Day 2 of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is coming to a close. President Trump, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, Ben Carson, and Nikki Haley were all given a chance to speak at the convention, and it was a big night for the Republican Party. What did you think of the speeches? Did you agree with any of them? What do you think about Nikki Haley's speech and reaction to it? Is it a good or bad thing that she spoke at the same time as President Trump? How did you feel about her speech? Do you think she should have been allowed to speak earlier in the day? Why did she speak later in the evening? Does she have a problem with President Trump's foreign policy policies? Did she agree with him on any of his foreign policy positions? And did she agree or disagree with his defense of the Ukraine during the Ukraine crisis? All of that and much more on today's episode of The Charlie Kirk Show! Join us as we recap all the action from Day 2 and give our thoughts on what we saw and what we didn't see at the National Republican Convention! Stay tuned for our Hot Takes segment at the end of the show! Thanks for listening and God bless! -Charlie and Brodie -The Charlie Kirk Team and God Blessings, Brodie & Brodie! CHEERS! -- -- CHEER! -- THE CHERRYKIRK -- P. -- CORALYNNE -- CRYNN -- THE KIRKURGERS -- BLAKE & BOYER -- BOBBYE! -- CHECK OUT OUR PODCAST -- BRADY SONGS -- JOSH MILLER & STEVE WELCOME, JOSH AND KELLY MCCARTELTON -- YANKEE BONUS EPISODES -- AND KEVIN MCCARTHY -- WELL DONE! -- AND MORE! -- BECAUSE WE'S TALKING ABOUT IT'S DUE TOO MUCH MORE THAN THAT'S THE BEST? -- ENJOYING IT? -BRAISE YOUR MRS. AND AVAILABLE! -- CRITICALLY THE BEST AND THE MOST EPISODE EVER? -- WE'LL HAVE A PASTOR?
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00:04:19.000Well, I think what was really good about it was it wasn't like a Stepford Wife speech where she just pretends there was no conflict between them.
00:04:26.000She came out and said, I'm speaking for people who don't agree with Trump 100%.
00:05:53.000And it's very interesting to see who's walking around Upright who's walking around with a little spring in their step and who's kind of dragging their feet a little bit who's a little a little downtrodden head held a little a little bit lower than usual and so here we see Nikki Haley and then of course we also saw Ron DeSantis two of his most fierce primary opponents endorsing him in the same night and it is a testament to the fact
00:12:14.000I'll tell you, Sarah Huckabee Sanders here in Cut 125 in one of the mic drop moments.
00:12:20.000And you can tell that the Trump team was de-emphasizing the assassination until the last couple of speakers because they didn't want everyone to mention it.
00:12:28.000But they wanted to make sure that it was an element or else you'd have 120 people saying the same thing.
00:12:34.000And they definitely gave the green light to Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
00:12:37.000She was one of his fiercest advocates in the trenches.
00:13:20.000Just a big moment, you know, and that's something where... You mentioned a second ago that Sarah Huckabee Sanders wasn't just someone who, you know, rode off of her family's legacy and went into politics, which she could have done.
00:13:40.000She took a job that was completely thankless.
00:13:44.000I was there, by the way, at the White House Correspondent's dinner with her the night where she was just personally harassed, excoriated, mocked to her face for her physical appearance.
00:14:13.000And you could see the emotional journey that she was on, that President Trump was on, the fact that it was, I mean, for lack of a better phrase, Sarah Huckabee Sanders is ride or die.
00:14:36.000You would walk out of the Trump Hotel, you would walk out of restaurants, and they would target you.
00:14:41.000So they would send in units, like Soros-funded units, that would literally mock and harass you at minimum, if not tell you they're gonna physically assault you.
00:16:10.000That you get ahead in this country, not on the color of your skin, but on the content of your character and your contributions.
00:16:18.000These are not black ideas or white ideas.
00:16:21.000They are not even Democrat ideas or Republican ideas.
