The Charlie Kirk Show - The Makings of a New Conservative Majority with Newt Gingrich

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00:01:52.000 I want to get right to our guest, someone who I have an amazing amount of respect for.

00:01:57.000 I read basically everything he puts out.

00:01:59.000 If there's an op-ed by this man, I read it.

00:02:02.000 He's kind of the senior professor of the conservative movement, and we are honored to have this great patriot with us today, Newt Gingrich.

00:02:08.000 Mr. Speaker, welcome back to the program.

00:02:11.000 Thank you for that warm introduction.

00:02:12.000 As long as you say those nice things, I'll always show up.

00:02:15.000 Well, then we have a deal.

00:02:17.000 So I want to talk about your piece.

00:02:19.000 Democrats' hold on a black community is ending.

00:02:22.000 This is something that people have been talking about for a couple of years.

00:02:25.000 It was a wonderful piece.

00:02:26.000 Walk our audience through it.

00:02:28.000 Well, we've been working on a project that Bernie Marcus launched back in 2018, looking at the question of could you find an American majority that would be large enough and stable enough that you could really get the big things done we need to get this country back on the right road.

00:02:47.000 And because of my background, both working with Ronald Reagan and then with the contract with America in creating the first Republican House majority in 40 years, we had sort of an instinct for how to do this.

00:02:59.000 What's happened, of course, is that Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, I mean, let's be fair, they all work together.

00:03:07.000 They've created such a bad performance record at levels people feel.

00:03:13.000 There was a brilliant article the other day by Selena Zito, who's one of the great students of American politics.

00:03:21.000 And she said she was interviewing people in small towns in Western Pennsylvania who said to her, Look, I can't find baby formula without going to four or five stores, and I can't afford the gasoline to go to four or five stores.

00:03:36.000 So Joe Biden is hitting me in every possible way.

00:03:39.000 And I think what all that's doing is we have to remember, African Americans are as pocket sensitive as Latinos or Asian Americans or for that matter, Caucasians. 0.92

00:03:51.000 And they're looking out there that's saying it ain't working.

00:03:54.000 And the stories and the arguments are getting thinner and thinner.

00:03:58.000 And they're watching more and more effective, competent African Americans rise.

00:04:04.000 And so the old battle cries of the left-wing Democrats work less and less well.

00:04:10.000 And I think what you've got is that you have real opportunities with probably a third to 40% of the black community, a real opportunity with 50 to 60% of the Latino community, and a real opportunity with somewhere between 60 and 80% of the Asian American community.

00:04:29.000 And it's now also beginning to affect younger voters.

00:04:32.000 People who initially idealistically may have thought of themselves as belonging to the Democratic Party, now they're looking at all the expenses, the lack of their ability to buy a house, the difficulty of finding a job that pays enough, et cetera, the rising crime rates.

00:04:48.000 You know, if you live in a big city governed by a Democrat, the odds are pretty high that life has gotten more dangerous in the last three years at a rate that's been amazing that returns us to the 1970s.

00:05:00.000 So all these things are coming together, and it does begin to create a new American majority, very much like the Reagan and Nick's majority in 1984.

00:05:09.000 That's so exciting.

00:05:10.000 And I have a couple other theories that I think play into this.

00:05:12.000 I think social media is also helping us a lot, where a lot of black and Hispanic voters otherwise would have been just kind of listening to very like propaganda radio or television, but they're exposed to new and exciting voices like Candace Owens or Brandon Tatum, where they're getting the other side of the story for the first time, maybe 20 or 30 years ago.

00:05:31.000 It wouldn't have been as possible.

00:05:33.000 And also, unfortunately, the dominance of Democrats destroying these cities, it's now 50 years, 60 years.

00:05:39.000 They've had their turn.

00:05:41.000 And there is that kind of narrative that is seeping in, such as look at Detroit before and after Democrat rule.

00:05:46.000 I mean, in certain, you've seen those pictures where almost Nagasaki has done better post-atomic bomb than Detroit under Democrat rule.

00:05:54.000 And then finally, and I'd love your thoughts on this.

00:05:56.000 I think Republicans are doing better at candidate selection and asking for the vote.

00:06:01.000 It's almost like there's this new sense of confidence thanks to President Trump where we're going to go and ask for the vote, such candidates like Herschel Walker and others.

00:06:09.000 What are your thoughts on all that?

