The Charlie Kirk Show - Republicans are Ready for Trump-Vance 2024 - LIVE at the RNC ft. Dr. Ben Carson, Lee Zeldin, Brigette Smith

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00:00:31.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:01:30.000 And we have a special guest, a great American who's doing a lot also with my shirt voting early with Project Z and stuff, Congressman Lee Zeldin.

00:01:37.000 So were you in the room when President Trump entered last night?

00:01:41.000 I would say that it was one of the coolest, most beautiful moments that I have ever experienced or probably ever will experience in life.

00:01:48.000 And as far as conventions go, maybe for the rest of anyone's lives, Republican Convention, Democratic Convention, it doesn't get more powerful than that.

00:01:56.000 And to have Lee Greenwood singing and paying the tribute.

00:02:00.000 And President Trump coming out after what he just experienced, thank God he is alive.

00:02:04.000 The man fought.

00:02:06.000 He clearly is a fighter.

00:02:08.000 And there are people who have outed themselves as saying that they had not supported President Trump in the past.

00:02:13.000 But now, for the first time ever, they're saying, you know what, I think I'm ready to vote for Donald Trump in 2024.

00:02:19.000 It was even Chris Wallace on CNN who is the worst.

00:02:23.000 He said this was one of the most powerful moments in a convention he's seen in his entire reporting career.

00:02:29.000 I mean you think about it this is a guy who 48 hours prior was shot and again the media is doing everything they possibly can to not say that or not mention that they're calling it the incident right they're calling an assassination no he was shot in fact you see this viral video of they're going up to democrats and they say oh no he wasn't shot it was shrapnel it was a bb gun the media has done such a disservice these are such disgusting people and but there he is with the bandage Walking up, and there seemed to be a different vibe with President Trump, almost like a reflective, somber.

00:02:57.000 Did you get that as well?

00:02:59.000 Oh, 100%.

00:02:59.000 And you know what's wild is that on the left, some people would be attacking him saying, oh, he looks slower than he normally is.

00:03:06.000 Like, he's aged so much because of this.

00:03:09.000 Yeah, I've seen this on social media.

00:03:11.000 Like, listen, this guy can't win.

00:03:12.000 He either has, you know, all the energy that we've always seen in 77 plus years of his life, Or for a moment, if he's being reflective after coming so close to death on Saturday, they'll criticize that.

00:03:24.000 The fact is, people are seeing with their own eyes what we have with Joe Biden.

00:03:28.000 A person who just last Friday was referring to Zelensky as Putin, referring to Harris as Trump, and saying that he was taking orders from his commander-in-chief.

00:03:37.000 That was all on the world stage at the end of the NATO summit.

00:03:41.000 People understand that we have a president right now in cognitive decline in the White House.

00:03:46.000 And a Donald Trump and a J.D.

00:03:47.000 Vance ready to come in in January to make America great again.

00:03:50.000 So you know that I've been a big...

00:03:52.000 Push her for J.D., both privately and publicly.

00:03:54.000 He's a friend of both of ours.

00:03:55.000 He's an outstanding guy.

00:03:57.000 This audience is very, very pro-J.D., and they've been pushing for J.D., and they've been enthusiastic in many different ways.

00:04:04.000 We've been doing a lot of polls, and they always vote in them, and I've been showing the president that both publicly and privately.

00:04:09.000 Tell the audience about J.D.

00:04:11.000 Vance.

00:04:11.000 What is the significance of this selection?

00:04:13.000 And then seeing President Trump end and conclude sitting next to J.D.

00:04:17.000 Vance, I mean, that is the current and the future.

00:04:21.000 That is, that is a full, you know, it is a full crystallization of the MAGA movement.

00:04:27.000 Not to mention you got Tucker Carlson sitting two seats over.

00:04:30.000 Byron, it's quite, it was quite a first row there.

00:04:33.000 Yeah, no doubt, and JD is such a great messenger.

00:04:36.000 I've watched him over the course of the last few months, especially as he was going on to certain networks where maybe it would be a hostile interview, and the anchor would give it the best that he or she can, and JD is always ready for anything.

00:04:50.000 J.D.

00:04:51.000 Vance is a force multiplier for this ticket. 0.96

00:04:53.000 President Trump will bust his butt all day, every day, but he can only get to so many places in any given day.

00:05:01.000 He now multiplies that effort by getting a vice presidential nominee in J.D. 0.98

00:05:05.000 Vance.

00:05:06.000 Smart.

00:05:07.000 Ivy League educated law school, Marine, entrepreneur, family man, started with nothing.

00:05:14.000 He earned his success.

00:05:16.000 And most importantly, unlike many others who become successful, J.D.

00:05:20.000 Vance never forgot where he came from.

00:05:21.000 I think that he is going to be an amazing addition to this ticket.

00:05:26.000 And I look forward to seeing J.D.

00:05:27.000 Vance sworn into January as our nation's next vice president.

00:05:32.000 And if everyone understands, the media is saying, well, he doesn't add anything.

00:05:32.000 I love that.

00:05:35.000 There were some people on TV, they said, there's no addition here.

00:05:38.000 First of all, the data is screaming at us that please put somebody under the age of 50 on the ticket.

