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00:01:09.000All right, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:01:11.000It's election day, so here we are starting the day out.
00:01:15.000We're also going to be finishing the evening out with live updates.
00:01:19.000We're going to be streaming this evening, so check us out on all the Charlie Kirk show platforms and socials, and we'll make sure you have access to that.
00:01:27.000Of course, we're going to have our star-studded team, our election day team, in it.
00:01:32.000And Blake, in honor of Charlie Kirk, and those of us gathered around this table right now understand that Charlie loved election night streams, and you, the audience, tuned in by the droves to hear Charlie do it.
00:02:53.000Listen, this show has a huge audience in a lot of different parts of the country.
00:02:58.000But actually, weirdly enough, the California, it's partly just because there's so many people in California, but we also have great radio spread in California.
00:03:39.000You know, whatever past disagreements we might have, he's right on this.
00:03:45.000And, you know, even the Independent Commission has been radically corrupted because remember, you get mostly Democrats that are on the Independent Commission.
00:03:54.000So it's better than Prop 50, but even the Independent Commission could use a lot of work.
00:03:59.000That's the bottom line in a state like California.
00:04:02.000But, Jack, let's turn our sights to the east.
00:04:05.000Okay, so we've got the three, four biggest areas of focus is going to be Chittarelli and New Jersey.
00:04:16.000We've got Virginia, we've got Winsom Sears, and then we got a AG race, which is actually probably the closer of the two.
00:04:25.000So, if you're thinking Winsom Sears can't win and that's not, it's not worth going out, put those thoughts aside.
00:04:31.000You need to put those thoughts aside because here's the deal: everybody needs to get out, pull the trigger for Winsom Sears.
00:04:38.000That's probably the worst analogy I could use in that race, but you need to vote for Winsom.
00:04:43.000You need to get out and vote for Winsom.
00:04:45.000And then we also need to get the AG race over the top, and that one really has a chance big time.
00:04:52.000I would say, I don't know where the prediction markets are, but we need everybody in Virginia to think positive thoughts, get out to the polls, and make sure that the top cop in that state does not end up being Jay Jones, who is a real problem, who has fantasized and fetishized the murder of his political opponents as well as their children.
00:06:00.000Well, before I answer, and we are seeing some signs of that, but there is one thing that I do want to say: is that for all the people who will be voting today and all the people who need to be voting, there is one person who will not be voting today.
00:06:14.000And there is a person who voted every single election, but this for the first time, I think, I guess since he turned 18, who will not be voting today for the first election.
00:06:26.000Charlie should be sitting right here today, covering down on the election day coverage today and then all night on the Super Stream, which was, and we all know this, it was his favorite night of the year was election night.
00:07:44.000And it looked like the Democrat Jay Jones was ticking up to above 50% at one point.
00:07:49.000This is the prediction markets on Calci, right?
00:07:51.000And then, but now all of a sudden today, as of 11 a.m. East Coast time, and I guess it's noon East Coast time, that suddenly now Jason Miara's is pulling away with it.
00:08:06.000So there was this strange tightening and now, you know, a diving out.
00:08:10.000On the New York race, which is the one you asked me about, and I'm not going to be one of those guys who doesn't answer questions.
00:08:15.000We saw some really interesting data out of Calci, and I got this from New Jersey as well.
00:08:19.000That even though it looked as though Mandami is running away with it, if you break it down to Calci traders who have come in from New York only.
00:08:28.000So if you parse out the data and say, okay, everyone who's outside of New York City, we're going to take that out.
00:08:36.000Well, and I want to say this too, and I know we, that's a really interesting.
00:08:40.000So insiders inside the city are actually more bullish on Cuomo.
00:08:45.000And we have seen, we saw that poll from Atlas that came that showed that the race was tightening in the final stretch here, that Cuomo was making up some ground.
00:08:54.000Zoron was not putting his best foot forward.
00:08:56.000This is something we talked about with Mark Halperin actually last week: that, you know, sort of this grievance politics, the guilting Cuomo about not visiting a mosque or whatever.
00:09:20.000Or contrary to that, the other opinion would be that he is assuming that he's going to win and the mask is fully off.
00:09:27.000But regardless, Atlas has the race very much within striking distance, which is, which is, you know, listen, if we could get one miracle today, well, listen, I'll take all three.
