00:00:53.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:49.000Hispanics are rallying to the president's cause.
00:01:51.000And this has really been going on for years.
00:01:53.000You know, Hispanic voters in 2016 were a critical part of the biggest political upset in American history that the Trump campaign pulled off.
00:02:05.000So I'm not giving you some right-wing number there.
00:02:08.000And that was about double where we were versus most expectations and a lot of public polling at that time.
00:02:14.000We have built on that level since then.
00:02:17.000And right now, in terms of public polling out there, most of it shows Hispanic support in the 40% area nationally.
00:02:24.000Our private polling largely reflects that, doing slightly better, more like the mid-40s.
00:02:28.000And then in certain states, like for instance, the state of Florida, we're actually showing Hispanics and a lot of public polling, Hispanics leading, meaning Trump leading among Hispanic voters in states like Florida.
00:02:39.000So I think that there is a groundswell going on.
00:02:45.000And I think there are two real reasons.
00:02:46.000And I'll give you sort of the negative one, not that it's negative for us, but meaning we're benefiting from the mistakes of the Democratic Party.
00:02:52.000And I also want to give you the positive reason.
00:02:54.000And then so the negative one first is that as the Democratic Party has lurched leftward, and that is just the reality right now.
00:03:01.000This Democratic Party is not your parents' or grandparents' Democratic Party.
00:03:05.000It is not a place that is in any sense welcoming to people who would have been Democrats a generation or two ago, you know, working class religious folks who cared about gun rights, those sorts of things.
00:03:17.000Those people are no longer welcome in the Democratic Party.
00:03:20.000And we Hispanics as community, and look, this, you know, Hispanics is a massive group of people in this country.
00:03:26.000About 60 million total Americans are of Hispanic descent.
00:03:29.000So we never want to speak about Hispanics in some monolithic way.
00:03:33.000But there are characteristics that are common throughout Hispanic demographics and throughout regions of the country and the various ethnicities.
00:03:40.000And one of them is that we tend to be versus the overall population, a more conservative people.
00:03:46.000And I mean that religiously, culturally, and politically.
00:03:50.000And the Democratic Party of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris has no place for such people.
00:03:55.000So as the party lurches left, it has effectively made a heck of a lot of Latinos, and many of them used to vote Democratic.
00:04:02.000It has made them effectively political orphans.
00:04:05.000So that's the one side of the equation.
00:04:06.000Then the other side, which is the positive America First side, is that the economy has been so rewarding to working class people and almost all Hispanics statistically belong in that category.
00:04:19.000The Obama-Biden years were great for people who are already successful, for the owners of assets.
00:04:24.000If you had a lot of stock and real estate, you did well.
00:04:26.000But for wage earners, which is the vast preponderance of the country, it was a really, really tough slog.
00:04:31.000And that was certainly the case for a lot of Hispanic Americans.
00:04:34.000We've seen the opposite so far with President Trump.
00:04:36.000And in the first Trump boom, until our expansion was artificially halted by the China virus, Hispanics leaped to the lead of income gains.
00:04:45.000So all Americans were doing well, white-collar, blue-collar, all colors, all ethnicities.
00:04:50.000But it is the American strivers, the economic underdogs.
00:04:53.000Those were the people who were doing the best.
00:04:56.000Blue collar workers, people who may not have advanced degrees, minorities, and Hispanics, again, were leading that charge.
00:05:03.000We're now seeing the beginnings of a very real second Trump boom.
00:05:21.000And the numbers we're seeing lately in the last few months are nothing short of momentous.
00:05:26.000It's pretty incredible, the level of acceleration in this economy.
00:05:29.000And we know we still have work to do, but there are very valid data-driven reasons to believe in the second Trump boom.
00:05:36.000And Hispanics are already, once again, leaping to the forefront of it.
00:05:40.000You know, one of the things I'm most proud of of the Hispanic community in America is that we are statistically the most entrepreneurial demographic in America.
00:05:47.000And actually, by quite a long shot, we love to start new businesses, mom and pop operations that we hope become bigger than that.
00:05:54.000Well, Hispanics, I think, know intrinsically that President Trump, our first entrepreneur president, understands how to create the conditions for small and medium-sized enterprises to thrive.
