The Charlie Kirk Show - The Democrat Extinction Event

00:00:00.000 Hey everyone, some really exciting personal news, two elements of personal news that we share here on the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:00:06.000 And we go through in great detail Ezra Klein, who is a New York Times podcaster and data guy, explains that young people are not the future of the Democrat Party, they're the future of the Republican Party.

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00:01:56.000 Democrats wake up and smell the data.

00:02:00.000 This weekend, I had the opportunity to listen to the entirety of the Ezra Klein Show podcast.

00:02:07.000 Ezra Klein is a very smart, honest liberal.

00:02:10.000 He's been incredibly critical of the Democrat Party since the election in November.

00:02:15.000 Ezra Klein previously created a thing called Wonkblog at the Washington Post.

00:02:21.000 Later, he founded Vox alongside people like Matt Iglesias.

00:02:26.000 He perfectly represented the white male millennial era of the Obama era.

00:02:33.000 It was very smug.

00:02:34.000 It was overconfident, in part because they thought that left-wing victory was completely inevitable.

00:02:42.000 If you listen to Pod Save America, it is four of those guys that just talk about how right they are the entire time.

00:02:48.000 After the 2008 election and the subsequent 2012 election of Barack Obama, People like Ezra Klein looked at the numbers and said, old people are conservative, young people are liberal, so the future will be liberal.

00:03:02.000 That is a very fair and honest analysis.

00:03:06.000 There's one thing they did not count on.

00:03:09.000 They did not count on the grittiness and the hustle of Turning Point USA.

00:03:14.000 They did not count on the millions of students that actually wanted to have a future and the ascendant political force of President Donald Trump.

00:03:22.000 Now, Ezra Klein, who is the premier explainer of things on the left, is stuck trying to explain why that didn't happen.

00:03:32.000 So he had a Democrat statistician by the name of David Shore on his program.

00:03:38.000 The reason we are leading with this today, everybody, is that there is a generational restructuring happening.

00:03:44.000 It's so obvious to us on this program.

00:03:47.000 We've been warning about this for the last couple years.

00:03:49.000 Not just warning about it, celebrating it.

00:03:51.000 I've been coming in the chair here on this program, Real America's Voice, and on the Salem Radio Network, telling you guys, there's something happening on these campuses.

00:03:59.000 There's something happening with the next generation.

00:04:01.000 The crowds were drawing the views that we are garnering.

00:04:05.000 And reporters would scoff at it.

00:04:06.000 Oh, come on. 0.87

00:04:07.000 What are you saying?

00:04:08.000 You're going to win young people? 0.97

00:04:10.000 And Democrats took the next generation so for granted.

00:04:13.000 And what is remarkable is that it is sticking.

00:04:16.000 This is not just a Trump phenomenon.

00:04:19.000 This is a widespread restructuring.

00:04:23.000 A widespread realignment.

00:04:26.000 By the way, if you want to know why Democrats lost, here's one of several actual explanations.

00:04:33.000 In 2020, David Shore was fired.

00:04:36.000 From the left-wing analytics company he worked at because he made a tweet saying that George Floyd riots might hurt Democrats politically.

00:04:43.000 The very same guy that we're about to watch.

00:04:45.000 Now this is something that we've been saying on this program for quite some time.

00:04:48.000 We are ahead of the curve here.

00:04:49.000 We see the trajectory and we lead it.

00:04:52.000 We are the leading indicator here on this program.

00:04:55.000 And all of you in this audience understand that we are not followers.

00:04:59.000 We are pace setters.

00:05:00.000 The tip of the spear.

00:05:02.000 Understanding that the zeitgeist will be made here.

00:05:07.000 Ezra Klein and the New York Times, they follow the lead of the Charlie Kirk show.

00:05:12.000 They follow the lead of War Room.

00:05:13.000 They follow the lead of what we are doing with our Turning Point USA groups on campus.

00:05:17.000 And they're processing this information saying, what do you mean the New York Times doesn't set the trend anymore?

00:05:22.000 It doesn't.

00:05:22.000 The New York Times is reporting on months-old data.

00:05:27.000 Now, the significance of this, everybody, is that you are dealing with a completely different political climate than any time.

00:05:35.000 That you have been alive since Ronald Reagan.