00:16:25.000They are American ideas that we fought a revolution to secure.
00:16:29.000And the man who will revive these ideals in the United States of America is your next president, the 47th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump!
00:16:43.000Was he going to go no red states or blue states for all of the United States of America?
00:16:48.000I don't, when I look at Vivek, I like think of, I love when he says 1776, because his hair reminds me of somebody that like, he's got a haircut that looks like, reminds me of like, literally one of the founders.
00:18:11.000That's one of the great... We don't really talk about who started that, but we can.
00:18:15.000We talk about the fact that that's gone on to be one of the greatest slogans for millennial and Gen Z. And by the way, and I always like to add when I say this, that you're never too old to start a family, either.
00:18:28.000That's something that a lot of people need to hear.
00:18:31.000It is incredible, Blake, the talent that we have on our collective roster.
00:18:38.000Compare this to the Democrats, who are about to have their convention, and one of their biggest problems is, who can we even slot in?
00:18:45.000They are still trading on the popularity of someone who hasn't been president for eight years.
00:19:10.000Well, they also, Charlie, have a problem because coming out of the Obama era, Biden got the benefit Last election of these, like, holdover, uh, Hollywood elitist, you know, musicians and things like that.
00:19:26.000I don't think those people are going to show up this time for him at the convention.
00:19:29.000You don't think Jack Black is going to do a good job?
00:19:32.000I can't wait to see Jack Black's speech.
00:19:35.000Jack Black said he might be the only guy who would be given a speech at the DNC when Joe Biden is victorious.
00:19:54.000I'd like to deliver a message that the media doesn't want you to hear from the Republican Party.
00:20:00.000Our message to Black Americans is this.
00:20:03.000The media has tried to convince you for decades that Republicans don't care about your communities, but we do.
00:20:10.000We want for you what we want for every American.
00:20:13.000Safe neighborhoods, clean streets, good jobs, a better life for your children, and a justice system that treats everyone equally, regardless of your skin color and regardless of your political beliefs.
00:20:28.000I thought this was excellent, guys, of Vivek Ramaswamy trying to expand the tent of the Republican Party.
00:20:35.000That is a beautiful pairing with a patriotic woman who spoke about her son being killed.
00:24:48.000I think we need to run more on the issue of being tough on crime.
00:24:52.000Charlie, look, I remember so many people saying that You know, Trump needs to appeal to women, and he needs to choose a woman on the ticket, and there was this whole school of thought to say, that's how you bring back the suburban women, and that's how you can bring back the inner city.
00:25:09.000Appoint a woman, nominate her, this will be how we go forward.
00:25:14.000I would argue the way you bring back women and bring back families in this country is by showing that you will take violent crime seriously.
00:25:23.000By the way, the same violent crime that just happened a few blocks away from here today...
00:25:31.000That police had to deal with a stabbing incident which seeks to fan the flames.
00:26:05.000I'm going to give this advice to the Trump campaign because they'll probably get a press pass or two.
00:26:11.000When the Democrat National Committee is in Chicago, and hopefully we'll be able to do some reporting from there, the only thing they should say is, wow, the city has never been safer because there's police everywhere.
00:26:24.000So you can make Chicago safe when a bunch of really rich Democrats come into town.
00:26:55.000Compare the crime statistics for the two weeks before to the two weeks during the... And people will see and know that, and they'll say, oh my goodness, widespread crime is a choice.
00:27:07.000It is a choice to say that we want our cities to not be safe.
00:28:22.000So, I want to just say that Madeline Brame's speech was raw, it was authentic, and you kind of take a risk with these everyday American speeches.
00:28:31.000Sometimes they don't hit, and God bless them.
00:28:33.000You know how hard it is to get up and give a speech?
00:28:34.000I mean, they don't do this professionally.
00:28:36.000And you should just cut them a bunch of slack.
00:28:37.000By the way, I had a Daily Beast reporter come up to me, and he was like, what do you think about some of these speakers that are not hitting their lines?
