Sean M. Davis, CEO and Co-Founder of the Federalist joins the show to discuss the results of the mid-term elections and the latest on the mail-in primary in Virginia. He also talks about the latest in the ongoing investigation into the alleged mail bomb blast in Virginia and why the FBI should be worried.
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00:01:09.000All right, welcome back to hour two of the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:01:12.000I'm Andrew Colvett, executive producer of this fine show, joined by, as always, Blake Neff in our home studio back in Arizona.
00:01:20.000And we are joined this hour at the top of it by Sean Davis, CEO and co-founder of the Federalist.
00:01:25.000You can find him on exit, Sean M. Dave, D-A-V.
00:01:30.000You just didn't go the whole way and just say, Sean M. Davis.
00:01:45.000I had to go through the same thing recently because everybody was, you know, asking, you know, why do you have this weird?
00:01:51.000I just had this like goofball old handle, you know, from, I think, 2011 or something like that.
00:01:56.000And I had to update it so people find me.
00:01:58.000Anyways, I'm going to help you with this, Sean Davis.
00:02:01.000So we've got really three topics, and there is a press conference that we are awaiting on this pipe bombing arrest that's been made in Virginia.
00:02:34.000A lot of people are taking that one of two ways.
00:02:37.000What is the big takeaway that the base needs to hear right now, Sean Davis?
00:02:42.000So the word that I keep hearing from people around here about that race is relief.
00:02:48.000It was a close race until about two weeks ago.
00:02:51.000I think it was within the margin of error.
00:02:53.000Then there was a big national push to expose this Looney Tunes woman, Afton Bain, is a total left-wing communist kook who hated the city, hate the people who live here, hate the state.
00:03:04.000And that was a top-down effort from Trump all the way down.
00:03:07.000On the Monday before the election, there was a massive get out the vote rally with every statewide elected Republican in Tennessee.
00:03:13.000And I think that last-minute charge, that last minute push to define her and get out the vote really made a difference.
00:03:19.000So in looking at the race, I don't think it was a massive victory, nor do I think it was a doomsday warning.
00:03:28.000I think it is a sign that Republicans have a lot that they still need to do between now and November.
00:03:33.000You'll hear some people say that this is an R plus 10 district.
00:03:37.000I think that's what the Cook political partisan voter index says.
00:04:04.000Nor is it a sign of doomerism that we're screwed.
00:04:07.000We've got another 11 months to the election, and Republicans have to get to work putting together a message and an agenda that proves that they're acting on the things that people want them to do.
00:04:16.000Yeah, I mean, Blake, feel free to chime in here.
00:04:25.000And we could try and identify what the source of that terrible performance is, whether it's we're a low-prop party, whether it's our GOTV is not what it needs to be, which is a fact.
00:04:36.000It's not even debatable at this point.
00:04:38.000Now, turning point action, we have a massive get-out-the-vote program called Chase the Vote.
00:05:05.000What do you think the biggest driver of why we, frankly, are struggling in some of these off-year, lower-prop elections compared to, I feel when I was a young adult, the GOP was seen as stronger in some of those off-elections?
00:05:20.000Yeah, I think the main reason is that outside of Trump, the Republican Party is kind of having an identity crisis.
00:05:57.000But his name not being on the ballot makes a big difference.
00:05:59.000And so I think the GOP is really having an identity crisis that's driven by a lot of the old establishment, people who've been in office for 20 or 30 years, still wanting to take the party back to 2002 or 2003, the heady days of the Iraq war and GOP corporatism.
00:06:16.000And they don't really like this new MAGA Trump.
00:06:19.000They can't really come out and say that.
00:06:21.000They can't say that they don't like the MAGA agenda.
00:06:23.000So they kind of just have to like sit back and quietly stifle it while pretending they're doing good things.
00:06:29.000And what you end up with there is a party that just looks completely scarotic and kind of neutered.
00:06:34.000And that's a hard party to get people to jazzed up to vote for in an off-year.
00:07:38.000You're starting to hear a lot more about the affordability crisis.
00:07:40.000You're starting to hear a lot more about plans and creative ideas to address housing.
00:07:45.000And most importantly is what I would say that, yeah, he has a gravitational pull.
00:07:51.000He defines all of politics, not just Republican politics, but left and right in this country.
00:07:57.000But you saw this third world immigration moratorium take effect.
00:08:02.000And if you talk to pollsters like Rich Barris, he and I were communicating on this.
00:08:06.000There was a jump massively, we talked about on the show on enthusiasm for the base Republican voters.
00:08:13.000And so when he's polling the Third World Immigration Moratorium, which is a core component, a core plank of the MAGA movement of the populist right movement is to get our immigration house in order.
