The Charlie Kirk Show - September 19, 2026


From the Archive: “If You Give Up, They Win” — Charlie’s 2023 ActCon Speech

The Battle for the Senate + AMA 279

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00:00:03.000 My name is Charlie Kirk.
00:00:05.000 I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country fighting for the future of our republic.
00:00:11.000 My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth.
00:00:14.000 If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable.
00:00:19.000 But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful.
00:00:24.000 College is a scam, everybody.
00:00:26.000 You've got to stop sending your kids to college.
00:00:27.000 You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible.
00:00:31.000 Go start a Turning Point USA college chapter.
00:00:33.000 Go start a Turning Point USA High School chapter.
00:00:35.000 Go find out how your church can get involved.
00:00:37.000 Sign up and become an activist.
00:00:39.000 I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade.
00:00:41.000 Most important decision I ever made in my life.
00:00:43.000 And I encourage you to do the same.
00:00:45.000 Here I am.
00:00:46.000 Lord, use me.
00:00:48.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:49.000 Here we go.
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00:01:18.000 Thank you, everybody. Please take a seat.
00:01:23.000 Well, I want to apologize for something that is not my fault.
00:01:28.000 Thank you for waiting as long as you guys did.
00:01:31.000 That was totally unacceptable.
00:01:33.000 It's not on us, and I want to thank you guys for that.
00:01:37.000 It's ridiculous to be perfectly honest to make you guys wait hours and hours.
00:01:41.000 So I hope you'll forgive me for something that I could not control.
00:01:44.000 But you guys are the best, and you guys wanted to see Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump and Dan Bongino, and so badly.
00:01:55.000 And, Heidelinda, how are you?
00:01:56.000 And I have a lot of thoughts on that situation, but we're all not yet here now, but we're almost all here now, and I'm not going to say it now.
00:02:04.000 Welcome to our Turning Point Action Conference, everybody.
00:02:06.000 We're going to have a couple amazing days here.
00:02:12.000 We have all 50 states represented.
00:02:15.000 We have thousands of student activists that are running Turning Point USA high school and college chapters across the country.
00:02:26.000 We have hundreds of pastors present.
00:02:28.000 We have some of the most important social media influencers.
00:02:32.000 We have over 150 credentialed media here.
00:02:35.000 So if you sit.
00:02:37.000 Yeah, most of you are booing.
00:02:40.000 We'll see if they tell the truth.
00:02:42.000 We have the people that make.
00:02:46.000 The party, what it is today.
00:02:48.000 Make it happen.
00:02:49.000 Now, many of you have come to Turning Point USA events in the past or Turning Point Action events.
00:02:53.000 This event's a little bit different.
00:02:55.000 This is the first multi day event that Turning Point Action is hosting.
00:03:00.000 Now, what is Turning Point Action?
00:03:01.000 Turning Point Action is our political arm.
00:03:03.000 You see, we're best known as going to college campuses so you don't have to.
00:03:09.000 Going to UC Berkeley, going to Harvard, going to Brown.
00:03:13.000 And I'm happy to report that at Turning Point USA, we have more high school chapters than college chapters.
00:03:20.000 And hundreds of thousands of young people involved in our student movement.
00:03:27.000 But what we are doing here at Turning Point Action is for all ages.
00:03:32.000 You see, what we're doing at Turning Point USA is so important for education, for American values.
00:03:39.000 But if you're like me, I am sick of what the Republican Party has become in the last couple of years.
00:03:47.000 Do you agree?
00:03:53.000 I do not immediately think just because you have an R in front of your name that you're going to go fight.
00:04:01.000 In fact, I'm awfully skeptical of some people that have R's in front of their name.
00:04:07.000 This event is going to be unlike any other.
00:04:10.000 This event, you're going to be hearing from people that are running for office in primary challenges against establishment Republicans.
00:04:18.000 You're going to hear from six presidential candidates.
00:04:21.000 You're going to hear from Mike Lindell.
00:04:23.000 Is there Mike Lindell right there?
00:04:25.000 Stand up, Mike Lindell.
00:04:26.000 The great Mike Lindell.
00:04:30.000 Promo code Kirk, by the way, at mypillow.com, okay?
00:04:36.000 You're going to hear from grassroots leaders.
00:04:38.000 You're going to hear about how we secure our elections.
00:04:41.000 You're going to hear about how we hold our elected officials accountable.
00:04:45.000 You're going to hear about how we're going to win in 2024.
00:04:54.000 And this event is not just about Democrats bad, Republicans good.
00:04:59.000 It's about a new conservative movement.
00:05:02.000 It's about a conservative movement that is in harmony.