00:06:10.000 Well, look, I think, first of all, I think you're right on, and I think you put your finger on a very fascinating part of this.

00:06:17.000 Kevin McCarthy set out in 2020 to recruit candidates, and people thought the House Republicans would lose 25 seats.

00:06:26.000 They gained 15.

00:06:27.000 That's a swing of 40 from what the experts thought would happen.

00:06:31.000 Well, the 15 they gained, every single one of them, was either a woman or a minority.

00:06:35.000 And in some cases, as with two Korean American women in Southern California, a woman and a minority.

00:06:41.000 Young candidates.

00:06:44.000 And McCarthy talks constantly about base broadening.

00:06:49.000 And he talks about this opportunity to expand the brand, not just to focus in a narrow way on the old base.

00:06:56.000 All of this was made possible by two things.

00:06:58.000 One was Trump's effectiveness in communicating and in delivering.

00:07:03.000 The fact is, you look at the price of gasoline at 235, I think, when Trump left office.

00:07:09.000 You look at the price of gasoline now.

00:07:11.000 You look at the price of food when Trump left office.

00:07:13.000 You look at the price of food now.

00:07:15.000 You look at the border getting controlled under Trump.

00:07:18.000 You look at the chaos in the border now.

00:07:20.000 You look at the crime rate under Trump.

00:07:22.000 And Trump, I think, by now, would have very aggressively gone after these George Soros-elected district attorneys who are refusing to prosecute criminals.

00:07:31.000 So I think people see the big difference.

00:07:33.000 The other part of that, I think, that's really important is younger African Americans are looking around thinking, you know, there's got to be a better future than what the black caucus and the Democratic side is offering me.

00:07:47.000 And they're watching people who are rising, who are succeeding.

00:07:51.000 And I think as a result, You look at a Tim Scott, for example, or as you point out, you look at a Herschel Walker, all of a sudden, you're seeing people who make sense, are very competent, and represent a totally different worldview from the left-wing Democrats in a sense that big government socialism has failed.

00:08:12.000 Woke ideology has failed.

00:08:14.000 And frankly, woke ideology is very much in conflict with both African-American and Latino fans.

00:08:21.000 I totally agree.

00:08:21.000 That's exactly right.

00:08:23.000 And so, really quick, we only have two minutes left.

00:08:25.000 I want to be respectful of your time.

00:08:27.000 Georgia is going to be a little tricky coming up.

00:08:29.000 You wrote an article where you said that David Purdue probably overcounted on the Trump endorsement and maybe didn't work the state the way he should have.

00:08:35.000 What do you anticipate happening?

00:08:37.000 A state you know very well.

00:08:39.000 And the media is going to try to twist that as like a rebuttal of Trump.

00:08:42.000 I think that's not correct.

00:08:44.000 What are your thoughts?

00:08:45.000 Well, first of all, I think that we don't know yet because the Trump vote is always a hidden vote because of the suppression.

00:08:52.000 The Atlanta Journal Constitution has spent weeks attacking Purdue.

00:08:56.000 The governor went out intelligently, legitimately, and raised a huge amount of money as a governor, spent about $16 or $17 million attacking Purdue, didn't run any positive commercials because people don't like Kemp as a person, but he just pounded away at Purdue, and Purdue didn't have the money to respond.

00:09:13.000 So the question is: what percent of that poll number is people who actually are for Purdue but don't want to say it because the environment's been so poisonous?

00:09:22.000 Trump did a telephone town hall meeting last night.

00:09:26.000 I know that we've had a number of people come in the state for Purdue.

00:09:29.000 I've endorsed Purdue.

00:09:31.000 We've had a number of conservatives endorse Purdue.

00:09:33.000 So there's a real choice here.

00:09:35.000 And we'll see.

00:09:36.000 I would say there's at least a 30% possibility that they'll end up in a runoff, that in fact, Kemp will not be able to win without a runoff.

00:09:43.000 And I think he'll have a tremendous problem.

00:09:46.000 On the other hand, my greatest fear was that a very weak Kemp candidacy would, in fact, cripple us and would hurt Kershaw Walker.

00:09:56.000 But with Stacey Abrams having said that Georgia is the worst state in the country to live in, I think she may have just killed her own campaign. 1.00

00:10:03.000 I totally agree.

00:10:05.000 You know, Georgia is a proud state.

00:10:07.000 I mean, that doesn't work in any state.

00:10:09.000 But if you're going to just insult, that's just not going to, that dog's not going to be.