00:05:37.000 In fact, if you take an average 20-something voter, that is a young man, and an average 75-year-old man, and we've said this on this program and it drives some baby boomers a little bit nuts, and of course this audience exempt from that, the paradigm shift is so remarkable that the 20-year-old is more conservative than the 75-year-old. 0.55

00:05:58.000 Let me say that again.

00:06:00.000 That the 20-year-old is more conservative.

00:06:03.000 Than the 75-year-old.

00:06:05.000 Don't believe me?

00:06:06.000 Here is Ezra Klein and David Shore who are pulling their hair out, going through all of the numbers, trying to process.

00:06:17.000 How on earth is it that the young men, the next generation, are more conservative than their grandparents?

00:06:26.000 Now, let me just take a pause before I play this piece of tape.

00:06:29.000 If me mentioning that bothers you, It should actually give you great hope.

00:06:36.000 If you're 75 and you find out that your colleagues that are boomers are more liberal than your grandkids, it actually means that you're going to be handing off a country that is more conservative. 0.66

00:06:49.000 Good job, you guys did well.

00:06:50.000 A good legacy.

00:06:52.000 Yes, your fellow boomers are trending left, but your grandkids are taking a hard right turn.

00:06:59.000 There you can see the Tens of thousands of students that attend our outdoor campus events.

00:07:05.000 Tens of thousands.

00:07:08.000 We don't just react to culture.

00:07:11.000 You are part of a movement that is shaping it, creating it, and pushing it forward.

00:07:15.000 And it was delicious this weekend listening to Smugman, Ezra Klein, have to explain to the millions of New York Times elite academics what we have helped make happen.

00:07:30.000 Play cut 75. One of the things you can see here is if you just look at 18-year-olds, 18-year-old women of color are the only of the four that actually, you know, voted that Harris won.

00:07:41.000 Trump narrowly won, you know, non-white men. 0.96

00:07:44.000 So I do find this part of this chart shocking.

00:07:49.000 I sometimes talk about narrative violations, and I think if we knew anything about Donald Trump eight years ago, it's that young people did not like him.

00:07:56.000 But if you look at this chart among white men...

00:07:59.000 Who are 75 years old supported Kamala Harris at a significantly higher rate than white men who are 20 years old.

00:08:08.000 That's exactly right.

00:08:09.000 that's a real shift.

00:08:12.000 It is a real shift.

00:08:13.000 This is the thing I am the most shocked by, I think, in the last four years is that young people have gone from being the most progressive generation since the baby boomers and maybe in some ways more so to becoming The most conservative.

00:08:31.000 I have no idea who would have made that a stated goal.

00:08:34.000 You're telling me for the first time.

00:08:35.000 You see, what you're witnessing there is a PhD left-wing struggle session.

00:08:40.000 As they're trying to go through the data.

00:08:41.000 And they're being honest in front of the audience.

00:08:43.000 And they're one of the few people on the left that actually goes into the data.

00:08:47.000 And let me repeat again that an average 20-year-old white man is far more conservative than their 75-year-old grandparent.

00:08:55.000 And it makes all the sense in the world.

00:08:57.000 Number one, look at the information that they're consuming.

00:09:00.000 The average 20-year-old is watching the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:09:02.000 They're listening to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast.

00:09:04.000 They're consuming Matt Walsh on TikTok.

00:09:07.000 They are watching...

00:09:09.000 The influencer army that we have helped assemble.

00:09:12.000 The 75-year-old boomer man is more likely to watch cable news.

00:09:19.000 They're more likely to watch NBC and ABC.

00:09:24.000 Young people aren't watching the news. 0.70

00:09:25.000 They're getting it in 10-second sound bites, of which we are dominant.

00:09:32.000 For those skeptical of polls and sampling size, David Shore's study, which you just saw in that video, is based on 26 million online responses collected over the course of 2024 and filtered to adjust to oddities of modern polling.

00:09:52.000 This trend...

00:09:54.000 If it continues, everybody, is one of the greatest points of optimism that we see on the horizon.

00:10:00.000 And this is why we are doing more campus tours than before.

00:10:03.000 This is why we are starting more high school chapters and starting more college chapters.

00:10:06.000 This is the sleeper narrative underneath everything.

00:10:12.000 It undergirds the entire society.

