The Koch Network has made their selection for their presidential candidate for 2024, and we unpack that. Also, get your tickets to Amfest, the largest conservative gathering in history, coming to Phoenix, Arizona on Dec. 16-19th.
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00:03:41.000It's amazing how our politics have changed over the last 10 years.
00:03:47.000A decade ago, there was a group of donors that was by far the most powerful in conservative politics.
00:03:56.000They tended to be a little libertarian.
00:03:58.000They were so powerful, in fact, the gathering that they put together, that an entire book was largely written about them by Jane Mayer called Dark Money.
00:04:08.000You guys can get that book and show it up on screen.
00:04:11.000It was supposed to, it was framed as this clandestine group of robber barons and industrial titans, people from all sorts of different walks of life and industry that were trying to come together to collude to advance right-wing policies to get themselves wealthier and richer.
00:04:31.000This coincided with a Supreme Court decision, Citizens United, that said that money can flow into politics as much as you would like.
00:04:43.000Now, of course, we've covered extensively on the show how the left decided to stop complaining and embrace the bomb, to use a quote from Dr. Strangelove, to use the power of dark money to their advantage.
00:04:58.000Democrats have become the experts of dark money.
00:05:08.000But 10 years ago, the left was behind the curve.
00:05:13.000Center-right, conservative libertarian donors would gather.
00:05:17.000And as I was getting started at Turning Point USA, you would hear whispers about this gathering.
00:05:21.000And boy, I wanted more than anything else to attend one of these gatherings.
00:05:25.000I could barely scrap together $5,000 here and $10,000 here.
00:05:28.000Our first major donor, Foster Freese, would tell me about this gathering.
00:05:35.000In fact, he was one of the pioneers at this particular gathering brought to you by the Koch brothers to actually start what they would do when people would stand up and pledge money.
00:06:59.000As Michael Savage would say, Donald Trump took that and made it a campaign ethos.
00:07:06.00010 years ago, the Koch brothers and the gathering around them, they were framed as Darth Vader by the media.
00:07:14.000In fact, you can go and find articles of Charles Koch, who's one of the wealthiest people on the planet, literally wearing a Darth Vader suit, making fun of the whole thing.
00:07:26.000But the left's relentless campaign against them seemed to work.
00:07:30.000Over the summer, there was an article written by the, published by the Claremont Institute, The American Mind, by Adam Kistle.
00:07:37.000It is an excellent piece called The New Koch on how the Koch brothers in 2019 made a shift, where now they use proper pronouns at the Koch Foundation.
00:07:47.000They talk about advancing equity, that they fund organizations in the spirit of DEI.
00:07:54.000For example, quote, the Koch Foundation wants to break barriers, eliminate injustice, signaling openness to critical race theory.
00:08:07.000We're going to publish it on a repost that on charliekirk.com.
00:08:11.000Stand Together tweeted, which is one of the Koch brother-funded initiatives, that they're not just an advocate for social justice, but also racial justice.
00:08:36.000I know many donors that stopped going to the Koch Brother retreats because during Floyd Apalooza, the summer of love, the Koch network was talking about racial justice.
00:08:45.000Like, yeah, we're not going to put up with that.
00:09:13.000Fred, who's not involved, Bill, who's involved in a oil company, David, who's passed away, and Charles, who runs Koch Industries to this day, one of the largest privately held companies on the planet.
00:09:24.000Now, the Koch Network has made promises to their donors that they're not going to get involved in presidential primaries.
00:09:37.000Americans for Prosperity, for example, which, by the way, they always brag about how many activists are involved in Americans for Prosperity.
00:09:44.000I've never actually met an activist that's like, yeah, I'm involved in AFP.
00:09:49.000It's not exactly the grassroots action that they tell their donors, but we'll put that aside for a second.
00:09:56.000But they convene these donor retreats, and some donors still trust them for guidance and for direction.
00:10:04.000Spend money on this candidate don't do that.
00:10:05.000But the philosophical underpinnings of Americans for Prosperity is without a doubt, cultural libertarianism laced with corporate globalist chamber of commerce perspective.
00:10:18.000Now, the one thing I will say that I respect about the Koch Network is they, at least in their language throughout the years, has said they want to cut spending.
00:11:03.000And they've been tilting to the left, tilting to the left.
00:11:07.000And we've seen this pattern throughout the years of groups that were once hardcore right-wing go to the left, but they've made a very big announcement today, everybody.
