The Charlie Kirk Show - January 22, 2024


Ron DeSantis is Out — My Warning Before Victory


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Ron DeSantis has dropped out of the presidential race. This is a huge victory for the Trump campaign and is a major setback for the Democrats. It's time for us to wake up to raise the money necessary so that we can win in November.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, Ron DeSantis out of the presidential race, but here's my warning: we are barreling towards a defeat in November.
00:00:06.000 We have not made the proper investments.
00:00:08.000 There's a lot of money being wasted.
00:00:10.000 It's time for us to wake up to raise the money necessary so that we can win, so that we can win coming into November.
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00:01:28.000 Big news yesterday.
00:01:30.000 Governor DeSantis is out of the race.
00:01:32.000 He is done.
00:01:33.000 He has dropped out.
00:01:36.000 I'm pleased to see it.
00:01:37.000 I'm pleased to see that he's out of the race. 1.00
00:01:39.000 Governor DeSantis is America's greatest governor.
00:01:41.000 He should go back to Florida.
00:01:43.000 That's where he is right now and continue to govern.
00:01:46.000 He's got a lot of time to catch up for.
00:01:48.000 He did a full grassly in Iowa.
00:01:51.000 He worked hard.
00:01:53.000 And I'll be very honest.
00:01:54.000 He didn't run a good campaign.
00:01:56.000 He's a great governor who ran a poor campaign.
00:01:59.000 Now, I sent out a tweet to some effect yesterday, and it was received with a mixed response, but I'm going to defend it.
00:02:05.000 I will.
00:02:06.000 Of course, I'm thrilled to see that he endorsed Donald Trump.
00:02:09.000 Donald Trump handled it very, very well to his credit.
00:02:11.000 He said he's very honored, and all this infighting is over.
00:02:15.000 Terrific, but I'm coming after this from a different perspective.
00:02:17.000 And I'm thrilled to see it.
00:02:18.000 I'm not going to attack Governor DeSantis personally or anything, but I think we need to make sure we learn a lesson and pull the fire alarm and stop acting like we're guaranteed to win coming into November.
00:02:30.000 It's funny how things in the conservative movement change.
00:02:34.000 Two months ago, people said, oh, there's no way we're going to win.
00:02:38.000 And now today, everyone thinks we're going to win.
00:02:40.000 So it's my job to try to make sure we get to some sort of equilibrium because I could tell you right now, we are getting our tails kicked in Arizona, Wisconsin, and Georgia.
00:02:50.000 While, yes, Donald Trump is the betting favorite on all the online prediction markets and the polls look good, there's way too much cockiness going on right now on the right.
00:03:02.000 One of the reasons why we are at a significant disadvantage is that elections are completely different than how they used to be.
00:03:10.000 And we're falling into the 2016 trap, into the 2022 trap.
00:03:15.000 We must remember it's a game.
00:03:17.000 Who can get the most pieces of paper successfully counted on the scoreboard, ballots in a box in a 30-day period, ready, set, go.
00:03:27.000 And Governor DeSantis ran for president all summer, all fall, and spent anywhere between $120 and $350 million.
00:03:37.000 Now, $350 million sounds like too much.
00:03:39.000 Some people are claiming that online.
00:03:41.000 We don't know the final number.
00:03:42.000 FEC reports will come out.
00:03:43.000 Eventually, we will know.
00:03:45.000 But comfortably, we could say it's between $150 and $160 million.
00:03:49.000 In my tweet yesterday, some people said, Oh, Charlie, why are you not being magnanimous?
00:03:53.000 And I said, Hold on a second.
00:03:54.000 I have received angry emails for the last year because I overly compliment Ron DeSantis, because I say that he's a terrific governor and America's greatest governor.
00:04:03.000 In fact, I think we all can learn things from Ron DeSantis as far as how to govern a state, how to maximize your conservative credentials to govern in a way that represents your voters.
00:04:14.000 But we're talking about something completely different.
00:04:17.000 Being governor of Florida and then deploying resources in a way that makes us more or less likely to win the White House coming in November are two separate things.
00:04:27.000 And we must be very honest that the Ron DeSantis candidacy post July, I'm all for you test the waters, you see if you're the guy.
00:04:36.000 And if all of a sudden you start to see that things are not going the way, let's just even say post-August after the first debate, the continuation of that campaign with the inevitable outcome that we did receive begs the question of why didn't we deploy that money to ballot chase and voter registration and election integrity.
00:04:56.000 And the objection I receive is, well, Charlie, it's easy for you to say this now.
00:05:00.000 No, Hold on a second.
00:05:03.000 We were saying this all along.
00:05:05.000 This is not some sort of new revelation where we're conveniently saying, well, Ron, you would have.