00:10:15.000 The subterranean truth that we are living through right now.

00:10:21.000 Is that there is a political earthquake that you have been praying for and it is sticking and it is only continuing.

00:10:27.000 It is not just a Donald Trump phenomenon.

00:10:30.000 It is a right-wing revolution that is happening from the youth to the old, from the bottom up, from the students to the elders, from the Gen Xers, the Gen Zers, to the boomers.

00:10:44.000 And it's happening across all racial demographics.

00:10:47.000 And it stands to possibly...

00:10:50.000 Put the Democrat Party in a minoritarian position for a generation.

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00:11:45.000 Young Hispanics, young blacks, young whites that are men are all shifting to the right. 0.99

00:11:51.000 Young women are too, but not to the same extent.

00:11:54.000 One of the reasons why young men are shifting to the right is the hyper-feminization of American politics, is how feminine the Democrat Party has become.

00:12:08.000 When you are trying to raise young men, you learn...

00:12:15.000 That young men do not like taking orders, especially when it comes to discipline, from women. 0.82

00:12:22.000 Now you can complain about that.

00:12:24.000 You can say it's sexist.

00:12:25.000 You can say it's awful.

00:12:27.000 But it's the truth.

00:12:28.000 16, 17, and 18-year-old men hesitate to take orders from women in authority.

00:12:39.000 You cannot like it, but it is a fact of nature.

00:12:42.000 This is why...

00:12:43.000 Teenage boys need dads around. 0.74

00:12:47.000 They need a man that they can look up to, that is able to exhibit force, that is able to put structure and rules and guidelines.

00:12:58.000 And God bless single moms, but they are not able to always get the job done. 1.00

00:13:03.000 This is why you need a father and a mother around when you raise a child.

00:13:08.000 The same goes politically.

00:13:10.000 So when a young man looks at...

00:13:12.000 The horizon of American politics.

00:13:14.000 And on one side, you have screeching women telling them to shut up, to watch your pronouns, to watch your language. 1.00

00:13:23.000 Young men inherently do not like taking orders from women. 0.97

00:13:29.000 Men are wired this way.

00:13:31.000 Now, eventually, men will help grow out of that if the women earn their respect. 0.95

00:13:36.000 But 16-, 17-, and 18-year-old young men, they don't respond well to that.

00:13:41.000 They inherently rebel.

00:13:43.000 So the entire Democrat Party is wired in a way against young men's nature.

00:13:51.000 Sit down and shut up.

00:13:52.000 We're going to call you a racist.

00:13:54.000 So young men start to gravitate towards a political party that is not hyper-feminized.

00:14:00.000 In fact, who is the most alpha male, both through his language and his body posture?

00:14:09.000 It's Donald Trump.

00:14:11.000 So you have hyper-feminized politics of Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren and AOC. 0.84

00:14:18.000 And then you have alpha male politics of Donald Trump.

00:14:21.000 And Ezra Klein and David Shore, they don't understand any of this.

00:14:25.000 Because they think it's all just a big policy debate.

00:14:27.000 It is so much deeper than that.

00:14:29.000 It's that young men don't want to take orders from women.

00:14:33.000 It's obvious.

00:14:34.000 You know that when you're around teenage boys.

00:14:37.000 They need a man that they can trust and a man that has strength.

00:14:42.000 And then they'll shut up and listen.

00:14:44.000 And so what women in the Democrat Party do is they say, you're toxic, you need to be medicated, sit down and let the women handle it. 1.00

00:14:51.000 They say, no, I'm going to go to the right.

00:14:53.000 And they haven't even necessarily thought through all the policy implications of what it means to be a conservative.

00:14:59.000 But it appeals to their reason.

00:15:02.000 And the communicators are typically men.

00:15:07.000 That don't apologize to tyrannical left-wing politics.

00:15:11.000 Playcut 76. Democrats are getting destroyed now among young voters.

00:15:15.000 That's right.

00:15:16.000 I do think there was, even as the idea of the rising Democratic majority had become a little discredited in 2016 and 2020, I do think Democrats believed that these young voters were eventually going to save them.

00:15:29.000 That this was a last gasp of something.

00:15:32.000 That if Donald Trump couldn't run these numbers up among seniors and you had millennials really coming into their voting power, Gen Z coming in, that was going to be the end of this Republican Party.