00:10:12.000 Let me say very briefly, by the way, I'm strongly committed to Jake Evans and the 6th District down there.

00:10:18.000 Very much looking forward to his election.

00:10:19.000 He's a great young guy.

00:10:21.000 He's terrific, and he's going to be instrumental in us helping take back the House.

00:10:25.000 Mr. Speaker, thank you so much.

00:10:26.000 It's Gingrich360.com.

00:10:28.000 And thank you for your wonderful commentaries on that.

00:10:30.000 I do it too.

00:10:30.000 Thank you.

00:10:31.000 Thanks.

00:10:32.000 So I want to just kind of recap a little bit more of what's happening in Georgia.

00:10:35.000 I think it's interesting from a political standpoint.

00:10:37.000 I want to also brace you from some of the headlines.

00:10:39.000 So there's Governor Brian Kemp, who I'm not a fan of, who is the incumbent governor of Georgia, and he is being primaried by David Perdue, who is the former senator there.

00:10:49.000 Now, Brian Kemp, to his credit, he's a clever man.

00:10:52.000 He has run a surprisingly formidable incumbent race.

00:11:00.000 I mean, he really wants to continue to be governor of Georgia.

00:11:03.000 Now, I put a lot of blame On Brian Kemp.

00:11:07.000 In fact, I put all the blame on Brian Kemp as to why we lost the United States Senate.

00:11:12.000 Brian Kemp did not do the right leadership decisions that were necessary to prevent widespread mail-in ballot fraud.

00:11:20.000 He did not use the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to go after criminally the mules that we knew were happening in Atlanta.

00:11:27.000 Brian Kemp defeated Stacey Abrams in 2018, only to then settle with Stacey Abrams with a consent decree in the spring of 2020.

00:11:36.000 So Brian Kemp oversaw the defeat of Kelly Loeffler and the election of John Ossif and Raphael Warnock, which also tilted the balance of the United States Senate, which allowed us to not be able to have any negotiating power with Katanji Brown Jackson, whether it be Biden's nominees, whether it be the potential ratification of WHO treaties.

00:11:57.000 All of that went through Georgia.

00:12:00.000 And so I'm not a fan of Brian Kemp.

00:12:02.000 I've spoken about it openly, and I believe that David Perdue would be a great governor.

00:12:07.000 Now, Donald Trump has endorsed David Perdue as David Perdue was mounting a primary challenge against Brian Kemp.

00:12:13.000 But you must understand that the political landscape of Georgia is very much a good old boys network.

00:12:21.000 It's a lot of local counties back slapping.

00:12:24.000 Did you come to the local high school football game?

00:12:27.000 Did you get good tickets at the University of Georgia football game?

00:12:30.000 And I don't want to accuse Brian Kemp of anything illegal.

00:12:33.000 That's not what I'm doing here.

00:12:34.000 But it definitely is a patronage system in Georgia.

00:12:39.000 Now, some states, that really isn't the case.

00:12:42.000 I could tell you right now, Arizona is not a good old boys' network.

00:12:45.000 There is that kind of McCain group in Arizona, but in Arizona, if you haven't lived here, if you just kind of moved here, you can kind of upstart and you can kind of run.

00:12:55.000 Now, of course, there's an establishment.

00:12:57.000 You have to navigate.

00:12:58.000 But Georgia, it's a very much of a, who were you?

00:13:02.000 Did you check the boxes?

00:13:03.000 You know, were you able to take care of the right people?

00:13:06.000 So Brian Kemp made a brilliant political move where he basically metaphorically neutered David Perdue, where he put the more powerful Purdue, which was Sonny Purdue, I believe his name, which I think they're relatives, I'm not mistaken.

00:13:22.000 I think they're cousins.

00:13:23.000 And he appointed him to some sort of university board, which all but basically destroyed the fundraising ability of the entire Purdue network.

00:13:32.000 So Kemp took care of a fellow Purdue in the family, which kind of, let's say, thwarted a lot of David Perdue's ability to be able to continue to raise capital.

00:13:44.000 Now, David Perdue made a decision not to run for the United States Senate.

00:13:47.000 That looks like it's going to be the great Herschel Walker.

00:13:50.000 But Kemp worked the state.

00:13:52.000 Kemp was able to maximize corporate donations.

00:13:56.000 There's a lot of powerful corporations in Georgia.

00:14:00.000 CNN, obviously, is headquartered in Atlanta.

