The Charlie Kirk Show - December 30, 2024


The Hand of God: Looking Back on a Magical Year


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2019 is coming to a close, and we are taking a moment to reflect on the past year and look forward to 2020. This is the final episode of the year, and it's been a great one!

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, 2024 in review.
00:00:02.000 A recap of this extraordinary year.
00:00:05.000 Thank you for all of you who supported us.
00:00:06.000 I think you're going to love this as we look back on this amazing year from Butler, Pennsylvania to the Bobby Kennedy endorsement.
00:00:13.000 So much of it.
00:00:15.000 God bless all of you guys for supporting our show and becoming a member.
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00:00:25.000 That is TPUSA.com.
00:00:27.000 And again, when you become a member, you guys make this show possible.
00:00:31.000 So become a member.
00:00:32.000 Members.CharlieKirk.com.
00:00:34.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:35.000 Here we go.
00:00:36.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:38.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:00:40.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:00:43.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:00:47.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:00:48.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:00:49.000 His 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. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:01:34.000 Such an honor to be with you.
00:01:36.000 Hope you had a wonderful weekend.
00:01:38.000 This timing is so weird.
00:01:39.000 Is it what day is it?
00:01:40.000 It's Monday, but we're off tomorrow.
00:01:42.000 We're off Wednesday.
00:01:43.000 We're off Thursday as we try to celebrate New Year's Day.
00:01:46.000 One of my favorite days of the year is New Year's Day.
00:01:48.000 There is some great football on.
00:01:51.000 This New Year's Day, it's going to be amazing.
00:01:54.000 Three big games.
00:01:55.000 There's one on New Year's Eve, which is Boise State-Penn State, and then we wake up to watch Arizona State-Texas, and then Oregon versus Ohio State in the Rose Bowl.
00:02:06.000 That one's going to be, that's a toughie.
00:02:07.000 That's a tough one for Oregon.
00:02:09.000 I got a whole separate take on how the college football playoff is rigged against the Oregon Ducks, despite being the number one seed.
00:02:16.000 And then the nightcap is Notre Dame vs.
00:02:20.000 Georgia.
00:02:21.000 Don't sleep on the Irish. 0.99
00:02:22.000 I'll tell you right now, the Irish could shock the world. 0.97
00:02:25.000 Georgia has their backup quarterback.
00:02:27.000 Notre Dame's playing really well.
00:02:28.000 Their defense is phenomenal.
00:02:29.000 However, as all things are rigged in the favor of the University of Georgia, Georgia has a home game.
00:02:35.000 I believe it's in Atlanta, actually.
00:02:37.000 I think I'm 90% sure that the game is in Atlanta, and then if they win that game, then they go to a game in Miami, which is not far from Atlanta, and then the national championship game is in Atlanta.
00:02:51.000 Okay.
00:02:51.000 But we wanted to take our time today, as this is the last and final broadcast of this monumental year, to reflect and to think about what we just went through.
00:03:04.000 Take inventory the past year.
00:03:06.000 Recap it.
00:03:06.000 What did we just live through?
00:03:09.000 Let's just go back to a year ago.
00:03:11.000 Our last broadcast of the year in 2023. 2023, looking into 2024, it looked daunting.
00:03:18.000 I want you just to remember where you were, the news we were covering.
00:03:22.000 It was incredibly daunting.
00:03:24.000 Donald Trump was facing 700 years in federal prison.
00:03:29.000 Donald Trump was not raising the money that major presidential candidates would be at that time.
00:03:38.000 A year ago, we had not even had the Iowa caucus A year ago, Ron DeSantis was still an active presidential candidate.
00:03:48.000 A year ago, Nikki Haley was still an active presidential candidate. 1.00
00:03:52.000 A year ago, Vivek Ramaswamy.
00:03:54.000 We had this whole field of challengers against President Trump a year ago.
00:03:59.000 We had not even gone through Iowa yet.
00:04:03.000 A year ago, Ronna was still the chair of the RNC. A year ago.
00:04:11.000 Joe Biden was the betting odds favorite to become President of the United States.
00:04:15.000 A year ago, Joe Biden was still the Democrat presumptive nominee.