00:15:42.000 And that just completely false.

00:15:45.000 It might be the beginning of this Republican Party.

00:15:47.000 I have to admit, I was one of those liberals four years ago, and it seems like I was wrong.

00:15:52.000 It's the beginning of our Republican Party.

00:15:55.000 Here is the gender gap and how significant it is.

00:15:58.000 Play cut 77. On the bottom, we have age.

00:16:01.000 And at the top, we have the gender gap in support between women and men.

00:16:05.000 And, you know, for support for Kamala Harris.

00:16:08.000 And so what you can see is that, you know, for voters over 30, the gender gap was fairly stable at around 10%, which is roughly where it's been in American politics.

00:16:19.000 And voters over 75, it's even lower.

00:16:21.000 That's right.

00:16:22.000 Fairly low gender gap among...

00:16:24.000 But what's crazy is if you look at people who are under the age of 30, the gender gap has exploded.

00:16:30.000 If you look at 18-year-olds, 18-year-old men were 23 percentage points more likely to support Donald Trump than 18-year-old women, which is just completely unprecedented in American politics.

00:16:42.000 Is that abortion? 0.99

00:16:43.000 I think it's too early to say exactly what the cause is.

00:16:46.000 What's interesting is that this is happening in other countries as well.

00:16:50.000 Obviously different countries have different political systems, but I've seen similar patterns in Canada, in the UK, in Norway.

00:16:58.000 Is that abortion? 0.99

00:16:59.000 Actually, it's not.

00:17:00.000 It's just so simple.

00:17:02.000 The men of the West do not want to be told what to do from women that they do not respect, that don't have their own personal lives together, screaming at them for merely existing.

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00:18:34.000 Joining us now is Senator Rick Scott from the great state of Florida.

00:18:38.000 Senator, you have some thoughts here about young men and younger voters kind of parlaying off of what I was talking about.

00:18:44.000 Your thoughts?

00:18:45.000 Charlie, I loved my mom.

00:18:47.000 Unfortunately, my mom passed away.

00:18:48.000 I had no interest in my mom telling me what to do.

00:18:52.000 I had zero.

00:18:53.000 I think that's exactly what young men in this country are saying.

00:18:56.000 Look, give us our job.

00:18:58.000 We're smart enough.

00:18:59.000 We can go do this on our own.

00:19:00.000 We don't need the nanny state telling us how to lead our lives.

00:19:03.000 We don't need telling us what to eat, where to work, any of this stuff.

00:19:08.000 So just give us an opportunity to go live our dreams.

00:19:11.000 And so I think it's as simple.

00:19:12.000 To me, it's as simple as that.

00:19:14.000 I am sick and tired of how big government has gotten, and you can't get a permit to build a business, to build a house, to do anything because of local, state, and federal government.

00:19:25.000 I completely agree.

00:19:26.000 And so for a young 17 and 18 year old man, you know what it's like to be that age.

00:19:30.000 The last thing they want is someone who is not their mom, but is coming in and telling them, hey, it's terrible that you exist and it's terrible that you have white skin color. 0.75

00:19:42.000 It doesn't work.

00:19:44.000 So, Senator, I do.

00:19:45.000 You're white, you're an oppressor, right? 0.72

00:19:48.000 Exactly. If you're white, you're an oppressor. 0.79

00:19:50.000 I mean, give me a break.

00:19:51.000 You know what?

00:19:51.000 I'm a kid that grew up in public housing.

00:19:54.000 I joined the Navy at 18. And I just wanted my chance to live the dream.

00:19:59.000 My mom said, look, everything is your fault.

00:20:02.000 And your success is going to be your fault.

00:20:04.000 Your failure is going to be your fault.

00:20:05.000 So just let me go after my own success and get out of my way.

00:20:09.000 That's exactly right.

00:20:11.000 Senator, I want to draw our audience's attention to some of the special elections in Florida.

00:20:15.000 They're getting a lot of attention.

00:20:17.000 We're being outspent significantly.

00:20:19.000 What are the two special elections and why do they matter?

00:20:23.000 Well, Jimmy Petronas is in the panhandle.

00:20:25.000 He's taking Matt Gaetz's seat.

