00:00:47.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:32.000That is, you make a plan to bring yourself and you find three people, three people that maybe they're in your family that weren't planning to vote, and you make sure that either you bring them with you if you're five.
00:03:39.000For your, for your, you know, you know, that's why when you watch the Charlie Kirk show, you're watching someone who actually engages with the information as opposed to when you watch most cable news.
00:03:48.000And you're getting someone who's essentially an actor who's been trained to read headlines.
00:03:53.000but I could tell that you actually had read through this and understood the underlying issue that the, and for me, I was, I was, so for my background, for people that know this, I don't always lean into it.
00:04:02.000Um, Navy intelligence officer predominantly focusing on East Asia, Mandarin linguist, um, lived in Shanghai for two years, so lived in the region, been to Taiwan multiple times, sailed through the Taiwan Strait on U.S. Navy ships, um, pretty, pretty familiar with the area.
00:04:19.000And that uh the understanding is that when people say, you know, well, what's the status quo?
00:04:27.000Does the U.S. support Taiwanese independence?
00:04:29.000Does U.S. support look, you actually have to understand the background, and that's what you broke down so well, Charlie is understanding that what you're actually looking at between mainland China and Taiwan is an unresolved civil war that goes all the way back to 1940, 1920s, if you want to go all the way back to Sun Yat-sen.
00:04:48.000But the fact that it isn't resolved is that Taiwan officially declares itself not as the country of Taiwan, but as the Republic of China.
00:04:56.000They were the original legitimate government of China after the fall of the Qing dynasty, stood up by Sun Yat-sen.
00:05:03.000They were kicked out by the communists, but the communists and Mao were never able to take Taiwan.
00:05:10.000That's actually because the Soviets pushed them into Korea, which Mao didn't want to go to, but that's a whole other story.
00:05:16.000The Republic of China lands there, fortifies the island, and then Truman says, you're not coming in.
00:05:22.000And it puts aircraft carriers and everything else.
00:05:24.000Because back at the time, he used to say that.
00:05:26.000He used to say that if we ever have to go to war with China, then Taiwan is essentially a floating aircraft carrier for us.
00:05:33.000This was a huge statement made back at the time.
00:05:35.000So when, and again, if you're on RAV and you heard the theme song for War Room, right, that we've been doing for all these years is take down the CCP.
00:05:45.000Take down the CCP, but what comes next?
00:05:48.000Well, what would then follow is you don't have to create a new government because the legitimate government of China has always been there.
00:05:56.000It's just currently only located in Taiwan.
00:05:59.000And so there's a lot to unpack kind of what's happening there.
00:06:03.000But the breaking news, Nancy Pelosi has just landed in Taiwan.
00:06:50.000So I'm not even talking about the Pelosi thing.
00:06:52.000I'm torn in the sense of, is this a good geopolitical idea?
00:06:56.000Whether if it was Pelosi or whether it was Paul Ryan or whether it was Boehner or McCarthy or Gingrich, is it a good idea to go to Taiwan or who?
00:07:29.000If you're looking at geopolitically, if you want to help the people of Taiwan, you want to help the Lao Beijing, the common man and women of China, where's Pelosi on the tariffs?
00:07:38.000Where's Pelosi on understanding the economic leverage?
00:07:40.000Because that's the only real way that we're ever going to be able to achieve any movement beyond the status quo here.
00:07:47.000Unless you stop the free flow of Western capital to the CCP, nothing will ever change.
00:07:54.000And China will absolutely, the CCP-controlled PLA, People's Liberation Army, will absolutely clearly have a military advantage in the area.
00:08:04.000President Trump was very clear about this as well.
00:08:33.000Talk about the fact that this was the Chernobyl of the 21st century with the breakout of that virus, the Wuhan lab, the gain of function, everything that was going on there.
00:08:43.000If you actually want to help, then that's great.
00:08:45.000But don't just do these publicity stunts that rattle the sabers and the fighters go up and everything else.
00:09:02.000And let's also, by the way, not overlook the fact that Nancy Pelosi and her husband were just caught buying semiconductors with this huge pump and dump deal that she had set up right before the passage of the CHIPS Act.
00:09:13.000They got caught, so they had to sell them before this came out.
00:09:24.000So she's in Taiwan right now, and the Chinese Communist Party sent out another press release, far less severe than the one they sent out previously, by the way, saying we have many cards to play.
00:09:34.000This now shows that we have this great rivalry against America, something like that.
00:09:39.000And I think we have to look below the surface with a story they're not showing.
00:09:43.000But right now, Nancy Pelosi is in Taiwan.
00:10:33.000They're the nation's largest preparedness company, and their four-week food kit contains enough meals for one person for nearly a month with 2,000 calories a day.
00:10:43.000Get one kit for each person in your family.
00:10:45.000There's no limit to how many you can order.