00:06:04.000So I think when you take all of that in its totality, where the Democratic Party has gone with its lurch leftward, plus the economic record of Donald Trump, including the real-time current economic renaissance unfolding in this country, it creates a compelling case for Hispanics.
00:06:20.000And the early evidence suggests we're doing well.
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00:08:28.000You know, I don't care so much about the actual rate or the actual number of a lot of these polls, but I do care a lot about the trends because I think the trends are generally correct.
00:08:36.000When it shows tightening, even if we don't think the number is valid, tightening matters, widening matters.
00:08:42.000So, and no, listen, on that basis, we are doing better in Florida than Arizona.
00:08:46.000Now, listen, I think we're going to be very competitive in Arizona, but I'll be the first to admit, I'm a realist, not a sycophant, and I will say we are clearly doing better in Florida.
00:08:53.000And the reason why, I believe, primarily is because Florida doesn't have a lot of Mexican Americans generally, far more Central and South Americans, and of course, Cubans.
00:09:03.000And I think that the socialist message that the Democratic Party has been pushing is particularly, it has particularly resonance in a negative way in Florida.
00:09:14.000What I mean by that, so many Floridians are of Cuban and Venezuelan descent, particularly those two.
00:09:20.000So many of them, either they themselves came from those countries or their parents or grandparents came from these countries.
00:09:24.000And so, perhaps, like no other people in America, Florida Latinos tend to be hyper-aware of the dangers of socialism.
00:09:33.000So, the kind of talk from AOC that may be very popular in Brooklyn or in Brentwood is not at all popular in Pompano Beach and in Miami-Dade County.
00:09:44.000And so, I think we are benefiting, we mean in the Trump campaign, President Trump himself, we are benefiting more from that aspect in Florida than we are necessarily in Arizona.
00:09:55.000But what I will say in Arizona, and I think this is, you know, it's a bit of a different appeal.
00:09:58.000So, it's not so much our persuasion, our messaging to the voters to earn their votes, Hispanics in Arizona, I think has to revolve more around economy, gun rights, very big issue in a lot of Western states, and including a lot of Mexican Americans who take their Second Amendment rights really seriously.
00:10:17.000And then we shouldn't be afraid to talk about the border either.
00:10:20.000I think sometimes there are Republicans, unfortunately, who want to try to sell a sort of Democrat-like version to Hispanic Americans, and that does not work.
00:10:28.000No, listen, Hispanic American citizens of the United States, whether born here or legal immigrants like my father, they are not soft on immigration.
00:10:36.000And polling backs me up on this, by the way.
00:10:38.000This isn't just my intuition, but I will tell you, it's also, I think, anecdotally true when you talk to Mexican Americans.
00:10:44.000So, we shouldn't be afraid to talk about the president, isn't, thankfully.
00:10:47.000So, I'm optimistic we'll do well, but I'm the, yeah, I'll be the first to admit right now, we're doing better in Florida with Hispanics than we are in Arizona.
00:10:54.000Yeah, and I think that it's interesting culturally, because in South Florida, in particular, as you mentioned, there are still the stories that are embedded in the culture of little Havana, of no tolerance at all whatsoever for communist light or Democrat candidates at all.
00:11:07.000In Arizona, it's a little bit different.
00:11:09.000And I think you have a culture in Arizona that I agree is actually, I think the immigration is actually a winning issue in Arizona.
00:11:15.000I think that pandering and getting in the competition of who can do DACA better is actually a winning, a losing proposition for Republicans.
00:11:22.000Most Hispanic voters actually want an immigration system that is built on laws, and they don't want that pandering.
00:11:27.000And it's also an incredibly pro-life community.
00:11:30.000Can you walk us through that, Steve, about how the social issues actually are winning issues in the Hispanic community?
00:11:34.000This is another thing that Mitt Romney and all those losers in our party that came before President Trump try to persuade us to be socially liberal and fiscally conservative.
00:11:44.000With Latino voters, it's actually the exact opposite.
00:11:48.000They tend to be a little more fiscally moderate, but actually very socially conservative.
00:12:08.000And again, to put some data here, there is a Pew Research poll of Hispanics.
00:12:13.000And on the pro-life issue, Hispanics are 17% more pro-life than our white Americans.
00:12:20.000And Charlie, as much as you study polling, you know that that kind of a discrepancy, I mean, speaking of Arizona, that's as big as the Grand Canyon.
