The Charlie Kirk Show - October 06, 2020


The GOP 'Trinity' That Can Deliver 2020 + Trump Takes On the Media and the Virus

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Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, the President is released from the hospital and back on his feet. The activist media seems to be wishing death upon him. President Trump gets the last laugh, as always. That and also the Republican Trinity. We talk about an unusual electoral strategy that President Trump, Mike Pence, and a surprising third can combine forces to win this election.

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00:00:08.000 Hey, everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk Show, the president fights both the activist media and the Chinese coronavirus.
00:00:14.000 He is released from the hospital and back on his feet.
00:00:17.000 The activist media seems to be wishing death upon him.
00:00:21.000 President Trump gets the last laugh, as always.
00:00:25.000 That and also the Republican Trinity.
00:00:26.000 What does that actually mean?
00:00:28.000 We talk about an unusual electoral strategy that President Trump, Mike Pence, and a surprising third can combine forces to win this election.
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00:01:07.000 President versus the media and the virus, the Republican Trinity.
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00:03:07.000 So we've been unpacking the news around the activist media covering President Donald Trump being in the hospital.
00:03:15.000 Mark Meadows has said it looks like President Donald Trump will be released from the hospital today.
00:03:19.000 Kaylee McEnany has also come down with the Chinese coronavirus.
00:03:23.000 Bill Steppe in as well.
00:03:25.000 Senator Mike Lee, Senator Tom Tillis, and Chris Christie.
00:03:28.000 It's becoming more and more clear that the announcement for Amy Coney Barrett is where this virus was spread.
00:03:38.000 And the response from the activist media has been very predictable.
00:03:42.000 The activist media has been wishing death in one way or the other upon our president.
00:03:48.000 40% of registered Democrats, according to a morning consult poll, said that they are happy that President Donald Trump contracted the Chinese coronavirus.
00:03:56.000 So when I say that a certain wing of our American political discourse wishes harm upon our president or even wishes his demise, I literally mean that.
00:04:05.000 But what's the root cause of this?
00:04:07.000 Where does all this come from?
00:04:09.000 Where does this venom and this hatred, where does the activist media learn these ideas?
00:04:18.000 Who informs them?
00:04:19.000 Who gives them validity?
00:04:20.000 What is the basis for this?
00:04:22.000 Well, as many of you know, I run Turning Point USA, founded it eight and a half years ago, TPUSA.com.
00:04:28.000 And Turning Point USA is on the front lines of the American Culture War on high school and college campuses, contesting for freedom, liberty, and basically getting our kids to love America again.
00:04:41.000 I have been warning for quite some time that what happens on college campuses does not stay on college campuses.
00:04:48.000 It is not isolated.
00:04:49.000 And so what happens on college campuses will soon happen in the corporate boardrooms, in the halls of Congress, and eventually in the entire American culture.
00:04:57.000 It doesn't operate in its own secluded silo.
00:05:02.000 And so when you see people that are going out in the streets, such as BLM Incorporated or Antifa, to try and physically demolish people they disagree with, there's a reason for that.
00:05:19.000 It's because our universities teach our young people that that is the right way to go about your differences.
00:05:27.000 You see, there's only two ways to govern people.
00:05:30.000 One way is through persuasion.
00:05:33.000 It's through talking.
00:05:34.000 It's through convincing.
00:05:36.000 The other way to govern people is through force, having a bigger gun, physically going after human beings and threatening them.
00:05:46.000 That's it.
00:05:47.000 Every government in the history of the planet can be organized in one of two ways.
00:05:52.000 We are going to convince you or we are going to hurt you.
00:05:56.000 That's it.
00:05:57.000 And as Aristotle said, we are talking beings.
00:06:00.000 We are the speaking beings.
00:06:03.000 In order to get into political power in the American system of government, you must make really good arguments.
00:06:11.000 You must earn that power through a series of promises and keeping those promises.
00:06:16.000 In fact, a total takeover of the American system of government, it takes at least six years through the Senate, the House, Supreme Court, and the White House.
00:06:24.000 So you have to have really good ideas for a long period of time and be dedicated to those ideas.
