first quarter of this year.

00:14:41.000 $1.2 billion spent on lobbying your government.

00:14:51.000 Because when you have these potential multi-trillion dollar bills that are passed, there's so many carve-outs for the lobbyists to be able to send on D.C., be able to get a senator or two, host a fundraiser for them, donate to their PAC.

00:15:06.000 Now, another way the corporations are able to circumvent this is they're able to donate to social welfare organizations.

00:15:12.000 So, how many of you have seen these advertisements in your state where it's an attack ad, but it's kind of worded a little bit weirdly, where you kind of look at it and it starts really negative for part of it.

00:15:24.000 For example, it will say something along the lines of Senator Mark Kelly is fighting, or it could be a positive one.

00:15:34.000 Senator Mark Kelly is fighting for lower drug prices.

00:15:38.000 Call this number to thank Senator Mark Kelly for his amazing job fighting for lower drug prices.

00:15:44.000 I'm sure all of you have seen these ads and you wonder if they're just going to do an attack ad, why they have to put a phone number there to call.

00:15:51.000 Well, it's because the corporations are able to give to those organizations and remain anonymous and give unlimited if it's technically lobbying and social welfare versus a total attack ad.

00:16:06.000 So they're able to run those ads that have the effect of a positive kind of takeaway or the effect of a negative one.

00:16:13.000 So they'll say, call Raphael Warnock right now and say he's doing a wonderful job fighting for racial justice in Washington, D.C. Here's the number.

00:16:23.000 Where it's a little different than we need to defeat this candidate or defeat that candidate.

00:16:28.000 Corporations pump in hundreds of millions of dollars into these 501c4 organizations, these social welfare groups.

00:16:35.000 They can remain anonymous and that money can come directly from corporations.

00:16:40.000 And it's important for you to know that as you watch these ads, especially the one around like drug prices with Mark Kelly, that it's the very same companies that are spending billions in Washington, D.C., that are the ones that are flooding your airwaves.

00:16:56.000 Hello, everybody.

00:16:57.000 Charlie Kirk here.

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00:17:01.000 Make no mistake, court packing is a coup.

00:17:03.000 And the usual suspects, Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, are working overtime on new radical plans to pack the Supreme Court.

00:17:09.000 Look, if we do not stop them from installing four more justices, they can rig the system in their favor.

00:17:14.000 We know it will be catastrophic for our court, our country, and the American way of life.

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00:17:59.000 So, look, we have something really important to share with you of what's happening in Arizona, and this has national implications.

00:18:05.000 I'm going to read the tweet from the Maricopa County Republican Party.

00:18:09.000 Maricopa County Recorder's Office told me that there would be one or two drop boxes, the Maricopa County Republican Party said, in the primary election.

00:18:17.000 And yet, newly published lists, there are 16.

00:18:21.000 Sure, 15 are in government buildings and not open 24 hours a day.

00:18:24.000 Voter can drop off ballots and vote centers.

00:18:26.000 We don't need these.

00:18:27.000 Why are there still drop boxes after what we have learned?

00:18:33.000 With us to help unpack this is the Arizona expert himself who runs Turning Point Pack and Turning Point Action in the family of Turning Point efforts.

00:18:42.000 Tyler, welcome back to the program.

00:18:44.000 Charlie, it's crazy what we're up against still, even after 2000 mules of what we're seeing with so-called Republicans just not understanding what we're up against.

00:18:54.000 And it's just a wild situation that we're in right now because this guy, his name is Steven Richer.

00:19:01.000 He is the recorder for Maricopa County, which is the chief elections official for Maricopa County, which is the fourth largest county in America, is still implementing drop boxes.

00:19:14.000 And the excuse that the left and establishment Republicans are going to make was like, well, we've always done this.

00:19:19.000 And that's the point.

00:19:21.000 Now we know with what happened, what's been unveiled in 2000 mules, that they're going after people.

00:19:26.000 They're literally going after people in Arizona right now.

00:19:30.000 And they're still trying to implement and actually aggressively add more drop boxes in certain counties.

