The Charlie Kirk Show - November 27, 2023


The Republican Party's BIG Problem Just Got Even Worse


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Today's episode is a tribute to Charlie Kirk, the man who founded Turning Point USA and who is running the White House for Donald Trump. Charlie is also joined by Laura Logan and Laura's mom, Laura Logan, to talk about what it means to be a conservative in 2020.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, it's on the Charlie Kirk show.
00:00:01.000 The Democrats are broadcasting their play very similar to some football we saw over the weekend.
00:00:06.000 And Rana needs to resign a very disappointing finance report from the RNC.
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00:02:56.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:02:58.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:03:00.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:03:04.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:03:07.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:03:08.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:03:09.000 His spirit, his love of this country.
00:03:11.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:03:17.000 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.
00:03:26.000 That's why we are here.
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00:03:38.000 Dutch populism on the rise.
00:03:41.000 Geert Wilders shocks the world in the Netherlands.
00:03:45.000 We have Eva.
00:03:47.000 I won't even try to say her last name without rehearsing it coming up in the next hour.
00:03:51.000 Also, Laura Logan.
00:03:52.000 So much to cover, but I want to isolate two stories here because we are less than a year away.
00:03:57.000 Less than a year away.
00:03:58.000 December is going to go by like this.
00:04:01.000 January is coming.
00:04:02.000 The Iowa caucuses are right around the corner.
00:04:05.000 Donald Trump is going to be the nominee.
00:04:08.000 Ron DeSantis is throwing everything he possibly can.
00:04:11.000 Nikki Haley is throwing everything she can.
00:04:14.000 Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on this primary.
00:04:17.000 And we've said forever, our position has been consolidate behind the main candidate.
00:04:23.000 Consolidate behind the former president, who is an excellent president and will be again.
00:04:30.000 The 2020 election was an insult and a drive-by shooting to the U.S. Constitution.
00:04:37.000 And if we do not have a strong party that is doing the boring yet important work, the plumbing of the elections, we might just fall 2,000 votes short here or 3,000 votes short here.
00:04:50.000 There are two stories here that should motivate us towards a specific line of action.
00:04:55.000 And there's a lot of good stuff happening right now, a lot.
00:04:58.000 Populism is ascendant in the West, in Argentina, in the Netherlands, in Germany.
00:05:04.000 We're starting to see stuff in Ireland that we've never seen before.
00:05:07.000 A tragic stabbing of a Muslim Algerian who went after kids.
00:05:11.000 And the Irish are not putting up with it anymore.
00:05:14.000 In fact, they're investigating Conor McGregor over speaking out against the government.
00:05:18.000 We're going to talk about that story, but first to our own country.
00:05:21.000 The Democrats are broadcasting their play.
00:05:25.000 So I'm a big football guy.
00:05:26.000 I have to say this last weekend was one of the best football weekends that I have enjoyed in quite some time.
00:05:32.000 The Michigan-Ohio State game, hard to say that was not one of the best, the games of my lifetime.
00:05:39.000 And honestly, I was pulling for the buck, guys.
00:05:42.000 Even the Northwestern Illinois game was excellent.
00:05:44.000 The Oregon-Oregon State game, I obviously loved that outcome.
00:05:48.000 By the way, this Friday, producer Andrew and I will not be talking to one another.
00:05:52.000 It's a rematch, Washington and Oregon.
00:05:55.000 We'll see what happens in Vegas.
00:05:57.000 Not to mention the Auburn, Alabama game.
00:05:59.000 I've never seen an ending like that.
00:06:01.000 Fourth and 31, Jalen Milro, to the back of the end zone.
00:06:05.000 Anyway, what if I told you that in football, you knew the play the other team was going to run?
00:06:13.000 If you knew for certain what the other team was going to run, let's actually get that last play, the 4th and 31 by Jalen Milro.
00:06:24.000 I want to play that.
00:06:26.000 Because if you knew exactly what the other team was going to do, if you knew they were broadcasting it and they showed it to you, hey, we're going to throw it to the back of the end zone on the boundary side.
00:06:35.000 If you knew that, wouldn't that give you an advantage?
00:06:39.000 Exactly how to scheme it, exactly how to counter it?
00:06:42.000 If you knew what Alabama or Auburn was going to do ahead of time.
00:06:47.000 Now, I know what some of you are saying.