00:05:10.000 No, no, no.
00:05:11.000 We took a very firm and clear stand in July, in August, in September, in October, when we saw the writing on the wall.
00:05:21.000 When I was in Colorado Springs and I sat down with a representative with the DeSantis Super PAC and they wanted to have lunch.
00:05:27.000 Very, very nice person.
00:05:29.000 And she said, oh, you don't understand.
00:05:32.000 It's a true story.
00:05:33.000 Very sweet woman.
00:05:33.000 Very, very sweet.
00:05:34.000 I'm not going to say her name.
00:05:36.000 But she was so lied to.
00:05:38.000 And she said, Charlie DeSantis is going to win Iowa.
00:05:40.000 I've seen some amazing polling and we're about to deploy all this money and it's the best thing.
00:05:45.000 I said, well, to be perfectly honest with you, I think this is a waste of money.
00:05:48.000 We need ballot chasers in Georgia. 0.66
00:05:50.000 We need full-time grassroots operatives in Arizona.
00:05:53.000 We need help for lawsuits.
00:05:54.000 And this was back in September, October.
00:05:56.000 I'll get the exact date.
00:05:57.000 I said, Ron DeSantis should drop out immediately, and he could own that he is going to deploy his hundreds of millions of dollars in a super PAC in a way that's going to help us defeat the Democrats.
00:06:07.000 He doesn't have to do it in an overly Trumpy way, and he could become a hero in the Republican Party.
00:06:13.000 And I was told by her and some other people over and over again, against very nice, godly people, that the best investment that we could make is holding Donald Trump in check and balance.
00:06:22.000 And I'll tell you, you know, yesterday Ron DeSantis drops out.
00:06:25.000 Let's play the tape here, just so you could hear it for yourself.
00:06:27.000 Let's play cut one, please.
00:06:29.000 Over the past many months, Casey and I have traveled across the country to deliver a message of hope that decline is a choice and that we can, in fact, succeed again as a nation.
00:06:39.000 Nobody worked harder, and we left it all out on the field.
00:06:43.000 Now, following our second place finish in Iowa, we've prayed and deliberated on the way forward.
00:06:48.000 If there was anything I could do to produce a favorable outcome, more campaign stops, more interviews, I would do it.
00:06:55.000 But I can't ask our supporters to volunteer their time and donate their resources if we don't have a clear path to victory.
00:07:02.000 Accordingly, I am today suspending my campaign.
00:07:06.000 Now, I want to compliment Governor DeSantis.
00:07:09.000 This next clip, he probably did not want to do it, but he put the country over his own personal stuff.
00:07:15.000 When I saw this, I said, I have a lot of respect for him.
00:07:16.000 Now, it's a weak endorsement.
00:07:17.000 It's half-hearted.
00:07:18.000 I don't care.
00:07:19.000 He did it.
00:07:19.000 He sucked it up.
00:07:20.000 And he also, he probably had some advisors, including his wife, who I really like.
00:07:24.000 She's very smart, saying, honey, if you don't do this, you're done forever.
00:07:30.000 And he probably was like, I don't want to do it.
00:07:31.000 So to his credit, he did it.
00:07:34.000 And we must acknowledge it.
00:07:35.000 He ended it.
00:07:36.000 No speculation.
00:07:37.000 He's not doing the Ted Cruz thing from 2016. 0.98
00:07:39.000 Sucked it up.
00:07:40.000 Did the right thing. 0.99
00:07:41.000 Even though it was half-hearted and weak, could have been a lot better.
00:07:43.000 Let's play cut two, please. 0.54
00:07:45.000 It's clear to me that a majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another chance.
00:07:50.000 They watch his presidency get stymied by relentless resistance, and they see Democrats using lawfare this day to attack him.
00:07:57.000 While I've had disagreements with Donald Trump, such as on the coronavirus pandemic and his elevation of Anthony Fauci, Trump is superior to the current incumbent, Joe Biden.
00:08:07.000 That is clear.
00:08:08.000 I signed a pledge to support the Republican nominee, and I will honor that pledge.
00:08:13.000 He has my endorsement because we can't go back to the old Republican guard of yesteryear, a repackage formed of warmed-over corporatism that Nikki Haley represents.
00:08:23.000 The days of putting Americans last, of kowtowing to large corporations, of caving to woke ideology are over.
00:08:32.000 Okay, and so look, I give that five out of 10.
00:08:34.000 I'll be honest, that's part of the reason why I was a little spicy on Twitter yesterday.
00:08:38.000 I didn't attack him.
00:08:39.000 By the way, Ron DeSantis, you deserve credit.
00:08:41.000 You sucked it up.
00:08:41.000 You took the bitter pill.
00:08:42.000 You didn't want to do it.
