The Charlie Kirk Show - September 09, 2023


Swing State Update with Tyler Bowyer and Austin Smith


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Austin Smith and Tyler Boyer are back with a bonus episode featuring Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA. In this episode, Austin and Tyler are joined by Charlie to discuss the importance of fighting for freedom in the swing states of Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody, a bonus episode this weekend.
00:00:02.000 Conversation that I had with Austin Smith and Tyler Boyer for their podcast episode called Swing State Update.
00:00:08.000 It comes out once a week.
00:00:09.000 It's all about Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin.
00:00:11.000 You guys should subscribe to the podcast.
00:00:13.000 It's really great.
00:00:14.000 I come on for a couple minutes here and they're doing it.
00:00:17.000 Brought to you by TurningPointAction TPAction.com.
00:00:20.000 So subscribe to Swing State Update.
00:00:22.000 Enjoy this conversation with Austin Smith and Tyler Boyer and send us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:00:28.000 Again, it's called Swing State Update.
00:00:30.000 Give it a subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and make it a weekly listen.
00:00:35.000 They do a great job.
00:00:36.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:37.000 Here we go.
00:00:38.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:40.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:00:42.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:00:45.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:00:48.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:00:49.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:00:50.000 His spirit is love of this country.
00:00:52.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.
00:00:57.000 Turning point USA. 0.65
00:00:59.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:08.000 That's why we are here.
00:01:11.000 Welcome to episode number two of Swing State Update here with Tyler Boyer and Austin Smith, who is actually remote today in Wisconsin, not just doing the work that's necessary in Wisconsin to win, but also celebrating his soon-to-be brother-in-law's wedding.
00:01:29.000 So, Austin, you here?
00:01:31.000 You here with us?
00:01:33.000 I'm happy to be here.
00:01:34.000 Episode two, and we've got the Charlie Kirk with us for Swing State Update.
00:01:39.000 What's up, guys?
00:01:40.000 Love the show.
00:01:41.000 Love the success of it.
00:01:43.000 Hopefully, we can pour some gasoline on it.
00:01:45.000 And most importantly, I love the focus on the three states.
00:01:49.000 I think we're finally getting people to wake up, and you guys are doing great on that.
00:01:53.000 So, thrilled to be here.
00:01:55.000 So, we want to lead off today with the great Charlie Kirk, who obviously we work together with every single day, out in the field, out in the trenches, trying to save the country, particularly in these three states that we're focused on predominantly, but all the swing states where Turning Point Action's been.
00:02:13.000 And I want to preface this by saying this: when I met Charlie Kirk for the first time about a decade ago, which is a crazy thing to think about, right, Charlie?
00:02:23.000 That's been a whole time.
00:02:25.000 You're pretty old.
00:02:26.000 It's been 10 years.
00:02:27.000 It's just really something.
00:02:29.000 It's crazy.
00:02:30.000 But when I first met Charlie, the thing about Charlie that most people get when they get a chance to meet him is they understand that he's a person that's actually doing these things for the right reasons.
00:02:42.000 And I'll never forget the moment that I met Charlie, actually, not far from the border of Wisconsin, is right Greenille, Illinois.
00:02:49.000 Yeah.
00:02:49.000 It was negative 20 degrees outside, and it was literally freezing.
00:02:53.000 It's the coldest that an Arizona boy could possibly be.
00:02:58.000 And I remember meeting Charlie for the first time in person and going, wow, this is a person I can get behind.
00:03:05.000 This is a person that I can work with to actually do the things that are necessary to save the Republic.
00:03:11.000 And I'll never forget that.
00:03:12.000 And that's a really important moment.
00:03:14.000 So, with that preface here, we wanted to jump in, you know, talk to Charlie, have a few minutes to talk about a number of different issues, but specifically what's happening here in Arizona, the battle that Charlie has helped ignite with Arizona State University.
00:03:31.000 That's the most recent, which is such a pleasure.
00:03:34.000 And from there, so Charlie, thanks for being here.
00:03:39.000 Yeah, thank you, Tyler.
00:03:40.000 Love doing stuff together.
00:03:42.000 And Turning Point Action is becoming a beast.
00:03:43.000 Just so everyone in the audience knows, it's becoming a real beast.
00:03:46.000 TPaction.com.
00:03:47.000 Austin, you were our first hire at Turning Point Action.
00:03:50.000 And just seeing what's happening, it's really great.
00:03:52.000 And look, I get asked, we get us all the time, Tyler and Austin.
00:03:55.000 How do we save the country?
00:03:56.000 Try to save the country.
00:03:57.000 Look, our founding fathers gave us a gift, the Electoral College.
00:03:59.000 We don't have to save Manhattan yet.
00:04:01.000 We don't have to save Malibu yet.
00:04:02.000 Seven counties, basically like precincts in three states, Arizona, Wisconsin, Georgia.
00:04:07.000 And I think we are so focused.
00:04:09.000 We are so with precision really looking at how we make a difference.
00:04:14.000 So, yeah, look, honored to be here.
00:04:16.000 And the Arizona thing is really fun coming up.
00:04:19.000 Boy, what is the date?
00:04:19.000 Is that the 27th, I think, right, Austin?
00:04:22.000 27th?
00:04:22.000 Yes.
00:04:24.000 27th.
00:04:25.000 Yes, I have it right with Dennis, with Dennis Prager.
00:04:28.000 I got somebody dates at Arizona State University.
00:04:30.000 We have Health, Wealth, and Happiness 2.0.
00:04:33.000 The original, of course, we came to ASU back in the spring and 30 professors signed all these letters saying that Prager and Kirk shouldn't be allowed on campus.
00:04:43.000 And Austin, it turned in this whole fight legislatively, you know, at the Capitol.
00:04:49.000 And now we're like, okay, we're coming back.
00:04:51.000 And so I don't think Mr. Crow is very happy that we're coming back, but so be it.
00:04:56.000 And it's really kind of turned into this major free speech thing, hasn't it, Austin?
00:05:00.000 It's funny because so we were even, you know, in session when Charlie and Dennis Prager did the original health and wellness thing, and everybody heard about it.
00:05:08.000 The liberals on campus had their panties and a wad, all this stuff. 0.95
00:05:11.000 And they're the racist, the sexist, blah, blah, blah. 0.99
00:05:14.000 Everything we already know.
00:05:15.000 And so actually, you know, staff got fired for it just by freedom of association.
00:05:21.000 And so we had that whole ad hoc committee regarding freedom of expression at Arizona universities.
00:05:26.000 I was on it, got appointed off as one of three Republicans from the House.
00:05:31.000 And we had Prager and some of these other people that were involved in ASU go do that committee at the house.
00:05:37.000 And if you would be so shocked about how ASU and all these other universities, they just, they, they flat out lie about how they actually don't support free speech, freedom of expression, all that good stuff.
00:05:49.000 So we're happy that Charlie and Dennis Prager are going back because it's going to be a lot more fun now that we know ASU is kind of on the ropes about it.
00:05:56.000 And the Board of Regents have consistently, you know, said that we can't do anything about it.
00:06:01.000 They're doing everything they need to. 0.93
00:06:03.000 They're liars. 0.96
00:06:03.000 It's going to be a good time. 0.96
00:06:04.000 It's going to be a good time.
00:06:05.000 And we're going to have fun.
00:06:07.000 Awesome.
00:06:07.000 Let's set this up for a minute too, just to revamp.
00:06:11.000 So for those of you that are across the country that don't know about this issue, so Charlie and Dennis showed up to ASU to speak, invited by one of the official arms of ASU to do this event.
