00:00:49.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:56.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:48.000And I first met you in North Carolina back when Nancy Pelosi put me on her list of 33 members of Congress, Republicans to eliminate back in 2018.
00:01:58.000Remember, it was a tough year for Republicans.
00:02:01.000And Don Jr., you came into Davidson County, right there in the middle of North Carolina and campaigned for me.
00:02:24.000Talk about some of the top issues that you're running and campaigning on that are affecting North Carolina voters.
00:02:30.000You know, historically, you've seen somebody have to change from the primary over to the general, but you don't really have to do that in this race because the issues are still the same.
00:02:39.000One of the things that I did among all the Democrats that were running, really who just consolidated around Sherry Beasley.
00:02:46.000And, you know, we had a big primary that we had to navigate through on the Republican side.
00:02:51.000But we went to all 100 counties, far west in the mountains, the corners in the east of North Carolina, and talked to folks all across the spectrum.
00:03:01.000And two issues, Charlie, that keep coming up.
00:03:06.000I mean, even today, we're seeing new inflation numbers and yet have increased again.
00:03:11.000It's now 9.1% over the prior 12 months.
00:03:14.000And, you know, we're coming into next month where parents are preparing for back to school.
00:03:18.000They're going to have to decide, are they going to put groceries on their table?
00:03:21.000Are they going to buy new clothes and new backpack for their kids going to school?
00:03:25.000So these are real decisions that are affecting folks.
00:03:28.000Construction businesses trying to keep the doors open with the rise in material costs.
00:03:32.000And then the other issue we're seeing, it has to do with crime.
00:03:35.000And a lot of that crime, Charlie, starts at the border because what sheriffs in North Carolina are telling me is every single county is now a border county because of Joe Biden's open border policies.
00:03:46.000And my opponent, Sherry Beasley, I mean, she's going to be an exact rubber stamp for these failed policies of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
00:03:54.000There's nothing that she would do to differentiate herself.
00:03:57.000Now, while she may try to spin North Carolina and say that she's a moderate, she's proven over and over again as a Supreme Court justice that she is nothing more than a left-wing radical.
00:04:45.000We won out of a 14-way primary overwhelmingly by more than 34 points.
00:04:50.000But we had to put the work in, but I'm very, very appreciative to not just Donald Trump, the 45th president, for his support of me, because that really made North Carolinians pay attention, but also Laura Trump and her kind words, and then also Donald Trump Jr.
00:05:06.000He was a huge help as well and continues to be.
00:05:11.000So Ted, talk about, you know, what your opponent is running on and in contrast, and then just talk to our national audience.
00:05:18.000You know, North Carolina is a lot like the country.
00:05:21.000You have some very strong conservative areas, but then you have the Research Triangle, which remains to be very left-wing and liberal, and then some purple suburbs and a lot of people from New York and from the Northeast moving to North Carolina.
00:05:31.000Talk about how North Carolina is a microcosm for the rest of the country and how you're going to navigate that in your race.
00:05:50.000We have Charlotte, Raleigh, Wake County area, Kerry, where the research triangle is.
00:05:55.000And so there's a lot of folks coming in, New York, California, but not all of those are of the ideology of those states.
00:06:03.000A lot of conservatives are moving from there to find a place more at home.
00:06:06.000So yes, we have to be very careful around the college towns, Chapel Hill, of course.
00:06:12.000But we think that our message really resonates with folks.
00:06:15.000It's going to resonate with all Republicans, but we're also reaching out to the independents.
00:06:20.000And this is an open primary state where unaffiliated can vote Republican or Democrat.
00:06:25.000But they overwhelmingly pulled their Republican ticket and then voted for me.
00:06:30.000And then we want to reach out to a few of those remaining blue dog Democrats who believe they never changed their party registration, but they believe in the same things that we do.
00:06:39.000We love our country and they realize that the progressive radicalism that's come to live in the Democrat Party has just completely left them.
00:06:48.000So we're reaching out to them as well.