00:29:02.000I think back to Democrat conventions, and I think we would all agree the most powerful moment of the 2016 Democrat convention was that Mr. Khan who held up the Constitution.
00:29:31.000Now whether or not the networks took it, by the way, I'm getting a lot of complaints from people that networks are cutting in and out of speeches way too much.
00:29:55.000Right, that's why, like, I don't even say this because, you know, Charlie would never say it himself, but we asked him, we said, Charlie, do we want to do a live stream?
00:30:03.000And he said, only once everyone has finished.
00:32:39.000Well, it may not be a surprise that I actually had a very different speech that I was prepared to give up here tonight.
00:32:48.000That all changed at 6-11 on Saturday evening.
00:32:54.000Nothing prepares you for a moment like that.
00:32:59.000Our family has faced our fair share of death threats, mysterious powders sent to our homes, tasteless and violent comments directed towards us on social media.
00:33:10.000But none of that prepares you as a daughter-in-law to watch in real time someone try to kill a person you love.
00:33:22.000None of that prepares you as a mother to quickly reach for the remote and turn your young children away from the screen so that they're not witness to something that scars the memory of their grandpa for the rest of their lives.
00:33:36.000If Donald Trump has shown us anything, it's that when it feels impossible to keep going, those are the times we must keep going.
00:33:49.000So Tyler, you want to take us into what if land?
00:33:52.000I'm going to tell you right now, had the grassroots not risen up and did some things that were really important at the Republican National Committee level, this convention would be a disaster right now.
00:34:05.000And I'm going to tell you, and again, I want to give a lot of credit to Lara.
00:34:11.000But Lara, we had a lot of conversations about who could be co-chair, because you have to have a female co-chair with a male chair and vice versa.
00:34:21.000And when the discussion was there's going to be a male chair, who could be female co-chair?
00:34:25.000Many of us said Lara is the only and best option.
00:34:30.000And look, I mean, when you look at this convention, you say the amount of work that Lara is doing on behalf of the family, our obvious nominee, everything else, this thing looks a lot different than what it could have turned out to be.
00:34:43.000Looks a lot different, and we're very lucky for that, and the grassroots deserves all the credit.
00:34:46.000The grassroots deserves a ton of credit there, I agree.
00:34:50.000I want to get to another piece of tape here of Laura Trump, but I want to also have her understand, we are only two days into this convention, and I want to do a little bit of a peekaboo tomorrow.
00:35:00.000Tomorrow is one of the most important speeches in the history of the MAGA movement, and it is J.D.
00:35:08.000Vance Unofficially, officially showing that the shelf life of MAGA is preserved.
00:35:39.000Number two, what does he bring to the table and is he ready to make the tough calls?
00:35:44.000He has to come across as presidential and capable and also, yes, youthful and vibrant.
00:35:50.000But number three, he has to paint a vision to voters and conservatives and people in the middle that this agenda, if this is the dawn of MAGA, Not the dusk of MAGA.
00:36:04.000Blake, what do you think of that diagnosis?
00:36:07.000He's going to come out and have to make the case, which I think he will, that the Trump era is not the era where Donald Trump, the eight years where Donald Trump is President of the United States.
00:36:17.000The Trump era is going to be this entire, the rest of the century of the United States.
00:36:22.000It's going to change the direction of America, of the Republican Party, of the American people, and Vance can be the man who helps carry that agenda forward for Another 40 years, hopefully.
00:37:24.000Vance at his NatCon address last week in Washington, D.C.
00:37:29.000And so that was, interestingly enough, the final speech he will ever give before he became the vice presidential nominee and, of course, our next vice president.
00:37:40.000But that was the last speech he gave, and he laid out it was all policy.
00:37:47.000But he also knew at the time That it might happen, and so he laid out a vision for the country that was very different than you hear from your sort of typical mainstream Republican, typical mainstream politician.