00:06:26.000 It was the, it was the Lewis Center, which is actually supported by T.W. Lewis, who's one of the bigger home builders across the country.
00:06:35.000 And T.W. Lewis is a conservative, is a person, at least a free speech supporter.
00:06:42.000 And T.W. Lewis, Tom Lewis, I believe is his first name, that supports the center at ASU, has given millions of dollars to universities and including a commitment, a gift that was planned on being a future hundreds of thousands of dollars and millions of dollars in the future.
00:07:02.000 And as soon as this happened, you know, Charlie, and I don't know if you've, I think you recently sat down with Mr. Lewis, did you not?
00:07:10.000 Yeah, and we had a great chat and he's pulled all this funding now from the university because of what happened back in the spring.
00:07:17.000 And it was so outrageous.
00:07:18.000 It wasn't just that the professor said that we don't like Dennis and Charlie.
00:07:22.000 It's that we don't want them to be able to set foot on campus.
00:07:25.000 And so then we put, so this is, I haven't, I actually have never talked about this publicly.
00:07:32.000 So this next part, you're going to love this, Tyler.
00:07:34.000 So we put all the professors on professorwatchlist.org.
00:07:37.000 And then I get a personal letter from Crow, the president of ASU, saying, okay, we let you on campus.
00:07:45.000 I demand you take all of our professors off professor watch list or else you put or else you put me on.
00:07:53.000 He says, or else you have to put me on.
00:07:55.000 So I just was like, forget it. 1.00
00:07:56.000 This is so stupid. 0.98
00:07:57.000 And so he's literally saying, like, I demand you take off all of our, because obviously all the professors were like going and complaining to him, like, oh, we're complaining. 1.00
00:08:05.000 We're complaining.
00:08:07.000 You know, it's just, it's just unbelievable.
00:08:09.000 So, wait, so we didn't put President Crow on Professor Watch List?
00:08:14.000 No, no, not yet.
00:08:16.000 We should.
00:08:16.000 We can.
00:08:16.000 We should.
00:08:18.000 You should do that.
00:08:20.000 And here, and that's, and that's a, this is a perfect example with Michael Crowe is he's the guy who's like, ASU is the best free speech place in the country.
00:08:28.000 We can want all ideas.
00:08:29.000 But, Charlie, you can't do this.
00:08:32.000 You cannot have all these professors on there.
00:08:34.000 You're making me look really bad, even though I support free speech.
00:08:38.000 Well, I'll tell you a quick story, Charlie, about President Crowe.
00:08:43.000 So when I was on the board of regents, so I was on the board of regents.
00:08:45.000 This is right before I met Charlie.
00:08:47.000 I had finished my term on the regents.
00:08:49.000 And so I was forced to sit next to President Crow every time we had a board of regents meeting.
00:08:54.000 And I remember sitting there with him next to him at one of these regents meetings.
00:09:00.000 And I had just recently been nominated by the extraordinarily conservative supermajority legislature that was voting me in with the governor, Governor Brewer, and then the super majority legislature had voted me in as regent.
00:09:14.000 And so it was like this big hubbub about me being super conservative.
00:09:17.000 And the Democrats tried to block me and they failed because they were super minority at the time.
00:09:21.000 This was over 10 years ago.
00:09:23.000 And so I get seated next to President Crowe at one of my first meetings.
00:09:26.000 And I look over, he's got his iPad extended out.
00:09:30.000 I don't know if I've ever told you this.
00:09:32.000 And he's scrolling Drudge Report next to me, like scrolling Drudge Report, like clearly trying to show me that he's on Drudge Report.
00:09:41.000 So I like a peek on his screen and I'm like, what is this guy doing? 0.94
00:09:45.000 This guy's psycho. 0.86
00:09:46.000 Like he's trying to manipulate me into thinking that he's like some kind of conservative. 1.00
00:09:50.000 And it's just crazy.
00:09:52.000 Absolutely crazy.
00:09:53.000 Was Andy Biggs Senate president when you got confirmed?
00:09:55.000 Is that who it was?
00:09:56.000 It was Russell Pierce.
00:09:57.000 Russell Pierce?
00:09:58.000 Oh, even better.
00:10:02.000 So, anyways, yeah, Charlie, this is crazy.
00:10:03.000 So this is this 2.0 is big and it's big for Arizona because this is really, I mean, it's cost Arizona State University millions of dollars.
00:10:13.000 Probably, you know, maybe tens of millions of dollars when all said and done.
00:10:18.000 And the academia industrial complex that exists under Michael Crow and everyone else is just has to be targeted.
00:10:25.000 And so, you know, God bless you for doing that.
00:10:27.000 And I know that's like at the heartbeat of Turning Point USA, too.
00:10:31.000 So it's great.
00:10:32.000 Yeah, it's it's it's good and we're returning.
00:10:34.000 They're not happy about it.
00:10:36.000 And there's more professors speaking out.
00:10:38.000 In fact, let me see. 1.00
00:10:39.000 I actually saw one of these stupid articles. 1.00
00:10:40.000 The Arizona Central, they have nothing better to do or whatever, the Arizona Republic. 1.00
00:10:44.000 They listen.
00:10:46.000 Yeah, the state press actually.
00:10:47.000 Kirk and Prager announced their return after despite months of ongoing controversy.
00:10:52.000 And so then one of these professors, who's on our professor watch list, by the way, Michael Ostling, says, I need to speak out and stand in solidarity with the people that this group of trolls so delights in bullying and vilifying.
00:11:06.000 Michael Ostling, a professor.
00:11:09.000 A professor. 0.80
00:11:11.000 Is that the guy who talked about having sex with a Kraken that has a whole curriculum about that? 0.80
00:11:16.000 They're a real scholar.
00:11:19.000 Is that the same guy?
00:11:21.000 This is no, this is the religious studies scholar.
00:11:26.000 And he is from the Melikin Center affiliate religious studies scholar.
00:11:34.000 Yeah.
00:11:34.000 Oh, he's the affiliate of Malikian Center?
00:11:37.000 Yeah.
00:11:38.000 Yeah.
00:11:38.000 That's the Russian.
00:11:39.000 That's the Russian Education Center.
00:11:43.000 Yep.
00:11:44.000 He's a Malikian guy.
00:11:46.000 I got it.
00:11:46.000 I got a part of my degree came from Malikian because I got my degree in Russian in Russia stays.
00:11:52.000 That's crazy.
00:11:54.000 Wow.
00:11:54.000 Yeah.
00:11:54.000 Charlie, Ford that to me.
00:11:55.000 To see who this guy is, yeah.
00:11:57.000 Some of the guys, I will.
00:12:00.000 I mean, but this whole thing is crazy.
00:12:01.000 I mean, and this is why Professor Watchlist is so important.
00:12:04.000 Um, the work, I mean, this is the brainchild of Charlie Kirk, too, by the way.
00:12:08.000 And there's been nothing that's been more annoying to professors across America than the professor watch list.
00:12:15.000 Yep, right, like it has just really interfered with.
00:12:18.000 And by the way, it's like it, it's a, it, it gets a fair amount of traffic, not like a ton, but just the fact they're listed, they just lose their mind.
00:12:27.000 Like, they lose spikes though, it spikes though.
00:12:30.000 Like, it's like, we'll have like professor watch list goes up and they get they get it, they get so angry, and so, but it's free speech, that's what it is.
00:12:39.000 At the end of the day, it's telling people what these professors are doing in the classroom, which is what the whole intent is.
00:12:45.000 So, well, even with like how Professor Watch lists these people in Arizona, like being the swing state that it is, and the Tempe district, this, I think that's the Sun Devil precinct, Tyler, if I'm not mistaken.