00:08:43.000 You endorsed Trump.
00:08:44.000 Now, I have to be honest, that's the first endorsement I've seen in recent memory where you attack the person you're endorsing.
00:08:49.000 Haven't seen that in quite a while.
00:08:51.000 I'm sure that Blake can go into the historical archives and say, when has there ever been a presidential endorsement where you simultaneously endorse the person, you attack them when you're endorsing, and you say, I'm only doing it because I signed a piece of paper.
00:09:03.000 Okay, you still did it.
00:09:04.000 Fine.
00:09:05.000 And all the headlines, to DeSantis' credit, were that DeSantis endorsed Trump.
00:09:10.000 Could you imagine someone says, I'm endorsing this person, but just so you know, they did some things really poorly.
00:09:15.000 And I just want to make sure that, but to his credit, he said that he was superior to the incumbent, Joe Biden.
00:09:21.000 So it's a mixed bag.
00:09:22.000 Fine.
00:09:23.000 But we have to be honest, everybody, and take a step back.
00:09:25.000 Were there lessons learned?
00:09:26.000 I'm afraid no.
00:09:28.000 Yesterday on social media, people were gushing in.
00:09:30.000 I get it.
00:09:31.000 And by the way, Donald Trump Jr. was amazing.
00:09:33.000 Donald Trump was great.
00:09:34.000 They were magnanimous.
00:09:35.000 They were terrific.
00:09:35.000 They said, we accept the endorsement.
00:09:37.000 By the way, of course, we accept the endorsement.
00:09:39.000 But I come after this from a different perspective.
00:09:41.000 I come after this from infrastructure and machinery, and that we are currently on pace to lose in November.
00:09:46.000 Huh?
00:09:47.000 Charlie, are you kidding me?
00:09:48.000 That's right.
00:09:48.000 I'm saying it out loud.
00:09:50.000 We do not have the infrastructure.
00:09:51.000 We don't have the ballot chasers, the cockiness, the champagne is already flowing.
00:09:54.000 I'm getting all these text messages of people that say, oh, you know, I want to be in the PPO office.
00:09:59.000 I said, what in the fresh heck are you talking about?
00:10:02.000 We're going to get our clock cleaned.
00:10:03.000 We do not have a grassroots infrastructure.
00:10:05.000 Remember the 2022 red wave?
00:10:07.000 How's Governor Kerry Lake working out for you?
00:10:08.000 Yeah, that's things for me to say.
00:10:10.000 So how about we stop the cockiness, get off our high horse, and get to work?
00:10:14.000 Guess what?
00:10:14.000 We're not doing it because we have control opposition, Ronald McRomney.
00:10:18.000 We have RNC.
00:10:19.000 That is a disaster.
00:10:20.000 And so let's just be, we're going to tell you the honest state of affairs here.
00:10:24.000 Again, if I felt our morale was too low, I would build this up.
00:10:27.000 If I felt our morale is too high, which it is, I got to get us back down to a place of get to work, get to work, and also a honest reflection of how Ron DeSantis wasted $150 million that we know of.
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00:11:50.000 So, how many ballot chasers did Ron DeSantis hire for us?
00:11:54.000 So, you get the same result.
00:11:56.000 Again, it's not a coulda, woulda, shoulda, or that hindsight is 2020.
00:12:00.000 We've been very, very morally clear on this.
00:12:03.000 Very morally, not just morally, but strategically clear and technically clear.
00:12:07.000 From day one, we said, Ron DeSantis, you would be a MAGA hero.
00:12:10.000 You'd have 2,500 full-time ballot chasers in Arizona, Wisconsin, Georgia.
00:12:15.000 You could call it the Ron DeSantis Project to Save America.
00:12:17.000 By the way, all these donors that no longer want to talk to you would have given you tons of money.
00:12:22.000 You could have had something that was more powerful than even the Trump campaign.
00:12:25.000 It would be, you would almost, if you would be successful, you'd be the most popular person in the movement.
00:12:29.000 You could write book after book, which you could receive money for.
00:12:33.000 You could fly private around the country.
00:12:35.000 You could be, you know, speak at events and turning point events.
00:12:38.000 You could have a lot of fun while doing it.
00:12:40.000 You could almost do the Gavin Newsom thing where you're treated as like kind of a pseudo-celebrity and the president in waiting.
00:12:47.000 And instead, you decided to run.
00:12:49.000 And I totally get teasing out the waters, but post-August, when they had that first debate and you're down by 40 points, and you still decide to go full throttle and spend hundreds, $150 million.
00:13:02.000 I got to be honest, no lesson was learned.
00:13:04.000 No lesson was learned.
00:13:06.000 And now we are in a structural and a strategic deficit that I hope we can get out of.