00:12:27.000You know, regarding, so when they asked, should abortion be legal all or most of the time, 61% of whites said yes, only 44% of Hispanics.
00:12:36.000So they are clearly a decidedly more pro-life group than our other Americans.
00:12:42.000And the Republican Party, number one, we should stand for life because it's the right thing to do, of course.
00:12:47.000But on top of that, in terms of political expediency, this happens to be one of those cases where you can stand on principle and win because the politics line up behind you well.
00:13:06.000You know, the Joe Biden of 2020, it's a myth that he's a moderate, but in his half-century in the Washington swamp, there were times when he took fairly reasonable positions.
00:13:15.000For example, he backed the Hyde Amendment.
00:13:17.000He didn't want government funding abortion.
00:13:23.000The Joe Biden of today literally believes in abortion all the way up until the moment of birth and perhaps after.
00:13:30.000I mean, we really don't know, quite frankly.
00:13:32.000We know Northam, Governor Northam, is fine with after.
00:13:34.000We don't know exactly where Biden stands, but just that kind of extremism on the life issue.
00:13:41.000I think we should be unafraid to talk about that and to promote the truth that this president has been the most pro-life president in American history.
00:13:50.000And I think, by the way, for Hispanics, a really powerful video and powerful message to showcase for them was Sister Didi Byrne, who spoke at the Republican National Convention.
00:14:01.000And she was just, she was so persuasive and eloquent.
00:14:05.000And it was so clear that she was so speaking from her heart.
00:14:08.000Somebody who's not after political power in any sense, who has nothing personally to gain.
00:14:12.000As a matter of fact, probably took quite a lot of heat for what she did.
00:14:16.000I think that brave warriors for life like Sister Didi are going to help us in our quest to win over Hispanic Americans.
00:14:24.000And, you know, and again, we've got to earn their vote.
00:14:26.000And I think we do it by highlighting the fact that they have no home in the Democratic Party of 2020 on the one hand.
00:14:32.000And then on the other hand, we believe in their values and we want to foster a prosperity for them, in part, by the way, so that they can have families.
00:14:41.000I mean, prosperity is not an end in and of itself.
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00:16:47.000Can you also build out a little bit for me how the Democrats have, I think, overly pandered to BLM Incorporated?
00:16:56.000And I think when you get into political pandering, it's very, very dangerous.
00:17:00.000And I think the president's in a great job of not doing this because his message is the same to all groups of people, no matter where they are across the country, which I think is such an important thing.
00:17:10.000But have the Democrats made a miscalculation by, I think, overemphasizing the BLM Inc. movement, which, quite honestly, is glorifying looting, is rooted in ingratitude.
00:17:21.000And I point to some of this very positive Hispanic polling.
00:17:24.000And just so we're clear, I was just reading some of this polling as you were finishing that answer, Steve.
00:17:29.000It's so important that if this polling holds to be true, the trends, right?
00:17:33.000The president's going to win reelection.
00:17:35.000I mean, it's just that, I mean, the Democrats were counting on dominating the Hispanic vote, and that is now a crisis in their campaign right now.
00:17:44.000Is some of this that a lot of Hispanic and Latino voters, I think they have an inherent gratitude to be in America, especially those that came here legally, where it feels like the BLM movement is all about ingratitude.
00:18:42.000And because the Democratic Party has chosen, they made a volitional choice to go down the road of essentially the 1619 project combined with a lot of BLM nonsense, where they are pushing a narrative, and it's just an absolute fake narrative, that America was born in corruption and has existed in corruption and oppression ever since, rather than the actual truth, which is that America was born in liberty and born in principles that are truly majestic.
00:19:11.000Now, we have failed because we are a human institution, a human organization, a country.
00:19:15.000We have failed at times, and in some cases, in profound ways, to live up to our very own ideals.
00:19:21.000But those failures in no way negate the majesty, as I mentioned, of those very ideals.
00:19:29.000I think Hispanics instinctively understand that, particularly ones who are either current immigrants or recently immigrated to this country.
00:19:36.000I have to tell you, you know, in my own case, my father had an intense love, just an intense patriotic love for this country.
00:19:42.000He left Colombia in South America at a time when Colombia was absolutely, you know, unfortunately overrun with violence and corruption.
00:19:50.000Thankfully, Columbia is doing pretty well now.
00:19:54.000Yes, but that was not the case for a long, long time.