00:38:03.000And I think it's an interesting vision, and he talked about how We have to stop talking about America as a figment or America as this abstract concept, but that America is an actual place with an actual people and an actual group with a shared culture and a shared heritage and a shared identity and a place that must be preserved
00:38:32.000For all of the people who are there and that was it was it was so incredible to hear because Biden had made the exact opposite pitch at the debate forcefully and to hear him do that and watch an incredible crowd at NatCon put it over.
00:38:48.000This is going to be the speech tomorrow night and if history works out that everyone remembers you know Going into the future, they'll say that was the speech that set up his future career, his future presidential run.
00:41:42.000He would be the first Marine to serve as Vice President or President in American history.
00:41:47.000Again, the hillbilly elegy is amazing.
00:41:50.000No one can say, oh, you don't understand what it's like.
00:41:53.000He grew up in rural poverty, a form of poverty that is largely forgotten because people only really think about urban poverty in this country.
00:42:01.000So we're going to see what he does, but I don't want to build the expectations too high, but I'm going to be honest.
00:42:08.000I'll tell you, he is going to crush it.
00:42:11.000That place will be electric, and America is going to say, wow, we have an 81-year-old president, a 78-year-old former president, a 59-year-old current vice president, and now a 39-year-old VP.
00:43:09.000So I hope she comes out with him at some point.
00:43:11.000I hope that there is an entrance because that shows in so many ways she's an Indian American so it kind of dispels this whole kind of you know stigma about the Republican Party right then and there.
00:43:54.000And for the idea of him coming from The place where he came from and that's that's been my only note to his team throughout all of this is lean in on Hillbilly Elegy.
00:44:09.000Tell the story of JD Vance and I could Charlie I could see it in his eye yesterday when he walked he didn't speak yesterday but he walked on the floor and I was there with producer Andrew and he came out And you could see he was so choked up, and you could tell in his mind he was going back to those days of growing up in rural Appalachia, dealing with, and he's been very open about this, a family with substance abuse.
00:44:37.000Rising above that, pulling himself up, getting out of it, but then going back to help the people who were still there.
00:44:47.000I want to flag that as something important.
00:44:48.000So he has all those factors we've mentioned, but he's actually, somewhat unexpectedly, like Trump, he's actually a class traitor, because he went to Yale Law School, he went to Silicon Valley, he was in elite Finance, venture capital stuff.
00:45:04.000He could have easily been a mascot for why all these things are great and I'm glad I left all of that behind.
00:45:10.000And instead, he turns around and embraces this agenda.
00:45:13.000And you can really sense that when you read profiles of him in, you know, left-wing mainstream rags.
00:45:54.000And I think honestly, JD was like, you know what?
00:45:57.000Screw you, because I'm not that's not what this is about.
00:46:01.000It's not about hating somebody because of their race.
00:46:04.000It's about loving people that you grew up with, about loving this country, and wanting to do something for people that everyone has forgotten about.
00:46:12.000I want to reiterate something that is incredibly important.
00:46:16.000That given the assassination attempt, a lot of people are now focusing on the VP more so than I think in any other It's in people's front of mind.
00:47:47.000That kid who grew up with his mama and was beaten and abused and abandoned is now poised to be the next Vice President of the United States.
00:50:36.000Here is the good news of modern politics, is that in modern politics with higher turnout and with mass mail-in voting, you have to, you cannot have base decay, right Tyler?
00:50:47.000The Democrats currently have base decay.
00:50:50.00070% of Democrats wish they had a different candidate.
00:50:53.000Less than 15% of Republicans wish that we had a different candidate.
00:50:56.000They can win anything they want at any time.
00:50:57.000And that number will go down as this week continues.
00:51:00.000The more Nikki, the more DeSantis, the more Vance, the more Republicans kind of come home.
00:51:07.000Vance can run up the score in Western Pennsylvania, and he's going to be able to open the door to Gen Z and millennials in an epic and historic way.