00:00:51.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:57.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:20.000Yesterday, the first round of voting happened in the Chicago mayor's race, and Beetlejuice, Lori Lightfoot, has been defeated.
00:01:29.000Now, we should enjoy that for just a second, and we should talk about why that is the case.
00:01:34.000Why is it that Lori Lightfoot was soundly defeated?
00:01:40.000She finished third place, not even to make the runoff.
00:01:44.000In first place was Paul Vallis, who is a Democrat.
00:01:50.000And for years, he was considered to be not exactly a moderate Democrat, but by new standards, he's actually more moderate than the Marxist Brandon Johnson, who is also going to make the runoff.
00:02:01.000So it went Vallis, Johnson, and Lightfoot.
00:02:05.000Lightfoot has been the mayor of Chicago the last couple years, and she is, without a doubt, the worst mayor in Chicago history.
00:02:12.000And that says something because there's been some pretty bad leaders in the history of Chicago.
00:02:17.000And one of the things that frustrates me the most as someone who grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and loves Chicago is that this is not that hard.
00:02:25.000There are three very basic things that you have to do as mayor, just really basic things.
00:02:55.000Rudy Giuliani became mayor and turned that place around.
00:03:00.000And Bloomberg, to his great credit, was a moderate mayor.
00:03:04.000And New York was a safe place for years.
00:03:07.000Now, there's other issues too: homelessness.
00:03:11.000That plays into clean and safe streets.
00:03:15.000And it does beg a question: why is it that Democrats are so comfortable running cities that are becoming so enjoyable, so messy?
00:03:25.000It's because their ideology actually is more important than the reality.
00:03:31.000So Lori Lightfoot lost her reelection yesterday, and she lost it badly.
00:03:36.000She only had to finish in the top two of the first round to make the runoff, and there were more than half a dozen candidates, but she still couldn't even manage that.
00:03:44.000And that is worthy of celebration, but not so fast because there's a second round of voting.
00:03:49.000Chicago has a very long history, and it's a city that has gone through many different troubled spots.
00:03:55.000She was without a doubt the worst mayor in the history of Chicago.
00:04:01.000Every year now, Chicago and Cook County loses population.
00:04:04.000In the old days, Chicago lost people because they were just going to the suburbs.
00:04:08.000They were going to DuPage County, they were going to other parts of Cook County, they were going to Lake County, they were going to McHenry County.
00:04:14.000But now they're killing off the entire metro area thanks to mismanagement.
00:04:19.000So Cook County and the entire state of Illinois are bleeding residents.
00:04:52.000First of all, you just know that because the data shows it.
00:04:54.000But also, all of the famous Chicago restaurants end up reopening here: Portillo's, Culver's, all the Chicago-based restaurants, not to mention the Chicago spring training.
00:05:10.000I see more Cubs flags in my neighborhood than I see Arizona Diamondbacks flags.
00:05:16.000I see more Bears jerseys than I do Cardinals' jerseys.
00:05:21.000And people say, Oh, Charlie, it's all the weather.
00:06:29.000In one single day in 2020, while Lori Lightfoot was telling us America was systemically racist, Chicago had 18 murders, the most in a single day in its entire history.
00:06:41.000Worse than the 60s race riots, worse than the days of Al Capone.
00:06:44.000Lightfoot has consistently set a standard of terrible leadership.
00:06:50.000During the Chinese coronavirus, she imposed mass lockdowns on the city.
00:06:54.000She closed basically every small business that she could, including every hair salon.
00:07:00.000But then she went to get her own hair done privately.
00:07:03.000And when she was caught, she said that she had to be the exception because she had to go on television.
00:07:13.000She called for making $80 million in the Chicago police.
00:07:18.000She protected herself with a special detail of 71 police officers.
00:07:23.000Those 71 were in addition to her official 20 bodyguards.
00:07:28.000And you could not go to the west side of Chicago in the evening without hearing gunshots or tragically seeing a lot of people get murdered in the streets.
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00:10:55.000So the final results from the Los Angeles mayor's race was that Karen Bass, the Marxist, Marxist, ended up beating Rick Caruso by nine points or about 89,000 votes.
00:11:06.000And so Chicago is showing with their support of Vallis, who is definitely the more moderate person.
00:11:12.000You go to his website, it's like the most boring political website ever.
00:11:15.000If you would have seen this as a political website a decade ago, you would have been like, yeah, okay, what party is he?
00:11:21.000Literally, that shows how far our politics has fallen.
00:11:27.000He's just running on three basic things.
00:12:49.000With tens of thousands of LGBTQ residents and thousands more visiting from across the Midwest and the rest of the country, it is the duty of the mayor of Chicago to keep the promise it made to LGBTQ people and commit to further investment.
