The Charlie Kirk Show - People Who Don't Vote, Lose Elections

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00:01:16.000 We are anticipating Michael Siefert from Public Square to join us at any moment here.

00:01:21.000 He's at the Bitcoin Conference, so I know he's in high demand and is very much being asked for.

00:01:28.000 This is a great question here.

00:01:29.000 Let's play Cut 75.

00:01:30.000 What has the cackling California communists achieved?

00:01:35.000 Play Cut 75.

00:01:38.000 What do you think has been Vice President Harris's biggest accomplishment as vice president?

00:01:44.000 Well look, I think she's done remarkable work across several important areas.

00:01:49.000 Something that I think hasn't gotten much coverage is her passion for entrepreneurship, for wealth creation, for securing and stabilizing the middle class. 1.00

00:01:58.000 She's traveled around the country to meet with small businesses and to talk with them about what it takes to get back to work, to grow a small business, to sustain the wealth and opportunity for a family.

00:02:10.000 If this is what they're going to run on?

00:02:12.000 We're gonna have a good October.

00:02:14.000 You got Chris Coons up there saying that her experience is that she's done a bunch of roundtables with entrepreneurs.

00:02:20.000 I mean this non-sarcastically.

00:02:23.000 Does Kamala Harris know what payroll is? 0.94

00:02:25.000 Has she ever signed the front of a check?

00:02:28.000 I can tell you someone who has.

00:02:29.000 Do we have him?

00:02:31.000 Michael Siefert from Public Square.

00:02:32.000 Check out publicsquare.com.

00:02:34.000 One of the most important marketplaces in the country.

00:02:36.000 Michael, how are things going?

00:02:38.000 I know you're at Nashville for the Bitcoin Conference.

00:02:40.000 I'm here in your neck of the woods here in Palm Beach.

00:02:43.000 How are things going at Public Square?

00:02:45.000 Charlie, things are going incredible.

00:02:47.000 Every day folks are recognizing the need for a marketplace ecosystem that actually celebrates and protects meritocracy, excellence, innovation.

00:02:57.000 All of these existing incumbents that have dominated corporate America for a long time are falling by the wayside as people are recognizing that they've turned into weaponized political organizations.

00:03:06.000 And I will tell you in this election season, Charlie, people are not only recognizing through efforts like yours, the importance of voting, Casting their ballots, not just registering, but going the entire way to ensure that their values are represented at the ballot box.

00:03:21.000 They are also voting with their dollars.

00:03:23.000 We are experiencing an entire economic reform right now.

00:03:27.000 And I'm looking forward, Charlie, in the second Trump administration to Public Square serving as the new Chamber of Commerce.

00:03:33.000 The new Small Business Administration where small businesses are protected, Main Street is valued.

00:03:39.000 You heard it in J.D.

00:03:40.000 Vance's speech at the RNC.

00:03:42.000 We have an opportunity for an American Renaissance era in our economy, but it has to look like patriots being in control and celebrating the values that have built this great nation in the first place.

00:03:52.000 That's what we're trying to do at Public Square, and thankfully it's working.

00:03:55.000 So let me ask you, I think this is an ascendant parallel economy.

00:04:01.000 And so explain to me the aspects of what are the biggest challenges right now to be able to get entrepreneurs to not just on board with public square, but to be able to share their values without threat of cancellation.

00:04:20.000 Well, I would say that it's a strength in numbers challenge, meaning for a long time, Charlie, even two years ago, there were a lot of entrepreneurs that were horrified of speaking out.

00:04:29.000 They were afraid of cancellations.

00:04:31.000 They were afraid that their banks were going to cancel them or their payment processing was going to cancel them.

00:04:35.000 And there were very few entities that were willing to kind of put their neck out on the line and speak the truth.

00:04:42.000 As that's happened more and more, as more and more entrepreneurs are speaking out, as Silicon Valley has actually started to turn toward Trump and the MAGA agenda and the America First agenda, you're seeing that it has a downstream ripple effect with thousands and hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs around the country that are saying, well, they're willing to speak out.

00:05:00.000 If the David Sachs of the world and the Elon Musk of the world are willing to speak out, maybe I can too.

00:05:05.000 So even this last week, Charlie, there was a great company called Sticker Mule.

00:05:08.000 They're one of the largest providers of custom stickers, packaging material, branding goods, merchandise, etc.

00:05:16.000 for major enterprise companies.