00:19:56.000Certainly was not the case when my father was young.
00:19:58.000Yeah, it was the most dangerous country in the world for a long time.
00:20:02.000He so appreciated what he found here in America.
00:20:06.000And by the way, he detested the idea of illegal immigration.
00:20:09.000He couldn't believe that people would break the law and disrespect this great country that welcomed him because he also knew, like any legal immigrant, he knew how difficult and time-consuming and expensive it is.
00:20:20.000Not easy to become a legal new citizen of the United States.
00:20:24.000But to get back to the point too about the unfortunate narrative of BLM, Inc., let's face it, they are encouraging lawlessness.
00:20:33.000And part of why they're willing to do that, and when I say they, I mean the leadership, leadership of BLM, leadership of the corporations who are financing BLM, media personalities.
00:20:42.000The reason a lot of them are willing to do that, Charlie, is let's be honest, they don't have to actually live with the consequences.
00:20:47.000And what I mean by that is the police aren't as important necessarily to them because they live in extremely wealthy, secluded areas.
00:21:01.000Police protection is much more important to poor people, to people of middle income, to people who live in neighbors that are okay, neighbors that can be dangerous.
00:21:11.000The police can be literally life or death for those kinds of people.
00:21:15.000A lot of Hispanics, by the way, fit that bill.
00:21:18.000So when you talk about defunding the police, and I know Joe Biden uses synonyms.
00:21:28.000By the way, so do the cops, which is why every major police organization in America has endorsed Donald Trump this round.
00:21:35.000And we're very grateful and humbled by their endorsement.
00:21:38.000But when Hispanics hear that kind of talk, when they see the kind of violence in the cities across this country, and they know that they are vulnerable to it, they know that this would impact them very, very directly.
00:21:50.000I think that that's something that properly frightens them and something they're revolting against.
00:21:54.000I think it's, again, part of the reason they want jobs, not mobs.
00:21:58.000You know, I keep using that phrase over and over because I just think it's a quick, powerful way to say, this is who we are.
00:22:07.000That's true, certainly, of all good Americans, but I think it's particularly true for Hispanics.
00:22:14.000And I would tell you, Charlie, going forward, look, we're making a lot of progress.
00:22:18.000To me, the biggest issue and the issue, we're going to re-elect this president, and then someday in a few years, we're going to start talking about the post-Trump Republican Party.
00:22:27.000And when we do, I believe that the most important goal for the Republican Party when it comes to reaching out to Hispanics on an ongoing basis so that we can say, you know, over decades, we're winning the Hispanic vote is again, you know, what I mentioned earlier, don't try to offer a Democrat-light vision.
00:22:46.000You know, don't try to water down our ideals.
00:22:49.000Number one, it's just not right on principle, but number two, it doesn't work.
00:22:52.000You know, no, you never win anybody over by being milquetoast in anything in life, right?
00:22:58.000You know, whether it's a company selling products or it's a political movement trying to gain followers and believers.
00:23:04.000So, you know, strong on the border, strong on life, strong on Second Amendment, pro-prosperity, pro-small business trade deals, you know, all of these are the things, the Trump agenda, but, you know, and then some.
00:23:18.000And I really do believe, to your point earlier, I think that a lot of Hispanics will rally to what essentially used to be the Democratic Party, you know, way, way back, you know, pre-1960s.
00:23:28.000And what I mean by that is a party that is socially conservative, but willing to be not, I don't want to say economically liberal, but not doctrinaire in an Austrian economics way on the economy.
00:23:42.000You know, economic populist, economic nationalist populist on matters of enterprise and then very, very conservative on matters of social policy.
00:23:55.000If you're a business owner, you don't need to tell us that running your business is tough, but you might be making it harder on yourself than necessary.
00:24:02.000Don't let QuickBooks and spreadsheets slow you down anymore.
00:24:54.000I think that if you become the party that represents normal people that earn less than $80,000 a year, that work at their hands, that just want to live a stable and peaceful life, I think that is the path forward for the Republican Party that is a little bit more reluctant to get into these adventures overseas that wants to have stricter immigration.
00:25:14.000I think you win every election in a landslide.
00:25:16.000I think you win half of the black vote.
00:25:48.000Can you just build it out for us where you see the race, what you think the president needs to do to achieve victory, and what are you most concerned about that you're able to share with the audience?