00:12:57.000 That's how these professors, they're the ones who mobilize all of these students to vote Democrat up and down the ballot with their mail-in ballots or at the polls at the precincts, vote centers in Tempe on election day.
00:13:09.000 So, all these ones that are bastardizing Charlie and Prager and Turning Point, these are the ones who mobilize all those students to vote on election day or mail-in ballot.
00:13:18.000 And they're in the heart of the way you want to call the Tomahawk, which Tyler will talk about as the podcast goes on in Maricopa County.
00:13:27.000 So, these are the people that we are toe-to-toe with all the time coming to win elections in Arizona, specifically Maricopa County.
00:13:35.000 It's what is necessary to save the republic.
00:13:39.000 It's so funny.
00:13:40.000 I'm looking at this profile that you sent me of this professor, Michael Oslin.
00:13:44.000 Wow, he's an affiliate of the Malikin Center.
00:13:47.000 The Malikin Center is the Russian Studies Center.
00:13:52.000 So, these guys are you can't make this stuff up.
00:13:57.000 Like, literally, the guy that's an associate, he's an affiliate of the Malikin Center is trying to impede free speech.
00:14:06.000 He probably is one of these, like, oh, Russia, you know, the Russia collusion type guys, too.
00:14:12.000 So, you can't make this stuff up.
00:14:15.000 I can't wait to research more about this guy.
00:14:18.000 I'm going to look him up.
00:14:18.000 I'm going to look him up, send some messages.
00:14:21.000 Well, Charlie, I mean, is there anything else?
00:14:23.000 I know your time is precious.
00:14:24.000 Thank you for coming on.
00:14:25.000 No, I just want to, I just want to remind the audience, you got to focus on these three states.
00:14:29.000 All your money should go to Turning Point Action.
00:14:31.000 It's all about Maricopa.
00:14:32.000 And then, if you had to add a couple, maybe a little Pinal, a little Pima, Gwinnett, Cobb, Joe Davies, Dane, Kenosha, Milwaukee.
00:14:39.000 And you guys might be able to add a couple other counties on top of it.
00:14:43.000 But it really is.
00:14:44.000 I mean, if you had to just kind of isolate it, it's Maricopa, Cobb, Fulton, Dane, Kenosha, Milwaukee.
00:14:49.000 If you had to just go with that, right?
00:14:51.000 It's just, and I, I mean, I live in the Tomahawk, right?
00:14:53.000 I, my neighbors, not to tell my audience where I live, but the general idea is in the valley, you know, I live in Scottsdale and I'm around people that are temperamentally conservative, but they are not, they're not sold yet to pull the Republican ballot all the time.
00:15:07.000 I know, I know how they think.
00:15:08.000 I know they are not liberals.
00:15:10.000 Like, this is a very winnable community.
00:15:12.000 Like, there's no reason.
00:15:13.000 Scottsdale should be 60 to 70% conservative Republican if we really do the work, right?
00:15:19.000 They are not left-wingers.
00:15:20.000 I can tell you, like, they find this whole idea of the trans stuff crazy.
00:15:23.000 It's just they're very agreeable, very chamber of commerce, like business, like that.
00:15:28.000 But with proper communication, messaging, and organizing, and low-propensity ballot gathering, we could do so much better in these precincts.
00:15:35.000 So much better.
00:15:36.000 I mean, I know, I know these people.
00:15:38.000 They're far from radicals.
00:15:39.000 They're far from embracing this crazy agenda.
00:15:43.000 So.
00:15:44.000 No, and Charlie, you're exactly right.
00:15:46.000 It's Maricopa County, which covers so much of Arizona.
00:15:50.000 You know, a little bit of Pinal County here in Arizona.
00:15:53.000 You got in Wisconsin's really the key, which is you got Waukesha right outside of Milwaukee.
00:15:58.000 You've got Racine, you've got Kenosha.
00:16:00.000 I mean, this is where the entire thing is won and lost, right?
00:16:03.000 That's the entire, that's the entire shebang, is what we call it.
00:16:07.000 So, yeah, thank you for all the support.
00:16:10.000 Thank you for preaching that to everybody everywhere we go, the work that we're doing at Turning Point Action.
00:16:16.000 We just are so grateful for your leadership and your friendship and the way that you cast this for all activists, because every person in every community has to become an activist, even part-time, super, super part-time.
00:16:31.000 That is what we talk about all the time.
00:16:33.000 So, thank you so much for everything, Charlie.
00:16:35.000 And God bless you all.
00:16:36.000 We're behind you 100%.
00:16:38.000 Thanks.
00:16:39.000 Bye.
00:16:40.000 Well, cool.
00:16:40.000 I mean, that's a great transition, Austin, too.
00:16:43.000 I mean, look, as we start talking about the swing states and we talk about these things, and we've got a lot, we've got a big show here to talk about a number of different things coming up.
00:16:52.000 But, you know, in Wisconsin in particular, you've got this concept, which is they've trained their activists in the Democrat Party to be activists.
00:17:03.000 Yeah.
00:17:03.000 Talk a little bit about that versus, you know, what we've done with training our people to become activists.
00:17:10.000 Yeah, the Democrat Party has really figured out for the last several election cycles of using their activists within the party to mobilize what we need to do.
00:17:20.000 And so as we're only in episode two right now with our podcast, but as time goes on and you'll hear Tyler and I talk about this, is that the party has not always been the best mechanism for activists, but the Democrats figured it out to mobilize their activists with other organizations.
00:17:35.000 So like at Turning Point Action, we've got our activists that we use to be precinct committeemen to mobilize, to knock doors, to chase the vote.
00:17:41.000 The Democrats have been doing this for a very long time.
00:17:44.000 And so in states like Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, the parties have farmed a lot of that workout to other CIFORs, other PACs, other nonprofits.
00:17:54.000 And so that's what we're trying to do at Turning Point Action.
00:17:57.000 Well, let's go to the clip to Ben Wickler, who's the chairman of the Democrat Party of Wisconsin, and what he says they're already preparing for.
00:18:06.000 This shows where we're at.
00:18:08.000 Guys, we got clip two pulled up.
00:18:10.000 We'll be knocking on doors in Republican state legislative districts to make sure that voters from this spring know what Republicans are publicly threatening to do.
00:18:20.000 Our volunteers will be calling voters, sending text messages, organizing friend banks where people reach out to the people that they know who trust them and make sure that the word gets out.
00:18:30.000 I anticipate allied organizations will unveil a massive ad campaign in the days to come that will help educate the Wisconsin public about a move that perhaps Robin Voss thinks he can get away with in the cloak of darkness.
00:18:44.000 The reality is everyone will know what Republicans are trying to do in this moment.
00:18:48.000 If they try to abuse and break our Constitution to impeach Janet Protasewitz, they will reap the whirlwind.
00:18:55.000 So that's Ben Wickler.
00:18:56.000 He's the chairman of the Democrat Party.
00:18:58.000 And what he's saying is that they are already preparing for Republicans in the legislature in Wisconsin To impeach Janet Pratisayowicz.
00:19:10.000 And Janet Pratisowicz is the recently elected Supreme Court justice.
00:19:15.000 We just talked about her last episode, right?
00:19:17.000 We're going to be super focused on her because she is the linchpin to Wisconsin in terms of the Democrat eyes.
00:19:25.000 So she's basically more important than the governor.
00:19:28.000 She's more important than the legislature. 0.90
00:19:31.000 She is the most critical piece the Democrats fought so hard for to make sure that she got on the Supreme Court.