00:05:18.000 The CEO spoke out after the assassination attempt of President Trump and the tragic death of Corey Compertore.

00:05:24.000 He spoke out with a long and passionate Twitter post saying, That enough is enough.

00:05:29.000 I'm tired of living in the shadows.

00:05:31.000 I support President Trump, as do many of our employees.

00:05:34.000 And we should not live in a country where we're afraid to say that.

00:05:37.000 His courage inspired thousands of other entrepreneurs within our marketplace and other avenues to speak out with greater honesty and truth as well.

00:05:47.000 And so I will tell you, Charlie, it's really a domino effect.

00:05:49.000 And I think confidently that over the next 12 months, especially heating up into this election cycle,

00:05:56.000 you're going to see some of the biggest names in tech and in marketplace technology and in general commerce

00:06:03.000 feel a little bit more liberty to speak out.

00:06:05.000 And that is going to be a major facet in saving our country and actually making it not only acceptable,

00:06:11.000 but cool and popular to be conservative and to hold these values.

00:06:16.000 I think we have an amazing opportunity that our opportunity really from there is to capitalize on it and to make sure that when people are awake, when those entrepreneurs do speak out, that they have a network of solutions that they can tap into, like what we're creating a public square so that they can continue their journey, not just with honesty and with truth and that sort of liberating aspect of speaking out, but then they can actually move their payments.

00:06:36.000 To a new processor.

00:06:37.000 They can actually switch their bank to a bank that shares their values and appreciates them speaking out.

00:06:41.000 And that's really where we fill in the gap.

00:06:43.000 So I want to comment on a 204 put up on screen here. 0.92

00:06:46.000 This is Amazon, who has a shirt for sale that says, the only good Trump is a dead one.

00:06:52.000 Now I imagine that they took this down, Michael, or is this still up right now?

00:06:56.000 They had that up for about four hours from the time that it was first discovered to the time that it was taken down.

00:07:03.000 I saw, personally, thousands of people comment to Amazon, put in support requests, flagging this for them, and they finally responded and took it down.

00:07:12.000 They also had hoodies that said the same thing, Charlie.

00:07:15.000 This was atrocious.

00:07:16.000 This is yet another example of Amazon displaying their pure hatred for conservatives and for really half the country, if not more.

00:07:23.000 And what I will tell you that's interesting about this scenario is that Amazon has a long track record of canceling any merchandise on their site that seems to be pro-conservative.

00:07:32.000 They have a long track record of canceling merchandise that speaks out against things like Pride Month, for example.

00:07:38.000 They have algorithms, and I know this because we're a marketplace and we have this.

00:07:42.000 So if a multi-trillion dollar marketplace doesn't have this, but we do, that's a problem.

00:07:46.000 We have algorithms that when a new product is entered into our marketplace, it actually scans the language.

00:07:52.000 It ensures that there's not something that's inflammatory against the values of the platform.

00:07:57.000 I guarantee you this hoodie and this t-shirt, when it went up on Amazon originally, Went through that same system.

00:08:03.000 They had every ability to flag it before it ever went live, and they pushed it live anyways.

00:08:08.000 That is an incredible Freudian slip of sorts of them describing exactly who they really are.

00:08:14.000 And as the famous adage goes, when your enemies tell you who they are, believe them.

00:08:19.000 This was incredibly egregious on Amazon's part, and they're not the only company that has let things like this accidentally slip over the course of the last few weeks.

00:08:29.000 So, this is a pattern that we've seen from corporate America for quite some time, and just how quickly, you know, the media has specifically moved on from Trump getting shot, we must remember.

00:08:41.000 I played this earlier, I want to get your reaction to this.

00:08:43.000 This is Brett Baer asking about, what is Kamala Harris's biggest accomplishment?

00:08:48.000 Play Cut 75.

00:08:49.000 What do you think has been Vice President Harris's biggest accomplishment as Vice President?

00:08:56.000 Well look, I think she's done remarkable work across several important areas.

00:09:01.000 Something that I think hasn't gotten much coverage is her passion for entrepreneurship, for wealth creation, for securing and stabilizing the middle class. 1.00

00:09:10.000 She's traveled around the country to meet with small businesses and to talk with them about what it takes to get back to work, to grow a small business, to sustain the wealth and opportunity for a family.

00:09:22.000 Is the middle class stronger than ever because of Kamala Harris?

00:09:25.000 It's actually weaker than ever.

