The Charlie Kirk Show - September 13, 2023


Is the Democrat Machine's 2024 Plan Falling Apart?


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Things are not going according to plan for the regime. Things are actually falling apart. If you want some hope, this is the episode for you. Listen carefully to find out if Joe Biden is going to be the next president.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk show.
00:00:01.000 Things are not going according to plan for the regime.
00:00:06.000 Been a tough 2023 for the central planners.
00:00:08.000 Things are actually falling apart.
00:00:09.000 If you want some hope, this is the episode for you.
00:00:11.000 Text it to your friends.
00:00:12.000 Listen carefully.
00:00:13.000 No hopium, just facts.
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00:00:27.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:28.000 Here we go.
00:00:29.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:31.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
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00:01:23.000 We're going to be talking about that throughout the next couple of days as we're broadcasting here from San Diego.
00:01:28.000 There's a fascinating piece in the Washington Post that is starting to make some headlines.
00:01:35.000 President Biden should not run again in 2024.
00:01:38.000 David Ignatius writes for the Washington Post.
00:01:41.000 This article is not a mistake.
00:01:43.000 This article is not an accident.
00:01:45.000 This article is a proxy.
00:01:48.000 Somebody told Ignatius to write this article.
00:01:50.000 Now, this is a sentiment that has been bubbling up.
00:01:52.000 The polling is so bad.
00:01:53.000 It's so catastrophic for Joe Biden.
00:01:56.000 We're starting to see more and more people ask the question, why is Joe Biden going to be the nominee?
00:02:03.000 Why is this guy going to run in 2024?
00:02:07.000 Now, it's easier said than done to replace a sitting president.
00:02:10.000 We talked about this last week.
00:02:12.000 You get taxpayer-funded security, you get Air Force One, you can sign executive orders.
00:02:16.000 You can literally give out free money to bureaucracies.
00:02:18.000 It's a high standard to not want to run an incumbent.
00:02:22.000 Incumbents are very, very hard to beat, easier to raise money.
00:02:26.000 I mean, Joe Biden could raise hundreds of millions of dollars from crony corporate donors just based on executive orders and favors he can do.
00:02:35.000 They could set up conference calls for the next two weeks, not even with him, just as the chief of staff, with Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna.
00:02:41.000 Hey, you know, make sure you fund this pack and fund this thing.
00:02:44.000 It's very, it's nakedly crony.
00:02:46.000 It's so much easier to raise money and to re-elect an incumbent, typically.
00:02:52.000 Joe Biden is facing this impeachment in Korea. 0.97
00:02:55.000 He's a traitor to the United States. 0.99
00:02:56.000 His son is also a traitor to the United States. 1.00
00:02:58.000 He could barely speak in coherent sentences. 0.95
00:03:02.000 The American people are feeling a damaged economy.
00:03:06.000 The border is wide open.
00:03:07.000 The country is falling apart.
00:03:09.000 We are seeing the most radical woke social issues on the march in our schools and our classrooms.
00:03:15.000 And polling shows that Donald Trump is neck and neck.
00:03:17.000 Again, I don't love poll watching.
00:03:18.000 Those of you that watch this program, you know that.
00:03:21.000 But now we're starting to see an orchestrated drumbeat that is fascinating.
00:03:24.000 This is not some sort of one-off thing.
00:03:26.000 You do not have David Ignatius in the Washington Post just go off the reservation and write an op-ed like this.
00:03:32.000 No, this is a direct warning shot to Joe Biden.
00:03:36.000 And you might see the beginning stages of a replacement strategy of Joe Biden.
00:03:43.000 What that looks like, I don't know.
00:03:44.000 And I'll be honest, about a year and a half ago, we made the prediction, and so far the prediction is wrong.
00:03:48.000 So far, I have been wrong, and I totally acknowledge it.
00:03:51.000 I did not think Joe Biden would make it this long.
00:03:53.000 I didn't think he'd make it this long physically.
00:03:55.000 The guy couldn't walk upstairs a year and a half ago.
00:03:57.000 I mean, it's remarkable.
00:03:58.000 They're really keeping this guy together.
00:04:00.000 I didn't think that he was going to be at the place right now where they were going to make him the nominee.
00:04:04.000 But it looks like they're ramping up.
00:04:05.000 They're hiring staff.
00:04:06.000 They're doing messaging, running ads, but not everybody's on board.
00:04:09.000 69%, 69%.
00:04:12.000 Remarkable.
00:04:14.000 Including a majority of Americans, 69% of Democrats want a different candidate.
00:04:18.000 But we must remember that overemphasizing on candidates, that's our job in the media.