00:05:44.000 Like, please.

00:05:45.000 And, you know, you have Joe Biden, 81, Donald Trump, 78, but you never know.

00:05:48.000 You'd never think it.

00:05:50.000 And then Kamala Harris, late 50s, I think she's 59. 0.84

00:05:53.000 Vance is 20 years younger than the next youngest person on the ticket.

00:05:53.000 J.D.

00:06:00.000 If you had two JD Vance lifetimes, that's still not as old as Joe Biden is.

00:06:05.000 It's wild to think about.

00:06:07.000 Two lifetimes of JD Vance is still not as old as Joe Biden.

00:06:10.000 It's remarkable.

00:06:11.000 And so you have this younger dynamic plus Rust Belt appeal, Western Pennsylvania, Southern Michigan, and his story is remarkable.

00:06:22.000 Wednesday's a big night because after Donald Trump survives an assassination attempt and gets shot, the country's starting to think, well, who is number two?

00:06:32.000 And in addition to that, Lee, People were thinking about that anyway with the convictions because we said this is a big VP pick.

00:06:38.000 What does JD Vance have to do on Wednesday night to really lean into this moment?

00:06:43.000 There are people who are tuning in across America who actually still haven't made their minds up.

00:06:48.000 Some who haven't made their minds up who to vote for for president.

00:06:51.000 Others haven't made their minds up as to whether or not to vote.

00:06:55.000 There are other people who know they're going to vote but They haven't decided yet to volunteer.

00:07:00.000 They haven't decided yet to donate $5 to DonaldJTrump.com.

00:07:06.000 So J.D.

00:07:07.000 has an opportunity to communicate with Americans.

00:07:10.000 Blue, state, city Democrats who have for too long voted Democrat, blind partisan loyalty, but they've gotten burnt by the Democratic Party.

00:07:19.000 They're ready to try something new.

00:07:21.000 Or that conservative Loyal Trump voter who is going to be ready to step up next level when they're waking up Thursday morning because of that speech.

00:07:30.000 Now, I don't want to set expectations the wrong way for a Kamala Harris-J.D. 0.84

00:07:35.000 Vance debate, so I'll just say this to make sure that expectations are set where they need to be going in.

00:07:41.000 Wow, Kamala Harris is going to destroy J.D. 1.00

00:07:45.000 Vance in that debate.

00:07:46.000 I don't know how J.D.

00:07:47.000 is going to be able to hold his own.

00:07:49.000 With that powerful intellect of Kamala Harris.

00:07:51.000 Oh my gosh.

00:07:52.000 Good luck to J.D.

00:07:54.000 trying to handle Kamala.

00:07:55.000 Kamala should challenge J.D. 0.58

00:07:56.000 to like a debate a week.

00:07:59.000 She should be so confident about how this is going to go.

00:08:01.000 He is ready for this moment.

00:08:03.000 She isn't.

00:08:03.000 And when you talk about the top issues of the day, like why do we have an open border?

00:08:08.000 She's the border czar.

00:08:09.000 She wouldn't go there.

00:08:11.000 She has been by design creating all of these issues that are leading to not just open border, But Democrats showing up to city council meetings inside of Chicago complaining about their hard-working tax dollars getting taken away with sanctuary city policies.

00:08:25.000 That's just an example of one of so many ways that Kamala Harris, in reality... 1.00

00:08:31.000 Is really set up for failure, having to be on the same stage as J.D.

00:08:34.000 Part of the Selection J.D.

00:08:35.000 Vance that is brilliant, and Susie Wiles and Chris Lasovita deserve a lot of credit here, is they're thinking about this as a regional election, less than a national election.

00:08:45.000 We've known this for quite some time.

00:08:47.000 We love working with America First Works.

00:08:48.000 I see some of our friends over there and Project Z focused on the counties and the areas.

00:08:53.000 If we're honest with ourselves, it is, can you squeeze an extra half of a percent out of the Rust Belt?

00:08:59.000 If you can, that could be the margin.

00:09:01.000 Can you get an extra 1% out of Western Pennsylvania?

00:09:04.000 And if you look at the numbers in 2020, Donald Trump did well in Western Pennsylvania, but he didn't do as well in certain counties as he did in 2016.

00:09:13.000 And what happens in Western Pennsylvania can forgive what happens in Eastern Pennsylvania.

00:09:18.000 And so J.D.

00:09:19.000 Vance is a regional pick.

00:09:21.000 And strategically, you could see the campaign team is thinking about this as a series of counties.

00:09:27.000 Said differently, we are running 30 mayor's races.

00:09:32.000 Not a presidential election.

00:09:33.000 Your reaction?

00:09:34.000 About one minute remaining.

00:09:35.000 100% right.

00:09:36.000 Inside of Pennsylvania and Michigan and Wisconsin, JD is going to be able to show up over and over again and win over support.

00:09:43.000 But for people who are out there, whether you are knocking on local doors in your own area as a volunteer, or maybe you're willing to quit your job for the next four months and go work full-time on knocking on doors, Maybe you are looking for a job.

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00:11:25.000 So I want to play a series of tapes here.

00:11:27.000 The first piece of tape I want to play is the reaction from the ground.

