The Charlie Kirk Show - December 17, 2024


The Secret of the Turning Point Ground Game


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Learn English with Charlie Kirk. Charlie is the Founder and President of Turning Point USA, an organization dedicated to educating, inspiring, and empowering young people across the country to join the movement to elect Donald Trump president in 2020.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, it's in the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:00:01.000 My speech at the Palm Beach Republican Club, all about President Trump, how he won the election, and what Turning Point did to help make it happen.
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00:01:56.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:01:58.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.
00:02:00.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:02:03.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:02:07.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:02:08.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:02:09.000 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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00:02:54.000 I want to spend our time tonight talking about what happened and really why it matters to think about this election because it was an election unlike any other.
00:03:01.000 I see some great friends here.
00:03:02.000 Is that Drew?
00:03:03.000 Oh my goodness, how are you?
00:03:05.000 And then I want to talk about what is going on as President Trump is building this extraordinary government because I believe we have a once in many lifetimes opportunity that is happening right now.
00:03:16.000 And then I want to talk about some of the forces that are within the Republican Party that stand in the way of that once-in-many-lifetime opportunity, which kind of goes to the much work yet to be done.
00:03:26.000 So what happened this last election?
00:03:27.000 What President Trump pulled off is, without a doubt, the greatest comeback in American political history.
00:03:32.000 And he and he alone deserves credit for this, from his grit, his resolve.
00:03:39.000 When he was exiting office in 2021 after a very unjust election, many of you remember the media said that his entire political movement was dead, it was over, and he was really put in exile just right down the street here.
00:03:53.000 I remember I visited him in early February of 2021. That was the easiest meeting I ever got in Mar-a-Lago history.
00:03:59.000 That was not hard.
00:04:00.000 Kind of just called up like, yeah, you want to see the president?
00:04:03.000 Schedule's clear.
00:04:04.000 Come on.
00:04:04.000 You know why?
00:04:05.000 Because almost every major Republican had abandoned Donald Trump at that time.
00:04:09.000 Because they thought he was toxic.
00:04:10.000 They thought the movement was over.
00:04:12.000 And as soon as they couldn't get anything out of Donald Trump, they ran away.
00:04:17.000 Well, at Turning Point, and me especially, we never left the President's side because we understood what the President represented.
00:04:23.000 And we believe that the 2020 election was so unjust that given any other circumstances, we could build a multi-year movement, right those wrongs, and eventually get them back in the White House.
00:04:32.000 It was ambitious.
00:04:33.000 It feels as if it's so common sense now.
00:04:35.000 But going through these last couple of years, the improbability, and you don't have to agree with me, but it is a fact, I believe the hand of God is on Donald Trump and has ushered him through this entire process in more ways than one.
00:04:48.000 Let's talk politically.
00:04:49.000 So, in order for President Trump to be successful, he needed to do something that was very difficult, that most Republicans would never try to do.
00:04:57.000 So the traditional Karl Rove way of looking at elections, who I don't think anyone should take Karl Rove seriously ever again after this election, he's been professionally wrong about everything for 20 years, is he says, all you have to do is win over swing voters.
00:05:11.000 Win over swing voters and you become president.
00:05:14.000 So we had a different belief at Turning Point Action and we worked in harmony with the great campaign team that President Trump assembled, Susie Wiles, James Blair, Taylor, they did a phenomenal job.
00:05:24.000 We said, well, let's think about this a little differently.
00:05:26.000 Instead of trying to win over the same voters that are always in the middle, you know the type, they go back and forth, but there's not that many of them, but they have disproportionate amounts of influence.
00:05:35.000 Why don't we just make the electorate a little more MAGA? Why don't we make it a little bit redder? 0.95
00:05:40.000 Now the media said this was impossible.
00:05:42.000 They said you can't change the electorate, it takes too many boots on the ground, too much voter registration.
00:05:47.000 The electorate is set and don't try to change it.
00:05:50.000 But you look at actually voter turnout, I don't know what Florida turnout number is, but just take Georgia.
00:05:56.000 One out of three eligible adults don't vote in the state of Georgia.
00:05:59.000 And those people tend to be men who work with their hands with incomes under the age of 60,000.
00:06:05.000 In rural areas.