00:09:26.000 This is another example of the blatant gaslighting out of the Biden administration.

00:09:30.000 Now, what they're basically touting is the Harris administration.

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00:11:14.000 Michael, I cut you off.

00:11:15.000 Please riff on the numbers.

00:11:17.000 I think it's very important.

00:11:19.000 We were talking about whether or not Kamala Harris has done a good job for the small business economy in Main Street America and the middle class more broadly.

00:11:27.000 The resounding answer we hear from actually meeting with business owners frequently and working with them day in, day out, as a very core part of our business, is that they are not doing well.

00:11:36.000 In fact, the very opposite.

00:11:38.000 We ran a survey recently, just last month, Charlie, that asked, would your business, We pulled over 80,000 business respondents.

00:11:45.000 Would your business survive a second Biden term?

00:11:49.000 And a shocking amount, 48%, said definitely or probably not, but 70% in totality said, we don't think so.

00:11:58.000 Only 30% said, yeah, we think we probably could make it.

00:12:00.000 But some of the quotes that we got in response to the survey were astounding.

00:12:04.000 People saying things like, we've already cut our costs to a bare minimum.

00:12:07.000 Inflation is continuing to kill our business.

00:12:10.000 Other business owners talking about the continued rise of supplier costs.

00:12:14.000 So this gaslighting out of the Biden administration suggests that, no, no, no, no, don't listen to anybody telling you any contrarian opinion.

00:12:22.000 That's just conservative right-wing media.

00:12:24.000 Supplier costs are actually going down.

00:12:26.000 That's not the case.

00:12:27.000 It's not the case in perishables.

00:12:28.000 It's not the case in essential equipment.

00:12:30.000 It's not the case in building materials.

00:12:33.000 It is more expensive than it ever has been to run and operate a small business.

00:12:37.000 And with a small business owner at the helm of their business, they're not focusing, they can't focus on purely cutting to grow.

00:12:45.000 That's not an efficient way to grow.

00:12:46.000 They've got to be able to spend money strategically.

00:12:48.000 They don't have money to spend!

00:12:50.000 Charlie, so Kamala Harris saying, oh, I've been to a few small businesses and that tells me what I need to know that we're successful.

00:12:56.000 It's like nothing could be farther from the truth.

00:12:59.000 That's like this incredible moment where she admits that, yeah, yeah, we've been to the border, except I haven't I haven't really been to the border, but I haven't been to Europe either.

00:13:07.000 It's kind of the same thing.

00:13:08.000 She's saying, no, no, we know small business as well.

00:13:10.000 We actually haven't served them and we have no real data to back up our claims that we're supporting a strong middle-class economy, but we've, we've been there and we've helped them.

00:13:17.000 It's all absurdity.

00:13:19.000 We're hearing the truth.

00:13:20.000 And the truth is, is that the small business community is the lifeblood of our economy, but they have been squeezed to their wits and it cannot continue.

00:13:28.000 We need another Trump administration and the economic brilliance that comes with a conservative policy agenda.

00:13:34.000 So Michael, let's go through like one or two of those policy agenda items.

00:13:38.000 Specifically, out of the gate, what can President Trump and Vice President Vance, if they win, and hopefully they do, do to unshackle the small business economy?

00:13:48.000 What should be at the top of that policy agenda?

00:13:51.000 Cutting regulation is a huge one.

00:13:52.000 If you talk to any small business around the country, they're dealing with so much red tape in order to build their business and then continue to maintain their business.

00:13:59.000 And much of that red tape has to do with pure regulatory burden that is completely unnecessary.

00:14:04.000 A lot of it having to do with ESG initiatives.

00:14:06.000 So actually becoming energy independent again is something that the Trump administration has touted that they are going to prioritize day one.

00:14:12.000 That will have a number of downstream effects that are positive to the small business community in the United States.

00:14:18.000 Cutting the tax rate as well will be incredibly beneficial to business owners in this country that are burdened not only by the regulatory pressure but also by the tax burden that they have to face.

00:14:28.000 I will also tell you, Charlie, that something that he's talked about at great length is

00:14:31.000 putting pressure on foreign actors in order to revitalize American manufacturing again.

00:14:36.000 Many of the small businesses that we work with on a day-to-day basis that power our

00:14:40.000 over 80,000 merchants in our parallel economy on Public Square are businesses that make

00:14:45.000 their products in the United States.