00:14:03.000 I don't think they gave money to Purdue.

00:14:04.000 Coca-Cola is headquartered in Atlanta.

00:14:06.000 At least they said they hated Brian Kemp.

00:14:08.000 Home Depot was headquartered for quite a while in Atlanta.

00:14:12.000 Delta Airlines, for a while, was headquartered in Atlanta.

00:14:16.000 There's a lot of companies that have a significant presence in the state of Georgia.

00:14:21.000 It's always kind of prided itself on being a quote-unquote pro-business state to a fault, by the way, where Georgia invited Hollywood liberals for years via this phony and crony tax credit system where you bring in the Will Farrells and the Kevin Harts of the world, where they become like pseudo-citizens of Georgia and they overly finance these elections.

00:14:42.000 One of the many reasons why Georgia has become a battleground state, which never should have become a battleground state.

00:14:48.000 But a lot of this was under the tutelage and the leadership of Brian Kemp.

00:14:52.000 Now, Brian Kemp, if he survives tonight, which he looks like he will survive based on the polling, is going to then now face Stacey Abrams.

00:15:00.000 Now, anything can happen.

00:15:01.000 David Perdue might have a massive amount of pent-up support, but the problem is this, is that yes, I think David Perdue was a good senator.

00:15:09.000 He was loyal to the Trump base, but he is not like a Doug Collins or a Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia, where they really would have been able to inspire and motivate the base.

00:15:20.000 There's a lot of Purdue skepticism in the base of the Republican Party in Georgia.

00:15:26.000 He tried to turn this into a referendum on Kemp, which was smart, except it was not enough.

00:15:32.000 Only probably 40% of voters are ready to recall a sitting governor.

00:15:37.000 What he needed to do was give the extra 10 to 15% of people a reason to then vote for him.

00:15:42.000 We'll see if it happens.

00:15:44.000 There might be a hidden Purdue Trump vote, but the media is going to try to blame this on Trump tonight if it goes the way of Kemp, which I think would be unfair and not the right way to cover it.

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00:16:54.000 That's a whole Taiwan and China story.

00:16:56.000 Okay.

00:16:57.000 So you're all going to hear this debate at some point if you listen.

00:17:00.000 I debated a pro-CCP agent yesterday.

00:17:05.000 What was his name again, Connor?

00:17:06.000 Ben something.

00:17:07.000 I've never heard it before.

00:17:09.000 The talking points were exactly as if they were being put Ben Carollo, okay, as if the CCP was saying them.

00:17:16.000 I'm not exaggerating it from the concentration camps.

00:17:19.000 He said that China is more of a democracy than America.

00:17:23.000 Just delusional stuff.

00:17:25.000 Totally different planets, right?

00:17:27.000 Saying that, you know, China is better respecting human rights than America.

00:17:32.000 It's just, at some point, you have to wonder if the whole thing is just kind of a charade, right?

00:17:36.000 So I obviously got sort of heated.

00:17:38.000 We had this back and forth, but I'm no fan of the Chinese Communist Party.

00:17:41.000 I believe the CCP is the great evil of our generation.

00:17:45.000 I believe the CCP is moral equivalents of the great evils of the 20th century, whether it be the National Socialist Workers' Party in the 1930s, whether it be the USSR, whether it be any of these mass totalitarian movements.

00:17:57.000 The extension of Mao Sedong into the CCP is the great evil.

00:18:00.000 And I believe that China is a far greater evil to American well-being and to the future of the West than Russia. 0.98

00:18:09.000 In fact, if our leaders were smart and prudent, we would have come up with some sort of neutrality clause with Russia, never have them invade Ukraine, and we would have allied our forces, allied our forces against the true evil, the Chinese Communist Party. 0.96

00:18:23.000 We've been consistent on this, by the way, throughout every one of these engagements about how Russia should not be the main focus of our energy or concern. 0.99

00:18:32.000 Is Putin a scumbag? 1.00

00:18:34.000 Is his regime evil? 1.00

00:18:34.000 Of course he is. 1.00

00:18:35.000 Obviously.

00:18:36.000 Was he wrong to invade Ukraine wholeheartedly and undoubtedly?

00:18:40.000 Does that mean we should send $40 billion to nation build in Ukraine?

00:18:43.000 That's a laughable proposition that our leaders implemented.

00:18:47.000 But China for me is one where it really requires some restraint from interventionist impulses.

