The Charlie Kirk Show - August 02, 2022


MIDTERM MADNESS: Red Flags Rise Up for Arizona's Red Wave


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Jack Pesobic and Charlie Kirk join me to talk about the importance of voting in the midterms and why you need to go out and do your part to make sure you re-elect the president we all voted for in 2016.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, quick and to the point.
00:00:01.000 Arizona turnout needs to go up.
00:00:03.000 We are have our eyes on all things Arizona.
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00:00:16.000 As always, email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:00:19.000 Jack Pesobic is also here to unpack all things Taiwan.
00:00:22.000 Pretty awesome episode.
00:00:24.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:24.000 Here we go.
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00:01:07.000 Hello, everybody.
00:01:08.000 Charlie Kirk here with the great Jack Pesobic.
00:01:11.000 Thank you guys for tuning in today.
00:01:13.000 Very important day here in Arizona.
00:01:15.000 Jack, welcome.
00:01:16.000 Thank you so much.
00:01:17.000 No, that this is ground zero for the Republic today.
00:01:20.000 If we're going to take back the Republic, it starts in Arizona.
00:01:23.000 So you're going to be sick of me telling you this, but you're going to hear it from Tyler Boyer, and then you're going to hear it from me.
00:01:31.000 Turnout is low.
00:01:32.000 Tyler is freaking out in our group chat.
00:01:35.000 I can see it.
00:01:35.000 Yeah.
00:01:35.000 And he's, he's, I've been out here since 6 a.m.
00:01:37.000 And what's going on?
00:01:38.000 Nobody's here.
00:01:39.000 You know, we need more people.
00:01:41.000 We need more people.
00:01:42.000 By the way, so if you are an Arizona conservative, you got to go vote.
00:01:45.000 Get your friends to do the same.
00:01:47.000 Tyler believes that turnout is so low that this means that MAGA candidates up and down the ballot will lose.
00:01:53.000 He said, if this continues and this is this slow drip, then we're going to get blown out.
00:01:58.000 Here's the thing.
00:01:59.000 The issue that he's talking about is complacency.
00:02:01.000 And this is a broader question for the midterms nationwide too.
00:02:04.000 Is that we keep, if you keep saying red wave, and you and Blake talked about this yesterday.
00:02:08.000 If you keep saying red wave, red wave, red wave, everything's fine, everything's fine.
00:02:12.000 Well, okay, but you have to actually go out and make it happen.
00:02:14.000 Yes.
00:02:15.000 So just assume that that's not going to happen.
00:02:17.000 Put that aside and say, okay, what can I affect action, action, action for the war room audience?
00:02:22.000 Right.
00:02:23.000 Go out there, make a plan.
00:02:24.000 And then by the way, if you know that you're going to vote, go and do what we used to do in 2016.
00:02:29.000 We called it MAGA 3X.
00:02:30.000 And what is MAGA 3X?
00:02:32.000 That 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.
00:02:41.000 I got two people here in Arizona.
00:02:42.000 You can do five if you want to go five.
00:02:43.000 I texted you guys the video in the group chat of one guy that I know really well just moved here.
00:02:49.000 And he's like, hey, Charlie, you know, what do you think about all this?
00:02:52.000 You know, aren't the elections corrupt?
00:02:54.000 I said, if we're going to keep being friends, you got to go vote.
00:02:57.000 He literally texted me a video of him voting for Blake Masters and voting for Kerry Lake.
00:03:01.000 I was like, Charlie's constantly spamming the group chat, just so you guys know.
00:03:04.000 It's constant.
00:03:05.000 Oh, it's non-stop.
00:03:06.000 It's like 90%, Charlie.
00:03:07.000 Yeah, it is.
00:03:08.000 And it's got, people would think it'd be the opposite.
00:03:10.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:03:11.000 You don't have time for it.
00:03:11.000 No, no, no.
00:03:12.000 He's like, guys, you see this, guys, you see that?
00:03:15.000 Your mind is like.
00:03:16.000 I don't have other social media.
00:03:17.000 Right.
00:03:17.000 Yeah.
00:03:17.000 That is my social media.
00:03:18.000 Right.
00:03:19.000 Is a group chat with 11 of my closest friends.
00:03:22.000 So, Jack, I want to shift gears here.
00:03:24.000 I want to get to this Taiwan thing because it's really unclear to me.
00:03:26.000 And you made a funny compliment beforehand when I did my best to regurgitate Chinese history to Taiwan.
00:03:33.000 No, no, I was that.
00:03:34.000 Hey, that was no cap, man.
00:03:36.000 No cap.
00:03:36.000 That was actually, that was pretty good.
00:03:38.000 It was the, I did the best I could.
00:03:39.000 For 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.
00:03:48.000 And you're getting someone who's essentially an actor who's been trained to read headlines.
