The Charlie Kirk Show - December 29, 2023


Is Nikki Haley Actually a Threat?


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00:02:27.000 Joining us now is Kane from citizenfreepress.com.
00:02:30.000 Citizen Kane.
00:02:31.000 Mr. Kane, I hope you had a great Christmas.
00:02:34.000 Big year ahead.
00:02:35.000 We've been talking about how 2023 has been this setup year.
00:02:38.000 And Kane, I want to get into Nikki Haley stuff because it's really important.
00:02:41.000 I think there's a story that's not being covered here.
00:02:43.000 Two stories, in fact.
00:02:44.000 But Kane, I just want you to riff a little bit.
00:02:46.000 You are a news junkie news aggregator.
00:02:48.000 You are now listed by Mediaite as one of the 75 most important organizations, institutions, and websites out there.
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00:02:57.000 It's super important.
00:02:58.000 Kane, what were the big stories for you in 2023?
00:03:01.000 Well, I want to hear these two on Nikki Haley pretty quick.
00:03:05.000 On Mediight, you know, I appreciate your mentioning that.
00:03:09.000 That was a big surprise, mostly because I sort of hide most of my links.
00:03:15.000 Anytime I have to link to Mediite, I use a proxy cash service.
00:03:19.000 So Mediite generally doesn't get the traffic.
00:03:22.000 So I was surprised that they noticed, but it was nice.
00:03:25.000 They only included two websites out of 75, you know, whatever influential organizations or people.
00:03:33.000 So it was nice of them.
00:03:34.000 And I appreciate your mentioning that.
00:03:36.000 In terms of 2023, this is, you know, let's go ahead and say it.
00:03:41.000 2023 was the most insane year for politics in the history of this country.
00:03:46.000 And it's not even going to hold a candle to 2024.
00:03:50.000 We're going to have trial after trial after trial of the man leading in the polls to be the president of the most powerful nation in the in the country, while you've got Jack Smith and Merit Garland and Sanny Willis attempting to damage him.
00:04:05.000 However, they can keep him off the ballot um, so?
00:04:10.000 So I would say, you know, in a word, 2023 was insanity and 2024 is going to make 23 look like a joke.
00:04:19.000 So I want to now transition to the Nikki Haley thing.
00:04:21.000 So two things here, Kane.
00:04:23.000 I visit Citizen Free Press multiple times a day.
00:04:26.000 So I'm kind of connected to what you're focusing on.
00:04:29.000 So I know where you're at here.
00:04:31.000 But I want to warn and caution our audience.
00:04:35.000 Nikki Haley is surging in some of these polls in New Hampshire and South Carolina.
00:04:40.000 I know some of you guys might laugh out there.
00:04:42.000 Do not underestimate Nikki Haley, especially in the granite state, especially in some of these more moderate places.
00:04:52.000 Let's play cut 50 first, please.
00:04:54.000 The St. Anselm College Survey Center came out with a poll this last week that turned a lot of heads.
00:04:58.000 Trump 44, Haley 30.
00:05:01.000 That's not close, but it's a lot closer than this race has been all year.
00:05:04.000 And Haley's trajectory could put her in a competitive position by primary day.
00:05:08.000 When you break this poll down by party registration among Republicans, it's a much different race.
00:05:12.000 Trump at 56%, Haley at 22%.
00:05:15.000 No one else is close.
00:05:17.000 Now, that poll shows a big delta.
00:05:20.000 Newsweek, though, Nikki Haley closes the gap on Donald Trump.
00:05:23.000 Nikki Haley surges in poll, according to The Guardian, within four points of Republican leader Trump.
00:05:29.000 Now, these polls might be exaggerated, trying to create a race where there isn't one.
00:05:34.000 But Kane, for those of us that are teen MAGA, Team Trump, it would be a mistake for us to rest on our laurels, act like this thing is in the bag.
00:05:42.000 Nikki has a two-week window where she might surprise some people.
00:05:46.000 And even if she falls 10 points short, the media will say that that is a win.
00:05:50.000 Your thoughts, Citizen Kane.
00:05:52.000 Yeah, there's a lot there.
00:05:54.000 So quickly, we'll go to the polls first.
00:05:56.000 As you said, they've been all over the map.