00:11:31.000 I think this is very important.

00:11:33.000 This is a viral video of a young man.

00:11:35.000 I don't know what creator did this, but I want to give him credit if you guys can get the name.

00:11:39.000 He was on the streets.

00:11:40.000 It looks like LA or California.

00:11:42.000 He's asking random Democrats, hey, what happened to Trump?

00:11:44.000 What happened to Trump?

00:11:45.000 What was your reaction?

00:11:46.000 This is the malpractice of the American media.

00:11:49.000 Play cut 96, please.

00:11:51.000 Oh, it's a false flag.

00:11:52.000 False flag?

00:11:53.000 Yeah, false flag.

00:11:53.000 People, somebody died and two people injured?

00:11:55.000 What do you think about that?

00:11:56.000 False flag.

00:11:57.000 False flag.

00:11:58.000 I thought it was magnificently staged.

00:12:00.000 It was professionally done.

00:12:02.000 It almost looked real.

00:12:04.000 I think this whole thing is staged.

00:12:05.000 You think it was staged?

00:12:06.000 Yeah.

00:12:06.000 It depends on everybody's view.

00:12:09.000 Yeah.

00:12:10.000 View of the assassination attempt?

00:12:12.000 One person died in the crowd, two critically injured.

00:12:14.000 What happened there?

00:12:15.000 It wouldn't matter to Trump.

00:12:17.000 Do you think he cares if people die for him to be elected?

00:12:20.000 Death doesn't mean anything to Trump.

00:12:22.000 Could be, or it could be the other side trying to make a scene or something.

00:12:29.000 Yeah, a lot of people are easily fooled by Donald Trump. 1.00

00:12:31.000 Yeah, they're foolish. 1.00

00:12:34.000 Now, remember this. 1.00

00:12:35.000 Mega donor Reid Hoffman's top political advisor pushed the false flag narrative right out of the gate.

00:12:42.000 This delusion goes all the way up.

00:12:44.000 Our own journalist at Turning Point USA, Savannah Hernandez, is amazing.

00:12:48.000 I want to play this tape and get your reaction here, Lee.

00:12:50.000 She confronted Kirsten Welker.

00:12:52.000 Is it Kirsten or Kristen?

00:12:54.000 Ms.

00:12:54.000 Welker.

00:12:55.000 And she is unable to defend NBC's reporting.

00:12:59.000 She is a journalist asking a question.

00:13:01.000 Hey, why is it that you guys said that it was loud noises and she's unable to even acknowledge the camera?

00:13:08.000 This is what we need to do.

00:13:10.000 You need to calmly and directly confront every single one of these journalists and ask them, why do you say these things?

00:13:18.000 They've never been challenged in their life.

00:13:20.000 That is one of the beauties of the RNC.

00:13:22.000 They're all here, right, Lee?

00:13:23.000 Play cut 95.

00:13:25.000 Excuse me, Kristen, I have a question.

00:13:27.000 NBC reported that when Trump was assassinated, attempted assassination, it was popping noises that was initially reported.

00:13:35.000 Would you like to respond to that?

00:13:37.000 No?

00:13:38.000 Alright y'all, this is Savannah Hernandez and this is actually Kristen Welkner right behind me of NBC News, the exact same network that reported after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump that it was just popping noises.

00:13:51.000 Kristen, would you like to say anything?

00:13:53.000 No?

00:13:54.000 Would anybody, a part of NBC, like to say anything about your faulty reporting?

00:14:00.000 Not at all?

00:14:01.000 Okay.

00:14:03.000 This is what every single attendee needs to do when you see a journalist you recognize that has done malpractice against this nation.

00:14:10.000 Ask him questions.

00:14:11.000 Lee, your reaction to those clips.

00:14:13.000 First off, I saw on Twitter during the break, someone asked whether or not I was 5'4".

00:14:17.000 Just so you know, I'm not even close.

00:14:20.000 Charlie's just about 7 feet tall.

00:14:22.000 Those at home may not realize.

00:14:24.000 We measured with these shoes.

00:14:26.000 What was I?

00:14:26.000 I was 6'6", almost, right?

00:14:28.000 Yeah.

00:14:29.000 Oh, man.

00:14:30.000 But that was an official measurement.

00:14:32.000 With shoes?

00:14:33.000 Okay, fine.

00:14:33.000 Here at the RNC, he's 7 feet tall.

00:14:35.000 Do you want to know why the internet lies?

00:14:37.000 Wikipedia says I'm 5'11".

00:14:39.000 Oh man, I could definitely balance.

00:14:40.000 That's what I am, so no.

00:14:43.000 You are definitely making a lot of people proud here, Charlie, and continuing this fight towards accountability because the fact is that President Trump was milliliters and milliseconds away from losing his life on Saturday, which would have plummeted this country into a very dark, uncertain disaster.

00:15:02.000 American politics and our future.

00:15:04.000 Thank God President Trump is alive, and all we ask for Is just honesty, truth to be out there as far as what happened with this president.

00:15:13.000 To try to plant this false flag or to put some headline as if President Trump just fell on stage.

00:15:19.000 No, just shoot straight with your audience because they are following you.

