In this special bonus episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, host Charlie Kirk is joined by producer Blake Neff and producer Tyler Bowyer to discuss the results of Tuesday night's mid-term elections and the implications for the future of the country.
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00:01:43.000We said the Tennessee seventh race is coming up.
00:01:46.000Don't ignore it because Democrats definitely aren't ignoring it.
00:01:50.000And happily, yesterday, Matt Van Epps defeated Democrat Afton Bain, the woman who said she hated Nashville, hated bachelorette parties, hated country music, hated basically everything that made Nashville noteworthy.
00:02:03.000Yet she, a few polls, I think, showed her winning even, but did not come to pass.
00:03:30.000People like kind of raz me on X when I say things like this, but Tennessee, Utah, Idaho, these are targets.
00:03:39.000These are long term targets for the left, and this is because they want them to be like Colorado.
00:03:44.000Yeah, large counties with large cities can topple a conservative state.
00:03:49.000So in Tennessee, you have the Nashville metro area has grown abundantly, just similar to Phoenix and Arizona.
00:03:56.000And this is what, you know, people couldn't even imagine, can even fathom a blue Arizona or purple Arizona.
00:04:03.000And we have seen that when Democrats, when we have a huge swing in population numbers, lots of outsiders move in, that it starts to change the dynamics of the state.
00:04:14.000And then when the Democrats spend tens of millions of dollars in these races, whether it's for Congress, Senate, president, governor, then you can lose.
00:04:24.000And we've seen a lot of red states, Kansas, Missouri, to name a few, where we've had Democrats win governorships.
00:04:37.000You cannot look at any of these districts and say, even in a deep red plus 22, R plus 10 district in this case, the R plus 10 district, a plus 22 Trump.
00:04:48.000There's a difference because there's a lot of crossover votes in red states where Democrats voted for Trump this last election cycle, where Democrats stayed home because they just didn't believe in Kamala Harris.
00:05:10.000Yeah, this is a district that Trump won by 22.
00:05:13.000Some of that being half of the increase being that Democrats stayed home, half of the increase being that Democrats crossed over in a red state.
00:05:21.000Now, with that being said, this district was vacated by a Freedom Caucus member.
00:05:27.000Representative Green took a private sector job.
00:05:31.000I have to say this because it applies to everyone.
00:06:00.000If you can't do that, you shouldn't be running.
00:06:02.000And so, again, I'm not attacking either of the Greens in this case.
00:06:07.000I'm not saying that things don't come up or people don't have illnesses or they don't have, you know, there's lots of different reasons that people choose and some of those are not public.
00:06:18.000What is fair to say is it's not helpful for people to quit midstream right now and with with so few Republicans controlling Congress.
00:06:27.000Now, with that being said, that's why the special election became such a focal point for the Democrats because if they spend more, they're going to turn out more.
00:06:36.000And in special elections, it's all about, it's low turnout, right?
00:07:11.000We got 97,000 votes to win, whereas the Democrat lost, got 122,000 votes to lose by a ton last time.
00:07:18.000Yeah, I think the projection was that it was going to be in the low 40s was turnout numbers when all said and done.
00:07:23.000I don't even know if they hit that in this case for the turnout, but 40, I mean, imagine that.
00:07:29.000Again, 40% turnout is really low for a congressional, for a federal race.
00:07:34.000So you have a situation here where this is, people are freaking out because the amount of money and energy that was being spent for the Democrats.
00:08:14.000Obviously, that sat at home, that Trump won by that extra, you know, 13 points or whatever the end result was, they didn't vote in this election either, right?
00:08:25.000So obviously that's not going to help you in the differential.
00:08:28.000The crossover vote didn't show up for this vote, right?
00:08:31.000The people that, the Democrats that voted for Trump, didn't show up to vote for Matt Van Epps.
00:08:38.000So we're definitely going to get into at least one dimension of that in the next segment because we're talking about the Gen Z sentiment is very fickle around the past year of politics.
00:08:51.000There's Gen Z, which is really important to talk about, and millennials.
00:08:55.000It's a younger millennials that have been crossing over in bigger numbers.
00:09:00.000And then you have the Freedom Caucus element.
00:09:03.000Those two elements played a role in not maximizing what this victory could have been.
00:09:09.000And that's a unique opportunity at this point forward for the White House who endorsed in this race, for conservatives in general, the Republican Party, what I call the, some people call the establishment, but I call the machine is everybody has to look at this and go, all right, how can we do better than this?
00:09:40.000We'll get into the grassroots next segment.
00:09:42.000What's the message for the donor class, the political class, the people who can make big decisive moves now to make sure we're in a stronger place a year from now?
00:09:51.000Well, look, like I said kind of at the top of this, is that Tennessee is a future place that they want to topple.
00:09:58.000So we have to fortify Tennessee strongly now.
00:10:01.000And so you have to make the investment into the boots on the ground to make the difference.
00:10:05.000And that's what we talked about every day with Charlie.