00:14:46.000 It's harder than ever to do that because our financial system has rewarded globalization

00:14:51.000 and has punished American manufacturing.

00:14:53.000 That's why you're seeing a poll of union workers and contractors and on-the-ground service

00:14:58.000 providers that are rushing toward the Trump administration for another term because they

00:15:02.000 recognize that he's the only president that is willing to put pressure on foreign actors,

00:15:06.000 to the point where, to much hostility, he's actually proposed tariffs.

00:15:10.000 He's actually proposed that if we have an adverse adversary on the geopolitical level, they should not be receiving special favors to import their products made with cheap labor overseas from countries that hate us.

00:15:22.000 It should not work that way.

00:15:23.000 We should actually incentivize the American mainstream.

00:15:26.000 He's also talked at great length about small business credits of folks that are trying to build their business for the first time in order to actually initiate and spur on innovation growth with new product lines and sectors.

00:15:38.000 And the last thing I'll mention, Charlie, is that President Trump has done an amazing job of trying to support the labor force that is actually native born, that is born here in the United States.

00:15:47.000 These are American citizens that deserve to have a decrease in competition with illegal immigrants for jobs. 1.00

00:15:55.000 Illegal immigration actually suppresses wages.

00:15:58.000 Trump recognizes that, which is why he's trying to push to close the border, to cut out these foreign workers.

00:16:04.000 That will bless our small businesses, because then it allows for them to actually compete with the wage world against the big incumbents.

00:16:10.000 I'm excited about all of it.

00:16:11.000 Michael Siefert, check it out.

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00:16:17.000 Joining us now is Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas, former U.S.

00:16:20.000 presidential candidate, and host of Huckabee on TBN.

00:16:23.000 Governor, I wanted to have you on the show because you have a very steady way about analyzing this.

00:16:29.000 There's a lot of chaos right now in politics.

00:16:31.000 There's a lot of Kamala craze happening.

00:16:35.000 What is your analysis of the current state of this presidential race?

00:16:39.000 I don't think anybody is surprised that she's getting a boost from the announcement that she's going to be the candidate.

00:16:45.000 The Democrats are desperate.

00:16:46.000 I mean, they were so desperate that they gathered around and shoved Joe Biden right out the door.

00:16:52.000 I mean, I've never seen anything quite like it.

00:16:54.000 It's the closest thing to a political coup that we've seen probably in American history, where his own people, the people closest to him, Gathered around him and said, Joe, you got to go.

00:17:06.000 So they're suddenly without a candidate. 0.82

00:17:09.000 They don't have a lot of options because if they don't pick Kamala Harris, it's going to look like that they're sexist, misogynist and racist. 1.00

00:17:17.000 So they don't have a choice.

00:17:19.000 She's the vice president.

00:17:20.000 Everybody rallies around her and she's going to get a bump. 1.00

00:17:23.000 But most people don't know much about Kamala Harris.

00:17:26.000 The media has certainly not been honest about it.

00:17:29.000 And I think that's the real, most important thing for the Republicans.

00:17:33.000 Don't attack her personally.

00:17:34.000 That's not productive.

00:17:35.000 And that could even be counterproductive.

00:17:38.000 But just steadily, faithfully, there's plenty of time, but let the American people know that she was the Borders are. 0.99

00:17:46.000 Oh, I understand.

00:17:47.000 Yes.

00:17:47.000 The media is trying to cover for her.

00:17:49.000 But here's the point.

00:17:51.000 Why would she not want to be known as The Borders Are? 0.85

00:17:53.000 I mean, Mayorkas and Joe Biden and Karine Jean-Pierre and Kamala herself, for two or three years, they've been telling us the border is secure.

00:18:03.000 They're doing a great job.

00:18:04.000 Things are under control.

00:18:06.000 So if they're under control and she's doing a great job, wouldn't she want to be known as The Borders Are?

00:18:11.000 Why are they all running from that?

00:18:14.000 Because they know that they've lied to us for three years.

00:18:17.000 Pretty much like they have on everything else.

00:18:19.000 But this is not going to be a simple, easy race.

00:18:21.000 I hope Republicans don't get complacent.

00:18:24.000 We had a fantastic convention.

00:18:26.000 The best ever.

00:18:27.000 Pitch perfect.

00:18:28.000 Wonderful speakers.

00:18:29.000 Stayed on message.

00:18:31.000 It was incredible.

00:18:34.000 But I don't want Republicans to think, oh boy, this is going to be a cakewalk.

