00:00:00.000Hey everybody, today in the Charlie Kirk show.
00:00:01.000Carrie Lake joins us and Molly Hemingway for an action-packed episode about the election, Arizona, what do Democrats hub up their sleeve and more.
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00:01:28.000There is one race in America that has the media very worried.
00:01:31.000I could tell you, people are looking at this race and they're seeing a grassroots movement unlike anything I've seen except for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020.
00:01:41.000And that is the Arizona governor's race.
00:01:45.000I'm getting messages from people all across the country about Carrie Lake.
00:01:48.000And I'm telling you, Carrie Lake is going to be America's governor if she wins in 15 days.
00:01:53.000And she looks like the momentum is with her, but we can't take anything for granted.
00:02:19.000And he said that they are concentrating on swing voters and they are blown away that almost every door they go to with the swing voter, they're able to convince them and talk to them about the issues.
00:02:32.000And I think that's a really good sign with two weeks left.
00:02:36.000Well, so Carrie, you got two things going for you.
00:02:38.000Number one, you're a great candidate and you understand the media, but you're also running up against a total clown and a chicken and a coward and someone who's right.
00:02:48.000And every time you get in front of the television cameras, you say, actually, tell our audience about how despicably racist Katie Hobbs is.
00:03:00.000She truly is a twice convicted racist.
00:03:02.000Two juries of her peers unanimously convicted her of racism on two different cases.
00:03:08.000And because of that, we're paying a $3 million settlement.
00:03:10.000Turns out that she thought so little of people of color and women that she paid women of color in her office, not just a little bit less than the men doing the same job, $30,000 a year less than the men in her office doing the same job.
00:03:25.000And when she was called out for it, one of the women said, what the heck's going on?
00:03:51.000And we found out last week or a week and a half ago that when she was in high school, she held mock slave auctions during Spirit Week thinking that was funny.
00:04:02.000And she couldn't come up with one good thing in a forum when they threw her a softball question.
00:04:07.000She couldn't come up with one nice thing, one positive thing that she's learned from the Latino community, which comprises a third of our state.
00:04:15.000My children and my husband are Latino.
00:04:17.000They just, they were in awe, they just shock in awe when they saw her with that softball question.
00:04:22.000And all she could come up with, um, um, um, it was just terrible.
00:04:41.000We need someone who's strong, who can be an ambassador for this state on a national stage, who can fight for Arizonans each and every day, who will secure the border, make sure our kids are not getting brainwashing, but a proper education so they're ready for the real world, make sure our streets are safe again, and tackle this chronic street homelessness so we don't turn into some of these blue cities.
00:05:03.000One of the commitments you also made is that you will not mandate or force the COVID vaccine for children.
00:05:10.000That if people want to take it, it's obviously going to be available.
00:05:21.000I mean, listen, Charlie, and you've got a precious baby.
00:05:24.000These babies come to us in this world perfect, and we're not going to inject them with an experimental shot.
00:05:30.000Our babies, our children are not guinea pigs.
00:05:34.000And there's way too much controversy with this shot.
00:05:36.000We now know, and many of us have known for a long time because we've been researching it, there are injuries associated with this shot.
00:05:43.000We've seen the various reports just because the mainstream media refused to talk about that because they were making a bunch of money from the government and big pharma.
00:05:53.000And so they stayed mum about it while people were having major issues.
00:06:38.000Well, and this kind of goes to why they hate you, Carrie.
00:06:40.000It takes courage because they're afraid of the media saying something, you know, harsh to them where you invite it and you go toe-to-toe with them every day.
00:06:47.000That's why they're so afraid of you because you're more articulate, more charismatic, and smarter than all these low-life reporters.
00:06:53.000I want to play a piece of tape here for me.
00:07:39.000I mean, if you've got a big advertiser and they get somehow caught up, embroiled in crime or some sort of controversy, just notice how the TV stations barely cover that person or that company because they're making lots of money from them.
00:08:34.000It's comical if it weren't so scary, to be honest.
00:08:38.000You know, when they talk about all these different genders, the scary thing is they're now pushing this nonsense on our children when we send our precious kids off to school and trying to confuse them.
00:08:48.000Our children's minds are so malleable, you know, which is such a sweet thing.
00:08:54.000You know, you can talk to them about all sorts of imaginary stuff and they'll believe it.