00:08:24.000You saw a jump immediately in the enthusiasm for voters.
00:08:27.000Rich's contention, and this was my prediction, was that this race would have been even closer had President Trump not come out with that moratorium following the ambush, assassination, and nearly two of the National Guardsmen in just blocks away from the White House.
00:08:45.000Had he not come out with something bold and unapologetic, we would have seen an even closer race.
00:08:50.000You have to give voters something to get enthusiastic about.
00:08:53.000When you have a low-propensity party like we do, and obviously it's a mix, but there is now more low props in our movement than there were before Donald Trump.
00:09:27.000But at least we saw an eight, nine-point victory.
00:09:32.000And what we were seeing could have been within the margin of error before that.
00:09:35.000So I think what we need to do is we need to make sure we're giving voters what they want.
00:09:40.000That's ultimately what the lesson is here.
00:09:42.000I think it's important to tackle immigration not just as a standalone issue, because it's part of a much broader sense that we're losing our country.
00:10:00.000It's that people feel the sense that they can't do things in their country that they believe they should be allowed to, that the American dream is just being whittled away and eroded away.
00:10:09.000And immigration is a big part of that.
00:10:11.000When people think they can't get ahead, even when they follow the rules, that they'll never be able to buy a house, that they'll never pay down their college debt, that they'll never get a good job, that they'll never be able to raise their family on one income.
00:10:22.000That is where the immigration thing plays in.
00:10:24.000And so I think it's really important for Republicans to put that in the context of rebuilding the American dream and restoring the American dream for Americans.
00:10:34.000But just when people equate the immigration desires of the base, of MAGA base, and they equate it with xenophobia or bigotry or racism, it couldn't be further from the truth.
00:10:45.000And we really need to keep hammering that home.
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00:11:52.000I was talking with Sean prepping for this segment today, and he really wanted to hit the Lane Kiffen story out of the SEC, which was funny, Sean, because the other gentleman with amazing hair on this screen right now also has been begging to hit this story.
00:12:10.000So I'm going to throw it to Blake first and say, Blake, set the table, and then Sean, you tell us why this is important.
00:12:16.000We know Charlie was a big Oregon Ducks fan.
00:12:26.000He would have actually been all over this.
00:12:28.000We would have definitely been talking about it with him because a lot of news happened over the weekend about, you know, we had the attack in D.C., we had the Somali story.
00:13:18.000So I love Lane Kiffin for making himself the most hatable person in all of college sports.
00:13:24.000Like college sports thrives on hatred and rivalries.
00:13:28.000And quite honestly, all the reorgs and the conferences, we've lost a lot of those old-timey rivals and hatred.
00:13:35.000And so I love Lane being himself, doing the heel turn, because he did it to Tennessee.
00:13:41.000You know, he got fired at USC and left on the tarmac.
00:13:44.000I love that he's doing this, that he's doing it in conference, because it is going to make the LSU game in Oxford next year absolutely amazing.
00:13:52.000But I will say, loyalty is not entirely dead in college football.
00:14:17.000As a U-Wub graduate and a Husky fan, when we had Kalen DeBoer, we lost in the national championship.
00:14:24.000Everybody was willing to sort of give Kaylin DeBoer this keys to the city that he was going to be a king in a very, listen, it's not the biggest empire in America, the U-W, but they have a very proud football tradition.
00:14:39.000And we were hoping that he was going to stay.
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00:15:56.000And now he's at LSU, and the SEC has a big-time rivalry, an unexpected big-time rivalry, probably center stage, which is outshining all the others.
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00:18:38.000And there is a lot of breaking news out of the United Kingdom when it comes to these grooming gangs and the story that has been boiling under the surface for many years in that country.
00:18:50.000But then with the help of Elon Musk and others, it has been brought to the fore and they're doing some great work.
00:18:56.000Blake, why don't you give us a little primer and help us welcome Adam to the show here?
00:19:06.000So, yeah, I guess let's just tee up your work.
00:19:09.000This is a cause Charlie cared a lot about.
00:19:11.000He cared a lot about the fate of the United Kingdom and how it could be a country that represents America's future in a lot of ways.
00:19:18.000And we're revisiting what's been a story for a while, which is these grooming gangs, mostly linked to immigrants or immigrant-derived people in or immigrant-derived people in the United Kingdom.
00:19:29.000And they were grooming and sexually assaulting, sexually abusing British girls.
00:19:34.000And you've been working to really bring forth to the public the full details of what happened with these grooming gangs.
00:19:43.000I think it's going to catch people here off guard just how much of this wasn't known, how much little transparency there was.
00:20:21.000There's no other language that can be used to describe what happened to them.