00:04:26.000 You have to be a very, very, very bad candidate to receive this sort of treatment from David Ignatius because candidate selection has been de-emphasized in recent years.
00:04:42.000 Emphasizing candidate and candidate quality is too risky for the party of the oligarchy.
00:04:48.000 Understand, in 1992, the Democrats nominated Bill Clinton to run against Herbert Walker Bush.
00:04:55.000 And of course, Ross Perot is a third party.
00:04:57.000 Bill Clinton was the more interesting candidate in 1992.
00:05:00.000 Played a saxophone, charismatic.
00:05:03.000 He's a bad guy.
00:05:04.000 He's a heathen, Epstein, all that stuff.
00:05:06.000 But he was a better candidate in 1992.
00:05:09.000 Interestingly, it was Republicans in the 2000 election and the 2004 election that were far more interested in the boring work, far more interested in what would be considered the clipboard and tennis shoes and ballot chasing.
00:05:24.000 Karl Rove, of whom I'm not a fan of, built an amazing political machine in 2004.
00:05:33.000 The Democrats thought that they could run John Kerry in 2004 and be more interesting than George W. Bush.
00:05:41.000 But 2008 changed everything.
00:05:43.000 In 2008, Democrats were desperate.
00:05:46.000 They wanted to get power back.
00:05:48.000 And they went all in. 0.93
00:05:50.000 Because remember, Hillary Rodham Clinton was the Jeb Bush of 2008.
00:05:54.000 Hillary Rodham Clinton was supposed to be president.
00:05:57.000 Hillary Rodham Clinton has been planning since she was a sophomore at Wellesley College that she was going to be president.
00:06:04.000 She wrote it. 0.89
00:06:05.000 Her whole life was about doing whatever it took.
00:06:08.000 She turned a blind eye to Bill Clinton sleeping around. 0.65
00:06:10.000 She pretended to be married to Bill Clinton. 1.00
00:06:12.000 She did everything that you needed to do. 0.93
00:06:14.000 She was an obedient first lady covered for his antics.
00:06:19.000 She became a senator from New York, even though she's as much a New Yorker as I am. 0.98
00:06:23.000 She disappeared as a carpetbagger. 1.00
00:06:26.000 Like, sure, yeah, okay, become a senator. 1.00
00:06:28.000 Her whole life was about becoming president in 2008.
00:06:32.000 And then a little bit of a rebellious campaign was launched in the heartland, Springfield, Illinois, on a very chilly day.
00:06:38.000 Barack Hussein Obama, with a very suspicious past and a funny-sounding name, with a talented political team.
00:06:46.000 You got to give them credit.
00:06:46.000 David Pluff, David Axelrod, they came together, the kind of Chicago mafia, and they said, hey, we can make a run at these Clinton guys.
00:06:54.000 And to their credit, Axelrod and Pluff, and you can read it in the book Audacity to Win.
00:06:58.000 They said, what if we run a sexier campaign, more interesting campaign?
00:07:03.000 Remember, this is the advent of the internet, the beginning of online fundraising. 1.00
00:07:07.000 And Hillary Rodham Clinton was running an old-fashioned transactional, super-delegate, Democrat, boring campaign. 0.99
00:07:13.000 Raise the money, cronyism, insider. 0.99
00:07:16.000 I'm entitled to this.
00:07:17.000 My husband, husband, in quotes, was president.
00:07:20.000 I'm going to be president.
00:07:21.000 I'm going to be president.
00:07:22.000 Barack Obama ran a grassroots campaign, spent a lot of time in Iowa.
00:07:25.000 No one really took him seriously until Obama started to draw crowds.
00:07:29.000 Obama was charismatic.
00:07:30.000 Obama was interesting.
00:07:32.000 He could be the first black president.
00:07:34.000 Holy moly, the media started to fawn over him. 0.91
00:07:37.000 And Hillary Rodham Clinton got very angry.
00:07:40.000 This has really been whitewashed in history.
00:07:43.000 How nasty the Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama campaign was in 2008.
00:07:47.000 She was the Jeb Bush of that race, raising all this money.
00:07:51.000 And here comes this smooth-talking dude.
00:07:54.000 And the Democrats went all in on candidate selection.
00:07:58.000 And it worked.
00:07:59.000 We ran John McCain, who, not my favorite, I'm at a pastor summit here.
00:08:04.000 We'll just leave John McCain aside.
00:08:06.000 John McCain should not have been the nominee.
00:08:09.000 And Barack Obama didn't just win.
00:08:10.000 He almost won Georgia.
00:08:12.000 He won North Carolina.
00:08:14.000 If I'm not mistaken, Barack Obama won Indiana in 2008.