00:03:53.000 but 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.
00:04:02.000 Um, 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.
00:04:19.000 And that uh the understanding is that when people say, you know, well, what's the status quo?
00:04:27.000 Does the U.S. support Taiwanese independence?
00:04:29.000 Does 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.
00:04:48.000 But 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.
00:04:56.000 They were the original legitimate government of China after the fall of the Qing dynasty, stood up by Sun Yat-sen.
00:05:03.000 They were kicked out by the communists, but the communists and Mao were never able to take Taiwan.
00:05:10.000 That's actually because the Soviets pushed them into Korea, which Mao didn't want to go to, but that's a whole other story.
00:05:15.000 So they don't get Taiwan.
00:05:16.000 The Republic of China lands there, fortifies the island, and then Truman says, you're not coming in.
00:05:22.000 And it puts aircraft carriers and everything else.
00:05:24.000 Because back at the time, he used to say that.
00:05:26.000 He used to say that if we ever have to go to war with China, then Taiwan is essentially a floating aircraft carrier for us.
00:05:33.000 This was a huge statement made back at the time.
00:05:35.000 So 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.
00:05:45.000 Okay, great.
00:05:45.000 Take down the CCP, but what comes next?
00:05:48.000 Well, what would then follow is you don't have to create a new government because the legitimate government of China has always been there.
00:05:56.000 It's just currently only located in Taiwan.
00:05:59.000 And so there's a lot to unpack kind of what's happening there.
00:06:03.000 But the breaking news, Nancy Pelosi has just landed in Taiwan.
00:06:08.000 And I'm very torn on this, Jack.
00:06:10.000 So maybe you can help get me clarity in with the audience, which is I'm no fan of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:06:16.000 I think that our focus should be on the CCP, unlike how our focus is on Vladimir Putin in Russia.
00:06:22.000 Some people say, well, Nancy Pelosi is showing this big show of strength by going to Taiwan.
00:06:27.000 Other people say that, you know, we are unnecessarily agitating the Chinese Communist Party, which I'm torn.
00:06:34.000 And I'm torn for the following reasons.
00:06:36.000 Not for political reasons.
00:06:37.000 We know why Pelosi is going.
00:06:38.000 I think she's just trying to get a midterm boost for the Democrat Party.
00:06:42.000 It's also because it's a nice feather in her cap for the end of her career.
00:06:46.000 End of her career.
00:06:46.000 And also, she's an asset of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:06:49.000 100% said.
00:06:50.000 So I'm not even talking about the Pelosi thing.
00:06:52.000 I'm torn in the sense of, is this a good geopolitical idea?
00:06:56.000 Whether 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?
00:07:05.000 Pompeo talked about actually going.
00:07:07.000 Well, I don't know if he did or not.
00:07:07.000 Yeah.
00:07:08.000 I don't know if he went, but I know he tweeted that he would try to accompany Pelosi on this trip.
00:07:13.000 I don't know if it's ever actually.
00:07:14.000 So Jack, you're the expert.
00:07:15.000 So Jack, is this a good idea or a bad idea?
00:07:17.000 Nancy Pelosi in Taiwan, forget the politics of it. 1.00
00:07:20.000 Let's pretend it's not Pelosi, which is obviously so nakedly partisan and political, of which I have no respect for her.
00:07:26.000 Well, here's more generally geopolitically.
00:07:27.000 Well, no, here's the thing.
00:07:29.000 If 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?
00:07:38.000 Where's Pelosi on understanding the economic leverage?
00:07:40.000 Because that's the only real way that we're ever going to be able to achieve any movement beyond the status quo here.
00:07:47.000 Unless you stop the free flow of Western capital to the CCP, nothing will ever change.
00:07:54.000 And China will absolutely, the CCP-controlled PLA, People's Liberation Army, will absolutely clearly have a military advantage in the area.
00:08:04.000 President Trump was very clear about this as well.
00:08:04.000 There's no question.
00:08:06.000 That should a kinetic conflict kick off, I mean, it would be bloody.
00:08:10.000 It would be devastating.
00:08:11.000 The entire island would be on fire.
00:08:14.000 Personally, I think you'd probably see more of like a blockade would probably be more germane because they don't want to break it.
00:08:20.000 They want to buy it.
00:08:21.000 But if you actually want to do something to help, why hasn't she come out and talked about the tariffs that would already weaken the CCP?
00:08:29.000 And look at the banking crisis for the virus.
00:08:32.000 She hasn't mentioned the virus.
00:08:33.000 Talk 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. 0.92
00:08:43.000 If you actually want to help, then that's great.
00:08:45.000 But don't just do these publicity stunts that rattle the sabers and the fighters go up and everything else.
00:08:51.000 You have to do the work.
00:08:52.000 So, am I understand this correctly?
00:08:54.000 Do you think a lot of this is performative?