00:19:36.000 And it's just total insanity.

00:19:38.000 But this is just Maricopa, right?

00:19:40.000 This doesn't count Pima or Coconino.

00:19:44.000 Is that right?

00:19:45.000 I might be mispronouncing it, but yeah.

00:19:48.000 Yeah, no, that's perfect pronunciation of Coconut.

00:19:52.000 Yeah, this is just Maricoba County that we're focused on.

00:19:54.000 So, this is the slugfest that we have right now, which has been traditionally a big Republican county, the biggest Republican county in the country.

00:20:03.000 You know, Democrats are trying to totally take it over. 0.93

00:20:06.000 Yeah, but we have even uglier counties in Arizona. 0.67

00:20:09.000 Coconino, Pima, that's where U of A, NAU are at.

00:20:12.000 Flexible.

00:20:14.000 Yeah.

00:20:14.000 are much bluer.

00:20:16.000 And who knows what's happening there, right?

00:20:18.000 That's, I mean, it's completely run by Democrats there.

00:20:20.000 And so who knows what's happening there?

00:20:23.000 So let me ask you about how is it that the Republican legislature in Arizona is allowing this to happen?

00:20:32.000 So it's increasing the amount of drop boxes.

00:20:34.000 Now, this is not voter centers.

00:20:37.000 Can you make that distinction too?

00:20:39.000 Because, you know, I'm going to be voting for the first time here in Arizona.

00:20:44.000 And so I believe I could drop off the ballot to a voting center.

00:20:48.000 Can you talk about that?

00:20:49.000 Because people in our national audience might not understand how it works in Arizona.

00:20:53.000 Yeah, look.

00:20:53.000 So Arizona, like a lot of states, has implemented a couple of things, two really bad things.

00:20:59.000 One is drop boxes, which they're trying to make early and earlier and more available and less and less watched.

00:21:06.000 And so what happened in the last general election essentially was that there were a bunch of drop boxes.

00:21:12.000 We know the Zuckbucks helped fund a lot of these and they were uncameras on them. 0.95

00:21:19.000 And so this was part of the issue that was unveiled in 2000 Mules.

00:21:23.000 Those are open for essentially early ballot collection.

00:21:27.000 And vote centers were implemented for the first time.

00:21:30.000 And this is where you kind of get in the weeds.

00:21:32.000 And this is what everybody in America should be aware of, because what we're seeing happening in Maricopa County, we're seeing happen all across the rest of the country here is that what they're trying to do is get away from precinct by precinct voting.

00:21:46.000 And the reason why they want to do that, they want to eliminate precincts is because a precinct is a designated data set of individuals who essentially we know who is voting in that place and then we can track the physical ballots that are attached to that precinct.

00:22:04.000 Once they implement vote centers, what that basically means is that you can come in and vote from any precinct into that one place.

00:22:10.000 And then that means all the ballots are all mixed up all across the county.

00:22:14.000 And so essentially, when you have a county of 4 million plus people and millions of votes, you can't go back and actually track and associate ballots to specific precincts and know for certain where ballots essentially came from.

00:22:28.000 And this is a huge threat to our elections because now not only do you have drop boxes that are being unattended and we have people maybe taking advantage of the system, but now you have individual precinct by precinct destruction.

00:22:43.000 So, yeah, this is something that I think is really frustrating for me and for people to understand, which is Republicans have political power in Arizona.

00:22:53.000 And yet it becomes more and looking more and more like a Mark Elias-run experiment in states like Colorado or Washington or Oregon.

00:23:03.000 And so I cannot wrap my head around why the establishment in Arizona is so comfortable.

00:23:10.000 I mean, with this, Martha McSally ran for Senate twice and lost.

00:23:15.000 If we would have had secure elections, maybe she would have won. 1.00

00:23:18.000 I don't know.

00:23:19.000 I mean, she had her failures as a candidate, obviously. 1.00

00:23:21.000 However, the point is that even their own establishment kind of candidates don't benefit from this kind of loosey-goosey type balloting.

