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00:02:56.000And even when he had his son, when he had Hunter, that amazing wide receiver, deep like they felt like they were a six and five team that could barely beat Colorado State.
00:06:47.000Formerly conservative pundits basically endorsing against, you know, Republicans.
00:06:53.000You've got everybody saying how, you know, Trump has betrayed the base and all this.
00:06:58.000I mean, listen, it makes no sense in the world that if you are upset about Iran, which, fine, I'm upset about Iran, you're free to be upset about Iran.
00:07:10.000But to then stay out of the election, stay at home, or to hand power over to the people that want you dead, that mock Charlie's death, that want to.0.77
00:07:19.000Take wealth from white people to give it to non white people?0.75
00:07:23.000It's like they have, and they probably do, they entirely have amnesia for the reality they lived in five years ago.0.97
00:07:29.000That you had to be worried a mob would show up and burn your downtown down, loot businesses, and politicians would say the rioters were right.
00:07:36.000That they were going to let in millions of people a year, wave them in with no process at all.
00:07:42.000Any criminal, any gang member, anyone got to come in.
00:08:39.000Our side doesn't even pick up the phone, doesn't like to, you know, and it's become a point of pride even on our side to like screw with the polls, with all of the polling so much by just not being involved.
00:08:50.000I think everybody understands look, if people are reading sites like Citizen Free Press and watching your show, these are the part of the 10% that are politically.
00:09:28.000And I think people are excited to do that.
00:09:30.000Like, They know I've tried to put the polls up and I try to remind people that none of these polls matter, especially in a low turnout election.
00:09:38.000And I think people are excited to sort of shock, you know, kind of shock the mainstream media.
00:09:44.000And let's not forget how bad the polling has been starting in 2016.
00:09:49.000Like they've missed the whole, they've been five points off on the whole Trump.
00:11:11.000You know that's this really small sliver of of idiots.0.99
00:11:15.000Uh, on x and and the rest of Republicans sort of don't feel that way and I feel I think it's the same when it comes to Trump and Republicans.0.99
00:11:24.000Here you have all of this sort of Iran negativity on on x.
00:11:31.000That has seeped into the conscience of of sort of typical Republicans, people like my mom who don't pay attention to the news.
00:11:39.000But you know Jen, you know, And so I think we can sort of, when you're in the weeds every day, you can sort of think that things are too monumental.
00:11:48.000I, you know, so what's the big thing we're all seeing, right?
00:11:51.000There was that poll last week that showed that Trump, not, it was Harry Enton.
00:11:56.000It was Harry Enton talking about how Trump has the exact same numbers with whites without a college degree as he had in 2024, meaning he had no loss.
00:12:05.000So, where have they been saying we're losing the numbers?
00:12:07.000They claim it's with independence and with Hispanic independence specifically.
00:12:12.000But then I saw another poll, I haven't actually, I'm going to post it today, that showed that with like Harry Enton and CNN are saying that we're down 41 points or Trump has lost 41 points.
00:12:25.000with hispanics uh since 2024 but i saw another poll that showed him dead that currently they're dead even on him 50 50.
00:12:35.000so i honestly i believe that it's a mass psyop i think they do this every time and even more so with trump i feel like it's this mass polling psyop and and they use it to try to you know and and look last thing before i throw it back i'm not saying we're going to win the house the house is going to be tough we there's no doubt but i'm confident on the senate I'm a little bit worried about Kansas because Marshall,
00:13:01.000you know, he had that stuff come out about his doctor billing and how he was going after people.
00:13:07.000And then in Alaska, you know, Mary Peltola, she's a weird sort of tough candidate to beat.0.73
00:13:14.000She was able to beat Sarah Palin to become Congresswoman, and now she's pulling ahead.
00:13:19.000But I feel like, as I said before, those are countered by we're going to, Sununu's going to win in New Hampshire, and Tofoya is going to win in Minnesota.
00:13:29.000So I feel like we're going to hold the Senate and lose the House.