00:04:20.000 It was daunting, and we were battle-hardened.
00:04:24.000 After 2020, many of us became prisoners of cynicism and negativity.
00:04:32.000 Almost everywhere I would visit, I would have to force people to try to believe.
00:04:38.000 Yes, we can do it.
00:04:39.000 They said, oh, our vote doesn't matter.
00:04:42.000 Our elections are rigged.
00:04:45.000 And yes, a lot of you in this audience, I saved all of your emails.
00:04:49.000 A lot of your emails.
00:04:50.000 In fact, I could read them, but I don't know if it's a good use of our time.
00:04:53.000 Where you guys would say, you don't know what you're talking about.
00:04:56.000 We're going to lose no matter what.
00:04:58.000 Don't embrace early voting.
00:05:01.000 Nobody cares.
00:05:03.000 And in some ways I get that because you were held captive.
00:05:07.000 You were a hostage of the carnage of 2020. What's the point in voting?
00:05:17.000 It's all rigged.
00:05:18.000 But I made a promise to all of you.
00:05:21.000 I made a promise to all of you.
00:05:24.000 A year ago.
00:05:25.000 The last broadcast of 2023, I made a promise to Turning Point donors.
00:05:28.000 I made a promise to our audience here on the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:05:30.000 I made a promise to our millions of followers out there.
00:05:33.000 I said no one will work harder than Turning Point Action and the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:05:38.000 I said I will work.
00:05:39.000 I said I will travel the country.
00:05:41.000 I will go to every nook and cranny.
00:05:43.000 We will register the voters.
00:05:44.000 We will chase the votes.
00:05:45.000 We'll get into the elemental grassroots.
00:05:48.000 We're going to hire 1,500 people.
00:05:50.000 We're going to do the gritty type of work.
00:05:53.000 We made a promise, we made a proclamation that no one would work harder.
00:05:57.000 We did not guarantee success, but I asked many of you, please allow yourself to believe.
00:06:04.000 Allow yourself to believe that this is possible.
00:06:07.000 Allow yourself to believe that we can do this.
00:06:09.000 Allow yourself to believe that we can win.
00:06:13.000 And in some ways, the greatest challenge of 2024 was not even what we did, The greatest challenge...
00:06:24.000 Was getting people to think we could win.
00:06:29.000 The biggest challenge was believing.
00:06:31.000 The hardest part for us was not hiring 1,500 people or raising the tens of millions of dollars it required to have the largest full-time army to chase ballots.
00:06:40.000 The hardest thing was not visiting all the campuses or the 1.8 billion TikTok views, which by the way, Ryan, I want to do a whole thing on that in this hour because it was monumental, monumental what we were able to do.
00:06:54.000 1.8 billion views on TikTok alone, not to mention YouTube or Instagram.
00:07:01.000 No, the hardest part of what we were doing and what we did this last year was getting everyday rank-and-file Americans to think that their vote mattered, that they need to fight, and that Donald Trump can win.
00:07:14.000 And think about it.
00:07:15.000 It just seemed overwhelming.
00:07:17.000 It just seemed as if there's no way we could defeat the Beast.
00:07:21.000 That the Machine is undefeated.
00:07:22.000 That the Leviathan is going to pull something out of their sleeve.
00:07:28.000 That there is something that was coming around the corner.
00:07:31.000 And honestly, some of you were right when you said that.
00:07:35.000 They did have a lot planned.
00:07:37.000 But it just didn't fail.
00:07:38.000 It didn't work.
00:07:39.000 It failed.
00:07:40.000 It required hope.
00:07:41.000 It required faith.
00:07:44.000 The greatest loser of 2024, the greatest loser, was doomerism and cynicism.
00:07:51.000 The greatest loser were the thousands of you that would email us at times and say, Charlie, I'm not going to work.
00:07:58.000 I'm not going to chase ballots.
00:07:59.000 I'm not going to register voters because it's all rigged.
00:08:02.000 Turns out you were wrong.
00:08:04.000 It turns out those of us that believed enough to make it too big to rig, to hire the people, to chase the ballots, to get in the grassroots, to take over the precinct committee positions, That you actually can effectuate change.