00:06:06.000 That screams MAGA. These are people that should be voting, but they feel the system has betrayed them.
00:06:11.000 They've never been registered to vote.
00:06:13.000 This is a first-time voter.
00:06:15.000 So the big bet that President Trump and his campaign team did, and we from Turning Point Action made, was why don't we reject the premise that every major consultant has made over the last couple of cycles that Mitt Romney made, And even George W. Bush, and we remake the electorate.
00:06:31.000 Now, mind you, there's only one other candidate that remade the electorate in politics the last 20 years, and that was on the Democrat side.
00:06:37.000 That was Barack Obama, where he remade the electorate.
00:06:39.000 He made it younger.
00:06:40.000 He made it more black. 0.61
00:06:41.000 He made it more diverse.
00:06:42.000 They deserve credit for that, and they've not been able to duplicate it ever since.
00:06:45.000 And so the idea was this, and it turns out our theory of the case was correct, which is that men especially were ready for a revolt against wokeism in this country.
00:06:54.000 And we can remake the electorate across all demographic lines and ignore traditional race politics.
00:07:00.000 If you're black, Hispanic, or white, it does not matter as much as the true distinction that should matter, male or female. 0.87
00:07:06.000 Male-female distinctions matter a lot because they're given to us by God.
00:07:10.000 And just observant nature tells us that.
00:07:12.000 So we We had this idea that if we could make the electorate three points more masculine, one point more rural, then this would result in not all of the polling would definitionally be wrong because you're polling an old voter file where the electorate looked as if it's not going to look on election day.
00:07:30.000 So this was not easy.
00:07:31.000 We hired 1,500 people at Turning Point Action, full-time people on the ground in Arizona, Wisconsin, in Georgia, and Pennsylvania.
00:07:38.000 In fact, you can go back and look at the articles.
00:07:40.000 The media was cheering for our demise.
00:07:42.000 Turning Point Action has no idea what they're doing.
00:07:44.000 Trump campaign has outsourced this to the Turning Point Action.
00:07:46.000 And they were ready for us to take all the blame for what happened.
00:07:50.000 So that was the first ingredient, remaking the electorate.
00:07:53.000 But then came kind of our sleeper strategy.
00:07:55.000 That was our big bet, was the one that we didn't advertise too much, which is hard for us because, you know, we like to run our mouths.
00:08:00.000 A fair amount at Turning Point, which was the following, which was Spending 12 years on these college campuses and kind of being known as the college campus guy, we saw an opening, an attack vector about 18 months ago where we said we can move the youth vote by 20 points.
00:08:16.000 No one's going to believe us.
00:08:17.000 We're going to do the work.
00:08:19.000 We're going to organize, hire the bodies, do the videos.
00:08:21.000 This could end up being the decisive factor.
00:08:24.000 And for all of you guys, thank you, that have generously supported us at Turning Point, you know this was not an overnight operation.
00:08:32.000 You know that I've been doing this for 300 days a year for the last 12 years.
00:08:35.000 You know that I've been doing this on campuses.
00:08:37.000 Byron remembers I used to tell Rush about this all the time.
00:08:39.000 Like, we can get this done.
00:08:40.000 We can get this done.
00:08:41.000 And I believe the Lord led us to this moment where finally all the stars combined where we were able to seize on this opportunity.
00:08:48.000 Similarly to the all men moving to the right, young men move the most to the right of any demographic that we saw.
00:08:55.000 And Stanley asked me, well, Charlie, how do you best explain that?
00:08:59.000 It's not that hard.
00:09:00.000 You don't need a PhD or you don't need a Wall Street Journal article.
00:09:03.000 Young men wanted to be part of a political movement that did not hate them.
00:09:07.000 Not difficult, right?
00:09:08.000 That thought it was okay that they existed.
00:09:10.000 That thought it was definitional.
00:09:12.000 Actually, that it's necessary to have men in your society.
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00:10:14.000 And so, again, President Trump, properly described, he's definitely not the most feminine candidate ever to run in the history. 0.57
00:10:24.000 And it's actually a really interesting thing when you think about it philosophically, because the Democrat Party is toxically feminine. 0.99
00:10:30.000 Now, don't get me wrong.
00:10:31.000 We need a balance between the masculine and the feminine. 1.00
00:10:34.000 But at this worst, look, the worst of masculine characteristics is like invading Crimea.