00:13:11.000 I hope that we can get out of.
00:13:14.000 To even be more specific, and by the way, a reporter that Andrew and I both know, left-wing reporter, but she's very smart.
00:13:20.000 She texted us both.
00:13:21.000 She texted Andrew and meant it for me too.
00:13:24.000 And she said, you guys were totally right.
00:13:26.000 You said you were totally right.
00:13:28.000 Our recollection of events, which is totally true, is as soon as Ron, can you get the Ron DeSantis Alvin Bragg thing?
00:13:37.000 And I only do this as a way to go back in history.
00:13:38.000 I think it's really important.
00:13:40.000 I'm not doing this as a way to attack DeSantis.
00:13:42.000 I like DeSantis a lot.
00:13:43.000 He's a terrific governor.
00:13:45.000 It's not personal.
00:13:46.000 We just want to win.
00:13:47.000 And I'm going to stay like a dog with a bone on this for a little while because people are saying, oh my goodness, you know, this is great.
00:13:53.000 There shouldn't have been a primary once it's a 40-point poll margin in July, guys.
00:13:58.000 It was unmovable.
00:13:59.000 It was immovable.
00:14:01.000 And I was texting with a congressman.
00:14:02.000 I'm not going to say who.
00:14:03.000 He comes on our show every so often, great guy.
00:14:06.000 And he texted me.
00:14:07.000 He said, Charlie, whacking DeSantis is unnecessary.
00:14:11.000 I said, great guy.
00:14:12.000 Ran an awful campaign.
00:14:13.000 He said, quote, holding Donald Trump in check was worth the $150 million.
00:14:18.000 I mean, I think that's insane.
00:14:19.000 First of all, DeSantis didn't hold anybody in check.
00:14:22.000 Okay. 0.98
00:14:23.000 That's a ridiculous argument.
00:14:24.000 If the argument is that we now need to spend $150 million on primary disputes, of which Donald Trump largely didn't even participate in, instead of general election infrastructure.
00:14:37.000 And so this reporter texted us and they said, quote, this is what Steve Kornacki said.
00:14:42.000 And our own reading of the grassroots is parallel.
00:14:46.000 DeSantis was competitive until the end of March 2023, which is also when the news broke of the indictment from the Manhattan DA.
00:14:54.000 And it was twofold.
00:14:56.000 People's sympathy and people's support of Donald Trump increased when they saw that he was under attack by the lawfare regime. 0.77
00:15:05.000 And in addition, it was DeSantis' ridiculous comment on it when he said, I don't know what goes into porn star hush money payments, insinuating that Trump actually paid Stormy Daniels.
00:15:17.000 He was cute by half. 0.91
00:15:18.000 The base saw it and they said, done.
00:15:21.000 And from that point forward, the polling delta increased.
00:15:24.000 And Andrew and I, I remember Andrew is such a good person.
00:15:28.000 Andrew called up the DeSantis team and he said, guys, what are you doing?
00:15:32.000 You're about to lose support.
00:15:33.000 Guys, what are you doing?
00:15:35.000 He said, you have to clean this up.
00:15:36.000 And they were honestly very dismissive.
00:15:39.000 They were very dismissive of Andrew.
00:15:41.000 And Andrew was calling producer Andrew out of the goodness of his heart, trying to say, guys, if you want to have any sort of hope to be the Republican nominee, if you want to have a good campaign, and he was doing this out of the goodness of his heart and out of really, honestly, respect for Governor DeSantis.
00:15:56.000 And that was the first time a president was ever indicted.
00:16:00.000 It was a tearing of the veil.
00:16:01.000 It was a crossing of the Rubicon.
00:16:02.000 And DeSantis was so dismissive and honestly kind of smug about the whole thing.
00:16:08.000 And Andrew was like, guys, you don't understand.
00:16:11.000 This is awful.
00:16:13.000 Do not answer it this way.
00:16:15.000 And his team was like, we know what we're doing and you don't.
00:16:19.000 And one thing I will say about Vivek Ramaswamy, which is why I'm such a Vivek Ramaswamy fan and admirer, is that Vivek Ramaswamy received coaching throughout the campaign.
00:16:29.000 Again, it was such a tough thing for him to ever become nominee, but the way that we judge Vivek's success or not success is a different grading curve than DeSantis.
00:16:37.000 It was a huge success for moving the Overton window.
00:16:40.000 I would call Vivek and I'd say, you're wrong on this, you're wrong on this.
00:16:43.000 And it would be a 20-minute conversation.
00:16:45.000 And all of a sudden, I see that he cleans it up.
00:16:47.000 This was the beginning of the end of the Ron DeSantis presidential campaign.
00:16:51.000 Please cut 21.
00:16:52.000 Situation with, and look, I don't know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair.