00:08:18.000 2024 should be the death of doomerism and not believing that change is possible.
00:08:24.000 We won the youth vote in the state of Michigan, everybody.
00:08:28.000 We nearly won it in Wisconsin.
00:08:30.000 We nearly won it in Pennsylvania.
00:08:32.000 We moved the youth vote 30-plus points.
00:08:37.000 But if you were to come to the table...
00:08:40.000 With a belief system or a philosophy, oh no, it's impossible to change things and the country's going to hell and there's no reversing it.
00:08:48.000 That mentality we were able to break with a lot of work.
00:08:52.000 It wasn't easy because in some ways the greatest opposition this last year was not of the left.
00:08:58.000 It was cynical people on the right.
00:09:00.000 Donors that didn't think that Trump could win.
00:09:04.000 Grassroots folks that thought it was irredeemably rigged.
00:09:06.000 But Charlie, the machines!
00:09:08.000 Voting early is terrible.
00:09:09.000 Turns out voting early was actually excellent.
00:09:11.000 Without voting early, we wouldn't have won.
00:09:14.000 We were our own greatest enemy.
00:09:15.000 And we worked, worked, worked.
00:09:17.000 And we acted, acted, acted.
00:09:19.000 Do you guys remember this last summer?
00:09:24.000 This last June, July, August, when every day I said find new voters and register new voters, you helped make this happen.
00:09:32.000 And this audience has been the tip of the spear, the vanguard.
00:09:37.000 Every single day I'd be giving these pep talks in July, be giving these pep talks in August.
00:09:41.000 Guys, we only have 100 days left to register voters.
00:09:44.000 And all of that made a difference.
00:09:47.000 And this year, this 2024, as we go through the individual elements throughout this hour, should be the end of saying, that can't happen.
00:09:57.000 No, it can't happen.
00:09:59.000 You just witnessed, and we're part of, the greatest comeback in American political history.
00:10:07.000 And all the doomers, all the people that were overly negative, they were wrong, and those of us that believed were right.
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00:11:21.000 The turning point this year, no pun intended, to be honest, was the work that a lot of you did in the grassroots back in Vegas.
00:11:31.000 I believe that if the RNC was under current hands, if Rana still would have remained as chair of the RNC, I don't know if we would have won this cycle.
00:11:40.000 And the RNC was a thankless fight.
00:11:43.000 The RNC was a very difficult endeavor for us.
00:11:49.000 We made a lot of enemies.
00:11:51.000 In fact, the leadership of the RNC backstabbed me.
00:11:54.000 They tried to destroy me.
00:11:55.000 They leaked stories against me.
00:11:56.000 They did everything they could to try to take out Turning Point.
00:11:59.000 Turns out they were very unsuccessful, quite unsuccessful.
00:12:02.000 NBC News reported at the time, conservative activist Charlie Kirk helped oust Ronna McDaniel at the RNC. Now the knives are out for him.
00:12:11.000 Very few people were willing to take the stands and get in the arena.
00:12:16.000 And to try to remove the proven loser, Ronna McRomney. 1.00
00:12:21.000 And Ronna McRomney remained as chair all after the 2022 midterms.
00:12:27.000 But we said no.
00:12:28.000 All through 2023, we knew she had to go.
00:12:30.000 We knew that we needed to launch a grassroots campaign.
00:12:34.000 Again, the president made the ultimate decision, and he deserves the credit for that.
00:12:38.000 Removing Rana, and then putting in Michael Watley and Laura Trump.
00:12:43.000 A terrific, a monumental upgrade.
00:12:46.000 We had so many people warning us against this fight.
00:12:49.000 Charlie, this is a big fight for you.
00:12:50.000 You're going to make a lot of enemies.
00:12:51.000 I said, so what?
00:12:53.000 People that were in business with me.
00:12:56.000 People tell me that they knew better.
00:12:58.000 Yeah, they didn't.
00:12:59.000 Honestly, I'll never forget that.
00:13:01.000 People trying to tell me that, oh, we know better than you.
00:13:05.000 No, actually, you were wrong.