00:05:58.000 She is polling higher in New Hampshire than in any other state, obviously.
00:06:03.000 And lucky for her, South Carolina is probably where she's doing second best, and that follows New Hampshire.
00:06:09.000 So she's going to get a lot of positive press in the first months.
00:06:13.000 And you're absolutely correct that the media is going to blow it up, whether it's 10 points that she loses by a New Hampshire or 15 or even 20.
00:06:22.000 They're going to say that that's a strong showing, that it shows momentum from her candidacy.
00:06:28.000 And, you know, and we need to pay attention and be prepared for this and be prepared to fight back and explain to people that these are really anomalies associated, as you said, with New Hampshire, with South Carolina, and with some of the early more moderate states.
00:06:45.000 Overall, that Newsweek story that you mentioned, I've got it in the stack from last night.
00:06:50.000 And my headline is something about what a stupid headline from Newsweek, because they talk about her gaining, yet they point out in paragraph two that she's still losing to Trump 5113.
00:07:04.000 Now, she has passed, has passed DeSantis, who is apparently tied somehow with Chris Christie at 9%.
00:07:13.000 So in the national polls, Trump is still strong.
00:07:16.000 In the New Hampshire-specific polls, you nailed it.
00:07:21.000 There was one, I don't know, this has been a week maybe, that she was within three or four points.
00:07:27.000 But it turns out that polling group was probably pretty suspect.
00:07:31.000 Yes.
00:07:32.000 And there was another New Hampshire poll that came out that showed Trump leading by over 20.
00:07:37.000 So we know that, you know, as you said, the polls are all over the map.
00:07:40.000 But yeah, we got to be prepared to race by expectations.
00:07:44.000 That's what I'm getting at, Kane.
00:07:45.000 Iowa, New Hampshire.
00:07:47.000 This is where I told the president this on the phone, and I've said it on the show.
00:07:52.000 Stop putting out these polls that show you up 71 points or whatever, right?
00:07:56.000 Because then if you win by 25, people are going to say that you're collapsing.
00:08:00.000 It's all about managing expectations.
00:08:01.000 Kane, your thought.
00:08:02.000 Yeah, no, that's a good interjection.
00:08:04.000 It absolutely is.
00:08:05.000 Just like Wall Street works by whether or not you beat expectations when you report your earnings, and that determines whether the stock goes up.
00:08:14.000 It's the same thing in politics.
00:08:16.000 And that's a good point.
00:08:18.000 If Trump is constantly putting out these polls showing him leading by 50 or 60 and not explaining clearly that these are nationwide polls, he is a little bit setting himself up for this media attack when Nikki Haley only ends up losing by 15.
00:08:35.000 But it's, you know, look, it's going to coalesce, right?
00:08:38.000 If DeSantis may drop out after Iowa and New Hampshire, you may have Chris Christie says he will not drop out, but it's not going to be a clear, not every voter for DeSantis is going to go for Nikki Haley.
00:08:51.000 We've seen in certain polls that if DeSantis voters don't have DeSantis to choose from, most of them want Trump.
00:08:58.000 So it's not, you know, so I don't really believe that she's going to, that it's going to end up being, let's say, a 60-40 battle if she were the only candidate across all the primaries.
00:09:07.000 I think you're right.
00:09:08.000 And I tweeted this back when Nikki announced back in February.
00:09:11.000 I said, quote, don't underestimate Nikki.
00:09:14.000 She's talented and ambitious.
00:09:16.000 She will raise a ton of money and work super hard.
00:09:19.000 Nothing is certain.
00:09:20.000 And I used to be very friendly with Nikki.
00:09:22.000 We've kind of obviously grown apart now that we're in the midst of this primary, but don't underestimate her.
00:09:22.000 It's not that we're not anymore.
00:09:27.000 I know I have a minority opinion in the MAGA movement that she has surprised a lot of people.
00:09:32.000 If you study her South Carolina governor's races, and obviously I'm not supportive of her candidacy, I'm just talking factually here.
00:09:38.000 You look at her South Carolina governor's races, you look at her other opportunity, she has a way to scrap herself up to the top through hard work, through grit, through talent, through ambition, whatever you want to call it.
00:09:51.000 I just think it would be a mistake for us to act as if this is signed, sealed, and delivered.