00:11:19.000Americans for a Prosperity, which again is a group of donors, not a group of activists.
00:11:26.000I think sometimes when people on the right use donors as a pejorative, I got to say, no, no, no, no, you don't understand.
00:11:32.000There are some patriotic, amazing, wealthy people like Bernie Marcus yesterday, who we celebrated, who wrote an amazing op-ed resisting this kind of Koch brother tilt and said, it's a simple choice.
00:11:43.00094-year-old American Patriot Home Depot co-founder worth nearly $10 billion, says, I'm all in for Trump.
00:11:50.000But this particular group of donors, they have a different perspective.
00:11:55.000And they, many of them, have business interests of which they want the advancement of very specific policies that might not be good for the country, but will be good for their companies.
00:12:08.000They lace that together with virtue signaling, white guilt-riddled talking points.
00:12:13.000And here you have, put it all together with a little bit of libertarianism, you know, mix a little bit of Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard.
00:12:21.000May hey, a little F.A. Hayek, a Ayn Rand and a twirl, if you will, of Henry Hazlitt.
00:12:28.000And you have Americans for Prosperity.
00:12:31.000Well, they have now made their endorsement and they are going all in behind a single candidate.
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00:14:24.000So the Koch Network has made their decision.
00:14:29.000Now, before I tell you about it, just so we're clear, that for years, Charles Koch and the Koch Network funded organizations and still against neoconservative warmongering.
00:14:46.000They even partnered with George Soros on something called the Quincy Institute to try to stop foreign intervention in wars.
00:14:55.000So I say that for a reason, because it goes to show how inconsistent, unprincipled, undisciplined, and hilarious this endorsement is.
00:15:06.000One of the key pillars of Coke World is don't invade the world.
00:15:14.000Harsh critics of Bush, harsh critics of Dick Cheney.
00:15:19.000So they sent out a memo, Americans for Prosperity.
00:15:22.000And I just hope all of you guys know that when you go to your Republican precinct committee meetings and you go to your state party chair meetings and you see the Americans for Prosperity booth, many of the people that work there are wonderful people.
00:15:34.000But understand that more times than not, it's a synthetic lens for open border Chamber of Commerce policies.
00:15:42.000And they put on the jersey of grassroots activism to get you to buy in to policies and ideas that might be inconsistent with your worldview.
00:15:53.000They do not want a closed southern border.
00:15:56.000They do not want the American worker to be prioritized.
00:16:00.000They do not want to see the war in Ukraine settled down and brokered to peace.
00:16:06.000They do not want to see the government say that children are off limits with trans surgeries.
00:16:12.000Instead, they start, they say, well, you know what we need is criminal justice reform.
00:17:06.000Americans for Prosperity Action is on the way to solve the Republican primary.
00:17:12.000A bunch of donors that you don't know that want open borders and are sick of Trump are willing to deploy hundreds of millions of dollars or at least tens of millions of dollars not to ballot chase voter registration or secure our elections, but to extend an unnecessary and embarrassing and bloody primary.
00:17:30.000At the outset of the strategy, we made clear that we'd be businesslike in our decision.
00:17:35.000We would support a candidate capable of turning the page on Washington's toxic culture, a candidate who can win.
00:17:42.000And last night we concluded that analysis.
00:17:44.000But let me just say what they say about Trump.
00:17:45.000Republicans have been nominating bad candidates who are going against America's core principles and voters are rejecting them.
00:17:53.000That's what they say about the MAGA base.
00:18:19.000AFP Action is proud to throw our full support behind Nikki Haley, who offers America the opportunity to turn the page on the current political era, to win the Republican primary and defeat Joe Biden next November.
00:18:34.000She has what it takes to lead a policy agenda to take on the nation's biggest challenges to help ensure our country's best days are ahead.
00:18:41.000With the grassroots and data capability, yeah, give me a break.
00:18:51.000Americans for Prosperity, the Koch Network, has now officially selected their candidate and declared war on many of you, including Ron DeSantis supporters out there, by the way.
00:19:04.000This is a globalist neocon chest move, chest move against the America first movement.
00:19:09.000This is a salvo directed at you, at the populist nationalist muscular class movement of everyday Americans that want their country back, the border secure, that want your kids to say they are off limits.
00:19:22.000They want your kids to love America again.
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00:22:59.000So Nikki Haley is endorsed by the Koch Network.