00:08:56.000 That this is kind of theatrical?
00:08:58.000 I think it's all performative.
00:09:00.000 Okay.
00:09:01.000 I think it's all performative.
00:09:02.000 And 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.
00:09:13.000 They got caught, so they had to sell them before this came out.
00:09:15.000 Where are those semiconductors?
00:09:16.000 The NVIDIA company, where's the fabrication sites?
00:09:20.000 15 out of the 18 are on Taiwan.
00:09:24.000 So 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.
00:09:34.000 This now shows that we have this great rivalry against America, something like that.
00:09:39.000 And I think we have to look below the surface with a story they're not showing.
00:09:43.000 But right now, Nancy Pelosi is in Taiwan.
00:09:45.000 It's dominating all the news cycle.
00:09:46.000 No better person to help us unpack it than Jack Pisobic.
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00:11:06.000 Let's play cut 27, John Kirby.
00:11:08.000 And then, Jack, I want your response on this: whether or not we as Americans support Taiwan independence, play CUP 27.
00:11:15.000 We've repeatedly said that we oppose any unilateral changes to the status quo from either side.
00:11:22.000 We have said that we do not support Taiwan independence.
00:11:25.000 And we have said that we expect cross-strait differences to be resolved by peaceful means.
00:11:31.000 We have communicated this directly to the Jack.
00:11:35.000 The United States never should have disrecognized Taiwan back in the 1970s under Jimmy Carter.
00:11:42.000 The United States.
00:11:43.000 Was it Carter or Nixon?
00:11:45.000 So Nixon did the meeting.
00:11:46.000 Right.
00:11:47.000 He meets with John Lai.
00:11:47.000 Held the meeting.
00:11:49.000 Then he meets with Kissinger goes over.
00:11:51.000 Then he meets with Mao.
00:11:52.000 Kissinger actually went for a secret meeting for the first time.
00:11:55.000 Then, but it was under Carter that they actually switched diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to the CCP.
00:12:01.000 And what's key with that is that's what gave China the seat at the United Nations Security Council.
00:12:07.000 So 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.
00:12:19.000 We gave them this.
00:12:20.000 My point is, though, is that Charlie, we've put Taiwan in this situation.
00:12:24.000 And 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.
00:12:31.000 We've allowed the CCP to isolate Taiwan.
00:12:34.000 We've allowed them to isolate them militarily.
00:12:36.000 We've allowed them to isolate them economically, cut them off from pretty much every other economic trading partner they had in the world.
00:12:43.000 Barely anyone recognizes them anymore.
00:12:46.000 I think I would personally support their.
00:12:50.000 They should be part of the United Nations.
00:12:51.000 They should at least be part as an independent member state there.
00:12:54.000 And for the United States, though, you look at what we've done.
00:12:57.000 We 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.
00:13:07.000 And we realized, hey, we don't want to have to deal with the United States.
00:13:10.000 We don't have to deal with U.S. workers.
00:13:11.000 We're going to go and use the slave labor of China to be our supply chain. 1.00
00:13:16.000 And this is going to create this system called globalism.
00:13:19.000 And 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?
00:13:28.000 There's a reason that Detroit looks the way it does and Shanghai looks the way it does, right?
00:13:31.000 That's where your capital went, folks.
00:13:32.000 It went over there, right?
00:13:33.000 There's no, there's no China dream like Xi Jinping likes to tell you.
00:13:37.000 No, That's our capital.
00:13:39.000 It's a massive labor redumb asylum. 0.93
00:13:41.000 100%.
00:13:42.000 Yeah.
00:13:42.000 And so, you know, when you see statements like this, well, of course, you know, are we going to sell out time?
00:13:48.000 My point is, we've been selling them out for 30 years.
00:13:51.000 Let's get just another piece of sound here, really quick.
00:13:54.000 Let's go to okay.
00:13:56.000 The question is: are we prepared and are we ready for a conflict?
00:14:00.000 This is my one fear is that is our military ready, especially our Navy.
00:14:05.000 You served in the Navy, right, Jack?
00:14:07.000 My proud, beloved Navy.
00:14:09.000 Play cut 34.
00:14:12.000 While the Chinese Communist Party prepares for war and Pelosi saber rattles, this is what our military is focused on: play cut 34.
00:14:21.000 Hi, my name is Johnny, and I use he, him pronouns.
00:14:23.000 Hi, and I'm Kanchi, and I use she, her pronouns.
00:14:26.000 And we're here to talk about pronouns.
00:14:29.000 What is a pronoun?
00:14:30.000 A pronoun is how we identify ourselves apart from our name, and it's also how B Board referred to us in conversations.
00:14:37.000 Using the right pronouns is a really simple way to affirm someone's identity.
00:14:41.000 It is a signal of acceptance and respect.
00:14:44.000 That is an official United States military Navy required mandatory training video, Jack.