00:09:55.000 There's some very, very powerful people pumping money behind Nikki Haley right now.
00:10:00.000 We're getting emails right now, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:10:02.000 Kane, people are saying, I am seeing five Nikki Haley ads a day in New Hampshire, Boston television.
00:10:09.000 Kane.
00:10:10.000 Yeah, well, I mean, you said it.
00:10:13.000 The billionaires are coalescing behind her.
00:10:15.000 I'm not sure what Ken Griffin is doing, but the Oracle guy, Larry Ellison, who I think wasted $40 million that could have been given to organizations like Turning Point USA, so that an actual ground effort, grassroots effort in the seven swing states, but instead they wasted that $40 million on Tim Scott.
00:10:39.000 So that's just an example.
00:10:40.000 This money is going to flow to Nikki Haley.
00:10:43.000 She's going to get the attention.
00:10:44.000 The never Trumpers, the Democrats, the regime media, everyone is going to get behind Nikki Haley.
00:10:51.000 And we're going to see how strong the MAGA base is.
00:10:54.000 But, you know, just based on the nationwide polls, Charlie, I'm not actually worried.
00:11:01.000 My job is to be a little bit paranoid.
00:11:04.000 I like to see different attacks coming.
00:11:06.000 I also, I have no doubt Trump will win the primary.
00:11:09.000 I just don't want to have to have this go longer than it needs to be, us underestimate, have Trump to spend more precious dollars that should be spread against Biden.
00:11:18.000 And all of a sudden, we're going to have to be in full kind of PR recovery mode, Kane, in late January, because out of nowhere we have a primary because we were celebrating near Christmas and New Year's.
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00:12:41.000 There was a debate.
00:12:43.000 I know that happened at Mar-a-Lago recently with some people that were there.
00:12:48.000 And this over Christmas, there was a chatter of who to be VP, and some people were pushing Nikki.
00:12:54.000 And Don Jr. has been pushing back both publicly and privately.
00:12:58.000 Not a big surprise.
00:13:00.000 Kane, is this a possibility?
00:13:02.000 And what would your message be to President Trump if he was listening to his advisors about picking Nikki Haley as vice president?
00:13:12.000 My message would probably be what Tucker Carlson's message was at your MFES on stage last week, which I think he said he might actively campaign against that ticket.
00:13:23.000 He would actively campaign against President Trump if he chose Nikki Haley because she's so diametrically opposed to so much of what the MAGA base believes in.
00:13:33.000 I know what you're talking about.
00:13:34.000 I actually hadn't seen it until a couple of days ago when it was mentioned in a story that Trump at Mar-a-Lago had, or, you know, in a speech or a presentation with donors, he had sort of asked them about different candidates and brought up Nikki Haley and wondered what people thought.
00:13:53.000 And then, as you said, Don Jr. has been very public and very vocal about letting his dad know that Nikki Haley is a non-starter as vice president.
00:14:02.000 I would remind him that the base, that most of the things that Nikki Haley stands for, I mean, we've been able to show that she's open, you know, she succumbed to the transgender lobby in South Carolina, for example, on bathrooms and other issues.
00:14:18.000 Most of the cultural issues, most of the, you know, one of the things that we loved about Trump was he was the first president in 50 years to give the middle finger to China.
00:14:27.000 I've been waiting for that since business classes in college, for someone actually to have the guts.
00:14:32.000 And Nikki Haley would suck up to China just like just like Biden does.
00:14:37.000 So my message to Trump would be: stay with your base.
00:14:42.000 Do not go outside of it with someone like Nikki Haley.
00:14:45.000 It's not going to bring you votes.
00:14:47.000 Those never Trumpers are still going to vote for President Trump.
00:14:51.000 That's the thing that everyone has to remember.
00:14:53.000 All these people campaigning against her from our side, guess what?
00:14:57.000 They're still going to hold their nose and vote for Trump when he's the candidate.
00:15:02.000 And they just sort of make it seem as though they won't.
00:15:05.000 And they make these sort of dire predictions that Trump will lose a certain 20, 25% of the base of the Republican voters if he doesn't mollify his conduct in some ways.