00:18:39.000 We can kind of rest, rest and relax.

00:18:42.000 Oh no, you can't.

00:18:43.000 It's fight to the very last ballot comes in from God knows where that has just been mailed in from God knows where.

00:18:51.000 Yeah, and that's well put.

00:18:54.000 And Governor, do you agree with me that even though we don't like the mail-in balloting system, we should utilize it, and that if we don't engage in voting month, and that if we fail to realize that election day is the final day of voting, that we are not maximizing the potential of the Trump base.

00:19:12.000 Our base is so enthusiastic.

00:19:13.000 Shouldn't we give them more days to vote, not less?

00:19:16.000 And shouldn't we give them the earliest possible ability to vote for Donald Trump?

00:19:20.000 Your thoughts, Governor Huckabee.

00:19:22.000 I 100% agree.

00:19:24.000 I mean, this is simple.

00:19:26.000 It's like when the forward pass was first introduced in football.

00:19:29.000 You know, for a long time, there was no such thing as the forward pass.

00:19:33.000 And then there became this incredible new offensive strategy called the forward pass.

00:19:38.000 Imagine if a team said, by golly, we're not ever going to use that forward pass.

00:19:42.000 Why?

00:19:43.000 That highfalutin new way of doing things just isn't the way it's supposed to be done.

00:19:48.000 We're just going to do a three yard and cloud of dust.

00:19:51.000 We would never have heard of that football team again.

00:19:54.000 Why do football teams constantly adjust, whether it's the forward pass, the wishbone, the triple option?

00:19:59.000 I'll tell you why.

00:20:00.000 Because somebody figures out that it works and it wins games.

00:20:03.000 We've got to win games.

00:20:05.000 And if mail-in ballots are the new way of voting, then we need to get everybody possible who is a legal voter to vote.

00:20:14.000 And then we need to monitor So that there are no illegal votes and nobody's cheating.

00:20:19.000 And that's really the biggest single concern I have about this election.

00:20:23.000 Yeah, I love that.

00:20:25.000 Imagine you keep on losing to a team that keeps on shooting three-pointers, and your response is, we're not going to engage.

00:20:32.000 That's not the way we used to do it.

00:20:34.000 We're just going to stay in the paint.

00:20:37.000 We're going to stay in the paint and hit layups when we get a chance and make our free throws.

00:20:41.000 Yeah, tell that to anybody who's played against Kaepernick and Clark.

00:20:45.000 No, you play by whatever rules are in place.

00:20:49.000 Because the game is when.

00:20:52.000 It's not seeing how faithful you are to the past, it's seeing how capable you are of adapting to the future.

00:20:59.000 That's where we are.

00:21:00.000 So I say to my fellow Republicans, you can lament, you can Tear your garments over the fact that we have a lot of different ways in which, whether it's electronic voting or mail-in voting, get used to it because we're going to have to live with it.

00:21:15.000 And to win some of these swing states where this is now the way of the day, then let's just go ahead and play by the rules that are there.

00:21:25.000 But let's win at those rules rather than spend our time kicking under the table and complaining about it.

00:21:31.000 That doesn't win an election.

00:21:33.000 Voters win elections.

00:21:35.000 People who don't vote, they lose elections.

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00:22:55.000 And so our base and our following, according to polling, is that we actually have an advantage with lower propensity voters.

00:23:02.000 Governor, it never used to be that way.

00:23:03.000 It used to be that Democrats used to enjoy advantages with lower propensity voters.

00:23:08.000 Therefore, the current configuration of our flawed voting laws actually is advantage to the low propensity party.

00:23:17.000 In a paradoxical way, since we are the low-propensity movement, we have an opportunity to use voting month to maximize our newfound base of lower-propensity voters.

00:23:29.000 Your thoughts on that, Governor Huckabee?

00:23:31.000 Yeah, I mean, it's exactly right.

00:23:33.000 We have a great message.

00:23:35.000 The message that we have compared to the message that the Democrats have this year, we overwhelmingly win.

00:23:40.000 It ought to be a landslide.

00:23:41.000 It ought to be 360 electoral votes.

00:23:45.000 But we don't win on message alone.

00:23:47.000 We win by also the machinery of getting people to the polls.

00:23:51.000 So you can have the greatest message in the world.

00:23:53.000 I'll give you a quick analogy.