00:17:01.000 I just, I can't speak to that.
00:17:04.000 And everyone is, you know, laughing.
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00:18:33.000 I want to riff on this a little bit more.
00:18:34.000 People say, Charlie, what do you mean by early state infrastructure?
00:18:36.000 So the entire presidential race will come down to Arizona, Wisconsin, Georgia.
00:18:41.000 We have been saying this repeatedly for those of you that are loyal and fervent and dedicated listeners and viewers of the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:18:48.000 We know we have been clear on this because we ran the electoral math.
00:18:50.000 The RNC is not clear on this.
00:18:52.000 The RNC is a corrupt enterprise, which also I want to remind you, a week from today, we will be in Vegas.
00:19:00.000 It's not open to the public.
00:19:01.000 It's an invite-only event, but you'll be able to watch it on the Great Real America's Voice.
00:19:05.000 You'll be able to watch it on our social media channels where we are hosting an alternative RNC meeting in Vegas.
00:19:12.000 So the RNC, they'll host a kind of very clubby event.
00:19:16.000 It gets some passive media coverage and they do some resolutions that mean nothing and they go home.
00:19:21.000 They bring in the 168 members, the voting members of the RNC.
00:19:25.000 They gavel in, gavel out.
00:19:27.000 Look how great we are.
00:19:28.000 Great, terrific.
00:19:29.000 Okay, wonderful.
00:19:30.000 Go home.
00:19:30.000 I'm sick of it.
00:19:31.000 I find it repulsive.
00:19:33.000 Ronna McRomney has declared war on Turning Point through many different ways, through proxies, through narrative war, through her insulting us. 0.97
00:19:40.000 And that's not the only reason we're doing this, but it certainly has convicted us further. 0.99
00:19:46.000 But they are a bunch of losers. 0.99
00:19:48.000 They lose professionally. 1.00
00:19:49.000 They get rich while losing.
00:19:51.000 They waste resources. 0.98
00:19:52.000 And Rana McRomney, who is a proven loser, is still in charge of the RNC.
00:19:59.000 And we are barreling towards a defeat in November because of the RNC and the lack of their ability to raise capital, their lack of their ability to chase ballots.
00:20:10.000 And we must win.
00:20:11.000 So, what we are doing at Turning Point Action is we are doing the forbidden thing.
00:20:17.000 We are doing the, you're not supposed to do this.
00:20:22.000 We're hosting an alternative meeting called Restoring National Confidence.
00:20:28.000 Can you put that up there?
00:20:29.000 Again, it's invite only.
00:20:31.000 This is going to be doing what the RNC should be doing.
00:20:33.000 So, number one, we are flying in.
00:20:35.000 We're paying for their travel of the top county chairs across the country representing 15 million voters.
00:20:43.000 You know, Rana has never done this.
00:20:44.000 So, we're flying in these people from across the country.
00:20:47.000 There it is.
00:20:47.000 So, if you know, some people say, Charlie, you're all talk.
00:20:49.000 What do you actually do?
00:20:50.000 This is what we're doing.
00:20:51.000 We're hosting an actual RNC meeting in the hotel next to the RNC meeting that's occurring.
00:20:58.000 And it's called Restoring National Confidence.
00:21:00.000 Again, if I get murdered, you'll know why, because you're not supposed to do this.
00:21:03.000 This is like top-level stuff.
00:21:07.000 This represents 15 million voters in key swing states, in key battleground states.
00:21:15.000 And so, again, it's called restoring national confidence, sharing technology, data, grassroots training, resources, how to ballot chase, how to secure our elections.
00:21:25.000 We have Mike Lindell coming.
00:21:26.000 We have Steve Bannon coming.
00:21:27.000 The great Tyler Boyer, who runs Turning Point Action, is going to be doing a seminar.
00:21:31.000 I'm going to be giving about an hour speech, going through the details, going through the specifics.
00:21:36.000 It's invite only.
00:21:37.000 And these are the county chairs that are actually going to be doing the work.
00:21:40.000 I know it might be hard for you to understand, but Rana has never done a venue where she brought in the top county chairs and spoke to them because they hate her. 0.86
00:21:50.000 And they should, because she's afraid of them.
00:21:52.000 So, why would she talk to them?
00:21:53.000 They're not useful to them, to her.
00:21:55.000 We also have several state party chairs that will be attending and several members of the 168.
00:22:00.000 And by the way, we are more than willing to let bygones be bygones.
00:22:03.000 We are willing to just wipe the slate clean.
00:22:05.000 I'm not here to hold resentment or bitterness, but as long as Ronna Mick Romney is running the RNC, I will not lay off.
00:22:14.000 I will not lay off, period.
00:22:16.000 I'm like a dog with a bone on this.