00:13:06.000He continues by saying, he's not just saying that he wants abortion to be safe, legal, and rare.
00:13:13.000This is what he says on his website, Brandon Johnson.
00:13:16.000The three things I would like to make absolutely clear.
00:13:22.000Two, abortion should be a constitutional right.
00:13:26.000Three, we will not accept an America or a Chicago that goes back in time.
00:13:32.000He says there is no middle ground on abortion.
00:13:35.000There's no middle ground on reproductive health care.
00:13:38.000Individuals should always have the right to control what happens in their own bodies, not the government, right?
00:13:44.000It's really interesting, him being a black man, the amount of black babies that are terminated in the womb in Chicago, but that's a separate issue.
00:13:52.000Well, it's not really separate, but I don't want to get into that today.
00:13:55.000And so he goes on one after the other, after the other, and very little about crime.
00:14:00.000And so the runoff is going to be a question of can the great city of Chicago resist these macro trends of the woke mind virus that's trying to distract you around gender equity, immigration, LGBTQ rights, none of that.
00:14:41.000Who is behind now this Marxist who wants to be mayor of Chicago?
00:14:46.000The cartel, the Illinois Federation of Teachers, the Chicago Teacher Union, the SEIU, the American Federation of Teachers, all of the worst organizations that have done such damage to the city of Chicago.
00:15:03.000He's going to have a ton of support, not to mention all these other legitimately left-wing communist organizations like the Working Families Party, Activate Chicago Parents, 48th Ward Neighbors for Justice, United Working Families, People United for Action, the People's Lobby.
00:15:21.000By the way, just can I pause here for a second?
00:15:23.000Many of you wonder why these cities are so reliably Democrat and why they push for mail-in voting so hard.
00:15:32.000Look at how many outside group organizations they have that are collecting ballots that go precinct by precinct, that go ward by ward to make sure that Democrats get the maximum turnout possible.
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00:17:20.000Well, El Salvador is not a country we talk about a lot.
00:17:23.000Unfortunately, the only reason we usually talk about El Salvador is the criminals that are coming from El Salvador that are coming into our country.
00:17:31.000But El Salvador is deciding to take things into their own hands.
00:17:35.000El Salvador borders the North Pacific Ocean.
00:17:43.000And it's a small country, all things being equal, but it's also a very violent country.
00:17:48.000In fact, unfortunately, El Salvador, most Americans, if they were to think of El Salvador, they would think of El Salvador as being a violent, a viciously violent, gang-infested country.
00:18:00.000But I think this is worthy of noting of how El Salvador has decided to take things into their own hands and be leaders.
00:18:08.000So the new president of El Salvador, in fact, I don't know if he's new.
00:20:04.000There is a $1 trillion bill sitting on the sidewalk right now.
00:20:10.000And Republicans are refusing to pick it up.
00:20:15.000If Republicans got harsh on crime, and I mean hard on crime, it would win over millions of swing voters.
00:20:23.000I think in the midterms, we did not do a good enough job of talking about crime, largely because people were afraid of being called racist, because there is this mass movement to try to open up our prisons that is also within the American right.
00:20:37.000There are lies that are out there, such as people saying, well, our prison population is too big.
00:20:44.000Our prison population is probably not big enough.
00:20:48.000How long do you think an average rapist spends in prison in America?
00:20:52.000I want to get my numbers right, but the last time I did this research, it's between three to six years.
00:20:58.000A rapist should get life in prison, maybe even get castrated as well, if you are convicted by a jury of your peers and you go through that process.
00:21:08.000Now, look, America is becoming a profoundly dangerous country.
00:21:13.000El Salvador has been a dangerous country, and they're showing that there's a way to solve it.
00:21:19.000And the left is losing their mind over this.
00:21:22.000They don't like the fact that there's a quote new mega prison.
00:21:25.000They don't like the idea of prisons at all.
00:21:27.000But honestly, God bless El Salvador for taking a leadership role for saying, look, we are a small, relatively poor country, and our problem is really a couple thousand bad people.
00:21:38.000And that's what's so amazing about this is according to the Washington Post, who actually they're just talking, I don't know if they're that critical about it, but they get there.
00:22:01.000If you're part of a gang, you're part of one of these satanic practices of cutting people up, the diabolical anti-human activities of the cartel, you're going to go to jail.
00:22:15.000Why is this so hard for Republicans to run on?
00:22:18.000Every time a Republican runs on crime, we win.
00:22:23.000And what's interesting, in my personal opinion, and I said this during the campaign, I think President Trump missed an opportunity in the 2020 presidential election when it came to Joe Biden and crime.