00:08:58.000But we don't want our schools putting in poisonous stuff and psychological abuse.
00:09:33.000And I want to talk a little bit about that because for a long time, the media has had people who are pro-life, some of the most wonderful people on this planet running scared because they care about women and they care about babies and they care about moms.
00:09:46.000And we know we don't need to run scared.
00:09:49.000We are on the right side of this, Charlie.
00:09:51.000We want to save as many babies as possible.
00:09:54.000And I finally have gotten the media to pin down my racist opponent on where she stands on abortion.
00:10:09.000My opponent is for abortion right up until you could be in labor, walking into the hospital.
00:10:15.000And if you want an abortion, she's okay with that.
00:10:18.000And she's also, her voting record proves it.
00:10:21.000When presented with a piece of legislation that would save babies who would somehow survive an abortion, that would give them life-saving treatment if they survive an abortion.
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00:12:12.000So, Carrie, I've been telling people that it's ideal to vote on Election Day if possible.
00:12:16.000But if you have any question that you might be busy or your friends might not be as enthusiastic as you, in-person early voting is also a good option.
00:12:24.000I'm afraid that Maricopa County is not going to be able to have the infrastructure, the ink, the personnel, the printers to be able to facilitate what I think is going to be the greatest game day election surge.
00:12:35.000Because, Carrie, I've never seen energy like what we see for you right now in Arizona.
00:14:30.000And I know that there are some good lawmakers, some legislators who are going to next session introduce a piece of legislation to prevent that.
00:14:38.000If you're running an election and running for a higher office, you shouldn't be able to run that election.
00:16:12.000And I'm going to tell you, this is not about me.
00:16:14.000This is about we the people realizing that what's happened to our lives the last two years has been so outrageous, so un-American, so disgusting that these moms and dads and grandmas and grandpas and people from all walks of life and our young, our young people as well are rising up and saying, we're going to, we are going to chart the course for our future and we're getting involved.
00:16:36.000We've got a republic if we can keep it.
00:17:21.000Carrie Lake has a movement unlike anything I have seen in my 10 years of doing this, absent Donald Trump, and the first time I've ever seen it on the state-based level.
00:19:46.000Yeah, it's just a very weird situation in Alaska because the general election is pitting two Republican candidates against each other.
00:19:56.000You have Lisa Murkowski, who, as you note, has promised to vote for the Democrat running for the House race versus Kelly Shabaka, who's the conservative endorsed, Republican endorsed candidate in that race.
00:20:09.000So no matter who wins, you get a Republican.
00:20:12.000So why is Mitch McConnell devoting 7 million plus of his PAC money to that race when you have these races that are where that money could be much better utilized for a larger Republican majority?
00:20:25.000And so people are frustrated and just it's a it's a good example.
00:20:29.000It's not the only situation where Mitch McConnell's choices have been bizarre.
00:20:33.000You know, he famously abandoned the Arizona race, which is, which really needs money because that's the race that Democrats have focused, laser focused on in their attempt to keep Blake Masters from winning that race.
00:20:45.000And also in the New Hampshire race, he pulled money out of there, which is a surprisingly close race, given that Democrats were supposed to have an easy hold.
00:21:11.000Everyone kind of, everyone who's involved in this, they do want Republicans to win, but they want Republicans to win in the way that most matches where their ideas are.
00:21:22.000And right now, there is this big debate in the Republican Party about whether the former leaders, the former establishment figures get to regain control and push the policy proposals that they really enjoyed pushing, you know, in the early aught, or whether the party has moved on and become a more multiracial working class party where the policy ideas are supposed to be focused on the needs of the people, the voters, whether that's economic or social or foreign policy or, you know, focusing on borders, whatever the issues are,
00:21:51.000there are people who really want to kind of drag it back to that Bush-Cheney era.
00:21:55.000Yeah, I mean, I know Mitch McConnell, his top priority is obviously to serve, you know, Ukraine because that really matters to him and to make sure that Zelensky gets all the money he needs while Americans can't put food on the table and the border remains wide open.
00:22:08.000So as long as Mitch McConnell gets money to Ukraine, I'm sure the Unit Party remains super happy.
00:22:14.000$75 billion we have spent on Ukraine and McConnell couldn't lift a finger to go secure the southern border.