00:22:18.000 It's not personal.
00:22:19.000 We want to win.
00:22:20.000 And we're all of a sudden going to wake up in September and the polls might be very tight.
00:22:25.000 And the RNC will have like four full-time people because they can't raise money.
00:22:28.000 Do you know the RNC is in the worst financial position that they have been in seven years?
00:22:33.000 I'm going to make sure I'm specific on that.
00:22:35.000 It's the worst position they've been in quite some time.
00:22:38.000 The worst position.
00:22:39.000 And they should be raking in dough, by the way.
00:22:41.000 They should be raking in dough.
00:22:42.000 They should be bringing in money.
00:22:44.000 And President Trump has an opportunity that once he's the nominee to fire Rana.
00:22:49.000 I have no idea if that's going to happen because the RNC deep state runs deep all throughout the Trump campaign and all throughout the RNC.
00:22:55.000 I certainly hope she gets fired, but no guarantees. 0.97
00:22:58.000 And by the way, how can I, in good faith, as someone who wants to see the country saved, see Rana McRomney, who has lost every single time, every time.
00:23:09.000 She lost the 2018 midterms.
00:23:10.000 She loses the 2020 election.
00:23:12.000 She lost the 2022 midterm election.
00:23:14.000 And we're to say, hey, Leno, the fourth time's a charm, I guess.
00:23:17.000 You know, everyone at the RNC is getting paid.
00:23:19.000 All these consultants are doing great.
00:23:20.000 And I hope you get this thing figured out.
00:23:22.000 What have you done to actually secure their election?
00:23:24.000 So then let me tie this together with Ron DeSantis.
00:23:27.000 And I want to give praise to Governor DeSantis' credit.
00:23:31.000 When I sat down with him a year ago in Tallahassee, he called for Rana to be removed.
00:23:37.000 So he deserves credit for that.
00:23:39.000 It was really a great thing, and I was really impressed by him doing that because he was on the side of the grassroots.
00:23:39.000 I'll never forget it.
00:23:44.000 The grassroots want Rana gone.
00:23:46.000 But you tie in the DeSantis $130 million, and what the RNC is not doing.
00:23:50.000 Let me just give you a very quick overview of where that money could be spent.
00:23:53.000 It's not being spent.
00:23:54.000 We need to be flooding these counties with lawsuits. 1.00
00:23:57.000 And we're not.
00:23:59.000 To secure our elections, to restore signature verification, there's all this shadiness going on in Fulton County in Cobb County.
00:24:04.000 It's number one.
00:24:05.000 Number two, what are ballot chasers?
00:24:07.000 Ballot chasers are full-time grassroots activists that target low-propensity voters, low-propensity voters to try to increase our turnout in voting month.
00:24:16.000 Not our high-propensity voters, not you guys, our low-propensity voters.
00:24:20.000 And finally, we need to be registering new voters.
00:24:23.000 The Democrats right now have thousands, no exaggeration, thousands of full-time people in the key swing states.
00:24:29.000 We have basically nothing.
00:24:31.000 We have nothing.
00:24:32.000 The RNC certainly doesn't have anything.
00:24:34.000 At turning point action, we are about near our 100th staff member.
00:24:39.000 By April 1st, we'll have hundreds of full-time ballot chasers. 0.99
00:24:42.000 I'll be able to show you a picture of a parking lot full of full-time people that we've raised money on a relative shoestring budget versus the DeSantis pile of $130, $150 million.
00:24:52.000 Will the RNC be able to fill up a parking lot of people with clipboard and tennis shoes and the data and the technology?
00:24:58.000 No, they will not.
00:25:00.000 And so what makes this program different, what makes the Charlie Kirk show different, is I don't just complain.
00:25:05.000 We're going to have hundreds of full-time people.
00:25:07.000 We're doing restoring national conference.
00:25:09.000 We're doing the People's Convention.
00:25:10.000 So I hope all of you understand that when I have these forceful opinions, we literally put our money, we put our muscle, we put our hustle, we put our grit where our mouth is.
00:25:20.000 We're not just a show where we complain and close our laptops and go home and watch football, Netflix, and Hulu.
00:25:26.000 After the program is over, I have meeting after meeting after meeting to raise capital, to call donors, to try to just run the organizations that we have here.
00:25:34.000 And I love it.
00:25:36.000 But we must be very clear and honest.
00:25:37.000 Has the lesson been learned?
00:25:39.000 That's coming up a week from today, restoring national confidence.
00:25:42.000 We're going to try everything we possibly can.
00:25:43.000 And also, Rana better watch out.
00:25:45.000 And I told this to President Trump, and I'm going to say it again, I'll say it to the whole Trump team.
00:25:48.000 If you do not have Rana removed by the convention, the 168 members of the RNC meet after the convention.