00:13:33.000Yeah, there's a lot of people that are still kind of on that train.
00:13:35.000I mean, listen, if we win Maine and Texas and we either pick off Minnesota or New Hampshire, I mean, game over.
00:14:43.000What's going to happen in this midterms?
00:14:45.000And it's all going to depend on whether or not we have the presence of mind to still sacrifice and give something for this country, or are we just going to let the people that hate us, that mock Charlie's death, that want abortion on demand, open borders, DEI, everything despise America.
00:15:01.000It is obvious in everything they do, everything they say.
00:15:05.000They are people who have deep, deep ill will.
00:15:54.000And I know that that's a lot of the sentiment that we see from young people.
00:15:58.000Trust me, we talk to our turning point kids all the time, and there is a nihilism, not necessarily with our kids, but the kids that they know on campus, the kids they're going to school with.
00:16:17.000What you're pointing out is so dangerous for people to have that attitude.
00:16:20.000I can see how it happens on young people who aren't necessarily politically active and maybe aren't really digging deep with headlines every day if they're seeing stuff on Apple News.
00:16:29.000Everything's been being painted to make Republicans in the Trump administration look horrible.
00:16:34.000It's from the moment Trump won in 2024, the media knows their job and that they immediately sort of turn on the switch where, all right, time to completely destroy this party so independents no longer vote for him.
00:16:47.000And look, you know, there's all kinds of things that we can say to try to get people out.
00:16:52.000I shouldn't have really said, you know, that I thought we would lose the House.
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00:21:10.000Affordability, how you're going to put more money into people's pockets.
00:21:13.000As a business guy, I'm passionate about bringing economic growth and just basic affordability and property tax reductions, those kinds of issues.
00:21:21.000And then education is something that is very different because the federal government can't do much by way of helping education.
00:21:27.000That is exclusively in the domain of states.
00:21:29.000And I think that that's what separates it from some of my initial experiences in politics, or even before I entered politics, looking at federal issues, looking at macro issues.
00:21:38.000Here it's very much micro what's on the ground, what's going to improve people's lives.
00:21:43.000And the fact that you can actually do it, and that's what I've been convinced of in the last year and a half, is that a governor can actually make a difference in those areas where actions will speak louder than words.
00:21:54.000That's what gets me pretty excited to start the job.
00:21:57.000Well, I love that because there is no more.
00:22:01.000I mean, maybe a mayor, but when you're governor, you are so close to your people.
00:22:05.000I mean, it's, this is, you know, table issues, right?
00:22:09.000You know, putting money in people's pockets.
00:22:11.000So let's talk about this because you came up with a big new plan, big new announcement.
00:22:17.000I've seen it everywhere on social media about you're going to be reducing taxes, specifically when it comes to energy, gas, diesel, things like this.
00:22:25.000Tell us about this new plan you just rolled out.
00:23:30.000I'm not elected yet, but I know all these guys.
00:23:32.000We brought them together and said, let's get the gas tax suspension passed.
00:23:36.000It's not rocket science because there's one state.
00:23:39.000That actually does have an active gas tax suspension today.
00:23:42.000It's our neighboring state of Indiana.
00:23:44.000And if you drive across the border between Ohio and Indiana, last year gas prices were lower in Ohio, but after Indiana adopted this last year, or in April of this year, I should say, it's now 47 cents a gallon lower in Indiana.
00:23:58.000So my view is Ohio should at least be the second state that has one intact right now.
00:24:02.000And I got the legislators together, and what do you know, next week, it looks like next week, they're going to pass that into law even before I'm governor.
00:24:10.000And so for me, that's just a style of leadership point is actions speak louder than words.
00:24:16.000I think a lot of times Republicans will get elected on proclamations.
00:24:19.000I believe in actually getting the thing done, and this was a good example of that.
00:24:25.000And after we announced this, another positive came on Bernie Moreno, my friend and senator from Ohio, said that he has a bill in the Senate, in the U.S. Senate, to say that any state that adopts a gas tax suspension, like Indiana or like Ohio after next week, hopefully we pass this year, he would actually have a bill to suspend the federal gas tax.
