00:00:25.000Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Kayleigh McEnany, Greg Gutfeld, Steve Bannon, Tim Poole, Matt Walsh, Laura Ingram, the best lineup you could possibly imagine at a mf.com.
00:01:06.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:36.000Liberals have tried to get into the talk radio space for years and they've been unable to do it because part of talk radio is correcting the lies and correcting the false narratives and kind of being contrarian.
00:01:47.000And obviously, the great rush was the pioneer of it.
00:01:52.000And so if I were a liberal talk show host and I asked all of you, email me, you know, transgender at whatever.com or whatever email they would have, or justice at you know, charliekirk.com or whatever it would be.
00:02:08.000And I'd say, what are you thankful for?
00:02:09.000I mean, I don't, I don't, the more time you spend with the left, the more you realize that they are not a grateful people.
00:02:15.000You have to be ungrateful to be on the left because they want to change everything.
00:02:20.000If you are filled with gratitude, you want to conserve it.
00:02:23.000You have appreciation what came before you.
00:02:25.000Anyway, I'm just so touched by these emails.
00:02:26.000And you can keep on emailing us, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:02:29.000What are you thankful for this Thanksgiving?
00:02:34.000It's one of my favorite days of the year, the day before Thanksgiving, where everything just shuts down so people have an opportunity to spend time with family and with friends and to be in a posture of gratitude.
00:02:56.000So, Rachel, why don't you summarize the piece for our audience and we'll dive into it from there?
00:03:02.000So, the piece really looks into what I think is the appeal of Donald Trump.
00:03:07.000And I think people in Washington, particularly establishment Republicans and even sort of what I call a conservative intelligentsia, miss this.
00:03:16.000And this is exactly the dynamic I saw play out in 2016.
00:03:19.000And it's going to play out again in 2024 because people in leadership of the Republican Party have no idea, still have no idea why it is that Trump won.
00:03:30.000And it is this visceral connection that he has with his base voters who trust him implicitly.
00:03:37.000And interestingly, Dave Chappelle honed in on this, I think, really well when he was hosting Saturday Night Live recently.
00:03:43.000I don't watch Saturday Night Live personally, but I caught this clip and I thought he articulated it extremely well.
00:03:51.000You people have no idea why Trump is so popular there.
00:03:55.000And he said, Trump is what I call an honest liar.
00:03:57.000And what he meant by that was, you know, he pointed back to this debate that Trump had with Hillary Clinton in 2016, where, you know, Trump basically said, look, I know the system is rigged because I use it.
00:04:10.000And that was just, I think, distilled to its essence the why people trust Trump the way that they do, because he said out loud as a beneficiary of someone at the top of the system who benefited from how it's sort of rigged and corrupt toward the top.
00:04:26.000He said out loud what everybody at the bottom has long suspected, which is that the system itself is rigged.
00:04:31.000And because he benefited from it, he had tremendous credibility in pointing that out.
00:04:36.000And so people, I think, who vote for Trump really see him as someone who cannot bend the system because he's been part of it.
00:04:43.000But now he stands outside it and he is able to take it on in a way that nobody else has been able to do.
00:04:50.000And in a way that is, you know, people who try to do it within the Republican Party are just so distrusted because for years and years and years, they told their base, hey, vote for us.
00:05:00.000We'll get control of illegal immigration.
00:05:02.000You know, we'll fight for you on the cultural issues.
00:05:04.000We'll protect your jobs from going overseas.
00:05:08.000So Trump still has that connection with his base.
00:05:11.000And I think people that try to overlook it are just missing it intentionally or because they just haven't been curious about it.
00:05:18.000But it's a dynamic that I think can very easily play out again in 2024, which is why I think Trump could easily win the GOP nomination.
00:05:26.000Not to say that Ron DeSantis hasn't done amazing things in Florida.
00:05:29.000I think he has, but he's sort of untested on a lot of these issues.
00:05:33.000And I think he's going to have to define himself there if he wants to have a shot at winning the nom.
00:05:38.000Yeah, so I'm starting to retreat from the prediction business as it kind of went miserably for me the last 10 days.
00:05:43.000However, I do say the one prediction that I will remain very loyal to is I don't see anyone that could beat Donald Trump in a primary.
00:05:50.000I mean, he is built for a Republican primary.
00:05:53.000He understands the language, media savviness, the money he would raise.
00:05:57.000He has an unbelievable connection with the base that I think would only expand.