00:15:20.000 You know, look, I'm rambling and I want to wrap it up because I want to hear your thoughts, but it's a crazy idea.
00:15:27.000 Let's hope he's not considering it closely.
00:15:29.000 There are so many other better candidates from Josh Hawley to Vivek.
00:15:34.000 Vivek probably wouldn't take it.
00:15:36.000 He's a busy billionaire businessman, but there are so many other better candidates.
00:15:42.000 And let's hope it's not Nikki.
00:15:43.000 And look, I'm going to privately do everything I can to make sure Nikki Haley does not become vice president.
00:15:48.000 If this happened, it would be a real gut punch.
00:15:52.000 It would make, if Donald Trump were to pick Nikki Haley as vice president, it would be a lot of wind out of our sails.
00:15:59.000 I'll tell you, Kane, it would be hard to say with a straight face that President Trump would articulate an America first agenda because Nikki Haley's not America first, obviously.
00:16:10.000 She's Ukraine first or some sort of globalist ideal first.
00:16:12.000 Who then should he pick Citizen Kane?
00:16:14.000 Well, I love Tucker, but Tucker says being around politicians is revolting to him.
00:16:20.000 I have that quote up.
00:16:21.000 I know you've pushed Tucker.
00:16:23.000 Hopefully, he's considering it behind the scenes.
00:16:25.000 I think he would be a fantastic candidate.
00:16:27.000 How do you turn down an offer for vice president when the president himself, although Trump has fantastic DNA and genes, how do you turn that down when the president is in his late 70s?
00:16:38.000 Tucker would be one step away from the presidency of the United States.
00:16:42.000 I think that would be difficult to turn down.
00:16:44.000 So he would be my number one choice.
00:16:46.000 I love the Vaik.
00:16:47.000 I think he's a fantastic idea guy, but I don't think he would take it.
00:16:52.000 Then you're sort of left with, you know, maybe Christy Noam, which, you know, doesn't excite me.
00:16:58.000 I don't think, you know, Trump may have a point that the vice presidential candidate really doesn't drive votes, but people would not be excited about Christy Noam.
00:17:07.000 I don't think they would.
00:17:08.000 And like you said, I actually think Nikki would, if Nikki were on that ticket, she would probably prevent a certain percentage of the votes from voting.
00:17:17.000 If in a multi-candidate race with RFK and all this other, Dr. Ben Carson makes sense.
00:17:22.000 He would consolidate evangelical conservative Christian voters.
00:17:25.000 Yeah, I like it.
00:17:26.000 Ben Carson's near the top of my list.
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00:18:31.000 Joining us now is Carrie Lake.
00:18:32.000 We are behind Carrie's run for the U.S. Senate here in Arizona.
00:18:36.000 We made the announcement official from Turning Point Action.
00:18:39.000 We endorsed Carrie, and she gave a great speech at Amfest.
00:18:43.000 Carrie, welcome to the program.
00:18:44.000 Thank you, Charlie.
00:18:46.000 I'm so honored to have the endorsement and what a great event that was.
00:18:50.000 You know, I know that people said, you inspire me.
00:18:52.000 Your speech was great, but I get inspired by that crowd.
00:18:56.000 Those people are active.
00:18:58.000 The crowd is growing.
00:19:00.000 Thank you for what you're doing to make sure that people, A, get active and B, know how to get involved because a lot of people want to do something.
00:19:08.000 They just don't know what to do.
00:19:10.000 And that's where Turning Point Action comes in.
00:19:12.000 So thank you very much.
00:19:13.000 Yeah, Turning Point Action is becoming this grassroots machine.
00:19:16.000 We're so thrilled with it.
00:19:17.000 So, Carrie, lots to talk about.
00:19:19.000 The first topic is the southern border.
00:19:22.000 I want you to react here to Alexandria Casio-Cortez, PlayCut 61.
00:19:28.000 So often people want to say, why aren't you talking about the border crisis?
00:19:32.000 Or why aren't you talking about it in this way?
00:19:34.000 Well, we're talking about it.
00:19:35.000 They just don't like how we're talking about it because it's not a border crisis.
00:19:39.000 It's an imperialism crisis.
00:19:40.000 It's a climate crisis.
00:19:42.000 It's a trade crisis.
00:19:43.000 This is not a surge.