00:24:44.000So that's an extra double whammy of savings on top.
00:24:49.000When gas prices spike, there's two wars abroad, there's all kinds of other shortages and factors affecting it.
00:24:54.000But our job here in Ohio isn't to proclaim to solve the world's problems, it's to solve problems in Ohio for Ohioans.
00:25:01.000And that's the way I want to lead the state.
00:25:03.000Well, how much would that actually result in savings for families?
00:25:06.000And the diesel thing cannot be overstated.
00:25:08.000We had a rancher call in from, I think he was from Oregon, and he was basically saying diesel, because it's so expensive, is putting him in a position where he was going out of business, but it was really pressing him.
00:25:20.000And I can imagine in a state like Ohio with all that rural and agricultural land that farmers are really feeling it.
00:25:29.000So, in some sense, the gas prices have been higher.
00:25:31.000They haven't been this high since 2022, but still, it did reach this height under Biden under 22.
00:25:36.000The diesel price spike, I think, is a double whammy on top of it.
00:25:40.000And so, you asked how much are they going to save?
00:25:41.000There's both the direct savings, but then there's also a lot of indirect savings that are arguably even a bigger deal.
00:25:48.000So, on gas, look, we said a 90 day suspension.
00:25:50.000That's a couple hundred bucks, a few hundred bucks in families' pockets.
00:25:54.000On average, for a family, let's just say it's a standard ordinary family with two drivers in the house, you know, to take that as the standard case.
00:26:00.000You're talking about a few hundred bucks.
00:26:02.000And that is maybe the difference between comfortably buying Christmas presents for your family over Christmas or having to think twice about it.
00:26:09.000And to me, that's a big deal ahead of the holiday season, just for ordinary families.
00:26:13.000Then you look at farmers, this is ahead of harvest season.
00:26:47.000But here's a fact that you're probably not aware of is that when you look at grocery prices or prices at the shelf, everyone sees those have gone up.
00:26:54.000The traditional wisdom in both parties is there isn't much a state can do about that.
00:26:58.000other than boneheaded stuff like Mamdani saying you're going to have state run grocery stores.1.00
00:27:21.0001% of the total cost of everything you buy off the shelf, including a grocery, is actually attributable to the diesel that was burned to get it there.
00:27:30.000So, then you're talking about an extra couple hundred dollars or at least an extra margin above and beyond the direct savings ahead of the holidays, ahead of Christmas, ahead of buying gifts for your family, ahead of Thanksgiving, having families over for Americans across this great state.
00:28:04.000By the way, I'm telling you, midterms are base turnout elections, right?
00:28:09.000And your most adamant supporters, your most passionate supporters, this is direct relief to the farmers, to the ranchers, to, you know, so up and down.
00:28:17.000And by the way, $300 for gas, that's going to feed a family, maybe for a week, two weeks, you know?
00:28:24.000Might be the difference between, you know, going on vacation over Thanksgiving, over the holidays, and maybe the difference between getting your Christmas gifts for your kids, your nieces, your nephews.
00:28:32.000That's a big, big difference this time of year.
00:28:37.000And the other thing I would say, you mentioned sort of the base turnout pieces.
00:28:40.000I mean, there's the core economic issues.
00:28:42.000There's also something really important in Ohio this cycle that nobody's even paying attention to, Andrew, which we don't even talk about enough.
00:28:50.000So, Ohio has a constitutional amendment on the ballot this November.
00:28:56.000President Trump actually pushed for it.
00:28:58.000I wrote a piece, again, calling on our legislature at the start of the summer.
00:29:02.000I said, guys, let's get this on the ballot.
00:29:05.000And then, thanks, credit to them, they listened, they got it on the ballot.
00:29:08.000President Trump pushed them to do the same.
00:29:10.000They got on the ballot issue three, okay, which is effectively a constitutional amendment that would say you have to have photo ID to vote in Ohio elections, putting it in the state constitution.