00:19:37.000 So Republicans rightfully are talking about doing the right thing, which is if they're going to, if they're going to move forward and start talking about how they're going to start changing election code, last week we talked about how the Supreme Court is replacing staff members, all these things, they're talking about rightfully, conservatives are talking about impeaching her, which the legislature can do.
00:19:59.000 And we're going to talk with Janelle Branchin, who's in the legislature there at some point here in the future.
00:20:06.000 But I want to make sure that everybody knows a little, has a little bit more context of what's going on in Wisconsin.
00:20:12.000 So you've got all of our activists on the ground.
00:20:16.000 We're trying to play catch up to the Democrats, who you just heard Ben, Chairman Ben of the Democratic Party, Ben Dem, is talking about already preparing a $4 million effort to stop the threats of impeaching Janet.
00:20:32.000 And Republicans are arguing with them over whether or not we should impeach Janet.
00:20:37.000 Does that make sense?
00:20:38.000 So, and you've got a Speaker of the House in Wisconsin who's not a super great friend of conservatives.
00:20:46.000 So I don't know if you all know these guys.
00:20:48.000 His name's Robin Voss.
00:20:50.000 He's probably not as bad as Rusty Bowers was here in Arizona, but he's pretty close.
00:20:57.000 He's probably right on par with Ben Toma right now.
00:21:00.000 And I know Austin can't necessarily, as a member of the state legislature, comment, but I can.
00:21:06.000 I can say, Ben Toma, not great, right?
00:21:09.000 Robin Voss, not the best.
00:21:12.000 And so a lot of conservatives are really upset with him because this is the type of stuff that we're talking about.
00:21:17.000 The Democrats are lining up $4 million to just oppose the idea of impeaching. 0.70
00:21:23.000 Meanwhile, Republicans have absolutely no balls to go do anything that is actually going to help the movement.
00:21:30.000 This is the kind of stuff that matters, Tyler. 0.91
00:21:32.000 And we've talked about this all the time.
00:21:33.000 For those of you that don't know that I'm in the Arizona House of Representatives, every person that you vote for, everybody lives in a legislative district.
00:21:41.000 Yes, you vote for them, but the most important vote that they ever make on behalf of you is who they elect for leadership.
00:21:47.000 And this is when you want your speaker of the house, your senate president, your majority leaders to have the stones to be like, you know what?
00:21:53.000 We're going to go out and raise another $4 million to protect our members who are being threatened that if they vote for impeachment, that we've got their backs.
00:22:01.000 And this is what separates us between the Democrats right now is because they've got the $4 or $5 million on hand to be able to threaten probably some establishment members or other Republican members that are in some swing districts.
00:22:13.000 It shouldn't matter.
00:22:15.000 When you have a Supreme Court that is willing to upend the rule of law or a member of the court that's willing to be that lynchman that Tyler is talking about to do something that is radical, that's leftist, that is not in line with the Constitution, that's willing to throw away, you know, voting laws statute, like the Supreme Court is probably more than likely going to do in Wisconsin.
00:22:38.000 You've got to have a legislature that's going to step in there and say, we're going to impeach justices if they're going to break the law like this.
00:22:45.000 And so if the speaker of the house, there, whatever his bucket name is in Wisconsin, isn't willing to do that, then you've got to get, they don't have a freedom caucus in Wisconsin, but hopefully there's some conservative members that are going to approach them and say, you know what?
00:22:59.000 We will work our tails off to protect these members that are maybe in swing districts because at the end of the day, the Supreme Court is going to have a way bigger impact on the presidential election in 2024 than the legislature is.
00:23:13.000 We got to have those kind of people to step up.
00:23:15.000 Yeah.
00:23:16.000 So, I mean, I mean, it's a great point.
00:23:19.000 You know, here in Arizona, we have, I think we're ahead of the game where we have conservatives more focused on becoming activist oriented, whether they're in the legislature.
00:23:27.000 I mean, we have way more activists that are matching the number of activists that the Democrats have in the legislature, right?
00:23:34.000 So that's happening.
00:23:35.000 We have more conservatives stepping up, running for office, but this isn't necessarily the case everywhere, right?
00:23:42.000 And so, you know, and again, I'm not being critical of Wisconsin, but Wisconsin has this issue of what they call Midwest nice, right?
00:23:51.000 So Austin's there right now.
00:23:53.000 He's in Wisconsin.
00:23:54.000 People are pretty nice.
00:23:55.000 You go to the grocery store, Midwest nice.
00:23:57.000 Windows nice.
00:23:58.000 No one wants to, you know, attack anyone publicly for sure, but they don't even do it privately.
00:24:04.000 You know, there's not even, it's just like a culture that exists within the Midwest.
00:24:09.000 And I always talked about this with Charlie too.
00:24:11.000 I was like, you guys kind of just like dodge around stuff, right?
00:24:14.000 That's just like the way that they go about things.
00:24:16.000 And so people, when you do that, you have herd mentality type things that start happening, right?
00:24:21.000 Which is just like, you just kind of go with the entire herd.
00:24:25.000 And that's the way that the legislature right now, Wisconsin's voting.
00:24:28.000 They're voting as a block, which is great.
00:24:30.000 It's great to see all the Republicans unified.
00:24:32.000 And on its face value, that looks really good.
00:24:35.000 But what's really critical is that, you know, in the background, they're not having, I don't think, enough conversations with enough patriots that are on the legislature, which there are a few.
00:24:45.000 There's a handful of really, really great people in Wisconsin where they're pushing to the next level.
00:24:52.000 Like here in Arizona, we have a really great freedom caucus that Austin's part of.
00:24:57.000 That's that, they are helping, you know, change how the legislature looks at every single vote.
00:25:04.000 That's not necessarily happening in Wisconsin right now.
00:25:06.000 And that's a huge problem.
00:25:09.000 So that kind of stuff.
00:25:10.000 I'll end it with this, Tyler.
00:25:12.000 That kind of stuff does make a difference because, you know, you've got to have a legislature in these swing states, Georgia, Wisconsin, Arizona.
00:25:20.000 We were just talking about Georgia last week with Fannie Willis and the legislature.
00:25:24.000 They're trying to do a special session.
00:25:26.000 And now you got Wisconsin.
00:25:27.000 You've got the Democrat Party chair threatening these members.
00:25:29.000 You actually, this is why it's so important for these activists to be in these certain areas to play just as aggressively as the left is doing.
00:25:37.000 Because like Tyler mentioned, they have the Midwest NICE.
00:25:40.000 They're manipulating that Midwest NICE to not fight back or to stand up or defend themselves, especially like the Republican legislature.
00:25:47.000 So this should be a really important wake-up call for Wisconsin, for places like Georgia, and even here in Arizona.
00:25:54.000 When the left is willing to say, like, we've got $5 million, $4 million to take some of these swing members out in a swing state.
00:26:00.000 That's why it's so important for your conservative activists to say, we've got your back.
00:26:05.000 We're going to knock doors.
00:26:06.000 We're going to chase ballots.
00:26:07.000 We've got your back.
00:26:08.000 And maybe they don't have, maybe the legislators in Wisconsin don't feel that.
00:26:12.000 And that's why they kind of haven't really responded in kind.
00:26:16.000 Yeah.
00:26:16.000 And this is what's really, you hit the nail on the head, Austin, which is if there's one thing for every activist that's listening to this that needs to do is you've got to, I want you to drop everything that you're doing right now.
00:26:27.000 Go to your legislator, go to the nearest Republican that's serving in the legislature right now and tell them that you have their back.
00:26:34.000 That's all you got to say.
00:26:36.000 It goes a million miles here if you just text them and say, we're going to knock doors.