00:06:51.000We've got 118 days as of this podcast, but we've got to put the work in because just like that 2018 race, all those red counties that I represented was offset by half of one county, and that was Greensboro at the area.
00:07:05.000But we go into those urban areas and we ask for their vote.
00:07:10.000If it's Hispanic American, if it's African American, and we want to let folks know that the policies that I support are the ones that make their lives better and easier.
00:07:20.000And so that's our message from now for the next 118 days.
00:07:23.000And we want to make things better, not just for North Carolinians, but also for our country, because we think we can take back the U.S. Senate.
00:08:06.000The mostly women who work in these pregnancy crisis centers are so compassionate, they're hardworking, they're sympathetic.
00:08:13.000I spoke at a great one in Los Angeles.
00:08:15.000I spoke at a phenomenal one in Texas, but largely, most people have no idea that these even exist.
00:08:20.000Most pro-life people have no idea that the idea of a pregnancy crisis center actually works or what it is.
00:08:25.000So, a pregnancy crisis center is this: a crisis pregnancy center is they'll give someone a consultation and essentially say, Hey, you might be, you're pregnant, you're in crisis, and they'll give you an ultrasound and they will give you another choice or another option.
00:08:45.000Now, a pregnancy crisis center is there to support women that very well might have no other access or resources to see the baby on an ultrasound before they make the actual decision of terminating the human being.
00:09:01.000Pregnancy crisis centers are phenomenal, they're one of the great ministries that exist, and many of them are faith-based, not all of them.
00:09:08.000But again, I will reiterate this: that pregnancy crisis centers are not well known enough in America.
00:09:14.000There's been a ton of money spent towards pro-life causes, as you saw with the reversal of Roe versus Wade, but most pro-abortion people do not know.
00:09:22.000And it's not just about keeping the baby, it's also about diapers and supplies and strollers and clothes that are provided free of charge from these pregnancy crisis centers.
00:09:52.000Crisis pregnancy centers is what they say: is this are clinics or mobile vans that look like real health centers, but they have a shady, harmful agenda to scare, shame, or pressure you out of getting an abortion to tell lies about abortion, birth control, and sexual health.
00:10:07.000This is what Planned Parenthood says, the butcher shop.
00:10:09.000Crisis pregnancy centers don't provide abortion or offer a full range of health care.
00:10:13.000They won't give you honest facts about sexual health and your pregnancy options.
00:10:16.000Their goal is to spread misinformation and propaganda, says Planned Parenthood, the eugenics operation funded by our taxpayer dollars responsible for the millions of deaths of human beings.
00:10:25.000And so, instead of most people being aware of pregnancy crisis centers, they have to kind of fly below the radar.
00:10:32.000They do their best to advertise, it's word of mouth, and they have an amazing impact.
00:10:36.000There are, I believe, over 1,800 pregnancy crisis centers across America that save, I think collectively, they probably save anywhere between 100 to 250 lives per each one.
00:10:48.000That is hundreds of thousands of babies that are saved thanks to pregnancy crisis centers.
00:10:53.000And again, a lot of people have never heard of what a pregnancy crisis center is.
00:10:57.000And so, look, California attempted to force pregnancy crisis centers to advise patients of the closest location where they get an abortion, and the Supreme Court blocked it five to four.
00:11:06.000So, Elizabeth Warren just inexplicably and brazenly comes out and says, Quote, crisis pregnancy centers are there to fool people looking for pregnancy termination to help outnumber abortion clinics three to one.
00:11:18.000We need to shut them all down across the country.
00:11:23.000I thought it's live and let live, Liz Warren.
00:11:26.000Oh no, liberals never want it to be live and let live.
00:11:30.000It's we're going to shut you down, we're going to force you to comply to our agenda.
00:11:37.000Right now, those crisis pregnancy centers that are there to fool people who are looking for pregnancy termination help outnumber true abortion clinics by three to one.
00:11:54.000We need to shut them down here in Massachusetts and we need to shut them down all around the country.
00:11:59.000You should not be able to fool people.
00:12:18.000We could talk about how wonderful crisis pregnancy centers are.