00:19:45.000 These are children and they are not insurgents.
00:19:49.000 And we are not being invaded, which, by the way, is a white supremacist idea, philosophy.
00:19:58.000 She's an unbelievable moron.
00:20:00.000 And by the way, Carrie, at Amfest, I had Ben Berquam, the great Ben Berquam.
00:20:04.000 I was showing up IDs, Chinese nationals, Russian nationals.
00:20:07.000 Why are we putting up with us being replaced and invaded?
00:20:10.000 We're being replaced and invaded.
00:20:12.000 Carrie Lake.
00:20:13.000 We have an international army that has moved in and invaded our country from all over the world.
00:20:21.000 And when Ocasio-Cortez says these are children, she needs to get down to the Tucson sector, ASAP.
00:20:28.000 I'd love to take her on a tour, show her what's going on, take her over to the areas near Lukeville where people are pouring across.
00:20:34.000 You know, it's so typical of the radical left.
00:20:37.000 And I don't say Democrats anymore because Charlie, the Democrat Party's been traded out.
00:20:42.000 The Democrat Party isn't even in existence right now in politics.
00:20:46.000 This is the radical Marxist left who calls everything a climate crisis or racism or imperialism.
00:20:53.000 She has no idea what's happening on the border.
00:20:56.000 The only climate crisis on the border, the only environmental crisis is on the border is all of the trash that's strewn all over.
00:21:03.000 What really is a crisis is the crisis to the American people, to the American economy, to the American national security with what's happening at our border.
00:21:13.000 And it's only a matter of time before there is a terrorist attack.
00:21:17.000 And maybe then we'll be able to go back to AOC and ask her what she thinks that.
00:21:21.000 Now she'll lie and she'll just spin it and she'll say, oh, it's because of MAGA Republicans who are the true terror threats.
00:21:28.000 I mean, she's such a dishonest person and not wise.
00:21:31.000 I want to play Cut 62.
00:21:32.000 Blue states are concerned with immigration via Google searches.
00:21:37.000 Turns out diversity is not your strength if you live in a blue state.
00:21:41.000 Play Cut 62.
00:21:42.000 What do voters think about immigration right now?
00:21:45.000 Yeah, it's becoming a real top issue here.
00:21:47.000 So the top issue facing the nation.
00:21:49.000 Look, the economy is still number one.
00:21:50.000 It was number one in August.
00:21:52.000 It's number one now.
00:21:53.000 But take a look at the immigration slash border security.
00:21:55.000 It was just at 11% in August.
00:21:57.000 Look where it's hopped to now, 19%.
00:22:00.000 So it's closing in on the economy.
00:22:02.000 The most Google searches for migrants by state.
00:22:05.000 Look at all these states, Phil.
00:22:07.000 They're all blue states.
00:22:08.000 Illinois is one.
00:22:09.000 New York is two.
00:22:10.000 Massachusetts is three.
00:22:11.000 New Jersey is four.
00:22:12.000 Colorado is five.
00:22:14.000 And of course, there's been a lot of talk about the migrant crisis in both Illinois and New York.
00:22:18.000 And it seems like even voters in those states, very blue states, states that Democrats win in general elections, almost always, they are focusing on this issue.
00:22:27.000 Stop calling them migrants.
00:22:28.000 They're invaders.
00:22:29.000 They're criminals.
00:22:29.000 Carrie Lake, your reaction.
00:22:31.000 You know, it's interesting because you can start to tell when you see people running for office, like the folks I'm running against, Ruben Gallego and Kirsten Sinema.
00:22:38.000 When they start to act like they care about the border, then you know that the Democrats and the people who are voting on the Democrat ticket are starting to let them know that they think it's a problem.
00:22:48.000 When people in New York City are fed up, when people in Chicago are fed up, you know the Democrats have a problem on their hands.
00:22:55.000 And that's why we're seeing people like Ruben Gallego now all of a sudden feign to care about the border and Kirsten Sinema when they have voted over the course of 20 years between the two of them, two decades, to have the borders wide open.
00:23:10.000 They fought President Trump at every step of the way when he wanted to get that border wall built.
00:23:15.000 Now all they want to do, Charlie, is keep the problem going and pour money into the symptoms of the problem rather than fix the problem, which is stop people from coming over.