00:20:26.000 Okay. Then Randy Fine, the Republican, is taking Mike Waltz's seat.

00:20:30.000 So we've got to get our vote out.

00:20:33.000 You know, in special elections, often the vote is, you know, there's low voter turnout.

00:20:37.000 And this is when we have, you know, these are both should be, all right, in a normal year, this would be easy Republican wins.

00:20:44.000 But what we're seeing now is our Democrats about racists because they know this is the chance to reduce the majority of Republicans in the House.

00:20:52.000 We've got to win.

00:20:53.000 Jimmy's got to win.

00:20:54.000 Randy's got to win.

00:20:55.000 So here's what you can do.

00:20:56.000 Give them money.

00:20:57.000 You can make phone calls to people you might know in that district from anywhere in the country.

00:21:03.000 You've got to get the vote out.

00:21:04.000 We've got to get everybody to go to the polls.

00:21:06.000 You can early vote in Florida right now, and you can vote on Election Day.

00:21:10.000 So we've got eight days to go.

00:21:12.000 It's a week from Tuesday.

00:21:13.000 Get the vote out.

00:21:14.000 You've got to get out to vote.

00:21:15.000 That's how I've won my elections in Florida.

00:21:17.000 We've got to get the people out to vote.

00:21:19.000 And these special elections can sometimes sneak up on us.

00:21:23.000 It is an R plus Trump 30 district.

00:21:25.000 It is pure turnout.

00:21:27.000 Is that correct, Senator?

00:21:28.000 Pure turnout.

00:21:29.000 It's all who's going to show up.

00:21:31.000 You know how you lose these special elections is, you know, people say, oh gosh, we always win.

00:21:35.000 I wasn't even tracking the race.

00:21:38.000 So I've done telephone town hall for Randy just the other day.

00:21:43.000 Just do one thing.

00:21:44.000 We have an election.

00:21:46.000 If you're a Republican, you have to get out there and vote.

00:21:50.000 If we get our voters out, we're going to win.

00:21:53.000 It is truly pure turnout.

00:21:55.000 Let's put 109 up on screen here.

00:21:58.000 This is from Jake Shermer from Punchbowl.

00:22:03.000 Well, No one took the race seriously.

00:22:32.000 No one thought in a Republican seat that Mike Walz had won handily that there would have been any risk that we wouldn't win here.

00:22:41.000 And so what's happened is the Democrats have shown up and they have all this act blue money that they can raise.

00:22:49.000 And so when you have just ads attacking you and attacking you and you can't raise money, it makes it hard.

00:22:57.000 And that's exactly what's happened to Randy Fine.

00:22:59.000 So this is going to come down to do our voters show up.

00:23:03.000 If our voters show up, we're going to win.

00:23:05.000 Because, you know, it's getting late.

00:23:06.000 But if you can donate to Randy Fine or donate to Jimmy Petronas, donate to him.

00:23:12.000 If you have the time to make phone calls to get the vote out, you can call their campaigns.

00:23:17.000 You can get on their websites.

00:23:19.000 And you can, you know, I know, I think Randy Fine's, it's voterandyfine.com.

00:23:23.000 You can get on there and you make phone calls for them.

00:23:25.000 You can send texts for them.

00:23:27.000 So we've got to get our votes out.

00:23:29.000 We know where the votes are.

00:23:30.000 What part of Florida is this again?

00:23:32.000 I mean, some people don't even know their congressional district.

00:23:34.000 Remind people, please.

00:23:35.000 So Jimmy Petronis is up in the panhandle.

00:23:37.000 Yeah, no, that's fine.

00:23:39.000 But Randy Fine.

00:23:40.000 Where is that?

00:23:41.000 Yeah, Randy Fine.

00:23:42.000 Randy's at Melbourne area.

00:23:43.000 Okay. So a little bit south.

00:23:48.000 So those are— That's conservative country there.

00:23:50.000 Oh, yeah.

00:23:51.000 We should win handily.

00:23:52.000 It's just the fact that no one took the race seriously.

00:23:55.000 Big Republican seat.

00:23:57.000 Mike Waltz won easily.

00:23:59.000 So Josh, you know, the other candidate has been able to raise a lot of money, and he's run terrible ads, just complete lies about Randy.

00:24:07.000 Yes, we do.