00:08:18.000 It's unbelievable.
00:08:19.000 He won Indiana.
00:08:21.000 The guy won the state of Indiana.
00:08:22.000 It was not just the sweep.
00:08:24.000 They took over state legislators.
00:08:25.000 They took over governors.
00:08:27.000 They took over AGs.
00:08:28.000 They took over everything.
00:08:30.000 The Obama movement was larger than life.
00:08:35.000 They rode this idea of candidate enthusiasm and this idea of hope and change and all of that.
00:08:43.000 But you live by the sword, you die by the sword.
00:08:46.000 And Obama got re-elected in 2012, but then Republican voters said, Our turn.
00:08:52.000 We want a white Obama. 0.85
00:08:54.000 And the only, I mean, you had Jeb Bush, you had Marco Rubio.
00:08:58.000 And who was the only person that could potentially play the charismatic game as talented as Barack Obama?
00:09:04.000 Donald Trump.
00:09:05.000 So Donald Trump comes on the scene and he blows everything up.
00:09:10.000 Live by the sword, he die by the sword.
00:09:11.000 And then they re-nominate Hillary Rodham Clinton, the person who couldn't beat Barack Obama in the 2008 primary.
00:09:16.000 And the Democrats, who built their coalition and built their power based on the Hollywoodification of American politics, all of a sudden they suffered from that in 2016.
00:09:27.000 Trump said, Well, two could play this game.
00:09:29.000 Make America great again.
00:09:30.000 You should be in jail.
00:09:32.000 We'll send them back to Mexico. 1.00
00:09:33.000 The wall got 10 feet taller.
00:09:35.000 We're going to tweet.
00:09:35.000 We're going to do stuff.
00:09:36.000 We're going to make it interesting.
00:09:37.000 We're going to turn politics into entertainment.
00:09:39.000 And Donald Trump did that.
00:09:42.000 And then at that moment, when Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 and they start freaking out and they said, oh my goodness, you're trying to tell me that we're not going to be in power.
00:09:50.000 A decision was made.
00:09:52.000 Timeout end.
00:09:52.000 We're going to suspend indefinitely this idea that candidates matter.
00:09:57.000 And they created what's called the oligarchy of elections.
00:10:01.000 They call it democracy, mass mail and balloting, signature verification, standards relaxed, all this stuff across the board where they want to say candidates are too risky, meaning we can run the boring guy, John Fetterman, because we control the plumbing of the elections.
00:10:18.000 Doesn't matter how good your candidate is.
00:10:20.000 And here comes Joe Biden, which I will complete this story because it all comes in the 2024 election.
00:10:27.000 They're trying to change the way elections operate.
00:10:30.000 They never want the quality of the candidate to matter again.
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00:11:13.000 Okay, so I know that was a little bit of history and maybe a little bit more than you would have liked, but I think it's important to understand.
00:11:19.000 So here's where Joe Biden comes into place: where the Democrat oligarchs look at this as a businessman would.
00:11:25.000 A businessman, everything a major business tries to do, a major corporation, is try to limit risk, create replaceable parts, cogs in a wheel.
00:11:37.000 Candidate quality and candidate selection, far too, there's far too many questions involved in that.
00:11:46.000 So therefore, they create a machine where even if John Fetterman has a stroke and he can't speak, they're still able to get him quote unquote elected because they chase pieces of paper, they micro-target it.
00:11:56.000 This goes to show how many different organizing tools, volunteer deployment, voter contact, research, data analytics and modeling, voter engagement, volunteer and activist mobilization, fundraising, movement-wide messaging and media companies and nonprofits that exist on the left.
00:12:17.000 And it is political technology industry landscape on the left.
00:12:21.000 It's on screen right now.
00:12:22.000 Thank you.
00:12:23.000 And so this is hundreds of different outside groups, not even including the DNC, that build this oligarchy.
00:12:31.000 And Republicans have nothing even close to this, right?
00:12:34.000 Nothing even close.
00:12:35.000 So they have hundreds of different companies together.
00:12:39.000 This is what they are betting on in 2024, what's on your screen or has been on your screen.
00:12:45.000 Not candidate quality or candidate selection.
00:12:47.000 We as Republicans, as we've said many times on this program, are far too concerned about DeSantis or Nikki Haley or Trump.
00:12:54.000 It doesn't matter.
00:12:55.000 What matters, what was just shown on your screen.
00:12:57.000 We're going to put it on charliekirk.com, by the way, for reference point.
00:13:00.000 This is why we are not successful far too many times, because they build this incredible ecosystem, an impressive ecosystem.
00:13:09.000 Okay.