00:06:48.000 Didn't Jim Harbaugh do that the last couple of years?
00:06:51.000 I'm not going there.
00:06:52.000 In fact, we did a whole podcast on that.
00:06:55.000 I think that Harbaugh, I got a lot of thoughts on Harbaugh, but I actually think it's overregulated.
00:07:01.000 Point being is this.
00:07:02.000 It does give you an advantage.
00:07:03.000 It does give you an ability to be one step ahead.
00:07:10.000 The Democrats are broadcasting clearly to us what their play for 2024 is.
00:07:17.000 There is no mystery.
00:07:18.000 They're not going to run on Israel Hamas.
00:07:21.000 They're not going to run on the border.
00:07:22.000 They're not going to run on the economy.
00:07:23.000 It is one play, and they're telling it.
00:07:26.000 Now, mind you, sometimes in football, especially back when the good old Nebraska Cornhuskers played, they would tell you where they were running, and they would still beat you.
00:07:36.000 Nebraska said, we're going to run the ball up the A gap.
00:07:38.000 We're going to run the ball up the B gap and you won't stop us.
00:07:40.000 And they were right.
00:07:41.000 They won many national titles.
00:07:44.000 NBCNews.com, abortion rights groups seek ballot measures in nine more states in 2024.
00:07:52.000 They are telling us.
00:07:54.000 Now, before we get too cocky, because I'm starting to feel people say, oh, you know, they very well might, we're going to win and Trump is up on these ballots.
00:08:02.000 Hold on a second.
00:08:04.000 Do not underestimate the power of the abortion issue in some of these states.
00:08:10.000 If they are able to turn the abortion issue into a single-issue election, we're going to be in some trouble.
00:08:19.000 If we know the play before it's going to happen, now I have to play this because this is from the Iron Bull this last weekend, one of the most entertaining games I've seen in quite some time.
00:08:28.000 Why Auburn only rushed three, I think they rushed three defensive linemen and they gave Jalen Milro like an afternoon to throw the ball.
00:08:36.000 But if you knew this play was coming, you would probably scheme it differently, right?
00:08:39.000 You would probably change up your coverage.
00:08:43.000 Play cut 21.
00:08:46.000 That's all it is.
00:08:48.000 But there's a lot of airspace to cover for Milro.
00:08:52.000 Still looking.
00:08:53.000 Firing.
00:08:54.000 Near corner.
00:08:55.000 It's caught.
00:08:57.000 Touchdown, Alabama.
00:08:59.000 Isaiah Bond.
00:09:02.000 On a fourth and a mile.
00:09:06.000 So you know it's coming.
00:09:08.000 We know what play they're going to run.
00:09:10.000 Guess what?
00:09:10.000 The Democrats, they're going to be in fourth and long.
00:09:12.000 The economy is bad.
00:09:14.000 The border is crumbling.
00:09:15.000 People have a negative opinion of where the country is headed.
00:09:18.000 Biden, his numbers are in the tank, but they're going all in on one play.
00:09:22.000 NBCNews.com, abortion rights groups seek ballot measures in nine more states.
00:09:28.000 Despite an unbroken winning streak since Roe versus Wade was overturned, some of the efforts to enshrine abortion rights and state constitutions face substantial challenges, but they're going to put them right on the ballot.
00:09:38.000 They're going to do this to create the 2024 election despite all of the suffering that we're seeing, despite the civilization crumbling.
00:09:46.000 So what is our counter move?
00:09:49.000 What do we as freedom-loving patriotic Americans, if we know this is going to be their play, what do we do?
00:09:57.000 CEO of Planned Parenthood Action, their political arm, Alexis McGill says, quote, we've already seen the power of direct democracy in seven states where campaigns to protect or restore abortion rights won resoundingly.
00:10:10.000 Across the country, voters are eager to fight the tide of anti-abortion policies pushed by politicians.
00:10:16.000 In Arizona, they're going to try to get on the ballot.
00:10:18.000 So where is the messaging arm?
00:10:22.000 Where is, since we know the play, it's not going to be some mystery.
00:10:27.000 You think the Democrats are going to come out and they're saying, hey, we're going to run on immigration? 1.00
00:10:31.000 Loser. 1.00
00:10:31.000 Crime, loser. 1.00
00:10:33.000 Abortion is a tricky issue, though. 0.98
00:10:35.000 Abortion is an issue, where obviously I'm 100% pro-life, where a voter is willing to put blinders on to all the other things happening.