00:26:41.000 We've got your back.
00:26:42.000 Do the more conservative thing.
00:26:43.000 You know how many voices it takes to actually influence a member of the legislature to do to do the right thing?
00:26:50.000 It's not very many.
00:26:51.000 I mean, Austin, you can just a handful.
00:26:53.000 Just a handful.
00:26:54.000 Really?
00:26:54.000 It's, I mean, I get like, just from personal experience, like three or four people to be like, hey, we really want you.
00:27:00.000 Like, perfect example, earlier this year, we had a really big vote on Prop 400.
00:27:03.000 Three or four people that I know that are like really good conservative activists giving me that encouragement to do it really goes a long way.
00:27:10.000 So, like what Tyler's talking about, just text those and be like, We've got your back.
00:27:13.000 Do the right thing.
00:27:15.000 Yeah.
00:27:15.000 And this is, I can tell you, as a former legislative district chair, which is the person who gets elected for the Republican Party for your area, that's like your leader.
00:27:25.000 I served in that.
00:27:26.000 And I remember when we had Medicaid expansion votes almost 10 years ago, it was about 10 years ago here in Arizona that would have aided Obamacare.
00:27:35.000 We had members of our legislature that were in my community that were wanted to go vote for it.
00:27:41.000 And we said, I picked up the phone and said no.
00:27:43.000 And it made a big impact because it's just, there's so much that happens that you don't realize that the legislature or that doesn't happen because activists just sit by and think, oh, I'm too, I'm too sheepish.
00:27:55.000 I'm too scared to call and encourage them to do the right thing.
00:27:59.000 It's just so hard.
00:28:00.000 So, anyways, but it's not hard.
00:28:04.000 It's really right.
00:28:04.000 Like the right thing to do is to get in, jump in, and just tell them what you think.
00:28:10.000 Tell them that you support them.
00:28:12.000 That's the first step because once those people don't listen to you, that's when you know you need to replace them.
00:28:18.000 That's when you need to.
00:28:19.000 And so that you need to.
00:28:21.000 Yeah.
00:28:21.000 And our message, our message is to the Wisconsin legislators: do the right thing.
00:28:25.000 Do the right thing.
00:28:26.000 You're activists.
00:28:27.000 If you're an activist, conservative, you know, Republican Party activists in Wisconsin, be active, pay attention to this stuff.
00:28:34.000 Support those people.
00:28:35.000 Call them and say, you got to do the right thing.
00:28:36.000 You need to hold the line.
00:28:38.000 And we have checks and balances for a reason at the state level and the federal level to do the right thing.
00:28:43.000 You keep the other one in check.
00:28:44.000 Do not be scared of the election consequences.
00:28:48.000 If we do not put the Wisconsin Supreme Court in check, we will get absolutely railroaded in this next election.
00:28:55.000 And if we lose Wisconsin, there's nothing that we can do.
00:29:00.000 It's like 70% of all election.
00:29:05.000 This is what the Democrats know.
00:29:06.000 This is just statistics, guys.
00:29:08.000 70% of all scenarios involve Wisconsin in some way, shape, or form.
00:29:15.000 So if we allow the Supreme Court just to, you know, run, turn us over a barrel here, we are in trouble.
00:29:21.000 We're going to lose.
00:29:22.000 We're going to lose the whole country.
00:29:25.000 We cannot survive.
00:29:25.000 We will not survive four more years.
00:29:27.000 So let's move over to Georgia real quickly, where this just came up.
00:29:32.000 And this is within this last day.
00:29:36.000 David Schaefer, who's the former GOP chair down in Georgia, is a good man.
00:29:42.000 I talk to him fairly regularly.
00:29:44.000 He's no longer the chair, but he received yesterday an eight-page solicitation from Wade and Campbell law firm to represent me in the Trump indictment against Fulton County and Fannie Willis.
00:29:58.000 So this is an update from last week.
00:30:01.000 So David Schaefer, who's the chair of the GOP, he's like at the epicenter of being targeted for this thing.
00:30:07.000 They want to try to throw this poor sweet man into jail over, you know, just being an elector.
00:30:14.000 If we go back to that image, let's throw the image back up again.
00:30:17.000 He gets this solicitation.
00:30:18.000 So look at the solicitation.
00:30:20.000 So what he says, the guy that's pictured on the cover, Nathan Wade, who is the partner at Wade and Campbell, is the special prosecutor appointed by Fannie Willis to go after Donald Trump.
00:30:35.000 So you cannot make this up.
00:30:37.000 So, the guy who's appointed as special prosecutor, the Trump special prosecutor, appointed by Fannie Willis, has sent a solicitation to one of the guys that's been indicted that was just an elector, that was the former state party chair, a political enemy to Fannie Willis, as the person that should be his representation, the firm that should be his representation.
00:31:05.000 This is crazy.
00:31:07.000 This is just hot and princess.
00:31:09.000 Let's go.
00:31:11.000 Let's go back two weeks now when Colton Moore, Senator Colton Moore, said we need to have a special session in the Georgia legislature because there's something more at hand here with Fannie Willis.
00:31:20.000 This just proves it that she's got somebody going in after David Schaefer like this.
00:31:24.000 And so shame on Brian Kemp.
00:31:26.000 Brian Kemp, this is your fault.
00:31:28.000 So you've got other members of the legislature saying we've got to be very proactive about this.
00:31:33.000 And Brian Kemp saying, no, there's nothing at hand here.
00:31:36.000 Well, there it is.
00:31:37.000 Now it's time for a Georgia special session. 0.99
00:31:39.000 Colton Moore, I'm calling on you, brother, get your special session, Brian Kemp, approve it because Fannie Willis is deliberately doing this bullshit. 0.99
00:31:47.000 Excuse my pardon my French to go after a political dissident. 0.98
00:31:51.000 David Schaefer, perfect example.
00:31:53.000 Brian Kemp is at fault here again.
00:31:56.000 This is crazy.
00:31:57.000 I mean, so they literally, at best for them, this is just they are so aloof and have no idea what's going on that that this was just like some kind of automated mail.
00:32:10.000 I don't believe that first off.
00:32:12.000 Like it's not automated mail.
00:32:14.000 This it says on there literally somebody somebody prepared this from the firm that has the guy's face on the cover.
00:32:21.000 You know, either they're doing this intentionally, which I believe that there's elements of that that they're where they're just trying to laugh at conservatives or they're just so aloof.
00:32:31.000 Either way, this is a total disaster.
00:32:33.000 This is a mess.
00:32:34.000 And this is why, you know, this, and there's similar things happening in Michigan, by the way, where they've tried to go after the electors in Michigan.
00:32:42.000 You know, obviously, you know, I'm an elector.
00:32:45.000 I was an elector here in Arizona for the Republican Party.
00:32:49.000 They want to put away political enemies.
00:32:52.000 That's what they want to do.
00:32:54.000 And they have now sent a solicitation to the former GOP chair suggesting that the guy whose face is on the cover, who is who's going after Trump, should be the person that criminally defends him.
00:33:09.000 This is, this is, you want to talk about Banana Republic stuff?
00:33:12.000 This is crazy stuff.
00:33:14.000 And I know people kind of use that, throw that around.
00:33:16.000 This is crazy stuff.
00:33:17.000 And this is the reason why it should be taken out of Fanny's hands. 0.94
00:33:20.000 This should be looked at at a federal level.
00:33:23.000 It'll get dismissed, I think, right away.
00:33:25.000 I think this thing will work its way through.
00:33:27.000 But they want this thing to, they want to be able to manipulate low information voters, one, two, three percent of voters, just to try to win elections.