00:15:23.000 You need to lead them with facts and let Americans make their own judgment as to what they should believe about what is best for their kids' education, what they should believe as far as what is most important for the safety on their streets or how to achieve prosperity and how to protect freedom, instead of trying to brainwash and indoctrinate.

00:15:44.000 And this is just another extension of it.

00:15:45.000 Super quickly, about a minute remaining, plug the important work Project Z and the need for our audience to vote early, avoid the lines, register voters, chase ballots.

00:15:56.000 About 45 seconds.

00:15:58.000 Yeah, listen, Turning Point, amazing work.

00:16:01.000 And America First Works, another C4.

00:16:04.000 There are other groups, Faith and Freedom, come to mind.

00:16:07.000 And Moms for Liberty and others who are going to be chasing ballots, but we can't do it alone.

00:16:13.000 None of us can do it alone.

00:16:15.000 We need everybody out there to understand that it's not an election day.

00:16:18.000 This is something Charlie talks about all the time.

00:16:19.000 It's an election season.

00:16:21.000 Right after Labor Day, people are going to start voting in places like Pennsylvania.

00:16:25.000 Ballots will go out.

00:16:27.000 I have the dates here really quick.

00:16:28.000 Keep going, please.

00:16:29.000 And you need to be cognizant of where and how to vote, when to start voting.

00:16:34.000 We are 52 days out from North Carolina ballots coming out.

00:16:38.000 62 for Pennsylvania.

00:16:39.000 All of the low propensity and no propensity.

00:16:41.000 The people who sometimes vote or never vote.

00:16:44.000 They're in your lives.

00:16:45.000 Friends, family, neighbors.

00:16:46.000 Make sure that they know.

00:16:47.000 Gotta run.

00:16:48.000 They have to show up and vote this year.

00:16:50.000 Their vote counts.

00:16:50.000 Lee Zeldin, American hero, great man, and I have a role, hopefully, for you in the future Trump administration, God willing.

00:16:56.000 Remember, Election Day is the last day of voting.

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00:18:03.000 Joining us now is Dr. Ben Carson.

00:18:05.000 Give it up for Dr. Carson everybody.

00:18:06.000 Isn't he the best?

00:18:08.000 Dr. Carson, I mentioned this off-air, I'm still numb over what happened this last weekend.

00:18:14.000 Your reaction?

00:18:15.000 I think we're all a little numb for that.

00:18:18.000 But what an incredible manifestation of God's power.

00:18:23.000 You know, He says in the book of Isaiah, no weapon can be formed against you.

00:18:30.000 They've tried everything to get rid of this man, including assassination.

00:18:36.000 It's not going to work.

00:18:38.000 All it does, every one of these things that they do, including the lawfare, it just strengthens him and moves him forward.

00:18:45.000 And I think that's a manifestation of the fact that God is not through with our country yet.

00:18:50.000 There's still a lot of people in this country who are God-fearing, decent individuals who have moral standards.

00:18:57.000 And those are the things that allowed this country to go from a bunch of ragtag militiamen to the pinnacle of the world in record time.

00:19:05.000 That was not a coincidence.

00:19:06.000 That was because of the principles that we believed in.

00:19:09.000 And if we bring those principles back, we will begin extending instead of descending once again.

00:19:17.000 Dr. Carson, Seeing the president be shot, you were both friends of his.

00:19:22.000 Yes.

00:19:23.000 I don't cry easily, but I mean, I was, I was visibly shook.

00:19:26.000 I mean, we were streaming live.

00:19:27.000 I had to leave the set because you keep watching this.

00:19:31.000 And at first you say, okay, was it shrapnel?

00:19:33.000 No, this, this was a bullet that was an inch or less away from upending our entire nation.

00:19:41.000 Absolutely.

00:19:42.000 And you know, I, I was around, uh, a long time ago back when The Kennedys were assassinated when Martin Luther King was.

00:19:50.000 I remember so vividly those days and what happened and the feeling that it generated.

00:19:56.000 And this was similar, but in a way it was a little more tragic in the sense that our country is so divided right now.

00:20:06.000 I mean, we've been divided in those times too, but not the way it is now.

00:20:11.000 This is like it was in the pre civil war days and I stop and I shudder if they had been successful.

00:20:20.000 What if that had succeeded?

00:20:22.000 Where would we be now?

00:20:24.000 We would be here and this would be not a pleasant place.

00:20:28.000 Right.

00:20:29.000 I mean, not only, forget not having a nominee, this country would be... Total chaos.

00:20:35.000 This would be close to a second American Civil War, and I don't say that lightly.

00:20:39.000 No.

00:20:39.000 And I wouldn't support it.

00:20:40.000 You and I would be doing everything we could to calm people down.

00:20:42.000 We would.

00:20:43.000 But remember, for tens of millions of people, or at least millions of people, Donald Trump represents their only voice because they were forgotten by their leaders.

00:20:52.000 Right.

00:20:53.000 And they're the ones that give sacrificially, wait in lines for rallies, and the one thing that gives them hope beyond Jesus Christ couldn't even be protected by our own government.

00:21:05.000 Absolutely.