00:13:10.000 So David Ignatius, though, sends out a little bit of a salvo, a little bit of volley from the deep state, the intel agencies.
00:13:17.000 David Ignatius is just the spokesperson for the Mockingbird Media, and especially the deeper parts of the CIA and the FBI.
00:13:26.000 Ignatius goes on Morning Joe to say, I don't think Joe Biden should run again in 2024.
00:13:31.000 This is a shot across the bow.
00:13:33.000 They're running out of time.
00:13:34.000 There's a timing aspect here, too, that I'm going to get into in a second.
00:13:36.000 So this is perfectly timed.
00:13:38.000 They got to make a choice soon.
00:13:40.000 They have to make a choice soon, largely because there's a Democrat convention and nomination and superdelegates, all this different sort of stuff.
00:13:49.000 Play Cut 65.
00:13:50.000 This combination of Joe Biden at the top of the ticket and the polls show people feel uneasy about somebody who's 82 serving another four-year term.
00:14:04.000 The combination of that and people's uneasiness is reflected in polls about the vice president succeeding him.
00:14:11.000 Time is running out.
00:14:12.000 In another month, it's going to be too late to have this conversation.
00:14:17.000 So I thought before it was locked in stone, it was worth at least raising.
00:14:23.000 I know many of you in the audience are who's David Ignatius.
00:14:25.000 Here's the best way that I could describe it.
00:14:28.000 Imagine if one of the top intellectuals on the conservative side, who's someone that would be comparable in previous years when he was like a George Will, if he was, if the conservative, if he was still 10 years ago, George Will.
00:14:39.000 That would be a good way to kind of compare it.
00:14:41.000 So it would have received a fair amount of attention.
00:14:43.000 It would be syndicated, reposted.
00:14:45.000 So he is the top of funnel of the American ruling class Zeitgeist narrative war, David Ignatius says.
00:14:51.000 A lot of people look up to him on the Intel side, the deep state, the defender of the Leviathan.
00:14:55.000 They say, oh, wow, David Ignatius.
00:14:57.000 So this is not some sort of mistake.
00:14:58.000 Ignatius did not just write this and he's getting calls from people angry.
00:15:01.000 No, no, David Ignatius did this and shot across the bow as a leading pincer movement against Joe Biden because they are now questioning everything in life has limits.
00:15:12.000 Everything in life has limits, including the Democrat political machine, including that thing I put up on screen.
00:15:18.000 Even that machine is beatable with a candidate that weighs you down so, so, so, so much.
00:15:26.000 Ignatius writes, politicians who know Biden will say that if he were convinced that Trump were truly vanquished, he would feel he had accomplished his political mission.
00:15:36.000 He would run again if he believes in his gut that Trump will be the GOP nominee and that he has the best chance to defeat Trump and save the country from the nightmare of a revenge presidency.
00:15:43.000 Biden has a chance to say no to himself this time by withdrawing from the 2024 race.
00:15:48.000 It might not be character for Biden, but it would be wise choice for the country, Ignatius wrote.
00:15:53.000 Their machine can definitely get them an extra three points in Georgia, an extra four points in Pennsylvania.
00:15:59.000 It can't get them an extra 15 points.
00:16:01.000 There are limitations.
00:16:02.000 And so the smart people in the Democrat Party, the people that do this for a living, the Republicans were so behind the ball.
00:16:07.000 They're now saying, hold on a second.
00:16:09.000 This thing is way too close for comfort.
00:16:12.000 You got this no labels thing.
00:16:14.000 You got Cornell West.
00:16:15.000 Republicans are getting smart about early voting.
00:16:17.000 You got Joe Biden weighing us down.
00:16:19.000 We are not confident.
00:16:20.000 This here is David Ignatius telling you that the 2024 race is all but settled.
00:16:29.000 Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here.
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00:17:28.000 So can we put that flowchart up there again, really quick?
00:17:31.000 So here's what this flowchart is.
00:17:33.000 Again, you could find it if you research it.
00:17:35.000 This is all the different companies and nonprofits that we know of that work in tandem to help elect Democrats.
00:17:44.000 This is why they're so confident or were so confident running Joe Biden.
00:17:48.000 But all things have limits.
00:17:50.000 This thing you're looking at on screen and on podcasting, we're going to put it on charliekirk.com.
00:17:55.000 This is a massive political ecosystem that they've built.
00:17:59.000 And it makes sense because we're told, oh, there's a red wave coming.
00:18:02.000 There's a red wave coming.
00:18:04.000 This machine can probably get them an extra 3% to 4%, but not an extra 5% to 10%.
00:18:11.000 In 2016, when Donald Trump won the presidency, the Green Party was on the ballot in all the major states.