00:13:07.000 And this audience was right.
00:13:09.000 The grassroots of this show was correct in saying we have to remove Ronna McRomney.
00:13:15.000 And we decided to ignore all the cautionary tales because we needed an RNC that was equipped to win.
00:13:22.000 And by the way, the RNC run by Rana, they did every dark arts, let's just say, move you could do to try to cancel us, to smear us, every scheme you could imagine. 0.90
00:13:35.000 They were more worried at trying to take out Charlie Kirk in Turning Point than run the RNC. But we knew because of you in this audience, there was a 99% support to get rid of Ronna. 0.80
00:13:48.000 99%.
00:13:49.000 And they spent more energy beating us than trying to beat Democrats.
00:13:54.000 Well, it turns out the removal of Ronna McRomney was critical.
00:14:01.000 That the removal of Ronna McRomney was a foundational first step to the win we just had.
00:14:06.000 And all of you that traveled to our Restoring National Confidence Summit in Vegas, give you an idea of what we did.
00:14:12.000 We were the only organization that was willing to plan our own RNC Winter Meeting simultaneous with the actual RNC Winter Meeting, which was the most brazen thing we could do.
00:14:22.000 But we were not just going to sit idly by and allow this to happen.
00:14:26.000 With 75 key GOP Republican chairs plus state chairs using our data, using our application.
00:14:34.000 We were in Vegas doing that work.
00:14:38.000 And a lot of other organizations said, well, that's a little too close to the sun for us.
00:14:41.000 We're afraid to pick that fight.
00:14:43.000 Well, we weren't.
00:14:43.000 We leaned right into the arena.
00:14:47.000 And Rana got removed, which was a massive victory for the grassroots and dramatically improved President Trump's chances.
00:14:55.000 And from there, a year ago, again, January of 2024, we still looked like a movement in exile.
00:15:02.000 Donald Trump won in Iowa, won in New Hampshire, but was he really going to be able to build this grassroots movement?
00:15:09.000 It turns out that this year is a year that only happens once in many, many lifetimes.
00:15:15.000 And we're going to recap a lot of other things.
00:15:18.000 The campus tours, the virality, the selection of J.D. Vance as Vice President of the United States.
00:15:26.000 Butler, Pennsylvania, leading all the way up until the last 90-day push, where all of you chased ballots, where all of you registered voters, where all of you in this audience said no to the naysayers, and you got into the game.
00:15:42.000 And this is a year that we'll never forget.
00:15:45.000 And that we must cherish, we must remember, we must reflect, we must go through.
00:15:49.000 And of course, finally, we are going to say thank you to God.
00:15:54.000 Because I believe the hand of God was evident and apparent all throughout this last year.
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00:17:17.000 We did many things this year at Turning Point Action from the 1,500 people we had on the ground and chased ballots.
00:17:24.000 We chased over 300,000 ballots in the state of Arizona.
00:17:29.000 Well over 60,000 ballots in the state of Wisconsin.
00:17:33.000 And the scores of volunteers and all of you that worked so hard.
00:17:37.000 This is your victory.
00:17:39.000 This is your New Year celebration.
00:17:41.000 And you should cherish that.
00:17:42.000 You should celebrate in that.
00:17:45.000 And one of the things we also did, we asked the question, our theory of the case was this.
00:17:50.000 It started with a question and then a hypothesis, which honestly a question, a hypothesis is at its core a question.
00:17:58.000 Which was, we are beginning to see...
00:18:02.000 Young men show up to more and more of our campus events.
00:18:05.000 We're seeing a cultural recalibration.
00:18:08.000 What if, at Turning Point Action, and here on the Charlie Kirk Show, we do the most ambitious campus outreach, grassroots, viral programming in history?
00:18:23.000 And we were told by all of the experts, young people won't move, they're going to go big numbers for Kamala Harris, and we said not so fast.
00:18:33.000 There is something that is happening.
00:18:37.000 And we want to seize it, maximize it, expand it.
00:18:41.000 So what we did, I visited personally 25 campuses this last fall.
00:18:46.000 Well over 45 in the entire year.