00:21:06.000 And now as more things are coming out about that, it was either gross incompetence or something worse than that.

00:21:16.000 So can I ask you about that?

00:21:17.000 So you did a wonderful job running housing and urban development.

00:21:22.000 So is it fair to say that most failures are usually incompetence and not malevolence in government?

00:21:30.000 I would say the majority are incompetence.

00:21:32.000 There's some malevolence.

00:21:34.000 So there is some malevolence.

00:21:35.000 I agree with you.

00:21:37.000 So build that out.

00:21:38.000 There are people sometimes in government that have bad motives and bad intentions.

00:21:42.000 I think a lot of people, when they come into government at first, they have pure motives and you know, they are for their fellow citizens, but there is so much corruption.

00:21:55.000 There's so much temptation there.

00:21:58.000 It requires a very strong constitution to avoid that.

00:22:02.000 And just look at the fact that so many congressmen and senators thought it was okay for them to be investing in stocks when they knew certain legislation that was going to impact that.

00:22:17.000 Why would anybody think that was okay?

00:22:19.000 And they probably didn't think it was okay when they came in, but something happens and you begin to believe that maybe you're a little special.

00:22:27.000 And maybe you get more advantages than everybody else.

00:22:31.000 And that's what happens, unfortunately.

00:22:34.000 We need to get rid of that.

00:22:35.000 And another thing, I emphasize this, I can't emphasize it strongly enough, the people themselves have to get involved.

00:22:43.000 Volunteer for Trump Force 47.

00:22:47.000 Get involved as a poll watcher.

00:22:50.000 get to know the law, understand when somebody tells you you got to stand way over there where

00:22:54.000 you can't see anything, that they have no authority to do that and that you should as a poll watcher

00:22:59.000 be able to actually watch the poll. And there's a whole bunch of other things. We need people to

00:23:05.000 get involved. If we don't get involved, we lose our country.

00:23:09.000 Going back to the incompetence and malevolence, there is a report today from Sean Davis that

00:23:17.000 the Secret Service had eyes on the would-be assassin for 30 minutes prior.

00:23:23.000 I saw that.

00:23:23.000 They were in the same building.

00:23:25.000 They knew he was there.

00:23:29.000 I mean... I can't come up with a good excuse for that.

00:23:33.000 Why would you not act if you knew that there was somebody there with a gun That was close enough to do harm to the person.

00:23:40.000 I didn't understand that.

00:23:43.000 We're getting closer to the only explanation is that they wanted him unprotected.

00:23:50.000 I hate even uttering those words because there are some phenomenal people in the service, but is this, this is the territory we're quickly veering into right now.

00:23:59.000 Well, it's going to be very hard to get a thorough investigation, because who's investigating?

00:24:07.000 Well, yeah, it's the corrupt mafia investigating the corrupt mafia.

00:24:12.000 Exactly.

00:24:13.000 The fox is investigating who stole the chicken from the henhouse.

00:24:16.000 I was just talking to a couple senators.

00:24:18.000 Every lawmaker I'm coming up to, I say, you better unleash the metaphorical legislative hell on these people. 0.99

00:24:24.000 Absolutely.

00:24:25.000 If there is ever a time to go scorched earth, If there was ever a time to, I mean, I'm talking about you should not pass a continuing resolution in the fall unless the Secret Service director is fired.

00:24:36.000 Well, here's the other thing.

00:24:37.000 Uh, the president needs better protection.

00:24:40.000 He needs to plexiglass completely around, uh, the same way Obama used to have, uh, you can't be trusting anymore because the same people who are responsible for this are still responsible for your safety.

00:24:54.000 Well, and the, If it ends up, it's gonna be very difficult for us to get to the bottom of this, because right now they're probably destroying evidence.

00:25:03.000 They're probably deleting records, because that is the way in Washington, D.C.

00:25:07.000 Nobody was fired after the Afghanistan withdrawal.

00:25:11.000 Nobody was fired with our mishandling of COVID.

00:25:13.000 And nobody was fired with the Hunter Biden laptop.

00:25:17.000 In fact, the opposite.

00:25:18.000 All three of those people are in higher places than ever before.

00:25:22.000 They've ascended in high society.

00:25:25.000 Fortunately, that is the reason that people are losing their faith in government.

00:25:30.000 And that's why it's so important, if we can get through these next five to six months, that we get some people in who actually have the best interests of the people in mind.

00:25:41.000 It's going to take a while to gain the trust back, but we have to start soon.

00:25:45.000 It's not going to start with this administration.

00:25:48.000 And that trust starts with accountability.

00:25:52.000 The Secret Service is treating this like it's an HR problem.

00:25:55.000 Right.

00:25:57.000 I hope everybody understands this.

00:25:59.000 Since Ronald Reagan was shot, which you remember, I wasn't alive yet.

00:26:04.000 There has not been a fired round on a former or current president, let alone a current or former president protectee getting shot.

00:26:14.000 In fact, I spent a lot of time around Secret Service when Trump was president because Don Jr.

00:26:19.000 had a detail, and Don's a dear friend.

00:26:21.000 I'm talking probably well over 150 days.

00:26:24.000 I got to know all the agents by name.

00:26:26.000 They're wonderful people.