00:14:52.000 And, you know, so right when I was getting out, it's kind of when a lot of the trans training was being instituted.
00:14:57.000 So I went through, I did go through one.
00:14:59.000 I actually had to sit through one in uniform, you know, full, full hall full of people.
00:15:04.000 And you could see chiefs and even commanders just kind of looking around the room saying, What are we doing here?
00:15:11.000 And then you've got a guy who's got an 05 up on stage who's delivering the briefing and going through the talking points.
00:15:11.000 Right.
00:15:18.000 And it's like, it just reminded me of the CCP.
00:15:21.000 And 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.
00:15:33.000 Make sure that you go through the mantras.
00:15:35.000 You all have to say it.
00:15:36.000 You have to nod your head.
00:15:37.000 But, Charlie, take it back.
00:15:40.000 We've got planes falling off of aircraft carriers.
00:15:42.000 We've got ships crashing into each other in the seventh fleet.
00:15:45.000 That's the fleet that would be in East Asia.
00:15:48.000 We've also got a situation.
00:15:49.000 We 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.
00:16:02.000 That's what I'm fearful of, and that's what concerns me when Pelosi goes to Taiwan.
00:16:09.000 Our military is not ready for a war, not even close to worried about transgender pronoun training.
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00:17:15.000 Tyler Boyer is here from Turning Point Action here in Arizona.
00:17:18.000 Tyler, you believe there is reason for concern here in Arizona.
00:17:23.000 What's going on?
00:17:24.000 Yeah, I mean, look, Charlie, I've been out the polls all morning, 6 a.m.
00:17:28.000 Our team at Turning Point Action has been in key target districts this morning from about 5:30 before the polls open at 6.
00:17:36.000 And 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.
00:17:52.000 I mean, guys, you only have one day.
00:17:54.000 Anyone 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.
00:18:00.000 And they've got to.
00:18:01.000 You're seeing lower turnout than you would have expected.
00:18:04.000 Than I would have expected.
00:18:05.000 Yeah, I've been doing this for the last about eight election cycles since I turned 18.
00:18:10.000 And, you know, this is a this is a this is a lot slower of a primary day than I would have expected.
00:18:17.000 And it's still early in the day, so it could be fixed.
00:18:18.000 People can still show up.
00:18:19.000 Yep, absolutely.
00:18:21.000 But there was no kind of morning surge.
00:18:24.000 Why do you think that is?
00:18:24.000 Do 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?
00:18:33.000 Well, I mean, there's a combination of things.
00:18:35.000 One is, you know, where people think that the election's in the bag, sometimes they don't show up to vote.
00:18:41.000 And that's never a good policy to have.
00:18:44.000 If you get out and vote for your candidate, your candidate is not going to win.
00:18:48.000 Yeah.
00:18:48.000 And nowadays, when we're dealing with Democrats in these election offices, I mean, it could be weeks before we get a winner.
00:18:56.000 Do you think we'll know a winner tonight?
00:18:58.000 I hope so.
00:18:59.000 I hope that's the case.
00:19:01.000 I 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.
00:19:13.000 So everyone needs to just chill.
00:19:16.000 Yeah, I mean, it's just, it's so bad.
00:19:18.000 But I mean, the second part of this is that I think a lot of people are maybe waiting till after work.
00:19:23.000 And my big concern is that from 4 p.m. till 7 p.m., the polls close, that is going to be really busy.
00:19:29.000 Yeah, but then people are going to say, forget it.
00:19:31.000 I know.
00:19:31.000 Do not, I'm telling you guys, if you end up, there's about half as many polling places as there's historically has been for midterms.
00:19:38.000 They moved to the vote center concept, which is stupid. 0.99
00:19:42.000 So no longer agree with what that is. 0.99
00:19:44.000 I'm confused.
00:19:44.000 I don't understand.
00:19:45.000 Well, and that's what that's what upsets us is that, you know, in the West, they tested this in California and they've moved this.
00:19:52.000 Now they're moving this east.
00:19:53.000 And what they're trying to do is they're trying to eliminate precinct polling, precinct voting, right?
00:19:58.000 Yes.
00:19:58.000 So this is right.
00:19:59.000 I was at my family's last night and they're like, yeah, we used to vote right around the street.
00:20:02.000 Now we have to drive 20 minutes.
00:20:03.000 It used to be like little old ladies could walk down to their church that's like on the corner and they could vote. 0.98
00:20:08.000 Now they're making people drive miles away.
00:20:12.000 And allegedly, the Democrats are doing this for to make it easier to vote, even though it's further away for old ladies. 0.82
00:20:17.000 Well, but yeah, I mean, so my family, yeah, we have to drive 20 minutes across town to go drop off our ballot.
00:20:22.000 To drop off a ballot, which is insanity.
