00:01:04.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:02.000And it was just, it was just something.
00:02:03.000And I got to thinking yesterday that there's definitely something happening in our country that is not being detected in polling and being deciphered in the media.
00:02:12.000And so I've been stewing this over the weekend of kind of where we want to go to start the show today.
00:02:17.000I want to ask you a question: which is, do you feel confident going into the midterms?
00:02:21.000Now, we warned a couple of weeks ago that we cannot be comfortable.
00:02:44.000In fact, it seems as if Republican voters, Republican activists, and Republican donors are believing that no matter what, we're going to win in November, and Democrats are getting to work.
00:02:54.000Remember, we can never underestimate our enemy.
00:03:03.000And I'm afraid that we have underestimated our opposition, not you in particular, but many people have underestimated the serpents that is the Democrat Party or the serpents that consist of the Democrat Party.
00:03:17.000What we are seeing is a narrowing of the gap while you were enjoying your summer.
00:03:22.000And now that we are here in the month of August, it's August, isn't it?
00:04:20.000Do you know there's still going to be ballot harvesting?
00:04:22.000They're going to try to declare a state of emergency around monkeypox so we can have vote in mail and voting because of gay orgies in San Francisco and New York.
00:04:49.000We are 99 days away from the midterm elections.
00:04:52.000And I am here today to warn you, to tell you not what you want to hear, but what you need to hear.
00:05:00.000I have said many times on the Charlie Kirk Show podcast: we are not hopium dealers.
00:05:06.000Hope and opium feels good, but it's awfully bad for you.
00:05:08.000I'm going to tell you bluntly and plainly what is happening in real time.
00:05:12.000What I'm going to tell you happening is that Republicans are messing up the inevitable red wave and tsunami with gas prices, inflation, open borders, CRT, war on kids, pedophilia widespread, vaccine mandates, the lying and this deceit of the unpopular president.
00:05:30.000Democrats are adjusting and Republicans are asleep.
00:05:35.000Despite all of this, we right now are living through a moment where Republicans are already measuring the drapes of the Speaker's office.
00:05:44.000They are trying to find out what offices they'll get if they take back the Senate.
00:05:48.000There is work to be done, everybody, and the numbers are not good.
00:05:52.000There is legitimate tightening in every single poll, including the ones that we trust, Trafalgar on down.
00:05:59.000The Democrat candidates are getting on message.
00:06:01.000They're introducing a piece of legislation that will do the opposite, what they say it will, but it sounds proper, the Reduce Inflation Act.
00:06:58.000In an otherwise favorable political climate, small dollar donations have dropped for Republicans, making the party more reliant on mega donors to compete.
00:07:06.000The New York Times writes, by the way, I fact-checked this.
00:07:10.000I texted some people in the online donation world.
00:07:22.000Now, I'm going to tell you why I think that's happening, largely because of D.C. consultants that send the dumbest emails ever to grassroots people like yourself.
00:10:34.000This does not make me question him at all.
00:10:35.000What it does make me, though, angry that other people are not going to support President Trump because of this relentless barrage and blitzkrieg of emails that are so stupidly written designed basically to just dry up the reservoir.
00:10:49.000You want to know why Republicans can't raise small dollar donors?
00:10:52.000It's because consultants treat you like garbage.
00:11:02.000Continues, small dollar donations typically increase as an election nears, but just the, as an election nears.
00:11:08.000But just the opposite has happened in recent months across a wide range of Republican entities, including every major party committee and former Donald Trump's political operation.
00:11:17.000The total amount of donations fell 12% across all federal Republican campaigns and committees in the second quarter compared with the first quarter, according to an analysis of federal records from WinRED, the main online Republican donation processing portal.
00:11:30.000The overall Democrat fundraising edge widened by $100 million from the last quarter of 2021 to the most recent three-month period record show.
00:11:38.000So the counter argument is they'll say, well, Democrats send out emails like that.
00:12:04.000The current political climate favors Republicans as Biden's approval rating plumbs near new lows.