00:22:20.000But at least Lisa Murkowski gets her $7 million while Blake Masters just can't struggle against Mark Kelly.
00:22:28.000Charlie, could I point out really quickly too, Liz Cheney, who was ousted by the Republican Party in Wyoming, is of course the media darling.
00:22:37.000She was on all these Sunday shows and she said that spending nearly $80 billion on Ukraine's war with Russia makes you an isolationist because what you actually have to spend is literally unlimited money.
00:22:53.000She says that Kevin McCarthy, by saying that it can't be a blank check to Ukraine, which is to me just the most sensible moderate position in the world, it can't be a blank check after $80 billion.
00:23:05.000She says that's isolationist and makes you pro-Putin.
00:23:09.000And the idea that after taxpayers who don't have a functioning border, who have a drug crisis, who have an economic crisis, who can't afford groceries or gas, and give $80 billion to Ukraine to call those people Putin lovers is just a great example of why the Republican Party is moving on from that neocon interventionist form.
00:23:31.000Again, Liz Cheney calling us pro-Putin is the same as the Democrats calling everything racist.
00:23:36.000They just don't think anything through.
00:23:39.000And she literally can't make a coherent argument.
00:23:42.000But she really wants to make sure that Zelensky gets his money because she has a lot of benefactors in Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed, Martin, and Boeing that pay the bills of the Cheney family.
00:23:51.000But God forbid they actually represent their voters.
00:24:43.000He had no experience running audits, but he ran multiple audits on Maricopa County and the guy who was the Democrat head of elections there prior to 20 to 2020 when Stephen Richer won and was elected on this platform, that he would kind of deal with some of the shenanigans that were happening in Maricopa County.
00:25:02.000The moment he gets elected, he immediately renounces his previous positions, defends the integrity of his predecessor, who's now running for Secretary of State of Arizona as a Democrat, defends the integrity of everything that happened in Maricopa County, including, you know, this is a state where millions of dollars of Zuck bucks went into the election administration.
00:25:23.000That's where, you know, private entities took over government election offices to juice up Democrat get out the vote operations.
00:25:31.000Richer, this guy, knew that was going on and critiqued it when he was running for office, but now defends such activities.
00:25:38.000And he said he would be less political than his predecessor.
00:25:41.000He actually set up a crazy never Trump funded PAC to support candidates running in Arizona who share his viewpoint that election integrity is a bad issue.
00:25:54.000So what laws is he accused of breaking?
00:25:56.000Well, most recently, you know, there's this election integrity initiative to bolster voter ID in the state of Arizona.
00:26:04.000It's supported by every conservative group, every Republican elected official, and it is opposed by Stephen Rich, head of Maricopa County's recorder's office.
00:26:16.000And he took taxpayer resources to lobby for that.
00:26:21.000He posted on the county website a demand that people not vote for it.
00:26:26.000And he used taxpayer-funded resources in the form of employee hours to put together that information telling people not to vote for this election integrity measure.
00:26:36.000That's against the law in multiple ways in Arizona, according to people who are election law experts there.
00:26:42.000And so a complaint was filed with the Attorney General of Arizona.
00:26:46.000He actually admitted he was wrong to have done this and pulled it from the site.
00:26:52.000But the investigation into the use of county taxpayer resources to do this illegal thing is ongoing.
00:26:59.000And so, but this is a national issue because what happens in Maricopa County impacts the rest of the nation.
00:27:19.000And so then he has this crazy text exchange.
00:27:21.000Talk about this that you catalog in your piece.
00:27:25.000Stephen Richer writes lengthy screeds against his political opponents.
00:27:29.000And he did these audits, you know, beforehand that were hundreds of pages long.
00:27:34.000And when he began trashing Republican voters and their leaders who care about election integrity, it was in the form of like 60-page diatribes.
00:27:42.000But in one of these audits that he did before he was elected, one of his critiques was that his predecessor was very inappropriate with constituents and other interested parties, that he would drop the F-bomb all the time.
00:27:55.000And just like weeks ago, he unsolicited texts someone, drops the F-bomb, you know, is cussing him out because this guy, who's a Republican election attorney, had given a fairly anodyne quote about why they were pursuing a legal strategy.
00:28:10.000And this Stephen Richard guy just goes after him and attacks him.
00:28:16.000And the guy just kind of is calmly responding the whole time and he just keeps cussing him out.