00:20:24.000 20 minutes where otherwise it was a church right around the corner.
00:20:27.000 So now we're centralizing, not decentralizing elections.
00:20:29.000 So they're centralizing elections further away from where people live.
00:20:34.000 And so I think that's part of it, honestly, is that, you know, now voters are like, you know what?
00:20:39.000 I can't go wait in line for hours in a polling place that's 20 minutes away from a house.
00:20:43.000 Honestly, it's an attack on voting.
00:20:47.000 And this is what Republicans need to be talking about, which is the elimination of precinct-based polling is one of the most detrimental things.
00:20:55.000 And our Republicans have allowed this to happen in Arizona, right?
00:20:57.000 Totally allowed it.
00:20:58.000 And so, yeah, my fear is that people are like, oh, you know what?
00:21:01.000 I don't have time this morning.
00:21:02.000 I got to get to work.
00:21:03.000 I'm going to leave work early.
00:21:04.000 So here's the important part, not to interrupt.
00:21:06.000 So producer Connor lives in an urban area, downtown Phoenix, and he said it was less than a mile to go there.
00:21:13.000 My family lives in Scottsdale, super conservative, very conservative.
00:21:17.000 They have to drive 20 minutes.
00:21:19.000 Yep.
00:21:19.000 20 minutes from their home.
00:21:21.000 So if you live in downtown Phoenix, they make it easier than ever.
00:21:25.000 But you live in Scottsdale, you have to go.
00:21:26.000 So they're voter suppressing conservatives.
00:21:28.000 Yes.
00:21:29.000 And they're making it easier for woke vegan people in downtown.
00:21:33.000 No offense, Connor.
00:21:34.000 In downtown Phoenix.
00:21:36.000 He's neither woke or vegan.
00:21:37.000 No, but I know he lives in downtown Phoenix.
00:21:39.000 His neighbors are.
00:21:40.000 There are some whackadoodles in downtown Phoenix.
00:21:42.000 No, you're exactly right, Charlie.
00:21:43.000 What 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.
00:21:51.000 But how did Republicans agree to this?
00:21:53.000 What was their thought right now?
00:21:54.000 Well, when you elect bad Republicans like Stephen Richer and others, that this is what happens, guys.
00:21:58.000 You can fix it.
00:22:00.000 And the legislature wouldn't fix it because guys like Rusty Bowers.
00:22:02.000 And 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.
00:22:10.000 And 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.
00:22:18.000 And so we're out supporting against him, supporting the guy against him.
00:22:23.000 His name is David Farnsworth.
00:22:24.000 And we're hoping that winning that seat will retain conservative control over the state Senate so we can pass election integrity bills in Arizona.
00:22:32.000 If you guys live in Missouri or Washington or any of the primary states or Arizona, I want to hear your voting experience.
00:22:36.000 Email is freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:22:39.000 So turnout might also be lower because people might also be confused of where to vote.
00:22:43.000 I know that I dealt with this with my family this morning.
00:22:45.000 Like, where the heck do I turn in my ballot?
00:22:46.000 Yeah, people are like, they're having to Google.
00:22:48.000 So 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.
00:22:55.000 You have to remember, presidential, everyone votes early.
00:22:57.000 They'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.
00:23:05.000 They want low turnout.
00:23:06.000 They want low turnout.
00:23:07.000 They're lower suppression.
00:23:07.000 Yeah, so they can get their guys in that are moderate, moderates, you know, masquerading, you know, as Republicans, these Democrats.
00:23:16.000 And so, I mean, I'm telling you right now, everybody has to learn where their voting place is.
00:23:20.000 They can look it up.
00:23:22.000 Just Google Maricopa voting polling places.
00:23:25.000 They'll pull it up.
00:23:26.000 And you can.
00:23:27.000 So say that again.
00:23:28.000 If you go, just Google it, it's recorder.maricopa.gov.
00:23:33.000 And if you Google find my polling place, it'll be like the first one that comes up.
00:23:39.000 Go there early.
00:23:40.000 Do not wait.
00:23:41.000 Do 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.
00:23:51.000 And that's part of the strategy.
00:23:52.000 That's the change.
00:23:52.000 People like Stephen Richard.
00:23:54.000 I think that that's how they're suppressing.
00:23:56.000 I totally agree.
00:23:57.000 And so just, I got a message from another part of my family and they said, we went this morning to our usual location and it wasn't there.
00:24:05.000 So they were super confused, had to go back home, waited on the phone for an hour.
00:24:09.000 Now, these are highly motivated voters.
00:24:12.000 They eventually figured it out, but it was a two-hour experience.
00:24:15.000 Oh, yeah.
00:24:16.000 This is why you're seeing lower turnout.
00:24:18.000 Well, I think it's part of it for sure.
00:24:20.000 And I think people are just like, oh, you know, I know my normal place is the church and they're going to go there this afternoon.
