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00:01:07.000President versus the media and the virus, the Republican Trinity.
00:01:25.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:34.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:03:25.000Senator Mike Lee, Senator Tom Tillis, and Chris Christie.
00:03:28.000It's becoming more and more clear that the announcement for Amy Coney Barrett is where this virus was spread.
00:03:38.000And the response from the activist media has been very predictable.
00:03:42.000The activist media has been wishing death in one way or the other upon our president.
00:03:48.00040% of registered Democrats, according to a morning consult poll, said that they are happy that President Donald Trump contracted the Chinese coronavirus.
00:03:56.000So 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.
00:04:22.000Well, as many of you know, I run Turning Point USA, founded it eight and a half years ago, TPUSA.com.
00:04:28.000And 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.
00:04:41.000I have been warning for quite some time that what happens on college campuses does not stay on college campuses.
00:04:49.000And 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.
00:04:57.000It doesn't operate in its own secluded silo.
00:05:02.000And 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.
00:05:19.000It's because our universities teach our young people that that is the right way to go about your differences.
00:05:27.000You see, there's only two ways to govern people.
00:06:03.000In order to get into political power in the American system of government, you must make really good arguments.
00:06:11.000You must earn that power through a series of promises and keeping those promises.
00:06:16.000In 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.
00:06:24.000So you have to have really good ideas for a long period of time and be dedicated to those ideas.
00:06:30.000You 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.
00:06:47.000That is now being lost in our country primarily through our college campuses.
00:06:51.000You see, dialogue, discourse, and disagreement is fundamental to a free society.
00:06:58.000A large portion of the American left does not believe that.
00:07:02.000A 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.
00:07:13.000One 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.
00:08:02.000In fact, the most widespread foolishness that I have ever seen at a place of higher learning would be Brown University.
00:08:10.000If you want your kid to hate America, send them to Brown.
00:08:14.000And yet these are supposedly the smartest kids in the country.
00:08:18.000The kids that are supposed to run our corporations, the students that are supposed to be the change makers of tomorrow.
00:08:25.000And it wasn't that they disagreed with me.
00:08:26.000They actually, you could see it in their eyes.
00:08:28.000If they had an opportunity, they wanted to hurt me.
00:08:32.00015% of colleges in the Southeastern Conference, SEC, and liberal students were twice as likely to express an acceptance of violence, go figure.
00:08:41.000One quarter of atheist students and black students expressed some level of violence.
00:08:45.000And 27% of LGBT students were open to violence.
00:08:50.000The 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.
00:09:14.000So 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.
00:10:40.000When 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.
00:11:22.000They believe that everything is a power system.
00:11:24.000They believe that it is their goal to uproot the current status quo at any cost at all whatsoever.
00:11:32.000And this is a poll, again, commissioned by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Education.
00:11:37.000The entire American system is built on talking, on speaking.
00:11:44.000And 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.
00:12:01.000People say, well, why is the country so divided?
00:12:04.000What's happening in America over the last decade?
00:12:07.000One of the major reasons is that we have nearly doubled the college population over the last decade.
00:12:12.000And 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.
00:12:23.000And 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.
00:12:37.000And yet the entire focus of the activist media is that Donald Trump is the disintegration of decent society.
00:12:45.000And they do not cover it all whatsoever that when polled, 60% of liberal students said that it is okay to use any means necessary.
00:12:55.000These are liberal students from speaking on a college campus.
00:13:06.000And I've experienced all this on college campuses across the country.
00:13:10.000And so if you look at root causes, the education of our children is one of the major pieces of this.
00:13:17.000And 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.
00:13:25.000They say, quote, it's against my moral identity to tweet this, but for the past four years, I hope he dies.
00:13:30.000Campaign spokeswoman Zahra Rahim for Hillary Clinton.
00:13:34.000Chris Rock says, President Trump's in the hospital from the Chinese coronavirus.
00:13:38.000I just want to say my heart goes out to COVID.
00:13:41.000Where do they get these kinds of ideas from?