00:18:18.000 In fact, Democrats got so angry that Jill Stein ran as the Green Party because she received enough votes that if Hillary Clinton would have received all those votes, Hillary Clinton would have defeated Donald Trump.
00:18:28.000 So they blamed the Green Party for one of the reasons why Donald Trump became president.
00:18:33.000 In 2020, the Green Party was not on the ballot.
00:18:37.000 It was hard to collect signatures, and the Democrat regime went hard after the Green Party.
00:18:43.000 They sued and they kicked them off the ballot in the states that mattered.
00:18:46.000 It makes you think if the Green Party would have been on the ballot in Arizona, in Wisconsin, and in Georgia, would Donald Trump have been able to win?
00:18:54.000 There was no Green Party in Pennsylvania either.
00:18:54.000 Maybe.
00:18:57.000 So there's no guarantees, but what the Democrats did, and it was very smart in 2020.
00:19:03.000 It was well planned, and I don't think they're going to be able to do it again.
00:19:05.000 Let me be clear.
00:19:06.000 I do not think they'll be able to do it the same way that it is.
00:19:09.000 They created a referendum-type election against Donald Trump in 2020.
00:19:14.000 A vote of no confidence, almost a European parliamentary pressure-release valve, pressure cooker election.
00:19:21.000 That was the precondition.
00:19:22.000 You can't criticize Joe Biden because they kept Joe Biden unassailable.
00:19:25.000 He put him in a basement.
00:19:27.000 They literally censored any sort of design thing to use against him in 2020.
00:19:32.000 Intel agencies, 50 people signing it.
00:19:34.000 John Brennan, Tony Blinken was the architect of that.
00:19:37.000 I lost my Twitter account.
00:19:39.000 It was pre-vent defense, basically.
00:19:42.000 Plus all the mass mail and balloting, the death counts of COVID every single day on CNN, constantly, constantly going after Trump's legitimacy, constantly going after the region, you know, the administration every single day.
00:19:56.000 And then on top of it, widespread chaos and rioting in the summer of 2020, making it feel as if make it stop, make it stop, make it stop, make it stop.
00:20:05.000 So Joe Biden was the make it stop option.
00:20:09.000 And they did it not just through that, but they micro-targeting and just voluminous amounts of political advertising.
00:20:16.000 We remember in 2020, it was overwhelming.
00:20:18.000 And every major institution, including Donald Trump's own government, was against him.
00:20:22.000 That's what's amazing.
00:20:23.000 That Donald Trump's own government that he was tasked with constitutionally overseeing.
00:20:27.000 And then there was no Green Party options.
00:20:28.000 There was no no label options.
00:20:30.000 So anyone that voted was just left with, do you want to continue the chaos or do you want to reprieve?
00:20:35.000 Remember Joe Biden?
00:20:36.000 He framed himself as a reprieve to the chaos and cooler heads prevail and we're going to get back to greener pastures and times we all agree.
00:20:44.000 We knew and we warned and unfortunately our message wasn't consumed by enough people.
00:20:49.000 We knew it was gibberish. 0.85
00:20:50.000 It was nonsense. 1.00
00:20:51.000 Better days ahead and all that garbage. 0.99
00:20:54.000 Borders are open. 0.92
00:20:54.000 We have more chaos than ever before. 0.92
00:20:56.000 It's just too bad that that ended up happening.
00:20:59.000 And then of course all the other election nonsense that happened on top of it, zucker boxes and mass mail and voting and the relaxing of signature verification standards and all that stuff.
00:21:08.000 But 2024, as it is right now, is developing into a much different race. 0.99
00:21:13.000 Number one, will they be able to replicate the panic and the cause for changing elections like they did with COVID in 2020?
00:21:20.000 I sure hope not, but they might try.
00:21:21.000 So that's number one.
00:21:23.000 Whether it be climate change, environmental crisis or COVID type crisis, it's going to be hard for them to do it again because there's been such a massive preemptive, we will not comply PR campaign, great, to the great credit of our movement.
00:21:39.000 But also, if there's more than one candidate on the ballot, including Green Party candidates, all of a sudden, this kind of vote of no confidence is hard.
00:21:47.000 And if they try to run that playbook again with Joe Biden v. Trump, Joe Biden's the incumbent.
00:21:53.000 So what they're going to try to do, and I don't know if it will work, they'll try to frame the race as vote for Joe Biden to refute Trump.
00:22:03.000 That's not easy to do when you're the incumbent because it's more of a referendum on your actions than a referendum on the other guy's actions.
00:22:14.000 And you could make the argument that Donald Trump is a far better candidate when he is out of office than when Donald Trump is in office.