00:12:20.000By the way, every single one of you watching, if you're pro-life, you should find your local crisis pregnancy center, support them financially, and volunteer and make it known.
00:12:53.000You rarely see this kind of focus and commitment.
00:12:55.000They recently shared with me that they are doubling down and want to literally double their total number of happy customers in the next year.
00:13:02.000So here's the deal: if you're struggling with back pain, neck pain, shoulder, hip, or knee pain, even general muscle aches and pain, then I'm suggesting you order their three-week quick start, still discounted, only $19.95.
00:14:17.000No, you know, I want to give you some perspective and also some data on just how bad it is because the headline number is shocking, but I think the details are even worse.
00:14:25.000It was nice, by the way, there to see Rick Santelli, somebody who I really know and admire.
00:14:29.000He and I were around the Chicago's futures and options markets at the same time.
00:14:32.000Then we both ended up getting into television.
00:14:34.000And he's one of the few people, frankly, in corporate media, who really tries to tell the truth, who really tries to give an unbiased view of what's going on in the economy and financial markets.
00:14:56.000But I would submit to you, Charlie, that the reality for most Americans is even worse.
00:15:00.000The on-the-ground circumstances for most Americans, as shocking as that headline number is, is well into the double digits.
00:15:07.000And to back my view, it's not just my hunch, to back it with data and evidence.
00:15:11.000If you dig into this report, as I did this morning, as soon as it came out, when you look at the most important components, you find that they are well into double digits, some of them shockingly so.
00:15:20.000And I particularly want to look at the staples and meaning the have-to items of life, things that are not discretionary.
00:15:27.000They're just basic staples that people have to buy to function in society.
00:15:33.000So three of them in particular, and I put this up on my social media.
00:15:36.000If we look at groceries, gasoline, and utilities, if we look at those three items, Charlie, and again, those are have-to items.
00:15:43.000So groceries, not talking about dining in fine restaurants, not talking about what Brett Kavanaugh at Morton's Grill, just the grocery store.
00:15:50.000That is up, according to government statistics, year over year, 12.2%.
00:16:02.000So combined, those three items of groceries, gas, and utilities, up 37% year over year.
00:16:09.000Charlie, that is such a staggering number, by far the highest of all time, not just a 40-year record, an all-time record in terms of inflation pace.
00:16:18.000for those have to items of American life that it's really shocking.
00:16:23.000And what it's doing to the American people is unfortunately very notable.
00:16:26.000It's the reason, I think, the primary reason, the overwhelming reason why consumer confidence in the United States is at an all-time low.
00:16:35.000That's the data as measured by the University of Michigan, which has been doing a rigorous consumer sentiment survey that goes all the way back to the 1950s.
00:16:43.000So we have literally 70 years of data.
00:16:46.000Consumer confidence has never been lower.
00:16:48.000Unfortunately, it's not surprising given this explosion in inflation, which again, it's bad on the headline number, but the devil's in the details and this devil is really awful.
00:16:58.000And Steve, what's so extraordinary about this is that people are trying to understand what is the motivation behind this.
00:17:05.000And so we touch on this quite often on this program.
00:17:08.000But Steve, can you, in some detail, walk through that if you wanted the World Economic Forum agenda, you'll own nothing and you'll be happy.
00:17:16.000America will no longer be the world's superpower.
00:17:18.000Western values will be brought to a breaking point.
00:17:20.000The Klaus Schwab Davos agenda, which really is the divide.
00:17:26.000How is it that these economic numbers actually satisfy the appetite and the demand of the world's ruling elite to get us closer to the WEF agenda?
00:17:44.000And in some ways, it's so sinister that it's almost hard to believe that it's the reality, Charlie, but it is, in fact.
00:17:51.000And I would, by the way, point to this inflation is already starting to stoke a lot of serious unrest and chaos in countries around the world, places like Sri Lanka.
00:17:58.000I think Sri Lanka is exhibit A of what the World Economic Forum Green New Deal agenda can do to a country and do to it relatively quickly.