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00:11:37.000We won by a lot more than the two points we were fretting about.
00:11:42.000So we were talking about what donors should do, how we need to be building up the apparatus, building the machine in these red states before they are purple states, before they are blue states.
00:12:17.000Because a lot of our turnout stuff, some of it ramps up in the months before an election.
00:12:21.000But what could they be doing right now to make sure they're ready to roll?
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00:12:27.000Yeah, right now we're building the machine so that no matter what state you're in, you can help in the swing states, but then in special situations like this.
00:12:36.000So, you know, this was a little bit of an interesting race because, you know, I think we're going to talk about it, the complexity that exists.
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00:13:25.000But it's a midterm, so swing district too.
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00:13:45.000They're trying to take a lot of seats from us.
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00:18:10.000We had the boomer half hour just now, Daisy.
00:20:09.000But we heard him say this yesterday, and this got us all talking because I think something that is not talked about a lot is when we were getting Gen Z to go out to the polls and vote for Trump, they were voting against the economy that they had heard about from their parents, from their grandparents.
00:20:28.000They had heard about Joe Biden's failing economy.
00:20:33.000But they were not actually active in the economy at that point.
00:20:36.000So then them coming out of high school, college, and them being a part of the economy for Trump's economy, and it's still really stretching them and them still not be.
00:20:46.000I don't know if they expected to just be able to get out of college and buy a house immediately, which is obviously not how things work.
00:20:54.000There's a lot that has to go in that has to be put into place to fix things.
00:22:44.000Well, I think our biggest thing for Gen Z is immigration is what they care about the most.
00:22:50.000And that ties into affordability, obviously.
00:22:52.000But I think that is the baseline for everything in terms of what I've seen through all the algorithms, everything, talking to friends, what I've heard.
00:23:04.000I guess you're probably referring to conservative young people then, that the conservative Gen Z base cares the most.
00:23:09.000Yeah, conservative Gen Z. Conservative Gen Z.
00:23:13.000And their sense is that there's just not enough immigration or yeah, and they're very blackpilled on the issue right now with obviously the H-1B stuff that happened and all the illegals that are here in the country now.
00:23:25.000And I think that the algorithm and all that is keeping them from really seeing the good things that Trump's doing on immigration with deportations and stuff like that.
00:23:35.000But I think it's also just the overall doomerism's at an all-time high.
00:23:40.000And so that's what I think the main problem is.
00:23:42.000And that ties into affordability and all their other problems.
00:23:47.000Like, if we look at the two groups that we are having issues with, it would be Gen Z boys who are, what Danny's saying, too black pilled to even think that the immigration that's happening is positive and we are making real progress there.
00:24:01.000And then it's Gen Z women who think that immigration is a broadly emotional issue.
00:24:07.000They're seeing people being stripped away from their families and they're thinking about the women and the children.
00:24:13.000And so I think that it is a huge voting point that we had and that we won on.
00:24:19.000And we are seeing massive amounts of progress there, but I don't know that the messaging is working for either people groups that we have a problem with.
00:24:29.000Where it's on the one hand, this is why Charlie would say no blackpilling, because I do think some of this is to a degree a mental, it is a mental function.
00:24:37.000It is addictive to feel negative about things.
00:24:40.000And so I always like, even I can feel frustrated with stuff that happens in politics.
00:24:44.000And I always remember we secured the border overnight.
00:24:47.000We had the biggest flood of people into this country ever and we just turned it off.
00:24:51.000And that is a huge point of progress that we should be bragging about all of the time.
00:24:55.000Not the least, because that is has some.
00:24:58.000It doesn't have as much of that emotional baggage that they just manipulate, where anytime, people who are in this country illegally should be sent back.
00:25:04.000Yet they make you feel shame that this happens, and we should not feel shame that people who broke the law are punished right, but I think it's also I think another problem Blake, is the administration has been focused a lot on foreign problems instead of domestic problems.
00:25:20.000We see that with ending wars and stuff, which is great, but it's come to a point where a lot of people are just looking for answers at home and they kind of don't really care about foreign policy as much.
00:25:32.000They are more so just focused on what affects them here domestically.
00:25:36.000Well, and I think this all ties, I think we should play cut 250.
00:25:40.000It's Charlie, from july of 2025 and it's a real I.
00:25:47.000We get more young people under the age of 35 to have equity in the system.
00:25:51.000Yes, not the Democrat version of equity, where they want to have redistribution.
00:25:54.000But actually are they paying a mortgage, do they own stuff or are they permanent renters?
00:26:00.000A permanent renting class in this country is the prerequisite is the leading ingredient for radical politics that nobody wants to see.
00:26:08.000We need to reinvigorate the ownership economy and then, all of a sudden, when you own stuff, you're less likely to burn down a Wendy's and vote for candidates like Zillron Momdani.
00:26:18.000So I think that an a big, big issue in the doomerism stuff that Danny is talking about, which is, it's so, so horrible to think about.