00:05:08.000 With you, the voters.
00:05:10.000 It's about a conservative movement that cares far more about the southern border invasion than getting involved in this proxy war in Ukraine. 0.57
00:05:24.000 It's a conservative movement that believes that this trans zealotry has no place in public life or near our children.
00:05:37.000 It's a conservative movement that is ready to fight and win.
00:05:42.000 You know, a lot of people are asking me, they say, Charlie, who's going to be the candidate in 2024?
00:05:47.000 Now, I think it's going to be Donald Trump.
00:05:48.000 It's really hard to beat him.
00:05:49.000 I think we all agree, right?
00:05:52.000 And by the way, he thinks so highly of you.
00:05:56.000 One phone call, he said, Charlie, I'll be there because I know there is no more crowd more important than Turning Point for the energy, the enthusiasm, the passion, and the grassroots activity.
00:06:07.000 Not every presidential candidate believes that, by the way.
00:06:11.000 Wonder why.
00:06:13.000 Makes you think, right?
00:06:14.000 They must have something more important to do.
00:06:15.000 And then talk to you.
00:06:19.000 But honestly, that's not the most important question.
00:06:24.000 The most important question is what are we doing today to make sure that we have the infrastructure and the machinery to win the necessary states in the 2024 election?
00:06:37.000 You see, the entire 2024 election is going to come down to three states, maybe four, but probably three.
00:06:44.000 The electoral map has changed a little bit with the new census.
00:06:49.000 I think we can all agree that if President Trump is the nominee, he'll win Iowa, he'll win Ohio, he'll win Florida, he'll probably win Florida by a million votes.
00:06:59.000 He'll most likely win North Carolina.
00:07:02.000 But the states that, let's just say, are going to be a challenge my home state of Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin.
00:07:13.000 The whole ballgame comes down to three states.
00:07:16.000 Three states that Donald Trump won twice, so he has to win it a third time.
00:07:20.000 But Donald Trump has to then show that he has more pieces of paper than the other side.
00:07:27.000 Allow me to ask you a quick question.
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00:07:39.000 The truth is, a lot has changed over the last few years.
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00:07:48.000 What made sense then may not be the best option today.
00:07:51.000 Here's what I see all the time homeowners.
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00:08:56.000 This is a new ball game that we're playing in everybody.
00:08:59.000 It's no longer about candidate quality or messaging.
00:09:02.000 It's now about who has the machine.
00:09:05.000 Now, you might say, oh, Charlie, I think it's all about winning independence and messaging.
00:09:10.000 It's part of it.
00:09:13.000 We have Senator John Fetterman from Pennsylvania, everybody.
00:09:22.000 We have Joe Biden as President of the United States.
00:09:31.000 I could tell you this in Arizona.
00:09:34.000 That, I mean, they sabotaged Kerry Lake's election, I could tell you that, with all those failures.
00:09:40.000 Those lines out there, by the way, it felt like flashbacks to NAMD trying to go vote in Scottsdale back in November.
00:09:46.000 I'm like, this feels awfully similar.
00:09:49.000 If we do not have a robust machine that is willing to go after our low propensity voters, do ballot chasing, secure our elections, and pour hundreds of millions of dollars in Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin.
00:10:04.000 It does not matter if we run the best candidate ever and they try to run Jimmy Carter from hospice.
00:10:12.000 Because they're gonna have full time grassroots workers chasing the ballots, doing the mule activity.
00:10:18.000 What we need to start to realize is that if we wanna win in 2024, we have to start to play the game the Democrats have been beating us at.
00:10:27.000 We have to start to get in the arena.
00:10:29.000 And it starts with securing our elections, everybody.
00:10:33.000 It starts with filing lawsuits and making sure.
00:10:36.000 That we do not have this mass mail in balloting.
00:10:39.000 Now, everybody has a role to play.
00:10:42.000 At Turning Point Action, we feel that our role to play is to try to expand the window of voting.
00:10:49.000 I'll be honest, I'm a day of election guy.
00:10:53.000 I like to vote on election day.
00:10:56.000 At the same time, I saw what they did with Carrie Lake in Arizona.
00:11:03.000 We are broadcasting our play and saying, hey, everybody show up on one day.
00:11:07.000 And the Democrats just want us to fall into that.
00:11:10.000 In certain states, where actually they've embraced ballot harvesting, like in California, and in others, Republicans can do better and better. 0.54
00:11:18.000 For low propensity voters, we have to embrace the same legal methodology of harvesting votes and chasing votes where legal to increase our chances to defeat the Marxist Democrats in November of 2024. 0.63
00:11:36.000 So, what does this look like?
00:11:37.000 Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin.