00:06:30.000 You see, the Constitutional Republic that our founding fathers gave us, the greatest system of government ever created in the history of the world, is based on this idea that you must convince others of your opinion.
00:06:47.000 That is now being lost in our country primarily through our college campuses.
00:06:51.000 You see, dialogue, discourse, and disagreement is fundamental to a free society.
00:06:58.000 A large portion of the American left does not believe that.
00:07:02.000 A new poll found that nearly one-fifth of college students believe it is acceptable to use violent means to shut down speech that they disagree with or deem offensive.
00:07:13.000 One out of five college kids that you'll find on a university campus believe that it's okay to take a baseball bat to the head of a conservative if he comes on campus.
00:07:25.000 That's what this poll tells us.
00:07:27.000 This is conducted by the Foundation for the Individual Rights in Education, FIRE, Real Clear Education, and College Pulse.
00:07:33.000 They polled 20,000 students from 55 different colleges.
00:07:37.000 Here are some other very interesting findings.
00:07:39.000 18% of college students approve of using violence in certain situations to stifle campus speech, as I mentioned.
00:07:45.000 21% at Ivy League schools.
00:07:48.000 21%.
00:07:49.000 See, I actually visited these campuses. 0.90
00:07:51.000 I have seen the venom that we are injecting into the next generation.
00:07:57.000 When I went to Brown last year, it wasn't that they disagreed with me.
00:08:00.000 In fact, their arguments were awful.
00:08:02.000 In fact, the most widespread foolishness that I have ever seen at a place of higher learning would be Brown University. 0.98
00:08:10.000 If you want your kid to hate America, send them to Brown. 0.77
00:08:14.000 And yet these are supposedly the smartest kids in the country.
00:08:18.000 The kids that are supposed to run our corporations, the students that are supposed to be the change makers of tomorrow.
00:08:25.000 And it wasn't that they disagreed with me.
00:08:26.000 They actually, you could see it in their eyes.
00:08:28.000 If they had an opportunity, they wanted to hurt me.
00:08:32.000 15% of colleges in the Southeastern Conference, SEC, and liberal students were twice as likely to express an acceptance of violence, go figure.
00:08:41.000 One quarter of atheist students and black students expressed some level of violence.
00:08:45.000 And 27% of LGBT students were open to violence. 0.57
00:08:48.000 You know what this tells me?
00:08:50.000 The fact that 27% of LGBT students and black students and atheist students, when you convince a group that they are a victim, if you convince a group that they are oppressed, even though there's no data whatsoever to support that LGBT black students or atheist students are oppressed, therefore, if you convince oppression, it gives moral license for violent backlash.
00:09:12.000 That's what it tells me. 0.59
00:09:14.000 So when you sow the seeds of oppression, when you sow the seeds of discourse and discord or disunity, of course you're going to feel that physical means of retribution and retaliation are appropriate.
00:09:28.000 Why not?
00:09:29.000 I'm oppressed.
00:09:30.000 The ends justify the means.
00:09:31.000 And Machiavelli talked about that in the Prince, which is one of the most important books that every American should read.
00:09:39.000 The Prince by Niccolio Machiavelli.
00:09:43.000 More than 60% of extreme liberals proclaim that it is always or sometimes acceptable to shut down a speaker.
00:09:51.000 Only 15% of extreme conservatives found this behavior acceptable.
00:09:55.000 I don't even believe that.
00:09:56.000 I don't.
00:09:57.000 Because I know the conservative base, but I'll trust the data for what it is, whatever.
00:10:02.000 I thought that, and by the way, the liberals always say that they're the tolerant ones.
00:10:06.000 We need a more loving society, they say.
00:10:08.000 We need to be more open-minded.
00:10:11.000 Love first.
00:10:12.000 Your hate is not welcome here.
00:10:13.000 That's what they say.
00:10:14.000 These big signs when you show up on a college campus with the work that we do at Turning Point USA.
00:10:18.000 Your hate is not welcome here.
00:10:20.000 Meanwhile, according to the data, 60% of them believe it is always or sometimes acceptable to shout down a speaker.
00:10:27.000 By the way, I did not need a poll to tell me this.
00:10:29.000 I have been warning about this for many years.