00:28:20.000And it was just a great example of how he didn't even believe that part of what he'd been saying in order to get elected.
00:28:25.000He claimed he cared about civility and discourse, and yet he is known by many of his constituents to have a horrible temper, just like his predecessor.
00:28:34.000Yeah, so what is the broader lesson here?
00:28:35.000Because this guy ran as to try to reform Maricopa County elections from a really bad guy, Adrian Fontes, who now it just seems it's even more frustrating.
00:28:44.000I don't want to say it's worse, certainly not better.
00:28:46.000It has different problems than when Fontes was in charge.
00:28:49.000So what's the lesson here, Molly, that we can't trust these, you know, super libertarian people when they want to run.
00:28:55.000I don't want to make it too ideological in that way, but he certainly is a snake at the very least.
00:29:01.000The whole reason I found out about this story is that some of his earliest supporters and funders were just horrified that they had fully endorsed this guy and helped him out.
00:30:51.000Yeah, he just sounds as shrill as anybody.
00:30:54.000And it's just, it's just a really remarkable thing.
00:30:57.000I will say I got a lot of comments from people after I published this saying they'd known him for years and that they found him to always be this kind of smarmy guy.
00:31:05.000Molly, let's go through what could the Democrats possibly have up their sleeves in the next 15 days.
00:31:10.000I mean, what I really worry about is that they have something globally significant up their sleeves, like nuclear war with Russia, but praying that nothing like that happens, which would be a really extreme measure.
00:31:22.000I do think that they have put a lot of time, energy, and focus on election rules, laws, and processes.
00:31:32.000And so they are feeling comfortable in places where they've really been able to engage in election administration shenanigans.
00:31:42.000This is a completely lawless state in terms of election integrity.
00:31:47.000You have had the Secretary of State publicly state a refusal to comply with the Supreme Court of the United States ruling on whether to accept undated ballots in their election processes.
00:31:59.000You have a state Supreme Court that has completely conflicting guidance based on whether a given issue will benefit Democrats or Republicans.
00:32:08.000You have rampant unsupervised balloting in the form of mail-in balloting throughout the state.
00:32:14.000And you have an aggressive litigation team there for Democrats as well.
00:32:18.000Now, I know that Democrats say that if you challenge any election administration process, that makes you an election denier.
00:32:24.000So certainly they won't challenge anything in these upcoming midterms, I'm sure.
00:32:30.000But if they are going to instead just do whatever it takes to do this, this thing is so dishonest.
00:32:35.000I mean, you've done a Brazil saying it's Jim Crow 2.0.
00:33:44.000And so I know, so for example, we did a big grassroots event yesterday on AM 960, the Great Salem radio network, and there were probably 500 people there.
00:33:53.000I said, how many of you plan to vote on Election Day?
00:33:55.000I got to tell you, every hand went up.
00:33:56.000And that worries me about backlogs, about traffic jams.
00:34:00.000I mean, in Arizona, the way we do elections, it makes Honduras look ethical and transparent and clean, where they print the ballots the day of the whole thing's a mess.
00:34:08.000Do you think there might be an issue that there is too much of an emphasis on game day voting, Molly?
00:34:14.000Only, now, I don't actually worry about people voting on election day, which is a great day to vote.
00:34:18.000And there's something very healthy about people all going to the polls on a single day and finding out that day what the results are.
00:34:24.000What I am worried about is that because Republican voters vote on Election Day, they don't realize that their poll observation, that their election observation needs to have been already starting weeks ago.
00:34:35.000So if you were worried about ballots being accepted that don't follow the law, you should have been signed up and trained to be an election observer months ago, because other people have been voting for weeks.
00:34:46.000And it's those votes that you're probably going to be more concerned about because they are so unsupervised.
00:34:51.000They are so prone to coercion or other problems, you know, harvesting or other problems.
00:34:56.000So that is what people need to understand.
00:34:59.000Even if they vote on election day, election day has become election season and it all needs oversight, not just the final day.
00:35:05.000Seriously, there's going to be a lot of questions around this.
00:35:09.000And I'm telling people, you know, we're going to be streaming live here on Real America's Voice.
00:35:13.000We're going to be streaming live on Rumble.
00:35:14.000We're going to be doing election night coverage.
00:35:16.000But Molly, do you think we're actually going to know a winner on election night of the U.S. Senate?