00:24:11.000 Senator, give us the latest update from Capitol Hill as far as the schedule for second-tier nominations and also the one big, beautiful bill.

00:24:20.000 So, last week was our vote, our recess.

00:24:23.000 We're back in our districts, our states.

00:24:26.000 And now we're back up here for three weeks.

00:24:28.000 So in three weeks, we're going to work our tail off to try to get this reconciliation done.

00:24:33.000 So we're going to work with our House colleagues on doing these things.

00:24:35.000 Number one, we've got to make sure Trump has the money to get rid of the illegals. 1.00

00:24:40.000 The criminals, the terrorists, the narcotraff, and people selling our drugstore kits.

00:24:45.000 He needs $175 billion to do that.

00:24:48.000 We've got to plus up our military to be able to defend ourselves.

00:24:51.000 And then third, we've got to balance the budget and we've got to get the Trump tax cuts extended.

00:24:54.000 So we've got to work with our House colleagues really hard to get this done.

00:24:59.000 We can balance a budget.

00:25:02.000 We can do all these things right now.

00:25:03.000 It's going to take a lot of work over the next three weeks.

00:25:07.000 The spending cuts, where are we at with the Doge recommendations?

00:25:11.000 And I know those negotiations are ongoing.

00:25:14.000 What is the latest update there?

00:25:16.000 So Elon's done a great job giving information to our secretaries of ways they can reduce staffing, reduce wasteful spending.

00:25:23.000 Now what we've got to do is we've got to, one, do a rescission package.

00:25:27.000 What the White House can do, they can send us a rescission package.

00:25:30.000 It only takes 218 members of the House, 51 members in the Senate, and we can get rid of that spending.

00:25:35.000 I know the White House is looking at that.

00:25:37.000 I spoke with OMB last week about it, so I know they're looking at that.

00:25:42.000 And then as we do our budget for 2026, which will be part of this reconciliation, we can dramatically reduce that spending and take those doge cuts and put them in our reconciliation bill.

00:25:56.000 The fiscal calamity that we are experiencing is immense.

00:26:01.000 And the lack of Washington, D.C.'s appetite.

00:26:04.000 To cut spending and get down to baseline budgeting is horrifying.

00:26:09.000 My hope is that we'll be able to- We have to, Charlie.

00:26:11.000 Please, talk about the stakes here.

00:26:13.000 Charlie, we have to.

00:26:14.000 So, Charlie, think about it.

00:26:15.000 What was the election about?

00:26:16.000 The election was about secure the border, make us safe, get inflation under control.

00:26:21.000 Inflation will not come down.

00:26:23.000 Interest rates will not come down if we don't balance the budget.

00:26:25.000 They're not going to.

00:26:27.000 It's a monetary- It's caused because of wasteful spending.

00:26:32.000 We're spending- $2 trillion more than we take in.

00:26:35.000 We've had a 2% increase in our population, a 53% increase in spending in five years.

00:26:40.000 So what we've got to do is we've got to do what you do.

00:26:43.000 I mean, Charlie, you do it.

00:26:44.000 Everybody does it.

00:26:45.000 You go, you get your credit card, you look at all the lines and say, well, was that one right?

00:26:49.000 Oh, I'm not going to do that one again.

00:26:50.000 We're not going to spend money like that.

00:26:51.000 That's what you do.

00:26:52.000 We've got to do the same thing at the federal level.

00:26:54.000 We did it in my business life.

00:26:57.000 Constantly, when I was governor, I went through all 4,000 lines of the budget.

00:27:00.000 Ron Johnson just had an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal saying, let's get the House, the Senate, the White House together, and let's go line by line through the budget.

00:27:08.000 I did that as governor.

00:27:09.000 That's how we balanced the budget.

00:27:11.000 We reduced this, we reduced spending, and we reduced wasteful spending because we had a purpose for every line.

00:27:16.000 That's what you should expect out of your tax dollars.

00:27:19.000 There should be a purpose, not $600,000 to study the menstrual cycle of transgender men or $800,000 to do gardening and new chicken gardening in El Salvador.

00:27:30.000 I mean, this stuff is crazy.

00:27:32.000 This is all doable.

00:27:33.000 We can't balance this budget.

00:27:34.000 If we're going to get inflation under control...