00:22:22.000 I think that's probably true.
00:22:24.000 He has far more flexibility, far more movement, ability to critique and criticize.
00:22:29.000 And quite honestly, to contrast, Donald Trump is not just a random person then running for the presidency in 2024.
00:22:35.000 He was a terrific president with far better economic metrics, far better with the border.
00:22:41.000 Donald Trump, because of the indictments in a paradoxical way, is actually more nimble and far more unshackled than he would be if he was kind of in a traditional political box.
00:22:53.000 Okay, so Cornell West looks like he's going for it.
00:22:58.000 Last week, Cornell West, black Marxist, been around for a while.
00:23:05.000 CornellWest24.org writes, Cornell West for president announces the hiring of political activist author and advisor Peter Dow as campaign manager.
00:23:15.000 This came out on Sunday.
00:23:16.000 This is infuriating Democrats.
00:23:19.000 So Peter Dow is a former member of the Democrat Party.
00:23:24.000 He's not exactly a blue chip hire, but Peter Dow's a smart person.
00:23:29.000 And Peter Dow has been around for a while in left-wing politics.
00:23:33.000 Peter Dow, again, it's not exactly the top-level person that you would hire, but he had some affiliation with the Bernie Sanders campaign.
00:23:41.000 He was involved and was a communications advisor to John Kerry in 2004 presidential race.
00:23:47.000 2006, he was hired by Hillary Clinton.
00:23:48.000 So he's been around for quite some time.
00:23:50.000 This guy, Peter Dow, and now he's the campaign manager for Cornell West.
00:23:55.000 And you have these two simultaneous freakouts that are happening.
00:23:58.000 By the way, here's just some prediction.
00:24:00.000 You're about to see Democrats absolutely go nuts and bananas in the next three to five months.
00:24:04.000 I'm just telling you right now, we are going to have the most fun MSNBC clips we've ever seen because their plan is not working the way they thought it would.
00:24:11.000 They still might, quote unquote, capture the White House in 2024.
00:24:14.000 So I'm not trying to get your hopes up, but it's going to be deliciously hilarious the next five or six months because they thought this thing, this goose would be cooked by now.
00:24:21.000 They thought Trump would be down in the polls.
00:24:23.000 They thought Trump would be within like a five-point Republican primary, super competitive.
00:24:27.000 None of that stuff is materializing.
00:24:28.000 Instead, it's Joe Biden that has been sinking.
00:24:31.000 Instead, it's all these external groups.
00:24:36.000 You have no labels, which is freaking them out.
00:24:38.000 You got Cornell West, which is freaking them out.
00:24:41.000 So you have all these simultaneous things happening.
00:24:44.000 And they thought DeSantis was going to run within five points of Trump.
00:24:48.000 That's not happening.
00:24:49.000 So you're going to see a lot of anger in the media because they thought this would be a cakewalk and it's turning into a race.
00:24:56.000 The best analogy I could say is that there was a great memory I have where Appalachian State from Boone, North Carolina.
00:25:04.000 Remember this, Brian?
00:25:05.000 They go into the big house.
00:25:06.000 Was that 20 years ago?
00:25:07.000 Chad Henney was coach, I think.
00:25:09.000 And it's a college football analogy for all of you.
00:25:12.000 Keep his horde home.
00:25:13.000 And they come in, and I'll never forget.
00:25:15.000 I don't think Schemblecker was the coach.
00:25:17.000 Who's the coach?
00:25:18.000 No, that was Past Schemblecher.
00:25:20.000 Anyway, I'll never forget.
00:25:21.000 I was watching the game.
00:25:22.000 Appalachian State goes into the big house.
00:25:24.000 And the announcers and the coach of Michigan says, we didn't even think this would be a game at halftime.
00:25:29.000 And they ended up losing the game, I think 31 to 30, something like that.
00:25:32.000 And it was week one, big house.
00:25:34.000 Michigan was rated number two in the country, unrated Appalachian State 16, 17 years ago.
00:25:37.000 They come in and shock the world.
00:25:39.000 And it was this thing where they thought at halftime, why are we even close?
00:25:44.000 And there was almost this anger and this resentment and this bitterness that forced Michigan to not play their best game in the second half of this game.
00:25:51.000 And you see this in sports all the time where you have this massive expectation that we're going to blow this team out by 40 points.
00:25:57.000 And then the game becomes closer than you want.
00:26:00.000 You almost get annoyed.
00:26:01.000 That's exactly what is going to happen right now with the Democrats.
00:26:05.000 I'm not saying that they're going, we are going to be ultimately successful because of it because they control everything.