00:29:26.000And in a year where we couldn't get the Save Act through in Washington, D.C., it's just a perfect contrast and example of what you can do at the state level, whether it's economics, gas tax, and the federal government can follow, or whether it's actually putting it in a state constitution where maybe they pass the Save Act in the future.
00:29:43.000But a state can lead the way and let the federal government piggyback rather than the other way around.
00:29:48.000And I know a lot of folks, independents, even conservatives, are often frustrated with what's happening in Washington, D.C.
00:29:55.000I say, let's fix it at the state level.
00:29:57.000And the way I'm trying to lead, even before I'm elected in Ohio, working with the legislature to get issue three on the ballot, working with our legislature to get this gas tax suspension passed next week, is to lead through action in ways that sort of shows leaders in Washington, D.C. that this can be done.
00:30:13.000If a state like Ohio does it, then hopefully other states and even the federal government. Can really follow suit rather than usually get stuck in the mire of doing nothing.
00:31:41.000To paraphrase George Orwell, if you want a vision of the future, the nightmare future, imagine that voice screeching at you forever or at least the next eight years in Ohio.
00:31:52.000Ohio, Buckeyes, do not do this to yourself.
00:33:42.000You've been exposed to more Amy Acton clips than I have.
00:33:46.000I was hoping you could translate what that.
00:33:49.000You know, I'm not fluent in that language, but I do know where that language leads Ohio is it leads Ohio down the tubes, and that's not where we're going to go.
00:34:55.000She'd be, I mean, there's so much in this campaign.
00:34:58.000She'd be, you know, the next version of a caricature.0.94
00:35:03.000And yet, you know, the media is doing everything they can to protect a candidate who's not equipped to do this job.
00:35:07.000And the way I look at it is, you know, we're going to disagree on policy issues, Republicans and Democrats.
00:35:11.000We should have vigorous debate, but you should at least defend your positions before the people.
00:35:17.000If you don't have the capacity to do that, and this is a woman who, you know, has always proclaimed the fact that she's a doctor, she quit before she saw patients.
00:35:26.000Then she claimed to be the health director during COVID, locked down the economy, quit when it came time to work with Republicans to at least work on reopening it.
00:35:33.000Now, as a candidate, she quits on the debates.
00:35:36.000This is somebody she just does not have what it takes to be even any executive position, let alone the governor of the seventh largest state, both by population and economy.
00:35:57.000No, it's by the way, this is my feeling on this is first of all, the way that her security guard interacted with a guy just trying to ask a question, simple question.
00:36:09.000Because then she had this other interaction where they were trying to claim that he tried some guy tried to assassinate her, and then the local prosecutor was like, We looked at the footage, it there's nothing to charge this guy with at all.
00:36:20.000So that there's now it's now it's a trend, Vivek.
00:36:24.000And if you have your people that are closest to you behaving like that, that comes straight from the top.
00:36:30.000That's a leadership issue right there.
00:36:53.000I have received 60 million in attack ads against me since March, not on the ideas of the day.
00:37:01.000But on lies and hate and chaos and vitriol, I am asking for my opponent to stop this fringe group of people and the ads that have been shown and fact checked after fact checked to be wrong.
00:37:36.000Running attack ads on me that are totally slanderous, totally made up, and even have been, you know, talk about fact checked.1.00
00:37:42.000Even, I mean, some of these were so bad, even some of these liberal outlets had to at least call that out to preserve an iota of credibility.
00:37:48.000But her strategy is to complain about dark money while using it, complain about false attack ads while actually being the one who's lying on air.0.99
00:37:54.000The only person in this campaign to do it is her.0.97
00:37:56.000And yet, refuses to show up on a debate stage, which I think should tell the whole story, is they want to hide.
00:38:02.000In my view, is, I mean, look, there's nobody.
00:38:05.000There's fewer people than you and me, Andrew, who care about our friend Charlie Kirk.
00:39:40.000Hi, this is a question I always wanted to ask Charlie.