00:10:49.000 They might seem as if they're one of our voters.
00:10:52.000 Oh, crime is too high.
00:10:53.000 The economy is terrible.
00:10:54.000 Inflation is too high.
00:10:56.000 I don't like Joe Biden, but I'm going to vote for the person to make sure that my 17-year-old daughter has an insurance policy.
00:11:03.000 And that is basically what we find time and time again.
00:11:07.000 Now, some people say, oh, no, no, no, that's not true.
00:11:10.000 No, abortion is a blinder issue.
00:11:12.000 Look at the Virginia House races.
00:11:15.000 They ran on that one issue, that one play against Yunkin.
00:11:18.000 Look at the 2022 midterms.
00:11:20.000 Raphael Warnock against Herschel Walker.
00:11:23.000 So wouldn't this be an opportunity for the RNC to formulate better abortion messaging?
00:11:30.000 Bring in the Council of Elders. 0.99
00:11:32.000 Figure it out.
00:11:34.000 I haven't been invited.
00:11:35.000 Has Matt Welsh been invited?
00:11:36.000 Has Steve Bannon been invited?
00:11:38.000 Has Dan Bongino been invited?
00:11:39.000 Has Tucker been invited to some form of an RNC messaging emergency strategy session?
00:11:46.000 We know their play.
00:11:48.000 There is, by the way, they're going to do some other shenanigans, okay?
00:11:51.000 They're going to do mass mail-in balloting, all that stuff.
00:11:52.000 I'm talking about the messaging play.
00:11:55.000 And if we are not able to neutralize it, we very well might be disappointed.
00:12:00.000 So, where is the RNC?
00:12:02.000 What are they doing?
00:12:03.000 Are they building a war chest?
00:12:06.000 Are they creating infrastructure necessary in Arizona, Wisconsin, Georgia?
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00:13:15.000 We need a strong RNC.
00:13:17.000 Donald Trump is calling for a revamping of the RNC.
00:13:21.000 He's not quite yet calling for Rana's resignation.
00:13:25.000 We've been calling for Rana's resignation for quite some time.
00:13:28.000 And it's nothing personal, even though she spends time formulating hit pieces against people that should be allies, circulating them via the RNC email list, for example, against me and Turning Point USA.
00:13:40.000 That's what she focuses on.
00:13:42.000 I put all of that aside.
00:13:44.000 No, instead, what we've said is: listen, they're not going to be able to raise the capital, hire the staff to win.
00:13:50.000 Washington Post this morning, donations to GOP, RNC, drop as worries mount about the party's finances.
00:13:58.000 The RNC has disclosed that it has $9.1 million cash on hand, but it's really less than that because $6 million of it is in a segregated convention account.
00:14:07.000 So they can only touch $3 million of that.
00:14:10.000 By contrast, in 2016, they had $20 million cash on hand and $61 million four years ago when Trump was in the White House.
00:14:20.000 The DNC reported having $17.7 million.
00:14:24.000 So nearly double what the RNC has, almost twice as much as the Republican Party.
00:14:30.000 So Oscar Brock, a Tennessee RNC member, says this: quote, it's a revenue problem.
00:14:36.000 We're going through the same efforts we always go through to raise money.
00:14:39.000 The same donor meetings, retreats, digital advertising, direct mail, but the return is much lower this year.
00:14:45.000 If you know the answer, I'd love to know it.
00:14:47.000 It's not a revenue problem.
00:14:49.000 It's a RANA problem. 0.99
00:14:52.000 People don't want to give to a loser.
00:14:55.000 Whether it be an amazing $25 a month donor who's a plumber that wants to save the country or a $250,000 donor who wants to save the country, they don't want someone who has lost and lost and lost.
00:15:13.000 If you know the answer, I'd love to know it.
00:15:14.000 Yes, I know the answer, Oscar Brock. 0.98
00:15:16.000 You have a loser running the RNC. 0.66
00:15:18.000 The staff has managed to tighten down on expenses to keep the party from going into the red. 0.98
00:15:22.000 Oh, really?
00:15:23.000 You trimmed the flower budget?
00:15:25.000 Great to hear.
00:15:27.000 So I'm in a unique position to talk about this because we have to raise a lot of money at Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action.
00:15:32.000 You see what we're doing with Amfest.