00:26:10.000 They control the corporations.
00:26:11.000 They control the pharmaceuticals.
00:26:12.000 They control all of it, right?
00:26:14.000 So we have these massive power centers that we have to continue to fight and fight and fight and fight.
00:26:19.000 But this, if you were to take a temperature check, if you were to try to take a grade, if you were to try to get within the inner Democrat circles, their text messages, hey, how are things going?
00:26:28.000 This is not going nearly as well as they thought it would.
00:26:32.000 And you're going to see a Democrat panic attack on television.
00:26:35.000 David Ignatius writing this is not exactly rolling hills and roses of the Democrat Party.
00:26:41.000 This is not ideal to have one of the leading members of the Democrat intelligentsia come out and say, oh, by the way, you know, Joe Biden shouldn't run for the presidency.
00:26:49.000 That's not part of the plan.
00:26:51.000 Okay.
00:26:52.000 This is, in some ways, it could be a little bit of panic.
00:26:55.000 The administrative state is worried because all they have is power.
00:26:58.000 This is their religion.
00:26:58.000 This is their attachment.
00:27:00.000 If they don't win, they go into existential despair.
00:27:03.000 You saw it with that famous meme and that girl just screaming at the sky.
00:27:07.000 And Cornell West running, not part of the plan.
00:27:11.000 No labels drafting a candidate.
00:27:12.000 Not part of the plan.
00:27:14.000 Joe Biden running neck and neck with Trump, not part of the plan.
00:27:17.000 Trump facing 500 years in federal prison, but actually stronger than he was in 2020, not part of the plan.
00:27:23.000 Republicans talking about early voting, not part of the plan.
00:27:26.000 And look, I don't do hoping.
00:27:27.000 I'm not saying, oh, well, we're going to win.
00:27:29.000 I'm saying that there is a shot, as Jim Carrey would say.
00:27:33.000 You're telling me there's a chance.
00:27:36.000 Said differently, the Democrats have tried to micromanage everything.
00:27:41.000 And instead, they might have over-planned this thing.
00:27:46.000 Instead, they've been focusing politics as way too much of a science and less as an art.
00:27:53.000 Republicans, we are all art when it comes to politics.
00:27:56.000 Rallies, messaging, vibes, attitudes, and like zero science.
00:28:02.000 Democrats are all science and they become zero art.
00:28:05.000 And it turns out it's really hard to centrally plan anything, let alone political systems.
00:28:12.000 Very hard, especially in a country that's divided 50-50.
00:28:17.000 They've tried to make it so they couldn't lose rather than they try to deserve to win.
00:28:22.000 Imagine if they tried to have a good presidency, but they couldn't do that.
00:28:27.000 And if we were to take an honest temperature check right now of Democrats grading Democrats, they are not happy where they're standing right now.
00:28:35.000 And that is the honest truth.
00:28:38.000 Further evidence to our hypothesis.
00:28:40.000 Robert Reich, who is a quasi-socialist Marxist left-winger, third-party candidates will help Trump win, says Robert Reich, the party of democracy.
00:28:50.000 He's always talking about democracy.
00:28:51.000 Less options are better.
00:28:53.000 We need less options.
00:28:55.000 If a third-party candidate takes even a small part of the anti-Trump away from Biden, Trump is likely to be returned to the White House.
00:29:02.000 I got to give our show credit.
00:29:04.000 We were way ahead of the curve here.
00:29:06.000 I think we've been talking about this for months.
00:29:08.000 And all of a sudden, people are waking up to it.
00:29:10.000 And that's why you guys watch the show and support the show.
00:29:12.000 That if you want the news 90 days ahead of time, listen to this program.
00:29:16.000 All of a sudden, the media is like, wait a second, this Cornell West thing.
00:29:18.000 Because here's what the plan was supposed to be.
00:29:20.000 The plan was supposed to be this.
00:29:22.000 Number one, they thought, as of today, September 13th, 2023, number one, Donald Trump would be in a very competitive primary.
00:29:31.000 That was their first false assumption.
00:29:33.000 You deploy Chris Christie, full media support.
00:29:37.000 Ron DeSantis flatlining has been one of the unexpected developments of the anti-Trump movement in the last six months.
00:29:47.000 They thought for certain Donald Trump would get bloodied and damaged in the primary.
00:29:51.000 Messed up their whole plan, to be perfectly honest with you.
00:29:53.000 Their whole plan was Civil War, Trump getting nasty.
00:29:56.000 And it's like there's no race.
00:29:57.000 There's no debate.
00:29:58.000 There's no sound bites.
00:29:59.000 Do you even hear from Governor DeSantis anymore?