00:23:26.000 And the problem is we don't have a strong leader in the White House.
00:23:30.000 The Biden administration is weak.
00:23:31.000 They have caused this entire problem.
00:23:35.000 They don't understand how to negotiate with Mexico like President Trump did when he said, listen, we're raising tariffs on Monday morning if you don't get your military on the border and stop this insanity and stop these people from coming across.
00:23:47.000 We don't have that right now.
00:23:49.000 Joe Biden is so weak.
00:23:50.000 He is the laughing stock of the world.
00:23:53.000 And frankly, he's making us the laughingstock of the world.
00:23:56.000 So just yet to speculate, Carrie, you're running against two people.
00:23:59.000 You're running against Kirsten Sinema and Ruben Gallego.
00:24:01.000 And by the way, the polling is all over the place.
00:24:03.000 Some polls show you up.
00:24:04.000 Some polls show you not up.
00:24:05.000 It's very, it's an unpredictable race.
00:24:07.000 You totally can win.
00:24:08.000 And I think you could do it.
00:24:09.000 And we need to all help Carrie.
00:24:11.000 But why do you think Democrats want the border open?
00:24:14.000 Why are they okay with this?
00:24:16.000 Well, like I said, I mean, it allows for them to pour billions of dollars into a problem.
00:24:20.000 The Democrats always like the problem.
00:24:22.000 They never want to fix it.
00:24:23.000 That's why everybody was so resistant when President Trump said, we can actually fix these problems.
00:24:28.000 We don't have to have a border crisis that lasts forever.
00:24:31.000 And they want to pour money into whether it be NGOs.
00:24:35.000 You know, if you look at the money they want to pour into the border right now, Charlie, it's not to finish the wall and stop people from coming across.
00:24:43.000 The money the Democrats want to pour in are to processing these people who are coming across illegally, as you call them, invaders.
00:24:51.000 They want to process them.
00:24:52.000 They want billions of dollars to be poured into busing them all over, getting them airline tickets, putting them up in hotels at a city near you.
00:25:01.000 They don't want to solve the problem.
00:25:03.000 It's like if you have a severed artery, you have to fix that severed artery.
00:25:07.000 You don't spend your time and energy mopping up the blood.
00:25:10.000 You want to fix the severed artery.
00:25:11.000 But the Democrats don't want to because they love to pour billions and billions into problems year after year after year.
00:25:18.000 That's how they operate.
00:25:20.000 They want to replace the Native American population.
00:25:22.000 They hate us.
00:25:23.000 They hate white people.
00:25:24.000 They want third worlders in.
00:25:25.000 The whole thing's about replacement.
00:25:27.000 And voting.
00:25:28.000 I mean, they need new voters because let me tell you, the American people are waking up very quickly to the dead end destructive policies of the left.
00:25:37.000 They know that it doesn't work.
00:25:38.000 They know that our economy is in the toilet.
00:25:40.000 They know that national security-wise, we're in a world of hurt.
00:25:44.000 That on a world stage, in the global setting, we're on the verge of World War III.
00:25:49.000 They see what's happening to their children at school being indoctrinated and all kinds of other psychological abuse being heaped on them.
00:25:56.000 They see that America is faltering right now and they recognize its Democrat policy.
00:26:02.000 And so the Democrats have to bring in some new voters and they're going to try to get these people lined up and ready to vote.
00:26:09.000 Kirsten Sinema voted to give illegal immigrants the voting rights in this country.
00:26:14.000 And she wants all these people to be able to vote, as does Ruben Gallego, who wants asylum for everybody.
00:26:21.000 This is outrageous.
00:26:22.000 There's no compassion from these people for the American people.
00:26:26.000 I have compassion for the American people who are struggling right now.
00:26:29.000 They're struggling in an economy that doesn't work.
00:26:31.000 They look at the government that has been overtaken by a bunch of frauds, and they're watching the government being weaponized against them.
00:26:39.000 They're watching what's happening to their children, and they don't like the direction our country is going.
00:26:44.000 So, I mean, I want to play a piece of tape here.
00:26:46.000 Heart attack Shrek John Fetterman has been a big surprise recently.
00:26:50.000 Play Cut 19.