00:15:34.000 We have 450 people on staff.
00:15:36.000 By the way, the RNC says, oh, well, you know, we have staff deployed in 15 swing states.
00:15:40.000 Yeah, we have 400 people on staff at Turning Point.
00:15:43.000 We know how it is to raise money, and we have 300,000 active donors.
00:15:48.000 Praise God.
00:15:49.000 It's been a lot of work.
00:15:50.000 It's been 11 years of work.
00:15:52.000 And so we talk to donors a lot.
00:15:53.000 It's true, some donors are cutting back.
00:15:55.000 Some donors are trimming.
00:15:57.000 But you know what we hear?
00:15:58.000 Is that they're sick of the RNC's excuses.
00:16:01.000 Saying one thing and doing another.
00:16:03.000 Where's the ground game?
00:16:04.000 Why do you have an office in DC?
00:16:06.000 Why are you doing debates with NBC News?
00:16:09.000 Scott Pressler tweets out, which, by the way, Scott Pressler is still waiting for a phone call back from Rana.
00:16:14.000 The RNC has big problems, Scott Pressler says.
00:16:17.000 Only has $9.1 million cash on hand, the lowest amount since February 2015.
00:16:22.000 The small dollar program isn't performing well, and some major donors aren't cutting large checks because of party leadership.
00:16:27.000 Furthermore, the debates have flubbed, and one of them was even scheduled on the same night as the Country Music Awards.
00:16:32.000 The frustration reached a boiling point after the November 2023 loss, especially when it revealed that Virginia GOP chairman Rich Anderson asked for the RNC for funding and he was denied money.
00:16:44.000 Two-thirds of the 168 members are up for re-election in spring of 2024.
00:16:48.000 Many of them are running, voted for current party leadership.
00:16:52.000 They need to answer for the abysmal fundraising, years of losses, and their votes.
00:16:56.000 Something has to change.
00:16:57.000 Now, the RNC spends about 40 to 45% of all money they raise on fundraising costs.
00:17:04.000 That's what we know of.
00:17:06.000 It's probably even higher than that.
00:17:07.000 At turning point, it's around 4% to 5%.
00:17:10.000 It's gone up a little bit in the last year.
00:17:12.000 It's right around 7% now.
00:17:14.000 When the economy worsens, which it has, and donors cut back a little bit, it's okay.
00:17:18.000 It's understandable if it goes up to about 7%, maybe 8%.
00:17:22.000 Why is it 40% at the RNC?
00:17:24.000 We know what it takes to raise money.
00:17:26.000 This is inexcusable.
00:17:28.000 And it's because donors invest in people and leaders, not just institutions.
00:17:35.000 It's really important to understand.
00:17:37.000 Someone emailed us, and by the way, it's a big donor of ours: quote, why should I give money to a party that is not wired to win?
00:17:43.000 I think that's a great email from a major donor, by the way.
00:17:47.000 The RNC, by the way, has unique legal flexibility.
00:17:52.000 They get standing in lawsuits that other outside groups do not get.
00:17:56.000 That needs to be capitalized on.
00:17:58.000 When the RNC, for example, files a lawsuit in Arizona, it'll be taken more seriously by a judge than even turning point action because it is the party.
00:18:09.000 The RNC needs to be a hub of data, of fundraising, and yes, messaging.
00:18:15.000 And yet we get excuse after excuse after excuse.
00:18:19.000 Rana McRomney says there's nothing unusual about all this because donors know that once their candidate gets in, they'll merge with us and we'll be working together to win the White House.
00:18:28.000 I'm not so sure about that.
00:18:30.000 I'm not sure donors are going to give money to the RNC at all.
00:18:33.000 This is a bad sign handing in 2024.
00:18:35.000 We need a regime change.
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00:19:50.000 I'm going to read Frank's email here.
00:19:52.000 Charlie, I will not waste any money on the RNC as it is today.
00:19:55.000 Rana must be removed.
00:19:56.000 Why doesn't Vivek run the RNC?
00:19:58.000 Anybody but Rana, Rhino, and part of the DC swamp gang.
00:20:02.000 Frank, who is a TPSA donor since 2022.
00:20:04.000 Thank you, Frank.
00:20:05.000 Appreciate that, that we've earned your support.
00:20:06.000 It's my favorite word in the English language.
00:20:09.000 And that's what really bothers me about this Washington Post article.