00:23:03.000They say here, Nikki Haley is by far the strongest candidate Republicans can put up against Joe Biden.
00:23:10.000In sharp contrast to recent elections that were dominated by the negative baggage of Donald Trump and which good candidates lost races they should have won, Nikki Haley at the top of the ticket would boost candidates up and down the ballot, winning the key independent and moderate voters that Trump has no chance to win.
00:23:27.000Yeah, these oligarchs are telling you in the grassroots who has a chance to win.
00:23:34.000Nikki Haley has a long track record of empowering people with more freedom and opportunity and supporting policies that favor competition over control.
00:23:45.000As governor, Haley's work to expand education opportunities, improve access and lower costs in our healthcare system, and protect freedom and flexibility in our workforce shows she shares our belief.
00:23:54.000Nikki Haley by far offers the best opportunity to improve the lives of all Americans.
00:24:50.000Donald Trump fell 44,000 votes short in three states with an election that was an insult to the rule of law, to our traditions, to our standards, to our customs, to the Constitution.
00:25:03.00044,000 votes with mass mail and ballots and the laptop being censored, midnight voting counting and week-long vote dripping out of Maricopa County, 44,000 votes.
00:25:18.000Donald Trump brings out voters that Nikki Haley will never bring out.
00:25:22.000If there's any lesson of the modern Trump era, it's that that cannot be duplicated.
00:25:30.000Now, one of the biggest issues for Americans for Prosperity, I remember once being at Politicon in Nashville, I'm going to say, I think it was Tennessee.
00:26:23.000We need to go to our industries and say, what do you need that you don't have?
00:26:28.000Oh, so we need to go to Google and say, how many foreigners do you need, Google?
00:26:35.000Yeah, we need to go to Goldman Sachs, companies that hate our country, by the way, and say, hey, how many Chinese nationals do you need, Goldman Sachs?
00:26:46.000Americans for Prosperity continues in their endorsement of Nimerata, and it says that their resources are going to be all in for the primary.
00:32:13.000The caucus system is very unpredictable.
00:32:15.000And if Trump wins by less than 10 points, the media will paint it, and it won't be a fair picture, of course not, as Trump is on the ropes, last-minute surge.
00:32:24.000Oh my goodness, make it newsy in this kind of social media way.
00:32:28.000They're going to try to frame South Carolina as a reset.
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00:34:57.000And by the way, all these polls, I'd be very curious what AFP Action is doing with their tens of millions and potentially hundreds of millions of dollars to make sure that the general election candidate is going to win.
00:35:13.000But for them, Donald Trump is an existential threat to their priorities.
00:35:19.000An existential threat when he says that we are going to close the border.
00:35:26.000That we are going to prevent critical race theory from being taught in our schools.
00:35:31.000Their whole foundation, the new Coke talks about advancing racial justice.
00:35:38.000Mr. Koch's book in 2020 is completely different than the old Koch style, went through a complete rewrite, talking about driving progress in critical conversation shaping the 21st century.
00:35:51.000Every single one of these Koch groups, including Stand Together, 300 community-based groups tackling the root causes of poverty.
00:36:00.000Stand Together calls these pro-progress perhaps the starve-off critiques that Cochus is promoting so-called unbridled capitalism.
00:36:07.000They began, IHS, which is a Coke-adjacent group, funds a race in contemporary protocol life.
00:36:14.000One of the people that they are partnering with has an argument: quote, treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity, and other works that appear to be rooted in critical race theory far more than any ground of classical liberalism.
00:36:26.000You guys can check out the whole piece of New Coke, American Mind, AmericanMind.org.
00:37:37.000The old school libertarians that have given tons of money to Cato throughout, like literally used to sit on the board of Cato, is now endorsing Nikki Haley.
00:37:47.000That goes to show that their Trump derangement syndrome is so unhinged.
00:37:53.000And the final point I'll make is the opportunity cost here is the most frustrating.
00:38:11.000Imagine what we could all do combined, what Turning Point Action could do, what Scott Pressler could do with these resources.
00:38:19.000Imagine what we could do on the front lines in Wisconsin and Arizona, ballot chase, precinct commitment, strengthening the grassroots base.
00:38:27.000But I'm not convinced that they actually want Trump ever to win, even if he was the nominee.
00:38:32.000I think they would rather bloody him up, damage him, and say, I told you so.