00:23:30.000 And Arizona, which used to be a comfortably 8 to 12 point Republican state, is now a battleground state that the electoral votes were sent to Biden and we have Kelly and now we have cinema.

00:23:42.000 I mean, it's quickly turning into a Colorado.

00:23:46.000 And so, you know, can you talk about now concretely how this can impact the coming race in November?

00:23:52.000 Because whomever wins the Republican primary here, Blake Masters looks like he's the frontrunner.

00:23:58.000 Kelly has $50 million in hard money.

00:24:01.000 But it might not matter if we kind of have this loosey-goosey balloting practices in Arizona.

00:24:07.000 Yeah, Charlie, you hit the nail on the head.

00:24:09.000 This is exactly what happened in Colorado.

00:24:12.000 The story, the untold story in Colorado, you know, we've heard about the blueprint, whatever.

00:24:17.000 Democrats take a lot more credit for what happened in Colorado.

00:24:21.000 The reality is that the Republican Party was extremely weak and extremely fractured.

00:24:25.000 That's exactly right.

00:24:26.000 And what happened in Colorado, which can happen in any state, by the way, and by the way, this is exactly what happened in Virginia.

00:24:32.000 And it wasn't this big Democrat blueprint that they just became so much more successful overnight.

00:24:38.000 The reality was that the Republican Party full of establishment hacks went into conservative areas, basically put conservatives into a box.

00:24:47.000 And then from that point forward, just allowed the state just to turn over.

00:24:51.000 And that's essentially what's happening now with Arizona, where we have a bunch of establishment Republicans in the county offices.

00:24:59.000 So they right now, most people don't realize this.

00:25:02.000 Maricopa County has four supervisors who are Republican and one who's a Democrat.

00:25:08.000 And so there should be no question when it comes to this stuff on election integrity, on supporting Republicans, on proposing a conservative agenda for voting where we have any issues whatsoever.

00:25:20.000 The problem is that we have Republicans totally acting like Democrats, working with Democrats, not even communicating with the Republican Party.

00:25:28.000 And we have a pretty conservative Republican leadership group now in Arizona, maybe one of the most conservative in the country.

00:25:34.000 And these guys just refuse to even work with them.

00:25:37.000 And so that's what you're seeing happen is, you know, like this situation with the drop boxes is that right now there should be no drop boxes.

00:25:44.000 You know, after 2000 mules, it should be a very simple, the Republican base is saying, we don't want drop boxes.

00:25:50.000 We want less early voting.

00:25:52.000 We want, and they're not even listening.

00:25:54.000 In fact, what they're doing is they're spending more of their time with the same old, same old establishment Democrats.

00:26:00.000 And they're basically aiding them to, you know, what we, what we've seen is, is cheating, you know, is taking advantage of voters.

00:26:08.000 And that's wrong.

00:26:09.000 So, and then who even gets ballots in Arizona, right?

00:26:13.000 I mean, they're now entertaining, sending out mass balloting.

00:26:16.000 Now, talk about the Tyler.

00:26:18.000 If I understand correctly, and you'll know it a lot better than I, there's a potential ballot referendum that they're collecting signatures for as well that could be on the midterm ballot that could almost make HR1 style Arizona kind of permanent.

00:26:32.000 Is that right?

00:26:34.000 Yeah, that's exactly right.

00:26:36.000 And what they essentially what the Democrats want to do in every state, if they could, is just make sure that everybody gets what they call motor voter in some states or automatic vote by mail, which is that everybody essentially gets flooded with a vote in their box for any given reason.

00:26:56.000 And again, if you haven't watched 2000 Mules, you have to.

00:26:59.000 If you watch 2000 Mules, you'll know right away why that's a bad idea.

00:27:02.000 The bad idea here is that if you start doing that, and look, Arizona State University is the largest ground campus in America.

00:27:11.000 You have hundreds of thousands of students come from all over the place into Arizona just for an education and then they leave, but they register to vote while they're here.

00:27:21.000 Exactly.

00:27:22.000 And so what happens is now you have stacks of votes that are ending up in mail spots in places.