00:23:55.000 It's like, let's say a company comes up with a brand new dog food and it is the most scientifically advanced and developed.

00:24:02.000 It is full of nutrition.

00:24:03.000 It's got everything that a dog needs, but nobody buys it.

00:24:07.000 And finally, the CEO of the company says, what's going on?

00:24:10.000 How come this wonderful dog food isn't selling?

00:24:14.000 And everybody's quiet. 0.96

00:24:15.000 And finally, somebody pipes up in the back of the room and says, because the dogs won't eat the darn stuff. 0.82

00:24:21.000 So the point of that is that we can have a great message and we can put it in the bowl. 0.86

00:24:26.000 But we have to market it.

00:24:27.000 We have to sell it.

00:24:28.000 We have to explain it.

00:24:29.000 And then we have to use the mechanisms of get-out-the-vote.

00:24:33.000 There's nothing sexy about it.

00:24:35.000 It's old-fashioned.

00:24:36.000 But whatever it takes to get people to actually go and vote, whether it's mobilizing them through churches and organizations, but don't leave any vote sitting at home with a person's feet up in the air thinking it's all going to be okay.

00:24:52.000 That's how you lose a country.

00:24:53.000 That's how you lose civilization.

00:24:56.000 So Governor, I completely agree with that.

00:25:00.000 I want to now dive into another element here, which I think is very important, which is weathering your opponent's best shot.

00:25:06.000 There is going to be an August sugar high for the Democrats.

00:25:10.000 We're going to see two years of compressed left-wing energy deployed in a 30-day period.

00:25:16.000 And it's a little bit of a rope-a-dope.

00:25:19.000 It's a little bit of a, hey, we'll take your best shot so that we can close strong.

00:25:24.000 Take us into the psychology of that type of campaign.

00:25:27.000 You've been the guy.

00:25:28.000 You've had to weather your opponent's best.

00:25:31.000 Our base right now, our audience, is enjoying and has been enjoying a pretty good summer.

00:25:38.000 Donald Trump is alive and well.

00:25:39.000 Praise God.

00:25:40.000 We had an amazing convention.

00:25:42.000 We're on a little bit of a high right now.

00:25:46.000 Albeit it was always destined to plateau, if not go down a little bit.

00:25:49.000 Talk about that important psychological component of a long campaign.

00:25:55.000 The Democrats have the advantage.

00:25:56.000 They're the home team, if you will, because they have the incumbency.

00:25:59.000 Therefore, their convention is the last.

00:26:02.000 It's not at all unlike the home team in baseball.

00:26:06.000 They get the last chance to bat.

00:26:08.000 So whatever it is that the visitors do, The home team still has one more good shot, and that's what we have to confront.

00:26:15.000 They're going to have a convention.

00:26:17.000 The only question is, will it be smooth and will it be very appealing to the American voter, or will it be a repeat of 1968 when the Democrats were in Chicago?

00:26:29.000 Charlie, we don't know, but I'm going to tell you, I lived through 1968.

00:26:31.000 I remember it well.

00:26:34.000 A lot of your audience, they weren't alive then.

00:26:37.000 But let me tell you, it was disastrous for the Democrats, in part because the city was on fire.

00:26:45.000 In some cases, literally.

00:26:46.000 The riots, the contentiousness of the convention.

00:26:50.000 You know, it wouldn't break my heart if there was contentious activity in the convention.

00:26:56.000 I don't wish violence, and I don't wish disruption.

00:27:00.000 But if what we saw in Washington this week, just because Benjamin Netanyahu showed up to make a speech to Congress, and you have these crazies in the Democrat Party, these anti-Jewish, anti-Semitic people, who are so filled with hate that they're actually embracing the butchers of Hamas, If they show up in Chicago, and I expect that they will, they will take all of the attention away from whatever message the Democrats have, and all people in America will see, not the message, but the absolute mess, and they will have created it. 0.54

00:27:34.000 They own this, and they may have to put their spoon in the middle of the bowl and eat it.

00:27:39.000 Governor Huckabee, your program on TBN is a must-watch.

00:27:42.000 I want everyone to check it out.

00:27:43.000 Your wisdom is so necessary right now.

00:27:45.000 Our audience is understandably looking for direction.

00:27:49.000 It's been a very chaotic week, a couple weeks.

00:27:53.000 And so, Governor, I believe that we were two centimeters away from our civilization and our country going into chaos.

00:28:02.000 I believe the Lord spared us.