00:24:25.000 And it's not there.
00:24:26.000 And it's not there.
00:24:27.000 And they're going to give up.
00:24:28.000 It's the opposite of what they've told us, Tyler.
00:24:29.000 They say democracy dies in darkness.
00:24:31.000 We need more accessibility, more voting.
00:24:34.000 If you live in downtown Phoenix or I bet Tucson, they probably have voting centers on every corner.
00:24:39.000 And university campuses.
00:24:41.000 Flagstaff, ASU.
00:24:43.000 But if you live in Scottsdale, they're going to make you drive 20 minutes, change your location, and make it incredibly confusing.
00:24:49.000 So hard and confusing.
00:24:50.000 Yep.
00:24:50.000 And it's wrong.
00:24:52.000 And this is the reason why Election Day and getting back to how things used to be, which is polling places, more polling places.
00:24:58.000 So Maricopa County used to have more than 500 polling places.
00:25:01.000 Now there's less than 200.
00:25:03.000 And 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.
00:25:13.000 And what they're doing is making things grossly inconsistent and wrong.
00:25:17.000 And that's, and it's bad.
00:25:18.000 Someone just emailed us, Joseph from Arizona.
00:25:21.000 He said, he said, quote, I got all four, my family made four votes for Blake Masters, and he sent it in a picture of that.
00:25:29.000 And he said, I'm still making calls for people to vote.
00:25:31.000 That's what you need.
00:25:32.000 We can still turn this around, right, Tyler?
00:25:33.000 It's still early in the day, relatively.
00:25:35.000 Yeah.
00:25:35.000 It's 9.40 in the morning.
00:25:36.000 But the concern, though, is traditionally there is this 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. conservative rush.
00:25:44.000 Older people, people that work, they get it out of the way. 1.00
00:25:46.000 We didn't see that this morning.
00:25:47.000 Yeah, there's not a lot of, not a huge bump from what we're getting word back from multiple places in Maricopa County.
00:25:54.000 So, I mean, look, guys, if you're planning to vote this afternoon, try to go at lunch.
00:25:58.000 You know, tell your boss this is legally give, no, they have to legally give you time off.
00:26:02.000 Not even tell you.
00:26:03.000 You can go to your boss, HR department.
00:26:05.000 They have to give you the time to go vote.
00:26:07.000 Yeah, that's correct.
00:26:08.000 By law.
00:26:09.000 That's correct.
00:26:10.000 And 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.
00:26:17.000 Yes.
00:26:17.000 There's photography.
00:26:18.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:26:19.000 Send us everything you're seeing.
00:26:22.000 And so, I mean, we'll get into kind of what's happening here in Arizona with candidates as well here in a little bit.
00:26:28.000 But, 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.
00:26:36.000 And 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.
00:26:54.000 They cannot just assume that their person is going to win because this is going to be a drag out thing.
00:26:59.000 It may take multiple days for us to get to a place where we actually have a winner here in Arizona.
00:27:04.000 So someone just emailed us, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:27:06.000 How is it that the process is still murky after all these months?
00:27:10.000 Just because you're in the weeds of this, right, Tyler?
00:27:12.000 I mean, just for normal, everyday people, carpenters, welders, electricians, moms and dads, they're getting mad.
00:27:18.000 Why didn't you guys figure this out?
00:27:19.000 Well, 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.
00:27:25.000 And so I would argue we've had the best people we've had at the legislature in a long time.
00:27:28.000 We also have the worst people that we've had at the legislature in a long time.
00:27:31.000 And the fact is, is that we have a very slim majority in Arizona in the ledge.
00:27:36.000 Out of the 300-plus election integrity laws that were run across America, more than 100 of those were run in Arizona.
00:27:43.000 Now, a majority of those did not get passed because we had some really bad leadership.
00:27:48.000 And the speaker of the house here in Arizona, his name is Rusty Bowers.
00:27:51.000 He lives in my neighborhood.
00:27:52.000 He lives in my district. 1.00
00:27:54.000 He sucks. 1.00
00:27:55.000 He was very bad. 1.00
00:27:56.000 He got in the way and blocked a lot of this.
00:27:59.000 And so a lot of these people are out of frustration today.
00:28:00.000 They're going to go, well, why didn't this get fixed?
00:28:02.000 Or why is this weirder?
00:28:03.000 Or why is this different?
00:28:04.000 Well, 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.
00:28:12.000 And that's wrong.
00:28:13.000 Someone just said, Charlie, why aren't volunteers knocking on doors to remind people to vote?
00:28:17.000 We are at turning point action.
00:28:19.000 My brother lives in Phoenix, but doesn't have a vehicle and can't get to the polling place.
00:28:23.000 So just so you know, you can call your local county office.
00:28:26.000 They have to provide transportation or a way to vote and they'll figure it out.