00:26:27.000 There was, though, a little bit of a We pride ourselves in that we are the best in the world?

00:26:34.000 You know what I mean?

00:26:36.000 Well, when I was running for president, I had a full Secret Service detail.

00:26:39.000 And I don't know that.

00:26:41.000 Yeah, Donald Trump and I were the only ones who had it.

00:26:44.000 Because of all the death threats?

00:26:45.000 Because of the threat level and where you sat in the polls.

00:26:47.000 Those are the two things that they determine whether you did that or not.

00:26:51.000 But they were excellent people.

00:26:54.000 We had a good time with them, but they were incredibly thorough.

00:26:57.000 Yes, but there was also a belief that we're the best and we will never forsake excellence.

00:27:06.000 But you have to have the numbers.

00:27:09.000 Yes.

00:27:09.000 And the Trump administration has been asking for more.

00:27:13.000 And they've been denied, denied repeatedly.

00:27:16.000 And so you have that as a element of this.

00:27:19.000 And then I don't know if we'll ever get to the bottom of it, but I don't for the, for any, if I was trying to do a devil's advocate argument, how you have a former president and open air rally on, and you have just so everyone understands we had Eric Prince on the program from here to the trade.

00:27:36.000 That is how far it was for the shooter.

00:27:38.000 Yeah.

00:27:39.000 It was a chip shot.

00:27:40.000 It was.

00:27:40.000 Yeah.

00:27:41.000 And if, and in, And they did not have drones.

00:27:44.000 Can you understand that?

00:27:45.000 I mean, but every eight-year-old has a drone right now in suburban America.

00:27:48.000 They don't have a drone that they could fly up and say...

00:27:52.000 This is Butler, Pennsylvania.

00:27:53.000 This is not Gotham City.

00:27:55.000 There's six rooftops in the entire city.

00:27:57.000 But it's not clear that even if they'd had drones and they'd seen them that they would have done anything.

00:28:01.000 Because they knew ahead of time, 30 minutes ahead of time, that there was some suspicious guy out there.

00:28:07.000 Plus they had seen him with a scope or with some kind of distance measuring device.

00:28:12.000 But help me understand.

00:28:13.000 You see a guy with a gun and your reaction is, oh we're gonna let him shoot?

00:28:17.000 I don't understand.

00:28:19.000 It's, there's no logical explanation.

00:28:20.000 Or, or at the very least, we're not asking you to be a hero.

00:28:24.000 Say, get him off stage. 1.00

00:28:25.000 Yeah.

00:28:26.000 Right.

00:28:26.000 At least, I mean, when you're in the protective business, overreaction is the correct reaction.

00:28:31.000 Absolutely.

00:28:32.000 And they're going to say, oh, we're going to let him continue to do this speech and show charts only by divine, his head tilt saved him.

00:28:40.000 Or at the very least, when they knew he was there.

00:28:43.000 They could have taken the president to a safe place until they were able to determine what's going on.

00:28:48.000 As soon as that there were people yelling and commotion, you get the protectee off stage, and then they figure out and they neutralize the threat.

00:28:55.000 Right.

00:28:55.000 Or if it's not a threat, you bring them back on stage.

00:28:57.000 And if they don't know that, we got a problem.

00:29:00.000 Houston, we have a problem.

00:29:01.000 The last part of this segment, Dr. Carson, the audience.

00:29:08.000 They were getting shot at and the audience basically just stood still.

00:29:11.000 They didn't panic.

00:29:12.000 It's unbelievable.

00:29:13.000 They didn't stampede.

00:29:14.000 Our people are built differently than the average leftist.

00:29:17.000 I'm sorry, I'm going to say it, like these people were just kind of like looking around and it was not, that should have been panic at the disco.

00:29:25.000 I mean, you're talking about people dying in a stampede and a guy gets shot and they're administering first aid and most people are just kind of looking around.

00:29:35.000 I just, it's hard for me to even comprehend that.

00:29:39.000 I don't think I would have reacted that way.

00:29:41.000 But Americans are different. 0.97

00:29:44.000 I keep telling people, you know, when you look at the history of the world and how they have succumbed to Marxist ideology, I don't think we're going to do that.

00:29:55.000 I think we have people here who have a different sense of right and wrong and values and courage.

00:30:02.000 And I believe that's going to play a big part in saving this country.

00:30:05.000 And that's why I'm working the way I am.

00:30:07.000 That's why you're working the way you are.

00:30:09.000 I just want to make sure the opportunity to plug how people can follow you and support the great work you're doing.

00:30:14.000 You can go to American Cornerstone dot org.

00:30:18.000 American Cornerstone represents those values that made America into a great nation.

00:30:24.000 Faith.

00:30:26.000 Liberty, community and life.

00:30:28.000 And we have our little Patriots program.

00:30:31.000 And all of our programs are completely free of charge, including Executive Branch for America, aimed mostly at college students, to get them interested in how our government works, and more importantly, to get involved.

00:30:44.000 We need as many people as possible to get involved, because if we just say, it's corrupt, we don't want any part of it, then we leave it to all the corrupt people.

00:30:52.000 And we need some of the good people in there to balance things off.