00:20:26.000And I think it was the release of the first transcripts around January that really brought home to the public that these aren't normal crimes and they have been covered up by the police, by social services, and by our government.
00:20:40.000And the reality, I think, is really starting to hit home with people.
00:20:45.000This release that we've just done this last week has more than doubled, more than tripled, actually, the current number of sentencing remarks.
00:20:55.000A number of these documents are now in the public.
00:20:58.000They are available to read at transcripts.openjustice uk.org.
00:21:03.000And it's, yeah, I mean, the dam is really breaking on this stuff.
00:21:09.000So I think in the United States, we would see it as a default that court hearings are public, that the sentence remarks of a judge would be public.
00:21:19.000It's generally here not difficult to get.
00:21:22.000You might not have cameras in a courtroom, but you'll virtually always have at least the transcripts of what is going on in court and what a judge would say.
00:21:30.000But that's apparently not the norm in the UK.
00:21:32.000And I believe they've tried to charge you huge sums of money to get these, haven't they?
00:22:23.000We've only been able to do this because we've crowdfunded the money to acquire them.
00:22:27.000Yeah, and I can't, frankly, I can't read all of these because they're just too graphic for our audience.
00:22:32.000But I just want to, you guys, anyone who's listening should go look up OpenJustice UK and read these.
00:22:38.000They're freely available now, but it's describing what's going on.
00:22:40.000So these are gangs, again, mostly migrant-related, and they would sort of pick up underage UK girls, 12, 13, 14 years old, and they would sort of, they would groom them and eventually just begin sexually assaulting them.
00:22:54.000And what we're seeing in these is you have it where they're threatened with violence if they don't have sex with multiple different men.
00:23:01.000We have cases where there's, for example, a migrant-owned taxi company where they're basically engaging in prostitution rings.
00:23:12.000And there's this strong racial element to it as well, where they're told, hey, we're taking over your country.
00:23:45.000And a question that's also being asked online right now, and maybe you can answer this, Adam.
00:23:50.000Why aren't these, these apparently also weren't treated as hate crimes?
00:23:55.000Yeah, I mean, in some of the transcripts we've released just this week, as you said, they're explicitly targeting these girls because of their race.
00:24:04.000I won't read the excerpts because they are very disturbing.
00:24:22.000Not a single one of these cases, to my awareness, has had that aggravating sentencing applied.
00:24:28.000It seems to be that they weren't prosecuted for a hate crime or a race crime, despite it being laid out in black and white that these girls were targeted for being white.
00:25:33.000Why wouldn't the leadership in the UK, the justice officials want to expose this?
00:25:38.000And then secondly, in this new era, post-Elon Musk blowing the lid off this story, I know there was other people working diligently behind the scenes.
00:25:46.000He just provided an amplification, a microphone to it.
00:25:51.000Are you seeing whatever that stranglehold on the truth is?
00:26:01.000And I think it's partly because it's very, very difficult to discuss race, especially when all of the discussions around race and around institutional racism are orientated towards white people being the perpetrators.
00:26:18.000It's very, very difficult to discuss things like people being targeted for their race when white people are the victims.
00:26:26.000You know, we talk about rape culture, but there are cases here where, you know, men will call up their uncles, their cousins, their nephews, and they will say, you know, we have this girl.
00:26:47.000So I think it's very difficult to discuss this within the paradigm that we've been taught about how race and race relations and institutions interact.
00:26:56.000And I think it's also the case that many of the people that were involved in these gangs were in positions of power.
00:27:04.000They were working for or with the local police, with the local councils, with the local government.
00:27:11.000And these crimes have been happening for so long that maybe now some of those people are quite senior.
00:27:35.000So, this is the second part of your question there, it is breaking.
00:27:38.000We had an excellent review by a woman called Baroness Louise Casey, who was working for the government.
00:27:44.000And she's actually, you know, closely associated with our civil service and with labor.
00:27:51.000Some people, some people think that they're the main perpetrators of this, but she was very brave.
00:27:55.000And she came out with a very, very strong review where she outlined that there has been a cover-up, that the media has been very irresponsible in its reporting, and the files have been deleted, and that the perpetrators of these are predominantly Pakistani Muslim men.
00:28:12.000And since that report, we've seen the media more willing to engage on it.
00:28:17.000We've seen people more willing to tell the truth.
00:28:19.000We've seen more survivors coming forward.
00:31:57.000Charlie essentially plucked me out of the New York City orbit and was like, no, I have a healthier way of viewing things and looking at life and things like that.
00:32:09.000And I remember thinking, if I would have stayed on that path I was on, I would have lost out on some of the most beautiful moments of my life.
00:32:23.000Children, having a husband, being able to create and build something so incredible.