00:10:39.000 We got that, okay?
00:10:40.000 The worst of feminine characteristics Is policing speech because feelings matter more than facts? 1.00
00:10:46.000 We can agree with that.
00:10:47.000 So when we do not have the proper balance of the masculine and the feminine, you can get toxically in one direction.
00:10:52.000 We should all be honest enough to know that society can go in that way.
00:10:55.000 But we've always lectured our kids of toxic masculinity.
00:10:58.000 We've never talked about what toxic femininity is.
00:11:01.000 Well, the Democrat Party is toxic femininity. 1.00
00:11:03.000 Constantly apologizing for your circumstances.
00:11:06.000 Feelings-based, not reason-based.
00:11:08.000 Everybody has their own truth.
00:11:10.000 There is no leader.
00:11:11.000 There is no one standing up to the mob.
00:11:13.000 What is toxic femininity? 1.00
00:11:15.000 Daniel Penny that had to almost go to jail for standing up against a crazy person on the subway in New York.
00:11:21.000 That's a perfect example.
00:11:25.000 And we could go through many other examples like that.
00:11:27.000 So we saw this as an opportunity that was larger than politics.
00:11:31.000 We weren't the only ones, but we were definitely the biggest ones, the ones that went all in.
00:11:34.000 That this was a cultural reckoning that was ready to realign.
00:11:38.000 That the country was ready to shed itself of diversity, equity, inclusion, critical race theory, pronoun police, they, thems, being fired from your corporate job because you happen to have a cross or you happen to celebrate Easter.
00:11:50.000 And we believe that there was this pent-up energy of the men of this country, especially young men, that were experiencing the worst of the COVID terror. 0.82
00:12:00.000 You must wear the mask.
00:12:01.000 You can't have graduation.
00:12:04.000 You can't have commencement.
00:12:06.000 You can't have senior prom.
00:12:07.000 You can't see your kids.
00:12:08.000 You must be pent-up all the time and stare at a screen.
00:12:11.000 That they are ready to rebel against that, against all the people that stole their 18, 19, and 20 years from them.
00:12:17.000 And we created a message that Donald Trump was the man, the vessel, that was the rebuke of all the suffering you've been feeling post-COVID. Where your grandsons and your grandkids that feel something is off, things are rigged against me.
00:12:33.000 Well, Donald Trump is the guy that will restore normalcy and restore masculinity back in this country.
00:12:37.000 And we went all in on that.
00:12:39.000 Not just on the podcast strategy, which was obviously significant.
00:12:42.000 President Trump, on Joe Rogan, on Theo Vaughn, all these great podcasts.
00:12:46.000 But I don't know if this audience necessarily saw some of it, but I guarantee you your grandkids did.
00:12:51.000 What we did on the college campuses, did anyone see our campus debates or any of our videos?
00:12:56.000 Okay, I'd say about half of you know what I'm talking about.
00:13:00.000 By the way, if you don't, that's okay, you're just consuming a dying media.
00:13:04.000 Because, it's okay, it's not braggadocious.
00:13:08.000 We got three billion views on TikTok, on Instagram, and Understand this, that what used to be considered fringe media is now mainstream media.
00:13:17.000 Mainstream media is now fringe media.
00:13:19.000 I mean, we were reaching every single, don't say my word for it, Van Jones, all the major political people are saying what the Trump campaign and Turning Point Action and Charlie Kirk did on social media was unheard of.
00:13:30.000 And it wasn't that we ran ads.
00:13:32.000 If you don't know what I'm talking about, it's hard to recreate it.
00:13:34.000 I would show up on a college campus, sit at a table, let a bunch of people say whatever they want, film it, and then put it on the internet, right?
00:13:40.000 Rinse, repeat.
00:13:41.000 Did it 25 times.
00:13:42.000 And after like the second time, the third time, again, I've been doing this for 12 years, we started drawing crowds of 5,000 people at University of Georgia.
00:13:49.000 3,000 people.
00:13:50.000 I mean, we can show you the pictures.
00:13:52.000 It's like, no joke.
00:13:53.000 And I was like, this is not normal at all.
00:13:57.000 And by the way, the Kamala table at University of Georgia had like six people.
00:14:01.000 We had 5,000 people.