00:20:13.000 Where is the word earn in the RNC's lexicon?
00:20:18.000 Is it anywhere?
00:20:19.000 And that's the problem.
00:20:20.000 They feel entitled to your money.
00:20:25.000 Why aren't people given Oscar Brock says?
00:20:28.000 If you know the answer, I'd love to know it.
00:20:29.000 You guys have lost everything.
00:20:31.000 You lost in Virginia.
00:20:32.000 You lost in Ohio.
00:20:32.000 You lost in Pennsylvania.
00:20:34.000 You lost in the midterms.
00:20:36.000 You barely have the House majority.
00:20:38.000 Barely.
00:20:39.000 You lost winnable Senate races in Georgia.
00:20:43.000 At some point, at some point, you have to take responsibility for your actions.
00:20:50.000 Wisconsin Supreme Court, another example, by the way.
00:20:54.000 Here's what's amazing: these people out of nowhere, the Washington Post, this is way too, this is a very friendly piece, by the way.
00:21:04.000 The Washington Post could obscured them.
00:21:07.000 Makes you think, doesn't it?
00:21:09.000 This is a very cozy article.
00:21:11.000 It might not feel that way, but the way this is presented is one of my favorite parts of the article.
00:21:18.000 Unprompted, state party chairs sent in quotes to support Rana.
00:21:27.000 That's weird.
00:21:28.000 Unprompted?
00:21:29.000 Yeah, right. 0.99
00:21:30.000 That means that Rana called in favors.
00:21:32.000 Hey, I need you to send in quotes to the Washington Post.
00:21:35.000 So coordinated.
00:21:36.000 Of course, it's coordinated.
00:21:38.000 They say, you know, the RNC is an easy punching bag.
00:21:41.000 Honestly, no, the RNC has not been a punching bag the last 10 years.
00:21:45.000 If the RNC was doing its job, raising capital, uniting the tribes.
00:21:49.000 Look, I understand that under bylaws, you have to do some debates, but you really don't, you don't have to do this many debates.
00:21:54.000 There's nowhere that says you have to have three or four or five.
00:21:57.000 By the way, the fact that you haven't been able to get Trump to show up to a debate, you do a debate with NBC News, not doing a debate with the actual media figures in the movement.
00:22:07.000 Do you think that NBC News, Lester Holt, doing a debate with our candidates, are we better served by that?
00:22:14.000 Or are we better served by Tucker Carlson, Dan Bongino, Matt Walsh?
00:22:19.000 Could you imagine?
00:22:20.000 Tucker, Bongino, Walsh.
00:22:22.000 And yet there's members of the RNC that go on the record here in the Washington Post saying she's doing a great job.
00:22:31.000 Michael Watley, North Carolina state chairman, says she has strong support within the RNC.
00:22:37.000 She won 110 plus votes during the election in January.
00:22:40.000 I think she has stronger support now than in January.
00:22:44.000 I think her and the RNC team on focus on what they need to be focused on right now.
00:22:47.000 Well, they're not raising money.
00:22:48.000 They're not hiring staff.
00:22:49.000 So what exactly are they focused on? 0.93
00:22:52.000 God bless this one RNC member, Patty Lyman. 0.98
00:22:56.000 God bless her.
00:22:57.000 She says the RNC's electoral record since 2017 speaks for itself.
00:23:02.000 The damage from that chair election goes far beyond dropping donations.
00:23:06.000 Our base was demoralized.
00:23:07.000 Our base is still demoralized.
00:23:09.000 In fact, our base is angry because our base wants somebody who represents them.
00:23:15.000 That's what's so frustrating about this whole thing is the clubbiness of the RNC.
00:23:20.000 Continue.
00:23:21.000 This is one of my favorite things.
00:23:22.000 During the third GOP debate, candidate Vivek Ramaswamy went so far to call McDaniel to resign.
00:23:27.000 An online video shows Benny Johnson workshopping an attack on McDaniel and deciding to use it as an opening salvo in the debate.
00:23:33.000 God bless Benny Johnson.
00:23:36.000 We had him on the show.
00:23:36.000 It was great.
00:23:38.000 The RNC is always going to be a bit of a punching bag.
00:23:40.000 You know when it's going to be a punch bag when you lose.
00:23:43.000 If you start winning, it's not going to be so much of a punching bag.
00:23:46.000 The article continues.