00:18:49.000 And we went all across the country.
00:18:52.000 And our team deserves such amazing credit.
00:18:54.000 Daisy, Emma, Ryan, Terrell, the whole tech team, Brian.
00:19:00.000 We had a powwow, and they said, Charlie, you're really going to do 25 campus tours?
00:19:05.000 This was back in August.
00:19:06.000 I said, absolutely.
00:19:07.000 I said, this will be the hardest I've ever worked.
00:19:09.000 On top of everything else, we hosted Donald Trump seven times this year.
00:19:12.000 What an honor.
00:19:14.000 Amazing.
00:19:15.000 We were honored to host him seven times this year.
00:19:18.000 To host him seven times.
00:19:20.000 On top of all the people we were hiring for ballot chasing, on top of I had to keep on raising money to...
00:19:27.000 Keep people on payroll.
00:19:29.000 There's a lot of things going on at once.
00:19:32.000 But I said, we got to get on campus.
00:19:33.000 We got to communicate with students.
00:19:35.000 And we have to try to demonstrate that our ideas are better.
00:19:40.000 And boy, I'm a pretty healthy guy.
00:19:41.000 I don't drink.
00:19:42.000 I don't smoke.
00:19:43.000 I don't do drugs.
00:19:44.000 I try to get a lot of sleep.
00:19:45.000 Turn my devices off.
00:19:47.000 Exercise almost every day.
00:19:49.000 Eat very clean.
00:19:50.000 My health...
00:19:52.000 Took it right on the chin.
00:19:54.000 Lost my voice twice.
00:19:55.000 I mean, can we get, Ryan, can we go back just and get like a 20-second clip of my voice with the Megyn Kelly interview?
00:20:02.000 The Megyn Kelly interview, I think, is a perfect little example.
00:20:07.000 Andrew was my voice.
00:20:08.000 I would text Andrew the questions to ask Megan.
00:20:11.000 He was my Aaron, if you will.
00:20:14.000 I was Moses, he was Aaron.
00:20:16.000 I just couldn't talk.
00:20:17.000 I was tongue-tied.
00:20:20.000 And everybody on the team deserves credit here.
00:20:23.000 We put it all on the line, and it was blind faith.
00:20:26.000 In fact, I could tell you, at no time when we visited these campuses and created this content, and we did all this work, was there ever a prideful arrogance amongst our team?
00:20:37.000 Andrew would tell you this.
00:20:38.000 Mikey would tell you this.
00:20:40.000 Justin would tell you this.
00:20:41.000 It was always, well, these are pretty incredible crowds.
00:20:43.000 I hope we're going to win.
00:20:45.000 Are we going to win?
00:20:46.000 Every day we'd be challenging our assumption.
00:20:48.000 Every day we'd be going into this with this degree of humility.
00:20:53.000 Never cocky.
00:20:54.000 And I'm very, very, very proud of our team for that.
00:20:57.000 Because looking back, it seems like obvious looking at it retrospectively that there was this grassroots movement and we just kept our head down and kept on doing the work.
00:21:06.000 And we said, well, we're up in these polls.
00:21:08.000 More campuses.
00:21:09.000 More videos.
00:21:11.000 On TikTok alone, which by the way, they want to ban TikTok.
00:21:15.000 I think one of the reasons they want to ban TikTok is that I think TikTok played a big role in getting the message out that eventually led to the election of Donald Trump.
00:21:23.000 I really believe that.
00:21:24.000 We got 1.8 billion views on TikTok.
00:21:27.000 Trump got 2 billion views on TikTok.
00:21:29.000 We got 5 times more views on TikTok than Kamala Harris.
00:21:33.000 5 times more.
00:21:34.000 Now they want to ban it?
00:21:35.000 Seems a little suspicious.
00:21:37.000 Just a little bit.
00:21:39.000 Here's a little bit of a taste.
00:21:41.000 It's about a two-minute video.
00:21:42.000 It's worth playing.
00:21:44.000 Of what we accomplished on campuses this last semester.
00:21:48.000 It was 12 years of work.
00:21:51.000 It was a 12-year overnight success story.