00:10:31.000 But what are the implications for this in mass society?
00:10:35.000 What are the implications of this in our culture?
00:10:38.000 Well, it's very simple.
00:10:40.000 When you teach your kids that force is acceptable, or you don't teach them that you must have a better idea or an argument, when they actually assume force, they're going to use it.
00:10:50.000 It's that simple.
00:10:52.000 You see, the revolutionaries on college campus today are the members of Congress calling for the arrest of conservatives tomorrow.
00:10:58.000 It's that simple.
00:11:00.000 You see, the left or young revolutionaries or the young Bolsheviks, they do not possess the capacity to make salient arguments. 0.56
00:11:11.000 They don't, because you don't teach them. 0.84
00:11:12.000 They don't believe in reason.
00:11:13.000 They don't believe in dialogue.
00:11:15.000 They don't believe in discourse.
00:11:16.000 They don't believe in empiricism.
00:11:17.000 They don't believe in rational thought.
00:11:19.000 Instead, they're highly pathological.
00:11:22.000 They believe that everything is a power system.
00:11:24.000 They believe that it is their goal to uproot the current status quo at any cost at all whatsoever.
00:11:32.000 And this is a poll, again, commissioned by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Education.
00:11:37.000 The entire American system is built on talking, on speaking.
00:11:44.000 And if you couple really bad ideas, which are Marxist socialist ideas in nature, with people that are unwilling to discuss them, and you combine those two things together, I think we all know exactly where that leads.
00:12:01.000 People say, well, why is the country so divided?
00:12:04.000 What's happening in America over the last decade?
00:12:07.000 One of the major reasons is that we have nearly doubled the college population over the last decade.
00:12:12.000 And when young people go to college, they are being filled with these venomous ideas of postmodernism, critical race theory, believing that dialogue is the problem.
00:12:23.000 And a recent fire poll, as we have been covering, shows that one-fifth of college students believe it is acceptable to use violent means to shut down speech that they disagree with or that they deem offensive.
00:12:37.000 And yet the entire focus of the activist media is that Donald Trump is the disintegration of decent society.
00:12:45.000 And they do not cover it all whatsoever that when polled, 60% of liberal students said that it is okay to use any means necessary.
00:12:55.000 These are liberal students from speaking on a college campus.
00:13:00.000 Shout them down.
00:13:03.000 Interrupt them.
00:13:04.000 Pull fire alarms.
00:13:05.000 Smash windows, whatever it takes.
00:13:06.000 And I've experienced all this on college campuses across the country.
00:13:10.000 And so if you look at root causes, the education of our children is one of the major pieces of this.
00:13:17.000 And so you look at the landscape, and I could just read some of these quotes here where you have people that are literally wishing death against President Trump. 0.86
00:13:25.000 They say, quote, it's against my moral identity to tweet this, but for the past four years, I hope he dies.
00:13:30.000 Campaign spokeswoman Zahra Rahim for Hillary Clinton.
00:13:34.000 Chris Rock says, President Trump's in the hospital from the Chinese coronavirus.
00:13:38.000 I just want to say my heart goes out to COVID.
00:13:41.000 Where do they get these kinds of ideas from?
00:13:43.000 These are validated from a core belief.
00:13:46.000 And this is one of the biggest divisions in our country.
00:13:49.000 The division is somewhat right versus left.
00:13:52.000 That's sort of true.
00:13:54.000 But the more prescient division is those of us that are capable of hearing other ideas and those of us that aren't.
00:14:03.000 In some ways, conservatives are now the ambassadors of traditional liberalism.
00:14:08.000 Remember, there's a difference, as the great Dennis Prager would say, between liberalism and leftism.
00:14:12.000 The idea of liberalism is I actually think we should agree to disagree.
00:14:16.000 Send out your wackiest ideas and I'm going to tell you what's wrong with those.
00:14:21.000 And when you have a society that refuses to speak to other people that they disagree with, that society will disintegrate.
00:14:31.000 A core fundamental belief in the American founding was that you must convince me to get political power.
00:14:40.000 That you must have a better argument.
00:14:43.000 You see, the entire idea of the Constitutional Republic, of which many young people in this country want to see completely and totally destroyed because we did not properly teach them history, is that we have consent to the governed.