00:09:38.000But I want to leave you guys with this.
00:09:40.000Regardless of what happens today, we are playing offense on their turf.
00:09:45.000Virginia basically was thought to be a blue state, then Glenn Young took it back.
00:09:50.000But, you know, we kind of knew that that was a Glenn Young was an exceptional candidate and he took it back, made the state a little bit more red for a time, right?
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00:12:50.000And what you're seeing here is, of course, the guy who is the leading candidate to be the next mayor of New York City, immediately when given the opportunity, what does he do?
00:12:58.000He attacks and demonizes his political opponents.
00:13:01.000This is the same thing that we saw Jimmy Kimmel do, by the way, in the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder.
00:13:06.000He immediately said that it was a MAGA guy who did this.
00:13:10.000And so what are we seeing again from, and again, we were told, oh, the left doesn't do this.
00:13:19.000This guy, by the way, he is going to be, and if he wins, by the way, and I'm going to throw down the marker right now, if he wins the New York City's mayor race, he will be the Democrat frontrunner for 2028 for the presidential election.
00:13:35.000And immediately, immediately, what's he do?
00:13:37.000He demonizes his opponents and blames his opponents for political violence.
00:13:41.000When we don't have any facts whatsoever right now, we do know that there's been a lot of political violence lately done by the political left.
00:13:48.000We could ask Charlie about that, but of course he's not here to join us and be able to have that discussion because of the political left.
00:13:55.000And so, by the way, we got these great, we got these great stickers, and I think we have this clip from, where is it?
00:14:04.000If you guys are going to pull it up, it's, oh, it's just a picture, 167 that we have up.
00:14:10.000And people are posting these up across New Jersey right now.
00:14:31.000Charlie would be right here today saying vote, Blake, do you agree with what Jack just said?
00:14:39.000That if Zoron wins today, especially if he wins handily in New York City, does he become the de facto frontrunner in the Democrat presidential race?
00:14:49.000Nah, he's, I think this is, truthfully, I think this is one of those things where it's a person on the left that, if anything, the right fixates on more than the left does.
00:15:01.000I think he's going to be a, especially because I don't think he'll be a very successful mayor of New York City.
00:15:07.000I think people do emphasize, they say he's going to make it way more dangerous.
00:16:21.000That's actually, thank goodness for that little provision in that.
00:16:26.000And the founders put it there for a reason.
00:16:28.000It's almost like they had an idea that if you were born in America, you're going to be more loyal to America than if you weren't born in America.
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00:18:09.000Well, this has been a really, it's an honor to have you on.
00:18:13.000I know you came on the Charlie Kirk show multiple times with Charlie, both when you were running for Senate and then later on as you've been part of the admin.
00:18:22.000Unfortunately, if you can get the wide shot, we have his open chair here.
00:18:25.000Jack just did a beautiful tribute to Charlie that Charlie would be begging everybody across the country to vote, in New Jersey, in Pennsylvania, in Virginia, in New York City.
00:18:39.000And unfortunately, he's not here today.
00:19:04.000We were at a meal together, and the bombing of Iran happened.
00:19:08.000So we said, well, you know, we'll do it in September.
00:19:10.000And it speaks to the unfortunate reality that life is so unpredictable.
00:19:14.000I'm not going to take everyone through the trauma of that whole experience.
00:19:19.000Obviously, I joined the president when we flew out to the event in Phoenix, which was a top memorable moment in my life.
00:19:26.000And I've had lots of interesting experiences.
00:19:29.000But I think it speaks to the power that Charlie and the whole movement has had in waking people up to some of the dishonest narratives that we've been tricked with.
00:19:38.000But it sort of goes back, I think, very fundamentally to respecting some of those Judeo-Christian traditions that so often have guided us into successful relationships, raising wonderful families, living in communities that are functional.
00:19:52.000And when we don't honor some of those basic principles, we run into trouble.
00:19:55.000And on this election day, one of the many things that's being evaluated is this government shutdown.
00:20:02.000And I thought I'd use this maybe as a jumping point to speak to those very values that Charlie and you and others would speak to.
00:20:12.000We believe in our country that business is good and you want to work in business and you want to do good things for your community through those businesses and build value in society and do things that fix problems.
00:20:23.000All the things that many of us grew up, I think, believing was incumbent to our opportunity as Americans.