00:12:10.000But nearly a dozen Republican strategists directly involved in fundraising or overseeing campaigns have expressed concerns about how the fundraising downturn might limit their party gains.
00:12:18.000Yeah, because you guys have destroyed your small dollar base by sending out the dumbest texts and emails and taking your base for granted as if they're nothing more than an ATM money mill.
00:12:28.000And look, we do fundraising at Turning Point USA.
00:12:30.000We send out forcefully written stuff, not daily like this.
00:12:56.000And Republicans have grown accustomed to trailing Democrats and online fundraising.
00:13:00.000Democrat donors, for instance, poured more than $200 million into losing Senate races in Kentucky and South Carolina last cycle, and neither contest ended up even close.
00:13:48.000The recent rulings from the Supreme Court didn't happen on their own.
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00:14:48.000Wow, we just received, I think, over a thousand emails in just a couple minutes.
00:14:54.000One after the other, after the other, saying the same thing.
00:14:58.000What if this is an intentional strategy by GOP consultants to take advantage of Trump voters to actually make it as if Trump doesn't have small dollar donors in 2024?
00:15:07.000I mean, the email, the anger that I'm receiving from you, freedom at charliekirk.com, Teresa says, in all caps, I get all those you mentioned.
00:16:09.000So, get this: Democrats are sending out less emails and raising more money, and Republicans are sending out more emails and raising less money.
00:16:19.000Another one, I mean, there's so many emails coming in.
00:16:22.000Ruth said, Charlie, you're so right to raise this issue.
00:16:25.000I'm so turned off by their rude, threatening emails.
00:16:28.000Some send the pity story and forget to say what they're running for and for what.
00:16:31.000I get up to five to seven emails every morning from Trump asking for donations.
00:16:36.000I love Trump, and I'll give what I can.
00:17:29.000I mean, it's just like, where have I been?
00:17:31.000I was with Donald Trump last week, actually, hosting an event at Turning Point Action with 5,000 young people with a straw poll that he won.
00:17:42.000And you know, a lot of other people that get these emails, why do you have to read that?
00:17:46.000By the way, you know what's one of the first rules of fundraising that we have at Turning Point USA is you never raise money out of desperation, ever.
00:19:14.000It's short-term consultants that do not believe in delayed gratification, that have never built a successful movement, that are pounding and abusing the Trump movement and the MAGA movement.
00:19:26.000Right here, Cynthia says, all caps, make it stop.
00:19:56.000They're abusing their voters and their donors.
00:19:58.000We better wake up or else we are going to lose in November a very winnable political season.
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00:22:14.000I haven't donated a cent since this crap started.
00:22:17.000So you go from a max donor, federal limit, which I think is $5,400, something like that, $5,400 to zero because of this strategy.
00:22:24.000So to answer the question that the New York Times, and I hate to say it, this is a very fair article.
00:22:30.000It's really not written that partisan in a partisan fashion.
00:22:34.000I mean, it's obviously written to make Republicans look bad, of which I fully support actually, because the Republican establishment is robbing grassroots voters and grassroots activists like you of money.
00:22:44.000And then they keep on sending you emails, One after the other after the other.
00:22:50.000Randy said, I spent Sunday trying to put stop in the phone text.
00:24:11.000So I'm pushing for solutions today, even if it means taking on my own party.
00:24:15.000Like bringing down gas prices by allowing more domestic oil production, temporarily ending the gas tax, and cutting red tape to restock shells faster.
00:24:25.000I'm Mark Kelly, and I approve this message because I'll do whatever it takes to lower costs now.
00:24:37.000They're running very clever advertisements here in Arizona.
00:24:41.000By the way, if you watch local TV, of which I don't watch, but when I work out, local TV is on the television, he has four Mark Kelly ads in a row.
00:24:49.000They're literally stacking it where it's one after the other, after the other, after the other.
00:24:53.000And he says, I'll take on my own party.
00:24:59.000And by the way, for those of you that say, well, we're going to take back the Senate, how are you going to take back the Senate if you're going to lose in Pennsylvania, Oz is down double digits.