00:30:55.000 I have to say, you are one of our most demanded speakers on campus.

00:31:01.000 And we love hosting you.

00:31:03.000 I think we have more coming up in the fall, I hope.

00:31:05.000 We do.

00:31:06.000 And you are such a great man.

00:31:08.000 I know I speak for the audience.

00:31:09.000 You're one of the greatest living Americans.

00:31:11.000 I really believe that.

00:31:12.000 Well, thank you.

00:31:12.000 And you're one of the greatest ones, too.

00:31:14.000 Well, that's very... And you represent... Nowhere even in the galaxy of Dr. Ben Carson.

00:31:18.000 But, Dr. Carson, thank you so much.

00:31:20.000 Thank you, Charlie.

00:31:20.000 God bless.

00:31:23.000 Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here.

00:31:25.000 Did you know that there are less humans in poverty today than any time in human history?

00:31:29.000 That's right.

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00:31:39.000 In fact, life expectancy and incomes are skyrocketing, and extreme poverty has plummeted from 42% in 1980 to less than 10% today.

00:31:47.000 1980 to less than 10% today.

00:31:50.000 And all as CO2 levels have risen.

00:31:54.000 More shocking is the sharp decline in poverty isn't in spite of fossil fuels, but because

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00:32:34.000 We have my new friend here.

00:32:36.000 Bridget! 0.84

00:32:37.000 Hi Bridget, how are ya?

00:32:39.000 Oh good, excited to be here!

00:32:40.000 Alright, so you had such energy I told Andrew to bring you up here.

00:32:44.000 You are using the Turning Point Action mobile technology, is that right?

00:32:47.000 Oh my gosh, yes we are!

00:32:49.000 And let me do a shout out to Donna Miller back home because she sent over 4,000 text postcards from your app.

00:32:53.000 Oh, I am not kidding you.

00:32:55.000 They are on it like flies on stink.

00:32:56.000 Okay, so let's... I love it.

00:32:59.000 So, let's take a step back.

00:33:00.000 What part of Florida are you from?

00:33:01.000 Oh, Calamarian County.

00:33:02.000 Where is that?

00:33:03.000 Central Florida.

00:33:04.000 Awesome.

00:33:04.000 And so, we are partnering at Turning Point Action.

00:33:07.000 We give our technology free to anyone who wants to use it.

00:33:10.000 So, you say... It's very autonomous.

00:33:11.000 Yeah, and you can... Any person in the audience can download the Turning Point Action app, right?

00:33:15.000 Absolutely.

00:33:16.000 It's GPS... I could be your spokesperson.

00:33:17.000 Is it boomer-friendly? 0.93

00:33:19.000 Yeah, hello.

00:33:20.000 Yes.

00:33:21.000 No, because some people say I don't know how to use mobile technology.

00:33:23.000 So I call it KISS. 1.00

00:33:24.000 Keep it simple, stupid. 1.00

00:33:25.000 You basically turn it on. 1.00

00:33:26.000 I could be your spokesperson, right?

00:33:27.000 You turn it on.

00:33:28.000 You say, what I want to do today.

00:33:29.000 I want to walk doors.

00:33:31.000 I want to text.

00:33:31.000 I want to send postcards.

00:33:32.000 You just simply click that box and it populates everybody that's Republican or MPA right outside your space.

00:33:40.000 So, so for people that say, I want to get involved, I want to, this actually identifies the potential low propensity voters for you.

00:33:47.000 Oh, completely.

00:33:49.000 Completely.

00:33:50.000 How would you contrast our application with some of the other ones?

00:33:54.000 Okay, yours is so very easy.

00:33:55.000 And I'm gonna tell you right now, I just got a text two days ago from Donna because she said to me that she's having more, more responses, even with the phone numbers from yours, from your data, as opposed to WebElect.

00:34:06.000 And the other ones that we are using.

00:34:07.000 Yeah, and I don't want to bash the other ones.

00:34:08.000 I just want to lift ours up.

00:34:10.000 But this is why we did it is because there is there are such issues with the mobile technology space and we want to make it easy.

00:34:17.000 So it's very easy.

00:34:18.000 I have a lot of retirees that are over the age of 55.

00:34:20.000 I'm over the age of 55.

00:34:21.000 And for us, but you're the backbone of the party.

00:34:24.000 Right.

00:34:24.000 And it's so easy to do it.

00:34:25.000 It's a simple click.

00:34:26.000 You download it and click.

00:34:27.000 It's that simple.

00:34:28.000 And so you have a lot of energy.

00:34:30.000 You have a lot of spunk and fire.

00:34:33.000 We love it.

00:34:33.000 You guys are on fire though.

00:34:35.000 And so a lot of people are saying, but what can I do?

00:34:38.000 What can I do?

00:34:39.000 The biggest thing is to change your attitude and say that you have to be the force multiplier.

00:34:44.000 Completely.

00:34:45.000 Oh my gosh, completely.

00:34:47.000 Because this is so simple and you have to touch voters.

00:34:49.000 I don't care how you touch voters, just reach out and touch them via text, via phone call, door knock.

00:34:54.000 This gives you the ability to do that in a simple manner.