00:14:04.000 And it was, by the way, it wasn't just men, it was young women as well, and then it clicked.
00:14:08.000 The young women will follow if the men will lead. 0.99
00:14:11.000 And that is a truth regardless of whether or not it's in politics.
00:14:16.000 And all of a sudden, the men are stepping up with masculine energy, and the women of the campus that don't have purple hair and that are not lesbians are following them. 0.53
00:14:25.000 Because they want to actually eventually do what most women want to do, which is have a family and have a nice life. 1.00
00:14:32.000 And that is where the directional energy is going.
00:14:35.000 And by the way, one of the reasons why wokeism was able to be so successful is that we did not have enough men to stand up to this nonsense and say, stop it.
00:14:42.000 No.
00:14:43.000 We did not have enough Daniel Penny energy in this country to say, actually, I'm going to call you about whatever pronoun I want.
00:14:48.000 You're not going to swing against my daughter.
00:14:51.000 You have to go through me.
00:14:52.000 And that is the energy that is finally coming back to this country that built this nation in the first place.
00:14:57.000 So we did this on these college campuses.
00:14:59.000 Thank you.
00:15:00.000 And it was remarkably successful.
00:15:02.000 Reached billions and billions of people.
00:15:04.000 And I'll get into the data to show it.
00:15:06.000 The final part of it was our embrace of early voting.
00:15:09.000 And this deserves a lot of attention.
00:15:11.000 I won't spend a lot of it.
00:15:12.000 But if you guys watch the Charlie Kirk show, which we do every day for a couple hours, you know that we were just nonstop obsessed with trying to change the culture on early voting.
00:15:22.000 In fact, I wore a shirt that said, vote early for six months straight.
00:15:25.000 We believed, we believed firmly that it was one of the dumbest ideas possible to try to tell all of our supporters to try to just vote on one day when the bad guys get 30 days.
00:15:37.000 And understand this, when your theory of the case is that you're trying to get a bunch of people that never voted before, Well then, you fundamentally then need as many days as possible to get those people to vote because they...
00:15:51.000 By the way, what we ended up being at Turning Point Action was half of the time A customer service line to answer what they would feel ashamed of questions.
00:16:00.000 And you guys might laugh at them.
00:16:01.000 Where do I go and vote?
00:16:02.000 Where do I put this thing?
00:16:04.000 When I go there, are they going to ask for a utility bill?
00:16:07.000 And you guys might laugh.
00:16:08.000 These are people that never voted for it.
00:16:09.000 They don't know.
00:16:10.000 And so we actually ended up being a customer service line for hundreds of thousands of first-time voters.
00:16:10.000 Right?
00:16:14.000 And guess what?
00:16:15.000 Easier to do that over a 30-day period than a 12-hour period.
00:16:19.000 And what we end up doing is that the smart Democrats knew they were going to lose like a couple weeks out.
00:16:25.000 We thought we were going to win, but then it was too good to be true, so I refused to actually believe it.
00:16:29.000 So we then chased more votes and won by more.
00:16:31.000 And that's how we got Senator Dave McCormick, because of our crazy paranoia.
00:16:35.000 Which was a great win, by the way.
00:16:38.000 And so early voting was a huge thing, which goes with this.
00:16:42.000 The Democrats invested a lot in their ground game.
00:16:46.000 However, our ground game, despite being just a couple of our groups, Elon Musk's group, our group, and of course the Trump campaign and a few others, was able to out-organize the Obama bros at their own game.
00:16:57.000 And we did it through a mix of digital media, chasing ballots, early voting, voter registration, and the proof is in a couple different things.
00:17:04.000 And I'll share this, and then I'll go to the youth vote totals.
00:17:06.000 And then I'll segue to kind of current time here, and we can talk more about this in question and answer, which is this, which is that there was one state more than anything else where we went all in, which is I live in the state of Arizona.
00:17:16.000 I love Arizona.
00:17:17.000 My goal is to make Arizona the Florida of the West, right?
00:17:21.000 We're going to make Arizona the Florida of the West.
00:17:21.000 That's what we're going to do.
00:17:23.000 It's a beautiful state, and it's been abused by bad politics for too long.
00:17:28.000 And from the McCain mafia To the nonsense of the 2020 election.