00:26:51.000 If you look at the numbers, it's almost 270,000 encounters.
00:26:56.000 And that's a lot.
00:26:58.000 It's not xenophobic to have a conversation about border security.
00:27:03.000 What's going on here, Carrie?
00:27:05.000 For Fetterman?
00:27:07.000 I mean, by the way, that's a whole nother topic and issue.
00:27:10.000 Fetterman, has he had a brain transplant?
00:27:12.000 Are the meds kicking in?
00:27:13.000 It's kind of strange.
00:27:14.000 But for Fetterman to say that the border is an issue, and now you're, are you seeing this in your race?
00:27:19.000 I want you to dispute.
00:27:20.000 What is Ruben Gallego saying versus his actions?
00:27:24.000 And by the way, Carrie, walk our national audience through what's happening in your Senate race because not everyone is totally, I think, filled in.
00:27:31.000 Okay.
00:27:31.000 Yeah, I'm just as perplexed by you at John Fetterman.
00:27:34.000 He said a few things that make sense recently.
00:27:36.000 And hey, listen, if he's waking up, that's great.
00:27:39.000 We need to wake more Americans up.
00:27:40.000 And I even think some of the Democrats are going to eventually come on over and vote our way because they don't like the direction the country's going.
00:27:47.000 This Senate race is so critical.
00:27:49.000 This is the actual majority in the Senate hinges on Arizona.
00:27:55.000 We have a great opportunity to pick up a Senate seat, take it out of Kirsten Sinema, who's putting on an act saying she's now independent, even though she votes with Joe Biden 100% of the time since becoming an independent.
00:28:05.000 I'm up by six points in a new independent poll.
00:28:08.000 President Trump is up five points, but we know that's not enough.
00:28:12.000 We have to be up by even bigger margins here in Arizona.
00:28:16.000 We need all hands on deck to get common sense solutions to the problems that we're all just dying to fix.
00:28:23.000 And we know that there's a problem because the Democrats are now starting to act like there's a problem on the border.
00:28:28.000 But we can't take their act where they say, okay, we're going to do something about the border and trust them.
00:28:34.000 As I've said, between these two, 10, 20 years combined in office, and they've done absolutely nothing except vote against border security, vote against strong energy policy, vote against proper education for our kids.
00:28:50.000 They love the indoctrination.
00:28:51.000 They love the garbage our kids are being forced to learn at school.
00:28:56.000 And so we've got a real opportunity to pick up this seat.
00:28:58.000 We can take back our border from the cartels, which are pushing deadly fentanyl into the hands of our young generation, and we can turn things around.
00:29:06.000 And Charlie, I have great confidence that we will turn things around.
00:29:10.000 I know President Trump has a great agenda.
00:29:13.000 We need to have a strong Senate so we can get his judicial picks through, his SCODIS picks, and all of his cabinet appointees through as well.
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00:30:14.000 So, Carrie, the border is a major issue.
00:30:17.000 Another top priority, and we've been talking about this.
00:30:20.000 I've had parents come up to me in record numbers, is the transing and grooming of our kids and this idea of parents' rights.
00:30:26.000 I'm sure you're hearing this on the campaign trail.
00:30:29.000 Talk about how that is going to be a primary concern for you as you run for the Senate in 2024.
00:30:35.000 It's painful to see what they're doing to our kids.
00:30:37.000 I just mentioned the indoctrination.
00:30:40.000 Beyond that, our kids are being psychologically and mentally abused in school with all of this garbage that's being pushed on them.
00:30:48.000 They know something's wrong.
00:30:49.000 They know it doesn't make sense.
00:30:50.000 It's being forced on them.
00:30:52.000 And as a mother, I'm the only mother in the race.
00:30:54.000 It pains me greatly to see and hear stories about these young people that are being forced into this.
00:31:04.000 There's no other way of looking at it.
00:31:05.000 We're seeing dads lose parental rights of their kids because they're trying to push back against what's being hoisted on their sons.
00:31:13.000 It's got to stop.
00:31:15.000 We're going to look back at this, Charlie, as one of the darkest, darkest moments in our history.
00:31:20.000 And we're going to have to do some serious work with these children who've been indoctrinated into thinking that they can be a different gender.