00:39:43.000I've got a friend who is a huge fan of Nick Fuentes, and lately he's been slamming Charlie because he was free speech, quote unquote, but he wouldn't interact with Fuentes or his supporters.
00:40:23.000In fact, one of the things I talked with Charlie a lot about was he would get asked about this and he was sometimes unsure how I should answer this because he knew it was something where.
00:40:32.000And I think it's, first of all, on the free speech question, what you can push back there on is freedom of speech is about whether the government can censor you or ban you from speaking.
00:40:43.000And I will note, Charlie never called for Nick Fuentes to be banned from Rumble, as far as I know.
00:40:50.000No, he never called for him to be banned from X or anything like that.
00:40:53.000He 100% believed in his right to say whatever he wants.
00:40:57.000When you're demanding a debate with Charlie, you're demanding to share a platform with Charlie.
00:41:02.000And that's obviously not everyone in the world has the right to do that.
00:41:07.000We're not going to have a radical transgenderism advocate come out.
00:41:11.000We're not going to have an advocate for communism come out unless some special situation would justify it.0.56
00:41:17.000And it's Charlie's right to say I'm also not going to have Nick Fuentes do that.
00:41:22.000Now, why would he reach that decision?
00:41:24.000I think an important thing to note is Charlie was perfectly willing to engage with people who had views different from his own, views that he considered even too far to the right of his own.
00:41:35.000I think what made Charlie specifically.
00:41:39.000Not like Nick, is that Nick showed a lot of evidence of being a bad faith actor or a very unstable actor.
00:41:47.000That Nick would oscillate to saying, We actually all need to elect Democrats now, to you know, MAGA's 100% dead, and then swings back to the right.
00:41:57.000It was very performative what he would do.
00:41:59.000And he also, he's very much an ankle biter on Charlie, that he saw Charlie as a famous person that he could harass and bother, that he could show up to our events and make trouble, have his supporters show up to our events and make trouble.
00:42:12.000Notably, there was the Groyper War where these people would show up at QA events and they would just read off the same question over and over again that Charlie had answered many times before just to mess up the event.
00:42:25.000And when you have someone do that, when they're basically being a troll, when they're not showing, oh, I want to debate issues with you, I just want to mess up your events, I think Charlie said, this is not someone who's engaging with us in good faith.0.72
00:42:41.000I would say as well, you know, Charlie saw himself as a coalition builder, so he was.
00:42:45.000Deeply, deeply concerned with the health of the coalition and making sure that the right ideas were taking root and the right ideas were being allowed to flourish, basically, and making sure the bad ideas were not taking root.
00:42:59.000And when you choose to debate somebody, there is a part when you're a coalition builder.
00:43:05.000I think debating Fuentes is just fine for some people, but for Charlie, I think it was the appropriate choice because you're essentially trying to make sure that you're not legitimizing certain perspectives that.
00:43:16.000Charlie felt were beyond the pale or outside of what should be considered mainstream conservative thought.
00:43:23.000What's interesting, I will say, as an aside, and it is one of the more surprising developments.
00:45:36.000And again, it's that he repeatedly had evidence of him being a hostile actor, a person who's just self aggrandizing in a PR sort of way.
00:45:47.000And I think that really bothered Charlie a lot.
00:45:50.000On top of the fact that he's doing it with issues where Charlie thought he went way too far, that Nick Fuentes is a guy who in his streams has repeatedly said this or that.0.90
00:46:01.000A mistake to focus on that problem because you're not focusing on the big problem, which is the Jews.0.83
00:46:06.000And anytime someone was going to say, the problem is the Jews in that sort of way, Charlie just, he lost his mind at it.
00:46:12.000Well, and I would say, last thing I'll say, and we got to take a break here.
00:46:16.000You know, in general, we just disagree and we reject accelerationism.
00:46:21.000And that is a movement that I think Blake mentioned it earlier, where you say, I'm so disenchanted with Republicans and the GOP and all the stuff that I'm going to vote Democrat.