00:17:33.000 And you guys know that I've spent time in Arizona.
00:17:35.000 It's one of the gems of this country.
00:17:36.000 It's just the untapped potential of Arizona is significant.
00:17:40.000 So we went all in.
00:17:41.000 I mean, we went nuts.
00:17:42.000 We hired a thousand people just in Arizona.
00:17:44.000 We did the deluxe package.
00:17:45.000 More so for two reasons.
00:17:47.000 Number one, I said we need to win this under all costs and circumstances.
00:17:50.000 Because basically the Trump campaign was like, you got Arizona, right?
00:17:54.000 I was like, yeah, sure, you know.
00:17:55.000 Give us a whole state, basically, right?
00:17:58.000 The second of which is I wanted to prove that our theory of the case can be applied to future elections.
00:18:04.000 That we had a data set where we could say this is what happens when we're able to get properly funded, so on and so forth.
00:18:10.000 So we worked very, very hard and registered thousands of voters, but here are the results.
00:18:13.000 In 2020, Donald Trump lost by 10,000 votes in the state of Arizona.
00:18:18.000 Now, lost is a, you know, Let's just say fell short.
00:18:21.000 There's a bunch of nonsense there, but it is what it is.
00:18:23.000 In this last election, he won by 197,000 votes.
00:18:27.000 Now, this is what's amazing.
00:18:29.000 Out of all the swing states, there are seven swing states, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, North Carolina.
00:18:34.000 It was the best performing swing state of the seven swing states.
00:18:37.000 It was the best performance that Donald Trump ever posted in the state of Arizona.
00:18:41.000 And what if I told you he won by five and a half points despite being outspent four to one?
00:18:46.000 That's a very, very good test case that what we did in Arizona worked.
00:18:50.000 Now, you might ask about Carrie Lake.
00:18:52.000 Is that what you're going to ask about?
00:18:54.000 The total population of Arizona, I can tell you there's about three million voters.
00:18:58.000 So the population is about six and a half million, seven million, because you have to say about, you know, 50% voter turnout.
00:19:04.000 Might be a little less than that.
00:19:05.000 My numbers might be a little off.
00:19:07.000 Yeah, that's about right.
00:19:08.000 So yeah, about 3.2 million voted, so population would probably be closer to 6 million.
00:19:12.000 We'll talk about Carrie Lake in a second.
00:19:14.000 That's a Mitch McConnell problem, which gets into the third chapter of my speech tonight.
00:19:22.000 Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here.
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00:20:25.000 So anyway, I could go state by state, but allow me to then just put a touchpoint on the miraculous nature of this election and what I believe was where Turning Point made a decisive influence.
00:20:35.000 Now, let me tell you what I hate.
00:20:37.000 I hate when people take credit for elections.
00:20:40.000 Two entities deserve credit.
00:20:42.000 Almighty God and Donald Trump.
00:20:44.000 They deserve credit for this election, okay?
00:20:46.000 That's it.
00:20:47.000 However, allow me to indulge you on some data that I think is very compelling of what would happen if Turning Point did not exist with the youth vote.
00:20:55.000 So I had my entire team run it.
00:20:57.000 If I had the numbers, if anyone saw our presentation this last weekend at the gala, I can send it to you.
00:21:02.000 It's incredible.
00:21:03.000 If the youth just would have voted the way they did with Joe Biden in 2020, Kamala Harris wins.
00:21:10.000 It's that simple.
00:21:11.000 Let me say that again.
00:21:13.000 All Kamala had to do was get younger voters To vote for the guy that was like 76 and couldn't complete sentences back in 2020. But something changed.
00:21:24.000 In fact, younger voters moved 13 points to the right.
00:21:28.000 And here's the kicker.
00:21:29.000 I say this, people won't believe it.
00:21:30.000 Baby boomers moved three points to the left.
00:21:34.000 See, no one believes it.
00:21:35.000 It's true.
00:21:36.000 And by the way, it's multiple exit polls.
00:21:38.000 By the way, I totally believe it, by the way.
00:21:40.000 Why?
00:21:40.000 Baby Boomers are high trust of institutions.
00:21:42.000 They watch a lot of TV. No offense.
00:21:44.000 There's a lot of TV consumption and not exactly big into the Joe Rogan thing.