00:22:38.000He attacked Joe Biden for the 1990s crime bill.
00:22:43.000I hate to say it, but the 1990s crime bill actually worked.
00:22:48.000The 90s crime bill made America a safer country.
00:23:45.000He's doing it because his city has been savaged by these people.
00:23:50.000And now he has an 80% approval rating.
00:23:54.000El Salvador is showing that law and order secures long-term power of a leader.
00:24:02.000Political leaders, as we talked about yesterday with Joe Biden, always trying to find a crisis, they're trying to find synthetic and fake crises.
00:25:24.000Because he editorializes a lot in these lectures.
00:25:27.000I'm learning a ton about biblical Hebrew and all that, but every so often he'll talk about some things that are happening in the news.
00:25:33.000And what's interesting is that race was in the news in the 90s.
00:25:38.000It's just people's attitude towards the hyper-racialization of America was: we're not going to become that.
00:25:45.000So it's not as if this is a new tactic, whether it be the Rodney King riots or whether it be Jesse Jackson trying to turn us into a hyper-racist country.
00:25:57.000It's just our attitude in the 90s was that we are not going to allow the idea pathogen of white guilt to determine or dictate our policy.
00:26:07.000Instead, you had Democrats talking like this, Joe Biden talking about the predators on our streets.
00:27:06.000But Joe Biden was just taking advantage of political oxygen that was in the room to try to benefit his future, his own political campaign.
00:27:18.000What happened to our country where we used to have bipartisan discussions on crime?
00:27:23.000The answer is that far left-wing ideological subversion campaigns, BLM, post-modernism, post-structuralism, through our college campuses, through social media psychological operations, have convinced us that we do not need to emphasize or focus safe streets, safe communities.
00:27:42.000Instead, we have to worry about systemic racism.
00:27:44.000This has been one of the great failings of America over the last 30 years, and I hope we can correct it.
00:28:29.000And that's what's so interesting: who wants to actually live in a city or a place where crime is high?
00:28:34.000You have a choice to do something about it.
00:28:36.000Giuliani cleaned up New York, play cut 64.
00:28:40.000If you violate the laws, whether it's insider trading or tax evasion or fraud or bribery, a so-called white-collar crime, the overwhelming general rule is that you go to prison.
00:28:51.000If you commit a crime, you go to prison.
00:28:53.000Bill Clinton, speaking on the crime bill, cut 63.
00:28:57.000When I sign this crime bill, we together are taking a big step toward bringing the laws of our land back into line with the values of our people and beginning to restore the line between right and wrong.
00:29:14.000So Wayne emails us, Charlie, Republicans are not in control of stopping crime.
00:29:18.000Well, I'm going to push back a little bit on that.
00:29:20.000In many states, and yes, in Washington, D.C., Republicans, believe it or not, are some of the most enthusiastic supporters of jailbreak bills.
00:29:29.000You might not know that, but there is a thread.
00:29:32.000There is a part of the Republican Party that is trying to make it easier to get out of jail, to reduce sentences.
00:29:42.000It's the more libertarian side of the Republican Party.
00:29:46.000But that's certainly not where the country is right now.
00:29:50.000The country wants clear, transparent, fair, and just laws.
00:29:56.000In Chicago, you have these district attorneys that have massive authority.
00:30:02.000Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle.
00:30:05.000And, you know, I was asked the other day by one of our supporters at Turning Point USA, Charlie, how are we going to bring the country together?
00:30:10.000And one of my issues is: how about we all agree that crime is bad?
00:30:15.000That should bring the country together.
00:30:19.000If you loot, if you burn, if you steal, you should be held accountable for that.
00:30:25.000Look, the Republican Party has an opportunity here because our most beautiful institutions, our once beautiful cities that we have all enjoyed, are crumbling in front of us.
00:30:38.000And I understand the temptation to try to say, well, you know, we want to try to have criminal justice reform and all that.
00:31:09.000The liberals are not mad when children are getting chemically castrated.
00:31:13.000They're not mad that crime is going up.
00:31:15.000They're really upset with this long piece in the Washington Post.
00:31:20.000They're furious that 2,000 criminals in El Salvador's human rights might be violated.
00:31:28.000First of all, it didn't look that inhumane to me.
00:31:31.000Second of all, based on the reputation of El Salvador's most violent criminals, maybe they should have thought about their human rights when they were cutting people open, literally.
00:32:02.000These are crimes of massive passion, horror, and hatred.
00:32:10.000To tie this all together, there's an opportunity.
00:32:14.000There's an opportunity for Republicans, or I mean, the Democrats can end up doing it, but they're so bought and paid for by the race politics crew.