00:23:48.000 McDaniel appears unfazed during her visit to the meeting of the South RNC members this month, according to Jonathan Barrett. 0.96
00:23:54.000 Rana is going to take punches, no problem at all. 1.00
00:23:56.000 It doesn't do any good for anyone in the RNC to do anything to remove her. 1.00
00:24:00.000 We all just have to focus on our states and the presidential primaries and move on.
00:24:03.000 Is that good enough for you?
00:24:04.000 And you know what the other problem is?
00:24:07.000 The way that they raise money.
00:24:09.000 How many solicitations do you get?
00:24:11.000 They're so insulting.
00:24:13.000 Give us money or else we're never going to win anything again.
00:24:16.000 Why don't you earn the support?
00:24:18.000 Be transparent.
00:24:20.000 If Rana would say, hey, let me show you exactly what the plan is of who we're hiring, what we're doing to secure elections, file lawsuits, have people on the ground, not have a DC building, I think people would listen.
00:24:33.000 Look, we want to win.
00:24:36.000 And the issue in front of us is we know the Democrats' main play, the messaging play on abortion.
00:24:43.000 We know that they're spending billions of dollars right now.
00:24:47.000 And donors are not buying what the RNC is selling.
00:24:52.000 But I do want to say, I want to brag on a really good donor move that we're starting to see.
00:24:57.000 And this is great.
00:24:58.000 This is some good news for you today. 0.98
00:25:01.000 We've been waiting for this damn to break, and it is breaking. 0.96
00:25:04.000 Now, some donors are still under the fantasy that Nikki Haley, Nimerata Haley, can beat Donald Trump. 0.99
00:25:09.000 They live on Neptune.
00:25:11.000 But more and more donors are starting to say we have to start to invest in the infrastructure and start to get behind Donald Trump as the inevitable nominee.
00:25:24.000 Bernie Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot.
00:25:29.000 He's been very generous to turning point throughout the years, and he's a great American, one of America's greatest entrepreneurs, by the way.
00:25:35.000 Great entrepreneurs.
00:25:36.000 He's a great patriot, loves America.
00:25:38.000 He built the whole Georgia Aquarium, by the way.
00:25:41.000 I don't know if you know this, the Atlanta, Georgia Aquarium, one of the most unbelievable things.
00:25:45.000 This is a really powerful op-ed.
00:25:48.000 I want everyone to read it.
00:25:49.000 We're going to put it at charliekirk.com, RealClearPolitics.
00:25:52.000 This right here is leadership by Bernie Marcus.
00:25:55.000 I am 94 years old, and like many of you, I'm exhausted by politics and saddened by what I see happening to America.
00:26:02.000 I had hoped it was time for me to move to the sidelines and let younger generations continue to fight to preserve America's founding freedoms and values.
00:26:08.000 But like so many of us, I realized I could not let myself walk away.
00:26:11.000 The stakes are too high, Bernie Marcus writes.
00:26:13.000 We cannot let the America we see today be what we leave to our children and grandkids.
00:26:18.000 Many of our once great cities have devolved into lawlessness with random violent attacks on innocent people, rampant looting, and large-scale homeless encampments.
00:26:27.000 They are rarely consequences for the wrongdoers because George Soros, elected prosecutors across America, refused to prosecute them.
00:26:33.000 He continues by detailing how awful Biden is.
00:26:39.000 It's really powerful.
00:26:40.000 Then I'm going to move on to this part.
00:26:41.000 I wrote this op-ed for my love of America.
00:26:44.000 He does love America, not for any financial gain or advantage.
00:26:46.000 I'm going to retire for 30 years and spend my time engaged in philanthropic causes, of which I've committed 90% of my net worth.
00:26:53.000 God bless you, Bernie Marcus.
00:26:55.000 Again, he's been very generous at the turning point.
00:26:56.000 We're very thankful.
00:26:58.000 Only in America, the land of opportunity could be, being without a job and broke, be a great opportunity.
00:27:03.000 In 1978, my parents and I built four, I'm sorry, my partners and I built four hardware stores, not parents.
00:27:11.000 And this small business grew as known as the Home Depot, one of the great American stories.
00:27:17.000 He goes on to say this: I wanted to sit on the sideline of politics, but the stakes were too high for me just to walk away.
00:27:24.000 The stakes are America's path forward.
00:27:26.000 Do we want to continue this perilous trajectory we're now on?