00:14:59.000 How do you get consent to the governed?
00:15:02.000 You do it by having better arguments, by believing in truth.
00:15:06.000 That's how you get consent to the governed.
00:15:08.000 Consent to the governed isn't by having a larger standing army.
00:15:12.000 It's not by intimidating the other side.
00:15:15.000 And so when you do have the complete and total silencing of certain ideas, this manifests itself then into the number one form of censorship in our country.
00:15:29.000 You see, the number one form of censorship in our country is not the tech companies who need to be challenged, and some of them need to be broken up.
00:15:36.000 It's not even the professors or the teachers or the leftist activists.
00:15:40.000 The number one form of censorship in this country is you.
00:15:44.000 It's self-censorship.
00:15:46.000 It's if you're driving in your car right now, listening to this, and you go to a grocery store, you might not wear that Trump hat because you don't want the backlash.
00:15:53.000 That's self-censorship.
00:15:55.000 Or if you're listening to this program flipping through social media, you're like, I don't know if I'm going to share the Turning Point USA Post or the Charlie Kirk Show post because I don't want to get all the backlash from my friends.
00:16:07.000 It's decent people shutting themselves up because they are afraid of the true cost that will come to them if they dare speak out against the leftist orthodoxy.
00:16:19.000 Now, mind you, liberals do not feel this fear.
00:16:22.000 71% of young people when polled believe that if they spoke their mind politically or religiously, they would lose their job or lose their friends.
00:16:32.000 And so if you play this out over the next decade, which conservatives don't do a good enough job of, we as conservatives are far too short-sighted.
00:16:40.000 The left is way more multi-decade view than we are.
00:16:44.000 And for some reason, for some good reason on our side, mostly not.
00:16:48.000 You play this out, again, there's only two ways to govern people, speaking, persuasion, and talking, or by force.
00:16:56.000 And you can already see they want to bring this into the streets.
00:16:59.000 They do.
00:17:00.000 They want to use brute force and weaponry to try to assume power.
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00:18:23.000 So we've been breaking down the erosion of freedom of dialogue and speech and how that relates to how the activist media has responded to almost their veiled and not-so-veiled death wishes towards our president.
00:18:35.000 A lot of people, though, are wondering, what does this mean politically?
00:18:37.000 Because, yes, it's still an election.
00:18:39.000 And I've actually kind of stayed away from this topic the last couple of days because I just think it's so inappropriate when a president is dealing with a very serious virus, when a president who is in his 70s is dealing with this virus and has to go to a hospital.
00:18:53.000 But now that as it looks like the president is going to conquer this virus based on all the medical information available, I think now it is appropriate to talk about kind of the political circumstance in front of us.
00:19:04.000 And so there's an array of new polling that is coming out.
00:19:07.000 And again, I'm very careful when it comes to this polling because I think that a lot of Trump voters do not talk to pollsters.
00:19:14.000 It's hard to identify Trump voters and be able to actually factor in turnout and factor in large-scale kind of hidden vote support.
00:19:24.000 What we do know is that the president is doing very well with Latinos, surprisingly well with black voters, and not as well with suburban women voters.
00:19:32.000 We know from certain cases in the United Kingdom and in Brazil that when Boris Johnson and Bolsonaro both came down with the Chinese coronavirus, their poll numbers skyrocketed.
00:19:45.000 They saw a massive political boost from overcoming the Chinese coronavirus.
00:19:51.000 And so for a president that has at times had a difficult journey convincing people that he's a sympathetic figure, this very well might help bridge that gap.
00:20:01.000 And a lot of it will be in how the activist media tries to misportray him.
00:20:04.000 And that's exactly why the activist media did not take a compassionate role when President Donald Trump was infected with the Chinese coronavirus.
00:20:13.000 Instead, they took a combative posture.
00:20:17.000 They said he might not even have it.
00:20:18.000 He lied about it.
00:20:19.000 What's the timeline?
00:20:20.000 Send us more information.
00:20:22.000 And so it's very important to first and foremost, let's set up the framework here.