00:20:33.000And many people came from other parts of the world because they know and found out that America actually still does those things that their country stopped doing, like go to work, play a role in improving society, have agency over your own life because it matters.
00:20:49.000And whatever that thing is, go out and do it.
00:20:51.000So when we faced, as we came into the administration, a reality that Medicaid was basically insolvent because of some of the things that have been done during the pandemic, but some of the predated the pandemic as well, we had generated a system that just was not going to be functional for much longer that would put our most vulnerable at risk.
00:21:13.000I'm sitting in the Humphrey building in Washington, right across from the Capitol.
00:21:16.000As you walk into our building, there's a quote from Hubert Humphrey.
00:21:20.000And it says it's the, he uses light as a metaphor.
00:21:24.000It is the moral obligation of government, he says, it's the moral obligation of all of us, to take care of those at the dawn of life, children, those at the twilight of life, the seniors, and those who are living in the shadows.
00:21:36.000Now, again, that haunting metaphor is powerful.
00:21:40.000So if you're going to protect our most vulnerable, you can't allow fraud, waste, and abuse to strip it of its vitality.
00:21:47.000So the president very directly told me to preserve, for example, Medicare, don't touch Medicare, don't hurt the folks who are vulnerable on Medicaid, but take the fraud, waste, and abuse out of the system.
00:21:58.000We have been doing that, and we're going to continue to do that.
00:22:01.000And the Democrats have shut down Washington.
00:22:03.000They shut the government down because they believe that the one big, beautiful bill, which codified many of the things that make sense to clean up Medicaid and protect it for the most vulnerable, were wrong.
00:22:12.000They want to, for example, allow illegal immigrants to continue to get funded for their health care benefits.
00:22:18.000This fundamentally changes the equation.
00:22:20.000Democrats don't like there's a work requirement.
00:22:23.000But we tell people, fine, if you're in a difficult spot, we'll pay for your health care.
00:22:27.000But you need to actually try to get a job.
00:22:29.000And if you can't get a job, go volunteer somewhere.
00:22:33.000Do something to reinforce what you should know deep down inside, which is God's got a plan for you and go act on it.
00:22:40.000And these are fundamental differences in how folks are seeing the future of this country.
00:22:45.000I believe because work is so fundamental to who we are, that we should have a work requirement.
00:22:49.000I believe that if you're an American citizen, you should get support for your health care.
00:22:53.000But illegal immigrants coming here and induced to stay here because they're given free health care, that should not be part of the equation.
00:23:01.000Certainly, the federal government should not be paying for that.
00:23:04.000And we know, for example, and just not to get into too much of the weeds here, that there are some states, there's six in the country, six out of 50 states, allow separate money to be paid to illegal immigrant health care from their state budgets.
00:23:18.000And of course, that allows them to recruit and retain illegal immigrants, despite what federal law is around coming across borders illegally.
00:23:27.000And now we are just identifying, breaking news, I'll share it with you, that we believe is over a billion dollars that has been taken from federal tax money to support these programs.
00:23:37.000In fact, they're starting to pay us back, so I'm pretty sure we're right.
00:23:43.000So a billion dollars you've identified that's basically fraud.
00:23:47.000It's basically fraud that the states are using improperly.
00:23:50.000So I wanted to play a clip for you, and I do think it's election-related because, you know, there is some polling out there that would indicate that the American people want to focus more on domestic issues, more on cost, health care, things like that, as opposed to foreign issues, foreign policy.
00:24:07.000But one of the reasons that I think this resonates is because Democrats' messaging, and I hate to say it, but I think it's been a little bit more disciplined in this, especially this election run-up than some of the Republican counterparts.
00:24:21.000And I wanted to play this clip for you from Rachel Maddow.
00:24:24.000And it's in relation to the government shutdown where she's basically saying, well, if you strip these subsidies out of Obamacare, the ACA, then all these costs are going to go up for Americans, right?
00:24:35.000Now, Republicans have been warning about these subsidies for years that they're going to make Medicaid and Medicare insolvent in the long run.
00:24:42.000But I want you to give you a chance to respond to this and debunk this.
00:24:47.000Look at these numbers from the New York Times tonight.
00:24:51.000Based on the newly posted information, meaning the pricing information that's now being posted in multiple states, a family of four making $130,000 in Maine.