00:13:43.000These are validated from a core belief.
00:13:46.000And this is one of the biggest divisions in our country.
00:13:49.000The division is somewhat right versus left.
00:14:43.000You 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.
00:14:59.000How do you get consent to the governed?
00:15:02.000You do it by having better arguments, by believing in truth.
00:15:06.000That's how you get consent to the governed.
00:15:08.000Consent to the governed isn't by having a larger standing army.
00:15:12.000It's not by intimidating the other side.
00:15:15.000And 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.
00:15:29.000You 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.
00:15:36.000It's not even the professors or the teachers or the leftist activists.
00:15:40.000The number one form of censorship in this country is you.
00:15:46.000It'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.
00:15:55.000Or 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.
00:16:07.000It'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.
00:16:19.000Now, mind you, liberals do not feel this fear.
00:16:22.00071% of young people when polled believe that if they spoke their mind politically or religiously, they would lose their job or lose their friends.
00:16:32.000And 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.
00:16:40.000The left is way more multi-decade view than we are.
00:16:44.000And for some reason, for some good reason on our side, mostly not.
00:16:48.000You play this out, again, there's only two ways to govern people, speaking, persuasion, and talking, or by force.
00:16:56.000And you can already see they want to bring this into the streets.
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00:18:23.000So 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.
00:18:35.000A lot of people, though, are wondering, what does this mean politically?
00:18:39.000And 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.
00:18:53.000But 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.
00:19:04.000And so there's an array of new polling that is coming out.
00:19:07.000And 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.
00:19:14.000It's hard to identify Trump voters and be able to actually factor in turnout and factor in large-scale kind of hidden vote support.
00:19:24.000What 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.
00:19:32.000We 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.
00:19:45.000They saw a massive political boost from overcoming the Chinese coronavirus.
00:19:51.000And 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.
00:20:01.000And a lot of it will be in how the activist media tries to misportray him.
00:20:04.000And that's exactly why the activist media did not take a compassionate role when President Donald Trump was infected with the Chinese coronavirus.
00:20:13.000Instead, they took a combative posture.
00:20:57.000Now, Jim Acosta, I'd like to have an open offer for you.
00:21:00.000If 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.
00:21:08.000I'm sure that that could definitely be arranged.
00:21:15.000Meanwhile, you have Chris Rock, who roots against Trump, and we've been through Zara Rahim and all of that.
00:21:21.000So what does this manifest for the election?
00:21:39.000But 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.
00:21:59.000But 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.
00:22:15.000He fought the Chinese coronavirus and won.
00:22:18.000He has fought to keep our country safe against threats foreign and domestic.
00:22:24.000And 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.
00:22:35.000And look, a lot of people said, I didn't like President Donald Trump's debate performance.
00:22:45.000We kind of talked about this during the impeachment hearings that many of us forget.
00:22:48.000If you read the transcript versus President Donald Trump and Joe Biden, President Trump made way better points.
00:22:55.000And 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.
00:23:05.000But secondly, President Trump asked Joe Biden questions that Chris Wallace never followed up about, ever.
00:23:13.000Never was there a follow-up and saying, wait a second, Joe Biden.
00:23:20.000And who will you put on the Supreme Court?
00:23:21.000Pretty important questions for a U.S. president to answer.
00:23:24.000Instead, Joe Biden tap-danced away from them.
00:23:28.000And the second point of the debate that I think wasn't talked about enough.
00:23:32.000In a lot of ways, President Trump has been watching these characters on television on commercials assault him and his presidency and his family.
00:23:44.000And I think President Trump finally got into the boxing ring and was like, yes, now I have a chance to go after this guy.
00:23:50.000And I'm not going to leave anything back.
00:23:53.000You 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.
00:24:07.000And so now the question is, where does the race stand?
00:24:10.000And some people are saying there's some polling that the race is breaking in Joe Biden's direction.
00:25:35.000Well, 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.
00:25:48.000Well, we have the vice presidential debate, of course.