00:20:28.000 President Donald Trump did do a phenomenal job of shutting down our country and addressing this virus.
00:20:34.000 And that despite the members of the activist media like Jim Acosta, this was not covered at all.
00:20:42.000 When President Donald Trump was boarding the helicopter on Friday to go to Walter Reed, do you know what Jim Acosta tweeted?
00:20:49.000 He said, quote, the president didn't stop for questions.
00:20:55.000 This is what Jim Acosta tweets out.
00:20:57.000 Now, Jim Acosta, I'd like to have an open offer for you.
00:21:00.000 If you'd really like to have questions from someone that is infected with the Chinese coronavirus, I'd be more than happy to set up an in-person interview right now with Kaylee McEnany.
00:21:08.000 I'm sure that that could definitely be arranged. 0.55
00:21:15.000 Meanwhile, you have Chris Rock, who roots against Trump, and we've been through Zara Rahim and all of that.
00:21:21.000 So what does this manifest for the election? 0.76
00:21:25.000 What does this mean for the election?
00:21:28.000 I'm going to tell you the only honest answer, probably in the entire media landscape.
00:21:35.000 Nobody knows.
00:21:37.000 I'm going to guess.
00:21:39.000 But to tell you that with certainty, his poll numbers are going to go up, his poll numbers will go down, his poll numbers say the same, there are so many unknown variations and skews of what's going to happen from this point forward that anybody that tells you with any sort of certainty that they know exactly what's going to happen next is deceiving you and probably intentionally.
00:21:59.000 But here's what I can tell you, is that the president now has a couple of opportunities ahead of him to convince people that he is the fighter for America.
00:22:15.000 He fought the Chinese coronavirus and won.
00:22:18.000 He has fought to keep our country safe against threats foreign and domestic.
00:22:24.000 And it actually kind of plays into the kind of debate that he had where he was fighting for our country, having no tolerance whatsoever for lies against Joe Biden.
00:22:35.000 And look, a lot of people said, I didn't like President Donald Trump's debate performance.
00:22:39.000 Two thoughts on that.
00:22:40.000 Number one, read the transcript.
00:22:45.000 We kind of talked about this during the impeachment hearings that many of us forget.
00:22:48.000 If you read the transcript versus President Donald Trump and Joe Biden, President Trump made way better points.
00:22:55.000 And I think there's some merit to say that President Trump should probably not have interrupted as much, but it was two versus one, Chris Wallace and Joe Biden on him in sort of an ambush sabotage.
00:23:05.000 But secondly, President Trump asked Joe Biden questions that Chris Wallace never followed up about, ever.
00:23:13.000 Never was there a follow-up and saying, wait a second, Joe Biden.
00:23:18.000 Will you pack the court?
00:23:20.000 And who will you put on the Supreme Court?
00:23:21.000 Pretty important questions for a U.S. president to answer.
00:23:24.000 Instead, Joe Biden tap-danced away from them.
00:23:28.000 And the second point of the debate that I think wasn't talked about enough.
00:23:32.000 In a lot of ways, President Trump has been watching these characters on television on commercials assault him and his presidency and his family.
00:23:44.000 And I think President Trump finally got into the boxing ring and was like, yes, now I have a chance to go after this guy.
00:23:50.000 And I'm not going to leave anything back.
00:23:53.000 You can't blame him after being attacked, impeached, spied on by that very guy, Joe Biden, for three and a half years, someone who lets loose a little bit and says, I'm going to show you exactly the pain and suffering we've been through.
00:24:07.000 And so now the question is, where does the race stand?
00:24:10.000 And some people are saying there's some polling that the race is breaking in Joe Biden's direction.
00:24:14.000 And that might be temporarily true.
00:24:15.000 And understand, the election is already happening.
00:24:18.000 The question is not whether or not what happens on election day, it's what's happening right now.
00:24:25.000 Over a million people have already voted nationwide right now.
00:24:28.000 One million people.
00:24:30.000 There are some recent polls that show that President Trump is doing quite well.
00:24:34.000 Recent poll out today shows Donald Trump up four points in the battleground state of Ohio.
00:24:39.000 President Trump will probably win Ohio convincingly by seven to ten points.