00:31:27.000 This is mental illness that's being pushed on our kids.
00:31:30.000 And as a mother, I'm greatly concerned about it.
00:31:33.000 And it's not just me.
00:31:34.000 It's people who come up to me on the campaign trail.
00:31:37.000 You know, I have a real, I'm blessed, I should say.
00:31:41.000 I'm very blessed because I have a relationship with the people of Arizona that I've had for three decades after being in their homes as an honest journalist and then running an incredible campaign for governor where I talk to more Arizonans than probably any other politician in the whole country and talk to more people because people know me and they come up and talk to me.
00:32:01.000 Parents, and guess what?
00:32:03.000 Students are disturbed by it.
00:32:05.000 They don't like what's being pushed on them at school.
00:32:08.000 And if we don't get serious about educating our kids, we're going to have an entire generation of kids who are unemployable.
00:32:15.000 They will not have the skills to do the jobs that are out there.
00:32:19.000 And we're already seeing signs of that.
00:32:21.000 You just mentioned your book talking about what a scam college is.
00:32:25.000 And this is why one of the policies I'm going to be pushing in the United States Senate is pushing to get more kids into skills training and career training where they don't end up $100,000 in debt and unemployable, where they actually end up with great skills.
00:32:41.000 And not only are they employable, they can start their own company and grow a company and live the American dream.
00:32:48.000 So, Sir Kerry, I hate to put you on the spot here, but at AmericaFest, you were the number one write-in candidate for VP.
00:32:53.000 We didn't have you on there because of obviously the Senate race.
00:32:56.000 I mean, I'm sure, would you accept that as your priority on the Senate race?
00:33:00.000 Because I'm sure people are mentioning you like crazy to be vice president for Trump.
00:33:05.000 You know, it's kind of funny.
00:33:06.000 We have so many incredible people in our movement, Charlie.
00:33:09.000 I've even heard your name mentioned.
00:33:10.000 So, hey, I'm putting you on the spot.
00:33:14.000 But what I'm saying is we have so many incredible people in our movement that President Trump has a large pool of great contenders to choose from.
00:33:24.000 My focus right now is my U.S. Senate race and getting President Trump the victory he needs.
00:33:29.000 Honestly, I am gravely concerned about our country.
00:33:32.000 We have to fight like heck to get President Trump to win.
00:33:36.000 The polls show he's up 55 and 60 points.
00:33:39.000 I don't rest lightly on the polls because I've had polls that showed us up 12 points.
00:33:46.000 And we've seen what happened in elections in the past.
00:33:49.000 So we have to be up and we have to fight hard for President Trump.
00:33:53.000 He'll pick somebody great.
00:33:54.000 Whoever he picks, I'm going to get behind and support.
00:33:58.000 Would you be sad if he picked Nikki Haley?
00:34:00.000 I don't think he will.
00:34:02.000 I really don't.
00:34:03.000 I don't think that he will.
00:34:04.000 I think that she has gone over to the dark side.
00:34:07.000 She's part of the warmonger movement.
00:34:10.000 The Republican Party, you know, I've got a big alert to tell everybody is no longer the party of the warmonger.
00:34:18.000 And so I don't believe that I think he would pick anybody over her because I think that she has gone that far over to the dark side.
00:34:27.000 So no, I don't think he'll pick her, but I don't know.
00:34:29.000 We'll have to ask President Trump.
00:34:31.000 They're trying to make that a story, aren't they?
00:34:33.000 To try to bolster her.
00:34:34.000 I know some people that were lobbying him very hard the other day.
00:34:37.000 I just want President Trump to come out and say decisively, no, I'm not going to pick Nikki Haley as VP.
00:34:42.000 Carrie, we're behind you 100%.
00:34:44.000 Really glad what you're doing.
00:34:46.000 People are excited.
00:34:47.000 You could be a U.S. Senator.
00:34:49.000 We need to help you out.
00:34:49.000 Arizona, the future of the whole country comes down to Arizona.
00:34:52.000 God bless.
00:34:52.000 Happy New Year.
00:34:53.000 Thank you, Carrie Lake.
00:34:54.000 Thank you, Charlie.
00:34:57.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:34:58.000 Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:35:01.000 Thanks so much for listening.
00:35:03.000 God bless.
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