00:21:48.000 I think that's like the lowest of Rogan's listenership, right?
00:21:52.000 However, there's a deeper point there, though, that, again, I don't mean every baby boomer in this audience.
00:21:57.000 This is not what I'm saying.
00:21:58.000 But generally, baby boomers, if you ask them, do you think that our institutions are rotten to the core and deserve to be burned down, a baby boomer will say no. 0.85
00:22:07.000 Like, eight times out of ten.
00:22:09.000 You might be different.
00:22:10.000 But instead, they look at institutions as something to be honored and protected.
00:22:14.000 Whereas Gen X, millennial and Gen Z says, these things have never worked for us.
00:22:19.000 It is a scam.
00:22:21.000 Burn it down.
00:22:22.000 Send in the revolutionary.
00:22:23.000 And that was the energy that Donald Trump campaigned on.
00:22:26.000 You might disagree with my analysis, but we can debate that.
00:22:29.000 The point being is that the biggest vote move of any voters this cycle were younger voters.
00:22:34.000 In fact, we won the youth vote in the state of Michigan.
00:22:37.000 Let me say it again.
00:22:38.000 We won the youth vote in the state of Michigan.
00:22:40.000 We tied it in Wisconsin, and we lost it by one point in Pennsylvania.
00:22:43.000 And I could also say there would not be Senator Dave McCormick again.
00:22:47.000 With 53 Senate seats if it was not for younger voters and how they move this cycle.
00:22:51.000 So we can talk more about the election during Q&A. There's so much we can go through, but here's the good news.
00:22:55.000 We are building a political party that is durable to win for the next 50 years.
00:23:00.000 Our party is now aligning less around race politics and more around class and male-female distinctions, which I think is a very positive thing.
00:23:08.000 In fact, as people get married and have kids, they become radically more conservative.
00:23:12.000 The most conservative voting blocs are the ones that are getting older.
00:23:16.000 In fact, Gen X, Millennial, and Gen Z are all becoming more and more conservative.
00:23:20.000 They're showing no signs of going back.
00:23:22.000 In fact, the baby boomers moving three points to the left was the first time we've seen, since Barack Obama, older populations move back a little bit to the Democrat Party.
00:23:31.000 They almost always tend to get more Republican redder, more Republican redder.
00:23:34.000 Now, mind you, when I say three points to the left, that was just against Trump.
00:23:37.000 The baby boomers voted overwhelmingly for Republican Senate candidates and overwhelmingly for Republican House candidates.
00:23:43.000 So it's not that they've moved liberal.
00:23:44.000 There was something about Trump that bothered some folks.
00:23:48.000 Okay, so we can talk more about the election in a second.
00:23:50.000 Let's talk about this transition really quick.
00:23:52.000 What President Trump is doing is he's assembling a team of changemakers.
00:23:56.000 We will never have this opportunity again.
00:23:58.000 From Kash Patel at the FBI, Bobby Kennedy at HHS, Tulsi Gabbard at DNI, from Pam Bondi as Attorney General, This is a team of all stars that we're presenting to the American people.
00:24:09.000 Now, this should be a no-brainer.
00:24:12.000 Here comes the more uncomfortable portion of our talk tonight, which a lot of you guys can help because a lot of these people come and ask you for money, and some of you give them money.
00:24:19.000 So, therefore, you can really be helpful.
00:24:22.000 A lot of the people that are going to be coming here for nice receptions and wine dinners in January, February, and March, a very simple question needs to be asked of them, which is, why are you giving Pete Hegseth a harder time than Lloyd Austin that was Joe Biden's DOD secretary?
00:24:37.000 Why is it that you are giving Donald Trump's cabinet a much harder time Than any of Joe Biden's nominees.
00:24:44.000 Can you show me one instance, because I know the answer, where any of their nominees had to walk through the halls when a bunch of media was asking them questions and senators were flaky?
00:24:52.000 And the answer is, of course not.
00:24:53.000 Because many of our Republican senators do not share the values of their voters.
00:24:58.000 And that is a big, fundamental, structural problem.
00:25:01.000 And so I can go through the list.
00:25:03.000 There are a lot of Republican senators that voted to confirm Merrick Garland, Lloyd Austin, and Alejandro Mayorkas.