00:46:31.000We're going to show them, we're going to prove to them.
00:46:34.000Teach them a lesson they won't forget, and they're going to reform.
00:46:38.000I just don't think that's a realistic political strategy.
00:46:40.000I don't think it's ever been proven true.
00:46:42.000I think you're handing the keys of the car over to a bunch of people that want to drive it off a cliff.
00:46:46.000I want nothing to do with that movement.
00:46:48.000I consider those people to be my political opponents.
00:46:51.000They are on a different political project than we are.
00:46:54.000And frankly, we don't have any time for it, and it's a distraction, and that's where we're at.
00:46:58.000Hopefully, that was a good answer for you.
00:47:10.000Yeah, so we were asked how we felt about the Nick Fuentes question, what our previous questioner should tell his friend who says he is attacking Charlie over free speech.
00:47:20.000Turns out, about a year ago, Charlie was asked by a Groyper directly why he wouldn't debate him, and he gave a pretty good answer.
00:47:30.000As a TPUSA chapter founder and president, I've seen firsthand how the tide is turning among young conservatives.
00:47:38.000I say, if you truly believe in open debate in the marketplace of ideas, will you ever be willing to debate Nick Fuentes, or will you wait until his movement forces you to adopt his talking points, as we've seen already?
00:48:18.000And I don't platform and I don't discuss people or I don't debate with people that.
00:48:24.000Are not good faith actors, and um, you debate now is that people can champion, they can keep on yelling at how successful we are in our big events and well over a thousand employees, but a lot of jealousy out there.
00:48:41.000We build, they complain, we succeed, we win, they blame the Jews.
00:50:11.000So we spent a lot of time focusing on those states and looking into the polling, looking to get out the vote and, you know, how everything's developing.
00:50:20.000And obviously, we're aware of the other states, but I really, candidly, I wasn't thinking that hard about Florida.
00:51:40.000So I think the answer is hopefully eventually, right?
00:51:45.000So we want to, We have big plans for these freedom tickets to roll them out all across the country.
00:51:50.000Obviously, we're starting in our three key states Nevada, Arizona, New Hampshire, and then we're going to roll it out to the swing states.
00:51:57.000Hopefully, we'll get it even beyond there.
00:51:59.000But I sent your note already just now to the Turning Point Action team and said, you know, this is a good point.
00:52:06.000We need to sort of back up why we believe in these things and explain it to people that maybe have legitimate questions.
00:52:13.000I can tell you that the first step is just getting it out there.
00:52:16.000And saying out loud, hey, these people align with our values.
00:52:20.000So if you like what we do, you're probably going to like what they do.
00:52:23.000And again, our mission in every race up and down the ballot is to endorse, get behind, support the most conservative, electable representative in that district, in that state for that race.
00:52:36.000So we're always looking, hey, who can actually win?
00:52:49.000There's a whole process to get an endorsement.
00:52:52.000So you can rest assured that there's been a lot of due diligence, but I agree it would be helpful if we had some supporting documentation for that.
00:53:42.000The local news has said there's a new game out that people, for people to drive, The wrong way on the highway, and they're calling it lunatic.
00:53:57.000Want to know if you'd heard of it and if you knew whether it was.
00:54:01.000Someone got arrested for this in Arizona yesterday.
00:54:04.000Apparently, this guy got pulled over, literally was driving the wrong way down Interstate 40, and he told the police, Yeah, I'm playing lunatic.
00:54:13.000You drive the wrong way down the highway for kicks and giggles.0.93
00:54:19.000I'm a bit of a lunatic and authoritarian about this sort of thing.0.94
00:54:42.000I had the honor of a lifetime to call Charlie a friend.
00:54:47.000And what I remember most wasn't just what people saw on stage, it was what was behind the scenes.
00:54:53.000That was an unwavering commitment to his faith.
00:54:56.000His love for his family, and his genuine desire to encourage others to live with courage and conviction.
00:55:02.000Charlie believed that following Christ wasn't something you compartmentalize.