00:27:29.000 I do not because it would be disastrous for all Americans except the political elite.
00:27:34.000 Amen.
00:27:35.000 For Democrats, the choice is simple.
00:27:37.000 If you feel that you are better off than you were three years ago, you should vote for Joe Biden or whoever the Democrat nominee is.
00:27:42.000 For Republicans, your choice is simple.
00:27:44.000 Let's face it, Donald Trump is going to win the nomination.
00:27:48.000 You should be doing all you can to ensure his winning the general election.
00:27:54.000 I understand the frustrations of my Republicans' friends who do not like or are offended by the things Donald Trump says.
00:27:58.000 I, too, have been frustrated at times, but we cannot let his brash style be the reason we walk away from his otherwise excellent stewardship of the United States during his first term in office.
00:28:08.000 Bernie Marcus writes: For these reasons, I endorse Donald J. Trump as the nominee of the Republican Party and as our next president.
00:28:17.000 I want you to understand how big this is.
00:28:18.000 Bernie Marcus is one of the most successful Americans.
00:28:22.000 I think his net worth is near $10 billion now.
00:28:25.000 He has no reason to write this, no financial advantage except his love of this beautiful country.
00:28:30.000 And this is going to start, the dam is going to break, everybody.
00:28:33.000 In fact, ABCNews.com reports that donors are starting to move away from DeSantis, move away from Nikki Haley.
00:28:42.000 Bernie Marcus continues: I urge my fellow Democrats, Republicans, and Independents to put their love for America above all else.
00:28:50.000 This is what I love.
00:28:51.000 I urge the Republican National Committee to end the Republican debates that only benefit ad makers and political consultants.
00:29:00.000 They are unproductive and embarrassing, Bernie Marcus.
00:29:05.000 This is a powerful piece.
00:29:07.000 High stakes and a simple choice.
00:29:10.000 I would send this to every moderate and independent-minded voter and donor.
00:29:15.000 You better believe I'm going to be sending it around to donors like you wouldn't believe.
00:29:18.000 It's very clear that he has his frustrations with Trump, but some things matter more than your annoyance about Trump.
00:29:26.000 The nation, the country.
00:29:29.000 This is a patriot right here.
00:29:32.000 By the way, Bernie could run the RNC.
00:29:34.000 He ran Home Depot very, very well.
00:29:36.000 Businessman would be nice, right?
00:29:38.000 Bernie Marcus for chairman of the RNC?
00:29:40.000 That would be refreshing.
00:29:42.000 This is a great sign, everybody, to have 20, 30, 40, 50 donors like Bernie Marcus, major philanthropists, to unify and consolidate against Joe Biden and the Democrat regime.
00:29:55.000 This is exactly the opposite of what the bad guys wanted to happen.
00:30:01.000 They wanted a contentious, bloody primary with DeSantis and Nikki Haley.
00:30:04.000 We're going after Trump. 0.99
00:30:06.000 That is only separating more.
00:30:09.000 And Bernie Marcus puts out the fire that the Uniparty was trying to have against Donald Trump as our nation.
00:30:17.000 For these reasons, I endorse Donald J. Trump as the nominee of the Republican Party and as our next president.
00:30:23.000 God bless you, Bernie Marcus.
00:30:24.000 We're thankful for you, and that's a big deal.
00:30:29.000 Are you prepared for the unthinkable ahead?
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00:31:31.000 I want to emphasize this, that we're going to start to see a consolidation.
00:31:35.000 I just love what Bernie Marcus wrote here.
00:31:36.000 I can't get off of the end of all the things he wrote at the end.
00:31:40.000 He says, cancel the debates.
00:31:42.000 They are unproductive and embarrassing.
00:31:45.000 It's amazing.
00:31:46.000 We do have a choice.
00:31:47.000 I love that.
00:31:47.000 It's high stakes, though.
00:31:48.000 It's very high stakes.
00:31:50.000 If we are not going to invest in the infrastructure, and just look at the difference, by the way.
00:31:58.000 You look at Rana versus Marcus, Bernie Marcus.
00:32:01.000 What has Rana done?
00:32:03.000 Loss, excuses, loss, loss, loss, loss, excuses.
00:32:08.000 And the RNC Cabal says, well, she has more support than ever before.
00:32:13.000 And Rana has everything to gain from this, Romney family, all that sort of stuff.