00:28:29.000 The local city by law, if you call it and you probably still have time, they'll send a van for you or they'll send something.
00:28:35.000 Is that right, Tyler?
00:28:36.000 They cannot have a handicap impediment to not to vote or there's some other extenuating circumstances.
00:28:42.000 Or you can drive to the polling place and you can vote from your car.
00:28:46.000 So there's, you can actually have a vehicle.
00:28:48.000 But yeah, I think there is, at least I understand, they'll get it done for you.
00:28:52.000 Yeah, they will come do pickups 100%.
00:28:55.000 And you can do that at the Maricopa County website as well.
00:28:59.000 But yeah, please let friends know.
00:29:01.000 Go pick up family, help your family members out.
00:29:04.000 Let us know and we'll help people out.
00:29:07.000 We want to make sure people get their votes in today.
00:29:09.000 So we're going to go through the ballot of what you did, if that's okay.
00:29:12.000 Sure.
00:29:13.000 As the Arizona master, because people are asking us here, what is the best candidates?
00:29:17.000 How do I pick the best candidate?
00:29:18.000 And we'll nationalize it because we're a national program here.
00:29:20.000 But 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.
00:29:28.000 As Arizona goes, America goes.
00:29:30.000 Period.
00:29:30.000 End of story.
00:29:31.000 Remember how we used to say Ohio is where the country goes?
00:29:34.000 Now it's Arizona.
00:29:36.000 I know that's weird for some people to process.
00:29:38.000 Arizona is no longer a strong conservative state.
00:29:40.000 It is a 50-50 state.
00:29:42.000 We can make it that again.
00:29:43.000 So, Tyler, someone asked us a question.
00:29:45.000 If turnout keeps up like this, what will happen to MAGA candidates?
00:29:48.000 Well, 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.
00:30:00.000 I don't trust mail-in ballots.
00:30:01.000 So guys, if you don't trust mail-in ballots, you still have to vote.
00:30:04.000 So please show up.
00:30:06.000 Please show up to the polls and you got to turn it.
00:30:09.000 You got to catch your ballot.
00:30:10.000 Now, how it works, Charlie just brought this up.
00:30:12.000 People are experiencing some problems with printers.
00:30:14.000 Basically, 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.
00:30:34.000 So you got to do that.
00:30:36.000 You got to get your mail-in ballot today.
00:30:39.000 I mean, so, but I think MAGA candidates will struggle if turnout keeps up like this.
00:30:42.000 If turnout's low because you expect them just to win just on, you know, the idea alone, they will struggle.
00:30:49.000 They will struggle.
00:30:50.000 Do not believe the polls, everybody.
00:30:52.000 Some of these polls have shown your candidates up big time, and that might be a very big problem.
00:30:57.000 Email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:30:59.000 Tyler, as you're comfortable, tell us about, let's just talk more broadly.
00:31:03.000 How do you pick the good candidates here in Arizona as people are filling out their ballots in these primaries?
00:31:07.000 Yeah, look, I mean, I've lived in this state my entire life.
00:31:11.000 I'm from Arizona, seventh generation, Arizona.
00:31:13.000 The last 30 years has been dominated by this McCain era politics, right?
00:31:18.000 Where you have a very DC centralized politics.
00:31:22.000 You know, Texas experienced this with the Bushes. 0.99
00:31:25.000 You know, Eric Cantor got his butt handed to him in Virginia. 0.68
00:31:28.000 Similarly, and now we're seeing this with Liz Cheney in Wyoming, right? 0.97
00:31:32.000 Where we're finally eradicating this.
00:31:35.000 And that's happening right now.
00:31:36.000 I call it the exorcism of John McCain.
00:31:39.000 You know, that's what this election is all about.
00:31:42.000 And the only way for that to happen is to show up and vote these people out and create a new generation of a Republican Party.
00:31:48.000 Right.
00:31:49.000 And so that's what's happening right now in Arizona.
00:31:52.000 That's what's happening in Wyoming, right?
00:31:55.000 This today.
00:31:56.000 So it is really exciting where we're at.
00:32:00.000 We have to move forward now with a plan of how we're going to replace with good candidates.
00:32:05.000 But you, as a voter, have to understand that your vote counts.
00:32:10.000 And so these polls that are showing people are they're trending 10 points up, 15 points up.
00:32:14.000 That is sentiment, 100%.
00:32:16.000 People feel that way.
00:32:17.000 But it only counts and it only gets memorialized if you vote.
00:32:22.000 Because five, six points, that's only 40,000, 50,000 votes in this election, guys.
00:32:27.000 And so 40, we all saw this with Trump in 2020: 10,000, 15,000, 20,000 votes is not that much.
00:32:34.000 It's only a few percentage points overall.
00:32:36.000 And I'll tell you something about Tyler.