00:27:29.000 And this happens also in the retirement community, guys.

00:27:31.000 This is West Valley.

00:27:33.000 Yeah.

00:27:34.000 You have retirement facilities, the exact same way.

00:27:36.000 People move here and then they unfortunately move out to you know, live out their last days in their home hometown, or or they pass away and you have stacks of votes that are now ending up in the hands of really bad people.

00:27:50.000 And you should if you, if you care about America you shouldn't want that to happen.

00:27:54.000 You should want people to have the responsibility to say hey, i'm going to go vote.

00:27:57.000 You know, that's how America has always functioned since day one is that We take a lot of pride as Americans that we have the ability to vote in our communities.

00:28:07.000 And that's what we should return to.

00:28:10.000 Them trying to change that is a really huge, weird precedent that they're setting that allows, I think, a huge slippery slope for a lot weirder election law.

00:28:20.000 Just let's talk about more nationally here.

00:28:22.000 Turning point action, turning point PAC.

00:28:23.000 Turning point action just hired a bunch of field staffers.

00:28:26.000 Really exciting.

00:28:27.000 Do you think we have a better chance of taking back the house after Ron DeSantis' maps in Florida?

00:28:31.000 You were warning about the maps for quite some time.

00:28:33.000 Where do you think we're at with that?

00:28:35.000 Yeah, I mean, the truth is that it's hard to separate.

00:28:38.000 We've had a couple of battles that we've won on the redistricting front, but the maps this year are about as bad as they were 10 years ago.

00:28:48.000 Probably slightly worse if you were to evaluate it.

00:28:51.000 And thank goodness for governors like Ron DeSantis, who laid down the law and said, no, we're not doing this.

00:28:57.000 I'm not going to approve any maps that are bad.

00:29:00.000 And, you know, that's what the RGA should be doing is making sure that Republican governors are actually standing up for redistricting every 10 years.

00:29:08.000 Like it's like their one and only job because it should be.

00:29:12.000 But yeah, I mean, look, we're in a good position to take back the house.

00:29:16.000 I think we probably will.

00:29:17.000 It probably shouldn't be.

00:29:18.000 It probably won't be as much as we should, quite frankly.

00:29:21.000 It should be 50 or 70 seats, but it might be 20 or 30 because of bad maps, right?

00:29:26.000 Well, and I'll say this is that conservatives winning in conservative places is good and moderates winning in moderate places is probably okay.

00:29:34.000 I actually think that Kevin McCarthy is a little bit better than Paul Ryan because he's left conservatives mainly alone in conservative areas and he deserves some credit for that.

00:29:42.000 And I think that's the Trump effect.

00:29:44.000 But we've got to keep fighting for conservatives to win conservative states in conservative areas.

00:29:49.000 That's the only way that the movement is going to grow.

00:29:52.000 And that's what we're fighting for on the front lines.

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00:29:58.000 We have a wave effect coming in November.

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00:31:35.000 So, Tyler, let's talk more about this guy that you mentioned, Richter or Riker, or whatever his name is, Stephen Richer.

00:31:43.000 Who is he?

00:31:44.000 He's a Republican, allegedly, isn't he?

00:31:47.000 Yeah, so it's really interesting.

00:31:49.000 Um, so Stephen Richer came into Arizona, uh, came in real hard and fast from out of state.

00:31:57.000 And what he was trying to do, what he was trying to accomplish was uh, run for office, quite honestly.

00:32:03.000 I had met Stephen at when I was, I believe, he was county chair of Maricopa County, and he he came into he came into town and was basically looking for somewhere to run.

00:32:14.000 I mean, he admitted so much to me when I had met him for lunch because of some mutual relationships and friends that said, Hey, you should go sit down with him.

00:32:22.000 And I got some real bad vibes from that.

00:32:25.000 Anybody that just wanted to run for office, anyway.

00:32:27.000 So, what ended up happening after a few months was that he started showing up and started knocking what was then our Democrat County recorder.