00:25:02.000So you combine the family's income, everybody's salaries, you got up to $130,000, that family would face an increase in their annual health insurance premiums next year of $16,100.
00:25:16.000That's how much their health insurance premiums would go up.
00:25:20.000This is what Democrats have been drawing the line about in this shutdown, telling Republicans that this is the thing they need to fix.
00:25:45.000When he pushed through Congress in a very partisan way the Affordable Care Act, there was funding for people who are at the poverty level.
00:25:54.000The question then becomes, how do you define the poverty level?
00:25:56.000Well, they defined it as four times more than poverty.
00:26:00.000So if poverty level lets us make a number up, is $16,000.
00:26:04.000Make it the math simple, make it $20,000 the poverty level, then four times that for an individual, $80,000, is how much they were willing to cover.
00:26:12.000They weren't going to cover five, six, seven, eight times the poverty level.
00:26:19.000So Obamacare did not cover people who are making more than four times the poverty level.
00:26:25.000And for that reason, when they added these COVID benefits, and they were purely added because we were in a pandemic and a war, and they were added for a very short period of time, and they were set to end when the pandemic ended.
00:26:51.000Original Obamacare never covered people making four times Medicare.
00:26:54.000Rachel Maddow just picked an example of someone who's making, whatever it was, $150,000 a year who was making more than four times Medicare.
00:27:03.000Therefore, they were not ever eligible for Obamacare.
00:27:07.000And she's complaining that what was done during COVID as a stopgap measure to deal with the pandemic is now being expiring, so that's a problem for the Republicans.
00:27:16.000We were even willing, even willing, despite all that, to negotiate and talk about some of these issues, but only if we find a true solution to the fundamental flaws in a broken system.
00:27:27.000Obamacare pricing has increased so much faster than anyone ever imagined.
00:27:31.000It is becoming unaffordable even when the government is paying for it.
00:27:34.000But that's not what the Democrats wanted.
00:28:24.000So the whole narrative that we're trying to strip health care from people.
00:28:27.000No, this is COVID-era spending that is unsustainable.
00:28:31.000We have to do something to bring it back.
00:28:33.000Yeah, we want to make health care more affordable, but this is not the way to bankrupt the country.
00:28:37.000But if I can just jump in there, because I do think it's critical.
00:28:40.000What is the average amount of premium that an Obamacare recipient will get next year after all these things that Rachel says are so horrible expire?
00:29:15.000Yeah, I mean, I think that's really well said.
00:29:18.000I mean, listen, at some point, we have to say no.
00:29:21.000We have to say no, and we have to reform some of these structural issues in our healthcare system that are driving up costs.
00:29:27.000But here, I mean, listen, that was the whole exchange with Obamacare.
00:29:30.000A bunch of people who couldn't afford it, we're going to pay for it.
00:29:32.000Of course, that's going to make costs go up for everybody else, okay?
00:29:34.000I mean, you can't wave a magic wand and make this stuff just disappear, but you cannot also bankrupt the whole of the U.S. government to keep subsidizing these runaway costs.
00:31:35.000But to my previous point, Blake, when you get addicted to the dole, you can't get them off.
00:31:40.000I mean, this is what we were warned about 100 years ago when you're expanding everything is, you know, once you are giving people free money, especially something they've done nothing to earn in any way, they very quickly become extremely entitled to it.
00:31:54.000And we've seen this transition across the board.
00:31:57.000I mean, we've seen it with the snap pause.
00:31:58.000There are people on Snap who've never worked in 30 years, have not seriously tried to work, and it's an apocalyptic offense that they would ever be expected to do it.
00:32:07.000That they would ever be asked to do it.
00:32:26.000The reason you have the standoff is because if the hundreds of billions of dollars to create a financial incentive to have this giant magnet to attract illegals from every part of Earth to these states, if that is turned off, the illegals will leave because they're no longer being paid to come to the United States and stay here.
00:33:31.000And we realize that because we now have this massive, in a place like New York City, which is the model, the Mandami model is what they want to expand across the entire country.
00:33:41.000The Mandani model explicitly is taxes white people so you can take their money and give it to resentful brown people for the resentful game.
00:36:16.000And then here's Jay Jones, who's campaigning to be the top cop in Virginia, the Commonwealth, and he just, branded Blade, instinctively tries to kick a dog.