00:25:51.000Vice President Pence is probably entering the most important vice presidential debate in recent memory.
00:25:58.000Now, let's just not forget, Barack Obama had an awful first debate against Mitt Romney in 2012.
00:26:06.000It was Joe Biden who was widely credited with saving Barack Obama's campaign in 2012 when Joe Biden debated Paul Ryan.
00:26:15.000I don't think Paul Ryan did very well.
00:26:19.000So Mike Pence now has an opportunity to go up against Senator Harris.
00:26:23.000But don't underestimate Vice President Mike Pence.
00:26:27.000He's a former radio talk show host, former governor, former congressman, understands the communication landscape very well.
00:26:34.000But 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.
00:26:44.000Will help us suburban voters, help with voters of faith.
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00:28:20.000I believe that he'll get some form of a polling boost from being hospitalized and successfully beating the Chinese coronavirus.
00:28:28.000But remember, people want certainty in the totality of the ticket that they're voting for.
00:28:33.000We mislabel this election as Trump versus Biden.
00:28:36.000It's really Trump Pence versus Biden-Harris.
00:28:40.000So, this vice presidential debate has very serious consequences and major implications.
00:28:47.000And also, people want certainty of what's going to happen on the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:28:52.000The 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.
00:29:02.000So, how do we know that Amy Coney Barrett is popular?
00:29:11.000You see, Joe Biden is nothing more than a reflection of very expensive polling and certain political data that is inputted into his specific circuitry.
00:29:20.000Joe Biden has no independent thoughts.
00:29:23.000Joe Biden has no capacity to form opinions.
00:29:26.000Everything 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.
00:29:43.000And 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.
00:29:53.000Donald Trump is a freewheeler, instinctive, in a good way, impulsive debater.
00:30:00.000So, 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.
00:30:12.000That shows that Amy Coney Barrett is popular in the districts, the precincts, and the states that will determine this presidential election.
00:30:21.000This 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.
00:30:48.000So, the question then remains: how will Republicans best do this?
00:30:54.000Mike Pence has a very big week ahead of him where the eyes of the nation will be on the debate against Senator Harris.
00:31:01.000I believe that Mike Pence will do very, very well.
00:31:04.000I want to read you an article from CNN, the conspiracy news network.
00:31:08.000Amy Coney Barrett's debut shows that she'll be a tough adversary for Democrats.
00:31:13.000September 27th, this is by Maeve Reston.
00:31:18.000You 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.
00:31:29.000They attack her on her religious beliefs.
00:31:32.000But 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.
00:31:48.000And center-right voters, which are a majority of the voters in the swing states that matter, think very highly of Amy Coney Barrett.
00:31:55.000This can be the winning wedge issue for President Donald Trump up against Joe Biden.
00:32:00.000Now, mind you, the chattering class and the intelligentsia were telling you for a very specific reason not to fill this seat.
00:32:08.000You see, the activist media did not want this seat filled for two reasons.
00:32:12.000Number 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.
00:32:22.000But 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.
00:32:42.000That Democrats back in 2018 were actually on pace to flip the United States Senate away from Mitch McConnell.
00:32:51.000Mitch McConnell was at great risk of losing the U.S. Senate.
00:32:55.000And 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.
00:33:11.000The same will happen with Amy Coney Barrett.
00:33:13.000And the Democrats are already saying we should cancel the hearings because of the virus spread.
00:33:18.000They've done Senate hearings with Amazon and Apple and Facebook and Twitter via Zoom.
00:33:26.000Why wouldn't they also do that with Amy Coney Barrett?
00:33:29.000The 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.
00:33:47.000She'll explain her judicial philosophy.
00:33:50.000She'll teach America that we're not awful.
00:33:54.000You see, more so than anything else, the activist Democrats fear that Amy Coney Barrett might persuade our country that we're not that awful.
00:34:04.000That 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.
00:34:22.000So 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.
00:34:36.000To 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.
00:34:51.000ACB versus AOC, decent voters will pick ACB.
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