00:21:54.000 Playcut 23. Tell us why you're supporting Kamala Harris.
00:21:58.000 Not too sure about that.
00:22:00.000 Why?
00:22:01.000 Okay, so...
00:22:03.000 Right now, because she's not strong.
00:22:05.000 Can you tell me her greatest accomplishment?
00:22:07.000 No, I can't.
00:22:08.000 Can you tell me a single accomplishment?
00:22:11.000 I cannot.
00:22:11.000 I want to leave.
00:22:16.000 What is Kamala Harris' greatest accomplishment?
00:22:19.000 See, that's it.
00:22:26.000 That's that question.
00:22:27.000 You can't.
00:22:28.000 Okay.
00:22:29.000 Name an accomplishment of hers.
00:22:31.000 An accomplishment of her?
00:22:33.000 She got in, she, she, um, in, when she was the guv, hey.
00:22:39.000 What is her greatest accomplishment?
00:22:41.000 Um, being an idol for, um.
00:22:47.000 Oh, I wish I had this on the top of my head, but I don't.
00:22:49.000 Well, as vice president, I'm not sure.
00:22:52.000 I guess I have nothing.
00:22:53.000 I'm stumped.
00:22:58.000 We cannot heal our country until we defeat the Democrat Party this November.
00:23:04.000 My number one mission is make Donald Trump go back into the White House in November.
00:23:11.000 Why should I vote for Trump?
00:23:13.000 Can you kind of give me your point of view of why I should vote for Trump?
00:23:16.000 I am thinking of voting for Harris, but I am open to be proven otherwise.
00:23:20.000 Could you please explain why under a Trump presidency it would be more beneficial to me than a Harris presidency?
00:23:25.000 I want to try to win you over as a liberal for Donald Trump.
00:23:28.000 Why should I vote for Trump?
00:23:30.000 There's no guesswork in this election.
00:23:32.000 We know the type of president that Trump was and that he will be.
00:23:34.000 There are three things I want you to think about when voting for Trump.
00:23:38.000 Homeownership, border war.
00:23:40.000 Three objective things.
00:23:41.000 People remember the Trump years better because they were better.
00:23:44.000 Kamala Harris will destroy this country, bring us closer to World War III, allow 30 million illegal people into the country, and bring us to a Great Depression. 1.00
00:23:52.000 Donald Trump will restore the American dream for your generation.
00:23:55.000 When I decide, just in case, can I have a hat?
00:23:58.000 You can have a hat.
00:23:59.000 So which way are you leaning?
00:24:01.000 Can I get a hat?
00:24:02.000 That's a good answer!
00:24:05.000 I think you've convinced me.
00:24:06.000 So, thank you for that.
00:24:07.000 God bless you.
00:24:08.000 So, yeah, that would end up leaning me towards the Republican Party despite myself being a liberal.
00:24:12.000 How are you leaning this election?
00:24:15.000 Well, after what you said, Trump.
00:24:17.000 Let's go!
00:24:20.000 I'm talking to voters of this country that will determine the future of Western civilization.
00:24:24.000 That's what I'm doing here today.
00:24:26.000 We gotta win.
00:24:28.000 We're gonna make America great.
00:24:31.000 And what we did with the youth vote was incredible.
00:24:37.000 When you guys believed in us, again, this is not about Charlie, it's not even about Turning Point, it's about all of us in the audience.
00:24:42.000 When you guys prayed for us, you tithed towards us, you donated to Turning Point, you helped make this movement possible.
00:24:48.000 A 30-point movement.
00:24:50.000 Young men went for Donald Trump by nearly 20 points.
00:24:54.000 We'll do another show on this in the new year, but I really believe if it wasn't for TikTok, it wouldn't be possible.
00:24:59.000 I'm curious as a side note, what are your thoughts?
00:25:01.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com?
00:25:03.000 Do you think the federal government should be able to ban TikTok?
00:25:06.000 Because that is actually a looming issue.
00:25:08.000 I'm just curious.
00:25:10.000 And some people say, oh, Charlie, why do you care about the TikTok thing?
00:25:12.000 I only care about what I can see.
00:25:14.000 I know that I reached 1.8 billion people since March.