00:10:46.000Just make sure you have this food and you need it, which could be soon.
00:11:52.000Kissinger actually went for a secret meeting for the first time.
00:11:55.000Then, but it was under Carter that they actually switched diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to the CCP.
00:12:01.000And what's key with that is that's what gave China the seat at the United Nations Security Council.
00:12:07.000So the CCP, when I say China in this context, this was a huge deal because up until then, essentially, Taiwan, the Republic of China, had been considered the U.S., the U.S. ally.
00:12:20.000My point is, though, is that Charlie, we've put Taiwan in this situation.
00:12:24.000And we have to actually look at our own actions in terms of this, in terms of the West, in terms of the United States, because look at what we've done.
00:12:31.000We've allowed the CCP to isolate Taiwan.
00:12:34.000We've allowed them to isolate them militarily.
00:12:36.000We've allowed them to isolate them economically, cut them off from pretty much every other economic trading partner they had in the world.
00:12:43.000Barely anyone recognizes them anymore.
00:12:46.000I think I would personally support their.
00:12:50.000They should be part of the United Nations.
00:12:51.000They should at least be part as an independent member state there.
00:12:54.000And for the United States, though, you look at what we've done.
00:12:57.000We sold out the people of Taiwan when we decided to sell out the people of China because we wanted to outsource our manufacturing to Asia the same way we outsourced our energy to the Middle East.
00:13:07.000And we realized, hey, we don't want to have to deal with the United States.
00:13:10.000We don't have to deal with U.S. workers.
00:13:11.000We're going to go and use the slave labor of China to be our supply chain.
00:13:16.000And this is going to create this system called globalism.
00:13:19.000And so if you're going to come in at this last moment in the last stages of all of this, when China is now completely ascendant, flush with Western capital, right?
00:13:28.000There's a reason that Detroit looks the way it does and Shanghai looks the way it does, right?
00:13:31.000That's where your capital went, folks.
00:15:18.000And it's like, it just reminded me of the CCP.
00:15:21.000And it reminded me of how you would have the, you know, the political commissar, right, standing off stage, you know, kind of looking at you and holding his little red book saying, make sure you say the words.
00:15:33.000Make sure that you go through the mantras.
00:15:49.000We did a situation last year where one of our amphibious ships, you know, it's similar to an aircraft carrier, burned down on the pier, the Bonon Richard, and the sailors on board didn't know how to put out the fire because this is what they're getting traded.
00:16:02.000That's what I'm fearful of, and that's what concerns me when Pelosi goes to Taiwan.
00:16:09.000Our military is not ready for a war, not even close to worried about transgender pronoun training.
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00:17:24.000Yeah, I mean, look, Charlie, I've been out the polls all morning, 6 a.m.
00:17:28.000Our team at Turning Point Action has been in key target districts this morning from about 5:30 before the polls open at 6.
00:17:36.000And we've been out there, and it's been slower than I would expect in some of these Republican areas, which is terrifying for, I think, some of the MAGA candidates that you would look at, the Trump endorsed candidates, the more conservative candidates.
00:17:54.000Anyone that's in Arizona that's listening to this, that has friends in Arizona, has family in Arizona, they only have one shot to vote, and it's today.
00:18:24.000Do you think it might be because maybe some of these Republican candidates like Carrie Lake and Blake Masters were putting out very favorable polls and people think they don't have to go vote?
00:18:33.000Well, I mean, there's a combination of things.
00:18:35.000One is, you know, where people think that the election's in the bag, sometimes they don't show up to vote.
00:18:41.000And that's never a good policy to have.
00:18:44.000If you get out and vote for your candidate, your candidate is not going to win.
00:19:01.000I mean, look, if there's low turnout today, we certainly will because they, you know, in Maricopa County in Arizona, for example, the recorder put out, oh, you know, it might take us a few days to count all the votes.
00:20:47.000And this is what Republicans need to be talking about, which is the elimination of precinct-based polling is one of the most detrimental things.
00:20:55.000And our Republicans have allowed this to happen in Arizona, right?
00:21:43.000What basically has happened is suppression of Republican votes by making it more difficult for rural and suburban voters to vote and for urban to vote.
00:21:51.000But how did Republicans agree to this?
00:22:00.000And the legislature wouldn't fix it because guys like Rusty Bowers.
00:22:02.000And so our team out today, Rusty Bowers, who's the speaker of the house, who went down and testified at the J6 committee and other things.
00:22:10.000And his best friend is Nelliz Cheney, apparently, even though he's never known her ever his whole life, is now in a fight for his life for his Senate seat.
00:22:18.000And so we're out supporting against him, supporting the guy against him.
00:22:24.000And we're hoping that winning that seat will retain conservative control over the state Senate so we can pass election integrity bills in Arizona.