00:11:39.000 This event is not just about, you know, oh yeah, super excited, get fired up, and then you go home.
00:11:47.000 This is an event of action.
00:11:50.000 You know you're losing our country.
00:11:52.000 And I hate when people say this, but it is darn true.
00:11:55.000 If we do not win back the White House in 2024, this country's going to be in an almost irreversible position.
00:12:04.000 But here's what I know at my core there are more of us than them.
00:12:10.000 There are more of us than them.
00:12:12.000 All we have to do is get that translated into more pieces of paper counted at the end than them.
00:12:20.000 And we will win back the White House in 2024.
00:12:27.000 It's going to require a mentality shift.
00:12:29.000 I think it's a waste of money to have $1.5 billion spent on a primary when we do not have the full time infrastructure in the states that matter.
00:12:42.000 I think it's a waste of money when I see these attack ads I'm doing 50 million, 100 million, and all this.
00:12:47.000 I ask the question is how many full time people do you have on the ground right now in Wisconsin registering voters?
00:12:54.000 Getting ready to chase ballots and do the early voting work.
00:12:57.000 So at Turning Point, we're no longer going to complain.
00:12:59.000 For those of you that know us well, we are people of action here at Turning Point.
00:13:03.000 And so we are launching an effort, and you know this if you watch our program or our podcast called Chase the Vote.
00:13:08.000 I think we have a whole thing here where we are going to have the most aggressive early voting, low propensity voter campaign.
00:13:16.000 Because I'll tell you this if we say, hey, everybody show up on election day, you're going to have machine failures and tabulators.
00:13:23.000 We need to have our low propensity voters.
00:13:26.000 Show up, and I think we have something here.
00:13:27.000 You guys can follow the QR code where we're going to be talking about this for the next couple of days.
00:13:32.000 Where if we have ballot chasers in the states that matter, then the Democrats will have no way to be able to get towards what they call victory.
00:13:42.000 It's not possible because we've been playing for one day, Election Day.
00:13:47.000 They've been playing for 30 days.
00:13:49.000 Imagine if we just do a little bit of it.
00:13:51.000 Imagine if we just get some of our low propensity voters and we get them to turn out.
00:13:55.000 They want to call everything a democracy, by the way.
00:13:57.000 We're a republic, not a democracy.
00:13:59.000 I'm so sick when I hear this.
00:14:02.000 But do you know what democracy is?
00:14:05.000 Democracy is not what they think it is.
00:14:06.000 Democracy has become a game.
00:14:08.000 Who can get the most pieces of paper and put them in the ballot box in a 30 day period?
00:14:14.000 I don't like it.
00:14:15.000 But you know what I hate more?
00:14:17.000 I hate losing.
00:14:20.000 I hate not being in the White House. 1.00
00:14:23.000 I hate seeing this craven, sinister, evil traitor that calls himself the President of the United States. 1.00
00:14:29.000 Defecate on our country every single day. 1.00
00:14:33.000 He's an evil man. 0.98
00:14:36.000 And I will not be able to tell my daughter in good faith that I did everything I possibly could if we keep on doing the failed old strategy of just show up on election day.
00:14:47.000 Just show up on election day. 0.51
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00:16:05.000 There's a reason, in my opinion, why they are indicting our frontrunner because they are going after a man.
00:16:14.000 Who's able to bring out hundreds of thousands of voters that otherwise would not vote in three core states?
00:16:20.000 And we have a lot of you represented here, and they also know something else.
00:16:23.000 Look around.
00:16:24.000 The Republican Party is now a grassroots party.
00:16:26.000 We are not a party of the oligarchs, we're not a party of the ruling class.
00:16:31.000 And what we are going to be talking about through our breakout sessions, through our speakers, through talking to the great experts of how we secure our elections, of how we stop this ridiculous pattern of mass mail and voting, if possible, through the legislature, is this.
00:16:46.000 We know the majority of Americans do not approve of what Joe Biden is doing.
00:16:51.000 We know a majority of Americans think it is insane that our federal government says that men can give birth.
00:17:00.000 Why is it that a majority of people believe something and yet our government is totally out of touch with that?
00:17:06.000 It's because they have designed and concocted a game.
00:17:12.000 And the game came post COVID.
00:17:15.000 Our reaction to COVID will go down as one of the most reckless responses.
00:17:19.000 We never should have shut down our schools. 0.94
00:17:21.000 We never should have had all these mRNA vaccines. 1.00
00:17:23.000 Huge mistake.
00:17:24.000 And we never should have allowed mass mail and voting to become the law of the land.
00:17:31.000 And for some Republicans, you think everything is about candidate quality, everything is about messaging.