00:27:37.000 Get interest rates down so you can afford that house or afford that car.

00:27:40.000 It's going to be because we balance the budget.

00:27:41.000 And if it doesn't happen, it's simply because of certain Senate and House colleagues of yours that do not have the will to cut spending and do not want to face the music.

00:27:52.000 Senator, we will not have a country anymore if we do not dramatically cut spending.

00:27:56.000 Absolutely. Charlie, it's simple.

00:27:58.000 What the way to do it is we, right now, they're anticipating that we're going to collect about $5.5 trillion.

00:28:05.000 What do you do with your personal life?

00:28:06.000 Okay, you say, I'm not spending more than that.

00:28:08.000 So what we should do is say, our spending level will be the same as our revenues or less, right?

00:28:14.000 When I was governor, it was less, and I paid off a third of the state debt.

00:28:17.000 So we should say, okay, there's a lot of nice-to-haves, but we don't have the revenues for that.

00:28:23.000 The taxpayers are not willing to give us the money to do those things.

00:28:26.000 So the way to do it is to say, I'm not going to cut anything.

00:28:29.000 I'm going to say, this is what I'm going to spend money on.

00:28:32.000 These are my highest priorities, but nothing else.

00:28:36.000 This is the only amount of money I have to spend.

00:28:37.000 It's just like what every family does with their personal life.

00:28:40.000 We've got to do it with the federal government.

00:28:43.000 Senator, thank you for your leadership.

00:28:44.000 We'll be watching very closely.

00:28:46.000 And keep on telling your colleagues that we, the base, are demanding spending cuts.

00:28:51.000 Demanding spending cuts.

00:28:53.000 I agree with you, Charlie.

00:28:55.000 Thank you.

00:28:55.000 Have a great day.

00:28:56.000 Talk to you soon.

00:28:56.000 Thank you.

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00:30:06.000 I want to play more of...

00:30:08.000 This conversation between David Shore and Ezra Klein.

00:30:13.000 But let me just play this.

00:30:14.000 Remember this from Scott Galloway?

00:30:16.000 This is a phenomenal table setter.

00:30:19.000 Before we dive deeper into the data, play Cut 101.

00:30:22.000 For the first time in our nation's history, a 30-year-old man or woman isn't doing as well as his or her parents were at 30. That is the social compact breaking down.

00:30:31.000 People aged 30 to 34, 60% of them in 1990 had one child.

00:30:35.000 Now it's 27%.

00:30:37.000 People are opting out of America.

00:30:38.000 They're not optimistic about it.

00:30:40.000 They're not having kids.

00:30:41.000 Young people aren't having sex.

00:30:43.000 They're not meeting.

00:30:44.000 They're not mating.

00:30:44.000 The pool of emotionally and economically viable men shrinks every day, which lessens household formation.

00:30:51.000 So we have a real issue.

00:30:53.000 Young people are enraged. 0.63

00:30:54.000 So it turns every cut, every movement into an opportunistic infection because, quite frankly, they are just pissed off.

00:31:02.000 And that's why they voted for President Donald Trump.

00:31:04.000 So, two pieces of personal news.

00:31:07.000 The first of which, this happened about a week and a half, two weeks ago.

00:31:11.000 Very honored.

00:31:12.000 The President of the United States, President Trump, selected me to serve on the Air Force Academy Board of Visitors.

00:31:20.000 Yes, it is true.

00:31:21.000 I've never served in the military.

00:31:23.000 However, I do know something about kicking woke out of institutions. 0.95

00:31:28.000 The Air Force Academy is a very far left-wing institution, as it has been running the last couple of years.

00:31:34.000 I'm honored that the President has given me this opportunity alongside some other great change agents like Senator Tubbaville and many others to make the Air Force Academy great again.

00:31:44.000 If we are serious about fighting the Communist Chinese and our enemies abroad, we need the Air Force Academy to not be one that is focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, but instead on excellence and meritocracy.

00:31:58.000 The second piece of personal news that I'm very honored and quite honestly humbled is that starting next week, a week from today, we will be taking over Dennis Prager's radio slot.

00:32:12.000 Dennis is still recovering from a very difficult spinal cord injury that he sustained in the past.

00:32:19.000 I've visited Dennis a couple times in the hospital, and so starting next week, we are very humbled to be...