00:25:56.000 And by then, we will hopefully have removed the state party chairs that support Rana, like the one in Texas and many others, not the state party chair, but the one of the RNC committee women.
00:26:08.000 And we will force a vote in Milwaukee after Trump is the nominee, and we'll remove her that way, which will be a total black eye for the Trump campaign. 1.00
00:26:18.000 So I just hope you guys get rid of her before that, or else we're going to have to do it.
00:26:22.000 The grassroots cannot stand what's happening at the RNC, period.
00:26:26.000 And so if we have to force your hand to a vote at the RNC meeting in July in Milwaukee, great.
00:26:34.000 And some people say, oh, Charlie, why is this so personal with Rana?
00:26:38.000 It's not.
00:26:39.000 I actually think she's a nice person.
00:26:40.000 I've always gotten along with her.
00:26:42.000 She's pleasant.
00:26:43.000 She was good to me.
00:26:44.000 I rank losing the country above pleasantries.
00:26:48.000 I rank the Republic above niceties.
00:26:54.000 That's how I am.
00:26:55.000 Again, it's not, you know, some people get really nasty with this stuff and they attack people's looks and all that.
00:27:00.000 I hate it.
00:27:00.000 I don't do any of that.
00:27:01.000 I stay away from it with this.
00:27:03.000 It is so clear to me. 0.97
00:27:05.000 We've been a bunch of losers and the country is center-right. 0.97
00:27:09.000 And let me be very clear. 0.68
00:27:11.000 We have the country that is against affirmative action at record rates, country that's against DEI, against the grooming in schools, the country that wants the border secure on almost every single issue except abortion, which is a minorly losing issue, but not as much as people think.
00:27:25.000 We are a center-right country.
00:27:27.000 We are a center-right country in our temperament when it comes to the Constitution, when it comes to Second Amendment, when it comes to free speech, when it comes to every major issue, we're a center-right country.
00:27:36.000 And yet we keep on losing.
00:27:37.000 Why?
00:27:38.000 We're not playing the game.
00:27:40.000 And the game is very clear.
00:27:42.000 You must invest in the early states.
00:27:44.000 As the RNC, you must do what only you can do.
00:27:48.000 And you must outsource what you can't do to outside 501c4 and super PACs.
00:27:52.000 And then you just got to play to win.
00:27:54.000 You know, I'm watching the, I'm reading, this is a recurring thing.
00:27:58.000 For those that listen carefully, you know this.
00:28:00.000 I'm reading the Elon Musk book, and I say, my goodness, where is our Elon Musk running the RNC?
00:28:06.000 This is not about his transhumanism stuff, his politics.
00:28:09.000 This guy is ruthless. 0.79
00:28:13.000 Ruthless.
00:28:15.000 If they get like a widget wrong at a gigabyte factory, he fires them, sleeps on the floor, and he demands excellence.
00:28:22.000 I think to myself, you know, God bless Tesla and all that stuff.
00:28:24.000 Great.
00:28:25.000 The country via the RNC is much more important than making Tesla profitable.
00:28:33.000 Why do we demand excellence on our sports teams and our publicly traded companies, and we allow mediocrity, corruption, graft, deception, and lying when it comes to the RNC?
00:28:47.000 And we say, oh, you know, that person's really nice.
00:28:49.000 We should give them a fourth chance.
00:28:52.000 A local donut shop would not put up with this track record.
00:28:57.000 Well, our customers keep on getting food poisoning, but she's a great person.
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00:30:22.000 So I want to play another piece of tape here.
00:30:24.000 Trump was very magnanimous in his acceptance of the endorsement of Ron DeSantis.
00:30:30.000 Play cut for.
00:30:32.000 Is there a possibility, since you say it's water on the bruise, he could be vice president or serving your cabinet?
00:30:38.000 He hasn't asked for any of those positions.
00:30:40.000 Thank you.
00:30:40.000 But is there a possible joining of forces?
00:30:43.000 Well, it's probably unlikely, but you know, I have to be honest, everything's a possibility, but I think it's highly unlikely.
00:30:50.000 I have a lot of great people.
00:30:52.000 Question is going to be after tomorrow, hopefully.
00:30:54.000 Who's going to be vice president and deploy the resources necessary?
00:30:58.000 Early money is most important money.
00:31:00.000 For those of you guys that have listened to us, the investments have not been made.
00:31:03.000 So we hopefully we'll be able to raise $400 million and hire a couple thousand people in these key states and build the infrastructure in just a matter of a couple months.
00:31:14.000 Hopefully, we'll be able to do that.
00:31:15.000 Tomorrow is the primary in New Hampshire.
00:31:18.000 And Nikki Haley thinks she has a chance.