00:33:37.000 And it's so sick.
00:33:38.000 It's so manipulative.
00:33:39.000 It at its heart is exactly what Alinsky, Alinsky tactics teach people.
00:33:47.000 So, anyways, we'll get back on track.
00:33:48.000 I just wanted to mention that real quick, Austin, because there's such crazy breaking news that was coming out here.
00:33:53.000 People should be aware of it.
00:33:54.000 You can go on my Twitter feed to look at that.
00:33:57.000 I think Turning Point Actions retweeted that from the former chair.
00:34:02.000 Let's play this next clip because we'll kind of bring it back home to Arizona.
00:34:07.000 But Austin, this really impacts all of the country.
00:34:11.000 Something that Senator James Lingfern said yesterday.
00:34:16.000 Let's play that clip.
00:34:17.000 I think it's clip number three, guys.
00:34:20.000 Okay, your thoughts on that as well.
00:34:21.000 And also, there's a focus on Secretary Mayorkas' role in all of this.
00:34:26.000 You know, you just talked about how the shutting down the government is a bipartisan issue.
00:34:32.000 This feels like it's climbing up the charts as well.
00:34:34.000 It's becoming something that both sides are very frustrated with.
00:34:39.000 I think it is.
00:34:40.000 If you were eavesdropping when James and I were talking before we went on the air, this is exactly the topic we were talking about.
00:34:45.000 I was in an intelligence committee meeting today where we were discussing this issue.
00:34:50.000 And we really need to focus most of the, well, first, 50% of the illegal aliens in the United States came here legally on some kind of visa that they overstayed.
00:35:01.000 So that's a record-keeping problem that I think the Department of Homeland Security really has to get on.
00:35:07.000 That's the first step.
00:35:09.000 As far as the border is concerned, the real issue is asylum.
00:35:12.000 These aren't necessarily people that are sneaking across the border or swimming the river.
00:35:16.000 They're people that are coming under our laws, claiming asylum from being in danger for their lives.
00:35:24.000 The question is: are those valid claims?
00:35:26.000 And do we have the infrastructure to determine their valid claims within a reasonable period of time, not having them in the United States waiting for a determination for years and years?
00:35:37.000 I mean, that's one of the problems is we don't have the judges and the courts and the infrastructure to make these asylum decisions in a timely way.
00:35:46.000 And also, a question that I asked have been asking is: if somebody goes through three or four different countries claiming they're in danger in their home country, why do they have to come here?
00:35:56.000 Why aren't they safe once they get to another country?
00:35:59.000 I think that's a legitimate question that we have to address.
00:36:02.000 Yeah, lots of questions to ask here for sure.
00:36:05.000 And it is a crisis, all of these things.
00:36:07.000 Gentlemen, thank you both very much.
00:36:08.000 We appreciate you taking the time.
00:36:11.000 So if you read between the lines, what's going on here is that the legislature, Congress is talking about only funding border security, which has been a priority of this new Republican Congress.
00:36:27.000 We're going to make sure that this gets in front of Biden is talking about that, but only if, you know, what Lankford said here, if we fund Ukraine, which is what they're telling us.
00:36:42.000 So, you know, whispers have been happening here that first off, that first it was to drop border security and talk about it because it's just too tough to get through and get the Democrats on board for, which again, that's not what the promise was.
00:36:58.000 The promise from Congress was border security.
00:37:00.000 Why does this matter?
00:37:01.000 Well, it matters for our election integrity.
00:37:03.000 It matters for our communities, Arizona in particular, but the entire country is being impacted by this.
00:37:09.000 But now they're basically saying, and this is what's coming next week, guys.
00:37:13.000 So every conservative that's listening to our voice needs to hear this now.
00:37:17.000 They are going to try to tie together Ukraine funding with border protection funding.
00:37:24.000 This is crazy.
00:37:25.000 Austin, your take.
00:37:27.000 This is why the speakers' fight back earlier in the year was so important, why the Freedom Caucus held the line, is because Kevin McCarthy said that he wasn't going to do crap like this, that we weren't going to have stuff tied together when it came to funding bills or members are going to get 72-something hours to read it.
00:37:44.000 But this is also why so many Republicans hate the Republican Party.
00:37:48.000 And so we can't get upset and mad when other people say they want to leave the party or form their own thing.
00:37:53.000 It's because of stuff like this, where Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona is facing the blunt of the border crisis.
00:38:02.000 Why are there other members with our own party that are saying, like, you know what?
00:38:07.000 Yes, we'll give money to Arizona, the border sheriffs, to Cochise County, to Yuma, to Pima County, and Santa Cruz County.
00:38:14.000 But you know what?
00:38:14.000 We've got to get the same amount or more to Ukraine.
00:38:18.000 That's insane.
00:38:19.000 That is crazy.
00:38:20.000 Arizona is facing the blunt of this border crisis since Joe Biden took office.
00:38:25.000 And so you've got a swing state like Arizona, a state that is drastically undermanned and underfunded when it comes to the border crisis.
00:38:34.000 You've got Joe Biden and the McCarthys and the port caucus in Washington, D.C. that is ready to write another blank check to Ukraine. 0.98
00:38:42.000 This is, it's asinine.
00:38:43.000 And so I understand why all these Republicans get frustrated for it and why people get really pissed off because you've got the McCarthys who say at the very beginning, when they become Speaker of the House and they go to Sean Hannity or wherever they are on Fox News and say, yeah, we're going to fund the border, but we're also going to give another billion dollars to Ukraine. 0.93
00:39:00.000 It doesn't matter.
00:39:02.000 The fact of the matter is that when you come to Arizona, I know Andy Biggs is really big on this.
00:39:06.000 He does a great job of bringing other Republican members of Congress down to the Arizona border and saying, like, this is where our attention, our focus needs to be, because a lot of members who run for Congress and they say, yeah, yeah, we're going to secure the border.
00:39:18.000 But until you've actually been to Arizona, until you've actually seen it, you don't understand what's going on.
00:39:22.000 And so you get these other members who have been in DC for a long time or who may have been, you know, big checks from the Warhawk caucus who want to fund Ukraine.
00:39:32.000 Now we're in this situation where you've got McCarthy, who's more than likely, I have a prediction that McCarthy is not going to get a majority of the Freedom Caucus support for this spending bill by September 30th.
00:39:43.000 And he's going to have to go buy Democrat votes.
00:39:45.000 I think that's where we're at right now because they've already showed their hand that, yes, we'll get border security, but Ukraine's going to get just as much or probably more. 0.83
00:39:53.000 Yeah.
00:39:54.000 And why is this important?
00:39:55.000 Why does this connect?
00:39:56.000 And for the grassroots that's out there, our Freedom Caucus members are fighting the good fight to make sure that border security actually happens, right?
00:40:03.000 So part of the deal that happened when the McCarthy battle happened was, and we go back, was that the border security element had to be part of this Congress, right?
00:40:16.000 And that was one of their big, big issues that was on the table.
00:40:20.000 And Chip Roy was there at the table.
00:40:23.000 God bless him.
00:40:24.000 Andy Biggs was there at the table.
00:40:25.000 The holdouts, quote unquote, that were there that led to McCarthy getting really embarrassed over this whole thing was this was one of the big issues that they were afraid was not going to happen.
00:40:36.000 And so, you know, when we actually get into this, right now, Turning Point Action is supporting the Freedom Caucus members who are fighting that battle.
00:40:47.000 And don't get me wrong, there's a number of activists that are out there right now going like, we actually, the Freedom Caucus could pull right now a vote to have Speaker McCarthy re-looked at, re-evaluated, the vacate the chair motion, right?