00:32:30.000 Taking over his radio slot.

00:32:32.000 It means that our radio audience will be growing by about 40% and we will be doing an entire show in his honor.

00:32:41.000 Now Dennis is still alive and Dennis is going to be coming back on radio hopefully in June in the third hour of this program.

00:32:47.000 But Dennis is in a tough spot and we keep him in our prayers and we keep him in our thoughts every single day.

00:32:55.000 And I think I am one of the greatest Dennis Prager fans alive.

00:32:58.000 I listen to him almost every single day.

00:33:00.000 I read the Rational Bible.

00:33:03.000 I listen to all of his Rational Bible lectures that he did over the course of 25 years.

00:33:10.000 So honored and very humbled to be receiving his radio portfolio starting a week from today.

00:33:19.000 Continuing here, how do young people get their information?

00:33:23.000 Well, this is from the conversation between Ezra Klein and Mr. Shore.

00:33:30.000 I talked about on this program, I said, hey guys, there's something to this TikTok thing.

00:33:35.000 We have to lean into TikTok.

00:33:38.000 People said, oh, you know, like Tom Cotton, who doesn't even know what TikTok is.

00:33:41.000 We must ban it.

00:33:42.000 Okay, I used to believe that too.

00:33:44.000 But did you realize that one of the reasons why we're singing a right-wing revolution is because of TikTok?

00:33:49.000 One of the reasons why we saw so many people go in our direction is that we used something that we did not otherwise like and we used it for good and virtuous and righteous purposes.

00:34:00.000 Play cut 103.

00:34:01.000 You know, what I have here is we have the share of voters who get their news from TikTok, you know, by year.

00:34:09.000 The share of young voters who get their news from TikTok more than quadrupled in the last four years.

00:34:16.000 This is the biggest and probably fastest change in media consumption that has happened in my lifetime.

00:34:23.000 And it was...

00:34:25.000 Quite correlated with support change.

00:34:27.000 Now, obviously, TikTok users are younger.

00:34:29.000 They're less politically engaged.

00:34:30.000 It's not surprising that we dropped among this group.

00:34:34.000 You'd expect that from demographics.

00:34:35.000 When you zoom in, particularly, to people who get their news from TikTok, who don't care very much about politics, this is a group that's eight percentage points more Republican than they were four years ago, and that's a lot.

00:34:46.000 So this is the muscular class.

00:34:48.000 These are young folks that are taking out your trash. 0.97

00:34:51.000 They're serving you the food at an out burger.

00:34:52.000 They're driving your Uber Eats.

00:34:55.000 They're just trying to make it work.

00:34:57.000 Our hypothesis was correct.

00:35:01.000 We said, hey, there's something to this TikTok thing.

00:35:04.000 Democrats are trying to ban it.

00:35:06.000 Let's go all in.

00:35:07.000 And, you know, with two and a half billion views on TikTok later, looks like the macro data pointed in our direction.

00:35:14.000 And President Donald Trump also embraced TikTok.

00:35:17.000 We had the third most popular TikTok of any TikTok accounts behind President Trump and Trump's campaign.

00:35:23.000 When President Trump, Trump's campaign, we were more popular.

00:35:27.000 The Charlie Kirk Show TikTok page, good job, Ryan, was more popular than Kamala Harris.

00:35:33.000 TikTok diluted the power of the Mockingbird media.

00:35:38.000 TikTok allowed us to go straight into the pockets of millions of young people.

00:35:43.000 And so did X, to be fair.

00:35:45.000 And so did Rumble and all the others.

00:35:47.000 but nothing came close to the potency of TikTok.

00:35:49.000 Nothing came even close because we were reaching non-political young people, which is what I realized about a couple months into doing this.

00:35:58.000 We went to our People's Convention in Detroit, and all of a sudden, all the janitors are coming up giving me fist bumps, and these are blacks and Hispanics.

00:36:05.000 We like you.

00:36:10.000 We hate Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:36:11.000 we follow you on TikTok?

00:36:12.000 I said, oh, we are sitting on something enormous.

00:36:14.000 We embrace that all throughout the election.

00:36:17.000 The Democrats are still trying to figure out what happened.

00:36:20.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:36:22.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - March 24, 2025

The Democrat Extinction Event

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