00:24:43.000 Other polls out today show President Trump down significantly in Arizona, which is just a hard thing for me to be able to kind of process.
00:24:51.000 We're actually doing this program live from Phoenix, Arizona right now.
00:24:55.000 And it shows a New York Times Sienna poll shows President Donald Trump down eight points in Arizona.
00:25:02.000 Hard to really believe that with voter registration, enthusiasm.
00:25:06.000 There is a Susquehanna poll, though, that shows President Trump tied in Arizona.
00:25:10.000 That sounds just, that sounds a lot better.
00:25:12.000 So the question remains, how is this all going to manifest into the election?
00:25:17.000 Well, I have a very specific suggestion for President Trump and his campaign.
00:25:24.000 Embrace the Republican Trinity.
00:25:30.000 The Republican Trinity.
00:25:31.000 What is the Republican Trinity?
00:25:35.000 Well, this week will be the first week in the history of the campaign where President Trump's performance matters less than somebody else's performance.
00:25:47.000 What do I mean by that?
00:25:48.000 Well, we have the vice presidential debate, of course.
00:25:51.000 Vice President Pence is probably entering the most important vice presidential debate in recent memory.
00:25:58.000 Now, let's just not forget, Barack Obama had an awful first debate against Mitt Romney in 2012.
00:26:06.000 It was Joe Biden who was widely credited with saving Barack Obama's campaign in 2012 when Joe Biden debated Paul Ryan.
00:26:15.000 I don't think Paul Ryan did very well.
00:26:19.000 So Mike Pence now has an opportunity to go up against Senator Harris.
00:26:23.000 But don't underestimate Vice President Mike Pence.
00:26:27.000 He's a former radio talk show host, former governor, former congressman, understands the communication landscape very well.
00:26:34.000 But also, there's a third part of the Republican Trinity that is very popular and must be given the most amount of television time possible.
00:26:44.000 Will help us suburban voters, help with voters of faith.
00:26:49.000 And she's not running for office. 0.85
00:26:51.000 But whether she liked it or not, she is now entering a highly politicized moment where she will be attacked, ridiculed, and condemned.
00:27:00.000 And that is Amy Coney Barrett.
00:27:03.000 Amy Coney Barrett is now part of the Republican political trinity.
00:27:09.000 Trump, Pence, Barret.
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00:28:20.000 I believe that he'll get some form of a polling boost from being hospitalized and successfully beating the Chinese coronavirus.
00:28:28.000 But remember, people want certainty in the totality of the ticket that they're voting for.
00:28:33.000 We mislabel this election as Trump versus Biden.
00:28:36.000 It's really Trump Pence versus Biden-Harris.
00:28:40.000 So, this vice presidential debate has very serious consequences and major implications.
00:28:47.000 And also, people want certainty of what's going to happen on the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:28:52.000 The more that the Trump Pence campaign leans into the fact that Joe Biden has yet to release who he will put on the U.S. Supreme Court and might pack the courts, is a winning issue.
00:29:02.000 So, how do we know that Amy Coney Barrett is popular?
00:29:07.000 They told us.
00:29:09.000 They told us.
00:29:11.000 You see, Joe Biden is nothing more than a reflection of very expensive polling and certain political data that is inputted into his specific circuitry.
00:29:20.000 Joe Biden has no independent thoughts.
00:29:23.000 Joe Biden has no capacity to form opinions.
00:29:26.000 Everything Joe Biden says was inputted by a 28-year-old socialist Bolshevik that probably went to Yale, Harvard, Princeton, or Stanford or Caltech that is looking at public polling data and puts it into Joe Biden's head, probably alongside an adrenaline shot.
00:29:43.000 And so, Joe Biden is just a reflection of the massive amount of information that the Biden campaign is spending to find what to say and what not to say.
00:29:52.000 Donald Trump is not.
00:29:53.000 Donald Trump is a freewheeler, instinctive, in a good way, impulsive debater.
00:30:00.000 So, when Joe Biden refused to attack Amy Coney Barrett and said, I have no problem with the nominee, but instead, let's talk about health care and women's rights.
00:30:12.000 That shows that Amy Coney Barrett is popular in the districts, the precincts, and the states that will determine this presidential election.