00:31:21.000 We're going to be streaming live on Real America's Voice and on Rumble, as well as other platforms as well.
00:31:26.000 Let's play a piece of tape here.
00:31:28.000 Play Cut 6, JD Vance on Nikki Haley.
00:31:32.000 Nikki does have baggage. 1.00
00:31:33.000 She just hasn't faced the onslaught of years of media attacks, of super PAC attacks that Donald Trump has faced.
00:31:40.000 And frankly, the fact that Trump is still standing and still leading in the polls against Joe Biden suggests he has real political resilience.
00:31:47.000 I know a lot of people who are choosing Nikki Haley think she's the low-baggage candidate.
00:31:51.000 In reality, she's the candidate the Democrats haven't teed off on, but they will tee off on her if she's the nominee. 0.94
00:31:56.000 She won't be, but if she is, she will face exactly what Donald Trump has faced for the past six years.
00:32:01.000 And I don't think she'll survive.
00:32:02.000 And I certainly don't think she'll win the presidency through it.
00:32:05.000 That's why we need to elect a guy who's shown some resilience.
00:32:07.000 That's why we need to nominate Donald Trump.
00:32:10.000 New Hampshire is going to be quite interesting.
00:32:11.000 I don't want to get people's hopes up too much.
00:32:13.000 It's looking good for Trump.
00:32:14.000 The consolidation, Vivek, DeSantis, it's looking good.
00:32:18.000 Nikki Haley represents neoliberalism that we have been fighting against all across the board.
00:32:27.000 Open borders, invade the world, invite the world across the board.
00:32:33.000 The question in front of us currently is: are we going to bring this then to South Carolina and to other states?
00:32:39.000 It's a big day tomorrow in New Hampshire.
00:32:41.000 We're going to be covering it all throughout the day from the grassroots.
00:32:44.000 New Hampshire is a really interesting state.
00:32:46.000 New Hampshire has a live-free or die attitude, has a lot of kind of a libertarian streak, has a lot of Boston kind of pour over.
00:32:55.000 So we got to get out the vote.
00:32:56.000 We've got to focus on this.
00:32:58.000 And the sooner we can consolidate, the sooner we can end the primary.
00:33:04.000 If Trump crushes Haley again, can she actually justify continuing?
00:33:09.000 That's the question.
00:33:11.000 Especially going down to South Carolina, her home state, which it looks like she's going to get obliterated even more.
00:33:17.000 Isn't that interesting that Nikki will have a much harder time even in South Carolina than in New Hampshire? 0.94
00:33:25.000 But let me kind of tie this all together here, which one of the reasons why I've been as intense this hour as I have is there's a lot of chatter from the Davos crowd and to the polling that Trump is going to win and Trump is going to win.
00:33:40.000 I try to always even out.
00:33:42.000 I try to check and balance.
00:33:45.000 If I feel as if the base is getting too excited about the inevitability of Trump's presidency, then I'm going to try to sober us to make sure we do the work.
00:33:53.000 If I think that so many people are too, let's just say, pessimistic, then I'm going to try to build up and say that we can win.
00:34:02.000 We need to work, work, work.
00:34:05.000 And I'm not seeing it right now.
00:34:06.000 I am not.
00:34:07.000 You guys are working your tail off, but the RNC is completely MIA, which is why we're doing this summit coming up.
00:34:12.000 And by the way, the overwhelming support, I'm just looking at hundreds of emails.
00:34:17.000 This RNC meeting is a winner.
00:34:18.000 You guys seem very, very happy about it.
00:34:20.000 And I could say this: after this alternative RNC meeting, restoring national confidence, we're doing training and all this stuff.
00:34:27.000 We're going to be in a better spot.
00:34:29.000 And I guarantee you, we're going to be hearing from people.
00:34:32.000 Charlie, I'm getting no help from Rana.
00:34:34.000 Charlie, I'm getting no hope from RNC.
00:34:35.000 And we're going to be introducing some mobile technology.
00:34:38.000 We're going to be introducing a lot of different things.
00:34:41.000 We're going to be doing a listening session.
00:34:44.000 And we're going to keep the heat on.
00:34:46.000 We're going to keep the pressure on.
00:34:47.000 We're going to keep the heat on. 0.98
00:34:48.000 So next week, we are what otherwise would be a sleepy, corrupt, you know, hookers and blow convention of the RNC is going to be a working meeting. 0.98
00:34:59.000 Next week was planned to be a rather sleepy, do-nothing loser time in Vegas. 0.87
00:35:05.000 And thanks to turning point action, we're going to have some real results and some real marching orders to improve our chances going into November.
00:35:15.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:35:17.000 Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:35:20.000 Thanks so much for listening.
00:35:21.000 God bless.
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