00:32:18.000 And you think about it, Bernie Marcus and what he writes here, high stakes and a simple choice, is how the American elites used to be.
00:32:26.000 You're always going to have elites in a society, always.
00:32:29.000 If you have any form of a civilization, even in Marxist civilization, somebody ascends to the top, a dictator, a despot, a Caesar, a czar.
00:32:38.000 There's always somebody on top.
00:32:39.000 The question of America is who ends up being on top.
00:32:42.000 Well, you have to earn your way to the top.
00:32:44.000 Now, sometimes you're born into it, but largely the people who end up on top, the wealthiest and the most powerful, they get power through elections or they have to earn it through a really good idea.
00:32:53.000 Now, we've changed that last 30 years where people like Pelosi and people like Paul Ryan and people like McConnell, they get to the top through graft corruption, insider deals, and secret societies.
00:33:05.000 But in the market, again, it's changing.
00:33:07.000 You get to the top through really good ideas and producing value.
00:33:10.000 Elon Musk, huge risk, huge value.
00:33:12.000 People love his products, richest man in the world.
00:33:15.000 So Bernie Marcus gets to be wealthy because he created jobs for hundreds of thousands of people.
00:33:21.000 We've all used the Home Depot.
00:33:22.000 It's a great company.
00:33:23.000 It's amazing.
00:33:24.000 But Bernie Marcus is the type of elite we used to have in our country.
00:33:28.000 We never used to worry that Carnegie and Rockefeller and JPMorgan and Vanderbilt, whether or not they loved the country.
00:33:37.000 You might say that they were too rich.
00:33:39.000 Oh, they were robber barons.
00:33:41.000 But we never question their patriotism.
00:33:44.000 One of the reasons why America is in decline is the people that are stewards or stakeholders of the society, specifically in the business realm.
00:33:54.000 Put the political realm aside.
00:33:56.000 Soros, Mackenzie Bezos, Larry Page, Reid Hoffman, Mark Benihoff, the eBay dude who's a foreigner. 1.00
00:34:09.000 They don't love the country the way we do.
00:34:12.000 And what is refreshing is to have a 94-year-old entrepreneur, someone who created billions of dollars of revenue, enriched my life and yours if you use the Home Depot, not want to gain anything.
00:34:28.000 So what drives Bernie Marcus to do this?
00:34:31.000 Love.
00:34:32.000 Love of the nation.
00:34:34.000 Love for his grandkids.
00:34:36.000 And deep concern that the nation that we are handing down is going to be less free, less prosperous.
00:34:44.000 What animates George Soros, and he isolates Soros in his article: bitterness, ideology, and hatred.
00:34:53.000 If we had more elites like Bernie Marcus, who are willing to say, RNC, cancel the debates.
00:34:58.000 He doesn't want some invite to some party.
00:35:00.000 He doesn't care if he breaks people's feelings.
00:35:02.000 He's 94 years old.
00:35:03.000 He doesn't care.
00:35:04.000 He's worth $8 billion.
00:35:06.000 He just wants America in good hands.
00:35:10.000 He wants America restored to the Constitution, restored to rule of law, not having Hamas sympathizers on college campuses. 0.97
00:35:18.000 There are several reasons why the country is collapsing.
00:35:21.000 But if the people who have benefited the most from the nation, like Mark Benihoff from Salesforce and Lorene Powell Jobs, who hit the lottery because her husband invented the iPhone, they spend the money that they've even earned or received.
00:35:34.000 And Lorene Powell Jobs is, okay, she didn't earn any of that money.
00:35:37.000 She received it from her husband to destroy.
00:35:41.000 The donors to the Democrat Party are political arsonists.
00:35:46.000 They want to see it burn to the ground.
00:35:49.000 Every policy of the Democrat Party burns the country to the ground.
00:35:53.000 The RNC is not an opposition party.
00:35:55.000 They're controlled opposition.
00:35:57.000 And if we start to see a movement of more patriots, of more billionaires, of more people with capital that have benefited so beautifully from this country step up as clearly and courageously as Bernie Marcus, we're going to have a fighting chance.
00:36:12.000 High stakes and a simple choice.
00:36:14.000 Check out Bernie's op-ed.
00:36:16.000 It's very, very powerful.
00:36:17.000 God bless him.
00:36:20.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:36:21.000 Email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:36:24.000 Thanks so much for listening.
00:36:26.000 God bless.
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