00:55:06.000He didn't put it in a box, he lived it out loud.
00:55:09.000It shaped how he lived, how he served, how he treated people every single day.
00:55:13.000Charlie Kirk, American Martyr, captures that heart.
00:55:16.000This documentary isn't just simply about remembering Charlie.
00:55:19.000It's an invitation for each of us to ask what kind of legacy we're building and whether we're willing to stand firm in our own faith when it's tested.
00:55:28.000I hope that you'll watch it with your family and have those conversations together.
00:56:07.000We need to send a message to all the other Looney Tunes out there that might do the same that if you do this, we're serious, we mean business, you're going away.
00:56:15.000And you're going to go away for a long time.
00:56:16.000I'm like a totalitarian on driving under the influence, for example.
00:56:20.000I know a lot of people who, like, they get mad and this is punished too bad.
00:56:23.000No, I'm like, you were caught driving drunk.
00:56:25.000Like, you are never driving a car again.
00:56:45.000I'm wondering what is being done to ensure that the voting machines themselves would be tallying votes honestly and accurately this election.
00:56:52.000Seems like after the last two elections, only after the last two elections do we have accounts of how the machines themselves or the software from the companies who make the voting machines, like Dominion Voting, they changed the actual votes for Trump to be called for votes for his opponent.
00:57:08.000Can you please address whatever you know about this?
00:57:11.000Well, an interesting thing actually is did you know Dominion Voting doesn't exist anymore?
00:57:15.000Didn't they get bought by a conservative?
00:57:16.000They got bought by, yeah, a former Republican.
00:57:26.000Scott Lyendecker, he purchased Dominion and renamed it Liberty Vote.
00:57:31.000So it's actually, if you go to the Wikipedia page for Dominion, it is a was.
00:57:36.000Besides just changing ownership, one thing people flag is that Dominion was actually headquartered in Canada.
00:57:42.000That felt strange to people that we'd have this big voting machine company that's not American.
00:57:47.000It is now an American owned and headquartered fully company.
00:57:51.000So to the extent those machines are still used, it is now.
00:57:54.000An American company owned by a former Republican official.
00:57:58.000That doesn't guarantee everything is good, of course, but I think it raises fewer red flags to people as a result.
00:58:05.000Yeah, well, and I mean, we don't talk about it a ton, but I mean, you will remember Smartmatic does have sort of Venezuelan origins.
00:58:16.000And I'll just say, okay, I'm going to, you know, I don't need to go into great detail here, but we did just, you know, arrest Maduro, and we are now.
00:58:25.000More in cooperation with Venezuela than ever before.
00:58:28.000So I can't say that there has been some court order, that there's been some case, but to Blake's point, Dominion is now controlled by different people.
00:58:37.000And Smartmatic, to the extent that there might be anything there, I'm just saying that's one piece of news that may be working in our favor.
00:58:47.000Here's what else I'll say if you are concerned about the way that these voting systems are working, and by the way, just to be very, very clear, if I was king of the world for a day, I would have same day voting.
00:59:00.000All paper ballots, voter ID, signature verification, all the things.
01:00:56.000What I will say is, to the extent suspicious stuff goes on in our elections, I don't think it's primarily coming through messed up voting machines.
01:01:04.000And an easy way to see that is just I don't think you see a dramatic pattern or rupture between places that use machines and places that are.
01:01:14.000But the place that you get dubious stuff is, for example, California's level of ballot harvesting, where any person can go to your door, help you fill out your ballot, and then they can turn it in on your behalf.
01:01:25.000And there's basically no cap to how many people can do it.
01:01:42.000We know there's a ton of bogus stuff that goes on.
01:01:45.000Or there's been incredibly shady stuff where everyone's casting a ballot in a senior care home where they have, a lot of them have Alzheimer's.
01:01:53.000Yeah, where the bad behavior like that, that is where the left looks for their opportunity to get stuff done.
01:01:58.000Yeah, but I hate that this is even a thing.
01:02:00.000For example, this was, so I'm getting the story details.