00:22:32.000If you guys live in Missouri or Washington or any of the primary states or Arizona, I want to hear your voting experience.
00:22:39.000So turnout might also be lower because people might also be confused of where to vote.
00:22:43.000I know that I dealt with this with my family this morning.
00:22:45.000Like, where the heck do I turn in my ballot?
00:22:46.000Yeah, people are like, they're having to Google.
00:22:48.000So I'm afraid what's happening, this is the first time that they've ever had to really do this because this is different from the presidential.
00:22:55.000You have to remember, presidential, everyone votes early.
00:22:57.000They're voting, you know, that vote, Oddly enough, all those leftist groups that are telling people normally to vote, you haven't seen much of that in this election.
00:23:41.000Do not procrastinate and don't give up if there's long lines this afternoon because I have a feeling that some of these places in Republican areas are going to be huge lines and that will be drop off.
00:25:03.000And that is a really important piece to voting on Election Day and voter integrity is that we want to make sure that people can vote and they know where to vote and it's consistent year in and year out.
00:25:13.000And what they're doing is making things grossly inconsistent and wrong.
00:26:10.000And look, if you're getting, if you're seeing reports of long lines this afternoon, start tweeting about, start posting to social media, take pictures.
00:26:22.000And so, I mean, we'll get into kind of what's happening here in Arizona with candidates as well here in a little bit.
00:26:28.000But, you know, this going back, this is really important for a lot of the conservative candidates because we know the more conservative candidates are going to win on election day.
00:26:36.000And so if you're supporting a conservative that's running at local levels, whether it's for state legislature or Congress or all the way up a ballot here where it's U.S. Senate or governor, get your people out and tell them that they cannot procrastinate.
00:26:54.000They cannot just assume that their person is going to win because this is going to be a drag out thing.
00:26:59.000It may take multiple days for us to get to a place where we actually have a winner here in Arizona.
00:27:04.000So someone just emailed us, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:27:06.000How is it that the process is still murky after all these months?
00:27:10.000Just because you're in the weeds of this, right, Tyler?
00:27:12.000I mean, just for normal, everyday people, carpenters, welders, electricians, moms and dads, they're getting mad.
00:27:19.000Well, I mean, look, I'll tell you, we have some really good people down at the legislature, but we have some really bad people down at the legislature.
00:27:25.000And so I would argue we've had the best people we've had at the legislature in a long time.
00:27:28.000We also have the worst people that we've had at the legislature in a long time.
00:27:31.000And the fact is, is that we have a very slim majority in Arizona in the ledge.
00:27:36.000Out of the 300-plus election integrity laws that were run across America, more than 100 of those were run in Arizona.
00:27:43.000Now, a majority of those did not get passed because we had some really bad leadership.
00:27:48.000And the speaker of the house here in Arizona, his name is Rusty Bowers.
00:28:04.000Well, it's because you have legislators who would not push back against the Democrats and let them just kind of run willy-nilly with this thing.
00:29:18.000And we'll nationalize it because we're a national program here.
00:29:20.000But honestly, even if you're watching right now from Maine, if you are watching from New York, what's happening in Arizona impacts your liberty.
00:29:43.000So, Tyler, someone asked us a question.
00:29:45.000If turnout keeps up like this, what will happen to MAGA candidates?
00:29:48.000Well, I mean, look, very simple is that if we're expecting high turnout from conservatives on day of because everybody all year long has been saying, I don't trust mail-in ballots.
00:30:10.000Now, how it works, Charlie just brought this up.
00:30:12.000People are experiencing some problems with printers.
00:30:14.000Basically, what they're doing at the polling place, if you show up, if you have a mail-in ballot you've left at home because you don't trust it or you shredded it or you threw it away or whatever, you destroyed it, go to the polling place, tell them that you don't have your ballot or you left it at home, and they will print you a new ballot that will replace the one that came in the mail and your vote will count today.
00:33:49.000You know, the similar thing is happening here on primary day for MAGA candidates, where we have this expectation of these trends.
00:33:58.000You know, Maricopa County, if we stayed on track, there should be about 800,000 votes that get cast across the state for Republicans tonight.
00:34:59.000You got to show up in massive numbers.
00:35:01.000Now, really quick, Tyler, do you fear that some of the emphasis on the lack of proficiency of our voting system might actually be having people say, what's the point?
00:35:11.000Well, look, the insane part that exists right now, and I get it, guys, I get that we don't have a ton of trust in the system and a ton of trust in our elected officials, but that's no reason to give up.
00:35:22.000The fact is, is that every shenanigan we know they polled can only move the dial so much, right?
00:35:30.000If you overwhelm them at the ballot box, there's nothing that they can do to stop your candidates from winning.
00:35:35.000And so that's where conservatives have to be is they got to overwhelm them to win so they can't pull all the tricks and the parlor tricks in order to get their candidates across the finish line.