00:18:57.000 So, when I start to hear that China might want to take Taiwan, it's not as immediate of an easy answer for me.

00:19:03.000 I'll be very honest.

00:19:04.000 The Ukraine thing, it's easy. 0.99

00:19:06.000 I say, you've got to be kidding me, that somehow this is some sort of foreign policy conflict.

00:19:11.000 Now, I could actually make an argument that Taiwan does have some national security implications for America.

00:19:19.000 Creation of semiconductors, microchips, its geopolitical significance to America.

00:19:24.000 I think that Taiwan, if you were to say what's in the best interest of America, I'm not totally there.

00:19:30.000 I'm not making the argument yet, but you cannot, and this is one of my problems with both kind of pathological isolationists and pathological neoconservatives.

00:19:39.000 I just want you to be prudent and open-minded.

00:19:42.000 So, the people that are like, we must send money to Ukraine no matter what, you obviously haven't thought it through.

00:19:45.000 Okay, you just haven't.

00:19:46.000 I'm sorry.

00:19:47.000 Or the people that say we must do nothing always, like we'll never intervene under no circumstance whatsoever, that's not smart either.

00:19:54.000 You can't live your life.

00:19:56.000 A lot of foreign policy operates in the gray.

00:19:59.000 It's not black and white.

00:20:00.000 A lot of foreign policy is circumstantial.

00:20:02.000 A lot of foreign policy is what is the state of your country when you're actually making that decision?

00:20:08.000 Are you in a strong position?

00:20:09.000 Are you a weak position?

00:20:11.000 Are you united?

00:20:12.000 Are you divided?

00:20:13.000 These are very important questions when you make foreign policy decisions, which I've said for quite a long time.

00:20:18.000 I am against neoconservatism.

00:20:20.000 I'm against this kind of nation-building project.

00:20:22.000 But I don't ever want to get in a position where we are so committed to the inverse ideology that we are paralyzed and we can never act if it actually is in the best interest of America.

00:20:34.000 And so, if you come from the belief that America is the strongest nation in the world, and you believe that China is quickly becoming not just a competitor, but an enemy in opposition to our national, international dominance, we have to ask ourselves a series of questions, which is what is our current relationship with China?

00:20:54.000 What should our relationship with China be?

00:20:56.000 And what are we willing to do if they were going to try an incursion when it came to Taiwan?

00:21:04.000 Now, again, I have to think pretty deeply about this because my gut instinct is: you know what?

00:21:08.000 We should defend Taiwan.

00:21:10.000 However, I look at the ramifications of what that might mean, and the current commander-in-chief, and the current military leadership, and also about how we are now engaged in a proxy war against Russia.

00:21:24.000 And now I have more restraint where I say, wait a second, are we now in a position, whether it be a position kind of from a national morale standpoint, from a financial standpoint, from a military standpoint, military standpoint, to go fight this battle?

00:21:45.000 Now, if we wouldn't have gotten involved at all in Ukraine, and we instead kind of would have understood that the true test would have been in Taiwan, my answer might be a little different.

00:21:55.000 But to get involved in two separate proxy wars against the two other global powers in two areas very far from America, you got me really pausing here.

00:22:06.000 You have me pausing to really consider whether or not this would be prudent.

00:22:13.000 So, Joe Biden has come out and he has said the following: He said that the commitment we have made is that we will militarily defend Taiwan against China's potential invasion.

00:22:28.000 These are very serious words.

00:22:32.000 This could get us into a military conflict very quickly, a nuclear conflict.

00:22:37.000 Play cut 10.

00:22:39.000 You didn't want to get involved in the Ukraine conflict militarily for obvious reasons.

00:22:45.000 Are you willing to get involved militarily to defend Taiwan if it comes to that?

00:22:50.000 Yes.

00:22:50.000 You are.

00:22:53.000 That's a commitment we made.

00:22:56.000 So, first of all, the question is wrong.

00:22:58.000 We are involved militarily in Ukraine.

00:23:00.000 That doesn't mean we have troops on the ground, but we are sending weapons, assistance.

00:23:06.000 So, we're involved in Ukraine.

00:23:07.000 Ukraine has now become a proxy war of the American regime to the tune of $55 billion against the Russian Federation.

00:23:17.000 So, it's very similar to some of these proxy wars that were fought in the 1980s through the Contras and through our intervention in Nicaragua or in other South and Central American countries.