00:06:01.000And the recent poll seems to reflect that.
00:06:03.000And there's another thing that Donald Trump embodied, and you mentioned this, which is he used to be a member of the elite and the ruling class and kind of a defector from it to then kind of turn it against the elite ruling class itself, as if the only person that could fight the ruling class is someone who actually has come from the ruling class and he knows all the different sore spots and weak spots to be able to go after it.
00:06:26.000And so what do you think is then the current state of play then in this Republican primary?
00:06:32.000Polling aside, what do you think is Donald Trump's greatest weakness going into this primary?
00:06:39.000I think his greatest weakness is if we see, you know, Trump still being held or being attached to personal grievances that he has with the system.
00:06:51.000You know, what he was able to do very well in 2016 is point out that the system was corrupt.
00:06:57.000And I think, you know, just as we've discussed, do so in a very convincing way.
00:07:01.000This time around, what I think he has to do is when he holds on to how he was thwarted during his presidency, you know, how the sort of deep state bureaucrats, right, the sort of fourth estate administrative state came after him, you know, how he feels about the 2020 election.
00:07:16.000The way in which to talk about that that's compelling is to say, look, they came for me because they're ultimately coming for you.
00:07:22.000And he has to, I think, bring that message back to the campaign trail.
00:07:25.000If he makes it solely about sort of himself and, you know, how he feels aggrieved personally and doesn't attach it to that larger message of, I can protect you from the system that's coming.
00:07:38.000I think that he has to be able to do that, you know, to, I think, propel himself forward.
00:07:42.000If it's just about personal ego, I don't think he, that's a big liability for him, I think.
00:08:48.000The question is, and Rachel, here is the challenge.
00:08:51.000Can Donald Trump win those kind of upper middle class center right voters in the suburbs of Atlanta, Milwaukee, and Phoenix?
00:09:01.000You know, I'm not in the prediction business either, but I do think if he can make a compelling case that he is still different from every other Republican politician that has promised voters something and let them down again and again, then that is the message that won him the presidency in 2016.
00:09:17.000I think he could do it again if he's able to present himself still as an outsider to that system and willing to take on the old shibboleths, challenge the old orthodoxies, and really stand up against the left's cultural aggression in ways traditional Republican politicians just flat out won't.
00:09:36.000But that's, you know, he's got to present that in a clear and compelling fashion.
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00:10:55.000I mean, do you think that any one of them have a serious chance based on what you've seen to make a serious kind of campaign in the coming year and a half?
00:11:06.000I mean, believe it or not, everybody, just so everyone knows, we are like a year from now, a year from now, we're going to be talking about Iowa.
00:11:28.000To give you even a scarier thing, this summer, the Iowa State Fair is going to be filled with GOP presidential candidates pretending they like deep-fried butter.
00:11:52.000So, I'm very interested to see this dynamic play out because I think you very much are going to see a bunch of Republican candidates engage in this regression to the mean.
00:12:02.000And by that, I mean they're going to pretend that Donald Trump never happened in terms of his policy shifts in the Republican Party, in terms of the more populist approach he's given to Republicans.
00:12:13.000And I think you're going to see a lot of Republicans, you know, sort of headpat that without actually offering anything significantly new.
00:12:22.000You know, I think you kind of see Nikki Haley in this vein.
00:12:45.000You know, I think Ron DeSantis has probably the best record at aggressing on some of these issues, particularly on the culture war.
00:12:53.000And I think he's living proof that if Republican politicians actually stand up firmly against leftward cultural aggression, it can be a winner.
00:13:43.000But it's not his fault, but he's got to, if he can, make some rhetorical distance between himself and these people because they are hurting his candidacy.
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00:15:49.000You must always constantly be adapting and improving.
00:15:53.000And one thing that we have to learn from is in Maricopa County, if we just all broadcast election day, election day, election day, it doesn't go well.
00:16:03.000You get sabotage, ambushes, all this nonsense.
00:16:06.000So instead, and I want to make sure I'm very clear about this, the ideal, the ideal way, how we want elections to operate is different than what we have to navigate.
00:16:17.000The ideal, I would love to have a national day where everyone goes and votes.
00:16:21.000Voter ID, one day of voting, that's it.
00:16:24.000The way France does it, you know the winner by the election night, but that's not the world we live in.
00:16:28.000So if you live in Georgia, I would not recommend voting by mail, but in person early voting, in-person early voting, go get your vote banked.