00:25:07.000If you're going to lose in Georgia, Herschel Walker is down significantly.
00:26:55.000Do you think that's going to be enough?
00:26:57.000Do you think the message of the Republicans being a rejection election is adequate to be able to win back the House of Representatives and the Senate?
00:28:31.000I'll be chairman of the Energy Committee.
00:28:33.000I'll be chairman of the Energy Committee and we will put on Joe Biden's desk bills that will actually bring down the cost of energy by drilling and getting the permits to do the infrastructure.
00:28:43.000We'll hold this administration accountable.
00:28:54.000Of course, that's a difference between a television interview and a political advertisement.
00:29:00.000Remember back in June when John Cornyn said to Democrats on the Senate floor, first guns, now immigration?
00:29:06.000Remember Tom Tillis going through Spanish wine country with Dick Durbin saying that maybe we can get amnesty done?
00:29:13.000What is the Republican message exactly?
00:29:15.000Well, every single midterm poll is now showing a legitimate tightening, and there is a potential reason for this.
00:29:25.000Some people believe that the Republican establishment does not want a big win, that they just want enough seats to win a majority and committee chairmanships.
00:29:33.000But they do not want a bunch of MAGA coming in to Congress because it's going to be a big headache for establishment rhinos.
00:29:40.000They'd love to be able to win the Senate 5149 and not have Blake Masters or JD Vance win because they might be too disagreeable when they go to Washington, D.C. Cut one, Kevin McCarthy downplaying the poll showing the Republicans in trouble in November, blaming the Democrats for everything going on, but the polls are showing different.
00:30:09.000If a person is paid on a salary, they have just lost an entire month of work for free because of the Biden administration.
00:30:17.000The border, that's a national security crisis, and they've done nothing but make it worse.
00:30:22.000Then when you look at the crime within our streets, you look what happened to Lee Zeldon, that's a direct effect of what the Democratic policies are.
00:30:30.000There is going to be an opportunity in 107 days to change the course of history, a new direction, as we say, in a commitment to America.
00:32:35.000We were leaving the Trump Hotel on a bus to go to the White House because of all the security problems to go to the White House on election night.
00:32:41.000And the people in the bus were getting so drunk and they were like, Trump's going to win another term.
00:34:23.000Okay, we got to get to work, everybody.
00:34:25.000If you are not yet a precinct committee person, you have to become a precinct committee person.
00:34:30.000We have a website where you could do that, tpaction.com, turning point action, our political arm where Turning Point USA is all educational.
00:34:36.000Turning point action is allowed to be social welfare and some political, tpaction.com.
00:34:41.000Number two, if you still want to give money, of which I encourage you, go find exact candidates and go to their websites and donate to them directly.
00:34:51.000For example, Blake Masters in Arizona is going to need your help.
00:34:55.000Don't go donate to all the other organizations asking for it.
00:34:58.000Go to Blake Masters' website, blakemasters.com.
00:35:02.000It's blakemasters.com, and then you could donate there, or whomever candidate you like, whatever type of, you know, whatever floats your boat.
00:35:09.000If it's JD Vance, if it's Ana Paulina Luna, it's Anthony Sabatini.
00:35:13.000Number three, you need to be relentless in your criticism of the Republican establishment when you see them and you communicate with them.
00:35:22.000Tell them, I'm so sick of getting these emails.
00:35:54.000It has to be a grassroots movement because guess what?
00:35:57.000The Republican establishment is not going to be involved in a lot of these races.
00:36:02.000I'm afraid they're going to turn their back on Blake.
00:36:04.000I'm afraid they're going to leave JD Vance out to dry.
00:36:06.000I'm afraid some of these amazing grassroots candidates like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, they're going to have to figure out their own way of doing things.
00:37:42.000Stop allowing them to keep on robbing you when candidates actually need those resources, especially with their ridiculous email solicitation campaigns.
00:37:50.000And let's get to the heart of the matter.
00:37:52.000Let's get to the heart of what really happens.
00:37:53.000We're going to become precinct committeemen.