00:18:07.000When you let Greta Thunberg effectively become your minister of energy, a snotty Swedish teenager who scolds you into ignoring natural resources, which of course are critical to powering any economy.
00:18:19.000We see the same thing happening in Germany.
00:18:21.000We don't see the chaos yet, although who knows what will happen.
00:18:23.000But in Germany, electricity prices, Charlie, just this year, they are sevenfold higher than where they started the year.
00:18:30.000Electricity is becoming, believe it or not, a luxury item in the country of Germany because of these policies, which you're very right.
00:18:37.000They do emanate from the globalists around the world, whether you're talking about the World Economic Forum, folks like Klaus Schwab or the multinational CEOs.
00:18:46.000One thing I would also point out, when it comes to inflation, it's extremely harmful for all middle-income people, all lower-income people.
00:18:53.000There are some firms, though, and upper-income people who actually benefit from inflation.
00:18:57.000If they are the producers of these resources that are massively galloping higher in price.
00:19:02.000So as a rule, it crushes regular working class people.
00:19:14.000But I think the most important thing, Charlie, is that what we see right now, and we see it here in the United States, we see it in an even worse example in Europe, is prioritizing an agenda, a radical agenda over practicality, particularly when it comes to energy.
00:19:28.000The United States, thank goodness, we are just blessed by the Almighty with an unbelievable oceans of energy literally under our feet.
00:19:35.000The ability to not just be energy independent, but to be, in fact, energy dominant.
00:19:40.000We are Saudi America if we choose to be.
00:19:42.000Under Donald Trump's leadership, we were choosing that app and we were producing endless amounts almost of dependable, affordable domestic energy.
00:19:51.000What did Biden do when he took office?
00:19:52.000Well, he followed the lead of the WEF, WEF.
00:19:56.000He followed the lead of the UN, of the globalists, and he started to attack American energy, to attack pipelines, to attack permitting and drilling.
00:20:04.000And unfortunately, he was quite successful.
00:20:06.000And that was really the first spark that started this inflation conflagration.
00:20:10.000But he then went further and said we are going to pour so much spending, so much exorbitant borrowing and spending onto this economy, which did not need it.
00:20:20.000The economy was actually recovering very, very well.
00:20:22.000Donald Trump's handoff to Joe Biden was actually spectacular.
00:20:26.000It was really the Trump boom 2.0, the recovery out of the 2020 doldrums was fully commencing, especially in the freedom jurisdictions, places like Florida that were being reasonable about the virus.
00:20:37.000So he was handed a lot of upward momentum in the economy.
00:20:41.000No need for him to engage in a multi-trillion dollar binge of borrowing and spending.
00:20:46.000But when you combine that spending binge and borrowing binge with a war on American energy, you created a perfect storm for inflation.
00:20:54.000And that inflation, of course, continues to explode.
00:20:56.000And, you know, Charlie, I think it's also important to note for the audience out there, I've encouraged them, take notes on who told you that this was transitory, right?
00:21:05.000And you might say, well, of course he's a liar.
00:21:07.000But a lot of other people and a lot of other institutions that you might have some trust for, that you might have at least believed in in the past, like the Federal Reserve, they told us time and again, this is transitory.
00:21:17.000Jerome Powell, you know, the man whose principal job is to try to watch for exactly this phenomenon, to try to stop inflation from taking root in the United States, a man with an army of PhDs, with ostensibly the best knowledge of anyone in the country about what's happening in the economy.
00:21:34.000He either is totally incompetent or he's a bald-faced liar because he told us many, many times that this was transitory last year and then it was going to go away.
00:21:43.000And perhaps it's a combination of both.
00:22:30.000And by the way, I want to mention there regarding coffee, because of course the corporate media complies with the White House in this ridiculous canard of an excuse that it's a Putin price hike.
00:22:39.000Well, Charlie, last time I looked, we don't get any coffee from Russia nor from Ukraine, right?
00:22:43.000That has nothing to do with the war over there in the Black Sea that I believe should be a regional struggle and really very unimportant to the United States if we would just stop escalating it.