00:17:38.000 That's important. 1.00
00:17:40.000 Why do you think the Democrats are comfortable running a brain dead idiot who obviously can't speak in sentences? 1.00
00:17:48.000 They are confident that their machinery is so good they can run anybody. 0.99
00:17:53.000 But they are also afraid that if we as Republicans wake up and notice, adapt with agility, and we start to change the way that we do our grassroots activity, I firmly believe this, everybody.
00:18:06.000 We are going to win by so much that they will not be able to cheat to come even close if we fix our elections in these states.
00:18:15.000 I firmly believe it.
00:18:19.000 I'm going to say this as blunt as possible, but we have to fix it.
00:18:22.000 If nothing changes, In November of 2024, we're going to get really excited on election night.
00:18:31.000 It'll seem that our candidate, which will probably be Donald Trump, is up by a lot in Georgia, up by a lot in Arizona, up by a lot in Wisconsin.
00:18:45.000 And you're going to go to bed and you're going to wake up like, that's weird.
00:18:51.000 Where did all those ballots come from?
00:18:54.000 And all of a sudden, a 200,000 Trump lead will become 120,000.
00:19:00.000 And then it will become Thursday.
00:19:02.000 And it will become an 80,000 vote lead.
00:19:05.000 And then it will be Friday.
00:19:06.000 And it will be a 60,000 vote lead.
00:19:08.000 And then it will be Saturday.
00:19:09.000 And it will be a 10,000 vote lead.
00:19:11.000 And then it will be Sunday.
00:19:12.000 And then it will be Joe Biden is up by 4,000 votes.
00:19:18.000 And then it will be in Arizona, which we have a tradition of taking entire quarters to count votes, 90 day minimum.
00:19:26.000 And it will just be that kind of 6,000 or 7,000 vote threshold where you just fall so short where you wonder if you could have done more.
00:19:33.000 Same in Wisconsin, Arizona, or Georgia.
00:19:37.000 If I'm terrifying you, I'm doing my job because that's where I'm paced to land.
00:19:42.000 5,000 votes there, 6,000 votes there, 10,000 votes there.
00:19:46.000 We outnumber the Marxists.
00:19:52.000 And what we are committed to doing at Turning Point Action is playing to win.
00:19:57.000 The Republican establishment has failed us.
00:19:59.000 They will not do this.
00:20:02.000 The Republican establishment will not do this.
00:20:04.000 You know what?
00:20:05.000 We have to do this.
00:20:06.000 The people do.
00:20:07.000 We're going to step up, we're going to do the tough but necessary work, and I'll tell you.
00:20:12.000 They're afraid of you.
00:20:13.000 They hate you and they're afraid of you.
00:20:15.000 We have an opportunity to do something that will be unprecedented and historic.
00:20:21.000 Have a people led movement in defiance of all of the regime power, all the regime machinery corporate power, FBI, Department of Justice, and social media.
00:20:32.000 And it comes down to who can get the most pieces of paper and put them in the ballot box.
00:20:38.000 And then who can count them, and there's other things that involve there.
00:20:42.000 I'm excited for these next couple of days.
00:20:44.000 I'm excited for you to make an informed decision in our straw poll, and you're going to hear from the best candidates that want to show up and that think that you're worthy of it.
00:20:51.000 But this is a clear call to action.
00:20:54.000 Call to action to become a precinct committeeman if you are not already, and you can sign up at tpaction.com.
00:21:02.000 I'll close with this, and we'll begin our speaker lineup, which just gets better and better and better as the night goes on.
00:21:09.000 I get asked all the time, Charlie, what can we do?
00:21:13.000 What can we do?
00:21:14.000 What can we do?
00:21:15.000 I feel like I'm losing my country.
00:21:20.000 They are counting on your surrender.
00:21:24.000 If you give up, they win.
00:21:27.000 But what if we look back and we realize we were just inches away from victory and that's when we decided to give up?
00:21:33.000 I believe that this evil crime syndicate that has current occupation of our country are the most paranoid and fragile group of oligarchs.
00:21:44.000 Running a nation in human history.
00:21:46.000 And I know this.
00:21:48.000 I travel the country and I talk to so many of you that there is a volcanic eruption that is about to occur against these people that have been keeping January 6th defendants in gulags.
00:22:02.000 A volcanic eruption that is about to explode against the people that are indicting Donald Trump.
00:22:07.000 A volcanic eruption that's about to explode against the people that say our democracy is safe and secure.
00:22:14.000 You send a message these next couple of days.
00:22:16.000 We play to win to defeat the Marxist Democrats.
00:22:19.000 God bless you guys.
00:22:20.000 Enjoy the next couple of days.
00:22:25.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.