00:34:57.000 What are you hearing in the grassroots from low propensity voters?

00:35:02.000 That this is the first time we're voting for Trump.

00:35:04.000 I can tell you right now, long story getting here, but I was at a Starbucks and I was at a hotel.

00:35:10.000 They told me that I had my shirt.

00:35:12.000 So is this here in Wisconsin?

00:35:13.000 No, no, no.

00:35:13.000 This was in Florida.

00:35:14.000 Okay.

00:35:15.000 I had the shirt that says, Never Surrender, with Trump's picture on it.

00:35:17.000 I love that.

00:35:18.000 Because it causes a conversation.

00:35:19.000 So if anything else, wear your shirts, wear your hats.

00:35:22.000 Yes, this is so important.

00:35:23.000 She's reading my script.

00:35:24.000 And let me tell you, we made coins, okay?

00:35:26.000 Challenge coins.

00:35:28.000 I see a veteran, I walk over and give it to them, and it causes conversation.

00:35:31.000 They flip it over, it says the RAC on the back of it.

00:35:33.000 You can have one.

00:35:34.000 There you go.

00:35:34.000 I love that.

00:35:35.000 And so what you're constantly doing is trying to spark engagement.

00:35:38.000 That conversation, yes.

00:35:39.000 And so whether it be wearing a MAGA hat, a Never Surrender shirt, which by the way, you guys can get that Never Surrender shirt at members.charliekirk.com.

00:35:46.000 We have one with the President Trump with his fist up.

00:35:48.000 So once that conversation starts, what's the hook?

00:35:51.000 Give me the best, the essence of this.

00:35:53.000 What's the hook is and are you registered to vote?

00:35:56.000 And they'll say, oh, but... Right, and then if we had this conversation, they're like, well, you have no other choice but to vote for Trump because he is the best.

00:36:03.000 I mean, there's no other, I mean, this is it.

00:36:05.000 And this, our country's on the line.

00:36:07.000 There is this wrong assumption where people think everybody is registered to vote.

00:36:10.000 Is that correct?

00:36:11.000 That's a very, yes.

00:36:12.000 And they're not all registered to vote.

00:36:13.000 That's correct.

00:36:14.000 And it requires grassroots hustle to find those people.

00:36:16.000 Yeah, I was in the positions office myself last week and the aid It's not registered.

00:36:22.000 We had a conversation before we even talked about my health.

00:36:24.000 I said, what are you doing?

00:36:26.000 How old?

00:36:28.000 Millennial?

00:36:29.000 Late 20s maybe?

00:36:29.000 That makes sense.

00:36:31.000 Were they pro-Trump?

00:36:33.000 Pro-Trump!

00:36:33.000 But she's not registered.

00:36:35.000 So the RPF has provided us with cards that takes them directly to the Secretary of State for Florida.

00:36:40.000 So I've actually hand-delivered one of those over there to them so she can get registered to vote.

00:36:44.000 It's one voter at a time, folks.

00:36:46.000 We've got to get this done.

00:36:46.000 So we have millions of people that watch this show, social media, and all this.

00:36:49.000 If everybody had the fire that you have, this country would be safe.

00:36:54.000 Everybody better get this fire, that's all I've got to say.

00:36:55.000 I mean, we have no excuses left.

00:36:57.000 No, we don't.

00:36:58.000 No, exactly.

00:36:58.000 They shot President Trump.

00:37:00.000 That's right.

00:37:02.000 And he took a bullet for us.

00:37:04.000 He did. 1.00

00:37:05.000 Now let's take the bullet for him. 0.97

00:37:06.000 The least that we can do is get off your fannies and go to work. 0.68

00:37:09.000 What do you have to say for people that say, this is too hard, I'd rather watch it at home?

00:37:14.000 If it's too hard for you, get your app, and while you're sitting there watching the Charlie Kirk Show, get your handy-dandy postcards, or whatever, or your texts.

00:37:21.000 Let's talk about the postcards really quick.

00:37:23.000 That's so important.

00:37:24.000 Everybody can do this from at home.

00:37:25.000 Yes, you can.

00:37:26.000 So we ordered on Amazon, or Donna Miller did, little postcards that had an American flag on it, with a blank space in the back.

00:37:32.000 And she wrote a simple note, you know, register, whatever she writes, and so forth.

00:37:35.000 But on your app, you click the app, and it gives you all your MPAs, or Republicans, in your particular precinct, and you start mailing those out.

00:37:41.000 And you say, hey, please vote for Trump and it's personalized.

00:37:44.000 It's personalized.

00:37:45.000 It's not a matter of just knocking on doors.

00:37:47.000 That's great.

00:37:47.000 Or going out into public places.

00:37:49.000 You can write a hundred postcards to neighbors and they're very persuasive.

00:37:52.000 God bless you, Bridget. 0.80

00:37:53.000 Thank you so much.

00:37:54.000 Yes.

00:37:54.000 You are the best.

00:37:55.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:37:56.000 Email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:37:59.000 Thanks so much for listening and God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - July 16, 2024

Republicans are Ready for Trump-Vance 2024 - LIVE at the RNC ft. Dr. Ben Carson, Lee Zeldin, Brigette Smith

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