00:23:28.000 We're involved in that.

00:23:30.000 To give an idea, Russia only spends $65 billion a year on their military.

00:23:37.000 In 12 weeks, we've basically matched their spend in a proxy conflict against a country that very well could have been a partner against the Chinese. 0.59

00:23:51.000 Now, so then Biden was asked about Yellen's comments about tariffs on China.

00:23:55.000 So, Joe Biden says we might militarily go after China, but we're also going to remove tariffs.

00:24:01.000 This is not thought through.

00:24:02.000 Play cut 11.

00:24:03.000 Secretary Yellen said recently that some of the tariffs on Chinese imports impose more harm on consumers and businesses and aren't very strategic.

00:24:15.000 Do you share that view?

00:24:17.000 And are you considering taking down some of those tariffs?

00:24:21.000 I'm talking with the Secretary when we get home.

00:24:24.000 I am considering it.

00:24:25.000 We did not impose any of those tariffs.

00:24:27.000 They were imposed by the last administration, and they're under consideration.

00:24:31.000 This whole thing is a mess.

00:24:33.000 If he really wants to put China on defense, we should have put tariffs on day one to rebuild the American industrial manufacturing base.

00:24:42.000 Now, Taiwan is a sovereign nation.

00:24:47.000 Taiwan is far less corrupt than Ukraine.

00:24:54.000 Taiwan is fighting against a legitimate existential evil where if I worry about my grandkids and future generations, it's going to be the Chinese Communist Party threat, not the Russian threat. 0.99

00:25:05.000 Instead, we've kind of provoked and created the Russian threat because of the insanity and the idiocy of our current leadership class.

00:25:15.000 Now, by the way, the White House has walked back the Taiwan claim, saying that we're actually not going to defend Taiwan militarily, completely contradicting the statement. 0.93

00:25:28.000 As the president said, our policy has not changed.

00:25:31.000 He reiterated that our one-China policy and our commitment to peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.

00:25:35.000 He also reiterated our commitment under Taiwan Relations Act to provide Taiwan with the military means to defend itself.

00:25:41.000 What's so interesting, though, is that they talk a game against standing good against China, but they don't want to put the economic sanctions or tariffs on China that would actually help the American worker because that would actually hurt the American financing class.

00:25:58.000 For those of you that are worried about China, the only peace of mind I can give you is that the American business class, which helps run parts of our government, they are not going to let anything happen with China. 0.66

00:26:09.000 They're just not.

00:26:10.000 I want to put that's the only peace of mind.

00:26:13.000 I'm not saying that's a good thing.

00:26:14.000 I'm not celebrating it.

00:26:16.000 But make no mistake, the military-industrial complex with Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, and Lockheed Martin, they love nothing more than a kinetic conflict against China.

00:26:24.000 That would boost their stocks like you wouldn't believe.

00:26:26.000 And let me just, how perverse is it that you have companies that their profit motive is war?

00:26:36.000 I just want you to think about that.

00:26:37.000 There's something wrong about that.

00:26:38.000 There is.

00:26:39.000 As a capitalist, I say that.

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00:27:42.000 Turnout in the Republican primary in Georgia is way up.

00:27:47.000 Republicans lead Democrats by 113,360 votes in early voting.

00:27:51.000 Georgia early voting trends are the following: Republicans have a near seven-point advantage, seven-point swing towards Republicans.

00:28:01.000 These are all early indicators that November is going to be a catastrophic bloodbath for the Democrats.

00:28:09.000 That remember, if the whole premise of 2,000 mules is that this was done on the margins, and if they were able to run enough negative attack ads against Trump, able to gin up enough COVID hysteria, the ballot trafficking was just, trafficking was just enough to be able to get it over the edge.

00:28:26.000 That's always been the argument.

00:28:28.000 Because remember, Chris Cuomo and the CNN people, they always say, of course, there's voter fraud, but it isn't enough to turn an election.

00:28:35.000 It isn't a, that's kind of the repeated incantation.

00:28:39.000 However, if you're talking about an election like Arizona that's determined by 10,000 votes or a Senate election in Georgia that's determined by 1,800 votes, that sort of shenanigans on the margins ends up being the deciding factor.

00:28:52.000 What is now percolating and bubbling up is great because I don't think we've made the necessary changes for ballot drop boxes or mail-in ballot reform.

00:29:00.000 Is that this is not going to be an on-the-margins race in Georgia in November?