00:41:02.000 Which is something that got put back into.
00:41:05.000 So this is part of the reason why McCarthy is going to move on this.
00:41:08.000 He is, but again, this is the games that they play.
00:41:10.000 So now it's moved from, okay, we are going to fund border security, but you guys are going to have to come across the table on Ukraine funding.
00:41:20.000 And so this is where, first off, we need to support the Freedom Caucus in funding the border wall, funding border security.
00:41:30.000 Turning point action is actually running an Align Act where you can just with a few clicks of the button actually contact all the members of Congress just real easily.
00:41:40.000 You can go to tpaction.com slash nofunding.
00:41:44.000 That's tpaction.com slash nofunding and go right on, click, I believe it's take action, which is the button that's on there.
00:41:53.000 It'll take you right over to the campaign and it'll just take you a couple minutes and you can let your members of Congress know that you support no funding for this government, the federal government, shut down the federal government until the Democrats agree to border security.
00:42:10.000 Now, the second issue, which is the Ukraine issue, we're telling you to get out ahead of this now, right?
00:42:16.000 Which is reach out to your members of Congress, just like I was talking about with Austin, a couple text messages to a member of Congress locally and say, dude, enough with the funding of Ukraine.
00:42:27.000 That's not on the table.
00:42:28.000 Do not let the establishment force you into that in order to fund border security.
00:42:34.000 It's not a win, right?
00:42:35.000 That's not a win.
00:42:36.000 The win right now is get border security passed so you can fund the rest of the horrible government that's there.
00:42:43.000 Do not add, do not fund Ukraine as part of this too.
00:42:48.000 That's just as simple as it is, right? 0.89
00:42:50.000 If you were going to fund the federal government to get border security, that already sucks. 0.87
00:42:55.000 But do not fund the government of Ukraine.
00:42:58.000 Do not fund this senseless, needless, crazy war that we have no idea what's going on over there right now.
00:43:07.000 The American public has no idea what's going on.
00:43:10.000 Yeah.
00:43:11.000 And I'll kind of close it with this either, too.
00:43:13.000 It's like, if we don't have the border secure, every town in America is a border town.
00:43:18.000 Make sure your member of Congress knows that.
00:43:21.000 It's like what happens in Arizona and in Texas and New Mexico eventually reaches Georgia and Wisconsin.
00:43:26.000 So your members of Congress from those states need to know about it.
00:43:29.000 And this is not a cockamame idea either, by the way, you know, Austin.
00:43:33.000 I texted a few members of Congress.
00:43:35.000 I won't say who they are, but they confirmed to me that this is what they're trying to do to them.
00:43:40.000 They're trying to get them to fund Ukraine to fund border security.
00:43:44.000 And there's a number that were going to vote against this, right?
00:43:47.000 Will it be enough to derail it?
00:43:50.000 I hope so.
00:43:51.000 I really do.
00:43:53.000 But the bigger issue is that you got to keep your eye on these people who are going to support something like this if it does go through with this plan to support Ukraine that don't talk about the Ukraine issue at all and then just focus on border security because those are the wolves and sheep's clothing, right?
00:44:13.000 Those are the individuals who are members of Congress who are just explicitly lying to you.
00:44:19.000 And this is part of the reason why we're doing this show, right?
00:44:21.000 This is part of the reason why we're doing this update because this matters.
00:44:24.000 Why does this matter?
00:44:25.000 Well, Arizona cannot handle, cannot handle more of these people doing this to the state of Arizona.
00:44:33.000 We have a couple of members of Congress who have decided to become part of that gang, right?
00:44:38.000 The wolf and sheep's clothing gang.
00:44:41.000 And, you know, we're going to be calling them out, especially if that does come true.
00:44:46.000 So a hat tip to Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar, and Eli Crane, who have been very vocal and publicly out in front of this because they're Arizona's delegation.
00:44:57.000 And those three guys have been very vocal saying that, you know, no security, no funding.
00:45:01.000 So we really appreciate that.
00:45:02.000 We know we've got people in Wisconsin delegation who also feel the same way.
00:45:07.000 So thank you guys.
00:45:08.000 And just so you know how great Arizona is, you know, compared to other states, just try to get to your percentage levels that we have of Freedom Caucus members in Congress.
00:45:16.000 All right.
00:45:16.000 We have four out of six for Republicans.
00:45:20.000 Yeah.
00:45:21.000 That's pretty good.
00:45:22.000 Yeah.
00:45:22.000 And we, yeah, we have three really good ones.
00:45:24.000 Right.
00:45:24.000 So, yeah, when you get to our levels, you know, with the size of our state as a percentage of Freedom Caucus members, you can come at us.
00:45:32.000 But right now, you know, Eli Crane has been such a pleasant surprise, to be honest with you, because we've had some really bad Navy SEALs get in there, like, you know, the he who shall not from Houston.
00:45:44.000 No, don't invoke his name.
00:45:47.000 And so Eli has been such a great congressman so far.
00:45:51.000 And he's really proven himself.
00:45:54.000 Dr. Gosar is like one of the only guys that's been there since day one, just fighting, fight, fight after fight.
00:46:01.000 Andy Biggs, getting him in there to replace Congressman Salmon was so, so wonderful and instrumental.
00:46:07.000 And so that he's been awesome.
00:46:09.000 We have such good fighters and we have others in other states too.
00:46:13.000 We need more in Wisconsin.
00:46:14.000 You know, Wisconsin doesn't have enough fighters.
00:46:17.000 We've got to have more in Georgia, right?
00:46:20.000 We've got a couple of good guys down there like Mike and Marjorie, but Mike, you know, Mike, I'm really excited about.
00:46:25.000 He's been great too so far.
00:46:28.000 So, anyways, let's move to close here.
00:46:32.000 Our time is up, Austin, for this week.
00:46:34.000 But we want to leave everybody with action points here, which is Turning Point Action is leading the charge here with helping people make a plan to vote, becoming precinct leaders.
00:46:43.000 That's what your team is doing, Austin.
00:46:46.000 We just launched our coalition.
00:46:48.000 So, Turning Point Action owns coalitions.com.
00:46:51.000 So, you can really easily just tell a friend, go to coalitions.com to get involved in your community, attending our events.
00:46:57.000 We're going to have tons of events next year, you know, particularly around ballot chasing.
00:47:03.000 And then ultimately, our Chase the Vote initiative, which might be covered up here on the graphic, but Chase the Vote is the initiative that we launched to help our activists, both volunteer and full-time, identify, ballot identify, and chase votes down so that we turn out significantly more of those low propensity votes that Charlie was talking about at the top of the hour here.
00:47:25.000 And so, that is the plan forward.
00:47:27.000 And, Austin, I don't know if you want to give us any updates or stories of how things are looking in the field, but we need everybody that's listening to this to get involved.
00:47:35.000 Spend just a few minutes of your time getting involved.
00:47:38.000 You can go to tpaction.com/slash get involved right away.
00:47:43.000 So, one of our staff members will be in contact.
00:47:45.000 If you're not in a key target state, meaning one of the 10 states that is purplish, you know, for the presidency, that you know, we need you to think about coming here in the month of October of next year.
00:47:59.000 So, a year from now when the election exists, so that we can help put you to work to help us chase ballots.
00:48:06.000 If we do, if we get just a few hundred extra volunteers here in Arizona, that can make a significant difference.
00:48:12.000 And everybody that's listening to this can plan ahead now to spend a week or two potentially out in Arizona next year to help save the country.
00:48:21.000 Austin, how are things going out in the field?
00:48:22.000 Give us a quick update before we wrap up.