00:28:04.000 Your thoughts, Governor Huckabee?

00:28:06.000 I said at the time, I said, this was truly the hand of God.

00:28:10.000 Satan took the shot.

00:28:12.000 God's angels intervened and said, not today, Satan.

00:28:15.000 And we're all the better for it.

00:28:18.000 I think it was a sobering moment for every American, even if they didn't vote for, support, or even like Donald Trump.

00:28:24.000 You cannot see what happened on that Saturday afternoon and not come away with the sense, unless you're just a rank unbeliever, Otherwise, you have to see that as Providence.

00:28:34.000 You have to see that as God taking care of Donald Trump and saying, I'm not finished with you quite yet.

00:28:43.000 And I think it was a message not only to all of us, but it was a message also to President Trump to give him that sense of saying to him, you have a purpose for which you've been left here.

00:28:53.000 It's bigger than you are, bigger than you even can understand.

00:28:56.000 And I truly believe that with my whole heart.

00:28:59.000 I thought that it was incredible.

00:29:01.000 And the fact that he came to his feet, blood coming down his face, this wasn't staged.

00:29:07.000 No, thank you, Christopher Wray.

00:29:09.000 It was real.

00:29:10.000 It was a bullet.

00:29:12.000 But it just, again, providentially, he's in front of that flag with blood in his face.

00:29:18.000 Holding his fist and saying to all of us, not just the people there, but to all of us, fight, fight, fight.

00:29:26.000 That's the message that we have to take to heart and continue through November the 5th.

00:29:31.000 Governor, it is a moment that we'll never forget.

00:29:36.000 And what could have been is something that we shouldn't even Speculate too much of the societal and the civilizational chaos.

00:29:45.000 And I think that's what made the convention the best convention of my lifetime.

00:29:50.000 Can you comment on that?

00:29:51.000 It could have been a four-day funeral.

00:29:54.000 But instead, it was a four-day open-air celebration to the Lord.

00:29:59.000 And there were so many things about the way the convention was structured.

00:30:03.000 I'm not sure exactly who all was responsible for orchestrating and then executing the program, but it was brilliant.

00:30:09.000 And I use the term pitch-perfect because you had such a great variety.

00:30:14.000 And I thought some of the most effective speakers were people we didn't even know.

00:30:17.000 Now granted, Charlie, I think the best speaker of the whole week was that new Arkansas governor.

00:30:22.000 Okay.

00:30:22.000 I just thought she was excellent.

00:30:25.000 I thought she was terrific.

00:30:27.000 But that's, you know, me talking and I'm as objective about her as the New York Times is about Donald Trump.

00:30:32.000 So there you go.

00:30:34.000 But, but let me tell you a couple that I really felt moved the needle.

00:30:37.000 One was a person that when I heard she was on the program, I thought, what?

00:30:41.000 Amber Rose.

00:30:42.000 I thought her speech was one of the most spectacular convention speeches I've ever heard.

00:30:48.000 It was from the heart.

00:30:49.000 It was from the perspective of someone that no one could have realistically said, yeah, she's going to be wearing a MAGA hat. 0.68

00:30:56.000 She's going to be one of us.

00:30:57.000 And yet there she was, basically repenting for having believed the lies that had been fed to her and having done the research on her own, came to the conclusion that, you know what?

00:31:09.000 Donald Trump's my guy.

00:31:10.000 I thought it was great.

00:31:11.000 The union president from the Teamsters, again, historic moment, but many of the Moms whose children were killed by fentanyl poisoning because we have an open border and this stuff just comes across.

00:31:25.000 The activist from New York who spoke so eloquently and passionately about what crime is doing to her neighborhood.

00:31:34.000 These are real people and Americans can relate to them because they're feeling the same thing.

00:31:39.000 And I just thought it was a phenomenal mix of what I would call the celebrity, those who are well known among Republicans and the rest of the public, and the people that no one had ever heard of.

00:31:51.000 But when they heard them, they heard truth, and they heard it from the heart, and it spoke deeply to the souls of America.

00:31:59.000 Governor Huckabee, thank you for your leadership, and I with you rejoice the fact that Donald Trump is alive and well, and that our movement is continuing.

00:32:06.000 Governor, thank you so much.

00:32:08.000 Great to be with you, Charlie.

00:32:09.000 Thank you.

00:32:10.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:32:11.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:32:13.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - July 26, 2024

People Who Don't Vote, Lose Elections

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