00:26:30.000But there, gen z had all these problems beforehand and Charlie was the person that was out there not only talking about it but talking to them and inspiring them to be better.
00:26:40.000And then we all really publicly lost our personally, our friend and boss.
00:26:46.000But gen z, they're One of their largest role models that any generation has ever had, because no generation before has had that much access to someone on social media to be able to see all of their thoughts in real time.
00:26:57.000I mean, he was live on the air every day for hours.
00:27:00.000They could see exactly what he was thinking.
00:27:36.000He would not tell them to wallow in things.
00:27:38.000He would say, every problem in your life, however daunting it seems, is fixable.
00:27:44.000And I worry, you know, without Charlie, we've had too much of a balance toward this negativity, towards victim, making yourself into a victim.
00:30:06.000We're talking about reasons to not blackpill and how the Trump administration could communicate what its long-term plan is here.
00:30:14.000And we were saying, I think one of the best things is to actually tie, you can kind of have this grand unified thing.
00:30:19.000We've talked about how cracking down on crime is actually an affordability issue because when you make more cities and more neighborhoods livable, housing prices decline.
00:30:27.000Also, when you fix the border, in the long run, house prices will decline.
00:30:32.000And we can be frank, there are going to be short-term shocks.
00:30:35.000A lot of businesses, Charlie would complain about this all the time.
00:30:39.000There are businesses that got addicted to low-wage illegal labor, and there's going to be something of a shock as you get away from that.
00:30:48.000And housing construction is one of those things.
00:30:51.000It's like if you're an alcoholic, which you shouldn't be because Charlie would tell you not to be, if you quit it all at once, it's actually very painful.
00:30:59.000That's why people have so much trouble doing it.
00:31:01.000And illegal immigration is like America's great addiction.
00:31:05.000And so I think there's a lot of room for the administration to say we are breaking America's bad habits and there are going to be signs of improvement that they can point towards.
00:31:15.000And not just we are making progress on immigration, but we are making progress on immigration and this is how it will personally affect you.
00:31:22.000Yes, when it comes to the people who are going to personally affect you.
00:31:25.000One thing, I'm wondering how we can best communicate this.
00:31:28.000This was a thing we saw this morning that in the past year, 51% of homes have actually decreased in value.
00:31:35.000And that's obviously not great if you're a homeowner looking to sell, but Charlie would say our top priority does need to be making sure young people have those affordable homes.
00:31:47.000And I think at the least, the long run pitch has to be, we do need more affordable homes for people.
00:31:54.000And the great way to square that circle is you can build new homes that are affordable.
00:31:59.000And then hopefully you can try to have both sides of the coin.
00:32:03.000Yeah, it's hard in cities like Phoenix.
00:32:07.000The valley itself is already so congested that they are doing a lot of new builds, but they're all on the outskirts.
00:32:14.000So I wonder if it's different in other cities that Phoenix are really populated all at once.
00:32:22.000But I think, I'm wondering, Danny, what you think young men specifically on this affordability issue would like to hear from the administration to get them out of that black pilling.
00:32:35.000I mean, the problem is they want less regulation for starters.
00:32:40.000And the real problem is the only mainstream politician we've seen try and do this is Mamdani in New York City.
00:32:47.000And that's why we saw so much of Gen Z kind of flock towards him in that election.
00:32:53.000No, but I'm saying in terms of actually trying to cause or try and fix housing, even if his ideas don't work, that's what – so they're looking for anything.
00:33:02.000So they want less regulation, but if no one's actually going to do that, they will flock towards someone that's at least trying to.
00:33:08.000And that's kind of what I've seen is that they're just looking for answers.
00:33:13.000And so I really think the administration, HUD, needs to kind of focus on that and really get going.
00:34:08.000And you get the sense, could the administration fix a lot of its problems by just really aggressively showing, hey, here's all these things we are doing.
00:34:17.000So rather than just say, we're cutting regulations, here's this specific thing we've done, this specific thing we've done.
00:34:23.000Here's this nice video of this house going up in the Phoenix area that was enabled by our measure.
00:34:29.000Do you think that communication strategy would go through?
00:34:31.000Do we need White House home building TikToks?
00:34:36.000I think that that would probably go over better than some of the ice TikToks that they're putting out, which we think are great, but a lot of the public is a little taken aback by.
00:34:47.000Housing affordability TikToks, lowering prices, gas price TikToks, maybe.
00:34:54.000Trump was talking, he's saying gas prices are lower.
00:34:57.000He was talking about Thanksgiving being more affordable, but you really need to give a visual angle to this.
00:35:02.000Well, and I think just having some, which Charlie's really good at, having some empathy for Gen Z, where like we kind of talked about at the beginning, they, sure, we can talk about how eggs are cheaper, gas is cheaper.
00:35:13.000Most of Gen Z is now purchasing those things on their own, largely for the first time.
00:35:18.000So they have, sure, they can hear about that it's cheaper.