00:25:11.000 Almost all of whom are signaling they might not vote for Donald Trump's cabinet picks.
00:25:17.000 And yet they come from some of the reddest states in the country.
00:25:20.000 States like Idaho.
00:25:22.000 States like South Dakota.
00:25:23.000 States like Mississippi.
00:25:25.000 States like West Virginia.
00:25:26.000 Now, no votes have happened yet.
00:25:28.000 There's still a lot of talk and rhetoric.
00:25:30.000 However, we need to build a Republican Party that is as conservative as its voters.
00:25:36.000 It should reflect the will of the people, not the will of the ruling class or lobbyists in DC that want to overturn the will of the people.
00:25:44.000 And while we're at it, they only have a Senate majority because of President Donald Trump.
00:25:48.000 They're only in a majority because President Donald Trump was able to give them 53 seats.
00:25:53.000 So putting that all together, we need to be very serious about launching primary campaigns.
00:25:58.000 I know this might not be what you want to sit here.
00:25:59.000 We just won.
00:26:00.000 You will not actually, you'll just win elections and lose the country if the Republican Party governs like moderate Democrats and does not fulfill the agenda of President Trump.
00:26:10.000 And let the message be very clear, and Joni Ernst was kind of central casting for this this last week, If you oppose the President's nominees, you'll receive a primary challenge quickly and we'll remove you from office immediately.
00:26:22.000 And so...
00:26:23.000 In closing, let me say this and then we'll do some questions.
00:26:31.000 As you can see, I'm a very agreeable figure in, you know, the U.S. Senate lunch.
00:26:37.000 Couldn't care less.
00:26:38.000 You know why?
00:26:39.000 Because the game is changing.
00:26:40.000 Because of social media, the people are waking up.
00:26:43.000 It's very simple.
00:26:44.000 It's not too much to ask that the people should be back in charge of their government.
00:26:49.000 What DOGE is doing is a constitutional reset, the likes of which we could have never dreamed of.
00:26:54.000 They are getting back down to the foundational and structural issues of our time, which is, is that a legitimate function of government?
00:27:02.000 Should that department even exist?
00:27:05.000 Why do we have a Department of Education?
00:27:07.000 Has that been tested to the Supreme Court?
00:27:09.000 We're getting back to first principles that the Founding Fathers authored as original intent to send things back to the states, to give more power to parents and families and citizens, to be able to live the lives that you see fit, and to try to shrink the size of Leviathan in D.C. This is not going to be easy.
00:27:26.000 And this is a time to celebrate, don't get me wrong.
00:27:29.000 What's going to come next is this $6 trillion beast per year is not going to go down easy just because we won an election.
00:27:36.000 It's going to require citizen vigilance.
00:27:39.000 It's going to require us holding people accountable.
00:27:41.000 Because we have an opportunity to deliver on permanent border wall security.
00:27:46.000 Mass deportations.
00:27:48.000 We have an opportunity to have the greatest economic growth miracle that we've seen in modern history.
00:27:52.000 5% growth in people being lifted out of poverty, the likes of which we've never seen.
00:27:56.000 We have an opportunity to abolish the Department of Education, which we should, by the way.
00:28:00.000 We should abolish the Department of Education.
00:28:03.000 And You put all of this together, I can just say that if we are complacent and we no longer are active Communicating or what's happening in D.C., we just say, oh, we won, things are going to get better.
00:28:17.000 We all know the lesson that comes after that.
00:28:20.000 That is why vigilance is critically important.
00:28:22.000 And the president is not going to rest, I'm telling you, both metaphorically and literally.
00:28:27.000 He is ready to fulfill this mandate.
00:28:29.000 Every single day, I could tell you the president tells his team, what did I run on?
00:28:33.000 What did I promise?
00:28:34.000 And that's what I'm going to do.
00:28:35.000 From no tax on tips, to protecting Social Security and Medicare, from liberating the American economy from its current shackles, To drill baby drill, to no men in female sports, to building the southern border wall, to supporting our allies in Israel.
00:28:50.000 Every single decision this man makes is through a simple prism, one of which no other politician in modern presidential history has ever actually used.
00:28:59.000 What did I say?
00:29:00.000 And that is what I will do.
00:29:01.000 And we have to have his back every step of the way.
00:29:03.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:29:05.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:29:07.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.