00:32:36.000 Uh, and you know, rightfully so, going after him for a number, a vast number of things and appearing to be very conservative and wanted to stand up for election integrity because we were up against what seemed to be a Soros-funded Democrat county recorder.

00:32:52.000 And then, you know, wouldn't you know it?

00:32:53.000 As soon as the guy got elected and into office, which he barely won by, you know, I think it was just like a few thousand votes, has immediately just joined the moderate Republicans and Democrats on doing anything and everything in his power to not work with people on these major election integrity initiatives.

00:33:13.000 And it's really been demoralizing.

00:33:15.000 In fact, it's even worse than that.

00:33:17.000 He actually announced launching a PAC to go after anyone that actually supports election integrity, which is even more frightening that a guy who's serving as county recorder.

00:33:27.000 I would say the same thing about a Democrat and a Republican, a guy who's the chief elections official running a PAC to go after anyone that supports election integrity.

00:33:37.000 Yes.

00:33:37.000 So it's totally insane.

00:33:39.000 And most people aren't aware of it, but he's not, has been a little bit of a letdown, would be to say the least.

00:33:46.000 And maximally, he hasn't has not been on the team of conservatives since he's been in office.

00:33:52.000 Yeah, I mean, so you have this.

00:33:54.000 So he's the county recorder for Maricopa County, which again, I want to reinforce Arizona does not have a lot of counties.

00:34:01.000 It doesn't.

00:34:02.000 I mean, I come from Illinois where we have like 145 counties.

00:34:06.000 You know, Ohio has a ton of counties.

00:34:09.000 Every 20 miles, there's a county.

00:34:10.000 Arizona is weird in that sense.

00:34:12.000 Not weird in a bad way.

00:34:13.000 It just has what, like 11, 12, if I'm not mistaken, right?

00:34:16.000 Yeah, I believe it's 15.

00:34:18.000 But yeah, like almost two-thirds of the state is in Maricopa County.

00:34:22.000 And he controls all the recording process for the whole county.

00:34:26.000 He runs as a Republican and he launched a super PAC saying, I want to elect pro-democracy Republicans.

00:34:32.000 What is he really saying?

00:34:33.000 He's saying that he wants to have mass mail-in voting, HR1, everywhere.

00:34:39.000 He is a tool of the very same people that destroyed Colorado, destroyed Oregon, destroyed Washington, destroyed by using the mass mail-in balloting scheme.

00:34:50.000 Yeah, I mean, look, at very least, he's doing everything in his power that allows the left to just take total advantage of the voters, in my opinion, with these, with these, with these methods.

00:35:03.000 And so that, I mean, that's what you have to understand as Republicans today is that the Democrats are trying to implement a very specific playbook in exactly what they did in California, exactly what they've done down in Colorado, exactly what they've done to New Mexico.

00:35:19.000 And what they're doing is trying to implement these things so that the voters actually have less voice because they're washed out by this massive wave of unattended voters, essentially, people who are uneducated, who are not even aware that they're voting, that they're sometimes trading their vote to friendly or for food or help.

00:35:40.000 And so we need to be getting in the middle of this and demanding that every Republican that serves in a county position is 100% lockstep with us and they're showing up and they're good natured.

00:35:54.000 And the best way that you can really see this is when they show up and they pick up your phone calls and they participate and they want to listen to you and they sit down with you.

00:36:01.000 If they're not doing that, they're helping the other side.

00:36:03.000 That's right.

00:36:04.000 And that's what's happening in America.

00:36:05.000 They're controlled opposition.

00:36:07.000 tpaction.com TP PAC.

00:36:09.000 Tyler's doing a great job running that.

00:36:10.000 Big announcements coming soon.

00:36:12.000 Tyler, thanks so much.

00:36:13.000 Thanks so much, Charlie.

00:36:14.000 Thank you.

00:36:14.000 Good work.

00:36:17.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.

00:36:19.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:36:21.000 Thank you so much for listening.

00:36:23.000 God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - June 17, 2022

EXPOSED: Democrats' NEW Dropbox Scheme to Undermine Arizona Elections

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