00:26:00.000No, and by the way, yeah, regarding the virus, I think this is critical because, of course, corporate media and the Biden campaign, they're trying to push this reprehensible idea that this is somehow Donald Trump's fault.
00:26:36.000We know that once they, well, I mean, it's irrelevant that they did, but my point is, it's irrelevant to the point I'm making.
00:26:41.000We know that once they knew they had human-to-human transmission in Wuhan, they lied to the world.
00:26:46.000They used the WHO to give them a medical stamp of approval for their lie.
00:26:50.000They continued to send the citizens of Wuhan unknowingly, these People had no complicity in it all over the world while they sealed Wuhan off from the rest of China.
00:27:00.000And it's important, I think, for the American people to know that.
00:27:02.000But we can't go back in time and change their behavior, unfortunately.
00:27:05.000What we can do is decide from here forward, how do we approach China, how do we approach the economy, the necessary rebuild.
00:27:12.000And on those topics, I think President Trump has an incredibly compelling case to make to the American people.
00:27:18.000That number one, he's been the first American leader really ever to stand up to the Chinese Communist Party, to demand fairness and reciprocity in trade, and to make it known in no uncertain terms that we will no longer be abused by the Chinese Communist Party, even if a lot of American elites in business and politics and media are very willing to be the collaborators of the CCP, including Joe Biden.
00:27:43.000We need to really highlight, in my view, for these next 49 days, just how complicit Joe Biden has been in China's abuse of the United States.
00:27:52.000And I mean that mostly from a public policy angle, because his fingerprints are all over every terrible trade deal that has afflicted American workers for a generation.
00:28:01.000He is a true corporatist globalist senator from Delaware.
00:28:06.000That is the reality of who Joe Biden has been for five decades in Washington, D.C. He's also then vulnerable regarding the China issue on a personal level because the only American job, look, Biden's been shipping jobs overseas for his entire career as a Washington swamp dinosaur.
00:28:22.000The only American job that I know of that he's ever created was for his son Hunter when he had Hunter tag along on these overseas trips, but particularly the one to China, aboard Air Force II, where Hunter met with CCP officials, got the CCP-controlled Bank of China to allocate a staggering billion and a half dollars to his private equity fund, even though he had no track record in that business.
00:28:44.000This is the very definition of cronyism and corruption and nepotism.
00:28:48.000And to make it even worse, it's all connected with the Chinese Communist Party, the very group of people who just did this to us, who, you know, who just thrust upon us knowingly, you know, again, the epidemiological Pearl Harbor.
00:29:01.000But again, we can't change their behavior, but we can make decisions from here forward.
00:29:05.000And part of that is choosing President Trump for reelection, rehiring the man who created the conditions for the first Trump boom, who has already started the second Trump boom, and the leader who is tough and clear-eyed enough to confront the adversary.
00:30:20.000For example, they keep repeating ad nauseum, the Charlottesville lie, the fine people hoax, which a lot of people, and I'm one of them, have spent a lot of time trying to debunk.
00:30:30.000CNN spends just as much time and dedicates just as much effort over the air to continuing the lie.
00:30:38.000But also my personal experience, I was asked to go there by the president himself, and I was happy to do it because, look, I'm a happy warrior and I'm willing to take on, I'm willing to dive into the cauldron and take on the opposition.
00:30:49.000And I said, to put it in religious terms, I viewed myself as a political evangelist.
00:30:53.000I was trying to win over lost souls at CNN.
00:30:56.000But ultimately, unfortunately, they didn't want a political missionary and they benched me.
00:31:01.000But what they did, which was even worse, is it would have been fine to fire me.
00:31:04.000You just say, hey, Cortez, enough of this not work and get lost.
00:31:20.000I was under contract, but they would not put me on air on CNN for the last six months of my contract.
00:31:25.000I couldn't go on any other network either because of the contract.
00:31:27.000So they were literally, that's how biased and married-driven they are.
00:31:31.000They would rather pay somebody if they think you're effective messaging.
00:31:35.000They'd rather pay you to be on the sidelines than let you go, than let you out of your contract so that you can go elsewhere and promote your message.
00:31:43.000So that's the reality, unfortunate reality of CNN in 2020.
00:31:48.000It's hard to even believe and comprehend.
00:31:50.000Well, Steve, you're doing a great job.
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