00:22:52.000But my point is coffee prices aren't rising because of what's happening in the Black Sea.
00:22:56.000Coffee prices are up 16% year over year because of an inflationary spiral that we have been put into through terrible economic mismanagement from both the Fed as well as from the fiscal side, the Congress.
00:23:09.000And I would say, by the way, Republicans are complicit there too.
00:23:11.000It's not just Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.
00:23:13.000Mitch McConnell has played ball and enabled all of this Biden nonsense as well.
00:23:29.000I know this is really hard for some people to grasp, but the misery that you might be experiencing at the pump, the difficulty to pay for groceries, the inability to purchase products that you need for your family, the unaffordability of utilities.
00:23:45.000It's all part of an ideological agenda to destroy your purchasing power and give money to the World Economic Forum.
00:23:52.000No longer should we look at things versus Republicans and Democrats.
00:23:55.000We have the unit party that is part of the coalition of Davos, and then we have citizens.
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00:25:46.000Steve, I want to play a piece of tape here and get your reaction.
00:25:50.000It is Corine Jean-Pierre saying we are stronger economically than we have ever been in history.
00:25:58.000When you look at inflation, when we look at where we are economically, and we are in a strong, we are stronger economically than we have been in history.
00:26:11.000I mean, I'm almost speechless, and I'm not a guy who's often speechless, Charlie.
00:26:14.000Corruption Jean-Pierre, you know, first, I want to say there have been a lot of clowns at that podium, quite frankly, over the years, but I think she is without a doubt, in my view, the dumbest press secretary ever.
00:26:24.000For her to say that to the American people, right?
00:26:26.000Knowing full well the data that is out there right now, you know, I mentioned consumer confidence is at an all-time low.
00:26:33.000She clearly knows that or should know that.
00:26:35.000And for her to then step up and say, well, all the Americans are wrong, and this is actually the greatest economy in our history.
00:26:42.000It shows you really that we have a buffoon and we have a lot of buffoons, unfortunately, trying to manage our country and manage our economy.
00:26:48.000And the consequences have been catastrophic and very dire.
00:26:51.000And while we can almost laugh at the absurdity of what she's doing there and the drivel that she is spewing, there's nothing funny about the consequences for regular Americans, and particularly regular Americans who live close to the edge financially anyway.
00:27:04.000If you're a single mom right now, Charlie, and you have a long drive to your work, to your working-class job, what is going on right now is stressing you out incredibly.
00:27:16.000I've been on the campaign trail for a lot of these primary races because I really want to make sure that not just Republicans are elected, but America first Republicans.
00:27:22.000And it's been a pleasure to do the bus tours and the fly arounds and town halls.
00:27:26.000And I have met hundreds and hundreds, probably thousands of regular Americans and talked to them.
00:27:38.000They have other concerns, immigration, other concerns, but the first is inflation.
00:27:42.000And then, secondly, what I will tell you, and this is something that the numbers don't reveal, you've got to talk to living, breathing human beings to get this, is the very real anxiety and pain.
00:27:50.000You know, I've had moms tell me, I'm not sure that my son can play baseball this summer because I can't afford the electric bill and baseball, or I can't afford the grocery bill and baseball for my son.
00:28:01.000People are having to make these kinds of really hard decisions.
00:28:04.000The kinds of decisions that for many of them they've never made in their lives.
00:28:07.000We haven't had real inflation in this country since the 1970s.
00:28:10.000So anybody middle-aged and lower has never experienced this kind of inflation.
00:28:15.000And by the way, I think in a lot of ways, it's actually worse now than it was in the 1970s, as bad as that period was.
00:28:21.000So the human consequences of these policy just disasters are very real.
00:28:29.000And I believe it will be the animating force.
00:28:32.000There's a lot of reasons, I think, for Republicans, and particularly for America First Republicans to win, not just these primary races, but the general election races in November.
00:28:39.000But I encourage all the candidates out there to laser focus.
00:28:43.000Inflation is what is bedeviling Americans.