00:16:39.000We need the entire America first, the entire conservative movement in Georgia.
00:16:45.000I could tell you, there's going to be shenanigans and nonsense and all of this, but we have got to get Herschel Walker across the finish line.
00:16:52.000This is the difference between the Democrats having a reliable 52-48 Senate or a 50-50 Senate.
00:17:00.000And with the 50-50 Senate, you're going to have cinema in a tough reelection fight and cinema with hopefully a tough primary challenge that seems to be bubbling up in Arizona with Congressman Gallego and also Joe Manchin, who's going to have a very difficult race if he decides to proceed.
00:17:16.000Joe Manchin just might go become a lobbyist, where it looks as if the popular governor Justice might run, Morrissey might run.
00:17:24.000There's a lot of different people in West Virginia that will keep pressure on Manchin.
00:17:28.000So this Democrat 50-50 majority won't really even feel like a majority.
00:17:33.000And the 2024 Senate map is great for Republicans.
00:17:43.000And I know a lot of you right now, you are waiting for a chance to have that proverbial one more football game to rinse the bad taste out of your mouth.
00:17:53.000And boy, I think Herschel knows exactly what I mean by that.
00:17:55.000And Herschel will be with us in a second.
00:17:57.000You know, in football, if you have a bad game or you lose, let's just say because of a bad referee call and you just know it wasn't right, you are counting down the minutes to the next game.
00:18:53.000What I am saying, though, is that if you are in Georgia, go vote early in person.
00:18:59.000I am now going to try to adjust from this last nonsense that we just lived through Maricopa County.
00:19:04.000I am not going to have to, I'm not going to live with myself if I have to see another email from a senior citizen where she said, Charlie, I wanted to vote and I was not able to vote because of the two-hour line in Maricopa County.
00:20:20.000Manchin could resign or at least not serve out their full term.
00:20:25.000Unlikely that cinema would do that because it would put the entire Senate in jeopardy.
00:20:29.000But the point being is things can change.
00:20:31.000And by the way, we have a great challenge coming up in Montana in a presidential year, which John Tester usually does a lot better in midterm years than presidential years.
00:20:44.000John Tester, I think, is going to get a very serious challenge from Congressman Rosendale.
00:22:29.000I'm not talking about throwing your ballot into the mailbox.
00:22:31.000I'm talking about going on a weekend, which is now available thanks to Mark Elias, going on a weekday and saying, I'm going to vote in person, early.
00:24:57.000And, you know, I think Senator Warnott is going a little bit on the crazy side because now I think he's being exposed for not being the senator he claimed to be.
00:25:08.000So I think he's being exposed a little bit and he doesn't like it.
00:25:12.000But I think the truth is the truth, whether you like it or not.
00:25:43.000But what time it is, it is time for people to wake up and do exactly as not what your country can do for you, but do what you can do for your country.
00:25:52.000Because if you don't get out and vote right now, the United States of America that we used to know would be erased.
00:26:57.000So go to teamherschel.com and if you can contribute to the campaign or you know people on the doorknob are telling your friends get out and vote.
00:27:05.000We got to win this election for the great people of Georgia and also for the great people of the United States of America.
00:27:13.000Look, the Georgia runoff is a straight turnout race.
00:28:23.000Because it feels like they want a puppet.
00:28:25.000It doesn't seem like they want a scholar.
00:28:27.000It will be interesting to see what the motivation to vote now for Herschel Walker to sacrifice all of your principles to vote for a hypocrite, dumb candidate like Herschel Walker.
00:28:39.000I think it continues to be insane that you're even having a runoff.
00:29:10.000One thing that Joy needs to realize is that in the last election in my primary and also in my general war, African-American and brown people voted than ever voted before.
00:29:21.000And if there's anyone they know that didn't have the right to vote or not given the right to vote that was black or brown, let me know because I fight for those rights as well.
00:29:30.000But for people to stand on television or on air and say things like that is disgusting.
00:29:36.000And at the same time, I love to debate Joy Reed.
00:29:39.000You know, Senator Warnock, he's a slick talker, smooth dresser guy.
00:29:43.000But in that debate, I took him to school because he found out a lot of things he didn't know.
00:29:49.000And I can do the same thing with Joy Reed any time of the day.
00:29:52.000I think people to sit on TV and to talk as easy to talk.
00:29:55.000But I've been a man that have worked my whole life.