01:02:04.000It was the Wisconsin election where this happened.
01:02:08.000The city of Milwaukee Election Commission staff downloaded data from high speed tabulators at central count onto nine USB flash drives to take the absentee results.
01:02:52.000And I remember making a couple of observations during those primaries being like, listen, the establishment is coming back to get their revenge here.
01:03:36.000There are a lot of low-potency voters out there, and there's not enough people paying attention to people that are or politicians trying to remove our rights.
01:03:52.000What's your advice to talk to these people?
01:03:57.000It depends what your sphere of influence is, right?
01:03:59.000I mean, if your sphere of influence is your local county GOP or whatever, you need to be getting out there, messaging, knocking on doors, canvassing, recruiting volunteers, being as loud as you can.
01:04:09.000That way, if your platform is a show like ours, that's all we talk about we're trying to get the cynics and the nihilists off the couch and shake them and say, You are giving power to baby killers, open borders people, the DEI wokesters, the people that want to burn down this country, as Blake aptly said earlier, that hate this country.
01:04:31.000You do not have to be 100% satisfied with the GOP to understand that they are the last thing standing between us and the abyss.
01:04:38.000And so I think the craziness from the left is one of the best motivators this midterm season.
01:04:43.000Well, since you mentioned people specifically removing our rights, if you don't have a big platform, you may be surprised the number of people you know in your own life who are low propensity voters.
01:04:54.000So, for example, if you have a bunch of buddies, I just had the thought, who like shooting, like guns, a lot of those people are very engaged.
01:05:01.000Some of them are disengaged, or they'll say, I'm I'm super libertarian.
01:05:05.000They're all the Epstein class or whatever.0.62
01:05:07.000Well, if you like guns, here's the raw truth there is a party that is pro gun rights and there is a party that is radically anti gun rights and wants to confiscate that stuff.0.88
01:05:17.000And you can vote based on that and say, you can point out, we have constitutional carry in Arizona and two dozen other states because we've had election wins.
01:05:26.000And you can protect that or get rid of it.
01:05:55.000Do you know there's a feature on Turning Point Actions where you can upload your contacts to the platform and it will tell you who the low propensity voters of your contact lists are?
01:06:33.000According to Vote for America and similar groups, put the number of hunters plus gun owners of voting age who are not even registered at about 10%.
01:06:47.000Yeah, you had something about this, Russ.
01:06:48.000Yeah, you had something about this, Russ.
01:06:50.000If we had all those guys on board, yeah.
01:06:52.000Growing up, my dad has been in the hunting and gun industry my entire life, and it's been really interesting to kind of watch, especially with 2020 and then as you know, the last couple of elections, they are very single issue.
01:07:09.000It's funny because, at least from what I've noticed, yes, obviously 2A is a big thing, but it is they're Especially in this coming midterms, they're really pulling back because they're like, Oh, it's just the Epstein class, it's just the Epstein class.
01:07:29.000And so then they go, Doomer, they go, Black Pill, and it's it's crazy.
01:07:33.000So, and Blake even brought this up the people closest to you are probably the ones who are not voting in the midterm.
01:07:43.000That you need your if you're, for example, if you're evangelical in one of those big churches, you may be surprised the number of people who think politics is just it's a thing that doesn't interest them.
01:11:47.000No, but we have a writing question that I thought I wanted to answer, and it was from Jeffrey.
01:11:53.000He says, What if Turning Point Action or another conservative pack produced Charlie Kirk AI ads for the midterms, similar to the Spencer Pratt ads in California?
01:12:44.000But just any time you sort of like open Pandora's box and you start allowing.
01:12:49.000Charlie to be manipulated, his image, his likeness to be manipulated in a fake way, that something that didn't really happen, that bothers me.
01:13:08.000And we're not going to blur that line where we create a replica of this person, where we say, here's what Charlie would be saying right now with this robot voice.
01:14:06.000You have one to do download the TP Action app, upload your contacts, and start nicely, politely harassing your friends that are low propensity conservatives.