00:29:06.000 If all goes according to plan, which it looks like it's trending that way, and the Democrats' window to change sentiment is changing very, very, it's closing.

00:29:15.000 Do you think gas prices are going to go down by early voting?

00:29:18.000 Because remember, our early voting starts like October 1.

00:29:21.000 So we're talking about the month of June, July, August, September.

00:29:24.000 There are four months left for Democrats to try to convince people they aren't terrible.

00:29:28.000 What is their plan?

00:29:29.000 Roe v. Wade?

00:29:30.000 Boy, did that sputter out.

00:29:33.000 I mean, for all the kind of protests and nonsense besides the paid agitators, I have to tell you, I was, I am blown away at the lack of interest people have to protest that.

00:29:47.000 Yeah, I mean, there's some people here and there, but I was expecting like Floyd stuff.

00:29:53.000 We're an exhausted nation.

00:29:55.000 You can't be in a perpetual state of protest and hysteria.

00:29:58.000 People are like, all right, I'm going to go out with my friends.

00:30:01.000 You mean that abortion is still going to be legal in California?

00:30:03.000 Like, whatever.

00:30:04.000 Yeah, of course, you have kind of the super angry activists, but it hasn't been the kind of bellwether they hope.

00:30:09.000 In fact, Democrats get this, have gone down in the generic ballot since the Roe v. Wade league.

00:30:16.000 They've gone down.

00:30:18.000 Yes, but elite, you know, white liberal women donors are going to pump money through Emily's list and all of that. 1.00

00:30:24.000 That's going to continue to happen, obviously.

00:30:28.000 So they might get a couple point boost here and there, but it's nowhere near the realignment that they wanted.

00:30:33.000 So you don't think gas prices are going down.

00:30:35.000 Inflation is certainly not going to be solved.

00:30:37.000 Economic anxiety won't be solved.

00:30:38.000 The border won't be solved.

00:30:41.000 Critical race theory won't be solved.

00:30:42.000 People's negative opinion of Joe Biden.

00:30:44.000 So you're looking at this combination effect that you're starting to see bubble up in Georgia.

00:30:47.000 And we saw this in other primary states as well.

00:30:49.000 We saw this in Ohio.

00:30:50.000 We saw this in Pennsylvania.

00:30:52.000 Record turnout, record turnout, record turnout.

00:30:55.000 Where the Democrats are going, they are close to hitting the point of no return.

00:31:01.000 They are very close to hitting the point where they are not going to be able to turn this ship around under any circumstance at all, whatsoever.

00:31:11.000 And the numbers are showing it.

00:31:14.000 The numbers are showing that Democrat approvals are in the gutter.

00:31:21.000 And ABC News has just come out, AP News.

00:31:25.000 Biden approval dips to lowest level of presidency.

00:31:29.000 Even if Joe Biden goes up by two or three points, only two in 10 adults say the U.S. is heading in the right direction or the economy is good.

00:31:39.000 I wonder if they removed Silicon Valley and the suburbs of Washington, D.C., if that two in 10 would still.

00:31:45.000 If two in 10 Americans think America's heading in the right direction and eight out of 10 Americans say it's not, that's going to be a catastrophe.

00:31:53.000 So what does this mean?

00:31:56.000 This is where Republicans, I think, we need to start to dig in and we need to reach for more.

00:32:01.000 Districts and states are Senate races that otherwise might have seemed inconceivable for us to win.

00:32:07.000 We have to field candidates in every district, in every state.

00:32:11.000 We're going to be surprised like Ed Durr in New Jersey, where he unseated the New Jersey Senate president, or they almost defeated Governor Murphy.

00:32:20.000 I'm telling you that this is, we need to have the best candidates we can have in every corner of the country because we are just, there are going to be some races like, wow, I didn't see that one coming.

00:32:30.000 Wow, I didn't see that one coming.

00:32:32.000 And that all seems to be bubbling up in all this early data.

00:32:35.000 And the Democrats, they are pulling the fire alarm.

00:32:38.000 Expect them to get even more desperate because they're getting to the place where they know they're going to be displaced from power for how long?

00:32:43.000 I certainly hope a while.

00:32:45.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.

00:32:46.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com and support the Charlie Kirk Show at charliekirk.com/slash support.

00:32:52.000 Thank you so much for listening.

00:32:53.000 God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - May 25, 2022

The Makings of a New Conservative Majority with Newt Gingrich

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