00:30:21.000 This goes to show that Republicans who have traditionally failed reaching suburban voters, especially in the last couple years, have now been given a massive political opportunity to showcase and highlight a decent, incredible nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, mother of seven, two adopted children, one with Down syndrome.
00:30:48.000 So, the question then remains: how will Republicans best do this?
00:30:52.000 And will they be able to do this?
00:30:54.000 Mike Pence has a very big week ahead of him where the eyes of the nation will be on the debate against Senator Harris.
00:31:01.000 I believe that Mike Pence will do very, very well.
00:31:04.000 I want to read you an article from CNN, the conspiracy news network.
00:31:08.000 Amy Coney Barrett's debut shows that she'll be a tough adversary for Democrats.
00:31:13.000 September 27th, this is by Maeve Reston.
00:31:18.000 You see, the more I go into the literature around Amy Coney Barrett, literature is not the right word, the writings around Amy Coney Barrett and how the liberals are treating her, they got very little to attack her on.
00:31:28.000 They attack her on her faith.
00:31:29.000 They attack her on her religious beliefs. 1.00
00:31:32.000 But it's becoming more and more clear that Amy Coney Barrett should have the closest proximity possible to the senators that are running from North Carolina to Arizona to Colorado. 1.00
00:31:44.000 She's popular and she's tough. 1.00
00:31:46.000 She loves the Constitution. 0.86
00:31:48.000 And center-right voters, which are a majority of the voters in the swing states that matter, think very highly of Amy Coney Barrett.
00:31:55.000 This can be the winning wedge issue for President Donald Trump up against Joe Biden.
00:32:00.000 Now, mind you, the chattering class and the intelligentsia were telling you for a very specific reason not to fill this seat.
00:32:08.000 You see, the activist media did not want this seat filled for two reasons.
00:32:12.000 Number one, they don't want this seat filled because they know it will be a permanent constitutional majority, at least permanent for the sense until another vacancy happens.
00:32:22.000 But the much more applicable reason why they don't want this confirmation fight to proceed is that Amy Coney Barrett, on nonstop cable television, throughout the day answering questions from senators about her constitutional worldview, will help Republicans all up and down the ballot.
00:32:42.000 That Democrats back in 2018 were actually on pace to flip the United States Senate away from Mitch McConnell.
00:32:51.000 Mitch McConnell was at great risk of losing the U.S. Senate.
00:32:55.000 And it was the confirmation fights of Brett Kavanaugh that flipped Senate seats from Indiana to many others across the country to Florida as well, by the way, beating incumbent Senator Bill Nelson.
00:33:11.000 The same will happen with Amy Coney Barrett. 0.97
00:33:13.000 And the Democrats are already saying we should cancel the hearings because of the virus spread.
00:33:17.000 They can do it by Zoom.
00:33:18.000 They've done Senate hearings with Amazon and Apple and Facebook and Twitter via Zoom.
00:33:26.000 Why wouldn't they also do that with Amy Coney Barrett? 0.86
00:33:29.000 The reason is this: the Democrats and the activists, they're horrified of what's going to happen when Amy Coney Barrett actually starts taking questions. 0.77
00:33:41.000 She'll explain original intent. 0.99
00:33:44.000 She'll explain natural rights. 0.99
00:33:47.000 She'll explain her judicial philosophy. 0.97
00:33:50.000 She'll teach America that we're not awful.
00:33:54.000 You see, more so than anything else, the activist Democrats fear that Amy Coney Barrett might persuade our country that we're not that awful.
00:34:04.000 That Amy Coney Barrett might actually raise the approval rating for the Constitution, might actually be a great academic moment, a sobering moment that maybe we shouldn't be angry that we live in the greatest constitutional republic ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:34:22.000 So for Republicans out there, this is a phenomenal opportunity in the next minus 30 days before the election, by the way, to have Amy Coney Barrett do the tough work for you.
00:34:36.000 To have Amy Coney Barrett give swing voters and voters in the middle the confidence that under Republican leadership and four more years of President Trump, you get more of Amy Coney Barrett and less Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:34:51.000 ACB versus AOC, decent voters will pick ACB.
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