00:48:25.000 A big shout out to our team in Florida who has been signing up precinct committeemen in the Tampa area.
00:48:31.000 They've been showing up at gun stores, meeting local gun store owners there, signing up people to be precinct committeemen that are like-minded, that love the Second Amendment.
00:48:41.000 If you're somebody who loves the Second Amendment and you want to be involved in protecting that right, you've got to be a precinct committee man.
00:48:47.000 You've got to be in the PC to be able to make sure you elect a legislator that will support your right to support the Second Amendment.
00:48:53.000 And so, big shout out to the Florida team who's been all over gun stores in the Tampa area this week.
00:48:59.000 Proud of you guys.
00:48:59.000 And so, thankful.
00:49:01.000 Thankful that our team in Florida has not given up the fight so they can get concealed carry all the way constitutional carry in a place like Florida.
00:49:10.000 And we have some wonderful leaders, you know, Brett and the entire Wisconsin team.
00:49:15.000 We're going to be hearing from him, I think, a lot more in the coming weeks here on the show.
00:49:21.000 And then Dreanna and our and our entire Georgia team, we are putting new staff into North Carolina, Ohio, Michigan.
00:49:34.000 We have some great new, incredible staff.
00:49:36.000 I don't know if we have the picture pulled up here, but oh man, I think we should show this picture.
00:49:42.000 And even and even, I'll mention in Pennsylvania, we've got a new guy in there, Noah.
00:49:47.000 It was like his second day or first day on the job.
00:49:50.000 He's out there signing up precinct committee men only after a few days of training.
00:49:53.000 And so, that's what we're doing.
00:49:55.000 Our people get trained and then they are right back on the ground the days following when they get back.
00:49:59.000 When they come train in Phoenix, Arizona, they're back on the ground in their state signing up precinct chairs and precinct delegates.
00:50:05.000 And I want to give a shout out.
00:50:07.000 So, I actually posted this picture.
00:50:09.000 If we can throw it up here, guys, I don't know if we can just real quick.
00:50:14.000 It's going to take our producers, producer Sadie, said it's going to be just a second.
00:50:19.000 So, you know, to kind of piggyback on that, Austin just got done training some of our new staff that just got out there.
00:50:25.000 Riley, who is our new representative out in Michigan that's working with Luke, who Luke has been just such a warrior in Michigan.
00:50:34.000 I think it's one of the most important states.
00:50:36.000 I think statistically it's the fourth most important state in the country.
00:50:40.000 So it's the most important state in the country.
00:50:42.000 And they're out there fighting the good fight.
00:50:44.000 And they were at a big community event this last week.
00:50:48.000 And I posted this picture actually on Reddit just personally.
00:50:51.000 And it got semi-viral just on the conservative Reddit thread.
00:50:55.000 We'll throw it up right now.
00:50:57.000 This was Riley who took this picture, which we have some great materials that are out there.
00:51:03.000 This is one of my favorites, which is that Joe Biden tried to sniff me because he's so unpopular, right?
00:51:09.000 Like actually, I think it was an MSNBC poll just came out about how unpopular.
00:51:16.000 Let's throw the picture back up again.
00:51:19.000 He's one of the most unpopular presidents that we've ever had.
00:51:22.000 There was a MSNBC quote or article came up today that Charlie shared with me that was that they're so worried now that Trump's just going to waltz into the presidency because Joe Biden's hated so much.
00:51:36.000 And you look at Michigan, dude, we're going to win Michigan if patriots step up and look at this.
00:51:42.000 And we have some incredible activists there on the ground that are preaching the good word, not just about the good things that we need to do, getting people active, chasing ballots and everything that we need to do to win infrastructure-wise, but also talking about how just freaking awful Joe Biden is and embarrassing it is to support him.
00:51:59.000 And there's communities all over Detroit and the Detroit metro area.
00:52:04.000 I just don't think they're going to show up the same way and buy the baloney to vote for Joe Biden again.
00:52:09.000 Like, I think he's just so, so unelectable the same way that Hillary Clinton was unelectable, that we have a real chance to win Michigan.
00:52:15.000 So that should be, if you guys can't see, if you're listening on podcast, you can go to my feed.
00:52:21.000 I will repost this.
00:52:22.000 I'll pin.
00:52:23.000 I think I'll pin this picture because it's so great.
00:52:25.000 And Riley did such a great job with it.
00:52:28.000 But it's such an incredible, incredible indictment against, you know, when we talk about indictments against Joe Biden and the criminal enterprise that his family is running.
00:52:38.000 I think people in Michigan are going to figure it out.
00:52:40.000 It doesn't really matter what community you come from.
00:52:43.000 So, you know, with that, again, I just want to reiterate: there's some things that you need to do.
00:52:49.000 Go out.
00:52:49.000 If you're here in Arizona, I hope you'll show up on September 27th for the Charlie Kirk event that's happening at Arizona State University.
00:52:57.000 The link for that, I believe, Austin, do you have the link that's handy?
00:53:01.000 I think it's tpusa.com/slash actually.
00:53:08.000 Let me, I'll get it for you too.
00:53:10.000 He's got it right now.
00:53:12.000 This, that, this event's happening at ASU.
00:53:14.000 It's the region of tpusa.com/slash kirkprager ASU.
00:53:21.000 So that's tpusa.com slash kirkprager A-S-U.
00:53:27.000 Now, your second thing that you have to do is go to tpaction.com/slash no funding and contact your member of Congress right away to tell them that we expect the border to get funded and that there will be no other federal funding if they if they can't do that, get that done.
00:53:46.000 And let's hold our members, particularly the Freedom Caucus, accountable to this because they said that this is what they were demanding McCarthy did from the beginning here.
00:53:55.000 So go to tpaction.com/slash no funding to get that done right away.
00:53:59.000 And then, lastly, as we said, we'd love for you to get involved.
00:54:02.000 Dedicate, start mentally preparing yourself to the few minutes a month, the few minutes a year that we need you to spend to get involved, to make a plan to vote, become a precinct leader, join a coalition, attend our events, and help us chase the ballots, chase the votes.
00:54:17.000 You can go to tpaction.com slash get involved, or you can just download the turning point action application right on your iPhone or your Google or Android phone today.
00:54:28.000 If you just go straight to the Google store or the app store, download the Turning Point Action app, not Turning Point USA, the Turning Point Action application.
00:54:40.000 If you go in there and press the top left-hand corner, there's a little arrow.
00:54:44.000 It's going to ask you to type in your phone number so you can get the activism tools on there to help you start knocking doors in your community.
00:54:53.000 We have an application built in there so you can go right in, start knocking doors.
00:54:58.000 It'll grab your geographic location and tell you the closest 15 doors to go knock, start making relationships with other good Republicans and ask them to help you get involved.
00:55:09.000 You might know some of the names.
00:55:10.000 They're on your street.
00:55:12.000 Start following up with them.
00:55:13.000 It'll save those contacts in your phone.
00:55:15.000 You can follow up with them later, but you can start knocking doors today.
00:55:19.000 Nothing's holding anyone here back from knocking doors and talking to good, active Republicans and getting them involved, recruiting them to become precinct committeemen, precinct captains, and helping us win in 2024.
00:55:33.000 So with that, Austin, I don't know if you have any final parting words here before we sign up.
00:55:38.000 tpaction.com slash get involved go there at the end of this podcast get involved you're not actually in the republican party unless you're a precinct committee man or a preaching chair so thank you guys for tuning in for episode two god bless we'll see you guys next week thanks so much hope you enjoyed the swing state update everybody make sure you subscribe god bless For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk. com.