00:32:37.000 So back during the 2020 election, all of Trump's political team ignored everything we said.
00:32:43.000 And Trump is amazing.
00:32:44.000 We're huge fans of Trump.
00:32:45.000 He's phenomenal.
00:32:46.000 He's fabulous.
00:32:46.000 We're 100% behind him.
00:32:48.000 But how many text messages, Tyler, did we try to send people warning them about Arizona?
00:32:52.000 And what they did is they did rallies in every rural part of Arizona, right?
00:32:57.000 Ignoring Maricopa County.
00:32:59.000 The day of voting, we try to tell Trump's team, hey, you guys are probably on pace to lose by 10,000 votes.
00:33:04.000 And I received the text message from someone on Trump's political team, quote, you have no effing idea what you're talking about.
00:33:10.000 I screenshot it, sent to Tyler, and Tyler was rather fired up about it. 1.00
00:33:14.000 And these DC consultants, they're a bunch of morons. 0.99
00:33:16.000 Now, what ended up happening? 1.00
00:33:18.000 We lost.
00:33:19.000 We lost by that many votes.
00:33:20.000 Yeah, and I think Trump actually did win if you count the mules and all that stuff.
00:33:24.000 But what Tyler saw was the ballots and the turnout and the shenanigans.
00:33:30.000 And no one on Trump's team actually wanted to hear about it.
00:33:33.000 Yeah, that was based off of the post, the ballot harvesting that we saw all of it happen.
00:33:37.000 We saw the ballot harvesting sign.
00:33:38.000 We said, this is how many votes that we need to get on election day to win.
00:33:43.000 And we did the numbers and we're like, hey, we're running about 10 to 12,000 votes shy.
00:33:47.000 That's exactly where we ended up.
00:33:49.000 You know, the similar thing is happening here on primary day for MAGA candidates, where we have this expectation of these trends.
00:33:58.000 You know, Maricopa County, if we stayed on track, there should be about 800,000 votes that get cast across the state for Republicans tonight.
00:34:10.000 No, no, overall, altogether.
00:34:12.000 Right now, it's about universe about 800,000.
00:34:16.000 It's about that's that's most people's targets based off of last election, which is about 30% turnout.
00:34:22.000 So that's low turnout, right?
00:34:23.000 But that's normal for it because it's a wave year of allegedly.
00:34:26.000 Everywhere else is higher in the country, right?
00:34:28.000 Yeah, I mean, look, but we're not trending towards that, especially with turnout looking low in person today.
00:34:35.000 My expectation was that we were going to have flooded turnout this morning.
00:34:39.000 It hasn't been the case though.
00:34:40.000 Yeah, so we just got this rural part of Arizona looking very desolate out here in the rural area in Coconino.
00:34:47.000 People got to call your friends, call your family.
00:34:50.000 People are staying at home.
00:34:51.000 I'm telling you right now, you're going to have a bunch of moderates win if we don't all of a sudden show up in Arizona.
00:34:56.000 I know some of you are out of state and you're in Missouri.
00:34:58.000 Same sort of thing.
00:34:59.000 You got to show up in massive numbers.
00:35:01.000 Now, 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?
00:35:10.000 Why don't I stay at home?
00:35:11.000 Well, 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.
00:35:22.000 The fact is, is that every shenanigan we know they polled can only move the dial so much, right?
00:35:28.000 Can only manipulate the vote so much.
00:35:30.000 If you overwhelm them at the ballot box, there's nothing that they can do to stop your candidates from winning.
00:35:35.000 And 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.
00:35:46.000 We'll see what happens tonight.
00:35:48.000 Tyler Boyer will be joining us.
00:35:49.000 I think we might be actually also live streaming this tonight on Real America's Voice.
00:35:53.000 But I know we're on Rumble.
00:35:54.000 I know we'll be on Getter.
00:35:55.000 We'll be on YouTube.
00:35:56.000 We'll definitely be on Facebook.
00:35:57.000 We'll probably be on Instagram.
00:36:00.000 And so we'll have some special guests tonight, too.
00:36:03.000 And you're going to be live at a certain location.
00:36:05.000 We'll talk different.
00:36:07.000 Yeah, we'll be in different places.
00:36:08.000 All over the valley.
00:36:09.000 The best coverage of what's happening on election night.
00:36:11.000 As Arizona goes, America goes.
00:36:13.000 It's that simple.
00:36:14.000 You might live in Vermont, but if you love America, you need to be focused on Arizona.
00:36:18.000 Tonight will be very interesting.
00:36:20.000 And for please, goodness sake, if you live in Arizona, go vote right now.
00:36:23.000 Okay, Tyler, thank you.
00:36:24.000 We'll see you tonight.
00:36:27.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:36:28.000 Email me your thoughts as always.
00:36:29.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:36:31.000 Thanks so much.
00:36:32.000 Talk to you soon.
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