00:25:18.000 We didn't even start until March.
00:25:20.000 And remember, we were not TikTok fans until the ban happened.
00:25:24.000 And we called their bluff.
00:25:25.000 We said, okay, let's see what they're made of.
00:25:27.000 Let's see.
00:25:27.000 We're going to start posting if they don't censor us.
00:25:29.000 And all of a sudden, our stuff started to go more and more viral.
00:25:32.000 And we said, just treat us fairly.
00:25:33.000 Just treat us fairly.
00:25:35.000 And on Instagram, Jay-Z could pull the numbers.
00:25:37.000 Billions of views on Instagram.
00:25:39.000 But I'm curious.
00:25:40.000 I do want to hear from you on that, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:25:43.000 All of this was a combination of a grassroots emphasis.
00:25:49.000 We look at this last year, and we have to just look at the hand of God, as we saw in Butler, Pennsylvania.
00:25:59.000 When God's hand came down and spared President Trump his life.
00:26:05.000 Spared President Trump.
00:26:06.000 We were inches and centimeters away from total and complete civil war.
00:26:14.000 Inches away.
00:26:15.000 Inches and centimeters away.
00:26:17.000 And God is not done with the United States of America.
00:26:21.000 God is not done with this nation.
00:26:24.000 I'm going to give you an example.
00:26:25.000 This was the one that kicked off in September.
00:26:29.000 Our social media blitzkrieg.
00:26:32.000 Playcut21.
00:26:33.000 I will be voting for Trump.
00:26:34.000 Good.
00:26:35.000 And can I explain why?
00:26:36.000 Please.
00:26:37.000 So under the Trump administration, my family, we've long time, we've been renters.
00:26:42.000 So under the Trump administration, when the economy was good, my family, they'd been saving up for a house.
00:26:48.000 They had a good savings.
00:26:49.000 They were making well.
00:26:50.000 And over the last four years, their savings have been wiped out.
00:26:54.000 Inflation has killed them.
00:26:55.000 They're back to renting.
00:26:56.000 They don't know if they'll ever be able to retire.
00:26:59.000 So even though as a Christian, I might not agree with how Trump has been in a couple marriages, sleeps with a lot of women and gets into all this personal drama, just simply based off the economy, I believe I have to vote for Trump.
00:27:13.000 And that was that was the one that began the viral cascade.
00:27:19.000 And it really was and is a movement versus a machine.
00:27:24.000 A grassroots, people-centered, citizen-led movement versus an oligarchic machine.
00:27:33.000 Subject versus citizen.
00:27:35.000 It's that simple.
00:27:37.000 Do you want to be a subject, or do you want to be a citizen?
00:27:41.000 Very, very simple.
00:27:43.000 We had a choice, and you chose correctly.
00:27:47.000 You chose that you wanted to live in a free society.
00:27:50.000 You chose that you wanted to live in a free America.
00:27:54.000 Glory be to God for delivering this country from the brink.
00:27:58.000 And for all of you that gave sacrificially and worked and went that extra mile and drove those eight hours to go knock on doors, this is your victory.
00:28:08.000 And no, I'm not just going to move on to the news of the day.
00:28:10.000 That's the second hour.
00:28:11.000 This entire hour is dedicated to saying thank you, to celebrating and understanding what we just lived through was not natural.
00:28:20.000 It was not normal.
00:28:22.000 It was supernatural.
00:28:26.000 Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here.
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00:29:28.000 Here's when I lost my voice.
00:29:31.000 Literally, it happened twice on the campaign trail.
00:29:33.000 Let's play Cut 26. Megan, I want to get your analysis here of the state of the race.
00:29:39.000 The debate is a distant memory.
00:29:41.000 It's only like nine or ten days ago.
00:29:43.000 Where do you think things stand right now?
00:29:45.000 And has Kamala Harris successfully introduced herself to the American people?
00:29:51.000 By the way, that was on a good day.
00:29:53.000 And it was rough.
00:29:55.000 Let's just say that was rough.
00:29:57.000 I remember when I sat down to do the show that day and I just checked in.
00:30:01.000 Blake was like, oof.