00:30:01.000 And I say this as an admirer of his and someone who is a cheerleader for his wonderful governorship of Florida.
00:30:06.000 You don't even hear about him anymore.
00:30:07.000 It's completely out of the conversation.
00:30:10.000 So that's number one.
00:30:11.000 That did not go according to plan.
00:30:12.000 Number two, they had lawfare, right?
00:30:14.000 Start with Alvin Bragg with his ridiculous indictment, then Jack Smith 1, Jack Smith 2, and then Big Fanny Willis.
00:30:20.000 And yet, with each indictment, Trump raises more money.
00:30:23.000 His polls actually strengthen.
00:30:25.000 People view it as nakedly political.
00:30:27.000 That's number two.
00:30:28.000 Number three, the regime underestimated about how unpopular Joe Biden was getting.
00:30:32.000 They just kind of ignored it.
00:30:34.000 They're kind of like, ah, whatever.
00:30:36.000 And then it was happening month after month after month.
00:30:38.000 And then they send Chuck Hugh Schumer on some sort of PR blitz a couple months ago.
00:30:41.000 Wow, the economy is actually wonderful.
00:30:43.000 Yeah, people are not buying it.
00:30:45.000 Talk to anybody.
00:30:45.000 I'm telling you, people are very, the rank and file, the ordinary, the muscular class.
00:30:50.000 If you are not like an oligarch or a trust funder in Kenny Bunkport, Hamptons, Aspen, Sun Valley, you are not happy with this economy.
00:30:59.000 The rank and file are feeling the squeeze.
00:31:02.000 They are not able to survive financially right now.
00:31:05.000 Lots of debt being accrued.
00:31:06.000 It's not good.
00:31:08.000 So that's number three.
00:31:08.000 Number four, they're all of a sudden looking around and Republicans are starting to get a little bit smarter about the early voting thing.
00:31:15.000 They're seeing what Turning Point Action is doing.
00:31:16.000 We're hiring up like crazy to do the early vote stuff.
00:31:19.000 They're seeing a very focused, very focused media campaign on just a couple states because the mockingbird media is like, oh, no, no, focus on Pennsylvania.
00:31:27.000 We're like, it's actually more about Maricopa, Pima, Pinal, Yabapai, Gwinnett, Cobb, Fulton, Dane, Kenosha, Milwaukee.
00:31:35.000 They don't like that.
00:31:36.000 They don't like that kind of focus.
00:31:38.000 And then, of course, the other thing that's really important is they did not expect this third-party thing, this third-party thing that is now popping up.
00:31:50.000 And it wouldn't it just be poetically beautiful, just from the divine, that the party that brags about being the political movement of experts that try to centrally plan everything from the masks you wear in the car to the vaccines you take also can't actually plan the 2024 election.
00:32:15.000 Wouldn't that just be awesome?
00:32:18.000 They're technocrats, right?
00:32:19.000 They believe in a philosopher king agenda.
00:32:22.000 We are smart.
00:32:22.000 You are not.
00:32:23.000 We can plan this thing up.
00:32:25.000 And their plan is not going well.
00:32:27.000 That does not mean we're going to win, but we are in a far healthier position right now on September 13, 2023, than anyone in the oligarchs thought.
00:32:37.000 Ready, set match football was launched in early January this year.
00:32:41.000 They thought, this is what they thought.
00:32:42.000 They thought Trump would be in a five-point race with Ron DeSantis.
00:32:45.000 They thought Trump would be demoralized and completely erratic because of the indictments.
00:32:49.000 They thought Joe Biden would be up five to 10 points in all the polls.
00:32:52.000 They thought Republicans would be focused on the primary, not focused on the general election.
00:32:56.000 And they thought all these third-party candidates would just take the knee and basically come in to the machinery of the Democrat Party.
00:33:05.000 And none of that has happened.
00:33:06.000 Cornell West has already qualified for the Arizona ballot.
00:33:09.000 Boom.
00:33:10.000 I'm guarantee you, plenty of these weird, wacky Marxists at Arizona State University are going to go, I'll vote for Cornell West.
00:33:16.000 Well, that's not a vote for Biden.
00:33:19.000 Might happen Wisconsin and Georgia.
00:33:22.000 You're living through, take a step back, everybody, you are living through an implosion of a 2024 centralized plan that is not going well for them.
00:33:33.000 Get to work.
00:33:34.000 Do the hard stuff.
00:33:35.000 Believe the bad guys are broadcasting what could be described as a panic attack.
00:33:44.000 There is hope.
00:33:45.000 Get to work.
00:33:48.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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00:33:50.000 As always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:33:53.000 Thank you so much for listening, and God bless.
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