00:30:02.000 And I was making progress by that point.
00:30:04.000 I was on the uptick.
00:30:06.000 That was with the gain turned all the way up.
00:30:10.000 I do have to say, the other big loser this year.
00:30:14.000 That was Blake's prediction that 2024 was going to be a boring year.
00:30:19.000 I'm sorry, I just can't help but say it.
00:30:21.000 Blake went on thought crime, and to his defense, he said, well, what if?
00:30:26.000 But it's kind of one of those what if Blake things where he means it, but he kind of poses it as a question.
00:30:31.000 He was hedging, but you knew Blake believed it.
00:30:35.000 Turns out that was the worst take in Blake Neff history.
00:30:37.000 We will put that one up.
00:30:39.000 We should have a list of the worst Blake takes.
00:30:41.000 That was up there.
00:30:44.000 But Blake has good takes almost all the time, especially on the Roman Empire, which we will continue in 2025. We are honored at Turning Point Action to host history.
00:30:53.000 There was 18,000 people at this event, and yet for whatever reason, I think over 500,000 people say they were there.
00:31:00.000 This is like when, what was it, when the Giants won the World Series on a walk-off home run.
00:31:05.000 The old joke in San Francisco was, it was something like this, that, you know, it seated 22,000 people, but 2 million people say they were there.
00:31:12.000 Everyone I meet in Arizona is at that Bobby Kennedy event.
00:31:16.000 There's no way everyone I meet was at the Bobby Kennedy event.
00:31:18.000 We were honored to help host this PlayCut25.
00:31:22.000 He's a very low-key person, but he's highly respected.
00:31:26.000 He is a great person.
00:31:28.000 I've known him for so long.
00:31:29.000 For the past 16 months, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., I gotta be honest,
00:31:58.000 that was one of the greatest moments.
00:32:00.000 Look at how great that imagery is.
00:32:04.000 Honestly, we did seven major events with President Trump this last year, and I think that was the greatest.
00:32:11.000 I mean, AmFest was unbelievable, and what an honor for the president to crisscross the country and to join us.
00:32:18.000 But this was probably the greatest event.
00:32:21.000 I have to say, the Bobby Kennedy event was the greatest event of 2024. I'm going to end this hour as we recap just of how we reacted on election night.
00:32:35.000 It went very viral, and this is with all of you.
00:32:38.000 I get more feedback than this than anything else.
00:32:40.000 Let's play Cut 19 as we heard the news that we took back our country.
00:32:45.000 Play Cut 19. Fox News decides Donald Trump is President of the United States.
00:32:52.000 We've got our republic back, folks.
00:32:56.000 Let's go!
00:32:58.000 There it is.
00:33:03.000 Everybody should remember this moment.
00:33:05.000 Look, I'm gonna echo Charlie from earlier.
00:33:08.000 Remember where you were when this happened.
00:33:10.000 Remember where you were when you realized that the Uniparty and all these, you know, just the establishment, you said it's time to actually participate.
00:33:20.000 And look what you guys have done.
00:33:23.000 And if anyone deserves to get tears in his eyes, it's Charlie.
00:33:27.000 I think we all agree.
00:33:28.000 No one has worked harder than Charlie for this.
00:33:33.000 We gotta hear some words here from you, Charlie.
00:33:36.000 You put all this together, my man.
00:33:37.000 Let's hear it.
00:33:38.000 I am just humbled by God.
00:33:41.000 It's all God.
00:33:43.000 It's all God.
00:33:44.000 God alone.
00:33:50.000 Decision desk has it.
00:33:52.000 Pennsylvania.
00:33:52.000 It's done.
00:33:55.000 It's beginning.
00:33:59.000 Thank you in this audience.
00:34:00.000 For those of you that prayed for us, that had our back, that supported us, that donated to us, that defended us, that traveled alongside of us, that came to our events, thank you, thank you, thank you.
00:34:12.000 This is your victory in 2024. We look back a year ago.
00:34:16.000 We were at this daunting, overwhelming task, and we just took out our shovel and we got to work.
00:34:21.000 Thank you.
00:34:22.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:34:24.000 Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.